I’m in a weird situation, going from a work environment which was, let us say, very WASP and Catholic to one where there’s a mezuzzah on the door and I’m greeted every morning with, “Boker tov!” My climate shift is both literal and figurative. So the links might be a little Jewier than usual.
Today’s birthdays are nearly 100% goyish, though: we start with elitist W.E.B. DuBois; director Victor Fleming, whose 1939 might be compared to Einstein’s 1905; organist and composer George Handel; voice of the Enterprise, Majel Barrett; arguably the greatest wide receiver in NFL history, Fred Biletnikoff; and albino shredder Johnny Winter. It is also the anniversary of the day Heisenberg dropped his great notion on Pauli, but I can’t be sure of that. Maybe it’s tomorrow. Or it was yesterday.
On to the news.
This one starts out bad and gets worse. I think even SugarFree could not have written this as a story.
Of course, increasing cost of labor in places like California have nothing to do with this.
I shouldn’t laugh my ass off at this, but I’m laughing my ass off at this.
This story is particularly sad to me. I don’t know how to break the news to Wonder Dog.
“O’Rourke is now on the precipice of running for president with “losing Senate candidate” as the most impressive line on his résumé.” Hilarity ensues.
Dogs playing frisbee, nothing new. But this is Florida, so…
Lots of deflated balls jokes on the Robert Kraft story, but the important question remains, “Is this good or bad for the Jews?”
And this guy really needs to get a few tips from Kraft on picking the right massage parlor.
Bad dogs, bad dogs, whatcha gonna do?
Y’know, if you didn’t poison customers, you might get another star.
There’s the old joke about “chutzpah” meaning “guy kills his parents, then asks the court for mercy because he’s an orphan.” This is the modern version.
What I love about this story is how the actual numbers are put up front (increased speed limits on highways have had little to no effect on death rates), then followed by all sorts of “experts” telling us that increased speed limits will vastly increase death rates. And that irony seems to be lost on the person writing the story. What would we do without experts? And dumb reporters?
Old Guy Music continues the theme. What if Leonard Cohen had stayed true to his roots and written his classic Hallelujah in Yiddish? OK, this is very self-indulgent of me, but it really made me feel good to hear this. I suspect I’ll be the only one here with that reaction, but hey, it’s my post so I can do what I like. The Yiddish aside, this is some fine guitar and vocals. And I bet Swiss will understand about half of this.
/yawns
/farts
/scratches
/considers returning to bed
#MeToo
I just finished last night’s thread and obviously missed out. I hate that I missed it. Need to check in with Splosives and one of the Taters when they come by.
Soaked here: no golf Saturday. When is it alright to start drinking?
Will card some spring ball later.
NewWife was intrigued by Winston’s Mom. I’ve been reading you clowns since TOS and yesterday was a clear high-point for the commentariat.
Same here. I missed it too. Dammit.
I dont even get the Winston’s mom jokes because I missed when and how that got started.
Winston’s mom.
There, that is my contribution to the meme. Now Winston wont think that I dont like him.
That whole thread was worth reading for Hayeksplosives contributions.
Yeah, I was up fairly late but still went to bed too early for Hayeks gems.
I just read it.
still here? I have HVAC opinions ?
*yaWn* just getting up this AM. Would be happy to address scandasocialism again if anyone wants to.
Article!
Yes!!
Similarly, back in high school we started every story with “so this one time I was fucking Tom’s mom . . .” I have no idea how it started, but Tom rolled with it. It helped that his mother was morbidly obese.
I will say we got some weird looks when you would say something like “So this one one time I was fucking Tom’s mom and yesterday I went to mall looking for new shoes for work”
“When is it alright to start drinking?”
The answer is Saturday.
Vols visit Red Stick at 11 (doG’s time). Care anything about LSU or un-pointy balls?
Nah. I am not a sports guy. When I was younger and spryer I liked to play but I was never a watcher.
9 am was OK by me today, what with Lord H being in the need for medicinal portions of anything.
Soaked here: no golf Saturday. When is it alright to start drinking?
You stopped?
“When is it alright to start drinking?”
I don’t understand the question
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Annnnnd…..there it is!
Are you Pat Sajak?
Fun fact- Sajak is a member of HIllsdale College board, and seems quite libertarian at times.
https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/author/patsajak/
I’d be happy with a government made up of game show hosts.
Drew Carey as the Sec. of the Cliffhangers Dept.
But can Vanna save us from ourselves
He guests on the Ricochet podcast from time to time.
That story reads like a Tarantino film script.
“Burrous allegedly told his companion he was feeling fine until the man noticed him making a strange noise, and flipped him over to realize Burrous had vomited inside his S&M mask.
The man called 911 and began to perform CPR on Burrous ”
Mouth to vomit filled mouth. That’s friendship!!
As someone who has to maintain a CPR (and AED) cert, CPR is no longer mouth-to-mouth. You’re just doing the chest compressions to pump the heart and keep the blood moving (as it contains enough oxygen to stave off brain damage – as long as fresh blood gets to the brain).
Letters to the Local Rag: Oh… well in that case…
I think Ms. Hayek summed it up well in last night’s post with something along the lines of “the state of Minnesota has more MRI machines than Canada”.
Well there’s the problem, nobody needs that many MRI machines.
Actually MN does need the additional MRI machines to accommodate the Canadians that come across the border. Uff da, Mayo Bros have a lot of customers with unusual accents.
Letters to the Local Rag: My Opinion Must Be Legally Enforced
Churchill’s quip about the best argument against democracy – a short discussion with an average voter.
Letters to the Local Rag: The Wrong Top Men Strike Again
“Its not fair!!!!!!” *stamps feet and slowly turns red in th face*
They really are children, aren’t they?
You really have to be a dishonest moron to be a socialist.
Today I learned….”dictatorial socialism”
We got both kinds…..dictatorial and democratic!!
At least they have partially moved on from “state capitalism”
I never saw a U.S. type of slum in Germany.
No, you see German slums, filled with a different ethnic group than US slums.
Wow someone who saw every bit of Germany and never saw a slum impressive
And despite that, left the country and is trying to turn the U.S. into the Germany he thinks he loves.
possible with this one simple trick
I like Europe; I like Europeans; I like working there. But there’s an arrogant hillbilly part of me that has seen this dozens of times:
/ Euro transfers to American division: everything and everyone is stupid here
/ Euro spends year of lunch hours and happy hours educating hillbilly co-workers on the greatness of socialism and the evil of greed and cup holders
/ Euro intrigued by huge houses and wide open spaces but afraid of horses, guns, employers, autonomy
/ Euro deeply, deeply depressed to get orders promoting him to head of Euro division with a huge raise in NeuFabrikenBurg: must take frau (they had to get married when he transferred so she would have insurance while here, otherwise never) back soon for two week apartment hunting trip.
I’ve been lorded over by this one and that one many a time and got to where it was almost funny; I know what your O face looks like is what my wry grin means: OOOOOh mein Gott, I’ve been transferred back!!!eins!eins!!!!
That link makes me angry. But I guess if they want to go through a cycle of destroying the housing stock of Berlin let them have at it. Perhaps they’ll learn something from it.
It’s so brilliant, why didn’t we think of that?!
“To try to explain to the person who wrote ”… socialism doesn’t work …” in Venezuela. That is because the country was and is run by a dictatorial type person.”
OK, so give me an example of a socialist country that didn’t eventually wind up being ran by a dictatorial type person? *crickets*
I never saw a U.S. type of slum in Germany.
I don’t know about Germany, but around here we call them ghettos.
That Beto article is almost wholly impenetrable political jargon. All I can imagine is starry-eyed twenty somethings who “want to change the world”.
Authentic, frontier, hipster gibberish ?
That’s more useful.
In other words, the most dangerous people in the planet… “useful idiots”
“on” not “in”
We can only hope they end up in before doing any more damage.
My favorite Elmer Keaton quote;
“Well, I hope you like it once you get it finished”
A trio of hipsters and mind-numbing tedium?
When I read the line about O’Rourke running for president, my first thought was of P.J., and I said “that might actually work.”
I’m glad I”m not the only one.
Those youngsters in Feinstein’s office could teach their 20 year old elders a thing or two about changing things the right (left) way. Feinstein’s answer (“I got 30 years experience”) was accurate but sending the wrong message.
She had no desire to educate them, just to impress upon them her position.
That’s what I sensed too
“That Beto article is almost wholly impenetrable political jargon.”
Lefty writers have this way of rambling on forever and never saying anything of substance or interest or making any type of point.
Yeah, I didn’t make it very far.
increased speed limits
On TX130 there’s no traffic, so you can really enjoy stretching out.
But on I-30 and I-35 in Texas it’s a chore to average the speed limit. Until fucking around in the left hand lane is understood to be assault and I can defend myself by bulldozing your slow ass into the ditch, it won’t matter what the speed limit is.
I fell in love with night runs on US180 and US380: no traffic, no cops, just scream across the southwest and watch for pigs and deer.
Don’t get me started in on people who don’t get the concept of a passing lane.
This is one main reason traffic is both faster and safer in Europe. I haven’t driven the Autobahn, but I have spent some time on the Motorways in England, and they take lane discipline seriously over there.
Same in Germany. They take driving in general pretty seriously. Who’d have guessed it?
No one ever got a ticket for speeding in Dallas on I35 during rush hour.
just scream across the southwest and watch for pigs
I thought you said no cops?
I had a strange dream where I was on business trip in Italy and OMWC was in the same city at the same time and said we should meet up for wine, but he never showed up and I came back to the hotel and my room had been broken into and my laptop hacked and it seemed in my dream OMWC and SP were doing industrial espionage where OMWC found targets and SP hacked the laptops and they wanted something on my laptop which is strange as I do not have really top secret stuff. Anyway this is my first ever Glib dream.
New Glib Rule
2) don’t dream about OMWC
Your taste in porn is novel.
Are you certain it was a dream? Perhaps you had some chloral hydrate in your wine, and it was all reality.
And you still had both kidneys?
Don’t worry, that’s just your subconscious processing your repressed sexuality and Oedipus complex.
*Admires bust of Freud*
All I can imagine is starry-eyed twenty somethings who “want to change the world”.
We all do, little girl. We all do. Some of us, however, want to change the world for the *better*.
I didn’t make it and I cant change it. I am just trying to live in it. The most you can hope for is to leave it no worse than you found it and the best way to do that is be nice to people and otherwise leave them alone.
The funny thing is these starry-eyed kids will be the ones talking about “the good old days” thirty years from now if they get their way. Sadly most of them won’t recognize that the good old days are gone in part due to the wheels they set in motion.
“nice to people and otherwise leave them alone.”
And hope to die in your sleep…
Not screaming like the passengers in your car….
“nice to people and otherwise leave them alone.”
Never said anywhere by any valedictorian ever.
“Oh it will be better. Everything will be free. Nobody will ever feel bad or want for anything”
/20 year old’s 5 year old thinking
Also I just bought a 75 bottle wine cooler cause I decided I need to age some wines lest I only drink 2 3 year old reds. Especially from smaller Romanian wineries you almost never find anything older than 3 4 years and many wine shops do not store thing properly.
No one needs 75 bottles of wine, either different or indifferent and certainly not all cooled. Pop a bottle and a mug in the freezer.
/Not a wine connoisseur (or any other kind)
Excellent.
A resident in a friend’s building was getting rid of a pair of 220-bottle EuroCave coolers – originally $3,100, selling the pair for $500!
I _almost_ pulled the trigger, even though I wasn’t sure they could fit down the basement stairs (I figured out after the fact that they most certainly would not have fit, so just as well, I suppose).
“That resolution will not pass the Senate, and you can take that back to whoever sent you here,” she says, citing that the deal doesn’t have a single Republican in favor of the proposal and “the key to good legislation is to tailor something that you write so that it can pass, and you can get a step ahead.”
When a girl urges her to vote yes anyway, Feinstein replies, “I may do that … but it’s not a good resolution.”
Gulag Barbie was there, too?
Having gone on trips to Utah and Nevada, where other motorists sometimes whiz by at 90 mph, Chuck Farmer, vice president of research for IIHS, said, “Personally, I find it very uncomfortable.”
He must be one of those out-of-state assholes blocking traffic in the two lane freeway going 75 cause he refuses to go the actual speed limit.
I do find it uncomfortable to have people pass me 15 MPH over my usual 5-10 over the speed limit. But life is often uncomfortable to us all, and I’ll just deal with it, and do my best to stay in the rightane except when passing. Because i understand that it is a polite thing to do, and I am honoring another Individual’s free will by doing so
I get it about people whizzing past you well over the speed limit, but the sections of road i’m talking about the limit is 80mph, so everyone is already going 85-90. If someone is “Whizzing” past you at 90 on stretches of I-80 or I-15 then you must be going well under the speed limit. Consistently the people i see going that slow are people from out of state who don’t believe or don’t realize what the speed limit is.
* wipes away tear of joy *
This. There are a few stretches of 2-lane road around here that are speed limited at 45 or 50 and a bit windy and blind. Occasionally you get an asshole who wants to do 65 and is gonna ride your ass (while youre doing 5 over) until he either gets impatient and passes across the double yellows (quite dangerous given the terrain) or you brake check him.
The world would be a much better place if everybody drove between the speed limit and 10 over, no more, no less.
I go by the maxim, “Don’t be nice. Be predictable.”
I got distracted with the editing and missed the punchline. If its on anything more than a 2 lane road, I let them pass with ease. If it’s on a 2 lane road, I secretly hope they encounter a tractor trailer over the next Ridge, because that’s better than t-boning a family at 120mph.
*head on’ing
*goes to get coffee *
fuck that, set your own cruise
What is really really stupid is “tailgating” because it limits your opportunity to pass. You need the space to that next car because you need the time: lay back, know when the chance is coming, accelerate into the opportunity, and be around and gone before anyone cares.
In traffic, slow down to go fast: don’t miss chances and don’t get hemmed in. I learned this driving trucks as a kid where abrupt acceleration isn’t possible because of power-to-weight disadvantage. Driving is like hockey: space and speed are your friends, but you need them in harmony: they create and sustain each other. What is funny is how many hotshots tailgate me because I’m laying off someone waiting to get around: hey, where’d he go he was just here a minute ago how did the slow guy disappear over the horizon.
Anyway, to me two lane roads and right hand lanes are sacred: you can drive as slowly as you wish in such circumstances.
What I hate is when I move over to the right lane and the person going faster than I gets in front of me and slow down to below what I was doing in the right land, forcing me to pass them. Then they decide to pass me and on and on and on, like a game of musical chairs. Look, pal, I’m doing a solid 15 miles over the speed limit. Choose a speed and stick to it—in the right lane.
I hate that too. Some assholes don’t care about going fast but they just want to be in front.
I’ll admit i’ve done this occasionally when i’ve passed someone and then realized i was going 95-100 and slowing down. In my defense i do feel like an asshole afterword.
I’m a heavy user of cruise control, so if that happens it’s because the person I’m passing sped up.
A big “fuck you” to the assholes who speed up while you’re trying to pass them, too.
Yeup.
Was just about to say the same thing. Good thing I refreshed
U just put the Tesla on autopilot and chill while surfing music channels.
Exactly this.
Robert Kraft story – is there any evidence that the parlor engaged in trafficking or sex slavery or is this just boilerplate sex for money is bad mkay?
Arrest every married couple then…
Arrest every
marriedcouple then…“Robert Kraft story – is there any evidence that the parlor engaged in trafficking or sex slavery or is this just boilerplate sex for money is bad mkay?”
The wrong people won the Superbowl, mmkey, we have a plan to fix it.
A young woman tells Feinstein she’s “looking at the faces of the people who will be living with these consequences” of climate change.
“I’ve been doing this for 30 years. I know what I’m doing,” Feinstein says. “You come in here and you say, ‘It has to be my way or the highway.’ I don’t respond to that.”
“That’s just how it works, little girl- I mean, Representative Ocasio- sometimes you have to live in the real world. Now sit down and shut up.”
Given time, I’m sure the Democrats will be able to come up with an unworkable nightmare which Susan Collins can vote for. Hope is not yet lost.
Tom Woods did a good podcast a while.back about how the unworkable, ideological push by the left is a winning strategy. They never get everything they want but they make huge gains in the compromise, as opposed the the right which consistently loses ground with every compromise. While utterly stupid on it’s face, the Green New Deal is a winning strategy.
And then went on to contrast the mainstream libertarian push to be ‘moderate’ and ‘sensible’ which nets nothing.
They’ve been doing that for decades with gun control. It’s a winning incremental strategy.
Political compromise is 1/2 way between two bad ideas
What a nightmare. These fucking grifters are brainwashing children with the biggest scam in human history.
It’s disgusting and shameful.
‘Do any of you snotnose little brats have a gun? What about your parents? Are there any guns in your house? Well, you best tell me if there are. In fact, you can go home right now and get those guns for DiFi, because only I’m allowed to have guns!’.
How fast eas Heisenberg moving when he announced? That will help us narrow down the time range.
His energy was the conjugate variable to the time. Speed only gets you the kinetic portion.
Hmmm. I always thought it was position and momentum, but I am not an expert.
At any rate, the uncertainty principle applies to any pair of operators that don’t commute, with possibly different lower bounds.
It’s any set of conjugate variables or operators: position and momentum, energy and time, angular momentum and angle… basically, if the dimensions work out to action, there will be an uncertainty.
i guess we need his rest mass then.
Cop pulls over Heisenberg.
Cop: do you have any idea how fast you were going?
Heisenberg: No, but I know exactly where I am.
You just be glad the Wonder Dog hasn’t called 911 on you and SP…
Yeah, I caught just about 50% o’ that tune. I credit having to decipher both High German and Swiss dialect.
No need to specify Hallelujah as Cohen’s. No one else has done a decent version.
*Ahem*
https://youtu.be/XOXol8TBaYs
I love Remy.
I’m a fan of Remy, too.
However, I liked her coarser side better with M.O.P..
TW- “urban lyrics” may not be family friendly
I won’t listen to Chris Brown because he’s a piece of shit.
Having gone on trips to Utah and Nevada, where other motorists sometimes whiz by at 90 mph, Chuck Farmer, vice president of research for IIHS, said, “Personally, I find it very uncomfortable.”
There’s a simple solution: Stay home.
The discomfort comes from the yearning to get in the left-hand lane without the ability to cope with those who already deserve to be there.
Right-of-way is like property rights: very inconvenient to stupid Americans. Same thing with free markets: a system where everyone makes choices and must manage themselves to avoid catastrophe is unimaginable; better to have a system with tons of restrictions that is safe and where no one else can do 90 because I can’t drive faster than 55.
A friend with other very troubling philosophies explains that he is not an asshole when his cruise control at 70 forces him left to overtake a truck at 65 . . . impeding me at 90.
Die. Fucking Die. Die in Fire.
I wonder how the survivability rates of wrecking at 65 compare with wrecking at 90 – all other factors being equal? I know the forces involved would be higher because of the speed, but wonder if it would make much difference.
True, you’d have a little less time to react, but I’m not sure it would make a lot of difference either. If you’re doing 65 at night and a deer runs in front of you, I’m not sure it’s all that different to doing 90.
If you’re doing 65 at night and a deer runs in front of you, I’m not sure it’s all that different to doing 90.
My ex-FIL would vehemently disagree with that. He was a county deputy and went to a lot of crash scenes. He would constantly argue that as speed increases the dangers go up exponentially. His other argument is that modern cars make people feel so much safer, but once you’re above 70mph or so, they aren’t.
Now, I don’t know how much of this was just to slow his poor driving daughter down vs. his actual beliefs.But, I don’t recall ever being in a car with him going over 70mph.
There’s a practical approach to these things. I drive as fast as I can when time is of the essence or conditions will tolerate it. Speed for speed’s sake only helps on long stretches; the rest of the time managing discrete decisions trumps pedal-mashing by a stretch. I routinely top 100MPH in my hilly South, but that’s mostly on straights on sunny days. On interstates, I’m easing around corners in the 80 area. Around unpredictable drivers and weird loads, I’m even slower. Then wind it back up gently and ease away. Coming up with four barrels, you learn to be smooth on the throttle or go broke.
As for the physics, the other issue is that few collide at cruising speed. If you can brake well for half a second before impact, you’ll pare down your speed 20MPH, so the hit difference then is between 45 and 70. Like I wrote elsewhere, though: you need space to go fast; it’s not always there.
While utterly stupid on it’s face, the Green New Deal is a winning strategy.
I’m afraid it might be true. Ask for everything, and get something. Come back later and say something wasn’t enough, and ask for everything again. Get another chunk of something.
Rinse, repeat.
I want to propose a Restore Liberty Act:
Abolish the NFA and subsequently ATF.
Abolish the income tax and subsequently the IRS.
Abolish drug prohibition and subsequently the DEA.
Abolish federal environmental regulation and subsequently the EPA.
Repeal all garbage involving the commerce clause and get rid of the FBI and a whole host of other alphabet soup agencies.
End foreign wars and abolish the CIA.
If they want to push overtons window we should too.
You have to be realistic, only Nazis would want that stuff. Especially the foreign wars thing.
Abolish federal environmental regulation and subsequently the EPA.
I want to agree with all of that but can’t.
I don’t know what the answer is, but thousands of actors are killing me, taking minutes off my life, one minute here, one day there, one tumor in there, with their emissions. I can’t pay counsel $400 an hour to restrain them all.
The practical answers are
a/ the days of my life being stolen from me have no value if I can’t defend them in court; if all rights are property rights, I’m worthless because I’m outnumbered by people with more money . . . I don’t even have the right to breathe clean air; die like the piece of shit that I am
b/ some sort of agency that prevents what it can, the alacrity and the incompetence of the DMV expected
c/ private action (explosives would be in order if I really believe I’m being killed)
I’m open to better ideas; I beg for them.
respectfully submitted,
your neighborhood chemistry veteran
I don’t know what the answer is, but thousands of actors are killing me, taking minutes off my life, one minute here, one day there, one tumor in there, with their emissions.
Look at the net. Sure, industrial/technological society creates negative environmental externalities that are bad for your health.
But only looking at the negative externalities, without also looking at the positive externalities and direct benefits, is a fallacy. Example: X-rays. They create an unquestionable negative externality in the form of an increased risk (albeit slight) of cancer. But I doubt anyone sane would say we should junk diagnostic imaging because of that.
On net, I am confident that I will live a longer, healthier life because of modern industrial/technological society. Sure, we should chip away at the negative externalities, but always keeping in mind that doing so is likely to also impact positive externalities and direct benefits.
yay everyone get in line: RC sez if he’s otherwise having a great day each of us get to kick him in the nuts
For some reason outrageous demands only work for the left. Your list just makes you a right wing nut job and can be dismissed without consideration.
Snopes debunks a Babylon Bee article (again apparantly):
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/jussie-smollett-cnn-job/
They mention that BB is a satirical site at the end of the article but come on.
Satire is fake news.
Snopes has been useless for years. Another once fine outfit hijacked by the left.
Bugs Bunny (incredulous): “Kiww da wabbit?!”
*that has been rattling around n my head for days.
As set to a full orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2bilTTzO-g
A study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety found that the lives of 33,000 motorists and their passengers would have been saved if there had been no speed limit increases between 1993, when states posted highways at either 55 mph or 65 mph, and 2013.
Sounds legit.
I kinda really don’t like the (new?) thing of measuring lost lives, etc. over long periods to get a big scawy number.
That averages to 1,650 lives per year. While not nothing, also not a big scawy number.
Average it again over lives lost per passenger miles on highways (which may or may not be the right metric), and I’m betting it starts looking like decimal dust.
‘Splosives! What a wonderful post last night!
“Hallelujah.” I absolutely loathe that song. No particular reason; it just grates on my last nerve.
But you never liked music anyway.
Neh, not a note.
Boy, did you pick the wrong church.
Srsly.
Leonard Cohen may in fact be the most overrated figure in the history of all music.
A friend with other very troubling philosophies explains that he is not an asshole when his cruise control at 70 forces him left to overtake a truck at 65 . . . impeding me at 90.
A 5mph differential? You should consider yourself lucky.
*If I were god-king, I would abolish cruise control.
You want a shooting war, that’s how you get a shooting war. You can have my cruise control when you pry it from my cold dead hand.
I love cruise control . . . . . at 90.
I’m curious about a shooting war and some of the positions you’ve argued: they haven’t exactly lined up with the kind of feller I’d think would medal on Glib Rendezvous Pistol Day. What did I miss?
I’m not saying I would win.
Seriously, which positions? I’m not a gun nut but I have no problem with guns or gun owners, I may mock rednecks, but because they are rednecks not because they have guns.
Don’t pick on rednecks: I’m my brother’s keeper.
your best answer ever
* deep bow *
I do not use cruise control, but my husband does because he’s prone to getting speeding tickets. At least it’s an opt-in.
For now.
Did I just see an article by Winston’s mom, that didn’t disappear?
He calls speeding “the forgotten issue” in traffic safety. It’s ignored because so many drivers push the limits.
“We all do it. There’s no social stigma attached to it,” Adkins said.
Perhaps there is a lesson to be learned from that….
Naah, that’s just silly.
Made the last train, but not before I set this on the Youtube at the bar before I left. Who ever posted the out of tune link, I owe you.
Ankle, arch and knee certainly are twisted up, but nothing too serious. Not a sprain like I supposed it was.
Today is the first full day of Alone Time in almost two months. Jalapeno cheese grits will begin my day. I do not know where the cat is.
extry lumps in dem grits ?
Sucks about the leg. That sounds good. I made burgers last night with jalepeno pepper cheese.
How’s the asian decompression going? Got the bends?
I’m almost halfway into my stay here.
Food is so intoxicating. The cheese selection alone makes me pause. I feel like Tom Hanks in Castaway when he gets back. He flicks a lighter and stews in how easy the process is compared to his previous life.
I’m still weirded out by white people. As you know, when you spot a weiguk/gaijin it kinda takes you aback mentally. I’ve been here for six weeks and I still get that shock-take every time I see white folk. Which in Indianapolis, is pretty constant.
Being able to understand everything around me is always the biggest change. Most people don’t ever experience the sensation. Overhearing every conversation around you; advertisements; snippets on TV as people change channels. I’m so used to comfortably drowning out all that noise and disengaging from society.
There are pros and cons to this.
I’ve finally (fingers crossed) figured out how to write about my experiences. I certainly could pen a piece on this sensation.
When was the last time you were in the States? Does this make sense to you/how do you experience it?
Roughly six weeks until I begin the next (terrifying) adventure in Thailand. I do have a job interview on Monday so that’s good. Lady has a teaching gig lined up. I like being alone but I don’t enjoy being away from her. My team is down a (wo)man. Soon soon.
Neither of these replies demonstrate any concern for the well-being and whereabouts of said cat.
*narrows gaze*
I have always loved dogs. They work for a living. They are the best. But last night I realized that I am indeed a cat person. I don’t have the energy or patience to properly care for a dog. This kitty understands me just right.
I wonder what it’s like to be extroverted, to be energized by other people rather than exhausted by them.
Solitude is a warm blanket.
I have always loved dogs. They work for a living.
*turns screen around, gestures at quote to get lazy lump of a dog’s attention*
I grew up in a farming community that evolved into a suburb. A lot of my values toward things like pets were formed while living in a neighborhood of farming families. I’m a believer in pets (at least the 4 legged furry kind) being working animals. In that regard, big dogs > cats > small dogs. My wife’s small dogs were/are nothing but responsibility and something to anthropomorphize because she didn’t have children yet. My cats have killed enough snakes and rodents to be worth their keep. We had mouse infestations in the last 2 houses we bought, and each was completely gone within a few months.
I have always loved dogs. They work for a living.
I need to have a word with her highness
If I remember correctly you grew up in the Fishers area? That area “evolved” into a suburb very quickly. I grew up in northwest Indianapolis and When I was in high school I could get to the country from my parents house within 5 minutes. It probably take 25-30 minutes now.
Extremely quickly. I was up on the border between Noblesville and Fishers, so we didn’t get converted into tract homes until 2000 or so. My 2nd house was built in the corn fields surrounding the neighborhood of my first house, and there’s a hospital and a Marsh in the soy field where my friend and I used to shoot bbs at various woodland creatures.
My dad’s looking to GTFO of that area now that my youngest brother is about to graduate from Purdue.
We still need to hang out! Sorry–my life is in constant flux at the moment.
Right now I’m housesitting at Pennsylvania/44th. My parents’ place is in Carmel at about 136th.
No problem, I’ve been fairly busy lately. I Let me know when/if you have free time and we can set something up.
Whoops.
I was born in Bluefield, WV but grew up in Evansville (SHOCKER!) and went to school in Bloomington before moving off to Asia.
My dad’s side of the family if from West Virginia. I still have a lot of ties there.
Sorry to have failed you. Putty tat is ok?
Leftest to children. The earth will be destroyed and you will be all dead in 12 years unless you can convince polititians to steal all of the countries wealth and spend it on unicorns. Calling them scum wouldn’t be fair to scum. They need to be called out on their shameless child pimping. No wonder these kids cry when they don’t get what they want (or rather what their brain washing cult leaders want). Their taught that every item in the leftest grap bad is a moral if not existential imperative.
You can safely put (most) old people into that crowd. We have learned well at the knee of politicians and AARP.
The last aisle at Home Depot:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6736625/Barbara-Palvin-gets-leggy-fellow-models-Shanina-Shaik-Jasmine-Tookes-WME-Pre-Oscar-Party.html
I like a nice set of legs.
There are many fewer deaths by gator than I’d have guessed.
Death by gator is usually a small child whose parents were foolish enough to let them near the waters edge. It is horrible. Last year I had to be the asshole to throw a guy off of my property, not because I didn’t want him fishing but he had two small children with him and they were fishing on the edge of the bayou. Lemme tell ya’, the Rigolette is chock full of gators.
Cops in gunfights. People who drive fast. Parents letting children near alligator infested water. <—- What these people all have in common is that they are fools who think it cant happen to them.
Yeah, it probably has to do with lack of opportunity. As I’m sure you know they’ll take a dog in a heartbeat.
Yes. I lost a beagle to them. Broke my damned heart.
Speech is violence so this was just self-defense.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11898
Leftists, always and everywhere the same. They call others Nazis while they themselves behave exactly like Nazis.
Maybe Charles Bronson should walk around Berkely with a MAGA cap on. Lol.
I absolutely loathe that “but experts say…” garbage. You can find experts saying whatever you want, so in reality it’s just another way for the reporter to inject their own beliefs and biases into the article.
It’s sort of like you can find a study proving whatever you want it to. Science now depends on where the funding came from and political bias. The enlightenment is over, we’re heading for a new dark ages. But it’s going to be really green.
Sure, cherry picking studies can work, too. And it’s done all the time. But the studies have to actually *exist* for that to work. Citing “experts” does not have that restriction.
Yeah, it’s gotten to the point where you have to check on who funded a study, how the study was conducted, whether the results are misinterpreted, etc. There aren’t many people who have the time or the motivation to bother.
I agree. Expert worship is almost as bad as hero worship aka public sector worship.
All this says to be is that the Overton Window has shifted such that “moderate” now means free healthcare, free college and soak the rich.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/gallup-liberals-outnumber-conservatives-in-only-6-states-down-from-9
Nice retirement guide.
I absolutely loathe that “but experts say…” garbage.
I’m not sure which is worse (actually, I am); the Appeal to Experts or the “polls show” Appeal to the Mob.
I don’t give a fuck what the ladies at the PTA think I should be allowed to build my property, or how fast I should be allowed to drive. And I don’t give a fuck how many “experts” they parade across the stage. It’s all just a bunch of “People shouldn’t be allowed to do stuff I don’t like!”
Well, tough shit, Shirley.
Welcome to the local zoning board.
“You are not allowed to do that, without a variance. Get an application, Request for a Change of Zoning, pay the nice lady $500 and if we have time we’ll get in on the agenda for next month or the month after. Now, just appearing on the agenda does not insure that your request will be approved. If approved, you’ll need a building permit, a well permit, an electrical permit and a sewer permit. Do you have an attorney?”
My neighbors were having some gutters fixed and some busybody from the city happened by and shut them down because they didn’t have a permit. For fucking gutter work.
“Millennials are hiring consultants to raise their ‘plant babies’”
https://nypost.com/2019/02/20/millennials-are-hiring-consultants-to-raise-their-plant-babies/
““People are buying plants now because it fills a void in their lives,””
OK, that’s just sad.
Humans refuse to hang out with me. But plants seem to like me.
This is exactly how plants will evolve legs.
So, you’re saying that millennials and their money will be soon parted. Just imagine how bad it will get then they stop getting their money from their mum.
Speaking of media genres I loathe… “millennials do this stupid thing” is up there.
Concurred
It’s even funnier when they this stupid thing was done by a college kid or high-schooler: not millennials any more.
+ smirk
I had the “milliennials to snake people” plugin on Chrome for a long time. It’s hilarious. It changes terms like “great recession” and “occupy movement”, too.
Just be careful if you’re a reporter.
Why isn’t this service free?
This here is pretty much the definition of “fools and their money.”
Just last night an ex-coworker and I were talking about the people who get paid to go around big offices watering and tending plants. We thought it looked like just about the greatest job ever. No hassles, no real schedule. We couldn’t figure out how to get those contracts, otherwise we were down with it.
Aquariums, too.
I’m going to retire into aquarium maintenance
make sure you know what you’re doing or you could make a big mistake in an aquarium
Damn, I guess they were just a flash in a pan
Dang it, I shouldve gone with “gone in a flash” instead.
*womp womp*
Sounds like a bottom feeder of a job to me.
It does sound fishy
There are many fewer deaths by gator than I’d have guessed.
They’re slow. Speed kills.
They are slow most of the time to conserve energy. Sometimes they aren’t. They can be fast and they are stronger than you can believe. I saw one catch and kill a fair sized hog. When they mean business, they mean business.
It is certain behavior and certain stimuli that cause them to reflexively attack. Humans dont do those things very often but if you do you are shit out of luck.
MUH SEX SLAVES
https://twitter.com/johncardillo/status/1099013630241243137
Kraft didn’t say ‘Fuck Trump’ during he Superbowl after show. He must be punished. He ain’t woke? Well, he better get woke!
Even worse, he may have said some nice things about Trump at some point!!!111!
Yeah, he’s an extremist. He was on the list.
Was there any evidence of human trafficking?
Don’t question the narrative with your curiosity about what the facts are!
Evidence? How quaint…
It’s always human trafficking, duh.
From this write-up
Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said many of the women came to the United States from China under the guise of having legitimate jobs in day spas and instead were forced to work in the sex trade and often being confined to the storefronts, eating and sleeping there when they were not working.
A Department of Health investigator noted that two rooms in the Orchids of Asia Day Spa had beds as well as dressers, as well as a kitchen, indicating that people lived there.
They need to legalize prostitution if they ever hope to end sex slavery. But the moral scolds will never do it. They would rather punish “sinners” than actually solve the problem. Just like the drug issue.
Some pols live in their office, sex trade? In a manner of speaking they are the parliament of whores.
“Shouldn’t even be a crime”
Unless he had evidence that this wasn’t consensual then I couldn’t agree more.
Ghouls.
https://freebeacon.com/issues/kaine-hints-at-opposition-to-caring-for-newborn-abortion-survivors/
Christ, what an asshole.
Kaine is a piece of shit who married his way into Virginia politics.
I wholly endorse making him squirm on that vote.
‘Creepy Tim’ is creepy. Shouldn’t he be off running a youth camp somewhere?
“#SteveIrwin was killed while harassing a ray; he dangled his baby while feeding a crocodile & wrestled wild animals who were minding their own business. Today’s #GoogleDoodle sends a dangerous, fawning message. Wild animals are entitled to be left alone in their natural habitats.”
https://twitter.com/peta/status/1098992959649808384
Winning hearts and minds.
I find the following snippit from the comments, interesting. Imagine if we could apply that logic to humans.
“A real wildlife expert & someone who respects animals for the individuals they are leaves them to their own business in their natural homes.”
What is it about predicting an organization’s behavior by assuming it’s being run by a cabal of its enemies? PETA is right up there with Scientology for me on the list of groups I would personally volunteer to purge with fire and sword.
Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics
– Everyone is conservative about what he knows best.
– Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.
– The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies.
(they may be apocryphal)
Oh hey Suthen,
I kind of volunteered your place to be the basis of a cash generating online credential mill.
I hope that was ok.
I saw that. I have been thinking about that a bit. Fuck gun grabbers. They exploit the law in every way they can. We should exploit back.
I’ve been here for six weeks and I still get that shock-take every time I see white folk.
Same thing after I escaped TX: for decades I had gone running up to anyone in SEC swag, whereyafrom, whoyaknow? I was back in TN a year before certain bumper stickers didn’t make my head spin.
A bit of my racist bullshit: I’m really wired for body language and movement, and I never got entirely comfortable with Mexican postures and carriage. Back home where I’m a minority, the familiar glide and ease of Blacks is completely comforting. I’m very weak with languages, but the buzz of other tongues in the background has never bothered me one bit; I don’t think I have a lot of cultural hangups and have traveled widely. I do know that I don’t like how Englishmen move, either, but it’s because they walk like sissy twits; I would have been beaten to death by third grade if I stood like that.
During my very brief stint in San Marcos, CA, I could count on one hand the number of black people I saw. Meanwhile, it seemed like every other person I saw was Filipino. Coming from the DC metro, it was bizarre.
That is interesting.
For me it isn’t about body language and culture (although Koreans are really goofy with their being-childish-is-cute bullshit) but literally about people being foreigners. The first six months in Korea anyone who wasn’t Korean and could speak English was my best friend. I would have been friends with Stalin (if he had a ping pong table.
It’s really weird how the in-group/out-group psychology works.
The English thing is class specific. They have…or used to…a kind of middle class/lower middle class that were indistinguishable from Americans in everything save accent.
I find the ones above that class, non-working class I guess they call it, insufferable.
Yeah, that upper class has a particular aspect that just brings out loathing in me. I was sitting in restaurant near the waterfront in Edinburgh and heard two women speaking in that upper-class accent. My lizard brain urged me to leap across the table and beat them both to death.
I don’t know this to be true personally, but I have heard that social class is still very much a big thing in the UK, particularly in England. In the US we talk about class, but we really mean money; although there are accents and habits that read low-class, there really isn’t a hell of a lot of difference between the rich, the middle class, and the poor that can’t be explained away by access to wealth. It wouldn’t make sense to talk about someone as both upper-class and poor here. With the English, though, I hear that it’s different. Class is very much a cultural thing, and no amount of money will buy a lower-class person entry into the upper-class.
I once talked a limey girl into immigrating to the US. She was a top notch chemist with a PhD but couldn’t get a decent job in england because of her accent. I explained the difference between there and here…basically that no one here gave a shit about her accent they only care about merit.
She got a job teaching at Tulane and got her ass out of ol’ blighty.
And people wonder why the USA is the greatest country.
Cormorant Village (where the dog is the mayor) is just a few miles from where I grew up. I’m pretty sure that the dog was the best citizen ever to be included in the village’s citizenship rolls.
I know OMWC said Great Pyranees aren’t fond of water, I wonder the Mayor Dog was different. There are tons and tons of lakes/swamps/ponds around that village. Seems like any dog that didn’t like water would be in for a rough time.
Ours sure isn’t fond of water, but I don’t know about the breed in general. And of course, we lived in the aptly-named Lake County with a lake right at our back yard. A lab would have been in doggie heaven.
My lab loved water for the first five years of her life. At about 5-6 years old I took her out with me on a pontoon boat on Lake Kentucky. Because of the way the the boat was laid out, she couldn’t get back into it without me lifting her. It really freaked her out. After that she never went swimming again.
from dem parts? someone the other day was asking for BNA Glibs to hang out with
Nope, that was just a vacation, I’m up in Indiana. At least for now.
I live in Nashville now. Had planned on Dallas, TX but ended up deciding it was better here. Moved out about a decade ago at the direction of the USAF. Moved back because I wanted to be here. It’s different than when I left, but I’m really enjoying it. Would be happy to meet any glibs that are visiting.
Labs are always in doggie heaven. One of the reasons I’m so fond of them.
I have a friend we all call the human black lab because he is always so upbeat no matter what happens. You can’t ever get him mad. What a complement to be compared to a lab.
Natsoc Propaganda Radio is on the side of the oppressed and downtrodden.
New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that almost a half a million U.S. workers were off the job in strikes or lockouts during 2018, and nearly 400,000 of them were teachers. It was the biggest year for work stoppages since 1986.
This year, individual districts — such as Denver and Los Angeles — have picked up where states left off. Teachers in Oakland, Calif., were on the picket lines Thursday and Friday, and Sacramento, Calif., teachers could be next.
Educators say they’re angry. They don’t like how states and school districts treat them and their students. A lot of the frustration comes down to money, but dignity and respect are touchstones, too.
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Then, a major Supreme Court decision last year dealt a blow to teachers unions. In Janus v. AFSCME, the court ruled that public sector unions can no longer collect money from nonmembers covered by collective bargaining agreements. That decision could potentially weaken teacher unions by cutting them off from money.
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Meanwhile, public school teachers have long argued that charters siphon public funds and fail to serve all students. In Oakland and Los Angeles, teachers are asking for more restrictions on these schools.
West Virginia educators walked off the job again for two days this week to protest a bill making its way through the statehouse that could have introduced charter schools to the state. Lawmakers effectively killed the bill on Tuesday, and union leaders called the strike off on Wednesday evening after the time for lawmakers to reconsider the measure had passed.
Obviously, we need a national one-size-fits-all solution, with teachers as federal employees with GS ratings and salaries corresponding to the gigantic contribution they make to society.
I think I’ve asked before – which profession holds itself in the highest esteem? Teachers are surely near the top. Journalists, too.
College academics as a subset of teachers are even worse.
For complaining about how bad they have it, it’s Teachers win hands down followed by lawyers, oh boo-hoo people ask you for legal advice at parties as if no one ever asks the mechanic for car advice. I don’t know if “esteem” is the right word but I get tired of the truckers boasting on talk radio. “I’m out there and I know what it’s like in ‘real ‘murica”, “We’re the lifeblood of the country”, and “Without us, no one would have anything”, particularly annoying is the hosts (usually conservative) thanking them for doing their job.
followed by lawyers, oh boo-hoo people ask you for legal advice at parties
If that’s all you’ve heard lawyers whine about, count yourself lucky. Lawyers are trailer trash with 6 figure incomes.
You know, strangely, I’ve noticed that lawyers tend to dress like shit. Lawyers and twelve year olds going to their first formal have the same taste in tailoring.
You guys are destroying all my most dearly held beliefs about lawyers. I’m almost to the point where I no longer have shoulda-gone-to-law-school meltdowns.
More destruction
Y mas
Yep, lawyer salaries follow a bimodal distribution.
I have several lawyers in my family – most will be paying off their loans until they die. Also, most of them are not using the degree.
Statistically speaking, I’m going to say you dodged a bullet, Mojeaux.
Oops, second link was supposed to be to an image showing that 1/4 of law students graduate more than 180k in the hole.
Police. Hands down. Every single one is a hero, risking his/her life to protect us sheep from the wolves.
“Is anyone planning a class action to sue @RationalWiki’s owner for libel? This description of the Guardian’s Nick Cohen as a ‘member of the international Jewish cabal’ is beyond the pale. Just one of dozens of mendacious descriptions of high profile people”
https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1099121255033098241
“Nobody tries harder to be fairer than Scott Alexander. For the culture warriors to come for him is a pretty clear sign that no one is safe.”
https://twitter.com/RogueNotary/status/1099141745999257601
Do you know who else went after jews?
Antiochus IV Epiphianes?
“Thanks to a great founding population, some very hard-working moderators, and a unique rule-set that emphasized trying to understand and convince rather than yell and shame, the Culture War thread became something special. People from all sorts of political positions, from the most boring centrists to the craziest extremists, had some weirdly good discussions and came up with some really deep insights into what the heck is going on in some of society’s most explosive controversies. For three years, if you wanted to read about the socialist case for vs. against open borders, the weird politics of Washington state carbon taxes, the medieval Rule of St. Benedict compared and contrasted with modern codes of conduct, the growing world of evangelical Christian feminism, Banfield’s neoconservative perspective on class, Baudrillard’s Marxist perspective on consumerism, or just how #MeToo has led to sex parties with consent enforcers dressed as unicorns, the r/SSC culture war thread was the place to be. I also benefitted from its weekly roundup of interesting social science studies and arch-moderator baj2235’s semi-regular Quality Contributions Catch-Up Thread.”
https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/02/22/rip-culture-war-thread/
“The fact is, it’s very easy to moderate comment sections. It’s very easy to remove spam, bots, racial slurs, low-effort trolls, and abuse. I do it single-handedly on this blog’s 2000+ weekly comments. r/slatestarcodex’s volunteer team of six moderators did it every day on the CW Thread, and you can scroll through week after week of multiple-thousand-post culture war thread and see how thorough a job they did.
But once you remove all those things, you’re left with people honestly and civilly arguing for their opinions. And that’s the scariest thing of all.
Some people think society should tolerate pedophilia, are obsessed with this, and can rattle off a laundry list of studies that they say justify their opinion. Some people think police officers are enforcers of oppression and this makes them valid targets for violence. Some people think immigrants are destroying the cultural cohesion necessary for a free and prosperous country. Some people think transwomen are a tool of the patriarchy trying to appropriate female spaces. Some people think Charles Murray and The Bell Curve were right about everything. Some people think Islam represents an existential threat to the West. Some people think women are biologically less likely to be good at or interested in technology. Some people think men are biologically more violent and dangerous to children. Some people just really worry a lot about the Freemasons.
Each of these views has adherents who are, no offense, smarter than you are. Each of these views has, at times, won over entire cultures so completely that disagreeing with them then was as unthinkable as agreeing with them is today. I disagree with most of them but don’t want to be too harsh on any of them. Reasoning correctly about these things is excruciatingly hard, trusting consensus opinion would have led you horrifyingly wrong throughout most of the past, and other options, if they exist, are obscure and full of pitfalls. I tend to go with philosophers from Voltaire to Mill to Popper who say the only solution is to let everybody have their say and then try to figure it out in the marketplace of ideas.
But none of those luminaries had to deal with online comment sections.”
It’s hard to sue a wiki for defamation because there is no content steward who can be said to be responsible for what’s posted on there. While there is moderation, it is not omnipresent and is generally reactive rather than proactive, because typically the goal is to encourage participation rather than ensure every piece of content is exactly in line with policies before it can be posted.
The bigger problem is not that RationalWiki exists or may contain defamatory content. It is that people bear no responsibility for using that content, defamatory or otherwise, to aggressively punish other people. Doxxing may not be a crime but making threats is. While keeping your job is ultimately at the discretion of your employer, some rando calling in to complain is tortuous interference. Start assigning some real consequences to bad online behavior and these actions would be greatly reduced in frequency and effect.
All that having been said, it hits me a bit that Scott Alexander and Slate Star Codex are the target de jure. I suppose it was inevitable, but it is also rather telling. The Internet outrage mob is not interested in debate, honesty, or intellect. The goal is to hurt others for one’s own gratification. I can think of no more malign motivation than that.
“Can I help you”. That would be surreal. Sounds like a mental health issue. I’m sure the state will make it worse.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-carolina-man-surprised-to-find-woman-and-her-children-moved-into-his-home-report-says
I knew a guy in the Marines who had a great story about being in the wrong house.
While Gomer was in boot camp his family moved to a new house. He swears they never told him, they swear they wrote him a letter telling him that and their new address.
Anyhow, he gets out of boot camp and flies home (Nebraska?) and takes a taxi to his house. No one is home, which he thinks is weird because they know he’s coming sometime that day. The house is locked, but he grew up there and used a back window to get in (that he used as a kid to sneak in/out). He’s flipping on lights looking for his family and starts to notice that all the furniture is different. He’s just looking at some pictures of a totally random family and trying to figure out what happened when the door opens and strangers walk in and start yelling at him.
Now, you have to remember that Gomer just finished spending 13 weeks in boot camp where he had been conditioned to rev up his aggression levels to probably about as high as they would ever be, so he goes into full “Repel Boarders” mode and is storming at the intruders. Luckily, a few steps away from the new family, the light went on that these people lived in the house and he backed off.
Even when everyone calmed down, he simply thought he somehow had gone to the wrong address. It took a good half hour and a phone call to his families new home before he could process the fact that his family had moved.
The kicker he said was the look of pity in the new family’s eyes as he left. They were convinced he grew up with the worst parents ever. How else could they not tell him they had moved?
This story was really about you, wasn’t it?
A buddy of mine who was a sailor–not in the Navy, just a guy who raced sailboats–was at a party and had been drinking all day long. He was absolutely shitfaced, like blackout drunk. So, he leaves the party to get something from his car. It’s night, and it’s in his old neighborhood, luckily. He’s parked a couple streets over, so it takes him maybe five minutes. He gets back and sees that the lights are out, there’s nobody in the yard, and it’s quiet. He walks up to the door…nothing, nobody’s there. He walks in and starts looking for people, calling people’s names, and he’s getting pissed because they’re clearly fucking with him and he’s not in the mood. A joke’s a joke but this has gone on long enough.
He finally hears steps coming down the stairs. It’s an older guy and his wife. He doesn’t recognize them, and by the tones in their voices they don’t recognize him, either. Naturally, they must be in on the joke, and that’s taking shit way, way too far. When they start yelling at him to leave, that’s the final straw. He decides that he will sit in their foyer and he won’t leave until his idiot friends finally come out of wherever they’re hiding.
Apparently, based on testimony and his eventual recollection, he was perfectly cooperative with the police. When he woke up in the holding cell the next day, he was informed that the couple did not intend to press charges, but the city sure as hell did. In another stroke of luck, his father, a prominent local attorney, was able to call in a few favors and get him PBJ. He quit drinking for a year as a result, and while he picked it right back up at the end of his probation I have never seen him drink to excess since. When he tells the story, he always says that he’s as grateful as he can be to the couple for being so kind. Had he been in their shoes, faced with a belligerent drunk stranger refusing to leave their home, he’d have shot the guy.
Long story made short, During homecoming in college I started drinking about 4am. Somewhere around 6pm I woke up in a bush outside of an unfamiliar house.My last memory was that we were going to a party. So I assumed there was a party at this house and walked inside. Imagine my horror as I opened the door to see about 8 black gentlemen sitting in a semi-circle smoking a blunt. Th e situation quickly resolved when they just started laughing and making fun of me. I smiled, shut the door and walked away.
Some drunken dude attempted to force his way into my mom’s house a few years ago – apparently he was positive it was his house.
The boys in blue quickly showed up and gently escorted him away. And nothing else happened.
I’ll let you guess the profession of said drunken dude.
I had a college friend who lived a couple doors down in the dorms who woke up one Saturday morning and realized that he was the little spoon and some random drunk guy was the big spoon. He started locking the door after that.
Just last night an ex-coworker and I were talking about the people who get paid to go around big offices watering and tending plants. We thought it looked like just about the greatest job ever. No hassles, no real schedule. We couldn’t figure out how to get those contracts, otherwise we were down with it.
A long time ago, I knew a girl who did that. It was, in fact, a sweet gig.
Welcome to the local zoning board.
“You are not allowed to do that, without a variance. Get an application, Request for a Change of Zoning, pay the nice lady $500 and if we have time we’ll get in on the agenda for next month or the month after. Now, just appearing on the agenda does not insure that your request will be approved. If approved, you’ll need a building permit, a well permit, an electrical permit and a sewer permit. Do you have an attorney?”
In my county of residence, in Montana, there is no zoning.
Yet.
But the drums are getting louder. The
nativesCalifornicators are getting restless. “What do you mean, I can’t keep those people from doing that? That’s nuts. Where I come from, there are rules. There are procedures to be followed. We deserve our say. Those radical individualists have to be kept on a short leash, in the name of democracy.”One of the most dangerous beliefs is that which says democracy is a way to settle every single conflict (rather than a least-worst option for selecting government officials so long as they’re necessary).
People from all sorts of political positions, from the most boring centrists to the craziest extremists, had some weirdly good discussions and came up with some really deep insights into what the heck is going on in some of society’s most explosive controversies.
Inconceivable.
SHUT
IT
DOWN.
Netflix has an 8-part series on sports “losers” coming out next week. I heard about it because I-vaguely-follow Torquay United FC and they’re featured in one episode. Looks like Jean Valverde is also in one of the eps.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=909qosDbalU
Re: The AI order taker at fast food joints. This can’t come fast enough. The weakest link in any bad fast food transaction I’ve ever had has been the order taker. Screens showing your order have helped this, but let’s take the next step.
A big benefit of AI taking orders that I didn’t see mentioned in my skimming of the article; they can speak to the customer in the customer’s native language. Thereby tearing down any language barriers that only make ordering more difficult with humans.
I like app based ordering. My wife can put in an order at chick fi lala , and I pick it up on the way home with nothing more than her name. They’ve never screwed one of those orders up yet.
Does Chik-fil-A ever screw up any orders? They must put adderall in the employee water, because they are all way too happy and accurate for fast food. That, or they may be aliens, coming to take over the world through delicious chicken.
In twelve years I’ve had one order get screwed up at Chik-Fil-A, and IIRC it was something like they forgot to put the sauce I asked for in the bag. Whatever they’re doing in terms of corporate culture is paying off. Honestly, it’s a case study in how to do fast food.
Over the past twenty five years I’ve frequented fast food joints pretty regularly, and I’ve noticed some patterns. Some of these are only locally relevant, but some seem to apply everywhere.
1. Generally speaking, Wendy’s has the worst service, Chik-Fil-A the best, and McDonald’s and Burger King vary wildly.
2. The smaller the town, the better your chances of a good experience, although there’s a sweet spot; too small, and a place that’s the only game in town for miles can be utter shit with confidence because there’s no competition.
3. The best service is going to come from kids that look like they’re there as a part-time gig for summer money or something like that. The worst is going to come, shockingly, from people who look like they couldn’t be bothered but also can’t find any other work. The latter category is heavily populated by people who might be considered “white trash” or, well, something else, based on ethnicity. There’s a magic combo of ineptitude and entitlement that results in infuriatingly shit service.
There’s a magic combo of ineptitude and entitlement that results in infuriatingly shit service.
You know you’re getting nothing you ordered when the obese girl with a blue crew cut and sleeve tats takes your order.
Their morale is abysmal because they’re not paying a LIVING WAYGGEE!!!!!!!1111
Just in case there’s any doubt as to my utter shitlordery, I’ve always thought that the kind of people who depend on minimum wage jobs in fast food as a career often lack the ambition and character to do their job well enough to be promoted or move on to bigger things. Maybe if you’re a bitter, entitled, lazy slob who somehow thinks you’re above doing actual work YOU are the reason you’re not able to make a “living wage”.
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That sounds suspiciously like you are encouraging personal accountability.
Oh, definitely. I recall some sob story about a woman who had “been working at McDonalds for 40 years and never got a raise”. You worked there for 40 fucking years and never got a single raise?? At that point, I have to insist that the problem is not with capitalism or corporate greed…
I think it’s odd that everyone knows a person who could do well for themselves but they make such piss-poor decisions that they end up poor, yet the Left won’t hear ANY of this when discussing poverty. They just blame capitalism.
I know an awful lot of people who have been in the shit for varying lengths of time, including myself. Shit happens, and sometimes you find yourself in dire straits at least partly through no fault of your own. In my experience, how long you stay there is a direct function of the choices you make, and I say that as someone who has learned that the hard way. You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how you react to it.
I’ve never done an ap based order. How does it work? You go through the driveway and give them your name and it’s waiting at the window? Or do you have to *heavy sigh* go inside where the people are?
I went to see my dad once while my mom was out of town. He wanted take-out Applebees for dinner. He said if I ordered it he would go pick it up. I got online and ordered it. He was so pissed I didn’t check the curbside to go option. His main beef was that he’d have to put on actual shoes instead of his slippers. I’m not sure he’s ever forgiven me.
^ worst son EVER ^
He chose Applebees for dinner . . . I think that makes us even.
Ha! Touche
At the drive through, I say that I’m picking up the order, and it’s ready when I get to the window. No paying, no ordering.
Excellent. I’ll have to see if any do that around here. Not that I eat much fast food, but there’s times it might come in handy.