It was the latest of nights. It was the earliest of nights. There was alcohol, Glibertarians, and former Hit & Runners involved. So this edition of links will not be exactly… sparkling.
In Libertopia, most of this would not be a crime. My favorite part, though, was the name of Collins’s buddy: Tykheem Jaquon Deundrea Dunaway. Way to stereotype, guys.
Trump to Castro: Hold my beer!
So, in the other universe, that OMWC doesn’t have a goatee?
A roundup of everything that’s wrong with government education.
And more inside baseball, or “Why all campaign finance laws should be repealed.”
Surprise, surprise, the US is judged by a European organization and found wanting. Mene mene tekel upharsin.
But still, there’s Old Guy Music. I mean, there’s always Old Guy Music. Bluesy, old school music. Not too harsh, I’m moving slowly.
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Them wacky Minnesodans!
If you see something, say something.
Damn your nimble fingers.
Technically, we’re all a day late since these are the Saturday Morning links.
In a parallel universe it IS Saturday morning.
Some one is suffering from the hangover I had yesterday?
Yeah, that’s me.
So, Mike left the police out standing in the cold?
Step into the cold https://youtu.be/PUoH-x0YKmY
-13 with a -30 wind chill. We’re there.
-20, no wind
75 and sunny here yesterday. A nice cool morning breeze and no clouds.
Yes, in another month or two, this place will be a convection oven.
But it’s a “dry” heat. So no worries.
Lemme be the dick: My AC is currently on.
Dawn and 71 here.
We are talking cops here. Their motto is “If you see something, start shooting”
Wonder how many mag dumps they went through before they realized that it wasn’t an actual person?
Cardboard cutout of Wesley Snipes from Passenger 57 promo nods in agreement.
If you see something, say something.
Whatever happened to “Loose Lips Sink Ships”?
I initially misunderstood “Lean In”.
I thought it was so men could look down their blouses.
I thought it meant “tip over”.
Uh-huh. Sure.
I’m sure we were quite near Saudi Arabia.
Tied with Malawi, and trailing that beacon of freedom and equality, Zimbabwe.
Oh fuck I thought you were joking
Science!
Something something scales something thumb…
And is it me, or is that Daily News page one of those neverending pages that consistently adds more clickbait shit when you try to scroll to the bottom?
No shit. And all the inline ads.
Maybe instead of warning us about cookies, these Eurosites should warn us about the fuckton of ads.
So…it wasn’t Tundra or Pope Jimbo standing outside with a pillow afterall….
Have you ever seen either with Mike Lindell? I think not, coincidence?
I wish I was Mike Lindell.
Out of curiosity, do any of you have one one of his pillows?
I got a few for the winter solstice celebration a few years ago, they’re Meh, better than my old pillow but any new pillow would have been, they didn’t make my nights any less restless. Don’t know what they cost but if it’s significantly more than any other pillow I’d pass.
No and the reviews are not very flattering, in a lot of cases
I don’t think we should go down that road, Swiss is around somewhere.
I have had one for many years and absolutely love it. I sleep like a rock on it, and it gives terrific neck support. I’m actually thinking of buying another.
From what I saw on Amazon reviews, most of the one-stars were from people who hated it right out of the box, expecting it to be super comfy or satin/velvet feel. It is not fancy, folks, and if that’s what you’re looking for you’ll be disappointed. Do like the man says instead, try sleeping on it for a week or so instead of judging it right away.
If you sleep on your side like I do, it’s the perfect support, and not only do you sleep well, you’ll never wake up with a crick in your neck again.
I sleep on my side too – maybe I’ll check it out. I’m using one of those
space-pillowsTempur-Pedic now and it’s still… odd after months.We’ve had ours for two years and it’s the best pillow I’ve ever used.
The Amazon page is a shitshow of accusations of fake reviews and fake merchandise. Always love that.
Former crack addict Mike Lindell? His story is pretty crazy.
It was. Until Tundra screamed “Those aren’t pillows!” and ran off.
I love that movie.
“For every student enrolled, the average nonwhite school district receives $2,226 less than a white district,” the report says.
Not a mention of the overall spending per student nor the relationship between spending and test results over the past few decades.
Same article: Critics of school choice say the programs funnel money and students away from public schools.
So?
Monopolies are evil, unless they’re government-sector monopolies, at which point they suddenly, magically become virtuous.
The government’s the only good corporation, after all.
*Rolls Public Choice Theory Into a Blunt*
Oakland solves the problem, pay the teachers more and they’ll do a better job.
White -> suburban and rural -> school buses
I found the extra cash.
Seriously. In my observation very few kids ride the bus anymore. Usually they are 3/4 empty. Getting rid of busing would undoubtably be racist though and hurtful to the Poor’s.
In Dinkyville here, there are 4 different school districts picking up kids, because of school choice. Can’t wait for NGD to stop this redundant nonsense. One day there will be an accident between 2 buses, since that’s the main traffic here.
Stupid question… how are they getting to school? It’s not just the poors who live a long way from school and there isn’t a mom waiting around at home to drive them there and back.
Mandatory for all kids with a driver’s license to have a car/suv/pick up truck to drive to school. As you go by a high school there will be a yuuuuge parking lot full of nice vehicles. Those aren’t all teachers.
I’m not talking about 16-year-olds.
Parents dropping them off on the way to work, and after-school programs to fill the empty time before parents get off work.
We’ve got a big district here and loaded buses.
Hmm… I wonder why churches are reluctant to open up a school on the res?
Not Old Guy Music.
I think I know who’s going to win this year.
Half (I think) of Eurovision is voted on by the viewers. They won’t go for this shit.
I dunno… their anti-Israel stance make take them over the top!
“might” take
I don’t know a thing about them but based on the article this all appears to be for shock value. I’m guessing once they milk this for all they can they are done.
Agreed. It’s all a little too spot-on.
isn’t Israel hosting the next one? that could be awkward.
Haven’t the jews suffered enough?
That’s not techno.
Surprise, surprise, the US is judged by a European organization and found wanting. Mene mene tekel upharsin.
That’s an increase — from zero — compared to a decade ago, when the organization started measuring countries by how effectively they guarantee legal and economic equality between the genders. – one of those things is not like the other
Also we Romanians are so much more enlightened so suck it
https://tenor.com/view/come-on-suck-it-shawn-spencer-james-roday-burton-guster-gif-10451505
American Women should immigrate to Romania en masse
Here you go :
https://goo.gl/images/d9Kn5z
Another :
http://www.christiangreypua.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fat-american-woman.jpg
And another https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3VhoKCIkM
“Is there legislation specifically address domestic violence?” – I don’t see this as a womens issue…
“Change is happening, but not fast enough, and 2.7 billion women are still legally barred from having the same choice of jobs as men.” – how many in the US?
Sperm donor is unpaid, and that’s all I can think of.
Women can be prodigious sperm donors if they are allowed to provide their donation quickly without having to speak clearly before they spit.
All 2.7 billion.
Also it is profoundly retarded to analyze existing laws and not whether they are applied.
So did France and Germany have family court reform? Or did they look at equality from one side only.
Of course Germany has made great strides. It wasn’t that long ago, historically speaking, that German women had to cower in cellars while American and British men dropped tons of high explosives on their heads, not to mention 5 out of 4 being raped by Soviet men.
You don’t actually think words have meanings, do you? That’s so quaint.
All I can say is if tomorrow morning is posted as Friday links I will be canceling my subscription.
Why is the World Bank giving a crap about studies for equal rights? Isn’t that supposed to be a UN Human Rights Committee project anyways?
UN Human Rights Committee – they are busy putting photos of Che in their headquarters.
Only when they take a break from condemning Israel.
I mean, the UN has a small arms policy that would, if we abided by it, render null the individual right to bear arms in this country. The UN, in the absence of anything useful or God forbid challenging to do, has been butting its nose into the businesses of individual members for decades.
Had a discussion with a friend about transgender athletes competing in the Tokyo Olympics and I couldn’t explain it any other way than those athletes are being assholes. Society carved out a space for women to compete and we accepted that it wouldn’t be the best talent humans could muster, but we did it anyways out of a magnanimous gesture. It was basically affirmative action for women and it worked as long as we all knew that it wasn’t based purely on merit. Now these transgender athletes come in and force us to admit that we as a society have become deluded into thinking that women’s athletics were equal to men’s. Hmmm…now that I think about it, maybe these trans athletes have done us a favor.
It always bugs me when I hear about sports and inequality. At every level past personal hobbies and exercise, sports and athletics are predicated on the idea that people are not equal. Women are not going to, as a general rule, break world power-lifting records set by Viking monsters. But neither will most men. The number of people who can play in the NBA is very, very small. The overwhelming majority of men cannot train enough to ride a bench in the NFL. Some people want to promote the idea that if you try hard enough and work diligently you can accomplish anything, because they don’t want people to be discouraged. That’s why participation trophies are a thing. But that’s not reality.
Lebron James won the genetic Powerball, and then he happened to be in the right place at the right time. The stars aligned for that dude. It’s extremely, extremely rare that things happen that way, and the fact is that most people have to learn to be content with not winning an Olympic gold medal or becoming a professional athlete. I’m fine with women and men competing together as long as women are willing to play by the same rules. I’m also fine with having gender-segregated sports, because the field is more level and the competition is closer. But whatever you choose, at some point you’re going to be forced to admit that there do appear to be differences between the physical capabilities of men and women when viewed across a decent sample size. Yes, there are some women who are stronger than some men, but there are also cats who play fetch.
Why should you have gender-segregated sports at all if gender is a social construct? You just categorize people into the new and improved categories. Just because we don’t like to see a biological female getting body slammed by a MTF doesn’t mean that it’s wrong. At least that is the reason we’re given. I agree that watching biological men competing against women is boring, but at least we’re getting clarity on what the gender construct people are thinking. Ugly, but at least it’s clear.
While napping through the Oscars I asked new wife why, if actresses are now actors and the Academy is so woke, why are there both Best Actor and Best Female Actor categories.
Arbitrary, isn’t it? It’s what happens when you dismiss all truth because you can’t accept knowing just a little truth.
Well, it is arbitrary. They don’t have desperate categories for best male and female director, etc.
desperate?
um, separate
Did she give you an answer?
Oh, I mis-spoke, mislead: it’s not like that at our house. I asked but that’s just how I talk; I challenge the Institution’s institutions, not her watching. TBF, I have zero interest: why should I care if people I don’t know give each other awards?
Her perspective is not from the Academy down but from the artist up: what is achieved and recognized. She likes that someone won, and all the politics doesn’t much matter to her; someone has to win, and it’s joy for that person. I think women can watch the Oscars like a wedding; they can relate to the bride and be happy for them even if they hate half the people in the church including the groom.
There’s a push to make the gender distinctions go away. I doubt it will happen, but it’s not a bad idea. It just means 2 less people win awards each year.
Gender is a social construct, but sex is not.
Sure. Now convince the IOC of that.
“gender-segregated” sports are the ones where males who identify as women compete with the women. I think you mean “sex segregated” sports.
Yeah, whoops. I tend to think of them as the same thing. That’ll be my inherent shitlordery bubbling to the surface again.
I’m about ready to give up on women’s sport anyway. Going to college during the Pat Head Summitt years made it easy to root for women’s basketball, and I continue to watch it and volleyball . . . but there is now this increase away from the hard-working Iowa girl who shot 92% from the charity stripe towards the 6-4 man-girl, and I must admit: I’m only interested in girly women in sports, so: pass.
I don’t want to reject anyone or hurt anyone’s feelings, but the essence of America, competition, and sports is that the wildest cowboy trends win out in our society . . . fine. That gives us the finest athletes in the world in the NBA (not my thing, but those guys are at least demi-gods defying gravity) and results in an NFL (also not my thing) that is an epic gladiator cage match that few men survive more than two or three years . . . . and then spend the rest of their lives in wheelchairs.
So competition evolves thus: men’s sports create the manliest freaks of all manhood, and women’s sports create the manliest freaks of all manhood. Freakily manly men are still men; freakishly manly women are I’m not sure what. NTTAWWI, but I don’t want to watch that in competition because I just like my girls to be girls. Candace Parker pulls it off but has some interesting features, the limit for me (I hate the turns of phrase this forces me to use).
So I’m an asshole. I don’t mind handsome women in normal life: everyone is fine the way they were born, good luck and doG speed. But too many guy hormones, natural or otherwise, means that basically women’s sports aren’t for womanly (as I the selfish redneck define it) women. I think I’m a bad person for feeling this way: I will not watch women’s sports once they’re all “Griners” and, to the extent that those women were born that way, I’m just an asshole.
obviously meant: men’s sports create the manliest freaks of all manhood, and women’s sports create the manliest freaks of all
The original kinda worked.
I’ll give the gender studies folks this: to the extent that we expect women to look feminine and men to look masculine it’s jarring when those expectations are flipped. David Bowie had that figured out in the seventies.
So Don won’t be watching woke women’s beach volleyball just to jerk it to the shots of trans athletes in speedos and sand?
I think you’re on to something. The shitshow among various identity groups is going to be epic, but in the end I think the trans athletes aren’t going to be happy with the results.
The women are just going to drop put and it’ll be the JV
men’s MTF squads.Fuck it. Sunday morning, just got up, don’t drink coffee.
out*
men’sMTF squads*I think the opposite will happen. Women are going to circle the wagons and the MTF’s will be thrown under the bus. The numbers make it inevitable.
I’m okay with that too.
That doesn’t sound very woke.
Hence the epic shitshow.
I just wish these people were self aware enough to recognize the shitshow that they are setting up.
Frankly, I don’t think these MTF athletes are actually MTF.
I don’t someone trans can be a competitive athlete.
“Gender equality is a critical component of economic growth,”
It’s funny, but I remember when radicals and reformers proposed changes on the basis of values, not valuation.
“Gender equality is a critical component of economic growth,”
Up to the point where women have access to birth control and can choose when to have children. I’ll buy that.
Beyond that, I’d want to see numbers to support that assertion.
Maybe they can choose when NOT to have children but, essentially, they will have to involve a man in the decision on when to have children.
BTW, Tejicano. I couldn’t find the message you sent. Let me check my old account and see if it’s there.
OK. Let me know where to contact you if that doesn’t pan out.
The metric is supposed to measure equality but rewords countries that provide special treatment. Once the low hanging fruit of the ability obtain a drivers license and vote is allowed the rest seems to be laws awarding special treatment.
Equality for the left is always about treating some as more equal than others. Always.
Bingo.
Free market ideologues: “Capitalists make rational decisions to maximise their self interest, which they understand perfectly.”
https://twitter.com/Quinnae_Moon/status/1101953592963915776
Seriously who generates these straw-men? Cause I do not think any free market ideologue ever claimed anything near that
The argument for the free market has always been, to the best of my knowledge, that free markets are more efficient than managed markets because the actors are best able to make economic choices that match their own perceived needs. In other words, they’re economic first responders. It’s why gift cards are the best presents. All that means is that I’m better able to know what I want than someone else, and much more so than someone who has never even heard of me and lives somewhere else.
When I was in high school the rumor was that the school system had outsourced its HVAC management to a professional company that was located in Texas. The idea was the company remotely managed the thermostats according to weather reports, historical trends, etc., resulting in some kind of cost savings. Weather in the mid-Atlantic is notoriously mercurial, especially in the spring and fall, and this was often cited as the explanation why the heat would be off in March because there had been a day of mid-60s (God’s temperature scale, not heathen Celsius) followed by a blizzard, or why it would be on full blast in mid-October when we were looking at a couple days in the low 90s.
Also there is such as thing as bad business failing and being allowed to fail, which contradicts that dumb tweet.
Your post triggered me. Back in the 1990s, I worked at a Hollywood Video location in New Orleans. The store was one of those open ceiling/exposed ducting/very little insulation buildings and the thermostat was indeed managed from corporate headquarters in the Pacific Northwest. Spring and Fall were filled with desperate pleas to the building mechanical help line trying to get them to grok that yes, it is the end of March (or early October) and yes it really is >95°.
The DC metro and points east are right along this funky weather system line. Things tend to break on either side of us, so like this time of year we wind up with a lot of “Hey, there’s gonna be seven inches of snow accumulation…oh, I mean it’s going to be rainy and 50F.” Some years it gets cold early, some years it’s short sleeves into November. Some years we get no snow at all, some years it snows in December. And the summers…we’ll typically get a dry spell, and in fact the year before last we had something like a two-week drought. This summer was so wet that the ground is still saturated, because we just never got a break. You can’t run a climate control system here without being on the scene at the time.
Similar in NYC, except it never gets dry. If it’s not raining that just means the moisture is hanging in the air.
I’m better able to know what I want than someone else
Sure but they know what you need.
That’s what it comes down to, right? It’s experts managing other people’s lives. I can’t think of a thing more horrifying.
The problem is that they either choose to ignore, or are to dense to understand, the nuance. It’s not that people have perfect knowledge of their self-interest, it’s that no one does. And that preferences are cannot be compared between individuals.
But what I and my group think/feel/believe/want is so obviously correct that any out-group isn’t just mistaken, they are opposed to my group and thus threaten all that we hold dear.
It’s straw-men all the way down and from coast to coast.
The US is deluded by the notion of perfection: no one can lose so participation trophies, no marriage can fail so put up with her for decades. Inoculation and air-bags guarantee your right to die in your sleep aged 94. The illusion of perfection and control create a fertile environment where straw men and working tropes become one and the same. Perfect history: I commonly heard in my childhood that the US had never lost a war (as if a scorched White House and setting the national poem to the enemy’s drinking song is how you win those things).
Free markets suck, just less than any other type of market. Sheesh: democracy . . . seen the idiots that are elected? Chill-brain morons almost every one of them. The past ten American presidents are PROOF that popular suffrage is terrible . . . but we deserve to suffer the leadership of folk we have chosen to folk who have thrust themselves upon us.
Every argument otherwise is a power grab: a rationalization of why I will decide what you need, who you need.
Of course Trump’s speech was like a certain leader that killed my family and blah, blah, blah. At least they seem to be ashamed to use the word Hitler.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtMzYd5_7jM
can’t decide which is more disheartening: the CNN talking heads or the YouTube comments.
Trump is the president Democrats deserve. Unfortunately either n 2020 or 2024 they will take power again.
So Trump is the one pretending that foreign people are trying to influence our country in a way that just isn’t accurate? Really, CNN? You didn’t repeat Russia “hacked our election” a gazillion times?
Does this mean I have to walk backwards all day?
OT: I know for sure I married the right man, since he took care of me with the food poisoning I suffered Friday night- Saturday. I woke up in the night to a ready-at-my-side bucket, covered in a sleeping bag. He even slept on the sofa, to stay nearby, in case I needed anything.
His avatar is a false flag? Hope you’re feeling better.
But before that, Friday night was a whole lot of fun. Yes, we did end up in a sauna, naked (no mixing of genders, the Finnish way) after doing shots of tar schanpps, with people we’d never met before. Then an uber ride home where I laughed like a maniac the whole time.
Sorry about the digestive stuff, but I do have an alibi.
I’m still a bit rocky today, but the few things I have eaten since 1pm yesterday has stayed put, so it’s a big improvement.
“food poisoning”
We always called it the Irish Flu, but whatevs.
Well, technically that is food poisoning, right?
If chocolate cake shots are desert, then yes.
So Sick https://youtu.be/5RlB2sG5iZ0
Ha I knew what that was going to be – love that album
Yuck. Glad you’re better. Kudos to your hubs for taking such good care of you.
Why is the World Bank giving a crap about studies for equal rights? Isn’t that supposed to be a UN Human Rights Committee project anyways?
Gender equity is everyone’s responsibility.
Stop being such a shitlord.
Saturday. I woke up in the night to a ready-at-my-side bucket, covered in a sleeping bag. He even slept on the sofa, to stay nearby, in case I needed anything.
He didn’t even pick you up off the floor?
That was all fine – I was closer to the bathroom this way.
“A recent study conducted by New York dating site Are You Interested? found that only 1.2% of the female site users living in Manhattan or the Bronx would reach out to male members who were shorter than them.”
https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1101594560415838208
New your women expect a 5’6″ dick or larger?
From the equal rights article:
Hmm…I wonder if there are any similarities between those countries that could point to a possible cause…
Sand?
It is not even good sand. Sometimes they need to import sand for special construction projects. Apparently you can’t use any sand or not all sand is equal when it comes to building. who’d ev thunk it
Hmmm … falafel, then?
Oil
It would’ve been great if some troll-editor had dropped Israel’s score (80.63) in there for comparison’s sake.
Related to above thread: a UN study would have ranked Israel last.
Speaking of Israel, you know how I know this is a bullshit study? Because Israel should have scored a zero instead of 75 on the pension section:
Women are eligible to retire before men here. That doesn’t sound equal to me.
Why, that’s more equal! Bonus points!
Maybe a high preponderance of Filipina house maids?
Did I mention the Lakers suck recently? Goddamn
Yes. Goddamn.
Y’know what else sucks? Dingy Bars Suck https://youtu.be/pgFUtNSDm9s
that is the sort of music which is difficult to distinguish from random noise
Ummm. Zero Boys literally invented hardcore punk. Let’s just agree to disagree.
Also, there is a bunch of music that is in fact random noise. I’d be happy to start linking to it.
And yes, the Flying Lebrons are very disappointing.
We always called it the Irish Flu, but whatevs.
“Brown bottle flu” is also acceptable.
As Rebecca Sibilia, founder and CEO of EdBuild, explains, a school district’s resources often come down to how wealthy an area is and how much residents pay in taxes.
“We have built a school funding system that is reliant on geography, and therefore the school funding system has inherited all of the historical ills of where we have forced and incentivized people to live,” Sibilia says.
You must federalize, if you want to professionalize.
Local autonomy is un-American.
It’s terrible that people who pay more in taxes get some benefit for it.
Funding has little to do with outcomes. It does correlate with student IQ. Should we bring out the ball-peen hammers for the bright kids to level things off?
Diana Moon Glampers had an equivalent alternative.
I pointed out the other day that there are numerous jurisdictions that have been playing Robin Hood with school dollars for decades, with nothing to show for it except lots of fat teachers and administrators and zero improvement in students’ education. This study is bullshit.
There is some real slimeball shit that goes on in school district politics.
My friend did IT for a school system for a few years, and he told me about this situation: District A got a brand new school built, and District B got jealous even though they had an old but perfectly usable school building. District B held their breath and pounded their fists and threatened to run away from home, but they could not get approval for a new building. So District B purposely cut back on maintenance for their building so that it fell apart, then they asserted that they had to have a new building since theirs was dilapidated.
I’m going to automatically vote NO on every school funding measure until there are some major reforms in how this shit works (come to think of it, I’d probably continue to vote NO until schools were privatized, but you get my point).
Voters in my town approved special school funding. Did they use the money to get better math teachers? Did they replace the crappy portables with real buildings? No. They are building new athletic facilities.
It’s a gosh darn winter wonderland, out there, what with the bright morning sun gleaming down on a (really thick) blanket of fresh snow. And the snow has that special extra-sparkly look it gets when it’s 24 degrees degrees below zero.
Yeah. This extended stretch of arctic air is really wearing on me. I’m extra-ready for spring.
Rapper Zuby identifies as female to smash weightlifting record
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rapper-zuby-identifies-as-female-to-smash-weightlifting-record-98b7086ml
Related, Hafthor Bjornsson won the Arnold Strongman Classic. It is unfair he identifies as a man cause he is clearly a freak of some sort
Skimming through the headlines on the goggle newz, I see “Trump Launches New Attack on Mueller” or some such thing.
Maybe I’m just kidding myself, but I hope a lot of people in the so-called “apolitical moderate middle” who basically want to just igore politics and go about their lives in peace are looking at this Deep State fishing expedition using the unlimited resources of the government to go through people’s lives with a fine toothed comb and thinking, “That’s scary. What would they find if they went after me?”
Are you kidding, they would immediately cry out to Comrade Stalin about what a great mistake it all is.
“Tykheem Jaquon Deundrea Dunaway”
Faye’s grandson?
Good morning, Old Man!
For you.
Great song, and it made my hair hurt marginally less.
1957’s news today, because WTF not!
So the brains behind AOC’s number one “idea” is not AOC but instead is a man. Patriarchy strikes again.
Speaking of the GND.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/gas-guzzling-car-rides-expose-aocs-hypocrisy-amid-green-new-deal-pledge/
Saw that last night. They’re really enjoying this.
Primarying her can’t happen quickly enough.
Speaking of people who don’t know (or won’t admit) value is subjective
Many builders will tell you that though these houses are large, they are more efficient – even that they have a small carbon footprint. But this is like bragging about the good gas mileage of an S.U.V. While a 10,000-square-foot house built today uses less energy than a 10,000-square-foot house built a decade ago, a home of this size requires a phenomenal amount of energy to run. (And most likely has an S.U.V. or two in the garage.)
Does anyone need 10,000 square feet to live in?
Families are getting smaller, not larger. The average American household shrank by 30 percent from 1948 and 2012, to 2.55 people from 3.67. Yet houses have ballooned as family sizes have contracted.
The average new home today is 1,000 square feet larger than in 1973. The square footage of living space per person has increased to 971, from 507 – a 92 percent increase.
What if the next New American Home was a condo? And what if there was a new American dream, not of auto-dependent suburbia, but walkable urbanism?
Boo hoo hoo whycome people no wanna live like me?
I guess it’s our duty to force them into multi-family urban living, so we can pat ourselves on the back and brag about how we converted the heathens to the path of righteousness.
Does anyone need 10,000 square feet to live in? -Tess Holliday?
You will love new house, Comrade!
After the required waiting period that is. Also no heat in winter becaue global warming. But vodka and better sex warm you enough.
Hey! Where did you find a picture of my building?
Not telling. You’re out of beer, by the way.
thanks for the heads-up
Is it any surprise that a person who loves to tell others how they should live their lives, would also love living conditions that make it easier for them to keep an eye on their neighbors and how they are living?
If people are allowed to live in single homes on big lots Ms. Nosy might end up walking a mile or so to make sure they are recycling correctly.
“Does anyone need 10,000 square feet to live in?”
Obviously the person asking has never lived with my wife. Or daughter.
I thought that the population of Vietnam lived at your house.
Many years ago, yes, all but one were transients. One stayed and stayed and you get the picture. The visitors are mostly living in their own 10K sq ft houses while I have to look through the windows. American Dream…
I think they’re just trolling at this point. This is the argument a five-year-old might make.
Unfortunately, these five-year-olds run every city council in the Bay Area. They all want single family homes declared as “blight” so they can eminent domain them into high rise condos.
The more you hear news stories like this and politicians agreeing with them against the wishes of the vast majority of their constituents, the more you realize how patient and powerful building developers are. And the profit margins on condos are astronomical, because you can often charge the same per unit in a 100-condo building as you would for one house on the same amount of land.
I would think the Bay Area does need more high-rise condos. What’s stopping them now from buying the existing stuff and building in the most likely areas to attract buyers/renters?
They should. But the developers don’t want to build in the obvious places like parts of Oakland which would make sense. No, they’re trying to force little semi-rural bedroom community suburbs to build high rises, because they have “good schools” so they can charge 10x. Of course, once they build them and overcrowd the schools, they will suck there too, but the developers will be long gone by then, living in gated communities that are somehow exempt from the condo mandate.
Larger homes use more resources, typically require longer commutes, come with more expensive utility bills, and often contribute to more sedentary lifestyles (which in turn results in increased rates of conditions like obesity and heart disease).
If you say so.
You burn a lot of calories hauling water back in from the pump.
That new fangled “indoor plumbing” has really added a lot of pounds to our national waistline.
“You burn a lot of calories hauling water back in from the pump”.
…and making those daily trips out back behind the house…
Our way of building homes and neighborhoods lost the plot a long time ago.
Homes like those the N.A.H.B. is promoting ignore the changing nature of families and the imminent crisis in housing for the elderly – not to mention climate change, which we have no hope of combatting without a true reimagining of the American dream. Enter the Green New Deal: If it recognized the link between building more infill housing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it would be even greener. Taking a strong stand against the primacy of the single family home (and the zoning that encourages it), especially the 10,000-square-foot ones, would represent a bold move toward combating climate change.
Die
in
a
fire.
I need a larger home, to house my guns and reloading supplies, since I want to be ready to kill the never ending parade of zombie idiots.
I could use an indoor range. And an outdoor range. And a canine agility course. And an observatory. And a laboratory. And a hall to house a pipe organ, and…
So your contribution to the GND is to set McMansions on fire and burn the wreckers and kulaks inside?
AOC will be sending you your official Citizen Commendation. Expect delivery in 4-6 weeks.
We should just build giant warehouses with double bunks to house everyone. They can work right there where they live. Some will be armed guards to ensure they don’t wrong think. We’ll use the rail system to make sure everyone gets there.
“We should just build giant warehouses with double bunks to house everyone”
And we can call them barracks and should be mandatory for all young men and some women (if they are volunteers)
Just put them in self storage units.
It’s right there in the name — they are places where you store your self during the times you are not actively working for the glory of the state.
“Trump’s Rollicking, Two-Hour CPAC Speech”
Gillespie said after watching it, that Trump is going to win in 2020.
No one should have to watch (or sit through) a two hour long Trump speech. Unless maybe they dropped acid.
I watched some of it. Dude was on a roll and loving every second of it.
SNL did a decent job last night, mostly on the strength of John Mulaney’s deadpan (he’s the only comedian not born before Reagan I can stand).
For you never-SNLers, here’s the perfect treatment of race tension and appropriation
Roseanne Barr says fuck it.
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/roseanne-barr-calls-metoo-founders-hos-says-kamala-harris-slept-her-way-to-the-bottom
“She was kicked off the rebooted “Roseanne” show after posting a racist tweet about former President Barack Obama’s adviser Valerie Jarrett last May.”
Truth is really having a hard time getting its shoes on.
““Look at Kamala Harris, who I call Kama Sutra Harris,” Barr snipes, pointing to the pol’s prior relationship with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.”
LOL
Horizontal Harris. I just tweeted that to Rosanne along with 2 Ambiens. Go Rosanne!
Reposted, because if I had to see this, so do you.
https://twitter.com/Eddieristo1/status/1098378566406832128
Just ICE? I thought she didn’t like ICE.
“Simon Pegg unveils a VERY lean new physique after intense six-month body transformation… as fans express their concern over his slimmer frame”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6762885/Simon-Pegg-reveals-six-pack-undergoing-intense-six-month-body-transformation-new-movie.html
Hey! Where did they find that picture of my torso?
Chuckie Todd is on his rabid badger game today. If Trump goes to the theater, he had better sit with his back against the wall, and keep a sharp eye out.
Silicone Sunday brings you mountainous mammaries and chasms of cleavage.
http://archive.li/M833i
Still snowing here from yesterday afternoon. Seems like a good morning for a Bloody Mary and reruns of House MD.
Who on House had big knockers?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqJBYB3cr3E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8esQh999I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WR7teEjB_YU
I meant the regular cast.
Olivia Wilde is so hot that it makes up for the lack of tits.
Is there a mod here? Q’s account has been hacked!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vu5Or-3vrI
Cuddy was MILFy af.
Q, you would appreciate the Carnival coverage we’ve had on the TV this weekend. Full frontal nudity is common, and not much left to the imagination otherwise.
I think of Carnival in Rio as being a 24/7 orgy with THICC hotties.
Also, Portuguese is one of the sexy languages. You’re a lucky man Hyp.
It’s not just in Rio, Sao Paulo is up right now. The amount of almost nekked hot women is just unreal.
“Bridge – a card game – competitiin is considered a sport. Ok. Muscle doping is an unqualufied no-no in sports. Ok. A bridge player took testosterone and was Disqualified. This is the ultimate absurdity of beaurocracies. How does strength play any fucking part in a card game?”
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1101848027894034432
Brain is stronk like tractor
It’s not about that. It’s about power and control.
And the power didn’t stop at telling you what substances you can or cannot put into your own body. Then they decided that you cannot put a hormone that you produce in your own body and put it in your own body.
And if you don’t like it, you might need a ‘welfare check’. And not the type where they send you free money.
“A bridge player took testosterone and was Disqualified.”
You want this doper on our playgrounds?
He’s the hero we need.
I don’t like my neighbors. In fact, I’d like for them to die, and their crummy little pets too… I’ve got it!
“Officers were called for a welfare check”
I went to the mall yesterday I think I need to take my extended family on vacation and call in a welfare check for everyone else in my home city while we’re gone.
What are we listening to?
JuniorWhoDidNotExcapeTexas turned me on to http://wethefifth.com and I find myself quite at home with it. I didn’t think I was a podcast guy, but on long drives during those inevitable stretches when NPR and BBC are really starting to get on my nerves, I gave a listen and really enjoyed it. I don’t think Matt Welch and Michael Moynihan are geniuses, but I’ve got easily two hours a week to listen where they rank somewhere well above NotBad. I like Kmele Foster a lot and feel more than a little sorry for him: his theory is to cut to the core, the root cause, and reject race to which everyone responds every two minutes, what about this race issue . . . how do you (guy who refuses to identify as Black) think about Blackness . . . that’s got to get old.
I tried the Reason podcast and found my anxiety level unbearable: anticipating what Nick Gillespie will inevitably say and knowing exactly how he will say it somehow exhaust me.
Moynihan and Welch finally made me give up the Fifth Column podcast. Their TDS just got to be too much for me. Loved Kmele though.
The straw that broke me was when Welch went on a tirade about “Mueller’s fishing expedition” of an investigation. His point was you couldn’t know if it was a fishing expedition until the investigation was done. Yeah, a “libertarian” who is advocating for general investigations with no proof that a crime had been committed.
The other thing that made it impossible for me to keep listening was the guests they had on the show. Uffda what a bunch of yahoos.
The episode with Cathy Young made me want to shove darning needles into my ears.
Great- now Chuckie’s teasing a segment about that kid the Norks killed. I can’t wait to hear how Trump held the kid’s arms behind his back while Kim beat him with a rubber hose filled with ball bearings.
Listening to Mike Watt’s Contemplating The Engine Room. If you’ve never listened to it, you should.
GlibPoll: What’s your favorite concept album?
I’m partial to Quadrophenia.
2112 of course
No, I’m not listening to two hours of Neil Peart. He is like the Louie Bellson of prog rock.
2112 is great.
Tales of Mystery and Imagination and Gaudi, Alan Parsons
Did Alan Parsons do any albums that weren’t concepts?
Touché.
I thought the Alan Parsons Project wad some sort of spaceship.
/Simpsons
Mindcrime
?
Operation Mindcrime. Seconded.
Thick As A Brick, maybe?
Just read the background. Hilarious!
Added to my Spotify.
I don’t know if it’s a concept album, but I like Wish You Were Here
I’m not a Pink Floyd fan, but I do rather like Gilmour: he seems authentic and organic and generally passes my yeah-but-can-you-play-it-acoustic-at-a-campfire test for good tunes.
Does the soundtrack album of Tommy count?
Otherwise, The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
It counts. Both good ones.
Joe’s Garage
That’s another good one.
Also, if someone made that album cover today people’s heads would explode.
I guess the one I listened to the most, all the way through, was ELO’s Time.
The Wall
Voivod “The Outer Limits”
Is that a concept album? Although I think Dimension Hatross qualifies, and is a great album.
It’s not the same continuous story, but each song is a ScI fi concept.
Alien invasion, generation ship, first contact, etc.
The Real Me is in the top 100 of rock songs.
Finally saw Quadrophenia about a year ago and loved it.
Also I would like to put a second place vote in for “The Who Sell Out”.
Third place: 2112
Blows Against the Empire
SWAMP SMITH?
https://www.ajc.com/news/massive-alligator-weighing-about-700-pounds-found-georgia-was-more-than-feet-long/dTzIkHu3tptAEOyaou9dRP/
Swamp Smith works. Just as long as there’s never a She Smith and Mojeaux knows that, it’s all good.
SUE SMITH
http://www.dirtydrinks.com/pl/dirtydrinks/recipe/2205/cum-shot/
This is why you can’t just let people do whatever they want. /nanny state
UNPOSSIBLE.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/03/howie-carr-smirking-media-bias-against-gop-couldnt-be-clearer/
Looks like someone will be looking for a job.
Nice Also, bonus points for turning “smirking” against them.
Yeah, that was great
It is NOT the Glibstaff’s fault that the horoscope is late. I only turned it in yesterday. And since I go full Delphic for you guys, it takes them a lot of work to translate ether-soaked keyboard mashing into English.
“ether-soaked”
Whycome no absinthe?
Because the Pythia had been retired for 2200 years before the drink was invented.
That’s it! I want my money back!
*flips keyboard*
Interestingly enough — this week is the “You Get What You Pay For” edition.
It is?
what does it even mean to be late?
You’re pregnant?
My clairvoyant predicted this.
Something I’ve wanted to ask the Glibertariat for a while:
What is your honest opinion of astrology? Do you think it delivers useful guidance? Is it just something you read for fun? Is it complete BS? Just curious.
I personally don’t know what to think, but it and tarot are interesting and fun.
Astrology is BS.
Tarot, on the other hand, is absolutely real.
Complete BS. But occasionally fun. Like the lottery, or aliens.
I’m pretty sure aliens exist somewhere. The universe is huge.
I’m pretty sure that the aliens can be treated as not existing since we will never detect them.
That is just what they want you to think!!
You never know.
Maybe not, but I’ll make a wager that we don’t with anyone who wants to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAU9ofjcx-Y
The Drake equation is bullshit.
It’s yuge, Make a Galaxy Great Again
I WANT TO BELIEVE
Its a fake
An unexpected little race fix: Youtube live stream of 1 hour Pirelli GT4 from COTA.
You just need some recovery beverages OMWC.
https://www.bonappetit.com/story/wellness-beers
Seems irrelevant to the article, but OK then.
Cults of personality are not limited to the Left.
Those pillows are great though.
“‘WHAT WILL HE CONTRIBUTE?’ BBC Scotland facing backlash from viewers as ‘Nazi pug’ yob Mark Meechan given telly pundit role in new panel show”
https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/3948200/nazi-pug-mark-meechan-bbc-scotland/
https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1102228432447070208
You’re a yob.
No worse than the regular cast of characters in the media, just coming from a different direction.
“FACEBOOK Calls Me a TROLL & Censors Conservatives”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUD79HsUVdE
https://twitter.com/RoamingMil/status/1101673965158715392
“I did not say the government should be in control of social media.
I said social media should be subject to consumer protection regulations like literally every other industry that deals with customer/client interactions.”
https://twitter.com/RoamingMil/status/1101876425110507520
“Facebook Insider Leaks Docs; Explains “Deboosting” “Troll Report” & Political Targeting in Interview”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYSmFI9GAAs
Tremors 6 is on.
They made six of them? OMG.
And you’re just fucking telling me now? What the hell is wrong with you?
direct-to-video
Knock me over with a feather.
I remember having a drool-a-thon over Tommy Lee Jones with some glibs late one night. Just rewatched The Fugitive on AMC and now Under Siege is next up.
The Eyes of Laura Mars is a fun mess.
I think I’ve seen that, but it didn’t stick.
“Unemployed millennial is arrested for throwing a phone at her mother’s head because she wouldn’t drive her to a yoga class”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6765281/Woman-arrested-throwing-phone-mom-refused-yoga.html
Sounds like she could have used that class.
Speaking of disconnected
“I think what we’re starting to see now is people becoming more disheartened and disconnected from mainstream politics,” said Keegan Hankes.
Hankes is a researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center monitoring group, and he says they have been following a spike in far-right violence. “We believe we can expect more violence as people become increasingly frustrated and unmoored,” he said.
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“That means that whatever people think about the Trump administration’s reluctance to disavow certain types of white power organizing, this is not a moment when we’d expect to see happiness in the fringe. We’re talking about a movement in which many activists want the overthrow of the federal government, the reinstatement of slavery, the genocide of all people of color and a white homeland. These aren’t things that can be pursued politically, even with a sympathetic administration.”
A report published by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in January supports Belew and Hankes’ assertions. According to the study, every single extremist murder in the US in 2018 had links to far-right ideology, making it one of the deadliest years in recent history. While some of these links were tenuous – the shooter behind the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school had no direct contact with extremist groups but had been known to make racist, white supremacist statements – the numbers paint a picture of a movement that is finding new, violent outlets for its extremism. Some of the incidents – such as a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue – sent shockwaves through the whole country.
“It’s clearly gathering steam,” said JM Berger, an expert on extremism and research scholar at Vox-Pol. “Success breeds success, and we’re seeing people operationalize the self-education process. People are beginning to understand that they can emulate the actions of someone who went before them to work out whatever they want to work out.”
What a steaming pile of paranoid raving.
Wow.
“Hankes is a researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center monitoring group, and he says they have been following a spike in far-right violence.”
Of course he has.
Nor is who defends self against antifa goons = far-right violence.
One word: projection.
Speaking of non-astrological SCIENCE! For those of you that wonder how cosmologists arrive at their conclusions that only x% of the universe is normal matter, here’s a pretty good description about how it happens (warning, there may be some background required)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4CKtEQJGMY
Not included in this video is the point that the CMB which is the basis for so much advanced astronomy is only visible temporarily compared to the age of the universe, which puts a hard limit on any thought experiments leading to Boltzmann brains, Van Neumann probes, etc.
The universe is infinitely old.
It’s clearly gathering steam,” said JM Berger, an expert on
extremismoff shore tax haven’s.Fixed it. I love how people can proclaim they are an expert and the media takes it as truth.
According to documents filed in the investigation of Hasson, he was not only inspired by terrorists who came before him – he is deeply influenced by Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik – but also driven by a loathing for what he perceives as Trump’s enemies as well as a paranoid fear that Trump will be removed from power.
This certainty that evil forces are working against Trump has become prevalent within the far right, breeding conspiracies such as QAnon, which posits Trump is fighting a “deep state” conspiracy that seeks to thwart his patriotic agenda.
Why would they think people in the government are contemplating the removal of Trump from office? What evidence do they have?
Robert Reich is a little concerned
Imagine it’s November 2020 and Trump has lost the election. He charges voter fraud, claiming that the “deep state” organized tens of millions of illegal immigrants to vote against him, and says he has an obligation not to step down.
Only this time he’s already president, with all the powers a president commands.
In years past, Americans have trusted our system of government enough that we abide by its outcomes even though we may disagree with them. Only once in our history – in 1861 – did enough of us distrust the system so much we succumbed to civil war.
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Just last week, Steve Bannon, another of Trump’s bottom-feeders, predicted that “2019 is going to be the most vitriolic year in American politics since the civil war, and I include Vietnam in that”. He didn’t make a prediction about 2020, but we can guess.
We should take seriously Michael Cohen’s admonition that if Trump is defeated in 2020, he will not leave office peacefully.
Republican leaders as well as supreme court justices and civic and religious leaders across the land must be prepared to assert the primacy of our system of government over the will of the man who refuses to lose.
Thank Heaven the true American patriots of the Democratic party have explicit and unshakeable faith in our system of government and are willing to accept the results of an election.
FWIW, the Gore moment was reassuring.
One beauty of the Electoral System is that precinct-level precision isn’t needed. No one doubts that Clinton won California; no one doubts Trump won Alabama. For this reason alone peaceful transfer of presidential power will continue pretty much as is for the rest our lives. No one is willing to get shot because his candidate won the popular vote but not the Electoral College: not one single person.
The question is, how many people are willing to start shooting because his candidate, etc. Nobody starts violence expecting to be the loser.
Holy shit, Krugman has discovered the amazing notion that too much presidential power is dangerous! Give him another Nobel Prize for unearthing this heretofore unknown concept!
We really shouldn’t.
Umm, no. Some states seceded because their legislatures wanted a different government, and understood that they had the right to do so under a voluntary union, and based on the wording of the Declaration of Independence.
Then one person decided to start a civil war instead of letting them go.
Well mint juleps and debutant balls are serious business after all.