Recovering from a small celebration last night. My first product in my new job launched, and of course, there’s two more that have to be completed in the next couple weeks and put into production, so the celebration is brief.
Cherry-picking the birthdays today, I’ll note that it’s 101 years since the birth of George Lincoln Rockwell, the guiding spirit for today’s Democratic Party; 96 years since the birth of Walter Kohn, who inspired my early work in science; and 115 years since the debut of loudspeaker guru Paul Klipsch.
On to the news. I have been so amused the past week, I am coming around to Warty’s point of view that we truly live in the best timeline.
Team Blue shows that it is just as happy to make futile, useless, empty, blatantly unconstitutional, and downright stupid gestures when they don’t count as Team Red was (remember the days when Team Red regularly passed legislation repealing Obamacare that hey knew couldn’t get past the Senate? Pepperidge Farms remembers).
Someone saw one of those porn flicks about womens’ prisons and decided, “Hey, I want in on that!”
When I saw the headline, I wondered, “Hawaii or California?” I wasn’t disappointed.
Governments go for maximum inconvenience and expense, because FYTW. TDS cited as a reason. I hope this tanks their tourism industry.
Actually, that’s OK, because we wouldn’t want to eat the food anyway.
Speaking of food… “A Taco Bell worker noted that the suspect ‘did not follow proper health/safety guidelines’ by not wearing ‘protective gloves while making his food.’”
“…and they noted that he immediately began doing a better job than Bernie Sanders.”
Old Guy Music time. And this is seriously complex and amazing, both composition and performance. And bittersweet; at that ending, I accidentally got some dust in my eye…
Brilliant music, brilliant composer.
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I must cop to an odd fascination with Rockwell. To be a genuine, out & proud, National Socialist so soon after the end of the 3rd Reich takes tremendous chutzpah. The fact that his pipe affectation makes him look like J.R. “Bob” Dobbs is icing on the cake.
The pipe thing was to make people think he was Norman Rockwell.
*NARROWS GAZE*
FYI, he is featured as a character in “The Man in the High Castle” which I highly recommend.
Give him some slack, man.
That is not N Sync.
A grateful nation exhales.
Yeah, but maybe they’re bi bi bi.
I cant blame the Taco Bell guy. Anyone else notice that prices are up and menu and food quality are pathetic at restaurants these days?
We went wednesday night to Johnny Carinos and it was laughable. For that price I can get better food at McDonalds. The same applies across the board at non-fast food places.
I admit to being asshole enough to offer to show the cooks the right way to do something when they fuck it up. I haven’t yet had the balls to actually force my way into the kitchen…
I dont buy food at restaurants anymore. It really has gotten that bad.
Mid and low range is no good. I rarely eat out, but when I do it’s at high end places that offer a good experience.
I live in the middle of nowhere. The only high-end place around here is my kitchen. We had a couple a few years back but they tanked.
Side effect of going keto is that dining out gets difficult and therefore happens a lot less.
All that “saved” money gets routed to the booze budget. ?
We’re having trouble getting motivated to do restaurants here. There’s such excellent Mexican, Middle Eastern, and Asian grocers here that all we want to do is cook for ourselves. We have a wok stand outside on the covered patio which has been getting heavy use, especially because there don’t seem to be any decent Chinese restaurants in the area.
That’s going to screw up your Christmas.
Not half as much as the shouting and cursing cultural appropriation protesters outside our house.
“stand outside on the covered patio which has been getting heavy use”
These euphemisms are getting a little too complex.
Damnit. Didn’t quote the “wok.”
I think it’s a common “race to the bottom” effect. It’s the same reason you can’t get a decent pair of shoes anymore without blowing (what appears to be) a lot of money. People are used to many products taking up a smaller percentage of their income than ever and they expect something at a certain price; well, they’re getting what they paid for.
I once rerolled a burrito at the counter at Taco Bell to show them how it was done “the right way.” They were not amused.
Euphemism?
Gotta be
that’s cranktastic
Not a euphemism! I worked at Taco Bell in college so knew what the drill was.
“Your burrito is sloppy. It’s supposed to hold together with a one-hand grip. You need to roll it tighter…like THIS.”
Definitely a euphemism
Oh My! – Sulu voice
We have better luck at small local joints. I know a few saloons in a few (there are still a few) dusty old mountain cow towns in Colorado and Wyoming where you can get a fine meal with friendly service at a great price.
There’s even a local Italian joint and a good Irish pub here in our temporary Joisey digs where much the same applies.
This is true. There are two local joints around here that have good food but the prices are still too high.
All of the chain places are just shit.
Add in a couple cocktails and the bill almost doubles. ?? ?
There was a hole-in-the-wall bar/Mexican restaurant in the neighborhood where I grew up (still there almost 50 years later) which was inexpensive and had outstanding Mexican food (last time I was there it had been chosen the best Mexican restaurant in the state of Texas three times by Texas Monthly magazine). Little “dive” places aren’t always the best but there are some gems.
Same here. We have a great Mexican place with good prices. I can get a plate of fajitas, rice, and beans for less than a fast food combo. There’s also an Italian place with really good pizza, though not much else. We haven’t eaten at a chain sitdown restaurant in a long time. I don’t think there’s much value there.
I get really excited when I find Diners and bars that have reasonably priced, quality to food. They manage to do something that chains just can’t replicate.
/Salivates thinking about 12oz/$13 prime rib I’m going to eat tonight at my local dive bar
Our localish diner (Cross Bay Diner, Howard Beach, NYC) makes the very best cheese sticks in existence; they are a good 4 times the thickness of normal mozzarella sticks and made a la minute. Also, the Golden Reef Diner in Lawn Guyland has a wee Sicilian man who has been making their gelato from scratch since he came to the US in the 1960s – the pistachio is positively orgasmic.
I wish you could rely on crowd-sourced ratings (Yelp), but they’re all garbage.
The worst meat-and-three in Toadsuck NC will always get a 3.8 for two reasons: a) dozens of crank retirees will always 5 a place because they know the owner and do the senior buffet at 4:30 twice a week which is at least better than Friskies with Gravy! and b) the range of scores are all about the social attitudes of people, not the value of the product: the curves are all the same because, regardless of the price, a place will attract its rank of clients who will then deliver the same score profile: 3@1, 0@2, 10@3, 4@4, 1@5. No one gives twos: if you hate a place, you give it a one; if you’re profoundly disappointed but don’t want to be an a-hole, you say it’s average (three).
Very few people take the trouble to leave a “meh” review. I also look at the timing of the reviews. I am always suspicious of a single one-star review quickly followed by a flurry of 4/5 star reviews.
Online reviews suck if you’re a business to business company. The only people who ever bother to review you are not customers but had some incidental contact with your company.
In my own case, it’s almost always some woman who thought one of my drivers wasn’t polite enough on the road and wants to vent her rage online.
That doesn’t bother me so much except that they never respond to you when you attempt to get more detail about the incident or make an apology
I’ve taken to compensating regular customers if they give me a review just to balance it out.
After grad work in statistics and then years observing/measuring industrial stuff, especially warranty, I think I see things for what they are: I see people for what they are. It’s a comfy perch (gurus live on mountains, I think, because they’re looking down . . . rightly so . . . on society).
I read all this conjecture about Watergate, Gettysburg, whatever, and think: well, how much does reason and logic have to do with anything. Who knows; all we have at this point is body count, but everyone has six opinions about whether it was New Orleans or My Lai. “He wouldn’t have done that, so . . ” Bullshit: people are terrible machines, screwing up by the minute.
Any reasonable philosopher-king would kill all the men except Jimmy Page and any women under an 8 and automate the rest. Anyone who thinks that order comes from law is an idiot: gnu migration has more order and timeliness and less murder than any normal event in history.
Last sober observation of the day: always, always, 1/4 to 1/3 of automotive parts returned for warranty have nothing wrong with them; the most focused, trained mechanics repeatedly executing the same diagnoses and operations repeatedly get it wrong. People are screwballs.
This is the true normal distribution.
That was the sober observation?
* drinks coffee *
apologies; recon Agile and I will end up in the same sanitarium?
sheesh
I went to a new Armenian restaurant last night and it was glorious.
Suck it Turkey.
I went to the Lock and Key Social Drinkery in Downey, CA last night. Split a 40 oz tomahawk steak with the wife. Grilled asparagus and a slab of fried muenster. A couple of Bulleit ryes each. Fine meal. Not cheap, but real good.
Boar’s Head prices went up at the deli where I work (thank the NYS minimum wage). I’m very much looking forward to the reactions from the regular customers today.
I was amazed at Ilhan’s comments about Obama. She should have doubled down on them instead of getting all mealy mouthed.
She was actually right, so of course she tried to back down.
Actually being right about that is the truly unforgivable part.
Have any of the new Congressional do-no-wrong chicks mouthed off about Hillary yet?
I don’t think they’re suicidal.
+1 botched robbery
+2 bullets to the back of the head
AOC will either end up mysteriously dead or indirectly kill millions.
Speaking ill of the new messiah is much, much worse than being anti-Semitic.
Her comments are sweet karma cancer that all are reveling in…except the Democratic party.
Well damn, good thing I was looking on making a trip to the Czech Republic in 2020. Hope I can get a last ditch visit before this dumb visa goes into action.
I look forward to your pictures of hot Czech women.
“Hey, let’s make it more difficult for Americans to come here and spend lots of money. What could possibly go wrong?
You won’t have an issue after 2021 either. It’s just an online application. I had to get something similar to visit Australia; it cost like 20 bucks and took all of 10 minutes.
They are probably afraid of Americans coming over to help out the Catalans, take pictures of cops standing outside the no-go zones, etc.
@Sean, I will try to get some good research.
@WTF, Flawless logic.
@fried, Ah, didn’t know Australia had that either. Hope the EU one isn’t too expensive in that case.
@Tonio, shit, they’re already onto my plan. #FreeCa
scadiatalonia.supposedly it’s planned to be 7 EUR (https://www.schengenvisainfo.com/etias/#how-much-will-etias-cost)
Restricting US Citizen’s travel to Europe… that’s going to end well.
Pro tip:
If you want people to care about your country, don’t restrict the travel to your country. Especially when it’s the country that’s paying for the military keeping the Russian wolves at bay.
Ugh… wording…nvm.
As I mentioned below, the change applies to all 60 countries which currently receive visa waivers to the Schengen Zone. If you think 7 EUR and a 10 minute online form is a travel restriction, fine, but it has fuckall to do with the US in particular and the article casting it as punishment for the Trump administration not granting ESTA visas to a bunch of Balkan countries is extra silly.
You know who else received a waiver to the Schengen Zone?
One more term of Drumpf, and the 9th Circ could spend most of its time overturning District Court judges in CA and HI…
But even if he doesn’t get a second term his SCOTUS appointments will do that albeit less quickly and completely than would a flipped Ninth.
Lincoln eked out a victory over Sammie the dog
Lajitas TX elected a goat mayor in ’86, but all he ever did was roam the town swilling beer.
Sounds like many of my typical Saturday afternoons.
So….a great mayor then?
^This
He did say GOAT, didn’t he?
I dont know about great. Be he wasn’t baaaaaaaaad.
/be here all week
Vote early, vote often.
Speaking of the world’s best movies- I’m watching My Man Godfrey.
Fine choice there!
Governments go for maximum inconvenience and expense, because FYTW. TDS cited as a reason.
Which is weird, because the new ETIAS system seems to be getting applied to basically any country that had an automatic 3 month visa before:
The unintended consequences are the best. It will slowly erode the US hipster “we should be more like Europe” fetish.
I liked that toss-off factoid in the story. The report said that they wanted to wait until Trump was in office to push for visa equality.
It really is bizarre that the socialist left acts as a cabal around the world.
Scruffy’s Life Tips Part 1
Always follow the correct order in the morning.
1) Floss
2) Brush
3) Mouthwash
4) Wash Face
5) Shave
And for God’s sake, sterilize your razor once a week in boiling water or alcohol.
sterilize your razor once a week in boiling water or alcohol.
I ditch my blade about that often.
I use Schick Hydro and try and make a blade last at least a week. Its usually not doing a very good job after a few days.
*takes notes*
Reminds me I should shave again soon.
I usually shave the night before, before I shower. I will brush, floss, mouthwash after shower and again in the morning. I usually floss/water pic between brushing and mouthwash because the dentist always flosses after cleaning.
You really should wash your face after the flossing or put it earlier in the process.
The transfer of mouth germs to your skin, particularly when it’s open after shaving can give you some nasty acne if not a full-blown impetigo skin infection.
Good to know. I will often wash my face with a good cleanser last in the routine even if I had a shower. Not always though.
I shave in the shower – I find it a much better shave than over a sink.
I even have a travel mirror (which I’ll recommend).
I converted my brothers and cousin to shower shaving a number of years back as well.
I used to do that and I stopped a few years back when my mirror broke.
I put your mirror in my cart…maybe I’ll get one and start again, because I agree it was better.
I got my cousin one as a gift, he loves it.
They also seem like the kind of business I’m happy to give money to:
Every product sold by The Cumberland Companies LLC is assembled by the great folks at Sunshine Industries in Knoxville, TN, a vocational development facility serving adults with intellectual disabilities.
Doing well by doing good gets a thumbs-up from me.
Bah!!! We need to save those poor disabled folk from those greedy capitalists! Let’s destroy the company so they aren’t forced to work there. /AOC
Shave in the shower FTW.
Is this prescribed before or after breakfast?
1. Coffee and internet
2. Breakfast
3.Follow Scruffy’s menu, more or less but not in the same order
The important part is avoiding the transfer of streptococcus to your open skin and not cleaning it off immediately.
Because I never bothered to think about it until I was 40, I would still occasionally get pimples (and one case of impetigo). After I switched the order, I haven’t had a single skin problem on my face other than occasional dryness.
/metrosexualskintips
/HowardHughesSkinTips
The morning shit should be number
twoone.That would require me to shave more then once a week.
I have pretty much given up going out to eat, for that same reasons noted above. It’s not worth the aggravation.
hmm… had some really nice indica last night. Along with a two Bushmill drinks with orange bitters. Got to hang out with an old HS friend who got me into audio gear. He’s been going through a rough patch with his 70-something dad battling (and losing) against a virulent cancer that is spreading all over. So a good time for him to get out of the house and listen to some records.
Dammit – that’s me, not Tulpa wife.
I was about to compliment you on having a wife who likes audio.
I’m satisfied that I have a wife who likes the audio people I hang out with.
What was the indica strain? Has MI actually gone legal to the point where you can buy at retail?
It’s legal – but can’t be bought commercially yet. So you can own it but just not buy it – yet.
So sort of a shadow legality. No idea of the strain – but some of the most mellow relaxing stuff I’ve had recently. And, from what I just read, effects are more related to the amount of CBD and the THC. Stuff is very green and sticky white; cleaned up it looks more like carpet than leafy bud.
Sorry about your friend’s dad. Good of you to be there for him. At least your morning is going better than Scruffy’s.
My morning’s fine. Believe it or not, I’m actually offering advice instead of snark.
I’ll return to my regularly scheduled sarcasm shortly.
That’s great you got to spend time and help out an old friend. Also great y’all had a great time.
Another funeral this morning, a younger brother of a classmate. It’s gotten to the point where my friends and I say things like, “73? Way too young”.
73: spot on average
Dad was born in ’40 and has gotten used to the idea that, having exceeded the average, half his cohort is gone.
Yeah, it ain’t wedding bells that’s breaking up that old gang of mine.
Sorry to hear that man, but hope your friend is up there having one helluva good time.
In the event this hasnt been covered already, RIP to noted alcoholic and coke aficionado D̵a̵v̵i̵d̵ ̵H̵a̵s̵s̵e̵l̵h̵o̵f̵f̵ Jan-Michael Vincent.
Fun fact- the flying version of K.I.T.T in Airwolf was really just a Bell 222 with some bodywork.
The flying German fighter aircraft in the Dunkirk movie were Spitfires with body work.
Today on Glibertarians.com, I learned……
I’m still trying to wrap my head around “littles” courtesy of Creosote.
at this point you’d think they’d fly all that in a C152 with some motion capture trinkets glued on them and just CG the mess later
That cargo plane is slow and ungainly compared to a fighter aircraft. They deliberately used another fighter craft so that the maneuverability would be close. What you suggest would be like using a Subaru Forester as a stand-in for a Giulia Spyder.
And today on Glibs I learned… That there was a Giulia Sprint Speciale which looked like a sexier (US version) Karmann Ghia.
Also, there were several different Giulio/Giulia Spyder/Spyder autos made by Alfa Romeo. The one I’m talking about is hier (scroll down).
I got to see one of those stupid fokkers once. Holy shit the cockpit is tinyl and cramped as hell. They didn’t have parachutes because once you get in you aint gettin’ out until you land. No way in hell would I have flown one of those things.
obligatory
Dunno why but I thought that dude bought the farm years ago.
He lost his right leg (amputation) to some weird infection a few years ago – maybe that’s what you heard and thought it lead to something else?
I always remembered him from an ABC “Movie of the Week” titled “Tribes”. ABC did some outstanding work producing small budget films back in the day.
The only thing I remember about him is that he was a dopehead. He got his start when Burt Reynolds took him under his wing and that didn’t last long because Vincent was an insufferable prick and after a while no one would work with him.
Celebrity gossip from fifty years ago. I am showing my age, aren’t I?
*sits down, shuts up*
Norm has it covered.
Never heard of Airwolf. That was a rabbit hole.
*blinks*
How?
*realizes age, and wanders off*
Abused himself beyond the call, and still lived to 73. May we all be so lucky!
*lifts glass*
To String!
I remember him slurring his way through Buffalo ’66. That was surreal.
It’s nice to see what a bunch of vindictive bloodthirsty assholes our progressive thought leaders are. Manafort only got four years in prison, when he should have gotten fifty. Where is the justice in that?
Committing non-violent, white collar crimes while being a Trumpist is worse than murder.
He tried to destroy our democracy![citation needed]. He deserves the death penalty!
MUH TREEEEZUUUUNNNNN
Worse…. he deprived the government of the revenue it justly deserved. In short, he didn’t pay his fair share.
Death’s too good for him!
Hangin’s too good for him!
Burnin’s too good for him!
He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and burried alive!
Letters to the Local Rag: Burn Him!
“Imagine my surprise when the only thing these lobbyists wanted to talk about was what would benefit their clients.”
Idiot or disengenuos?
Also didn’t know you could ‘overturn’ a constitutional right, like they want to with citizens United.
You can’t, but because this was a meaningless social signal, you can stick anything in there you like. “Kill all the Negroes” or “Ban speech from white males” or “Castrate libertarians” or whatever. It’s all about fundraising from your base- the Benjamins, if you will.
Legislative bodies at all levels do this all the time. They know that their shit laws will be overturned by the courts, but they can then tell the soccer moms “see, I tried; it was those evil judges.”
They are catering to their base who are morons and they know it. That is all. The whole thing makes no sense whatsoever but they know their base will swallow it.
I have a pair of Klipsch bookshelf speakers and I like ’em. But if I have to ever have to downsize my living quarters the Klipsch speakers are going; the NHT’s are lifers for me.
Which NHTs do you have? The Super Zeros were quite good for their size.
SP complains about the rebuilt tri-amped 3.3s in our living room.
C3’s.
SP finally shows an imperfection.
Good God! $350 a pop and I don’t even see a port for my MP3 player.
RIght there the reason hifi is dead!
Well, that and the loudness wars…
A speaker guy on Lawrence Ave sold me on the NHT’s. Very satisfied.
I still have my college-era Klipsch speakers in a box downstairs – I can’t bring myself to get rid of them.
Back in my audiofool days I was told “real” speakers don’t use horns.
Now I don’t have the room for anything hifi. Plus I’d drive the family nuts. I am slowly enjoying hifi headphones, but the experience is lacking compared to full blown hifi.
And sadly there is a lot of measurably inferior crap out there now compared to the 1980s.
I was prepared to accept shitcanning hifi but I was saved by the stepkid and the cat.
Momma records all the kid’s choir performances (on a fairly high end camera), and then watched everything on a laptop or smartphone. The kid can sing but laptop speakers and phone speakers are shit. Also, the cat seemed to get scared whenever momma played the stuff. I tried to tell her “Don’t you want to see this on the big screen and with good audio?” but to no avail.
Somehow I kissed enough ass to be allowed to set up an A/V receiver and two bookshelf speakers in the living room. “Too complicated” was the complaint but honestly all you do is turn the TV on and use the A/V remote intead of the TV remote for everything. Momma would still use the laptop but one day I couldn’t take it and said “put the stuff on the steeo already”. Momma was about to complain until I pointed out the cat didn’t run away when the good system was used. Yes, the cat outranks me but he turned out to be useful. Now Momma is happy to spend 12 hours making DVD’s of every performance because popping in a DVD is easier than clicking around on the laptop every time.
HDMI CEC lets the TV remote control the AVR. So it has a high WAF!
Otherwise I’d be stuck with crappy TV sound.
At the same time, there’s more truly excellent stuff at great prices than ever. I have two fine sets of powered speakers on hand, both coming in at well under $400 the pair- WITH all amplification and DSP. Add a player and you have a system at a few hundred bucks that will waste a lot of expensive gear.
And don’t get me started on the recording end. For $100, you can get interfaces that stunningly outperform the best Ampexes, Otaris, and Revoxes of yesteryear.
It’s very much the Wild West. There is some amazing stuff and some boutique crap.
This is my DAC. Was $80 shipped from China. Now finally available at parts express.
https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/review-and-measurements-of-topping-d10-dac.2470/page-67#post-157302.
Meanwhile same site has a review of a NAD DAC that is four figures and doesn’t perform as well.
Yeah, amazing what happens when you actually, you know, measure stuff. ASR is a really good resource.
A few weeks ago you mentioned Vanatoo speakers. Would you recommend the Tranparent One Encore or Transparent Zero? I got rid of my big cabinet speakers recently and need some new ones. Thanks for any advice.
I haven’t heard the Encore yet, but I’d expect it to be good. The Zero is excellent, I have a pair running right now.
I’m not the most prolific commenter, but have been out of action for about a month. What I thought was the flu turned out to be abdominal sepsis and spent a week in the hospital. It was a sobering experience… doc said it would have been too late if I had delayed coming in until the morning (went to ER at midnight and was rushed to front). Not the way I’d like to leave my family, which by the way, has just been added to by child #3, a second son. I’m bracing for the medical bills from both, but that’s also a lesson learned as the cost is why I delayed going to the ER days earlier. Not a good move in this case.
To add to the fun, someone fucked up and I had to have my stomach drained and tubed without sedation. The relief was totally worth it though. Also kicked ass on a couple more job interviews from my hospital bed with resulting onsite invitations.
Glad you are still with us.
Yikes, dude! Hope you’re back to normal, and congrats on the new kid! Job interviews from a hospital bed?? I don’t even like job interviews when I feeling 100%
“job interviews from my hospital bed”
Damn. Make me look lazier, why doncha?
It’s a crap shoot, old boy!
just a guess: an improperly rolled burrito got you? or was it your fuzzy razor? or was that fokker flying a Messerschmidt?
Yikes, glad that you made it in time, that’s some scary shit. I have a semi-peverse pride in my reluctance to go to the hospital, but I may need to ease up on that as I get older.
Acing an interview from a hospital bed is a power move. Good job!
Good Lord man, how did you get that?
I’m glad you are still kickin’.
Whoa, that sucks.
I’m glad you’re doing better.
Wow, you could have died from that. Glad you went in and are doing better. I know sepsis can be caused by diabetes so hopefully you’re getting some preventive care as well. Good luck with the job search!
Well, that puts my own troubles in perspective…
No shit. I was just thinking the same.
I for one am glad you got the treatment and are here with us this morning. Congrats on the family. Have a speedy recovery so you can be like the rest of these (fine?) people. We need all the Glibs we can get .
Glad to hear you’re okay and kicking. Good luck on the recovery and hope you land one of those jobs soon. Congrats to your survival and your second son!
Thanks everyone for your well wishes. Some of you asked why and it was caused by a bowel perforation. My personal demon seems to be a GI one.
I’ll be okay and am at home recovering. The rupture hasn’t closed yet which unfortunately means I’m on soft foods only for the forseeable future. My mind has not been kind and hasn’t stopped thinking about cheesesteaks for weeks.
Glad you are OK. I assume dietary restrictions from now on?
Congrats on the new kid and impending job change. Kind of a lot all at once, but it makes for a kick-ass story down the road!
Thanks Tundra. I should be fine to eat most anything once this damn hole closes. Maybe limit raw fibrous vegetables like carrots. I’m just waiting now to see if it closes on its own or if surgery will be required.
Bowel perforation? Any STEVE SMITH sightings in your area recently?
In all seriousness….glad you’re OK.
Do you own a blender?
Glad you’re ok.
Damn… Glad you are back and feeling better.
Wow, that must have been scary. Glad you’re healing.
Wow, sepsis is a bitch, with a very high fatality rate. So glad you made it out alive! Great that you went in on time.
I really appreciate your commenting. There’s not enough of us, please don’t come so close to leaving us again.
So Omar is saying the media are Fake News?
She would be better off just saying “yeah, that’s what I said and I meant it” then backtracking everything that comes out of her mouth. I take less issue with what she says (even though she gets a lot of it wrong), then I do with the hypocracy of advocating for the Palistenians while demonizing polititians who advocate for Israel. If you believe that about them, explain how you’re different.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/08/public-debate-is-a-shouting-match-what-we-need-is-experts
We need moar Top Men!
The concept of the Vanguard is a key selling point of Marxism to the intellectuals because they think that they’ll finally be in charge as they deserve to be. They should be getting the wealth and recognition instead of those capitalist who aren’t is intellectual, cultured, and woke as they are. They don’t realize that people like them are often the first against the wall because it’s the most psychopathic, not the most intellectual who rules an authoritarian society. The psychopath wants people who follow their orders, not someone who wants to also be in charge.
I can’t find it but I read a great online rant by some stock broker / trader /whatever, pointing out that people like him would _still_ end up in positions of power under a communist system. They know how to learn the rules and exploit them for maximum advantage, etc.
Yes, understanding power structures as they work in the real world as opposed to how they work on campus provides a distinct advantage.
The same thing happened in the formerly communist countries when they went the other direction. Lot’s of people would just change sides and still stay on top.
Is working out wery well for some!
– von Mises
Such is the case with those people who are commonly called the intellectuals.
Ludwig bringing the heat.
He did have a rather caustic tongue. It’s refreshing.
Experts.
I have been watching people smarter than everyone else royally fuck things up all of my life.
I would never insult any bird by using the guardian as cage liner. That is just beyond the pale.
A friend told me I needed a financial advisor, as he has one. I asked him “If the guy is so damned smart why is he still working?”
I remember the Granudain’s call for Britons to trust the aristocracy and the bankers since they knew best and how Douglas-Hume was totes awesome.
“it is also easy to get lost in the vast enormity of the internet and fall down a rabbit-hole of misinformation disguised as facts or concern.”
The problem is that the response isn’t to confront misinformation but to try to suppress it. If all you do is try to suppress people start wondering why they aren’t allowed to read that thing.
Spiked contributors regularly appear on the BBC
Oh noes! Dissenting voices!
Yeah, that caught my eye. I guess in Guardian-town Spiked contributors are literally worse than you-know-who.
*checks current headline*
FAAAKE NOOOOZ!
Projection
Wah wah wah we want our gatekeeper status back!
Injustice!
But going cashless also marginalizes shoppers — specifically unbanked and low-income ones. In a city like Philadelphia, for example, more than 400,000 residents live below the poverty line, according to the Pew Research Center, and many don’t have bank accounts. Per the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 6.5 percent of households in the US weren’t affiliated with a bank in 2017, so cashless stores would essentially be closing their doors to these shoppers.
“Not everybody is able to buy a smartphone,” one falafel shop owner told the Washington Post last year, explaining why he was opposed to going cash-free. “But they are hungry too, and have $10 in their pockets and they would like to spend their legal American form of tender, known as cash, with you. As society and technology evolves, we must ask ourselves always, not just ‘can we’? But ‘should we’?”
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“They pay for utilities, medical services, and their children’s education needs all through cash,” Melany De La Cruz-Viesca, the assistant director of the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, told Southern California Public Radio. “If we keep moving in this direction of a cashless system, what I see happening is a lot of the low-income immigrant groups in LA will fall out of the economy.”
Philadelphia’s new law ensures that this won’t happen to any of its residents. Now perhaps the rest of the country will follow suit.
I can’t help wondering how the Vox crew feels about the intersection of the cashless society as a means of oppressing the poors vs the cashless society as a means of tracking individual income, controling the money supply and imposing negative interest rates to keep the economy humming.
Their boners over the latter, especially negative interest rates, will let them live with the former. “All we need to do is redistribute more!”
I’m not in favor of a cashless society, but I don’t see the connection with ‘theyz too poor’. I’ve never been above the ‘poverty line’ and yet I never had a problem opening a bank account.
Having worked at a bank, there are two kinds of people. Those who understand money and those who don’t. The problem is when you don’t understand money and you don’t have it either. That’s when you start to overdraft your account and never pay back, and get blacklisted from the bank.
I get customers off the street who want to rent a $40,000 dollar piece of equipment with cash.
They usually get offended when I tell them I’d happily sell it to them for cash, but there’s no way I’m going to rent it to them without a major credit card, a valid drivers license, their social security number, and a home address.
Can I pay cash when I return the equipment?
Absolutely
I thought you were an attorney?
Business owner. Which means I know more than I want to about tax, employment, and credit law.
I actually went for years without a bank account or credit card when I was a yute. Paid cash or money order for everything.
Patels hardest hit.
Oh C’mon. No one gets that reference?
I do.
Something something convenience stores?
I thought it was about cheap motels.
Our collective memory is amazingly short. It was just a couple of years ago that the same proggies were moving for laws requiring a cashless society so they could track everyone and everything and ensure that we were all paying “our fair share”.
I would be astonished, but 1991 killed any illusion that people can remember anything for more than 15 minutes. (that was the Clinton campaign, where the big 3 anchors told me a different version of Clinton and the Draft every two weeks, each time telling me that “we’ve always known this”, despite having personally told me a completely contradictory story only two weeks prior).
Spiked contributors regularly appear on the BBC. Views that were beyond the pale are now commonplace.
Oh, HORROR!
“Beyond the pale” being an antisemitic reference, of course.
Good morning, Old Man!
Great Zappa piece. The percussionists were busy back there. I’ve noticed that he seemed to really enjoy some whacky percussion parts – I’ll bet it was a blast for his musicians.
Mexican Pizza? Sounds like cultural appropriation. Deep dish Mexican pizza with pineapple? You decide.
Deep dish Mexican pizza with pineapple
*calls in air strike*
I’m not big on chain pizza places but I do like Donatos Mariachi Beef provided the jalapenos bring the heat which is hit or miss. Their pepperoni pizza is a little too sweet for me.
Oddly, Dominos “philly cheesesteak” pizza holds an odd place in my heart.
Hindi pizza in Houston is pretty sweet
The slumdog and the masala one look pretty good.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/mar/09/america-michael-jackson-pop-legacy-leaving-neverland
It is weird how much of the media is glossing over how Michael Jackson being a pedofile was a cheap punchline in the years before his death.
Then again I believe I have read that the European news coverage of Jackson was not as harsh as the American press. So the Brits and Irish may not have realized the hostility toward Jackson.
I don’t like the implication that once an allegation is so bad then they must be guilty. This is not to say that I think Jackson is innocent of course.
Looks like our moral panics are still are arbitrary as ever.
I remember stuff like this before Jackson died:
https://youtu.be/jk31AHyKnCc
https://youtu.be/XWG74gXSSug
Damn, Norm’s great.
Then again I believe I have read that the European news coverage of Jackson was not as harsh as the American press.
I wonder if their stricter libel laws had anything to do with that?
Or the fact that they condone pedophilia for certain groups if people.
What a coward. If you believe the accusations say so. But don’t abandon someone just because they were accused.
BTW Corey Feldman raped me after sacrificing a child to Baal
He couldn’t even get that right – should have gone with Moloch.
For what is worth here are two Guardian articles on Jackson just after he died. Both briefly mention the allegations.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/26/pop-star-michael-jackson
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2009/jun/26/michael-jackson-black-superstar-icon
2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren unveils plan to ‘break up big tech,’ targeting giants like Amazon, Google and Facebook
After all, these companies would never have taken off if Microsoft hadn’t been broken up by the government in 2000.
“this time targeting giant tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook for having “too much power.””
No hint of self awareness
FedGov hates competition.
Welp, there goes her campaign funding. Bye, Fauxcahontas. Bye!
The right wants to break up big tech because they have been suppressing voices on the right.
The left wants to break up big tech because they have not been suppressing enough voices on the right.
By “break up” they mean “completely control.”
Letters to the Local Rag: Just Gun It
Best letter to the editor ever
Yeah, that’s a good one. Shocked it was published.
A couple of years ago, there was one complaining about the complaining in the letters to the editor. So I sent my own letter in the next week:
Not my best composition, but it made me snicker.
This is some of the best gymnastics I’ve seen since the Olympics.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/ilhan-omar-jewish-left.html
“There is an incredibly powerful opening for white Jews to understand their deep mutual interest and potential solidarity with black people, because white supremacy is coming for all of us.”
Yeah sure. All 2 dozen American Nazis pose a much greater threat to Jooz than an apparent alliance between a major political party and radical wing of a world religion dedicated to the destruction of Judaism.
““If our definition of anti-Semitism is reduced to ‘Are you criticizing Israel?’ you have no ability to grapple with someone like Richard Spencer.” The prominent American white supremacist activist is also an avowed supporter of Israel.”
If you support Israel, you are a Nazi. I know they’ve been thinking it for years, at least now they’re being honest.
“It’s completely understandable that Jews are on edge and are concerned and are looking around, trying to figure out who their allies are and who they can trust.”
Please, please, please, PLEASE don’t leave the Plantation! We need your sweet lucre!
How about the fact that David Duke likes Omar?
Don’t confuse them with facts!
Yeah it’s a really sad performance isn’t it?
How do people go through their lives by trying to treat some prescribed cliches as they’re told to; all the while trying to live up to the cliche they identify as. WTF is wrong with these people? Get a fucking hobby. Go have some fun.
This is the “explainer” (read: propaganda) arm of the “media”:
“no need to do your own thinking, we’ll interpret what happened for you and give you the red meat we know you need!”
I’m perfectly capable of reading what Omar said and put that in the context of her 20+ year history of radicalism. She is an obvious and avowed “anti-Zionist” (again read: anti-Semite) and her charges of dual loyalty are classic anti-Semitism going back centuries. ProgJew useful idiots now have to tie themselves in knots trying to explain why their real religion (progressivism) and their fake religion (Judaism) are not actually diametrically opposed, nothing to see here, please keep sending your monthly checks to J Street.
It’s amazing how bigoted against Jews some of the Somali refugees are. The middle aged moms that worked for me a few years ago in Columbus had huge arguments with the Western African immigrants and my Iraqi refugee employees about whether I was Jewish (I’m not, but I have a big nose). It was some absolutely ridiculous shit
The Somali culture is not anything to be proud of.
I imagine a lot of them are looking for a scapegoat for their own failings as a people.
Silicone Saturday gets you off… er, gets you started off right!
http://archive.li/pvj7M
40.
I need a ruling on 24 – real or just well done?
Her frame doesn’t suggest such a bounty. However, if they are fakies, they are spectacular.
I’m gonna say likely bolt-ons. The prominence at the top of the breast and the cleavage suggests a sub-muscular, teardrop implant. But she got a damn good surgeon and I couldn’t care less.
Would.
2 (lol didn’t expect to see Jessica Nigri here),9,15,16,25,32,39. What a bountiful and comfy harvest, Q.
Question for the gamers out there, any thoughts on Mutant Year Zero? The reviews look promising, and it’s being favorably compared to (rebooted) XCOM. It’s currently part of the Humble Monthly subscription for $12 with two other games now, and some others being unlocked at the beginning of April.
I don’t know. I’ve been addicted to Hollowness lately.
*hollowknight!!!
I have a rather large circle of gamer friends, I hadn’t heard a peep about this. It looks really interesting. This make me wish i wasn’t so damn busy lately.
It popped up on my radar due to the comparisons to XCOM pre-release. I haven’t heard much about it since, and the reviews are hit or miss. I’ll probably pull the trigger at some point (it’s only $12), just curious if anyone else here had played it yet.
It looks interesting based on what I saw on the steam page. Sadly, I’m not too into those tactical strategy games. Lately I’m doing stuff like Mount and Blade Warband.
didja make MEM last month? whadja eat?
I didn’t, I’m supposed to be going this month. Currently waiting on the company to give me an AmEx to book the trip, I’ll let you know once it’s scheduled.
I have a couple of questions for Princess Walks-on-the-Waters. When you say, “break up” what sort of lines of separation do you have in mind?
More importantly, how do you propose to justify telling the owners of a business they are prohibited from freely entering into an agreement to sell their property to a willing buyer?
*I know, I know. I laughed, too.
Ask Breitbart, they use to push breaking up “Big Tech.” It’s nice that the Socialist and the Alt-Right can find some common ground. Although I suspect Breitbart will still criticize her for it.
Populism is the same sort of crap on both ends: a lung for statist power from the front of some downtrodden collective. The Left argues how things should be; the Right argues how things used to be.
All of your neighbors would lord over you if they could just seize the reins; there are not a hundred freedom-loving Americans left
Power grabbers gonna power grab.
Story of humanity.
Breitbart and the like are pushing for the written law to be applied to the tech companies. Now, we can Standard Libertarian Disclaimer that particular law all we want, but Section 230 of the CDA is an actual written law on the books.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/platform-or-publisher-15888.html
The bargain struck by Congress in the mid 90s was that tech companies would be shielded from lawsuits for the content on their message boards and chat clients, but in return they would allow those message boards and chat clients to be free and open avenues of debate.
This whole POX ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES thing gets tiresome.
1. From the rightwing opinion media: Big Tech companies should be held to the written law which balances legal liability and free speech concerns. They should either be platforms, or be publishers, and not be able to pick and choose which they are when it suits them.
2. From the senior Senator from Massachusetts and current Presidential candidate: big tech should be broken up because they make too much evil profits.
The two situations are not the same. They’re not at all the same. It’s like how the greens claim that standard business tax practices used by Exxon are the exact same as billions of dollars in direct cash subsidies to windmills.
Section 230 of the CDA is an actual written law
I respectfully submit that bad laws that might be useful in controlling folks who do things we don’t like are still bad laws.
Nope Breitbart specifically harped on “Big Tech” being too big and powerful, Google shouldn’t be able to be a search engine and a news aggregator and an app store and a media creator. Their one radio guy after Bannon, Marlow, I think harped on it all the time and would have guests on explaining the dangers of these few companies controlling so much of the economy. This was before the big de-platforming push, yes they now bitch about that but they were beating the ‘Break them up’ drum before that.
Its not just section 230 a lot of conservatives (see Tucker Carlson) want to break up Amazon and Google, because they think they are too big, don’t provide good jobs like manufacturing.
I learned tonight that I say inappropriate things in social gatherings. Ah well.
I guess we should have warned you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTboGG7DMwU
Livestream of Straff’s dinner party.
here
In real life that’s not funny.
Under ‘modern’ standards, it’s really easy to piss everyone in the room off. Ask me how I know.
I dunno, man – keeping your pants on isn’t really that modern of a standard.
You’re close. I pulled my shirt through my open fly and walked around Shinjuku. Evidently that’s not humour to people these days.
I figured you ate a giant pile of cauliflower and kimchi and then went to a Soapland.
Haha, well if they were looking down there, it’s on them now ain’t it?
They call me tripod….
No no, he said piss off.
http://i.imgur.com/kKIOVKO.jpg
At work… no imgur for me 🙁
One of us! One of us! One of us!
#JustGaijinThings
Welcome to the club pal.
Saturday morning car-porn.
Van Porn
Van Porn
Van Porn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IP0r-wDqKVg
I always click on the video with a crank and rods in it
* not in touch with my feminine side *
The body fab video is awesome. I know robots are awesome, but watching those guys fit and tweak the parts is really cool.
I miss the cars of that era.
A couple of buddies of mine in high school were in to VW Super Beetles. We rebuilt one together – put in the bigger engine, dual Webber 4 barrel carbs, high ratio rockers, bored out pistons, oil cooler, stinger exhaust… that thing was a rocket.
The fenders just bolt on. We lifted the car off of the engine ourselves…. no shop lifts required.
Loads of fun.
You can get lots of after-market tuner parts today that didn’t exist back then….. but you could do all sorts of work on your car back then that would be nigh impossible in the back yard today. Heck, just changing the spark plugs can be an hours-long ordeal these days….
My brother and I each had Beetles. They were hilariously simple to work on. Awesome in the snow, too.
Terrible heaters.
under the heading of “guys are stupid”…
We used to drive down the highway and steer the bug with the doors.
Aren’t you a fellow manufacturing type?
When I tell people that good design is mostly tolerance stack, the rest is merely cartoons, they never know what I mean.
When I was working for a German firm, they copied a set of tools and sent them to the US: complete crap. When the inspected my installation and saw rubber mallets on line, they were extremely critical; if they had done the job right, I would have agreed.
A couple of years later I was in Kirschberg and observed the original line: big German and Polish women smashing the parts into line by hand. If my little Mexican ladies had meaty hands like that, we wouldn’t have needed hammers either.
Soooo much problematic with that post….
You should report to re-education camp immediately.
I redesigned the entire mess and presented at Stuttgart. Shockingly, when the next version came out a few years later, a solid half of my ideas had been implemented . . . that was a win in those days.
I have the same gene…. can’t turn it off.
So when I go to a sandwich shop and I’m having to wait too long for my order, I can’t help but notice that they didn’t put their ingredients in the right location… or they put the fridge at the wrong end…
That’s funny as hell.
Yes, I’ve been in manufacturing for a long time. Business side, though. I’m not an engineer. I’ve just always gravitated toward making things.
The amazing thing about 70’s motorsports is that you can buy a daily driver that is superior to the supercars of the era.
A 1978 911 SC was just shy of $20k (in an era of $3k cars) and did zero to 60 in 5.5 seconds. The quarter mile was 14.8 seconds at 94 mph.
You can come close to those numbers for the same money today – not even inflation adjusted dollars. And if you boost your mark to $30k, you can beat those numbers while besting the gas mileage by quite a bit.
Sure. But I’d still rather have the Porsche.
Yeah, cars back then had a lot more personality.
We are shopping right now…. the wife wants a mid-sized SUV to replace the minivan (shocking, I know).
You pretty much can’t tell the difference between the Chevy, Ford, Honda, Nissan, etc… All pretty much identical in size, shape and features.
The same goes for the saloons, hatch backs, midsized cars, etc.
Nobody would confuse a 1960’s Ford with a Honda.
Yeah, everything is pretty boring. Cars are appliances now.
The Hyundai Santa Fe gets pretty good reviews. I’ve driven VW’s Tiguan and Atlas – both decent vehicles.
Wife and I are in the same boat. Going with Kia because of the warranty and the Sorento she’s driving now is 13 years old and still going strong. We’re thinking about maybe a Telluride, we’ll see.
Test drove the Telluride…. really, really nice car.
Drove the mid trim line – which is pretty loaded. The lane assist thing is really cool. Not sure if it is worth spending money on, but it is really, really cool.
Surprisingly well priced…. I think they are going to kill off the Sorento… it is almost exactly the same price range, but quite a bit bigger.
I’d rather have the minivan because of practical reasons… but It looks like “happy wife, happy life” is going to win out. She won’t even sit in the minivan.
Kia/Hyundai is really kicking everyone’s rear end. They make really good cars and have great warranties and great prices…. Makes me wonder why the US automakers can’t do the same. They were making absolute crap when they entered the market, and just a few years later they are near the top in all sorts of categories.
can’t tell the difference between the Chevy, Ford, Honda, Nissan
All the same suppliers. Even the OEM are staffed by guys who come and go, incestuous pools of interchangeable pros who know the tech (CAD, quality systems, CFD, materials, whatever) and ride a desk at any firm. Tires were a commodity a century ago; now the entire car and all the gadgets are.
The last not of badge branding is the engine: those are the most in-house technologies and cultures. Even there, the real difference is the luck on your car, your project, your demographic is whether the power and durability really deliver what you think you have been promised. To this extent, Honda and Isuzu are my heroes: they don’t change much or change often, so you really know what you’re getting.
To a certain extent you can blame the size and shape on aerodynamics and safety. They both lead in a certain direction and after that there is only so much you can tweak.
To be sure it doesn’t explain everything, but it does limit their options.
Look, you can slap big ol’ fins on anything
– 1950’s designer…
That’s why I bought a 10 y/o Trailblazer ss with a hot rod motor and trans. Shitty for economy, but performs better than the 70’s 911 and is built way better than anything newer. It has a full frame under it and the fenders don’t flex under a single finger like the new crap. CAFE standards really cheapened everything under the Messiah. Put a 5 y/o SUV on a lift and it looks like a toy underneath. Sad.
TBSS is a blast to drive, but it only gets around 10 mpg. Gotta stress about parking it, too. They get stolen a lot and door dings are unavoidable in L.A.
Trolling almost at a level of Donnie Two Scoops.
https://tsarizm.com/news/eastern-europe/2019/03/08/putin-thanks-women-for-taking-care-of-the-home-and-staying-beautiful-on-international-womens-day/
Keep it up Vlad, you’ll get there!
““What does a young woman need to maintain her figure? Three things: a workout machine, a masseuse and a suitor,” Putin told the police officers.”
The guy may be an unhinged dictator but damn if that isn’t funny.
Best part: “Putin also told the female police staff that when they patrol the city woodland parks, the number of accidents drops “because those who wish to commit suicide look at you and want to live again,” reported The Moscow Times. ”
Also: https://twitter.com/DragonStone1963/status/946511675921809408
Maybe this: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DSKLNTvVoAAobeK.jpg
Oh, nevermind. I give up.
I learned tonight that I say inappropriate things in social gatherings. Ah well.
Fake news.
Survey reveals what’s at the top of men and women’s ‘sex bucket list’
No Upper Decker Double Blumpkin?
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Upper%20Decker%20Double%20Blumpkin
sex in a car
Not as exciting as you might think, and definitely not for the aging and less flexible.
It’s why I do yoga once a week!
Although the Triumph is right out – those days are over…
It’s hard to drive too.
+Road head
Yeah, the demise of the bench seat really changed the calculus on that one….
Just gotta find an old pickup. Extra room too.
Where are the dinosaur fantasies? I have been told that’s the latest thing. Also, I thought porn was making everyone escalate, that list seems very normal.
Seems pretty tame
http://imgur.com/gallery/Hd3PQrz
So……
Vacationing in either Russia or North Africa?
Michigan: Pissing.
Lord Humungus hardest “hit”.
The third graphic introduced me to the term “bedgasm”….. you learn something new every day…
I’ve done all that stuff except for the sex tape. Although I wouldn’t be shocked if one exist.
Yeah, not only pretty vanilla, but also pretty easily accessible. You pretty much should have knocked that list out by 21.
Really? I mean, that was like, Tuesday. Not even a Angel’s 3some?
I realize my sexual bucket list may be calibrated slightly differently, but god damn that’s some pedestrian sex acts.
I’m beginning to suspect that they didn’t ask any dudes what they thought.
I suspect that by the age of 13 most dudes were fantasizing about stuff that would have turned these folk’s hair white.
Totally not a shakedown.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/tax-collectors-chase-rich-new-yorkers-moving-to-low-tax-states.html
Not just NY. California tried to do that with me several years after I moved away from that godforsaken place.
Move already, but please leave your progressive politics back in Manhattan.
I think I’ll be good when I finally GTFO. I don’t expect them to search the refigerators in my mansion. Plus, when I leave, I won’t be back.
Come to CO Rhywun, we need more of the good New Yorkers.
To apply for the ETIAS, US citizens will need a valid passport, an email account and a credit or debit card, the EU said. Minors, the website said, will still only need their normal passports to travel after the visas go into effect.
An e-mail account? Let me guess: It’ll be used for more than just notifications.
An update on the Glendale, AZ sadist
The local media in Glendale, AZ is doing a capital job reporting on the story of the AGW who brutalized the passenger in a car pulled over for an alleged minor traffic violation – failure to signal a turn. (Original story here.)
It turns out, the AGW may have made that up – the failure to signal – in order to have a pretext to brutalize the people in the stopped-for-no-legal-reason car.
Arizona Goon Worker? Asshole Grouping Wadstopper? Anti-Social Gorilla Wannabee?
Ano-genital wart.
Armed Government Worker
Ok. Thx. Makes sense. I thought it was like some official title the way it was used.
Global warming gets around, damn.
you can’t get a decent pair of shoes anymore without blowing (what appears to be) a lot of money
I think about this plenty. I’m a quality/durability/value guy, so my hand-tools, suits and shoes, guitar, and such tend to be high-end and American-made. I’m a 12A: the shoes are made in Wisconsin and last forever; I send them back to the factory and have them rebuilt for a C-note every so many years, but not everyone loves polishing while the wife watches her shows. You could buy a car for what I have tied up in manly footwear.
But I don’t think you can buy throw-away shoes for less than a buck a day; my buy-and-maintain system is probably in that neighborhood: one new pair and one rebuilt most years. But they really really are 12A: they fit.
And chicks look at your shoes. . . every time.
The rest of my extravagances are completely indefensible. Regardless, I wouldn’t get out of bed for what a pair of good shoes cost; I think they’re a bargain.
A pair of bespoke shoes is on my bucket list.
I have an affection for high quality shoes and boots, and you’re damn right about women noticing. I also went on a splurge a few years ago and bought a half-dozen pair of high end dress shoes and three pair of high end boots. I rotate them around and that helps too. They last much longer that way.
I get out cheap on maintenance though.
Thank G-d for our selfless government representatives and heroes in blue are always looking out for us.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6789575/Missouri-police-officers-search-pancreatic-cancer-sufferers-bag-marijuana-hospital.html
Cunts.
Pretty sure the cops are wrong that they don’t need a warrant if they are on private property.
The body fab video is awesome. I know robots are awesome, but watching those guys fit and tweak the parts is really cool.
I have been watching some weird random shit lately, including a Fisher Body promo film from the early ’50s (judging by the Cadillacs, I would say ’52-3). They showed bodies being assembled in the factory, and unless there were human operators just outside the camera shot, they were using robot welders, even then. i was surprised.
And then there’s this guy
Those were probably just excellent fixtures. Most body work was just tack welds, so if you fixture off a repeatable and useful datum feature, you can really simplify the process easily with semi-automatic tooling. My guess is a guy off camera who installs the fixture and then limit switches and timers manage the rest.
My favorite ’50’s videos are the AR10 introduction videos, belt fed, grenade launching and badass.
Those were probably just excellent fixtures. Most body work was just tack welds, so if you fixture off a repeatable and useful datum feature, you can really simplify the process easily with semi-automatic tooling. My guess is a guy off camera who installs the fixture and then limit switches and timers manage the rest.
Lots of fixturing and installation of pieces by hand. Also lots of hand operated spot welding on structural ribs. But there appeared to at least some “robot” welding on large body panels. Particularly stuff requiring a deep reach.
Like this @ 7:00 or so.
Jeebus, the new US Armed Forces recruiting commercials are horrible. They play up military service like it’s a fucking video game.
Have you ever talked to an Army recruiter? The fanciful tales they weave….
I don’t remember anything about getting your leg blown off by a roadside bomb in some crap-hole country you never heard of in a “conflict” that is not authorized by the congress, or even reported on in the news…