Whoops, I got caught up in a meeting and almost left y’all without links!
Dog-bites-man story: Political candidate accused of lying for political gain.
The Glibs’ money is on HATE BIRDS
That’s all I had time for — you guys do the rest!
Whoops, I got caught up in a meeting and almost left y’all without links!
Dog-bites-man story: Political candidate accused of lying for political gain.
The Glibs’ money is on HATE BIRDS
That’s all I had time for — you guys do the rest!
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358 responses to “Thursday Afternoon I Almost Forgot Links”
I don’t know how you people do this from a phone….
And thanks to Monday nights tornado outbreak still no electric. Water was restored last night, but with barely any pressure and a very stern “boil advisory”
Ditto at Chez GT. Luckily, we already had a generator thanks to Hurricane Ike. We never lost water completely, but the pressure was low until late yesterday. Now we have GOOD contaminated water pressure.
Allll it taks is giid hand. Eye cxordination.
I don’t know how anyone does anything from a phone besides phone calls. Well, my cells are set to show the weather, but I never use them to text, browse websites, etc.
Texting is the best. You get to send useful info quickly, ie “be there in fifteen,” without being stuck in a long convo when you just need to drive, or whatevs.
>whatevs
15 year old girl confirmed.
>whatevs
15 year old girl confirmed.
The squirrels have followed me from TOS!!!
Likely story, Tulpa.
I think typing “be there in fifteen” would take me 15 minutes, then I’d have to go back and change it to 45.
Even if you’re using some Flintstones-era flip phone you can get pretty good at truly basic msgs by using 2 fingers, etc. If so, “ETA [time]” might work better for you than “fifteen minutes late.” IIRC those phones also had a small number of preprogrammed responses you could set.
Hey Siri
Text Joe
“be there in fifteen”
Send
Wow. Look at Einstein, over here.
“Sending message to ‘Joby’ “Tear in Fifty”‘
^This guy has used voice recognition software before.
Devil’s Advocate: Aside from immediate family and whichever woman I’m currently pursuing/seeing, phone conversations are far quicker for me than continuous text messages.
Who, what, when, where, why. Anything extra and I’m out like bell-bottoms.
That’s why you don’t use them for that. Live vocal interaction and texting both have their places. The medium is the massage.
I love text so I have a record when people say I never told them.
Texting is great if you’re busy and don’t want to be drawn into a long conversation you don’t want to have. It’s rude to hang up a phone when someone is talking, not-rude to take a day or three to respond to a text.
“You sound super busy, I’ll let you go! Bye!” *click*
I despise the phone.
As a small business owner, I have read up on some of this. The expectations for responding to a voicemail are end of business, or next business morning if left after hours. Email should be responded to within 24 hrs (or Monday if sent on a Friday or during the weekend) and the expectation for responding to a text is 15 minutes. While I don’t go a day or 3, 15 minutes is bullshit. I try to respond to text end of day unless it’s immediately pertinent.
Oh, I agree. Unfortunately, many people within my inner circle don’t ascribe by that bit of common sense and get all butt-hurt if I try to wrap up a conversation once the pertinent point has been made.
Yeah, I text my sisters a photo at a time when there’s something interesting worth sending them.
I’m like Paul Sorvino in Goodfellas. I hate talking on the phone. I’d rather text, chat, or email.
I suspect Paulie would be even less enamoured with those options.
I don’t.
Made one or two comments from my phone during the other night’s tornado scare and it was painful.
I very rarely use Firefox mobile so I don’t have any adblocker
On my pc I have uBlock
Jesus, these sites are a mess
My phone has Safari – I don’t even know if it allows extensions like the desktop version, because I hardly use it enough to bother investigating.
I hope by desktop version you mean the Mac version. If you’re subjecting yourself to Safari on a PC you’re a masochist.
Yes. They dropped the PC version anyway years ago.
“CLIO, Michigan — Pete Buttigieg’s brother-in-law is accusing the gay Democratic presidential hopeful of hijacking his family’s history for political advantage by crafting a bogus backstory of poverty, homelessness, and homophobia.
Rhyan Glezman, 34, a pastor in small-town Michigan, said he was inundated by death threats and hate mail when stories surfaced this month claiming he was a bigot who had fallen out with his younger brother Chasten when Chasten came out of the closet.
The reports were based on a Washington Post article, which described how Chasten, 29, was forced out of the family home and never reconciled with his two brothers.
But rather than rejecting his brother Chasten, a would-be “first gentleman,” Glezman, who has run the Clio Community Church for the past two years, said his family has been loving and supportive throughout.”
I’m trying to give a fuck, but nothing is happening.
Well, Pete learned “Do NOT appoint your brother-in-law to anything” lesson now, so he is immediately launched into the top half of all American presidents, past and potential.
The moral of the story is very simple.
If anyone you know is involved in politics, slowly, gradually reduce contact. Be boring as fuck so they forget you even exist.
If any family member tries to befriend a politician, try to persuade them to make better friends.
“inundated by death threats”
This. This I am getting sick of hearing. It’s like a Pavlov’s Dog reaction. Every time someone gets called out in public, apparently, they get death threats. I mean, maybe someone sends you a hateful e-mail and includes DIAF. But I really have trouble believing all these people are being threatened with death.
Sounds like Mr. Glezman was chastened.
Snopes fact checking in 3…. 2….. 1…..
Ocasio-Cortez Disappointed To Learn The ‘Free Market’ Isn’t A Grocery Store Where You Don’t Have To Pay For Anything
At least there’s something we can all find common ground with AOC on.
Except in 12 years there won’t be any trees, and the only way to make sour mix is from draining batteries from a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
[tears up, fondles plasma rifle]
from honest to god battery-trees. that’s how post-apocalyptic it is.
I wonder what words she will have for the 97% of polled respondents who are against her plan to kill their industry.
Typically, though, her proposal is to abolish a perfectly legal and harmless product.
I think you’d be hard pressed to read it as any more of an honest proposal than tossing certain folk into a woodchipper or eating Irish babies.
Yeah, I think she’s attempting humor.
Any ideas on how to get her to move on from trying to ban harmless legal products to propose legislation to ban illegal products that should be legalized? Also, she is OK with private jets. I guess they emit a special kind of CO2.
It has to be an act, right? Silver spoon classists? Milk drinkers?
That site is solid.
Oooh, I didn’t even hovertext and see it was Babylon Bee. Good catch Rufus.
/wink.
This bit is getting old.
“It accuses Disney of failing to properly warn visitors of the dangers seasonal nesting birds pose, among other allegations.”
Is that claim going to fly?
I don’t give a flock.
But you know there will be squawking.
Birds of a feather.
Hate bird troubles?
Call: https://www.geesepoliceinc.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPemyipJzAM
Hate bird troubles?
Buy: This
that’s a beaut. the synthetic competition model makes me want to beat the designer to death with it.
Canada gooses.
“It is not clear what breed the bird was.”
huh
The Canadian geese are all over here right now, but hey, how would a journalist know that? Research?
Obviously Donald
Fine Brettly, we’ll enact some in-post labor for you.
Massive online database exposed over 42 MILLION dating app users’ records, including IP addresses, location data and usernames
I do like the confirmation that a lot of these niche dating sites/apps are just slightly modified front-ends for a generic back end. That’s a fun mix though.
Seriously, cross-pollinate those sites and wonderful things will happen!
My thoughts exactly. Although considering they are niche sites with 42m combined records, I’m assuming some (if not all) are bots.
I’d be tempted to try and see how much wool I could pull from “christiansfinders”
Middle-aged Christian trans with benefits?
I had to scroll back to make sure you included everything.
“slightly modified front-ends for a generic back end”
Well, some people are into that.
*applause*
Ditto.
Cougardating exists?
Of course it does.
Of course it does.
Google tracks your purchase history and compiles it if you use a gmail account as your purchaser contact for nonGoogle sellers:
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-05-30/google-has-creepy-secret-page-tracks-your-online-offline-shopping-history
My purchase history compilation goes back to 2013 and I didn’t know this was occurring (although I always strongly suspected).
I deleted my google account several months ago. There is also google analytics which I block so they aren’t following me around (almost every site of note uses it).
I checked my Google Purchase History and it’s completely empty.
Yay me . . . I guess.
My bullshit meter is pinging:
Here’s a Good Story About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Telling Off Her Sexist Boss in Her Restaurant Days
In one instance in 2015, writes Grim, a manager instructed all the servers on the floor, including Ocasio-Cortez, to line up against the wall. The manager would then rank all the staff by how attractive he found them, and give the servers he deemed to hottest the best table sections that afternoon. The story, relayed by the colleague and confirmed by Ocasio-Cortez, is that the now-representative stormed out and quit both jobs on the spot. She returned only after much “pleading” from management, and when it was promised no similar “contests” would be run at Coffee Shop again.
Incidentally, the colleague remembered Ocasio-Cortez winning the contest before she walked out, further objectifying her—more importantly, the people Grim spoke to remembered the now-representative as being “different” from the other servers. “She was always working towards something,” a barback told Grim.
And then, she went golfing for the first time, and got 8 holes-in-one.
“Let this socialist country resound with Song of Big Fish Haul and be permeated with the fragrant smell of fish and other seafoods!
“Let us turn ours into a country of mushrooms by making mushroom cultivation scientific, intensive and industrialised!
“Make fruits cascade down and their sweet aroma fill the air on the sea of apple trees at the foot of Chol Pass!”
If that’s not supreme leader resume material, what is?
That barback’s name was Albert Einstein.
I know him! That’s the lucky guy who married Morgan Fairchild!
And bench-pressed a Buick.
while cruising some gnarly wavage, bro.
And toking a spliff.
Oh fuck off. Not continuing after that BS.
I think it’s the white liberals who believe working in the service industry is undignified.
and quit both jobs on the spot
I can’t be bothered to click for an explanation. Multiple duties isn’t “two jobs” though.
Next you’ll be telling me there’s man-made global climate change.
In other democracies today: Narendra Modi sworn in for second term after election landslide
the Indian Nationalists win bigly. and Juncker and the rest of the EU just changed their soiled smallclothes after last week’s Brexit landslide too.
What landslide? Explicitly Remain parties won more votes than Brexit parties, as seen here, about 1/3 of the page in.
This is the first time I’ve heard masturbation called “getting caught up in a meeting.”
“Anybody wanna see my PowerPoint?”
Word is that you Excel at OneDriving your PowerPoint when you no longer have Access to her SharePoint because of the Flow.
I believe that’s a euphemism for a circle jerk.
Swapping water for CO2 could make fracking greener and more effective
I’m very confused what CO2 would have to do with having sex in the Battlestar Galactica universe.
Much fracking happens in places without a lot of water. I’m surprised they haven’t already hit a hard stop in West Texas. If they can get this to work, I expect it will catch on.
There are companies that specialize in providing water to frack sites. Some of them are very profitable.
Fracking = Raping Gaia
CO2 = Raping Gaia
CO2 = Fracking.
It seems like a liquid, being of (relatively) constant volume, even at the injection pressures would have some huge advantages over CO2.
IIRC water mixed with various lubricants is already used in fracking.
I wonder if they’ll next be publishing articles advocating for rubber tires on internal combustion horseless carriages?
The phrasing of the title makes it unclear: “Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China University of Petroleum (Beijing) have demonstrated that CO2 may make a better hydraulic fracturing (fracking) fluid than water.” They’re suggesting substituting CO2 in place of water, not the other way around.
I was thinking cost. Cost of purifying, compressing, cooling, compressing, transporting, and injecting would be higher. As would safety regulations regarding having huge tanks of compressed gas on a job site. I have no opinion on the efficiency of liquid CO2 as a fracking fluid. I can see where more energy might be transferred to the rock with a liquid that would vaporize as the pressure it is under decrease.
You can do some fun stuff with supercritical CO2, but I don’t know if that’s what they’re doing there.
I’m also not certain that the energy cost would be vastly more than transporting water there. I also can’t imagine that purification is that big of an issue, especially since some liquification techniques are inherently purifying.
Back in 2016, TOS interviewed Alex Epstein, author of “The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels”.
It’s worth a listen.
My favorite bit, when Epstein explains that the fracking revolution happened under the noses of politicians who were trying deliberately to throttle oil production.
Politicians who later take credit for what they were trying to stop.
Oh! I remember that spin. Good times….I think they sold funnel cake at that zoo.
I have that book.
That’s a solid book.
Been too goddamn busy at work to breathe lately. My desk is currently a sea of paper that I really do need to go through.
Have I missed anything interesting? Any Tulpae here lately?
Any Tulpae here lately?
I’m looking at one right now.
Mirror?
Paper? Do you work in the 20th century?
Do you work in the 20th century?
Is JB a lawyer? If so, the answer is “yes.”
What he said.
Glibs with beards…I have never used a beard oil but am now thinking I should. Any recommendations?
Can’t help. Mine is neither long nor thick enough to benefit from being oiled.
Yeah, you rock that Yasir Arafat look.
*ponders wearing keffiyeh*
Hobo Jizz.
Why would I have to oil my girlfriend?
Not everyone has a 55-gallon drum of lube.
Because it would be fun?
Ewwwwww /teenagegirl
You should try it sometime. It’s even hotter if she’s your stepsister.*
/Pornhub administrator
Step? Weak tea man.
It’s time for auto-clone porn.
Prediction: auto-clone porn will not be transgressive by the time it’s feasible.
Forgive me. “NOT!” my real sister.
Know what I mean? (wink, wink) say no more, say no more.
I feel like I need to watch Turkish oil wrestling to clear my head of this conversation.
Winner!
I think I used Honest Amish for awhile. Need to get something now – it’s long enough again to need it.
I’ve used this for years…
https://www.etsy.com/listing/189071608/mens-beard-grooming-cream-wild-man?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=tundra+beard+cream&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&organic_search_click=1
Wow, that was quite the link. It’s Tundra Beard Cream sold on Etsy.
Dammit, I feel like I just walked into something, re the Glib who is Tundra.
We were just going to politely snicker behind your back, but now you’ve made the joke obvious so I won’t feel good about it. I’m sure OMWC will though. *waits patiently*
Won’t you be surprised when you find out what’s in it.
Thanks for all the purchases, though.
Beef tallow and saw dust?
He puts a little something of himself in each batch to make it special.
What can I say? I’m a giver.
*drops gloves*
*washes hands*
I’m a Dapper Dan man, myself.
I don’t want Fop!
I don’t think so. Glibs have no problem being out and proud. There are no beards here.
Make your own.
Castor oil plus the aromatic of your choice. Some of the aromatics are quite strong so go easy.
Frankincense is my go-to if I’m going to bother adding scent. It’s woody and masculine without blowing out people’s sense of smell. I usually just grab whatever oil I have. Apricot pit and almond oil were both very nice. I usually keep my beard short enough that an oil isn’t necessary and may just do a wax. The BF made a beesewax, lemon and hops one for me which is a delight.
Frankincense? Who are you, Baby Jesus?
now i’m curious what myrrh smells like.
Look at Judas over here
*pulls out waistband of pants, looks down*
I wouldn’t say baby ?
Let your
freak flagwild hair fly…highI like the waffle look
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/05/25/article-1187350-05153FAC000005DC-39_634x421_popup.jpg
Woot! McAfee 2020!
Well duh, Patchouli oil.
I found this worth reading.
“I’m Nick Monroe. Banned on Twitter Because I Mourned A Death.
I would have never learned to be a better person if I didn’t make a ton of mistakes along the way. That trial and error process defines who I am, and everything I can strive to become.”
https://humanevents.com/2019/05/29/im-nick-monroe-and-twitter-banned-me-because-i-mourned-someones-death/
So the reason for the original ban was bullshit, too? Figures.
it appears he’s making a non-apologetic plea for Twitter to take him back. am i reading that wrong? dude’s on the alt-twitter Gab.
I didn’t read that into it.
Oh man, I just found this: Sky dicks just keep happening by complete accident!
Luke!!!
My old stomping grounds back when the F-15E Strike Eagle was the new kid on the block
“Debbie Harry claims she was nearly abducted by Ted Bundy in New York in 1972 when the serial killer ‘lured her into his car as she struggled to hail a cab – before she made a daring escape’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7085175/Was-Debbie-Harry-nearly-abducted-Ted-Bundy-Blondie-singer-73-says-DID-happen.html
‘Call me’….not.
‘In between what I find is pleasing and I’m feeling fine
Love is so confusing, there’s no peace of mind
If I fear I’m losing you
It’s just no good, you teasing like you do
Ooh, aah
Ooh, aah’
In my private timeline, she stole these lyrics from Ye Ole’ Ted on that fateful night…I’m kinda sick.
“Would you like to try a few things?”
“‘Mentrification’: how men appropriated computers, beer and the Beatles
Throughout history, women have been written out of cultural moments they helped shape. And now we have a new word for it”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/may/29/mentrification-how-men-appropriated-computers-beer-and-the-beatles
The Guardian is striving most worthless rag of note.
It’s like Jacobin Quarterly and Jezebel had a baby.
Then dropped it on its head.
They have some tough competition.
At the other end of the spectrum is cuntilization.
My word for it – History.
Women are so fucking weak. I’m ashamed.
Move over, #Science! Now I fucking love #History!!
STEVE SMITH, PROMINENT FOREST LAWYER, INTRODUCE NEW HUMAN RIGHTS PANEL AT STATE DEPARTMENT: State Department to launch new human rights panel stressing ‘natural law’ AND BY HUMAN RIGHTS, MEAN RAPE.
i’m guessing less trans stuff, less “reproductive rights”, and more right to life, more RKBA.
I think the thing Kramer is grasping for is ‘energizing his [conservative] base’ as Karl Rove might have phrased it.
Assistant Secetary of State for Human Rights – nothing left to cut.
This is worth keeping an eye on.
As a sign of respect for people’s rights, the new panel will be funded by money given voluntarily rather than by force or threat of force of involuntary taxation or by the kind of borrowing to be repaid by taxes. … This just in, folks. No, they are not.
*gets slingshot, searches the sky for storks*
I am on pill number 4 out of 6 on my first day of a three week course of prednisone and HOLY SHIT I AM WIRED FOR SOUND.
What’s this about? What’s prednisone? Where do babies come from?
Prednisone. Serious stuff.
Sounds like it .
“Where do babies come from?”
You see, Rufus, when two people really love each other…then the kissing…then the grunting…then 9 months later a stork comes by and drops off a baby.
Where babies come from:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/3043f0/rainn_wilson_do_you_really_have_to_pee_in_a_girls/
Enjoy the ride. It tapers off from here. Stay out of the fridge.
Get on that power rack, bro
Screwing up my neck is how I got here.
But I certainly feel like lifting things right now.
Ouch. How’d you hurt your neck?
I have a ligament disorder that causes my spine to press against my spinal cord. I tried to get back into swimming last week and the head turns did not agree with me. I’ve been numb from my feet to my ass since.
Sorry to hear. Hope you feel better soon.
Eesh. That sucks.
Thanks. I’m just learning how to live with it properly.
Might switch my handle to Gumby.
Yikes!
Sorry 🙁
Then don’t turn your head. Breast stroke and inverted breast stroke. No, dammit, stop thinking like Q.
Sorry, Scruffy. Swimming and floating should bring you some relief.
Find the rehab pool moves for your particular condition.
Backstroke may be an option. Unless performed absolutely correctly, breast stroke will probably cause problems. Any forward transition of the head or backwards tilt tends to aggravate it as well.
Time to get the rowing machine and weights out. out.
Power rack.
The kids are out of school now, so I can barely get time on the rack at my gym. My back is sore because I was having to do squats by pulling the weights up off the floor and doing front squats. If only I had room for a rack at my house.
I would caution about what’s coming after 50 if you’ve spent years doing a lot heavy lifting, but I didn’t listen either.
Shredded life, bro. I gots to get swoll!
Oh, you’re going to swol alright! 😛
I would caution about what’s coming after 50…
Fuck. So accurate. I’ve just had a string of injuries and am still hobbled from shredding my quad.
Of course I can’t wait to get back in the gym…
My PT yelled at me about squats – I finally quit squatting. Hitting 50 in 2 years. Do I get time off for good behavior/behaviour (for Rufus)?
Watch the appetite.
No kidding.
OM NOM NOM
When I’ve taken it I didn’t have much of an appetite.
Anyway, do not take it on an empty stomach.
Got a prescription for the stuff in pill form once. Eye doc tells me it will either make you a raging aggressive asshole, or a laid back dude. File the prescription, the pharmacist warns ditto… I take the pill, ten minutes later, I feel like I just drank three beers. Woo!
So what you’re saying is there is no downside?
My eyeball not exploding was the upside.
Oh, I don’t know, that could have made an awesome GIF. It would have been eyed by millions.
Ah Spud, always on the ball with a well focused pun. I should become your pupil.
20/20 hindsight, and all that. Glad your eye didn’t explode.
Be careful with the taper off. The stuff is magical the first time you use it. Use caution and remember it’s great temporarily.
120mg dose made any inflammation I had disappear within hours.
But beware. Once you take it for a long time you start getting moons on your face and many awful side effects.
I’ve taken it before for earaches. I’m not particularly fond of it as I tend to get anxious and paranoid by the end of the course.
Neurologist is just using this as a diagnostic tool to see if it relieves the issue temporarily. If inflammation is not directly involved, it won’t help. Long term solution is probably going to be surgery to create space for the cord at the base of the skull.
Watch your posture kids.
I like to party.
A cousin of mine who is a cop had to shoot somebody yesterday.
Domestic abuse call (of course). After the wife and kids were out of the house the guy came out with a gun, racked the slide and pointed it at my cousin and another cop. Sounds like suicide by cop.
He’s glad he wears a camera.
Since I’d support any other citizen’s decision to shoot in that circumstance, and there is supporting video evidence, I’d have to say it was the right call. Sure, he may have been trying to commit suicide, but when he’s already got a weapon trained on other people, it might be time to indulge him.
Did you see my Duluth recommendations in the last post?
I saw, but have not had time to extensively review them. I stopped off for food on the way back from the Airplane plant.
I might visit some of them.
I might drive to soudan.
Thank you either way.
??
“He’s glad he wears a camera.”
The good cops always are.
That sucks, man, for everyone involved. Can’t see as your cousin had much choice in the matter.
That’s a shit situation. Sorry man.
It’s like Jacobin Quarterly and Jezebel had a baby.
With a raging case of fetal alcohol syndrome.
Salesforce announced they’re dropping gun retailers.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/05/daniel-zimmerman/corporate-gun-control-salesforce-com-demands-customs-stop-selling-semi-auto-rifles/
i know the official policy says only semi-autos and standard capacity mags are banned but it’s the same thing. apparently, they’re only going to do business with Dick’s Sporting Goods from now on.
does Wal*Mart use Salesforce or do they have their own in-house system? possibly gunbuyer, grabagun, Bud’s? how is this even pretending to honor your fiduciary duty to shareholders?
Well there’s a market opportunity if I ever saw one.
I may be wrong (this is JB’s territory, really), but I think the elements of a breach of fiduciary care class action are: loyalty, care and (motive rather than incompetence). If they document that they are using virtue signaling to try to increase their profit and/or revenue rather than taking a stand regardless of the effects…
Keep pushing assholes.
Thot Thursday bounces on!
https://thechive.com/2019/05/30/burn-your-bra-and-join-the-revolution-40-photos-23/
The pressure Salesforce is exerting on those retailers — barring them from using its technology to market products, manage customer service operations and fulfill orders — puts them in a difficult position. Camping World, for example, spends more than $1 million a year on Salesforce’s e-commerce software, according to one analyst estimate. Switching to another provider now could cost the company double that to migrate data, reconfigure systems and retrain employees.
Sounds like extortion.
Woke works, probably. Benioff ought to know.
I’d be looking at my contract very closely.
Yeah, sounds like breach of contract. I certainly would threaten to sue.
It really seems like the sole purpose of technology firms is to make themselves indispensable both to people’s everyday lives and the normal operations of business, then use that position to force everyone to take hard left turns.
Tech businesses that aren’t so inclined never get funded and are strangled in the cradle, making the “build your own solution” approach not feasible.
I don’t see how this is possible. There are millions of Americans. None of them have enough money or are tech savvy except leftist?
Building a tech business is very capital intensive. If you’re not a millionaire you can pretty much forget trying to do it without funding unless you happen to have a stellar concept that very simply solves a pressing problem, which are few and far between.
Even if you do have such a concept, if you’re not left-wing you are generally restricted from utilizing the support systems you need to operate as a tech company. Payment processors will shut you down, marketing channels will block you, domain registrars will delist you, server hosting companies will kick you off, etc.
To pull it off, you have to basically duplicate the entire economy that services tech firms.
As for the tech savvy, most tech savvy people aren’t very entrepreneurial themselves, and the thought of working 100 hour weeks for a few years without pay building a new product that faces tons of resistance from the support services if it’s not sufficiently woke isn’t very appealing when you can work for someone else making $100k right out of your training program.
So how did this happen? I just find it hard to believe there is no way to counter this.
Decades of laying the groundwork.
In this case, Salesforce is absolutely replaceable. It’s just a CRM, and last I looked at it it’s just a glorified interface for a relational database for lead tracking. There are other providers in the game at every scale. In fact, in the large enterprise realm, Salesforce offers less than, say, SAP or Microsoft, because their CRM stuff is part of a larger package. SAP, for instance, does all that Salesforce does in terms of tracking sales leads and marketing, but combines it with stuff like real-time logistics tracking and management and business analytics.
Yep. The database was complete garbage last time I looked at it, too. Maybe it’s improved since then, but I doubt it.
No, it’s just that the Leftists are in entrenched positions making it very difficult for anyone with wrongthink to get off the ground.
They are not all “strangled in the crib,” but they do not seem to be major market share competition for their counterparts despite the de-platforming, shadow banning, etc. Examples: Atlasphere, The Babylon Bee, TheBlaze, Conservapedia, Conservative Fact Check, DuckDuckGo, Gab, The People’s Cube, Reagan Mail, Ritely, and Tea Party Community
I don’t know that that isn’t what success in this context looks like. The answer to all this might not be to spin up a classical-liberal or conservative Google, it might be to disengage from the kind of crony-capitalist monolithic corporate structure that lends itself to partnership with the state, which, as it turns out, trends left.
Is there something President Donald J. Trump could sign to disengage the government part of this partnership?
Well, regulatory capture is a big issue. Google is a massive presence in lobbying and a lot of Obama’s tech regulators were ex-Google. The contracting process is another big one. Scoring government contracts is supposed to be a competitive process but once you’re on the inside it’s easier to navigate. And, just like getting a fed job, it’s much more likely you’ll get a job if you know someone who will fast track your application rather than going through the process like any old schlub. So, I don’t know that Trump personally can or even would want to do anything, but, as in most cases, less government involvement in the form of less regulation and fewer opportunities for the revolving door and contract abuse would help.
I look forward to Salesforce’s collapse. Benioff is a total ass.
There’s really no reason for any business to continue using them after announcing this. At any time they could decide they won’t support selling porn, or truck nuts, or MAGA hats. You may as well get out before they decide to unperson you.
Yup. No way in hell I would lock myself in with them given this development. They’re idiots that just sealed their demise.
I’ve never gotten the appeal. Every time I’ve heard of Salesforce being used its been in the context of some company needing someone to force it to do what they could be doing with a more robust system right out of the box. It’s like the WordPress of business management software.
Benioff is a master marketer. Salesforce is a junk service with a pretty package.
I might look at shorting them…
Yeah, Salesforce CRM is all hat and no cattle. You could homebrew a CRM that does the same shit in three months.
So why do so many people give them so much money?
Because the people who make the buying decisions are not the people who have to use or implement it.
Because they don’t know better and Benioff is really good at selling.
Because it sounds great at the beginning and no one realizes how much additional work you need to make it usable.
It seems cheaper than doing your own, and safer than going with a lesser known company. They always massively underestimate how much it will cost to actually get it working.
“It’s like the WordPress of business management software.”
So version 5.2.2 is available?
-1 Patchset Update
Click this button to find out that you’ve got a plugin that isn’t compatible with the newest version of WordPress!
45 years a US Senator dies age 81
https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2019/05/30/thad-cochran-dies-mississippi-senator-remembered-service/1285123001/
Well…. Bye….
A poster child for term limits.
I added an umbrella policy to my insurance today. The good news: it covers slander and libel. The bad news: I’m going to become a bigger asshole.
Shouldn’t it only cover rean deflection devices?
What sort of regulatory madness is this?
*rain deflection devices.
That’s what I said.
How is that bad news?
Good point, dick face!
Jk
I’m going to become a bigger asshole
Not seeing a problem here. *drops trou*
Ooh wee!
” The bad news: I’m going to become a bigger asshole.”
– Florida Man
Uh huh, like that’s possible.
*eye roll*
Challenge accepted!
A bulk freighter just chugged past my hotel window.
Luckily, it was still in the water. This is what I get for picking a spot on the harbor. At least I took pictures.
Still in Superior?
Yes. I’m deciding what to do tomorrow. The choices are wander around the local vicinity, visit Forescore’s bees, or go up to Soudan and try to figure out how not to carry bat-killing fongus home with me.
All good choices.
My in-laws had a place on Lake Vermilion for many years (adjacent to Tower/Sudan) and it is spectacular country.
The weather looks like it’s gonna be nice, so maybe venturing into a mine isn’t the best choice.
Honestly, though, I’d go see Fourscore. He lives in the heart of lake country and is a really amazing guy.
I’m sure you can find places in Souptown to whiten your nose if that is your thing.
;^)
I’ve been leaning heavily towards visiting the bees.
NOT THE BEES!
*kicks woman in chest*
Bee careful, he may sacrifice you to the bear to save the hives.
Doubtful. 4×20 knows if you feed bears, they’ll keep coming back expecting to bee fed like lazy drones.
I keep throwing Cheetos at this bear but he won’t fuck off! What gives?!
“When they couldn’t destroy Michael Jackson’s name with false allegations, they killed him. He spent years of his career using his music to warn us about the global elite.”
https://twitter.com/ashtonbirdie/status/1133888459670601728
What?
He spent years of his career using his music to warn us about the global elite.
Wait, not that song?
Jew me, sue me, everybody do me/ Kick me, kike me, don’t you black or white me.
But, but,…it doesn’t matter if…bravo.
Twitter bio checks out.
Pirate Truther got ahold of that Twitter account
Times/YouGov Poll for the UK elections:
LibDem: 24%
Brexit Party: 22%
Labour: 19%
Tories: 19%
This is gonna be … interesting.
I assume that under-polling for Brexit is baked in, so it looks like Brexit is winning big.
Does the top party “win” or do they form coalitions like in Deutschland? Like, could Tories and Brexit gang up to defeat the Libs and Labour?
It depends on how may MPs they end up with. They need to get past a certain threshold, whether by flat majority, or by coalition.
650 seats in the House of Commons. Right now the Tories have 313 and are joined by 10 Democratic Unionist Party members for “confidence and supply.”
The vote % is fairly meaningless – as others have noted, what matters is seats in the Commons. A couple of elections back, UKIP hit 10% and landed 2 seats of 650, because their voters were scattered all over (lots of “moral victory” runner ups, though); the SNP scored 5% and landed around 50, because their people were all in Scotland. So it’s totally possible that Brexit could be the lead vote getter, and be third or fourth in the House (the UK has no proportional representation element in its elections, unlike many other countries.)
“‘Church of England’ School Endorses Transitioning for 8-Year-Old.
The Archbishops’ Council Education Division has approved 52-page guidance: Valuing all God’s Children. It also endorses the radical pro-LGBT campaigning group Stonewall.
A Church of England primary school has been slammed for an “alarming lack of knowledge regarding both safeguarding and law” after a local vicar resigned as the school’s governor over the gender transitioning of an eight-year boy.
In his resignation letter, Rev John Parker, Governor of Holy Trinity CofE Primary School, Eight Ash Green and Aldham, in Colchester, raised safeguarding (child protection) concerns like self harm by genital removal, puberty-suppressing drugs, hormonal therapy and reconstruction surgery that the radical transgender activist group Mermaids had “advocated enthusiastically” in his school.
Headteacher Ceri Lee Daniels, who invited Mermaids to conduct a training day after a pupil said he was transitioning from a boy to a girl, ignored legal advice from the governors asking her to exercise caution and to inform parents.”
https://humanevents.com/2019/05/30/church-of-england-school-endorses-transitioning-for-8-year-old/
Shut it down. Henry VIII got his divorce, we don’t need this charade any longer.
“A family dubbed Britain’s “first transgender family” has announced that they are encouraging the gender transition of their five-year-old son, Jayden. According to the family, Jayden, a biological male, likes dresses and hates “everything about being a boy.”
The little boy’s “step-dad,” Greg Rogers, is a 27-year-old biological female who now identifies as a male. The child’s mother is a 21-year-old woman named Jody.
Both Jodi and Greg are furious that concerned citizens (referred to as “trolls” by many U.K.-based outlets) have reported them to social services for apparent child abuse. The couple, however, maintain Jayden — who is on track to medically “transition” in a few years — is properly cared for.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42237/britains-first-transgender-family-now-amanda-prestigiacomo
“The couple, however, maintain Jayden — who is on track to medically “transition” in a few years — is properly cared for.”
If by ‘properly cared for’ they mean not allowing their child who has yet to even experience adolescents much less full physical maturity(which most often is far past the age limit that mandates the age of legal control of said child) to permanently fuck up their bodies without being able to intellectually understand the long term damage that it entails, then good for them. But we all know that’s not the case. Sacrificing their kid on the altar of tolerance. It would make a Baal Worshiper blush.
I consider faith and religion to be two different things. This is why.
Burn it down.
That is what they are doing.
Headteacher Ceri Lee Daniels, who invited Mermaids to conduct a training day after a pupil said he was transitioning from a boy to a girl, ignored legal advice from the governors asking her to exercise caution and to inform parents.”
Why is that not ex-headteacher?
Because the lunatic trans activists and their media enablers have already descended upon the school en masse, guaranteed.
This shit will not stop until those opposed stop being afraid of being called names and show up in force to end it.
I’m reading other articles on it and the scenario sounds like a shit-show, but not the shit-show that the Human Events article implies. Daniels was instructed by the Bishopric to have Mermaids in to have a Q&A session with the board of Governors and the staff, not with the students. At that meeting, John Parker, one of the governors, argued with the presenter over the legal and biological implications of what the presenter was saying. It also seems to imply that the child’s parents weren’t being made aware, which doesn’t seem to be the case. Parker wanted all of the parents and students at the school to be notified. The child’s parents were already aware of what was going on.
I thought about finding my shocked face for the revelation thatHuman Events wasn’t entirely accurate, but I had a bowl of soup instead.
I couldn’t think of the last time I saw Human Events casually referenced. I didn’t realize it’d been resuscitated recently.
“Here’s something I don’t say often: on this point, I AGREE with @AOC Indeed, I have long called for a LIFETIME BAN on former Members of Congress becoming lobbyists. The Swamp would hate it, but perhaps a chance for some bipartisan cooperation?”
https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1134166282071412741
“.@tedcruz if you’re serious about a clean bill, then I’m down.
Let’s make a deal.
If we can agree on a bill with no partisan snuck-in clauses, no poison pills, etc – just a straight, clean ban on members of Congress becoming paid lobbyists – then I’ll co-lead the bill with you.”
https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1134199323263209480
But is there going to be a sex tape?
Oh please no.
Christ I hope not. I’m still nauseous from the Paris Hilton one.
nauseated = has nausea
nauseous = make others nausetated
No one wants to see Ted Cruz naked.
There’s always someone. Rule 34.
But the rest of us might have an aneurysm upon seeing that.
I just hope SF doesn’t see this subthread.
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
Time to renew the Zofran and Xanax prescriptions.
I imagine he looks like a raw hot dog rolled in dog hair. Or maybe that’s just his penis. Which he calls his Cruz-Missle.
Don’t worry, I sent it to him.
I knew you weren’t to be trusted.
You’re an evil bitch.
And nobody rubbernecks to see a corpse pulled out of a car wreck either!
MY EYES
THE GOGGLES DO NOTHING
Is that the zodiac killers MO?
Mom shocked that the cute T-shirt she ordered for her 3-year-old came with a profane slogan
Frog and Toad meet NWA. I like it.
The cops stepping like they’re God
Like they got the authority to kill a tetrapod.
“Baked-in bias
‘Once social media entities become publishers, any political bias already present will be baked in’
So, YouTube and Facebook and Twitter aren’t publishers in the eye of the law—yet. That could change. Exercising editorial control in a politically-slanted way is an open invitation to legislators to amend or repeal Section 230 or the Copyright Directive or, in the UK, treat social media as broadcasters and drag them under Ofcom’s aegis.
This would delight traditional media by levelling the competitive playing field, forcing Facebook and YouTube to hire armies of lawyers and exercise editorial oversight that isn’t only political but also attuned to quality control. That’s why The Times supports it. Just as the only law always in force is the law of unintended consequences, one should always bet on self-interest, because it’s the only horse that’s trying.
Relatedly, conservatives who think the way to stop social media censoring right-wing pundits is to treat web companies in the same way as the BBC are delusional. Once social media entities become publishers, any political bias already present will be baked in. Like a newspaper or cable channel, they’ll have a slant. Twitter will be left, Facebook and Instagram centre-left, YouTube centre-right to right, and so on. It would mean much less opportunity for untrammelled speech of any sort.”
https://twitter.com/_HelenDale/status/1134142922645999617
https://standpointmag.co.uk/issues/june-2019/baked-in-bias/
Once social media entities become publishers, any political bias already present will be baked in. Like a newspaper or cable channel, they’ll have a slant. Twitter will be left, Facebook and Instagram centre-left, YouTube centre-right to right, and so on
So it will increase the diversity of views?
I have no idea why she thinks YouTube would be centre-right to right.
Trying to appeal to Both Sides, maybe? Or, I’d guess, saying “twitter will be left, facebook and instagram left of centre, youtube centre-left, tumblr left-revisionist” wouldn’t flow well…
YouTube and Twitter can’t survive with hordes of lawyers trying to protect them from libel suits. Everybody would move to other platforms, and they would be as relevant as MySpace or CNN.
“It’s Not Your Imagination: The Journalists Writing About Antifa Are Often Their Cheerleaders”
https://quillette.com/2019/05/29/its-not-your-imagination-the-journalists-writing-about-antifa-are-often-their-cheerleaders/
“Looks like antifa’s Twitter mob mass reported Dr @EoinLenihan & got his account suspended. They’ve been trying to target him ever since he released report showing how some journalists & writers have close ties to antifa extremists & were working to mainstream those ideas.”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1133657079464353792
Of course they did.
Give them credit for working all the angles they can.
Nope – banned.
“Twitter Bans Analyst Who Revealed AntiFa Connections With Journalists.
Twitter banned a researcher dedicated to mapping out AntiFa’s connections to journalists and the SPLC.
Former teacher and analyst Eoin Lenihan has been banned from Twitter after revealing major links between so-called “anti-extremism” campaigners and the hard-left AntiFa group.
Lenihan published his findings in Quillette, revealing links between journalists who write for the the Guardian newspaper, HuffPost, Al Jazeera, and various other publications to the hard left group.
Lenihan was suspended early Wednesday morning, prompting speculation about the ban.
Andy Ngo, a Wall Street Journal contributor and editor at Quillette, alleges that Lenihan was suspended following mass reports by members of AntiFa on Twitter.
It has long been suspected that establishment journalists maintain close ties to far-left activists including AntiFa. Until now, these connections remained largely in the realm of speculation.”
https://humanevents.com/2019/05/29/twitter-bans-analyst-who-revealed-journalists-antifa-connections/
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2TnkJ8_BmSI
Of course they are. The journalists are the propaganda branch, and Antifa is the paramilitary branch, of the same movement.
…but obviously I do. I mean, I write books!
I’ve managed to watch every episode without thinking of him, actually. Maybe Steve has some kind of fixation.
Having read most of his novels up to around 2000, I would have to agree with this assessment.
he’s a man of mediocre intelligence in charge of great power–economic, global–that he does not understand.
I mean he’s not wrong. About last 100 years of US presidents, at least.
Of course to King and Mazin Trump is proof that we need Real TOP MEN to rule us.
I’m not sure that a person whose party seems set on anointing Joe Biden should really use “mediocre intelligence” as an insult.
“About last 100 years of US presidents, at least”
Nuh uh. Penn Gillette assured me that Obama’s intelligence was off the charts.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/05/30/writer-producer-of-chernobyl-thanks-stephen-king-for-making-it-about-trump/
The author agrees….
Just like The Wire.
I’m reminded of a Simpsons episode that probably couldn’t be made today where Lisa managed to get all the eggheads to run Springfield – into the ground.
“I’m making great time. If only I had somewhere to be.” /Lenny
“UK: Ad Featuring Sexy Female Mechanic BANNED After a Single Complaint”
https://summit.news/2019/05/30/uk-ad-featuring-sexy-female-mechanic-banned-after-a-single-complaint/
https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/1134124143455215616
I, for one, prefer women handling my dipstick.
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