SP, sitting at her computer: WTF?! Why isn’t this [REDACTED] financial software working properly?!
[REDACTED] Software: Enter your state ID number.
SP: I don’t HAVE a state ID number.
[REDACTED] Software: *blinking cursor*
SP: *looks up State Agency website to confirm she has no state ID number*
SP, typing: Ah! The State Agency website claims that it uses the federal ID number. I’ll try entering that.
[REDACTED] Software: Invalid number format.
SP: *tries entering the federal ID number 16 different ways*
[REDACTED] Software: Invalid number format. (x 16)
SP: *bangs head down on desk*
A momentary pause occurs, while SP proceeds from her office to the liquor cabinet and pours a shot, or maybe two, of Basil Hayden Dark Rye that SugarFree brought her as a hostess gift, because he understands etiquette and has exquisite manners, and is a man of taste and refinement.
SP: *phones [REDACTED] Software Tech Support because their chat isn’t working- THANKS A LOT Mercury Retrograde!- and waits on hold for 43 minutes*
SP: *may or may not pour (lots) more rye while waiting, she will neither confirm nor deny*
SP, finally on the phone with [REDACTED] Software Tech Support: Hello. Your software says I need a state ID number, but the State Agency’s website has assured me it uses the federal ID number. Of course, that doesn’t work, it’s the wrong format, and, in fact, even the wrong number of digits to fit in your form.
[REDACTED] Software Tech Support: That’s incorrect. You MUST have a state ID number. Here is the phone number of the State Agency that can issue you the state ID number. I can’t do anything else for you until you have that number.
SP, sighing: Thanks for all your “assistance.”
[REDACTED] Software Tech Support: Have a nice day!
SP: *calls the State Agency because they have never even HEARD of chat and waits on hold for 37 minutes*
SP, finally on the phone with the drone from the State Agency: Hello. [REDACTED] Software claims it needs a state ID number to be able to process my [REDACTED]. They “helpfully” provided your phone number so I can talk to you and get a state ID number.
State Agency drone: That’s incorrect. We don’t require a state ID number; we just use the federal ID number.
SP: So, I don’t have a state ID number in my account and I don’t need one, correct?
State Agency drone: That’s correct. You…waaaaait a minute. Let me talk to my supervisor. *places SP back on hold*
SP: *definitely pours more rye*
State Agency drone: Are you still there? Oh, good. I usually lose people. Well, it turns out you DO have a state ID number, after all! It’s right here in a field in my database, but you can’t find that part from your account.
SP: Excellent! What’s my state ID number?
State Agency drone: I can’t give it out over the phone. You’ll receive a letter at your corporate headquarters in 14-21 business days.
SP: YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME! Can you email it to the address in my account?
State Agency drone: Welllllllll, let me check with my supervisor.
SP: Please, don’t put me on hol…
State Agency drone: *places SP on hold*
SP: *relocates the Basil Hayden to her desk to save steps*
State Agency drone: Are you still there? Good news! I’ve gotten special permission to give you the number via email! Have a nice day!
SP: THANK YOU! That’s fantastic! *checks email and copies the state ID number enclosed*
[REDACTED] Software: Enter your state ID number.
SP: Well, here you go! *triumphantly pastes in state ID number*
[REDACTED] Software: According to State Agency’s records attached to this state ID number, you are exempt from this provision. Have a nice day!
SP: *opens second bottle of rye, turns off computer, turns on music*
This sounds like me at work everyday.
*weeps softly*
You get Basil Hayden Dark Rye at work?!?!?!
[golf clap]
Yeah, it’s that kind of day, here, too.
Sadly no, just water.
The worst was when I worked in public accounting; calling the IRS for a client. The perk of now being a corporate tax drone is there isn’t much of a need now to call the IRS.
Anyway, IRS of course requires a power of attorney after being on hold for 30-60 minutes. Me: “I have it right here all signed, can I fax it to you now so we can speak?” IRS: Yes. Me: Ok, the fax machine is down the hall, I’ll be right back.
So I run the 100ish yds to the fax machine and fax it over to the rube at the IRS. By the time I get back to my phone, the asshole has hung up. I’d like to say this only happened once, but no, at least every 1 in 4 calls to the IRS would go this way.
Don’t you know, you’re not allowed to put the IRS on hold?
You mean, this part?
It blows my mind that states don’t use the FEIN for their own numbers.
Even states that do, like TX add a number in front and then another at the end. NJ will use the FEIN, but then tack on three 0’s to it.
What do you use?
Lacerte?
When I was in public it was CCH Axcess. Now it is all Thomson Reuter’s shit.
“Let’s get down to the most important part of this: your licensing fees”
My dad was a partner at EY, and part of their agreement with Intuit was that family members get a free copy of Pro Series.
20% of doing my taxes was getting the software activated.
SP Links are always grand links.
Sorry for your interactions with idiot software people and brain dead state workers.
Thank you, Swiss. You have been elevated to my Favorite since SugarFree so heartlessly stole my link!
I need to edit my narrative above.
But the rye…
There were links?? I got lost in the narrative.
Arizona: Open for business!
She kept 3 people employed with that conversation alone!
So I just finished reading Diamond Age. I don’t know why I waited so long. Its a great book. And holy crap, if that’s the most conservative piece of fiction I’ve ever read, I don’t know what is.
I’m going to pick the brain of my Stephenson loving, intelligent, thoughtful, introspective, highly educated, bubble dwelling friend about it and see if he picked up on any of it. I know for a fact he doesn’t know what anarchocapitalism, so I’m guessing not.
I’ve been woefully lacking in reading Stephenson. Maybe I’ll start this once I’ve done with UCS’s latest book, which I just got on Kindle.
Just avoid Seveneves. It’s so awful that I stopped reading halfway through and deleted it from my kindle. Subsequently, I took a look at the plot summary in Wikipedia and it confirmed that I had made the right decision. It’s a horrible book that publishers would have given a hard pass on had it been submitted by a first-time author.
I liked it. *shrugs*
I like it better than Snow Crash. Even without the attractive messages, it’s a helluva good story.
I get very uncomfortable any time media compliments my priors, because frankly a lot of the best books, movies, and music out there are written by people who hold world views that I find detestable (and they would feel the same about me, I’m sure.) I know too many intelligent, thoughtful, introspective, highly educated folks who live in a bubble, and I want to avoid that almost more than anything.
I’d much rather read something great and just a bit tilted off my moral compass like Wizards of Earthsea or Elric than something great and comfortable.
But I’ll put Stephenson next to Heinlein in that special place on my shelf where its ok to like their work *and* their worldviews.
I roll my eyes a lot when listening to some of my favorite music. It’s just the way it is. I’ve largely given up finding a double-digit number of artists with something even approximating my world view.
It does make books like that even more special, though.
I read a lot of works written by someone who exactly shares my worldview and opinions on everything.
Braggart. I have half a book left and then it’s on to your new one.
You set up the snark so well, I couldn’t help it.
I loved Snow Crash. I couldn’t finish Diamond Age.
I think Diamond Age careens a little bit out of control near the end, but damn if I don’t absolutely love everything before that.
A familiar tale.
Are you sure you’re in Arizona and not New York?
Government drones all come from the same factory…
Having grown up in NYS and having owned my first business there, the similarities are not lost on me.
Not first because I took the time to read the articles.
(I figure that sort of etiquette is cheaper than buying top shelf booze like Mr Moneybags SF and is just as appreciated by SP)
You are either massively undervaluing good booze, or massively overvaluing yourself. Having met you, I’m at a loss for how you could do either.
It is impossible to undervalue any booze that does not belong to you and that you have no chance of sharing in.
It is impossible to overvalue me. It is known.
I do appreciate it. If it’s true.
Got that taken care of pretty quick for having a state agency involved.
“Can’t give it to you over the phone”? Sometimes I think rules are setup as a big social experiment to see what it takes to make people snap.
We shall see. I expect a letter telling me that was a mistake and there is now a penalty.
Penaltax?
The thing is, she could have hung up, called back and depending on who picks up the phone you get a different answer.
Depending on the help desk, that just generates a trail of tickets which show you’re fishing for a different answer.
LOLOLOLOL They can barely answer the phone. And my last name is not very unusual, yet, they can never seem to spell it correctly.
Well, maybe not this helpdesk, but I’ve worked on some where looking for that sort of behaviour is part of the procedure we’re supposed to follow. (Along with checking recent tickets to see what else has been going on with the user)
You were talking about getting a new computer, weren’t you? Looks like you got one from Britain.
“Have you tried turning it off and on again?”
You don’t think the state has a state-of-the-art call center management system that keeps and easy-to-read log of recent call and annotations with semantic and intention analysis recordings of those calls?
Thats crayz.
That was LAST month. Four people in the same agency told me four different things.
Knowing what the fuck you are supposed to to do your job not required when working a gubmint job.
It’s not?
I’ve been doing something wrong.
Hell, you could call back, get the SAME person, and still get a different answer.
My retirement plan changed my user login in an notified me in an email with a very spammy title, so of course I never read the email.
I think the word “motherfucker!” would have been used about 20 times during those conversations had I been in your shoes.
You would not have gotten special dispensation to email you you state ID.
You’d get malicious compliance. Have fun waiting 14-21 business days.
Exactly this. The key is to be nice and play dumb and throw yourself on the bureaucrat’s mercy.
I would have put the phone on mute, of course. 🙂
“Do not tweet”
Watching the moderate Dems and the purist leftists have it out is funny to say the least. Thank God us libertarians don’t engage in that kind of unseemly behavior.
As a former federal law enforcement agent who dealt with child trafficking, Spanberger said she was horrified that a fellow Democrat would compare members of his own party to child abusers, according to multiple people in the room.
Nope, nothing about child trafficking in your Wikipedia bio, Congresswoman. Also, ex-CIA isn’t exactly the best moral high ground to stake out.
She positively reeks of smugness.
Oh dear god do I hate that woman. On the plus side, she will be a tossup at best to keep the seat in 2020.
Ever since the Deep State started going after Trump, TEAM BLUE thinks the CIA is moral high ground.
That’s the really disappointing thing – the Left has abandoned what principles they may have had at one point.
I remember during the Iraq War, my family members would rage at CNN for helping sell the lies that got us into that war and pumping up the pro-state narrative. Nowadays, they think the only people who question CNN are tinfoil hat-wearing nutjobs who listen to Alex Jones.
Fuck off, Tulpa.
Dang, SP, these are brilliantly presented lynx. You are gifted.
Criminal masterminds.
If it wasn’t for dickheads like you, there wouldn’t be any thievery in this world, would there?
/Gunnery Sergeant Hartman
“Let’s just see if anything’s missing!” *dumps contents of footlocker*
That scene was 100% accurate. DIs absolutely will fuck you up if you leave your footlocker unlocked.
I saw that movie at a theater just off base and when Gunny Hartman sees the unlocked footlocker, the whole place started hooting because we all knew what was coming next.
At OCS we had to leave our foot lockers unlocked and ready for inspection. Surprisingly nothing was ever stolen but the contents would have been inspected via swagger stick + 3 demerits. Since anything valuable was forbidden there wasn’t much to steal.
“Foot locker not prepared for inspection”
Yes, that was clever.
Remain calm, all is well! ALL IS WELL!
Old Lonesome George is still rocking. He is playing the casino circuit this summer.
I saw him at the House of Blues in LA back in ’95.
He looked half dead then, I can’t imagine how he’s survived until now.
My first-ever concert. Tagged along with my dad and three of my uncles when I was ten years old. Heavy, heavy biker presence in the audience.
Lots of spandex then?
*golf clap*
I sort of understand the spandex, but why all the ‘sponsors’ on the jerseys. I know for a fact my chubby neighbor has exactly zero sponsors, but he’s festooned with mini billboards every time he rolls out.
It’s weird.
Because they want to pretend they are members of a sponsored team. I have exactly one cycling jersey which I only bought because it has a bear on it. But then again I’m not a skinny-tire puke (road cyclist).
Thank Christ the Euro hockey thing hasn’t made it across the pond.
It looks like somebody puked on their uniforms.
I want to add the stupid billboard plate to my helmet and sponsor our local brewery.
Oh dear lord those are the worst. Seizure inducing.
You know somebody in the NHL wants to make that happen.
Ha!
Yeah, and they blocked the road out front
Saw him in 1982 in Calgary. The whole front of the arena was lined up with bikes and bikers in their colours. He played for three hours and every five minutes a new biker chick was on the stage flashing her tits before being tossed back into the audience. My buddy and I were on four hits of purple mic acid each–bizarre night of slide guitar, sax, smelly fucking bikers dancing like elfs, and pancake tits. Still disturbed to this day
I knew George way back in the days before anyone outside the Wilmington/Philly area had heard of him. Always fun to hang with. (Yes, I’m old.)
I don’t think they’re talking about Curious George.
*rousing applause*
What about Bi-Curious George?
Yes, I’m old
So the divorce papers from OMWC are coming any day now, I take it.
It is all relative. OMWC is super fucking old, so SP is a child bride for him.
Coincidentally, “Super Fucking” is my nickname.
OM”SF”WC?
Are you sure SP wasn’t mocking you about being a lazy lout and called you Sofa King?
You forgot the “Asshole” at the end of that.
We already knew Polis was a piece of shit, now we know he’s a moronic piece of shit.
Now imagine filing state sales taxes for myriad states as a small e-commerce vendor on a monthly basis.
It’s basically that process multiplied .
Basil Hayden Dark Rye
I prefer Basil Dearden.
Now I’m hungry for some roasted chiles.
Cool, now do civil forfeiture.
NZ Justice minister whining about not being evil. Go shove a rusty chainsaw up your sheep fucked ass, you slimy mendacious gun grabbing asshole.
which link was that?
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/09/google-suspends-trends-emails-after-revealing-murder-suspects-name/
Email one near the end
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/07/09/google-suspends-trends-emails-after-revealing-murder-suspects-name/
Right? Don’t make me side with [redacted] Google.
Spanberger said she was horrified that a fellow Democrat would compare members of his own party to child abusers
Why? Your whole ideology is based upon abusing children and everyone else.
But they’re not supposed to SAY so!
Well done…
At least there will not be any videos of you busting monitors with your keyboard on YouTube SP…
Pictured: SP Taming Feisty Bureaucrat
Is that safe for work?
Not safe for humans, but safe for work.
That looks more like Tonio
…engaging in foreplay.
Those are scary fast animals. A dude I know got chomped pretty bad last year and his story was terrifying.
There are two black bears–they’re brothers–in the local zoo. Once I saw them standing on their hind legs and boxing each other.
That sounds uniquely Russian.
Black bears live only in America!
“Bears of Color,” please.
Dude needs to work on his ground game.
Louisiana’s going to get hit by a hurricane (or a strong tropical storm) this week. Since this has never happened in the past, I blame global warming.
Is the mayor telling people there is no need to evacuate and that all is well?
Just in time for this weekend’s trip to NOLA. Sheesh! I haven’t been there since 2003. What’s the universe trying to tell me?
That NOLA sucks?
Well it doesn’t appear to drain.
N.O. will be fine. This is just going to freshen the stagnant water in the rest of the state.
New Orleans Is Sinking
And I don’t wanna swim…
Under rated band.
Not in Canada 😉
Here’s another gem.
New Orleans in July…..that’s a particularly, um, pungent time to visit.
I guess blaming this stuff on El Nino is so 90’s
(I don’t know how to put the tilday, nor do I know how to spell tilday)
& ntilde ; (no spaces) should work. ñ
*nods politely*
Til de do us part
I’m sure there will be bold pronouncements that it’s the worst storm ever captured on weather radar since the invention of weather radar.
“I was assigned to some of the busiest committees and four subcommittees,” AOC said. “So my hands are full. And sometimes I wonder if they’re trying to keep me busy.”
Oh, you poor dear. But we all know that if you hadn’t been loaded down with committee assignments that you’d have bitched about being sidelined. Whiners gonna whine.
God forbid she should do the job instead of just virtue signaling.
Her job ISN’T sick burns on Twitter?
Attention whore: see Karla Marx…
So they are asking to do her job? Monsters
I LOVE this. Seven years ago if you’d told me I would be defending President (!?!?!?) Trump AND cheering for Nancy Pelosi I would’ve never believed you.
How do you out juvenile President Trump?
Alex Trebek: That’s good for $200. Pick again
The follow-up line is also telling.
The New York lawmaker had been describing why she declined Pelosi’s offer to sit on a standing committee on climate change. AOC said she declined the Speaker’s offer after she had refused AOC’s demands for what the committee should do.
“Here’s my pet list of what this committee should really be focusing on!”
“If you want the committee working on that, then take a seat on the committee.”
“HELL NO!”
Whew! That was a lot of lynx. I’m exhausted now and need a drink.
Valentina Cortese, 1923-2019
Cortese starred in a small number of Hollywood films, with The Barefoot Contessa probably being the best known of those. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her delightful turn as an actress who has trouble with her lines in François Truffaut’s Day for Night.
Cortese lost to Ingrid Bergman in Murder on the Orient Express, which really was a small role for Bergman and a surprise that she’d win. But in her acceptance speech, Bergman paid one of the kindest compliments one could pay to Cortese.
TODAY IN QUALIFIED IMMUNITY
http://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/201715566.pdf
Fugitive happens to go onto property where kids are playing
Cop holds the kids at gunpoint for some reason.
Kids’ dog comes onto property
Cop tries to shoot dog. He misses, dog runs under house.
Dog comes out from under house, cop tries to shoot dog, HE MISSES AGAIN, but hits one of the kids in the leg this time.
[…]
Qualified Immunity!
I’d shoot the cop. They’re not immune to bullets yet.
Jesus, what a POS.
JB, please, let’s keep the most important issue in mind – did he get home safely that night?
If that cop got shot and died a slow, horrible death, I’d be delighted to piss on his corpse.
The dissent was good though. First paragraph thereof:
Boom. Headshot.
Thankfully some judges can see reality.
How did we reach the point where the average cop makes Barney Fife seem like John McClane?
I’ve had zero police training, and I think I could have done a better job, drunk, with a live squirrel glued to my balls.
Oddly specific, dude. Were you in a frat?
Don’t kink shame, man.
A friend of mine is retired out of LAPD. Every time I see him, he’s shaking his head at what passes for law enforcement these days.
If I’m the father, and some cop is out in MY yard shooting at MY dog and MY kids, I’m probably going to kill him and take my chances with the jury.
Frankly, under the law of self-defense, any passerby would be justified in killing this cop, But the father has the best chance of getting acquitted.
Nice links!
I picture SP as the Panda
Wow that sounds like the time I unbundled my internet and Dish from Frontier. Took over a month and two separate FCC complaints to get rid of DSL from them which I couldn’t use since I moved too far from the switch.
For Q
I think that’s for anyone.
“SugarFree brought her as a hostess gift, because he understands etiquette and has exquisite manners, and is a man of taste and refinement.”
I did hear his skull collection is extremely well-organized.
SP, I feel for you. That sounds like a pretty miserable way to spend a day.
She was at home, drinking bourbon. It could have been worse.
Just the most recent of many, many similar days since relocating to AZ. It’s a very business-friendly state…if one has a phalanx of attorneys and accountants. Oh, and bribe money.
His tax policy says otherwise.
Literally all of his policies from opposition to vouchers to “free” college stinks like giveaways to the richest people in America. Which to be fair, is the modern Democratic Party’s base
“I don’t want their money – I want YOUR money, Mr and Mrs Taxpayer!”
I never visit out-of-staters without bringing along bourbon: Rowan’s Creek, Noah’s Mill, Basil Hayden and Johnny Drum Private Stock are my go-tos.
I’m Johnny Bourbon-Seed, planting a little bit of Kentucky wherever I go.
Re-write that in twang
Except you brought rye… (which is, of course, superior).
I visited them before. And I thought the Dark Rye would be particular interest due to their appreciation of wine. The double ticket rye (sold straight as Basil Hayden Double Rye) is smoothed out with a touch of port in the Dark Rye version.
*adds to shopping list*
Boo – local does not have any sort of Basil Hayden rye
Just added the Dark Rye to my online order at Total Wine. Thankee, sirrah.
It was a big hit with everyone that tried it. I hope it goes the same for you.
I’ll see how it measures up to home barrel-aged Bulleit and report back.
Might be worth seasoning a barrel with port to see how it plays.
A fan of the Willett stuff, I see.
I love Willett rye.
I only leave out Williet’s itself due to the awkwardness of packing the bottle for flight.
If you have not tried the Willett 3 yo rye, you owe yourself a favor.
Yeah, that is delicious.
Noah’s Mills is a favorite of mine.
Icelandic man, 104, becomes great-great-great-grandfather
He looks damn good for 104.
True. Well, that and he hasn’t been decomposing for 30 years.
Icelandic privilege
*smh*
Which probably makes him related to the entire island.
6 generations of icelanders? That is a lot of bjorking going on.
Hmm, he might be more proud if he was a new father…
Pfftt. I’ve Met Great Great Great Grandmas in their 60’s.
Are we saving or destroying things that remind us of racial segregation?
I’m curious how it’s different from a statue or whatever. If people can learn from this why can’t they learn from other monuments?
Yeah, you don’t hear much about that these days.
Too much work to find the links in all of this. Did a bunch of volunteer work today. I’m sure none of it mattered; since only the government can help people, duh.
What’s wrong with AZ that they leave firearms in their unattended vehicles? I usually don’t lock my truck at home but I don’t leave guns inside either.
Yeah I would never leave a gun in the car. I always lock up and I took the garage door opener out of my truck. Little fuckheads do just as the story describes – comb a neighborhood and check for unlocked cars and/or openers.
I fucking hate thieves.
Better than leaving them in your boat. That’s when disasters happen.
*stares into distance. single manly tear rolls down cheek*
What’s wrong with AZ
Don’t ask me, I’ve only lived here 6 years.
#metoo is not slowing down.
Harvard suspends star economist Roland Fryer following sexual harassment complaints
Why does an economist need a lab?
To sexually assault women
^^^Winner.
This is also why Austrian economists never get caught up in #metoo. They don’t need no laboratories. Praxeology, bitches
Because he likes to hunt ducks?
Yeah, I would have guessed that an economist would have had a pointer.
That’s precisely the problem
Problem? What the lab humped his assistant’s leg?
He stuck his pointer where it didn’t belong…. er…. where it was unwelcome.
To cook up the drugs necessary to understand Krugman?
Trust me, there aren’t drugs strong enough.
That’s why Winston’s mom looks that way.
Experimental economics! My area!
More details of the accusations against him: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/business/economy/roland-fryer-harvard.html
Dammit. All these articles are paywalled.
I think you mean “Thank God, the NYT is paywalled.”
Its better that way, really.
“complaints”? Not proof, or convictions, or preponderance of evidence?
So a couple of women can destroy anyone in their general vicinity on a whim.
It sounds like it was more than a couple and goes back a decade.
From an article in USA Today, “Among his most controversial papers: a study that concluded there’s no racial bias in shootings by police.”
I’m sure if he’s cleared, everything will go back to normal for him. Don’t worry about it.
Rufus’ GTV brought some healthy coin.
Keep saving, boys.
Too late this mornng to comment on the BaT links.
The Appollo was cool. For me it’s a hometown car. Thery were built in Oakland and I saw several on the road back in the day.
If I could only choose one type car for my dream garage it would be 50’s and 60’s Alfas. Had a cousin who dumped a boyfriend claiming he loved his Alfa more than he loved her. I could see his point.
The world needs more boutique manufacturers. It is frankly staggering how many car companies existed in the early to mid-20th century.
Oh, and your car is the one I want in my dream garage – parked next to the Alfa Spider and probably a Lotus.
“Papers, please” >/a>sounds much better in the original German.
That’s discrimination against the undocumented. But, he’s unpopular so naturally that’s different for reasons
Not to worry. Despite being defeated in a statewide ballot measure a couple years ago, the legislature went ahead and overturned the ban on issuing state driver licenses to illegal aliens and did the usual declaration of emergency clause so it can’t be referred to voters prior to going into effect.
“wHy aRE pEOpLe VOtiNg fOR nAtiONaLisTs?”
Maybe you should post this story all around your city.
Of course, the ninnies are pissed because it is being used against illegal immigrants. No word is said about the fact that the Feds are also mining facial recognition data for legal citizens as well.
agreed to the ICE requests
Fuck that. Armed raid just before opening with documents and servers removed for safekeeping. Oh, can’t transact business today? Too fucking bad.
(But lesson of getting fucked over by thug law enforcement would be completely lost)
“States asked undocumented people to come out of the shadows to get licenses. Then ICE turns around and uses that to find them,”
Gosh, who could have seen that coming? Idiots.
the Feds are also mining facial recognition data for legal citizens as well
Well, those pics are government info. I don’t think there’s any Constitutional bar against the feds using it. Hell, when I got fingerprinted for my state bar license and my state concealed carry license, I had zero expectation those prints weren’t going into a federal database as well.
They are still using those forms in twenty effing nineteen?
https://twitter.com/LibertarianBlue/status/1148732059323703296
“Incredible. Facebook says it’s ok to issue threats of death and violence against Paul @PrisonPlanet and other “dangerous individuals and organizations.”
Ummm…..what?
I think that might be fake. I went to the Facebook Community Standards page where this is supposedly spelled out and I couldn’t find it.
https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1148928544719933443
Tim Pool is saying the same thing. Maybe they are not implemented yet?
https://twitter.com/Grummz/status/1148733009018798081
Mark Kern too. It’s possible that this is an elaborate hoax, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if this is real
https://twitter.com/NewsChute/status/1149026880236003328
Now, apparently, Facebook has said that language was “imprecise” so maybe it was a mistake.
That might be. All I know is I saw that posted at Ace of Spades, went to the Facebook Community Standards page, and couldn’t find it. Might be a draft or something.
Pretty disturbing draft. Pretty sure legal must have stepped in.
Again, though, I got to say it’s amazing (and really revealing) how many people who definitely and totally (without a doubt) deeply truly care about “muh…freedom of association” seem to make real quick excuses for large tech companies regardless of how insane they behave, but struggled to ever whisper a slight dissent in support of a small private baker. Truly, these rules are being applied equally
No disagreements there
Pretty sure legal must have stepped in.
I haven’t gotten the impression that Facebook has a legal department at all, or if they do, that anyone cares what they say.
The story ran on numerous alternative outlets. Which doesn’t mean it’s true.
But considering Paul Joseph Watson is suing Facebook, I doubt he would make up such a story.
Challenger for Portland mayor
Spoiler alert: she’s not talking about ProFa.
I’m sure all two minorities who live in Portland are really glad to hear another upper income white person play savior for them
Bold strategy, Cotton
Uh…
In other words, a complete and total abandonment of the law as opposed to just a partial one
Fight the power with Wanton Wednesday!
http://archive.is/zB7Dr
That’s some filter.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7230675/Tammy-Hembrows-REAL-FACE-revealed-unfiltered-fan-picture-taken-minutes-apart-post.html
damn, that completely changed the shape of her face
I kind of don’t get it. I thought she looked fine in the “before” photo.
Yeah, totally would
That’s a filter? Because it looks like Photoshop. Took twenty pounds off of her. Didn’t know a filter could do that.
I don’t know why I found this so amusing, but I laughed at the representative from Georgia confusing LIBOR with Libra:
After a brief preamble, in which Scott urged Powell to “stay strong and courageous” – maybe even join the #resistance, why not – as it is important for the world that the “Fed remain strongly independent” and both “democrats and republicans got your back”, he got right to business declaring that “this Libra business is really disturbing and it’s a serious problem. Let me tell you why…first of all, I think we all know, Libra is the London Interbank Offered Rate, very critical. It has and is the standard for the base rate for hundreds of trillions of dollars, both overnight and term loans, debt, derivatives; and it is the standard that has been used internationally and extensively in the United States, affecting individuals, small businesses, large corporations. So we got a big issue here.”
“But because of pervasive manipulation, it is apparent that Libra is going to leave us, be removed within the next year or so” he droned on, clearly seeking to impress the world with his extensive Wikipedia-derived knowledge of a major transition in the overnight funding world, where SOFR is set to replace the current regime.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-10/wharton-grad-confuses-libor-and-libra-during-powell-hearing-hilarity-ensues
Remember a couple of years back when it was discovered that LIBOR was being manipulated? Fun times.
And now the representative from Georgia has his response for why SOFR is going to replace LIBOR (or Libra, if he prefers)
Pepperidge Farm remembers
I got deferred from Wharton. I guess I was lucky.
Vet suicide crisis
Won’t anyone think of the puppies and kitties and other pets? SAVE OUR VETS!
Uffda. I was sure that would be a link about Trump’s VA not taking care of our veterans and them killing themselves.
It really was about veteranarians though.
So you go to school for many years, take on a ton of debt and make less than a mediocre plumber. I think I’d be pretty damn depressed, too.
It doesn’t end there either. Opening or buying a practice is another can of worms. Puts a lot of pressure to push products and procedures.
“Puts a lot of pressure to push products and procedures.”
So, no different than with people doctors.
Veterinary school costs are absurd. What’s more absurd is thinking it’s a good idea to take that debt on.
Most states have a single vet school, if they have one at all. I think Texas may have two.
I’m surprised they don’t make more money.
Especially given what they charge and how hard it is to get an appointment
I have a cousin who wanted to be a veterinarian.
It was so expensive and so competitive that he became a general practice doctor instead.
And DVM degrees are ~ 80% women. It’s the stat I love to throw at “more girls in STEM” freakout people. You want half the girls in vet school to not be allowed in, because guess what, princess, that’s what’s gonna happen if you pass these stupid laws you profess to want so you can force colleges to graduate 50% girls in Chemical Engineering.
Remember when Team Red was gonna slash the deficit and get spending under control?
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/452045-make-americas-deficits-great-again
Me neither.
PS: It’s pretty rich when a lefty publication like The Hill concern trolls about the deficit; it’s just being spent on the wrong stuff by the wrong Team.
Fuck off slavers.
https://www.apnews.com/632fde45a57b4c318be323d76aea79a6
The UK are a test case in what NOT to do.
Did we already cover this?
Internet group brands Mozilla ‘internet villain’ for supporting DNS privacy feature
An industry group of internet service providers has branded Firefox browser maker Mozilla an “internet villain” for supporting a DNS security standard.
The U.K.’s Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), the trade group for U.K. internet service providers, nominated the browser maker for its proposed effort to roll out the security feature, which they say will allow users to “bypass UK filtering obligations and parental controls, undermining internet safety standards in the UK.”
How dare Mozilla make it more secure for their users vs. making it easier for us to censor them. Right villains they are.
Make parents responsible?! Madness.
Probably should have done some more research before moving there. I love visiting the place and wouldn’t mind living there 4-6 months out of the year, but there’s a certain give and take. It’s much more like Mexico in terms of getting things done.
They should have had Tundra’s music on their iPhones.
So, take some responsibility and clean the drain just outside your door. Or is responsibility only for other people?
Not for other people, only for government, which is totally not people. Not more mortal people anyway, but all powerful and beneficent gods.
Sounds like you have a litterbug problem more than a plastic problem. Believe it or not, there are parts of the world where tossing your garbage wherever you stand is frowned upon.
Why do they hate people with prosthetic organs?
You first. Get rid of everything you own that has plastic in it. Starting with your car.
Said the guy who imagines that banning plastic will solve his litter problem.
It’s a shame she can’t do anything about it.
NBC making big deal of the soccer “heroes” parade in NYC. Did anyone see the coverage? The parade looked “forced” or artificial or something strange, to me. Didn’t have the delirious watchers you see for, say, Super Bowl winners or astronauts. Spectators seemed more curious or something, and like they were being prodded to wave and cheer because it was expected …virtue signaling?….rather than spontaneous.
All I know is the ring-leader “dropped an F-bomb on live television”. I didn’t click through.
Strange, I’ve attended a couple of those (NHL, NFL) when I worked on Broadway and I don’t remember them being televised.
Did they actually use the word “heroes”?
I’m pretty damn sick of that word being applied to people who do something that has little to no risk of actually costing them anything.
Even at the final, they couldn’t help showing a lot of empty seats. You want ‘equal pay’ ladies? Fill up them seats and get better TV ratings.
Fundamentally, they can’t unless they find a different way to appeal to viewers.
People pay to see someone do things that are at the extremes of human capabilities. The very best female athletes simply cannot do that in most sports. Gymnastics may be an exception for specific events
That Nike commercial they kept showing after they won includes: I believe that we will be four time champions and keep winning until we not only become the best female soccer team, but the best soccer team in the world
I get aggravated ever time I hear it – they are not now, nor will they ever be, the “best soccer team in the world”. “Best women’s soccer team”, perhaps, but they’d lose to any D1 college men’s team, never mind just about any other men’s professional or national team.
https://www.cbssports.com/soccer/news/a-dallas-fc-under-15-boys-squad-beat-the-u-s-womens-national-team-in-a-scrimmage/
The women’s hockey team scrimages against HS boys’ teams – and loses.
Gymnastics may be an exception for specific events.
Beach volleyball FTW!
What is the best YouTube downloader for FF? Many of them are bullshit. The one I was using, stopped working, and I can’t even find it anywhere now. Video Download Helper is very slow.
I use a separate app called “4K Video Downloaded”. Had to pay like 10 bucks for it, but they release frequent updates that stay on top of the changes YouTube keeps making. The free plug-ins are all garbage.
“Downloader“
Well, the I had worked great, but then suddenly stopped working.
But I guess $10 isn’t bad.
Try JDownloader, it’s my favorite. http://jdownloader.org/
Video Download Helper just failed.
Fuck links? Where?
Great tune!
“he understands etiquette and has exquisite manners, and is a man of taste and refinement”
Wait. Who are we talking about?
If that weren’t true, he’d never be able to come up with his wonderfully disgusting tales except by dumb luck. He’s far too consistently good for it to be luck.
True:)
“I am not a monster!” SugarFree cried to the shouting crowd as he ran down the foggy streets of London.
Sanctuary! Sanctuary!
I’m impressed no one and nothing was broken by the end of your conversation.
Yes. I would have been nice on the phone, but probably would have broken a glass or two
“I Used The Men’s Bathroom (But I’m Trans…)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFgWCtDo77U
“NEW VIDEO: People online keep commenting that I need to use the men’s bathroom, so I tried it! ??♀️ SPOILER ALERT: I got kicked out. Watch the guys react.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1149030540156100608
I think most people can figure out where they need to go.
Koch!!!
https://youtu.be/8IgekVVqwkk
There are good reasons to criticize the Kochs, but this ain’t it, chief. Tucker should stick to foreign policy- there’s a bunch of reasons to criticize the Kochs on that front
Apologies, but I am blanking on which of us writes romance novels, but I would be interested in her take on this:
Mojeaux, I think.
That’s her.
These sound like the Hallmark Christmas Movies of romance novels. Which is cool; I got no beef with some sappy sentimentality when the mood strikes.
At least there’s a happy ending.
HEY NOW.
but I am blanking on which of us writes romance novels
SugarFree?
I didn’t get to comment when it was live, but that was really nice work.
Because I saw the pic before I had read enough, I thought you had used the redwood to make the Captain America one and I was horrified.
Same on both counts.
My rare attempts at wood “working”* turn out pretty much what you would expect from a fat, nearsighted, half-deaf old lawyer.
*no euphemism.
Parts of Pater and Mater Dean’s house are made out of redwood. There is a scrap pile in the barn with some truly significant redwood beam chunks, and a good amount of the planking they put on the ceiling in the great room. If I was any good with wood, man . . .
Dammit Bubba!
http://wcyb.com/news/offbeat/suspect-hiding-from-police-passes-gas-so-loudly-that-it-gives-up-their-hiding-spot