What a hell of a comeback by the Texans. Too bad it happened too fast. also, if a guy catches a pass with two seconds on the clock and you’re the defender, just don’t touch him for a few seconds and let the game clock expire…then down him. The Raiders also won after their week(s) filled with drama. And that Davis son sure is a goofy-looking dude. I mean goofy as shit.
Go home team!
In other football news, it looks like Texas didn’t have A/C in the visitors locker room for LSU and didn’t bother telling them about it. Fortunately the Tigers were tipped off by La Tech and brought some coolers in. But that’s bush league when its in the 90s.
The Braves, Mets, Yankees (put a fork in Boston, its over), Brewers, Pirates, Indians (hanging in there!), Cubs and Houston Astros all won last night. The Astros scored 15 runs, bringing their total from the last two games to 36. One of those runs came from this. I bet the last thing that guy was thinking when he got that ticket was “I might catch a homer”.
Cool dude on and off the course
Top-ten (maybe five) golfer and certainly top-five coolest guy of all-time Arnold Palmer was born on this day. As was slugger Roger Maris, fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, terrible co-worker Bill O’Reilly, rockers Joe Perry, Johnny Fingers and Siohban Fahey, actor Colin Firth, director Guy Ritchie, rapper Big Daddy Kane, and Canadian baseball player Joey Votto.
Hey-ho! Let’s go. To…the links!
Alaska rarely makes the news. But since its a chance to point out that this always looked like a dysfunctional family gets them back in today.
America’s first credit union for the gays and trans people clears a major hurdle. I’m glad the government recognized people have the right to associate with who they want to associate with. Even if it excludes others. That’s what freedom of association is. I wish them well. I also wish well other groups that wish to choose who they associate with. (No snark)
Ooh, sweet, a three pack!. Now google can see what’s going on in more than one place any time they want.
If you’re dumb enough to buy one of these devices after reading this, you get what you deserve. Seriously, why not just go live in a clear box in Times Square? Or downtown Los Angeles or San Francisco, were you’ll be able to blend in and as an added bonus, shit in the street without anyone noticing?
California passes the strictest vaccine bill in the country. This is certainly a point of debate among libertarians. Share your thoughts below.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Just wait a day, ffs.
Now that we have this out of the way, we can start asking the question “what the fucking fuck happened” to the dudes who loaded the ship.
Now go have a great day, friends.
That’s and interesting pizza party.
an*
That chick is definitely into deep dish.
Sausage and clam pizza?
Why would you even waste a decent frozen pizza on some thot who can’t even keep her booger hook off the trigger? And those bros are gay NTTAWWT
No such thing.
More for me
It’s not
deliveryan orgy, it’s DigiornoSomething rises, and it ain’t the crust
*golf clap*
There should be enough yeast in there to get it going.
There has to be one hell of a backstory for that photo.
Agreed…
Does anyone know what that nekked frozen pizza fetish is called?
Diporno?
America’s first credit union for the gays and trans people clears a major hurdle. I’m glad the government recognized people have the right to associate with who they want to associate with. Even if it excludes others. That’s what freedom of association is. I wish them well. I also wish well other groups that wish to choose who they associate with. – I am sure it will be fabulous.
The thing is that this is not some revival of freedom of association. Credit unions are required to be exclusive so as to keep competition from the Banks.
Huh.
Then why did I get accepted to the two I’m a member of? I mean, just because I was working for a particular employer doesn’t mean anything…
Paraphrasing Groucho — “Any credit union that would have me as a member shouldn’t be in business?”
If you’re dumb enough to buy one of these devices after reading this, you get what you deserve. Seriously, why not just go live in a clear box in Times Square? Or downtown Los Angeles or San Francisco, were you’ll be able to blend in and as an added bonus, shit in the street without anyone noticing?
Some guy here had a house with a huge window in the bathroom and my parents asked whether they are not concerned about privacy and the answer is this is my mother in laws bathroom, that is the neighbors problem. Point is, you know people have different views on these things
people have different views on these things
I see what you did there.
Same way I feel about my leaves, that’s my neighbors problem.
My wife would scold me for walking around with no clothes on. My answer was that anyone that would watch an old man naked was far more sick than me.
Fourscore = Naturist! I’ll bet that little tidbit isn’t engraved on the invitations to the honey harvest…
The Bees!
I almost went there but I knew someone would complete the tap-in.
“Seeing me naked won’t bring back your honey!”
That’s what she said?
I’m starting to second guess this Honey Harvest thing…
So you think it’s some sort of honeytrap.
*narrows gaze*
I picked a bucket of hot peppers this morning for Tundra et al. See if he wants to share with ‘friends’.
He better share!
But if you have a doorbell camera you can totes be a junior detective.
*Full disclosure, if I was deranged enough to have a doorbell camera and there was a shooting between gangsters out front, I probably would share the footage.
By “gangsters” do you mean the uppity teenage kids that live next door?
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. Just wait a day, ffs. – this happened here but it was worse, first time the cops suspended the driving license so the second time was drink driving and driving with a suspended license.
Morning Pie.
I’m still getting spam emails from these people:
Inedit Agency SRL – Aleea Socului no.6, Office no.30, Bucharest, 050088, Romania
© 2019 | JustViral | All rights reserved
Can you swing by there and punch someone for me? Much appreciated.
Aleea Socului? With the traffic in this city ? Can’t you be harassed by someone next to a subway station?
Hire a bike messenger to go over and hit them?
a punching telegram?
*submits business plan to loan officer*
I’ll be your first customer, as long as you set up a franchise in Romania.
Happened to a buddy of mine back around 1980 or so. Got booked at a road check trying to get into a bush party. They didn’t impound vehicles or licences then so he went back to the party after his processing was done, hopped in his car and tried to drive home. Cops had set up another road check. Two DUI’s in the span of four hours.
Do the popo call this double-tap approach the “Prison Bitch” trap?
Ehn, penalties were still pretty lenient then. Probably just the “Dumb-Ass ” trap.
In the ’70s, my old man was the first person in the county to get the new DUI. Previously it was a $60 ticket and “stop driving, Dumb-Ass!”. Maybe a ride home.
All of a sudden it was $300 and a trip to the hoosegow.
He made his trip harder by throwing coffee at the cops.
He also made the local paper for being the first guy in the county.
California passes the strictest vaccine bill in the country. This is certainly a point of debate among libertarians. Share your thoughts below. – I am split on this. On the one hand…. on the other…
No libertarian in his right mind would live in CA.
Thanks for reminding me that I’m not in my right mind.
I’m certainly not.
Or Illinois, or New York, or New Jersey, or Massachusetts, or Oregon, or Hawaii, or …
He better hang his head in shame.
I’d just say that laying the mandatory vaccine issue to the side, it’s a fair bet that if California’s state government does something it’s likely either a bad idea or a bad implementation of a good idea.
Australian teachers among highest paid
Australian school teachers are among the highest paid in the OECD, earning 22 to 36 per cent more than the average – a finding that comes just after NAPLAN results showed reading, writing and grammar scores have fallen in the past 10 years, and international PISA results in science, maths and reading have collapsed since 2000.
https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/naplan-and-pisa-down-but-teacher-pay-among-highest-20190910-p52prj
The Centre for Independent Studies said the data showed the problem in Australian education was not that teachers were underpaid.
I looked at the data for the US and it does not seem education is so underfunded / teachers so underpaid as I was led to believe. Teacher salaries are generally lower than Switzerland, Korea, Canadia, Luxembourg and, depending on position, sometimes Denmark and Netherlands. But overall US seems top tier in teacher salaries, spending per pupil and spending as % of GDP. Off course, these are PPP adjusted salary averages for countries. I assume in most there is quite a difference between regions in both salaries and purchase power, and I assume a large country such as the US has bigger differences, so not sure what conclusion can be drawn. But in my reading, simply more funding does not seem to be a solution.
In CA, they make 75k and up for 9 months of work. Seems like plenty to me. I’m sure there’s some who make less, but not many.
Teachers get massive pensions as well (so generous that they’re bankrupting state governments everywhere) and that is probably not reflected in teacher pay data.
Our problem comes from not being able to fire bad teachers and excess administrators.
In the case of the deadweight, do-nothing HQ staff (ie, all of them), the answer is not firing but eliminate their positions.
^^^THIS^^^
The Teachers Union would like a word with the two of you, right here in this dark alley.
Fortunately they are afraid of guns.
How many of those places with higher-paid teachers track students?
Like, with a chip?
/deliberately clueless
“Computer, locate Student Jeffrey Palmer.”
I worked with my wife to create a hall pass location system for her engineering certification. It would alarm her and the student if the pass holder was not in the designated area for the pass or if it was out longer than the time allotted for the bathroom. Used Bluetooth sensors in the hallway with Tile trackers. It worked well.
You are a monster.
Yeah, but do those other countries have an abundance of highly-paid Diversity Counselors and suchlike?
US school funding has doubled or even tripled by some estimates, but there are few demonstrable indicators of any improvements, and in fact a lot to suggest that things are worse. Remember that a lot of districts try to paper over this embarrassing fact by dumbing down the curriculum so that basically anyone can pass with flying colors. Colleges are now teaching things that used to be required knowledge for anyone to get a high school diploma.
https://www.oecd.org/education/education-at-a-glance/
” NAPLAN results showed reading, writing and grammar scores have fallen in the past 10 years, and international PISA results in science, maths and reading have collapsed since 2000″
So the system works the same everywhere. I do feel bad for the American teachers though, how can we be # 1?
Even higher in Canada.
https://data.oecd.org/eduresource/teachers-salaries.htm
I did mention that in my second comment
I probably missed it because I hadn’t refreshed when I posted the above comment dedicated to your original response.
/flicks Pie’s ears.
But looking at the excel data there are some inconsistencies between tables, and there is difference between starting salary rankings and 10/15 years experience as well.
And oh how they bitch and moan… A high percentage of my High School class went into the profession and when I was still on Facestalk it was all they ever wanted to talk about. That school seemed to be set up as a Teacher mill.
^This. I’m working about an article on the entitlement mentality of the American government school teacher.
For the fun of it, go look at the Ontario Teacher’s Union Pension Fund.
Go see how powerful.
“Calpers”
Imagine if Mark Davis ordered everyone on staff have the same hair cut? That would make for one creepy sideline.
“Sideline of the Damned”
The Broncos staff wore almost all white on the sidelines. Made the team look like extra from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Of course, they played like mental patients.
Mornin’
Since the advent of vaccines large numbers of people have been fighting tooth and nail against that sorcery. Really, this is a self solving problem.
The Polio that doesn’t cripple or kill you can only make you stronger!
^This mostly. The funny thing is though it’s interesting to see how statist the pro-vaxer crowd is (at least judging by social media), many seem enthusiastic to see anti-vaxers charges with child abuse and hauled off to jail which I find repugnant.
What I find interesting is that this, like several of the science and politics intersection points, is largely far-left against far-left.
The anti-vaxxers are mostly wealthy, all-natural granola crunchers. And the vehemently pto-vaccine advocates are mostly far left as well.
The same goes for the GMO crowd. The anti-gmo people are mostly of the far left all organic type and in addition to Farmers, the pro GMO crowd is mostly far left as well.
The only solution is far-left thunderdome
Two Xer enter one Xer leaves?
Guy Ritche was known to cast the women he was fucking in starring roles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfGkY4UfNnU
I pretty much thought that’s how it works
Is there any other reason to make movies?
In other news, smoking hot young women use their sexuality to gain economic advantage.
And while we are talking about shocking things that nobody could have seen coming, your dog will eat food from the table if you hand it to him. And if you have food at the table, your dog will beg for it.
I know, controversial take. Also surprising. Random guy on the internet says something controversial in the comment section.
Marxistm is gun rights. Checkmate libertarians
https://twitter.com/MaoistRebelNews/status/1169572947264245766
Also NK totes abolished taxes
https://twitter.com/LeBosch42/status/1170594831783079936
It instead just forced everyone to provide slave labor.
Can’t tax what the government claims it already owns.
Glory to ??, ?? and ??. Fuck TERFs. Death to the Fascist States of Amerikkka.
Well, he seems nice.
I didn’t think you could fit that many contradictions in so few words, but hey everybody’s gotta have something they’re good at, I guess.
I don’t think the message is conveying what he thinks it’s supposed to.
To me anyway.
America’s first credit union for the trans people
I have a feeling that bank is hiding something from the customers
Your money identifies as theirs.
Sounds like a real drag.
You think it’s a trap?
Almost like they have something tucked away ?
* Cues up Goodbye Horses
What you did there…
You can only withdraw in change.
I’d have also accepted any joke about $3 bills.
The Loaning Game
Someone is in for quite a surprise.
Your deposit is not going to end up in the account you thought it was going to?
We ended up taking the decision to not accept unvaccinated kids because other parents began to complain. We ain’t jeopardizing a sudden drop in spots for ‘fake-woke-urban-granola’ parents who think vacs lead to autism. Screw that.
The market spoke.
Look at you promulgating cancel culture.
The funny part is the last parent who called for a spot said her kids weren’t vaccinated. We explained her why we can’t take her. Two days later she called back saying she was going to vaccinate them.
We also got tired of listening to parents ‘vac-splain’ us their bull shit.
It really is a generational thing. There are quite a few of us on this site that knew people that were crippled by polio and quite a few that knew of people that died from the German measles. They may have been somewhat older than my cohort but close enough to leave an impression.
It’s the same thing with those of us who witnessed communism in real time. It left an impression and we knew how bad it is.
But this bunch is disconnected so they think they’re cool ‘rebelling’ against ‘the machine’.
Raging, even.
I’ve been listening to Devo since yesterday afternoon exclusively. You are the second person today that I interact with regularly to reference them.
Am I in a simulation? Booji boy?
My favorite Devo song on one of the best sketch shows from 1980-82.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBoj-JzQDnc
I could hug you right now. I knew what the clip was gonna be the moment I read it. Yes, Fridays is a criminally underrated show. Here is my favorite Devo song – Going Under.
I watched Fridays as a 10 year old. My best friend and I would walk around saying “take a pill…. take a pill” and “Gimmie Ganja”. Our mothers were very worried when we started hiding ziplock bags of flour under the couch and looking out of the drapes for the cops.
going under is a great one. Like most Devo songs it is happy and dark at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAYP44ULRt0
Michael Richards got his start there, I believe. Great show. We loved it as kids.
He was like Andy Kaufman on that show.
Can’t wait for Mojeaux to write Glib-themed medieval erotica in which I am the degenerate smut-peddler who ends up getting publicly executed for moral turpitude.
http://archive.li/9k4TI
Enjoy these yonge cuntes.
Yes! Let’s help make “Cunte” part of the Glib-speak lexicon!
Towing the Lion is still one I don’t get.
Well, are you just going to leave it stranded?
It’s sort of a homonym, for all intensive porpoises.
It is part of the general meme of annoying Switzy via judicious use of of homonyms and homophones. Get with the program leon! or should I say Tow the lion.
Nah, “Tow the lion” was from old HyR.
But, just in case…
Uh it’s a mish mash of “Toe the Line” – Johnism?
“The most likely origin of the term goes back to the wooden decked ships of the Royal Navy during the late 17th or early 18th century. Barefooted seamen had to stand at attention for inspection and had to line up on deck along the seams of the wooden planks, hence to “toe the line”.[1] The first mention of this use in literature stems from a story about navy life widely published in 1831 and written by Captain Basil Hall RN.[2] Hall served in the Royal Navy from 1802.”
“Pedant, Ahoy!” You are correct, Sir!
Well that’s because you left out part of it. It’s Toe, the Blue Lion. He was created when people kept mistyping tow the blue line in regards to “officer involved fatalities”.
Thanks. I knew the original phrase, just not the origin of why you all fuck it up every time.
I don’t see what is so difficult about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1evM5B0gg8
It already is. I’ve seen a lot of people use that here the past several days.
I know this but it needs to reach critical mass! A nice welcome back present for our favorite Mormon pornographer, I would think.
This might explain why I’m never asked to speak, pray, or hold callings at church.
Looking forward to the plotte twists.
“I’m doing my part!” Would you like to learn more?
The juxtaposition of your comment with your avatar is disturbing.
Done.
*copy/paste into comment box on book 2 manuscript*
Don’t fall for that hooey about going to college to prepare for a career. That’ll show those corporate assholes.
The argument for yeomanship also fails to acknowledge that the high cost of college makes it an iffy proposition if the only purpose is to find a well-paying job. The economists John Schmitt and Heather Boushey found that among 24-to-35-year-olds, almost 20 percent of college graduates “actually do no better than their counterparts who left school after high school,” even before taking college debt into account.
The argument for yeomanship also denies the turbulent job market graduates will face. Jobs are much less secure now than they were in the post–World War II decades, and they are likely to become even less so in the future. College students will enter a world in which many jobs are designed to be temporary. Although the corporations of the mid-20th century depended on a stable workforce of long-term employees, capitalism in the U.S. today works by assuming that a “flexible” workforce accustomed to temporary and insecure employment will be at corporations’ disposal.
Because the growth of temporary employment has coincided with massive technological changes, such as the development of the internet, this social reorganization has appeared to be largely a natural consequence of innovation and competition rather than the outcome of human choices. But as the historian Louis Hyman demonstrated in Temp: How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary, the shift was an explicit goal of business leaders. Beginning in the 1970s, corporate heads and their consultants began to look for short-term profits, cutting their commitments to their employees. Workers who might stay for years or decades required promotions and benefits and were protected by unions. Disposing of expensive workers became a key to meeting profit targets. In their place, corporations began to rely on short-term employees who would stay for the job at hand and then leave.
Seems like a lot of after the fact rationalization and “what works for me will work for you” self-justification, heavily sprinkled with ass backward and upside down “logic”. And then it degenerates into whining abut evil kkkorporations.
Go ahead and study any goddam thing you like , as long as the cost is absorbable. By all means, expand your horizons, and explore what it means to be you. Heaven knows, you could never do that anywhere but on a college campus.
“cost of college makes it an iffy proposition if the only purpose is to find a well-paying job”
College is a lot of things. But if you get into debt for it, then you should get into a field that can give you a return to pay it off.
Sounds like a racist fascist thing to say you racist fascist.
“All right Mister… Q, when exactly did this individual break your fist with his face?”
Fake news! Q knows enough to use a forearm.
Elbows and knees, like a whirling dervish!
Did someone ask “who wants cake?”
That reminds me, I bought the ingredients to bake and haven’t actually made anything yet.
This is what happens when you start believing mental shortcuts are real.
How are innovation and competition not human choices?
In the same way in which “Society” is an anthropomorphic being with needs, wants and the ability to take actions.
24-35 year olds. Well, there’s your problem. Around the time they become management, there is….some divergence in the figures.
Yeah, they sag after 35.
I learned this lesson back in the 80s.
I had encouraged a friend of mine to go to college After High School, but he insisted that he was going to go to the local Technical College. You see, he had this program in automobile mechanics all scouted it out. Just two years and he could start working.
Well, I thought he was a bit of an idiot for that, but I wished him well.
Fast forward a few years and I ran into him with one of our buddies at the mall. I had just gotten a big Fellowship to graduate school and was feeling pretty good about myself.
So he asked how I was doing and I explained about my fellowship and how I would be working on a transgenic Mouse model. He listened politely as I explained how I was getting paid to go to school.
So then I asked how he was doing. Well, they were getting ready to head up to his lake house. They had just taken his race car to the track the night before and they were going to take the fishing boat out that day.
Turns out that he went through that technical program and got a job at the local car dealer. He was already a Master Mechanic making $110,000 a year. This is in 1989.
At that point I was hoping to get a job as an associate professor once I had finished my PhD and postdoctoral training. I would probably be making somewhere around $60,000 once I completed all of that.
It made me realize that everything I’ve been told about school and education was incomplete at best.
The idea that everyone must go to college has resulted in a serious shortage of people in the skilled trades, resulting in higher compensation.
Only losers go to college
/Bachelor of Science.
And I’d like to thank you all for that, send your kids to college folks, The Hyperbole likes his 4- 6’s a week. Couldn’t do it if I had competition.
One thing that caused that was the draft. You could get a deferment going to university, but not if you went to trade school.
“he had this program in automobile mechanics all scouted it out. Just two years and he could start working.”
Good for him that he knew this on his own or knew someone who told him of this. The vast majority of 17-18 year olds need guidance of some kind to figure out what they want to do and high school guidance counselors are completely useless (in my experience) that steer people to 4-year colleges or the armed services and provide no other options.
Competitive Countries in Travel and Tourism (2019)
https://twitter.com/theworldindex/status/1170909048872611841
I call bullshit
What is that even supposed to mean? Like the compete in the travel olympics? Unsure of what they are ranking
another.
World most polluted cities 2018:
https://twitter.com/theworldindex/status/1171046056810954752
You won’t believe number 6. Wait, yes you will.
Wow. Remember when I had to go to India a couple of years ago? My destination was #1. My incoming flight had to be cancelled because the air pollution was so bad that the pilots couldn’t see the runway.
No Beijing? I call BS.
Is that one of those “unscramble the words” puzzles…?
No way US is in top 5 anyway.
Spain I get, cheapish, sunny, good food and wine.
In the US you can get cheapish, sunny, good food, good wine, and good beer. Just probably not in the same place.
If I’m reading Pie’s sentence correctly, he doesn’t need good wine, just wine and good food.
Oh haha
Yeah but hotels are expensive, and I assume health insurance, care rentals, international phone calls.
Your care rental should be covered by the health insurance.
Cars are a different matter.
I expect better cocktails in decent bars in the US. The food I assume is horrible in the states. Although I think US restaurants are more willing to customize things, so I assume you can get a steak and ask them to skip the pound of sugar that goes into everything
Sugar-infused steaks are the best thing about America.
Combine with booze and you get bourbon glazed beef.
*falls out of chair*
You’ve been out in the wasteland too long.
Gah I didn’t even know that was a thing. And a quick search says – WTF?
The food I assume is horrible in the states.
You assume wrong.
And yet he keeps declining our invitiations to come visit and find out.
For all the hooha about how uninformed Americans are about other countries, it’s quite interesting just how ignorant most people are about the US.
Got in a huge argument on a romance novel review blog with non-USians making fun of something deeply US (Crimson Tide,FWIW).
An Englishperson had written a football romance that takes place there. A) She dint know nuffin bout American football, so that was stupid. B) She didn’t understand the rivalry. C) She didn’t get how college ball works.
ANYWAY, I don’t give a shit about it but for whatever reason, I was pissy about the non-USians ridiculing it. I almost never get into those spats.
Finally, I said something about the fact that A) “crimson tide” is not about a girl’s period (where most of the confusion lay), B) that just because you think Americans have no culture doesn’t mean they don’, and C) most USians have heard of Crimson Tide and in context know what it means and D) you feel slighted anytime any American does not have perfect understanding of your country and culture, but you also perfectly free to trash Americans for having no culture. We don’t have YOUR cultural quirks or know of them, but we have ours and generally we dont care what other countries think of us because we do not have to. So STFU.
I got hammered, but fortunately a bunch of people who know more about the finances of college ball came up to air their grievance and basically worked over the non-USians with hoe it all works and why having some knowledge about how it all works is kinda important if you are writing a romance novel.
Point being that the author did not give a shit and thought it was some throwaway device to use American football in general and Crimson Tide in specific.
She could have used a sensitivity reader.
+1 Mojeaux bitchslaps uppity foreigner!
It is all to sweet and sugary
When’s the last time you were here and had any American food?
I’m guessing “never” based on his comments.
Where’s the sugar in this?
Wait…what?
I keep a 50lb bag of sugar in my kitchen. Bees and hummingbirds are the sole consumers. Wife and I use only sugar substitute and that goes almost exclusively in coffee.
We don’t eat sugar. A lot of people here don’t eat sugar.
Despite Trump’s efforts McDonalds is not actually what all Americans eat. We have good food also.
Hell, I live in Cleveland, not exactly a destination of world travelers, and there’s at four high end cocktail bars that I can name off the top of my head.
We have plenty of options that don’t have a pound of sugar, sometimes it’s just a pound of french fries, or a sandwich on inch thick bread. There’s a new place opening up in the area soon that intrigues me, an Indian family is doing a fusion of Indian and Mexican food.
Here in NYC, Chinese/Tex-Mex hybrid restaurants are ubiquitous. I had never seen them before moving here but damn if it isn’t a great combo – 2 fish tacos, some shrimp toast, and a pork bun? Yes, please!
A local restaurant has even taken to adding “Keto friendly” to their menu item descriptions.
And yes, most restaurants are very willing to make changes/substitutions to your order.
Yeah, nobody would ever want to come see the US, there’s nothing to do or see here, and it’s just a poor, undeveloped backwater.
Worse, it’s a literal shithole in many places.
Stay away, far, far away
I live here and there’s precious little of it I’m interested in seeing.
I call bullshit, no way I’d risk going to most of those “top ten” places. Too unsafe and unfree.
Todd Palin files for divorce from former Alaska governor Sarah Palin
So what you are saying is that Sarah Palin is available.
Her I picture a total pig.
Her I picture a total Trig
FTFY
*snickers at the nerd table*
https://archive.li/dF7Qz/bd689a77bbe0b956b773c1d636df5b66e6b14310.jpg
Wood.
Would
Photo shop?
That’s not nice enough for a Photoshop job.
yes
Boner Killer?
You ever see Jamie Lee Curtis without touch up?
A little makeup and paint will make a girl what she jolly well ain’t. /some old limerick
Jamie Lee isn’t the same now as she was in Trading Places, much as we wish it were so.
Jamie Lee had a nice rack. Her face was always too mannish.
Face?
That’s because she’s a hermaphrodite.
Yes, but the extra testosterone gives her a higher sex drive.
Face down, ass up
Meh. She’s exactly my age and keeps pretty fit. Not bad after what, four or five kids?
Seriously folks. You got a grade on a curve. Look around you at the other women in her cohort.
RE: Vaccines.
This is indeed an interesting libertarian problem. You have the confluence of several different things seemingly at opposition to one another. Clearly the biggest problem is loss of herd immunity once enough people stop vaccinating, thus putting in jeopardy third-party bystanders.
However, what most interesting to me about this is how the self-ownership angle dovetails so nicely into the circumcision debate. Since we’re talking about infants/toddlers, the same arguments made against circumcision apply IMO, yet people will drop their principles and take contradictory positions because of (again, IMO) “feelz”.
One could argue that the herd immunity problems override self-ownership considerations, but wouldn’t that be a prog-like application of the precautionary principal? I don’t know what to do with this problem. I think people who don’t vaccinate are hopelessly stupid and probably should be called out by peers; public rejection and ridicule can be a powerful weapon. Also, like Rufus said above, private institutions can just exclude people who aren’t vaccinated. Like anything else, I start getting uncomfortable when Big Daddy starts putting his dick in the punchbowl.
I think it is not just heard immunity but the issue of children being neglected / abused. And this goes to the definition of abuse, the libertarian views on child abuse, and how much parents get to decide. I see this different to circumcision as I see circumcision is much more clear than vaccines and is not in any way medically necessary.
I don’t want to rehash old arguments (especially about herd immunity) that get a little emotional and a little dogmatic at times, but I would say that while I’m against mandatory vaccination I also am about to drop my kid off at daycare, where she will be exposed to a petri dish of infectious disease, catch a good chunk of them, and bring them home; I’ve gotten her thoroughly vaccinated, will get my son vaccinated when he’s born, and would actively avoid environments where unvaccinated kids will be concentrated for lengthy periods of time.
I’ve gotten into long arguments on here about this, but I’ve never found the “Herd Immunity” to be incredibly convincing as an argument for why we must force innoculation. If it is truly a concern for people, they can disassociate with people who don’t vaccinate, like they already are.
The problem is that vaccines do not always work, for whatever reason. The unvaccinated are only putting themselves at risk. If you’re vaccinated and somehow contract the disease against which you have supposedly been vaccinated, then it’s a product liability problem or a fraud problem — things for which there are civil remedies. I’m totally pro-vax, but the fact that vaccinations don’t always work is a problem for the pro-vax movement and one which they refuse to properly address.
Good point, and on the flip side, there are people (for whatever reason) that legitimately can’t get vaccinated for medical reasons. Now, they’d be at higher risk no matter what, but their risk increases the more people that voluntarily don’t vaccinate.
Vaccines don’t always work because some people’s immune systems do not respond to them, while this is fairly rare, it is not a product liability or fraud problem.
Liability, probably not. But I think the point that he’s making is that a lot of the rhetoric seems to push people into thinking it’s 100% effective. But also I’ll be told that they are completely useless unless everyone gets them.
Yeah, they are neither 100% effective, nor are they useless unless everyone gets them.
^This. Thanks. Yes, the mysterious failures are a credibility issue for people like me. My conclusion is that the failure rate is probably higher than the medical industry knows about or wants to admit. With universal vaccination those failures are less obvious – theoretically vaccinated people are less likely to get exposed to the disease. When you add unvaccinated people to the mix, the high failure rate becomes much more obvious and harder to explain in the case of the theoretically vaccinated.
This issue was front and center in the anthrax kerfluffle. I believe there’s a chapter in there that deals with this. What do you do, for example, with conditions that seem to be unique (maybe genetic) to a particular race (sickle cell, G6PD deficiency, etc.) and for which there exists little to no safety data, or relatively high numbers of adverse effects from the vaccine? Fuck (((those people))) doesn’t seem like a good answer to me from the “EVERYONE MUST BE VAXXED” crowd.
And by the way, it’s worth taking a real close look at the numbers of kids who got polio as compared to the numbers of people who were killed/harmed by the mass vaccination program. These numbers are not nearly as compelling as everyone seems to believe, in my opinion.
That’s now way how we saw it too. In fact, it’s a position I myself took. We didn’t know what to do as it slowly became a small issue. In the end, we let the market decide.
Edit: That’s how we saw it too.
things for which there are civil remedies.
at the risk of making an emotional argument, the existence of a legal ‘remedy’ does not allow us to simply say “Oh you’ll be fine, just sue Smith Kline when your toddler gets polio and ends up a paraplegic or your teen gets mumps and ends up a eunuch. Damages generally work well in redressing contract violations not so well in remedying medical injuries. How much money would it take for you to voluntarily give up the use of your eyes? your legs? your dick?
Well, if you don’t get vaccinated, and you get the disease, you’ve got no legal remedy whatsoever. Being able to sue GSK at least gives you something.
The irony is that the safety obtained by several generations of mostly-compulsory vaccination has provided the necessary space for navel gazing about the morality of compulsory vaccination.
See above. Rufus made the point that it’s akin to all of the cool kids embracing Communism when their generation has never seen the dire effects.
That’s true, to a large extent, although the level of compliance largely mooted the question of compulsion.
Goddamit, Chewy. Why the hell do you have Lasership dealing with my package?? They are clearly the worst delivery company in America. I have seen more bad reviews for those fuckers than any company in America. Everybody knows this.
Whoa, are they nationwide? I live in Richmond and they deliver a lot of my Amazon orders. Never had anything lost, but some really odd delivery patterns.
I think I saw a couple of things from Lasership (and other shipping companies) here in Ohio before Amazon got their distribution centers up and delivering.
Yeah, I’ve seen Amazon branded delivery vehicles. I was surprised they were able to get away with that; some regulator somewhere must be having conniptions at the thought of them both selling stuff and delivering it.
Like a restaurant that delivers?
*ducks*
It won’t always be just their own stuff being delivered. Amazon’s actual business is building platforms, and shipping is going to be a big one.
Lasership handles all of Amazon’s same-day and 2-hour deliveries here in NYC. In my experience, they perform better than UPS, FedEx, or USPS but YMMV.
“The National Rifle Association is suing the city and county of San Francisco and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for declaring it a domestic terrorist organization earlier this month through a resolution passed by the board.”
NRA sues San Francisco for declaring it a domestic terrorist organization
By Drew Costley, SFGATE Published 5:27 pm PDT, Monday, September 9, 2019
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/NRA-sues-sf-bos-domestic-terrorist-lawsuit-14426455.php
Great. Now start suing over red-flag laws and other real abuses of 2A rather than pointless symbolic acts by lunatics.
Not sure how symbolic this is when government actually labels you as a terrorist. Hopefully the BoS will get smacked hard, but don’t count on it happening unless it reaches SCOTUS.
As to the other potential suits, remember the shell game of “legal standing.”
Meh. If it was a federal designation it might be concerning. What’s the SD city council to do, dispatch their counter-terrorism unit?
If you’re an NRA member in San Francisco, and I guarantee you there are some, I can see why this would be concerning.
Domino effect, Pat. If this doesn’t get smacked down hard and fast other municipal legislators will pull the same shit.
Or just maybe the city could use this to deny business to companies that have members or contribute to the NRA?
Isn’t the NRA’s main bank Wells Fargo? Aren’t they based in SF?
They don’t have one anyone.
sfgate.com/crime/article/SFPD-to-suspend-collaboration-with-FBI-10902116.php
SFGate also throws these 2 “related” links/clickbait in the article.
Murder suspect on US Marshals 15 Most Wanted list
GILROY SHOOTING: 4 killed, including suspected gunman, in Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting
No. What the NRA should have been doing is combing their membership lists for “the right sorts of people ™” and calling the cops and the FBI nonstop and demanding they arrest high ranking members of law enforcement and bodyguards for Team Blue politicians. This shit doesn’t end until the issue is forced.
The cop-lovers at the NRA are not about to do that. They need to clean their own house, first.
Dewey grounded his political philosophy of education in an admiration for human “plasticity,” the ability of young people to develop themselves in ways unanticipated by their elders. “The most precious part of plasticity,” Dewey contended, “consists in ability to form habits of independent judgment and of inventive initiation.” In his philosophy, environment is key, and so is difference. Young people learn, Dewey averred, in interaction with their surroundings, with teachers who conduct themselves with established habits of mind and peers whose ideas and habits diverge. Dewey exhorted his readers to recognize the importance of young people’s “potentialities,” and that these inchoate abilities are more than personal. They transcend the private realm. Democracy is a system that thrives on the renewal that young people will bring if they are taught to fashion themselves, together.
What would Dewey have to say about the system of k-12 public education which currently exists, I wonder. Would he pretend they were achieving any of those lofty goals? “Independent judgement and inventive initiation” are not what you’d call highly prized attributes in the modern sit-down-and-shut-up classroom.
But go ahead, dear, and argue from a set of completely fictitious premises.
Dewey was a socialist bordering on communist. I think he would look around and smile at how successful his plan had been. Much of what we attribute to stupidity actually should be credited to malice.
The educational system set up by Horace Mann never intended to foster independence or innovation among the students. It’s entire design was to train compliant factory workers and clerks while identifying the 1 in 100 who were exceptional who would then be prepared for college where they would be trained to be the top men who ruled the world
That’s not going to help. Lol.
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/09/09/tulsi-gabbard-yes-abortion-regulated-third-trimester/
Not with the dem base, but she doesn’t appeal to them anyway. That will attract a lot of independent and swing votes.
last i heard she was out of the next debate and Joe had a brain aneurysm. it’s all flaming leftists from here on out.
I appreciate the far more thoughtful and nuanced take on this than pretty much any other politician however this quote shows she still really does not know much about the issue. There are only a handful of medical issues which would require termination of the pregnancy past the start of the 3rd trimester and almost none of them would require an abortion rather than inducing labor or an emergency C-Section.
The 3rd trimester starts at 27 weeks of gestation, while it is technically possible for a fetus born that early to survive it is extremely unlikely and even if it does it is likely to have lifelong mental and health consequences. By the 30th week of gestation however odds of survival are quite good, especially if the doctors know that there is a high risk of having to deliver early as the mother can receive a steroid injection that greatly speeds up lung development in the fetus. Past the 30 week mark I have yet to hear of any medical condition which the mother could have which would result in a better health outcome for her having an abortion vs delivering the baby. So you have maybe 3 weeks into the 3rd trimester where there is any logic for having a “medically necessary” abortion.
The real cause for most medical 3rd trimester abortions, in fact based on the statistics we have the cause of somewhere around 95% of all 3rd trimester abortions is the discovery of severe birth defects in the fetus
Sometime during the third or fourth quarter last night, I pointed out to Spud that Flacco only had 56 more points to go to equal his replacement.
I felt a bit sorry for him. Yeah, he’s still a stationary object, but he had a couple of pretty first-rate passes dropped.
who is his replacement? or is that a statistical category?
Also who is Flacco ?
He’s the generic skinny Puerto Rican heroin dealer
He wrote a number of hit ’80s pop songs, including Der Commisar
Here’s something nice to brighten everyone’s day.
(Don’t worry, it’s not a Rickroll or horrible porn thing. But then, if it were, I wouldn’t tell you, would I?)
Don’t they have leash laws in NYC?
I was wondering how long it was gonna take…..but just 13 comments.
That is just too damn cute.
That’s so great
Sounds like the little white gelfling has two Daddies.
That’s exhausting just watching.
/I think the coffee’s ready
If I had ever let my 3 year olds get that far away from Arms Reach with traffic that close by, my wife would have strangled me.
That’s what I was thinking.
TW: Salon
Welcome to ‘Kochland’: We all live in the brothers’ libertarian utopia
Reporter Christopher Leonard on his “secret history” of the Koch brothers’ empire, and the world they created
Nothing better than straight, professional journalism
labor unions were a thuggish force – sorry but weren’t there like 100 cases where the mob controlled labor unions?
Also these people must have some good drugs if they can actually call the US libertarian.
But remember, criticizing the guy who is literally funding guerrilla campaigns in unstable states resulting in thousands of deaths, with money he won speculating with inside information on political and central banking instability in Soviet bloc countries during the collapse of the USSR is literally Nazism.
Criticism of Soros is de facto antisemitic.
Almost de jure, now…
Yeah… that would be real kooky.
Kochy?
*narrows gaze*
They always could, you know, amend the Constitution to expand the Fedgov’s power. I mean, if the need for a national government to engage in a given activity is so obvious and so great, then surely it would be easy to pass an amendment.
“I am not sure what Koch believes the federal government should do, besides protect property rights.”
IOW, you were too lazy and mendacious to actually engage libertarian thought. That notion is not unique to Koch, and is something libertarians talk a lot about. Let me do your homework for you; libertarian model federal government: President, Congress, Courts, DOD, NOAA/NWS (although vastly scaled back and short leashed), USCG, ICE, Border Patrol, US Dept of State.
I mean that’s also leaving aside that the dreaded Kochtopus model of so-called paternalistic libertarianism is indistinguishable from what was considered completely mainstream Third Way politics up until the American political left lost its fucking mind when Al Gore lost in 2000. They don’t want a government as scaled back as it was in 1976, let alone 1776.
The Constitution of the United States of America (which dates to 1787, not 1776) mentions a few other things and says nothing about ICE.
As long as you are enacting labor for the author, don’t forget to let the author know your findings about what the dead Koch believed.
An author who apparently is willing to write ill of the recently deceased.
I was pretty surprised at that. I suppose I shouldn’t have been, but I was still pretty shocked to see so many of the far left Dancing with Glee at news of his death.
Not writing a soliloquy in his honor is one thing, but laughing and joking and celebrating that this guy died is beyond anything I’ve seen from The far-right Who supposedly live their entire lives motivated by hate.
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals, Saul D. Alinsky, 1971
“Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.”
Make the man icky and people won’t even look at what he had to say.
The constitution gives Congress sole authority on immigration, customs, and the enforcement thereof, so ICE is one of the few alphabet soup organizations that has actual constitutional legitimacy. There are certainly plenty of problems with the way it currently functions, but unlike something like the FBI, ICE would still exist even with the most dramatic curtailment of the federal government back to 1787 levels.
Naturalization, not immigration. Numbers for Article, Section, Subsection or Paragraph, and Clause that says otherwise?
If you have no say in who can enter your country – you don’t have a country.
By that logic, if the FBI does not take over a case, then the offense(s) will go unpunished.
You’ll have to show your work on that leap to conclusions.
property rights.
That would be a damn good start.
“I am not sure what Koch believes the federal government should do…” Too bad there’s not some policy document to refer to.
Fred Koch was the co-founder of the John Birch Society, which was a secret society convinced that the American federal government was a Communist front group, essentially. They actually believed that Communists had infiltrated the federal government. The Birchers thought these Communists were “stealing” liberty.
Ok, I get that the Birchers went off in conspiracy fever dreams, but they were not wrong about their core conspiracy theory… The USSR had just about complete penetration of the US Government from FDR through Truman, and despite decades od vitriol hurled at Chambers, when the KGB archives were available after the wall fell everything he said was confirmed. Hiss was a traitor.
All libertarians are radical anarchists, so we have to continually expand the state lest we end up in total, lawless anarchy.
I’ve heard this before…
I love how this is implied to be some kind of wacky belief when it’s literally an exact description of the situation that nobody even denies (they just make up moral justifications for it). You ask any “progressive” about it, and they’ll tell you that the government must intervene in the free market to prevent us from reliving those horrible 1890s, and they’ll also insist that the government must take money from one group and give it to another to “fix inequality”.
But Koch is a total nutjob for believing such an absurd thing. Right.
Yeah, I found that to be the theme of most of that excerpt. Simply stating the obvious truths as if they were malevolent, evil, insane lies.
In fact, the only word in there that anyone would quibble with is the use of the word theft. They would take great exception at that descriptor, but not argue at all with the mechanics of what is happening or what should happen.
What the hell is a Fanged Noumena ? Hmmm lemme google that
UCS pron:
Cerys Matthews: ‘I wear my driving gloves to go round the corner to the shops’
I agree on hats. I am not a hat person. But I wish I was. I should have picked out a hat style in college and stuck with it the last 30 years.
Baseball cap for nigh on fifty years. Wore a felt flat cap for a time in the eighties. Balding, now.
I’ll tell you what it is, it is an inslut to child development!
I’m sure locked up fathers will get the same leniency?
Just identify as a pregnant woman
in-slut?
Excellent John-O
Uffda. That was a bad one.
Great – let’s incentivize women becoming pregnant in jail while awaiting trial (yes, it can be done) so that they get off with no time.
For 10 years, I have avoided penetration because of pain
ACE chat rooms?
https://youtu.be/IU3YTKnT1Lc
So just date women, no penetration required
Back door ain’t got no vulvar vestibulitis.
Just sayin’
My take on vaccinations is that it is retarded to not vaccinate your children at all. I took the precautionary Rand Paul approach and spread the schedule out when mine were infants. At the same time I think the hysteria over measles and chickenpox outbreaks are equally retarded.
Got my kids vaccinated. They got the chicken pox vaccine cause why not, but I do agree that it’s a bit more of a convinence than life saving.
I always thought measels was fairly serious.
On chicken pox, the bigger deal, to me, is that if you have never had chicken pox, you can’t get shingles.
So now I am looking at having to get a shingles vaccination instead.
This. My mom purposely infected my siblings when I got chicken pox so we could get it out the way. Now I know that shit can come back to bite you.
You have the anti-vaxers on one side screaming you’re gonna die and the left wing on the other side screaming you’re going to kill us! I’m in the middle saying kids, you’re both stupid.
Except if you look up things like how many people did measles kill a hundred years ago, you get a bit of a different take on it.
Take a look at it photos from the 40s of iron lung wards. Before vaccinations wiped out smallpox and nearly wiped out polio, those diseases literally killed and maimed Millions.
There’s a reason we picked these diseases for vaccination. They are no joke.
There’s also a reason they didn’t get around to chickenpox until half a century later. It isn’t in the same league, that’s for sure.
For the last 50 years, infectious disease has mostly seemed to be an inconvenience. With the exception of AIDS, there hasn’t really been a killer run-amok. At least not here. And AIDS was never real for the majority of us, not being gay or intravenous drug users. And now even that threat is remote As drug cocktails have removed the 2-year death sentence.
You want everyone to get vaccinated. Make no mistake about it. Eradicating these diseases changes the quality of life for everyone on the planet.
The only reason we still have to get vaccinated for polio is that a few small pockets in Africa are refusing to go all in on vaccinating, so the disease is still hanging around. If health workers could just get in there and wipe it out once and for all, we could toss those vaccines in 2 deep storage just like we did with smallpox.
Woke Virginia.
Dr. Janice Underwood will join Northam’s administration as Virginia’s first-ever Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.
Governor Northam announced Monday that Dr. Underwood, former Director of Diversity initiatives at Old Dominion University will take on the senior-level position.
The position was announced in May after Northam’s office said the idea came from talking to community leaders throughout the state.
As the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Underwood will be tasked with creating inclusive practices for state agency employees as well as looking at inequities in how state policies are implemented. …
“In fact, one of the things that attracted me to this position was Gov. Northam’s unprecedented commitment to rebuilding the trust we have in him,” Dr. Underwood said. “He hasn’t always gotten it right. But what I respect the most is that he’s willing to learn and do the work.”
When asked by a reporter if this hire would have happened if the events in February did not take place, Gov. Northam said Virginians have a heightened awareness about equity issues.
“There’s a higher level of awareness in Virginia right now,” Dr. Underwood added. “I have said all along, I have listened, I have learned a lot, and I have a lot more to learn,” Gov. Northam added. “The more I know the more I can do and the thing I have learned especially is that there are these inequities that exist in our society today.”
As the Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Dr. Underwood will be tasked with creating inclusive practices for state agency employees
Nothing says equity and fighting racism like creating another government gravy train
FTFY
And a bureaucratic empire. That will be job one. MOAR MUNNEEZ. For more staff and perks.
“Dr. Janice Underwood will join Northam’s administration as Virginia’s first-ever Director of
Diversity, Equity and InclusionVoodoo.”Zampolits do not use voodoo. They use gulags. Gulags are a much more effective curse.
Dat’s baaad Ju-ju!
another race-baiting social justice grifter who found out those jobs don’t exist in the private sector except at woke megacorps. lemme guess.. it pays $280K per year. digging around..
salary “will be commensurate with other senior positions in the administration,”
okay, that’s in the $150-160K range.
That’s more than Wifey and I make combined and you can add a few tens of grand to that. Ah well, it’s what plants crave!
Re: Vaccines.
I am pro-vaccine.
Also, fuck off slavers, I will make the decision for my own kid.
Also, also, fuck you, I am not a herd animal.
Damn straight! Humans are much too busy blindly following our teams down to hell to ever form into a herd.
And yet you live in one. At least for the purposes of disease transmission.
Strange how things like that work out.
” I am not a herd animal.”
You are a college football fan, so you are definitely a herd animal.
The Astros scored 15 runs, bringing their total from the last two games to 36.
STL has a 5% shot at winning the Series
You’re Catholic?
Sex: If So Many Of Us Are Doing It, Then Why Do I Feel So Guilty?
This is what happens when you throw away all of history and tradition.
Even if you think that the historical push for monogamy is too extreme, she would benefit for waiting for someone she has an intimate relationship with outside of sex.
But feminism has sold that as a lie too. And pushed for extremism in the other direction.
Uffda. The Man is definitely the master of tricknology. This poor gal seriously thought that letting The Man repeatedly stick it inside her was a good way to stick it to The Man?
“No the briar patch!”
Whatever you have to tell yourself, honey.
There’s got to be some middle ground instruction between “fuck like a man and deny your female feelings of lack of post-coital pair bonding” and “nobody likes a cupcake with the icing licked off.”
(Me: Romance novels taught me to save it for when you found the right man. Then he will masterfully seduce you so you don’t have to bear any responsibility and the only reason he did that was because you’re the one for him.)
Oh there most certainly is but in the culture war there is no room for nuance or shades of grey, you are required to be a complete prude only having sex in the missionary position for the purposes of procreating after you get married or a slut who will fuck anything regardless of gender or species
Try-sexual.
“stick it to The Man”
Sounds like The Man was sticking it to you; repeatedly.
Further: if your behavior is only in service of proving some abstract political point, it’s no wonder you’re miserable.
Try doing what you actually want minus the social signaling and you’ll be much happier.
Sometimes, figuring out what you want to do (or, in my case, how to survive in the world doing what you want to do) is the difficult part.
has anyone ever read this description?
Vulgar libertarianism
I remember encountering the term on blogs years and years ago. I think it fell into disuse. It’s a more or less apt description of the Koch/Reason variety of libertarianism.
Of course, it is extremely useful to break down an already minuscule and loosely defined political philosophy into infinitesimal sub-categories lest you actually popularize your ideas and use them as the basis of a real political coalition.
A political philosophy based on radical individualism has failure baked in. Embrace the hopelessness, Pat. Let apathy wash over you like a warm Caribbean wave.
Done and done. To be completely honest I really don’t even care about libertarian politics anymore. Kinda why I’ve been more scarce lately.
I’m just here for the guns & booze talk.
“free market anti-capitalist”
Sounds legit. Like “libertarian socialist”.
As opposed to the selfless philosophy of taking other people’s stuff, JKG?
they seem to have trouble remembering, from one moment to the next, whether they’re defending actually existing
capitalismsocialism orfree marketMarxist principlesSeems like a disease common to many ideologies…
I cant read all of that. Geez. Collectivists simply cant grok individualists so their attempts to suss out individualism comes out as gibberish. Not worth the effort to read.
What reason has politics given to me to *not* treat it cynically?
rationalwiki is a haven for lefties who were too spergy for wikipedia. I’m not kidding.
Why am I so sensitive to the sound of people talking in the office? The endless chatter of even work-related crap spilling over the cube walls has made me almost shout and endless stream of “shut up”s at all and sundry. It’s really driving up my tension and stress levels.
is it just the noise itself
or is it a creeping anxiety because you can suss out the discussion and the issues and know what to do but because you’re not situated to take over and tell them what to do they’re going to stand around and mull over a string of predictable solutions, each of which you already know is inept because of client interests, financial viability, or technical span, but you hear the first line and you know the next line and the next line and you dread the dull Hooterville predictability of the next line and you just can’t pop over there and tell them all to
SHUT THE FUCK UP AND GO BACK TO YOUR DOGHOUSE AND DO YOUR FUCKING JOB!!11!!
I mean, just guessing, not that I feel that way often, saw it in a Lifetime movie or something, so, maybe there’s that, but, I mean, who knows
They’re talking about the state of various pieces of hardware moved out of unused spaces and what can and can’t be reused. It’s desktop support – which is a different unit, and nothing they’ve said is actually wrong or inept. But they just won’t shut up.
financial viability has nothing to do with it, he works for NY state.
Also, get out of my head Don.
I’d take talking in Cubeville in a second. The person just over the wall from me spends the first hour or so sniffling the same wad of snot over and over again (pro tip: blow your fucking nose!). Then she rounds out the morning with some impressive hacking coughs. That clears her afternoon up for chewing gum with her gob wide open and popping bubbles.
Thank doG for noise canceling headphones. I keep them cranked up and going all day. What kills me is when we have teleconferences from our desks. That means I can’t crank the volume up and during dead spots during the conversation I have to listen to her. It is also makes me sound super professional when it is my turn to talk and in the background you can hear her hacking up a lung.
Why don’t I complain? Because she’s a loud aggressive chick from Nigeria who has complained to HR already about how her team mates treat her. No way I want any part of that. Besides she works from home a lot so there is that.
Strychnine on the chewing gum with a cyanide chaser.
Totally a case of self-defense.
The guy next to me grew up in the southern part of the state (mostly Germans) and her sniffling doesn’t bother him at all. From a very unscientific survey of other coworkers, it seems like the people that grew up in Norwegianville have a insane hatred for sniffling.
What about you other normies? Sniffling deserves a slap to the back of the head? Yes or no?
Yes.
The gum cracking deserves a gut punch.
As someone with allergies who often fights (and loses) battles with the sniffles and coughs -despite medicine and nose blowing- I say cut her some slack.
Now, the gum thing…
Yeah, but even a NoDak like you knows enough to blow your nose. When you sniffle that mucus just goes up into your sinus and then gravity makes it come right back down. The rest of us aren’t impressed with your snot yo-yo abilities.
I’m not talking about every sniffle. I get that sometimes you get a bit of snot and don’t have a kleenex nearby. But when you sniffle the same chunk of snot all morning, you clearly need a slap.
No, I get it. There’s a difference between “I’m really trying not to”, and, “I don’t give a shit *snif*”
I hate that shit too. And for some reason, the attempts at whispering annoy me more than talking at regular volume. I think it’s because my instinct is to try to listen to whispering, but I can just block out regular talk.
I used to have this fucking job where I was apparently the only one in the office who actually had to be at the computer doing work all day. Everyone else rolled in at 9, spent the first hour chatting with all their friends and scavenging for donuts, took a two hour lunch, and left before 5. It was aggravating to try to do my mountains of work while everyone else was just yammering about getting little Susie ready for picture day, the dog’s latest anal parasite infection, or falling off an ATV last week. I quit that job very quickly. I think it’s actually the shortest tenure I’ve ever had at a job (four months).
It’s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges
Bringing elite athletic talent back to black colleges would have potent downstream effects. It would boost HBCU revenues and endowments; stimulate the economy of the black communities in which many of these schools are embedded; amplify the power of black coaches, who are often excluded from prominent positions at predominantly white institutions; and bring the benefits of black labor back to black people. In the general culture, prominent figures such as Beyoncé, LeBron James, and the recently slain rapper Nipsey Hussle have argued that African Americans should be using their talents not just to enrich themselves but to help strengthen and empower black communities. “Gentrify your own hood before these people do it,” Jay-Z rapped at the concert that reopened Webster Hall in New York City in April. “Claim eminent domain and have your people move in.”
If promising black student athletes chose to attend HBCUs in greater numbers, they would, at a minimum, bring some welcome attention and money to beleaguered black colleges, which invested in black people when there was no athletic profit to reap. More revolutionarily, perhaps they could disrupt the reign of an “amateur” sports system that uses the labor of black folks to make white folks rich.
God help me, but I think Jemele Hill make sense here.
“No one can reach the NFL from an HBCU” — Jerry Rice
I could see that being different now.
Nope. The NFL will find you if you have talent.
Tytus Howard was the 23rd overall pick this year from Alabama St.
I think we are agreeing. Jerry’s statement, I’m presuming, was from a long time ago. Now, with scouting budgets and tools that would make politicians think it was real money. NFL teams sniff out talent from anywhere they can.
No, I was being sarcastic, Jerry never said that. Because he came from an HBCU.
My depth of football knowledge was shown wanting there.
“Come on!”
– Steve McNair
+1 Walter Payton
/ also from Mississippi via HBCU
South Park did it already.
Marcus Garvey agrees.
I don’t believe that’s accurate for coaches any more than athletes.
Hill is reversing cause and effect, again. Alabama football fans aren’t watching for the elite black players, but because of brand loyalty. If it was just a bunch of white kids bumbling around and the HBCU’s had this high level of gameplay, most of the attention and the money is going to stay with the bumbling white kids at the giant state school.
I think Alabama would still be pretty good by recruiting the best white kids in the country, and they would likely remain successful as a result, but it would impact other college programs. The five best basketball players in the country getting together and playing for a HBCU would be huge for that school.
It’s a decent idea in theory, but overlooks better options.
“The five best basketball players in the country getting together and playing for a HBCU would be huge for that school. ”
Not likely. The only reason the five best 18-year old basketball players are going to college is because of the NBA Player’s Union.
But let’s not ignore the elephant in the room: the only thing more corrupt than NCAA Division I sports is Congress.
coined by the “free market anti-capitalist” blogger Kevin Carson.
That guy is a fucking moron.
Atlantic chin-scratcher about population decline in major metro areas
Is this the age of the great metropolitan exodus? In 2018, the New York City area lost more than 100,000 people to other cities and suburbs—that’s 277 people leaving every day. The Los Angeles and Chicago areas lost, respectively, 201 and 161 residents each day. It’s quite a change from the post–Great Recession period, when an urban renaissance was supposedly sweeping the country and all three metro areas were experiencing a population boomlet.
What’s going on? And where is everybody going?
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But in many ways, Chicago’s problems make it a canary in the metropolitan coal mine. Immigration to the area has declined by half since the early 2000s. High earners have swarmed the Chicago River banks, revitalizing the downtown area, but the more diverse middle class, especially the city’s African American population, is evacuating Chicago’s suburbs. During the Great Migration of the 20th century, when millions of black Americans moved to northern cities, the population of Chicago went from 4 percent black in 1920 to nearly 40 percent black by 1990. But this century has seen a “Reverse Great Migration,” as the metro black population is on pace to halve from its peak of 1.2 million by 2030. This could reflect a flight from high-crime neighborhoods and the racist legacy of redlining throughout Chicagoland. Less pessimistically, it might be a sign that a lot of young black families would just rather live where they can afford more house, like in the suburbs of Atlanta and Houston.
Each of these Chicago phenomena—declining immigration, revitalized downtowns coinciding with a middle-class exodus, and the specific decline of the black population—has spread from the heartland to America’s largest coastal metros.
The racist legacy of redlining. That’s it.
It certainly isn’t the sky high property taxes, high cost of living, crime, miserable schools, heavy sales taxes and dysfunctional government. Nope. Must be something insidious and racissss.
Well pretty much everything you list is directly attributable to the Democratic party. So yes, something insidious and racist is to blame.
But Chicago had a Rethuglican mayor in the 1920s!
“What’s going on? And where is everybody going?”
Baby Boomers (largest number of births) start dying off, outpacing the number of births. In other words it’s a mathematical certainty, well-known in 1964 by anyone who gave a shit.
Still, one would think the environmentalists and ZPG’ers would be happy with the way the math is working out.
“The Los Angeles and Chicago areas lost, respectively, 201 and 161 residents each day.”
And how many government FTE’s are they losing each day? My guess is less than zero.
“Lose”? You mean “has the growth in gubermint employment slowed much?”
FIFY
Democracy is dying
The last half of the 20th century was the golden age of democracy. In 1945, according to one survey, there were just 12 democracies in the entire world. By the end of the century there were 87. But then came the great reversal: In the second decade of the 21st century, the shift to democracy rather suddenly and ominously stopped—and reversed.
Right-wing populist politicians have taken power or threatened to in Poland, Hungary, France, Britain, Italy, Brazil and the United States. As Rosenberg notes, “by some metrics, the right wing populist share of the popular vote in Europe overall has more than tripled from 4% in 1998 to approximately 13% in 2018.” In Germany, the right-wing populist vote increased even after the end of the Great Recession and after an influx of immigrants entering the country subsided.
A brief three decades after some had heralded the “end of history” it’s possible that it’s democracy that’s nearing the end. And it’s not just populist rabble-rousers who are saying this. So is one of the establishment’s pioneer social scientists, who’s daring to actually predict the end of democracy as we know it.
Rosenberg, who earned degrees at Yale, Oxford and Harvard, may be the social scientist for our time if events play out as he suggests they will. His theory is that over the next few decades, the number of large Western-style democracies around the globe will continue to shrink, and those that remain will become shells of themselves. Taking democracy’s place, Rosenberg says, will be right-wing populist governments that offer voters simple answers to complicated questions.
And therein lies the core of his argument: Democracy is hard work and requires a lot from those who participate in it. It requires people to respect those with different views from theirs and people who don’t look like them. It asks citizens to be able to sift through large amounts of information and process the good from the bad, the true from the false. It requires thoughtfulness, discipline and logic.
Thoughtfulness, discipline and logic; all liberal traits. Not like those narrow minded authoritarian populist Nazis.
It couldn’t POSSIBLY be that the self-anointed Masters of the Universe began blatantly ignoring the will of the voters and pursuing policies that were detrimental to their constituencies. No siree Bob. Unfortunately, when your only two options suck (Technocratic Neo-Monarchy vs. Right Wing Populism) you will probably go with the new, shiny one instead of the one currently screwing you over.
So typical. It’s not really democracy unless left-wing socialists are in charge. You know, like in Venezuela’s thriving democracy.
Notice that the author is not talking about countries such as Turkey which face the possibility of electing a government that will end fair elections. This prima facia appears to be (except for the last paragraph) defining “democracy” as ‘when the choices I agree with win.’
OFFS.
Also isn’t it telling. They are saying any right wing party (winning democratic elections) is a threat to democracy.
“It asks citizens to be able to sift through large amounts of information and process the good from the bad, the true from the false. It requires thoughtfulness, discipline and logic.”
It requires the average man to have an above average understanding of political questions.
I like how 1945 marks the beginning of the “golden age”. By that time democracy/ republicanism had been completely superceded by facisim. But now that we have SNP we have to pretend that democracy is faltering now.
Yep, those damn right-wingers and their simple answers. It’s not like the Democrat Party’s answer to every single issue is “tax the rich and make it freeeeeeee!!!”
“Right-wing populist politicians have taken power or threatened to in Poland, Hungary, France, Britain, Italy, Brazil and the United States.”
And they took power how, again? Oh, that’s right; through democratic elections. It’s only democracy when the right people are elected.
…or what everyone else said.
Artist David Hockney leaves Los Angeles after 55 years to live out the rest of his days in France because he can ‘smoke in restaurants’ and the French ‘know how to live’
A man who knows what matters. Ciggies > American “freedom”
Eh, consumer preference and all that. Nobody cares as much about some general conception of freedom as they do some particular freedom that is subjectively more important to their overall quality of life. Like it’s awesome if you can get buttfucked by a Mexican budtender in the middle of town square while you’re both high on peyote, but if you’re a white supremacist straight edge fag hater those freedoms don’t really affect you personally, and you might be OK with living in some backwater where public anal fornication and recreational drugs are illegal as long as you can fly a Nazi flag and preach the gospel on the street corner without a permit.
You said nothing about ciggies.
Every character in that story smokes ciggies, just to be clear.
Is it a fair reading of this that an elected Republican said that the US government should be in charge of “orchestrating” nongovernmental and governmental “recovery efforts” for somewhere that is NOT part of the US?
Florida Republican “Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday.
DeSantis, who along with U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and U.S. Sen. Rick Scott received an aerial tour of the Bahamas on Friday from the U.S. Coast Guard, said the U.S. Department of State is responsible for orchestrating recovery efforts for the foreign nation, which got slammed last week by the deadly Category 5 Hurricane Dorian.” — Jim Turner, the News Service of Florida on Tue, Sep 10, 2019 at 12:01 AM
orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2019/09/10/florida-gov-ron-desantis-says-the-federal-government-should-pay-up-for-hurricane-dorian-prep
Yes. But Florida. Caribbean immigrants are a huge voting block, and they’re going to pander as much as possible.
The goddamn Hispanics are stealing our White Man’s Burden.
Not quite. He’s saying any assistance from the United States to another country should come from the federal government, not his state.
Including nongovernmental as should be gone to a US government borrow-and-tax financed monopoly?
Vols’ homemade T-shirt design seeing brisk sales
Molyneaux is right – girls are evil! NO MORE GIRLS! NO MA’AM!
Bring back the National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood!
What happened to fourth-graders who would just punch or push down other kids that pissed them off?
Boys can’t bully anymore – only girls can bully! THIS IS WHAT THE LIBS WANT!
The hell?
My kid’s school’s doing it today. Just a day to get out of the school uniform and wear a t-shirt with your (parents) favorite college colors.
Western NY was not a hotbed of interest in college sports, TBF.
Mine do it too, a couple of times per year. It’s a southern thing. Probably Texas too, I’d guess.
I miss the days when lunatics would just write manifestos nobody read instead of posting online.
https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/friend-tv-show-criticism-trump
Friends sucked ass under Clinton, Bush and Obama and will continue to suck under Trump, Harris, Warren or whoever wins the US presidential election for the rest of eternity.
The Seinfeld episode where Jerry frets than Kenny Bania’s career is only taking off because he’s always following Jerry was such an awesome fuck-you to Friends.
There are some exquisite tidbits in that link:
IOW, the show was an accurate depiction of the neighborhood in which it was set?
Sounds very normal.
My absolute favorite bit, however, is the author bio blurb at the end:
And by a strange coincidence, also the location of the building used for exterior shots of their home.
Pleasant Valley woman killed at home in dog attack: Police
Your dogs will turn on you. They aren’t your friends.
“coonhounds”
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACIST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!eleven!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think that was a typo. I’m pretty sure it should have been “poonhounds”
A Pleasant Valley woman was killed in a dog attack at her home, according to state police.
Arlene Renna, 67, suffered life-threatening injuries, which police determined were consistent with a dog attack. Renna died at the scene.
For the love of all that is holy, will journalism and English teachers stop progging and actually teach people the basics of writing?
Social activism >> learning.
Tragic and sad, of course, but I’m a little disappointed in You People
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-Gxl1iSL4
Usually it is cats that you have to worry about.
SHUT UP LIBTARD
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/10/soros-offers-rare-praise-for-trumps-handling-of-huawei-in-trade-war.html
I think we can assume that Soros has a lot of money invested in Huawei’s competitors.
Quad Webb Had Her Ex’s Imprint Steamed out of Her Vagina & We Have All the Details
Men, when next in the throes of passion with a lucky lady (remind her she is lucky – they love that) let her know that you are imprinting her vagina – she will love it.
Good on that dentist for branching out into fleecing rich morons with snake oil. A fool and his money and all that…
Further: if I imprint a woman’s anus, what happens to that imprint the next time she takes a shit?
Y.T. aims herself at the curb, hits it at a fast running velocity, the spokes of the smartwheels see it coming and retract in the right way so that she glides from street to lawn without a hitch. Across the lawn, the feet leave a trail of hexagonal padmarks. A stray dog turd, red with meaty undigestible food coloring, is embossed with the RadiKS logo, a mirror image of which is printed on the tread of each spoke.
Imprinting like baby birds? or imprinting like branding cattle?
Embrace the power of “and”.
come on now!
She is one of the most sought after dentists in the nation.
So why is Rosenberg, who made his name back in the 1980s with a study that disturbingly showed that many voters select candidates on the basis of their looks, predicting the end of democracy now?
He has concluded that the reason for right-wing populists’ recent success is that “elites” are losing control of the institutions that have traditionally saved people from their most undemocratic impulses. When people are left to make political decisions on their own they drift toward the simple solutions right-wing populists worldwide offer: a deadly mix of xenophobia, racism and authoritarianism.
The elites, as Rosenberg defines them, are the people holding power at the top of the economic, political and intellectual pyramid who have “the motivation to support democratic culture and institutions and the power to do so effectively.” In their roles as senators, journalists, professors, judges and government administrators, to name a few, the elites have traditionally held sway over public discourse and U.S. institutions—and have in that role helped the populace understand the importance democratic values. But today that is changing. Thanks to social media and new technologies, anyone with access to the Internet can publish a blog and garner attention for their cause—even if it’s rooted in conspiracy and is based on a false claim, like the lie that Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring from the basement of a Washington D.C. pizza parlor, which ended in a shooting.
Democracy was better when it was a charade perpetrated by the Right People.
Reminder from excerpt upthread: Rosenberg, “the social scientist of our time,” has degrees from Harvard, Yale, and Oxford.
anyone with access to the Internet can publish a blog and garner attention for their cause—even if it’s rooted in conspiracy and is based on a false claim, like the lie that
Hillary Clinton was running a child sex ring from the basement of a Washington D.C. pizza parlorDonald Trump colluded with the Russian government to influence the 2016 election which ended ina shootingmillions of dollars wasted on an investigation that turned up absolutely no evidence of that claim.Many U.S. farmers fume at Washington, not Trump, over biofuel, trade policies
That damned Deep State has seized the means of food production!
if I imprint a woman’s anus, what happens to that imprint the next time she takes a shit?
The turd looks just like you?
Guys Are Reporting Women on Tinder for the Crime of Not Being Into Them
He persists.
Passive aggressive dudes get you banned from Tinder. Passive aggressive chicks get you arrested and charged with rape. Men are from mars, women are from venus.
Shorter article: People Suck, Dating Sucks.
Also in sports, team USA beat Brazil at the FIBA World Cup yesterday, advancing to the quarterfinals and clinching a berth in next year’s Olympics. Considering this is a team with mostly second- and third-tier players (just two allstars) that was not necessarily automatic. And despite his accomplishments and advanced age (and wokeness!), Popovich is not mailing in the job of coaching these guys. Don’t have the same offensive skill sets as some of the European players? Capitalize on their advantages of depth and athleticism, defend hard and get out and run off turnovers and misses. They’ve got a quarterfinal game against France tomorrow morning USA time when their run might come to an end, but it’s been a different sort of team to watch this year, maybe most like the 1998 team that was thrown together without NBA players at the last minute (because of the lockout) that went on to win bronze.
Will the USA be able to defend Fournier/Gorbert pick and roll – remember they had trouble with two Brazilians in their late 30s?
Will Kemba Walker – clearly the USA’s team leader – have to put up thirty?
Even if the USA beats France, do they even have a chance against Australia?
Nothing between first and seventh would surprise me about team USA. They should finish ahead of Poland or Czech Republic if they end up in the losers bracket. Australia and France were pretty evenly matched in their last game of group play, and the US split with Australia in a pair of warm up games. But I don’t know if Australia will get by Spain in that semi. I also expect USA (if they beat France) would get by Argentina in the other semi. It’s a lot less certain than their games from 2007-2016 were though.
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They’re saving you from yourself. Be grateful.
The Mystery of the Missing Husbands
See men, they won’t have us, so start smoking ciggies becausee you may as well live it up.
Maybe it’s because marriage is a bad deal for men and they aren’t buying anymore.
I can’t imagine why decades of policies designed to lead to these results led to these results.
Boggles the mind.
“synthetic spouses”
I see your problem. If you’re comparing to some abstract ideal, you’ll never be satisfied.
Got a kick out of this earlier.
So despite feminism and the sexual revolution women still look for the exact same damn thing in a husband.
less often
So they’re staying married when they do, or they’re not getting remarried as frequently?
and new research from a group of economists suggests their would-be partners are just not up to snuff.
Or maybe, they’re expectation that a husband be financially “up to snuff” suggests that to potential husbands that they aren’t morally up to snuff.
It’s been pretty common knowledge that most women would like to “marry up”, to someone of higher (or at least perceived higher) status. Since women are now something near 60% of college graduates and also get the “diversity” advantage in hiring and promotions, that leaves relatively fewer men who are of sufficient economic and social status to be considered prime marriage material. Add to that the inherent risks to men if a marriage goes bad, and this is really unsurprising.
SHUT UP MRA-TARD
HYPERGAMY IS A MYTH
Hypergamy is understandable and acceptable in the context of the traditional relationship between the sexes. But, feminists in particular, and women more generally have decided that relationship isn’t something they find acceptable. Well, okay, but that implies, or at least should imply, a fundamental rearrangement of the contract. And the response from most women, at least according to this study, seems to be “That’s not faaaaiiiirrrr!!!” Well, no, it’s precisely fair. If women want absolute equality to men (and I can accept that), to turn around and say the guy’s got to be the provider and financial protector and the rest means they want the guy to sacrifice himself to their desires and advantage.
I was in briefings with some administrators at a couple of university campuses last week, with legislators present. When asked the male-female ratios of the enrollment, the brass at both said “two-thirds female.” This was met with shrugs.
Many people – particularly a lot of women – still consider it the man’s job to earn most of the income. If you ever overhear women talking about potential mates, you’ll always catch a number of phrases intended to convey the fact that the dude is broke (“he’s a loser” or “he has no ambition”).
I think that casts an interesting new light on this gender pay gap hoax: A lot of the lower-earning females could be women who are married to a high-earning man and therefore have the luxury of taking the job they enjoy rather than the job that pays a lot. It’s aggravating that this whole issue gets boiled down to one single statistic (75 cents for every dollar a man makes!!) with absolutely no interest in other facts that could explain why there appears to be a gap.
^THISTHISTHIS
Looking around my extended social group and especially at places I’ve worked, I’ve found that, overwhelmingly, women tend to either be less interested in developing and maintaining a career at all and/or make career decisions based on the assumption that there will be a man in the picture making at least as much money if not more. Several women I’ve known who described themselves as feminists have become stay-at-home moms. With one exception, all of the “soft skill” non-technical roles where I work are filled by women, especially young women, and most of the people who work for a nonprofit are women, both of which result in lower salaries and lower, less rigid time and effort commitments. And this is true even in organizations that are helmed by women, with women in management and in hiring positions.
I have never, ever met a man who ever entertained the notion of being a stay-at-home dad or a kept man or anything, and never even heard of a woman interested in making the offer to anyone, including other women.
My brother is, though not voluntarily. He has a few mental disorders that make him basically unemployable except as a freelancer and his industry, freelancing is almost not heard of. My SIL is a programmer and makes really good money, and could never be a stay-at-home mom, so it doesn’t actually make sense for them to switch to proper “gender roles.”
(And now, her company went public so they went from sorta struggling to “very well off” almost overnight, after 20 years of her work.)
Further, their kids have health issues that preclude both of them having full-time jobs. So he’s a chauffeur most of his non-“working” hours.
That said, he is a hobby farmer and can do a lot of construction work on his house, maintains everything, clears his land, etc. He also just bought two properties here in KC to rent so he has set his sights on becoming a slumlord.
They live on the outskirts of Seattle, so the house and land they bought many years ago is now worth half a gazillion dollars, but they can’t afford to sell because they’d have to pay more for less.
I do not have a problem with stay-at-home dads necessarily, but it either makes one look at the monetary value of homemaking differently or it makes one think “what a loser.”
I have the same ones, so I am empathetic.
However, I CAN freelance.
I’ll also note that traditional hypergamy was more prospective, as opposed to the more immediate gratification orientation of the modern hypergamy described here. People married younger. So, the guys didn’t really have a lot of opportunity to amass wealth or status. The prospective was “He will be a good provider.” or “He will make a good father.” What we see here is a demand that the guy already have wealth and status.
Yeah, it’s interesting that so many women respondents are unwilling to “marry down” but see nothing strange about expecting that from a man. And then will proceed to reject every “traditional” female role in the home or in a committed relationship. To hell with Captain Marvel, wake me up when a majority of women with college degrees and six-figure incomes are marrying men expecting them to stay at home and take care of the house and kids.
Captain Marvel had to suffer through the horror of someone once wondering whether a girl would be good at baseball. It was basically her own personal holocaust.
I don’t see why that would distress Billy Batson, but *shrugs* who knows with Comics writers these days.
How the Hell is White Claw Hard Seltzer Outselling Budweiser?
Reminder: a bunch of geniuses on posting here had no idea what tha Claw was.
the Loko is an about-to-be-banned game changer.
Vape pens and vodka soda < ciggies and bad American beer imho
fascinating. i’ve never heard of hard seltzer before now. and it’s outselling Bud? holy shit that’s a massive market dominated by two players??
Zima round two.
that shit ended up causing babies with tiny heads.
AOC Zima connection?
And Mikes has been doing great business for twenty years. Isn’t this just carbonated Mikes?
No sugar so it appeals to the skinny sluts mentioned below.
Mikes Light?
It first started being launched ~ 2 years ago. White Claw and Truly were the first movers, with several other brands jumping in. It was also something that some of the craft breweries (such as Platform) started dabbling in too. I have hope it’s a fad, like the hard pop bubble was. Yeah, you still have Not Your Father’s, but you don’t see a dozen different brands of hard pop sitting on the grocery store shelf anymore.
NYF Rootbeer is very good, once in a while. As in, a six pack lasts me all summer.
So you’re not old enough to remember the wine cooler fad?
My nieces drink hard seltzer. I tired some – not for me, way too sweet. Might as well just pour some Coke into a mug of whiskey.
I don’t mind it, but I can’t imagine having a bunch of them.
I remember the wine cooler fad as well. But that was before I really started getting into the craft beer/alcohol scene. There’s even an alcoholic flavored still water that’s out now. You’ve also got the current trend towards premixed cocktails coming back again.
Two words: skinny sluts.
Zima apparently was just brought out before its time.
They brought Zima back last year (or so).
And I know people with fond memories of college parties who went and bought some.
I liked Zima. $3 for a six-pack once it became unfashionable didn’t hurt either.
I was at a tailgater over the weekend and a guy had a cooler full of White Claw. He said it fits into his low-carb diet.
Breakfast time at the hotel. Some asshole thinks his outdoor voice is appropriate for a conversation with his table mates. At least the tv has the volume off.
Did you ask him to get off of your lawn?
Just join in their conversation. Apparently its intended to include everyone.
Holes poked in CNN report blaming Trump for alarm that led to extraction of Kremlin informant
I don’t know who to believe!
Attempted undermining of Trump and removal of a spy, and who wins? It doesn’t take much tin foil to believe that CNN is working, knowing or unknowing, on behalf of the Russians.
You female Glibs are so lucky that we aren’t into generalizations. Otherwise, we’d be lumping you in with this wacky lady who thinks that Trump’s biggest failing is that he lacks empathy. And then we’d be lamenting giving women the vote (even though I’m sure you are splendid Glibs and don’t vote voluntarily).
Those rules are so mean! Why doesn’t Trump just make an exception this one time? He is such a boogerhead!
See: principle-based vs. care-based morality.
Is care based morality like: “I don’t care, so it’s not wrong?”
It’s basically letting feelz override rational sense of right and wrong.
“What about the children?!?” elevated to a moral philosophy.
Cooper’s a Vanderbilt, so I have little empathy for the comparison between him and Trump.
LOL now do Hillary
*projectile vomits*
*Evil Laugh*
WHY AM I NOT 50 POINTS AHEAD????
You took the “Unlikable” trait three times to offset the “Criminal Mastermind” Perk.
That seems pretty light on “empathy”. If you both have a very similar experience it doesn’t take much empathy to understand the emotions the other person is/may be going through.
Maybe you should empathize with Donny two scoops who didn’t have the same experiences that you did as a child.
Empathy is meaningless without results. But this position is unsurprising. I have long observed that leftists care more about their feelings and how they perceive the feelings of others as opposed actual, tangible actions.
Bill Burr Wants to Remind You, His Words Have No Power and Comedy Doesn’t Matter in His New Special, Paper Tiger. So It’s Okay to Laugh.
BUT IT IS IMPORTANT!
Oh, Tulsi…
RUBIN: So immigration, I think there’s a general sense that the candidates, the Democrats are basically trying to outdo each other for open borders, something like that … do you think that’s a fair way to start the question and … where do you sit on that?
GABBARD: I think it’s fair … I don’t, I don’t support open borders. Without secure borders, we don’t really have a country. And while some of the other Democratic candidates will say, ‘Well, open borders, that’s a conservative argument and that’s not really what’s being advocated for,’ if you look at some of the practical implications of some of the things they are pushing for, it is essentially open borders.
I think there are a few things we got to do when we’re talking about immigration reform. One is we’ve got to have secure borders. This is not Trump’s wall from sea to shining sea. It’s about seeing again what makes sense. I look at things from a practical, objective-oriented standpoint; I’m a soldier. So I look at, secure the borders, what’s our objective. In some places, it may make the most sense to have a wall or some kind of other physical barriers in place; in other places it won’t make sense. So you use technology and you use all the other tools that you have ultimately to accomplish that objective of security at the borders.
She’s angling for the weld memorial VP slot on the libertarian ticket
She needs to run third party.
It would be interesting to hear her positions Unleashed from the party.
She still sounds like she’s pretty statist on some of the spending side things. But then, who isn’t these days?
The immigration stance above is pretty standard to the genpop (and was Dem policy as recently as 5 years ago); the only thing that really sets her apart is foreign policy. She seems pretty shitty on most other things.
If you keep mentioning “I’m a soldier” – you really aren’t, at heart.
This guy gets it. (Checks Tulsi’s bio out… OHHhhhhhhh, she was in the state guard. I see now.)
Isn’t this how we get Godzilla?
https://www.foxnews.com/world/japan-fukushima-nuclear-plant-toxic-water-dump-pacific-ocean
Which is it, toxic or readioactive? They use the terms as if they’re interchangable.
I say US food is bad on average, compared to Europe, and am sticking to it.
Americans who visit Europe often say so, Europeans who visit the US often say so.
I am quite aware that there is all sorts of stuff in the US, good stuff included. But. Some people from a US company my company works with from fuckin Portland Oregon were at a workshop with us in Germany and they praised the quality of fruit and vegetables compared to the states. German fruits and vegetables are not particularly good. I understand the bread in Europe is generally far superior.
Whenever I watched a old recipe youtube like Townsends there were always Americans in the comments saying the added sugar to the recipe “for sweetness”. Also in Europe the rule is you use a US recipe cut the sugar. Reading recipes in the past on Serious Eats almost anything with a sauce had unnecessary sugar in it. I have relatives married to Americans and when the visited they always added sugar to stuff. So based on my pattern matching experience, having never been myself, this is my conclusion. Also sugar in meat rubs or meat sauce is unnecessary
Also even for an European I do not like sweet things.
Try my Chocolate Ribs and you won’t be saying that
honestly, i doubt it
So you are saying that you prefer salty balls.
Maybe he likes them Schweddy
Based on my pattern matching experience, people who comment on the quality of fruits and vegetables generally do not consume fruits and vegetables. And the comments section on YouTube does not reflect reality. The only recipies I see with sugar in them are Pastries/confectionaries (which need sweetness) and lazy tomato sauce (which needs to cook longer).
My personal experience with food in Europe was that it was generally ‘meh’, but I’ve only been twice. The best German food I’ve had was in Alabama. So come to this side of the Atlantic and we’ll show you around.
Wow.
You really need to visit.
First off, there is a weird dynamic in US/European travelers. Many of us are only a couple generations from the Old Country, so we grew up eating what they ate. Also, it’s very fashionable to revere all things Euro.
I enjoyed visiting Italy and enjoyed the food immensely. However, I can’t think of one dish I liked more than my grandmother’s cacciatore over polenta. And don’t even get me started about the UK!
As far as meat rubs, you are just dead wrong. For some I use rubs with no sugar, but when I do ribs I always use a rub with sugar. It makes a dynamite bark and absolutely adds.
Most Americans visiting Europe don’t actually visit the real Europe. Eating at a beachfront tapas place in Barcelona is not representative of Spanish cuisine.
All the more reason a guided tour by locals works best.
The quality of meat and produce in the stores here is pretty high in comparison to most places I’ve visited, but we also have a ton of empty calorie options.
Options.
This is what galls visitors, it seems.
I live in Texas, and I have yet to visit a country where the quality of beef you can buy in general circumstances is any where comparable. What I learned is never order anything with beef in it abroad.
Just because they process the cow on-premesis…
The beef in Europe was disgusting. The steak and frites was an abomination. Still didn’t stop me though.
I was about to argue, then I remembered I was in Peru when I had the most amazing steak sandwich.
I’m pretty sure that was Cuy
That’s a sore spot. One of my 2 regrets from Peru is not getting to eat cuy.
What’s the other regret?
Not getting to fish the amazon river.
I was entertained that in Dublin, all the places were advertising their corn fed beef, as opposed to the US where we advertise grain fed beef.
“corn” means different things in different dialects of english.
I was entertained that in Dublin, my wife order lasagna and it came with a side of french fries.
@ B.P.
The guy on this YouTube cooking channel (Glen and Friends Cooking) said that he once ordered beef stroganoff in China, and it came with fries and a steaming hot Coca Cola. Bizarre.
That’s just not right.
I would assume beef is better, I doubt fruit and vegetables are, compared to the Romanian farmers market if you know what to pick.
If you know what to pick, you can find the quality pieces in any market.
I don’t know. We get pretty top quality fruits and vegetables from all over the world.
well produce aint that good if it aint local…
I will give you stuff like avocado. Hard to get good avocado in Europe.
That’s because there’s no such thing as good avocado.
And the US doesn’t have farmer’s markets? You’re either on one of you annoying “the US sucks” trolls or seriously misinformed. Or a little of both.
one of my annoying trolls? Really? after every fucking time I was trolled on this site? fuck right off.
Sensitive about the Dracula thing?
Let the record show that I severely limit any vampire jokes.
Also Pie, there are some huge regional differences in US cuisine; some of which I think sucks too. When you come visit, I’ll take you to New Mexico which objectively has the best food in the known universe.
Further: don’t let these philistines try to convince you that Texas and/or Southern BBQ is best. Kansas City is superior.
There are differences in taste, and I’d probably eat any variety of BBQ put in front of me.
But the most effective means of settling the matter is to convince Pie to come over. But I seem to recall he declined even when we offered to try to fund it.
Look. I am obviously exaggerating. But from everything I know from both Europeans and Americans, they consider European food better. And I particularly don’t like sweet and was under the understanding the Americans do. that is all. Off course I don’t know, I haven’t been.
Generally, yes.
BUT! There is a caveat. We have such a wide array between sugar-sauce and vinegar-sauce that IMO, it’s starting to get hard to pin down.
I like the vinegar sauces (husband says “straight vinegar”). He likes the sugar sauces (I say “molasses and ketchup”).
The only one we can come to any consensus on is Jack Stack.
Tangentially: In my research, I have learned that medieval people didn’t necessarily have bad teeth because they didn’t have sugar.
Sugar is the only socially acceptable drug ever. We’re all hooked.
How are you “obviously exaggerating” when you repeat your assertion all through this thread?
And for the record, I’ve never seen any American add sugar to anything other than bland breakfast cereal. Do we have more of a sweet-tooth than Europeans? Which Europeans? Romanians? Swiss? Italians?
And fresh, local fruit is good no matter which continent you are picking it on.
Maybe in your corner of the world, but around here, it’s caffiene.
Embrace it, Pie. People troll about my state/people constantly, so I adopted FM as my handle to show I can take it.
I don’t mind. At all. and my so called trolls are obvious jokes so I doubt most count as trolls and I do them rarely.
Ha-ha.
you know I am not going to continue this Mike. From my point of view you can fuck of from now on.
WTF, Pie? I am very sorry for calling your repeated joking trolling. Poor choice in words that I had no idea would set you off so badly.
I don’t think I’ve ever shown you anything but respect. I believe I’ve only made a vampire joke once, many months ago. I apologize for that. I’m sure it gets old for you.
You keep telling me to fuck off. I refuse to do the same.
Generalizations about cuisine are pointless and stupid given the diversity of both food and individual taste.
I have traveled pretty extensively and found good and bad stuff everywhere I went.
well things to big to avoid generalization
Also if your taste in food is like your taste in tits you take quantity over quality, which is probably quite American of you 😀
If it’s being eaten off the tits, so much the better.
I think it depends. I don’t add sugar to things generally, but you’ll find people who will put sugar in damn near every recipe, even chili. As for meat sauce, I must beg to differ and cite barbecue as my evidence to the contrary. Although, truth be told, I prefer either Alabama white sauce, a nice cider vinegar and pepper sauce, or nothing at all on pulled pork.
The only savory recipes where I use sugar are gyudon and other Japanese dishes and BBQ sauce. I do like the sauces you mentioned, but I like to change up my BBQ a lot, and sometimes I make a pot of that nice goopy sauce with molasses in it.
I never understood people putting sugar in tomato sauce. I guess I just enjoy the acidic/spicy aspect of it more than the sweetness.
And sugar in chili? Is this a thing??
Balancing sweetness, acidity and spice is pretty old hat for cooking.
Were the fruits and vegetables the only things about the United States that the people from Portland dissed?
Note to Glibs: Pie typed “Portland Oregon”
See, here’s the problem. He thought they meant Oregon, but they really meant Maine. And that’s basically Canada.
There is a Portland, Oregon.
47 Reasons Not To Move To Portland Oregon 2019 @ portlandmofo.com
Portland Oregon Sucks @ Facebook
thingsaboutportlandthatsuck.com
Portland Oregon area truly sucks – YouTube
13 reasons it’s time to leave Portland @ oregonlive.com
And so on.
Something nice about Portland, Oregon: It has Hale Pele. https://critiki.com/location/hale-pele-portland-815/
Does Europe export fruit? I’ve never seen any.
Greek lemons?
Olives
Hugh Grant?
Having married a mail order bride I have come to the conclusion everybody thinks their native breads are superior. Even the ones that crack tooth enamel when trying to chew.
Your palatte prefers what you grew up on.
Insane Guy Shouting He’ll Buy Back Your Stuff With Your Own Money Becomes Popular Democratic Candidate
Not really satire.
The “popular” part is.
Trump Fires John Bolton
politicalwire.com/2019/09/10/trump-fires-john-bolton/
Bout damn time