Hey guys, I’m not actually dead. It turns out that snow is not, in fact, fatal to Florida Man. I did need some help thawing out and getting up to normal function. Special thanks to the others who picked up for my deadbeat-can’t-even-text-to-say-I’m-not-doing-the-links ass. It’s been a heckuva a Friday on the site, and I was tempted to just skip links, but certain other contributors wield guilt like a scalpel. I was suitably shamed.
Only Florida Man would find himself in a fistfight over Tupac. For one thing, no where else has morons who thought Biggie was better.
Without “police level training” how will armed Ohio teachers learn to mag dump on the family chihuahua?
It’s almost as if regret in buying a home is tied to the debt-to-equity ratio of the age cohort. Nah, too simplistic. Let’s go with “most Millenials regret buying a house”.
Thankfully, I did not have to experience the fun of this video. Driving in (very) light snow was no more dangerous than driving in the rain in Central Florida.
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393 responses to “Friday Afternoon Not-Dead-Yet Links”
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Thinking Massachusetts is part of the EU is really on-brand for Florida Man.
The link opens on my MA-based computer.
But I saw this warning a lot when I stayed in Israel, which is not in Europe either.
GeoIP service correctly puts me in Cambridge (on work VPN) so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I still find it amusing how some communities south of the normal snow belt respond to a light dusting.
You’ll notice in that video that nearly every car has locked up the brakes. You can get a modicum of directional control if you unclench your asshole and let up on the brakes. Often it is just enough to steer you to the curb which can guide you down the hill in a safer manner and also slow you down.
This advice comes from a crazy fucker who lives on the side of a hill in Duluth, MN
Video? I was actually thinking of the stories I hear from my relatives who moved south.
“Underestimating the hidden costs associated with buying and owning a home, including the ongoing responsibilities of maintaining it, is the No. 1 millennial homeowner frustration.”
Owning a home is really not that bad, if you have some basic skills and can fix small things yourself. Oh wait, never mind.
Also, DON’T LISTEN TO YOUR FUCKHEAD REALTOR AND FALL FOR THE ‘BUY AS MUCH HOUSE AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY AFFORD’ shit.
Buy conservatively, leave plenty of slack and move down the road if you want.
It drives me crazy to talk to people who live in $500K homes, but can’t afford a snowblower.
Bear in mind that a Realtor’s commission is a percentage of the transaction. So they have every incentive to talk you up into a purchase that is larger than you really need.
…and the buyer pays the commission, regardless of who makes the actual transfer…
Seriously.
I can’t have unexpected costs cutting into my gun & ammo budget. We went to the low end of our budget range and we’ve been very happy about it.
Smart man. It’s a good policy forever. It freaked me out to see how expensive of a house we would qualify for today.
Fuck that noise. If anything, we’re going smaller and more remote once the Spawn are gone.
I just about laughed out loud when they gave me my prequalification paperwork. I was glad they had that much confidence in my ability to pay an outrageous monthly payment, because I sure as hell didn’t. I went for a reasonable priced neighborhood in an area with mediocre schools (no kids), low crime, and an aging population.
I probably could qualify for twice what I borrowed.
I’ve been housepoor. Pass. I need investment capital/savings.
And never realize that one day all those angles on the roof are gonna need new shingles, sooner if you live in the sun belt.
Valleys are just a leak waiting to happen.
“‘BUY AS MUCH HOUSE AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY AFFORD’ ”
I told my relitter “I can’t afford any house – that’s why I have to get a mortgage.” Went over her head, as I expected.
When I was planning to build my house, I chatted with several lenders to determine the mechanics of getting a construction loan and then converting to a mortgage. Most of them told me I could qualify for up to twice as much as I wanted to barrow. I ended up at the local bank that merely confirmed I would qualify for what I was asking and started the process without trying to up sell me.
How do you get a construction loan? All the loan officers I spoke to were very negative about the possibility of getting one.
If you want unusual loan products, or terms you have two choices. Get into the high dollar commercial realm, or deal with a small local portfolio lender (hold the mortgages they write). The big banks will write these loans, but not in their cookie cutter residential mortgage division. With the local banks you are actually speaking to a person on the loan committee, or possibly even the person who can say yea or nay.
Basically big bank mortgage divisions are staffed with the lower level employees who have effectively no discretion. The commercial divisions have much more discretion.
Own the land, thus having at least 10% equity in the final home given the construction bid.
Live in small town Iowa and be a customer of the bank for more than a decade. If they want to verify your income, they just look at your deposit history for the last 10 years.
Do it before the bubble bursts.
Two of those won’t work. I’m not moving to Iowa, and the bubble burst.
Interestingly enough, it was the big, out-of-town banks that wanted me to borrow 50% to 100% more than I was asking.
Like I said, before the bubble burst.
Whereas, if you want your home to be an investment, buy your first one *right after* the bubble bursts. Which is what I walked blindly into doing. Didn’t plan it that way, but sure am glad I did
“including the ongoing responsibilities of maintaining it,”
Reminds me of when I was moving out of an apartment and the landlord wanted a prospect to look at it before I moved out. I get home from work and the landlord and prospect were still there. I apologized to the prospect for the messiness and she said “Actually, yours is the cleanest one I’ve been to.” All I could say was “Holy shit!”
I think I see why millennials have a problem with it.
Plumbing.
That is all.
/bitter
I rate working plumbing higher than working electricity in “things from the developed world I don’t want to have to live without”.
I need electricity to make the plumbing work…
#metoo
Only Florida Man would find himself in a fistfight over Tupac.
Against California woman Kamala Harris?
I can see snow from my house!
I managed to clear it from the walk though.
How far back do you have to tilt your head?
Like a Pez dispenser.
I am happy for you! Mountains are awesome!
I thought the music video was going to be this.
The first comment at the video nails it:
Not quite sure his number is right, but brakes are your enemy when the going gets slickery.
Steer your way out of the problem. That’s the only way through that shtishow. The first intersection in the video has a green light and an open straightaway – just fucking go! Slow down gradually and when you get to an uphill section.
Xmas eve, 2002, I went to check on a lake access to go ice fishing, the road to the lake was icy but not a problem. On the way out I tried to make a curve at about 15 MPH, I kept going straight ahead, there was a little berm and I was hoping that that would slow me down. I was wrong. Now I’m still going straight towards some small trees, about 5-8 MPH, I could see what was going to happen. My driving history passed in front of me in Slo-mo. I hit the first tree, an aspen (popple for the MN guys) and stopped. Front bumper pushed back into the radiator, can’t drive, I was about 2 miles from home, walked on home. Got my friend and with my other truck, towed the broken one to my yard, because it was 12 years old it was totalled and of course no collision on that one. Sold it for $250 and 2 years later got the one I drive today.
Somedays are stone
This is how you drive on ice.
That’s fantastic.
Or this.
No way would I be standing in the center of the oval or parking my own car in that lot.
A judge has ruled an Ohio school district’s policy allowing trained teachers and staff to carry concealed weapons in school doesn’t need to require the many training hours required of police.
It might have something to do with them not being cops, not that the additional training does cops all that much good. It doesn’t take much to learn and do the basics.
Yeah, there are a lot of things that cops need to know that teachers don’t – arrest procedure, criminal code basics, traffic code basics, con law (all though I think teachers should have to do a unit on this), how to counduct a roadblock, how to…
And yet the teachers still probably know that stuff better than the cops.
“all though I think teachers should have to do a unit on this”
Meaningless TBH. I took a con law course at a pretty good law school. Con law is just an endless series of bullshit precedents built off FDR and post FDR proggy jurisprudence. When precedent contradicts the text, precedent wins, because FYTW.
If you made teachers take a con law class, all they would learn is that FDR was the God King and the damn Rethugglikkans should have let him pack the court with Anointed Geniuses.
I am still not sure the Con in Con law doesn’t stand for Contra.
Convict
You raise a good point. An ex-cop friend had to take con law, but as a special student at a law school. A lot of that was just wasted time.
Okay, let me refine that. I think government school teachers and (most particularly) administrators should have to take a specific course in “How to Not Fuck Up and Violate the Civil Rights of Students” course which is both a requirement of employment AND an acceptance of responsibility and liability.
The snow looked warm and greasy, near melting, maybe some ice underneath. I drive in deeper, cold snow daily, with snow tires, never a problem, until it gets warmer.
Driving on snow is a piece of cake. Driving on snow that unbeknownst to you has a layer of ice underneath it is a whole different ballgame.
^^This
Who cares about Jesse? The town was “Palm Harbor”! Way to bury the lede.
Yes, Mr. Brettly. You missed an obvious masturbation joke.
5 demerits.
Yet many of the younger people lucky enough to own a place still suffer from buyer’s remorse.
I don’t. I knew what I was getting when I got it. It is a place to live until I can afford something better.
I wonder how much of it is the BS that buying a home is an investment. It really doesn’t matter how much the house is supposedly worth, or if the mortgage is upside down, if you bought the house to live there and raise a family.
Exactly. Unless you are spectacularly lucky, it’s not a fucking investment.
Agreed, it was a cost reduction over my rent.
Correct. Housing is an expense. You want to optimize the cost/benefit of that necessity.
Yes. And I can paint. And, I have control of the thermostat. And, I have a yard for flowers and the dog.
I let the flowers off the leash, but they just sat there and din’t run around the yard.
Now that I’ve been in my house 10 years, and have refinanced a few times, our monthly payment for our 4 bedrooms on 1.3 acres is less than our rent for a 2 bedroom apartment.
My monthly is higher, but I’m really arbitraging mortgage interest aginst investment returns at this point. If that goes upside down, I should be able to pay off the mortgage.
Redfin says our home is worth $27k more than we bought it for. We got a pretty damn good deal on it. The last owners took a bath on it – bad.
Yeah people are really weird about real estate prices.
Everyone loves when food prices drop, gas prices drop, car prices drop, etc etc etc. But when home prices drop they freak the fuck out because for some reason they hate seeing the theoretical value of their home drop. Like, if you bought it while your wife was pregnant with your first and its got great schools K-12, and the kid just entered 1st grade, who gives a fuck about the price now. Hopefully you can get back what you put in 15 or 20 years from now when you move to your retirement place, but it’s meaningless that some theoretical number dropped 5 or 10%.
It’s not as if your property taxes will go down if the property decreases in value.
They will if you go through the hassle of arguing.
My development successfully did that before we moved in.
The units were built during the housing bubble and over valued.
Maybe. There’s a property tax limitation in place here, so the taxable value and assessed (“market”) has diverged. Even when the assessed value goes down, it’s still above the taxable value so the taxable value increases annually at the maximum allowed rate. It would take a major reset to bring those two together.
bought the house to live there and raise a family
Look at Mr. Old-fashioned here.
Did someone say Old Fashioned?
:looks at clock in cubicle, sighs and goes back to faking the func:
Meh, close enough.
Manhattan, not Old Fashioned. Again, I say close enough.
*looks at glass full of beer*
Sorry man, this is tasty.
You and slumster are acting like I am making some commitment that I can’t get out of.
I plan on hitting all of those tonight. The Golden Corral of drinking if I may. Old Fashioned, Manhattans, beer, Jame-O, whatever else might be in my liquor cabinet.
Except vodka. That is right out.
Ok, who is willing to go over to Jimbo’s house at 5 am to cook him some wobbly all fat bacon and play drums?
I have found two vodkas that are worthwhile. Tito’s is excellent for the price point, and for making mixed drinks with. Deep Eddy’s Ruby Red Grapefruit vodka is the second. The only downside is you have to remember to shake the bottle before pouring, to mix in the grapefruit oils.
On a related note, it looks like the new trend for breweries is canned cocktails. Southern Tier does it as well (but they also run a distillery).
Tito’s is the joint. Great for the price. Plus, the man’s name is Tito Beveridge – he was destined to create an alcohol empire.
“Except vodka. That is right out.”
WHAT DO YOU HAVE AGAINST MINNESOTA”S CORN FARMERS!!!!!
I’m a bottom shelf vodka guy. Mix it with Diet Squirt or Fresca. After a couple, I can’t taste any difference.
Mix it with Diet Squirt or Fresca
JFC, just buttchug it already.
Not a big fan of Tito’s. Look for Rain Organics vodka.
Spudalicious: Assuming it’s just the standard Rain, it looks like it’s available in my neck of the woods. I’m willing to try a bottle next time I need to replenish my vodka stash.
While I dislike the state controlling the liquor stores, at least the Ohio ones put together a decent website to find what’s for sale and where you can buy it.
Wow, that’s jarring. The prices are better than NYC (of course) but I’m used to being a five-minute walk from a liquor store anywhere I am.
Rhywun: Where I am there’s (off the top of my head) 4 liquor stores within a 15 minute drive. The prices are fixed by the state, so there’s no point in price comparisons, but what’s carried by the different stores is different. Being able to search for what’s available at the different stores is a nice ability.
I’d still prefer a free market on the alcohol industry though.
The vodka in my freezer is for making pastry, not drinking
That’s the stuff. FWIW, the Russian community back in the SF Bay Area primarily drinks Smirnoff Triple Distilled. That’s what I use in mules.
It’s an investment over paying rent.
I have no problem with doing a mag dump on a chihuahua. Those little fuckers are evil.
From America’s least essential news source: Should You Throw a Slice of American Cheese on Your Baby’s Face?
It depends on how much force and how old the child is.
A million Packer Backers can’t be wrong, can they?
They say no, but all of the included videos say yes.
I need to vent. A friend’s daughter just got a really, really bad diagnosis for a genetic disorder. She’s thirtysomething with kids. I watched her grow up and now I’m depressed and angry that I may be attending her funeral.
Brutal. I’m really sorry, Tonio.
Sorry to hear that.
My sister was diagnosed with MS ten years ago, but seems to be doing reasonably well on that front.
Sorry 🙁
Sorry to read that.
Thanks.
I’m really sorry to hear that.
I’m sorry Tonio. Awful to see something like that for a young person.
Its things like that that make some people question their beliefs. Wish you had better news, Tonio.
The hardest part of getting old is seeing people way younger die.
Awful.
Sorry Tonio.
My sympathies to her and her family.
Sorry to hear it. Life sucks, sometimes.
Sorry man.
Bad news, Tonio. Sorry to hear that.
My condolences.
certain other contributors wield guilt like a scalpel. I was suitably shamed.
For some reason, I can’t help thinking more like “battle axe” than scalpel.
Has anyone seen those clips of Jordan Peterson on Australia’s Q&A?
The smug bile from some people (often in or at least seeking positions of power) makes me sad.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tOHUwwP6LLs
And this gem of a person..
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qTk-69f64KU
There a lot of people out there who don’t know when to take their foot off the brake pedal.
End of message.
Maybe if you’d keep your eyes on the road instead of browsing glibs on your phone, that wouldn’t happen!
It’s almost as if regret in buying a home is tied to the debt-to-equity ratio of the age cohort. Nah, too simplistic. Let’s go with “most Millenials regret buying a house”.
I regret buying this house, but that’s because it’s a 50 year old drafty dump of a place, cost us over $350k, and has needed extensive work just to keep it functioning, let alone functioning well.
Divide the price by 2 and that sounds familiar. I’ve drastically reduced the drafts in the past 2 years though, through various means.
…and the buyer pays the commission, regardless of who makes the actual transfer…
That one always gets a good laugh out of me.
“Oh, the seller pays the commission.”
“And where do they get the money?”
I tried making that argument with some people the other day and it pissed them off.
“NO, THE SELLER PAYS. IT IS FREE!!”
OK buddy, if you say so. I’ll just go ahead and undercut you by 3% next time because I can do the paperwork myself.
OK buddy, if you say so. I’ll just go ahead and undercut you by 3% next time because I can do the paperwork myself.
bwahahahahaah, good luck getting the listing agent to agree.
We sold our first house by ourselves. One couple bid who bid on it had a doozy of a realtor who asked us to pay her 3% commission. My wife lit her up like a cheap cigar for asking. No surprise that we ended up selling to another party. (They were looking for FSBO with no realtor on their part. We had a simple close that saved both parties money.)
My first and, so far only, place was purchased directly from friends. It was nice not to deal with realtors.
Oh yeah FSBO is great. I was commenting on Trashies post, wherein he would have been the Buyer. If the seller listed the property you aren’t buying without the commission being paid. Realtors, like many professions that don’t really earn their money, are like lampreys. They hang on till the bitter end.
A year or so ago a real estate guy wanted to help me sell some property. I wasn’t interested in selling but everything has a price.He wrote the contract and put 6 % commission in. I scratched that out and wrote in 3 %. He complained, I told him 3 % of a big number is a big number, for you to take a few pictures and put it on your website.. They put up a sign but it was overpriced and really wasn’t a great piece of property so I still have it and I don’t care. Hey, real estate always goes up, right?
I used redfin for the current house, and I’d do it again. The realtors are salaried, so they’re not acting like used car salesmen, and the commission was 1% on either side of the transaction, last I checked.
bwahahahahaah, good luck getting the listing agent to agree.
That’s how I bought my first house. Put it in the offer that I was not going to need a buyer’s agent commission and lowballed them by 5%.
I didn’t actually think it was gonna work, but I ended up with a house at the lowball price.
I will bet that the listing agent collected both sides of the commission and you got the deal because the agent (having dreams of both sides of the commission) hard sold your offer to his client. While you can argue about who is paying the commission there is never any doubt who collects it.
If you want to get pedantic about it, both the seller and the buyer pay. Conversely, the mortgage interest tax deduction benefits both the buyer and the seller. How much of the commission each party pays and how much each of the parties benefit from the deduction is open to debate and probably depends on a number of different variables.
In the last article one of our fine Glibs mentioned FFTs
https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY
I’ve understood how to interpret the input and the output to a Fourier Transform, but never the actual math for the transformation. I can say I finally get it now. It’s a really clever video that quite a bit of work went into making.
Wait, how did I miss this? /searches last article
It’s what your AP does best!
My first job after my postdoc was at Nicolet, when the computing power to do FFTs required units costing about a house. And the size of a small car.
Cool thing these days is that software and hardware a LOT cheaper than the AP do a very decent job. The key is the user’s understanding- if things like windows and bins are intuitively understood, you can have a pretty nice setup for under $500.
God I fucking hate math so much.
You and me both… Shame it is so useful. I think that’s why politicians so avoid anything to do with it.
I’m really glad I got to the point in my career where I have to understand math, but never actually do it myself.
Math is great, and the FT is a pretty simple thing, yet so amazingly useful.
You lie!
See to me the FT is the Financial Times.
*flashes back to signals and systems class*
*shudders*
Seriously, people would bitch about how hard law school was because the grading was so hard. I would always roll my yese and think about the time I got the second best score on the curve in one of the signals and systems exams with a 42/100 score. 3 questions, 2 hours, still didn’t finish the damn thing.
I liked how they were building towards the impulse function with the -∞ +∞ integral.
I remember that signals built forward from the impulse and step function to the Fourier transform.. Then from there to discrete functions. I was lazy paying attention to the very beginning of the impulse step derivations and almost didn’t get that class.
The magic of windowing is that it keeps the integral range finite AND allows you to decompose what aren’t strictly periodic functions.
https://t3.rbxcdn.com/8ac0b4ad6d0abd74b606b57961ca1095
I did reply to your last two questions in the other thread (Not trying to restart the argument here)
We weren’t arguing, we were debating. Or conversing. Or something, but I didn’t think it was an argument.
https://youtu.be/qmTRFvZ_Cp4?t=17
I didn’t say anything because I felt like we both shot our load and came to irreconcilable differences about terminology, which is a good time to be done with a conversation on the intent.
which is a good time to be done with a conversation on the intent.
Or elsewhere.
Thanks.
This is awesome. I used FFT’s in research looking at heart rate variability as a measure of autonomic nervous system tone, but never understood the mathematics as well as I do now. Very nice. Thanks for sharing!
That’s how I felt when I watched it. It finally clicked!
“I did need some help thawing out and getting up to normal function.”
I assume this is also why we haven’t seen Mr. Lizard recently.
That snow video confirms my opinion that the biggest danger is other people. And replace your goddam burnt out brake lights.
Observations from the latest white powder dump earlier this week:
Jackasses that don’t turn on their headlights (same as they don’t during rain, fog, or dusk). Why do I need to do that? I can see just fine.
Jackasses that leave a white mattress on top of their roof. Which inevitably slides forward and blocks the windshield entirely. Two minutes with a broom will knock all of that off.
Jackasses that drive far too fast for conditions. Or excessively slow even if the roads are clear and dry because snow.
That’s not true – it flies off on the highway and blinds everyone behind you.
If you’re really lucky, it’s semi-frozen, flys off in one big piece and smashes into the window of the guy right behind you.
They shouldn’t drive on the bumper of the car in front of them under poor traction conditions.
no tailgating required
Is “white mattress” some sort of arctic euphemism?
A couple inches of snow on the roof with everything else clear. Looks, well, just like a mattress on top except that there’s nothing holding it in place other than frozen water.
I can tell you that Mini Coopers are great about building those up. Thankfully the car is small enough that I can just use the snow brush to push it all off.
The one thing that drivers do that will get my to start raging more then anything is the assholes who ignore all of the signs for miles about a lane ending (or an exit only lane going a direction they don’t want to go), and fucking stop in their lane until someone lets them get over. I understand slowing down and waiting for an opening, but to fucking come to a complete stop?
Generally, people who take advantage of the courtesy/safety of other drivers piss me off.
There are a couple of places on my commute where an exit backs up, and invariably 1 out of every 20 cars in the other lane decides to park it on a 65mph highway until somebody lets them in. The crashes I’ve seen in those areas have been quite bad.
I’ve got at least four places where I see people pull this shit (a long commute that has a detour due to construction). The worst part is the one where people stop the most is an exit lane for a different freeway, and the land ends 1000 feet PAST the exit, so they could go forward and stop there. But no, they have to be assholes for all of us who actually want to take the exit. I’m looking forward to my 4 day a week commute changing to a 1 day a week commute (hopefully).
Jackasses that leave a white mattress on top of their roof. Which inevitably slides forward and blocks the windshield entirely. Two minutes with a broom will knock all of that off.
I saw some idjit recently, after about six inches had fallen, who had made one feeble swipe at the snow on the windshield, and was “driving” around town peeking through the tiny opening. The rest of the car was completely snow-covered. For some reason, I assumed it was a female person.
Also- something which trips up a lot of people, for some reason, is the transition from clear main street to icy side street. They run down into the corner like it’s summertime.
In my case, the side street is often better plowed (being a town road) than the main street (county road). Notice it at 5:30 AM after every snowfall as I’m driving into work.
Meh. People are always grousing me about not clear off the back window. If they don’t have the skills to drive without a rearview mirror than they should bother with that, but my car has these fancy mirrors mounted on the side.
We need UCS to settle a bet. Who is worse? Me for thinking it is OK to talk during a movie? Or you for trying to rationalize your shit decision to not take 5 seconds to scrape the snow off your back window?
*UCS, I think this is an easy decision to make, but if you are having trouble making a decision, remember that CPRM is a dirty Wisconsinite.
The solution is that CPRM drives you to and from a movie he really wants to see in the snow. If he kills you for talking, you were worse. If he kills you by wrecking he was.
No need for USC you are objectively wrong. As CPRM says cars have side mirrors, many vans and trucks have no useful rear window. It’s not a problem for people with any modicum of driving ability.
I’m very witty and sitting next to me at a movie is like watching the Director’s Commentary on a DVD. My chatter is guaranteed to improve any movie.
Also, side mirrors tend to get covered in snow and ice as well. Their field of view is much more limited than the rear view mirror. It takes 10 seconds to swipe the snow off the back of your car.
:Wisconsin people are also known for having no natural abilities. Their one semi-valuable trait is an immunity to paint thinner:
If you’re genuinely entertaining, open a Rifftrax compeditor.
I won’t sully my art by trying to commercialize it.
*points and hisses*
Side mirrors are for your blind spots
Mirrors are for people who drive too slowly.
Exactly. My version is, “If you drive fast enough you don’t need rear-view mirrors.”
You’re both awful people. I’d say you should be ashamed, but I doubt either of you feel the emotion.
I don’t know why you bother talking to these obviously non-sentient beasts. It’s like telling a monkey to stop flinging shit.
Because I take the canvas off the wall and sell the splatter as Jackson Pollock paintings.
Relevant
One dupe funds a lot of fake identities.
UCS is from new York (?) thus you’re all the same to him.
Upstate New York Born and raised.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/amvleg/brutal_canadian_road_rage_incident_caught_on/
I saw one of these folks today. In a Beemer, of course. I just assume they are privileged proggies who are on an urgent emergency call to attend some activist meeting where they will advocate laws that will make it uber-safe for the rest of us to avoid, oh I don’t know, cutting off our fingers when we are clipping our nails.
Someone was doing that on a motorcycle?
Ouch! It wasn’t until I used to ride that I learned the distinction.
Should You Throw a Slice of American Cheese on Your Baby’s Face?
That makes more sense than eating it.
*the American cheeze, that is.
This guy gets it!
*the American cheeze, that is.
Jonathan Swift haz a sad
Throwing, eating, whatever. I don’t care.
As long as you don’t cut it.
Beer drinkers need not apply
*farts*
Driving in the snow
https://youtu.be/xxkKWDE7mXo
Cue Asian driver jokes at 1:49
Wish I had a group of people that would jump out and push me whenever I got stuck.
People are super nice here, especially for a city. I got stuck once and randoms walking by helped me out.
Driving with snow all over you.
That was me in my 1986 Toyota supra the first week I moved to Colorado way back when.
I left the house and it was fine. A couple of hours later on this small 2 lane, 2 way winding road that rose and fell, I got stuck in a decline and couldn’t move on the left lane after passing a stuck car. Thought I was gonna die. Some guy in 4×4 stopped and helped me and good naturedly made fun of my car and NY plates.
…1986 Toyota supra…
I loved that car. My buddy, though always referred to them as a Haitian Camaro.
It was a great car in Staten Island and Brooklyn. Colorado not so much. It really moved.
I recall reading a fairly straightforward rebuild to 1000 hp.
They have a new one out. You should buy it!
Yeah, basically just a bigger downpipe off the turbo and bigger injectors. That straight 6 is a great design
Naming your beer after our monkey god is disrespectful. Did your monkey god tell you that?
https://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/brewery-apologizes-for-beer-after-hindu-protest
“I didn’t know.” – “You’re ignorant.”
“I don’t care.” – “You’re insensitive.”
“Fuck off.” – “…”
Don’t tell them about Golden Monkey! Or Wild Monkey! Or Funky Buddha!
I love Golden Monkey
Or Brass Monkey
I fought that Monkey a few times in my twenties.
He won every bout.
Uffda. Those monkey god worshippers are always flinging shit.
Or tell (((them)) about He’Brew.
The Chosen Beer?
It’s a vengeful beer.
“”When naming our Spanish milk stout ‘Hanuman’ we were unaware of the Hindu deity referenced by Rajan Zed,” Olde Salem Brewing Company owner Sean Turk wrote a statement. “This name was purely a musical reference and had no other intent. We are reviewing options to address the situation.””
While most people don’t know anything about Hinduism. I’m thinking any company should research a product name before using it. Although, I don’t see why anyone would be offended by its use. I worked with a guy named “Hanuman” It’s both a given and surname in India. As well as a name for numerous products and businesses. Go to any Indian market and half the brand names are the same as some deity.
I guess that could be something like how 5% of the Spanish speaking world shares the same first name as their saviour. But no idea if, for the Hindu world, use of their diety’s name name would be like use of the “n-word” by outsiders.
was tempted to just skip links
If you had you would have given me an internet point vs. UCS!
Don’t worry, Internet Points aren’t actually worth anything.
Neither are politicians but they still have an impact.
HM: enjoyable read. Warmed the cockles of my black and racist heart. That’s black like necrotic, mind you, not… your black.
Is antisemitism just an acceptable thing now for the progressive left? Should Republicans have kept their powder dry and let her saw off the limb she’s standing on, or is it a settled question already?
your black
Ok, this is problematic
Snake Person homeownership has been off to a slow start. Roughly 1 in 3 snake people under the age of 35 own a home as of the end of 2018, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
This extension isn’t getting old.
*kicks self for not checking glibs url*
P. J. O’Rourke was pointing out that our betters have always been anti-semites since Modern Manners which came out in 1983.
It’s not just acceptable, it’s pretty much mandatory.
Anti semitism has been pretty out in the open as long as I can remember by the left in NY.
One time I asked a lefty friend why he hates the Jews so much. I said in my whole life I’ve never been jumped or robbed by a Jew. He said oh yeah, go to a bank and see what Goldstein does to you.
Gives me the money I deposited on demand, and gives full disclosure of loan terms before signing?
Right!
Those bastards!
Sneaky fuckers!
Why Americans Might Never Notice Climate Change’s Hotter Weather, in which an author at the Atlantic frets that people won’t sense the urgency of climate change because they won’t notice it happening. A new study says that people are acclimated to the current “hottest years on record”.
This is a challenging finding for many climate advocates, because it suggests that people update their sense of normal weather faster than climate change will occur.
If the advocates were sincerely worried about people this would be good news, but since they don’t actually give a damn about people this is a nightmare for them.
Lol Fabian climate change. And they say that God doesn’t have a sense of humor.
Damn rubes refuse to panic. We need to come up with another dire chart
LOL
God does have a sense of humor.
Start making plans for your life and you you can hear him giggling in the background.
certain other contributors wield guilt like a scalpel
So you are saying that OMWC is the Mohel of Guilt Trips?
I did not feel guilty in the slightest when you misplaced your bicycle. I attributed it to your senility and potentially shell-shock.
I knew you liked the young ones, but is that any reason to shell the old?
If you knew him, you’d understand.
Well duh. If you were capable of feeling guilt, you wouldn’t have “misplaced” my bike in the first place.
The charge of senility? That’s a fair cop. After all, if I wasn’t losing my mind I would have pulled a Tundra and stood you up.
https://youtu.be/oeI0-ijIotk
Google blows away comment section of one of the AdvChina guys and his wife’s as well. Supposedly because of kid hysteria.
Youtube doesn’t police its user base… so of course they punish their content creators. Geniuses.
Rebuilding your own Outlook search index requires admin right. SMH.
Figures.
Microsoft should take local admin away from its developers and see how long they scream.
Didn’t they move away from the eat your own dogfood model some time back?
That would explain a LOT.
When my company got bought by a bigger fish, the new one tried to pull that shit on us after our machines were re-imaged. I just laughed and walked over to a good guy in support and asked him to give it back to me and he was like “Sure”.
Hey!
I get to go out and fire up the fucking snowblower again! Global warming sucks ass.
Didn’t you get the memo? Its climate change, and good for however the weather turns out.
I’m just waiting for the fucking glaciers to melt and palm trees to grow in my yard.
Is that too much to ask?!?
We have a palm tree in our backyard.
Just saying.
Not helping.
Maybe I’ll feel better when you are bitching about the ‘dry heat’ in a few months.
I will say that the pup loves this. It’s like he’s 2 years old again.
I can’t wait until July.
When his $200 bottle of Bordeaux turns to vinegar in the 45 minutes it is open to breath?
No, that would be a tragedy. I was thinking more of the second degree burns when he grabs the door handle on his car.
The first few seconds are the truth in Phoenix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6pMmTS2axg
When I lived in AZ I always had a two-liter plastic water bottle and a rag for getting into the truck in the summer. Liberally splash the water around then wipe the steering wheel and seat belt buckle.
There was a mile thick glacier not that long ago where my house is now. It melted, but still no palm trees.
It did leave the Great Lakes though. Not that you need more lakes.
JB, we’re not looking at semi-geologic time periods.
It was only 18K years ago. Blink of an eye. It was probably Buffalo farts that did it.
fire up the fucking snowblower
You really should be a bit more discrete when talking about Mrs. Tundra.
I would never talk about Mrs. Tundra that way.
Neither would I. But that is because we appreciate her. Not like Mr. Big Shot Tundra.
You’re just jealous, Mr. Plow.
A bump in the road to utopia
California’s largest county has banned the construction of large solar and wind farms on more than 1 million acres of private land, bending to the will of residents who say they don’t want renewable energy projects industrializing their rural desert communities northeast of Los Angeles.
Thursday’s 4-1 vote by San Bernardino County’s Board of Supervisors highlighted a challenge California could face as it seeks to eliminate the burning of planet-warming fossil fuels.
State lawmakers passed a bill last year requiring utility companies to get 60% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and 100% from climate-friendly sources by 2045. But achieving those goals will require cooperation from local governments — and big solar and wind farms, like many infrastructure projects, are often unpopular at the local level.
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The policy approved by the supervisors prohibits utility-oriented renewable energy projects — defined as projects that would mostly serve out-of-town utility customers, rather than local power needs — within the boundaries of Community Plans that have been adopted by more than a dozen unincorporated towns. Construction of utility-oriented solar and wind farms would also be banned in so-called Rural Living zones. Solar projects that are already going through the permitting process would still be allowed to proceed.
Supervisor Robert Lovingood said residents “spoke clearly about what they want to see.”
“If we don’t adopt this, that’s just spitting in their face,” he said, adding that the county has already designated several smaller areas where renewable energy projects could be approved.
Obviously a failure of democracy.
This civilization collapse will be the classiest! Mass graves will only be in the correctly zoned locations. No re-education camps near the party faithful.
“State lawmakers passed a bill last year requiring utility companies to get 60% of their electricity from renewable sources by 2030, and 100% from climate-friendly sources by 2045”
Jesus fucking Christ.
Nationwide, renewables make up less than 20%, and that’s according to a Green source. Half of that total is “traditional biomass” which is the fancy term for wood and charcoal. So of the remaining ~10%, the “modern renewables”, roughly half is “biomass/geothermal/solar heat”. So their windmills and solar panels only account for about 1% of the nations energy.
These people are literally insane.
I’ve seen reports that this will cause your electric bill to increase by as much as 22x. Under the most optimistic conditions that might still comport with reality, expect at least 10x.
Naw, they’ll put in price controls – and implement rolling blackouts.
There’s fact-facts, and then there’s moral facts. They’re operating on a higher plane than you, asshole.
It’s not insane if you’re pandering to constituents to get through the next election, and don’t give a fuck about them.
Sociopathic, stupid, short-sighted, etc., sure.
It just boggles my mind. Like, it actually flabbergasts me.
Take FDR’s crowd of poxy socialists. They believed people would continue to have large families, so the pyramid scheme called Social Security would work. They were wrong about that, but if people had continued to reproduce above replacement rate, it could have worked.
Then a generation later you have LBJ’s massive programs. Which again, would involve huge amounts of taxation, but were possible to pay for. Just tax the shit out of people and give their money away to your supporters.
This Green shit is “Hitler pushing map tokens around the bunker” level retardation. It’s completely divorced from reality. It’s more retarded than cutting some virgins throat to ensure a good harvest, because at least the rationale behind a sacrifice to a God is that it’s fucking magic and who knows how magic works.
I’m not being cynical. This is how it worked, at least when I was an aide at the Hawaii State legislature.
Holding a hearing on a bill, more insane than usual, in committee. One of the testifiers in opposition was the legislator who authored the bill. He shamefacedly admitted he was pandering, and hadn’t thought it would actually pass, even though no Democrat dared vote no on this thing, because they wanted to get reelected.
The smarmy POS chair of the committee said, fine, we’ll pass it out of committee, but he’ll add an extraneous comma, forcing it into conference committee. And then he’d kill it without a vote there by simply never giving it a hearing, causing it to die automatically.
Problem solved, yeah? Except I wrote a letter to the editor at the Honolulu Advertiser saying exactly what had transpired. They printed it. Next day my boss, furious, said I had ruined his relationship with the committee chair and that I needed to go and apologize to said POS chair I loathed.
I said, fuck no, go ahead and fire me. Course, this was about two weeks before all the session aides got fired automatically, cause the session would end. And it was crunch time, so he really needed me.
So I didn’t get fired.
The jackass committee chair finally got ousted when he was pulled over by a cop for DUI, and he told the cop, “Do you know who I am? You can’t do anything to me.”
Turns out, saying that to a cop in Honolulu gets you primaried, and the jackass was finally gone.
No they are not.
Their objective is to gain control of the money.
Hotting their goals isn’t a consideration.
I get to go out and fire up the fucking snowblower again!
There are days when I wish I had a snowblower. Today is one of those days.
Usually, I just trample the snow down with the truck, but it’s so cold the snow won’t pack.
I’ve used the damn thing more in the last 30 days than in the previous five years combined. It’s a 30-something John Deere that starts on the first or second pull every time.
Buy an old JD or Honda at the end of the season. Why suffer?
I have an orphan dedicated to shoveling.
“Various studies have indicated that our DNA responds to our thoughts and stress levels. Positive thoughts of love, gratitude, and joy cause the DNA strands to relax, unwind and become longer. Stress, anger, and fear caused the DNA strands to turn off protective genetic codes.”
https://twitter.com/dr_veronique/status/1100848159046156288
I think something of her’s got loose and unraveled.
Various studies have shown that bullshit makes people smarter. Today we are embarking on a massive program of intelligence boosting.
“A Capitol Police officer left a gun in a bathroom… again. And not just any gun. A glock, which fires if the trigger is pulled.”
https://twitter.com/bridgetbhc/status/1100915723508109313
And not just any bathroom. When you flick the switch the light goes on.
fires if the trigger is pulled
Um…yea…
Wait… is there a gun that doesn’t fire if the trigger is pulled? Wouldn’t that be a broken gun?
They’re called Hi-Points.
There were some triggerless matchlocks.
Regardless of the motion utilized, they still had a “trigger” in that it triggered the firearm.
Interesting semantic point there. would you call it triggering when you are directly lighting the primer? How about on the oldest ones without a priming pan, where you effectively were the primer directly igniting the charge?
But this person is right up there with Sergeant Full-Semiautomatic
“A glock, which fires if the trigger is pulled”
Which is why only people who are not cops should be allowed to have them.
So a revolver?
Now, now. She is entitled to her opinion on “Glock safe action”.
Dammit, I have a small but annoying cut on a fingertip. Liquid bandages aren’t holding it closed, and the spot makes regular bandages impractical. How do I get the darn thing to stay close and heal properly?
Superglue
but I have this perfectly rational hatred of cyanoacrilate.
But, you’re probably right. Shame I don’t have any hobbies which involve a large collection of glues of varying chemical composition…
I still don’t understand your hate for cyanoacrilates.
They fail faster and more often than other glues.
Well you could try coating the finger in candle wax, but I think a thick enough coat to hold it closed might end up being painful to appy.
Blowtorch
Duct tape
^^^
Man up, it’ll stop bleeding eventually.
Got a real question for you. The closing mechanism in my living room door broke. I took the handle out of the door and took it apart, found the small metal piece that failed and want to get a new one. Do I need to buy a whole new handle set (or whatever it’s called) or can I just get the piece. It’s the casing that broke. Also, how would I but a new handle set and be sure it would fit into that wooden door? My explanation sucks, but you probably get the point.
Generally, you’re going to buy a whole new latch set, they aren’t that expensive (depending on the style and manufacturer of course) you may be able to find a replacement part online but I doubt you’ll find anything at a hardware or big box store and you’ll probably spend as much on the part plus shipping as buying a new one. As far as getting the right one, they are pretty standard if your house isn’t 80 years old a new latch should fit, in the states anyway it may be different in Japan.
Thanks. Japan standard and US standard probably aren’t the same. I’ll just go and get a latch set from the home center. Thx.
Of course not, Japan uses the inferior metric door latches.
Take the old one with you to a DIY shop and look for a replacement with the same hole format.
Dude, you’re in Japan. If my conversations with my friends are accurate that requires multiple phone calls with whoever made, supplies or fixes that item. After a painful period a trained specialist will arrive at your place at the most inconvenient time and tell you need to purchase a new one a the current item is beyond repair.
I didn’t think mere mortals were allowed to fix things there…
Door fixtures come in different arrangements. For example, bedroom/bath have a lock on one side, so you can lock the door from the inside. Closet door fixtures do not have a lock so kids can’t lock themselves in accidentally. The door of which you speak, is it an outside door to the house? Is it an inside door that should not be locked, like from the living room to the kitchen?
I can’t remember but I think outside doors are 2 1/4 to 2 3/4. I don’t know what part is broken but a hardware store guy will fix you up if you take the broken part in with you. Probably gonna take a complete set up. That’s what most big box deal in, packaged sets.
Take up the Doctor Evil pose.
Quit touching yourself?
This looks interesting.
https://taskandpurpose.com/combat-obscura-theaters
Oscilloscope Laboratories was founded by Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.
Booze news. Showed up in my Chrome feed. Imagine that.
https://blog.distiller.com/distillers-friday-roundup-march-1st-2019/
I managed to get a very light burn today. I declare it spring.
Don’t stick your hand on the lit stove.
Unless you want to stop your finger from bleeding.
Hanging out on Twitter?
Not in ages, thank God. Trying to follow today’s dumb, boring controversy over Bill Kristol’s chosen journalist covering CPAC is enough Twitter for awhile.
/Looks at the sub 30 weather.
Nope, this would only qualify as spring in North Dakota or Minnesota. It’s not spring until we hit the 50’s.
“Testicle-Flavored Beer Is Now A Thing And We Wanna Know Why
Wynkoop Brewing Co.’s Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout all started as an April Fools joke, until people (apparently?) started actually liking it. Now the brand offers an annual limited release, so it’s gotta have a fanbase. Roasted with barley, seven specialty grains, “steerian” golding hops, and obviously, bull testicles, the beer has a 7.2 ABV and a nice “meaty” flavor. Mmm. According to Best Products, the Denver-staple takes about six hours to brew and is stored for three to four weeks before it’s served up.
Family-run Icelandic brewery, Stedji, has also been churning out their own *unique* and seasonal bottles. The all-natural, sugar-free beer, Hvalur, was created in 2012 in the town of Borgarfjordur, Travel and Leisure reports. The brew is not only created with whale testicle, but it’s also smoked in sheep…excrement. Each batch uses one 15 to 18 pound testicle, so they’re definitely not skimping you. You’re welcome, I guess? Each winter, Stedji brews the flavor for their Thorri Festival in January and February, where they apparently “eat rotten (fermented) shark, sour (cured) whale fat, ram’s testicles” like their ancestors, Stedji owner, Dagbjartur Ariliusson continued to Travel and Leisure.”
https://www.delish.com/food-news/a26555185/testicle-flavored-beer/
I can understand dipping your testicles in salsa, but beer? Of course, there was this one time wi…never mind. This is a Family Friendly website.
Wynkoop makes some good beers. I’d try it.
One of my favorite Denver spots. Great beer and well maintained pool tables upstairs. Plus nice decor and ambiance
She’s making a list….
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/03/01/dems-roiled-aoc-spox-says-shes-keeping-list-moderates-sided-republicans-key-vote/
So, in case anyone thought Cory Booker knew anything. Allow me to prove you wrong:
That’s just sad.
At least AOC could tend bar, supposedly.
She tells you what you’ll drink.
If you buy one for yourself you have to buy one for everyone.
And every drink has Kool Aid.
But you know that the price for whatever you order is always what you can afford, right?
You tell her what you want, she serves you what you need.
I don’t know WTF is in a margarita, but this is just unacceptable – especially from a Democrat. Can you imagine the nannying?
He just knows better then us, so he’ll look out for us.
Look, I don’t know what’s in those mixed drinks. I still drink booze neat.
And I hit post too soon too.
Where was my train of thought going?
Poughkeepsie?
I was there once.
Oddly, on a train. I was trying to get to JFK without having to put my car in long term parking. The train stopped in that town for an oddly long time, and I had a nice view of… the joint between two cars on the train parked next to us.
That’s a real lace? I figured it was one of those fake locations used for movies. Like Latveria, Freedonia or Hoboken.
It’s one of the outer rings of purgatory around New York City.
Their motto is “At least we’re not Newburgh”.
Or Albuquerque.
Hey i live in Hoboken and once got laid in Fredonia, so I can verify those places
T-Bone taught him how to make drinks.
“Transparency is paramount in media ethics. That @portlandmercury news editor would respond this way when asked for verification process is wrong. I could find no police, media, witness reports supporting story of brutal gay bashing in downtown PDX. @WmSteveHumphrey, do you know?”
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1101519976203149312
Just mentioned this to Hype, but anyone know how to replace/fix this broken door mechanism?
https://imgur.com/a/tG4woe4
I don’t think that piece is sold separately. You’ll have to buy at least the mechanism, if not a whole handle.
That’s fine. I’m just wondering about how easy it will be to make it fit. Just by sanding it?
It should be fairly simple, that looks like a standard model. You should be fairly close to fit.
I’ve replaced several and never had an issue having to do any fitting. Assuming standard door.
Copper Creek BK2030SS Ball Privacy Door Knob, Satin Stainless https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003F3FBQC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_y5CECbBD53HCV
I don’t want a knob I don’t have to polish daily. *Thanks, though. $20 and I’m thrilled.
Looks like metal snapped off, so you will have to buy another one.
That looks like an antique. If there’s any place that sells salvaged hardware, I would take it there and see if you can find a match.
I would also think you could take the parts to a hardware store and see if you can find something modern with the same dimensions.
Lastly, a shop that can print 3-D metal parts.
Not an antique. Just the fashion of the day 20 years ago when our mansion (sounds better than condo) was built.
Gotcha. Should be easy to find a replacement, but as mentioned, you may have to buy the whole package.
I answered above but these guys seem to have you covered, it looks standard should be an easy swap out.
Been sick all day – mostly tweeting/reading in bed.
Looks like a new slew of indie comics showing up on IndieGogo, etc. (good timing since I’ve received the bulk of what I backed last year with a few exceptions).
This one just screams Glibs – might be the kind of thing a lot of folks are into (or not). I can post a list of other recent additions in the near future if folks are interested.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/juanpool-journey-of-the-juan-issues-1-and-2/x/6734996#/
https://youtu.be/-pFyIs8SA1E
Wow. Learn to code?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/retail/gap-jcpenney-victorias-secret-foot-locker-465-stores-closures-in-48-hours
The should’ve followed the business model of the day and merged. Victoria’s Gap and Penny Locker.
JC Secret – An underground church?
Victoria’s Secret Gap.
Larf!
GAP is ditching Old Navy. Or the other way around, I’m not sure, having never been the target market for either.
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Hm. Well, ignoring the obvious elephant in the room, Penney’s is way preferable to Target or WalMart. They have good deals and it doesn’t feel like I’m in a bazaar. It sounds like they already have their niche covered. It’s that elephant in the room that’s killing them – and everyone else.
“Please stop framing Ilhan Omar’s comments as though she’s bumbling into traps. She’s an antisemite. And anytime she’s called out, she follows up with *more explicit* antisemitism. If you don’t want to be accused of excusing antisemitism for partisan reasons, then don’t do so.”
https://twitter.com/SethAMandel/status/1101553658964119552
“Stop Treating Ilhan Omar Like A Child. Her Anti-Semitism Isn’t ‘Sad.’ It’s Consistent, Vicious, And Vile.”
https://www.dailywire.com/news/44130/stop-treating-ilhan-omar-child-her-anti-semitism-ben-shapiro
“Man Arrested In Attack On Conservative Activist At UC Berkeley”
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2019/03/01/conservative-activist-attack-uc-berkeley-arrest/
TW: autoplay
As we’ve seen all to often lately, it’s hard to tell from a short video clip what happened overall. Still, there can’t be any way to spin that sucker punch. Dude is fucked.
“Commentary: Where Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Get Her Sweet Potatoes?”
http://tennesseestar.com/2019/02/27/commentary-where-did-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-get-her-sweet-potatoes/amp/
“That’s silly, food comes from the store.”
-AOC
Good lord, she eats potatoes?! She’s eviller than I thought.
All that appropriation!
Dammit… SWEET potatoes
In any case, those are big thoughts — too big, really, for a delightful cooking session after which a fancy meal beckons. We’ll get back to what AOC calls the “universal sense of urgency” following dessert.
Delightful.
I can’t lie. I think she’s hot as hell. She’s the ultimate hot/crazy test for me if I meet her
I don’t get how anyone thinks she’s hot. Maybe back in college, but somehow she got crazy eyes between then and now and looks less curvy. She really rates a meh physically, and an “oh hell naw” mentally.
OK, I don’t want to ruin the fun, but a “B”? WTH UnCiv?
Laserbeam?
Does this count as cheating? Fair nuff.
Oh shit, I thought it was “laserballs’.
I was going to go with Blaster.
My first thought was “laserbutt”? But that didn’t make a lot of sense.
Still. the best effort yet.
/points out the Lost in Space in the last thread.