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Only $1B?
A billion here a billion there – soon you’re talking about real money
Real money as opposed to fiat money?
Ted S wants to go back to the cowrie shell standard.
Nope. Rai stones.
Spartan Iron bars or GTFO.
Triganic Pu >> all
I went to Iraq for a 6 month deployment as a DoD civilian. We get hazard pay during our time there, and we earn it from the moment we arrive. When I got my first paycheck, I didn’t have that pay included, so I contacted HR. Next paycheck I got my hazard pay – $32,000 (it should have been about $1,000). When they set up the allowance, they set the start date for 2010 rather than 2011. I spent the next six months trying to clear that up.
My supervisor in Germany was overpaid about $10k for some of his authorizations during his first year living there (2008), and he let the agency know. Last time I spoke to him about two years ago he still had that money sitting in a bank account waiting for the agency to figure out how to have him pay it back.
(And I work for the agency responsible to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in the DoD…)
Let’ see… you guys didn’t do it intentionally and notified the appropriate parties when discovered so no fraud or abuse. And you didn’t blow it on hookers and blow, so no waste either. Next item!
Not spending it on hooked and blow seem quite a waste to me.
Generic comment: Illinois State Senator is racist.
“As our nation grapples with the epidemic of gun violence, purposely pointing a fake gun at anyone is insensitive and wrong,” Pritzker said. “I condemn actions like the ones displayed in the pictures because they lack the civility our politics demands.”
*points finger at Pritzker, goes “pew pew”*
More white supremacist finger gun violence!
I assume Pritzker is running for POTUS after the party clown car drives off the bridge.
Your finger is the thing that goes up?
Both of mine do, at Pritzker.
British link: Of course there’s going to be a probe.
STEVE SMITH something PROBE something
No pics of the woman?
Fake outrage at a fake gun pointed at a fake president? Sums up modern america quite nicely.
Id give the guy a dollar for giving ne a laugh
British Tabloid Link – ah the sex excuse for murder…
Also what is the over/under for the comment of the Demi article in the sidebar being posted? I say 30
The over/under is thicc.
Win for the Romanian! …and Count Potato.
Question: does this link work for you?
https://www.claremont.org/crb/article/are-the-kids-altright/
Yes, although I doubt they plan on defining alt-right any time soon.
The author agrees with you
*Trwirls index finger at temple and makes Cuckoo sounds*
It though it interesting because according to a description it seems a serious website is reviewing Bronze Age Pervert , but I cannot access the link. I think I need a vpn
First read the link as “are-the-kids-airtight”, that’d be a very different kind of article.
OMWC clickbait.
What a lot of sanctimonious huffing and puffing in that “Trump assassination” thing.
“Politicians should not promote or condone violence.”
Peace in our time!
“Politicians should not promote or condone violence”
Dearie, that’s all they do. Just dressed up in the ceremony of democracy.
A Violence Concerto in G Major.
mmm… generic food
I never got sick of that movie.
So many great lines.
Miller:
A lot o’ people don’t realize what’s really going on. They view life as a bunch o’ unconnected incidents ‘n things. They don’t realize that there’s this, like, lattice o’ coincidence that lays on top o’ everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you’re thinkin’ about a plate o’ shrimp. Suddenly someone’ll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o’ shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin’ for one, either. It’s all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto:
You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
I want to make it my life’s work to stand beside a burn barrel and wax philosophic.
The life of a Repo Man is always intense.
“Every Democrat should be asked if they support or disavow this,” she tweeted.
No, no, no. It is Trumps rhetoric that is causing people to act out in this way. Trump needs to take ownership and denounce hate.
Purity test
Breadface has a new post.
Not one of her best but still pretty good.
Also had a bread face.
I came.
The fuck?
It is Trumps rhetoric that is causing people to act out in this way. Trump needs to take ownership and denounce hate.
Exactly. “Look what you made us do!”
I knew she was going left wing
Or as my girls call it: the witch song.
Mmm…food. After the food, we can have a beer.
Or some light beer.
EF’s dad, may he rest in peace, used to buy generic light beer (as pictured).
Of course when he was at Chez Humungus, he would raid my beer and liquor cabinet for the good stuff.
A man after my own heart.
Yup, he did. But in his defense: he only bought the generic when we were really broke – 3 kids in Catholic schools can do that to a family. After that, he went back to 22’s and tall boys of Miller light, etc.
My dad would purchase the cheap stuff as well. It’s due to him that I’m aware there’s such a thing as Pabst Blue Ribbon Lite. As he’s gotten older, and been told to cut back his beer consumption, he’s shifted to good beers. It’s mildly entertaining to watch a man in his early 70’s try to jump into the craft beer movement.
Mrs. Maddox: Put it on a plate, son. You’ll enjoy it more.
Otto Maddox [blankly]: Couldn’t enjoy it any more, Mom. Mm, mm, mmm.
Great scene. I loved how his parents were hippie Scientologists.
But anyway… “C’mon, let’s go get a drink.”
Well, following a Christian preacher who talked about spaceships. I think they were conflating the two.
Manager: Otto, it’s come to my attention that you’re not paying attention to how you space the cans on the shelves.
Security guard: Hey! He’s TALKING TO YOUUUUUUUUU!
US cops thwarted THREE mass shootings last week: Police in three states arrest man who built a high-powered rifle, a suspect who wanted to ‘kill 100’ and a white nationalist who ‘targeted Jews’
All muscle-less white nerds. We need to round those people up and put them into camps ASAP*.
*ASAP means as soon as possible.
Or take them to the gym and pump them with steroids
How about we create a medical program, administrated by AMERICAN doctors, and inject all wispy whites in their early 20s with HGH to create a new stream of vibrant, muscle-bound men?
*Warty to the red courtesy phone, please*
Kinda circles back to Pie’s comment.
Glad I started lifting.
I am a little bit skeptical about the characterizations. Ok, more than a little bit.
Skeptical? In Current Year?
high-powered rifle
But is it really?
Survival bunkers are hot property in stressful world
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/survival-bunkers-are-hot-property-in-stressful-world-zl00w9qbn?shareToken=cfc9ba3ec903c4b487ecf0a17f537fcb
I can’t imagine why people are buying units of the underground apartments. More money than sense. Live in a post-apocalyptic world trapped underground with a bunch of weirdo preppers? I’ll take my chances topside.
They managed to shoehorn in OrangeManBad, even though it’s kind of the opposite of the truth wrt North Korea.
If years of playing Fallout taught me anything it is that Vaulttech is evil. No way I am going in one of those sociology experiments.
Already claustrophobic and acrophobic, no caves or high rise for me. Second step on a ladder is max (except for deer stands)
I can’t say I’m actually phobic, but I dislike heights and crowds. Enclosed spaces, open spaces, neither really bother me.
China could overwhelm the US military in Asia within HOURS as their growing arsenal of long-range missiles poses a major threat to American bases
Ball is in your court, President Trump. Let’s light this candle and bring back America’s military dominance.
Sounds like we should leave. Anyone who’s played risk knows Asia isn’t worth it.
I have a 2 part plan.
1. Close all US military bases in Asia.
2. Sell arms to Japan, Taiwan, SK & HK.
3. Profit!!!
So you suggest we take over Australia instead?
SA first.
South America?
South Africa?
Saudi Arabia?
Santa Anna?
Swedish Antarctica?
Swiss America.
“Never use your land armies in Asia.”
And they don’t really have much of a navy.
hot news fresh from the orient:
1/ Rifles of the Khyber Pass
2/ The Man Who would be King
oh: now I get it
Cuddling gone wild: Client says Arizona massage therapist’s ‘cuddling’ session turned sexual
Wait. Didn’t the woman who reported this actually do the assault? That nipple didn’t get in her mouth on it’s own.
did she complain during those five minutes? Or was it more of a “mumph moomh” noise?
*Snerts last sip of beer through his nose* You owe me, Lord H.
Day drinking, Fest? (7:25 am)
lol:
STEVE SMITH CERTIFIED CUDDLER. STRICT CODE OF CONDUCT.
And by Conduct, mean . . .
We need States to license cuddling. Think about the industrial benefit. Then we can hire teaches to teach at trade schools so kids can get their cuddling certificate.
There is no one properly certified to issue the certifications, so no licences will be forthcoming.
Sounds like someone needs a cuddle.
She got the bonus plan
She wound up with the cuddler’s nipple in her mouth for five minutes. – accidentally? Or?
She was channeling “nurturing energy” to her through her nipple. Who couldn’t use a little of that?
Anyway good free advertising I would say
No kidding, I bet the phone hasn’t stopped ringing.
Incels need some cuddling too?
Even weirder if you read the whole thing. The client begged to be held naked and the pro cuddler eventually gave in after several sessions but said it was outside their professional relationship.
*unzips*
+1 exorcism juice
The Cuddler’s Nipple was my favorite Aesop Fable growing up.
I thought that was Chaucer.
Was he the one who wrote about all animals being equal?
No, that was PETA – “All animals are equal – except human scum.”
Not fair. Peta wants to kill most of the animals also.
I once downed a pint of Samuel Smith’s Taddy Porter at The Cuddler’s Nipple.
All of their beers are great.
Me and a transvestite named “Louie” once crossed the Adriatic sea on The Cuddler’s Nipple. Quite a vessel. She sure was yar.
Please stop, I’ve already spit out half my coffee.
Cuddler’s Nipple — Bailey’s and Malibu
I put $50 on Cuddler’s Nipple to show last Preakness.
Virtue, signaled
Shareholder value is no longer the main focus of some of America’s top business leaders.
The Business Roundtable, a group of chief executive officers from major U.S. corporations, issued a statement Monday with a new definition of the “purpose of a corporation.”
The re-imagined idea of a corporation drops the age-old notion that corporations function first and foremost to serve their shareholders and maximize profits. Rather, investing in employees, delivering value to customers, dealing ethically with suppliers and supporting outside communities are now at the forefront of American business goals, according to the statement.
“While each of our individual companies serves its own corporate purpose, we share a fundamental commitment to all of our stakeholders,” said the statement, which signed by 181 CEOs. “We commit to deliver value to all of them, for the future success of our companies, our communities and our country.”
Don’t hate me. I’m one of the good ones.
“Shareholder value is no longer the main focus of some of America’s top business leaders.”
I would be wary against hiring one. You got it right on the nose: virtue signaling. You shouldn’t have to talk about dealing ethically with people because it should be a given. And as long as we’re talking about ethics, explain the ethics of diverting your employers money on pet projects for yourself.
“Shareholder value is no longer the main focus of some of America’s top failing business leaders.”
FIFY?
I am hoping shareholders start suing the fuck out of companies doing this shit and walk of with such massive punitive damage restitutions from these woke cunts that this virtue signaling shit dies the well deserved death it needs to die.
If you have to say it (expertise, competence, etc), you probably aren’t.
The CEOs of nearly 200 companies say they will violate their fiduciary responsibilities.
So that’s grounds to fire them for cause and deny severance, right?
Words mean nothing. If shareholders can show that they acted on those words then, yeah. I don’t know what the penalties for violating fiduciary duties are but they should be smacked down hard.
Even if they are just words I can see stock prices dropping and investment money falling off. How stupid are these guys?
No, they’re saying they will reassess their marketing department.
Well….. Bye.
we should create a hedge fund this instant shorting everyone involved
“Shareholder value is no longer the main focus of some of America’s top business leaders.”
Yeh. Good luck with that.
The new owners of Deadspin got rid of SJW dead-weight because it’s not profitable.
Wow. Deadpsin is kind of sportsy again.
I never knew that’s what they were supposed to be. I’d only ever heard of the site after the socjus infestation. still haven’t visited it.
The editor had a hissy fit along the lines of ‘why come you not let me be bitchy smug purveyor of woke?’
Wasn’t that guy Daselerio (I forget his name) part of DS too?
Left-wing propagandists ruin everything. DS was ok in the beginning and was kinda fun for a period but it got stale….fast.
AJ Daulerio, yeah. Deadspin was a pretty good site when Will Leitch ran it. Then Gawker bought it and Daulerio took over, and that was the beginning of the long descent.
I thought she was the hottie in the first season of True Detective.
Wouldn’t doing all of those things lead to maximizing profits for the shareholders? I’m confused.
So much signaling…
Meaningless blather meant to hold the screeching hordes at bay for another year or two.
+1 Kruppwerk +1 Hitler
Pat Buchanan, White Supremacist, To Co-Star On PBS’s Relaunched McLaughlin Group
First part he is correct. Second part he stepping a big steaming pile.
I never could stand that guy.
I think it was Richard Pryor who, after a trip to Africa, did a bit about “Thank God for slavery!” The gist of it being “It sucked for my ancestors, but thank God I’m here and not in Africa!” Of course Pryor made it funny, but that was the basic premise.
Same for Muhammed Ali.
“Thank God my grandaddy was on that boat!”
Huh. I didn’t know they were both white supremacists.
I had a sergeant in the Marines who told us a story about his older brother who, in his 20s, decided he wanted to move to “Mother Africa”. Went to Kenya, I think. Anyway, he lasted a couple of years and then hightailed it home, saying that Kenya was a horrible place and Lake Charles (his home town) was paradise on earth compared to Africa.
The author better be careful saying he’s wrong. No one knows history like Buchanan.
That’s an interesting ret-con to make it seem more like [current year].
Saskatchewan mother sues clinic after infant’s penis tip severed during botched circumcision
First, never circumsize a child without its consent, as we all know. Second, never circumsize a child in fucking rural Canada.
He flinched.
Who wouldn’t? Baby G. Gordon Liddy?
‘I stuck my foreskin in the fire…just to show how tough I was.’
He screwed a tree so hard it burst into flames. THEN he left it in the flames to show how tough he was.
Flame hardened.
STEVE SMITH HIKER HARDENED. LIKE OAK TREE
Jesus. Fucking idiots.
What Antisemitism?
Around a dozen lawmakers, several of whom are Jewish, have begun talks to communicate a “deep lack of confidence and trust” in Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer and U.S. envoy to Israel David Friedman, the McClatchy news service reported, citing congressional sources.
According to the report, the Democrats are considering releasing a statement of no confidence in Dermer and opening an inspector-general investigation into Friedman.
Among the twelve are House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel and House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey, two Jewish lawmakers from New York.
“We are reviewing all of our options,” McClatchy quoted a source as saying. “With Dermer, the issue is that there already was a severe lack of trust. But now there is a severe lack of confidence. It is completely unclear that he represents his government given he has made promises that he has not kept and wasn’t clear if he ever had any chance of keeping.”
Last month, Dermer assured lawmakers that Omar and Tlaib — open supporters of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel — would be allowed into Israel “out of respect for Congress.”
However, on Thursday, Israel said the two would be denied entry.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement defending the decision to bar entry to Omar and Tlaib, said the two intended to use the visit to harm Israel.
“Several days ago, we received [Omar and Tlaib’s] trip itinerary,” Netanyahu said, “which clarified that they planned a visit whose sole purpose was to support boycotts and deny Israel’s legitimacy. For example, they called their destination ‘Palestine’ and not ‘Israel,’ and unlike all Democratic and Republican members of Congress before them, they did not seek any meeting with any Israeli official, whether government or opposition.”
They let an anarchist be an envoy to Israel?
And then this also
https://www.apnews.com/7083d58ec18a4b7fa5011f8c95b64508
Logan Act violations, anyone?
Gee, really?
We have AP tickled pink at a Congresscreature deliberately undermining the administration’s foreign policy. What a world.
So they’re clearly in the wrong place if they’re demanding entry into Israel.
Hey, after that they were heading to Wakanda.
‘The Righteous Gemstones’ Gleefully Mocks Phony Christian Televangelists—With Plenty of Penis
A great cast with a great subject – I suspect it will live up to, if not surpass, their past work.
I didn’t watch it, as I just discovered “From the Earth to the Moon” was now on HBO for the first time since I was a wee lad. Why didn’t any of you tell me it was now on HBO? Because you all hate me and you suck and you are dumb. And stupid. And meanies.
Timely.
Metabolic Damage vs Adaptive Thermogenesis
https://www.aworkoutroutine.com/metabolic-damage/#5
Nice link. I’ve often said there is no way it is impossible to lose weight. There has never been a recorded case of someone coming off a deserted island heavier than when they went on.
I suppose someone with pica who ate a bunch of rocks…
Now I’m curious how many pounds of rocks I can eat.
I was recently chatting engineer to engineer with a guy who had lost 40 pounds. He went on and on about eating actually more, about the right kinds of foods, timing. Mechanical engineer, now: steeped in the the first law of thermodynamics. He preached a half dozen things about the “system” he was in
before I finally got him to simply admit that he was taking in 500 fewer calories than his sustaining requirement.
Anyway: strike against hocus pocus, H1B, and the entire subcontinent as far as I’m concerned
It is possible to eat a larger volume of food and take in fewer calories, but I’m sick of people claiming they gained 5 pounds because they ate a piece of candy.
They always leave out that it was a five pound piece of candy.
Lol
To be fair, it was This piece of candy
Obligatory
14.
I have gained more weight than I’ve eaten in food. I’m assuming it’s water retention. Pizza and beer does it the worst.
Right – more doesn’t specify the parameter. I’m on a ~700 calorie cut, eating about the same volume, weight, and satiety of food that I was eating before. I am doing it by replacing a bunch of moderate calorie carbs (ie whole grains, sugary fruits like grapes) with low calorie, high fiber carbs like salad green, cauliflower, and green beans.
If metabolic damage was real, it’d be a great way to reduce my food budget.
‘Side chick’ torches man’s house after he calls her for sex then falls asleep: cops
This guy is the Steve McNair of Jersey.
would definitely NOT
You saying she’s not a smoke show?
*Slow clap*
*narrows gaze*
You can’t even *see* the hot/crazy line from there.
She might be a candidate for a red flag. Not sure though.
Yet another piece of evidence supporting my belief that one should never have sex with Jersey woman.
Majority of women don’t orgasm with penetrative sex
Mr. President, we must not allow… a
mine shaftorgasm gapThat was probably the most important thing I learned at college.
Well its their own fault innit
Winston’s Mom: Who you gonna satisfy with that?
SF: ME!
It’s articles like this that are driving my people to the world of mass-murdering incels.
Ladies, if you want to orgasm:
– hop on top and do your business
– invest in magic wand
– don’t make fun of me!!!! STOP IT!
I never had this problem, either I’m talented or lucky. I’ll just assume the former.
Damiana
SNAFU?
A Porsche that was expected to sell for over $20 million flopped on the auction block Saturday night, after the sale was thrown into disarray by a technical error.
The car, a 1939 Porsche “Type 64” that was already facing controversy in the collecting world, hit the auction block Saturday night at RM Sotheby’s in Monterey, California, as part of the sales surrounding the Concours D’Elegance car extravaganza.
RM Sotheby’s auctioneer started the bidding at $13 million. But the giant screen display in the auction room showed the first bid as $30 million. The next bid was $14 million, but the screen showed $40 million — an error that continued all the way up $17 million, when the screen showed $70 million.
——
“I’m saying 17, not 70,” said the auctioneer, Maarten ten Holder. “That’s 17 million.”
The crowd in the auction room — often a boisterous one after a day of parties and events in the area — immediately started booing and shouting at the error.
There were no more bids after $17 million. Since $17 million was below the reserve price — or minimum required by the seller — RM Sotheby’s pulled the lot.
Whatever. But there’s something much more ominous:
It also marked a fitting climax to a week of sales that fell well below expectations, and could signal more trouble ahead for the classic car market. Total sales for six auctions over the course of the week were expected to top $380 million, according to Hagerty, the collectible-car insurance and valuation firm. But the preliminary total as of Sunday morning, with virtually all the auctions complete, was only $245 million — marking a 34% decline from last year.
I have watched bits and pieces of other auctions, and prices definitely seem to be soft.
Is this one of those incorrect uses of snafu?
I’ve been expecting it for a few years. Old boomers are getting actually old, we gen-x’s don’t and won’t have as much cash and don’t care for the same car types. Hard to bid up Dodge Omni’s and Olds Cutlass’s enough to juice the market.
Even on BaT, there are a lot of deals to be had.
Collectors are getting old.
Thats bullshit, don’t start the bidding at anything less than you’d accept you cheats. Wonder what Banjos’s husband thinks.
Cheats?
Starting the bidding low is a good strategy. Too high and people don’t get rolling.
Auctions are fun psychology.
I have no problem starting low, but if you start the bid at $1 and I say $2, but won’t sell me the thing, you don’t find that disingenuous? You never intended to part with the object at the price you advertised.
Ah, but that’s no advertised price. The opening bid is simply the starting point. Bidders know this.
There are also ‘no reserve’ auctions. The car (or whatever) will definitely sell to the highest bidder.
I don’t blame people at all for setting a reserve. In a way, it’s simply testing the market, particularly if it’s a special car.
I’ve been to auctions before, but I guess they were all ‘no reserve’. What was the point of the lowest bidder on that last one not bidding more then? I assume the reserve number is not known by the bidders?
I wouldn’t bother participating in an auction like that, not that I’m in the market for $30million dollar cars anyway…
It varies. Sometimes they advertise the reserve, but they usually don’t as they want to generate some excitement (stupidity) around the bidding.
Besides Tundra’s point about psychology and increasing bids, unknown minimums also help prevent collusion among bidders. If the starting bid was the guaranteed sell price, the bidders could just agree among themselves to let one person buy each item on the opening bid and then settle among themselves later.
Went to an auction up in NJ last week. Total bust for me, people were paying anywhere from dealer cost to retail (plus 10% buyer’s premium) for everything.
The lots were very slow to start out, but generally picked up a brisk pace after the first couple of bids. It was a little odd since people were obviously willing to pay too much for the equipment.
Silence the heretics.
“Some media outlets are sacrificing the future of our planet for the sake of appearing objective,” Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of The Climate Mobilization, said in a news release Saturday.
“This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet, our existence as an ongoing debate,” Klein Salamon added. “I don’t think sacrificing the future of our planet in exchange for a look of ‘objectivity’ is an even exchange. It’s one the coming generation will judge us on, if we don’t move with the urgency necessary to fight back against global warming and win.”…
The Climate Mobilization seized on a Newsweek article about a study from Nature Communications. The study’s authors claimed that the U.S. news media gives “climate change deniers too much prominence by placing people with little understanding of the complexities involved in the same league as top scientists.”
“It’s time to stop giving these people visibility, which can be easily spun into false authority,” University of California Merced Professor Alex Petersen said in a statement. Petersen and his team traced the digital footprints of voices for and against climate alarmism across 100,000 media articles. They found that about half of mainstream outlets seek out “climate denying” experts…
“It’s not just false balance; the numbers show that the media are ‘balancing’ experts—who represent the overwhelming majority of reputable scientists—with the views of a relative handful of non-experts,” Professor LeRoy Westerling, the study’s author, said in a statement. “Most of the contrarians are not scientists, and the ones who are have very thin credentials. They are not in the same league with top scientists. They aren’t even in the league of the average career climate scientist.”
Something something authority something something fallacy.
“This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet, our existence as an ongoing debate,”
They aren’t doing real science if they don’t claim apocalyptic doom to humanity.
If they are not willing to go along with the marxist watermelon movement’s demand to give up more of their freedoms and their cash, they MUST be burned at the stake!
Respect My Authoritah.
That study was horseshit as far as I could tell.
Some media outlets are sacrificing the future of our planet for the sake of appearing objective – well how can one be so sure about it if all sides are not analyzed? Or is this one thing in all of science which is beyond debate?
There is no debate inn real science! Only consensus.
If you have to have a real debate, look at actual facts & data, and have your models actually produce verifiable outcomes that match reality, so that your hypothesis stands against any and all comers to prove it is true, then you are not doing woke science!
Sunday Strategist: Kathmandu, the Patagonia of New Zealand, Is Coming to America
Yuppies, you know what to do.
Yeah, but what’s their position on abortion and gun control?
I want to hear the CEO’s view on deep dish.
I read this twice before it made sense to me. The first time I just kept muttering since when is Kathmandu in New Zealand.
The populist wave — will it ebb or flow?
Define populist…
freer and more equal – those things can be in opposition
Yeah, they seem to be ignoring populists of the left like the Greens, Syriza, and Podemos.
The facts — for instance, that migrants to the United States are less likely than the average to engage in criminality
Wrong, even including the conflation of legal immigrants and illegal aliens.
The march to World Government cannot be stopped, comrades.
Erdogan is an Islamist, Putin is a nostalgic communist, Trump is an old school Democrat, I don’t know much about Bolsonaro. Orban is the only one who is even somewhat right wing.
was this covered? I assume so
AI Algorithms Need FDA-Style Drug Trials
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-algorithms-need-drug-trials/
I only read the first paragraph. “People are too stupid to make day to day decisions, but are magically smart enough to elect rulers to tell us how to live our lives.”
Reading The Law and that section was fantastic. I’m thinking I need to print it out in large font and laminate it. Perhaps I could fix it to my car along with other quality writings for people to read as they are passing me.
Clearly, it’s an admission that the elections are fake.
Weapons grade retarded? Someone who looks at the FDA trial system and says: we should do that over here, should be called for a red flag, as they are a danger to themselves and possibly others.
May they require health care subject to FDA approval.
Can’t make it a sentence in without 3 different popups asking me to subscribe. I’d rather put bleach in my eyes than pay to read that garbage.
Our greatest philosopher weighs in:
it’s not funny unless you imagine the Dad cadence and a flannel shirt
Bravo.
I do like this reply:
Even Mexico had a video of El chspo’s escape from prison.
Norm never fails to make me laugh.
Jeff Epstein was framed…
for the murder of Jeff Epstein.
That was a good response.
On a NFL website I frequent, one of the pestered wrote great Western ballad called “The Man Who Shot Plaxico Burress.”
A coin? like 10 cents for lookie, 25 cents for feelie, 50 cents for doie?
Another mock assassination of Trump?
WHITE PEOPLE ARE SUCH SNOWFLAKES.
It’s Bush the Younger, Part 2
I think it’s a little more, erm, psychotic this time around.
New Jersey cops find mummified human remains, altar during raid in child sex case
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn
1924 Bobby Jones
1925 Bobby Jones
1927 Bobby Jones
1928 Bobby Jones
1930 Bobby Jones
1997 Matt Kuchar
2019 Andy Ogletree
As of yesterday, GT alums have now won 7 US Amateur Championships. Andy lost holes 2,3,4,and 5 to go 4 down, but slowly whittled away at the deficit, tying it up on hole 31, taking his first lead on hole 32 before winning 2 and 1.
Good thing the finals is 36 holes.
Ogletree? Really?
It is not an uncommon name but probably non-existent in Romania.
He is from Mississippi. Seems like an even more common name in that part of the country.
We have a few around here
Scots from the hills: probably 70% of us
quick scan of the country road names near my family’s plots:
McCool
Neeley
Peay
Maben (well, the odd Welsh is allowed)
They somehow leek through.
Fun fact that will make Pie’s head explode: With this win, Ogletree qualifies for the US team in the Walker Cup (Amateur version of the Ryder Cup) in Britain next week.
He doesn’t have a passport. Yet. I am sure the process is underway.
How does one guy win the amateurs 5 times? Seems like after once they’d say you’re not an amateur anymore.
Amateur really means “Not your day job”. It’s not a metric of skill level.
Mechanical Engineering degree from GT. English Lit from Harvard. Then Emory Law School. After only 3 semesters, he passed the Georgia Bar.
Lawyer was his day job.
And, of course, in 1930 he became the only golfer to win the Grand Slam: US Am, British Am, US Open, British Open.
Later on, he founded The Masters Golf Tournament.
Playing the opens as an amateur means he didnt get a check for winning.
Tiger Woods won 3 in a row. Kuchar won the first one after Tiger went pro.
All the other good amateurs were eliminated by the flu or WWI.
Or the fact that he was the best golfer in history (come at me Sloopy) and didn’t go pro helped.
This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet, our existence as an ongoing debate
Really? What about equating hysterical semiliterate teenage girls with scientific experts? Where does that land in your catalogue of outrages?
That depends on what these hysterical semiliterate girls are advocating for. If it is more of what the watermelon movement wants, then they too are experts. Otherwise, they are deniers.
Climate change is real because all scientists agree. If someone doesn’t agree, they are not a real scientist. Therefore, all scientists agree that climate change is real.
Jeez, it’s like you people don’t even know how to logic.
Law for Sephardic Jews fails in Spain.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14737/spain-jews-citizenship
Are we really trying to right wrongs from 500 years ago?
Reading more into the article though, they made it really tough to get in, the requirement to travel to Spain being the worst, though I also don’t see why they’d need to speak Spanish, 500 years later either. Either you owe them this or not, adding all the requirements outside of proof of being descended from a wronged party is BS imo.
Hmmm… The US should do this to Canadian Torries who were expelled after the revolution. Why? Because we already claim a global tax regime, why not start taxing as many people as we can?
We could probably ease the paperwork burden on those poor folks by just annexing Canada and granting citizenship to everyone, you know, to right the historical wrong.
Citizenship?
Have you seen who these people elected?
Yeh the travel bit is arrogance if you ask me. Plus talk about presuming nothing changed in five hundred fricken years. It’s like they don’t understand people move on and settle elsewhere.
You can do this quietly and without the extraneous demands.
I notice the person is from Basque country which may explain the hyper-nationalist aspects of the bill.
On language. Dumb. It’s like here in Quebec. People have to take a fricken written French exam to become a lousy mortgage or real estate rep. And it’s been reported they grade non-French speakers much harder than they do the French. The ultimate irony is French is taught poorly in schools according to studies made.
What a joke of a place this is sometimes.
Ah, the apartheid state of Quebec.
Maybe we can send Tlaib and Omar up there to straighten it out.
I say we send them to Greenland to do a 10 year feasibility study regarding a purchase.
You leave our Omar alone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6fQI_qB1JE
This missed the news, too local
Worse: they have to learn 15th-century Spanish.
Thats exactly what I was thinking. Castilian or Aragonese?
And eat the same diet!
Now suggest a right of return for Sudeten Germans.
Can French Knights return to the holy land?
Asking for a friend.
How about my Volgan dacha?
No comment.
At first I was shocked because my travel reimbursement seems to be closely watched, but I do know a number of folks who try to game the system.
LOL @ the super hero costumes, they really are cosplaying. So cringey.
Thicc?
I took an Uber home after landing at LGA from a business trip once. I was tired and cranky so I just took the first one that showed – it was like 70 bucks and as I got in I marveled at how I just moved to the front of all the other suckers still waiting for theirs. Then it occurred to me that might get me in trouble…. nope, they didn’t bat an eyelash at that expense report.
This looks really fun.
Love it!
I hope they put a real engine in it, though…
Steam Engine it is!
They aren’t planning on making them.
Of course not. How the fuck would you fit 27 airbags in the thing?
Most people don’t realize that if it wasn’t for the government new cars would cost a fraction of what they do now.
The wife and I got into that discussion a few weeks ago. She gets her dander up a bit when she thinks of how government regulation drives up the cost of things.
To add on the comment below Count, she has a friend who inherited a car from a relative in Canada and it’s proven futile to get it brought into America.
More recollection. discussion sparked because when getting the tires replaced the service tech said that not having functional pressure monitoring gauges could be cause for a ticket from the police. (not sure how that would work but whatever) That got her going.
Say what now?
That’s what I said to. I can’t be bothered to look it up but I suppose there might be something in the statute that says something about not having a vehicle functioning at factory specifications? I dunno.
I did get pulled over a couple months ago (license plate light not working) and my drivers side window does not roll down, I was giving a warning for it not being functional.
Importing Mexican Beetles is also illegal, otherwise someone could just sell a body kit.
Yeah, the department of agriculture is very strict about that.
Maybe?
“Knowing that the vehicle you’re piloting isn’t contributing harmful fumes to the environment just makes that feeling better.”
No it doesn’t.
Making knock-offs of the original dune buggy would be profitable if it wasn’t illegal.
Bizarre footage of black figure in forest dubbed ‘best ever Bigfoot sighting’
Related
Why would a hunter with a gun be so scared of a black bear?
STEVE SMITH “GUN” IS BIGGER!! SNEAK UP ON PUNY HUNTER!!
GUNS NO PROTECTION FROM STEVE SMITH.
thicc?
https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1460836&partId=1
Why would you link to such disreputable sites?
hawt!
Last week someone mentioned the 5-3-1 program (I think it was Tundra). This weekend I found out how well it works! On Saturday Mrs. TOK competed in a power lifting competition. She somehow talked me into signing up for bench press, even though I hadn’t trained for it and have never competed. I’ve been doing 5-3-1 for 5 months so I *should* be in good shape. It also helps that there was no record for my age and weight class, so any lift I completed would be a state record.
I successfully completed all three lifts, setting the record at 215. That was only 15 pounds less than the most I’ve ever lifted, which was over 25 years ago. After the competition I tried to lift 230 but failed, so my true 1RM is somewhere between 215 and 230.
Here is the most amazing part. With 5-3-1, you test your 1RM at the beginning, then you increase it by 5 pounds per month and use that to calculate what you will lift each week. After 5 months, the programs’ calculation estimated my bench press 1RM at 227. That is incredibly close – like 2-3%?
My max bench – two years ago – was only 255 pounds. Home gym with EF as a spotter – so I’ve always been afraid of going any higher for safety’s sake. At that point I’m also running out of plates to add to the bar.
If I go any higher, would prefer someone strong to help or a machine press. I don’t belong to a gym so… ?
I took a year break from weightlifting, doing some running instead. Lost a bunch of weight, also muscle mass. So it’s good to be back to it. And the past years of weightlifting do seem to help. Mass and definition came back a lot faster than I expected.
I work out at home with a crappy 1 inch bar and no spotter. I had to do a bunch of practice lifts to get used to the bar and the technique – you have to pause at the bottom and at the top for it to be a good lift. I’m sure you could do more under the right conditions too.
STEVE SMITH COME IN AS GUEST SPOTTER, BY SPOTTER…
Do you have space for a power rack? You can bench in there with no spotter and be fine.
I have one set up so that there are rails just above where my chest reaches when in position for presses. If I drop the bar, it strikes the rails before it strikes me.
Maybe… if I got rid of the old bench. I’ll look into it.
I have this one, FWIW:
https://www.titan.fitness/cages-and-racks/titan-t-2-series-power-rack.html
They have a smaller one too.
It’s the height of the garage ceiling that is the issue. When doing military presses, I can bump the ceiling lights if I’m not careful. So I’ll have to measure first before I can buy.
Ideally I would like to build a heated addition to my house – just for workout gear.
Any link to the program?
I’m starting to lift again and wouldn’t mind trying something different.
Here it is. I can’t do squats or dead lifts, so my 3 lifts are bench press, overhead press, and bent over rows (done supported on a bench).
This is a “low and slow” program, which I like because I’ve had chronic issues with both shoulders, In 5 months, and even after that heavy lift Saturday, I’ve had zero shoulder pain.
Huh, I figured hockey would keep your SITS muscles strong.
I think it’s the reverse. I think lifting helps prevent those injuries.
Thanks TOK.
It seems funny to take 90%, and then apply the other %ages… just use one calculation… e.g. 90% of 65% is 58.5%, so just use that. Anyway, I’ll give it a try today and see how I like it.
I just make a spreadsheet, and once a month I bump up the base number by 5 pounds. I work out early in the morning and math is harder then.
I highly recommend the book.
While it isn’t absolutely necessary, I found it helpful, particularly for assistance work.
Way to go Kevin!!
I’m really happy for you, man!
How did mama do?
She bench pressed Kevin while he was bench pressing 215
She’s just like me, nobody in her age and wight class. So she beat her own state record for bench and dead lift, but those were not her PR’s. 150 on bench and 280 on dead lift. Those were both her second attempts. She guessed too high on her third ones and failed.
Excellent! Congratulations to her!
Think she’ll do another?
Yes. We are both competing again in March.
Congrats. Me and my detached retina will be over here in the corner doing hi-rep low-weight sets.
That’s awesome. If you don’t mind an indelicate question, what is your weight class and how much weight do you have below the waist? Most bench records for low weight classes are held by Paralympics. In addition to carrying less weight, they locomote with their arms which gives them a level of conditioning us leg-walkers could never hope to get in our chest and arms.
498 lbs Raw Bench @ 148 – Lei Liu (226@67.5kgs) (All-Time Raw WR)
I do Juggernaut, which is basically some guy taking 5/3/1, filing off the serial numbers, and making a few changes. Its a good system
holy phrasing Batman!
I’m built very similar to that guy. I weigh 133, not too much muscle mass below the waist. I’m also only 5′ tall. If I has normal height and leg mass, I’d probably weigh around 175.
I know that this is parody, but I would not be surprised to find out this actually happened to one or more of these SJW types hell bent on fighting the evil opponents of the left’s marxist/fascist movement after labeling their political enemies as the fascists….
Ohio man charged with threatening to shoot Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Huh.
And the difference with this and say, Snoop Dog and Kathy Griffin (etc.) is….?
The threat is actually not a threat but they have plenty of other stuff to nail him on and they’ll do so.
Or the neighbor who tried to kill Rand Paul.
Now do Sandoval.
This goes to the discussion last night on free speech vs. threats. There are three exceptions to free speech, threats being one of them. Incitement and libel being the other two. The more I think about it I have to say they are not thought crimes if you can show they caused real damage to someone else. Loss of money or employment, loss of freedom of movement, actual riot occurring with damage to property or physical injury to persons etc.
I lump that into an idea I call serial responsibility: I’ll never get past the idea that the man who lifts his sword is solely responsible for doing so.
Ask yourself: is there anything I could say to motivate you to harm someone who was not attacking someone ?
So incitement shouldn’t count?
how do you think about it?
could I talk you into hurting someone?
I was merely posing the question.
I think it depends. A tense situation, an angry mob with limited information, situations when there isn’t time…
To me it shouldn’t be criminal unless you are in a position such as the the leader of a lynch mob. If you are actively leading a group of people and tell them to attack, then you bear responsibility, if you are just a dude saying attack, then no.
could I talk you into hurting someone?
*at the hospital after wife raped*
You: that’s the asshole who did it, right there!
—
Obviously that’s oversimplified, but in the right circumstances, you could certainly induce me to harm or even kill somebody.
Incitement is the odd one out. Violence being reserved to the state, when you commit violence you solely bear the responsibility for it.
That said, I find it difficult to accept the situation where the demagogue ringleader of a violent group can escape punishment simply by not being there when the violence happens. Perhaps that’s covered by conspiracy instead. IANAL.
IANAL either
but I like tidy ideas, and the muddier responsibility gets, the more bureaucrats and adjudication are required: which ends up with warped decisions based on personal agendas, not the place we want to be
I argue that serial responsibility is this class of bad ideas where there is a clear proximate perpetrator, but there’s this mommy urge to lump others into the culpability. I don’t reject it emotionally . . . I’m sympathetic: but the costs are too high. There’s a whole class of these things; under serial responsibility,
* the barmaid is responsible for the pedestrian you ran into
* S&W is responsible for the kindergarten you shot up
* Ford is responsible for Louise driving into the Grand Canyon
It’s unworkable and muddy: simply hang the right guy.
Learned Hand had some pretty good thoughts on limiting liability in torts to those “directly” responsible. At least, I think it was him. It might have been Cardozo, though, as a lower court judge.
‘she should be shot’
Is not a threat, right? Also, doesn’t a threat have to be made to the person you are threatening?
Haven’t we done this before?
Biden’s campaign Twitter account wrote that his healthcare plan “will build” on Obamacare and lower healthcare prices.
“My plan to protect and build on Obamacare will not only provide coverage for uninsured Americans, but it will also make health care more affordable for those who already have coverage,” Biden wrote.
The healthcare plan would create a “public option,” allowing a government health insurance option to compete with private health insurance on the Obamacare exchanges.
Biden’s plan, however, could create new obstacles in lowering healthcare costs as well as expanding healthcare access, as a recent study found that more than half of America’s rural hospitals could pay a heavy cost as the result of Biden’s public option plan.
A study commissioned by the Partnership for America’s Health Care Future and conducted by Navigant Consulting found that “adding a government-run insurance plan could decimate rural hospitals.”
The study found that as many as 55 percent of rural hospitals, or 1,037 hospitals across 46 states, could become at risk of closure from a public option. The closure of those rural hospitals represents more than 63,000 staffed beds and 420,000 employees.
It’s free! /every derp in the world
Single-payer legal care, with the same regulations on lawyers the lawyer-legislators want to inflict on doctors.
Single-payer housing. Single-payer food.
This is easy!
Why would a public option necessarily lead to rural hospitals closing?
I’m guessing they might be more expensive somehow, and the reimbursement rates on offer would put them into the red too far to recover.
Gotcha, that sounds plausible.
according to the study:
Revenue loss to rural hospitals is projected to be 2.3% under a Medicare public option if only the uninsured and current individual market participants shift to the public option, placing an estimated 28% of rural hospitals at high risk of closure (Scenario 1).
If employers shift between 25% and 50% of their covered workers from commercial coverage to a Medicare public option, hospital revenues are projected to drop between 8% and 14% and cause an estimated 51% to 55% to face high risk of closure with an additional 39% to 41% facing moderate risk (Scenarios 2 & 3).
To keep hospitals whole from the financial consequences of this potential shift, Medicare would have to increase hospital payment levels for a public option between 40% and 60% above present Medicare rates, costing between $4 billion and $25 billion annually (depending on the severity of the employer shift).
It sounds like we just need to supplement the public option with direct payments to rural hospitals in order to offset the costs. Easy peazy.
“…his healthcare plan “will build” on Obamacare and lower healthcare prices.”
Never mind that Obumblecare jacked up healthcare prices through the roof. He wants to build on that. Of course he does.
“Bend over. I promise I wont fuck you this time. Really, I pinky swear”
When he first introduced his plan in a stump speech he said, seemingly without the least bit of understanding, ” if you like your plan you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”.
“We weren’t joking when we said we wanted those deplorables gone.
Sincerely,
Democrats”
I never thought for a minute that you are kidding. Oh, and BTW, good luck growing food, building roads, supplying water and electricity….
Their organic vegan commune has bike paths and a rain barrel. They don’t need your racist ‘work’
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7370685/Demi-Rose-PICTURE-EXCLUSIVE-Model-shows-curves-bikini.html
Dude, you ask that question every mirning. If you haven’t gotten an answer that satisfies you the past 500 times, why do you think today’s going to be different?
He is following the same model that the people in Brussels did to get the EU up & running.
Funny how they always catch her on vacation.
Her income stream comes from selling these pictures to the Daily Fail.
Synthol. She’s a female Gregg Valentino.
I don’t care what you haters think, would.
Good morning to you, Swissie and your Guardia Svizzera!
From the Indonesia article:
Bad idea, dude. If my wife is any indication, this works exactly the opposite way.
That’s not what your own data says.
I thought girls just want to have fun.
They want chocolate birth control.
Eat enough chocolate, and nobody they’d want to fuck will fuck them.
Yep. Since 1912
Reproductive rights does not equal abortion on demand at any stage with no questions asked or shouldn’t anyway. Also, I find the clapping emojis triggering.
That clapping hands bullshit totally makes me think a very smart person is behind that post.
Ilhan uses them all the time. Especially the flex muscles one.
Clown.
Many polls of women say that this is not true.
Also is the clapping used to signal you’re retarded?
Judging from the replies it looks like OkStupid just shot themselves in the dick. Bad move.
Yet no drugs have fallen out.
try giving that as a gift on valentine’s day, and see how it works out for ya
Relevant
“If women say men shouldn’t have a say in abortion, they should absolutely refuse tax dollars from men”
Burn.
“I dress myself!”
I totally support the right of women to take contraception and refuse men to stick it in them.
Less the 50% of women who are pro-life, of course.
Anyway, I support the rights of any woman to have my kids, reproductive right there. *gestures*
OK Stupid.
Mammary Monday sez so tits, many bouncy.
https://tinyurl.com/y2hkdvv7
Watch it you. Tarran will be coming for ya.
How is David Hogg doing?
Where’s he shopping?
“Sir, this is a sporting goods store, we don’t sell medication.”
“PROOF!”
I couldn’t agree more. The laws making it hard to get cold pills are ridiculous.
I want an OTC AR-15 option.
Most of of the options are generics anyway.
Funny how the answer is never to make it easier to get cold pills.
It’s already pretty easy though.
Something needs to change.
Indeed. I should be able to buy an AR-15 at CVS only having to provide an ID and not having to pay an exorbitant transfer fee for a background check.
Just think, this guy’s a student at Harvard.
Just goes to show, never hire anyone from Harvard.
From what I have seen of Harvard lately that isn’t surprising at all.
Only after he sent in a pile of dead bodies in his admission packet on his second attempt.
How about we go back to the days when you could buy either mail order with no id?
I had a couple rifles that were purchased through the Sears catalog 80 some odd years ago- saw the original invoice for them.
Should have known never to have taken them out on the lake – boats have a habit of sinking out from under me…
David Hogg is stupid, news at … nevermind.
BREAKING NEWS: David Hogg wants kids hooked on Sudafed.
Wishful thinking
If a recession does materialize to threaten Trump’s reelection hopes, he can be expected to dial up the toxicity of a campaign in which he has already used the most strident racial rhetoric and demagoguery seen in top level politics in generations.
Bad Orange Man is bad. Make him go away.
They’re hoping for it a la Bill Maher. It’s despicable really.
Yeah, I never heard anybody in the MSM talk about inverted yield curves before now. They seem giddy at the prospect of a recession.
It would be funny if it hit, Trump did nothing and it cleared up before the election.
And it will. Because this recession talk is the MSM trying to conjure one up. What sick pieces of shit.
Inverted yield curves are one of those predictors that:
1. has predicted “9 of the last 5 recessions” kind of predictor
2. has a long lag time…so the recession won’t hit until 2021, if at all.
^this.
60% of the time, it works everytime.
The NPR headline was “nearly a third of economists now believe a recession is coming by 2021.”
Because “more than two thirds don’t think a recession is coming” wouldn’t have the same ring to it.
definitely been seeing lots of recession mentions in random places online .. gotta have a backup plan, I guess, in case the demonize the voters plan doesn’t work out.
It’s despicable really.
Poor people have to suffer for rich, white leftists to get their way because Orange Man Bad.
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Anthony Scaramucci is a highly unstable “nut job” who was with other candidates in the primary who got shellacked, & then unfortunately wheedled his way into my campaign. I barely knew him until his 11 days of gross incompetence-made a fool of himself, bad on TV. Abused staff,…
…got fired. Wrote a very nice book about me just recently. Now the book is a lie? Said his wife was driving him crazy, “something big” was happening with her. Getting divorced. He was a mental wreck. We didn’t want him around. Now Fake News puts him on like he was my buddy!
This makes Trump look like a really poor judge of who to hire. Just like many of his Apprentice decisions.
How do you staff an admin. to drain the swamp when all of DC is the swamp ?
need more driving gloves:
Study Examines America’s Most Crashed Car Models
So, Lesbians can’t drive?
The absence of Volvo might make for an excellent anecdotal demonstration of the concept of self-selection
Crosstrek does come loaded with a whole bunch of safety nannies; perhaps they make drivers worse?
Dunno. Around here though, they are everywhere. Seems to be a very popular car.
My guess would be they’re disproportionally driven in snow and ice.
Ah the ol’ 4X4/AWD curse. Seen plenty of trucks and SUVs sliding off the side of the road in the middle of an ice storm, while I’m taking it nice and slow in a RWD car (with winter tires).
Yep, people don’t seem to realize that AWD doesn’t help with stopping and just the idea of it in bad conditions seems to breed overconfidence in some.
Worst I’ve ever seen it was a 32 degree day when it was raining. The water turned to ice on the highway but it looked like rain. It was crazy – everyone was still going ~70+ mph while I was “creeping along” at 55 or below. Honda CRV – ditched down a 20 foot gully. FWD Chevy Aveo something or another in the trees. A Ford F150 – in the ditch. etc etc
I was a in BMW 325i with Blizzak tires and I could feel the rear wanting to swing out from the ice. I guess the people with AWD didn’t get the same feedback I was getting. So I got off the highway and took the country roads. At least I could drive more slowly without everyone passing me at stupid speeds (for the conditions).
“I guess the people with AWD didn’t get the same feedback I was getting. ”
You are assuming most drivers would even understand such feedback. These days people don’t even pay as much attention to other cars on the road – the amount of tailgating going on is incredibly high compared to just 15 years ago. I think the digital generation only understands on/off, fast/stopped, operating/broken.
Define Tailgating.
I’ve often felt the drivers behind me were too close, but there was only one instance where I’d call it outright tailgating. It was a city street, and the guy was very angry that I was only doing five over. I was uncomfortable with that speed, and wanted to slow down, but couldn’t figure out how to not have the asshole end up in my back seat even if I just eased up on the gas and let friction bleed off speed.
feedback
also notice how many people drive around with low tires: if they they ever went around a corner at so much as 20MPH they’d feel the difference immediately
tailgating: made up
again, muddy and pointless; if you hit someone, you’re cited for failure to maintain control; done
simpler law is better law . . . and freer
I didn’t take it as a question of an infraction, so much as noticing a rise in an unsafe practice. I tend to agree with Mr. Finger on that count, don’t know if it is related to generation as he claims.
“the Subaru Crosstrek taking the dubious honor of being the most-crashed car in America”
I’ve never driven one, but it looks like the rear visibility is terrible.
That’s typical for most of the crossover SUV vehicles anymore. The blind spots are huge because of the rear pillars. I hate it.
The rear side windows are tiny.
Meanwhile. one of the safest cars has more glass than an aquarium.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvo_200_Series
This is true. My wife’s CX-9 has terrible visibility to the rear. I think it’s because they’ve grown overly reliant on backup cameras.
It’s because of two things:
1) Style
2) Rollover roof crush tests and no test for visibility. Manufacturers are building to the safety ratings tests.
A few weeks ago I saw an old 80s BMW 320i – the visibility, without all the airbags and thick rollover pillars – was amazing. So much glass.
EF’s Infiniti also has a really good “greenhouse” – excellent visibility everywhere. My newer Mustang? Not so much.
I thought it was the opposite. I thought the rear view cameras were mandated because new safety regulations absolutely murdered rear visibility.
yes! I had a rental Lexus CT, sporty little hybrid that drove well but it felt like I was in a cave. The rear visibility was a postage stamp out the back and that was all. Backing out of a parking space was just hope for the best on the corners because I couldn’t see anything.
You wanna know why? This is why. groundbreaking premonition by SF
https://glibertarians.com/2019/07/subaru-horror-theater-call-of-the-road/
I was in three accidents in my Z3 — all being rear-ended by UT students. I assume that the car bring small, low to the ground, and similar to the color of the road (silver) made them overestimate the distance between them and me.
The last chick destroyed it. I miss that car. Had over a quarter million miles on it.
the Z3 HVAC was built in Fort Worth
Interesting that. It never gave me any problems. The most important part about having that car in TX was to always put the top up when you parked. Then dropping it let all the oven air out immediately.
was in three accidents in my Z3 — all being rear-ended by UT students
Phrasing?
Rich house wife cars, cheap street racers, and low end SUVs. Where’s my shocked face at?
^THIS
Do they examine age of drivers in conjunction with the type of vehicle?
This resulted in the Subaru Crosstrek taking the dubious honor of being the most-crashed car in America. While the national average showed 13.64 percent of all models on the road having at least one prior accident, the Crosstrek sits at 25.81 percent.
The preferred car for people proud of their “disinterest” in driving?
Over the weekend I found that there were ABS-affiliated bladesmithing classes for beginners. While I debated the $1,400 price tag (non-affiliated classes at the same facility were half that), I started to wonder if I would even be able to physically handle two weeks of standing in a forge, swinging a hammer. So I ask what sort of exercises would help with that endurance short of actually setting up a forge?
Hammer curls?
I can do those, I even have the weights already.
take the February class, not the August one!
So you plan on actually doing it? This isn’t research?
I’m seriously thinking about it.
I rather enjoyed making the handle for the blank. I could also use more acitve passtimes, and I don’t get to actually create something as often as I’d like.
Another good reason for you to do it is that you can weigh the material and advice well.
At the local forge, I hear smiths talking out of their ass all the time: they know what they know, but they don’t know it all. I always (always!) hear metallurgical catch-alls that are simply not true; they’re true for a range or some situation or some particular crystalline structure, but the expert will hold forth as if he is revealing a universal truth about steel, iron, or even all metals.
You’re widely read and worldly and would never fall into any of those traps.
The Secret of Steel
My favorite uncle was a farrier. I loved talking to him about forge work. He enjoyed telling me about the colors, quenching techniques, and softening . . . but he didn’t quite enjoy my agreement in terms of temperatures, crystal structure, and annealing. Two peoples separated by a common technology.
You can always tell a farrier by the way they swing a hammer. It’s a different technique from other smiths.
I will contemplate this on the tree of woe.
Oh…and curls and one of those hand squeezer things.
In olden days there were two guys in every village that no one fucked with: the baker and the blacksmith.
When I was a wee little OneOut my father fed 36,000 baby chicks with a hand scoop until they were big enough to eat out of the automatic feeders. Two weeks out of every 8 week period.
The only men in Shelby County that could match up arm wrestling were other chicken farmers.
One exception being pulpwood haulers. This line of work was all black men in those days. We had three families of them that lived on our land for no money but a few weeks of work each year. These were some of the biggest , strongest, fearsome looking men, as a group, I have ever seen.
I don’t think that there is any defensive or offensive lineman in the NFL that they couldn’t stand beside.
My mouse clicking finger is nothing to sneeze at.
Professional RTS gamer?
His bulk is swelling from retained fluids. The muscles for controlling the index finger are in the forearm.
Just looking at some of the other classes the nearest affiliated school to me has on offer has me annoyed at my day job for wanting me to, you know, show up in order to get paid.
Your biggest problem isn’t going to be short-term strength, its going to be the ability to swing a hammer over, and over, and over, and over again. That’s energy system training in addition to muscular strength training. I would highly recommend this book right here. It describes a 2 month workout regime that I’ve run with my family. The 3/4 of us that actually stuck with it had great results.
Only real tip beyond what’s in the book is to make sure you are working your shoulders, yolk, chest and back with your movements. its easy to do it all with your legs, but you are going to be swinging a hammer with your shoulders, yolk, back, chest, and to a lesser extent bicep, triceps, and forearms. You can train all these with bodyweight exercises.
Shoulders – Pike pushups
Yolk – Inverted rows
chest – regular pushups
Lower back – hyperextensions
All of these have progressions. So search for “push up progression” and find the one that’s not to hard, not to easy, and use that till you can move on to the next one.
AKSHULLY…
Your worst problem is going to be joint and rotator cuff damage. Hamming metal is really bad for you, there’s a reason trip hammers exist.
From a lifetime of hammering, sure, but not over two week, right?
And even if so, what’s the solution? Building up muscle mass and strengthening the joints, right?
He wants me to spend five grand on a power hammer.
In all honesty, I’ve seen more than a dozen 20-somethings fucked up for life from taking on bladesmithing apprenticeships. I’m not saying don’t do it, just be reeely careful. Particularly if you want to work on large projects.
To be fair, all of those guys (and one woman) were kind of stupid and took terrible care of themselves and made really terrible decisions. Like moving out into rural TX to take on a bladesmithing apprenticeship.
That sounds like it involves hammer work 8+ hours a day every day for a prolonged period of time.
Not really. Most of the time is spent on the wheel, not the anvil. Especially for apprentices, those will be mainly working on guards and fittings (and sharpening and polishing and…)
So I ask what sort of exercises would help with that endurance short of actually setting up a forge?
Get a hammer.
Swing it.
P Brooks here with his crazzzy plans!
because conservatives believe in liberty
Doooom. Glooooom. Catastropheeeee.
Britain would face gridlock at ports; shortages of medicine, fuel and food; and a hard border with Ireland if it left the European Union with no deal, according to a leaked government document.
The U.K. seems increasingly likely to crash out of the EU on Oct. 31, and the picture the government paints in a confidential document compiled under the code name Operation Yellowhammer and obtained by the Sunday Times is sobering. It details the ways government leaders are working to avert a “catastrophic collapse in the nation’s infrastructure.”
Trucks could be dealt 2 1/2-day delays at ports, with significant disruption lasting up to three months, which would affect fuel supplies in London and the southeast of England, according the document.
Medical supplies will also be vulnerable to “severe extended delays,” since about three-quarters of the U.K.’s medicine comes across the English Channel.
Fresh food will become less available, and prices will rise, according to the document. That outcome is expected to especially hit vulnerable groups.
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The Financial Times quoted government insiders who rebutted the document, saying it is not a realistic scenario for a no-deal Brexit and pointing out that it was written under the leadership of Johnson’s predecessor, Theresa May, and does not reflect the preparations spearheaded by Johnson that are now underway.
“This document is from when ministers were blocking what needed to be done to get ready to leave and the funds were not available. It has been deliberately leaked by a former minister in an attempt to influence discussions with EU leaders,” a source told the paper.
But there is no such thing as a Deep State. Just selfless public servants, trying to make the world a better, saner place.
It would be like the Irish potato famine
Anything that gets rid of a few more Irish can’t be wrong, ammirite?
That’d better be the drink talking.
The US is going to get a bunch of refugees with bad teeth?
Of course there’s just no way the United States would want to jump in and take advantage by filling the gap.
I could have sworn the UK existed before the EU.
Brussels is going to do everything in its power to punish the UK for straying. I hope Boris is planning for that.
Britain would face gridlock at ports;
Since Europe won’t be trading with them any more (as evidence by all the shortages), wouldn’t the ports be empty, not gridlocked?
According to Operation Yellowhammer, the cross-government study of the impact of a no-deal Brexit, the UK could face months of disruption at its ports.
People opposed to Brexit claim Brexit will be bad.
They may not be wrong, but the stench of confirmation bias is strong.
Isn’t Yellowhammer a town in northern Canada next to Yellowknife?
If you get the hammer so hot it glows yellow doesn’t that cause problems when hammering the knife?
I just figured they spray painted it.
Operation Yellowhammer?? Was this study done in Tuscaloosa?
¥ang
Andrew Yang
@AndrewYang
It’s strange that politicians who claim to want to help people overlook the most direct solution – give people money.
WTF is this? I can’t even.
Did Marianne Williamson hijack his account?
Her or Princess Leia.
I assume he is just Yanging your chain.
It’s like he talked with the other candidates Andrew the short end of the stick.
I mean, hes not wrong, and I think there are sound arguments that the reason politicians don’t like the idea is that it gives the proles too much control over themselves, and there is not enough opportunity for graft. At the same time, yeah.
I’d agree if he said “Stop taking their money.”
And stopped pretending we don’t already throw a trillion or so dollars out the window every year trying to “help” people.
It’s definitely a more honest form of theft.
the reason politicians don’t like the idea is that it gives the proles too much control over themselves,
The more people are dependent on the government, the less control they have over their own lives.
and there is not enough opportunity for graft.
The more money the government handles, them more opportunity there is for graft.
That said, it is the complexity of the program that leads to both these outcomes. Even if the Yang Giveaway started simple, you know it wouldn’t stay that way.
Yeah, I should have prefaced that by saying those things relative to other government handout programs. (e.g. if you give a guy cash, you can’t try to stop him from buying cigs, like they do with food stamps)
Your original point makes sense. Of course it’ll devolve into a bureaucratic nightmare, but it could work for a while. I posted the tweet because of how tone deaf it is. It sounds worse than “You didn’t build that.”
Hey guys, what if (just hear me out here) what if a lot of people are poor because they have a lifetime of poor financial decisions? And what if just throwing them a pile of other people’s money is not in fact going to immediately transform them into motivated earners and disciplined savers?
Quiet down, you — he’s gonna make us all millionaires.
But I’m already a multi-trillionaire.
*counds stack of Zimbabwe dollars*
Rich people do rich people things. Poor people do poor people things. (stolen)
The difference isn’t what most people think. It isn’t about income at all. The difference is in impulse control. I am richer than most people I know that have a much higher income than I do.
Nothing wrong with being poor but there may be something wrong with liking it
They are going to need that money to evacuate to higher ground.
This makes Trump look like a really poor judge of who to hire. Just like many of his Apprentice decisions.
I used to watch this show called American Hotrod, set in Boyd Coddington’s shop in L A. Total sop opera shitshow guilty pleasure. Coddington would take on these ridiculous projects with an absurd timeline, and the drama would commence. Strife, jealousy, dissension. Every now and then a new guy would arrive, who seemed to be competent and get things done. That guy would last an episode or two, and get run off by the drama queens. It actually took me a while to figure it out. Nobody wants to watch a competent, efficient group of guys just go about their business, and do good work. Hardly nobody, anyway. What the audience craves is conflict. DRAMA!
Good for reality teevee, not so good for when you actually need to produce results.
+1 Omarosa
+2 Joan and Melissa Rivers
I find it more entertaining to watch a true master of their craft work. If I wanted to listen to people bitching at each other, I’d visit family.
All of those types of shows seem to emphasize conflict that way, even if it’s obviously contrived. Competency will get a business customers, conflict will get eyeballs and advertisers.
Unless the results are attention — clicks, subscribers, whatever.
This explains journalism, local ‘news,’ and, sadly, the preponderance of “we’re all doomed by the evil korporashuns” core of so much science fiction.
Nobody wants to watch a competent, efficient group of guys just go about their business
These are the people who watch DIY Network for the most part. I love watching people build cool stuff well.
Warning: zerohedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-19/ups-quietly-using-self-driving-trucks-months
For now there are backup drivers. That will change within the next two years.
Good Sci Fi plot somewhere on there.
Hey, I’ve got a great idea! Let’s remake Alien but at the bottom of the ocean!
Already been done:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abyss
Yeah, but the aliens were the good guys in that one.
there was also one called sphere i remember but am unsure of the plot
Seen recently. Alien sphere inside a crashed alien ship on the ocean floor possesses people’s minds to make their worst fears materialize in reality. Lots of drama and running to and fro until finally the primary protagonists escape to the surface.
Event Horizon was decent.
Apparently Amazon is greenlighting a series based on the movie. I have faint hope.
I’ll watch any movie with Kristen Stewart.
gay
I sat through all five Twilight movies. Sober. G. Gordon Liddy couldn’t do that.
Her acting was spectacular in those. It was amazing how she kept the same dumb look on her face throughout every movie.
I tried to do this. But the last 4 + I “watched” by having the headphones on and the movie playing in a browser tab behind stuff I was working on. The audio was still annoying, but could be tuned out.
Oh, the “Annual Mandatory Trianing Video that hasn’t changed in a decade” technique.
This.
Who signs off on this shit? Are there really no competent script advisors in all of hollywood?
7 miles down.
In a facility that you’d more easily construct/maintain on the moon.
Walking around outside, in what looks to be space-suits.
I bet that trailer includes the entire plot.
SEA SMITH APPROVED
I am thinking more like Pacific Rim prequel
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9594200/1/Pacific-Rimjob
anyone else tired of folk who don’t respect the buddy system ?
Rescuers found the body of Daniel Komins late Sunday morning in a remote wilderness area in the Trinity Alps, where he had embarked on a five-day solo hike on Aug. 10, according to the Trinity County Sheriff’s Office. . .
His family reported the 34-year-old missing when he did not return home as planned on Aug. 14.
At least he filed a hike plan with someone.
Meh, I like soloing. If I die, it is my own fault. I also don’t go on 5-day straight hikes, but that is a question of competence and desire.
Same here. I’ve done weeklong treks on my own when I was in my 20’s. No cellphone. It was freeing. Maybe stupid, but I loved it.
Don’s dislike of solo behavior is shining a light on his truly awful libertarian bona fides.
My God.
well the whole point is to do it yourself. There is a whole youtube bushcraft community that does things like this.
Its 2019. Get a fucking personal locator beacon. Its like $10.
And with a buddy along, you have an extra source of food if something goes wrong.
Best cannibalism movie ever.
Not even.
Florida gator:
Alligators caught climbing fences
Why do we allow those things to live?