Yeah. I’ve been busy as shit today and have nothing to show for it. Well, I have an appointment to potentially get my rectum catastrophically redecorated by the Ford dealership because a wiring harness fails in a (not at all) fun and exciting way on my Expedition. And I talked to a lot of people. Meetings, meetings everywhere, and not much addressed in my actual work.How the hell is your Monday?
Bitch, what part of “I need to go to yoga to deal with my anger issues” didn’t you get?!
God must be throwing a 90’s throwback party tonight.
This is kind of how I imagine the Antifa uprising starting.
Sure, put a chip in your head. Make sure it has wi-fi or bluetooth so its firmware can be updated, too. You just went on the list of hyper-intelligent morons.
Is there anyone NOT running for President in 2020?
Oh what the hell, we’ll go with the obvious.
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I’m not!
Don’t have time. I’m too busy watching my own national government’s slow-mo implosion.
Informal poll – When a webpage blocks content with a “please disable your adblocker” message – do you:
A) Whitelist the site
B) Leave and not come back
C) Don’t use an adblocker and never see these messages
D) Make a snarky comment in response to the informal poll
?
Usually B unless it’s a site I’m going to use a lot like majorgeeks or nexus, then I’ll whitelist it.
+1
#metoo
E) Ignore it and view the page anyway.
These aren’t warning messages, these are “The content won’t show up at all” messages
Incognito Mode will defeat a lot of those issues.
B, 99.9% of the time. I will whitelist only if I can properly vet the website owner, which is 0.1% of the time.
I went to one site today that was interacting with at least 50 other sites, and I don’t mean sub sites of their own, I mean literally 50 external sites, more than half of which were advertising sites.
Anti-adblocker blocker and as worst case disable java script.
However, if there is no compelling reason to visit the site option B.
I started wondering because I ran into sites that got around both of those (won’t load content without javascript and the anti-adblocker blocker doesn’t seem to do shit)
Though it’s great where it works, I have odd bouts of curiousity about other people’s reactions to these sorts of things.
Usually B
B
B
B
I have no interest in violating the website owner’s terms of use for their site, and I have no interest in viewing ads.
Usually B, if you can’t just ignore it.
B, I don’t want to belong to any club that doesn’t want me. Life is just too short
B. Fuck that noise.
B. I have a hope that eventually the sites will lose enough “eyeballs” and change their ad policies. I also hope to find a roll of double eagles at my local beach. I’ll probably find the gold coins before ads gets controlled.
B. I use Firefox, which blocks a lot of ads by default, and I go through a VPN which does so as well. I’d rather pay for a subscription than mess with ads.
This must be why even after completely disabling AdBlocker, sites still claim I have an ad blocker on.
I think you’ve got to specifically whitelist sites in Firefox for most ads to show up.
C
I’m so sorry.
Meh, it’s not like the old days anymore with pop-ups and shit, I really don’t notice not having them on anymore, I deactivated them a while back when Gilmore or someone called me out for saying that using google to bypass paywalls was theft while using adblockers. The only thing I notice is that some sites load slowly, I use that as a chance to exercise my patience, The Daily Mail is verrrrrry slooooow however, and I won’t knowingly click links to it, so I don’t get to see all the Demi Whatshername photos that Count Potato keeps linking to. I can live with that.
Even one animated ad drives me bonkers – and somehow they managed to find a way to animate them even with animations turned off in the browser.
Fuck GIFs substituting for video.
And as I mentioned yesterday, the Daily News is terrible with ads, and a bottomless page to boot.
“and a bottomless page to boot.”
Oh, there’s plenty of bottoms — some of them quite large.
B. I have yet to visit a website that’s worth sitting through a bunch of ads for.
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If I wanted to take stupid polls, I’d hang out at Teen Vogue
I thought it was Buzzfeed.
If possible, block the elements covering up the story with uBlock origin.
Or I might disable it since I run a pi-hole which eats a lot of ads.
“Bitch, what part of “I need to go to yoga to deal with my anger issues” didn’t you get?!”
I liked the Daily Mail’s headline better.
This type of Yoga has led to all sorts of violence.
I thought that link was going to be Captain Nemo.
That New York magazine puff piece on how cool DSA twentysomethings in Brooklyn are that someone linked in the AM links comments had one bit of amusing data – that fuckface Sean McElwee used to be a Reason Foundation intern.
This DSA?
https://www.dsausa.org/
“Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is under attack by both Donald Trump and neoliberal Democrats for a tweet highlighting the financial influence of AIPAC. In the wake of the Tree of Life massacre and the increasing influence of genuinely anti-Semitic conspiracy theories in the United States, DSA finds these attacks a cynical attempt to instill fear in Representative Omar and DSA member Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, two women of color in Congress breaking new ground by vocally supporting Palestinian liberation.
That Democrats who condemned Trump’s Travel Ban in prior years would lead this charge is the height of hypocrisy, demonstrates that they share Trump’s fear of a left wing, grassroots movement questioning the right of the few to rule the many, and illuminates their willingness to pit working people against each other in their quest to maintain their power.”
https://www.dsausa.org/statements/dsa-stands-with-congresswoman-omar/
Because of all those Jewish terrorists?
a tweet highlighting the financial influence of AIPAC
Pretty sure that’s a gross misrepresentation of the tweet:
Although I’m thinking “kill the Jews” isn’t a gross misrepresentation of “vocally supporting Palestinian liberation”.
“From the river to the sea.”
Which one of our newly minted crypto-bigots repeated that, and then claimed to have no idea it was meant as a call for a Final Solution to the Israel problem?
Marc Lamont Hill, for one
The ghost of Meir Kahane is coming back any day now
Apparently, 50% of all donations to the DNC and 25% to the RNC come from Jewish donors. I was surprised.
https://m.jpost.com/US-Elections/US-Jews-contribute-half-of-all-donations-to-the-Democratic-party-468774
“As Jews on the left, we are in solidarity with Representative Ilhan Omar and her statements regarding the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) influence over US lawmakers and foreign policy.”
https://medium.com/jewish-socialism/jsc-in-solidarity-with-ilhan-omar-13e2d0714a0
What the hell is wrong with these people?
Because they are only Jews from a cultural standpoint. Their true faith is leftism.
^^
Chipwooder for the win.
GawherSplinter complains that article is just a big echo chamber.The lack of self-awareness is at sub-sentience levels.
“What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money.…. Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man – and turns them into commodities…. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange…. The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of the merchant, of the man of money in general.”
— Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question, 1844
https://www.philosophersmag.com/opinion/30-karl-marx-s-radical-antisemitism
Every generation of yutes thinks they are cool, edgy and innovative. Then years later reality sets in.
The only thing new is what is new to you. You are just like every generation that came before you.
I see ads on teevee all of the time for companies started by smug young kids who plug themselves as having something amazing and new. I watch the ad and think: They are selling watches. / they are selling razors / etc etc. I have seen all of that shit before a thousand times.
Relevant.
Teenagers invent sex, no video at 11
Thank goodness. 11 is too young.
Get off my lawn!
“Meetings, meetings everywhere, and not much addressed in my actual work.”
You bill hourly, don’t you?
Not if it is an internal meeting…
STEVE SMITH LIKE INTERNAL MEETINGS
Mostly B
Don’t ever change.
Keith Flint 49, Luke Perry 52
These numbers are uncomfortably low.
In a lousy coincidence, a really, really nice girl I went to HS with died this morning, 48 y/o. Peers dying stinks.
Sorry 🙁
OUch. Died from what?
She had some long term, chronic stuff, diabetic, some sort of heart problem years ago. Super nice person, the genetic lottery was simply unkind to her.
Yep. I had a straight-edge friend of mine from my high school days die from leukemia at age 29. Never touched a drink or smoke in his life. And here I am, having severely abused my body for twenty odd years now, still healthy as a bull.
That’s frequently what it is, isn’t it? I’ve had a number of friends die from what turned out to be congenital disorders over the years. Lady Luck’s not much of a lady somedays . . .
I’m fighting a cold and trying to write my 2019 objectives. Not succeeding at either.
Goal #1 — get better.
got it started for you.
Goal #2 –Don’t get worse.
There, I think that’s it.
Goal #3 – Stop getting unsolicited advice from smart-asses on the internet.
Goal #2 – get on executive bonus program
Wake up in the morning
No, the Green New Deal doesn’t aim to end air travel, as Florida Sen. Rick Scott says
The resolution makes no mention of ending air travel. Instead, it calls for “overhauling transportation systems,” which includes “investment in high-speed rail.” Scott seized on a messaging document from Democrats that mentioned, perhaps in jest, getting rid of “farting cows and airplanes.” But we found no evidence that getting rid of airplanes is a serious policy idea from climate advocates.
We rate this statement False.
Oh good, so the Green New Deal is just a joke after all.
It’s not going to end air travel – only end air travel for serfs.
The really are Feudalists.
People need to know their place and stay there.
Yes, they are. Casting the vast majority of humanity into abject poverty and slavery is their goal.
Politifact;dr
C’mon, it says “fact” right there in the title!
Getting rid of airplanes? No.
Making them artificially unworkable from a financial standpoint? Yes.
Well, the resolution itself is more milquetoast than Alexandria-Cortez’s FAQs, which have gotten all the publicity. I think it depends on which of them you regard as the Green New Deal, which in either case is just branding for a set of radical proposals.
Even this attempt at damage control is pretty alarming, if you read it like a sane person rather than a DemSoc lunatic.
Reminds me of Howie Carr’s article from the other day. Inconvenient Democratic policy papers are “messaging documents” written “perhaps in jest” that Republicans “seize on”.
“Republicans pounce” is my favorite phrase from that genre.
Is there anyone NOT running for President in 2020?
My one true Democrat waifu, Joe Biden. I wanted him debating Trump back in 2015 and my ardor hasn’t cool. Notice me, senpai, and RUN LIKE THE WIND!
Eric Holder said no, much to TEAM RED’s dismay.
Ahem. I would like to take this time to announce the launch of my Presidential candidacy. I will be running on the Poo Flinger ticket.
You could be the next Robert Reich.
Only taller and much more handsome.
You’ll never have a love affair as deep as the one he has with his own voice, though. That’s a love for the ages.
Umm, about the same height and resembling the anus of a long-dead mandrill.
OMWC and Spud:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=_zBM7aSXAQA
Fake News. I would never tell him his fly was unzipped.
Fake News. He can’t carry a tune. He couldn’t even LIFT a tune to carry it.
Fake News. I have Pandora on my iPhone.
Not these two:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6I_dKUYyI4
That’s…disturbingly accurate…
That’s amazing. 38 minutes of the two best hecklers ever!
Do you fling your _own_ poo? Your dog’s poo after it has been picked up into a baggie? Recycled poo? These will all be questions for your party’s platform.
My platform is to take rich peoples poo and give it to poor people, so that they will have more poo to fling at the rich people. The secondary benefit is the irony of rich people getting hit by their own poo.
So you are running as a republican? Spud’s campaign has explicitly called for the rich to shit on the poor!
Ah, but the rich will have less of their own poo to fling. It’s poo redistribution. SJ, ftw.
He’s got two dogs and he’s not ambidextrous. There’s poo for everyone!
“A pile of poo in every pot.”
Funny story. My father lives in a HOA neighborhood. He caught the neighbor, another old man, letting his dog shit in my father’s yard so my father told him to cut that out. A week later he caught him again and got the guy on video. So the other old guy picks the poo up and puts it in a bag but my father wouldn’t quit videoing him. The guy gets mad and starts chasing my father around and trying to hit him with the bag of shit, all on video.
Yep, a video of one old man chasing another old man around and slinging a bag of dogshit at him, cussing the whole time.
The making of a classic.
One of my neighbors picks up her dog’s crap when they are walking.
And then leaves the little bag right where the dog shit in the first place.
I can’t decide just what is going on there.
The same fuckhead neighbors who “walk” their dog off his leash down the middle of the street have been caught a few times just slidin’ on by after their dog dropped a big ol’ deuce in someone’s yard. Last time it happened the lady who owned the yard bagged it up, knocked on her door, handed it to her, and said, “You forgot this.”
We’ve got the same problems in our neighborhood. Picking up the poo and leaving the bag allows for self moral preening while actually not having done anything.
Arizona problems:
Most of my neighbors have dogs, but in my neighborhood there’s more coyote and javalina shit on the roadside (and in people’s driveways, fuckyouverymuch) than dog shit.
How does one identify javelina shit?
Like pig shit, only smaller puddles.
It doesn’t smell like pepper or contain any bells.
She’s a lazy mother fucker. I see this at my local dog park sometimes.
“Scenes from the last Glibs’ meetup.”
That’s a marvelous visual.
I *breaks down sobbing*…am,,,a dog poo flinger.
One late night, I had just finished tiling the bathroom. The poor dog had been neglected all day so I took him out for a walk. As we near the church, we see a pickup filled with a bunch of kids. They jump out and start stealing pumpkins from the church yard (was just before Halloween). I sauntered up to the driver’s windows and emptied the still warm dog shit inside the cab. The driver was none too happy.
So you’re running as the media candidate?
How the hell is your Monday?
I forgot about the eye doctor appointment I had until it popped up on my calendar alerts at work an hour before I had to be there and ended up having to spend a couple hundred dollars that I wasn’t planning on and didn’t have. But the female technician that did all the basics before I saw the doctor was cute*. So there’s that.
*But she wasn’t like the girl that cut my hair this weekend. That girl was, let’s say, dressed to compliment her features. She kept putting her chest in my eye-line. I’m not complaining, I am just saying it was hard to try to be respectful and not get caught looking. And she insisted on using scissors to cut my hair on the top of my head even though the buzzer would suffice (claimed to not have a comb at the length I wanted. I think she just wanted to touch me. Anyway, it is good that the gf decided to take a nap at home instead of joining me on that particular outing.
How the hell is your Monday?
I have a business trip to the bay area next week, and I’m so behind from my business trip last week that I’ll be prepping for the next business trip on the plane flight.
Oy
Monkey murder RAMPAGE
Band name?
“Don’t monkey with another monkey’s monkey”
Johnny Paycheck
There’s an upside to Hickenlooper running. Just think about how much fun it will be constantly calling him Chickenpooper Hickenlooper.
I am a fan of Lickenpooper.
What about Stinkenpooper?
HM? Is that you?
From the Wise Latina beat
Yes, she’s charismatic, outspoken and willing to endorse ideas outside the mainstream. That America can’t somehow take this in stride, and keep it in proportion, makes me think of former Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein’s apt expression to describe our coarsened society: “the idiot culture.”
The AOC furor we’re seeing has plenty to do with her being a young Latina. Plenty to do with her willingness to challenge the status quo. (And yes, as a rookie, she has made her share of mistakes.)
And it has everything to do with America’s divisiveness, misogyny and celebrity obsession.
The cascading insanity over Ocasio-Cortez says far more about the audience — what used to be known as American citizens and public servants — than it does about her.
So smart. So dreamy.
You’re just jealous, haters.
The AOC furor we’re seeing has plenty to do with her being a young Latina
Fuck you, you progjecting racist!
This.
I can give two shits if she is a Latina. She could be lily ass white with blonde hair and blue eyes and I would still call her a fucking moron. That’s the Left’s MO these days. if you disagree with someone from an oppressed group, you do so not because you disagree with their ideas, but because you’re a bigot/homophobic/racist/misogynist/islamaphobe…etc. They tout their ideas as being strong and enduring but whenever you try to actually debate them, they hurl ad hominems towards you.
kafkatrapping is the preferred mode of argumentation for the left
Has anyone spoken to you about your deep-seated racism?
Oh, wait…
Ed’s not an authentic black.
I’m racist and sexist. That’s why I disagree with everything AOC says, but I agree with everything Al Gore says.
She could be lily ass white with blonde hair and blue eyes and I would still call her a fucking moron.
Which makes me think that this author has never heard of the “dumb blonde” meme. If AOC was a dumb blonde, I can only imagine she’d be in for even more criticism than she has received.
The cascading insanity over Ocasio-Cortez says far more about the audience
Indeed it does. The cascading insanity is happening on the SJW/proggy left. Normal people are not losing their minds over her.
That’s one of their new tactics. Accuse the other side of being assholes and criticizing the person over something little when in reality, the opposition said nothing nor care. Basically creating outrage where there is none.
Sure, we like to make fun of her. How the hell can you not enjoy making fun of someone when they constantly make it so easy? She’s one of the dumbest politicians ever. She literally makes Hank Johnson look smart.
Reading her words hurt with stupid.
Recently I got exposed to a video of her talking.
How could something that stupid not die from forgetting to breathe?
But, as she showed at the Cohen hearing, Ocasio-Cortez can be more capable than most at actually doing her job: being well-prepared, not grandstanding and asking pointed questions that actually elicited information.
This is a joke, right? Her performance in the Cohen hearing was the same kind of bumbling stupidity she’s displayed at every single opportunity.
That is all horseshit. It has to do with her being a fucking commie scumbag. I dont care about anything else.
The thing is, if she weren’t a young, attractive Latina, she wouldn’t have won in the first place.
Zing!
“charismatic”?
Apparently, that’s another word that I thought I knew the meaning of… but taken in the context used here, I’m obviously wrong.
In this case it means she’s attractive.
You know who else was charismatic?
Luke Perry?
9012 soon
Oh very nice! *throws Hyperbole some quarters*
says far more about the audience
You deplorables won’t just fall in line and accept demonstrably horrible and destructive ideas.
I don’t know, I just don’t like precocious idiots regardless of ethnic background.
… and keep it in proportion…
Yes, the criticism of the person who endorsed a plan that would cost literally all the money in the world is somehow disproportionate to this idea that is merely “outside the mainstream”.
Sure, put a chip in your head.
That didn’t work out for the people in Mission Impossible.
Defiant U.S. sheriffs push gun sanctuaries, imitating liberals on immigration
I like it.
For some reason I don’t think the leftist states where this is necessary will tolerate it.
But that would lead to some interesting precedents and future court cases on other issues.
How far are they willing to go to stop it?
I keep reminding my proggies that their way requires violence. Why do you want people to die, proggies?
Why?
How far are they willing to go to stop it?
How far are they willing to go to stop people growing pot?
But they have the federal government, specifically the DEA, to help with that.
There is no federal issue here, so the feds shouldn’t be involved. So they’d have to send in the state police and do house-by-house searches. Would not go over well.
There is no federal issue here, so the feds shouldn’t be involved.
Seems to me it falls under ATF jurisdiction, by the well-known precedent of “fuck the constitution, it’s in the acronym”. So yeah, I’d not be sanguine about this.
For that matter, how many “muh constitution and liberty” types are actually willing to go into a shootout with the cops? I’d expect local cops going to the union to stop their firings to be much more effective.
Oh, I know that some Dem USAG could probably gin up a reason to send in the FBI. Would be interesting to see how that would play with the current SCOTUS, or perhaps a post-RBG SCOTUS. Trump’s judicial appointments at all levels will thwart and infuriate them for decades.
I had an econ professor say that you shouldn’t endorse any law unless you yourself where willing to use violence against someone when they are in violation of that law.
That shit stuck with me.
There are no laws with a cop to enforce them
Well stated. Every single law in this country, every last one of them, is ultimately enforced by penalty of death. People look at me funny when I say that, but try not complying and see what happens.
The people who make those laws would have no problem using violence to force people to comply.
“John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it.”
– the founder of the modern Democrat Party
We’re seeing it a lot in WA – Eastern WA – just like OR, the split down the cascades is 20/80 / 80/20 – we’d be better off building a new state there.
I like how huffy the left gets when they are defied.
Every time I see one of those huffy quotes in one of those stories, I am dying to see someone respond “OK. Now do immigration.”
When the law is tossed aside in one area, then there’s no logical way to oppose tossing it aside in other areas.
Something something, the Devil turns round on you, something something.
There is if you make a distinction between “bad law” and “good law”, and ensure you are the guardian of said distinction.
Never change, Reuters.
“It should not be up to individual sheriffs or police officers deciding which laws they personally like,” said Jonathan Lowy of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. “This attitude shows a disrespect for the way our system of government is supposed to operate.”
1) Not the argument at hand.
2) The government is supposed to be limited and defined with multiple checks and balances on multiple levels. One thing you are not allowed to do is prevent the people from being armed. The way I see it, the sheriffs are taking their oaths seriously on this matter.
So, concentration camp staff get a pass because they were just following orders, etc. Got it.
Shall not be infringed. How is there an exception to that rule? There isn’t.
2Chili has an article up at TOS about the movement here in New Mexico.
We used to be pretty reliably purple in the past but just recently there has been a big shift toward hard blue largely based upon the politics from the big cities. We rural folk are not real happy and I’m glad to see that it’s not just around here.
-1 to me for not making the obvious “leftist turn at Albuquerque” joke.
Wicomico Co. on the eastern shore is doing that. It’s interesting because Maryland’s gun laws are already unbelievably strict, rivaling California or New York so you know the upcoming crop of proposed laws have to be awful if they’ve finally driven Marylanders to buck.
I love it, that’s fucking golden. Only there’s real constitutional grounds for it. There’s tons of unconstitutional bullshit on guns that most people just accept. There’s nothing in the Constitution that says we’re not allowed to have national borders.
Holy shit,
(maybe). PM Zoolander may be facing a thot revolt!
Jane Philpott resigns from cabinet, citing ‘lost confidence’ in how government dealt with SNC-Lavalin
No, this is not like John McCain doing one of his “I’m a Republican but let me stab my party” moves. When a cabinet minister resigns this publicly, it’s demonstrates all is not well and PM is losing support within his party. Especially since he was the one who decided 50% of his cabinet must be women, so they should be his defenders.
Damn, if there’s more women’s resignations, I might have to consider voting Liberal to keep the Patriarchy running.
It sure sounds like he’s caught red-handed in some really corrupt business.
That’s what I don’t get – he didn’t. He ran his government the way Canadian government has been run since before there was a Canadian government.
A company working in Libya paid bribes to get contract. OH NO! How else do you get contract in Libya? But hey, let’s pretend that we are better and so put them on trial for a crime committed in another country.
So he asked his justice minister to do a perfectly legal thing (he had made it legal, of course) and refer the company to an alternative penalty scheme, one where it would still be eligible for government contracts. Since the country has been run for benefit of Ontario-Quebec elites and their voting bases for well over a century, it wasn’t an unreasonable or unprecedented request, either.
Seriously, all this is doing is making me re-evaluate PM Zoolander as someone far smarter than I thought he was. Maybe even of average intelligence.
Had Trudeau not spent his entire time in office loudly, repeatedly and conspicuously posturing about his self gratifying wokeness, I would agree with you. Given that he didn’t, I am more than happy to see him hoisted by his own putine.
I am enjoying this, I just don’t want PM Canadian AOC, But Uglier And More Harridan to replace him, thank you very much.
Are you referring to someone specifically here?
A generic White Feminist Harridan is my Number One fear these days, so take a pick.
Except Heddie Fry. She’s safe – 30-odd year of womaning in Parliament and never even an iota of recognition.
No future Canadian PM will have a more hilarious trip to India.
True. Popcorn-worthy moments have come thick and fast with The Hair That Walks Like A Man™. Yet I’m sure that they’re not over, even if Jussie is.
I wouldn’t call Gerald Butts smart though…
He may also be of average intelligence.
I love that Turdeau Jr. is being hoist on his own woke petard. Wilson-Raybould was a token to show how Woke he was but not to think for herself. And all of the “Sunny Ways” is being revealed for the bullshit it always was.
And this involves Liberal corruption in Quebec, long-term practice for them.
And I love that a vaunted “Liberal World Order” hero is once again revealed to be a bunch of lying, corrupt, corporatists who deal with foreign dictators.
Trudeau’s problem is that he tried to rationally talk his way out of what is, as you say, a typical Canadian crony deal. He lack’s Jean Chrétien’s talent for obscuring his party’s screwups behind a cloud of verbal squid ink.
I despised Jean Chretien, but one of the things I have to throw grudging admiration at him for was that he knew how to deal with a crisis, typically by stonewalling. He knew that the folks in the MSM (not to mention the general public) had a “shiny bauble” infatuation and that, if you could just stonewall ’em for a couple of weeks, the next crisis would emerge and the previous crisis would be forgotten. Wash, rinse, repeat. He used that tactic repeatedly, and for the most part, it served him well.
This new defection, on the other hand, is picking at a fresh scab. If it keeps up, the best the Libranos can hope for is a minority government, which would probably be a disaster for the rest of us. :-/
hey little knew of brotherhood,
The faith of fighting men,
Who once to prove their lie was good,
Hanged Colonel Jacques Chrétien.
One-fourth of Rochmont’s fighting strength,
One battalion of Dorsai,
Was sent by Rochmont forth alone,
To bleed Helmuth and die.
But look, look down from Rochmont’s heights,
Upon the Helmuth plain,
At all of Helmuth’s armored force,
By Dorsai checked or slain.
Look down, look down, on Rochmont’s shame,
To hide the wrong she’d done,
Made claim that Helmuth bribed Dorsai,
No battle had been won.
To prove that lie, the Rochmont lords,
Arrested Jacques Chrétien,
On charge he dealt with Helmuth’s chiefs,
For payment to his men.
Commandant Arp Van Din sent word,
“You may not judge Dorsai,
Return our Colonel by the dawn,
Or Rochmont town shall die!”
Strong-held behind her wall, Rochmont,
Scorned to answer them,
Condemned, and at the daybreak hanged,
Young Colonel Jacques Chrétien.
Bright, bright the sun that morning rose,
Upon each weaponed wall,
But when the sun set in the west,
Those walls were leveled all.
Then soft and white the moon arose,
On streets and roofs unstained,
But when that moon was down once more,
No street or roof remained.
No more is there a Rochmont town,
No more are Rochmont’s men.
But stands a Dorsai monument,
To Colonel Jacques Chrétien.
So pass the word from world to world,
Alone still stands Dorsai,
And while she lives no one of hers,
By foreign wrong shall die.
They little knew of brotherhood,
The faith of fighting men,
Who once to prove their lie was good,
Hanged Colonel Jacques Chrétien.
The Gordfather did fine work, didn’t he?
I like Q’s Thot links better than yours Pan.
Politics is Hollywood for ugly people.
Canadian politics is politics for people too ugly for DC.
This is kind of how I imagine the Antifa uprising starting.
Hmmmm, I think Olde Salem Brewing Company may have angered the Gods.
I imagine them deciding to trash some Korean stores and all ending up in a mass grave.
This time it’s really going to happen!
Carlos Ghosn’s Japan legal team optimistic that Tokyo court will grant ex-Nissan chief bail this time
They treating Ghosn exactly the way they treat yakuza. However, I believe they are getting some behind the scenes push back. Japan has been under significant pressure to add non-Japanese to its public boards. Getting talent onto these boards with risk of jail time like this isn’t going to happen. People that they want to attract to these boards have options all over the world.
The discussion for the board racket itself belongs as full blown post elsewhere…
Nissan has figured out how to get out from under Renault, so Ghosn is no longer needed?
Possibly. Your average Japanese person really didn’t like Ghosn. He took far more money than a Japanese CEO would in a similar role and sized company.
Part of me feels this was payback for that. And I’m also sure he made plenty of enemies.
“The discussion for the board racket itself belongs as full blown post elsewhere…”
By elsewhere, you mean a separate post ON THIS SITE, RIGHT?!?!?!
(submit it at your convenience).
Is there anyone NOT running for President in 2020?
I wonder how the Team Blue primary will go. I suspect it will consist of seeing who can out-“free shit” everyone else.
Everything not forbidden is compulsory. Everything compulsory is a right. If a thing is a right it must be provided for free to everyone regardless of their wishes. You have the right to work. You have the right to education. Camps will be provided to help you exercise your rights.
Don’t know if this has been linked already, but Greenpeace not a fan of Green New Deal, calls AOC “pompous little twit.”
That had to have hurt.
That wasn’t Greenpeace, but a (long-time now) ex-Gper.
Oops. Thanks.
He’s a nonperson, right?
He’s been Emmanuel Goldstein of environmental movement for decades now.
Crap. Also, thanks.
Normal people are not losing their minds over her.
Shaking your head sadly, while saying, “That trick never works,” is hate speech.
Google found it was underpaying more men than women for similar jobs
Damn the matriarchy!!!
This really isn’t surprising considering how many companies are super-sensitive to discrimination claims; they actively seek women. The situation is similar in my field (academic jobs in physics).
I’m amazed they owned up to it.
Amazing to me. Blacks and Jews voting for leftists. If adherents to a political philosophy enslaved/murdered my ethnicity/race…whatever….I would never ever vote for anyone pushing that philosophy and after being free and alive I would never breath another breath without a rifle in my hand. WTF is wrong with them? Is this some kind of bizarre Stockholm syndrome?
Nobody understands history, and it’s far easier to go along with the group who tells them what they want to hear. Doing your own research is tough and time-consuming.
“Dems warn Trump: Next president could call emergency on guns if courts back border order
But with the can of worms now open, Democrats see opportunity on everything from gun control to climate change, especially if the Supreme Court upholds Trump’s declaration.
“I will come into office with a strong belief that climate change is a national emergency, that the fact that so many people in this country die because of gun violence, that is a national emergency,” Democratic presidential candidate Julian Castro recently said on MSNBC. “…If the president’s action in this case is upheld by the Supreme Court, then it does open up new avenues for future presidents to take action.”
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., also a presidential candidate, tweeted: “It’s time we address the actual emergencies plaguing our nation: gun violence, lack of access to health care, and climate change.””
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-dems-warn-they-could-declare-emergency-on-guns-if-courts-back-trump-on-border
If your last name is “Castro” you’re going to need to get rid of all the guns before being inaugurated.
As I’ve said before. Go ahead. Open that door and see what happens.
If you want an emergency, sending armed feds door to door to seize guns will get you one, that’s for sure.
Never gonna happen. Spending gazillions on the Climate Change hoax, yes, but taking on the Constitution that way will not work.
Trump is playing 33 1/3 dimensional chess. He WANTS his emergency order ruled unConstitutional so that Democrats can’t do what they’re already saying they’re going to do.
And he’s already found plenty of legal money he can access by statute.
Nah. He’s not that bright. But I’m hoping that’s the end result.
It would explain why Rand voted no.
But he was smart enough to hide all evidence of being Putin’s cock holster for years.
gun violence,
Violent crime is in a long-term downward trend. Not sure what the trend is for “gun violence”, which presumably also includes accidents (truly a decimal-dust number) and suicides.
lack of access to health care
Nobody, not one single person, lacks access to health care in this country. Around a third of the health care is delivered by charitable non-profits. Every single hospital is required to give emergency care to any person who steps on to their property. Where are these people being denied access to health care?
climate change
What’s the crisis? Severe landfall hurricanes are down. I’m not sure what the trend is for acres burned in wildfires. Anything else that “climate change” is supposed to be adversely affecting?
I can answer this!
Poor people are living more comfortable lives and getting all upity.
If poor people start living comfortably, the great goddess Gaia will rain down hellfire and scour the Earth of all life.
“Anything else that “climate change” is supposed to be adversely affecting?”
(Note: this page users the older terminology of “global warning”): https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/globalwarming2.html
““Dems warn Trump: Next president could call emergency on guns if courts back border order”
Sure you could. You could do a lot of stuff. But you won’t do that, because you know better. And if you don’t know better, I’ll go out on a limb here and say that you sure as hell will know better the next time you decide to try something that stupid.
I’m curious about why “From the River to the Sea” Tlaib gets no accusations of dual loyalty when she constantly refers to herself as a Palestinian. If a Jew politician referred to him/herself repeatedly as an Israeli, eyebrows might be raised, and justifiably so.
*disclaimer: I have never referred to myself as an Israeli.
Because Palestinians have no state, so they can’t have dual loyalties. Check-mate Zionists.
(Shut up about 1970 there, Jordan)
It worked for Mesut Özil when he called Erdogan “my president”.
Islamophobe.
Well, you are from Baltimore, so calling yourself an Israeli wouldn’t make a lot of sense.
Tlaib is from Detroit, so calling herself Palestinian doesn’t make much sense, either.
But Palestine is a real place with a real ethnicity. Israel is a Jooh construct propped up by the Great Satan.
Damn Romans should have not renamed Judea after the revolt of 132-136ce.
It always seems to circle back to the Romans.
Remember when promising to act in America’s interest, rather than as a representative of or beholden to a foreign religion, was something Democrat politicians did, rather than attacking their critics as bigots? Pepperidge Farms remembers.
Why have all the spammers suddenly started sending emails with some variant of “Well done you have earned blank” where blank is some crap discount on something I do not want, which I apparently earned by having email?
They found it convinced some different Percentage of rubes to click the link.
I never answer calls from numbers I dont know but I got a voice mail to that effect recently. They have my check ready, apparently. The disturbing part is the call was from a local town and the voice was very obviously an accent from that town.
The call is coming from inside the house.
Missed it by, that, much
Okay, caller ID can be spoofed so you can never assume it’s accurate. The phone company could stop this but they choose not to, or to charge extra. One favorite trick is to spoof the ID of the number being called so it looks like you’re getting a call from yourself; I admire the social engineering that went into that but it’s a dick move.
If it’s a generic message, ie no mention of your name, then they could simply have someone recorded it once…
A lot of those call centers are located offshore (India) because 1) cheap and 2) hard to shut down.
If you’re not in my contact,s you go to voicemail.
A shocking amount of these calls don’t bother to leave a message.
The one that did was so obviously bullshit that I had a good laugh before deleting it.
I had one that was a contact number, but it’s a fake contact that’s in there for reasons. I answered just to see what happened. Lame pre-recorded ‘Your credit card…’ so I just hung up.
I answered one today when I was driving over to the grocery store. A chirpy young woman who didn’t address me by name, but was selling some kind of security systems. I did my usual and asked her what her tits were like. “I mean, are they little perkies, or are they all veiny and stretch-marky? Pert nipples, light brownish with big areoles?”
I think I’m now on their no-call list.
When I made the mistake of answering them, they were always recordings.
Wait on the line, you’ll get a human. If it’s a guy, ask him if he’s circumcised.
I answered one entirely in Japanese. SOB just kept telling me to speak English. I figured he’d hang up first. Nope, I finally disconnected, but never uttered a word of English.
Tonio’s favorite call (received multiple times):
[woman speaking Indian-accented English]
“You must resolve this matter with the IRS immediately. The local cops are on their way to pick you up.”
Yes, they literally said “local” cops. The word “local.” And “cops.” For a federal tax matter. LOLOL
But I can see some befuddled person falling for this. Fraud is a real crime.
“If a warrent has already been issued, the matter cannot be resolved over the phone.”
My father got the old YOUR COMPUTER IS INFECTED, CALL THIS NUMBER IMMEDIATELY popup.
So he called of course. He stayed on the line until the guy asked for his debit card number, then he got suspicious so the Pakistani started spamming his PC with porn and cursing at him.
I laughed heartily.
How low an IQ does someone have to have to think the IRS will settle past due taxes if you send them a Best Buy gift card?
I donno, but I’ve run into some stupid people.
They are scammed into voting for leftists. What is a bigger, more transparent scam than that? All this screeching about catastrophic climate change…they cant look out of the fucking window?
Demoralization is a thing.
Wow, I just had an LED bulb fail. The heavy, transformerish section separated from the part of the bulb that screws into the socket. It was a pain to get the darn thing out to replace it.
“the part of the bulb that screws into the socket”
That’s the base.
The socket in question wasn’t upright, so base seems like the wrong term.
Thingie is the technical term.
So it was the “tippy top”.
It was the side.
AOC has a sad.
It’s called the base regardless of the installation orientation.
/lighting geek
I care less about the terminology than the fact that the bulb separated into two pieces connected only by the internal wiring – which had already failed on an electrical level. (I only noticed because the light went out)
Is that the kind you need a HazMat crew for disposal or the kind you sneak into the bottom of the trash bag and stick out at the curb?
I don’t think they’d notice if it went in the bag. It’s solid state electronics – but I’m not sure of the “proper” disposal protocol.
It can be disposed of/recycled like any other electronic item. At least around where I live.
So garbage can.
Yeah, pretty much.
No that’s the CFL ones with 2x the mercury as a normal bulb….for 4x the money.
Did you lifehack a solution!?
I wrapped the available plastic surface in painters tape to provide the friction needed to get it out, then put in an undamaged bulb.
I was hoping you’d say you used the potato trick.
This is an LED bulb, not a broken incandescent.
OK, then use an avocado.
Why would I have Avocados? I agree with Suthen on the topic of that fruit.
That would have to be a pretty unripe avocado, otherwise you’d just have a socket full of guacamole.
Green electricity?
Green electricity is bad – it usually means either Borg or Necrons.
I think “gloves” would have also been an acceptable answer.
Too bad it couldn’t happen to the hate birds that hate
(There’s a picture, which should be safe for work.)
Are you kidding. That would be like handing it a shiv. That’s how hate-birds take over the world.
Swans don’t let other swans drink Red Bull.
Gun grabbers are throwing every gun control notion they can think of for new legislature’s consideration. Every day brings yet another ratchet. Gun bans, magazine bans, CHL restrictions. Super majority of Democrats so something, or most things, will get passed. Gun friendly state laws gone in an instant. And if not this year, then next year. Lying assholes just curl up in a ball and die of the fright they live their lives under.
How long between effectively banning guns altogether and A) removing police protection from the populace B) throwing people in prison for telling jokes in England? What is the time span between disarming the populace and going full totalitarian police state?
That is what they want here and they want it badly – evidenced by their desperation to disarm the populace.
England timeline:
Full ban: ~20 years after 100% licensing (1968, 1997)
A) +~10 years (mid 2000s, when homeowners get arrested for harming criminals)
B) +~10 years (now)
Maybe a 2020 election wipe-out will cure their gun-grabbing ways. I can hope.
A 2020 wipeout would be responded to with “PROG HARDER AND RIOT MORE!”
Yep.
Has that ever stopped the Dems before?
And what are the chances of that happening in Connecticut (I think?)?
Well, they did slap a new coat of paint on some of their older policies before.
Wikipedia editor tyrants everywhere snicker.
An actually useful tool would be having it search 4chan for the most appropriate meme in any given situation.
Just to get Suthen all revved up today. Post mortem on Minnesoda brown out during last polar vortex comes up with “unexpected” findings.
You know if I had an elderly relative croak because they froze to death because the GND made reliable power impossible, I might be a bit perturbed (assuming it was an elderly relative I liked).
Eggs ommlett. A few elderly, and babies are worth it when the world is on the line. Just don’t expect there politicians who are backing this to have ever put their lives on the line.
If you have an elderly relative that is in danger of freezing to death in the event of a power failure you are a shitty person. Take care of your own.
I’m not willing to say that you are a shitty person if an elderly relative freezes. Maybe in warmer climes it takes some active negligence before your relative bites it.
In Minnesoda, you could lose a relative fairly quickly if the power goes out. And if they are out in the country and a blizzard keeps you from evacuating them, I’m not going to be the first one to throw a snowball of blame.
It’s already happened to poor Mike Lindell.
I agree. Before my Grandmother took her dementia to a facility, we would all take turns running by the house and making sure she didn’t go walkabout. She would absolutely have walked into a blizzard without a coat. Not a ton of time in that case.
Cold is scary.
The act of allowing a relative incapable of caring for themselves to live way out in the boonies is evidence of shittiness. Now if that relative is an ornery old son of a bitch and won’t accept help that is another issue but it’s not the power companies/environmentalists fault if said SOB buys the farm.
I’d rather die in the country than live in a facility in town. I told my wife to take me on a walk in the woods, have me sit on a stump and say “Wait here”.
Alive in a nursing home is not living. My opinion and my attitude.
Agree 100%.
I’ve told my son that when I get to that point, he is to drive me up to the Boundary Waters with a canoe, pack, fishing stuff and a rifle. I’ll make it as far as I can.
The dementia has really seemed to hit the women in my family, but it scares the fuck out of me nonetheless.
Count me in on that final trip.
You like walleye?
Did anyone catch the Fifth Column episode interviewing a Chavez/Maduro apologist? I’m maybe fifteen minutes in but I keep having to pause it. The guy so far has sperged out about Venezuela putting up great numbers for poverty and higher education and infant mortality… during the decade when oil prices were high and rising. WHAT HAPPENED THEN, ONE WONDERS.
He took issue with the word “dictator.” “It’s just a hate word.” Also, all major Western media is arrayed against Venezuela, which is why you heard so much bad news even when things were going well. Because the Guardian’s foreign policy desk is really very conservative and anti-Venezuela.
Reposted below….
Walleye is my favoritest fish.
Well then it’s totally fine for the government to outlaw the most effective means for people to stay warm, cause it’s their families responsibility to keep them alive.
Things that can be true at the same time
1. The government shouldn’t micromanage energy policy.
2. If you let your grandma freeze to death you’re an asshole.
What if she can no longer chew the leather? If you don’t put them on an ice floe how do you handle it?
look if they want to take the oldest horse in the remuda and ride off into the sunset that’s fine by me, but I ain’t blaming anyone else for their choice.
It doesnt make any difference. The Scots put in green energy in Scotland. Lots of people died from hypothermia/freezing and they are still at it. I understand why evil pols want this, what I dont understand is how the morons who vote for them dont get it. It is right there in front of their nose and they just cant see it.
Linked last thread, but good enough for another click or two:
Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet
You started it, fucko. You fix it.
“…appointed ourselves Earth’s guardians…”
How about I appoint myself your guardian? How about that, shithead? I will decide what and how much you can eat, when you can sleep, what you can wear and where you can live and I will do it at the point of a gun. How about that?
Meh, it’s worth it to appease Gaia (and to save on the Medicare and Social Security budgets).
“only produced 8 to 10 percent of their potential output because of snow cover”
I drive by our local power monopoly’s solar panel farm / butterfly sanctuary (no joke) every morning. The panels have been covered in snow for at least 3 weeks. They aren’t generating squat except for warm feeling from the eco crowd.
Things Nick doesn’t understand: Why does a monopoly energy company need to advertise on the radio and TV?
Seriously…if it was a sub-zero blizzard – what conditions are those windmills rated to handle (whether for generation purposes or just to keep from internal damage)?
When they ice up they need to be shut down and heated to prevent the amr from just breaking off. So in blizzards, the windmills actually consume electricity.
Pretty much what I figured. Feature not bug.
So are morticians going to be swamped with requests to glue sideburns onto stiffs now that Luke Perry has set the trend (again)?
I have a buddy who was so excited to finally grow his side burns out when he retired from the Air Force reserve. He got thoroughly mocked because he was about five years late to the party.
Please do not put any sort of wifi or bluetooth port in your brain chip. If the people behind doing brain chips are as diligent about security as other IoT vendors (or medical device manufacturers) it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find out that Russians really could hack an election.
They’d just put malware on a bunch of thumbdrives with AOC’s logo printed on them and toss them on the ground around polling stations. Every proggie would instantly plug it into their brain port and end up voting for Trump after the virus went into effect.
Of course, if Putin really wanted to hurt America, he would have a virus that made everyone vote for the GND.
Nigerian scammers would have a field day.
I can just see the public service commercials on TV. “Hey, man, I just found a FREE thumb drive in the parking lot! I’m going to plug it into my head hole and see what’s on it!”
Over/Under on when govt demands that the brain chips have a back door installed so that Law Enforcement can monitor your thoughts (only after a warrant has been issued of course)?
You know who else liked back doors?
Jim Morrison?
Your avatar makes that answer even better.
Good dog!
If the police are monitoring it, I’m going to make a Heroic Mulatto emulator and plug it into that.
“Your honor, we determined that the suspect was thinking ill thoughts about police officers. In fear for our lives, we were forced to shoot him, his dogs, and his six year old daughter (though that last one was an accident. You know how it is.)”
“Alright, good shoot. But you’re buying at the bar tonight”
I vaguely remember Obama pushing for just that. Of course then the tech seemed out of reach. Apparently it has progressed more than I realized. Absolutely they want a chip in everyone’s head.
No.
Are there chips in 100 dollar bills? So the Boys in Blue know what drugs are being bought/sold? Put a chip in a gun and the folks downtown could activate it would work when you’re going hunting or…GPS ?
What the heck did I recently read/watch where exactly that was an actual plot point…?
Mr. Robot?
Domo arigato.
Yeah, probably. Damn, I was hoping it was something better.
“This is kind of how I imagine the Antifa uprising starting.”
There’s no way that anyone in Antifa has as much ambition as those monkeys. Nope, I don’t see it.
“Is there anyone NOT running for President in 2020?”
I could have saved him a lot of trouble by just pulling him aside and saying ‘Look, man, you cannot be elected president, or dogcatcher, with a name like Lickenpooper’. Apparently, there is no one close to him who is honest.
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/03/leaving-neverland-michael-jackson-pedophelia-punishment.html
Jesus. I dunno what to say after reading that.
By that logic, alcoholics shouldn’t be arrested for driving drunk, right?
I’m trying to remember if it was Slate or Salon that had previously ran those articles defending pedophilia.
I get the two publications mixed up.
It was Salon.
What’s stupid about this is that they’re defending the action, not the disease, It’s two things. Pedophilia is one thing. The one in the DSM. In and of itself it’s not technically bad. Watch lolicon hentai. Go fuck a 18 year old that looks like she’s 13. I mean, weird shit, but you’re not harming any children who can’t consent.
Once you start fucking kids, however…
Their logic seems to be that locking up kid fuckers is solely punishment, with no element of “keeping the perp away from the kiddies so he can’t keep molesting.”
In and of itself it’s not technically bad. Watch lolicon hentai. Go fuck a 18 year old that looks like she’s 13.
No way. Must criminalize all of that too. Some pedo fucking a sexbot that looks under 18 is as much of a moral crisis as an actual kiddie diddler.
I remember that sometime in the last couple of years someone here predicted that they would start trying to normalize pedophilia. When it comes to demoralization nothing is beyond the pale.
It takes very little argument to get from:
if it is a genetically over-determined impulse, an uncontrollable urge nestled in our DNA, then punishing pedophiles must be morally wrong
to
if it is a genetically over-determined impulse, an uncontrollable urge nestled in our DNA, then euthanasia is morally necessary
fuck both positions.
‘Uncontrollable urge nestled in our DNA’
The argument is predicated on the absence of free will.
The wife and I recently finished The Bundy Tapes, which I highly recommend. At one point a woman who made a point of trying to get death penalty sentences overturned because of her opposition to capital punishment took on his case. Her argument at one point was essentially that Bundy’s conduct during his trial demonstrated that he was incapable of understanding the nature of the charges against him and therefore shouldn’t be considered capable of standing trial in the first place. She went on to say that he had a neurological condition which prevented him from feeling empathy and so was physically incapable of comprehending that other people weren’t just things to be used and tossed aside.
So, that’s a tricky position. We’re both against the death penalty because we’re not comfortable with the state killing people. On the other hand, if you’re telling me there’s a person who is physically incapable of not murdering people on a whim then I’m pretty ok with his being shot during an “escape attempt”, hanging himself while in custody, or a crowd of armed, concerned local citizens somehow gaining access to his cell. I mean, murder is wrong, but if someone kills someone out of anger or desperation or revenge, that I can understand and deal with. There’s stability there. If someone can’t not murder people because he’s wired that way, then there’s no hope he can change or restrain himself. That’s a mad dog, and he’s got to be put down.
Finished those a while ago, and I agree. it’s a tough situation for sure. On the one hand, I’m against the death penalty for the same reasons as you, but on the other, I can see where supporters clamor for it.
St. Heinlein made a similar point in Starship Troopers.
If someone kills then they are not fit for society and killing them is a mercy. If someone kills when in a state of temporary insanity then, when they regain their rational mind, they would be filled with remorse and killing them would be an act of mercy.
Jews and blacks are incapable of not being….uh…whatever it is they are accused of being. It’s in their blood.
We have seen this argument before.
Since Q seems to be taking a nap, Thot Titties
So 1 has an “x” drawn on the side of her boob. Is that where they’re going to insert the larger implants?
She’s straight edge.
Cover charge from the club the night before. Hands are for sober people.
maybe a stamp from the club, but usually the cover gets waived when they let you stamp the tits.
For the Fans: FIA Explains Its New Rally Safety Guidelines
People are retarded. While I’m all for letting the weak be culled, it seems unfair to make the drivers unwilling (or uncompensated) executioners. I get it. Part of the awesomeness of rally is the proximity to the cars. The linked videos, though, show how it affects the race itself.
When I was young and stupid, I probably would have dated the idiot with the flag in the lead in. My mother wonders why I’m not married, I think she should be grateful.
Why can’t I get words on the page? I know exactly what’s supposed to happen next!
Some author, I forget who, said that when that happens it means your plan for what comes next is not what the characters and story are telling you should come next. I don’t know that I buy it, but it always struck me as interesting.
It’s bullshit, because what comes next is the armies fight – Dwarf legion and allies versus rebels and escaped slaves.
How about the dwarves and slaves call a truce and have an orgy instead?
fuck that.
Every author writes that. I’ve seen it like a dozen times.
When you’re writing counter-character, it’s an entirely different feeling from “why won’t the words go on the page?”
The story is always in control. Writers fool themselves thinking they are in control.
I have had that problem with reports. It generally means something is wrong with my outline/plan for the paper. I don’t know if that’s relevant to your problem.
If it were “I don’t know how to bridge the gap from where they are to where I think they should be next” it might be.
But the narrator is literally standing on the ramparts watching the infantry forming up to fight the rebels. And the next thing is “Army fights the rebels”
You’re avoiding writing a battle scene.
Actually, it’s simpler than that.
I didn’t know what the Drakoi army looked like.
This was to be their first appearance in the book, and well, they’d been an abstract plot point until now.
A bedroom battle scene? Go on.
I could post the whole pirate captain banging privateer captain face-first up against her bulkhead OR I could post their erotic asphyxiation scene.
Pirate sex. Always go with the pirate sex.
Both scenes are in the pirate book.
Can a fictional character literally do anything?
Figuratively speaking, yes.
For the super-nerds of you, an entertaining/mildly interesting read about the development of the Polish games industry, and how it grew from a bunch of enterprising street vendors to the powerhouse it is today: https://www.gameinformer.com/feature/2019/03/04/polish-powerhouse
From the Mr. Rogers of Youtube:
If you haven’t yet mastered how to cook toast, here’s a recipe that can let you build confidence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xV9spqCzSkQ
Reposting at the bottom of the stack…
Did anyone catch the Fifth Column episode interviewing a Chavez/Maduro apologist? I’m maybe fifteen minutes in but I keep having to pause it. The guy so far has sperged out about Venezuela putting up great numbers for poverty and higher education and infant mortality… during the decade when oil prices were high and rising. WHAT HAPPENED THEN, ONE WONDERS.
He took issue with the word “dictator.” “It’s just a hate word.” Also, all major Western media is arrayed against Venezuela, which is why you heard so much bad news even when things were going well. Because the Guardian’s foreign policy desk is really very conservative and anti-Venezuela.
Oh, and he took issue with Welch cautioning “Voting doesn’t necessarily mean democracy” and rejoined with a bitch about how many more Senate votes Democrats received.
Did he address the Maduro diet, or that even Univision caught Venezuelans eating from garbage trucks in desperation (because people who have garbage have taken to waiting for the truck to bring it out)?
They haven’t gotten that far, but he’s already peddling the idea that all of Venezuela’s problems redound to American interference.
I’m totally giving the guy’s arguments short shrift, but he’s such a puke with an obvious chip on his shoulder. This isn’t a foreign policy wonk on the South America desk, he’s specifically defending socialism. Forget the casualties, IT’S ABOUT THE IDEA.
$850 later, I think our plumbing problem is solved. I was terrified there would be roots in the main line, but it was just a bunch of clogged up shit packed in tight, so I’m happy.
The last time dad had the plumber out to snake the renter’s line, the plumber pulled up a bunch of tangled feminine products like a tampon rat king. So dad sighs and says, “I’ll go talk to her again,” and the plumber said “No, I will,” and sure enough goes and bitches her out.
“Tampon Rat King”
Band name.
That’s going above and beyond.
That’s called “venting”. He had to clean that out of there.
Mojeaux had a fatberg?
Yeup.
I also have a shower faucet problem (old, leaking, needs to be brought up to code), but I have to cut out the tile (they charge $250 for a few cuts–WTF) and then re-tile that section, so I’mma wait until I feel like doing it.
Quick question for VPN stuff. I’m having issues with Nord VPN for several sites. Netflix wasn’t working at all initially, but it looks like it’s working now. Patreon refuses to work at all with it, and there are a couple other sites that act up as well (can’t recall offhand now). Particularly if they’re US sites, why should there be region/etc issues with a US vpn server.
I’m pretty much just using the default settings – anyone have suggestions for optimization?
Thanks
I use NordVPN with Ubuntu. My one issue is if I don’t remember to disconnect. After a while it gets fritzy and cant be started or stopped. Last time I even removed and reinstalled to deal with it.
If you want to make a DiFi biopic, I think I have the perfect aging actress.
Well, that link no worky.
I remember her (Fenn’s) appearance in Playboy magazine. In fact, I have a letter to the editor published in that issue.
But who will play Jim Jones?
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