John Isner is out of the Australian Open, Liverpool regain form, James Harden ties a streak record (by being incredibly selfish in a losing effort), Michigan and MSU are on a basketball collision course, and the Blue Jackets and Sharks continue to surge.
Oh yeah, and the Chiefs ran wild, the Saints got a little lucky, the Cowboys showed up top late to the party and the Patriots…well, they did what they always do at home in the playoffs. The conference championship games should be a lot of fun.
Mark Antony was born on this day. SO was rat-bastard Benedict Arnold, drag racing legend “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, actress Faye Dunaway, musician T’Bone Burnett, actor Carl Weathers, idiot Maureen Dowd, musician of note Chas Smash, movie man Steven Soderbergh, Ole Miss fan Shep Smith, Ladies Love Cool J, musical genius Dave Grohl, and actor Jason Bateman.
Its also the day Martin Luther went to college, the opera “Tosca” debuted, the Casablanca Conference began, American Motors Corporation began, Elvis Presley got his sergeant’s stripes, racist Democrat George Wallace was sworn in as governor, and the Sex Pistols held their final concert.
OK, on to…the links!
Donald Trump is possibly having too much fun at the situation Jeff Bezos has put himself in. Meh, so am I. WaPo has become a laughingstock with their pants-shitting coverage and their “Democracy Dies In Darkness” self-congratulatory bullshit. Fuck em.
House committees threaten to subpoena interpreters from meetings Trump had with Putin because…seriously…they’re afraid he has been a Russian asset all along. Oh yeah, and the media are covering it as some sort of great job restoring democracy or something, when all it is is a blatant partisan attack on the executive privilege he should be able to enjoy to stop the error-filled leaks in the White House.
Joe Lieberman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amp up their war of words. Also, all you assholes giving Ocasio-Cortez a hard time for complaining about the cost of an apartment don’t get it. Its not necessarily the cost of an apartment that’s causing her distress, its the fact that its her second residence that’s making it hard for her financially. Lol, that’s what she tweeted earlier today. Because that’ll make people relate to her better.
PG&E’s CEO is out as the (government-guaranteed monopoly of a) company prepares for their bankruptcy filing.
Everybody has an opinion ahead of the sentencing of Jason Van Dyke this week. He’s the asshole Chicago cop who murdered Laquan McDonald in cold blood in 2014, in case you’d forgotten.
Oh, I guess this kind of thing is newsworthy now that the government is shut down. Nevermind that you read the story and the absence rate was normal that day and procedures weren’t followed. Nope, let’s blame it on the shutdown…because the TSA didn’t have a 70% audit failure rate for exactly this kind of shit every year they’ve existed.
Hey kids: don’t stay in school! Well, not always.
I don’t think I’ve been able to play a set of this birthday boy’s stuff yet. I’m kinda happy about today then.
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House committees threaten to subpoena interpreters from meetings Trump had with Putin because…seriously…they’re afraid he has been a Russian asset all along.
Wouln’t it be something if they were the same interpreters who helped hammer out the Uranium One deal?
Too bad the Republicans don’t have the stones to pull the same shit on the next Democrat that gets elected President.
Why wait? Doesn’t the Senate have subpoena powers too? While it’s highly unlikley, given their pure as the driven snow morals, there must be a few Democrats who might be a target of a Senate investigation.
Please let the comedy that is cosmic karma make this so.
Why bother? All the damning information is public knowledge.
Mark Antony, who played him best? Marlon Brando or James Purefoy? Discuss.
I really enjoyed the James Purefoy version.
Don’t Tell me what to do.
Cleopatra?
Winner.
The Lyndsey Marshall or Elizabeth Taylor version?
Taylor. Woof woof!
He was just asping for it when he dated her.
*narrows gaze*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
James Purefoy, simply because there were more boobs in that version.
Purefoy. He embodied how a brute could also have enormous personal magnetism. And how utterly Cleopatra ruined him.
Brando minced about the set like Harvey Firestein.
Joe Lieberman and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez amp up their war of words. Also, all you assholes giving Ocasio-Cortez a hard time for complaining about the cost of an apartment don’t get it. Its not necessarily the cost of an apartment that’s causing her distress, its the fact that its her second residence that’s making it hard for her financially. Lol, that’s what she tweeted earlier today. Because that’ll make people relate to her better. – when Queen Cortez is enthroned you can a get asylum to Romania
But then we won’t be able to see all the links.
I want to be the first on here to wish the president of the Romanian Senate, Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăriceanu, a happy birthday by the way.
“Călin Constantin Anton Popescu-Tăricean”
Possibly Poppy?
I’m Poppy.
Uh, wouldn’t a conversation like that be classified? Like diplomatic cables are?
Yes, but so what? Harassing Trump is much more important.
The point is to keep suspicion in the news cycle, not to win this skirmish.
I am laid up with a kidney stone, waiting for this thing to move down and hopefully pass soon. Jfc this is painful
Damn, sorry to hear that. Hope it passes soon and hope you get better soon.
My condolences. I have heard some bad, bad, bad stories about passing kidney stones. My dad had a buddy who had survived being shot twice and said he’d gladly do that again versus passing a stone.
What a pisser.
Ohh.. I feel for you. It hasn’t happened to me so far but a number of people I know have got through that (or should I say, have had that go through them) and I have been informed that it is very painful.
I hope yours is over soon.
Slammer, I did that about 10 years ago, I can understand your problem but all I can offer is empathy and hope its soon over. Never had a re-occurrence for which I am grateful. Good luck!
They give you any drugs? Take double dose. I would.
Percoset. They only gave me 10. I guess because of the whole opioid “epidemic”. Im taking Advil, and a percoset when it gets really bad. It sucks, the pain has dropped me to floor a couple of times.
Thanks for the thoughts, glibs
Stiff upper lip, bud. Bet this experience is making you an even better libertarian, not that you need a reason.
Don’t do drugs! Like Straff said, just be stoic about the pain. Just keep telling yourself that while it sucks right now, this too shall pass.
+1 Kramer
Kidney stone is by far the most physical pain I have experienced. Hope it passes soon.
That sucks. Been there, done that.
My first one felt like someone came up from behind and shivved me in the back.
Ouch. You need drugs. Lots of them. Hope it is quick.
Something, something, make you stronger? Yeah, I had one like 20 years ago. They ain’t lyin about how much it hurts. If you run out of meds, go back and shame them all for only giving you ten. This is what all these nanny fucks don’t seem to realize, the damage their pet causes do.
Yeah, Jack, I had kidney stones years ago. The nannyers are impervious to pain – someone else’s.
Could be worse. My wife got her first ever Kidney Stone the day before New Years Eve. Turns out that it is actually 2 stones each bigger than 1 Cm which is apparently way to big to pass. They put a Stent in her on New Years Eve and on Thursday she had to undergo a Lithotripsy where they try and break the stone up with a laser. That procedure was a failure and so now she has to go in for another procedure to have them try and break the stone up with sonic shockwaves but that isn’t scheduled till the 31st
If that fails, do they just surgically remove the stones?
Honestly I have no clue, they are not exactly keen on talking about anything
I think they can use this ultrasound? thing and break them up, if they’re not too big. If they’re too big, they have to hit you with a sledge hammer… JK.
I’m fairly sure the “Sonic Shockwaves” Rasilio mentioned is the ultrasound treatment.
Owwwwwww………
That sucks
Foo Fighters is the Muzak of rock and roll and if you disagree you are wrong.
Your post is the Eagles of commentary.
I was going to ask if you meant the band or the football team, but I guess it doesn’t really matter.
The band was successful.
The band never won the Super Bowl.
Fricken Jeffrey.
How about “Malcolm in the MIddle”? I binge watched about 3 hours of it today and laughed my ass off. For some reason I don’t remember it being that good. Excellent stuff.
I still enjoy that show.
This still cracks me up.
I forgot about that scene. That’s hilarious.
That is not funny, that is fucking evil.
It seems like these companies hire female CEOs just as the ship is going underwater. Almost like it is a tactic to distract proggies or something.
Or else… well, no.
It’s a conspiracy by the patriarchy to make Female CEOs look bad.
-1,000,000,000 Yahoo Valuation
AMC also made these, but I get your point.
And the Javelin and AMX. But in general, their 70s lineup was woeful.
To be fair, the 1970’s was the nadir of US made auto quality.
No love the Eagle 4wd wagon? It was ahead of it’s time.
Yeah, but Wagoneer. Trump card.
My 2nd car (in the late 1980s) was a 1973 AMC Ambassador Brougham Wagon. That thing was nigh invulnerable; a regular tank.
U.S. Approved Thousands of Men’s Child Bride Requests in the Past Decade
It’s almost like no matter what system you set up, the rules would channel people into whatever loophole works.
Okay, but New York doesn’t give marriage certificates to people under 17, even with parent’s consent, so someone isn’t doing their job, or they’re lying.
I took it as the state was a secondary check but not a requirement. I don’t know what state allows a 13 year old to get married.
Yeah, it wasn’t clear what they meant by that.
Why even bother checking though if you’re not going to disallow a marriage to a thirteen-year-old? It isn’t legal for them to consummate the marriage, so you shouldn’t be letting the guy in to likely perform felony sexual abuse of a minor.
I saw that article last week. The U.S. doesn’t approve the marriages, only the ability to enter the country. The U.S. honors the traditions and laws of those shitholes that allow child marriage.
You can’t get your customs through customs?
*narrows gaze*
Thank you.
Shithole countries?
Raaaacist
But don’t forget all cultures are equal.
KeystoneIndiana cop accidentally shot by her partner.It was that damn Hoosier gun, they have minds of their own.
It’s awful when the cps bust through the door and shoot your pig.
“You fucking shot me! I can’t believe you fucking shot me!”
The video is amazing. They traipse around the house pointing their guns everywhere, fingers on the triggers. Seems like they were using the flashlights on their pistols to look around.
You have to break at least 2 rules to do something that dumb.
I figured my reference to ‘Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man’ would be vague. I agree and the flippant behavior is telling. I’m not tactics expert, but they can’t get past the basic rules of firearm safety.
I mean, the quotes don’t get better than that, do they?
Negligently, not accidentally.
“Overpaid babysitters go on strike”. Fixed the headline.
Apparently I need to fix my Monday morning html…
Fucking commies.
So… rooftop Koreans or helicopters?
Por que no los dos?
I don’t read Spanish, but I assume that says Koreans in Helicopters.
Mas o menos
Es lo misimo.
Won’t somebody think of the children?
Okay… *fires all the teachers*
They’ll think of the children when the children pay union dues.
I was getting at the fact that when teachers strike, the kids don’t get school.
On second thought, this might be the best thing for these kids education.
I think that the kids DO go to school. Otherwise the schools would be out some of their attendance bux.
“Donald J. Trump
✔
@realDonaldTrump
If Elizabeth Warren, often referred to by me as Pocahontas, did this commercial from Bighorn or Wounded Knee instead of her kitchen, with her husband dressed in full Indian garb, it would have been a smash!”
The guy is just gold.
I hope she gets through the Dem primaries. The debates with Trump would be filled with one liners.
That debate would be wonderful. He’d sit there mocking her and cracking jokes, she’d sit there scolding the country for not living up to her expectations.
The op-eds afterwards from the feminists who would be outraged that no one likes a shrew like Warren would be gold.
Repeated radio signals coming from galaxy 1.5 billion light years away, scientists announce
IT’S HAPPENING
What cables did the scientists use?
Nordost Valhallas – duh
I’m guessing someone was opening the microwave again without stopping it first. (or something else stupid)
Monster cables!
I’m going to guess even a multi-solar system spanning space-faring alien race wouldn’t waste that much energy just to say ‘hi’.
Unless it’s like the Federation in Star Trek where they have limitless energy available at little to no cost to waste on things like replicators.
What if it’s a Democratic-“multi-solar system spanning space-faring alien race”?
Why would an alien cognition come up with a human system of governance?
Then they starved to death long ago…. maybe by pulling stupid stunts like this.
Hey, it was a “shovel ready” project during the last stimulus.
And the transmitter is in the district of an important life form on the appropriations committee.
+1 Close encounter of the third kind
+1 Richard Dreyfuss AND the guy who I always think is Richard Dreyfuss, but he’s not.
Trump Quotes Man he Called a ‘Hitler Lover’ to Rationalize His Border Wall
Buchanan is a Nazi lover?
Honestly, it’s not the grossest overstatement anyone’s ever made. This is probably his worst piece of Nazi apologetia, but its by no means his only one.
You could correct that to apologetic or apologia, take your pick.
Consulting your physician before taking Apologetia. Side effects may include runny nose, watery eyes, and brain hemorrhaging.
Well I’m sure Hitler would have preferred everyone just roll over, so you can’t blame him for the war.
Maybe….but he did seem a little too prepared for war.
“You can never be too prepared for war.”
– John Bolton’s porn stache
Geez, doesn’t Trump even understand that if someone is a bad person, their arguments are automatically invalid?
Bad people are wrong, good people are right. Makes sense.
AOC: Facts are only as useful as to personal fluid morality.
Ritchie Torres – Bronx socialist – wants to ban stores from going cashless because racist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frss9oGbeto
“The language couldn’t be clearer” is the line in this video that popped my nipple. The gross ignorance and stupidity is just bizarre.
Also…wtf the Bronx?
Stores going cashless isn’t good for liberty, but I wouldn’t say it’s racist.
Don’t poor people use EBT cards anyway?
Cashless period is a bad trend but has been obvious for years now.
My father never had a credit card until the late 90s and even then….my parents rarely used it.
“Reacting to Lieberman’s comments, the 29-year-old lawmaker tweeted: “New party, who dis?”
Being an immature idiot aside, maybe she’s trying to be like Trump?
No, it just shows how hip she is. I’m waiting for the great meme debates of 2040.
President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho may arrive 400 years early.
Is he technically our first Hispanic President?
Ahh, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded.
Or just show little ability to communicate in the English Language.
You don’t think she was able to transmit her message successfully to her intended audience?
Assuming she is still writing her own Tweets…
She’s the political version of the “cash me ousside, howboudat?” moron. That’s where we are as a society and I, for one, am happy about it.
De Blasio: There’s plenty of money in the world. There’s plenty of money in the city. It’s just in the wrong hands.
The first line is spot-on.
The CEO of the company I work for lives there. I couldn’t live there with any decent lifestyle.
It’s not even mask slip anymore, the pretense is unnecessary. Sad.
“He was saying in Florida they could do it only if other states joined him because otherwise, all sick people would just come to Florida,” Tapper explained.
“What’s to stop sick people from flocking to New York and overburdening the system?”
The whole cell block has to be against snitches or the whole system fails.
Rent control and high prices – which only works if the refuse to treat the bums.
“What’s to stop sick people from flocking to New York and overburdening the system?”
A big wall with guard posts every 300 meters?
‘Nauseating’ Secret Hitler game stocked on toy store shelves in Victoria
That’s exactly what a Secret Hitler would say.
Victoria’s Secret was that she was Secretly Hiter.
Hitler* Uuuuh my country for an edit button.
Secret Hitler would want an edit button.
The daughter is an attention-seeking nitwit.
Don’t let them know about HOI4 where you can play as actually Hitler.
Or Axis and Allies, or Twilight Struggle, or World in Flames, or…
::sigh::
I just wanted to state, for the record, that I’m the Secret Hitler. To escape detection I shaved my moustache, grew in height, got a second testicle, and died my hair brown. So far I’ve been able to live a life as a computer programmer, making Nazi ERP software.
No need to be redundant. You could have just said ERP software.
From my observations of Moonguard, Furries are more into ERP than Nzais are.
My observations of Moonguard, plus a number of trips to Urban Dictionary to look up words I saw on Moonguard taught me things about human nature and the vagaries of sexuality that I cannot unknow.
I learned long ago if a term crops up that you suspect requires a visit to Urban Dictionary – you’re better off not knowing.
You work for SAP then?
Pssst… nobody tell her about Hogan’s Heroes.
““I started shaking, I literally saw the Holocaust flash in front of me. I felt as if there were Nazis about to storm into the store. I could barely look at the shopkeeper,” she wrote in her complaint.”
Things that didn’t really happen for $1000, Alex.
Here’s a frightening revelation. AOC has more Twitter power than the media:
https://www.axios.com/ocasio-cortez-dominates-twitter-6a997938-b8a5-4a8b-a895-0a1bcd073fea.html
Stop.
Ignoring fake followers, the fact that someone is following a Twit doesn’t mean they support that Twit. People who are unintentionally hilarious will get a lot of attention.
Phew! Some good news for once!
More Twitter Power?
Is that like being world famous in Poland?
This is actually good. Unfiltered communication is better than the gateway-ed alternative.
And why would anyone follow CNN anyway? They must tweet constantly. It would be annoying as, well, watching CNN itself.
YouTube searches for ‘RBG’ led to slew of bogus conspiracy videos
I’m offended, change it back.
More seriously, I suspect the algorithmic results (more conspiracy videos) is becuase people actually wanted that, and not the prog-approved mainstream drivel they can get anywhere they’ve been leaving.
The only approved video for RBG is the new hagiography being produced by the Hollywood elite. Let’s not talk about how she has no semblance of any legal philosphy other than “Does the outcome match what i want?”
It enraged me that the RBG movie gets so much fawning attention, while “Little Pink House” had to struggle to get made at all.
Our local TV movie reviewers both panned it. I was shocked.
See, this is why they’re still local yokels.
fake conspiracy theory videos
I only want to see genuine conspiracy theory videos.
“@SenSanders
Jan 11
More
Things that are national emergencies:
-30 million without health insurance
-15 million children in poverty
-Tens of thousands dying from opioids and gun violence
-Climate change”
Wtf? They’re still on the ‘without insurance’ thing? Wasn’t that supposed to have been dealt with through the ACA?
Yeah, didn’t Obamacare supposedly fix all that? Or maybe it’s because under Trump they stopped enforcing the mandatory purchase of health insurance.
Since Trump stopped mandating people buy insurance 30 million people have been kicked off their insurance!!! /prog
“-30 million without health insurance
-15 million children in poverty
-Tens of thousands dying from opioids”
One could argue a wall would prevent stuff like this
One could also argue those are mostly made-up “statistics”.
one could argue that more government power would prevent stuff like this too.
I like how they’re now lumping “opioids and gun violence” together. Because, you know, they have a lot to do with each other.*
*other than alternatives to opioids being sood on the black market because the drug war is too popular with both major parties.
I noticed the opioid and gun control PSAs are ramping up on tv.
Opioid one has some idiot addict intentionally crashing her car so she can get more pills (after “they” forced the last batch on her & you can become an instant addict). Ignore the conclusion that opioid “crisis” makers and restrictionists are evil and responsible for that outcome.
Gun grabbers latest one is “family fire” where someone in a home is injured or killed by that same firearms I guess. Has some plaintive daughter asking her dad if there’s a gun in the house. Fuck those grabbers using kids to push their thuggery.
“30 million without health insurance”
Wait… I was told that Obamacare was going to get the 14 million uninsured, coverage. Now they’re telling me we have more than 2x the number uninsured with Obamacare? Sometime, I actually start thinking they lie.
Or the fact is, more than 10% of the nation doesn’t actually need prepaid coverage and would do better with actual insurance (is that legal again?)
TN Libertarians Asked To Leave During National Park Cleanup
All volunteers must submit the proper paperwork in order to volunteer.
Just shoot the ranger and throw the body in the trash. Problem solved.
Woodchipper. What kind of libertarian are you????
“The park ranger was later seen strewing garbage around the park.”
Isn’t that little fucker supposed to be on vacation right now?
How do we know he isn’t? there was no budget to confiscate the uniforms…
This is apart of a massive effort conducted throughout the US to help keep our parks clean during the government shutdown.
A part. Not apart. Yeah, it’s a small typo, but the impact it has on the meaning of the sentence warrants the grammatical gas chambers.
And then there is this:
Oregon governor’s husband cleans park amid shutdown, sends Trump bill
Dan Little, the husband of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D), is sending President Trump a $28 bill after he cleaned up bathrooms that were overflowing with garbage at a local park that was understaffed due to the partial government shutdown.
Brown confirmed the news in a tweet on Friday in which she also included before-and-after photos of the bathrooms at the Mt. Hood National Forest Sno-Park and a photo of her husband standing alongside a pile of full garbage bags.
“This is just one of the many reasons I love my husband, Dan,” Brown tweeted.
You love him because he cannot volunteer without asking for compensation?
How is that federally funded for cleaning?
Or is that bad journalist speak for “a national park that was in proximity to the asshole”?
It was a National park, so sloppy journalism.
$28? So her husband doesn’t want to earn a living wage?
I just assumed he only did fifteen minutes of work.
28 bucks? so he helped clean for like 2 hours max?
$28 for free virtue signalling in The Hill. Pretty good deal.
Lol. isn’t this akin to extortion? Sending a bill for work not asked for?
Missing context: Sno Parks are funded and operated by the State of Oregon using a required parking permit.
https://www.oregon.gov/ODOT/DMV/pages/vehicle/sno_park_permits.aspx
She loves him because they share the same passive-aggressive pettiness.
Attention-seeking assholes who can’t just be charitable.
It was never about the bathrooms at the parks.
I’d also wager that bathroom is in the same state regardless of federal funding.
“That bathroom hadn’t been cleaned in 6 months!”
“Damn shut-down!”
“Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@Ocasio2018_
(D) for US Congress, NY-14: Bronx + Queens || Justice Democrat (@JusticeDems)”
‘Justice democrat’?
Now they’re making stuff up!
Be careful. AOC is lurking around like Bat-Man. Or Cat-Woman?
Bat-xer, shitlord.
The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight?
My wife has no idea what I’m talking about when I mention him.
And so he says to me, ‘you wanna be a bad guy?’ And I say, ‘yeah, baby! I wanna be bad!’ And I says, ‘surf’s up, space ponies! I’m making gravy without the lumps!’ Aaaaahahahahahaha!
Oh so close..
How ’bout bat-shit-crazy-woman?
Co-discoverer of DNA stripped of honors for wrongthink.
Science or ‘science’? Cause those are two very different things.
Every study I’ve seen tends to support Watson’s view as factual, as uncomfortable as that may be.
My mom worked for CSHL for a couple of decades and I’ve met Watson once or twice; “uncomfortable conversations” are his thing – I’m sure he’d be diagnosed as being on the spectrum these days. None of which means he’s just making things up.
“In 1997, Britain’s Sunday Telegraph quoted him as saying that women should be allowed to abort a child for any reason, such as if a gene for homosexuality were found in the fetus.”
He was trolling before it was cool to troll.
It was always cool to troll. Martin Luther’s letters to the Pope were +1 kek.
Oh noes!! He said intelligence has a genetic component!!11!! HERETIC!!!
No No. DNA determines your height and hair color – but not your intelligence because feelings.
SCIENCE MUST ONLY SAY WHAT I WANT OR IT IS NOT SCIENCE!
If people were forced to face the fact that intelligence is somewhat heritable, they may realize that it’s only marginally more important than hair color or eye color when it comes to success in life, resulting in a break from the cult of IQ. However, the elites use the cult of IQ to lord over the proles, so they’ll never let it slip that higher IQ may be concentrated in certain non-PC populations.
However, mark me down as somebody who believes that most of the variance is due to culture, not innate differences.
While the importance of IQ is vastly overrated by most it is very much more important to success in life than hair color or eye color. Sure a high IQ is far from any guarantee of success, however one chooses to to define that and a low IQ is far from guaranteed to condemn you to a life of poverty and suffering, there is a very strong correlation between IQ and achievement across a wide range of fields. IQ is not the be all and end all of your life and there are other traits which have genetic components which are as or almost as important such as conscientiousness and agreeableness but it is not a marginal factor.
That said what we can say is that your IQ does not change the moral value of the person neither does whatever level of success you achieve in your life. In a metaphysical sense all individuals have the same value as all other individuals.
Yeah, I was being a bit hyperbolic, but I think you clarified it well.
The scientist added that while he hoped everyone was equal, “people who have to deal with black employees find this is not true.”
I hate when they cut halfway into a direct quote. Still, that comes across as completely fucked up.
I’ve been remiss in following Glibs lately due to my own personal character flaws (caring about deadlines at work). But did we cover the Jayme Closs story?
She was the teenage girl who was abducted from her home after the guy shot her parents. Missing for months, she escaped last week and the police nabbed the bastard.
This story at CNN has the details of her escape. My guess is that the intern who wrote it is going to be fired. You can’t write good things about people having guns in their house!
And what kind of shitlordism is going on in Wisconsin? Why does the man have to guard the door? Why didn’t he let one of the women stand out front ready to repel boarders?
“let one of the women stand out front ready to repel boarders”
…with a vagina hat!
“See? They introduced a gun to a situation where none was warranted. They added danger to a non-dangerous scenario. They could have accidentally shot one another, or been shot by responding officers.”
The MPR story on the same subject had a much more correct headline “Sheriff: Jayme a ‘hero’; guns found at home of suspected kidnapper”
I linked it this weekend, noting that I had an alibi.
What was your alibi? That your vision is correctable to 20/20 and you would never kidnap such an ugly kid?
Oh fuck! I think I broke a rib.
The Washington Post discovered that “more than half” of YouTube’s top 20 search results for “RBG,” the nickname for US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were known fake conspiracy theory videos.
Leaving aside the likelihood of that being completely false, or that “known fake conspiracy theories” is open to broad interpretation, if you google Abraham Lincoln you should (I hope) see some results which are not standard-issue slavering adulation. You might even find ou that our Great Savior of Democracy thought the Constitution was an irritating and unnecessary impediment to the imposition of order.
Who fucking cares?
The people at The Washington Post who carefully construct the narrative they want to spoon-feed to everyone?
I’ve been remiss in following Glibs lately due to my own personal character flaws (caring about deadlines at work).
You’ve got to get your mind right, boy.
Math is hard!
Twitter users prove to the rest of the world that they really are as dumb as we thought they were.
Kerfuffle as Twitter discovers that 1 18″ pizza has more area than 2 12″ pizzas.
What’s the formula for Little Ceasar’s? Pie are squared?
And you have to do the calculation in roman numerals!
My calculations never work when I do that because ( π ) doesn’t equal ( V ) for some reason.
I think you’re trying for an ASCII art joke there, but I’m not getting it.
How is calculating the area of a circle a bizarre theory?
Think, the author of the piece probably majored in Journalism.
How is calculating the area of a circle a bizarre theory?
You went to school for journalism, that’s how.
But, this is high school level stuff. You can check it with your smart phone.
/insert I don’t want to live on this planet anymore image
Of course, I also see people playing board games (ostensibly a hobby for smarter people) who have issues with 24 hour clocks, doing basic math, understanding basic economics, and planning ahead.
“understanding basic economics”
To be fair, basic economics requires looking at things at a broader level than just the way an issue is framed, wich often requires some levels of empathy. This is why a lot of people will think they have a good economic argument for what amounts to “Give me money from that guy”.
Your marginal utility from not getting shot is higher than the marginal utility of those handful of fiat dollars in your bank account, so the rational response would be to give me those fiat dollars in exchange for not getting shot.
I’m talking even more basic economics then that. There’s several games where the win condition is the money you have at the end of the game. I’ve seen players spend more on an item than the value of that item in points, even in a best case scenario. Not as a strategic play to keep someone else from getting it, just because they ignored the value of the item they were bidding on. I’ve watched people almost run themselves bankrupt in a game (which has no mechanism for someone who goes bankrupt to get back in the game) because they grossly overvalued something.
But did they have fun?
I MUST HAVE PARK PLACE!
UCS: I honestly don’t know. I do know there are several players who won’t play with people like that (and I’ll even take a pass with certain games), because they’re just adding randomness. For some games that doesn’t matter, for auction and economic games, it really does. One game even has a reputation for being unforgiving to groups if a couple of players don’t understand the economics of the game. It’s a solid game, but you will not win, nor even be competitive (and can essentially eliminate yourself) if you make a series of bad decisions.
2 things.
1. I hate playing board games with suckers. Especially when trade or strategy is involved. It makes the game more of a “who can take advantage of the sucker the most” to win.
2. It is even more infuriating when you realize this is pretty much how a lot of people become rich and I’m constantly bombarded by people like this and their insane ideas. Who needs a $150 waffle maker? Oh, you can’t make your $1k car payment? Wonder why?
Is “Pit” still a thing? That was a blast….and we played that in elementary school.
Yes Pit is still happening. The Salsa household has just grown into that game that we can all play it reasonably well. The kids get to be loud and play, they ask to play regularly.
Oh, I LOVE Pit!
I take umbrage at the use of twenty-four hour clocks.
I love them. Especially when it comes to programming, using 24 hours >>>>> then AM/PM
Background logic is one thing. I mean Unix counts seconds since 1970 for timekeeping. Just don’t expect me to like looking at those values and spend more time thinking about what they’re actually saying.
Correct. Also ISO 8601 is the One True Date & Time Format – unambiguous and it sorts correctly.
Background logic is one thing. I mean Unix counts seconds since 1970 for timekeeping. Just don’t expect me to like looking at those values and spend more time thinking about what they’re actually saying.Don’t read A Deepness In the Sky. Actually, do read it (if you haven’t), but be prepared for dealing with kiloseconds and megaseconds and etc.
Not sure how I got strikethrough instead of blockquote.
Robc – I have a policy against reading books people have recommended.
You should be reading Vinge without need of recommendation.
The worst part of Quebec is that they mix the two. If I find and use the English option I get a 12 hour clock, but if I go with the default French I get the 24. It is annoying to try and remember when my parking actually expires.
Nobody needs that many clocks.
Smart phone? 1.5 * 1.5 = 2.25, do it in your head.
Homple, you’re assuming the people remember the formula for the area of a circle. These people mix up “Middle School Math” and “Bizarre Theory”
My 7th grade math teacher made everyone learn the squares of every number from 1 to 25, and convert fractions to two decimal places (aka %).
He would make you come to the front of the class and sit on a stool. Directly above you, was a sock filled with lead shot. The sock was attached to a string that Mr. Bowman held at his desk. If you didn’t answer fast enough he’d drop it on your head.
Awesome way to teach young boys how to do math.
Also being able to do quick estimates and simple conversions was extremely useful throughout by life.
I spent half my college. years using a slide rule, so estimating and scaling in my head became a life long habit.
This is why Jimbo stopped maturing after 7th grade.
He wasn’t very quick with the math.
Speaking of journalism, today’s top of the fold headline is something about a woman leaving her post in county government.
It took until 10 paragraphs in, on an interior page, to actually state that she was resigning and where she was going next.
Hey, Reporter, even if you didn’t go to Columbia, a non-journalist such as me knows this is piss-poor reporting.
I’m sure you could get the author to opine that more money would be needed to identify the true value of π to verify this theory.
You mean an exponential equation doesn’t follow a linear progression? Shock of shocks!
Bizarre? Well, math is sometimes very weird, but that’s an odd definition of bizarre.
It’s only bizarre if you look at the pizzas and somehow miss that the 18 inch one is way larger than the 12 inch one, or if you flunked math and thus don’t know that 12 squared times two is less than 18 squared.
Six squared times 2 is less than 9 squared, but yeah.
What if the 12″ are deep dish and the 18″ is thin crust?
And how much pineapple is needed to negate the math?
I thought deep dish was a casserole, not a pizza.
It is, so Bobarian need not worry about that, since it doesn’t change the fact you get more pizza in the 18″
But what if the two 12″ pizzas have more toppings and hence are denser in calories per square centimeter?
I think you are trying to sneak one by us Pat. You are pretty vague about your “toppings”. Are you trying to get us to acknowledge pineapple as a real pizza topping?
I mean, technically a calorie is a calorie…
Turd pizza?
Still wouldn’t be more pizza, just more energy dense pizza.
True, but the value calculation would change. Ultimately calories per dollar is the true measure of value, not simple area.
Not necessarily. Individual buying decisions have a lot more factors.
But that path leads to the $5 take away pizzas as the best option, which is just wrong. I’d rather have a good pizza, then a lot of mediocre pizza.
$5 dollar pizza is the best value per area of pizza. Fight me.
*punches leon*
Only if you value taste at $0/in^2
Ow!!! Help, Help! I’m Being Repressed!
Come and see the violence inherent in the system
Little Caesars pizza has no nutritious value.
Wait, wait.
There is a Section of the daily Fail called “Femail”, and this is the header underwhich the “Math is Hard” article appears?
Area = πRadius^2
A = 3.14*(6^2) * 2 = ~226 inches :for two 12″ pizzas
A = 3.14*(9^2) = ~254 inches :for one 18″ pizza
“An extra 3 inches goes a long way”
Ooooh, someone has a calculator.
That’s what she said!
That joke would have worked better in the slide rule era.
Even easier, 81>2*36. Done.
I mean, it’s not even a theory. It’s just a calculation. So, not only innumerate, illiterate.
Well Actually
argh https://www.reddit.com/r/Libertarian/comments/8wn84h/well_actually/
You’re right, you can’t rock a fedora.
Well, Ackshually… at least two, possibly three of those hats are not Feodras.
That page is FORBIDDEN unless I meditate with some guru, apparently.
“An extra 3 inches goes a long way”
That’s what she said!
That’s why us Americans steal all the women from you metric soy boys!
The bizarre theory, which is actually mathematically proven to be true, gathered a large audience.
FAKE CONSPIRACY!
Such a difficult proof, JFC people are innumerate
5/10 a real troll would have used ‘enumarate’
Which one of you ladykillers is this?
Hey, that last move was pretty slick.
I always picture Glibs as Curry (A slim and handsome race car driver) doing the Tiger.
Mammary Monday bounces along to make your life worth living.
http://archive.li/3ogsQ
Great set except for 12, not sure what’s going on there.
3 is the RealDoll.
35>28>5>23
I know I should pay attention to the aposematic signal, but 2 does it for me.
The whole set is great, really.
If you’re the top predator in your ecosystem, and your food can’t run away, seemingly aposematic might just mean, hey, look at me!
47 > 2 > 33
I think 33 has a half-Asian thing going on. Which is a good thing.
Possibly quarter Asian, but yeah, big tits on an Asian girl is nice. Or as it is called in Tejas, Latina.
Possibly quarter Asian
a.k.a., quartasian
Are you still doing pie calculations?
More like hemisphere calculations.
#11! But no wonder Alshon was distracted and dropped that crucial pass.
British soldiers protest when females who failed fitness classes were allowed to stay in a selection class. Army backs down after story shows up in the Mail.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6585341/Woman-failed-infant-test-given-pass-Army-furious-male-soldiers-staged-rebellion.html
What the hell is the infant test?
If you are not aware that this turning a blind eye thing is the common behavior and prevalent, you have not been paying attention….
Check these nudes of Trudeau:
https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/649805509/nude-ken-doll-dirty-blonde-rooted-hair?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=nude+ken+doll&ref=sr_gallery-1-5
NOPE.
rat-bastard Benedict Arnold
Sigh. Yes and no. The truth is that Arnold didn’t just wake up one morning thinking, “Hey, you know, I think it would be a great idea to f**k over my country.”. This is a guy who’d served the cause of the Revolution incredibly valiantly and creditably and got f**ked over by politicians as a thank you for his troubles. I’m not saying he was a decent guy, or even justified. But, any discussion of Arnold’s treason that gives the political class a pass is missing a big part of the story.
IIRC Ethan Allen was kind of douche himself, but Mr Snappy Dresser Arnold would’ve pissed off any grunt at any time in history.
My understanding is that Arnold had gained the grudging respect of a lot of the troops because, unlike a lot of the other generals (coughcoughGatescoughcough), he was actually willing to go into the fight himself.
And what happens when the general is too budy defending himself to notice what’s happening on other parts of the battlefield? While I get that the line trooper might appreciate the brass getting stuck in, thats also him not doing his job.
That may be. But, it wasn’t like Arnold was some guy who lost battles because he couldn’t see the forest for the trees. He had a record as a winning general.
At one point he was the only successful general officer against the british.
It was more common back then. During Pickett’s charge, 3 lower generals under Pickett led the charge. Armistead and, uhhh, two others.
Kemper and Garnett. I cheated and went to wikipedia.
And look how that turned out.
Besides, in that case it would be Lee’s job to be aware of the rest of the battlefield, as they were subordinates who happened to hold ‘general’ ranks.
*I admit I don’t know how often Arnold was a subordinate commander in someone else’s army versus the overall commander.
It appears Arnold was a Colonel at the taking of Ticonderoga.
Colonels are different, they should lead from the front.
Corporal’s worse than sergeant, sergeant’s worse than captain, captain’s worse than colonel, and the bugler’s worst of all.
It was more common back then.
And it made a sort of sense, as the limited communication of the time would make it difficult to know what is going on everywhere so might as well be near/in the fighting at the position where your sense of the battlefield indicates is most important and therefor needs your decision making quickest. In addition to the morale boost and reputational boost.
I’m just talking about how they denied him the honor associated with the taking of Fort Ticonderoga. Arnold got shoved aside quite a few times, but wasn’t a coward by any stretch.
Arnold got far more respect from the troops that idiots like Gates. He was know for leading from the front and getting horses shot out from under him. He led some brilliant campaigns in the north.
Kenneth James made him the hero of his Arundel series.
https://smile.amazon.com/Arundel-Kenneth-Roberts-ebook/dp/B00CTKPBXA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1547477092&sr=8-1&keywords=arundel+by+kenneth+roberts
China will make TikTok-like video apps responsible for what users upload
Diversify, or else
The field of economics has a problem. At a time when more women than men are graduating from college and earning doctorates, just a third of Ph.D.s in economics go to women. That statistic has hardly budged in decades.
The lack of gender diversity has trickled its way into one of the field’s biggest employers of economists: the Federal Reserve, which crafts U.S. monetary policy. For most of its existence the Fed has been dominated by men. That’s why it was such a big deal when Janet Yellen became the first woman to run the Fed in 2014.
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In recent years, the Fed has taken deliberate steps to address not just the gender disparity, but also racial and ethnic diversity. A few years ago, it brought on professor Amanda Bayer of Swarthmore College as an adviser.
“As we try to develop knowledge for the use of policymakers and as we try to develop specific policies, we’re hindered by the lack of diversity in our ranks,” she says.
Bayer organized the Fed’s first national summit on diversity in 2014. That summit is now an annual event. And last month, she partnered with the central bank on a new website that gives U.S. universities a visual scorecard on diversity at the undergraduate level, where she says the problem often begins.
“Before very recently, fingers were pointed at women themselves looking to factors like women’s tastes or math preparation as explainers of why they didn’t choose us and join us as economists,” Bayer says.
But increasingly, the field is looking within to understand why so few women decide to pursue it. Step one of finding a solution is admitting there’s a problem, says Bayer, and it’s clear that economics has one.
I’m all in favor of kicking the academic theoreticians off the board of governors, but I don’t think that’s really what they’re working toward.
I feel bad for women. While men are free to choose whatever they want, Women are constantly pressured to go into fields that they have no desire to be in.
In seriousness, I want to see the articles talking about how Teaching/Nursing etc. have a problem and that the onus is on those “professions” to get more Men into it. Not an article talking about how sexist men are for not going into those careers, but about how Hospitals/Schools need to do more to be open to men.
Of course you won’t and i don’t really want to see articles like that. I just think it’s strange that the onus is on a profession to get more people of a certain superficial characteristic to join it.
I’d also accept articles bemoaning the fact that the fields of septic tank cleaner, garbage collection and logging do not have enough women in them and that teachers should encourage young girls to go into them.
To be fair, two women are on the three person DSNY crew that services our neighborhood and they can throw those trash cans around as well as anyone. I’m pretty sure NYC has more female
garbagemensanitation workers (actually, they are all known as San Man regardless of gender) than female firefighters.In seriousness, I want to see the articles talking about how
Teaching/Nursing etc. havehigher education has a problem and that the onus is on those “professions”institutions to get more Men into it.Women underrepresented – crime against humanity.
Men underrepresented – for great justice!
Next on NPR:
The field of education has a problem… less than a third of Ph.D.s in education go to men.
Right? Right?
*crickets*
This is absurd. Early in my career, I worked in Research (where the economists are) for one of the Reserve Banks. The kind of work they mostly do isn’t the kind of thing that is going to be improved in any way by “diversity”. Sorry, but estimates of the lag between monetary policy and economic stimulus doesn’t much give a shit if you’re a man, a woman, white, black or Asian. Calculations of banking industry concentration aren’t really a function of your demographics.
Then why are there no womens? SEXISIM is the only and obvious answer.
Every fall when a new class of freshmen would show up at school the Engineering building would be awash in young ladies who wanted to be an engineer.
By the middle of the semester the classes would be down to their normal 1/5 women ratio. Mostly because the math was hard and it took a lot of work. You actually had to do your homework and turn it in where some TA would snottily insist that you get the answer exactly right.
You’d look at all your friends who were English majors and they never had to do any hard math problems. In fact, they never really had to do any homework at all. They got to go out drinking every night. One weekend a semester they’d have to crank out some paper but as long as they parroted the prof’s pet theory, it was pretty easy to get an A.
And to be fair, a shit ton of young men dropped engineering for the same exact reason.
Lol, I was one of those young men. I dropped out cause physics kept kicking my ass, and switched to… economics.
Me three – went into EE – and got weeded out. If I could go back in time, I think I could have passed all the required classes but I was a lot lazier back then. Hence my CS degree.
Haha. That’s funny because i ended up in Development after completing my degree…
I dropped out of architecture for the same reason.
I thought that just about every movie hero was an architect.
It’s for that ‘wealthy yet everyman’ vibe the profession is supposed to have.
I was a double major in finance and marketing. Originally started as marketing and quickly realized I wanted something a bit more challenging.
I went to a prominent engineering school – I would say that 40% or so of the people in my finance classes were washed out engineers.
The kind of work they mostly do isn’t the kind of thing that is going to be improved in any way by “diversity”
That applies to an awful lot of fields. Your gender or sexuality has no bearing on, say, how efficiently that server software processes data. Your life experiences aren’t suddenly going to result in a better algorithmic approach.
Apparently, that discussion is off limits.
Have you noticed that the only jobs they tell us lack enough female participation are the ones that have a real hard entry level requirement (lots of hard education or hard work) and because of that limitation on how many people will qualify to do the job in a competitive environment, provide power and a lot of wealth? It’s almost like they want women to be given a free pass…
…and the only women who should be picked for that free pass are members of the complainers’ club.
You forget the totemic influence exerted by “diversity.” The greater the diversity, the greater its shamanistic push to “right” “wrongs” and “bend the moral arc.” It’s not that the answers to those equations change, it’s that the equations themselves change as the underlying truths of the universe shift toward justice and away from iniquity. It’s not measurable by the white man’s econometrics, in fact it’s non-observable from inside this universe’s moral arc, but you know it’s working because these programs grow more “diverse” and less white every year. Someday, when demographic representation is achieved (minus the whiteness modifier to account for historical oppression), moral perfection will have been achieved and we’ll finally live in the best of all possible worlds. We’ll stir our rock soups and mend our mud huts in perfect contentedness.
more women than men are graduating from college – seems like a problem to me
Graduating from college these days doesn’t impress me much. What degree you graduated with is far more important IMO than even what college you graduated from. But then again, I feel most people that pay a fortune to get what passes for an education these days are being robbed, but most people get huffy when you tell them they overpaid for their degree and its earning potential.
I’d love to go into engineering or something hard (but well paying), but the truth is I’m simply not smart enough.
You are going to be murdered by the sisterhood for saying stuff like that…
Meh. I don’t hang out with the “sisterhood”. Too busy surviving and trying to get through my life without screwing up my kids.
Uffda. I made sure to screw my kids up real good. I don’t want to see them move out and do better than me.
I want mine to go out and do better than we are doing, but unfortunately, they have interpreted this as “You’re out of here as soon as you turn 18.” Ooops.
Unfortunately?
They took it as “We don’t want you.” My son is more phlegmatic about it, but my daughter isn’t doing well in school and is terrified we’re going to throw her out on her 18th birthday whether she can make it on her own or not, regardless how much we reassure her that is not the case.
If you can write, you can do math.
I CAN do math. It just takes me 4 times longer than anyone else. I’m one of those people who are terrible at board games because I don’t understand the strategy (could be I’ve never been properly taught). Regarding the pizza puzzle, I would’ve googled the formula and painstakingly worked my way through the problem. Econ was beyond my ken. Give me the formula or the strategy (much like giving me the right tool for the right job and how things are put together), and I can do it, but I can’t get there on my own.
Relevant!
In fairness, some games are hard to teach, others are just taught poorly. I usually get tapped for teaching quite a few games, I make sure to explain the end game conditions, what scores points, some basic strategies that people may try (as well as warn away from some pitfall strategies people try for), and what a turn looks like.
TBF, I am a sore loser and the payoff of winning isn’t enough for me to spend the time either learning or playing. After years of half-assed trying to play Monopoly with people who didn’t know anything more than I did, my husband taught me when we were first married. He trounced me because I was so lost. It wasn’t fun for me nor fun for me.
I like card games, particularly gin rummy. Nobody’s ever taught me how to play poker. I like black jack and I’ve never lost money playing it (I hate casinos, though, so that is a small sample size).
Math is hard. Maybe I’m just lazy and don’t want to work that hard. It’s easier to think that than that I am not smart enough, but now I think it’s the latter.
My sportsmanship varies. If the game is in-person, I’m typically a fairly good loser, especially if the winner isn’t a dick about it. If a game is computer mediated (ie, the opponant is nowhere near me) I’ll be more sore of a loser the more one-sided and unfair it seems. I’ll shrug off a close-fought loss, be disappointed in a lopsided win, and celebrate most a close fought victory. Though I suspect this is largely because no one can see or hear my reactions.
That’s completely fair. I also try to get a feel for the games I’m recommending for a new player on a night when I’ve been tapped to teach them something. Usually, I’ll stick with something with dice rolling and randomness (Can’t Stop or Las Vegas) instead of dry economic games (Power Grid). Different games also stress different skill sets, I know some people who have blind spots in some games even if they’ve played it a dozen times before (anything with a heavy degree of planning actions 4-5 turns ahead of time usually does this).
The rules of poker (depending on the variant) are pretty simple. The complex part is understanding the table, and reading the other players.
Where is the fun in being aware of your limitations and adjusting accordingly?
I don’t give up on home projects even though I know I am one of the most mechanically declined people to ever saw off one of his 10 thumbs.
I don’t give up on home projects, either, but it took a few good contractors to give me some tips that made things not so intimidating. I have learned not to play take on (bigger) projects that involve water or electricity.
All the big projects seem to involve water, electricity, or gas.
Except for the structural ones, which very often threaten all three.
I was quite pleased with myself for successfully replacing the dishwasher – it had been leaking into the floor for god knows how long. I had to cut out the damaged flooring, replace it, wire in the new dishwasher, replace the water feed, etc.
Electricity, water, power tools – all the factors to really screw something up / get injured.
’m one of those people who are terrible at board games because I don’t understand the strategy (could be I’ve never been properly taught).
I was never good at thinking games (like chess) because I don’t want to think hard while playing a game.
I forget what game we were playing, but I was winning, and my wife asked me whether I was counting cards. I replied that i could if I wanted to, but it’s not much fun, so I don’t bother.
Oh, it was Sushi Go.
Not smart enough? Or your intelligence is in other areas? This whole discussion revolves around the notion that Intelligence is a single trait. It isn’t. The skills and aptitudes that make a Mathematician are different than those that make an Artist, Author, Chef, Architect, Doctor, Carpenter, or even a Physicist. We can argue about the ‘value’ of each of those skill sets/aptitudes, but each has a cognitive element, and those elements differ greatly. Saying men are more likely to excel in Math is not saying men are smarter than women.
Nuance? I don’t need no stinkin nuance.
Anything I’m good at must be easy, else I wouldn’t be good at them. Anything I’m not good at must be hard, else I would be good at them.
So many ways to be smart.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Smart-Parents-Multiple-Intelligences/dp/0802402836
and a song to go with it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xk0-Ub_1Jo
For once I wish they would explain WTF this is supposed to mean. What is “hindered”? Are we really supposed to believe that there is some magic answer to economic problems that is waiting for the correct sex or race to discover it?!
“Who gives a fuck about economics? This is about punishing white men!”
/prog
This political “cartoon” has convinced me. This was shared by a FB acquaintance and you should take her seriously because she has an Econ degree! (acquaintance is not AOC).
A thesis penned by UC Berkeley student Alice Wu helped shine a light on the problem. She used machine learning to analyze posts on an anonymous online jobs forum popular with economics.
“She came up with a very convincing case that there was a lot of sexism and a lot of homophobia in the postings on this forum,” says Berkeley professor Martha Olney. “Her research simply codified what lots of people could have told you. But the people who could have told you that were women, people of color, and queer students.”
Sounds legit.
Hostile environment. Disparate impact.
“She came up with a very convincing case”
Yeah… I’ll be the judge of that…
Meaning she wrote what would pass for a biased algorithm to find the facts she wanted it to do so, then peddled it as machine learning AI. I have seen this shit so many times now that it is just galling to me when people hide behind AI to pretend they are not gaming the system.
I am an economist and the econ field definitely attracts a lot of asshole men. I avoid the econ forums because any guy who didn’t get his desired job, didn’t get it because (according to him) they had to hire some woman etc. The fact that he didn’t correctly account for selection effects, or had a truly stupid instrumental variable is never considered. Those forums are poisonous.
I can believe that there a bunch of assholes who externalize any failure and also believe her “machine learning” came up with exactly the answer she wanted.
I suspect any field with a lot of smart, highly educated people competing for a relatively limited number of jobs (which I assume is the case in your field?) results in a lot of blaming others for failure to advance.
I’m sure it still sucks to deal with.
Aren’t most forums full of assholes?
I thought that was the definition of a forum: place full of assholes…
Hmmm. we should give them All NYT columns. At least that way they are off the forums, and it will make Krugabe have to compete.
Ahem. Yet you hang out here.
That should give you an idea of how bad econ forums are
Worse than Detroit? Worse than Detroit. *shudders*
Economist are bullshit artists anyway who res / Nasim Taaleb
But, it wasn’t like Arnold was some guy who lost battles because he couldn’t see the forest for the trees. He had a record as a winning general.
I can’t remember the details off the top of my head, but didn’t the Continental Congress fuck Arnold out of a bunch of money, like reimbursements for expenses incurred in fighting their goddam (literal!) battles for them?
If I recall correctly, yes. And they branded him a crook in the process.
I am still waiting on your FA Cup 3rd round review. There were a lot of interesting upsets.
Missing: Key Documents About Alleged Misconduct By Robert Mueller’s Lead Prosecutor
are missing from the court record. – well that is that.; nothing to be done now.
Just another meaningless coincidence, I’m sure.
It’s a shame that the court can’t request a copy of the declaration from Michael Tigar.
No shit. Its bad enough (and really, its very bad) that the court’s own record has been compromised. Its even worse that the court seemingly shows no interest in (a) finding out who altered its own records and (b) fixing the compromise to its record.
Why, its almost like the court isn’t a neutral arbitrator at all, but is an active participant in a coverup. Almost.
Little old so maybe covered AND TW – TOS – but Welch had an interesting story in the mag a few months back about Lanny Friedlander (who founded the magazine):
http://reason.com/archives/2018/11/10/mad-genius
It’s a fairly sad story since Lanny suffered from some mental illnesses, but I found it really interesting.
Hey South Florida Glibs, I will be down in North Miami Beach for Pesach and in an effort to avoid as much of the hardcore Lubavitcher Glatt Seder at my Sil’s as possible, I would love to have a treyf filled meet-up. Also, this morning, I made the kids watch The Blues Brothers. Daughter loved the music and dancing, son loved the car chases and destruction. That film holds up very, very well.
Did you explain what “one prophylactic, unused, one soiled” meant?
LOL… I avoided that very discussion by a robust discussion of why we love Frank Oz so much.
Like Weissmann, Mueller had a hand in picking Matthew Friedrich for the notorious Enron Task Force, where they quickly destroyed Arthur Andersen LLP, the venerable accounting firm, and its 85,000 jobs all for nothing. The Supreme Court unanimously reversed the Andersen conviction two years later. These prosecutors were so overreaching that courts even had to allow people to withdraw guilty pleas.
But widows and orphans!
My first car was a green AMC Gremlin I inherited from mom. Was their first new car. Price was right.
Wait I though Americans get an old muscle car when they turn 16
Only if it happened before the oil crisis of the 1970s.
First car was 1978 Chrysler Cordoba. 400 Cubic inch V8. Gunmetal silver. Brougham roof. Fine Corinthian leather seats with singe-your-legs buckles on them. Got about 12 MPG.
How old were you at the time?
16. It was in 1988. Car was 10 years old.
Bloody Anachronism.
First car I bought for myself after I ran Gremlin into ground which was pretty much immediately was a ’72 Cutless 350 rocket custom paint job and mags. 60s in back, 70s in front. Was very sweet until I bent the frame in 3 places doing a Dukes of Hazzard stunt. It was a head turner for sure.
Was actually the nicest car I ever had.
You must have wept when Cash for Clunkers took away your car market.
I keep eyeballing ’70 Chevelles 454s but hard to justify spending that kind of money for a toy. Especially when me gun toy list is so long.
My first car was a rusted 1968 Firebird 350, red with a black vinyl top. 350 went at sometime in the car’s like so someone put a 400 from 1974 (via the casting numbers). With a 2-speed Powerglide transmission, it wasn’t exactly that fast. My current Mustang would romp all over it.
*life
But how did it deal with the desert sand? Did it have flamethrowers?
I got a beat-up Chevy Nova, probably 1972 or 3ish, with the big engine. It was a hand-me-down from my older brother, who got it from Pater Dean, who got it from his aunt. What my great-aunt was doing with a no-kidding muscle car, I have no clue.
I like Foo Fighters.
Victims of their own success?
Detroit is in the grips of a car recession marked by the collapse of demand for traditional sedans, which accounted for half the market just six years ago. Buyers have made a mass exodus out of classic family cars and into sport utility vehicles. Familiar sedan models such as the Honda Accord and the Ford Fusion made up a record low 30 percent of U.S. sales in 2018, and things will only get worse.
Sales of the passenger-car body style that’s dominated the industry since the Model T will sink to 21.5 percent of the U.S. market by 2025, according to researchers at LMC Automotive, relegating sedans to fringe products. That leaves automakers with excess factory capacity that can turn out about 3 million more vehicles than buyers want. And overcapacity is precisely what spurred losses the last time a recession wracked the industry.
“You could classify this as a car recession,” said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting at LMC Automotive.
Maybe the bottom has dropped out of the sedan market because the auto makers have finally managed to come up with the right balance of practical and desirable in their SUVs.
ISTR that the rise of the SUV is directly because of CAFE standards making large sedans and (to some degree) wagons – which people wanted – too expensive. Light trucks are categorized differently and SUVs get categorized thusly.
Yes CAFE standards are based on square inches of footprint. So a sedan has a higher CAFE standard for the same footprint as an SUV. So manufacturers prefer to build high-powered SUVs versus mid-powered sedans. Because consumers prefer to buy the high-power SUVs.
Meh. I’ve owned a v8 Buick. I’ve owned a v4 Explorer. I want a car that’s not so low to the ground and has more storage.
Someone on another site – The Truth About Cars – sez that CUVs are basically a return to the cars from the 1930s/1940s – which were taller than the low slung fashion of the 1950s on up. Or, more likely, people find CUVs more convenient for getting in and out of, and like the storage space in the back. I’ve always liked hatchbacks but those were never super popular, so it may have more to do with the ride height and the aging (and fat) population.
Personally I really don’t like SUVs/CUVs unless they are full-framed / based on trucks, like the 4Runner.
“I’ve always liked hatchbacks”
I never really found them appealing. I felt like you didn’t get much more trunk space than you would in a sedan.
That depends on whether you’re willing to block the rearview mirror or not.
Hatchbacks are useful when you need to haul something that needs to be covered up – like when I was a poor punk rock sound guy hauling PA equipment. My ’86 Accord hatchback fit the big speakers perfectly while I could still get good gas mileage for normal day-to-day driving.
Sure a van or a truck could so the same work, even haul more, but would have cost a lot more to operate.
So the perfect college / poor young guy car.
4Runner and Nissan Xterra are the only two mid-size SUVs still built on a truck chassis. The 4Runner is about $10k more than the Xterra.
All other mid-sized and compact SUVs are just station wagons with tall roofs.
Xterra isn’t available anymore. Unless you’re in China.
I wasn’t aware they killed it. I bought my 2014 in late 2015. I guess that I’m going to have to take really good care of it then.
Sounds like we need another round of cash-for-clunkers!
kill them with kindness
https://twitter.com/robrousseau/status/1084457626619072515
Problem-solving males become more attractive to female budgerigars.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30630929?dopt=Abstract
A Do-It-Yourself home paternity test is now available.
For any of you looking to vacation with unattractive sluts or the land of cucks.
Word of caution – This is 20% of those who already suspect infidelity to the point of getting a test performed. And with 680,000 live births per year in the UK, that’s about 4.4% performing tests. That puts that 20% down to 0.88% of the number of births per year.
Are the test-takers paranoid, or are the rest not paranoid enough?
Here’s a thought…. I don’t doubt the kids are mine, so maybe i’m not the best person to say anything. I love them, and i think even if they weren’t mine, by now it would be hard to “stop” loving them, especially because it wouldn’t have been their fault. I can definitely understand being hurt beacause of the actions of a faithless spouse, but i don’t see it being easy to reject the kids once you’ve spent a lot of time raising them.
I’m enough of a paranoiac to take myself out of the equation, at least for the time being, so I’m in no position to say anything either. But I think you’re right. I found out in my mid-twenties that dad suspected my paternity. I never asked him about it and would prefer not to know. But it hurt for awhile till I came to understand that, whatever his suspicions, he never spurned me. I’m closer to him than I am mom.
1. You are assuming a spouse – not a child-support bill from a one-nighter.
2. If I didn’t catch on early and was parenting the kid, it wouldn’t be the child I dropped out of my life.
I mean… There is a bit of selection bias. The guys testing their kids are the ones who might have some reason to be worried about it…
Made me think of this.
Gymnast Katelyn Ohashi scores perfect ten with eye-watering splits routine inspired by Michael Jackson
https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/8187727/katelyn-ohashi-perfect-ten-michael-jackson-gymnastics/
Think I saw her on an old ozzyman video. Had the same bounde move
THICC
Just really short so seems that way.
Wide hips, muscular thighs, and a narrow waist is all the thicc I care for.
He also posted a video just today about the routine in the linked article.
Michael Jackson inspired many perfect 10….
year olds.
Bird Box is a dumb, unsatisfying movie. Change my mind.
A: Don’t tell me what to do.
B: I don’t disagree with you.
C: I didn’t watch the movie.
*ties handkerchief around head*
BIRD BOX CHALLENGE!
*runs full tilt into door frame*
I’d have to watch it first. It’s on the list, but so is a lot of other stuff.
Is it about Larry Bird? If not, I’m probably not interested.
It was a dumber the happening.
Unpossible, Shyamalan set a new standard for stupid and boring with that one.
It was really stupid. only good part was John Malchovich being in it. I
Someone on another site – The Truth About Cars – sez that CUVs are basically a return to the cars from the 1930s/1940s – which were taller than the low slung fashion of the 1950s on up. Or, more likely, people find CUVs more convenient for getting in and out of, and like the storage space in the back. I’ve always liked hatchbacks but those were never super popular, so it may have more to do with the ride height and the aging (and fat) population.
Personally I really don’t like SUVs/CUVs unless they are full-framed / based on trucks, like the 4Runner.
I have a ’91 Ford explorer; a station wagon body on a 4wd Ranger pickup frame (with a 5spd manual transmission). It’s a surprisingly useful and comfortable vehicle. It’s bigger than what I really like, but it’s a good winter car. I hardly ever drive it in the summer.
The best thing about beaters is you can have a fleet of them, each with its own special purpose.
The best thing about beaters is you can have a fleet of them, each with its own special purpose.
Are we still talking about cars?
No, shirts.
Orphans.
Its not necessarily the cost of an apartment that’s causing her distress, its the fact that its her second residence that’s making it hard for her financially.
Didn’t she just get her first congressional paycheck? Or did she do the honorable thing and decline it in order to stand in solidarity with the furloughed federal employees?
I heard like many other democrats they refused to forgo pay because – and I quote – “It is just a distraction to do things like this”….
Not in any way defending AOC but, congressional pay is $174k. If she’s trying to rent in DC & in NYC, given the cost of living in those places, it might be a little bit of a stretch to figure it out.
She just needs to find a sugar daddy in each city to pay her rent.
Bloomberg and Biden.
For 174, it’s possible, if you’re good with money. She has an economics degree, right?
If her words are anything to go by, she didn’t get that degree by understanding economics.
4Runner and Nissan Xterra are the only two mid-size SUVs still built on a truck chassis. The 4Runner is about $10k more than the Xterra.
The four runner- yeesh. Talk about bloatware and mission creep. One of these days, Toyota will have to make something small and basic again.
The 90s 4Runner was – and still is – good looking. The current Tonka truck thing they’re making now – and the prices! – makes it a non-starter.
In all honestly, I wouldn’t be seen in about 95% (or more) of the vehicles being made today. Generic comes to mind.
Reading the story of the original ’64 (and a half!) Mustang was enlightening:
https://ateupwithmotor.com/model-histories/1965-ford-mustang-history/
I assumed this was because the laws of aerodynamics don’t change. As cars become more streamlined, they start looking alike.
True that – which is why I have a hard time telling the difference, at a distance, so many CUVs. Cars aren’t much better.
In all honestly, I wouldn’t be seen in about 95% (or more) of the vehicles being made today. Generic comes to mind.
Yup. Same here. Praise Allah that both the Dean Rides show every indication of being good for another 100,000 miles (the newer one probably 200,000 miles).
They are generic in part due to streamlining, but that in turn is a creation of mpg requirements. There are also other regulatory requirements that squeeze out variation. In short, I blame the government.
Yeah, the newer Highlander seems to have about the same cubic capacity as my 1997 4Runner. I wish Toyota would come out with a 4Runner Classic.
Re: AMC
I realize that hating on their ’70s era offerings is the position of most people, but I actually quite like the Pacer and the Gremlin. When taking into consideration the challenges that American car makers faced at that moment, the designs of those two cars were actually pretty far ahead of their time. Richard Teague was an absolute genius.
I’d be pretty happy to own this:
http://www.dailyturismo.com/2014/09/10k-pacer-of-apocalypse-1978-amc-pacer.html
I loved the Javelin. When I was a freshman in high school, a senior had one that could literally lift the front tires off the pavement when he hit the gas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMC_Javelin
The Javelin was a gorgeous car. I’ve always wanted one but could never find one within my budget that wasn’t rusted into oblivion. As far as Teague’s designs though, this has always been my favorite (although one that sadly never made it into production):
http://www.remarkablecars.com/1968-amc-amx-gt-prototype.html
A lot of the styling elements from this later found their way to the Gremlin.
Also:
https://www.conceptcarz.com/vehicle/z1750/amc-amx-ii-concept.aspx
Looks like a De Tomaso Pantera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Tomaso_Pantera
Hey, leave me out of this
Lin-Manuel Miranda✔
@Lin_Manuel
Your occasional reminder that our current president lies as easy as you and I breathe air.
Every day, all day, reflexively.
Interesting coming from someone who made a show lionizing one of the worst of the American founders that is responsible for everything wrong with the government today.
Your everyday reminder that actors are self-involved assholes for whom public commentary and self-promotion are equivalent terms.
But are you swarmed by gushing adulation at every step? I think not.
Just a reminder, Lin-Manuel Miranda held a special showing of “Hamilton” for an unapologetic Puerto Rican terrorist at the same place where that terrorist had once killed two people with a bomb in the 1970’s. The son of one of those killed held a one-man protest of the event.
Jesus, really? At least the local media had the good grace to condemn one of our power-grubbing commie pols when she gushed over the release of that terrorist.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment/miranda-cheers-pardon-promises-hell-play-hamilton-in-chicago/
I can’t find the article where the son of one of the victims protested the performance in honor of the terrorist who was offered clemency by Clinton in 1998 if he renounced violence and he refused.
Yep, that’s the commie I had in mind. She was term-limited out of city council and is now running for “public advocate” which is a do-nothing position that was specifically cooked up as a launch-pad for wannabe mayors.
Peas in a pod, those two. Disgusting.
TOS says that Gabbard is who all libertarians should be voting for in 2020. Something anti-interventionist. Never mind she’s a full on commie.
There is no possibility of shrinking the state domestically when your overseas adventures justify greater domestic surveillance and props-up your debt financed welfare state.
I agree with TOS
Well, Gabbard might cut down our foreign interventions, but it would be paired with a massive expansion of the state. Pass.
Didn’t we have the same exact conversation 11 years ago with Obama? How’d that work out for us?
Never compromise with the left.
When taking into consideration the challenges that American car makers faced at that moment, the designs of those two cars were actually pretty far ahead of their time. Richard Teague was an absolute genius.
I agree. They were at least trying to do something innovative.
GM puked up the Cadillac Cimarron, for fuck’s sake.
Truth Time; I thoroughly enjoyed True Detective Season 2.
You are a monster.
I honestly don’t understand the hate, the first season was perfect nothing could be as good as it. But the acting was good, and the characters were interesting.
Excited about season 3.
It was OK. Interesting plot and characters, but clunky execution.
This. It suffered mightily by comparison to Season 1. The best thing about it was that it was about the corruption and graft associated with the high-speed rail.
I heard like many other democrats they refused to forgo pay because – and I quote – “It is just a distraction to do things like this”….
They’d never stoop to empty gestures or grandstanding.
Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump
We have a massive Humanitarian Crisis at our Southern Border. We will be out for a long time unless the Democrats come back from their “vacations” and get back to work. I am in the White House ready to sign!
Heh.
Democrats are busy pimping in Puerto Rico.
Looking at trends in the auto world over the decades, the one that I find the most annoying and useless today, is crossovers. Why are these things so popular? A fucked up looking sedan for the price of a SUV with precious little extra space or utility. Just bring back station wagons. I want the wood paneling on mine.
I think it’s the category for emissions standards that makes the crossover preferable for the manufacturer compared to the station wagon.
Correct – the answer, as ever, is that government interference in the market has fucked it up.
I fucking hate the electric cars pretending to be viable tech.
I won’t buy one, not even a hybrid.
Hybrids are not so bad. My C-MAX gets 450-500 miles per 12.5 gallons, and if you turn off ‘Eco’ mode (first thing you should do) the gas engine can accellerate… decently. It would accellerate faster, but it is heavy (3500 pounds).
Admittedly, my purchase criteria was “This one is comfortable to drive”.
They are viable within their niche; essentially, commuter vehicles and sports cars. Any use that might approach their total range in a single day, not viable at all.
We have a 9yo Forrester. It’s is a great vehicle. Not fancy, but reasonably comfortable. Lots of room to haul around stuff. Great clearance and traction in everything up to blizzard conditions. Decent gas mileage (24 mpg). Enough power to get all the free way. With a trailer hitch you can load a bicycle rack or pull a small trailer.
It’s a Subaru; it just works; no one gives a shit what it looks like.
We have friends that have the Nissan Rogue with AWD. They are quite happy with it. We will likely replace the Forrester with a Rogue 2 or 3 years from now.
Friend of mine just bought one of the Crosstreks. As far as being ‘utility’ and dependability, you really cannot go wrong with a Subaru. Recommended one to my wife, but not pretty enough for her.
I drove a Rogue, also drove a CRV, Mazda CX-5, and RAV4. Wound up going with a Tuscon Ultimate for wifey. Not sure if was my fav, but it sure is purty. So much tech I haven’t even figured it all out yet. Gotta figure out today how the hell to turn the heated mirrors on.
*notes that kinnath is, in fact, a middle-aged lesbian*
I
Is that why he’s driving a girl car?
I drive an Xterra in the winter and a 350Z in the summer.
The wife drives the Forrester. If she’s a lesbian, she has managed to keep it hidden for 43 years.
“a 350Z”
Manliness test passed.
I’m trying to decide what I will replace my aging sedan with.
mine looks like this:
http://www.2040-cars.com/nissan/350Z/350z-grand-touring-edition-interlagos-fire–764434/
Early in Subaru’s history they did a marketing survey to figure out who was buying their vehicles. It turns out, they were very popular with doctors, firefighters, and lesbians. So they updated their marketing strategies to focus on people that needed to get someplace regardless of weather conditions (doctors and firefighters) and to subtly advertise to lesbians.
So what you’re saying is, Subliminal advertising works?
/Cathy Newman
There’s a lot of lesbian marketing going on around here.
I loved the Javelin. When I was a freshman in high school, a senior had one that could literally lift the front tires off the pavement when he hit the gas.
I had a ’69 AMX. It had plenty of torque. The handling was…squirrelly, to say the least.
Much fun.
I sold it to some kid who, I was told, promptly wrecked it.
Mitsubishi is dead to me since the new Eclipse is a crossover instead of a coupe.
I can’t trust Mitsubishis, their products have a reputation for crashing into aircraft carriers.
Well, the remediation program that was put in place to address that problem seems to now be running a close to 75 year “no incidents logged” record….
And they killed off the Evo.
My first car was a Plymouth Sapporo which was a re-badged Mitsubishi Lancer. I loved it.
That sucks, I loved the Eclipse coupe.
Repost from way too late last night:
Someone suggested it’s a passing thing. Is that right? I really want to cut the cord (and my cable provider). The only alternatives on my block seem worse.
If the fiber lines don’t reach your block it’s not available, and they’ll have to run more fiber to reach you.
As for how good it is or how long it’ll stick around *shrugs*.
In my abortive first term studying network administration, our Cisco instructor told us about living up in the the mountains outside Tijeras and trying to get Comcast service. They refused because they’d have to run several miles of cable up the canyon to reach his house. But they lay it for free for marginal distances. So this guy went neighbor by neighbor up the canyon offering to pay their introductory fees for service till the line was close enough to get his house wired. It took half a year and several hundred dollars, but they finally reached him.
It took half a year and several hundred dollars, but they finally reached him.
Tip o’ the hat to that gentleman. Several hundred dollars to get the cable company to shell out over $100K to provide him internet – that’s what I call coming out ahead.
Well, technically, FIOS is cable. So that wouldn’t exactly be cord cutting, unless you’re going internet only. If I had Comcast and my other choice was FIOS, I’d do it in a 2nd, just internet only.
second, geez
I’m going to have to argue with you, there is a difference between coax to house and fiber to house solutions.
Some content though as Comcast. So I can’t see how you’d be cutting cord with the same garbage packages as Comcast.
You don’t have the buy the TV packages.
That’s exactly what I said above. Internet only. If you get the TV, it’s the same as cable.
I mean cut cable TV.
I used it in the past, the only issues I ever had were…
1) The menu on their cable converter box was abysmal, It functioned fine just a really poor UI design when compared to other cable providers.
2) The On demand options were awful. So bad that it is essentially a requirement that you have Hulu and/or Netflix if you have Fios instead of Comcast or other cable providers.
In terms of service, reliability, and customer service they were orders of magnitude above any other cable provider I have tried and we never once had a single issue of any sort with the internet service.
Same here. They didn’t bother laying down the fiber in my relatively new (less than 20 years) neighborhood. It’s available elsewhere in the same town.
My neighborhood is over 100 years old. Mix of apartment houses (me) and flats/rowhouses. I guess the building owner decides whether to allow it or something?
What really grinds my gears is the way cable companies ass-fuck their most loyal customers.
It’s worse here. Comcast has a city enforced monopoly. How is that even legal? Well, it’s Baltimore.
What really grinds my gears is the way cable companies ass-fuck their most loyal customers.
Yup. Even if I called comcast up and tried to haggle, they’d laugh at me. What am I going to do, switch to DSL? Microwave link? Satellite? They know they have most of their customers by the coinpurse.
I tried to drop HBO and they told me they would have to move me to a different, more expensive package. They really are fucking shameless.
You’re in Brooklyn, right? The issue for me would be do you expect them to stick and keep providing service.
I’m served by both Comcast and FIOS. Dumb fiber has been far more trouble free compared to DOCSIS (i.e. cable internet).
All else equal I’d prefer fiber, but not if the price is radically different. FIOS also provides symmetric upload that cable can’t. But for most home users that is a non-issue.
Yes, Brooklyn. FIOS is shown as cheaper than Spectrum for 100 MB/s. Considering I am paying more than 4x the listed price for that speed internet + TV, I want out of my current situation.
4Runner and Nissan Xterra are the only two mid-size SUVs still built on a truck chassis. The 4Runner is about $10k more than the Xterra.
All other mid-sized and compact SUVs are just station wagons with tall roofs.
I don’t know what the chassis is, but I really like my Honda Pilot. I’ve used it twice now to pull a chained F-350 plus a trailer loaded with 100 hay bales up a steep and muddy hill. The 4Runner definitely could, but I don’t know how many of the other mid-size and compact SUVs could do that.
With the 3rd kid due in a few weeks and 4 large GSDs, I’d like to get something bigger like a Yukon or Suburban. They cost twice as much as a mid-size though, and I don’t think they’re very reliable for 10+ years of ownership.
Is the Pilot considered mid-sized? The new ones are pretty damn big.
CRV would be midsize is my guess. Pilots to me are ugly squarish looking things. But yeah, they’re bigger for sure.
I don’t know the official decider for these things, but KBB labels the CRV a compact and the Pilot a mid-size.
The Pilot looks big, but it’s still much smaller than a Yukon or Excursion.
Well, depends on the company I think. Not all companies make school buses and call them SUVs (Suburban).
They’re garbage for the price point. Kia is much less expensive and offers a 5yr warranty instead of a 3yr. We’re buying a new sorrento this spring. We looked at the pilots but there is NOTHING special about them. Honda has been riding their name a bit too long.
I looked into Kia but was not impressed. Subpar performance compared to Honda for about the same price and my Honda came with a lifetime warranty for mechanical.
Granted this was 2011 for the Pilot. Saw the same thing in 2017 for the sedans. Might be different now for the SUVs.
My first car was a Honda Civic. It was a piece of hot garbage. Burned out starter motors twice. Loved to stall if you were an iota off with the clutch when braking. Loved to stall between first and second regardless. Taught me never to buy Honda.
Looks to be mid-sized.
Xterra vs Pilot
With the 3rd kid due in a few weeks and 4 large GSDs
You have 4 German Shepherds!?
And just get a minivan.
Fox columnist writes about online gaming addition, buries the lede: a parent called the cops on son for refusing to get out of bed.
My weird kids (15 and 11) hate Fortnite for no apparent reason. I guess that’s good. They play other videogames.
Good on them.
Because it sucks?
Never played it. Not a fan of multiplayer. Same issue with PUBG, I don’t really fancy running around doing the sort of thing I like (survival + exploration) only to get sniped by some asshole I never see and have to start over every ten minutes.
My son (also 15) agrees. Hates it, talks derisively about those that play it. But he will spend a lot of time playing the AC series.
Assassin’s Creed or Animal Crossing? Or both?
Oh, man, that’s funny. But Assassin’s Creed – we both enjoy the games.
Odyssey is really good. I also enjoyed Black Flag because of the ship battles.
Odessey has failed to really grab my attention. I’ve finished every previous installment save Syndicate (I ragequit when they wanted me to defend Karl Marx), but for whatever reason I look at it in my game library and go ‘meh’.
I’m still waiting for the heavily telegraphed pending betrayal by Aya* in Origins that hasn’t come (and I almost got 100% completion there)
*or whatever her name was
Well, if you wanted an actual AC type game and not an open world RPG, then you might not be that thrilled with Odyssey. My only knock on it is the level scaling. I hate that. Maybe they’ve fixed it by now, not sure.
Plus the game has the best graphics I’ve personally seen.
By rights, I should love the game. Just taking what is there and what it is on its own merits.
It just didn’t click.
None of my kids are into Fortnite or PUBG.
18 yo is into League of Legends and similar type games
16 year old boy is into Overwatch, Mortal Kombat, Injustice, Subnautica, Fallout, and the Star Wars mobile game.
16 year old girl is into Bioshock and Assasins Creed
10 year old is into The Sims and a host of online Flash Games
President Donald Trump shrugged off recent remarks from democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Monday after she called him a racist.
Ocasio-Cortez made the remarks in a recent interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” in which she insisted that the president was a racist.
“Mr. President, congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez called you a racist,” a reporter said.
“Who did?” Trump asked.
“Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez,” the reporter shouted back.
“Who cares?” Trump said, dismissing the question.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/42127/watch-trump-responds-ocasio-cortez-calling-him-ryan-saavedra
“Racist” doesn’t have a meaning anymore. Soon to join it are “white-nationalist” and “white-supremacist”.
Best way to respond to her. She NEEDS Attention, and the accusation of Racisim thrives on being validated by the accused quickly jumping to defend themselves.
“Who cares?” Trump said, dismissing the question.
*fills in absentee ballot for 2020 election*
Was happy to see a new Hardcore History episode – 5-6 months since the last one!
I’m working my way through WWI right now. Very impressed. Any suggestions for the next one to start?
His Gallic Wars one is great. I think it’s just a single episode, but still ~4 hours
I liked Kings of Kings.
I’m listening to the WWI one for the second time. It’s great. I’m headed to Brussels this summer so I plan to visit some of the battlefields.
Ghosts of the Ostfront, about the Eastern front during WW II, is great.
Thanks
*leaves work early for the drive home podcast listening*
As far as Teague’s designs though, this has always been my favorite (although one that sadly never made it into production):
A lot of the styling elements from this later found their way to the Gremlin.
Ow, my eye!
“Mr. President, congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez called you a racist,” a reporter said.
“Who did?” Trump asked.
“Congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez,” the reporter shouted back.
“Who cares?” Trump said, dismissing the question.
Excellent.
“Who cares?” Trump said, dismissing the question
“Mr. President, congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez called you a racist,” a reporter said.
Let the record stand that the reporter didn’t ask the president a question.
Save my life, I’m goin’ down for the last time.