OMWC and SP make a darn good pizza – but I don’t think it is that exaggeratedly thin crusted.
Old Man With Candy
Likely, but I haven’t seen any down here in Phoenix. Lots of first-rate NY style, though, and Los Doyers ingratiated himself to her by bringing her a slice when he was here a couple weeks ago.
I am not sure – I will spread the word amongst the Glibs TPTB.
AlexinCT
I have warrants out for me in St. Louis….
Just kidding. It’s in San Fran.
Fuck the SFPD.
Jarflax
If SP posted a blank links we’d get the message, but with Brett L? I’m just assuming a gator on bathsalts came by and either ate him mid links, or offered to share.
It’s funny, because Biden’s out here doing his mea culpas with all the evidence on camera over the years of his being a little too up in ladies’ grills, but nobody on Team Blue said shit about it. Trump is basically convicted in the media of all kinds of shit for which there is absolutely zippy evidence and his response to the accusations is a categorical, unequivocal denial. And you know what? I actually believe him.
R C Dean
Trump is an idiot
I don’t think so. He may be impulsive, unprincipled, and not terribly intellectual, but he’s not stupid. Idiots don’t last long in the incredibly cut-throat world of commercial real estate, and they don’t survive, completely unscathed, multi-year investigations, surveillance, and entrapment ops by intelligence agencies and federal prosecutors.
AlexinCT
I am with you R C Dean. I used to think he was a pompous fool, but I have actually grown to like the guy simply because of the reaction he forces on the stupid fucks that root for team blue. And he is occasionally awesome at kicking the ballz of team red douchebags too.
Fatty Bolger
Several women have come forward in recent days to complain about Biden’s behavior. More than a dozen have accused Trump of sexually harassing them. Trump denied the charges.
Love how they threw that in at the end. You can just feel the butthurt, can’t you?
AlexinCT
The difference is that we have decades of video where Biden is showing his creep, and all they have is their fantasies of Trump being their boogie man.
Theresa May wants a word with you. You’d better care cause you once called someone ‘poopy head’ in pre-school and you voted for Brexit, which I totally promised to carry out, LOL, you sucka.
Chipwooder
Well, in the absence of links, let’s all discuss how awesome UVA basketball is.
Juvenile Bluster
Go UMBC.
Chipwooder
Sadly, they didn’t make the Final Four this year.
Old Man With Candy
Sigh. I remember when they had no sports teams, just academics.
Spudalicious
Where’s the money in that?
Drake
Back when Ralph Sampson was there?
Old Man With Candy
He was? I don’t think so- wikipedia says Virginia, not UMBC. In my time at Umbeck, there were literally no sports.
(fun trivia: Our nickname for the school was UCLA- University of Catonsville, Left of Arbutus)
AlmightyJB
It will be great that they make it to the National Championship to be beaten by MSU.
Chipwooder
That’ll piss me off. We owe them for 2014.
PBRstreetgang
and 2015
Chipwooder
2014 hurt more. Last game for Joey Hoops and Akil, plus we were winning that one until Gill went out with a sprained ankle. 2015 we just shot like complete garbage and were playing catchup the entire game.
robc
Even if they win the title, they will still be the first #1 beaten by a #16.
Chipwooder
And with a title, I won’t care anymore.
PBRstreetgang
Word. Win a title this year with largely the same group of guys and it becomes the greatest redemption story in college hoops history.
pistoffnick
I’d rather talk hockey.
How about those UofM-Duluth Bulldogs, now the highest ranked in the Frozen Four?
I love hockey, but since I went to a school that doesn’t have a team, I’ve never followed NCAA hockey, just the NHL.
Winded
There was big money to be had betting on American International against the Huskies juggernaut (as long as you also bet on one sad-sack and one so-so Minnesota pro franchise):
The full article is paywalled, but this gets you to a photo of the winning ticket.
AlexinCT
I would rather watch paint dry…
Juvenile Bluster
FAO Rufus:
1. Why the fuck is the Quebec government trying to ban all religious symbols (including, say, wearing a cross or star of David necklace) for anyone working a public sector job?
2. HOW THE FUCK DOES THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION HAVE A CLAUSE IN IT THAT ALLOWS PROVINCES TO COMPLETELY IGNORE IT IF THEY WANT?
Count Potato
Are they also banning hijabs?
Tonio
Technically not a religious symbol. The fact that it’s sometime difficult to tell whether nun or muslim also muddies the waters.
It exists because when the Charter was written up it was a concession given to Quebec. They felt it was necessary because ‘unique’ and a ‘minority’ and didn’t want to be made slaves to English Canada majority.
Along those lines.
It was trumpeted as a ‘great Canadian compromise’. I see it as cowardly.
It’s not principled and leaves the state as the final arbiter of our individual rights.
Pan Zagloba
Because without it, no Charter of Rights whatsoever. These things don’t turn up from On High, they get passed in federal and provincial parliaments.
Trufax: the best poutine I’ve found came from upstate NY.
AlexinCT
Stripper cooch coverd in poutine?
Rufus the Monocled
Legault has ONE thing going for him. He’s a businessman.
But that gets quickly negated by the fact he’s a populist nationalist.
Quebec is a population that feels itself under perpetual threat ‘in a sea of 350 million Anglos’ as they see it.
BakedPenguin
Wait, that includes US. Tabernac’!
Rufus the Monocled
ESPECIALLY you guys. American culture frightens Canadian bobbleheads.
BakedPenguin
I’m not your guy, buddy!
R C Dean
why didn’t Canada allow Quebec to secede when it had the chance?
What a blown opportunity.
“Look, Frenchie, we aren’t going to blow a hole in our system of government just so you can keep bitching about how much it sucks to be Canadian.
Here’s the deal: if Quebec doesn’t ratify, then that will be taken as a vote to secede. A “Quexit”, if you will. We’ll work out the terms, and two years later you will vote on the new treaty. If you don’t approve it, then you are a Canadian province like all the others, and you can’t bring up secession for another 30 years. If you approve it, then you finally get what you say you wanted this whole time. I will wait for your translator to stop gargling and hooting, and then I expect a yes or no.”
Pan Zagloba
Er… Quebec had a referendum on secession and lost. More than one, in fact. No one “didn’t allow” them.
Some countries are capable of handling secession without overthrow of constitutional order, deaths of hundreds of thousands and massive destruction.
(I mean, I’m not judging, other countries certainly aren’t)
Rufus the Monocled
It was pretty impressive despite the stress it went off so peacefully. And they respected the result.
R C Dean
I knew about that. I was thinking back to whenever the Charter was being adopted. That was the moment for all-in, or all gone.
My knowledge of Canadian history is minuscule, as is appropriate for an American.
Not Adahn
FTA:
But we have to set rules,
If you can demonstrate that the decedent uttered that phrase in a sincere fashion, you should have an affirmative defense against a charge of murder.
MikeS
You don’t deserve a link. None of us do. And no, this isn’t Peak 1st World Problems.
Rufus the Monocled
Oof.
1) Par for the course in Quebec. Quebec is big on the ‘When in Rome’ thing. I can’t say I completely disagree but this is a province that has linguistic laws on the books so liberty in the classic American sense is absent here. The collective comes first to the nationalists.
2) That’s a black mark on our intellectual landscape for sure.
That’s why I feel our Charter is worthless. If you have an opt-out, it’s a cop out.
Not Adahn
“Some will say we’re going too far, others will say it doesn’t go far enough,” he said. “In reality, this bill is moderate, as Quebeckers are.”
It must be that legendary Canadian politeness that prevents him from being dismembered.
Rufus the Monocled
One thing is for sure PC stuff has its limits here. Quebecers won’t put up with Sharia Law talk.
Part of this goes back to the whole debate about whether Muslims should remove whatever religious garment that covers the entire face should be removed for a driver’s license picture. I think that upset people because Christians make concessions in a secular state so they just feel others should too.
Right or wrong.
Pan Zagloba
1. is because Quebec was ran as a co-enterprise with Catholic Church for, oh, about couple centuries, till they decided they had enough of that shit.
Rufus the Monocled
The Quiet Revolution was pretty loud.
Count Potato
I’ve had a sore throat, neck, and chest. I also have a headache and light bothers me, but I’m often like that. I don’t have a fever. So I don’t think it’s meningitis.
Yusef drives a Kia
Or your just bored
/party on Wayne
Dr. Fronkensteen
I thought I was bad with the old movie references.
Yusef drives a Kia
Settle down before you get shocked or fall off a roof
/Klopek
Lie on your back and bend your knees towards your head. If it’s incredible pain which forces your neck to painfully curve downward, that’s a major symptom of meningitis. And if that’s the case, get to the ER immediately. If not, you may just have a bad headache.
Count Potato
I get bad headaches all the time. I don’t seem to have nuchal rigidity, even though my neck feels sore.
I just tried your instructions, and it made me notice my legs are lower back are kind of stiff and sore as well.
My throat has been sore for the last couple of days, and I had to take someone to a medical center on Monday, so maybe I picked up some sort of bug.
AlexinCT
Erm, you have an AIDS test recently?
Gadfly
Just kidding, what’s the point?
So is this a philosophy thread? Now Q’s going to post an essay on the meaning of life instead of tit-pics.
Wearing that seems like it would be flirting with danger (among other things). Caution is well advised.
Given what you quoted, I was half expecting to get this link instead.
Scruffy Nerfherder
I thought they were the same thing.
Dr. Fronkensteen
They are. Tit provide the motivation to create life. They allow life to grow up to toddlerhood as a source of nourishment. Without tits there is no human life. No human life, no meaning of life.
ZARDOZ
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS NEW LIFE CAUSATION DETERMINING CHOSEN ONE. LET US EXAMINE THE CLASSIC QUOTE:
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY TO KILL THE BRUTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END, ZARDOZ YOUR GOD GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN. THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL. THE PENIS SHOOTS SEEDS, AND MAKES NEW LIFE, AND POISONS THE EARTH WITH A PLAGUE OF MEN, AS ONCE IT WAS. BUT THE GUN SHOOTS DEATH, AND PURIFIES THE EARTH OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. GO FORTH AND KILL!
BESIDES, YOUNG, TOPLESS CHARLOTTE RAMPLING WAS HAWT.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
AlexinCT
The penis is still evil though, right?
/asking for the lesbian trapped in my male body
Pope Jimbo
No way. You have it all wrong.
A penis simple, relaxed and hanging free. It’s women who make it hard
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN WMD ARGUING ONE. WOULD THE CHOSEN ONE HAPPEN TO KNOW WHERE ZARDOZ COULD SECURE A “NUKE”? ASKING FOR AN ETERNAL…ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Now I’ve got “La la la la la la bomba” running in my head.
AlexinCT
That’s like my dick when it gets going…
Hyperion
Even bombs look like penises. Obvious why toxic masculinity is bad. We need a law.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Greaaat… here comes the bad Google review. Guy doesn’t pay his bill, comes in for an account summary two months ago, doesn’t answer his phone since then, so we bill his card and now he’s screaming bloody murder.
Just reply “He was a deadbeat. Nobody rides for free.”
Chafed
Customers/clients/their families can suck. My firm has exactly 1 one star Google review. It’s from a client’s wife who was angry about paying my fee. She was the one pushing hardest to settle the case. Some people are just assholes.
Settled on reasonable terms. Client’s wife was the one telling the rest of the family it was a good deal, would save a lot of time, and going to trial didn’t make sense.
But how do the alleged recipients of his animus view him? Poll numbers suggest that around half of Black voters consider Trump a racist. It remains to be seen whether those who don’t buy this narrative will enable Trump to make a dent in the pro-Democrat monolith that is the Black vote.
As for Hispanic voters, Trump might well make more than a dent. A new poll by McLaughlin & Associates finds that the president’s approval number among Hispanics is 50 percent.
McLaughlin & Associates is a conservative-oriented company. That doesn’t mean its polls are biased, but it’s worth looking at other surveys to see whether the McLaughlin result amounts to an outlier.
It doesn’t. A January Marist/NPR/PBS survey also put Trump’s approval rating among Hispanics at 50 percent. A February Morning Consult/Politico poll put it at 45 percent, slightly ahead of Trump’s overall approval rating.
Chafed
I will positively laugh my ass off if he manages to get anything near that portion of the Hispanic vote in 2020.
Gadfly
Is there a catchy way to translate “MAGA” into Spanish? H&H(&H) could do with another hat.
Chafed
Magito! It comes in a 12 Oz can in many tropical fruit flavors.
AlexinCT
You have to remember that a lot of Hispanics, including some of those that jumped the border but then got residency/citizenship, realize an influx of people across the border will impact them both by putting a massive strain on the welfare system and lower their job opportunities and wages if they are not professionals. Then you have a lot of them that came here legally no really pissed at the new waves basically getting aware with that crime.
R C Dean
The brainless lumping of Central American illegals with ethnic Mexican citizens (and even residents) never ceases to grind my gears. The latter mostly despise the former, and the fact that the dimwits in the DemOp Media keep ignoring any distinctions is probably one of the reasons that Trump’s support is as good as it is.
Fatty Bolger
Good point. They seem to think that “Hispanics” are a cohesive ethnic group. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Rhywun
Same with “African-Americans”, “African Africans”, “Caribbeans”, etc.
Pan Zagloba
Poll numbers suggest that around half of Black voters consider Trump a racist.
I still expect him to get BTFOd in every non-white category come election, but this actually seems pretty good for a Republican.
mexican sharpshooter
I’m quite certain there is a significant percentage of Trump supporters thst consider him a racist, and in general don’t care.
She pleaded guilty to having sex with three boys, aged 15 and 16, over the course of two months at her home. This occurred while she was working as a teacher’s aide and substitute teacher in Terrebonne Parish, the Houma Courier reports.
After Verrett pleaded guilty, District Judge Johnny Walker suspended her six-month jail sentence and gave her two years of unsupervised probation, local station WDSU reports.
He also ordered her to pay $900 in fines.
As part of her plea deal, Verrett does not have to register as a sex offender, WDSU reports.
She is prohibited from teaching for just two years, which upset some in the community, the Houma Courier and WDSU report.
Chipwooder
Gah, she looks disturbingly like an old girlfriend of mine.
VICE: So Prianka, what is the possibility of you fucking a robot?
Prianka Jain: I saw a documentary on one of those hyper realistic sex robots and they looked pretty sick. If it’s one of those and I can fully customise it according to what I want, then yeah. It’ll be hilarious. I’d do it out of curiosity.
So a customised one for you, huh?
I mean the whole point of having a robot is to get exactly what you want, right? You can choose their skin colour, their voice and even their dick size. You’re literally MAKING the dude you want, like you’re playing The Sims. You can even get them to recite poems and shit in bed!
And would you want to date your sexbot?
Nah I wouldn’t be able to take it to town. I see it as a sex object, not something I want to stare at over a dinner table or watch movies with. You wouldn’t take a dildo out on a date, right?
jesse.in.mb
You wouldn’t take a dildo out on a date, right?
It probably wouldn’t be the worst conversationalist I’ve been out with.
I went through a period with a lot of first dates, quite a few second dates, a few third dates and no fourth dates. A *lot* of those were duds. And a great many of them reeked of desperation that made every conversation awkward. A silicone dong propped up in a chair would probably be a better dinner companion than the one guy who asked me out, then made me decide where to go, then stared at the check until I paid it. He was not a sterling conversationalist, and I was glad I’d picked “classy, but cheap Thai” for dinner.
Scruffy Nerfherder
then stared at the check until I paid it
Was that you?
jesse.in.mb
Were you in the greater LA area on 06/19/12?
Scruffy Nerfherder
Now that’s some highly specific datekeeping.
I believe I was changing diapers, so probably not.
Chafed
I’m glad to learn the gay dating life looks like my hetero dating life (when I was single.) I’ll just assume he didn’t get a kiss goodnight.
jesse.in.mb
I’ll just assume he didn’t get a kiss goodnight.
There’s a Margaret Cho bit (which I’m sure she regrets now in her more woke form) where she talks about how sometimes it’s easier to give a guy a bj to get them to leave than to just get them to leave. That was the date where I finally got where she was coming from with the joke.
Chafed
!
commodious spittoon
She also recommended masturbating for one another when you want to get off (and I assume see what he’s packing) but don’t want to sleep with every first date.
jesse.in.mb
!
Yeah. He was memorable and not in a good way. The last thing he said was “I’ll call you sometime.” He never did and that’s just fine by me.
AlexinCT
Wait so gay dudes play the same games dudes play with chicks? I have told some crazy bitches I would call them meaning never to, but you don’t strike me as the crazy type Jesse.
jesse.in.mb
Yes on the game playing, no on the crazy. Honestly he was a little maladjusted. It was clear it wasn’t going smoothly and he could’ve just said “This was nice, but I’m not really feeling it, thanks for dinner and a bj.” and it would’ve been a better experience for everyone.
Chafed
You had a terrible time at dinner, he made you pay for dinner so rather than saying goodbye at the restaurant you gave him a bj. I… I… Hmmm. Do you have a sister I can meet?
jesse.in.mb
You make it sound so tawdry. It seemed like a solid utilitarian choice at the time. Although I’ll admit that my assertiveness has improved quite a bit since then.
Actually I do have an unattached sister at the moment, but as much as I like you, Chafed, I ‘m not sure I future in-law like you yet.
CPRM
Well what about me? You’re the one who opened the auction Jesse, not me.
Chafed
“You make it sound so tawdry. It seemed like a solid utilitarian choice at the time.” I am literally laughing out loud. We have to do a SoCal Glibs meet up.
jesse.in.mb
You’ve already missed Los Doyers; he’s fled the state. There are still a few of us left.
CPRM
Yeah, whatever, meetups, who cares, when does the sister auction start!?
Chafed
As one of TPTB, I assume you have my email. If SoCal Glibs want to schedule something I’m interested.
jesse.in.mb
Lil ol’ me?
But yeah, I’ll let you know if we plan anything. We haven’t really had much in the way of large get togethers recently. A few small things when out of town Glib overlords have been in the area for conferences, but that’s about it. JW is very tall and Riven is just as adorable as everyone assumes.
Chipwooder
I hated, HATED dates like that, which is why I tended to date women I had already gotten to know well enough to know that I at least enjoyed their company. Of course, that limits the pool rather severely.
ElspethFlashman
The one time I went on a blind date – awkward!! Yeah I fished within my own backyard, or friends of friends that I met in other social settings. First date with EF we went to the then spooky museum (since replaced by a boring modern edifice) and then walked around downtown to talk.
Linkedin is jumping the shark even further. Asking to add high school information so I can reconnect with people from there. WTF would something that purports to be about professional life want to dredge up that? Other than Linkedin wanting to be Facebook II, I blame fucking millennials that cant grow up and are stuck living as children for the rest of their lives.
Yusef drives a Kia
I have One friend from when I was a skater, 40 plus years ago, I don’t even remember most of my classmates, make some friends kids!
They need to release LinkedIn classic where it’s a set of professional connections, an online resume, and a job board. Everything else is fluff, and thats why they get a sum total of 1 visit from me per month to make sure that I don’t have any companies trying to hire me.
Gustave Lytton
^^^
AlexinCT
I quit updating that fucking joke of a site at least 8 years ago when I realized they were mining information and trying to connect you to the very people I am not on social media to avoid.
Sensei
It’s all about engagement with the platform.
My personal pet peeve is it trying to force me to download the app every time I answer a connection request from the phone.
I hate the thing too.
Drake
While I’m job hunting I’ll have to be active on it. As soon as I get one, I’ll go back to updating my profile once every few years.
Rhywun
^This. I didn’t use it for 9 years after joining. Now I need to. It’s pretty easy to ignore all the motivational crap my connections post, thank the gods.
Michael
Their mobile website is reason enough to avoid LinkedIn. For the twentieth fucking time, NO, I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL YOUR SHITTY APP ON MY PHONE.
I really have no clue what Microsoft thought was worth $26B in that purchase.
BakedPenguin
‘I really have no clue what Microsoft thought was worth $26B in that purchase.’
Pretty sure MS is having the same idea. Also, got off of LinkedIn a month ago. The slightly increased chance of getting a job < the worthless crap to deal with.
So, I’ve noted on this page before the new-found wokeness of dictionary-dot-com (Yeah, the website that’s supposed to serve up definitions of words). They’re now keen on offering up articles about your speech and thought transgressions. I’m starting to come around to Conquest’s Second Law (Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.) Today’s installment is about “language denialism.”
“[Standard American English] is largely dictated by well-to-do, educated, white Americans, and policing the way people speak English is, in part, a method of maintaining the supremacy of white culture and customs.”
My mother grew up poor as hell during the Great Depression, but always exhibited impeccable grammar. But that was back when schools taught the basics.
Chafed
Right. American English hasn’t incorporated a ton of foreign words into the language. Please.
Dr. Fronkensteen
Besides it not fair to expect “those people” to be able to speak proper English. They can’t all be Pie.
/Bigotry of low expectations
Rhywun
That’s cultural appropriation – i.e. also racist.
I’m glad my computer has a built in Dictionary app (with a real dictionary). No need to roll my eyes at this shit.
jesse.in.mb
I think they’re talking about things like ask/aks than the importation and domestication of foreign words.
Chafed
That wasn’t clear to me but you may be right. If that’s the intention then I’m not apologizing for expecting people to pronounce actual words.
jesse.in.mb
It’s so much more fun than that. The whole etymology is complicated, but at one point aks/axe was correct and shows up frequently in the English literary canon. At some point the dominant speech patterns in England changed and aks became a vestigial form spoken by country folk and ask became part of received English (ie that spoken by the well-to-do). Sort of the same process that happened when Saxon words got supplanted by French imports as being more polite or refined.
Arguably it’s worthwhile to be able to speak to those with all of the money in a way that makes them feel like you’re an insider rather than an outsider, but Dictionary’s point isn’t particularly crazy. The fact that the specific nuances of London’s industrial elite helped define received American English rather than say the farmers in Northern English who linguistically influenced the American South is a form of gatekeeping that’s based on power rather than historical rightness.
Well then in the spirit of multiculturalism I demand that I be given special dispensation to pronounce “breakfast” as “brehfrus” or “brehfers” and “oil” as “earl”. It’s the language of my people.
Old Man With Candy
Chrys, hun, I sawr the amblanse hop up on the payment and awmos hit that poor guy.
BakedPenguin
Yuh, it was wickid retahded.
Old Man With Candy
People don’t talk like that in Bawlamer.
BakedPenguin
Yuh, becaus yuhr retahded, unlike us smaht folks who grew up in tha Norfeast.
LOL, I didn’t even realize “pavement” was typed in Bawlmerian!
Also, the in-laws got a hoose downy aishen right on the wooder for the summer. We’re gonna bring color crowns for the kids. Alls I need to bring is chwenny dawrs for the Fahrball.
Damn. I mean, I don’t say “hoose”, but I’m saying I’m transcribing the accent as if it were pronounced “hoose”.
Old Man With Candy
Check out the video I linked. He does it perfectly.
I heard a guy at an airport once with the classic Slurvian accent. I said, “You’re from Baltimore, right?”
He responded, “Yeah, tell me what neighborhood.”
“Tell me the name of the area just east of Patterson Park.”
“Hollentayn.”
“Perfect. And you ARE from Highlandtown.”
“How’d ya new?”
Rhywun
Sounds like “southern” to me.
/life-long nawtherner – they all sound the same to me
PS. I sometimes lapse into my native RAAHHHchester when I get agitated at work.
That’s the one! I’ve read that it’s very similar to a Newcastle accent. A thing I think is really cool about the Chesapeake Bay area is that so many accents in the populations immediately surrounding it are really damn close to their parent accents from England and Ireland, especially in the older communities, rural or no. Tangier Island is the big famous example, but Baltimore and the shore are good ones, too.
Scruffy Nerfherder
All those grievance studies twats have to go somewhere after college.
Tonio
And when people saw education and drive as a way out of poverty.
B.P.
Oh, and the kicker for this is that wokeness, and much of the rest of the leftist platform, is “largely dictated by well-to-do, educated, white Americans” and involves a hell of a lot of “policing the way people speak English”.
Hypocrisy is irrelevant to the prog left. All for the centralization of power. Nothing against the centralization of power. Progs are logical and laser focused if you remember that this is their end goal.
R C Dean
So Standard American English is largely dictated by Standard American English speakers?
Shocking. I thought it was dictated by Foreign Non-English speakers.
jesse.in.mb
Not their point, at all. It’s about why something like the Mid-Atlantic affectation could be “received/proper” English when nobody actually spoke it except for a bunch of folks from the upper class putting on an artificial posh accent as an in-group signal for a generation.
Rhywun
What you’re talking about died out with the last of old Hollywood.
What is taught in schools is called “General American”.
But yeah, I don’t give a shit which English you want to speak. But don’t get all bent out of shape when people don’t “celebrate” it, either.
R C Dean
a method of maintaining the supremacy of white culture and customs
English is a language created by white people (as is America), and is arguably successful due to vigorous cultural appropriation. Saying that it is bad to have standards for American English because it reflects the people who created it seems to imply that American culture and language is bad and should be replaced by foreign cultures and foreign languages, to me.
Maybe I’m being too binary, here. But I am sick unto death of people demanding that every culture except mine should be celebrated, and mine should be ground into the dirt and consigned to the ash heap of history.
Heroic Mulatto
But Standard American English doesn’t celebrate your culture. It is an explicit reaction against Texan Mushmouth, Michigan Yooper, and Mid-State Youse Guy-ism.
As an occupational hazard, my everyday accent has devolved into general newscaster English and my vocabulary and grammar is marked as standard college-educated upper middle class. That’s not true of everyone.
Warty
Listen, Mud Person. If Standard American was good enough for the Yankee cultural imperialists who invented it, it’s good enough for the descendants of the trash they forced into schools to learn it
Heroic Mulatto
I see.
mexican sharpshooter
You misspelled “Murican!”
jesse.in.mb
I think the thing that rankles here is that you’re ignoring the “well-to-do” portion of the statement. It isn’t about foreign influence it’s that people are made to feel bad about the fact that they’re speaking slight variations on English that have long historical antecedents. That’s why I used the ask/aks example up above.
Heroic Mulatto
No, jesse, it’s the Mexicans and Chinese who most influence our view that only slack-jawed sub-human trash people use “fix” as a verb meaning “to prepare foodstuffs”.
invisible finger
The point is the upper class – aka the elites- constantly change what is standard or proper lest the untermensch start behaving as if they are intellectually equal.
Heroic Mulatto
“Constantly” is over-egging the pudding, but, yes, that’s the point. It’s a phenomenon that has existed since the beginning of language itself.
Attempting to “equalize” the language is the domain of Khmer Rouge hacking people to death with farming implements type shit.
Count Potato
“Ancestry testing company: It’s our ‘moral responsibility’ to give the FBI access to your DNA”
A lone figure, gazing toward the truth, that none of us could perceive…
Chafed
Now let’s see if their business drops off. My guess is it won’t.
Tonio
It will among the few die-hard tinfoil cranks, but that will be offset by the growth from the larger group who don’t care.
Chafed
Exactly.
Scruffy Nerfherder
This is a slight misrepresentation. FamilyTree requires a warrant. As I recall, the other DNA firms do the same but have not been upfront about it. FamilyTree’s primary mistake was being honest about it.
Chafed
That’s not slight. If there is a lawful basis for the warrant then no company can resist. Judges don’t care about company policy.
Stinky Wizzleteats
I considered testing but decided against it for potential privacy reasons. If there’s ever a company that transparently destroys data when they’re finished with an analysis and accepts bitcoin I’ll be the first in line.
R C Dean
I thought I read somewhere that as the database grows, they don’t even need your DNA any more to, I dunno, interpolate it?
Yep, they already caught some rapists through his second cousins DNA, I heard a lady who wrote about that case on the radio and she claims if they get something like 5% of a populations DNA they will be able to ‘interpolate/triangulate’ and figure out who’s DNA they have even if they don’t have a sample of that person’s actual DNA.
Hey, was that the case that The Innocent Man is about? Oklahoma in the 80s, this woman is raped and murdered and they local law eventually arrests and convicts two guys on crap evidence. Turns out that not only did they have nothing to do with it, but the local PD and attorney’s office are wildly corrupt and up to all kinds of nonsense. If I recall the show correctly, a woman got the suspected rapist’s like niece or something’s DNA from Ancestry and through analysis of DNA evidence from the scene was able to link him to it and exonerate the two who were arrested.
Could be I remember more about the implication discussion than the actual case. Also, I’m fairly certain The Innocent Man is about Billy Joel not stepping out in Christie Brinkley.
My mother and brother already did them. I’m sure that’s enough to screw me. I don’t plan on killing anyone, but if I do, their should at least be fair chase rules.
robc
Clicked back to the dead thread. People have some wrong thoughts on beer. Fortunately Neph was there to clean up.
“If you missed our stream, including the interview with @MsBlaireWhite, you can catch it here now! Blaire White Interview, Dawkins SLAMS Nationalism & Teacher’s Topless Pic | Pseudo-Intellectual #10”
There seems to be a new troll at Reason. I know A-JB still comments there, so perhaps he can enlighten me. And feel free to scrutinize my argument.
Rebel Scum|4.4.19 @ 3:36PM|#
as a student who comes to this university, and expects to have a good education
Perhaps when you go to law school you should expect to learn about things such as due process, innocent until proven guilty, evidence, hearsay, etc.
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isn’t this a libertarian site?|4.4.19 @ 3:43PM|#
due process, presumption of innocence, right to cross examine accuser, etc are features and guarantees that a criminal defendant has in a criminal court. i.e. the government can’t lock you in a cage before going through said procedures.
No one has a right to due process, or presumption of innocence with prospective or current employers. In that context, you have no rights at all. The employer can hire/fire you for any reason s/he sees fit. It’s really annoying when people try to apply criminal court standards outside of the context of criminal court.
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Rebel Scum|4.4.19 @ 4:22PM|#
Like other rights, there is a legal aspect and a cultural aspect*. And this was a federal appointment. Accusations of impropriety that are capable of destroying a persons reputation should be given appropriate scrutiny. No, the Kavanaugh circus was not a court of law trial (legal), but it was a trial in the court of public opinion (cultural). Baseless accusations should not prevent an appointment to a government office, likewise for any other job.
*take freedom of speech as another example. No, the government cannot legally stop me from saying what is on my mind. That is the legal aspect. A private entity such as Twitter, however, can legally prevent me from using their service so long as they are not in violation of their own terms of service because said terms of service is essentially a contract. If they make that contract too limited in the content that is allowed on their forum it is not conducive to the open exchange of ideas, and is therefor against the notion of freedom of speech. That is the cultural aspect.
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isn’t this a libertarian site?|4.4.19 @ 4:36PM|#
“Baseless accusations should not prevent an appointment to a government office, likewise for any other job.”
– because you say so? Also, some of the allegations were indeed credible.
There is no presumption of innocence in the cultural court of law, or whatever you wanna call it. I know of nothing in the constitution that guarantees you such a right. You have no due process rights as a job interviewee.
You may not like that your boy’s name got smeared, but that doesn’t mean he gets extra-constitutional rights.
Besides, kavanaugh is dirty conservative – loves executive power in a very unlibertarian way.
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Rebel Scum|4.4.19 @ 4:44PM|#
You’ll note that I said “should not” with regard to the cultural aspect. I made an explicit distinction between culture and law. You seem very dense and not at all in favor of freedom in any fundamental sense.
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isn’t this a libertarian site?|4.4.19 @ 4:52PM|#
Rebel Scum: **stomps heels while pulling pig tails saying** “you seem very dense and not at all in favor of freedom in any fundamental sense.”
-cute.
I think employers should be able to hire/fire on whatever basis they wish. apparently that’s not freedom in your world.
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Rebel Scum|4.4.19 @ 5:07PM|#
I think you lack reading and comprehension skills. I never said that employers should be legally restricted from hiring and firing as they please. As an employer you have every right to hire and fire, outstanding contractual obligations notwithstanding. I said that culturally we should give scrutiny to accusations of malfeasance so as to avoid making outcasts of innocent people.
Additionally I am sure you understand the concept that “politics is downstream from culture”, which is to say if we start accepting such standards in a paradigm where an ostensibly limited government ignores the boundaries of its founding charter, we are well on the road to the cultural tyranny becoming legal tyranny.
Michael
I’d bet this same clown thinks that government setting hiring quotas is just hunky dory.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this same clown thinks that legislating hiring quotas is just hunky dory. I haven’t looked at the comment section there in a long time, but it looks like it might now consist entirely of things that got dragged in stuck to ENB’s shoe.
Michael
Man, did I royally fuck up that copypasta or what?
I popped in over there about a month ago and Just Say’n and Ken Shultz were over there fighting the good fight. Some people just enjoy the conflict I guess.
Drake
I literally looked at the article titles this afternoon, thought “oh hell no” and backed out of there.
WRT Kavanaugh and any government position I believe that since those positions are held in the public trust there’s a greater moral onus to avoid arbitrariness and hold to standards of fairness and justice above what you’d expect from some guy hiring a line cook for a food truck.
R C Dean
Did you ever stop to think that this site was founded so we wouldn’t have to scroll past that stuff?
Michael
Came across this via NPR earlier:
In a 2018 life-cycle assessment, Denmark’s ministry of environment and food agreed with previous similar studies, finding that classic plastic shopping bags have the least environmental impact. This assessment does not take marine litter into account—so as far as that gigantic problem is concerned, plastics are almost certainly the worst, since they don’t break down on a timescale meaningful to human or animal life.
But when taking into account other factors, like the impact of manufacturing on climate change, ozone depletion, water use, air pollution, and human toxicity, those classic, plastic shopping bags are actually the most benign of the current common options.
This was linked from the Facebook page of NPR’s 1A, and their commenters are predictably shitting their pants in confused anger. Who could have possibly predicted that a thing that takes orders of magnitude more energy to manufacture and transport than the cheaper thing it is intended to replace would be more environmentally damaging?
hayeksplosives
I am still tickled to death that when the California plastic straws in restaurants ban came out, many restaurants chose paper-based straws that come
A lot of people around here are going to paper straws, and genuine whackadoos like my wife are bringing metal straws around with them. Myself, I don’t care for straws in general, but some kid’s science fair project didn’t influence my opinion one way or another.
We have metal straws. Not the worst thing ever, but I much prefer plastic.
Rhywun
Speaking of idiotic bans arising out of moral-preening, I can’t wait until I have to carry around fucking shopping bags everywhere I go on the off chance I might want to shop somewhere.
When plastic bags are completely gone, most Americans will just buy what they can carry. They’ll load it up in their SUV and drive it home. Instead of buying a lot all at once, they’ll just have to go back out in the the ol’ gas guzzler and buy more sooner. But that’s ok, it’s makes people feel good.
Rhywun
I have one of those shopping buggies that future me was gonna use just like all the oldsters around here. I guess I’ll take it out of storage sooner than I expected.
Yusef drives a Kia
I did say Welcome to the PRC, there you go…
Yusef drives a Kia
I did say Welcome to the PRC, there you go……
mexican sharpshooter
Hell, you said it twice!
Rhywun
I hope someone is rubbing this in Cuomo’s fascist fucking face.
Rebel Scum
Just kidding, what’s the point?
Yea, makes no difference at this point.
Hyperion
So, I’m still playing Metro 2033 Redux. Damn the game is brutally hard on normal. Patience is a virtue and the only one that will help you here.
mexican sharpshooter
Metroid is awesome. Except for the ending, which is really just going back to the beginning.
Nephilium
So, curious what the other computer gamers on here think of the Epic Store going out and purchasing time locked exclusives. While I believe they (and the publishers/devs) have the right to do this, I’m curious if there is going to be a backlash on it. I rarely buy games at release anymore (since my backlog is massive), but one that I was considering (The Outer Worlds) went to them. That made my decision easy, wait for it to be released on Steam, and go on sale.
From a principle standpoint I don’t care. From a practical standpoint it doesn’t bother me too much just because I get most of my games these days through humblebundle when I don’t get them through gog. Big Steam sales events are a notable exception, but I mean, when I say I have a backlog I mean I’ve got 520 games on my Steam account and 100+ installed, with the idea that I’m working through the installed games and removing them as I’m done with them. That isn’t counting stuff on the gog client, or Ubisoft games, which adds probably another 40. If for some reason something came out on the Epic Store and I was so averse to the client that I wanted to wait for it to come to Steam I’ve got plenty of games to play in the mean time.
Ayn Random Variation
Just overheard from waitress at bar:
I’m like taking psychology with a minor in like political science? And I’m like gonna get my masters in Ethics in Society? And then like go into like Government?
Well at least she’s learning to wait tables already.
Vance defended the spending in statements to The City, saying they were within the rules and involved travel to important policing and counter-terrorism conferences.
That’s hilarious. The leaked texts between Kim Foxx and the unnamed Smollett family member had Foxx saying something to the effect of, “sorry couldn’t talk – attending conference” seemingly every three messages. These people sure love their conferences.
Hyperion
“While in Paris, he spent four nights at Hôtel d’Aubusson, paying $2,816.”
Really? More than $700 a night for a hotel. That seems reasonable.
Michael
WHY COME U HATE AMERICA HYPERION
Hyperion
I just cannot help it. I mean so many other places seem so free, like where your income tax is more than 60% and where they have Shariah law. I mean, at least then you have a chance of dying from taxation or stoning, amirite?
B.P.
Well, maybe the hotel had some really advanced security features that required four days of studying.
But Enough About Me
Huh. It’s a 5-star hotel, just north of the Jardin du Luxembourg; Heaven Forfend he stay in the Hotel Dauphine Saint-Germain just south of there for around $235/night (Canadian!). It’s only a bitchin’ 3-star, after all!
Hyperion
How are they supposed to know how important you are?
Scruffy Nerfherder
Why does the NYC DA need to go to Paris?
BakedPenguin
What did we used to say? “Wow, what an asshole” or something like that?
Wow, what an asshole.
slumbrew
“Christ, what an asshole.”
BakedPenguin
Thx, SB
Tundra
Hey, BP! Glad you’re here. Spawn 2 thinks her Fender Jazz bass needs a setup tweak. Can you link a good tutorial?
BakedPenguin
She went from drums to bass? Good for her.
I don’t have anything in the wheelhouse re: vids, but if you carefully (very carefully) file down the nut grooves, you can get a bass with much better action.
You want the tiny, needle-like files that come in a set. Slowly, slowly file the grooves of the nut down, and check how it plays. If she wants to do more soloing, her bridge should be as low as you can get without the strings hitting the frets. If she wants to be a rhythm player, it can be a little bit higher, so it’s easier not to mess up the bass.
One good piece of news: you can get replacement bass nuts (note: not a joke) for pretty cheap. So if someone messes up, it’s usually not a big deal. $25 will get you fixed in most places.
Just don’t shave the file into the neck. Especially if it’s got a rosewood or pau ferro neck.
Left Hand of Radar
Tundra,
Take it to Twin/Town on Lyndale. They’ll set it up however she wants for like $20 or so.
I, for one, am proud to have witnessed the first Toddler-American elected to public office in my lifetime.
Yusef drives a Kia
Toddler 2020!!!!!
hayeksplosives
Whatever brain power she was naturally born with has been successfully destroyed by agenda-driven public school indoctrination and TV shows telling little kids as young as 4 that humans are bad and are destroying the earth,America is bad and is a force for evil.
She is the end product of deliberate leftist brainwashing.
Ayn Random Variation
I’ve always been curious about something. I spent 12 years in NYC public schools, followed by 5 years in a SUNY liberal arts college, yet I favored Rush Limbaugh as a kid and ended up libertarianish. Why did I not succumb to the narrative pushed on me since birth?
And ofcourse whenever I discuss politics I’m called a fox news watching sheep. Seems like everybody else around here are the sheep.
Rebel Scum
Nature > nurture?
Ayn Random Variation
I think opposite? My “nature” has been lefty land. I just seemed to instinctively reject the concepts of free stuff and being owed anything
“Nature” means who you are inherently. What you were born like.
“Nurture” means your environment molding you as you grow.
Ownbestenemy
Its an interesting question no? Politically our family leans “right” but one sibling, who spent 6-8 years in college and some time in Denmark is extremely liberal.
Yet, even thay sibling knows that Social Security is a scam. Ya…nature? Nurture?
Scruffy Nerfherder
She also seems highly susceptible to the moronic adulation she receives from her supporters. She’s believing her own bullshit.
At least Pelosi et al are just cynics.
Ayn Random Variation
These truly are glorious times we live in.
I actually see the 12 years thing repeated all over the place. I might chime in and say 11 years 9 months if I feel like riling them up
robc
someone should figure out where and when the 12 years comes from and put up a countdown clock.
Fatty Bolger
That would be awesome! The report was released on October 8, 2018.
I’m not a videographer or PR person, but is talking to a floor vent while chewing on gummi bears supposed to come across as down-to-earth and folksy?
Fatty Bolger
It’s the milliennial version of a fireside chat, I suppose.
Rebel Scum
“stupid or crazy?”
Smeagol.
Pope Jimbo
I am so looking forward to watching Warren and Klobuchar trying to emulate AOC and doing their own videos of them squatting in a random hallway in their house while spouting the latest proggie talking points.
I can hear the hip bones snapping right now as Warren bites it when she overbalances while trying to chug a beer during an awkward yoga pose.
Rhywun
I can hear the hip bones snapping right now as Warren bites it when she overbalances while trying to chug a beer during an awkward yoga pose.
*cackles* Now that’s uncalled for. *cackles some more*
Yusef drives a Kia
Biden’s mea culpa is fair, he sounds like he was clueless til someone Sat him down with Twitter
Ayn Random Variation
I would agree if it wasn’t for that clip of him touching little kids.
Count Potato
I don’t think any of it was sexual though. Although I might have missed something.
What would you do if somebody touched your little girl like that. It might mean nothing but it looks shady to me. Kids are a whole different category from grown women saying they were offended
B.P.
I assume that Biden is being torpedoed by Dem party operatives because his entry into the presidential race is inconvenient.
Ayn Random Variation
An Inconvenient Caucasian.
Ayn Random Variation
Having said what I said above, yes it’s a cynical attempt to shut him down and let the socialists play. I can recognize that both things are happening.
Count Potato
“Palo Alto woman loses job after confronting MAGA-hat-wearing Starbucks customer
A woman who said she confronted a man for wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat inside a Palo Alto Starbucks was fired from her job at a nearby music store.
On Monday, Rebecca Parker Mankey took pictures of a man wearing a MAGA hat, and wrote in a Facebook post that she “called the entire Starbucks to order and yelled at him.”
“He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever again,” she wrote. “If you see him in this hat, please confront him. You do not want to be the person who didn’t speak up as we slipped into fascism.”
“[I] Wanted him to call the police because I wanted to know his name, where he lived, his wife’s name, and where kids went to school,” she wrote.”
“He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever again,” she wrote. “If you see him in this hat, please confront him. You do not want to be the person who didn’t speak up as we slipped into fascism.”
“[I] Wanted him to call the police because I wanted to know his name, where he lived, his wife’s name, and where kids went to school,” she wrote.”
Best example of cognitive dissonance ever. This should be in all the text books
Scruffy Nerfherder
It will be. As an example of a brave goodthinker being shut down by the system.
Stinky Wizzleteats
It’s not fascism if you’re being fascistic to fascists.
This is someone who has clearly never gotten the shit kicked out of them before. People who believe there is a non-zero chance that the end result of their behavior might be getting a tooth knocked out or worse do not do things like this.
Ayn Random Variation
True. Do you think she violated the NAP by her statements and actions? I’d like some opinions as I can’t decide.
She’s an agent of Starbucks, and as long as they’re okay with her verbally abusing their customers, it’s their store. If the guy doesn’t like it, there’s a peets just down the street.
Sean
Um….
“A woman who said she confronted a man for wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat inside a Palo Alto Starbucks was fired from her job at a nearby music store.”
Tricky. Part of me says that it’s a case of sticks and stones, so no, she’s just shitting all over the standards of the most basic manners. The part of me that drinks a lot of whiskey says if someone is in your face like that they either want to start a fight or want you to start one for them. I think I’d say, “You know what? If you were a man I’d kick the living shit out of you right now. But I was brought up never to raise my hand to a woman.” That’ll chap her ass but good.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
If she called for something/anything that can be considered a violation of NAP, and harassment certainly is in my book, she would be guilty of conspiracy.
Whether or not you think that’s a fair “law” to have on the books, I do think it is acceptable to defend yourself against such calls.
Personally, if he suffered any loss, he should sue the shit out of her. And, I think she should be confronted about what she said and did, until she repents.
Spudalicious
Looks like I missed a brouhaha this morning. A donnybrook even.
States sue Trump Admin. because they were given more control over their school lunch programs.
Without looking I’m going to bet this has to do with federal subsidies.
Scruffy Nerfherder
*clicks*
It’s even dumber than that.
Can we round up all the states attorneys general and liquidate them? The only purpose they serve anymore is oppressive virtue signaling under color of law.
Dr. Fronkensteen
Just seeing if I understand this. Can the state governments still use the old guidelines if they so chose?
They can do anything they want because ORANGEMANBAD
slumbrew
That _does_ seem like an obvious solution.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Yes, it’s completely asinine.
Spudalicious
Yup.
Spudalicious
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a state sue the Feds because they had more control returned to them.
Scruffy Nerfherder
They’re suing exactly because the AG’s are seeking publicity and future political prospects within s political party defined by opposition to Trump. This has nothing to do with representing their state.
They ought to be lynched.
Rhywun
Can we round up all the states attorneys general and liquidate them? The only purpose they serve anymore is oppressive virtue signaling under color of law.
In NY its main function is shaking down business.
But yeah, they’re down for a good bit of moral grandstanding on occasion.
Ayn Random Variation
Am I nuts or is it not a coincidence that the AG in Billions is from the SDNY, and the SDNY is now the next hope to “get him”
Any chance of bronchitis? Sounds like you have something respiratory gearing up to punch you in the face.
Count Potato
My chest hurts, but I’m not coughing, and my lungs sound clear.
DenverJ
Did you use muscles you normally don’t? Lift something heavy, show off your pushups to some pretty thing?
Count Potato
Nope.
Spudalicious
Describe the pain, where it is, what makes it worse, and how long it’s been going on. And how did it start.
Ayn Random Variation
I’ve had this bad cough/phlegm build up/ cold symptoms thing going on for 2 months. It might fo away dtor a few days but then comes back.
I’m fucked? It will get better when weather warms up?
Ayn Random Variation
As a big drinker, could the above the indicate something like esophageal cancer or something?
Spudalicious
Tuberculosis?
Rhywun
*bursts in*
I’ve got gonorrhea!
Spudalicious
I told you to stay away from the farm animals.
Lackadaisical
Stop drinking for a week, if it persists you probably have bad AIDS.
It smells like haircuts and old men. Now that I’m old enough to have my own gravitas I pay $10 extra to get my hair cut by youngish women who will also give me a scalp massage and a neck rub. I walk away smelling like Axe, but it’s worth it for the G-rated champagne room treatment.
pistoffnick
I once got my hair cut in Dongguan, China. I was the second American to use their services. There must have been 25-30 people in the barber shop and I was the only customer. A very attractive lady took me upstairs and washed my hair – twice, then she conditioned my hair -twice. After that, she dug out this pouch of what looked like lock picking instruments. She wanted to clean the wax out of my ears. There was no way I was going to let her anywhere near my eardrums with her steel tools. So instead, I convinced her to blow me dry my hair and take me back downstairs. Then another person cut my hair. After that the whole barbershop took a picture with me.
I’m fucking famous in Dongguan! My ugly mug is on the wall!
Rhywun
25-30 people in the […] shop and I was the only customer
I’ve had that exact experience in China a few times. It’s eerie.
I’ll ship you all the fresh you want if you send me some high endurance in original scent.
Rhywun
I actually have a bottle of the after-shave in storage (just checked to confirm) that I’ve been saving for about a decade for when my current bottle runs out. (I use it very rarely.)
Are you referring to the deodorant? Surprised Original isn’t available but yeah everything is all Extreme-this and Edgy-that now.
Nephilium
This beer doesn’t sound like it’s to my tastes, but the outrage about it entertains me.
“Firms Tied To Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele Were Paid $3.8 Million By Soros-Backed Group
A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to “government entities,” according to IRS filings.
The payments made by The Democracy Integrity Project are more than three times what the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS and Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign to investigate Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia.
Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC and Clinton campaign, paid $1 million to Fusion GPS in 2016 to investigate Trump. Fusion GPS in turn paid Steele, a former MI6 officer, nearly $170,000 for a project that resulted in the infamous Steele dossier.
Steele’s report, which alleged a “well-coordinated conspiracy” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel’s findings in the 22-month Russia probe.
Daniel J. Jones, a former staffer to California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, founded TDIP on Jan. 31, 2017, seemingly to resume Democrats’ investigation of Trump’s possible links to Russia.
Jones operated what he called a “shadow media organization helping the government” to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He also told the FBI in March 2017 that he received funding from a group of between seven and 10 wealthy donors and that he planned to provide information to federal investigators, the press and lawmakers.”
Damn. The lager it took me weeks to make never carbonated. Tastes good but it’s flat.
I’m consoling myself with an ’88 Bordeaux.
DenverJ
One of the best beers I ever had was a Wit, brewed by my little brother with coriander. But it was flat, too. Still really really good.
Nephilium
Ouch. You may want to pull them from the fridge, and stash them in a ~60 F area for another couple of weeks (after a gentle swirl to kick any yeast back up into suspension). Glass bottles I’m assuming?
I won’t lie, my first reaction was horror and disgust, but, as I think about it, isn’t that just force carbing your beer one bottle at a time? Why wouldn’t it work, for a given value of work?
Nephilium
It would be, but I don’t know what pressure the soda stream would carb it to, and you don’t want to play around with pressure and glass. Most pops are carbed to a higher volume then beer as well.
You’d also need some kind of seal, or you’d need to do it in the Sodastream bottles that fit the threading of the device itself, too. The latter solves your bottle bomb problem, but I have no idea how you’d accurately measure the pressure.
Tres Cool
Give this man a Nobel !
Spudalicious
They’ve been in a closet in a 60 degree room for two weeks. I’m wondering if it fermented too far out before bottling? My final SG was 1.000 before adding honey. What if I add a touch more diluted honey to each bottle and give it another two weeks? I’m using swing top pint bottles.
The ironic thing is I have a tendency to over carbonate.
Nephilium
I’d avoid adding more diluted honey, you don’t want to create bottle bombs. Lager yeast generally ferments more slowly, I’d let them go for at least three weeks at ~ 60 and see how they are.
Spudalicious
Rest, they shall. And I’ll give them a shake to stir the yeast.
Hi Suthen and Hayeksplosives and others. Thanks again for the tips last night/this morning. I am very familiar with a lot of the hard sf theoretical designs….my current interest is potential modifications of existing systems.
In my current line of work I have ideas, etc coming out my ears, but I still haven’t figured out how to submit any of them to the right people. I need to figure out how to get in on the wargaming circuit or something else. Haven’t had much luck with email submissions or other things – or through my previous “employers”. Not sure if there’s a direct line for recommendations yet or what. Very frustrating when it comes to decreasing costs, increasing lethality, etc, etc.
hayeksplosives
You’re welcome!
Always happy to help find new ways of destroying things.
DenverJ
That’s a pretty good song. Hi everybody!
Tres Cool
Hi, Dr. Nick !
DenverJ
Winner! I also would have accepted “Hey Norm”.
Sean
Finally got around to checking the bolt on my M&P 15/22 with the gauge S&W sent me. Passed the check.
Palmetto State Armory was selling “California special” mag packs today.
Stinky Wizzleteats
Don’t worry, when the 9th hears the case I’m sure they’ll follow the constitution and rule accordingly.
*yuk, yuk, yuk*
mexican sharpshooter
Yeah well, I guess you need to get overnight shipping now.
Yusef drives a Kia
So I’m writing this on my smartphone with a speech-to-text converter I’m wondering if I should go and upgrade maybe get a microphone headset kind of deal writers out there my question to be just be kind of Handy to go ahead and do things and then I can go ahead and put them in at work or at her and Sir editing the stuff so I can maybe become a better writer I can’t stand piping any help would be greatly appreciated
Yusef drives a Kia
Whoa, editing needed
Tres Cool
HEY YUFUS !
Yusef drives a Kia
Sup Tres!!!
Missed ya buddy!
Tall fucking Cans!!
Scruffy Nerfherder
Throws some commas and periods at Yusef
Yusef drives a Kia
Thats why I would throw it into an editor, doesnt do punctuation
Sean
Just say “comma” or “period” where they belong.
Yusef drives a Kia
Dragon yes, this app used a key based thing, Illl let you know if it’s cool
DenverJ
Interesting. I find it strange that voice recognition is now better than autospell, which sucks and seems to be getting worse. I’ve read some Kurzweil, and he sure seems to be a pretty good prognosticator.
Yusef drives a Kia
True I’m actually amazed that a free speech-to-text converter works as well as this one does he had it does only one flaw
If I was more conspiracy minded (and slightly more buzzed) I’d think they’ve got some hippie employees trying to f over the military just for the hell of it. (the plant is in WA). I have no idea how quality control has fallen so far as to have FOD (foreign object debris) in virtually every delivery in one of the biggest single contracts for the company. Just makes no sense.
Most of his collaborations are very good. Some of his Leo only bits are good. This rates a meh from me. Still, grading on a curve, this is pretty good vs new music.
Spudalicious
I think they’re pushing production and things are getting sloppy.
Yusef drives a Kia
That I noticed this particular application is that it keeps giving me ads for a drug Recovery Center wonder what that means
Something I found out that might be useful to NYS residents:
There is a certain brand of self-defense ammunition (that I will not name) that I can’t find in stores locally. I tried buying it online, but it seems that sgammo, luckygunner, cheaperthandirt, midway et. al won’t. ship to NY unless you have a class 1 FFL, a NYS seller of ammo certificate or a NYS keeper of ammo certificate.
But… the manufacturer WILL ship it. They charge the same price as what I was finding it for online, and their shipping costs were lower. I don’t know if they’re legally allowed to do what they did, so I won’t say who it is but maybe I’ll encode it into my next column or something.
If it’s not legal to have ammo shipped to you legally without papers, don’t tell me. I’m avoiding mens rea by deciding that manufacturers have an exemption when selling directly.
Ayn Random Variation
9 more days til I’m out of NY(work)/NJ(live)
!!!!
BakedPenguin
Congrats, ARV.
Not Adahn, can you get a PO Box in PA, VT or other close state? Or would you be violating some or other state law?
Not Adahn
Excellent question.
I don’t know.
Sean
Have it shipped to me. You’re welcome to pick it up any weekend.
My ups guy is used to ammo cases.
BakedPenguin
Damn, I’m glad to live in FL.
Hey, Not Adahn, hold my beer while I try this!
Sean
Sounds sketchy.
*happy to live in a free state*
Not Adahn
Yup.
My boss invited me to his range next weekend, so I’ll get to try this stuff out. I got 1 box each of the standard and +P versions of both the 65 and 90 grain loadings.
commodious spittoon
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Not Adahn
mebbe, but the boxes arrived UPS this afternoon.
Not Adahn
Oh, and to add to the shadiness, the package only had a DOT class 9 placard on it, not a class 1.
Timeloose
Have a ripping good time.
Drake
Having ammo shipped to my door is one of the few things they haven’t banned in NJ yet.
So, I got a government profile barrel from a store out-of-state, which is not Maryland legal for an AR-15 unless it’s pre-2015. I’ve noticed some vendors are more vigilant about some things than others, and I’m not sure if it’s just human error, or a lack of giving an ess, or if other vendors act in an abundance of caution.
Yusef drives a Kia
My hours so f***** up right now I’m just glad to be able to shitpost Ted
Never read the comments. I can’t even imagine how exhausting it must be to go through life constantly triggered by stupid shit.
commodious spittoon
I used to think online political shills for pay is a myth dreamed up by people unhappy that their safe spaces are being invaded by strangely informed and persistent commenters… but instant-reaction Twitter handles make a good case for it.
Rhywun
TRUMP GOLF COUNT: 196 ZOMG!!
commodious spittoon
Why’d anyone want Obama off the links, anyway?
Winston
Re: notwithstanding clause
The actual reason it was created was apparently to appease Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.
Former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien also described it as a tool that could guard against a Supreme Court ruling legalizing hate speech and child pornography as freedom of expression
Good lord.
Tundra
So, some of us were watching a cool Volvo C202 Laplander on bringatrailer.com. The auction ended today,
That is a great fricking site. Too many cool old vehicles, the temptation! I just drove by their offices, I didn’t know they were here in SF. I already have one old beast (53 Willys) I don’t have the garage space for another!
Maybe some day I will get my Series III back on the road.
Tundra
How about some pics of the WIllys, dude?
Why do you hate us?
KSuellington
Ha! Here is one. It’s in pretty sweet shape, but I need to do a top end rebuild on the motor. It’s on my to-do list for the next couple months. 3 young boys and my business give me little free time.
Fucking sweet! A guy down the street from me did his in the same numbers as the one he drove in VN. It looks like it rolled off the line yesterday!
A good project for you and the boys!
KSuellington
Thanks! They’re still a bit young to do much but hinder (3, 6, and 7), but the oldest is already mechanically minded. Doom actually turned me on to the listing a couple years back. An old lieutenant colonel had it for a long time and died and his kids didn’t want it.
Winston
The worst part of the charter is the “reasonable and justifiable limitations” part and how property rights where excluded thanks to the NDP.
straffinrun
We are entering 令和 (Reiwa) era on May 1. Sayonara 平成 (Heisei). Too bad they didn’t choose 真顔 (Maga) which means “serious look”.
Let’s talk about how Parisian French is considered by France to be the True Language and all others should be suppressed for national unity. And this was a key aspect of the French education system.
The only language allowed in primary school was French. All other languages were forbidden, even in the schoolyard, and transgressions were severely punished.[5] After 1918, the use of German in Alsace-Lorraine was outlawed. In 1925, Anatole de Monzie, Minister of public education, stated that “for the linguistic unity of France, the Breton language must disappear.
straffinrun
If only the attackers had spoken in French instead of Arabic.
Meh. The French have always been, are now, and will forever be, smug assholes.
*i do not speak French, have limited knowledge, at best, of French history, and have never been to France nor actually known a Frenchman. *
Rhywun
I know a little French, have been to France, and have been acquainted with several millennial-era Frenchmen recently. Your assessment is accurate.
DenverJ
That’s me: the stopped clock of Glibertarians
Heroic Mulatto
State power is often used to enforce language policy. I posit that part of the freedom of association is linguistic liberty.
Winston
The old-schools liberals in Britain and France were very fond of linguistic conformity. Perhaps the modern progs aren’t as illiberal as they appear?
Heroic Mulatto
Well, so were Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton.
Winston
The public school system was supposed to save us from the ignorant masses, the Catholics, the immigrants (at least in North America) and other minority groups. Worked out swell didn’t it?
Heroic Mulatto
It can be argued that for its first 100 years, the public school system did was it was intended to do – convert a nation of farmers into docile factory workers. The problem is that while the world evolved past the need for 19th century Taylorist management, the school curriculum never did.
Winston
Hamilton was also a protectionist which today is supposed to terrible cuz Trump but okay when Hamilton did it.
Heroic Mulatto
And like Trump, he was a bit of a Judeophile.
The state and progress of the Jews, from their earliest history to the present time, has been so entirely out of the ordinary course of human affairs, is it not then a fair conclusion, that the cause also is an extraordinary one—in other words, that it is the effect of some great providential plan? The man who will draw this conclusion, will look for the solution in the Bible. He who will not draw it ought to give us another fair solution.
Winston
Hamilton was also concerned about immigration. Who does that sound like?
It is pretty funny who the Democrats today loath their founders but adore a major figure in what became the Republican party who also had very Trump-like views.
Heroic Mulatto
All Trump needs is one hip-hop musical in which he is played by Idris Elba and the country will finally be united again.
Winston
I’m surprised that hasn’t been written yet though I doubt it will be complimentary…
Rhywun
I’m sure Broadway and The Met are furiously Trumpenizing many of the classics as we speak.
Winston
I forgot modern Democrats love free trade (I guess?) but increasingly think capitalism is evil so I’m not sure how that works but I’m sure it gets their leaders and their backers rich.
Winston
The Emperor Trump?
Of Thee I Trump?
CPRM
I’ve written plays with songs in before, SF and I should get in on this.
CPRM
I’ve written plays with songs in, SF and I should get on this!
DenverJ
Fine, but I still insist on “my bag”, and not the ignorant “my bad”.
DenverJ
Didn’t Orwell say something like that 60 years ago?
Gustave Lytton
That was two Republics ago.
Winston
The English are guilty of this too. This 1847 Government Inquiry flat out called the Welsh Language evil.
That must make his girlfriend happy with a tongue that agile.
straffinrun
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
It’s one thing, and not crazy, to argue Trump’s better than Clinton and some good has been done over the past two years. It’s another thing, and pretty crazy, to argue that we need four more years of Trump or even that we should run the risk of four more years of Trump.
Regardless of who he’s running against? Bill finds out in the responses that he hasn’t earned the love of the left.
This is interesting: at least 22 innocent people were executed thanks to a made-up conspiracy theory heavily doused in xenophobia and religious bigotry. This hoax was exploited by John Locke’s patron and lead to the Whigs and Tory Parties and the Habeas Corpus Act. Huh…
Locke was also implicated in a plot to assassinate the King and overthrow the government. And he did support the eventual overthrow of said government complete with foreign backing.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
OK, almost 600 posts….gotta get in early (before wading through this…sea) so people know I’m alive.
CPRM
BTW, thanks for the second opinion, editing that audio melted my brain, I wasn’t sure what the joke was anymore.
CPRM
wrote and recorded the rest of the ep tonight, hopefully it will premere next week. Since people seem to like the trial gag, I might be able to get either an article or video up every week, building the glibs brand.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Glad to help. Like I said, I was fooled–and I liked it.
CPRM
Makes note to prank Digby by ordering him a good looking MTF hooker.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
a good looking MTF hooker
Hahahaha, OK, you got me on…wait, is that a thing? Like, really?
Hmmm….meh. Not someone I would have hit on in my youth, tbh.
I would be mildly surprised to learn they didn’t have a Y chrome, if that’s the case. But I recognize the femme style, much like Blair White.
CPRM
Alright, I can’t fuck up my sleep schedule too much, tomorrow night I have to flip and go with that 4hr sleep shit, so I gotta get some more tonight. Huzzah Sir Digby.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Huzzah, CPRM!
Chafed
Now you’re getting it. Post then read. Post then read. Repeat.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Yeah, bruh…that kinda sucks.
But so does the alternative, so whatamigonnado? Get off night shift??
Chafed
All I can tell you is it’s the only way I can get into a conversation before the thread goes dead for night.
I remember this classic from two-years back. And Amash thinks he is a moderate…
Winston
I mean this gets to big problem of libertarianism: many of them want to be non-confrontational nice guys who don’t come across as Republicans. Problem is even the mildest libertarian spending cuts will be vociferously opposed so this approach doesn’t work…
hayeksplosives
A coworker said “It’s time to kick this into touch” and I had to go google it to find out what he meant.
Effing rugby.
I just say “Time to punt”.
Just imagine: if the American Revolution hadn’t succeeded, we’d all be speaking English today.
CPRM
Ay der wuv, we’d be won upin ’em on cockney, no kidney pie!
Chafed
How’s the make things go boom business?
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
we’d all be speaking English today
::shudders::
I demand my Murican!
/The horror…… The horror……
CPRM
Writing, check! Audio editing, check! Animation, check! All that’s left is video editing, upload and submission! (and no Creosote Achilles, not that kind of submission)
The other was the Left-wing, relatively libertarian strand, exemplified in their different ways by Marx and Bakunin, revolutionary and far more interested in achieving the libertarian goals of liberalism and socialism: but especially the smashing of the State apparatus to achieve the “withering away of the State” and the “end of the exploitation of man by man.”
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Hence Lenin’s focus, centering as it did in practice on State monopoly and imperialism rather than on laissez-faire capitalism, was in that way far more congenial to the libertarian than that of Karl Marx. In recent years, the splits in the Leninist world have brought to the fore a still more left-wing tendency: that of the Chinese. In their almost exclusive stress on revolution in the undeveloped countries, the Chinese have, in addition to scorning Right-wing Marxist compromises with the State, unerringly centered their hostility on feudal and quasi-feudal landholdings, on monopoly concessions which have enmeshed capital with quasi-feudal land, and on Western imperialism. In this virtual abandonment of the classical Marxist emphasis on the working class, the Maoists have concentrated Leninist efforts more closely on the overthrow of the major bulwarks of the Old Order in the modern world.
Yes Lenin , Marx and Mao were sorta libertarian.
CPRM
Who is Rithbard?
Winston
Dammit. Murray Rothbard.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
CPRM–asking the questions we all want answered.
Yes, I was asking that, myself.
Winston
In particular, the modern libertarians forgot or never realized that opposition to war and militarism had always been a “left-wing” traditio
Um French Revolutionary Wars?
Political ideologies were polarized, with Liberalism on the extreme “Left,” and Conservatism on the extreme “Right,” of the ideological spectrum
Glossed over how the original extreme left were the Mountain, the enragees, the Jacobins, Brabeuf. Also Bastiat was a center-leftist in his time.
. In its contemporary American form, the recent Conservative Revival embodied the death throes of an ineluctably moribund, Fundamentalist, rural, small-town, white Anglo-Saxon America.
If urbanization is inherently libertarian then why are the urbanites politicians so terrible?
Communist countries, therefore, are increasingly and ineradicably forced to de-socialize, and will therefore eventually reach the free market. The state of the undeveloped countries is also cause for sustained libertarian optimism. For all over the world, the peoples of the undeveloped nations are engaged in revolution to throw off their feudal Old Order. It is true that the United States is doing its mightiest to suppress the very revolutionary process that once brought it and Western Europe out of the shackles of the Old Order; but it is increasingly clear that even overwhelming armed might cannot suppress the desire of the masses to break through into the modern world.
Yes those Communist Revolutions and China, Russia and Yugoslavia are so libertarian.
CPRM
Thanks for being a good sport Winston, with all the shit we give you, but it should also be clear by the formation of this place there is no ONE TRUE PROPHET of libertariansim. People are flawed, make mistakes and we need not adhere to the stupidity of the past, or the cult of personality. That is one that is truly great about this philosophy, it’s not about coming up with an all consuming ideology on how everyone should live and what they should do, but about the truth of our reality, and how to best optimize human potential while not limiting it. I guess that and cartoons and titty pics.
Rothbard attacked future gun rights activist for his apologia for Mao while ignoring his own starry eyed look at Mao.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
What I’ll say about all these things you bring to my/our attention, Winston, is: At least they aren’t censoring, or, memory-holing this stuff.
Winston
Mises does have a cult-like attitude toward Rothbard so he can do no wrong to them.
Rothbard was also an avowed fan of the Leninist revolutionary vanguard so as far as he was concerned whatever sort of alliances he thinks might bring about the libertarian revolution is the correct view at the time and always the correct view at the time. Very Stalinist frankly.
“One tragedy in this whole affair is that many of the libertarians of New York, New England, and Washington, D.C. have completely forgotten the crucial strategic principle of Lenin: that, in associating with other groups, one must remain firm and steadfast in one’s principles, while remaining open and flexible in one’s tactics, in response to ever changing institutional conditions. The original idea in allying ourselves with the New Left was to work with a new generation permeated with strong libertarian elements. Now that the New Left has died, and its genuine libertarian elements have disappeared, objective conditions require that we make a tactical shift away from the current Left. Instead, too many of our young East Coast libertarians have done just the opposite of Lenin’s strategic advice.”
BakedPenguin
Okay, gonna have to take this up tomorrow, if ever. But I’ll say these couple things:
1) Taking someone’s strategic advice doesn’t necessarily mean adopting their philosophy. A general can learn from Napoleon or von Clausewitz without becoming either.
2) Sometimes people are wrong. If Rothbard ever really embraced communism, he was just fucking wrong.
Don’t believe it, Winny? Go to Caracas and check it out for yourself.
BakedPenguin
Uh, your link points out that some academic named Steven Halbrook was a fan of Mao. Rothbard was critical. Do you even science, bro? Go Tulpa somewhere else.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Wait–you READ his link?
What is going on around here?!?!
BakedPenguin
Sir Digby: he had a couple; one was far more harsh than the other.
It’s 4 AM, I’ll stop writing until I can be more diligent.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
God, it IS late….I want to start my weekend!
Winston
Do you even science, bro?
I posted something Rothbard said about Mao approvingly in 1965 and then posted something very critical Rothbard said about Mao in 1972. I never suggested otherwise.
Unless I am mistaken Rothbard was critiquing this guy.
BakedPenguin
“the Maoists have concentrated Leninist efforts more closely on the overthrow of the major bulwarks of the Old Order in the modern world”
That’s an approving statement? Really seems descriptive to me.
‘Winston has concentrated his efforts into being a pain in the ass of Glibs’.
Is that an approving statement?
I didn’t see the 1972 comment, and don’t care. The rest of his work, just like the rest of everyone else’s, stands on it’s merits. If those works have none, g’bye, won’t read ’em. If they have some, read them in their entirety, and judge them on that.
And yeah, Rothbard probably was critiquing that guy. That’s what I wrote. In non-ambiguous language.
Winston
He called Karl Marx an advocate of a “Left-wing, relatively libertarian strand” of socialism and that Lenin “far more congenial to the libertarian than that of Karl Marx” and in turn that China is “a still more left-wing tendency” that is” scorning Right-wing Marxist compromises with the State”.
And he is clearly using Leftist in a positive sense here since there is “no longer a “Left” movement to lead a struggle against the State and against the unbreached remainder of the Old Order”
Conversely 7 years later he says that there is no common ground between libertarians and “communist anarchists” and the notion that there is anything libertarian about Mao as being absurd.
Winston
And yeah, Rothbard probably was critiquing that guy. That’s what I wrote. In non-ambiguous language.
Except your post seemed to suggest that my two links had no connection to each other but they did.
And the reason I posted a link to “Stephen_Halbrook” was because I am pretty sure Rothbard was referring to that man specifically as supposed to someone else named “Stephen P. Halbrook”.
Since Halbrook has done legal service for the NRA I referred to him as a “future gun rights activist”. I do find interesting that this guy went from an apologist for Mao to fighting for gun rights and now sits at the Independent Institute.
Ownbestenemy
I know its late and deadposting is the best posting…
I get an email from my middle childs teacher. Apparently my kids has effectively learned to use self-depreciating humor to diffuse situations with his peers.
This is infuriating his teacher. I responded to the teacher that if he would like, my son could just pop the kid in the nose that is trying to goad my son instead. I also informed him I will never tell my child to sit quietly when someone is attacking his character or principles.
Of course, I left it up to my son to take responsibility and actually talk to his teacher and I am not going to fight his battles for him.
CPRM
Not knowing how old your son is, but playing a character was the way I made it through HS. In school I had a partner in crime, anyone would assume we were great friends, but outside of school we barely hung out even through we were neighbors, made a great comedy duo in school though (now he’s my neighbor again in adulthood, and we say hello when we see each other in town, the best kind of friend) it was a self deprecating role, but it got me through that shitshow of being a teen.
MikeS
and we say hello when we see each other in town at the bar
Presumed correction. I mean, you live in Wisconsin.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Heh.
Ownbestenemy
Exactly. My headaches of course come from my kids that find the SJW and PC culture disgusting and take every opportunity to let those around them know they don’t subscribe to it.
Best was I was parking the car at the supermarket and this uncouth of a woman had her phone plastered to her ear while trying to back up. I rolled the window down to dress her down and called her “retarded piece of shit” and the one son said…”oh so she’s a feminist then”
He got a coke that day.
MikeS
*single manly tear rolls down cheek*
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Every part of that is epic. From the shit-headedness of the woman in question, to the add-on bite at the end.
Ownbestenemy
Oh I am surely raising shitlords. They like to shoot guns, throw axes, make jokes, believe in sticks and stone, can hitch a trailer, among otherthings. We aint country folk either.
They know life isnt fair, how to earn a dollar, what it means to be taxed (we tax their allowance to teach them how shitty it is, except it really remains their money), and no never, ever, talk to the police.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Hmmm….Maybe I can interest you in a few subscriptions to Vibe Shitlord Magazine. 😉
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
I’m presuming that the fact that he has learned it being noteworthy means he is young…? To that end, you running interference for him in this isn’t necessarily bad (is it?).
Of course, I’m wondering why this is an issue at all. Is he supposed to runtelldat to teacher when it happens? Or, going for soft tissue, as you suggested? What responsibility isn’t being covered by him, according to Krabapple?
Ownbestenemy
The interference I run is getting the teachers side and letting my son know I will listen to his side.
On the otherhand, he is old enough…just anout to go into high school to be able to talk with his teacher.
For instance, the story I got from the teacher was my son was making fun of down syndrome. My son’s side was a kid was making fun of his lazy eyelid and hos reponse was “Thats because I have down syndrome”.
To me, he knows how to steal the thunder of someone trying to make fun of him and that is powerful. He wasnt making fun it, just used it to own the ribbing he was getting.
Sir Digby’s Contrabulous Faptraption
Ahhh…OK. I have a better picture now. Yeah, for a teacher, she is either very dense, or, not very good at summarizing/paraphrasing others. Because, that is most definitely not ‘making fun of DS’.
So…yeah–I got no critique or whatnot. If I had had a dad, I would have wanted him to do the same. Well, I say that in my late 40’s, but you get it.
Chafed
If he is telling you the truth, that’s very clever.
Ownbestenemy
Out of my three…he is my honest one. He has no qualms telling me when he is in the wrong. I am more inclined to believe him.
My oldest can lie a little too good and the youngest is a bit dense. Love em all though
As someone who is known in my family as someone able to both diffuse situations easily without violence and also having the best temper of my family (like being the tallest midget, but still) I’ll just say that being able to use techniques like self-deprecating humor is an incredibly valuable skill. It’s gratifying to butt heads, but it doesn’t get you anywhere most of the time. Better still is to take the punch, so to speak, and maneuver. To stay with the family example, I was famous for being essentially immune to discipline, because I would just let my dad or whoever lose their mind, agree, and then do whatever the hell I wanted to anyway. An aunt of mine was talking with me about it when I was in my 20s and I told her, “I didn’t need anyone to approve of what I was doing, I just needed them to stop talking to me about it. I can’t convince my dad that I should be allowed to stay out all night on a Tuesday, and even if I could win a fight against him I wouldn’t want to because it would complicate things. But, if I’m agreeing with him he can’t argue with me, and I sure as hell can sneak out of the house once he’s asleep.”
Conflict isn’t usually beneficial. It’s much better to get what you want without having to fight at all. Better still to get the people who want to fight you to think they’ve won and then give you what you want anyway.
Apparently my kids has effectively learned to use self-depreciating humor to diffuse situations with his peers.
Defuse, not diffuse.
l0b0t
No, the young fellow is using humor to get the bullies to pick on ALL the other children! {Winks at Animal, thumbs suspenders, activates spinning bow-tie, soft-shoes off stage}
straffinrun
What a great day. Wife and kid are riding around the park on a bicycle built for two and I get to sit on a bench drinking afternoon beers while enjoying the cherry blossoms.
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705 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links”
First then!
Yippee!!!!
OK
I feel that Brett treated me like Joe Biden treats women…..
STOP SMELLING MY HAIR!
You’re undermining Switzy’s point from the morning.
Hmmmm,
Who knew T&A links were so triggering?
I think you missed the point too.
I got it Swiss. I’m just having fun.
*narrows gaze*
Give it to him Swissy!
Reinforcing it. But I expected many to miss it.
I try not to miss an episode but I do get busy. When are you glibbers coming to St. Louis? I’ve found some awesome restaurants.
And the chess club!
Chess is for Russian Spies and people who have pizza loving dogs. I wonder if your dog likes St. Louis style pizza?
OMWC and SP make a darn good pizza – but I don’t think it is that exaggeratedly thin crusted.
Likely, but I haven’t seen any down here in Phoenix. Lots of first-rate NY style, though, and Los Doyers ingratiated himself to her by bringing her a slice when he was here a couple weeks ago.
I am not sure – I will spread the word amongst the Glibs TPTB.
I have warrants out for me in St. Louis….
Just kidding. It’s in San Fran.
Fuck the SFPD.
If SP posted a blank links we’d get the message, but with Brett L? I’m just assuming a gator on bathsalts came by and either ate him mid links, or offered to share.
There is no point. That’s the point.
Trumps mocks touchy feely Biden.
Trump is an idiot but an excellent troll. I do enjoy watching Team Blue reap what it has sown.
It’s funny, because Biden’s out here doing his mea culpas with all the evidence on camera over the years of his being a little too up in ladies’ grills, but nobody on Team Blue said shit about it. Trump is basically convicted in the media of all kinds of shit for which there is absolutely zippy evidence and his response to the accusations is a categorical, unequivocal denial. And you know what? I actually believe him.
Trump is an idiot
I don’t think so. He may be impulsive, unprincipled, and not terribly intellectual, but he’s not stupid. Idiots don’t last long in the incredibly cut-throat world of commercial real estate, and they don’t survive, completely unscathed, multi-year investigations, surveillance, and entrapment ops by intelligence agencies and federal prosecutors.
I am with you R C Dean. I used to think he was a pompous fool, but I have actually grown to like the guy simply because of the reaction he forces on the stupid fucks that root for team blue. And he is occasionally awesome at kicking the ballz of team red douchebags too.
Love how they threw that in at the end. You can just feel the butthurt, can’t you?
The difference is that we have decades of video where Biden is showing his creep, and all they have is their fantasies of Trump being their boogie man.
I don’t care.
He don’t care
She don’t care.
Good thing I checked. I was gonna go with this one.
LA version
Don’t care.
More specific LA version.
First album I ever bought.
Theresa May wants a word with you. You’d better care cause you once called someone ‘poopy head’ in pre-school and you voted for Brexit, which I totally promised to carry out, LOL, you sucka.
Well, in the absence of links, let’s all discuss how awesome UVA basketball is.
Go UMBC.
Sadly, they didn’t make the Final Four this year.
Sigh. I remember when they had no sports teams, just academics.
Where’s the money in that?
Back when Ralph Sampson was there?
He was? I don’t think so- wikipedia says Virginia, not UMBC. In my time at Umbeck, there were literally no sports.
(fun trivia: Our nickname for the school was UCLA- University of Catonsville, Left of Arbutus)
It will be great that they make it to the National Championship to be beaten by MSU.
That’ll piss me off. We owe them for 2014.
and 2015
2014 hurt more. Last game for Joey Hoops and Akil, plus we were winning that one until Gill went out with a sprained ankle. 2015 we just shot like complete garbage and were playing catchup the entire game.
Even if they win the title, they will still be the first #1 beaten by a #16.
And with a title, I won’t care anymore.
Word. Win a title this year with largely the same group of guys and it becomes the greatest redemption story in college hoops history.
I’d rather talk hockey.
How about those UofM-Duluth Bulldogs, now the highest ranked in the Frozen Four?
https://www.ncaa.com/news/icehockey-men/article/frozen-four-preview-schedule
I love hockey, but since I went to a school that doesn’t have a team, I’ve never followed NCAA hockey, just the NHL.
There was big money to be had betting on American International against the Huskies juggernaut (as long as you also bet on one sad-sack and one so-so Minnesota pro franchise):
https://www.actionnetwork.com/ncaab/drunk-parlay-sports-betting-26000-win-las-vegas-2019-ncaa-tournament
The full article is paywalled, but this gets you to a photo of the winning ticket.
I would rather watch paint dry…
FAO Rufus:
1. Why the fuck is the Quebec government trying to ban all religious symbols (including, say, wearing a cross or star of David necklace) for anyone working a public sector job?
2. HOW THE FUCK DOES THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION HAVE A CLAUSE IN IT THAT ALLOWS PROVINCES TO COMPLETELY IGNORE IT IF THEY WANT?
Are they also banning hijabs?
Technically not a religious symbol. The fact that it’s sometime difficult to tell whether nun or muslim also muddies the waters.
Well, show them a cartoon of Mo and see which one goes ‘aloha snackbar’ on you.
As far as I can tell, yes.
2. HOW THE FUCK DOES THE CANADIAN CONSTITUTION HAVE A CLAUSE IN IT THAT ALLOWS PROVINCES TO COMPLETELY IGNORE IT IF THEY WANT?
I don’t know about this specific case, but a lot of rules seem to have a four-letter exception clause hidden among their penumbras.
The FYTW clause?
1. They wanna be like France: Laïcité.
2. The notwithstanding clause.
Why does the Notwithstanding Clause exist? I realize that we have the silent FYTW clause here in the US, but making it that blatant?
With this kind of clause New York could say “Campaigning for conservatives is illegal. Notwithstanding clause”, and free speech would be fucked?
Yes. Feature to them, not bug.
It exists because when the Charter was written up it was a concession given to Quebec. They felt it was necessary because ‘unique’ and a ‘minority’ and didn’t want to be made slaves to English Canada majority.
Along those lines.
It was trumpeted as a ‘great Canadian compromise’. I see it as cowardly.
It’s not principled and leaves the state as the final arbiter of our individual rights.
Because without it, no Charter of Rights whatsoever. These things don’t turn up from On High, they get passed in federal and provincial parliaments.
Link?
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-legault-defends-quebecs-religious-symbols-bill-calls-notwithstanding/
Wow. This guy must see what’s happening in France and think it’s going great.
This going to have some unintended consequences. FTM transgender cop demanding to see cloaked woman’s face for example. Let the shit storm begin.
For those in the know, why didn’t Canada allow Quebec to secede when it had the chance?
To retain access to Montreal strippers
…and top notch poutine?
Trufax: the best poutine I’ve found came from upstate NY.
Stripper cooch coverd in poutine?
Legault has ONE thing going for him. He’s a businessman.
But that gets quickly negated by the fact he’s a populist nationalist.
Quebec is a population that feels itself under perpetual threat ‘in a sea of 350 million Anglos’ as they see it.
Wait, that includes US. Tabernac’!
ESPECIALLY you guys. American culture frightens Canadian bobbleheads.
I’m not your guy, buddy!
why didn’t Canada allow Quebec to secede when it had the chance?
What a blown opportunity.
“Look, Frenchie, we aren’t going to blow a hole in our system of government just so you can keep bitching about how much it sucks to be Canadian.
Here’s the deal: if Quebec doesn’t ratify, then that will be taken as a vote to secede. A “Quexit”, if you will. We’ll work out the terms, and two years later you will vote on the new treaty. If you don’t approve it, then you are a Canadian province like all the others, and you can’t bring up secession for another 30 years. If you approve it, then you finally get what you say you wanted this whole time. I will wait for your translator to stop gargling and hooting, and then I expect a yes or no.”
Er… Quebec had a referendum on secession and lost. More than one, in fact. No one “didn’t allow” them.
Some countries are capable of handling secession without overthrow of constitutional order, deaths of hundreds of thousands and massive destruction.
(I mean, I’m not judging, other countries certainly aren’t)
It was pretty impressive despite the stress it went off so peacefully. And they respected the result.
I knew about that. I was thinking back to whenever the Charter was being adopted. That was the moment for all-in, or all gone.
My knowledge of Canadian history is minuscule, as is appropriate for an American.
FTA:
If you can demonstrate that the decedent uttered that phrase in a sincere fashion, you should have an affirmative defense against a charge of murder.
You don’t deserve a link. None of us do. And no, this isn’t Peak 1st World Problems.
Oof.
1) Par for the course in Quebec. Quebec is big on the ‘When in Rome’ thing. I can’t say I completely disagree but this is a province that has linguistic laws on the books so liberty in the classic American sense is absent here. The collective comes first to the nationalists.
2) That’s a black mark on our intellectual landscape for sure.
That’s why I feel our Charter is worthless. If you have an opt-out, it’s a cop out.
It must be that legendary Canadian politeness that prevents him from being dismembered.
One thing is for sure PC stuff has its limits here. Quebecers won’t put up with Sharia Law talk.
Part of this goes back to the whole debate about whether Muslims should remove whatever religious garment that covers the entire face should be removed for a driver’s license picture. I think that upset people because Christians make concessions in a secular state so they just feel others should too.
Right or wrong.
1. is because Quebec was ran as a co-enterprise with Catholic Church for, oh, about couple centuries, till they decided they had enough of that shit.
The Quiet Revolution was pretty loud.
I’ve had a sore throat, neck, and chest. I also have a headache and light bothers me, but I’m often like that. I don’t have a fever. So I don’t think it’s meningitis.
Or your just bored
/party on Wayne
I thought I was bad with the old movie references.
Settle down before you get shocked or fall off a roof
/Klopek
Lie on your back and bend your knees towards your head. If it’s incredible pain which forces your neck to painfully curve downward, that’s a major symptom of meningitis. And if that’s the case, get to the ER immediately. If not, you may just have a bad headache.
I get bad headaches all the time. I don’t seem to have nuchal rigidity, even though my neck feels sore.
I just tried your instructions, and it made me notice my legs are lower back are kind of stiff and sore as well.
My throat has been sore for the last couple of days, and I had to take someone to a medical center on Monday, so maybe I picked up some sort of bug.
Erm, you have an AIDS test recently?
Just kidding, what’s the point?
So is this a philosophy thread? Now Q’s going to post an essay on the meaning of life instead of tit-pics.
https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/micro-skinny-dipping-bikini-with-invisible-straps-comes-with-caution-causes-social-media-frenzy
Would.
Wearing that seems like it would be flirting with danger (among other things). Caution is well advised.
Given what you quoted, I was half expecting to get this link instead.
I thought they were the same thing.
They are. Tit provide the motivation to create life. They allow life to grow up to toddlerhood as a source of nourishment. Without tits there is no human life. No human life, no meaning of life.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS NEW LIFE CAUSATION DETERMINING CHOSEN ONE. LET US EXAMINE THE CLASSIC QUOTE:
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. YOU HAVE BEEN RAISED UP FROM BRUTALITY TO KILL THE BRUTALS WHO MULTIPLY, AND ARE LEGION. TO THIS END, ZARDOZ YOUR GOD GAVE YOU THE GIFT OF THE GUN. THE GUN IS GOOD. THE PENIS IS EVIL. THE PENIS SHOOTS SEEDS, AND MAKES NEW LIFE, AND POISONS THE EARTH WITH A PLAGUE OF MEN, AS ONCE IT WAS. BUT THE GUN SHOOTS DEATH, AND PURIFIES THE EARTH OF THE FILTH OF BRUTALS. GO FORTH AND KILL!
BESIDES, YOUNG, TOPLESS CHARLOTTE RAMPLING WAS HAWT.
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
The penis is still evil though, right?
/asking for the lesbian trapped in my male body
No way. You have it all wrong.
A penis simple, relaxed and hanging free. It’s women who make it hard
I need to get out of here,
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2019/04/03/California-should-have-had-a-major-earthquake-by-now-geologists-warn/5601554306980/?sl=2
Now, if the left coast falls into the sea, will we get in trouble for poisoning the oceans with raw sewage and proggies?
Learn to swim….
#bannedbybotbecausethemoderatorsareoutatsea
Yusef has a suggestion to keep you all occupied.
I hear Otisburg is a nice place to live.
The left coast will be redeemed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD7YODSdmDo
(ref is at about 0:50)
+1 John Hartford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtsrakTR45A
Them: Doom approaches!
Me: Yeah? How much do you want?
Brett flies in and drops TSAR BOMBA!
Cat butts for all?
That’s a bit indiscriminate.
One could argue nukes are as well.
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN WMD ARGUING ONE. WOULD THE CHOSEN ONE HAPPEN TO KNOW WHERE ZARDOZ COULD SECURE A “NUKE”? ASKING FOR AN ETERNAL…ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
What does your smoke detector budget look like?
Whatcha talking bout Willis?
At least it wasn’t a nuclear cat butt.
Real Tsar Bomba footage (supposedly anyway but who can tell anymore):
https://youtu.be/V6BspF9Ie9M
I saw the real footage years ago. That is it.
Now I’ve got “La la la la la la bomba” running in my head.
That’s like my dick when it gets going…
Even bombs look like penises. Obvious why toxic masculinity is bad. We need a law.
Greaaat… here comes the bad Google review. Guy doesn’t pay his bill, comes in for an account summary two months ago, doesn’t answer his phone since then, so we bill his card and now he’s screaming bloody murder.
Just reply “He was a deadbeat. Nobody rides for free.”
Customers/clients/their families can suck. My firm has exactly 1 one star Google review. It’s from a client’s wife who was angry about paying my fee. She was the one pushing hardest to settle the case. Some people are just assholes.
Sis you win the case? Or settle? I hope you didn’t outright lose.
*Did
Settled on reasonable terms. Client’s wife was the one telling the rest of the family it was a good deal, would save a lot of time, and going to trial didn’t make sense.
TW: Powerline
Polls: Trump’s approval rating among Hispanics approaches 50 percent
I will positively laugh my ass off if he manages to get anything near that portion of the Hispanic vote in 2020.
Is there a catchy way to translate “MAGA” into Spanish? H&H(&H) could do with another hat.
Magito! It comes in a 12 Oz can in many tropical fruit flavors.
You have to remember that a lot of Hispanics, including some of those that jumped the border but then got residency/citizenship, realize an influx of people across the border will impact them both by putting a massive strain on the welfare system and lower their job opportunities and wages if they are not professionals. Then you have a lot of them that came here legally no really pissed at the new waves basically getting aware with that crime.
The brainless lumping of Central American illegals with ethnic Mexican citizens (and even residents) never ceases to grind my gears. The latter mostly despise the former, and the fact that the dimwits in the DemOp Media keep ignoring any distinctions is probably one of the reasons that Trump’s support is as good as it is.
Good point. They seem to think that “Hispanics” are a cohesive ethnic group. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Same with “African-Americans”, “African Africans”, “Caribbeans”, etc.
Poll numbers suggest that around half of Black voters consider Trump a racist.
I still expect him to get BTFOd in every non-white category come election, but this actually seems pretty good for a Republican.
I’m quite certain there is a significant percentage of Trump supporters thst consider him a racist, and in general don’t care.
Substitute Teacher Pleads Guilty to Sex Crimes With Boys In Exchange for No Jail Time
Gah, she looks disturbingly like an old girlfriend of mine.
…go on.
When you were 15?
District Judge Johnny Walker
Drink!
Black, Red, or Blue?
“You’ve got the nicest smile I’ve ever come across.”
Now let me start a Bukake chain on ya?
She is prohibited from teaching for just two years
Area emergency rooms were swamped with sixth grade boys coming in with injuries from giving each other high fives.
Question of the Day: Would You Have Sex With a Robot?
“I’d be too scared that it would malfunction, short circuit and blow my dick off.”
You wouldn’t take a dildo out on a date, right?
It probably wouldn’t be the worst conversationalist I’ve been out with.
^This.
What? Details please.
I went through a period with a lot of first dates, quite a few second dates, a few third dates and no fourth dates. A *lot* of those were duds. And a great many of them reeked of desperation that made every conversation awkward. A silicone dong propped up in a chair would probably be a better dinner companion than the one guy who asked me out, then made me decide where to go, then stared at the check until I paid it. He was not a sterling conversationalist, and I was glad I’d picked “classy, but cheap Thai” for dinner.
then stared at the check until I paid it
Was that you?
Were you in the greater LA area on 06/19/12?
Now that’s some highly specific datekeeping.
I believe I was changing diapers, so probably not.
I’m glad to learn the gay dating life looks like my hetero dating life (when I was single.) I’ll just assume he didn’t get a kiss goodnight.
I’ll just assume he didn’t get a kiss goodnight.
There’s a Margaret Cho bit (which I’m sure she regrets now in her more woke form) where she talks about how sometimes it’s easier to give a guy a bj to get them to leave than to just get them to leave. That was the date where I finally got where she was coming from with the joke.
!
She also recommended masturbating for one another when you want to get off (and I assume see what he’s packing) but don’t want to sleep with every first date.
!
Yeah. He was memorable and not in a good way. The last thing he said was “I’ll call you sometime.” He never did and that’s just fine by me.
Wait so gay dudes play the same games dudes play with chicks? I have told some crazy bitches I would call them meaning never to, but you don’t strike me as the crazy type Jesse.
Yes on the game playing, no on the crazy. Honestly he was a little maladjusted. It was clear it wasn’t going smoothly and he could’ve just said “This was nice, but I’m not really feeling it, thanks for dinner and a bj.” and it would’ve been a better experience for everyone.
You had a terrible time at dinner, he made you pay for dinner so rather than saying goodbye at the restaurant you gave him a bj. I… I… Hmmm. Do you have a sister I can meet?
You make it sound so tawdry. It seemed like a solid utilitarian choice at the time. Although I’ll admit that my assertiveness has improved quite a bit since then.
Actually I do have an unattached sister at the moment, but as much as I like you, Chafed, I ‘m not sure I future in-law like you yet.
Well what about me? You’re the one who opened the auction Jesse, not me.
“You make it sound so tawdry. It seemed like a solid utilitarian choice at the time.” I am literally laughing out loud. We have to do a SoCal Glibs meet up.
You’ve already missed Los Doyers; he’s fled the state. There are still a few of us left.
Yeah, whatever, meetups, who cares, when does the sister auction start!?
As one of TPTB, I assume you have my email. If SoCal Glibs want to schedule something I’m interested.
Lil ol’ me?
But yeah, I’ll let you know if we plan anything. We haven’t really had much in the way of large get togethers recently. A few small things when out of town Glib overlords have been in the area for conferences, but that’s about it. JW is very tall and Riven is just as adorable as everyone assumes.
I hated, HATED dates like that, which is why I tended to date women I had already gotten to know well enough to know that I at least enjoyed their company. Of course, that limits the pool rather severely.
The one time I went on a blind date – awkward!! Yeah I fished within my own backyard, or friends of friends that I met in other social settings. First date with EF we went to the then spooky museum (since replaced by a boring modern edifice) and then walked around downtown to talk.
I go jogging for 30 minutes… and all hell breaks loose.
You need a second computer.
I’m afraid you’re really dating yourself there.
A *lot* of those were duds.
At first, I read that as “dudes” and thought, well, yeah, of course they were dudes. Its jesse.
The conversation just droned on and on…
I think in this case it buzzed on and on.
Damn dude… where are you finding these dates?
And would you want to date your sexbot?
Does it pass the Turing test?
I’ve met humans who fail that test – it’s not a terribly good metric.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2009-03-16
I haven’t been out on a date since ’75.
Those Victorian ladies were the best.
I have been in dry dock myself for 2 months now, and I think since my eyeballs are floating in it, it is time I go back on the prowl…
Isn’t the point of a sexbot that you don’t have to take it on dates?
Can you smell their hair and touch them weirdly inappropriately?
Asking for a pretend friend called Joe.
I bet the op-ed editor loves Science too.
You know who else sent a message by severing some links?
Oscar Meyer?
Bob Evans?
Lorena Bobbitt?
Johnsonville sausage?
Uli?
Bagger Vance?
The Defiant Ones?
Alexander the great?
Linkedin is jumping the shark even further. Asking to add high school information so I can reconnect with people from there. WTF would something that purports to be about professional life want to dredge up that? Other than Linkedin wanting to be Facebook II, I blame fucking millennials that cant grow up and are stuck living as children for the rest of their lives.
I have One friend from when I was a skater, 40 plus years ago, I don’t even remember most of my classmates, make some friends kids!
Did she say back then “you’re a skater boy, see ya later boy?”
He wasn’t good enough for her. (to my great shame, I had that CD… A gift from my grandma)
They need to release LinkedIn classic where it’s a set of professional connections, an online resume, and a job board. Everything else is fluff, and thats why they get a sum total of 1 visit from me per month to make sure that I don’t have any companies trying to hire me.
^^^
I quit updating that fucking joke of a site at least 8 years ago when I realized they were mining information and trying to connect you to the very people I am not on social media to avoid.
It’s all about engagement with the platform.
My personal pet peeve is it trying to force me to download the app every time I answer a connection request from the phone.
I hate the thing too.
While I’m job hunting I’ll have to be active on it. As soon as I get one, I’ll go back to updating my profile once every few years.
^This. I didn’t use it for 9 years after joining. Now I need to. It’s pretty easy to ignore all the motivational crap my connections post, thank the gods.
Their mobile website is reason enough to avoid LinkedIn. For the twentieth fucking time, NO, I DO NOT WANT TO INSTALL YOUR SHITTY APP ON MY PHONE.
I really have no clue what Microsoft thought was worth $26B in that purchase.
‘I really have no clue what Microsoft thought was worth $26B in that purchase.’
Pretty sure MS is having the same idea. Also, got off of LinkedIn a month ago. The slightly increased chance of getting a job < the worthless crap to deal with.
OT:
We have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
You might want to look upthread.
*narrows gaze*
/sigh
Is there a topic?
So, I’ve noted on this page before the new-found wokeness of dictionary-dot-com (Yeah, the website that’s supposed to serve up definitions of words). They’re now keen on offering up articles about your speech and thought transgressions. I’m starting to come around to Conquest’s Second Law (Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing.) Today’s installment is about “language denialism.”
https://www.dictionary.com/e/what-is-language-denialism/?param=HP
“[Standard American English] is largely dictated by well-to-do, educated, white Americans, and policing the way people speak English is, in part, a method of maintaining the supremacy of white culture and customs.”
My mother grew up poor as hell during the Great Depression, but always exhibited impeccable grammar. But that was back when schools taught the basics.
Right. American English hasn’t incorporated a ton of foreign words into the language. Please.
Besides it not fair to expect “those people” to be able to speak proper English. They can’t all be Pie.
/Bigotry of low expectations
That’s cultural appropriation – i.e. also racist.
I’m glad my computer has a built in Dictionary app (with a real dictionary). No need to roll my eyes at this shit.
I think they’re talking about things like ask/aks than the importation and domestication of foreign words.
That wasn’t clear to me but you may be right. If that’s the intention then I’m not apologizing for expecting people to pronounce actual words.
It’s so much more fun than that. The whole etymology is complicated, but at one point aks/axe was correct and shows up frequently in the English literary canon. At some point the dominant speech patterns in England changed and aks became a vestigial form spoken by country folk and ask became part of received English (ie that spoken by the well-to-do). Sort of the same process that happened when Saxon words got supplanted by French imports as being more polite or refined.
Arguably it’s worthwhile to be able to speak to those with all of the money in a way that makes them feel like you’re an insider rather than an outsider, but Dictionary’s point isn’t particularly crazy. The fact that the specific nuances of London’s industrial elite helped define received American English rather than say the farmers in Northern English who linguistically influenced the American South is a form of gatekeeping that’s based on power rather than historical rightness.
Well then in the spirit of multiculturalism I demand that I be given special dispensation to pronounce “breakfast” as “brehfrus” or “brehfers” and “oil” as “earl”. It’s the language of my people.
Chrys, hun, I sawr the amblanse hop up on the payment and awmos hit that poor guy.
Yuh, it was wickid retahded.
People don’t talk like that in Bawlamer.
Yuh, becaus yuhr retahded, unlike us smaht folks who grew up in tha Norfeast.
This is truly the dialect of God himself.
No, THIS is truly the dialect of God himself.
I’m sorry, it was wickid retahded OVA DERE!
LOL, I didn’t even realize “pavement” was typed in Bawlmerian!
Also, the in-laws got a hoose downy aishen right on the wooder for the summer. We’re gonna bring color crowns for the kids. Alls I need to bring is chwenny dawrs for the Fahrball.
And I say “hoose” but with my in-laws it’s closer to “hice diney aishen”.
Damn. I mean, I don’t say “hoose”, but I’m saying I’m transcribing the accent as if it were pronounced “hoose”.
Check out the video I linked. He does it perfectly.
I heard a guy at an airport once with the classic Slurvian accent. I said, “You’re from Baltimore, right?”
He responded, “Yeah, tell me what neighborhood.”
“Tell me the name of the area just east of Patterson Park.”
“Hollentayn.”
“Perfect. And you ARE from Highlandtown.”
“How’d ya new?”
Sounds like “southern” to me.
/life-long nawtherner – they all sound the same to me
PS. I sometimes lapse into my native RAAHHHchester when I get agitated at work.
That’s the one! I’ve read that it’s very similar to a Newcastle accent. A thing I think is really cool about the Chesapeake Bay area is that so many accents in the populations immediately surrounding it are really damn close to their parent accents from England and Ireland, especially in the older communities, rural or no. Tangier Island is the big famous example, but Baltimore and the shore are good ones, too.
All those grievance studies twats have to go somewhere after college.
And when people saw education and drive as a way out of poverty.
Oh, and the kicker for this is that wokeness, and much of the rest of the leftist platform, is “largely dictated by well-to-do, educated, white Americans” and involves a hell of a lot of “policing the way people speak English”.
Hypocrisy is irrelevant to the prog left. All for the centralization of power. Nothing against the centralization of power. Progs are logical and laser focused if you remember that this is their end goal.
So Standard American English is largely dictated by Standard American English speakers?
Shocking. I thought it was dictated by Foreign Non-English speakers.
Not their point, at all. It’s about why something like the Mid-Atlantic affectation could be “received/proper” English when nobody actually spoke it except for a bunch of folks from the upper class putting on an artificial posh accent as an in-group signal for a generation.
What you’re talking about died out with the last of old Hollywood.
What is taught in schools is called “General American”.
But yeah, I don’t give a shit which English you want to speak. But don’t get all bent out of shape when people don’t “celebrate” it, either.
a method of maintaining the supremacy of white culture and customs
English is a language created by white people (as is America), and is arguably successful due to vigorous cultural appropriation. Saying that it is bad to have standards for American English because it reflects the people who created it seems to imply that American culture and language is bad and should be replaced by foreign cultures and foreign languages, to me.
Maybe I’m being too binary, here. But I am sick unto death of people demanding that every culture except mine should be celebrated, and mine should be ground into the dirt and consigned to the ash heap of history.
But Standard American English doesn’t celebrate your culture. It is an explicit reaction against Texan Mushmouth, Michigan Yooper, and Mid-State Youse Guy-ism.
As an occupational hazard, my everyday accent has devolved into general newscaster English and my vocabulary and grammar is marked as standard college-educated upper middle class. That’s not true of everyone.
Listen, Mud Person. If Standard American was good enough for the Yankee cultural imperialists who invented it, it’s good enough for the descendants of the trash they forced into schools to learn it
I see.
You misspelled “Murican!”
I think the thing that rankles here is that you’re ignoring the “well-to-do” portion of the statement. It isn’t about foreign influence it’s that people are made to feel bad about the fact that they’re speaking slight variations on English that have long historical antecedents. That’s why I used the ask/aks example up above.
No, jesse, it’s the Mexicans and Chinese who most influence our view that only slack-jawed sub-human trash people use “fix” as a verb meaning “to prepare foodstuffs”.
The point is the upper class – aka the elites- constantly change what is standard or proper lest the untermensch start behaving as if they are intellectually equal.
“Constantly” is over-egging the pudding, but, yes, that’s the point. It’s a phenomenon that has existed since the beginning of language itself.
Attempting to “equalize” the language is the domain of Khmer Rouge hacking people to death with farming implements type shit.
“Ancestry testing company: It’s our ‘moral responsibility’ to give the FBI access to your DNA”
https://twitter.com/Gizmodo/status/1113461468031266817
https://gizmodo.com/ancestry-testing-company-it-s-our-moral-responsibilit-1833774781
No shit. Who could have seen that coming?
*Points back to Suthenboy’s comments on the subject from a year or two ago*
I thank you for your sharing of your wisdom, Suthen.
A lone figure, gazing toward the truth, that none of us could perceive…
Now let’s see if their business drops off. My guess is it won’t.
It will among the few die-hard tinfoil cranks, but that will be offset by the growth from the larger group who don’t care.
Exactly.
This is a slight misrepresentation. FamilyTree requires a warrant. As I recall, the other DNA firms do the same but have not been upfront about it. FamilyTree’s primary mistake was being honest about it.
That’s not slight. If there is a lawful basis for the warrant then no company can resist. Judges don’t care about company policy.
I considered testing but decided against it for potential privacy reasons. If there’s ever a company that transparently destroys data when they’re finished with an analysis and accepts bitcoin I’ll be the first in line.
I thought I read somewhere that as the database grows, they don’t even need your DNA any more to, I dunno, interpolate it?
Yep, they already caught some rapists through his second cousins DNA, I heard a lady who wrote about that case on the radio and she claims if they get something like 5% of a populations DNA they will be able to ‘interpolate/triangulate’ and figure out who’s DNA they have even if they don’t have a sample of that person’s actual DNA.
Hey, was that the case that The Innocent Man is about? Oklahoma in the 80s, this woman is raped and murdered and they local law eventually arrests and convicts two guys on crap evidence. Turns out that not only did they have nothing to do with it, but the local PD and attorney’s office are wildly corrupt and up to all kinds of nonsense. If I recall the show correctly, a woman got the suspected rapist’s like niece or something’s DNA from Ancestry and through analysis of DNA evidence from the scene was able to link him to it and exonerate the two who were arrested.
Could be I remember more about the implication discussion than the actual case. Also, I’m fairly certain The Innocent Man is about Billy Joel not stepping out in Christie Brinkley.
My mother and brother already did them. I’m sure that’s enough to screw me. I don’t plan on killing anyone, but if I do, their should at least be fair chase rules.
Clicked back to the dead thread. People have some wrong thoughts on beer. Fortunately Neph was there to clean up.
I try robc… I try.
So last night, I found some of this.
$22 for a 4 pack?
Only one per customer?
“Challenge, accepted!”
Was pretty damned good, tasted the coffee more than any chocolate.
Glad I experienced it, but probably won’t do again.
“Blaire White Interview, Dawkins SLAMS Nationalism & Teacher’s Topless Pic | Pseudo-Intellectual #10”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13j-AAbvLQ0
“If you missed our stream, including the interview with @MsBlaireWhite, you can catch it here now! Blaire White Interview, Dawkins SLAMS Nationalism & Teacher’s Topless Pic | Pseudo-Intellectual #10”
https://twitter.com/TheLaurenChen/status/1113617380586946560
There seems to be a new troll at Reason. I know A-JB still comments there, so perhaps he can enlighten me. And feel free to scrutinize my argument.
Rebel Scum|4.4.19 @ 3:36PM|#
as a student who comes to this university, and expects to have a good education
Perhaps when you go to law school you should expect to learn about things such as due process, innocent until proven guilty, evidence, hearsay, etc.
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isn’t this a libertarian site?|4.4.19 @ 3:43PM|#
due process, presumption of innocence, right to cross examine accuser, etc are features and guarantees that a criminal defendant has in a criminal court. i.e. the government can’t lock you in a cage before going through said procedures.
No one has a right to due process, or presumption of innocence with prospective or current employers. In that context, you have no rights at all. The employer can hire/fire you for any reason s/he sees fit. It’s really annoying when people try to apply criminal court standards outside of the context of criminal court.
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Like other rights, there is a legal aspect and a cultural aspect*. And this was a federal appointment. Accusations of impropriety that are capable of destroying a persons reputation should be given appropriate scrutiny. No, the Kavanaugh circus was not a court of law trial (legal), but it was a trial in the court of public opinion (cultural). Baseless accusations should not prevent an appointment to a government office, likewise for any other job.
*take freedom of speech as another example. No, the government cannot legally stop me from saying what is on my mind. That is the legal aspect. A private entity such as Twitter, however, can legally prevent me from using their service so long as they are not in violation of their own terms of service because said terms of service is essentially a contract. If they make that contract too limited in the content that is allowed on their forum it is not conducive to the open exchange of ideas, and is therefor against the notion of freedom of speech. That is the cultural aspect.
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isn’t this a libertarian site?|4.4.19 @ 4:36PM|#
“Baseless accusations should not prevent an appointment to a government office, likewise for any other job.”
– because you say so? Also, some of the allegations were indeed credible.
There is no presumption of innocence in the cultural court of law, or whatever you wanna call it. I know of nothing in the constitution that guarantees you such a right. You have no due process rights as a job interviewee.
You may not like that your boy’s name got smeared, but that doesn’t mean he gets extra-constitutional rights.
Besides, kavanaugh is dirty conservative – loves executive power in a very unlibertarian way.
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You’ll note that I said “should not” with regard to the cultural aspect. I made an explicit distinction between culture and law. You seem very dense and not at all in favor of freedom in any fundamental sense.
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isn’t this a libertarian site?|4.4.19 @ 4:52PM|#
Rebel Scum: **stomps heels while pulling pig tails saying** “you seem very dense and not at all in favor of freedom in any fundamental sense.”
-cute.
I think employers should be able to hire/fire on whatever basis they wish. apparently that’s not freedom in your world.
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I think you lack reading and comprehension skills. I never said that employers should be legally restricted from hiring and firing as they please. As an employer you have every right to hire and fire, outstanding contractual obligations notwithstanding. I said that culturally we should give scrutiny to accusations of malfeasance so as to avoid making outcasts of innocent people.
Additionally I am sure you understand the concept that “politics is downstream from culture”, which is to say if we start accepting such standards in a paradigm where an ostensibly limited government ignores the boundaries of its founding charter, we are well on the road to the cultural tyranny becoming legal tyranny.
I have a sneaking suspicion that this same clown thinks that legislating hiring quotas is just hunky dory. I haven’t looked at the comment section there in a long time, but it looks like it might now consist entirely of things that got dragged in stuck to ENB’s shoe.
Man, did I royally fuck up that copypasta or what?
There’s a reason many of us don’t go back…
I popped in over there about a month ago and Just Say’n and Ken Shultz were over there fighting the good fight. Some people just enjoy the conflict I guess.
I literally looked at the article titles this afternoon, thought “oh hell no” and backed out of there.
WRT Kavanaugh and any government position I believe that since those positions are held in the public trust there’s a greater moral onus to avoid arbitrariness and hold to standards of fairness and justice above what you’d expect from some guy hiring a line cook for a food truck.
Did you ever stop to think that this site was founded so we wouldn’t have to scroll past that stuff?
Came across this via NPR earlier:
https://qz.com/1585027/when-it-comes-to-climate-change-cotton-totes-might-be-worse-than-plastic
This was linked from the Facebook page of NPR’s 1A, and their commenters are predictably shitting their pants in confused anger. Who could have possibly predicted that a thing that takes orders of magnitude more energy to manufacture and transport than the cheaper thing it is intended to replace would be more environmentally damaging?
I am still tickled to death that when the California plastic straws in restaurants ban came out, many restaurants chose paper-based straws that come
INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED IN PLASTIC!!
I love it.
A lot of people around here are going to paper straws, and genuine whackadoos like my wife are bringing metal straws around with them. Myself, I don’t care for straws in general, but some kid’s science fair project didn’t influence my opinion one way or another.
Metal? Not washable plastic? Really?
Stainless steel. We got them a while ago as a novelty, and now she uses them because she’s Captain Planet. I don’t know.
Are you sure she isn’t setting up her alibi for when you mysteriously die from a poison dart?
Mr NB: What? No officer, this is a steel straw, not a blow gun. Ask anyone, I carry it all the time.
Mrs. Tundra bought glass ones. I’m thrilled, because I can mock her every day.
We have metal straws. Not the worst thing ever, but I much prefer plastic.
Speaking of idiotic bans arising out of moral-preening, I can’t wait until I have to carry around fucking shopping bags everywhere I go on the off chance I might want to shop somewhere.
When plastic bags are completely gone, most Americans will just buy what they can carry. They’ll load it up in their SUV and drive it home. Instead of buying a lot all at once, they’ll just have to go back out in the the ol’ gas guzzler and buy more sooner. But that’s ok, it’s makes people feel good.
I have one of those shopping buggies that future me was gonna use just like all the oldsters around here. I guess I’ll take it out of storage sooner than I expected.
I did say Welcome to the PRC, there you go…
I did say Welcome to the PRC, there you go……
Hell, you said it twice!
I hope someone is rubbing this in Cuomo’s fascist fucking face.
Just kidding, what’s the point?
Yea, makes no difference at this point.
So, I’m still playing Metro 2033 Redux. Damn the game is brutally hard on normal. Patience is a virtue and the only one that will help you here.
Metroid is awesome. Except for the ending, which is really just going back to the beginning.
So, curious what the other computer gamers on here think of the Epic Store going out and purchasing time locked exclusives. While I believe they (and the publishers/devs) have the right to do this, I’m curious if there is going to be a backlash on it. I rarely buy games at release anymore (since my backlog is massive), but one that I was considering (The Outer Worlds) went to them. That made my decision easy, wait for it to be released on Steam, and go on sale.
I’m with you on the backlog.
From a principle standpoint I don’t care. From a practical standpoint it doesn’t bother me too much just because I get most of my games these days through humblebundle when I don’t get them through gog. Big Steam sales events are a notable exception, but I mean, when I say I have a backlog I mean I’ve got 520 games on my Steam account and 100+ installed, with the idea that I’m working through the installed games and removing them as I’m done with them. That isn’t counting stuff on the gog client, or Ubisoft games, which adds probably another 40. If for some reason something came out on the Epic Store and I was so averse to the client that I wanted to wait for it to come to Steam I’ve got plenty of games to play in the mean time.
Just overheard from waitress at bar:
I’m like taking psychology with a minor in like political science? And I’m like gonna get my masters in Ethics in Society? And then like go into like Government?
Well at least she’s learning to wait tables already.
Ah, the AOC template. I’m assuming she’s not going to run as a Republican.
Like, ick?
Well duh, sillygoose. Republicans are like mysoginist, racist, nativist biggots. I mean totally ew.
I can swear I’ve heard a similar story somewhere before. Very recently, in fact.
I want a career that like pays tons of money, but I don’t like want to actually be required to like have any useful skills.
She’s so cute she’s not gonna have to worry about all that. She’ll marry an investment banker or something.
There it is, folks. Shitlords trying to police the way people speak English.
(But seriously, that mode of talk makes me insane. I lose all focus on content and just count ‘likes’.)
‘Like’, ‘literally’ and ‘yah!’ drive me nuts.
I know what you mean
Yur literally, like uh, Hitler, yah.
I can’t even.
Year before last, during my stint in Silicon Valley, the company brought in this kid just out of college to handle some supplier issues.
Not only was this kid in so far over his head that he couldn’t even see the surface, he talked like that. ^^^
During one meeting, I actually called him on it. I couldn’t stand it any more, and said to him, “…stop saying ‘like.’”
“What do you mean?” he asked, completely unaware.
“You’re saying ‘like’ at least once in ever sentence. Stop it. It’s really annoying.”
He toned it down, but didn’t stop.
So, nice tits?
Cy Vance to Kim Foxx: hold my beer.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/b02PhPROO6s/manhattan-da-spent-250k-in-asset-forfeit
That’s hilarious. The leaked texts between Kim Foxx and the unnamed Smollett family member had Foxx saying something to the effect of, “sorry couldn’t talk – attending conference” seemingly every three messages. These people sure love their conferences.
“While in Paris, he spent four nights at Hôtel d’Aubusson, paying $2,816.”
Really? More than $700 a night for a hotel. That seems reasonable.
WHY COME U HATE AMERICA HYPERION
I just cannot help it. I mean so many other places seem so free, like where your income tax is more than 60% and where they have Shariah law. I mean, at least then you have a chance of dying from taxation or stoning, amirite?
Well, maybe the hotel had some really advanced security features that required four days of studying.
Huh. It’s a 5-star hotel, just north of the Jardin du Luxembourg; Heaven Forfend he stay in the Hotel Dauphine Saint-Germain just south of there for around $235/night (Canadian!). It’s only a bitchin’ 3-star, after all!
How are they supposed to know how important you are?
Why does the NYC DA need to go to Paris?
What did we used to say? “Wow, what an asshole” or something like that?
Wow, what an asshole.
“Christ, what an asshole.”
Thx, SB
Hey, BP! Glad you’re here. Spawn 2 thinks her Fender Jazz bass needs a setup tweak. Can you link a good tutorial?
She went from drums to bass? Good for her.
I don’t have anything in the wheelhouse re: vids, but if you carefully (very carefully) file down the nut grooves, you can get a bass with much better action.
You want the tiny, needle-like files that come in a set. Slowly, slowly file the grooves of the nut down, and check how it plays. If she wants to do more soloing, her bridge should be as low as you can get without the strings hitting the frets. If she wants to be a rhythm player, it can be a little bit higher, so it’s easier not to mess up the bass.
One good piece of news: you can get replacement bass nuts (note: not a joke) for pretty cheap. So if someone messes up, it’s usually not a big deal. $25 will get you fixed in most places.
Just don’t shave the file into the neck. Especially if it’s got a rosewood or pau ferro neck.
Tundra,
Take it to Twin/Town on Lyndale. They’ll set it up however she wants for like $20 or so.
https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/status/1113623456183197696
https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1113682362141827072
stupid or crazy?
Embrace the power of “and”.
I, for one, am proud to have witnessed the first Toddler-American elected to public office in my lifetime.
Toddler 2020!!!!!
Whatever brain power she was naturally born with has been successfully destroyed by agenda-driven public school indoctrination and TV shows telling little kids as young as 4 that humans are bad and are destroying the earth,America is bad and is a force for evil.
She is the end product of deliberate leftist brainwashing.
I’ve always been curious about something. I spent 12 years in NYC public schools, followed by 5 years in a SUNY liberal arts college, yet I favored Rush Limbaugh as a kid and ended up libertarianish. Why did I not succumb to the narrative pushed on me since birth?
And ofcourse whenever I discuss politics I’m called a fox news watching sheep. Seems like everybody else around here are the sheep.
Nature > nurture?
I think opposite? My “nature” has been lefty land. I just seemed to instinctively reject the concepts of free stuff and being owed anything
“Nature” means who you are inherently. What you were born like.
“Nurture” means your environment molding you as you grow.
Its an interesting question no? Politically our family leans “right” but one sibling, who spent 6-8 years in college and some time in Denmark is extremely liberal.
Yet, even thay sibling knows that Social Security is a scam. Ya…nature? Nurture?
She also seems highly susceptible to the moronic adulation she receives from her supporters. She’s believing her own bullshit.
At least Pelosi et al are just cynics.
These truly are glorious times we live in.
I actually see the 12 years thing repeated all over the place. I might chime in and say 11 years 9 months if I feel like riling them up
someone should figure out where and when the 12 years comes from and put up a countdown clock.
That would be awesome! The report was released on October 8, 2018.
Cool. So now I can say 11.5 years.
Not exactly your request, but pretty close.
Deja vu.
Wow, what an asshole.
I’m not a videographer or PR person, but is talking to a floor vent while chewing on gummi bears supposed to come across as down-to-earth and folksy?
It’s the milliennial version of a fireside chat, I suppose.
“stupid or crazy?”
Smeagol.
I am so looking forward to watching Warren and Klobuchar trying to emulate AOC and doing their own videos of them squatting in a random hallway in their house while spouting the latest proggie talking points.
I can hear the hip bones snapping right now as Warren bites it when she overbalances while trying to chug a beer during an awkward yoga pose.
*cackles* Now that’s uncalled for. *cackles some more*
Biden’s mea culpa is fair, he sounds like he was clueless til someone Sat him down with Twitter
I would agree if it wasn’t for that clip of him touching little kids.
I don’t think any of it was sexual though. Although I might have missed something.
https://youtu.be/dizji3k4e5w
That still doesn’t come across as sexual.
It doesn’t have to be sexual to be inappropriate.
What would you do if somebody touched your little girl like that. It might mean nothing but it looks shady to me. Kids are a whole different category from grown women saying they were offended
I assume that Biden is being torpedoed by Dem party operatives because his entry into the presidential race is inconvenient.
An Inconvenient Caucasian.
Having said what I said above, yes it’s a cynical attempt to shut him down and let the socialists play. I can recognize that both things are happening.
“Palo Alto woman loses job after confronting MAGA-hat-wearing Starbucks customer
A woman who said she confronted a man for wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat inside a Palo Alto Starbucks was fired from her job at a nearby music store.
On Monday, Rebecca Parker Mankey took pictures of a man wearing a MAGA hat, and wrote in a Facebook post that she “called the entire Starbucks to order and yelled at him.”
“He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever again,” she wrote. “If you see him in this hat, please confront him. You do not want to be the person who didn’t speak up as we slipped into fascism.”
“[I] Wanted him to call the police because I wanted to know his name, where he lived, his wife’s name, and where kids went to school,” she wrote.”
https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/Palo-Alto-Starbucks-MAGA-hat-Facebook-fired-job-13740016.php
https://twitter.com/mattdizwhitlock/status/1113791354054828035
She seems nice…
Especially the implied threat to the kids.
Jeez.
Just as with AOC, she’s been told so many times how evil capitalism and republicans are, she really believes they’re and immediate existential threat.
Damned, people are easily duped.
I think in her case she’s a willing dupe.
https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/03/25/ventura
Holy cow.
Yep, rational thinker right there.
“He will never forget me and will think seriously about wearing that hat in my town ever again,” she wrote. “If you see him in this hat, please confront him. You do not want to be the person who didn’t speak up as we slipped into fascism.”
“[I] Wanted him to call the police because I wanted to know his name, where he lived, his wife’s name, and where kids went to school,” she wrote.”
Best example of cognitive dissonance ever. This should be in all the text books
It will be. As an example of a brave goodthinker being shut down by the system.
It’s not fascism if you’re being fascistic to fascists.
So much for live and let live.
…she said with no trace of irony.
I listened to a few very uninteresting conversations about toxic masculinity in that Starbucks
Confronting?
That’s how I feel whenever I see a Che Guevara Lynch t- shirt.
This is someone who has clearly never gotten the shit kicked out of them before. People who believe there is a non-zero chance that the end result of their behavior might be getting a tooth knocked out or worse do not do things like this.
True. Do you think she violated the NAP by her statements and actions? I’d like some opinions as I can’t decide.
She’s an agent of Starbucks, and as long as they’re okay with her verbally abusing their customers, it’s their store. If the guy doesn’t like it, there’s a peets just down the street.
Um….
“A woman who said she confronted a man for wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat inside a Palo Alto Starbucks was fired from her job at a nearby music store.”
Oh, I thought she was the batista for some reason. Whatever… Couldn’t have happened to a nicer shrew.
I thought she was a customer and worked at a music store in the vicinity. A music store fired her.
Tricky. Part of me says that it’s a case of sticks and stones, so no, she’s just shitting all over the standards of the most basic manners. The part of me that drinks a lot of whiskey says if someone is in your face like that they either want to start a fight or want you to start one for them. I think I’d say, “You know what? If you were a man I’d kick the living shit out of you right now. But I was brought up never to raise my hand to a woman.” That’ll chap her ass but good.
If she called for something/anything that can be considered a violation of NAP, and harassment certainly is in my book, she would be guilty of conspiracy.
Whether or not you think that’s a fair “law” to have on the books, I do think it is acceptable to defend yourself against such calls.
Personally, if he suffered any loss, he should sue the shit out of her. And, I think she should be confronted about what she said and did, until she repents.
Looks like I missed a brouhaha this morning. A donnybrook even.
States sue Trump Admin. because they were given more control over their school lunch programs.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-food-lawsuit-idUSKCN1RF251
Without looking I’m going to bet this has to do with federal subsidies.
*clicks*
It’s even dumber than that.
Can we round up all the states attorneys general and liquidate them? The only purpose they serve anymore is oppressive virtue signaling under color of law.
Just seeing if I understand this. Can the state governments still use the old guidelines if they so chose?
They can do anything they want because ORANGEMANBAD
That _does_ seem like an obvious solution.
Yes, it’s completely asinine.
Yup.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a state sue the Feds because they had more control returned to them.
They’re suing exactly because the AG’s are seeking publicity and future political prospects within s political party defined by opposition to Trump. This has nothing to do with representing their state.
They ought to be lynched.
In NY its main function is shaking down business.
But yeah, they’re down for a good bit of moral grandstanding on occasion.
Am I nuts or is it not a coincidence that the AG in Billions is from the SDNY, and the SDNY is now the next hope to “get him”
That’s a US Attorney, not the Attorney General.
SDNY was the wicked Preet Bharara.
Ok thanks. I’m an idiot
SDNY, a.k.a., the “sovereign district of new york” has long been the realm of political strivers.
Huh. I thought it was southern not sovereign.
It is “southern” – “sovereign” is the joke, since they act like a power unto themselves (and have for a long time)
“It had set new limits for calories”
That’s the main purpose of food, you stupid assholes.
“Excessive sodium intake has been linked to heart disease, high blood pressure and stroke”
In children?
No, and it’s only a correlation, and only in a small percentage of adults.
Excessive anything is bad. Now except puntang
Excessive government is bad. And an oxymoron to these morons.
Govt salt intake recommendations are too low. Remember that they also define someone who has a couple drinks a day as a raging alcoholic.
This is also an entity that colluded (drink!) with the ag lobby to push the food pyramid that has been driving obesity for 4 decades.
And is accepting the premise that we should lower CO2 to near- extinction levels.
Look nobody needs carbon dioxide
Fun fact: well before the sun swallows us, all life on Earth will be extinct as the carbon gets converted to carbonate rock.
Leave me out of this
“what’s the point?”
Some of us read the lynx!
https://thechive.com/2019/04/03/hotness-like-this-is-very-rare-31-photos/
… I usually do
*returns to sad corner*
*also apprehensively awaits Banhammer of Justice*
I’m thinking it would be more of a really nasty cat butt.
Q getting the banhammer of justice good and hard
I’m shocked that wasn’t a Pornhub link.
Maybe I have some weird kind of flu.
Irish flu
Irish curse?
“She don’t know; there ain’t no Irish curse.”
I’m not hungover, but my whole upper body hurts.
Any chance of bronchitis? Sounds like you have something respiratory gearing up to punch you in the face.
My chest hurts, but I’m not coughing, and my lungs sound clear.
Did you use muscles you normally don’t? Lift something heavy, show off your pushups to some pretty thing?
Nope.
Describe the pain, where it is, what makes it worse, and how long it’s been going on. And how did it start.
I’ve had this bad cough/phlegm build up/ cold symptoms thing going on for 2 months. It might fo away dtor a few days but then comes back.
I’m fucked? It will get better when weather warms up?
As a big drinker, could the above the indicate something like esophageal cancer or something?
Tuberculosis?
*bursts in*
I’ve got gonorrhea!
I told you to stay away from the farm animals.
Stop drinking for a week, if it persists you probably have bad AIDS.
To lynx purveyors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wivXgn75lw
What does Joe Biden’s hair smell like?
Shame.
Is Trans Am a smell?
Pine tree air freshener.
That’s perfect. I bet he does smell like a 1984 trans am
C’mon man, you can link to it.
Dapper Dan and fail?
‘natti light and bongwater ?
Moonshine
A pint of Pinaud Clubman and ear wax.
Ha! Clubman is some foul stuff.
?
That syntax doesn’t parse.
*shakes head in ashamed embarrassment for SW*
It’s all subjective anyway. Hell, I like Tabac which smells like musk mixed with crushed flowers of some sort.
It smells like haircuts and old men. Now that I’m old enough to have my own gravitas I pay $10 extra to get my hair cut by youngish women who will also give me a scalp massage and a neck rub. I walk away smelling like Axe, but it’s worth it for the G-rated champagne room treatment.
I once got my hair cut in Dongguan, China. I was the second American to use their services. There must have been 25-30 people in the barber shop and I was the only customer. A very attractive lady took me upstairs and washed my hair – twice, then she conditioned my hair -twice. After that, she dug out this pouch of what looked like lock picking instruments. She wanted to clean the wax out of my ears. There was no way I was going to let her anywhere near my eardrums with her steel tools. So instead, I convinced her to blow
medry my hair and take me back downstairs. Then another person cut my hair. After that the whole barbershop took a picture with me.I’m fucking famous in Dongguan! My ugly mug is on the wall!
I’ve had that exact experience in China a few times. It’s eerie.
Old Spice.
I was gonna say that, then I looked in my bathroom cabinet and felt chagrin.
Joe? Is that you?
As the deodorant package says, “If your grandfather hadn’t worn it, you wouldn’t be here today.”
I want to start a deodorant company just to use that.
I actually think it was on Old Spice for a while, so you’re not first to market RC
Back when Bruce Campbell was their spokesman.
I love the “Fresh” variant of Old Spice – but it’s getting harder and harder to find.
I’ll ship you all the fresh you want if you send me some high endurance in original scent.
I actually have a bottle of the after-shave in storage (just checked to confirm) that I’ve been saving for about a decade for when my current bottle runs out. (I use it very rarely.)
Are you referring to the deodorant? Surprised Original isn’t available but yeah everything is all Extreme-this and Edgy-that now.
This beer doesn’t sound like it’s to my tastes, but the outrage about it entertains me.
I’ve never been the biggest fan of Kundera, but this seem particularly relevant.
https://spectator.us/soviet-union-making-joke/
In Soviet Russa, joke makes you!
https://twitter.com/DBloom451/status/1112117649985671173
LOLOLOL
That can’t be real?
It’s fake, but accurate.
“Firms Tied To Fusion GPS, Christopher Steele Were Paid $3.8 Million By Soros-Backed Group
A nonprofit group partially funded by billionaire activist George Soros paid firms tied to Fusion GPS and dossier author Christopher Steele more than $3.8 million in 2017 to provide research and analysis to “government entities,” according to IRS filings.
The payments made by The Democracy Integrity Project are more than three times what the DNC and the Clinton campaign paid Fusion GPS and Steele during the 2016 presidential campaign to investigate Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia.
Perkins Coie, the law firm that represented the DNC and Clinton campaign, paid $1 million to Fusion GPS in 2016 to investigate Trump. Fusion GPS in turn paid Steele, a former MI6 officer, nearly $170,000 for a project that resulted in the infamous Steele dossier.
Steele’s report, which alleged a “well-coordinated conspiracy” between the Trump campaign and the Russian government, has come under intense scrutiny in the wake of the special counsel’s findings in the 22-month Russia probe.
Daniel J. Jones, a former staffer to California Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein, founded TDIP on Jan. 31, 2017, seemingly to resume Democrats’ investigation of Trump’s possible links to Russia.
Jones operated what he called a “shadow media organization helping the government” to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election. He also told the FBI in March 2017 that he received funding from a group of between seven and 10 wealthy donors and that he planned to provide information to federal investigators, the press and lawmakers.”
https://dailycaller.com/2019/04/01/fusion-gps-steele-soros-millions/
Damn. The lager it took me weeks to make never carbonated. Tastes good but it’s flat.
I’m consoling myself with an ’88 Bordeaux.
One of the best beers I ever had was a Wit, brewed by my little brother with coriander. But it was flat, too. Still really really good.
Ouch. You may want to pull them from the fridge, and stash them in a ~60 F area for another couple of weeks (after a gentle swirl to kick any yeast back up into suspension). Glass bottles I’m assuming?
Couldnt he just put his wort into a soda stream?
I won’t lie, my first reaction was horror and disgust, but, as I think about it, isn’t that just force carbing your beer one bottle at a time? Why wouldn’t it work, for a given value of work?
It would be, but I don’t know what pressure the soda stream would carb it to, and you don’t want to play around with pressure and glass. Most pops are carbed to a higher volume then beer as well.
You’d also need some kind of seal, or you’d need to do it in the Sodastream bottles that fit the threading of the device itself, too. The latter solves your bottle bomb problem, but I have no idea how you’d accurately measure the pressure.
Give this man a Nobel !
They’ve been in a closet in a 60 degree room for two weeks. I’m wondering if it fermented too far out before bottling? My final SG was 1.000 before adding honey. What if I add a touch more diluted honey to each bottle and give it another two weeks? I’m using swing top pint bottles.
The ironic thing is I have a tendency to over carbonate.
I’d avoid adding more diluted honey, you don’t want to create bottle bombs. Lager yeast generally ferments more slowly, I’d let them go for at least three weeks at ~ 60 and see how they are.
Rest, they shall. And I’ll give them a shake to stir the yeast.
How long has it been bottled? I’ve had batches take two-three times what it is ‘supposed’ to take to carbonated.
Oh and also ho many bottles have you tried, I’ve had some where one bottle is flat and the nest isn’t?
It’s been two weeks and I opened two bottles. I’m doing nano batches, so I have five pints left.
On the off-chance that you wander back here, I have picked up a couple of these:
https://www.williamsbrewing.com/5-Liter-KegLand-Mini-Keg-P4628.aspx
These micro-kegs and accessories are on sale. They are great for force carbonating a one-gallon batch.
QUIT SHOWING ME THINGS I HAVE TO BUY!!!
Ordered.
I’ll quick when you stop asking for it.
Set the pressure to about 12 PSI on the micro regulator then put it in the fridge for a couple of days.
When it comes time to serve, you’ll need to take the pressure down to 3 or 4 PSI.
Hi Suthen and Hayeksplosives and others. Thanks again for the tips last night/this morning. I am very familiar with a lot of the hard sf theoretical designs….my current interest is potential modifications of existing systems.
In my current line of work I have ideas, etc coming out my ears, but I still haven’t figured out how to submit any of them to the right people. I need to figure out how to get in on the wargaming circuit or something else. Haven’t had much luck with email submissions or other things – or through my previous “employers”. Not sure if there’s a direct line for recommendations yet or what. Very frustrating when it comes to decreasing costs, increasing lethality, etc, etc.
You’re welcome!
Always happy to help find new ways of destroying things.
That’s a pretty good song. Hi everybody!
Hi, Dr. Nick !
Winner! I also would have accepted “Hey Norm”.
Finally got around to checking the bolt on my M&P 15/22 with the gauge S&W sent me. Passed the check.
https://www.smith-wesson.com/mp15-22-consumer-safety-alert
In case you own one and haven’t heard yet.
Thanks. Just ordered the inspection gauge. I probably wouldn’t have even heard about it if not for you.
??
Jeebus. Didn’t S&W have another quality issue like ten years ago?
Stop fucking up if you want people to buy your damn guns. It’s as if they’re trying to do the government’s job for them.
I have a number of s&w products. All are very good – some new, some old – no lemons.
I think I need to go lie down and watch something stupid. Should I pick Poison Ivy 2 or Poison Ivy 3?
MSNBC
If you have never seen “Spring Breakers” I highly recommend it for the viewing purposes that you sound like you need right now. Thank me later.
Bring that funk. Good to see another project from these guys. Will probably preorder this one.
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/04/daniel-zimmerman/breaking-california-judge-reinstates-high-capacity-magazine-ban-as-of-5pm-friday/
Palmetto State Armory was selling “California special” mag packs today.
Don’t worry, when the 9th hears the case I’m sure they’ll follow the constitution and rule accordingly.
*yuk, yuk, yuk*
Yeah well, I guess you need to get overnight shipping now.
So I’m writing this on my smartphone with a speech-to-text converter I’m wondering if I should go and upgrade maybe get a microphone headset kind of deal writers out there my question to be just be kind of Handy to go ahead and do things and then I can go ahead and put them in at work or at her and Sir editing the stuff so I can maybe become a better writer I can’t stand piping any help would be greatly appreciated
Whoa, editing needed
HEY YUFUS !
Sup Tres!!!
Missed ya buddy!
Tall fucking Cans!!
Throws some commas and periods at Yusef
Thats why I would throw it into an editor, doesnt do punctuation
Just say “comma” or “period” where they belong.
Dragon yes, this app used a key based thing, Illl let you know if it’s cool
Interesting. I find it strange that voice recognition is now better than autospell, which sucks and seems to be getting worse. I’ve read some Kurzweil, and he sure seems to be a pretty good prognosticator.
True I’m actually amazed that a free speech-to-text converter works as well as this one does he had it does only one flaw
Re: Boeing earlier today. The 787 issue is a big deal, but this is just getting nuts: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/04/02/air-force-again-halts-kc-46-deliveries-after-more-debris-found/
If I was more conspiracy minded (and slightly more buzzed) I’d think they’ve got some hippie employees trying to f over the military just for the hell of it. (the plant is in WA). I have no idea how quality control has fallen so far as to have FOD (foreign object debris) in virtually every delivery in one of the biggest single contracts for the company. Just makes no sense.
Sabot tage, shoe in the works
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z5rRZdiu1UE
Close enough
Perfect…
Sup sup sup
Best song they ever did.
Needs more cowbell
Alternatively:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrlPuveLAAw
Alternatively: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5mjUF2j9dgA
I’m not sure how I feel about that
Most of his collaborations are very good. Some of his Leo only bits are good. This rates a meh from me. Still, grading on a curve, this is pretty good vs new music.
I think they’re pushing production and things are getting sloppy.
That I noticed this particular application is that it keeps giving me ads for a drug Recovery Center wonder what that means
And it misses the first 3 words
Can it core a apple?
It means you’re not drinking enough?
I’m tryin..
Something I found out that might be useful to NYS residents:
There is a certain brand of self-defense ammunition (that I will not name) that I can’t find in stores locally. I tried buying it online, but it seems that sgammo, luckygunner, cheaperthandirt, midway et. al won’t. ship to NY unless you have a class 1 FFL, a NYS seller of ammo certificate or a NYS keeper of ammo certificate.
But… the manufacturer WILL ship it. They charge the same price as what I was finding it for online, and their shipping costs were lower. I don’t know if they’re legally allowed to do what they did, so I won’t say who it is but maybe I’ll encode it into my next column or something.
If it’s not legal to have ammo shipped to you legally without papers, don’t tell me. I’m avoiding mens rea by deciding that manufacturers have an exemption when selling directly.
9 more days til I’m out of NY(work)/NJ(live)
!!!!
Congrats, ARV.
Not Adahn, can you get a PO Box in PA, VT or other close state? Or would you be violating some or other state law?
Excellent question.
I don’t know.
Have it shipped to me. You’re welcome to pick it up any weekend.
My ups guy is used to ammo cases.
Damn, I’m glad to live in FL.
Hey, Not Adahn, hold my beer while I try this!
Sounds sketchy.
*happy to live in a free state*
Yup.
My boss invited me to his range next weekend, so I’ll get to try this stuff out. I got 1 box each of the standard and +P versions of both the 65 and 90 grain loadings.
admiralackbaritsatrap.jpg
mebbe, but the boxes arrived UPS this afternoon.
Oh, and to add to the shadiness, the package only had a DOT class 9 placard on it, not a class 1.
Have a ripping good time.
Having ammo shipped to my door is one of the few things they haven’t banned in NJ yet.
So, I got a government profile barrel from a store out-of-state, which is not Maryland legal for an AR-15 unless it’s pre-2015. I’ve noticed some vendors are more vigilant about some things than others, and I’m not sure if it’s just human error, or a lack of giving an ess, or if other vendors act in an abundance of caution.
My hours so f***** up right now I’m just glad to be able to shitpost Ted
My hours are fucked up too. Ten-hour days, and Saturdays.
No more evening links? Thanks Trump. ?
OrangeManBad is harshing my buzz.
‘We went up to his house, and he had a girl there, who, her only job was to roll joints”
https://metalheadzone.com/glam-metal-star-says-working-with-nickelback-was-hell-of-an-experience/
I’m sorry, is it ok for me to go OT now? I don’t want to put anyone’s knickers in a bunch.
I plan on going OT on links posted in the comments. See how you guys like it!
Seemsquitelibertarian.
Knickers should be in a twist, It’s undies which are in a bunch. The most properest phrase is ‘panties in a wad’. It’s like you people don’t even try.
I’m glad that we always have an undergarment symantics expert online to correct my novice mistakes. Thank you!
“‘panties in a wad’, at the bottom of my purse.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKLNyZjIQyY
It’s got a great beat and I can dance to it.
Nope, Chad Krueger still sucks ass.
Hard to disagree but at least he doesn’t use auto tune.
NSFL
WTF is wrong with you?
Crossing a cat with an octopus is pure evil.
Github would like a word.
Meta.
https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1113923632512761857
Lol
Never read the comments. I can’t even imagine how exhausting it must be to go through life constantly triggered by stupid shit.
I used to think online political shills for pay is a myth dreamed up by people unhappy that their safe spaces are being invaded by strangely informed and persistent commenters… but instant-reaction Twitter handles make a good case for it.
TRUMP GOLF COUNT: 196 ZOMG!!
Why’d anyone want Obama off the links, anyway?
Re: notwithstanding clause
The actual reason it was created was apparently to appease Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and New Brunswick.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_33_of_the_Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and_Freedoms
Also Margaret Thatcher had to pass it.
Good lord.
So, some of us were watching a cool Volvo C202 Laplander on bringatrailer.com. The auction ended today,
At $45K !!!!!
I officially know nothing about cars.
That is a great fricking site. Too many cool old vehicles, the temptation! I just drove by their offices, I didn’t know they were here in SF. I already have one old beast (53 Willys) I don’t have the garage space for another!
I have to stop looking at that site, since it is full of temptation.
I’m more of a this kinda guy:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1980-international-harvester-scout-ii-2/
But Tundra doesn’t need to worry, there is an even better Volvo troop transport for the North woods.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1978-volvo-bv-202/
Haha!
It’s on my watch list.
Love the site. Such interesting cars and great analysis. I am happy with my little car, but the day will come when I need something else.
Me like the Porshces too. Hey, anyone got an extra 70 grand laying around to lend me?
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1966-chevrolet-corvette-29/
I’ve got some range.
That Scout is sweet, though it’s been a while since I’ve driven a manual.
Fuck yeah, I’d paint it green though, save for the white top. It’s criminal that the DoT has made Rovers so rare here.
It’s like riding a bike, Slum. You never forget, though you may grind a few times.
Defender coming back to the U.S. in 2020
Maybe some day I will get my Series III back on the road.
How about some pics of the WIllys, dude?
Why do you hate us?
Ha! Here is one. It’s in pretty sweet shape, but I need to do a top end rebuild on the motor. It’s on my to-do list for the next couple months. 3 young boys and my business give me little free time.
https://imgur.com/gallery/qGcbAqS
Fucking sweet! A guy down the street from me did his in the same numbers as the one he drove in VN. It looks like it rolled off the line yesterday!
A good project for you and the boys!
Thanks! They’re still a bit young to do much but hinder (3, 6, and 7), but the oldest is already mechanically minded. Doom actually turned me on to the listing a couple years back. An old lieutenant colonel had it for a long time and died and his kids didn’t want it.
The worst part of the charter is the “reasonable and justifiable limitations” part and how property rights where excluded thanks to the NDP.
We are entering 令和 (Reiwa) era on May 1. Sayonara 平成 (Heisei). Too bad they didn’t choose 真顔 (Maga) which means “serious look”.
http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0005649882
But at the end of his reign, Naruhito can say “I offered
the worldJapan order!”https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_policy_in_France
Let’s talk about how Parisian French is considered by France to be the True Language and all others should be suppressed for national unity. And this was a key aspect of the French education system.
If only the attackers had spoken in French instead of Arabic.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47799288?ocid=socialflow_twitter
Meh. The French have always been, are now, and will forever be, smug assholes.
*i do not speak French, have limited knowledge, at best, of French history, and have never been to France nor actually known a Frenchman. *
I know a little French, have been to France, and have been acquainted with several millennial-era Frenchmen recently. Your assessment is accurate.
That’s me: the stopped clock of Glibertarians
State power is often used to enforce language policy. I posit that part of the freedom of association is linguistic liberty.
The old-schools liberals in Britain and France were very fond of linguistic conformity. Perhaps the modern progs aren’t as illiberal as they appear?
Well, so were Ben Franklin and Alexander Hamilton.
The public school system was supposed to save us from the ignorant masses, the Catholics, the immigrants (at least in North America) and other minority groups. Worked out swell didn’t it?
It can be argued that for its first 100 years, the public school system did was it was intended to do – convert a nation of farmers into docile factory workers. The problem is that while the world evolved past the need for 19th century Taylorist management, the school curriculum never did.
Hamilton was also a protectionist which today is supposed to terrible cuz Trump but okay when Hamilton did it.
And like Trump, he was a bit of a Judeophile.
Hamilton was also concerned about immigration. Who does that sound like?
It is pretty funny who the Democrats today loath their founders but adore a major figure in what became the Republican party who also had very Trump-like views.
All Trump needs is one hip-hop musical in which he is played by Idris Elba and the country will finally be united again.
I’m surprised that hasn’t been written yet though I doubt it will be complimentary…
I’m sure Broadway and The Met are furiously Trumpenizing many of the classics as we speak.
I forgot modern Democrats love free trade (I guess?) but increasingly think capitalism is evil so I’m not sure how that works but I’m sure it gets their leaders and their backers rich.
The Emperor Trump?
Of Thee I Trump?
I’ve written plays with songs in before, SF and I should get in on this.
I’ve written plays with songs in, SF and I should get on this!
Fine, but I still insist on “my bag”, and not the ignorant “my bad”.
Didn’t Orwell say something like that 60 years ago?
That was two Republics ago.
The English are guilty of this too. This 1847 Government Inquiry flat out called the Welsh Language evil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treachery_of_the_Blue_Books
The English suppressed Welsh for centuries, with varying degrees of ruthlessness. Yet it’s still around, if only on life-support.
Can you blame them?. I think he was summoning a Great Old One.
That’s… scary talented. He doesn’t look like a native, either.
He’s from Cardiff.
Naomi Watts can swing it too.
That is one swarthy Welshman.
That must make his girlfriend happy with a tongue that agile.
Bill Kristol
@BillKristol
It’s one thing, and not crazy, to argue Trump’s better than Clinton and some good has been done over the past two years. It’s another thing, and pretty crazy, to argue that we need four more years of Trump or even that we should run the risk of four more years of Trump.
Regardless of who he’s running against? Bill finds out in the responses that he hasn’t earned the love of the left.
Link: https://mobile.twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1113849004528480256
Bill Kristol is just hoping we get an American Stalin elected so that he can emulate his hero Trotsky.
Kristol has long proven he’s an idiot and Twitter continues to prove it’s a cesspool of irrational dumbfucks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popish_Plot
This is interesting: at least 22 innocent people were executed thanks to a made-up conspiracy theory heavily doused in xenophobia and religious bigotry. This hoax was exploited by John Locke’s patron and lead to the Whigs and Tory Parties and the Habeas Corpus Act. Huh…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rye_House_Plot
Locke was also implicated in a plot to assassinate the King and overthrow the government. And he did support the eventual overthrow of said government complete with foreign backing.
OK, almost 600 posts….gotta get in early (before wading through this…sea) so people know I’m alive.
BTW, thanks for the second opinion, editing that audio melted my brain, I wasn’t sure what the joke was anymore.
wrote and recorded the rest of the ep tonight, hopefully it will premere next week. Since people seem to like the trial gag, I might be able to get either an article or video up every week, building the glibs brand.
Glad to help. Like I said, I was fooled–and I liked it.
Makes note to prank Digby by ordering him a good looking MTF hooker.
Hahahaha, OK, you got me on…wait, is that a thing? Like, really?
/NOT a summoning of HM’s links
Depends, do you think she’s hot?
Hmmm….meh. Not someone I would have hit on in my youth, tbh.
I would be mildly surprised to learn they didn’t have a Y chrome, if that’s the case. But I recognize the femme style, much like Blair White.
Alright, I can’t fuck up my sleep schedule too much, tomorrow night I have to flip and go with that 4hr sleep shit, so I gotta get some more tonight. Huzzah Sir Digby.
Huzzah, CPRM!
Now you’re getting it. Post then read. Post then read. Repeat.
Yeah, bruh…that kinda sucks.
But so does the alternative, so whatamigonnado? Get off night shift??
All I can tell you is it’s the only way I can get into a conversation before the thread goes dead for night.
Oh, so that’s your secret!
“It’s a profit deal!”
You could CTL+F for my posts. It’s like you don’t even care! I don’t even know you anymore!
Hey, you bug out “early” sometimes, so….I don’t know how to finish that thought.
Yeah, ‘early’ like when I’m here til 12am my time when I have to wake up 4am my time, paltry amounts of my sleep, how did you know!?
https://mobile.twitter.com/NickKristof/status/842409217793396736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fd-32049283201300687579.ampproject.net%2F1903281741200%2Fframe.html
I remember this classic from two-years back. And Amash thinks he is a moderate…
I mean this gets to big problem of libertarianism: many of them want to be non-confrontational nice guys who don’t come across as Republicans. Problem is even the mildest libertarian spending cuts will be vociferously opposed so this approach doesn’t work…
A coworker said “It’s time to kick this into touch” and I had to go google it to find out what he meant.
Effing rugby.
I just say “Time to punt”.
Just imagine: if the American Revolution hadn’t succeeded, we’d all be speaking English today.
Ay der wuv, we’d be won upin ’em on cockney, no kidney pie!
How’s the make things go boom business?
::shudders::
I demand my Murican!
/The horror…… The horror……
Writing, check! Audio editing, check! Animation, check! All that’s left is video editing, upload and submission! (and no Creosote Achilles, not that kind of submission)
https://mises.org/library/left-and-right-prospects-liberty
Rithbard in his New Left Phase
Yes Lenin , Marx and Mao were sorta libertarian.
Who is Rithbard?
Dammit. Murray Rothbard.
CPRM–asking the questions we all want answered.
Yes, I was asking that, myself.
Um French Revolutionary Wars?
Glossed over how the original extreme left were the Mountain, the enragees, the Jacobins, Brabeuf. Also Bastiat was a center-leftist in his time.
If urbanization is inherently libertarian then why are the urbanites politicians so terrible?
Yes those Communist Revolutions and China, Russia and Yugoslavia are so libertarian.
Thanks for being a good sport Winston, with all the shit we give you, but it should also be clear by the formation of this place there is no ONE TRUE PROPHET of libertariansim. People are flawed, make mistakes and we need not adhere to the stupidity of the past, or the cult of personality. That is one that is truly great about this philosophy, it’s not about coming up with an all consuming ideology on how everyone should live and what they should do, but about the truth of our reality, and how to best optimize human potential while not limiting it. I guess that and cartoons and titty pics.
https://mises.org/library/never-dull-moment/html/c/515
Rothbard attacked future gun rights activist for his apologia for Mao while ignoring his own starry eyed look at Mao.
What I’ll say about all these things you bring to my/our attention, Winston, is: At least they aren’t censoring, or, memory-holing this stuff.
Mises does have a cult-like attitude toward Rothbard so he can do no wrong to them.
Rothbard was also an avowed fan of the Leninist revolutionary vanguard so as far as he was concerned whatever sort of alliances he thinks might bring about the libertarian revolution is the correct view at the time and always the correct view at the time. Very Stalinist frankly.
Okay, get some actual fucking PROOF, dickhead.
Here is Rothbard on “Lenin’s strategic advice”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/tamingcynicism.wordpress.com/2014/12/18/rothbards-leninism/amp/
Okay, gonna have to take this up tomorrow, if ever. But I’ll say these couple things:
1) Taking someone’s strategic advice doesn’t necessarily mean adopting their philosophy. A general can learn from Napoleon or von Clausewitz without becoming either.
2) Sometimes people are wrong. If Rothbard ever really embraced communism, he was just fucking wrong.
Don’t believe it, Winny? Go to Caracas and check it out for yourself.
Uh, your link points out that some academic named Steven Halbrook was a fan of Mao. Rothbard was critical. Do you even science, bro? Go Tulpa somewhere else.
Wait–you READ his link?
What is going on around here?!?!
Sir Digby: he had a couple; one was far more harsh than the other.
It’s 4 AM, I’ll stop writing until I can be more diligent.
God, it IS late….I want to start my weekend!
I posted something Rothbard said about Mao approvingly in 1965 and then posted something very critical Rothbard said about Mao in 1972. I never suggested otherwise.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Halbrook
Unless I am mistaken Rothbard was critiquing this guy.
“the Maoists have concentrated Leninist efforts more closely on the overthrow of the major bulwarks of the Old Order in the modern world”
That’s an approving statement? Really seems descriptive to me.
‘Winston has concentrated his efforts into being a pain in the ass of Glibs’.
Is that an approving statement?
I didn’t see the 1972 comment, and don’t care. The rest of his work, just like the rest of everyone else’s, stands on it’s merits. If those works have none, g’bye, won’t read ’em. If they have some, read them in their entirety, and judge them on that.
And yeah, Rothbard probably was critiquing that guy. That’s what I wrote. In non-ambiguous language.
He called Karl Marx an advocate of a “Left-wing, relatively libertarian strand” of socialism and that Lenin “far more congenial to the libertarian than that of Karl Marx” and in turn that China is “a still more left-wing tendency” that is” scorning Right-wing Marxist compromises with the State”.
And he is clearly using Leftist in a positive sense here since there is “no longer a “Left” movement to lead a struggle against the State and against the unbreached remainder of the Old Order”
Conversely 7 years later he says that there is no common ground between libertarians and “communist anarchists” and the notion that there is anything libertarian about Mao as being absurd.
Except your post seemed to suggest that my two links had no connection to each other but they did.
And the reason I posted a link to “Stephen_Halbrook” was because I am pretty sure Rothbard was referring to that man specifically as supposed to someone else named “Stephen P. Halbrook”.
Since Halbrook has done legal service for the NRA I referred to him as a “future gun rights activist”. I do find interesting that this guy went from an apologist for Mao to fighting for gun rights and now sits at the Independent Institute.
I know its late and deadposting is the best posting…
I get an email from my middle childs teacher. Apparently my kids has effectively learned to use self-depreciating humor to diffuse situations with his peers.
This is infuriating his teacher. I responded to the teacher that if he would like, my son could just pop the kid in the nose that is trying to goad my son instead. I also informed him I will never tell my child to sit quietly when someone is attacking his character or principles.
Of course, I left it up to my son to take responsibility and actually talk to his teacher and I am not going to fight his battles for him.
Not knowing how old your son is, but playing a character was the way I made it through HS. In school I had a partner in crime, anyone would assume we were great friends, but outside of school we barely hung out even through we were neighbors, made a great comedy duo in school though (now he’s my neighbor again in adulthood, and we say hello when we see each other in town, the best kind of friend) it was a self deprecating role, but it got me through that shitshow of being a teen.
Presumed correction. I mean, you live in Wisconsin.
Heh.
Exactly. My headaches of course come from my kids that find the SJW and PC culture disgusting and take every opportunity to let those around them know they don’t subscribe to it.
Best was I was parking the car at the supermarket and this uncouth of a woman had her phone plastered to her ear while trying to back up. I rolled the window down to dress her down and called her “retarded piece of shit” and the one son said…”oh so she’s a feminist then”
He got a coke that day.
*single manly tear rolls down cheek*
Every part of that is epic. From the shit-headedness of the woman in question, to the add-on bite at the end.
Oh I am surely raising shitlords. They like to shoot guns, throw axes, make jokes, believe in sticks and stone, can hitch a trailer, among otherthings. We aint country folk either.
They know life isnt fair, how to earn a dollar, what it means to be taxed (we tax their allowance to teach them how shitty it is, except it really remains their money), and no never, ever, talk to the police.
Hmmm….Maybe I can interest you in a few subscriptions to
VibeShitlord Magazine. 😉I’m presuming that the fact that he has learned it being noteworthy means he is young…? To that end, you running interference for him in this isn’t necessarily bad (is it?).
Of course, I’m wondering why this is an issue at all. Is he supposed to runtelldat to teacher when it happens? Or, going for soft tissue, as you suggested? What responsibility isn’t being covered by him, according to Krabapple?
The interference I run is getting the teachers side and letting my son know I will listen to his side.
On the otherhand, he is old enough…just anout to go into high school to be able to talk with his teacher.
For instance, the story I got from the teacher was my son was making fun of down syndrome. My son’s side was a kid was making fun of his lazy eyelid and hos reponse was “Thats because I have down syndrome”.
To me, he knows how to steal the thunder of someone trying to make fun of him and that is powerful. He wasnt making fun it, just used it to own the ribbing he was getting.
Ahhh…OK. I have a better picture now. Yeah, for a teacher, she is either very dense, or, not very good at summarizing/paraphrasing others. Because, that is most definitely not ‘making fun of DS’.
So…yeah–I got no critique or whatnot. If I had had a dad, I would have wanted him to do the same. Well, I say that in my late 40’s, but you get it.
If he is telling you the truth, that’s very clever.
Out of my three…he is my honest one. He has no qualms telling me when he is in the wrong. I am more inclined to believe him.
My oldest can lie a little too good and the youngest is a bit dense. Love em all though
Well shit, I’m still up.
As someone who is known in my family as someone able to both diffuse situations easily without violence and also having the best temper of my family (like being the tallest midget, but still) I’ll just say that being able to use techniques like self-deprecating humor is an incredibly valuable skill. It’s gratifying to butt heads, but it doesn’t get you anywhere most of the time. Better still is to take the punch, so to speak, and maneuver. To stay with the family example, I was famous for being essentially immune to discipline, because I would just let my dad or whoever lose their mind, agree, and then do whatever the hell I wanted to anyway. An aunt of mine was talking with me about it when I was in my 20s and I told her, “I didn’t need anyone to approve of what I was doing, I just needed them to stop talking to me about it. I can’t convince my dad that I should be allowed to stay out all night on a Tuesday, and even if I could win a fight against him I wouldn’t want to because it would complicate things. But, if I’m agreeing with him he can’t argue with me, and I sure as hell can sneak out of the house once he’s asleep.”
Conflict isn’t usually beneficial. It’s much better to get what you want without having to fight at all. Better still to get the people who want to fight you to think they’ve won and then give you what you want anyway.
Pedants gonna pedant.
Defuse, not diffuse.
No, the young fellow is using humor to get the bullies to pick on ALL the other children! {Winks at Animal, thumbs suspenders, activates spinning bow-tie, soft-shoes off stage}
What a great day. Wife and kid are riding around the park on a bicycle built for two and I get to sit on a bench drinking afternoon beers while enjoying the cherry blossoms.
Pic from the station: https://imgur.com/a/Eo2EWMW
Beautiful. Enjoy the day, Straff.
Thx, boys. Hope you guys enjoy the weekend.
This can’t be true–it’s dark outside!
Yeah, kick back and enjoy that sight.
Very pretty. I assume its photoshopped because I don’t see Godzilla or Mothra anywhere.
Chafed makes a salient point–Where are all the kaiju? And, I was led to believe there were used panty vending machines on virtually every corner.
Photoshop confirmed.
Kaiju panties vending machine? Hmm, business chance.
Well, only if you can get ahold of that much silk and cotton.
Some of the chicks I picked up at the bar when I was single… May well have been part Kaiju.
Rock Bottom, eh?
Note: one of the greatest guitar solos ever, and probably the best from the 70’s.
Also: good for you. Wish we’d been hanging out.
Dammit, I keep this up, it’s going to be BP’ing links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx52ucWcbds
B-b-but….I like 10cc.
I mean, I was wondering where the solo was in the song…
Sir Digby: I tried a few comedic counter-posts, and I couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t suck.
So yeah, I’ve just been fucking up HTML posts the last couple days.
On the positive, you like 10cc, so there ya go.
On the negative, I almost never used to FU HTML links. Rock Bottom, indeed. At least it’s got a good solo.
Yeah, my post fu and link fu have had better days, too.
Also, if you came up with something that sucked, you’re doing better than me.
Or, maybe it’s an homage…?
Mebbe, SD. I think we’d be better off at one of straffin’s Asian bars.
I’m not unintrigued by the thought….
I’ll allow it.