EDITOR’S NOTE 1: SF was supposed to just put up the shell and NOT publish, but he got trigger happy. I’ll leave this here, but bump it at 4:00pm Eastern. So, so meta.
EDITOR’s NOTE 2: I pulled this down so we wouldn’t get on the wrong side of Secret Nazi President, so I added a couple of links.
A nice piece on the Hong Kong protest movement as a self-organizing (leaderless) movement.
Prime Minister Boor-is shows Macron his balls.
SugarFree’s Dem Deathwatch
As it stands, only ten of the remaining eighteen are qualifying for the next set of debates on September 12th: Julián Castro, Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Beto O’Rourke, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and one-trick-pony Andrew Yang.
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606 responses to “Thursday Afternoon Links”
ehm?
Shh, don’t let them know.
damn to late
Damn to late is how suburbians in hell schedule their parties.
In before this post gets disappeared
I hope they leave the comments in for later.
ditto!
I am John Titor
Confessions thread was a few nights back.
Oh..did you hear Tesla is suing Walmart?
Something about supercenters being unfit for solar panels?
What happened to that guy?
He’s hanging out over on the Discord.
How drunk am I? Just lost an entire day.
upside: no more work
How very European of you. No here in America we work until the work is done. That’s whycome we saved your ass in Dubbua Dubbua One *AND* Two *AND* beat those damn ruskies.
saved your ass in Dubbua Dubbua One – maybe you should have sat that one out
I don’t think we really saved your ass in World World 2 either. Unless you love the commies.
Just going to say Romanians might have a different view of WWII and beating the Russians.
‘Through Vampire Eyes. The Story of how Romanians view WWII.’ Foreward by Sandra Romaine.
Romania cannot complain about the outcome of WWI.
*looks at the 1895 Austria-Hungary map*
Sorry dude, we tried but you kept being on the wrong side.
I think there was no more work because you had no more job after being blackout drunk all day.
Lies! Russia just played the long game! The Commies and Socialists told me the the Orange Hitler is a Rooshun puppet!!!
I’m still working, started last night at 930pm, Romanian sissy boys
Meh, 9:30 pm Romanian is just 2.7 Hectares in the USA.
I laughed
How many Evans is that?
40 Evans to the Hogshead.
I blame Canada.
Whoah!
/Keano
We’ve entered a wormhole through time. Don’t look at your clocks, it’s 4 PM Eastern right now.
Don’t be silly, the links have been up for at least twenty minutes.
… that makes it 4:20.
Like woah, dude.
I wish. Lab Picnic is at 16:00.
I love free cheeseburgers.
Just remember – you get what you pay for.
Look, once the experiment is over, they’ve got all this spare Labrador meat just sitting around. Sure, they *should* put it in those red bags with the funny glyphs on them… OR we have free burgers.
What would you pick?
this is why I charge women 10k an hour for my company.
What’s that in U.S. dollars?
$20.
You know, just like downtown.
Hei it’s just 4 Lei per dollar OKAY
Now you’re just making stuff up.
Hey Pie, do you know much about Croatia? We’re headed there for a business trip next month, with some time for touring around a bit before heading home.
You need appropriate attire for your trip
Nice shirt! May have to pick one up for the trip.
Why is it pronounced Cro-ay-sha and not Cro-teeah?
While we’re at it. Why Ger-ma-nee and not Ger-Many?
I mean, there are many Germans no? Wouldn’t it make more sense.
/takes sip of sparkling blood orange and watermelon beverage.
Crow-uh-TEE-uh
there’s a fucky a right fucking there, sheesh
+1 Tan-ZANY-uh.
/how I always thought it was pronounced
That’s what he charges, nobody says he has customers.
All he needs to do is spray on some glitter and use the accent. He can score about half the women in the States just playing Vampire.
NOBODY likes sparkly vampires.
According to Milton Friedman, free cheeseburgers don’t really exist. Sorry.
I thought Milton Friedman did have free cheeseburgers, but they were mostly made from pencil shavings.
Hey! Where are the links?
They were taken so they could be redistributed in the later links articles/threads.
I need future info about the stock market! I could be rich!!
Short companies with Woke management.
Isn’t that all of them now?
Damn. 3:00 already!
How green is St Greta’s Ark? Er, not very
Soon the common folk will have to learn what “organic” means. Their brains would explode if they read that all the resins are organic (organic = good) followed by petroleum (petroleum = bad).
Words have meaning.
They already redefined “organic” (all food is organic, goddammit). I imagine there is some amount of deprogramming necessary to teach organic chemistry these days.
Not salt
carbohydrates
hydrocarbons
yeah: fuel
I love pointing out the chemistry definition of organic. They either say “Nuh-uh!” or begin to tear up as they realize that everything they know is wrong.
I’m worn out arguing with the New Experts.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Half the mechanics I ever worked with couldn’t fully understand a multimeter. Ohm my.
Is that a current problem?
Shocking, if so.
Only if they resist
Watt are you guys talking about?
Surely some of them have potential?
no sir: purely revolting
It’s a resistance to learning.
They just need to meditate. Have they chant “OHM!”
Really, their lessons probably lacked continuity.
They may have had some good lessons, but they were just a fluke.
Sorry, but that’s my bugaboo.
Meanings have words.
Okay, you’re my new hero.
Well, it’s in the name.
What’s that supposed to mean?
Hmm. Interesting. Ima hafta chew on that.
I think that would mean that “meaning” is a nonverbal, err, thing that can be expressed using words, but exists regardless of whether there are words to express it. I’m struggling with a meaning that isn’t or can’t be verbalized. Sounds kinda . . . Platonic?
So lets get right to the circular bit: What does “meaning” mean?
HM links to all kinds of videos about that stuff.
Correction: HM links to things that shouldn’t be verbalized, not things that can’t be.
In philosophy and linguistics, this is referred to as the “language of thought” debate. To borrow a metaphor from programming, the debate revolves around the question is the base assembly code of our mind a natural language (that is whatever our native language is) or is natural language a higher level abstraction from pre-linguistic base mental representations? While I do hold a weak-stance on linguistic relativism (that is our native language(s) does/do have some impact on how we think), I do believe that the “language of thought” is pre-linguistic (evidence? Research findings from studies in aphasia, and the modularity of the brain).
As for what is meaning, I would define meaning as the conceptualization of something that is represented in the mind, which is then assigned to a particular set of phonological and/or visual symbols of which the assignments have been agreed upon by members of a particular “speech community” through conventional use and conveyed through communication. So, very loosely thought(s)—>concept–>meaning—>word.
What’s the word and meaning for ‘thumb up my ass?’
Tulpa.
“puppetry”
In the common tongue, that’s known as a “Crusty Juggler”
I agree with Scruffy.
I do believe that the “language of thought” is pre-linguistic
I think its just delightful that we refer to something that is pre-linguistic as “language”. I think it shows that my difficulty with meaning that can’t be verbalized isn’t just limited to me.
This reminds me of why I enjoyed my Philosophy classes so much.
Aside from the quibble over whether we should say “some meanings have words”, it raises the question in my mind, why is this a one-way street? Why is “meanings have words” a perfectly cromulent expression, but not “words have meanings”?
In a traditional marriage, husbands have wives and vice versa (just one of many examples where the relationship between two things can be expressed with “have” regardless of which goes first and “has” the other). If meanings have words, why don’t words, pari passu, have meanings?
I don’t think linguistic arbitrariness applies only to words have meanings, but not meanings have words. If the association between a word and its meaning is arbitrary, isn’t the association between a meaning and its word equally arbitrary?
The phrase “words have meaning” seems to imply that the connection is not arbitrary,
I’m not getting why that would be implied. I don’t think “have” implies any rationality, just that the connection exists.
Dammit. Just as things get interesting I have to go to do my job where I get paid for talking about this stuff.
Will take raincheck until 9:00 PM EST.
I’ll be checking in (maybe) on my tablet, which I won’t use for long commentation.
Another reason the standard formulation rubs me the wrong way is because it ignores ‘linguistic arbitrariness’. One of the (mostly) agreed upon features of natural language is that language is arbitrary – meaning that there exists no logically necessary connection between the meaning of a word and its sound/form. There is no logical reason we call something with pointed ears, a tail, 4 legs, and meows a “cat” in English, it could just as well have been called a “fnord”. The only reason we attach the word “cat” to that particular meaning is due to social convention. The phrase “words have meaning” seems to imply that the connection is not arbitrary, which runs against long-standing evidence that arbitrariness is a linguistic universal.
What are your feelings on the stickiness of words and convention? I think the general objection when people say “words have meanings” is to deconstruction and postmodernism, but “meanings have words” could serve just as well.
I don’t believe the entirety of deconstructionism is per se bad in that when it highlights the fact that polysemy and semantic drift are things, it serves a useful purpose. However, when taken to the extreme of ultimate skepticism, it falls into absurdity. But to me, placing the word before meaning is very post-modernist, in that words are products of culture, thus if words have primacy in determining meaning, then they have primacy in determining how we mediate reality.
Thanks, I’m going to read further on this. It’s interesting stuff.
On the other hand, if someone asks “What does ‘cat’ mean?” you understand the question.
Dean, do you have kids? What came first, your kid’s conception of “father” or their verbalization of the word “father.”
Reaction gifs supply more meaning than words can.
HM – Do you know about the Model-View-Controller pattern from software engineering. It posits that a data object is this blob that doesn’t really have form until its cast through a particular view. (ignore the controller for now). So for example, you can take high-dimensional data (a DNA strand, or the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court justices, or features generated from pixel color values & locations) and then cast them through one or more views – A stupid left-right axis puts Alito, Thomas, and BrettyK way on the right together in a cluster and Goresuch and Roberts near the middle and Kagen on the left flank.
Cast them through a view of formalism, textualism, and pragmatism, and Goresuch moves next to Thomas, while Alito moves next to Robert and BrettyK moves next to Kagen
Which is true? Both. Neither. They both are deterministicly produced from the object. But they are both lossy transformations.
One is useful for writing stupid thinkpieces for ignorant readers. One is useful for predicting how a decision is going to come out.
Its kind of like the Platonic Ideal, but we know its a real thing because its coded in 1’s and 0’s on silicone.
Under this pattern, the prelinguistic base representations are the object and the particulars of a language are the view.
Dean, do you have kids?
No.
I’m on board with HM’s sequence (thought(s)—>concept–>meaning—>word). I think your example with pre- and barely-verbal children illustrates it nicely.
Someone more wedded to positivism might ask whether the statement that there are non-verbal concepts or meanings has any validity, since no one can even describe them without words.
I’m on board with HM’s sequence (thought(s)—>concept–>meaning—>word). I think your example with pre- and barely-verbal children illustrates it nicely.
This whole discussion reminds me of the apocryphal(?) story from Herodotus(?) of the king who wanted to know what the first language was, so he sent two new-born babies into the wilderness in the care of a mute, reasoning that whatever language they started speaking must therefor be the original language as they hadn’t been influenced by society. I do not remember how that story ends.
I’m assuming it ended with OMWC showing up.
Fuck positivism. Reality predates concept, which predates communication of concept. The world is. It is entirely independent of observer. Thought is not necessarily linguistic. Only shallow thinking is done verbally.
I do not remember how that story ends.
The caretaker approached the kids after the allotted time and one of the kids grunted a sound that happened to sound like the Ethiopian(?) word for mother, so that’s how they found out that Ethiopians(?) are the most ancient people.
Ooh! are we doing the nexus between linguistics and philosophy tonight? I am getting drunk, and arguing epistemology and communication is exactly the low stakes high abstraction catnip I need!. Are words symbols? Is auditor meaning controlling or speaker? Is actual communication possible? Does intention matter? Is communication at its heart actually all just manipulation? Or is true conveyance of concept really possible? Is literally everything created, said, written, invented, discovered, or earned really just a giant sign saying “May I tap dat ass?”
something angels something head of a pin
Wait, I thought it was angels and red shoes?
Red shoes? I thought it was a black dress.
Thank. you HM. Thank you very much. I have tried to explain that before but never got a good grip on the explanation. You Sir, are a genius.
I used to fuck with greenies back in the late 20th century by asking which extraction process they’d prefer: one using all organic solvents or one using supercritical CO2.
I’m assuming her parents never made her read I, Pencil
Banned books are banned Comrade Nerfherder.
They really know how to brand themselves with all kinds of gimmicky stunts like this one.
Noah’s Ark fricken had SAMSQUANCH on it. It’s true. Look it up.
Can Greta’s Ark do that?
If I could cross the Atlantic with the two guys on the right, I would sail too.
You think she’s doing it so she can get some alone time with a boatload a sea men?
I think she is a mildly autistic teen who has been horribly manipulated by academics, media personalities, and her parents. I think that both praising her and attacking her are futile, yet morally repugnant acts. Political engagement is in many ways as intimate and as dangerous as sexual engagement and this whole thing hits me on the same level that someone turning a girl her age out to hook would.
dammit shit hellfire fuck
Hey, Sug. How ya doin’ this morning?
Well put.
Fuck, shit, cock, ass, titties, boner, bitch, muff, pussy, cunt, butthole, Barbra Streisand!
Barbra Streisand
We can’t be family friendly with that kind of language around.
Tittie Sprinkles!
Obligatory
I don’t know why that doesn’t look like a link. You can click it like a link and it takes you there…
Carlin!
Shit hellfire?
Is that what you do after eating the free cheeseburgers at the lab picnic?
He works at Oak Ridge (like my high school chemistry teacher did). You don’t do anything after eating their cheeseburgers except decompose.
Nope. And the boss’s boss’s boss was doing an excellent job of frying up catfish.
Then many rounds of stumps were played.
It’s goddamn redneckapalooza up in heah.
I also found out from one of my coworkers that in Germany, stumps is played inside bars to determine who pays for the round.
“Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell stroll the streets of Paris with their underage sex slave in unsealed photos which also show the apartment where pedophile housed teen victims in NYC”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7383995/Jeffrey-Epstein-Ghislaine-Maxwell-stroll-streets-Paris-underage-sex-slave-photo.html
If those photos were any lower quality, they’d just be a single color.
Great typo though in the description of one though:
Probably scans from analog prints.
age 17
hmmm
Yeah doing a 17 year old isn’t pedophilia. But my understanding is that 13-15 year olds were also involved.
Those photos don’t exactly convince me he was a pedo.
Technically he wasn’t. At least there have not been any allegations of such. Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent kids, according to every allegation I have heard Epstein was into underage teen girls which makes him a hebeophile or something like that
I’m just going to leave this here and let Q and Neph fight to the death.
https://instagram.com/hoppy_floppy_?igshid=16m8kh1nr43rs
Like a sword fight?
That could cause a fire.
Boobs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7384809/Mike-Situation-Sorrentinos-wife-Lauren-shares-sultry-snaps-weeks-prison-release.html
Nice rack
two-trillion-trick-pony Andrew Yang
That’s ten trillion dollar coin trick Andrew Yang to you mister.
pretty soon you’re talking some money
Two trillion tricks? Is this the Miley Cyrus thread?
Watch it, buddy. I’m a fan.
Be careful Anacreon! The cute, fluffy, little seal is about to get testy with you!
Beat that little fury fuck with a club and he’ll back off.
That guy has fans. Yang’s Gang. How much of a waste do you have to be to be one?
There’s someone in the parking lot at work with Pete Bootyjudge bumperstickers. I laugh out loud every time I see that car.
what the…..?
FIRST!
Premature linkage is a problem that impacts more Glibs than one would think.
SF is inherently transgressive. But SP assures me that he is charming. SP seems very intelligent and caring, so perhaps we should forgive him.
Of course she married OMWC, so …
I shot my links all over the floor a couple of weeks ago, before I could get them on the computer.
Kamala Harris: Who do I have to bang to become President around here?
i’ll vote for her if she bangs Biden.. but that’s just part of The Code and to be expected.
Time for me to switch from this coffee I’m drinking to some bleach.
When she is the VP nominee you’ll know it happened.
I will give 2:1 any amount up to $2,500 that Biden is Not the nominee.
I assumed it was Michele.
“Miley Cyrus fiercely denies cheating on Liam Hemsworth in series of angry tweets… and reveals she’s ‘happier than ever’ amid her new romance with Kaitlynn Carter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7384627/Miley-Cyrus-denied-cheated-Liam-Hemsworth.html
https://twitter.com/MileyCyrus/status/1164595257322999808
So she wasn’t cheating with Kaitlynn Carter?
I did not have sex with that woman
That explains how you’re still alive and posting.
is it cheating if he got to watch?
LEAVE MILEY ALONE!
She’s all yours Crusty, I promise.
* hoses off wrecking ball *
LET HER LIVE HER LIFE
She’s free to do that.
She should also stop shoving herself into whatever attention is available.
How can you be attracted to Ann Coulter AND Miley? Is this some freaky Omnisexual thing?
I think you have to secretly hate yourself.
IT’s that time of year again, Fantasy Football season
Got a league set up for Glibs and other refugees of TOS here…
https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/1032574/invitation?key=6002097debc65c9c&soc_trk=lnk&ikey=e6e665ca3bcd0590
I don’t fantasize about football players.
You sure about that?
https://images.app.goo.gl/ufaz4sFbbL4XXrU76
Damnit wrong link, it was supposed to be this one…
http://img.bleacherreport.net/img/slides/photos/002/316/410/Roughness-Kathy-Ireland_294_display_image-1_crop_north.jpg?w=294&h=400&q=75
Yes!
That is supposed to be a table?
Re: Picture of Boris and Macron in linked article.
And don’t hold your breath waiting for all tut-tutters to retract their condemnation of what was obviously a joke or stunt between Boris and the French guy.
Meanwhile, in Massachusetts.
The state legislature has scheduled a very rare August hearing.
Holy fuck. That’s some shit right there.
Obviously they want to take the title from New Jersey.
Millions of rape kits go untested across the country because the bureaucrats claim crime labs are understaffed, but sure make em do this to.
I assume that if they can’t get it done in a timely fashion, that’s a win.
That might end up being a feature, not a bug. “Sorry, we are so overwhelmed with applications, it will be 6-8 months before we can process yours.”
Feature, not bug.
“I know you bought the questioned item in 2019, but we still have a fifty-six year backlog in testing.”
exactly
at the three approved labs not in your hometown
that are allowed by the state to collect no more than a $1199.97 fee for the service
And firearms must be submitted with application, not at at the actual testing. Not to worry, they’ll be stored in a hopelessly insecure manner during those 56 years with terrible inventory management. Oh, you want to cancel the transfer or change the named recipient? That requires a new request to be filed with new firearms test completed. That request can be started once the first test is finished.
And you have to go through the complete process when you drop off and pickup a gun at a gunsmith.
You can still mail-order a replacement barrel and install it yourself in a few minutes.
Mean while, in America, the pistol I won last night has already shipped.
Out of curiosity, are frangible bullets outlawed in Massachusetts?
Not much in the way of repeatable ballistics to examine when you’re firing these
^EXPLODING BULLETS!! you monster
Look, its not like bullet matching has any scientific veracity, so if they can lie and say that they matched JHP, they can lie and say that they matched buckshot out of a smoothbore.
+1 fiber matching
All guns offered for sale must be photographed and test fired by the state crime lab;
I’m curious how they think test firing a shotgun might be useful in future investigations.
They don’t give a damn about future investigations. They just want to make gun ownership as onerous as possible.
Exactly.
I’d those are impositions that stand the constitutional test in a federal court we’re all fucked.
Would these be the same Massachusetts crime labs that the courts just tossed over 40,000 drug cases because of lab techs abusing the drugs they were supposed to be testing?
Yep.
We’ll be looking at a very similar list in mid-November in Virginia. The whole state house and senate are up for grabs on November 5th and there’s already been a gun control session scheduled for Nov 18th.
I assume:
-I can kiss my CHP goodbye at the next renewal
-no longer an open-carry state
-ARs illegal
-UBCs
-no mag capacity over 10
Open Carry is constitutional amendment so at least they can’t take that. I don’t remember if “shall-issue” is amendment or bill.
VCDL pushed hard to make it constitutional concealed carry, but just couldn’t get it.
The biggest danger is preemption. VCDL got preemption passed so liberal cities couldn’t pass stricter gun laws than the state. They kept trying and kept losing in court. If preemption goes away, NOVA, Richmond, Hampton Roads, and Roanoke will resemble NYC.
Resemble in more ways than one.
Fun. Can we at least still take advantage of private sales to avoid background checks in VA? I may want to drop a couple grand on some icky black and walnut guns if I can avoid putting my name on the gun registry.
Funny that my Mom thinks I’ll ever move back there.
Fuck that.
Cuomo is pushing for some of the same.
Sexy lingerie is being replaced by sports bras
Dressing for comfort is why this country is going down the shitter.
Sports bras more comfortable??? The ones I’ve tried feel like tourniquets. For me, NO bra is the most comfortable. I’ll wear a tank top under a tee to cut down on some of the nip & jiggle action, but otherwise, I’ll just try to wear tees with enough of a graphic to disguise nature and look slightly less tacky than a plain tee would look sans brassiere
Same here.
*nurples Rufus*
The Hottest Thing in Food Is Made of Peas, Soy, and Mung Beans
Is that you, Creed?
No. Just dump that crap in the compost. It’ll probably never decompose, being unnatural as sin.
i grill with Beyond’s meat-like ground “beef”. 1/3rd the saturated fat and zero cholesterol. and once you shred in the garlic, it’s a tasty burger.
Wife from bedroom: “Help me take off this bra.”
/me running to bedroom.
/me seeing wife in sports bra.
Wife: I just got done working out and I’m sticky.
Hot.
Please continue.
Her saying ow, ow, ow as I pull it off then telling me to go back to my office so she can shower.
Fuck yeah
So you are into orgasm denial?
oh oh oh tell us about the red lines in her back from the sports bra’s elastic!! those are super sexy.
Agreed.
“Amid claims of anti-Semitism, Trump invokes automaker Henry Ford – Hitler’s ‘inspiration’”
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Amid-claims-of-anti-Semitism-Trump-invokes-14370143.php
Something is wrong with these people. Yeah, I said these people.
Just because they are using tenuous connections, lets just take at look at this:
And what did Ford do in 1918? Well, according to wikipedia he changed his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat!
These people are brain damaged.
I would love to see Trump fire off a Tweet saying “Henry Ford was a Republican when he founded Ford Motor Company, the greatest car company in the world! But when he starting hating Jews, he joined the Democrats! He’d still be a Democrat if he were alive today!!
Over a picture of Tlaib and Omar.
Name one other American president with a fairly devout Modern Orthodox Jewish daughter.
I’ll wait.
Obama. Because he was a blank screen for people to project onto. He was the alpha and omega.
Barry Goldwater? True, he was never president, and it was his grandmother not his daughter, but I think the mental effort I put into answering this question should win me some sort of trophy.
If Goldwater had been president our world would be immeasureably better. Goldwater is the most libertarian man to ever win a major party nomination for President. So of course he was sabotaged by his own party.
Barry’s dad was Jewish. Barry was a practicing Episcopalian.
No Tulsi?
*tears up*
She didn’t stand a chance anyways. Maybe she’ll more workout videos.
What can we do to put her into the Dem debate? I would think there are still enough Democratic men who would support her if she’d whip off her top and ask them to compare to the other Dem women candidates on offer.
Overstock CEO resigns after admitting ties to Clinton probe, Russian spy
I remember when he was a libertarian hero.
I’d suggest he stay on suicide watch.
I swear to Allah, I had to hover over the link to check if this was yet another Babylon Bee joint.
From today’s Babylon Bee:
Ilhan Omar Withdraws Support From Bill To Save The Earth After Learning That’s Where Israel Is
I wasn’t surprised because I watched this video (from 2:00).
Libertarians don’t have heroes.
We ARE the heroes!
(Bowie said it, that settles it.)
He said we CAN be heroes…
but just for one day.
Facebook Bans ‘Women For Trump’ Ads.
I just have to believe that Dem candidates have ads referring to women (and possibly, although its a long shot) men.
I also note that the Trump ad has no assertions or implications about women, so this isn’t even close to a violation of their policy.
Also:
OFFS!
Yeah, it’s selective enforcement of vague rules and it’s blatantly biased bullshit.
Ponder for a moment the type of person who wants to be in charge of enforcing these policies at Facebook and you’ll have your answer.
Do they have a policy on comparing voting to losing ones virginity?
Dude! Trigger warning, pls!
So voting is like fingering your sister?
You can thank HUD for this. They sued Facebook under fair lending advertising bullshit.
If you work for HUD you should kill yourself. Nothing they do is anything less than evil.
Sorry Chuck.
Renowned Yale Computer Science Prof Leaves Darwinism
Blasting giant holes in the whole incremental development of new species through mutations idea – using math, logic, and scientific method. So I’m sure he’ll be treated like Galileo by people who have accepted it as an article of faith.
Never made much sense to me. Like hoping that corrupted computer code somehow runs better than the original AND can be replicated.
That’s, uh, that’s not how it works at all.
That’s what he’s saying.
He’s pointing to holes in the fossil record, but that’s just using the “absence of evidence is evidence of absence” argument.
There are other more logical arguments against evolution that can be made, but that one is not worth the time.
I think he’s correct in saying that the Darwinists have become stale and rigid in their thinking.
That can be flipped too – we’re supposed to believe in macro evolution through gradual mutation… because. Combined with the improbabilities he points out of beneficial mutations and new stable proteins. He isn’t the first to poke those holes in the theory.
because it can be observed happening?
Not macro.
Immense is so big, and tiny is so small, that neo-Darwinian evolution is — so far — a dead loss. Try to mutate your way from 150 links of gibberish to a working, useful protein and you are guaranteed to fail. Try it with ten mutations, a thousand, a million — you fail. The odds bury you. It can’t be done.”
And yet, almost like clockwork, people win lotteries twice a week. Some win the jackpot twice.
Yep, he’s looking at the number of attempts of random organization would be required and thinking it is impossible. He is NOT looking at the number of attempts that nature carries out.
Millions of animals with millions of reproducing genes each across periods of millions of years.
But it is worse than that for him. He is assuming both that the mutation must lead immediately to a beneficial mutation that creates a sub species that breeds genetically separately from the main population and that the mutation must be fully beneficial or it will be selected out of the gene pool.
The first is wrong because only a tiny selection of genes actually express in the animal, the rest contain information that remains dormant but may express in future generations especially in cases of changes to the environment. He does not seem to actually be aware of Atavistic traits that animals carry around in their gene code that remain switched off. So a trait can develop in a population and remains recessive trait that only expresses rarely and that trait could even be fatal in the current environment but it would not be bred out of the species because of it’s recessive nature. Then when the environment changed all of a sudden it becomes a competitive advantage and only members of the species who express that trait survive and you have a new sub species. Do that enough times and you end up with a new species. The second is wrong and based on a profound misunderstanding of Darwinism. See the common saying is that Darwinism is survival of the fittest, that is wrong, it is not survival of the fittest, it is survival of the fit enough. There are a great many cases we see where multiple species coexist in basically the same ecological niche. Obviously one of those species would be “the fittest” and one would be the “least fit” and yet the coexist for millenia sharing largely the same spot in the ecological structure of where they live. Natural Selection does not actively eliminate every species that faces competition for resources, just the ones incapable of successfully competing in that environment.
Memories of my HS biology pounding into our heads the difference between a species “evolving” a beneficiary feature vs those without a helpful mutation/adaptation/feature/whatever ending up as worm food without passing on their genes.
Species don’t necessarily evolve beneficiary features. Those features already exist in the population as harmless anomalies. Otherwise: extinction.
The biggest mistake I see in thinking on this. subject is that there is a starting point, a transitionary period and a goal being sought as an end. That the starting point has none of the beneficial traits being ‘sought’ and the species seeks that out with random stabs in the dark. That isn’t how it works at all.
I should have said ‘Those features or proto-features already exist in the population as harmless anomalies.’
“Darwin’s theory predicts that new life forms evolve gradually from old ones in a constantly branching, spreading tree of life,” Gelernter writes.
That’s not really my understanding of what the current state of evolutionary theory is. If I understand correctly (and God knows I could be wrong), evolution is supposed to be “punctuated”, with long periods of relative stability giving way to comparatively quick (still thousands of years) changes due to changes in the external environment.
That was Gould’s and Eldridge’s theory, published in 1972.
My spin on that same idea come from the inside out: DNA. We can see from related species when they diverged. There is data of a sort.
And to add to your notion: changes in DNA don’t necessary shine in the fossil record. Imagine someone digging up my fossils millions of years from now: would they know I have blue eyes and my ancestors didn’t? Or whether a grandmother was brown-eyed out because both of her parents were . . . or because one of her parents were.
Other inside out stuff: to some tiny extent, a human evolves in utero. So does a shark in its egg. At some point they don’t look like each other any more.
In theory we should be able to prove macro evolution today.
Take a species with a short life span.
Isolate a homogeneous population of them in a controlled environment
Wait a couple of generations of them freely interbreeding to ensure they should be largely identical genetically.
split the populations into 2 separate groups each in it’s own enclosed environment
Slowly begin changing each environment to be radically different from each other
Maintain these populations in their new environments for 10,000 generations
At the end of this period check to see how genetically related the two groups are and if they are capable of interbreeding with each other and the original species. If not you have now created 2 entirely new species in the lab using only the mechanisms of natural selection proving that at the very least that kind of evolution is actually possible
I thought this had been done with fruit flies or something.
You mean like finches on islands?
Calling the theory of evolution Darwinism is a red flag for me. I have a creationist bother, who is very intelligent and whom I love, but creationism is silly crap on astronomical grounds if no other. If you want to convince me of creationism, drop the young Earth part. To believe in that idea is to believe that God is deliberately trying to fool us into believing he does not exist. It requires God to have created light from distant stars closer to us than the stars at the moment of creation. A God who would do that, and simultaneously damn us for being fooled deserves rebellion NOT worship. Yes, carbon dating has flaws. Yes, evolution has holes. No, the world simply is not 6000 years old.
“Florida Mayor Wayne Messam announces 2020 presidential bid”
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/28/politics/wayne-messam-announces-2020-bid/index.html
In case you were wondering who the other bald black guy was.
ROFLMAO.
Mayor of a whole state? That’s quite a story CNN!
He wants to make America great again.
He’s mayor of Miramar, which is near where I live. I’ve seen one sign for him, on a street corner.
Does it read “Wayne Street”?
He’s Top Gun?
“Save me, Washington!”
What a bold, unique message he’s offering.
The Clothing Brand for Preppies, Punks, and Bleeding-Heart Liberals
responsible Capitalism ftw
Ain’t no actual fucking punker on earth who gives a moist shit about “nicely made fabrics”. Also, Youth of Today was a terrible band.
Is that why their clothes were always ripped?
Only with ’70s British types.
This stuff is Hot Topic for thirtysomething hipsters.
He’s so far bet correctly that the generation that grew up on new wave and hip-hop didn’t automatically turn into dorks…
“Pig Brother is watching you.”
Sure, bud, whatever you say.
“…dorks…”
*looks at picture of the company founder in the article, laughs hysterically*
Grow up, Peter Pan.
That isn’t punk.
Police supervisor to lose vacation days over Garner death
That really sends a message.
She also won’t get to use the cafeteria for one month.
Lost her parking space, too
Punishing our heroes in blue.
Losing twenty vacations once or from her yearly allotment? And how does it help NYers who now get her incompetence on the job for twenty more days.
give up about four weeks of vacation time
Brutal.
Due to the caps on how much we can carry over from one year to the next, I’ve probably lost more than that in the last 2 – 3 years.
A Tweet from Peta:
Then there is an artistic depiction of a cow breastfeeding a man that is NSFW
These nuts haven’t offed themselves like the animals they massacre yearly?
HOT.
Why does the guy sucking the cow’s tit look like Gavin McInness?
He’s a hipster, just like Gavin.
Very, very, proud.
I don’t know a farm kid from my childhood who had to milk a cow that didn’t squirt milk into their own mouth or in a cat’s mouth. These assholes, as usual, have no idea what they are talking about.
Anne Frank didn’t die for this shit.
I got this from a cousin 40 years ago.
Meansince, she’s homeschooled three kids
and I think she learned a lot
Damn, that ignorant.
If it wasn’t for her, we wouldn’t have gotten this:
LOL
It makes me wonder what Hitler’s rap name would be. MC Adi? DJ Blitzkrieg? Whatever it is, I’m sure his tracks would be a gas.
Lil Sketcher
Old skool or the current rappers style?
Big Naz SS?
Actually it was Grofaz
Notorious J.E.W.
Is that short for Jude Echt Wahnsinn?
“Chinese face recognition vending machine. No cash, card, or phone needed.”
https://twitter.com/mbrennanchina/status/1164258478807871488
Pay via social credit?
[Insert ‘They All Look Alike’ joke here]
Well, being a communist country, the vended items should be free, right? Right?
I cannot argue with that logic.
It pretends to recognize you. You pretend to get get the food.
The more things change…
I think I’m going to open a mask shop, specializing in hyper-realistic reproductions of wealthy, celebrity, and high-ranking governemnt types.
I seem to recall reading about western countries buying Chinese facial recognition software and it not working very well.
I believe it was a case that all westerners looked alike to it. Which made me laugh of course.
No tickee, no service?
I farted at Buckingham Palace once.
True story.
I like your style.
I’m a patriot.
I don’t even want to tell you what I did at Kensington Palace.
Does it involve a potted plant?
Harvey?
I’ve mentioned this before, but I had a friend who licked the Liberty Bell, which is no longer possible.
ewwwwww
GOP group pitches T-shirts featuring Greenland as part of America
Smart.
He has to rename it Trumpland.
If he crowdsources I’m pitching in just to watch a global groan and meltdown.
Trumpy McTrumpfaceland!
If he promises to do that, /pol/ will hack all the voting machines, and Trump will be reelected with 88.41% of the vote.
Trumpy McTrumpland
I vote for Whiteland
“Well, look at it! Its mostly white!”
not their point, but: Greenland is a part of America
Nerd
and my money is on the cuffs being for her NTTAWWI
This is why Canada is lame. If I were PM I’d go in with an offer just to be a dick.
“I think a lot of folks assume they are hated for their sexuality/race/gender when in reality they are just unlikable cunts.”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1164608523046572032
QFT
That was a short “abandoning social media forever”
So what do you do at CNN?
Fact Checking,
A plastic sex-bot has a twitter account?
I’ve seen stranger.
She’s a tranny you-tubber known for giving shit to sjws and to other trannies who use fake oppression as a weapon.
Key & Peele already covered that (NSFW).
Woman sends mom picture of her new bedroom, forgets about raunchy detail: ‘I’m so stupid’
Remember Glibs, when you send your sweet daughters to college they will handcuff young men to their beds and send photo evidence to their moms. That is what happens at college.
Just handcuffs?
A college girl who knows what she wants is way ahead of the curve in my experience.
She wants to seem edgy.
Huh. I was expecting something else with that build up. Actual sex toys or a case of condoms.
I think her handcuffs are a sex toy.
*crosses legs uncomfortably*
And here I thought it was going to be a massive black suction-cup dildo.
Not a great pic of her but would. Her Instagram page had some more natural pics.
It would take handcuffs to keep me around.
A friend of mine had a pair of handcuffs in her carry-on when she was flying to visit her boyfriend. She was mighty embarrassed when the TSA person pulled it out of her bag to ask a coworker if they still allowed cuffs on the plane.
I had to go to court for something a few years back and went through security and one of the guards wanted to take my handcuff key off my key ring, the other one said it was fine so I got to keep it.
The grocery store had grapes that taste like cotton candy and gum drops. Now I want grapes that taste like orange, lemon, lime, cherry, raspberry, and coke.
I insist that all monkey-man research be halted immediately, with resources diverted to this endeavor instead until completed.
Jello?
Why did they start with that?
Or was it an accident?
Gin grapes!
Some credit for actually trying to find out facts for yourself as opposed to just parroting lies.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/08/22/journalist-tests-walmart-gun-sales-hilarity-ensues/
In the course of the preceding observations, I have had an eye, my fellow-citizens, to putting you upon your guard against all attempts, from whatever quarter, to influence your decision in a matter of the utmost moment to your welfare, by any impressions other than those which may result from the evidence of truth.
– Federalist 1
“Gamergate comes to the classroom
Students used to be blank slates — now they arrive with agendas
It was the phones that tipped off Bo Ruberg.
Ruberg, a UC Irvine assistant professor in the department of informatics, was teaching “Games & Society.” It was November 2017, and the course was a required class taught to 260 students, the majority of which are typically male freshmen. Ruberg kept a strict no-screens policy in their classes — an easy enough ask to keep students from texting or scrolling through Instagram when they should be paying attention. But this was different: a dozen or so people holding up their phones, recording their lecture on gender without even the effort of hiding it. The class felt strangely fuller. Ruberg paused, reminded students of the policy, and assumed they would put them away. They kept their cameras trained on Ruberg.
On a hunch, Ruberg asked their TAs for a head count. The final number? Eleven extra bodies. The intruders had made that part easy, at least. They took the day’s pop quiz under fake names along with everyone else. Ruberg’s experience was unnerving for many reasons, but above all, one thing was clear: this was a coordinated effort.
In the five years following Gamergate, sites like YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter shifted the power dynamics between student and teacher. The harassment-campaign-turned-online-culture-war paved the way for how abusers coordinate and systematically target victims. Online harassment has moved from the web and into real life. Marginalized figures have always known harassment existed in digital spaces, but Gamergate honed these tactics and pushed them into mainstream awareness. New York Times writer Charlie Warzel sums it up succinctly: “Gamergate’s DNA is everywhere on the internet … its most powerful legacy is as proof of concept of how to wage a post-truth information war.””
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/21/20812153/youtube-gamergate-education-classroom-teachers-misinformation-reddit-twitter-online-harassment
Enough already.
Ruberg paused, reminded students of the policy, and assumed they would put them away. They kept their cameras trained on Ruberg.
On a hunch, Ruberg asked their TAs for a head count.
Have some balls. If they won’t follow class rules, eject them on the spot.
No kidding.
I had to read through the first couple of paragraphs of that hunk of shit before I figured out that the instructor is one of those Queen Victoria wannabe motherfuckers using plural pronouns. LOOKATMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
The issue is not only with teacher safety
Oh, the vaaaaaaaapors!
Students used to be blank slates — now they arrive with agendas
…
Ruberg, a UC Irvine assistant professor in the department of informatics,
Wait, are they really complaining about university students not being blank slates? Was there a mix-up, and they thought they would be teaching cabbages, not people? As if 18+ year olds wouldn’t have formed any opinions – have they not met any?
Yes they are. And that is the real issue for them.
University professors will be in charge of forming opinions for their students, thank you very much.
I made it about a third of the way, wondering if it would any sense (it doesn’t) but finally had to tap out at this:
wut
Something so stupid only a really’ smart’ person could believe it.
Google Tries to Preserve Privacy, Without Killing Online Ad Business
AND THEN SELL YOUR DATA TO CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA TO SWING AN ELECTION TO A MONSTER!!!!!
Google’s goal is to stamp out
the most invasive forms ofanyone else’s web tracking from identifying your internet presence on the Chrome browser, so that it has a monopoly on web tracking on that browser.Thank you. I do believe that is the actual goal.
Posting 6 hours early isn’t as cool as allowing images for a day.
EF had a job interview at a law firm. If she gets it – and I won’t count my chickens before they hatch – it would mean a big shake up to my own professional life.
Work part time? Become a landlord? Pursue something anything else other than an IT job? We shall see.
Oh dear god, I weep for you if you go the landlord route. Talk about a thankless job.
As an instructor in one of Mr. GT’s real estate appraisal continuing ed classes once said, “A certificate of deposit will never call you in the middle of the night to tell you the pipes have burst.”
I mean, you CAN make a lot of money in that business. My wife’s father did, and one of my best friend’s father did as well, but you have to deal with an unbelievable amount of bullshit, and a spiteful tenant can truly make your life hell.
Lord H dealing with some deadbeat tenants
There is a solution to that these days.
See they sell insurance policies that cover all the major systems of the house. You pay for the insurance and if anything breaks the tennant calls the insurance company. Best part of it is, every service call comes with a $100 deductible to keep the policy cheap and you make the tennant pay for the deductible
Aren’t home warranties a huge scam?
for you and me, yes, for the landlord no
man, that’s going backward
there’s no one who can take your money, remove their overheads from it, and then hand you back more than you would have otherwise had
rental units must be going concerns, and you must be able to float a few thousand from time to time; paying other people fees doesn’t paper over this fact
You missed the important part of it.
Each service call costs $100, the TENANT pays that not the landlord. First off these warranty companies are making a profit off of those service fees because the contractors they use are likely only charging them $50 or $60 for the service call and most service calls don’t use anything more than a few minutes of the contractors time and a couple bucks in parts. So 80% of the time what is happening is the tenant is paying $100 for a service he probably could have gotten for $85 if he had just called around but then that would void the warranty the landlord is paying for and so he can’t even do that. On top of that the landlord is paying around $60 month for the service but then he never has to deal with something breaking in his house unless it is major which the warranty companies don’t even cover anyway.
Between the $60 a month the landlord is paying and passing on to the tenant in the form of higher rent and the $100 per service call the tenant has to pay you are absolutely correct, the tenant is getting screwed but for the LANDLORD, no that is a great bargain and removes one of the biggest headaches of rental property.
Do people do this? as a renter I’d need a hell of a lot of questions answers. Was everything pristine when I moved in? Is there some time limit before this kicks in, I can’t see a renter being on the hook for the 25 year old furnace’s deductible if he’s only lived their for five weeks. Is there a maximum, what if seven different thing shit the bed one month? If I don’t call about the leaky toilet because $100 bucks whose on the hook when I move out?
The only flaw I see in this scheme is you would have to be out of your mind to rent a place where *you* have to pay extra for any repairs.
true that…
Would it involve relocation? Changing your work schedule?
No relocation. But our special needs son needs to be picked up, taken places, etc. We currently juggle that with our dual flexible time. It would become a lot more difficult if she was doing billable hours. Maybe I could do my current job – 17 years there! – part time. Who knows. I won’t make any plans.
I’d hope after 17 years you’d have earned some flexibility in your schedule for family needs. How big an org do you work for? Is the management reasonably human?
~1000 people work at the company, with – wait for it! – an IT staff of 12.
I’ve been wanting to leave for a very long time.
So what you are saying is that you will be a kept man.
EF still has her eyes on the LH family fortune – a lifetime supply of black licorice and windmill cookies via the Dutch mafia.
No relocation, some schedule juggling but nothing we aren’t used to. On the plus side I would have less hand-holding for foster care clients and criminal law clients. .
Good luck EF
Scientists are boosting their reputations by citing their own work. Guess how many are women?
It’s the new axis of evil imho
Devil’s advocate, if you’re building on your previous work, you’d have to cite it.
But I have such a low opinion of academians that I don’t think that’s it.
Scientists are boosting their reputations by citing their own work.
Euphemism CONFIRMED
Bullshit. Research isn’t created in isolated bubbles. People build off their previous research and that of their peers, who often become coauthors.
Over 50% self-citation is pretty high. Mine’s more like 10%.
OT: Today my blog hit 5,000 posts, after a mere 11-1/2 years of blogging. And since Ed Begley Jr. was being discussed in either the AM Links thread or the SNP thread, this is doubly appropriate.
Not this Transylvania 6-5000 from Bugs Bunny ?
We taste-tested hard seltzers from 9 popular brands and ranked them from worst to best
Bishes luv tha claw
Is that the new Bartles and Jaymes?
Never heard of it. Is that the new Zima?
You need to start hanging around more young white women.
I’ll pass. Oggling is one thing, hanging out with is not at all alluring.
Sort of. Low carb, 5%. Obviously selling like mad.
At the same time a bunch of breweries are bringing out low carb beers. People want to drink but not be fatties.
Freaks.
That’s what grain alcohol is for
Miller Ultra Lite has been around since I was in college.
Yesterday we went out for supper, leaving the dog free to roam the house. She broke into the cupboard – clever girl – found the big box of Trader Joe peanut butter dog snacks, and went to town on them. Eating most of them – 11 – 12 ozs worth?
Her poop has been epic brown geysers – luckily doing it on a neighbor’s lawn during a morning walk. Bonus: it was a neighbor we don’t particularly like. I just shook my head – “How am I supposed to pick that up with a poop bag?”
Yuck.
Get some of these.
My 12 year old pup discovered the garbage recently so we had to install them. They are cheap and work great.
Could be worse than garbage. A local cat keeps shitting in our yard, and we have to keep an eagle eye on the dachshund because she’ll eat it if she can. She got herself a nasty intestinal parasite that way once. Yeesh.
My son has always loved blueberries, from the time he was a toddler. We used to go blueberry picking in the summer when we lived in Florida, ending up with pounds and pounds of them. We left a bowl on the table one time. We didn’t think he could reach it, but damn if he didn’t sneak away and scarf them down when we weren’t paying attention. Next diaper change, his shit was bright blue, like it came from one of the Smurfs.
we call it Satan’s peanut butter. Yum.
The Best Bottle Of Whiskey In Each Of The 50 States
Word ’em up, doc.
huh – I’ll have to give this a try next time I go on a booze run
St Augustine May be the best local whiskey, but it is terrible.
I HIGHLY recommend Colorado’s Stranahan’s.
Haven’t tried the Copper City. I’ve been pretty happy with the local Del Bac, especially their smoked whiskey (which is pretty Scotchy) and their limited release Scotch.
Specialization is a good thing. I don’t want to drink Ohio bourbon. I don’t want to build with Kentucky steel.
I’m listening to some loony global warming stuff* on CSPAN and it suddenly occurs to me
this new religion is so attractive as a focus because it helps all the people who shrink from competing in any of the competitive find a place to hide and succeed: say the right things, have the right tone, and have zero accountability
or they could just have gone into politic or advertising
* not taking a position on anything for the purposes of this post; it’s just that the pronouncements are loony on their face regardless of what you think of GWA
I sincerely wish my preview worked 🙁
“or they could just have gone into politic or advertising”
With global warming they can potentially make a lot of money and have a lot of influence while also getting to feel morally superior to most others.
Perhaps, in a previous time, they just would have been delivering the mail during the day and spouting their ideas at the local bar a la Cliff Claven.
Orgasm Girl: How My Relationship to Masturbation Grew From Secrecy to Celebration
*unzips*
I need to write the male equivalent of this story. The Glibertarians editors are going to love it.
Oh god……
“Leave me out of this, asshole.”
/God
Wouldn’t the keyboard get too sticky?
No.
No pics except of the author as a toddler? Disappoint.
Our Summer of Sex is made possible by the sponsorship of Planned Parenthood. With their help, we are able to bring you this thoughtful series delving into the subject of sex and amplify the voices of marginalized people and communities.
Let’s just ignore the self serving reasons PP would have to encourage people to increase their sexual activity…
So, when does God release the next flood?
Not that there is anything wrong with girls doing that, but I just really wish I’d never read it. Also, fuck you Crusty.
Lincoln Chafee: ‘I’d Be Open’ to a Libertarian White House Bid
Chaffee/Weld, Weld/Chaffee, Shultz/Chaffee, Chaffee/Sharpe – what’s your preference?
No McAfee/Chafee?
No.
On the Issues has him in the left liberal bucket.
https://www.ontheissues.org/Lincoln_Chafee.htm
I need a new dish washer. Any recommendations?
seems like Bosch won out last time this came up
Yeah, I’ve heard that elsewhere.
I have a Bosch that is super quite and does a really nice job. I passed on the feature that projected a light on the floor to let you know it is on. I would get it because I can’t tell you how many times I’ve opened it when it was running because I couldn’t hear it.
Tundra on November 8, 2018, 1:42 PM [+] I replaced the appliances in mine recently with top o the line KitchenAid. I do love the quiet dishwasher and the excellent gas range. But I will be shocked if they make it 14 years. My Bosch washer puked after 9 years.
Replaced GE after ~8-10 years with Bosch. 1.5yrs later and no issues so far, other than some buildup in the filter that has since been fixed (highly highly recommend Cascade Fryer Boil Out, formerly Cascade). It’s quiet most of the time and the light on the floor has grown on me.
*formerly Cascade Professional. Available on Amazon.
I think I’ll need to replace the fridge in another year or two. Is it worth doing a package deal of all the kitchen appliances?
I wanted matching but different brands do different things better. I have a Bosch dishwasher, LG washer/dryer and whirlpool refrigerator, range and microwave. I used consumer reports and 9 years later, everything is still working.
Hmm, thanks. That gives me something to think about
You’re most welcome
Unless you have severe severe OCD, just match the color and will hardly notice. Even in the same manufacturer the door handles for a fridge, stove, or dishwasher are probably going to be different as well as the design accents.
You might try one of these.
We’ve had Asko, Miele, Bosch and an old Whirlpool, and my mother had a Sears Kenmore portable. Of them all, the Asko was the all-around quietest and best-cleaning, but they’re really hard to find. The Miele came in a close second. The Bosch was okay, but compared to the previous two, nothing special. The old Whirlpool wasn’t that great, but, being old and therefore unconcerned with energy efficiency, it did a load of dishes in just under an hour.
If I had to do it again (and I do, sooner rather than later), I’d get another Miele. Things seem to be built like tanks.
Bosch
I’m on year 12 with no issues and it works well.
Brooksed again
You…bosched…it.
So, I checked facederp yesterday because my wife made an event for her 30th. One of my friends is a conservatarian with lots of socialist friends… apparently Warren tweeted something about Walmart, anyway a discussion started about how warren/her husband make way more than the janitor at Harvard, which by their logic isn’t ‘fair’ either.
Husband makes 400k/yr, janitor makes 25k/yr, how would you calculate their difference in pay?
a) divide 400 by 25 to get 8
b) divide 400 by 365 days, 24 hours per day to get ~$45/hr. Divide by the janitors wage (~$12/hr) and call it 3.5 times the janitor’s wage.
c) Fling your shit around the room
a) divide 400 by 25 to get 16*** 😀
Pfft. No wonder no one got my cauchy joke.
Savage!
My doing math in my head skills have drastically reduced since I started working. Too many computer programs to do it without thinking.
1+1= some shit.
Harvard Profs are always on call so b makes sense
The profs get much better bennies so you’ll have to calculate that, I mean the Janitors ain’t getting hummers from co-eds who really need that hallway mopped.
I see you’ve never been a janitor…
I interviewed at Harvard. There’s a gym set aside only for professors, a cafeteria only for pr
Only for professors. Etc. I was shown that stuff by a research assistant (not a grad student, more like where I work now) and he could only go in because he was showing me. They have masts therapists at the gym. It was really nice. And, very elitist. Like I said, he could only enter that gym because showing me around. I interviewed for a post doc, but they consider you faculty. I didn’t get that job.
Breaks down sobbing.
Not really.
“They have masts therapists at the gym.”
Hmmm. seems geared towards the male faculty…
Massage. But yeah. The whole place is geared towards men.
as it should be
I’d argue that the janitor’s productive contribution is worth more than hers.
By that measure she should be paying the university.
Husband. I’m sure she made a similar amount.
Something like 500k(allegedly, dunno if any of it is true). Surely part time or less.
I think I saw that movie. It’s the one with Matt Damon.
I believe Harvard’s in-house custodial staff makes far more than $12 per hour, not that it matters.
“Not that it matters.”
Then why did you post it, dummy?
I found that hard to believe as well. I would think closer to $20-25/hr.
Husband makes 400k/yr, janitor makes 25k/yr, how would you calculate their difference in pay?
Subtract $25K from $400K?
Someone remembers their word problems.
Guys? Even if you list your age accurately, if your picture is obviously 10-15 years old, I’m not going to like you.
I don’t remember posting a picture.
But it’s a good picture!
It’s my most recent picture I swear. I just don’t have access to a camera.
Huh, i figured you guys for the face selfies on dirty pillow cases.
Now I hope you end up getting together with the “Good Morning, Julia” guy.
Like this?
https://postimg.cc/jntHHqBw
Hey! My LinkedIn photo is the most professional one I could find that doesn’t look like crap. At least dint pose with my entire family or the stupid drivers seat selfie.
Mine is ten years old, so… 40 instead of 50. At some point – it really doesn’t matter.
Yeah, it does. I looked a lot different (and younger) at forty
For a dating site – yeah, I agree.
Not for LinkedIn.
LinkedIn, fine
My LinkedIn was a selfie I took upon returning into the house after planting 150 tulip and crocus bulbs. My face was flush with the effort and I looked very self satisfied. That was a few years ago.
I finally replaced it with a selfie I took outside in my CA yard looking considerably less pale and more freckled.
“My face was flush with the effort and I looked very self satisfied.”
That sounds like a line from Crusty’s article.
I thought this was a rather engaging photo.
What if it is only secretly 10 – 15 years old, are we good then?
*sends current dick pic*
Happy?
I haven’t seen a black widow on the property before and now I’ve been surprised by two in a few days. First one was floating in the pool inches from my daughter. It was the size of a large wolf spider. I had no idea they got so big.
The second almost tagged me just now as I opened my package box. It was hiding inside the handle. Missed me by half an inch. It’s dead now too.
I guess an egg nest must have recently hatched nearby. I need to spray more poison.
Someone’s trying to kill you.
They’re not particularly aggressive. I wouldn’t recommend handling them but they won’t go out of their way to bite you. Brown recluses on the other hand…
If they’re big, they ain’t hatchlings.
Yea, I figured that as I wrote it. I’m guessing they came from the same egg though to suddenly be appearing around. They grow fast since they don’t live that long.
Went public today with the software I/we (3-man company) have been working on for the past 2 years.
Press-releases went out, and we are entering a pre-release beta period, after which we’ll start selling.
Wish me luck glibs
Congratulations
Let me know how the Uber-Hooker app works out.
Self-opening truck for the body ?
/trunk
Promo code for Glibs?
Congrats Ox
That sounds like an important milestone!
Congratulations and good luck with the roll out.
Good luck!
Good luck!
Before I was in this business, I had heard of alpha and beta testing. Then I got here and discovered gamma and delta testing. Then seven “Milestones” post customer-release of various development and improvement regimes before calling the product “mature.”
What about “we’ll just roll it out and see what happens” testing?
Microsoft style!
I have a few of those under my belt.
You guys are why we HATE working with software vendors.
And WTF is up with wanting to be paid after we shit-can you for not delivering on time?
That’s awesome. Congratulations, and good luck.
The software tracks people and scores them based on SJW compliance.
muchas gracias all!
Nice work, man!
Hope to see at at one of the events now!
hey, I just saw your email, I’ll try to make it
But what does it do?
it is a 3d renderer: https://bellarender.com
Speaking as a long-time Poser geek, that’s gorgeous.
thanks!
So, I’m planning a second date with a guy, but he has to travel overseas. At first he said he wouldn’t have cell coverage, but has apparently added it just so we could text while he’s gone. Creepy or not?
Not inherently.
He probably wants to make sure you know he didn’t make up the trip as an excuse not to text you. In which case, not creepy.
That’s was my thought. Plus overseas cell plans aren’t as expensive as they use to be. Mine was$10/day, but only if I used it.
He’s headed for India.
He was flying out at 6pm and wanted me to take day off (no). But was fine with my decision.
I hate missing work. No way am I using PTO for some random.
“I hate missing work.”
Even when you get paid for it, you power hungry hoarding greeder?
If I’m missing it’s for something fun, not to dick around at an airport.
My chiseled face and all-seeing eye are eternal.
So, you’re definitely a dirty pillow case selfie guy.
Selfies are for teenage girls.
As long as he isn’t texting you daily reminders to put lotion on the skin, I’d say it’s not creepy.
Not creepy but sounds like a loser. Who needs to go the some shithole country? If he can’t make it in the good ol’USofA then don’t waste your time.
Wait, SECOND date? Is this the first one other than the drug dealer?
Yes. He’s an accounting/finance guy who likes just sitting quietly. He comes across a little clingy in texts, but not in person.
Clingy like “Bitch, if you ever leave I’ll kill you and myself” or “whatcha thinking” clingy?
More sleep well, and I hope you slept well, texts every and morning
If he tells you to “sleep well” and doesn’t say “I’ll most likely kill you in the morning” he is a hard pass.
I’m not Florida woman. Plus, while he’s gone,I’m arranging other first dates.
Sleep well. It makes it easier to sneak up on you.
Does he call you The Wild Rose?
Hmm. Which is worse?
I’d take the first one because at least when I’m dead I don’t have to deal with the constant questions.
Is his name John Smith, but his friends call him “Stereotype?”
He doesn’t travel overseas very often or he would have already switched to T-Mobile or Google Fi long time ago.
Ok, at the point where you judge someone doing something in order to please you as creepy, the issue becomes yours.
There’s no image on the Thursday afternoon links. I mean, is that some sort of violation of Gliblike etiquette? Is it?
Strange things are afoot at Glibs HQ today…
“Strange things are afoot at Glibs HQ today…”
Isn’t that what we should expect? Tentacles or no tentacles, optional.
“Shout
Shout
Let it all out
These are the things I can do without
Come on
I’m talking to you
Come on”
Why the hell does that keep going through my head, because it’s like some sort of torture. WTF? It’s like right on the edge of my consciousness, but… I need another beer.
If I wake up in the middle of the night with that in my head, I’m not going to be happy with you!
*sends in orphans to put the ‘Stand R.E.M’ earbuds on JB after he sleeps*
That’s low, man.
Yeah, I know. I just love being mean.
Heinous.
If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
Make it last forever, friendship never ends
What I really need to do
Is find myself a brand new lover
Somebody who lies with me
Who doesn’t notice all the others
I need a lover that wont drive me crazy
Some girl that knows the meaning of ah-
Hey hit the highway!
First you have to leave the old one. Are you going to slip out the back Jack? Make a new plan Stan? No need to be coy Roy.
I truly love American Ninja Warrior and Forged in Fire. Both are reality shows without trash talking. And American Ninja Warrior makes me get off the couch and do squats. Plus, I can talk about American Ninja Warrior with my 89 year old mom. She loves it too.
Plus,I can talk about Forged in Fire with my brother. We (my sister and sister in law ) have promised him a knife made by his favorite. He’s a big camping guy.
“Forged in Fire”
Forged in fire is bad, because someone might not get a trophy. And that’s bad. And toxic masculinity, even if a girl (I mean biological girl) wins. It’s bad, because.
Forged in Fire is awesome, though I wonder about the beards. Isn’t that dangerous? Or is that the point? I get the kilts.
I had to check Hyperion/Hyperbole. I gave you the benefit of the doubt.
There in only one Hyperion. I am NOT a contrarian.
Maybe you should change your handle to better reflect your non-contrarian beliefs?
Shut up and change your name. I like that better. (: Just fucking with you bro, you know, or not.
How dare you, sir. Can I get a cat-butt over here?
Oh stop exaggerating
“How dare you, sir. Can I get a cat-butt over here?”
I don’t like your chances, but you can always get your overly inflated hopes up.
Kilts were a thing because the scots were poor. Why they use it as a point of pride, I don’t know.
I’m guessing the Forged in Fire guys are wearing Utility Kilts, thick canvas with lots of pockets.
Favored by craftsmen everywhere.
I don’t know. I sort of get it. I mean, Dollar Shave Club wasn’t quite as available back in the Middle Ages and so I can see why us guys were so often sporting full beards. I even find it too much work most of the time to trim the non-goatee facial hair back to just stubble, with a 6 blade safety razor I can buy at my local Walmart. So yeah, I get it. Catching it on fire in the forge may have been 2nd thought at best.
It’s already caused a massive fire.
True story: I moved in with the winner of one of the early seasons and his wife. Then moved out with his wife.
So you ran off with the wife of a guy who makes his own weapons and who has welcomed you into his home?
Did you have to fake your own death and assume a new identity?
Are you still with his ex wife?
Beards provide bonuses to forging.
I put a link under the Titty Sprinkles mention someone made above, and it links through to the right video, but it isn’t blue like a Hyperlink.
No idea what that is about.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h0O7biX22SE”
The first link looked like a link to me, I use Google chrome (because I don’t give a fuck if know that I searched for ‘marking flags’ and who they tell about it) so maybe it’s your browser settings.
I am Poppy.
I’m definitely a goldilocks dater. If you’re more into me than I’m into you, I’m uncomfortable. If I’m more into you than you are to me, I’m uncomfortable.
How can you really distinguish that – esp after just a date or two?
That’s why second date
Kind of what I was thinking. Often one person gets there (to attraction and actual fondness) earlier than the other. In fact I’d guess that’s how it usually goes.
One of many reasons I’d swear off Facebook if I were single and dating. One party will want to put “in a relationship” before the other. Nobody needs that kind of pressure.
Seems lik uniform distribution of feelings. /Tries to impress Tulip.
Seriously, do you recognize that this is on you? You are flat out stating that the problem is you, which means the solution must be on you as well. I don’t mean to jump on you. I sympathize, but blaming this on those you date just means you will never fix it.
I do recognize. That’s why second date
Damn Raiders can’t even find a stadium that can get its field in shape.
The problem is in the end zones. The Raiders don’t have to worry about it.
Zing!
Stop it with the Raiders hate, you haters…
If any team deserves it.
Sure they can. It’s just not in Oakland.
Pies is back
https://www.foxnews.com/media/fox-news-sarah-huckabee-sanders
This has to be one of the greatest songs of all time
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2Ey-h-KUXA"?I don't like Cricket
Well, fucked up, but works.
Not as great as this.
The hell?
Yeah, I was thinking as much. Glibs are sort of weird, you know girl?
Why would you click a Ted link?
Weirdo.