Man, being without minions for the week has been both brutal and productive. Brutal because I have to answer every email and help request that comes in for our team. Productive in that there’s no one around to ask me questions. Need a 3 hour block to make some fixes and enhancements? Oh look, I has one. How strange. My admin-in-training gets back from vacation next week, and I’m supposed to have a new baby coder start… well, it was gonna be this Tuesday, but they’re still calling references as stuff. So hopefully next Monday. So I’ll be teaching class, not writing code for a couple of weeks. Hopefully, by November, we’ll start getting some productive work out of them.
Florida Man, you can’t pawn your county issued weapon! Also, domestic battery? You know you’re not a real cop, right?
Florida Man, consent is important!
I’m sure the Hat & Hair were behind this.
Space Force active by 2020? Well “active” — gotta figure out important shit like ranks and insignias, and then they can start working on missions and goals.
Meh, I’m in the mood for some present century pop-rock.
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Russian police on Thursday said they had detained a Siberian shaman walking to Moscow on a mission to drive out President Vladimir Putin who he describes as a “demon”.
Siberia is the Florida of Russia?
minions
In I’mStillADick news, the “retirement” picture on Linkenin of my boss being “cheered” on his way out of the office with his box-o-deskcrap is delicious. I went with this guy, turned down a position at Berkshire to do so, and then was laid off after three months. Now the big boys at corporate have made their decision, which I’m enjoying because I’mStillADick.
Ha!
Dang, that is ice cold.
I’m a big boy and a known quantity, and it’s not like it poisoned my career, but how exactly are you going to turn things around without a well-rounded business development guy who really understands engineering and the B2B world?
Well, being fired after three months is pretty dang cold, but I was really thinking about the staff cheering as the guy who
got fired“retired” does the Walk of Shame.You should try to sleep with his wife. Revenge is best served in another man’s bed….with his wife
Can confir… Uh, yes, I’ve heard that too.
Can you give us a photo without doxxing yourself?
He’s not anything special: just imagine goateed Boomer fake-smiling his way. At a personal level, I’m totally sympathetic to a guy who has built something.
But I’m just a little butthurt over my treatment. I did think about making a move a month before I was canned, but it was going to be very tough sell: how to argue for a different structure, goals, and staffing, any of which are tacit attacks on his decision-making? I chose to focus on my own assignments, made some progress, and then got the rug pulled out from under me. Oh well.
I had a boss who felt it necessary to tell me in front of a crowd that I would be fired if the several million dollar capital proposal I was in charge of didn’t work. He wasn’t being humorous about it either. I think I responded with “If you think I’m stupid enough to need to be told that, you should just fire me now.”
I kind of know what you mean.
My friendship was destroyed because I decided to leave a job because the benefits where non existent, the work was horrible and inconsistent, the owner didn’t even have a plan for the future nor cared to discuss it whenever I asked, and the pay was terrible. And by terrible I mean way below industry standards.
The person above me was a friend (and one of my groomsmen) so when I put in my two week notice after being miserable for a year and some change, he accused me of being disloyal and betraying him. He told me that I would regret my decision and the place that I’m currently working at would treat me terribly. Fast forward to a year later and yeah some days it’s not a perfect job but i absolutely love my coworkers and learning more and more everyday.
I asked some people who know him and where familiar with the work we did and they all said that it hasn’t gotten any better. I know I should feel somewhat vindicated but I do.
I guess I don’t really understand personal loyalty in business relationships. Was your friend going to quit rather than fire you if that’s what it took for the business to continue to operate? And I don’t mean that as a slight against you or your friend, just a realization that if the business would operate better without me, the company will (and should) fire me. Similarly, when moving on is a better deal than staying, that’s what I should do.
Now, there are humans involved so sometimes people make wrong decisions, even when attempting to do what is right the best way possible, but people who get their feelings hurt that someone went on to a better gig puzzle me. As do people who are genuinely hurt when a business lets them go for underperforming, or just because the business can’t afford to pay them (because of declining business or skill obsolescence or the new computer program killed their job).
In his mind, since we were close friends I should have told him my issues before putting in my two weeks which is fair but at the same time, I knew and even him on some level knew that nothing could or would have been changed like the pay, the benefits and the work involved. And also, he’s known to take shit personally (which he proved me right) so I felt as though it was counter productive to list my issues. On top of that before I took the job, I asked him that if I wanted leave would he ever hold it against me and his response was that as long as I put in my two weeks, we would be fine.
The kicker was that I didn’t even now he was angry about this till a couple of months ago when a mutual friend of ours at me down and told me that my friend was sore about everything and that he wasn’t going to have me in his wedding nor even invite me.
That happened to me once. There were other things involved, but I was being a good little loyal worker bee with promises of better pay, etc.
So, then, @Ed Wuncler’s “loyalty” thing also pressed my buttons.
Loyalty is a trap. My dad used “loyalty” as a weapon and I finally got my mind right about that after I got kicked to the curb. It took me a while to understand there is no such thing as corporate loyalty to its employees.
I think I found the news-media’s anthem for 2019:
Muppet Classic Theater Who Do You Think You’re Foolin
Enjoy!!!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stykEsN-mnI
FNC specific anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NppK_T_J8qc&feature=youtu.be
NYT specific anthem
(this song always gets the propagandists clapping, because laughter and dance is Nazi adjacent)
Gangstagrass is better hick-hop than this.
Dat girl can sing.
That is actually really good. I have never heard of hick-hop until just today. The world is weird
Not really. Country and hip hop has similar roots/culture
Opiates?
Violence
Art of a subculture devalued by the dominant culture?
Space Force!
https://www.ar500armor.com/catalog/product/view/id/10296/s/mars-testudo-package/category/92/
Space Pants!
https://youtu.be/MwpmqMnngRk?t=59
did you see my pants? NO WAY, you missed them. my pants are a tour of the solar system.
Uranus is showing.
They know their market for body armor:
“Body armor shouldn’t be legal”
– John
moobs too.
Due to the asinine comments of Chuck Schumer, we’re experiencing longer lead times than usual, but we WILL deliver every order that is placed prior to any such regulation going into effect.
I never understood his argument on that. It made no sense.
You mean you’re not persuaded by pure invective?
They know their customers.
I know it’s early but I have a meeting so here is your Thot Thursday.
http://archive.is/ctV1K
22
20.
Remember that time that Trudeau lectured a woman about using the term “mankind”?
That’s the future the libs want
Being instructed by people in blackface?
It’s “brownface” and all he did was “darken his face”.
Its hilarious, watching the Canadian press twist themselves into pretzels to save the Twink from showing up on “blackface” searches.
Remember when Trudeau was John Oliver’s hero? So much clapping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1miNteGTV1A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V5ckcTSYu8
“face darkening makeup”, man, get it straight
If you people learn anything from my writings it’s to not fuck with shamans. Don’t know what the Siberian equivalent of monkeypaw magic is, but you can be assured it is both effective and powerful.
That is exactly what I’ve learned from you, Tonio.
Fuck those shaman
[buries face in hand]
The monkeypaw magic I perform on myself in private is effective and powerful.
Pics?
/asking for Jesse
According to Google, a Siberian curse is a Soviet central planner, dark magic indeed.
Don’t fuck with the Shamen.
Cute.
Insert SNL’s Walken “cowbell” skit.
Oh, wait, you said present century…
Yeah, I was kind of hoping it was The Cranberries (don’t judge), but then I realized what century this was
Welcome to the Space Force Academy
Squee! Where do I join up?
“Space shuttle door gunner…”
Erm, wut?
Its a thing.
You didn’t earn the patch? Oh…
https://milspecmonkey.com/store/patches/243-shuttle-doorgunner.html
WeTheFifth.com Podcast: 153 – “Moderate Chic, NYT’s Kavanaugh Follies, Our Pal Corn Pop” just dropped; don’t bother.
Michael Moynihan Vice @MCMoynihan 3 points 0 LOL
Matt Welch Reason @MattWelcom 5 points 0 LOL
Kmele Foster Free Think @Kmele 0 points 1 LOL
They’re always sympathetic, and I don’t think they got anything wrong this episode, but it’s just not worth the 90 minutes unless you’re just stuck in the car with nothing else to listen to.
The only thing that can save that podcast is to get rid of Welch and Moynihan and just have Kmele
It’s 2 hours, I’m halfway through, and I enjoy it.
SCORE IT
Yang is coming for your cars/beef…
“What does the world look like to you?” Velshi asked. “What does the world look like to you in 2050? What physically do you think we will do differently than we do today that will result in us fighting climate change?”
“We might not own our own cars,” Yang responded. “Our current car ownership and usage model is really inefficient and bad for the environment.”…
“Cattle is very energy-consuming and energy-expensive,” Yang said, adding that he wants to “modify Americans’ diets” by taxing ranchers that raise cattle, which will drive up the cost of beef so that people can’t afford to buy beef anymore.
But, he won’t apologize for his Asian jokes so he has my vote.
On the other hand, Tulsi is great on foreign policy and has nice jugs.
Decisions, decisions
Your handle is going to get longer if you add Yang.
nice jugs
Something is longer already.
It’s not that much longer
inefficient
One flavor of statist can be seen coming a mile away; indeed: he happily flies such colors for any who would see.
This is what drives me crazy about the “Scientific/Engineer” STEM types. They often tend to think of society as some grand physics equations, and then talk about how inefficient things are, without ever realizing that these “ineficencies” are artifacts of their perspective.
FWIW, I’m one of those types: I see stupidity all around me and think I have most of the answers.
But I don’t have any will to be a statist: everyone can go to hell in whatever manner each accords to himself.
Maybe my libertarianism is some deviant hillbilly variant, but my system mostly starts and ends with: mind your own fucking business and keep your hands to yourself. I’m right about everything, but I don’t care how wrong my neighbors are in the least. I’ll help or consult if asked, but mostly I just stick to my own whittling.
You may all go to hell and
I will go toDon will escape from Texas!Yup: my congresscritter right there
I believe I’m right, but I’m open to the possibility that I’m wrong. If I convince you I’m right and we both end up wrong, that’s one thing. Entirely different from forcing me to do something and then, oops, it turns out you were wrong.
I’m probably being to hard, but i see the mentality a lot. (I’m kinda a STEMy person too? maybe? I don’t know if software development really counts). But I think you know the type i’m talking about. IT/Engineer/Math guy who thinks it’s all so simple and that the world would be so much better if they just put him in charge.
I mean the tendency to statism isn’t unique to these folk. It permeates all humanity, It’s just a unique flair that i find particularly annoying.
I see it too, a lot of engineers, and even more scientists, are convinced that their ability to calculate and implement solutions to presented problems equates to wisdom. It doesn’t, the two skills are not identical, and not even particularly related. Wisdom recognizes that efficiency is not particularly important to human desires. Efficiency is useful, finding ways to produce something in a cheaper, quicker, more ergonomic manner is certainly a boon, but the something must be desired first.
Food pellets might be more efficient, they might be healthier, they are almost certainly cheaper, and yet they suck. Big concrete apartment buildings fit more people into less space, they are cheap to build, durable, allow uniform appliances and fixtures, allow population to be sited where it can also shop and work, and they suck.
Things work best when the market drives the engineers. “people want x, x costs $56 per unit to produce, find a way to get that to $32 and we are golden” not vice versa.
IT/Engineer/Math guy who thinks it’s all so simple and that the world would be so much better if they just put him in charge.
I think this type, while it exists everywhere, is more common among the more theoretical fields. A math equation or computer program can be perfected, but if you are building things it is harder to believe that perfection is achievable. Nature is a harsh mistress.
People always find ways to use things that the engineers never intended or considered. There’s no way to program for that.
but if you are building things it is harder to believe that perfection is achievable.
*nods defeatedly*
/person who has been trying to craft regular expressions for an ocr’d document all day
In my (obviously limited) experience, the degree of abstraction required by their discipline is a major influence. Mathematicians seem to be the looniest politically, while MEs are much less.
It’s harder to believe you can design an entire society when you’ve had to actually build something that works. I wonder what naval engineers are like.
Uffda. I’d love to hear what Yang would do with the ranch land in Western NoDak that is currently used to raise cattle. The badlands can support free range cattle, but I don’t see how anyone is going to do much else with it. Too broken to plow, too dry to grow timber.
What irritates me is that these armchair planners seem to thing that each acre in the country is identical and can be used for any purpose.
Right next to the badlands in NoDak are a lot of big wheat farms. They start appearing right when the land starts to flatten out enough to plow. It is like people will use the land for the best purpose or something.
How the hell did we get to the point where candidates run on platforms of I’m going to take your car and your burgers away.
I kind of said this in the post. Usually candidates will pander to the extreme side of their party during the primary, then move toward the center during the general election. But this time the extreme side is so far out there, I don’t know how they could possibly tone it down.
Plus, its Trump. No way is he going to the usual Cuckpublican thing and pretend they never said any of that shit. Nah, he’ll be rubbing their nose in it 24/7.
I assume the Dem nominee will be Warren. She will keep doing what she has been doing. She will make a statement that sounds reasonable like I’m a capitalist. Then she will propose actions that directly contradict her statement.
We started pretending like trust fund kids are victims
“…from my greasy, ketchup covered hands.”
he wants to raise taxes on food? that is not a winner.
Only the bad types of food. Like sugary sodas.
I “get” their push for gun control. Fucking Bloomberg.
Where is this anti car & beef plank coming from? Who is funding that shit?
Someone must be ranting about it on Twitter.
Who is funding that shit?
Putin?
LOL.
I was going to propose “The Russians?”.
PeTA and people like them are probably funding the anti-beef thing; those people have money.
It’s not anti-car, it’s anti private ownership. The usual anti fossil fuel crowd, I’d say.
But behind every naïve do-gooder is a self-aware, evil control freak who just wants to transform us into something like the Soviet Union. Fuck those people.
I see you’ve met Tom Steyer.
I’m not sure it is anti-car. I read that statement and think that by then we will have autonomous autos working. I bet there are a lot of people like me who would ditch their cars in a heartbeat if there was a cheap way to pay per trip.
I hate having to own a car. If there was an alternative that was cheap, anonymous and ubiquitous I am going to be an early adopter. I get that there will be people who want to keep their own cars and that is fine. I don’t want to be one of them.
“Cattle is very energy-consuming and energy-expensive,”
Is it? I mean, I guess if you feed them alfalfa, hay, and corn their whole lives, maybe kinda. But pasture-raised seems pretty energy-minimal.
Besides, if its really energy-expensive, wouldn’t beef already be, you know, expensive?
It’s not?
Cheaper than in other parts of the world.
But it tastes good, so the price is worth it.
Not when as tasty (if not tastier) options are a quarter of the price or less.
Then why do the poors keep eating meat? We need to correct the errors of their way
What are you? Some Kinda Pinko Vegetarian wimp?
I was talking about the cost of beef versus other meats, pork in particular. outside of McD’s ‘hamburgers’ I don’t think the poor’s are eating a lot of beef (hell I don’t and I’m damn near lowest-middle class), I don’t see them loading up on the ribeyes and strips steaks in the meat dept.
Sometimes I think Hyperbole is a dirty leftist infiltrator. Then something like this comes along and I realize he is a troll and my opinion of him shifts back positive. We need moar trollz. Our world must be mocked and obstructed.
Oh i hear you about Pork and Chicken. I’m just a poor hick, so all meat is beef to me.
Ground beef is very cheap and poor people buy a ton of it. Chicken would probably be more affordable (depending on the part of the chicken), but you can do a whole bunch of stuff with ground beef.
Tulsi Apo. – Ground beef is about $4/lb Pork loin is $1.5/lb, whole chickens are $1.1/lb, If poor people are eating a lot of ground beef the reason probably also points to why they are poor.
Jarflax – Name seven (or one even) dirty lefty positions I’ve championed
Leon – I got nothing for yo but didn’t want to leave you out and make you feel bad.
:Beams:
You always stake out a position on the strangest of topics. Haha
You can’t do a lot with pork loin, though, besides cooking it. With ground beef you can make mac and cheese with ground beef, a casserole, etc. Ground beef allows you to stretch your meals, versus pork loin is a single meal.
You said that your lower middle class, so somehow I doubt that you don’t already know this. I use to volunteer with the poors and ground beef was a staple of their diet. But, I will concede that pork loin is probably cheaper, maybe. I honestly don’t know as I don’t do most of the shopping and Supermarket Sweep is no longer on TV
🙁
Jarflax – Name seven (or one even) dirty lefty positions I’ve championed
It was a joke. Actually I sometimes think you are a troll and other times think you are trying to be ‘purer than thou’ in objectivity, which occasionally reminds me of some of the ‘tactics’ of the SJWs, because it assumes a false equivalency between deliberate misstatements and verbal shorthand or hyperbole.
Hyperbole exists to keep us on our toes. But, he also secretly hates most of us
Ahem – Almost lowest middle class, one day Ma! One Day!!
You can’t do a lot with pork loin, maybe you can’t.
Seriously, I get the stretchability and ease of using ground beef but I have said before a still believe that the best thing a young or poor person can do if they want to eat well and cheaply is to learn how to cut up a whole chicken and use all the parts. One 4-5lb chicken plus your pantry staples will feed a person well for a week, learn to make stock and all that rice and pasta is suddenly much tastier.
Yeah – even boneless, skinless chicken thighs are only like $2.50 a pound near me. Versatile AF and they taste better than breasts.
But, he also secretly hates most of us
Only Laff Liff or whatever his fucking name is, Mr Peanut and MIlburn Pennybags’ love child, hell, I could’ve done that.
Hyperion is a most excellent troll. He hits the very small window of contrarian irritainment without quite showing that he is here to get us to take the bait. Kudos, sir.
Dammit!
HyperionThe Hyperbole is a most excellent troll.Ah, you should have left it Hyperion, I thought it was intentional and some damn fine trolling.
Am I Laff Liff? I am confused. Not that that is new.
hopping in the truck to get 14MPG to go for the Thursday special at my favorite Italian place
(tacit fuck you to Yang and an abject smell-ya-later to Glibs)
Name a more efficient way to convert water and indigestible plants into tasty protein and fat!
pig
Chickens and pigs are the most efficient
And maybe that genetically modified salmon that grows 2x as fast as wild salmon
***mmm tasty chicken wings, pork chops and teriyaki salmon with wasabi-mayo dressing
I don’t think chickens or pigs can eat grasses as a primary diet.
I wish people would realize the market usually fixes all of this shit through innovation. It’s just a slow and imperfect process.
Exactly. I think the car ownership model is going to change with time, but that will be due to market forces.
On a semi-related note, I like examples of how the old style of doing something is coming back but for good reasons. Before about 100 years ago, grocery stores didn’t exist as they do today. You went to the store, you gave the grocer your list of items you wanted, he picked them off the shelves behind the counter and gave them to you. The exception was things like independent produce stands.
The new model is sending in your order, driving up, and having the store load it into your trunk. Or, bring it to your home. Or, in the weirdest case, come into your home and unload the food into your pantry. The exception, once again, will be for picking out produce, like at a farmer’s market or similar.
Someone is going to adopt the model completely and not even allow entrance. It will be a literal warehouse store. Pickup or delivery only.
See, this is probably just an example of me being a curmudgeon, but I can’t see the appeal of this, at least when you’re talking about anything but packaged foods. I don’t trust other people to select my produce and meats.
The market will provide, if the personal shoppers are picking out shitty produce Kroger will suffer so they will hire people who know a good tomato from a bad one, I can also see it becoming fairly personalized as in you can request that Vinny the butcher selects your ribeye because he knows what you like.
“The market…” LOL. You silly libertarian. Don’t you understand that the market only increases inequality? The only thing that produces equal prosperity for all is central planning.
*clears throat*
Ahem, I believe I can clear this up. Andrew is what we call a cunte, and may safely be ignored.
To put it more succinctly:
Go fuck yourself, Andrew.
[unzips]
If people choose to give up their cars because it’s cheaper and easier to dial up a ride on demand from Uber or some other company, fine. That probably would be a good way to go for a lot of people. If the government is forcing me to give up my car he can go screw himself.
^^^This^^^
The Johns of the world cant distinguish, so any talk of autonomous vehicles immediately devolves into Red Barchetta style distopias.
-1 Kevlar Vest
As someone who was always on the same side as John on this topic, you know damned well that this would never be a voluntary thing.
I know nothing of the sort.
As always, we have to remain ever vigilante against creeping big government, but that is going to happen with or without autonomous vehicles. The tool aint the problem.
If I don’t control my travels, then someone else does.
Oh shit, check mate.
I tend to agree. Autonomous cars will likely work (barring some massive AI breakthrough) only when they are networked and don’t have to share the road with unpredictable meat-guided vehicles. You won’t control a damn thing, including whether you are allowed to use one.
Yep. Count me in as well.
No chance we have both.
Note: Chip, RC, and Tundra are all John. And also probably Tulpa.
Accusing us of being Tulpa is JUST what Tulpa would do!!!
We are all Tulpa.
LOL. I’m with you rob. I tried many times to get the John-Chip-RC-Tundra hydra to understand that reality is going to be somewhere between the utopian and dystopian predictions.
For one, cars will use a mesh network, not one that is centrally controlled.
My hope is that autonomous cars will gain market share because guys like me will be able drunkenly moon Tundra from our rented autocar while he is driving next to us in his silly convertable.
WHOOP! WHOOP! BULL-FUCKING-SHIT ALARM HAS GONE OFF!!
The ONLY way govt will allow the autonomous vehicle is if they get the keys. And they’re justification will be MUH ROADZZZ!!! They already tax you (in some states) for using “their” roads.
It will be a “safety” issue and they will want the ability to lock the doors and take you right to the fucking station. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
Anyone who thinks differently should heed the lesson of Uncle Milty, who gave us direct deposit and govt getting in between employers and employees. (Or a million other examples). There is no fucking way that the FedGov os StateGov won’t ensure it can commandeer your “autonomous” vehicle. It will actually be a “quasi-autonomous” vehicle.
They already read your emails, live intercept your phone, and have star chamber (FISA) courts where you have zero rights to defend yourself, have counsel, confront the evidence against you, etc. But somehow, automobiles will be different. Riiiiiiiigggghhhhtttt.
Sorry guys, I love you, but you’ve lost your mind on this one.
And by the way – begging forgiveness, you holiness – I LOVE the technology itself. I love the idea of fractal ownership, or being able to call up my car from my laptop while I’m flying and have it idling at the curb when I walk out of the airport, of working while the car whisks me to where I go, of getting to do… ahem… things in the backseat while the car glides to my destination. BUT I KNOW there is no fucking way – NO WAY EVAH – that govt is going to allow that without using it as a stalking horse to have control over the grid. They’ll say they have to for the “CLIMATE DEBACLE!!1!” to control traffic, to manage the limited resources, etc. I mean, my god, look at what they say they need tp be able to control of your life now, but somehow cars they’re just going to let us all be free to go where we please?!? COME ON, GUYS.
^^This ^^
*drives off in silly convertible*
And Ozzy comes in from the top rope with a huge buzzkill.
I’m with Ozy on this.
Furthermore I doubt the tech will even work. What happens the first time someone’s car gets a BSOD and they go careening off a mountain or cause a fifty-car pile-up?
The only way it “works” is under conditions we can’t even imagine right now, like totally reorganized cities with cars-on-rails or something.
For one, cars will use a mesh network, not one that is centrally controlled.
Your faith that Our Masters would permit an uncontrolled mesh network, rather than one under their control, is touching.
To be fair, the full dystopia requires other elements. But I think a Social Credit Score system would supply those nicely.
Scruffy – as I said, I absolutely LOVE technology. And I love this technology specifically… but if anyone needs a reminder of how government works, I would commend to them a certain series that has been posted on this site about how the government handled mass vaccination of the military. (Ahem). It’s a minor miracle I haven’t suck-started my Sig given what I’ve seen inside the belly of the beast, but only because I have a strong survival instinct.
What happens the first time someone’s car gets a BSOD
The redundant computers take over and disable the malfunctioning one.
The tech hurdles are hard but not impossible. I’m much more concerned that we’re going to be mandated to buy $80k automated cars or take public transportation in the future.
The Idea of Autonomous Vehicles sounds awesome, untill you learn that a 4 inch sticker can turn a stop sign into a toaster
Which will justify vastly increased surveillance.
It’s a sticky trap, Shirl. The answer is always more surveillance, more cameras, more monitoring.
Yup.
because it’s cheaper and easier to dial up a ride on demand from Uber
Well, except in California.
Getting 4 months notice of being laid off has its advantages, but it is getting mind numbing. 6 full days to go after today.
Ouch. Sorry, buddy.
Big scooter and big chicken.
Supposed to be a reply to Sean.
Actual big chicken:
https://www.ajc.com/news/local/ready-spread-its-wings-the-big-chicken-has-reopened/YD2ZTeYpWNIUxLWlW4RnsL/
Spoiler: Nicosia 3, Dudelange 4.
The Luxembourg team actually wins a game in the Europa League. On the road, no less.
Wow. When Trudeau has to remind the press….
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2019/09/19/its-come-to-this-justin-trudeau-reminds-media-they-dont-have-to-cover-for-him-video/
I love how he doesn’t even know how many times he’s worn blackface. WTF?
*or what Chip said*
Zoolander wore blackface so much that he can’t be sure of how many times:
Trudeau being forced out of office over wearing blackface nearly twenty years ago rather than for forcing his minister to squash an investigation into a political ally is peak neoliberalism
peak neoliberalism
Sounds legit.
This is like when wokeheads protest and boycott businesses that donated to Trump, but gleefully praise Silicon Valley #Resist companies that work with a Chinese government that runs literal re-education camps
we’ll see if he even gets forced out of office at all. last I checked, VA still has the same governor.
As a Virginian, I shed a silent tear
SHUT THE FUCK UP…..SOMETHINGTARD
You are no HM.
If Canuckistani PM is forced to resign for this, then surely Virginia Governor must also. Win, win, win…
Surely Virginia is more important than Canada, right? We were founded earlier and have more people, right?
Yes and *checks notes* no
Reminds self to have more recourse to sarcasm tag.
That actually surprises me. So VA has fewer people than Tokyo?
Only CA is bigger than CN
California Uber Alles
“Justin Trudeau makes groveling plea for forgiveness after THREE photographs of him wearing blackface emerged – but he refuses to confirm that those were the only incidents”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7483285/Justin-Trudeau-apologizes-wearing-blackface-three-times.html
Three times? He should just identify as Al Jolson.
I would’ve given him points if he said “wearing dark face make up for a costume isn’t racist””
Because it’s not. And he would be right.
But he had to be a giant pussy and grovel And say what a great crime it was.
Loser.
What about the time he dressed his whole family up in Indian costumes and acted like a jackass in India?
Tundra bait.
Met Council screwing over businesses they forced to relocate for new light rail line.
What an ingenious idea to create a council that is unelected so that they can do shit like this and not have to worry about losing their phoney-baloney jobs.
So by law we have to follow that
Yeah, municipal councils are famously law-abiding.
“sometimes we have to do things that aren’t favorable”
Omlette, eggs…
The problem is that our two other omelettes already lose money every single year. So our betters decided that the smart thing to do is add another omelette. The old “sure we lose money on each transaction, but we’ll make up for it in volume!” trick.
“You can’t judge the system until it’s complete,” subvariant. Which is inevitably followed by the “system is chronically underfunded, not complete” grift.
They claim it will be up and running by 2023.
Yeah, sure.
And as long as you don’t have to pay that price, what matters the cost?
Free healthcare and universal literacy, to be sure!
*turns into Hulk*
TUNDRA SMASH!!
Anyone who talks about the greater good should be banished to Wisconsin.
I thought Tundra bait would be this 1965 British convertible.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7335281/Elizabeth-Hurley-54-sets-pulses-racing-goes-TOPLESS-sultry-swimming-pool-snap-LA.html
Those are the original factory headlights.
Oh man.
What exceptional lines…
BRB.
How is this not a taking?
hey yo fuck the met council
“Tekashi 6ix9ine identifies Cardi B and Jim Jones as Bloods gang members during testimony as the court is shown dramatic gun battle between the rapper and a rival crew”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7483261/Tekashi-6ix9ine-snitches-rappers-Cardi-B-Jim-Jones-identifies-Bloods-gang-members.html
Nice tattoos, asshole.
Tekashi 6ix9ine is what happened to that kid from grammar school who giggled every time the teacher told the class to turn to page 69
he’s 100% gonna get murked the second he gets out from this plea deal.
I believe this is what they call a metaphor.
It it?
Really?
It’s a metaphor for the direction our country is going.
Brave journalist calls out FAKE NEWS. Minneapolis beating was not done by Somalis. And it is all about hating Omar.
For those waiting for it… SOHO Forum Dave Smith and Nicholas Sarwark debate.
It is not a violation of NAP to hang Nick Sarwark from a yardarm. I will argue in the affirmative.
I second the motion
“See, the way that the LP can show itself to an alternative to the two major parties is to embrace a Republican foreign policy and mix that in with identity politics”
Vichy Libertarians
Ouch. Did you come up with that or did Dave say that in the Debate?
That’s not what Nick explicitly is saying, but his overall argument is in order to win over voters to the Libertarian party, you necessarily will have to concede you will be trying to win over non-Libertarians.
He did say on Dave’s podcast that “hunting down Kony in Africa” was still consistent with a “restrained foreign policy”. Not surprisingly, that was Gay Jay’s position in 2012 (which earned him praise from the Weekly Standard).
Remember, since 2004, antiwar.com was being surveilled by the FBI, while other libertarian publications were publishing articles in support of the Iraq War and defending the FBI while pimping Russia Fever Dreams.
One is a threat to the establishment and the other is indistinguishable from the establishment. Vichy libertarians
He also said that libertarians should vote for Adolph Hitler if he runs on the LP ticket which is a tad too pragmatic for my tastes and just a little unprincipled. The man’s an unlikable holier-than-thou unprincipled idiot.
He also said that libertarians should vote for Adolph Hitler if he runs on the LP ticket which is a tad too pragmatic for my tastes and just a little unprincipled. The man’s an unlikable holier-than-thou unprincipled idiot.
Nothing says libertarian like mindless loyalty upwards to the fearless leader of our team. If you are a member of a major party an argument can be made for voting party loyalty even if the candidate sucks, because winning empowers your team as well as the specific candidate. If you are a third party member you are never going to win. all you have is the symbolism of your message getting votes. What the hell benefit do you get by increasing vote share to 3% by making your message indistinguishable from a major party? It’s utter idiocy and all his arguments boil down to this.
When someone asks you, as head of a national party you’re trying to bring reasonable people into, the answer to “Should you vote for Hitler etc?” is always an emphatic “No.” Either that or you sidestep the question and he didn’t even have the sense to do that. I’m sure Sarwark would make a fine small town Libertarian mayor or city councilman and he should put his political efforts there. As it stands I think the fat fellow that stripped at the convention would do a better job.
Isn’t the point to get them to change their minds, not change your own to suit them?
That’s not how you get power.
I will speak for the yardarm. It is blameless. Why sully it with the likes of Sarwark, for whom surely keelhauling is too good, and an assault against innocent barnacles.
You speak purty
I can also dance sluttily onstage at national conventions. You should see the assless little thing that ChinaPost just delivered.
Haha
Next time your by me you let me know
If I don’t know any better, Sarwark is taking credit for legalizing gay marriage…
“The level of incompetence here is actually staggering. YouTube permanently banned Laci for impersonating herself. You can’t make this up. @TeamYouTube what is going on over there?”
https://twitter.com/ChrisRGun/status/1174385387625541632
I’m close finishing “Black Rednecks & White Liberals” and I’ve learn a lot. I only wish he had chosen a different title because I think some people will avoid reading the book because of it. I know I’ve rolled my eyes and avoided even cursory attention because of titles. Example “dear hire people”. It maybe great, but I wouldn’t know because the title drove me away.
Your title is your meta-thesis. It has to draw eyeballs; unfortunately you sometimes have to result to controversy to go there. While your first sentence is your most valuable in-article real estate the title and the blurb are what draw readers in. Plus some nice cleavage, whether butt or boob.
Umm dear white people. I’m not an expert on these things, but I’ve been reading it at work and have gotten strange looks when people read the title.
Book covers, ebooks, etc. I had to be totes undercover at work.
I had an ereader, but I find I read more when I have a physical book.
I think it is possible (and certain during the transition period) that we will have both. Probably with road, and or lane restrictions, but those who want driver controlled vehicles off the road will have no chance of implementing that until a substantial majority of the vehicles on the road are autonomous.
I suspect that the path to getting rid of normal cars will be that as more and more people switch there will be cars without any driver controls at all and cars that are dual capable, eventually as autonomous cars become the standard you will see prices climb for cars with operator controls and that will accelerate the adoption of autonomous only, eventually only enthusiasts will have drive yourself cars, and at that point a ban is possible, but not certain (and frankly I think unlikely as it won’t matter much).
Just slap my ass and call me Brooksie.
$20. Upfront.
Same as downtown.
https://twitter.com/mattwhitlockPM/status/1172364612836237312
Awesome.
Holy shit that’s incredible!
From the comments
Cracks me up that he was out busking!
That was astonishing…. And the BBC stage performance makes me suspect that he learned a lot about holding an audience from street performing.
Thanks for the link. I will be checking him out further.
Impressive footwork. Nice “Camel.”
Apologies if linked earlier this week. You “Bring a Trailer” guys, Florida Man has a deal for you.
Compared to the Chrysler 300 “Bentleys” that I see from time to time, this guy did a helluva job.
Who doesn’t like a nice vintage Cougar? Rawr.
I thought that was going to be about Bette Davis.
My best buddy from my yute had a 1968 Cougar XR-7 when we were in school. White with a black vinyl top, Cragar Mach 8 wheels, a 302/4V with a C-4 automatic. Light and pretty damn quick. Eventually he sold it, but he always wished he still had it.
So when he retired from the railroad, he found another 69 Cougar XR-7. He did a pavement-up restoration, including painting it white and having a black vinyl top put on. Only this one has a whooped-up 428 Cobra Jet, a top-loader four-speed manual, a nine-inch rear, and I swear you could eat off the motor. Riding in it is kind of like being fired out of a cannon.
I’m no longer into cars like I was when we were kids, but I will say that Cougar is pretty damn sweet.
*another 68. Dammit.
There is a black XR-7 with tan interior, garage kept, all original, running around RVA.
Bobcat…
https://twitter.com/CPW_SE/status/1174736220619853825
People do the darnedest things to their kids?
That’s was my Grandma’s car.
125K dollars American? No thanks.
Haha! I admire his efforts and salesmanship, but I think I’d do this for $3500 more.
Submitted without comment.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/sep/19/its-a-violation-the-war-on-unwanted-dick-pics-has-begun
PS: Training a convolutional neural network to recognize and filter dicks really wouldn’t be all that difficult, especially given the sheer volume of dicks on the internet.
Isn’t teaching a young neural network to unquestioningly do something to a dick called Grooming?
I’m really sorry, Q.
;-(
Stay strong
I’m really sorry, Q. 🙁
Stay strong
Okay, I know it annoys the ladies to get dick pics. But that shit is self-correcting. LOL.
But honestly, it is so self-torpedoeing (SWIDT?). I was having a bar night with one of my single women friends who was lamenting that she had this date set up with this totally cute boy. She was DTF, totally. Until he sent her a dick pic. Not that it wasn’t a nice, though unremarkable, dick. It was just the principle of the thing.
Dick pics don’t bother me, but I’m much more frequently the recipient of pictures of fat, furry rumps, IYKWIM.
I would like to hear of even a single incident where a woman received a dick pic and thought, “Oh, this is the guy for me!” I can’t imagine what compels men to try this, except for intentional sabotage.
Projection? Guys are primarily visually aroused and seeing her bits gets us interested, so guys with a low level of empathy (actual meaning, not code for “oh how nice he is” ) think it works in the other direction.
That checks out. Guys are idiots.
I have seriously been trying to figure that out, about the guys. Sure, you’re signaling that you don’t have TLP (holds up fist with pinky extended upwards), but it makes the ladies feel like hobags when they get them.
TLP?
Never mind. Tiny little penis
Tiny little…
Her: Who you gonna please with that tiny thing?
Him: Me!!
Stupidity?
IMHO dick pics are only for when they are actually familiar with the dick in question.
Eh? If you want to see it, come over.
What about tongue pics?
NPR is prattling on about ecoloonies. From anti-natalists to teens really really concerned about communities of color.
It’s barf worthy.
Tomorrow is teen eco-hooky day, isn’t it? That should be fun.
Isn’t it area 51 day as well?
Yes
So, tomorrow is going to be a low-service day for businesses that rely on minimum wage employees. Hopefully, those businesses will be able to use that as a springboard to turn over some problem employees.
Submitted without comment.
https://twitter.com/AJA_Cortes/status/1174658605561372672
Be airing your mental farts on twitter is so useful
and Twitter is not “the absolute worst Loser Habit you could have”?
I think what I find fascinating is how all these strangers are stepping up to justify themselves to this rando on the internet.
I didn’t scroll that far, because who cares what he thinks.
“and Twitter is not “the absolute worst Loser Habit you could have”?”
My very first thought while reading that.
Uh…..
Skinny fat is a thing, bro. Do you even lift, bro?
Can I tell you about Crossfit?
An atheist, a vegan, and a crossfitter walk into a bar. How do I know this? Because they told everyone there within the first 2 minutes.
Give her a big hand, folks!
I don’t know. The last cult I let in my house didn’t turn out so well.
Compared to the time he spends on his hair?
“subhuman”
Charming.
And this guy is venting on the twitter instead of building houses for poor people, or whatevs.
Translation: I’m not smart enough to figure out them video games.
I learned rocket science better from video games than from my physics professors.
The practical application of differential equations as the progressivly lightening craft needs to be kept a a constant change in velocity to touch down at a safe rate worked better than the chalkboard scribbles.
I can’t run for political office. Years ago, when I was 20 or so, I threw a “Host a Murder Mystery” party with Star Trek the Next Generation as the theme. All the invitees were assigned their roles and came up with costumes.
I was Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg—bartender on 10 Forward) so I did my best to “be” her. I was impersonating a specific actress who happened to be darker than myself. So I did use a brown cream all over my face and neck and hid my red hair under a big Guinan hat i made. Is authenticity “blackface”?
I don’t think so. I think minstrel show “mammy” blackface with white clown mouth could be insulting, but authenticity in costume for a specific person with no disrespect? Not so much.
Did not the great Ben Kingsley wear brownish makeup as Gandhi?
Ben Kingsley is half Dot-Indian.
I did not know that!
I love his work.
“Without a Clue” is an overlooked gem.
Sneakers had so much talent that even an abominably stupid script couldn’t kill it.
Rat cootie semen.
pretty sure cootieS was plural. Unfortunately, youtube seems completely unable to find the clip.
The script was weakly plotted, but surprisingly decent on technical details for Hollywood, back in the day. Kind of like “The Hot Rock” but in a surveillance van.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0315983/
The authenticity angle should make a difference but context is irrelevant now so it doesn’t. Give it another five or ten years and hopefully this insanity will have burned itself out.
Nice diversion, but you were in the wrong.
Because the proper costume was a huge gasbag.
Lol.
She hadn’t revealed the extent of her idiocy in the early 90s.
As I child I used to wear a fake Indian headdress we bought in Cherokee, NC. They seemed happy to sell it to us. Was probably made in China.
I think rich white ivy league students should go to poor Cherokee, NC and shut down their main source of income for contributing to wypipo cultural appropriation.
Today, I had arguments and discussions about 3″ masking tape.
The rest of your posse argued for duct tape on the basis that victims can break out of masking tape too easily?
“I can’t get a good edge if I can’t paint on the tape”
“You can paint on the masking tape, that’s why it’s there!”
“You told me not to paint on the tape.”
“I told you not to paint on the other side of the tape!”
“Doesn’t the other side get color too?”
“Yeah, but it isn’t green!”
etc.
Scintillating
Us.
Blue or green or off-white?
I’m a professional, I buy the cheapest shit I can get in bulk. Hola Uline!
That reminds me, I need to buy some skinny masking tape.
This one is narrow and has a much higher tensile strength.
I’m hanging origami cranes on a painted bedframe. Tensile strength is not a consideration.
Sorry. I was caught up in the serial killer vibe of the thread. I’m sorry I played along. Your decorating ideas sound delightful.
Your hostages prefer being gagged?
Slander.
I am giddy about the new sofa set being delivered next Tuesday. This old cheap crap we have now that we got off Craigslist when we were desperately poor is killing my back. So we found a lovely leather set at a local consignment shop that is the absolute bomb!! Consignment shops in rich neighborhoods are great. Awesome furniture that no longer suits the whims or rich bitches shows up and is perfectly good. They also get slightly nicked stuff from Macy’s and all. Awesome savings.
“Whims OF rich bitches”
This is perhaps the sexiest thing you’ve ever posted. Brilliant, practical women are the libertarian ideal.
Aww. Thanks.
Another thing I’ve learned about the rich neighborhood consignment shops is they sell furniture that was used just to stage houses for sale but is now “last year’s craze”.
Terrific deals.
Sweet Jesus Yes!
There’s a mini-chain of consignment men’s clothes in Austin where I could buy Tommy Bahama shirts for $20. Lemme tell you, you ain’t never visited a strip club until you’ve visited a strip club wearing silk pants.
Consignment doesn’t mean used?
Crusty ain’t the only thing crusty here.
I honestly don’t know what it is. Were the garanimals hand me downs from my older brother “consignment”?
Consignment stores will sell items for you for a commission. Consignment = turning over possession (but not ownership) of an item or items to a seller to offer to sell your item to third parties
I sooooo wanted to use the word bailment here….
Oh. A fence.
Lol, no to qualify as a consignment the consignor must own the item.
It’s amazing how well modern laundering technology works.
Besides, there’s a HUGE market in “used” kimono, that I’m sure you’re aware of.
They make pants out of silk?
He’s the white MC Hammer.
I was think maybe Prince, but that makes more sense.
Yes they do, and they are even more awesome than silk pajamas.
I’ve never worn silk pajamas. I just do gym shorts and a T-Shirt. My gym shorts are kind of satiny though, prolly polyester of something.
[furiously scribbles notes]
“Food pellets might be more efficient”
Purina Human Chow?
UGH… So NYC spends a metric shit-ton of tax dollars on stupid things. But they don’t spend enough tax dollars to enable the entire city to receive certain types of trash service. Our TV broke. In NYC it is illegal to throw away electronics, they must be recycled (despite the fact that China no longer buys the electronic garbage and it all goes into the Fresh kills landfill with the rest of the city’s garbage). One must make an appointment with the NYC Dept. of Sanitation for them to come pick it up. After spending 54 minutes with the dolt at the city’s one-stop help-line (“Just dial 311 on your touch tone phone to access any and all city services”) who argued with me about where I lived because his system doesn’t have a record of our street (it was laid in 2011). After escalating to a Level 2 311 operator, I was informed that Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx, Staten Island, and ONLY THE WESTERN THIRD OF QUEENS is eligible for pickup appointments! The city expects me to schlep a 65 inch plasma an hour away to Brooklyn just to throw the broken thing away?!? I had often wondered why all of the undeveloped beachfront property here gets used as ad hoc refuse dumps; now I know.
You don’t have scrappers in NYC? Around here any electronics you want to get rid of you just leave on the curb and within a few hours some scrapper has grabbed it.
That’s what I do (I’m in Brooklyn).
^This^ I have a guy, Big Joe, if it has a cord he’ll take it, if it has any steel or aluminium in it he’ll take it. If it looks like someone might give him 2 bucks for it at a swap meet he’ll take it.
Fresh Kills was closed in 2001.
Disassemble (or cut) into smaller pieces. Toss in garbage.
You know, sometimes when a law is unjust or ridiculous you have a moral obligation to ignore said law. Fuck em, throw it in a dumpster staged on a city project after the sun goes down. You’ll feel better. 😉
For all of you an Evan or less in age, the following is vastly more true than your typical internet documentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5i6gl4Lx9E
Saw some dude maybe 10 years ago at a carryout that looked like he just walked out of the 70’s. White dude, big fro, sideburns, porn ‘stache, denim jacket, polyester shirt unbuttoned halfway down with medallion necklace. It wasn’t even close to Halloween. It was bizarre.
Funny thing about the 70s is we were already making fun of it by the 80s.
For perspective, imagine us making fun of the 00s. … I can’t even point to anything that distinguishes the 00s from the 10s.
The 00s were less bad than the 10s. But all the notable cultural messes started later.
It’s almost like we decided to take a breather for a decade and were as unremarkable as could be.
Except, was it still the era of absurd startups, or did that end around 2000?
The useless 00s had no Poppy.
Hot Topic
I present to Gardner Minshew, rookie quarterback for the Jags:
http://700espn.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/85/minshew-1.jpg
That dude is 23 going on 40.
New thread!!!