I don’t want to work any more. I feel like I’ve reached my productivity threshold for the week. Can’t we just pretend to work tomorrow?
I am surprised Eric Swalwell has survived walking and talking at the same time for this long.
A robot that makes sushi and pours beer perfectly? How soon can I get one intalled?
Oh man, some cops make thuggish comments online? Who woulda thought it? Next you’re gonna tell me that popes aren’t free of sin
An art film I might go see.
And speaking of robots…
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“Oh man, some cops make thuggish comments online?”
So, we found where Dunphy went?
Whoa. FIRST!
BRAVO!
Doesnt count, it was on topic.
You know, when you tell a customer at 12 noon that 3pm is the shipment cutoff and they call at 4pm, you would think it would be obvious to them that you can’t ship that day.
Maybe they are in CA?
I’m kidding of course…
Same time zone
Now he’s freaking out because he overpromised on schedule to his customer.
Your lack of planning does not make my emergency.
Hell, I would get it out the door, but the product has to be mixed and shipped from the manufacturer in Arkansas. I’ve got no control over them.
Some people just don’t listen.
I’ve noticed that it’s never my best customers who pull that shit. Funny, huh?
I wish my best customers could plan anything.
Inevitably they all wait until 3:30 Friday afternoon to tell us they are completely out of product and need it on a plane to Guam or something.
meth?
The machines are sentient enough to fight back against their masters…..
AND THE DEMOCRATS WANT TO TAKE MY GUNS AWAY!??
DOOM! These guys are not gonna be happy when they gain sentience and remember how many hours we played keep-away with them.
A robot that makes sushi and pours beer perfectly? How soon can I get one intalled?
Sushi chefs are getting a raw deal here.
They are, but sushi making robots is such a great idea that we should just roll with it.
Ngiri, please!
Alright, next time I’m having sushi, I’m ordering the ngiri.
It’s a damn sashimi.
You’re going to Hell for that one.
What was soy bad about that one?
Swiss is gonna narrow his gaze on the entire roe.
Music while we wait for him to roll up..
This will definitely get a rice out of him.
That’s not really a change in plans.
I think that’s a shiitake, tbh… maybe they’ll enjoy the time off?
They shouldn’t feel so cut up about it.
Something fishy going on here.
*NARROWS GAZE *
I’m not sure where you’re going with this. We should be glad that they were stupid enough to expose their thuggery for all to see, and thus, reap what they have sown.
Of course, what they have reaped in this case is some cushy desk duty on the taxpayer’s dime while their union reps advocate for them.
^This. They will ultimately be rewarded.
Mining social media for offensive posts in order to get people in trouble and or shitcanned is a terrible thing to do, cops or not. It’s scumbag behavior and what they do to them today can be done to you tomorrow.
I don’t get that viewpoint. OSINT is OSINT. It’s really, really easy not to type “You do what the officer tells you to do. The [ethnic or religious slur] deserved it.” I don’t see why people should be able to escape the consequences of public statements just because it’s through social media and not dead-tree media.
I looked for the upvote button and realized I’m not currently on Reddit, so I’ll just say “this”.
We don’t have upvote buttons, but we do have the Upvote Fairy.
Long may they bless you.
How do I vote if I want a gay theocratic anime?
Will you take Jesus and Buddha living together in early 2010s Tokyo?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Young_Men
Elder gods and the crawling chaos or GTFO.
I’ve watched every season of that one.
I mean, Nyarlathotep could definitely transform into an anime girl if he wanted to.
That is gold.
I’ll take it.
“I mean, Nyarlathotep could definitely transform into an anime girl if he wanted to.”
That’s half the people on tumblr.
Yeah, I’m OK with it when I’m paying their salary.
This. And they have authority over us. This is entirely different than ruining the life of a privately employed forklift operator for not liking blacks and gays.
That forklift operator was black.
Agreed. The line is drawn with public officials
I vote with you and Tonio on this. If taxpayers pay you, then you’re shit outta luck.
We all have online statements on various forums that could get us fired and I’m not comfortable with various organizations compiling that stuff and sending it to employers, it’s a form of doxing. If they were doing something illegal though, planting evidence for instance, them dox away.
How is it doxing when they’re posting under their legal names?
It’s not. There can be no expectation of anonymity when they don’t even bother to try to be anonymous.
I agree. We live in the world where saying “hello” in Japanese to a non-Japanese Asian-American is a reason to complain to a bias response team. But posting a picture of a cute dog with the “gay” sign can never be interpreted as problematic or homophobic.
I do not have any online statements that could get me fired.
I was told here when I posted this some days ago that we should account for dark humor, something about it certainly wasn’t any worse that suggesting some people deserve the woodchipper (although I doubt there are very few cops here). And I thought about it and agreed a bit: it’s possible to post horrible things on a social media site even though you’re not a bad person and don’t really intend the notion or result mentioned.
I don’t like cops. I don’t like the cop I’m related to, and I didn’t like him before he was a cop, and I figured even before that he was the kind of guy who would want to be a cop. I tolerate the golfer who is our fourth from time to time: he means well, but he’s effectively a sanctimonious autocrat with habits that can’t help but have racist outcomes. I simply believe in fewer laws and fewer cops.
So I don’t like the postings I’m being told about, but I doubt every one of them should be fired. And I’m not clear on why the government employment is governed by the constitution thing doesn’t apply: don’t cops have a 1A right to be assholes off the clock? doG help me: devil’s advocate.
The kind of world I want to live in: racist cops are fired for doing actual racist stuff, which should be super easy to do.
Absolutely. What they don’t have is the right to be free from being called an asshole.
Regardless of that, their department’s social media policy covers off-duty posting as well. And I’m ok with that. If cops want the freedom to not have their off-duty behavior impact their career, then they should not be allowed to maintain certain powers “under color of law” when off-duty, including the ability to carry their issued firearm pretty much anywhere they want, nation-wide.
I didn’t say they shouldn’t be called assholes
and I’m perfectly okay with them being held to contracts they signed
I know you didn’t. I am commenting on the distinction of “free speech” as a legal doctrine and “free speech” as in “speech free from social sanction”.
Miningsocial mediafor offensive posts in order to get people in trouble and or shitcannedis a terrible thingto do, cops or not. It’s scumbag behavior and what they do to them today can be done to you tomorrow.Hunting White men for sport and destroying their lives is the new sport of people like Jack Dorsey.
I suspect the big problem is that we lost the divide between the private and the public sphere.
I would much prefer people save their outrage for public acts that are terrible. Better to have bad people do good things then good people doing terrible things.
72 Philadelphia Police Officers Placed On Desk Duty Over Offensive Social Media Posts
Only 72?
Yet they can’t seem to do anything about cops that shake down corner bodegas.
The rest were too dumb to figure out how to post.
I laughed, that’s good.
+ 1 “That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.”
Maybe the rest were problematic to sanction as they might ruin the narrative.
Attack robots and attack dogs may become passe. Meet an attack squirrel. https://www.waff.com/2019/06/18/drugged-attack-squirrel-seized-north-alabama-drug-raid/
Did it get shot in the nuts too?
No. And it did not get shot in the acorns either. Fun piece of trivia: “Deputies say there was no safe way to test the squirrel for meth.” I guess that forensics people on TV ‘procedurals’ would do it, no problem.
Would that be in the cheeks or between the other cheeks? I is so confused.
Protect your nuts.
Rays to explore splitting games with Montreal
The Rays have received permission from Major League Baseball’s executive council to explore a plan in which they would play home games in both the Tampa Bay area and Montreal, commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday.
While the plan is in its nascent stages, the Rays have embraced the two-city solution as the most feasible to saving baseball in the Tampa Bay area after years of failed attempts to build a new stadium in the region, sources said.
The only way to keep baseball in Tampa is to play it somewhere else.
I haven’t watched any Ray’s games this year. Did they ever do anything about that embarrassment of a field?
I like the Trop. I also don’t see why some mediocre team with minimal fanbase needs a brand new stadium.
I’ve never been there, but it seems like the biggest problem isn’t so much the stadium sucks, but that the location is terrible. On TV the stadium looks bad, but I heard in person it isn’t.
I have no problem with the stadium it’s the grass on the field that’s a train wreck. Uneven, blotchy, weird little divots in the outfield. It constantly looks like it got flooded the day before and is only half dried out. I’m surprised the MLB has let it slide for so many years.
It’s artificial turf.
That just makes it even more inexcusable.
I’m old enough to remember when the Giants threatened to move to St. Pete.
Splitting time with Montreal seems to be a guarantee that stadia are empty in two cities.
Hey Brett.
That robot video is excellent.
Topless feminists are not.
‘It would not be fair, Ross said, to assume all officers are biased because of the Facebook activities of a fraction of the department.
“There are many, many thousands who don’t think like this and who wouldn’t engage in this kind of behavior,” Ross said. “Wouldn’t make sense to assume that everybody is a racist and everybody is Islamophobic and everybody is a sexist, because they’re not.”‘
Would it be fair to assume that the officers that worked around these people knew what full well they were racist, bigoted, violence loving sociopaths but they kept silent because “thin blue line”? I think so.
Back the Badge!
Still others said some posts need to be taken in the context of the job.
Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore police officer, argued that among the police rank and file, such comments may just be expressions of officers who recognize the dangers of the profession.
“I think a lot of that language serves a purpose,” Moskos said. It implies, “We’re all in this together.”
Case-in-fucking-point.
You know what, Moskos? Every profession that deals with people on a daily basis has its own form of gallows humor. Most people have the self-awareness to keep that shit private.
Yes….but when they don’t, they should be hung out to dry.
I thought I knew black humor, and then I started working nurses. Ay caramba.
https://images.app.goo.gl/7YgjprPEFbTBdjR89
Well, as long as your wife doesn’t find out.
/Ted
That was before social media became main stream. Now people think that posting on the internet is the same as bsing in the locker room.
I taught a Master’s level class in gallows humor.
The entire city knows the police are racist, bigoted, violence loving sociopaths. This is the police department that dropped a bomb on a rowhouse, after all.
‘The resulting fire killed eleven MOVE members, including five children, and destroyed 65 houses in the neighborhood.[2] The survivors later filed a civil suit against the city and the police department, and were awarded $1.5 million in a 1996 settlement.’
Good god….and just a $1.5 million payout for 65 houses and five dead kids? That’s borderline criminal itself.
And… the houses the City built to replace the ones they burned down were shitholes:
After more than a year in temporary housing, residents returned to their rebuilt homes in the fall of 1986. That winter, the roofs started leaking.
Next came discoveries of defective plumbing and wiring, bad flooring, nails popping out of walls, burst pipes, flooded basements and backyards and broken appliances. Replacement trees have since uprooted parts of the sidewalk and are strangling pipes.
Milton Williams, 61, has had five stoves, four roofs and two living room ceilings. Today, his front and back windows look out on boarded-up homes.
“It’s embarrassing to invite people over here,” he said.
After 14 years of unending repairs, then-Mayor John Street decided in 2000 that the houses were beyond salvage. He offered owners $125,000 each plus $25,000 in moving expenses; 37 people took him up on it. The homes were then worth about $75,000 each.
I just looked at that block on Google street view – most of the houses are still boarded up.
As I recall, the replacement houses cost twice what it would have cost to build a similar townhouse in the burbs (and the cost of burb houses included the underlying land that the city people already owned). Not only were they expensive, I understand most have already had to be torn down and replaced again.
A former co-worker went to HS with the surviving kid mentioned in the article, Birdie Africa. She didn’t know he was “Birdie Africa” though until around graduation.
Even Australian bands knew that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzrCjeo-bO4
We did work on Ramona Africa’s house a while back. It wasn’t in Philly.
“Mr. President it would be unfair to cancel the entire program because of a few bad apples.”
“A robot that makes sushi and pours beer perfectly? How soon can I get one intalled?”
How about a robot that can make up to two cocktails a minute every minute all day with “endless combinations” of 30 spirits and 21 mixers?
https%3A%2F%2Fwww.royalcaribbean.com%2Fblog%2Frobot-bartenders-shake-things-up-at-sea%2F
How much for the lady in red?
She’s dancing with me.
I could be wrong, but I understand that RC’s cocktails are $10-13 plus 18% gratuity. If the robot does not get the 18%, maybe it should sue. That assumes that the 30+21 includes bourbon, ginger beer, lemon, and pomegranate.
How much for the women?
https://www.royalcaribbean.com/blog/robot-bartenders-shake-things-up-at-sea/
That robot has admirable trigger discipline.
This is the PM links, so you may as well have PM’s take on the video.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a28068919/robot-fights-humans/
“Next you’re gonna tell me that popes aren’t free of sin”
They aren’t? Who said that they were?
As an aside, I’m always mesmerized by some Catholics who get war boners. Do you even just war theory, brah?
Exhibit A: Sohrab Ahmari of the NY Post:
Sohrab Ahmari
The Iranians will back down in the face of good, old-fashioned cruise-missile diplomacy. Freedom of navigation is a core US interest and an international common good.
“Deus vult.”
Converts are always the most zealous.
Seems more like willful blindness and putting politics before your espoused faith
Yep. See: ex-Christian Atheists. Always the biggest asshole in the room.
[cups hand in armpit, flaps furiously]
That’s because they’re not ex-evangelicals
….I’m an ex-evangelical….I’m also an asshole, so, good point!
“cruise missle diplomacy”
What an asshole.
So much for a consistent life ethic….
The pope?
I’m not familiar with any cannon law stating that the pope is free from sin. Actually, that would contradict a central theological principle that all people are born with original sin (with the exception being Mary, whom some Christians and most Muslims believe was born without original sin).
Don’t get your shaveling panties in a bunch. I’m just screwing with you.
They’re already bunched up!
The cardinals, actually, during the first ecumenical counsel of the Vatican. Papal infallibility also has limits, the Pope is only infallible in his role as the Pope and even then only in certain circumstances, he’s just as fallible as any other child of Adam in his personal capacity.
Ex cathedra, yo. /Eddie
“Popes…not infallible” would have been better.
The pope is not infallible. And no cannon law says so. Only “when, in the exercise of his office as shepherd and teacher of all Christians, in virtue of his supreme apostolic authority, he defines a doctrine concerning faith or morals to be held by the whole Church.” Last time this happened, I believe, was won in the 1800’s Mary’s perpetual virginity was defined.
Read a different Jack Chick comic
There is no reason to read any other one than the Dungeons and Dragons one.
I don’t want to be Elfstar any more.
Have you never seen the glory that is “The Last Generation”?
https://chick.com/products/tract?stk=94&ue=d
That is gold
Come on, Soul Story. There’d be more Christians around if more evangelical material used the line “Throw them grenades, man.”
I suggest “Mama’s Girls”. I’d you’re going to read anti-papist propaganda from Jack Chick, you may as well go big and read the one where he blames Catholicism for nazis, communism, Islam, and… the freemasons, for some reason? I would have gone with the Knights of Columbus, but old Jack wasn’t particularly bright.
That would be the nicest thing said about Catholicism in a Jack Chick comic.
How did Jews avoid his attacks? He went after Catholics, Muslims, and the Freemasons. He must have been the first bigot ever to say “you know what, the Jews ain’t that bad”.
Dispensationalist: the Jews are the chosen people and God will take out anyone who harms them.
We’re G-d’s chosen people, so he doesn’t like to mess with us, but we’re also doomed to Hell since we don’t accept Jesus.
He was once off those evangelicals that had a hard on for Israel. Why? No clue, I can’t make anything remotely coherent about his actual beliefs, but there you go.
Where’s Rabbi Waxman?
The answer is in Hell, of course.
Huh. Not only did I learn that there are people paying money for those things, but I also learned that there is are at least two people who seem to believe that any Bible translation other than the KJV is like a roadmap to damnation. That’s kind of a lot to process.
roadmap to damnation
Good title for a novel.
Come to think of it, that would be a pretty good album or song title for Megadeth.
Rodrigo Borgia, please pick up the white courtesy phone. Rodrigo Borgia, please pick up the white courtesy phone.
7.5 hours in on a conference call. Will to live fading. Send whiskey and beer.
Why? Something actually broken?
Something’s been broken for the past three weeks. It’s been an intermittent issue that was impacting several call centers. It got bumped up to a P1 with all of the various vendors involved yesterday, and I was on a call until ~22:00 Eastern, then joined the 09:00 Eastern call this morning. They believe they’ve found the issue, which is outside of my company’s scope of support. So I’m basically sitting on the call for moral support and to make the customer feel like we are willing to go the extra mile to support them. Today I’ve talked for maybe five minutes of this call, and just did some simple log searches early while they were still trying to identify the issue.
Did you check the thermostat?
Sorry.
It makes up for the days when there’s no tickets in the queue. The call is finally over. We reconvene tomorrow morning to check the status, and turn down all of the enhanced logging.
Well now, this is horrifying.
Broken links are horrifying
It doesn’t seem so scary to me…
aaaah dammit
it needs a plunger arm and a laser
It is supposed to fight crime, not ex-term-in-ate everyone on the planet, even if they all commit at least three felonies a day.
How does it beat you with a billy club with no arms?
But does it have Directive 4?
If it was real they should have released in philly. I could’ve usedthe laugh.
RIP HitchBOT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HitchBOT
Okay, Swalwell is an idiot. He doesn’t know how government works. Even a former provincial bureaucrat like me knows that advisers are essentially personal staff who leave when their elected’s term of office ends. Unlike the White House Chef for is permanent and nonpolitical. Unlike appointed officials requiring senate confirmation who are political and impermanent but often stay on until (at least an interim) successor is appointed.
Swalwell: “I don’t care that he left the White House, I’m firing him anyway! TAKE THAT, DRUMPF!”
Swalwell looks like Terry Ferguson who lost his privates in a fire.
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/terry-ferguson-for-senate-1/2870443
I’d pay so much money to see Swalwell fight the current white house chef.
Holy shit….I’m guessing no one sends food back to the kitchen at the White House.
Why White House Chef Andre Rush Does 2,222 Push-Ups Every Day
Dang. He seems like a cool guy.
!!!!!!!!
I don’t care how many pushups you do, he got those arms lifting.
Not twice, anyway.
Trump: “I said I wanted this steak well done!”
WH Chef: *folds arms, gives a flat stare*
Trump: “…maybe the rest of the steak eating world is right about well done steak being an abomination, nevermind.”
Yes, being threatened to accept something definately makes your point.
I had a point?
The president has his own personal chef and staff, so this guy probably doesn’t actually cook for him.
/pedant
Trump prefers to eat fast food as often as possible, believing it to be safer to do so. This is not something I made up.
Well, if you were lying, it would be a hell of a whopper.
That’s also why he eats things like meatloaf and ruined steak.
Trump put black people in the kitchen? Racist.
I don’t think anybody puts Chef Rush anywhere he doesn’t want to be.
Doesn’t change the fact that OrangeManBad is obviously a racist. He’s not the only black guy in the kitchen. And I’ll bet there’s even more of them on the White House staff.
Does he pay them?
Wage slaves.
So he’ll fire the entire travel office?
A funny bit on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/Dd7FixvoKBw
LOL
Peeps smarter than me: What’s the best way to remove a stripped laptop screw? Not going to do any drilling; too tiny (2x3mm) and don’t wanna risk my laptop. Rubber band trick didn’t work. Superglue? It’s a T5 torx screw that’s been rounded out.
Superglue the screwdriver into the head of the screw. Best bet.
If that doesn’t work, talk to a Level 8 D&D wizard.
Ooooh, that’s a toughie. Superglue trick won’t hurt but I’d be tempted to try Gorilla glue first.
Is there enough room to file a channel in the head to turn it into an old-school flat groove screw?
If you’re going to file, be careful about the metal shavings. Those can do bad things if they get into the machine.
Indeed. I presume he knows that and will take precautions or ask how to.
Not smarter than you, but I fuck stuff up a lot.
I have this set
Follow the instructions and it works fine.
Dude! Even though I don’t need those at the moment, good to know where to find them.
Juvie probably isn’t lucky enough to live by a Menards.
How stripped is the screw? You might be able to wedge in an Allen Wrench of slightly larger size.
“Make it fit.”
Just keep hammering it in.
STEVE SMITH CAN OFFER ADVICE ON TECHNIQUE. WHEN IT COME TO HAMMERING IT IN, STEVE SMITH IS EXPERT!
Easy out?
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Precision-Screw-Extractor-Set/IF145-118?o=1
Safely remove stripped screws and replace the age-old practice of coating the screw-riddled device with wax and feathers and hurling it into the sun.
?
I like the idea of that one (no drilling), but I can’t figure out how they work.
Can’t you just zip over here and magic the screws out to help me out, Korosensei?
The head of the tool forms a cutter that is twisted to tighten in a counterclockwise direction.
So as you turn the the cutter bites more and more firmly into the head of the screw.
They will be in multiple sizes so if you’ve stripped it out you’d use the next size up. You want the smallest one that can still bite into the screw.
Try these:
https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Screw-Extracting-Pliers/IF145-127?o=1
There are also “vice grip” versions.
Won’t grab? Cover every thing with cloth spayed with Endust, or use tack cloth, etc. like ground metal is made of bubonic AIDS. Dremel or file off two parallel flat sides.
In my experience, Easy Outs are the best way to make a bad situation worse.
And speaking of robots…
Space Pope is definitely without sin, and he warned us about robomenace.
Thot Thursday shot from the grassy knoll.
https://thechive.com/2019/06/20/burn-your-bra-and-join-the-revolution-37-photos-7/
Hey buddy. Thanks for the Beefcake links last night. I went offline before you put those up but I really appreciate the thought.
No prob.
“Send whiskey and beer.”
Do you have Amazon Prime? Are you in a part of the US that Whole Foods promises to try to deliver your order in two hours or less to Amazon Prie subscribers but if they don’t make it, oh well?
“I support putting the U.S. back into the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. I support increasing aid to the Palestinian people, and I’m going to fire Jared Kushner on Day One, because he has no business being on the job of seeking a two-state solution or finding peace in the Middle East. It requires serious scholars and a serious leader committed to making it happen.”
Who needs scholars when we have this genius?
Eric Swalwell was elected to public office. If that’s not an argument against representative democracy I don’t know what is.
He won’t let us down because he lost his genitals in a fire.
It requires serious scholars
Only if you want it to fail.
You know what is a crying shame? That the US is dead last in the OECD countries in per capita govt spending!
Spend baby! SPEND!
Yet we’re still broke. Imagine that.
…and yet you ramble on for several paragraphs telling me what a travesty this is before finally admitting you are oversimplifying everything. Thank you for wasting my time.
?
No, you’re admitting that you don’t have a point. Thanks for wasting my time.
Well if you didn’t like the rantings of our local liberal nut, you probably shouldn’t read the comments. I wish I hadn’t.
Let me ask you all one question….have you ever seen me and Rhywum in the same place at the same time?
Well?
No, Tulpa, I’ve never seen you or Rhywun, at all.
Clothed or naked?
…yeah.
In per capita terms, the U.S. is 11/35 on spending and 13/35 on revenue. It looks “worse” in percentage of GDP but that’s because the U.S. has a fairly high GDP.
The real hilarity is that the U.S. central government spends by far the most, as a percentage of its budget, on health care of all 35 OECD nations. Yet that too is evil because argle-bargle free-market unregulated profit-driven argle-bargle. You’re damned if you do and damned if you don’t.
Also, according to the OECD, the U.S. spent 0.00% of its GDP on “environmental protection” in 2015. Even if the only spending that qualified were the EPA’s budget, that would still amount to 0.04% of GDP in 2015. This is supposed to account for all spending at all levels of government.
Well, I’ve uploaded the updated files to Amazon, fixing my previous error.
In the next few days, the Paperback version should appear for purchase.
If any pre-orders show up without the chapter “The Palm Coast”, let me know.
I was going to ask you to post how to find your works, but I’m glad I checked your Glibs author profile first. I could have ended up with a bunch of dodgy, tetanus-y slices.
It’s also linked in my handle. But I’d have just given a direct link without comment, because I like customers.
The proper way to treat customers – a training film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7LOtMix9w
Lol. Chappelle is awesome
*sigh*
https://www.thecollegefix.com/mural-of-george-washington-that-traumatizes-students-to-be-covered-up/
“traumatizing”
Would it be wrong of me to suggest that taking the students out back and beating them daily with a garden hose might alter their viewpoint on what traumatizing actually is?
I volunteer for that job.
The three options before the board are to obscure the mural with curtains, create acoustic panels to cover it up, or paint over it; each option would cost anywhere from 300,000 to $800,000 to complete, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Holy fuck. I’ll paint over it for $100k.
First you’re going to have to fill out about 278 pages of reps and certs.
Then, you’ll have to prove you conform to the Davis-Bacon Act.
All materials must be sourced in America with a paer trail.
Oh, you’re white and male? Nevermind, you’re not getting the contract anyway.
Oh, fer fuck’s sake. Two guys could take care of it with plywood and 2x4s for a couple hundred bucks.
Save the plywood. Just have them clobber the offended students. Problem solved.
I would love for this to come down to a battle between teachers’ getting a pay raise or spending close to a million to cover up a mural.
As if. I’m sure the state, county, or local government will find some money to ensure that everybody gets a pony. Except, you know, people sane enough to think this is waste of time.
The mural was painted by a commie as a critique of Washington. FFS.
I’m willing to accept one of two explanations on a student-by-student basis:
A. The student in question is unaware of the meaning of the word “trauma”, and/or
B. The student in question is effectively mentally incompetent and should be put in a facility somewhere.
“mentally incompetent and will be put on a faculty somewhere”.
Fixed
I see you have some experience with the university system.
Not the first time. 2017, but relevant.
“Plaques honoring George Washington and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee are being removed because they apparently make church visitors feel unwelcome and are too controversial”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/28/plaque-honoring-george-washington-at-his-church-is-being-removed-the-reason-why-is-absurd
These kids have never seen a dollar bill?
Those wacky Pakis:
https://www.unilad.co.uk/life/government-accidentally-turns-on-cat-filter-during-facebook-live/
Kmele Foster has this theory that DJT45 is great for the presidency because he strips away any presumed dignity of the office and thereby affords a keener view of actions and motives.
I’m thinking about watching all government stuff with my cat filter on to see how right Foster might be.
Kmele is right only so long as orange man is in office. As soon as he’s gone, people will go back to revering the president.
I’m not so sure about that. But at the same time I’m totally compromised by bias.
I hope I’m wrong and Kmele is right.
You’re not wrong.
Yep. Part of the reason people flip out over his behavior as president is because they’ve fetishized the office.
your right. Some of these people are beyond talking to or even being shown.
only so long as orange man is in office
lots of people are that way, but I would feel safe asserting Foster isn’t one of them: he despises all presidents as far as I have heard
originally typed that as lot’s * shudder *
I know Kmele isn’t like that. He’s the only person worth listening to on the Fifth Column podcast. I sincerely hope he is right.
Yeah, given the number of people who turned a blind eye, or worse yet justified, Obama doing a lot of the same things as Bush did ca. 2009, I wouldn’t expect much. In fact, I’d suspect the opposite trend is more likely. The next time they get a charismatic empty suit into office, that person is going to enjoy apotheosis.
This might be what PM Zoolander needs to claw back into first place this fall.
You mean Wacky Packs?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wacky_Packages
OMG those were awesome
rekt
https://pjmedia.com/trending/member-of-polish-parliament-invites-ocasio-cortez-to-visit-real-concentration-camps/
Ouch. He’s right, though. I visited Dachau and it was fucking powerful.
I visited three camps (Auschwitz, Birkenau and Dachau) in 1994 with a Jewish youth group and the images are still with me.
I couldn’t do that. I went to the DC Holocaust museum and while it was amazing I don’t think I could do it again.
Auschwitz was the same for me.
Remember shortly after Trump’s election when the corporate press was outraged when the Poles passed a law criminalizing using the term “Polish death camps”, because Poland bad, because they vote the wrong way? I fear that will be the response to this.
So depressing.
In fact, I would bet money that MSNBC or some left-wing outlet has already responded to this saying “like the Poles should be lecturing people about the use of the term concentration camp”. They’re getting shameless in protecting The Precious
That’s gonna leave a mark. Although, you’d need a sense of shame or at least self-awareness, and we’re talking about AOC, so…
Meanwhile, I didn’t realize this came about because Chuck Todd gave her the business over it. He’s definitely on the NBC plantation, for sure, but I’ve always thought that of the people in the MSNBC stable he’s the most likely to actually do real journalism from time to time, or, God forbid, give voice to an opinion based on serious and honest reflection.
of the people in the MSNBC stable he’s the most likely to actually do real journalism
*measures height of bar in micrometers*
+1 World’s Tallest Midget
Is Poland the Florida of Europe?
Surely it has to be Russia?
Would it be wrong of me to suggest that taking the students out back and beating them daily with a garden hose might alter their viewpoint on what traumatizing actually is?
My preferred training tool is a sock filled with nickels, but whatever comes to hand should work.
If it makes you feel better, that’s what really matters.
Hat’s off to the Minnesoda Solar Power PR flacks. They really know how to spin a story.
The latest is a tongue bath from MPR for turning their solar farms into bee and butterfly sanctuaries
So basically they aren’t mowing or maintaining the fields that they put those solar panels in. But with some PR magic, that laziness turns into another super positive benefit that totes justifies all those subsidies.
*I don’t think that the solar companies should be mowing or spraying. I just am irked by how it is being spun by the renewable bobos as something that is so cool.
they also promote soil health and probably even boost the solar panels’ electricity output on warm days
WTF Srsly?
Hahahahaha…
(Not addressing soil health, but calling BS on virtue boost.
I’ve got to give credit where credit is due. That’s some spin worthy of a teenager.
For Gadfly, gay theocratic anime.
Click on English CC for subtitles.
Why did they translate “The Byzantine Empire” as “The Roman Empire”? I get that the Byzantines saw themselves as “Romans”, but why would you translate an English term with another English term? To confuse English speaking viewers?
The translation is for the Greek text that says “Basileia ton Romaion” but is slightly ahead (possibly because CC is imprecise). Which was the official name of the polity and thus addressed by its neighbors.
Or possibly a joke that “Byzantine Empire” is a fake term coined in 16th century (when they wanted to denigrate them, Franks, Normans and other Latins called them “Empire of the Greeks”) and is correctly translated as “Roman Empire”.
BTW, in pinned comment are further annotations. I’ll leave what the “naughty anecdote” here:
Now I have a lot of googling to do
That’s why you don’t ask that sort of question here, Tulsi. The lads will school you up, they will.
Well, I’m always open to learn more
But, in a PG sort of way, of course
stops summoning Heroic Mulatto
I get that the Byzantines saw themselves as “Romans”,
Well, they were. Constantine moved the capitol there.
When they lost Rome, the claim became a joke.
Latin remained the official language for over a hundred years after the fall of Rome, and for centuries after that changed there was a distinct Greek-speaking “Roman” culture that carried on a lot of the traditions of Rome. Calling it Byzantine makes some sense from a modern perspective, but at the time the surrounding peoples would likely have considered them “Roman” as well.
That just makes it funnier. It’s like the brits calling themselves Normans.
Well, calling them British is no less absurd. It’s the name of the island and country, sure, but that’s because that’s what the Romans called the people they found there before they took over. There are no more Brits in Britain than there are Normans.
The Brits still live in Britain.
The Byzantines didn’t live in Rome.
And besides, the Welsh are not extinct yet.
Whatever. This is turning into an argument about semantics. Culture and geography are not the same thing.
That having been said, we can (probably?) agree that the Holy Roman Empire was not the slightest bit Roman.
Some times they did control Rome…
Well, for most of early Roman history, there was no such thing as birthright citizenship. When the concept of citizenship started it was based on the idea that in exchange for membership in the club you were subject to the club’s rules, essentially. It oriented around residence in or near the city because that’s where most of the laws were relevant and where the society was concentrated. As Rome expanded, the concept of Roman citizenship stopped having anything to do with living in the city or even having a familial or ethnic tie to the original Roman inhabitants and was just about political loyalty to the Roman government and, by extension, Roman culture. So, there’s precedent within Roman history for people considering themselves Roman because they do Roman things and adhere to Roman law.
Romans should live in Rome.
Laughs in Diocletian
*Laughs in Latin which few people in Byzantium spoke*
They are translating the Greek below it, which is roughly translitered as “Basiliea ton Romaion”. That last word is Greek for Romans. The translation shows up before the words it’s translating though.
Dammit.
Thanks. I missed that
That is also good. It never ceases to amaze me what insanity can be found on the internet.
Anyone who has clicked an HM link or read a SugarFree joint would have to agree.
People called Romans they go the house !
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/07/hr-workplace-harrassment-metoo/590644/?utm_source=feed
nuke it from orbit. In fact if someone could stage a convention for insurers, lawyers and HR in one city we could build a giant wall around it this country would be about 100000 times better.
Imagine thinking that the problem with corporate culture was HR didn’t have enough power. please someone do it because my brain isn’t powerful enough.
What about a space ark?
Come to think of it, we could actually pull the Golgafrinchan space ark scam off on the people who think Climate Change is real and will kill us all.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jun/17/recycled-plastic-america-global-crisis
Speaking of has anyone linked to this. I want to believe it’s real but it just checks too many of my biases to completely by in. I’ve been fucking with religious recycling zealots for years by saying that this was happening but that was mostly based on my intuition life experience and economic theory now I actually have a source and my penis is just too erect.
I’ve seen that elsewhere. Seems quite plausible to me. We’ve started throwing plastic in with the trash, not the recycling. That way, we know it goes into a landfill, instead of having a substantial risk of making its way into the ocean.
My brother works for the state deq and he says don’t recycle anything but aluminum as it’s all going in the trash anyway or the oceans.
I’ve been hearing about this for years but none of the local hippies have believed me. The cost in terms of money and resources to recycle plastic is significant, and sorting plastic is too labor intensive to be a sustainable workfare system. You’ve gotta recoup the cost somewhere, so you sell it off as scrap. Once new plastic becomes cheaper than processing scrap, nobody’s gonna take your scrap. Then what do you do? Keep recycling plastic and just stick it in a warehouse?
Nothing’s stopping an enterprising municipality from paying more to recycle because virtue. I would not be at all surprised if mine is doing that.
It’s not really possible.
From what I understand anyway only a couple that can do it and it’s a huge loser.
Why – because nobody’s offering it? It would be nice if the city was honest about what it actually does with my garbage.
True. I suspect what’s happening right now is that there’s sort of a “virtue subsidy” effect where municipalities are selling plastic scrap to whoever will take it at whatever price they can get and making up the difference in costs by pulling in local revenues from taxes, fines, fees, etc. At some point, though, that equation has to change such that you can’t get enough in sales to keep the scam running.
I would bet that within the next decade or so as plastic demand changes due to bag bans and stuff like that, and as plastic manufacturing becomes cheaper, recycling programs will turn into essentially “safe disposal” programs. It’ll go to the same damn place, it’ll just mean that the people doing the sorting still have jobs and the plastics are just gonna be compressed and buried rather than sold to the Chinese.
Fuck, that’s the remake of Escape from New York we deserve.
there would be no escaping that without the proper forms, we wouldn’t even need guards.
Ugh, I’m too sober for an Atlantic chin-scratcher.
Imagine thinking that the problem with corporate culture was HR didn’t have enough power.
When all you have is hammer, all the squeaky wheels get flattened.
Any VW fans here today?
1987 Volkswagen Scirocco 16V 5-Speed
I had a 1985. It was a fantastic car. This one is super cool, but is gonna be spendy. Over $6K with 4 days left.
I’m torn. I think I would want in more original condition.
Still, I’d love to have this one.
I get it, but the mods would make this one hugely fun.
I sure wish I better appreciated some of the cars I had when I was young.
The only thing I would want from the mid 80s would be an Audi Quattro coupe.
I’ve seen a few lately
Yeah, that’s the stuff.
*schwing*
A friend of mine that loves VWs used to have a Scirocco. I don’t remember what year. I’ll pass this on to him. Thanks!
My dad is restoring his 73 beetle. I’m happy he has a project in his retirement.
Sweet! How bad are the tin-worms?
He has cut out the floor boards and heater channels and welded in new metal and treated everything with a rust prevention paint. Still a few rusty spots to fix but it’s coming along nicely. He spends about 6 hours a day working on it and it gives him an excuse to shop online and buy tools.
That makes my day. I assume he’s sending it out for paint? What color?
OH MAN!!! THE MEMORIES!!!
My first car was an ’87 Scirocco. 8v, though, but still. It was the most Volkswagen car I’ve ever seen. The sunroof leaked. Every once in a while when you turned the key to start the car you’d get a slight shock.
I learned to drive in my brother’s Chevy Chevette but had a lot more fun in my other brother’s Rabbit that was held together with duct tape and coat-hangers.
I definitely had a metal coat hanger as an antenna.
Haha! Mine was fairly new when I owned it, so none of that.
I was in college and working, so I often took it out for long drives at night, just to unwind. Great memories from that car.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/20/trump-meh-dont-think-iran-even-intended-shoot-drone/
“Trump: Meh, I Don’t Think Iran Even Intended To Shoot Down Our Drone”
Good job, orange man. I’m sure Bolton will be in to scold you soon
HE’S IN CAHOOTS WITH THE IRANIANS! FOREIGN INTERFERENCE! IMPEACH ORANGE MAN BAD!
Well, do you know who Iran is allied with?
*puts on totally normal tinfoil hat*
You could actually interpret that as trolling.
“Hey, if Hillary got off the hook because she didn’t intentionally violate laws on state secrets, freedom of information, and preservation of evidence, why should I get all worked up if the Iranians didn’t intentionally shoot down our drone?”
You mean, like that?
More like “It had to be an accident, they couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn.”
Is burning a flag protected free speech or not? Or does it depend on which flag?
I said this to a progressive friend of mine. I have no particular reverence for a flag and I don’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance (I’m fine with the National Anthem, but I’m not pledging allegiance to anything) and my friend agrees. So, I asked: “You have no problem with people burning the American flag, right?” “No” he said “it’s just cloth”. “Would you say the same thing if it was the Pride flag?” I asked. He thought and said “No, because that is an expression of hate”.
Progressivism is a religious faith.
I read that as the “pride” flag is an expression of hate.
I no type good.
I meant that he responded that burning a pride flag is an expression of hate. Which is different somehow from burning an American flag, because I guess that’s an expression of love or something? I have no idea, because I find his religion to be stupid and basically worship of the state
I suddenly feel the need to stress here that I am not advocating or condoning the burning of the Pride Flag or the American Flag or whatever flag. I was only noting the inconsistency of the progressive position on this topic.
Why? Don’t you know us yet?
I get the feeling that people often perceive me as a bible-thumping anti-gay person on here. Just covering my bases.
BURN IT ALL! BURN IT ALL DOWN!
*light’s RC Dean on fire*
I get the feeling that people often perceive me as a bible-thumping anti-gay person on here.
You mean, you’re not?
*light’s RC Dean on fire*
Ha! Jokes on you! I live in Arizona. Its June. Being on fire would be a refreshing change.
Props on the Ted-triggering apostrophe, though.
I get the feeling that people often perceive me as a bible-thumping anti-gay person on here.
For what it’s worth, I perceive you as a Tulsi-humping anti-prog.
‘Vell, TGA’s just zis guy, you know?’
Cognitive dissonance is a real bitch
Well, that’s because the pride flag is meaningful but the American flag isn’t. Right?
He thought and said “No, because that is an expression of hate”.
No he didn’t, Think that is.
Agree or disagree (and I obviously disagree), but there is the same logic to his position as there is to people who oppose burning the American flag, but are fine with burning the Pride flag.
It’s all religiously based. Much as Christians would be upset with someone desecrating the cross.
I think his position is stupid, but it makes sense if you are a congregant of his faith
If he took any other position, he would have to argue with the others in his herd. That would be distasteful.
That Scirocco is cool, but the list of front wheel drive cars I would pay money for is really really short, and that ain’t on it. I’d crack open my wallet for another real Mini, probably.
For you.
And what to my wondering eye should appear, but a Mini Countryman woody in the sidebar at BaT.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD.
Walt Wit for tonight. It’s OK.
The only thing I would want from the mid 80s would be an Audi Quattro coupe.
Maybe not the only thing, but highly WANT!-worthy.
Clearly, you are a gentleman of taste and refinement.
So anyway, I decided to do some routine maintenance on the Explorer, like flush/bleed the clutch. The slave cylinder is in the bell housing. Do you pull the fucking motor to replace it? A “bleeder”? What’s that?
Fuck.
Can you bench bleed the master?
Often there’s a bleeder nipple on the bell housing you can access, or a port you can get through to it. This may help.
*snickers*
Riviera Beach is about 70 to 71 miles by air or about 76 to 77 miles drive from Miami. “The Riviera Beach City Council voted this week to pay a 65-bitcoin, or $600,000, ransom in an attempt to have its computer system decrypted following a May 29 ransomware attack. This is in addition to the $914,000 the Florida city has had to pay for new computers damaged in the attack.”
https://www.scmagazine.com/home/security-news/ransomware/riviera-beach-fla-pays-600000-ransom-payment/
I’d like to think that municipalities around the country have gotten the message and started upgrading their Windows 98 machines.
“What’s the highest version?”
“Well, there’s seven, eight, ten, and two-thousand”
“We should get two-thousand and be set for a long time”
I’m more concerned with hackers getting my SIM card info. You can wreak some real havoc with that.
Yeah, that’s alarming.
“Reese Witherspoon’s daughter Ava Phillippe shows off her trendy Berkeley dorm room… and reveals it’s hard to keep track of her class schedule
The 19-year-old daughter of Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe is the new face of Amazon’s Off to College campaign and posed for a series of photos for the brand.
Ava isn’t the first collegiate to partner with the mega digital retailer, last year they did a collab with disgraced former USC student Olivia Jade.
Olivia Jade is the daughter of Lori Loughlin and Mossimo Gianulli, who’ve pleaded not guilty to allegedly bribing their two daughters’ way into university – to the tune of a half million dollars.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7163775/Ava-Phillippe-shows-trendy-Berkeley-dorm-room-new-Amazon.html
I like how they updated the story to remove the Olivia Jade picture.
How many classes could she possibly be taking? Four?
reveals it’s hard to keep track of her class schedule
She doesn’t belong in college.
*barf*
I found the paper with my semester’s schedule on it and going to class for a week straight took care of it, myself.
my god shes a dead ringer for her mom.
“The history of the activist group, famous for its bare-breasted protests, will be told in ‘Our Breasts Are Our Weapons: The History of the Femen Movement,’”
That’s some title.
I do not have to work tomorrow:)
Me ether! Cheers!
Show offs.
?
It’s probably the ether.
Here, there’s some spare bottles.
I took tomorrow off for an appointment.
No one “has” to go to work any day. I did end up working all the way til half three today and it was horrible.
“Half three”? We’re not speaking english here.
While I’m waiting for a book to arrive (that will apparently be missing a few chapters in the middle) I’ve been reading a Scottish crime novel and the terminology is rubbing off on me.
Ouch!
I hate the construction. In British it means 3:30. In German it means 2:30.
I’ve decided to start using it here in north central Ohio just to fuck with people.
But do you mean half till or half past?
Yes.
Would you be interested in some “Palm Coast” DLC?
I don’t know what that is.
It’s a two pronged joke. “The Palm Coast” was the part of my book I originally forgot to upload. So I was cracking on games where they took out part of the starting project for independant sale as day 1 DLC.
Nice.
What novel?
This one
Never read those. Decent?
Thisone is a spin-off, the main series is the Logan McRae books, starts with “Cold Granite”. It’s Dark, (the crimes are ghastly), Funny (the dialog and the characters are great) and well written, while no one can compete with Sugarfree, Stuart does have a way with words. I highly recommend the series.
Awesome. Thanks!
I’ll check those out too.
OT: Man, I’ve been taking amoxicillin for the past few days for a sinus infection and it is kicking my ass. I can barely keep my eyes open, my joints ache, and I feel like I’ve been lifting weights. It’s better than the infection I guess, but I’ve got like another week and a half of this shit and I don’t know if I can hack it. I don’t have time to take a cat nap every twenty minutes.
That sounds like the infection, not the amoxicillin.
Totally. I used to get them every spring and they made me feel exactly that way.
Sinus rinse and Flonase has helped a lot, though.
Feel better and don’t forget your probiotics after the antibiotics.
Maybe even probiotics during the antibiotics. I don’t think amoxicillin has much risk of suppressing your gut flora and allowing C. Diff to take off*, but why take the chance?
I know we’ve got a couple of real doctors around here, maybe one of them can chime in.
*While I am a doctor, its a Juris Doctor; do not take medical advice from me.
Loved being on that stuff as a teenager. Acne took a few weeks off.
My father was plagued with those. He now daily rinses his sinuses with NeilMed and it has vastly improved his condition.
Be careful with probiotics. I had an allergic reaction to Culturelle which was miserable because I didn’t figure it out for months. I thought it was something else, as did my gastroenterologist.
I use the same product. Life changing.