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I formerly believed that nothing in life is certain except death and taxes and sociopathic politicians, but now I have more things to add to my list. Like questions.
- “So I moved in here with you?”
- “I’m in PHOENIX, ARIZONA?!”
- “It’s HOW hot outside?”
- “What time is it? It feels like it’s 11 o’clock!”
- “Did I collect my things?”
- “What’s happening with my apartment in Florida?”
- “My mind is a complete blank. Remind me, what am I supposed to be doing today?”
- “Do I have my medicine?”
- “You know what? I recognize that man in the picture, but what’s his name again?”
- “Did I have breakfast?”
Oh, yes, and a tune to start your day.
Repeat with me: patience is a virtue.
Have a good one, kids.
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615 responses to “Thursday Morning Questioning Links”
Stupid is as stupid does…
Exactly..
I am going to bet money that her education about nature’s ways came from stupid ass Disney movies.
Or TV news where the only evil in the world comes from white male conservatives.
Obligatory link:
The Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife
Always tentacles with these people….
Some people don’t seem to grow with any wisdom. It’s how the Democrats keep getting votes, amirite?
Explain to me the difference between the dem debates and putting a live octopus on your face. You can’t.
The damage from the octopus bites will heal?
>>Lightning strike causes Florida family’s toilet to explode
We call that Tacos El Caporal
My recipe for split pea soup has the same effect.
Why? It is laced with termite and ghost pepper powder?
The secret ingredient is “love”.
That kind of love?
Well I’m no chemist but the results speak for themself.
ewww
/teenaged_girl
Coincidentally, my parents’ house got struck by lightning yesterday evening. Think it blew up the brand new central HVAC unit they just installed along with a bunch of other stuff, including igniting the poly sheeting underneath the house.
Sorry to hear that. We had one of our trees struck once but it was raining so hard that there was just some charring down the trunk.
Sorry to hear that. I hope insurance covers the repairs.
Dad hates making claims and keeps a deductible high enough that it really only applies if the house is incinerated, so probably not. Oh well.
Did they check the filter?
Racial Bias training. It’s odd to me that we live in an age where a cop will get a citation for shooting and unarmed suspect but can be fired over perceived racial Bias. It also has me wondering what the unintended consequences of this will be….
Also:
Morning SP!
This trend has created nothing but a giant shitshow which sooner than later will have serious consequences. I guess the level of prosperity we now have has allowed stupid ass people, the ones that would have perished because of their stupidity in harsher times, to now demand a seat at the adult table, where they promptly decided to shit all over everything. While we are ridding high on the work of their betters, they can keep peddling this shit, but the day will come when there will be a price to pay for this stupidity.
For example, the NAVY, for example, has had several billion dollar ships, with some of the most sophisticated navigational equipment you could imagine on board, run into other ships because the training priority has been about getting the kids woke and all SWJ-like instead of how to man or fight a ship. How many will have to die before someone finally admits this shit was not just idiotic, but destructive?
However it resolves itself, and it will resolve itself, it won’t be pretty. I consider this to be the societal equivalent of a misallocation of capital. Eventually the bubble pops and there’s a rout.
You are damned right that this correction will not be pretty. The sad thing is that a lot of the people that did not fall prey to this idiocy will be the ones doing a lot of the heavy lifting and paying to prevent this from being an extinction level event.
How does the cycle go? Something like hard men create good times; good times create soft men; soft men create hard times; hard times create hard men; ad infinitum.
I doubt our species is at stake, but I do think we’re headed straight for some civil violence and reactionary authoritarianism. They’re all purportedly scared shitless of Trump, but he’s nothing compared to what will happen if the Democrats get permanent one-party rule like they want.
But they think if it’s their guys in control, they won’t be the ones sent to the gulags.
If only comrade Stalin knew!
I actually pointed this out to a leftard once. Sure the first wave of those sent to these reeducation/death camps will be the non-believers that stood in the way of the revolution. You know, those people that these marxist asshats label the kulaks & wreckers. Every wave after that, and believe me there will be plenty of waves, will be comprised of those that stand in the way of the new bosses.
That every single one of these revolutions of the people against the evil overlords has played out this way – yes, every fucking single one – seems to not just escape them, but leads to idiotic comments like “that was not real communism at work”. What’s the fucking definition of insanity again???
My friends and I talk about these things as pertains to the Army. Kids that have never shot a gun, never learned how to drive, never sat around a camp fire. It isn’t a blank slate when they accidentally get to military service, its a negative slate, they have to unlearn those things they have have been taught.
TAC: “What’s the spirit of the bayonet?”
‘Cruit: “The spirit of the bayonet is to kill, Sir!”
TAC:”I can’t hear you,soldier, louder”
Tough job to undo 18-20 years of social wokeness
And on and on ’til the enthusiasm wanes
Woman posing for photo with octopus bitten twice on the face
SEA SMITH JR.?
Could be. And what a dope. She asked for it.
Yeah. Wild animals are unpredictable. That’s why they’re called wild animals. Nice move waiting 2 days to go to the ER, as well.
SEA SMITH BE LOVER NOT BITER!
She’s probably lucky. I remember reading about some “animal lover” who thought he was helping some mid-sized species of seabird – in a flash it pecked out one of his eyes and damaged the other to where he was all but blind. Wild animals are handled at your peril.
You are a saint doing this for your MIL.
Amen.
^This.
Fourth. Alz is a horrific disease.
So people are in a tizzy about this movie called ‘The Hunt’ supposedly being premised on dopey conservatives being captured and hunted by leftist elites. But I watched the trailer and I didn’t get that at all. Am I missing something?
Probably that they feel you are not woke enough?
The hunted all had southern accents. Bad guys were rich Wall Street types. Criticism passes the smell test. Looks fun. I’d watch it for free.
I watched the trailer and the takeaway for me was “Oh great, yet another movie where skinny women kick everyone’s ass including some burly dudes.”
You saying that’s not what happens in real life???
hey now – she has big knockers.
Never heard of it. Just watched the trailer. Looks like its more sympathetic to the flyover rednecks than the elite coastal types to me.
It had me at Betty Gilpin’s breasts.
mornin’
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Yellowstone-Accidents-Foolhardiness-National/dp/1515963462
My son was required to read a book likecthis before his backcountry trip to Yellowstone
At the entrance to King’s Canyon, they have standard instructions to not touch human remains if you find them but to mark them on your map and tell the rangers when you return to basecamp.
Then they list off the numerous missing persons, including at least one ranger.
STEVE SMITH MARK MORE THAN ONE HIKER AT KINGS CANYON
AND BY “MARK” MEAN….
My college roommate taught a class on vertical caving (repelling inside instead of outside … I dont get it either).
He had a series of books on cave incidents. It was published annually. Most of the stores ended with no injury or sprained ankle or whatever. But every so often you would get to the gruesome deaths.
3 major takeaways:
1. Dont go in water in a cave
2. Dont just go into a cave you stumbled across
3. Call the local cave rescue org first, then EMS.
The 3rd wasn’t something implicit, that was explicitly stated as a lesson by the books.
I feel like the first 2 rules were hardwired into my brain about 20,000 years ago. Darwin Award level stupidity.
A highly prosperous society that actually allows nature’s culling of the stupid to be curtailed will result in a higher number of stupid people that sooner than later will do enough stupid shit that nature will again be able to address the stupid gene problem and bring the percentage of the population with it back under control. heck of a self correcting system there. Get the popcorn and get ready, cause we are due for such a correction.
Everybody knows cave water is populated by Morlocks with gills.
So don’t let Elon anywhere near the entrance… Got it.
God help the man who gets lost in Miller’s Cave.
Becoming entrapped in a narrow place and being eaten by cave crickets. No water or rappeling required.
Was it wrong for me to read “rappeling” as “rape yelling”? I blame all the Steve Smith comments!
What if Kate Mara promises to leave the third wheel at home this time and go skinny dipping in the cave lake?
Have done cave diving and even well-prepared it is a tense experience. You can go from fun to dead very quickly with one wrong move.
Scuba in caves = no go for the Ozy-man. I’ve done some diving in caverns in Florida and some swim-throughs elsewhere and it is blatantly obvious that unless you are trained, using reels, and have some deep yearning to travel to Davey Jones’ locker, that is some dangerous shit right there. A little leisure reading on some of the mishaps and how they occasionally find the bodies later with the nails ripped off from scratching at the walls or top of the cave… No thankee.
Dad dove on Japanese wrecks in the south Pacific. I can’t imagine anything scarier than the prospect of being trapped, hung up, or injured in an old ship or sub.
Barf.
Needs a bowcaster.
She’s everybody.
Because everybody gets a plum, highly overpaid job at a hospital.
She’s just taking was she needs, and working to her ability.
Hey now! Let’s not be so judgmental! She was proud of America for all of five minutes that one time.
Err, yes?
Yes. yes I do.
Seems like cultural appropriation to me.
What’s all this about rectal bias training?
Out of date, everyone uses radial training nowadays.
There’s a STEVE SMITH joke in there somewhere.
Butt stuff just doesn’t work for me. I’m bias against poo.
So no dirty Sanchez’s, Cleveland steamers’, or Rufus Turners in your future?
Some people crap out of their front hole.
Hey where else are all those cops going to learn to hate brown people?
On Wednesday, Sen. Amy Klobuchar joked about her love of a good state fair, noting she attends the fair in her neighboring home state of Minnesota every year — and that she, too, has experience with butter sculptures.
“One thing we have in common, of course, as strong dairy states, is the butter carving. I am looking very forward to seeing your butter cow at the Iowa State Fair. I am going to have to decide if it holds a candle to our Princess Kay of the Milky Way statue,” she said, referencing Minnesota’s iconic butter bust.
She reminds me of a butter manatee.
From an old National Lampoon comic, Nelson Rockefeller is on the campaign trail and he has to sample all the food. His thought balloon read “I can’t believe people actually eat this shit.”
Obligatory
See, there’s the tell .. a true minnesotan would campaign to reduce the number, if any, of iowa votes.
Uffda!
“looking very forward” ?
Bearded Castro
Several GOP congressional leaders rebuked their colleague on Tuesday…
Castro responded with a flurry of defensive tweets to Murtaugh and journalists who had criticized him.
The graphic didn’t contain “private or personal info — no addresses or phone #, etc,” he wrote. “It’s publicly reported info printed in newspapers routinely from the @nyt to the @dcexaminer. You know that.”
He also doubled down on the initial sentiment, saying the Trump campaign “has stoked fear of brown-skinned immigrants.” Castro also pointed out that the campaign had used donor money to pay for more than 2,000 ads on Facebook echoing the anti-immigrant language used by the El Paso suspect.
“That is truly dangerous for millions,” Castro added. “Will you commit not to run another ad like that?”
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Joe Scarborough✔
@JoeNBC
Any business that donates to Trump is complicit and endorses the white supremacy he espoused in Charlottesville, with his “send her back” chants, and by laughing at shouts that Hispanic immigrants should be shot. Donors’ names are on FEC reports. They are newsworthy.
Joe Scarborough✔
@JoeNBC
If your business funds Trump’s campaign, then you are supporting white supremacy.
Full stop.
Look at his rallies.
Listen to the chants of “Send her back!”
Hear the calls of “Shoot them!”
Your money funds that.
Your business supports that.
You are complicit.
Sure, Joe.
Cool, Joe. Now do your GF’s dad Zbigniew
Let DC burn.
Can we do Marvel first? I kind of like DC.
Hate speech.
Let’s start at the top, and work our way down.
These leftist idiots really do want another civil war. It’s not likely to go the way they hope.
Joe Scarborough wants millions to die in a brutal and bloody civil war.
Those Castro boys are about as brown as I am.
He also voiced concern that officers will second-guess their actions, knowing that what they do is “going to be judged.”
“It sounds like that could be dangerous,” CBS News correspondent Jeff Pegues said.
“Deadly,” the officer responded.
With their identities concealed, two white Mesa, Arizona, officers also spoke to CBS News about their department’s implicit bias training, an effort to confront historical prejudices in their department’s ranks.
“The training itself, the content, was the absolute worst training I’ve ever had,” one of the officers said.
“All right, so what do you think the agenda is?” asked Pegues.
“Reinforcing that the police are racist, but specifically the white male police are racist,” the officer responded.
Very good. You pass the course.
Besides the ‘ deadly’ response, the police are probably right about their training(stopped clock and all that). I’m still not convinced there is a real bias in deadly incidents and a better focus would be to get these guys to respect the general public and punish specific abuses and see if that solves the issues.
Dont just go into a cave you stumbled across
Me, watching every “horror” movie:
Don’t go in there. Okay, it’s your funeral.
+1 Let’s split up to cover more ground
+1 sending one person away for help alone.
+2 smoke a joint and have sex.
“I wonder what’s in the basement”
Mitch McConnell’s Official Campaign Account Locked Out of Twitter For Posting Video of Hate Mob Threatening McConnell
I think I liked it better when they were pretending to be fair.
They have clearly entered the role of publishers and should be treated as such.
^^^THIS^^^
They’ve entered the role of modern day book burners and should be treated as such.
That’s way beyond the pale.
Nahh. When people pretend the disingenuous annoying act like their is nothing wrong.
Now hold on. They have a procedure in place for violent content and it was followed. Obviously the problem is McConnell.
I have to say, I love SP’s links format.
Same. That floating question mark is mesmerizing.
Thank you for saying that, Straffin. I thought it was just me.
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Marketing boss quits Victoria’s Secret after first trans model hired
Vick’s big secret!
If it was that big it wouldn’t stay a secret very long in that lingere
It seems the long reign of Victoria’s Secret is coming to an end.
It can join the likes of Playboy on the ash heap of history.
Meh, it’s not like most of their other models don’t have the bodies of a prepubescent boy.
-1 Jill Goodacre
Their marketing is terrible. They rely heavily on the Angels —which at first glance is a great idea but has grown remarkably stale over the years.
Just what they need after ole Les Wexner got dragged into the Epstein fiasco.
“its exclusive use of thin models has been lambasted for being dangerous and out of step with the current emphasis on body positivity”
So hire a transperson as an act of public piety. Also, nobody gonna criticize a transperson for anything at the moment so they can still have their skinny models.
*taps side of nose and winks*
Does body positivity and trans even go together?
Haha. Yes comrade! Because the left has decided that their interests are inseparably tied. Those interests being voting for Democrats.
Meh, votes don’t count according to these leftists. What counts is who does the vote counting….
Are you trying to say that wanting to mutilate your genitals isn’t body positive?
well, yes.
Hater.
its exclusive use of thin models
Some of them are quite curvy. Be honest and just say they don’t hire fat chicks (or fat chicks with dicks).
There are not chicks with dicks: just dudes with tits.
They hired a token fat chick for the swimsuit edition last year, probably to placate the outrage mob. Image search if you dare.
I thought we were supposed to be against manspreading.
^ The redheaded step-child of comments.
Clowns.
Bison and Octopi. Let natural selection work!
Somebody has been reading the Secret Nazi President series!!
When I first heard that I thought it must be a joke. But no, they really are that crazy. And this loon used to be a top official in the FBI.
What is the message that that guy is blinking in morse code?
Beware of STEVE SMITH!
Just let me say here that we were tinfoil nutjobs before it was cool.
Ackshually the proper terminology is “aluminum foil”. “Tin foil” is a merely a misnomer…
As everyone should know, aluminum foil amplifies the rays. You have to use actual tin foil to block them.
Science!
If you don’t wear the full Faraday they can get you
Also we have the decency to go whole hog in our conspiracy theories. He said Trump didn’t know what he was doing.
Tin and Aluminum are for the poor people. Go full shitlord and use Ag mesh for your personal Faraday cage.
https://www.amazon.com/ArgenMesh-Conductive-Shielding-Silver-Fabric/dp/B008DXBFYQ
Look at the frequently bought together.
LOL, “brain coat”.
You know who else had a secret code…
Podesta?
Well, not that secret.
Orphan Annie’s Secret Society?
+1 Be sure to drink your Ovaltine.
Victoria?
All women ever?
Alan Turing ?
Ice Tea?
Everyone who codes to everyone who hasn’t yet learned to code?
The presumption that the “enemies” we collectively face are Neo-Nazi’s and white supremacists is insane on its face.
That’s like saying the nation is at war with serial killers and the President shouldn’t ever reference the Zodiac because they like that sort of shit.
Laughs in Ted Cruze.
I can only imagine how much the actual white supremacists enjoy this elevated level of attention. I fully expect some number of borderline bigot freaks have recently made efforts to overtly join their ranks.
Way to go you SJW dipshits
The SJW see this as a bonus/boon. Finally being able to actually have a real white supremacist to point at – instead of the usual made up ones – will do a lot for the narrative.
Buy chicken nugget futures
Federal immigration officials raided several food-processing plants in Mississippi Wednesday and arrested approximately 680 people believed to be working without authorization.
The coordinated raids were conducted by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations “at seven agricultural processing plants across Mississippi,” according to an ICE statement. In addition to the arrests, agents also seized company business records.
More than 600 ICE agents were involved in the raids, surrounding the perimeters of the targeted plants to prevent workers, mainly Latino immigrants, from escaping. The actions were centered on plants near Jackson owned by five companies, according to the Associated Press.
One of the plants is owned by Koch Foods Inc., which bills itself as one of the largest poultry processors in the U.S. with more than 13,000 employees. Forbes ranks it as the 135th largest privately held company in the country, with an estimated $3.2 billion in annual revenue, according to Fortune.
Why fuck with the people who actually work?
They are really fucking with the people who hire illegal immigrants in order to avoid taxes and benefits. That’s the scam – paying less and offloading stuff like medical care on the local hospitals.
Yep. That’s why the issue of illegal immigration can’t be resolved. The Dems need the votes and the Capitalists need the cheap labor. Of course half of the bespoke “capitalists” are Democrats.
In a free America, where I could get all my pharmaceutical needs online and without a prescription, Walgreens wouldn’t have any stores.
The Walgreens near my workplace has a sushi island near the checkouts where fresh sushi is made.
all while trying to seem both presidential and comfortable with the folkways of Middle America.
Good luck, Dem hopefuls. “Just think how bad it would be if your meth head son had been born a POC. Vote for me!”
So your going to have the government teach adults how to be better people after they failed to teach them after 13 years of public school. Good plan. Totally worthwhile.
These leftist idiots really do want another civil war. It’s not likely to go the way they hope.
What are you saying? You don’t think the urbanite “food comes from
grocery storesrestaurants” mob will be able to feed themselves from rooftop gardens when the deliveries stop coming?The Vegetarians Who Turned Into Butchers
How several former vegans and vegetarians across the country came to see meat as their calling.
At least they’re making progress.
Its like you don’t even read my afternoon links!
**runs from room sobbing**
Man by the time afternoon links are up, I’m home drinking my sorrows away.
Ed Razek, the chief marketing officer at Victoria’s Secret, who last year claimed “transsexual” models should not be cast “because the show is a fantasy”, has resigned days after the lingerie brand hired its first openly transgender model.
Where’s that fat, hairy edit fairy when you need him?
*RIGHT HERE, BIG BOY!*
Damn she’s hot!
/posted from my re-education camp workstation
Poor Sky, she’s worked so hard and no one has told her that “women’s” sports are dead.
Is she gonna identify as an adult? Cause she’s not old enough to go to the Olympics.
And Beto is just the man to beat her!
Wonderful.
Letter to the Editor: Trump a danger to country
In twenty years we’ll have so much fun watching them square the circle on how we need Trump Back…
Who am I kidding they won’t care.
He will be a great statesman then.. Like GHWB, GWB, Romney, and McCain became once they started crapping on other team red people and trying desperately to get the team blue socialites to invite them to the fun cocktail praties.
This galls me. Obama appointed wannabe technocrats to all levels of government that desired nothing more than to expand the bureaucracy and its control over ordinary citizens. Should I be more afraid of those who desire to rule my every movement or those who seek to roll back Leviathan?
I can’t imagine how deranged you’d have to be to believe that.
Honk fucking honk.
Don’t burst my bubble! If I have to actually admit the shit I believe makes me an idiot, this will hurt my feelings.
Yet this person is alive and well and able to say this in public
Yeah, it’s obvious they don’t even believe their own bullshit, because if they really thought things were half as bad as they say, they wouldn’t dare speak up.
they wouldn’t dare speak up.
^
If they really thought things were half as bad as they say, they’d do at least one proofread pass.
Stunning and brave. It’s amazing that Trump lets such truths even be spoken.
Trump has created an atmosphere of hate and bigotry
True but not how you mean.
didn’t start with the extermination camps but camps for undesirables and worked up to it.
Funny the only people I hear talking about wanting to “eradicate” people are leftists. Of course Reza Aslan could not be reached for comment.
“First they came for the Jews and I said nothing, because I hate the fucking Jews!”
“Trump is the greatest danger this country has encountered since the Revolution…”
So the writer is a Loyalist? That’s quaint.
“He has substituted Jews with migrants…”
Trump’s America is a racist hellscape that people are risking their lives to get in to.
Yeah, just like all those Jews trying to enter Germany illegally and being detained while awaiting their phony asylum applications to be adjudicated.
And this actually makes sense to some people.
I’m still not convinced there is a real bias in deadly incidents and a better focus would be to get these guys to respect the general public and punish specific abuses and see if that solves the issues.
The cops have gone full “Us vs Them” mode. It’s not black and white, it’s blue and everybody else.
And making cops “second guess” their actions is exactly what I want to see happening.
*Shoots puppy in face* Should I not have done that?
*shoots and kills owner of puppy while firing wildly in puppy’s general direction*
damn .. not sure how to segue from here into witty sarcastic joke
+1 good shoot
Feared for his life
That Bitch was coming right at him.
Luckily you can always cycle to a pun.
It is this. They have a culture of believing everyone is a possible threat and treating them like so. Then they bitch that they are being treated like a foreign invader.
meme
I’d have gone with putting another patch on the other eye.
Crenshaw is an ignorant slut.
Aw. That’s a shame. I kinda had hopes for that guy.
It’s team red. Let them talk enough and they all do that,
Heavy sigh.
Fuck you, Crenshaw. I had kinda liked some of the things he said, but he’s on the gun control bandwagon.
It occurred to me yesterday, how awesome that Beto guy is. Standing up and speaking truth to Trump, when everybody knows he’ll be whisked away by the Death Squad for daring to rebel against the totalitarian regime. He’s probably being tortured at Guantanamo at this very minute. Not because Trump needs information from him; just for amusement.
Much brave. How freedom.
Marine one needs to make a lot of “Pinochet special” flights
Reformed Climate Deniers Don’t Deserve Redemption
ATONE! ATONE!
I think it’s more along the lines of “Don’t horn in on my gravy train.”
It’s hone in, dummy.
NOT A RELIGION.
It’s a competition to be the holiest bible-thumping parishioner in the church.
In seven fucking sentences. I didn’t even click through to the article.
Yeah, I generally think it a weak-minded tactic, and look sideways at people who characterize every position they’re against as “a religion” .. but come on, if you’re gonna not only behave as such, but also adopt all the lingo .. well, you’re making it a bit difficult for me to justify not calling it that.
I’ve been floating an idea about morality/redemption in the modern world. Need to get some ideas down and flesh it out.
Phrasing!
“Gun violence restraining orders”? WTF?
I thought “Don’t go around shooting people” was already the law of the land. Boy, is my face red.
Star Wars struggling to find fans.
Hmmm, maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with the shitty writing laden with the flavor of the week virtue signaling.
At the end of the article is also says Rion Johnson is penning another trilogy. Yuck.
I’m sure that will continue to draw in the woke crowds that love Star Wars.
Maybe when he’s done he should stop by Larry Correia’s and John C. Wright’s houses for nice pleasant proof reading / fiskings.
Someone should do a movie of Monster Hunters International. The rheeeing would be legendary.
I’d be in line on opening day.
I honestly think it would make a better movie than a novel.
I think I mentioned this when I read it last year, but considering how hard they are to kill, how did the Monsters not win prior to the modern weapons generation?
^This. The tone of the initial three was classic hero’s journey mythology stuff. The second three were necessarily cynical because of the subject matter and suffered from some poor decisions, but still had enough to keep people engaged. Plus, you know the story ends with the good guys winning. This latest bunch, though…what’s the point? That the rebels actually suck? That, despite winning, they actually didn’t because, whoops, the Empire is actually still around as if nothing happened? And it seems like they took the core of the series, the whole Jedi deal, and went from the stupid mold spores being the force to the even shittier “Jedi aren’t really that big a deal” because, after all, some random broad can just kind of figure it out in a couple weeks. Oh, and remember Jesus, I mean Luke Skywalker? He’s actually kind of a schmuck. Oh, and heroism is a part of the patriarchy. Also white privilege.
Gee, can’t imagine why they’re not more popular.
I think it just has to do with the shitty writing.
Fact is you could keep *most* of the woke shit in and no one would really care as long as you still managed to make it a good story. The problem is the writers are so steeped into their political ideology they think the woke shit IS the good story
I think the fist trilogy was more woke. Leigh was tough and smart AND a competent leader who didn’t talk down to people – not a bumbling old fool who nobody in their right minds would follow.
They just need to make the movies woker, that’ll fix it!
Yeah, but would the planet composed entirely of gender-fluid humanoids change genders at will or would it be spontaneous? How would they coordinate sports competitions?
Really? A terribly written trilogy with inconsistent and senseless undeveloped characters isn’t generating loyal fans? I have an 18-year-old son who couldn’t care less about Woke Wars – I was a big fan of the original trilogy at his age and would have kept going if they had filmed the Thrawn stories.
He was a Marvel fan but is probably done with that franchise as they made his favorite charterer (Thor) into a loser and soon to be replaced by a chick.
Stay woke Disney.
I’d get back into it for movies of the Darth Bane trilogy.
I’ve been thinking about this over the past couple of days. I’m beginning to wonder if the companies aren’t trying to reach out to young woke kids, but the woke signalling, marketing, and stories are nothing but targeting the current lowest common denominator in the modern culture. You don’t have to think hard, and it’s easy to come up with shit that feeds that mindset. Lots of successful media and businesses are targeted to the LCD, it’s just this a new one we’re not used to.
Is it even a common denominator? I don’t accept that assertion without some proof.
Is there anyone who really likes laugh tracks? Yet they spread across television for quite a while.
Marketers are lazy. Research is skimming social media and flipping through TMZ. And asking your friends, who likely are young, casually-Progressive millenials or the parents thereof living in an upper-middle-class urban setting. It’s probably a common denominator among the survey sample, it’s just that the sample doesn’t reflect the population. Regionally, I’d guess it’s like doing a marketing campaign based on surveys conducted in the Urban Outfitters in Georgetown, in DC.
^THIS
I’ve had to roll my eyes in so many meetings where the marketing VP starts talking about the future of our “logistics” products. It’s like she wants the company to stop making logistic products and start making marketing products. Sales tanked and the idiot kept her job because “See, I told you we were behind the market.” Um, no, bitch – you started marketing our products to people who have no use for them.
The best art challenges conventional wisdom, offers a new perspective, can become a new mythology. There are already myriad sources of confirmation bias out there; why would one think that providing another would be stimulating as art?
Start Wars isn’t art, it’s commerce.
-1 Joseph Campbell
The best art challenges conventional wisdom, offers a new perspective, can become a new mythology.
I disagree with this. A great deal of classical art did, and does, no such thing, but its clear to me that it is great art nonetheless. In fact, many of the old masterpieces were consistent with? supportive of? at a minimum not opposed to the status quo at the time, and are still vastly superior to almost everything done in the 20th and 21st centuries that was intentionally subversive.
The problem with intentionally subversive art is that its time-limited. Its generally didactic at some level, and its “lessons” are bound to whatever is contemporary with it.
I have this article bookmarked to reread every once in a while.
Why Art Became Ugly
Maybe, but here is the problem with that idea.
This isn’t the actual LCD.
See the kids, not even the actual late 20 to mid 30 year old millennials are not actually all that woke. Yes there is a very vocal minority of them who are VERY woke, and there is a plurality of them who are soft woke but overall they make up less than a third of society and the younger generation of 12 year olds, not very woke at all, they are cynical and ironically woke but they don’t believe in the ideology behind it.
So when you make a movie that shits all over anything resembling a good story or good character in favor of woke virtue signaling you are appealing to a fairly small slice of the population not a broad lowest common denominator
I mean, Empire Strikes back is an excellent movie.
I fully expect the Marvel movies to start losing money like Star Wars now that the whole Infinity saga has been wrapped up. Won’t be sorry either.
Don’t forget the shitting all over established characters and in world history
Kevin J Anderson already did that 25 years ago in the novels.
The new characters are well – uninteresting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f83D18xL7VE
needz moar rubber sharks
Totally OT, but I can’t even find this addressed online: how can China boof the American bean farmer? Soybeans are a commodity: we got ’em, somebody ain’t (because China’s getting them from somewhere).
Or is this merely a panic because China is burning down its inventory while American farmers die from lack of cash flow?
I don’t know the details, just the theory. The history is that Carter’s grain embargo of the USSR didn’t work because they simply bought from somewhere else (Canada?) and, since the quality of a commodity is fungibility, the world inventory just sloshed from port to port until it worked out: short run panic and friction but basically negligible long-run impact (people remain in the habit of eating).
Brazil and Argentina are the only countries that currently produce enough to take up the slack.
The next two largest producers of soybeans are Brazil and Argentina. I would assume either of those countries would eagerly sell to China.
Surely
and what will their former clients do for soybeans
that’s the thing: commodities are fungible, and the markets are quite efficient; beans and beans paper should switch between exchanges and ports within a few weeks
Well, I hear there’s a drop in US soybean prices, so people who were buying Brazilian could buy those…
right; like I said: short run friction at most
From my bit of farm area where I live – the corn crop is smaller and the bean crop larger, due to the lateness of the planting season/rains. We are going to have a larger amount of beans…so I think that is having some pressure on price. I need to go listen to Orien Samuelson’s Farm Report…
Related: The “tariff wars” have caused there to be a glut of other beans harvested in the U.S. that now can’t be exported for profit. So fedgov is buying the excess from the farmers and giving it away in food banks across the country. This is driving the price down of those beans in retail. The company I work for is packing the excess for the USDA (somebody is going to), while we are also the biggest supplier of the same product on the retail side. Our margins are suffering in a big way.
You apparently think your margins are more important than WINNING. Just move to Canada or something, loser.
I think I’m going to give up and presume the kornfluffle is based on these things:
1 farming is a tough business and always has been because it produces per se commodities; it’s a heartless business that grinds some people up even in good years
2 a five year slide in prices has been extra difficult if you made management decisions based on prices staying as high as they were early in the decade
3 farmers (and pretty much everyone else) externalize causes of failure, so the impact of the situation is exaggerated in general and not primary at many farms
4 farming is flyover business, and flyover people are interesting cultural and political beings
5 media are motivated to dramatize all stories
6 the country is captivated by a situation they don’t really understand, wringing their hands over short-run frictions, and attributing the responsibility according to whichever political bias they already had
It’s a non-issue until someone proves to me otherwise.
1a&2a farmers are commodities traders, even if they don’t want to be
Woman left with agonizing vagina burns after ‘steaming’ procedure
Send the bored, wealthy, women to the camps.
And then film it ala “Ilsa”.
Woman says meth found hidden inside vagina is not hers
Based on the photo evidence I am going to have to say I agree with her – not guilty.
I’m going to need to spend some time doing a thorough investigation of her vagina before rendering a verdict.
“I was just holding it for a friend.”
Bills or coins?
Wait a decade and lets see if you feel the same way about her….
I’m not into the olds, so I already know how I will feel.
“Not”?! Wut?
She’s got great street appeal but the basement is a mess. A real “fixer-upper” if you will.
“roughly one gram”
What does that even mean?
Rocks instead of powder?
It means nobody could afford $20 for a 0.01g accuracy scale.
Then it fell out and she accidentally shot her balls off.
And that’s when Victoria’s Secret called…
Agreed. Since when do elves carry their own meth in their own vaginas? This is a setup, clearly.
I’ll admit I’m curious as to the money, though. That’s an oddly specific amount.
Related: they mocked Stuart Woods but it turned out he was right.
“Vagina-Off”
Next Olympic sport? Or discriminatory to trannies?
Mother very disappointed with her children.
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/08/08/hillary-house-dems-maybe-stop-grandstanding-impeachment/
“Don’t you dare lift that lid, Pandora!”
“I think that it’s such a serious undertaking. Do not pursue it for trivial partisan political purposes. If it does fall to you while you’re in the House to examine abuses of power by the president, be as circumspect and careful as John Doar was,” Clinton said of the Judiciary Committee’s lead impeachment staffer, a Republican who served as a civil rights chief during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.”
I never thought I’d see the day I’d agree on something with her.
THANKS TRUMP!
When Hillary is the voice of reason. I need alcohol.
Amnesty International issues US travel warning citing ‘rampant gun violence’
The plan is working – the foreigners are staying away! HA! WE’RE WINNING!
Virtue signalling. Ain’t that shit grand?
I’m certain that this “travel warning” was generated by coddled US-based millenials with a political ax to grind. My response would be to protect their safety by packing them up and sending them to a Brazilian slum.
Amnesty International really is a fucking joke.
Same with Human Rights Watch and the SPLC. It’s unfortunate people take these hack organizations seriously. They’re frauds.
Funny how the left gives the shooters what they want.
Also, is this supposed to make us feel bad?
I’m all for AI discrediting themselves. Keep it up fellas.
The intern who wrote this couldn’t be more wrong. And Amnesty International is somewhere below the homeless guy who walks around my neighborhood looking for cigarette butts on the list of organizations suited to offer intelligent advice about policy.
The US government has an obligation to adhere to its founding charter.
So they’re copying the warnings from the Venezuelan government? What could be more credible then that?
As usual, the comments are bat shit insane.
didn’t AI release that white paper years ago on the merits of decriminalizing prostitution? not all their positions are as garbage as this one.
Apparently Amnesty International doesn’t give a damn thing about statistics that show gun violence peaked in 2016 and has been decreasing since. Instead they want to pretend that down is up and that Obama was a light bringer rather than the gun violence bringer he turned out to be.
Apparently they’re staffed by social justice warriors that care more about virtue signaling than actual social justice.
FTFY
travelers could be at a higher risk of being targeted with gun violence in the country depending on his or her gender identity, race, country of origin, ethnic background, or sexual orientation
One of those traits can be spotted when selecting targets from a crowd. But hey, what’s the point of visiting the US if not to run around screaming about how you had your dick chopped off.
Dealing with the real issues.
Governor Ralph Northam is praising the state’s removal of Confederate president Jefferson Davis’ name from an archway at the site where the first enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia 400 years ago.
Northam said at a news conference Tuesday that removing the letters from a 1950s-era archway reading “Jefferson Davis Memorial Park” at Fort Monroe will make the state more “welcoming and reflective of our values.”
The letters were removed Friday. They will be placed in a museum at the former military base, which overlooks Chesapeake Bay and was the site of the 1619 arrival of the state’s first Africans.
Davis was imprisoned at the fort after the Civil War.
Northam pledged to work toward racial reconciliation earlier this year after a racist yearbook photo almost forced him from office.
I am willing to bet any people supporting this know nothing about Jefferson Davis.
” after a racist yearbook photo almost forced him from office”
It twas the D that saved him.
I would remove his name not based on anything racial, but the fact that he was the leader of an insurrection that failed.
So up thread I found some Faraday cage fabrics to offer an alternative to the Tinfoil hat. I looked on Amazon and found there is a huge array of RF blocking clothing for the mentally or scientifically deficient.
Including, you guessed it, underwear.
https://www.amazon.com/Riparo-Silver-Lined-Briefs-Against-Radiation/dp/B01HSECKQW?ref_=w_bl_sl_ap_ap_web_10062246011
Gotta guard the family jewels from them evul radiations, ya know….
I like to mix it up a little.
*sticks lump of uraninite in pocket*
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I’m really not cynical enough. I could make a killing selling this type of stuff to morons.
I missed the whole truck nuts fad, so this could be my $1M idea.
It’s almost unethical to not rip off people who think that stuff really works, otherwise they’d be spending their money on radium water or colloidal silver.
“My sham products don’t actually harm people. Or turn them blue.”
EMF rays. That’s unbelievable.
OH!
The real bastards are the IMF rays. They steal whole countries.
Or is this merely a panic because China is burning down its inventory while American farmers die from lack of cash flow?
I think Brazil is selling soybeans to China. I believe that’s what I read.
China is having its own problems. I was told to not travel to HK due to the risk of civil unrest.
When is Trump going to take white supremacist terror seriously?
Maybe after White Supremacist Terrorism begins? Both those guys were lefties.
so are most white supremacists.
When are retarded people going to stop conflating mental illness with ideological warfare.
Stop Humanizing them!!!!
“Rich Benjamin is the author of Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America and a senior fellow at Demos, a nonpartisan research center”
That must be some bubble.
Sounds like Robby making a road trip.
Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, an excerpt:
Fruit sushi wasn’t fresh, couldn’t find hair product. 1 Star.
When the NYT isn’t woke enough for you.
Pointing out that some of these killers had other avenues in life is not “a racialized empathy for these young white killers”. It is the analogue to “Mohammed Atta came from an upper middle class background. Why was he learning to fly planes into buildings?”
Whenever I do research, I always end up going down rabbit holes because of simple questions that don’t always have any bearing on what I needed to find out for the purpose of the story. Since this is fun, I don’t have any complaint. But after trying to work out the sort of chaff awards ATOM would give out as participation ribbons, I read up on the process for awarding the Medal of Honor. Current process appears to required two eyewitnesses. So I am wondering if those eyewitnesses needed to be on-site, or not. ie, if there was a drone on station over the action, could one or more people observing events via the drone count? Does the video made by the drone count as a witness, or mere supporting record?
I would think that video evidence alone would be sufficient since everyone who sees the video is a “witness”. My guess is that if they want to award a Medal if Honor to someone, they’re not going to let technicalities get in the way.
Air Force Technical Sergeant John Chapman was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor based solely on footage taken by a drone.
Okay. Well, then it’s not hypothetical.
I’m pretty sure that eyewitnesses – in the case of the MoH – don’t actually have to be there on location witnessing it. The two men awarded during the “Blackhawk Down” incident had only one other American there who was subsequently captured and released. Many others were in radio contact or had flown them in – so they knew who they were and what was going on.
Anyone interested in a glibs crossword puzzle feature? Got started on one today and am almost finished. Didn’t realize how much of a pain in the butt it would be. Just checking to see if it would be worth it to do more.
In Japanese? How does that even work? I’m imagining you can use both onyomi and kunyomi readings for a ridiculously tough puzzle.
Kidding aside – are you thinking of making it Glib focused?
Yeah. A few inside jokes mixed in. Maybe I’ll just post it in the comments when I’m done and see if the dogs lick it up.
“Affectionate furbearing cascadian, eleven letters.”
Latinos and their knives
A man went on a two-hour crime spree in Orange County on Wednesday, fatally stabbing four people and wounding two others in Garden Grove and Santa Ana.
Anybody seen MS lately?
what’s this kind of mis-post called? (that needs to be in the crossword)
obligatory: goddammit
Bastard! “Gilmore” was one of the answers.
Does “Brooks’d” use the apostrophe? Or is it “Brooksed” in the crossword?
with the apostrophe it becomes Tedsed
I assume “Brooksed”; the alternative assumes contraction with “did,” “had,” “would,” etc. /channeling my inner TedS.
Is it a inside baseball (Glibs) crossword puzzle or more general knowledge? Either way, I’m interested.
A mix. Most of the hints turned out to be filthy, dirty jokes. Write what you know, amirite?
no abbreviations !
Great links and the best question mark ever!
Give your fluffball some pizza today. *barks
She can’t tell the difference between you and Gojira.
“Under international human rights law, the United States has an obligation to enact a range of measures at the federal, state, and local levels to regulate access to firearms and to protect the rights of people to live and move freely without the threat of gun violence,” the organization added in the advisory. “The government has not take sufficient steps to meet this obligation.”
I eagerly await delivery of your sternly worded memo.
“Under international human rights law, the United States has an obligation to enact a range of measures at the federal, state, and local levels to regulate access to firearms”
The right to self defense is a human right. I’m sorry I don’t believe that every human on the planet should cower in obedience to the geographic overlord.
I don’t recall there being a higher sovereign political entity than the nation-state, and there really isn’t such a thing as “international human rights law”, so, there’s that. But feel free to invite Venezuela and whoever else to come over here and try to enforce it. There’d be a renewed interest in the value of the 2A, that’s for sure.
Sex Positions So Acrobatic You’ll Be Shocked People Even Attempt Them
Seems like there are much easier ways to do the exact same positions although I have no idea why you would want to do some of them. Evidently whoever came up with some of those is a woman who has no idea how an erect penis bends or rather doesn’t.
One of those massage tables that tilt the person vertically head up or feet up would be a more enjoyable method for several of those.
“has no idea how an erect penis bends”
That was my observation. At least half of those positions are impossible if you actually have a hardon. They might be possible if you had a half chubby and could force it into odd directions, but that would hardly be fun or arousing.
You need some stronger erections. Do some HIIT cardio workouts and your rod with be as hard as a mug.
I’m saying the opposite problem; if it’s at full staff it won’t bend in the directions shown.
1 minute slow russian squats to warm up
4x 3 legged push ups EMOM for 5 minutes
40 seconds on, 20 seconds off medicine ball testicle slams for 5 minuts
20 seconds on, 40 seconds off of peepee clamped belt squats at 75% 1RM
15 minute LISS at 65% max heart rate
Three times a week for two months and your tool will be like a thing of iron.
A paper clip is a thing of iron. I’m not sure what you’re getting at.
” can dream of dangling upside down from my boyfriend’s shoulders while giving him a blowjob. (Yes, that’s a real position on this list.)”
It’s doable if you have a boyfriend with some upper body strength, which after a cursory glance at her Instagram page (Kid Loadz does his research) she clearly doesn’t.
It also helps if she is not a land whale…
I mean, I guess if that’s your “dream” go on and reach for the stars or whatever, but why complicate shit? I’ve never dreamed of eating a sandwich while hanging from a pull-up bar by one leg because I’m just tryin’ to eat this damn sandwich and not have to worry about a leg cramp or falling in mulch.
Really? I once at a sandwich hanging upside down. It was when I we alike 8 and learned that NASA didn’t originally know if you could eat in microgravity so they got some people to hang upside down and eat a sandwich.
SCIENCE!
(that any astronaut has survived NASA is pretty amazing. should be a medal for that.)
or falling in mulch
Because who owns their own pullup bar, ammirite.
Enjoying Thot Thursday is a RED FLAG.
http://archive.is/WH90L
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I kinda want to buy the shirt I saw on the page. I’ll look like I’m from space in a 1950’s SciFi movie.
“A CBS News investigation is taking a closer look at the changes to law enforcement since the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, five years ago. Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was killed by a white officer on August 9, 2014, leading to months of protests.”
Out of all the controversial shootings they chose that one as a model? It was established by fact the cop did his job so why is this targeted for ‘racial bias’?
Then they’ll wonder why their work will fail.
He should’ve let brown bludgeon him to death to show he isn’t racist.
It was established by fact the cop did his job so why is this targeted for ‘racial bias’?
I hope I’m wrong, but I’m almost inclined to think that the Brown incident was chosen because it was a shitty example. Take an example like Eric Garner or Philando Castile. Those would be examples a lot of white people would probably agree that the guys were victimized. But, what if pitting blacks against whites was the entire point? Well, then those would be terrible cases to focus on. Instead building racial solidarity around a guy who white people are going to write off as a criminal is exactly the means to that end.
I don’t think you’re wrong. There’s no other rational explanation.
If you actually address the issue and mitigate the problem then how are the professional organizers and various grievance groups going to make bank?
Totally off topic, but that’s an awesome avatar choice.
Loved that part – he’s like “see ya soon, buddy”.
Or Akai Gurley. Or Tamir Rice. Or Walter Scott. Or Erik Scott.
The media absolutely chooses the ones where the cops are either in the right, or its muddied to publicize and make national stories.
Exactly what I was thinking? Why not Rice?
It’s weird.
Because this “national conversation” was never about improving law enforcement. It’s about sowing mistrust between identity groups.
Hitler Tried to Launch a Cruise Missile Attack from Submarines at the U.S.
Facts you may not know.
and later on…
Yeah, like the U.S. would have surrendered if one of these missiles landed in Times Square. More likely a third A-bomb would have been built and used on Berlin asap.
Isn’t the null hypothesis that the police force is full of racists pigs *and* implicit bias training is shit?
I’ve never understood the thinking behind this stuff. Archie Bunker’s gonna watch a video and say, “Oh, snap, we’re NOT supposed to be racist? Shoot, and here I was all this time thinking we should shoot black kids with cell phones for no reason.”
Re Michelle Obama in Korean clothing. Er…..cultural appropriation? Where are all the blacks who scream such on this one?
Throwing dice and drinking grape soda in the alley outside of a bodega?
Perusing World Star?
Showing up late to work?
Uh oh. I celebrate black culture pretty much every day I get stuck driving my kid to daycare.
Leering at our women?
Hanging out on the stoop smoking a dope?
Eating ribs and hip-hop dancing?
Playing basketball in the park while unbeknownst to them a few of their abandoned children are fifty feet away cheerfully play on the swings?
Other than the hip-hop dancing I’m pretty much down with about everything else on this list so far. Add fried chicken, watermelon, and collard greens and I’m there with bells on.
Who can forget that woman who verbally attacked (and even assaulted by grabbing his arm) that poor white guy in a subway for having the temerity of being in dreadlocks screaming ‘cultural appropriation!’
Or that girl who was dressed in a Chinese dress for her prom and the Twitter mob attacking her?
Or people dressing as Indians on Halloween and all those ‘how to dress on Halloween’ rules on campuses?
WHERE ARE ALL THESE PEOPLE NOW?
The best part of the girl in the Chinese dress is that NONE of the people caterwauling about it were actual Chinese. Some reporter in China asked locals about it and they were baffled as to why anyone would object to it.
Shorter JB: Also, fried chicken.
Trump’s push for South Korea to pay more for U.S. troops puts Japan on notice
Magic 8-Ball says, “Don’t count on it.”
So I’m casually browsing last night’s hump day links. About a third of the way down cheese puns start appearing after UCS mentions cheese curds . . .and not one of you people thought to use “Swiss” during this exchange of cheese puns? Talk about a missed opportunity. I’m incredibly disappointed.
Too cheesy?
No whey!
Try harder, that’s not that Gouda.
I wouldn’t say your argument has too many holes in it, but…
Was this the Swiss reference?
*Narrows Gaze*
Damn . . .I was hoping we could rennit past you since this doesn’t fit the typical mold.
That pun smells.
Its a cottage cheese pun outfit here. We focus on a smaller catalog of high quality puns.
People may complain about the puns, but they Edam up every time.
The media, and Americans generally, are desperately wanting to make sense of yet another young white male mass shooter. And nothing Donald Trump has done or advocated for has remotely stemmed the epidemic of mass shootings since he took office.
[citation needed]
Seriously, can we sue Moms Demand Action and those other anti-gun nuts for statistical malpractice?
whereas the article (plaintiff’s evidence #1) gave plaintiff brain cancer
I think you’ve got a case
Oooh, time to swap out the races in a Leftist diatribe to find the hidden racism. It’s my favorite game…
Chernobyl vodka: First consumer product made in exclusion zone
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49251471
Should have tried doing a hot sauce instead.
http://imgur.com/gallery/lWk4vhi
View from the top.
I took some pics at work last night. Thought I’d share them with yall.
http://imgur.com/gallery/xlLVTX7
where are the cannibal mutants??
Holding the camera.
http://imgur.com/gallery/eV05Mu2
I stepped away from large equipment for twenty years and damn but what motors got tiny
I haven’t dealt with small motors in 5 years or so. What I have learned-
Small motor- run it til it dies and then replace it.
Big motor- monitor bearing vibrations, meticulously align, regularly check for possible grounds, maintain overload integrity.
Very cool
totes cool
related: I have a very hard time with heights . . . unless I built it: I can dangle 100 feet above a slab on a structure I built with complete comfort
I’m not scared of heights, I’m scared of what is holding me at them.
That said. I was riding on an overhead crane that makes us living carrying around 60 ton ladles of molten steel. I had high confidence that it would have no trouble with me.
Yeah, I’m the same way. Skyscraper or Plane or there’s guardrails no problem. Tall ladder, edge of a cliff or roofline no thanks.
You just gotta believe.
https://i.imgur.com/AF7yWmo.gifv
Lol
Well…coulda been a lot worse, i guess.
http://imgur.com/gallery/Oq5eKHr
Pretty cool. Do you start with iron ore or is it already extracted when you get it?
100% scrap. We buy from all over and have it shipped in by rail.
We melt it and make it back into engineered steel.
Cool. One thing I’ve always wanted to do is go out and find some iron ore, make my own crucible, and go through the whole process of make steel old school. Just for some geek fun. That whole evolution of metal making is cool to me. One if these days I’m go to try and do a foundry tour. I think the closest one we had here closed a few years back. Day late, dollar short.
You could probably do something almost as fun by melting down some scrap iron and then tinkering with adding alloys to see what you get.
Anecdote-
I have a flintlock rifle that started malfunctioning several years ago.
The problem was that it wasnt making spark when the carbon hit the frizzen. After doing some reading, I learned that the steel in the frizzen needed to be re-carbinized.
After trying a few different methods, the one that worked was to heat up a pot of powdered carbon to close to liquid stage with the frizzen in it.
This worked like a charm and the flint lock has been making spark just fine ever since.
Very cool:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STFeW0cbB7c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3rjjpuhCLI
Do you use graphite rods to melt the steel?
Yes.
We use three 18in diameter graphite electrodes. They are hooked up to a 50 megawatt 3 phase transformer. The output voltage of the transformer varies from 450 VAC to 550 VAC depending on what tap we select.
The three electrodes are independently raised and lowered and are electrically isolated from one another.
We fill the bowl type furnace with scrap steel and then lower the energized electrodes into it.
When the electrodes make contact with the steel, an arc is created between the phases through the steel.
We use a PID algorithm coupled with a hydraulic valve to keep the electrode at a height above the steel that is optimum for maintaining the arc without overburdening the transformer.
The process works similar to a welder maintaining an arc when running a bead.
It’s pretty cool.
How I envision your workday
https://imgur.com/a/9925J4Z
HAHA!
But, nah, I dont push buttons. I’m the guy whose job it is to make sure the buttons work when they are pushed.
Not this?
Cool pics Lach!
One of the things I miss about no longer doing IoT projects is that I no longer get to go on tours of cool industrial/manly plants.
That’s very cool. I was at a factory that made the graphite rods. Making them is really wild as well. They extrude a telephone pole length rod of carbon black made with water and a binder, dry the water off, fire the green body in a pit in the ground using gas torches, then convert to graphite using a very high current run through the fired rod.
*chuckle*
The last job I had before I took the one I am currently in was at a plant that manufactured graphite rods for use in furnaces that melt steel.
I spent 2 and half years in that process and the amount of energy it takes to turn carbon extractions into graphite is amazing.
I worked on DC rectifiers that were used to push current through the extrustuons that ran at 250 VDC and 200,000 Amps.
Also cool shit.
250 VDC and 200,000 Amps
Industrial bug zapper
The carbon rod plant was the dirtiest factory I was ever in. It was built in the early 20th century.
Did they use a train to move the wires for the contacts?
@ timeloose
I took a shower before leaving work everyday, and then another shower when I got home.
It helped, but I was sweating carbon dust for the entire time i worked there. That shot gets in your pores.
It was 2 weeks after i quit that job that I no longer had to bleach the black out of the bottom of my shower.
My wife appreciated it.
And that plant was built in 1983.
I grew up in a tire town: carbon black was tracked everywhere, under ever fingernail
Banbury is the mixer they use blending “rubber”
I once had a summer job packing saccharine tablets. Come home, take shower, go downstairs to eat. Everything tasted like saccharine.
I didn’t know you worked at Chernobyl.
Where did you think he got his super powers from?
Chernobyl is safe. Sheesh.
R.I.P.
97 is a pretty good run.
OK, so I’ve narrowed my intermittent winsock error down to a couple of things. But I think it’s probably Logitech and their penchant for creating multiple driver suites for different products. I think they’re up to three fully separate packages now each with their own separate updating agent running in the background. Just mildly aggravating.
just add or reduce the kink in the choke linkage until you get a good idle for season and altitude
I just set my process killer to incinerate.
Apples and surfboards?
I start every troubleshooting process with an increase of alcohol. That gives me a good gauge as to when to stop GAF.
Have you checked the thermostat ?
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/starbucks/starbucks-stores-to-stop-selling-newspapers-in-the-fall-pointing-to-changing-customer-behavior/
Changing customer behavior or trying to change customer behavior?
Probably want to get rid of older customers who buy a $2 coffee, then take up a table for hours while they read the paper.
No need:
And that is why we are doomed.
You’re either with us, or you’re against us
The issue of gun violence has divided Americans along political lines for decades and will continue to do so, but white extremism is jumping to the forefront of the political conversation in a new way: Democrats say it’s a crisis that needs to be addressed immediately while President Donald Trump and some pundits appear to believe there is no problem at all.
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“White supremacy has always been a problem in our American story — if not always at the surface, then lurking not so far beneath it,” Booker said at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the site of a racially motivated mass shooting in 2015 that took the lives of African Americans.
“There is no neutrality in this fight,” said Booker. “You are either an agent of justice or you are contributing to the problem.”
He also said the problem of racism extends beyond extremists and terrorists.
“We must acknowledge as a country that as much as white supremacy manifests itself in dangerous and deadly acts of terror, it is perpetuated by what is too often a willful ignorance or dangerous tolerance of its presence in our society.”
We need to unify the country by telling half the population they are evil. It could work.
There is actually a correlation between violence and race in this country, but it’s not one that matches Booker’s thesis.
And we’re definitely not allowed to talk about it.
Or if you absolutely positively must admit it, you have to place 100 percent of the blame on white racism.
Well, Wilson, FDR and LBJ were all white…
Ya know, I distinctly remember Leftists throwing a shitfit when George W. Bush said “you’re either with us or you’re with the terrorists“. They lambasted it for being such a polarizing statement and being totally unconducive to peace.
… But I see they’re happy to use that same argument in service of one of their causes.
Bush was wrong, and so is Spartacus.
Fuck them both. There is always more than 2 sides
“You are either with us or against us” generally produces more enemies than allies.
As I always say. They jumped the shark calling me a white supremacist for not wanting to kill brown people in Syria. IDGAF what you call me now, because I know you’re mendacious.
538 Premier League Predictions
Bold prediction of top 6 remaining the same, although I do like seeing Arsenal having a higher chance to be relegated than win the PL.
how they do last year?
They were close, top 6 was correct except flip Spurs and Chelsea. 2 out of 3 right on relegation.
in NBA they were not really close
Not surprising. American leagues are engineered to be less predictable. Salary caps, drafts, and whatnot.
They were wrong on Wolves being good and Fulham being decent, but most people were wrong on those two. Well except me, I liked Wolves to creep into top 10. *puts shades on*
Me too. I was all-in on Wolves being competitive.
https://twitter.com/NuLLnVoiD4prez/status/1159401501267308544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1159401501267308544&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitchy.com%2Fsamj-3930%2F2019%2F08%2F08%2Fdamn-this-is-good-firearm-advocate-theresa-inacker-makes-a-fool-of-chris-cuomo-during-cnns-gun-control-town-hall%2F
Firearm Advocate Turns Tables On CNN Town Hall: ‘Do You Believe A Woman Has A Right To Choose’ Method Of Self-Defense?
disarm the elderly while you’re at it and see what happens
This is always my go-to argument that a single working mother should be able to defend herself against that jealous asshole ex-boyfriend who threatens her all the time.
News you can use?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/07/my-life-in-sex-enormous-penis
Sometimes a bicycle is just a bicycle
The billionaire owner of Equinox is planning a high-dollar Hamptons fundraiser for President Donald Trump, leading to calls for a boycott of the luxury gym and its associated businesses SoulCycle and Blink Fitness.
Real estate developer Stephen Ross — who is chairman and majority owner of the Related Companies, which oversees Equinox Fitness — will host a luncheon on Friday, according to the invitation, at which attendees will pay up to $100,000 for a picture with the President and $250,000 to listen in on a roundtable discussion.
The Washington Post first reported the fundraiser, sparking the outrage. The news didn’t sit well with some people who frequent the gym, who assailed it as supporting a President whose inflammatory rhetoric and policies targeting people of color are out of sync with the gym’s progressive and oftentimes famous clientele.
Wrongthink will not be tolerated.
This will not end well.
I’m okay with it.
I’m not taking side on this issue; I don’t care. But people take sides; they have choices. I don’t buy Levi’s or shop at Dick’s: they invited me to fuck off, and I did.
This cuts both ways, no one’s exempt, and it’s behavior that’s opted into all around: markets, choices, freedom.
The difference being that you will not go out of your way to identify, shame and revile the people who still do shop at Dick’s or buy Levi’s.
right
I was overbrief with “okay with it”
I’m okay with people spending their money any way they want for any reason they have whatsoever
I’m also okay with people voting for idiots or watching cable news all day: also none of my business
I must admit, I have been wearing Levi’s 501s for over 40 years (same size, too!), and don’t plan on stopping now — I like them, and know exactly what I’m getting.
I have never shopped at Dick’s, and certainly don’t plan to now.
I wear Armani jeans. They fit my body like an erotic glove.
I get your point. But, I have to disagree. I think it is a bad trend that politics is invading every last inch of civil society. Really, I don’t know or want to know the politics of the person who makes my jeans. It isn’t my business and shouldn’t have to be. If they want to take the money I’m freely paying them and give it to Bernie, that’s their right. Just as it should be my right to donate the money I’m paid to support whatever political cause I believe in. I don’t think it’s healthy that we’re segregating into right-wing and left-wing sneaker companies or gyms or whatnot.
I like how you think; it’s charming and warm But you’re talking in circles.
Really, I don’t know or want to know the politics of the person who makes my jeans.
You can’t unring this bell. There have always been market penalties for unpopular behavior; we make them every day; there’s nothing new about biases.
I also have never bought Armour products: they fed the Union army. Don’t care what anyone thinks about it.
But you’re talking in circles.
How so?
I also have never bought Armour products: they fed the Union army.
Given the often extremely poor quality of provisions during the CW, can’t tell if this is a Northern or Southern supporter statement.
I laughed, heartily
Along that line, my favorite Yankee remains Sherman: the March to the Sea probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives by ending the war promptly.
There have always been market penalties for unpopular behavior;
Of course, but what has changed is that politics used to be much less of a thing that people imposed market penalties for. Politics was very properly kept in a box where it did not really dictate what people did in civil society.
And dragging it out of that box and into every single fucking interaction people have with each other is bad. It erodes the ability to have good faith differences of opinion and to tolerate others you disagree with. Its divisive, and its divisive about something that history tells us can lead to social breakdown and violence. It is a development for the worse, and I’m not comfortable just shrugging it off.
do the gyms have sufficient power racks? at least one?
yeah but some dude is doing ten sets of curls in it right now so wait an hour.
Oh FFS. I am already trying to heal up from being chewed to pieces. This morning I am making some teriyaki beef, biscuits and egg for my wife and I slip with the knife while cutting the beef. WTH? I haven’t cut myself with a kitchen knife in a couple of decades. Middle finger, left hand. Fucking thing won’t quit bleeding. It takes no effort and half of a second to be a dunce.
I hate that shit. Nothing like having blood gushing out of your finger that won’t stop and also having a half-butchered chicken that still needs to be cut up the rest of the way.
I was never coordinated, but I’ve always used good technique.
As I age, however, my ability to make my fingers obey technique ebbs, though; which seems unfair: I shouldn’t get hurt by something that I knew better than and way doing my best to avoid in the best way there is to avoid it.
Yeah, I knew better but I let my focus on what I was doing lapse. I got lazy and paid the price.
^^ I did that a couple of weeks ago. Was turning a saw chain for fit without gloves on and my fingers slipped.
I have problems cutting myself when using nitrile gloves in the kitchen. I don’t know if it’s a tactile or visual issue. I use them if I’m going to be handle raw chicken or hot peppers to cut down on hand washing because I have really dry skin already.
I do it all the fucking time. It’s a running joke in the house and it’s why I keep a variety of bandages nearby at all times.
Too fast and too sharp is a bad combo for me.
Explains why you like hanging out with me? Slow and dull.
You think he likes hanging out with you?
Pressure, time, and patience makes the bleeding stop.
Oddly enough, it only takes patience to keep from cutting yourself in the first place.
2 cents, old man
I’ve cut the dickens out of my finger.
+1 chicken livers to stop the bleeding.
Nasty. The worst I cut my finger was also the dumbest. I was washing a knife and was holding it blat up while rubbing a sponge on it
You’re a danger to yourself! BUY A HELMET!
RED FLAG!!!!!!!!!
I did the same just last week.
After that happened to Mrs. Dean we got some clotting powder for the first aid kit.
Holy fuck, that shit hurts like hell. Works, though. I’m blanking on what its called.
in Romania the classic things to try is either a lot of salt or scrape some whitewash from a wall to the wound
Must… resist…
Many men have that struggle
Don’t gender xem!
Quickclot. If you have the stomach for it, the military tests were recorded and put online. They they took pigs and cut their femoral artery. They dumped Quickclot on some, and they all lived.
I have some in my range bag.
was there any truth to using ehm tampons on wounds in the military ?
A temporary one?
We all got to see that in Combat Lifesaver training. those hemostatic bandages have saved a fair number of lives.
We have a styptic pencil that helps things like that. Any good pharmacy should have one.
I buzzed off part of my middle finger with a grinder. Liquid band-aid for the win.
Also tore off part of a thumbnail while chipping at loose paint. That took a long time to heal up; taped / glued the nail on until it was long enough to cover the soft tissue underneath.
does this guy actually know any French ?
I’ve never been told non ever.
I’ve been told oui! as in allas klar: “yes, and we will make it so”
and I’ve been told oui: if I were you, I would want that same thing as well, but we’ll see if you get it
but never an outright non
goddammit une seconde
Anyway Suthen remember chick dig scars
If wasn’t married they would love the hell out of me.
When I was a kid (14?), my parents and sister went on a trip and left me alone a couple days. I went to a local gun show and some guy was giving a demonstration on how to really sharpen your knife.
I ran home and sharpened the shit out of my deer knife. Then (because I fucking love science) I decided to run some experiments that included cutting open golf balls. While conducting the experiment I got distracted and the knife proved how sharp it was by cutting right down to the bone of the main knuckle of the index finger on my left hand. Pretty gruesome. My first thought was that if I didn’t get off the carpet my mom was going to kill me when she got home.
Once I was off the carpet, I wrapped the finger up in a rag and decided that this was enough of an emergency to warrant me driving the car to the ER. When I got to the ER I had to tell them that a) I’m a kid so I don’t have any ID, b) my parents were out of town and c) sure they left a phone number but that is back at my house. They laughed about how boys get up to hijinks when left unsupervised and put in 8 stitches and sent me home.
I can only imagine how much trouble I would be in if one of my kids showed up at the ER with a big cut and told them he had no idea where I was.
Samantha Bonizzi, a spokesperson for Equinox and SoulCycle, told CNN, “Neither Equinox nor SoulCycle have anything to do with the event later this week and do not support it. As is consistent with our policies, no company profits are used to fund politicians.”
By refusing to give money to Democrats, they are undermining democracy!
not condemning is supporting
the personal is political
As is consistent with our policies, no company profits are used to fund politicians.
They’re considered an expense instead?
Yeah, that caught my eye. Why specify “profits” when the impression you hope to leave is “funds”?
I suspect because company funds are, in fact being used to support politicians.
So, so late today.
Fucking real life…
Good morning, SP, and all the rest of you seekers of the Truth.
Questions?
In a sign that the uproar may not be limited to boycott threats on Twitter, Equinox was added to a list of companies to boycott by Shannon Coulter, a self-described consumer advocate who manages Grab Your Wallet, a protest group that targets companies that support the Trump administration.
She said she was adding the company to her list Wednesday morning and encouraged supporters to contact Related Companies. Their demand: “Cancel the Hamptons fundraiser. After that, it will only be possible to be removed if Stephen Ross is no longer with Related Companies.”
Here’s an idea: buy him out. Get all your social justice warriors to pool their resources and buy all Ross’ stock. They are all rich and successful. Then, when you have actual ownership and control, you can make decisions about business practices and use of corporate resources. That seems fair.
I don’t buy Levi’s or shop at Dick’s: they invited me to fuck off, and I did.
I bought another pair of Levis a few weeks ago. They’re right across the aisle from the gun counter at Murdoch’s.
What is the secret to living to be well over 100 years old? It seems that in the US the trick is to have been born just a few years before your state introduced properly documented birth certificates
https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1159055303746424832
“They’ve buried the lede.
Apparently modern life doesn’t allow this sort of longevity, because there has not been a single supercentenarian born for over a century”
Lol
Ok, it’s a little bit funny:)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/mike-pence-monica-lewinsky-mock-twitter-prayer
Not really the brightest bulb. She walked right into that one.
Let’s see, the exchange went:
Pence: “Spend more time on your knees than on the internet”
Who Cares: “Who’s going to tell him?”
Lewinsky: “Def not me.”
I’m not wading into that sewer to find out, but here’s hoping someone replied to her “Can’t tell him anything when your mouth is full, amirite?”
OK, I don’t talk to Jesus myself but are they really this self-unaware?
I have no doubt that they believe Christianity is a mental illness.
“Now do Allah.”
But statutory rape is totes ok.
which part of THE View did you not understand?
All those hens talking all over each other? I don’t understand a damn word of it.
ha good one. i can appreciate a little self-deprecating humor.
So maybe this was covered but is the daily bonnet
https://twitter.com/dailybonnet
A stand alone satire thing or is it a parody of babylon bee?
edgy mennonites apparently, who knew
there’s some real gold in thar.
“‘Bigfoot’ Revealed to be a ‘Mr. Friesen’ from Altona”
hahaha
Goldmine of Discarded Gospel Records Discovered at Local Thrift Store
A stand alone satire thing or is it a parody of babylon bee?
A mashup of both, from a Canadian perspective, it looks like. Almost makes it worth getting a Twitter account for.
Hey, hey! I said almost!
(Thanks, Pie!)
“Experts” “agree”
It’s no mystery why such research has lagged. In 1996 Congress eliminated most federal funding for gun safety research and passed a provision known as the Dickey Amendment that prohibited the use of federal money for anything that could be construed as gun control advocacy.
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There is much that we do already know about guns. Experts tend to agree, for example, that prohibiting violent criminals from buying guns and expanding background checks would go a long way toward curbing gun violence. It’s also clear that states in which guns are more tightly regulated have fewer gun-related deaths than those with laxer gun laws; guns tend to make a home less safe, not more so; and more robust gun regulation can curb the suicide rate. (The vast majority of gun-related deaths in the United States are from suicide.)
But it would be helpful if policymakers and the public had more data on which policies and procedures reduce gun-related deaths, which factors contribute most heavily to gun violence and what motivates people to buy guns in the first place. Also needed: reliable, comprehensive data on the number of guns in circulation and the people who own them.
Whycome them no fund muh hobbyhorse?
Don’t call it a “national gun registration program”. That sounds nefarious. Just say the information is desperately needed for important academic research. You fucking love science, don’t you?
The first time I tried the “experts agree” thing on a Freshman term paper in high school, the teacher deducted 20 point from my grade. Guess she wanted serious writing rather than namby-pamby “journalism”.
prohibiting violent criminals from buying guns
Which they already are prohibited from doing. Next.
Oh, I know. Make it a mandatory census question.
he Dickey Amendment that prohibited the use of federal money for anything that could be construed as gun control advocacy
Of course, the Dickey Amendment should not have been necessary, because the Second Amendment already exists. That the government cannot expend its finances to advocate against the rights of the people should be plainly obvious. The Congress and the People have the power to amend the Constitution, and that is the avenue by which such things must be pursued. The establishment has spent 150 years “pragmatically” compromising the meaning of the fundamental charter that establishes the government’s right to exist in the first place, but then turn around and wonder why (some of) the people think there’s a conspiracy afoot.
Depending on one’s view of the handling of the Whiskey Rebellion, it might be closer to 225 years than 150.
prohibiting violent criminals from buying guns
IS ALREADY A FUCKING LAW
expanding background checks would go a long way toward curbing gun violence
no, this is false. here’s the section at wikipedia on Universal Background Checks that links to the two most recent studies showing that UBCs don’t impact firearm homicide or suicide rates:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_background_check#Effectiveness
It’s also clear that states in which guns are more tightly regulated have fewer gun-related deaths than those with laxer gun laws
first, what a mealy-mouthed way to word it. no mention of rates. and second, Chicago and Baltimore.
guns tend to make a home less safe
if you dig deep enough through the links, then you end up here at this correlation-is-causation! pile of vomit: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/more-guns-do-not-stop-more-crimes-evidence-shows/
more robust gun regulation can curb the suicide rate.
this one is possibly true b/c Red Flag laws may actually stop one firearm homicide or suicide for every ten confiscations. which obviously pisses in the face of due process and spins the whole “It’s better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man be wrongly convicted” on its head.
this one is possibly true b/c Red Flag laws may actually stop one firearm homicide or suicide for every ten confiscations
Given that a “red flag” confiscation is inherently being done under the assumption that the individual in question is dangerous, and modern day police cannot figure out anything smarter than barging in when the individual is home, the police are likely to kill or injure as many as they might otherwise save. But then all right-thinking people will just double down on how obviously dangerous that person really was and how good it is the police have removed them as a “threat”.
It’s also clear that states in which guns are more tightly regulated have fewer gun-related deaths than those with laxer gun laws
I find that hard to believe, even as an absolute number rather than a rate. Much also depends on how they categorize states into the “more or less tightly regulated” box.
It includes suicide with homicide, so maybe that’s it. If so, then it further depends on the unproven assumption that fewer guns = fewer successful suicide attempts. Which I doubt is true, because I think people who are serious about killing themselves tend to choose guns because they know they work, and will find something else that works.
When you look at it on a county-by-county basis, the trend reverses (see: Simpson’s Paradox). The state stats are likely skewed by examples like Texas and Florida where the state has lax(-ish) laws but there are still large urban areas with comparable crime rates to other large urban areas.
Hell, just look at this Wikipedia page and sort the table by either total gun murders or gun murder rate and you can see that the gun ownership percentage is all over the place. Granted, gun ownership is only a weak proxy for the laxity of gun laws, but it’s at least a well defined measure.
Delaware, for example, has the lowest gun ownership rate of the 50 states but the 5th highest gun murder rate. On the other side, Idaho has the 3rd highest gun ownership rate but is in the bottom quartile for gun murder rate.
There is a correlation, but it is weak and it is only at the state level (at the county level, the correlation is inverse and stronger). This is the problem with modern-day “research” as it is extremely simplistic and thus prone to basic methodological problems, but gets repeated ad nauseum until it becomes accepted truth.
what has changed is that politics used to be much less of a thing that people imposed market penalties for. Politics was very properly kept in a box where it did not really dictate what people did in civil society.
We all recognize the importance of punishing the Papists for their evil apostasy. Why not Republikkkins?
Do the critics not realize who looks worse here?
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/universal-pictures-the-hunt-killing-deplorables-slammed-beyond-stick-disturbing
meh. depends how it’s done. could be funny
Yeah, AHS did a parody of the post election nuttiness and it was pretty funny really.
that guy has unbelievably shitty trigger discipline.
Flip the politics and watch Twitter swoon all over it.
I watched the trailer. The “deplorables” are the heroes. This was done in the 30’s with The Most Dangerous Game. This was respun in the 90’s with ICE T in the Most Dangerous Game. Everyone needs to STFU and take partisan chill pill.
OT: Holy Shit! I didn’t ever think I’d see a David Goldman piece that I didn’t think was total crap. But, this one was actually pretty good.
I don’t know who that is but his take is more accurate than anything you’ll see in MSM.
He used to write a column under the name “Spengler”. Instapundit linked to him a lot.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/president-trump-looking-very-seriously-at-granting-leniency-to-former-gov-blagojevich-he-was-treated-unbelievably-unfairly/ar-AAFwH3U?li=BBnbfcL
New York Times correspondent Maggie Haberman reported Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, urged the president to pardon Blagojevich, and aides got Trump to agree instead to commute his sentence.
Blagojevich has served more than seven years of his sentence, following his 2011 conviction for, among other things, trying to sell an appointment to the U.S. Senate seat once held by Barack Obama before he was elected president in 2008.
How do you even pick which Illinois governor to pardon ?
Sheep gotta baa
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2019/08/08/poll-ban-assault-weapons-supported-55-republicans/
*resurrects internal debate about whether to supplement the M1A with an AR platform*
Goddammit. I don’t want to spend thousands of dollars on new guns this year, but damned if these fuckers aren’t pushing into it.
I’m still not worried.
But if you are, no one would fault you for buying a couple stripped lowers & mags. Just in case.
Well, there’s a lot of Republicans, including some who surprise me (Crenshaw? Really?) who are joining the thundering herd for more gun control.
While it now looks like the Dems are heading for a catastrophic internal break-up, if the Repubs are stupid enough to cave on gun control, I could easily see a Dem-controlled federal government after the elections. Both Houses and the Presidency. If that happens, then I think its catastrophic internal breakup on the Repub side, leaving the Dems essentially unopposed in their “fundamental transformation” of the country.
all it takes is one gun nut libertarian and the GOP is back to the wilderness.
It’s almost like neither side wants to win.
There’s a lesson in all this about political organizing. The NRA achieved its greatest success as a focused, non-partisan, single-issue organization. When they lost focus, picked sides, and talked about a bunch of unrelated crap, they started losing. Being as corrupt as most large nonprofits didn’t help either.
Crenshaw? Really?
That surprised me as well. Didn’t he do a long speech in favor of 2A?
Well if it’s anything like the last ban, there isn’t much to worry about unless you had your heart set on a bayonet lug and flash suppressor. Can’t hurt to spend a Benny on some high-cap mags though. AR and SR.
Interesting argument that post-modernism strips meaning from people’s lives and leaves them atomized and isolated (which is associated with suicide and suicidal killing sprees).
Not sure I buy the last leap, since I’m not convinced there are more suicidal killing sprees now than before post-modernism triumphed in our culture.
I do think that collectivism cheapens the value of life, since it strips it of uniqueness and makes people a commodity. If your identity is one of millions of fungible [insert race] here, then what’s the big deal with one less of millions of fungible meat units?
As I said above, I’m surprised it came from Goldman, it’s well above the quality of most of his work.
Well I certainly agree that people struggle with lack of meaning and purpose. That’s one of the reasons guys like Peterson are so popular. But I would say post-modernism is a symptom of this not the cause. Nietzsche talked about this problem long before post-modernism stemming from the death of God. How does man find meaning and purpose when he is a speck in space and time. The increase in urnbanization over the last century has seemed to exasporate this. Many people seem to feel more isolated despite being surrounded by more people and being more connected. Lost in a crowd I suppose. I would not at all connect mass shootings to this phenomenon. We’ve always had psychos. Sure mental illness can be negatively fed by the same problems that infect the sane, but for a psycho if it wasn’t this thing, it would be another. That’s why it’s important to identify them and help them early. This happens everytime. People want to seek a reason why these things happen. There is no reason beyond a broken brain.
Well I certainly agree that people struggle with lack of meaning and purpose.
And always have. But the culture used to provide some more robust options for and support of meaning and purpose. Now, the dominant culture is actively hostile to it, other, perhaps than to the extent you are a member of a tribe and your meaning and purpose comes from conflict with other tribes. This has always been a source of meaning in people’s lives, but now it seems like the only source of meaning that gets much support from the dominant culture.
But I would say post-modernism is a symptom of this not the cause.
I think it creates a positive feedback loop for toxic belief systems.
Sometimes I think the tribalism stems from over-systematization of nearly everything. You can’t even stop for a quick hamburger without having to go through a 6-panel touch screen which sounds quick and easy until you fat-finger something and then spend 3 minutes trying to correct it. Shit winds up being convenient for the worker and exhausting for the customer.
Certainly the left took post-modernism (which was not terrible in and of itself, at least in it’s original points) to it’s most absurd lengths which is of course what you would expect them to do. Craziest crazy gets the crown.
The increase in urnbanization
More of an increase in suburbanization. Rural living has decreased, either way.
Seems like that claim is made for every generation.
I don’t blame postmodernism specifically for creating the ills, but I do blame postmodernism for doing absolutely nothing to rectify them. There’s no solace whatsoever in that philosophy.
For those who are not religiously inclined (and for some that are), Stoicism offers far more assistance.
I don’t necessarily buy into all of his arguments, but it does address something I say to people wailing about guns, something to which they respond either by shutting up or by screeching angrily about everything but my question: there have always been a lot of guns in this country, but why do we now have so many people who set out to randomly kill as many people as they possibly can? Why is contemporary American society generating such people?
We’ve touched on this before but maybe the same reason we had all the serial killers in the 70’s and 80’s. Copy cat psychos.
I think the over the top media coverage is a component as well. Notoriety is a helluva drug.
Do you know of an easier way to become famous, and get your name on Wikipedia?
Donate to Trump and post it to Twitter?
That will just get you unpersoned.
Lord save me from more pointless virtue signalling. In this post on how everyone’s taxes, including Trump’s, should be confidential, the author throws in the ritual proclamation of virtue, which does not advance his argument at all:
Sure, buddy, you can cling to your belief that you are still a member of Polite Society, but if you aren’t offering full-throated support of every single attack on Trump, you’re gonna get drummed out.
“To be sure…”
Say what you mean and mean what you say. Eliminate the unnecessary.
Words of advice that I don’t follow enough when communicating.
I’ll let it pass in this case. Without that clause, the leftist mobs would tear him apart. With it, he at least stands a chance of being taken seriously by some of them. This is the world we live in now.
oppose virtually everything he has done as president
He hasn’t overthrown the Constitutional order nor even exceeded his predecessor’s penchant for pushing the limits of executive authority, and when he comes close the courts usually smack him down and he changes course. Even if you don’t like his policy initiatives (which are a mixed bag), this is as hyperbolic as people who said “everything Obama does is out of hate for this country” or somesuch.
The other option is true voluntary taxation, but with everyone’s donation published. Social pressure can cause you to increase your donation. Or not.
Let me be clear: I have no sympathy for Trump and oppose virtually everything he has done as president.
So say we all.
That is not what mourning means.
Everything must be political. Everything.
If you have 2 televisions, but them opposite ends of the house and tune one to a talking-head politics show, and the other to football commentary. Now, put a little cotton in your ears, go to the middle of the house, spin around a few times, and then try to figure which end is which.
Yeah, El Pasosays “give me some more of that vibrancy”.
They’ve pretty much made “vibrant” a euphemism for “shithole”.
Somehow I don’t think tying Juarez into the story undercuts Trump’s “illegal immigration increases violent crime” spiel.
Haven’t checked, but it could be the only city on this continent worse than Chicago.
“not what mourning means”
“We all mourn the mayhem Trump has brought forth upon this once great land.”
None of the thousands and thousands of mass murders would have happened if Hillary had won that election.