Happy Wednesday, y’all. Or as I like to call it: Five hours of meeting day. Don’t worry, my team still expects eight hours of productive work, so… I guess we’re all going to be disappointed at the end of the day. How the heck are each and every one of YOU?
Someone has figured out regulatory capture and its negative effects.
Me and Gizmodo agree 100% on this. Bitcoin is entirely manipulated and worthless as a wealth store or inflation hedge.
Hey guys, big surprise, the government-backed Space Launch System is basically still vaporware, but Elon Musk’s rocket might save the day.
Anyone got a CRISPR machine I could borrow?
Here’s a little something for when the edibles kick in.
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How the fuck is it only Wednesday? This week is dragging.
Well, it’s the day after Tuesday and the day before Thursday, so…
We’re on vacation. My wife was just lamenting that it’s Wednesday, and the week is passing far too quickly. I guess, like Einstein said, it’s all relative depending on your perspective.
The SLShas always been political slush, nothing more,
Boondoggle. Guaranteed income for space contractors.
One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It?
/shyly raises hand
It’s called Adderall and they only let a few people here and there have it because of the stupid drug war.
I thought it was ethanol, available OTC in a wide variety of concentrations and flavors.
+1 drink of philosophers
I’d like a prescription.
If there is a drug that can enhance brain performance and extend cognitive capabilities, I’m all over it. The bioethicists can go fuck themselves.
Absolutely this.
The job of an ethicist is to come up with rationalizations for things normal people find morally repugnant.
The bioethicists can go fuck themselves.
That’ll require a totally different type of enhancement.
Is it just my imagination, or has there been a series of chemical explosions/fires in Houston? What gives?
Sloopy’s been eating too many beans.
And where is Sloopy!?
Like, two in the last month, IIRC.
That’s been fun.
One of them closed down my Houston warehouse and top selling store. The ship channel was closed, so I’ve got vital raw materials sitting out in the gulf.
vital raw materials sitting out in the gulf
Can’t they just throw the bales overboard and they will float to shore?
it seems to be cyclical, depending on which generation of Formosa Chemical owned plants have reached EoL.
“To be clear, Bitcoin is absolutely worthless by any real measure. It’s fake money that’s about as practical to use in the real world as Monopoly bills.”
As opposed to what, government currency?
“Bitcoin is backed by nothing and requires tremendous amounts of energy to mine using computers. As it becomes more difficult to mine, it saps more and more energy, causing millions of tons of carbon dioxide to be pumped into the atmosphere and accelerating climate change. Bitcoin is little more than a speculator’s death cult at this point.”
As opposed to the people who believe in climate change?
a webcomic replaced their ads last year with crypto mining. They had enough site visitors mining to ditch the ads. Some people were upset because of the environmental impact. The site owner was able to show that the previous ad serving used more energy than the mining did.
A picture worth a thousand words or whatever the Venezuelan currency is.
Bolivar. Its called the Bolivar.
At this point, they should call it the picovar.
Nadavar
Let’s TM that!
https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7mp7el/paying_for_lunch_in_venezuela_where_1_usd_equals/
Bitcoin article is stupid. Sure it “bottomed out” at $3400, but if you got in at 37 cents, who cares?
Note: I did not get in at 37 cents.
Actually, I might have, I won a few microbitcoins playing bitcoin poker before the site got shut down and I never transferred my tiny amount of btc out that might have been worth as much as $20 or so at the peak.
A friend of mine was regularly playing 1/2 btc heads up games.
I almost got in at $12, but I didn’t want to waste $100 that I could spend on booze instead.
I seriously thought about getting 50 or 100 of them when it was around $20. I didn’t.
I did buy several at an average price of around, I think, $900. Sold half when it doubled, basically forgot about it until the big bubble in 2017, when I sold all but one.
If I had gotten 50 at $20, I probably would have sold half at $1,000 for a $25K gain, and the rest at around $15K for a $375K gain, which probably would have advanced my retirement until . . . shit, right about now.
*goes back to proofing redlined physician policy manual*
Yeah, you wanna indulge in invest shaming? I thought about buying Amazon @ $15 a share in 1999. Fifteen dollars a share.
And didn’t. Top that for bad moves.
I did. And sold it at $42. I bought Apple at $12. And sold it at $29.
Oh, and I passed on MicroSoft at $4, because I thought pc’s were a fad.
You win.
Yeah, can’t top that.
I know a woman who worked for MITS, back when Microsoft was in Albuquerque. Bill Gates liked her work so much he tried to poach her, but he couldn’t really pay her a decent salary, so he offered her stock.
.
Oof.
I bought Priceline under $2.00 a share right after 9/11, sold 6 mos later at 6.00
Dammit, I didn’t finish typing that. Long story short, I should have held on a little longer…
I had a grand plan that I was going to buy a bunch of stock in BP when it hit its low point during the oil spill. I figured the stock was bottoming and in a few years the American public would have moved on and it would slowly rise back up to standard level. But instead I used that $1k to fund the wedding hall. I made two bad decisions that day. I’m now single and poor.
She and her colleagues also bred healthy mice to make extra Klotho. They did better than their fellow rodents on learning mazes and other cognitive tests.
While we’re all distracted by the possibility of AI computers taking over the world, the Super Mice will make their move.
If Douglas Adams turns out to have been correct on this matter, I’m going to laugh heartily.
I want in on the trials before my brain goes bad.
^This
Based on family history, I need to start taking it about now.
I’m sorry man, but I think it’s too late already.
You and my wife both think so.
Plot twist, I am your wife.
Now get your sorry ass back to work.
The other solution is nano brain plaque vacuums.
I think Klotho is a better bet.
What does hiking have to do with any of this? Ohh, trials.
/signs up as well
PEOPLE OF EARTH, I AM KLOTHO, GOD EMPEROR MOUSE
KNEEL BEFORE ME
Narf
To prove their mousy worth
They’ll overthrow the Earth
There once was a super mouse from Nantucket…
I found a dead, decapitated rabbit in my yard this morning. The “attack” actually woke me up around 2 am, though I didn’t’ realize at the time it was a rabbit getting eviscerated. I live really close to Philadelphia, so this has never happened before. Long way of asking, what killed it? I’m thinking owl, but friend suggested a fox.
Satanists, of course
Or maybe Brainiac Mice
Hadn’t considered Brainiac Mice. Could be.
Also, Braniac Mice would be a good name for a minor league baseball team.
Common house cats can do incredible damage to rabbits.
^This. A friend’s cat was forever bringing in dead/dying rabbits and leaving them in her tub.
Would a house cate take the head/top half with them and leave the bottom and guts strewn all over the place? I honestly don’t know, cats are killing machines so I guess it wouldn’t suprise me.
It would surprise me if the rabbit were decapitated in an encounter with a cat. Cats tend to be much more precise when killing, and they dismember the prey after it stops fighting back. (not necessarily after it is dead, though)
Oops, missed that you saw it the next morning. Definitely could be a cat, then. I get all sorts of decapitated woodland creatures at all the doorways to my house from the cats.
It was the Butler in the library with a candlestick.
A library in Philly? Dude come on, try to be serious.
It’s the name of a bar.
I’m pretty sure there’s one in every college town.
One of my first real life lessons was my cat bringing baby bunnies back from a nest it found and eating them one by one next to our front porch.
Fox, coyote, bobcat, owl. Also possibly feral dog or cat.
Pictured: attackerthe
Not sure about the Phanatic, but definitely could’ve been Gritty!
Neighborhood cat.
I live really close to Philadelphia,…
Thoughts and prayers, dude.
Prolly a fox, coyote, or feral kitty.
Why not a cougar?
Ha! They generally stay in the mountains and wilderness areas, although a few years back there was one sighted near the DC beltway. And yes, many Chardonnay jokes were made.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2008-04-15-0804140895-story.html
You don’t want to be on the business end of a Philadelphia Cougar….
Relevant
A wild animal would have eaten it, not just decapitated it. This was done by a creature that wasn’t hungry, just murderous.
See my link directly above
Coyotes are assholes. Brooks mentioned owls – that could be a good guess, too.
The head is the least meaty part, so given the choice you take the body.
Bears think that brains are especially tasty. When there are enough salmon, bears will will swipe out salmon, take a single bite out of the cranium and leave the rest of the carcass.
That’s not what I saw at Brooks Falls.
Maybe those were paleo bears?
Some owls prefer the sweet meats.
Pancreas?
It could have been a eagle, or an Eagles fan.
I had a semi-feral cat that decided to live part-time at our house. He was friendly with people, but could be vicious with animals. He regularly killed and ate birds – I’d find their carcasses around the yard when mowing. One morning I found a decapitated rabbit. The rabbit’s ears were missing – I assumed they were delicious.
Then one morning I found him curled up on our front porch, dead. I think someone had poisoned him. My daughter had named him Golden. He lived a short life, but he lived it his way.
This isn’t the happy ending I was hoping for.
A Negro.
Amsterdam Vallon?
My dog decapitated a rabbit once.
Proudest I’ve ever seen that dog.
My now deceased shepherd-husky mix charged through a foot of fresh snow to catch a huge rabbit. She then gently unscrewed the head, dressed the rabbit by unstitching the fur down the middle of its stomach, and lined up the head, furless body, and fur side-by-side. She ate every last bit. I began to wonder what I had living in my house.
*makes sign of cross*
The male Dean Beast is ordinarily the laziest, cuddliest li’l bundle of muscle you ever saw.
Until a snake or a lizard shows up. Then he’s fifty pounds of pure murder. After killing a rather substantial Gila Monster almost exactly a year ago, he is the King of the Lizard Killers. He followed up a week later with a four foot (or so) black racer snake.
Praise Allah that he immediately loses interest, and doesn’t eat them.
The cat I had before I got married was a killer. She was also hand-raised, bottle-fed (by me) from a newborn and hated everybody and everything except me.
I feed my cats ever so slightly less than would satiate them. I get multiple dead critters at my doorstep each week, year round. If I’m only seeing what they don’t eat, I’m curious as to how much they do eat.
Ha. I think my late dog lived on the streets for a long time, as she just showed up at my house one day in a state of near starvation. I think her time outdoors helped her keep in touch with her instinctual skills.
+1 I am legend
My old puppers once caught a squirrel and started eating it butt first, leaving a little bloody hand puppet for me. She was so damn proud of herself, and I kinda was too.
Damn I miss that dog.
Me.
Weasels are famous for decapitating. Headless chickens is a typical thing for those raising them. They prefer the really good fatty parts. The meat is some of the last to go for most animal kills, at least for the truly edible parts. It has the least nutritional value. Brains, eyes, guts usually go first. Our ancestors ate many of these parts for the same reasons.
“Eric Juengst, the director of the University of North Carolina Center for Bioethics, has been thinking about these questions for two decades — back when such drugs were little more than thought experiments.
We tend to think of drugs that enhance performance — say, sports doping — as bad. Drugs that cure or prevent diseases are good. “The scientific community and the public all draw that line,” said Dr. Juengst.”
I think people should start using “bioethicist” as insult, like “clown” or “whore”.
Their job description is basically: clutch pearls over the idea of the unwashed masses taking advantage of ________.
We tend to think of drugs that enhance performance — say, sports doping — as bad.
Millions of boner pill users (and, one hopes, their partners) beg to disagree.
Don’t know anything about Shooter, but that really was a trip.
Reminded me of this classic.
He’s mostly pop country unless you count that album with Hierophant or the tribute LP he did to the guy who did half the video game and movie soundtracks in the 80s — including a note-for-note cover of the Neverending Story theme with the original female lead. I find his pop country not particularly good (or bad) for the genre, but his other stuff is interesting.
Thanks! I’d like to hear more experimental stuff. I like it when musicians do stuff that pisses their fans off.
Long way of asking, what killed it? I’m thinking owl, but friend suggested a fox.
One of my friends told me an owl got into their chicken coop and pulled the heads off a bunch of chickens. Didn’t eat them, just slaughtered them.
Make of that what you will.
Interesting. I’m leaning even more towards owl.
Well, Temple is in Philly, so…
Up at our cabin, one of my dogs breasted out one of the neighbors chicken. Apparently, he wasn’t into dark meat.
I’m thinking weasel (ferret)
Hah, I should have scrolled down!
Lol will never happen because Space X probably won’t even be manufacturing Falcon Heavy by 2024, at that point they will be entirely on the Falcon Super Heavy (Formerly the BFR) and Starship which can deploy lunar missions all on it’s own
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFR_(rocket)
Already Space X is planning on a commercial lunar fly with Super Heavy/Spaceship by in 2023
Once again I question how Elon Musk, a complete asshole who runs a company as shitty as Tesla, can somehow run a company as amazing as SpaceX.
Because other people actually run it.
Did he actually form Space-X or did he come afterwards like with Tesla?
Musk started SpaceX.
I heard somewhere that he basically got into Tesla as a battery development thing, that sells cars to pay for battery research.
He’s definitely a raconteur/con man, but damn he does interesting shit.
Eh. The employees are true believers and they recently cut ~10% of their more senior (read expensive) employees.
He also seriously dated Amber Heard, who is ultra-violent trailer trash.
I hear all of the wowing over SpaceX but I dont hear any details about how much of the money put into it is private and how much is taxpayer subsidy. Given it is Musk I am gonna guess he is still playing on my dime.
Huh. It looks like that’s a more complicated question than it should be. Overt government subsidies seem to be relatively low for what they are doing, but competitors claim that NASA and the USAF pay premium prices to goose SpaceX’s bottom line:
Although Ars seems to think that total costs are lower with private companies receiving subsidies than they would be without the private companies in play at all.
Space X is as close as it is possible to get to a completely privately funded Space Launch company. They pay for all of their rocket development themselves and only charge for launch services for the most part
I’m feeling better now that I finished the first few interviews. It’s been a few years, and I was uncertain of how well I’d handle it.
It went… Meh.
Still have more candidates to interview.
“Why don’t you sit up on the desk so I can get a look at you, sweetheart.”
*drops pen and rolls it past shapely interviewee*
“Clumsy me. Would you mind bending over and picking that up for me?”
*waggles eyebrows*
“I’m sure I can find a, err, position for you.”
I work in a highly and ever more regulated industry and I took a jab at said regulation while talking to a coworker. He immediately started talking as if I had said there should be no government (which I didn’t suggest in the slightest ///minarchist) because “we don’t need to make sure no one is trying to poison us or ensure that there is clean water. Everyone will just act in each others best interest. Hardy har har.” And he apparently thinks that speeding is not a victim-less crime because “someone might be cruising down the highway at 100mph and run into the back of a school bus. So there’s your victim. Ha! You silly anarchist!”. He strikes me as left of center and prone to logical fallacies. But I have even gotten similar tropes about “making sure prisons are operating” from ostensibly conservative acquaintances when I have taken a jab a taxation. I don’t get it.
Several years ago some coworkers were razzing me about being a libertarian and how unfair the world be. “Why, what if I went into every restaurant you wanted to go to for lunch and just bought all the food so you couldn’t have any?” I had to ask them what law they knew of that made doing exactly that illegal right now. “Well, that’s not the point!” Uh, huh.
I’d wager that person supports price gouging laws, which ironically cause temporarily limited resources to disappear and not be replenished because it ignores supply/demand and removes incentive.
There is zero chance I would ever allow myself to be dragged into a political conversation at work. WTF is wrong with you people?
This particular co-worker was a good friend of my girlfriend, so we spent plenty of time together outside of work. It’s not a conversation I would normally have with a co-worker while on our way to Illegal Pete’s for lunch. The guy who was with us just sort of got dragged in.
I mostly agree with the no politics at work thing, but in the times it has come up, I began to realize that I sit next to a Randian objectivist. On the rare occasions only he and I are out to lunch together, our conversations are pretty good.
All those conversations about rough sex being the only kind of sex sound kind of boring, actually.
^^THIS^^ and I work in Government & Community Affairs.
There is zero chance I would ever allow myself to be dragged into a political conversation at work.
Same here. Doing so is basically on par with sending your soon-to-be-ex nude selfies.
when it comes to social/political policy most people lose about 60 IQ points.
Man, I was talking about the Janus decision when it came down. I’m in a pubsec union. I said that it was good for us because the union would have to make sure we’re happy so we’d keep paying dues. The whole room just went off on me. Yelling about how I need to give the union respect, how they’d stand up for me when the chips are down, etc.. it was over the top crazy. I just keep my mouth shut now.
Unions resemble a cult from the inside.
You should see firefighter union meetings. The leadership isn’t exactly held in reverence if the membership has a bug up their butt about something.
I imagine it’s a bit like being in a British pub listening to guys bitch about the royal family. And then you, the ugly American, says, “Yeah, you should tell them to fuck off like we did 200 years ago.” And the room goes real quiet as all the heads slowly turn in your direction.
Preliminary report on Ethiopian Airlines crash is out. Pilots responded to the faulty MCAS correctly, but apparently weren’t able regain trim manually and & reengaged MCAS, leading to the final nose down event.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ethiopian-airlines-pilots-initially-followed-boeings-required-emergency-steps-to-disable-737-max-system-11554263276
Can’t see the article (paywalled), but there’s apparently some conflicting info going around. This article suggests that the pilots turned the MCAS off but that it subsequently flipped itself back on:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/04/ethiopian-air-pilots-turned-off-737-max-anti-stall-system-then-it-turned-on-again/
FTA:
Sounds like a combo platter of tech and pilot.
Speaking of regulating facebook, guess who agrees with Zuck?
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, recently raised a lot of suspicion when he argued for government regulation of his own company and other social media platforms. Some people have been skeptical of his motives, complaining that he is trying to fend off more aggressive regulation or to squelch competition.
But instead of attacking the messenger, we should discuss the message on its merits. Zuckerberg’s argument is an important step in the right direction — one that should produce sustained discussion and eventually legislation. 1
Heads of companies don’t usually contend that the government should be regulating them. But Zuckerberg rightly noted that if we were starting anew, we would not want private companies to decide, entirely on their own, how to answer the fundamental questions that social media providers are now facing.
Consider the integrity of elections — a problem made most vivid by Russian interference with the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
Yep. The Russians hacked our election because the government refuses to police the internet.
They do it all the fucking time. It’s the easiest way to stop any potential competition from getting started in the first place.
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They sure do when more regulations will (in their mind) enshrine them as the sole provider for a long time.
Fisher-Price lobbied hard for mandatory and expensive lead testing in children’s products several years ago, with a nice exemption for companies who could perform their own testing, such as, for example, Fisher-Price.
^This. I think they were specifically targeting Doug and Melissa who were an up and coming company at the time.
Other way around. Melissa and Doug.
(so many of their toys in the house when the kid was younger…)
Yep, Zuck already has all the infrastructure in place to comply with any trashing of the 1st Amendment they might dream up. That writer is an idiot.
Now that I think of it, I recall the whole lead toy scare was due to some Chinese toys manufactured for….Fisher-Price.
What a piece of shit.
Evidence for this assertion? I can think of plenty of instances of CEO’s calling for regulation of their business but I can think of only a handful of cases where they opposed a specific regulation and none where they opposed the idea of being regulated at all.
The automakers used to fight government dictates tooth and nail until they realized that by being “forced” to add things like ABS and airbags, they could charge more for what were previously unpopular, but very profitable options. Now as an industry, they will suggest things to be mandated, like back up cameras.
Also, he hits most of Popehat’s free speech tropes.
https://www.popehat.com/2015/05/19/how-to-spot-and-critique-censorship-tropes-in-the-medias-coverage-of-free-speech-controversies/
Doesn’t Popehat hit some of his own tropes these days? I recall he said that Shitposting is terrorism after that New Zealand attack…
Not really? He called a bunch of Breitbart commenters assholes (which they, tbf, are), but didn’t call on anything to be done about it, and he shit on the New Zealand law making it a crime to publish the manifesto.
He has been 1A >>> free speech for a long time. Here he is saying that if someone makes fun of you on the internet, it is “legitimate” to go after them, their employers, and their family.
https://www.popehat.com/2017/07/05/cnn-doxing-and-a-few-ways-in-which-we-are-full-of-shit-as-a-political-culture/
Not really.
He’s very good at CYA, but when he writes a paragraph saying what an awesome principled free speech defender he is, and 1500 words about what a horrible racist bigot his current bete noir is and how getting them deplatformed is absolutely a free speech stance it rings hollow.
Like how he used to write post condemning lawfare and SLAPP suits — until Van Valkenberg v. Gjoni, then he went conspicuously silent.
There was also a very long twitter slapfest he got into with someone (Tim Pool?) where he was going all Socratic claiming that 1A is the only part of free speech that matters. Which is just the tits, as long as you’re sure that it’s the opinions you don’t like are going to get carved out. That was before Kavanaugh though, so he’s probably changes his mind about that.
Consider the integrity of elections
Facebook has zero to do with this.
PEOPLE OF EARTH, I AM KLOTHO, GOD EMPEROR MOUSE
KNEEL BEFORE ME
Whatever. It could be worse.
Hillary Rodent Clinton.
I hate my life and everyone in it except for my wife and daughter. And you guys.
Be honest. We rate higher than your wife and daughter more often than you’re comfortable with, right?
So how much for your wife and daughter?
So, I just heard Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly” on the radio, and realized that according to the calendar it’s been 20 years since it came out. This is clearly an impossibility, and I need an explanation. There’s no way 20 years of stuff has happened to me between then and now. Related: Where’s my fucking flying car? I’m positive we were supposed to have them by this date.
Sure, kid. I’m still waiting for my lunar vacation.
Wake me for the Libertarian Moment.
Sure thing, Mr. Van Winkle.
We’ve actually had working flying cars for about 20 years, now about regulations that would allow them to be sold to the general public…
Have you seen people drive in 2D? I dont want them in 3D.
Heck, I want them out of 2D.
The only thing I’m wondering is why you didn’t change the channel.
I like the video for that song with Electric Mayhem and Dave Grohl. Very inspirational.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x2WL_9bVyw
Love that.
Thanks, PP!
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Well, Spawn 1 is a big FF fan, so I feel ok with that.
Still, we’re really getting old.
Last winter I seen Dave Grohl perform his rock opus “Play” live for the first time at Warren Haynes Xmas jam. It was intense. One of the main highlights of the two night show. Dave is an amazing drummer. Spawn 1 might like this.
https://soundcloud.com/dfrieslivesoundandvideo/sets/christmas-jam
Abbie the Spoon Lady came out for one of the parts.
It’s song number 96. Here’s a link directly to the song Play.
https://soundcloud.com/dfrieslivesoundandvideo/play-dave-grohl-and-friends?in=dfrieslivesoundandvideo/sets/christmas-jam
All of these names sound made up.
“On Tuesday , former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle in Chicago’s mayoral runoff election, earning roughly 75 percent of the vote and winning all 50 wards.
The landslide victory makes Lightfoot the city’s first black woman and the first openly gay person elected mayor.”
I don’t know about all these women claiming to be gay or bisexual. Pics or it didn’t happen.
They just haven’t met Chuck Norris yet.
Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle
This sounds like the start of a Carl Hiaasen novel.
the first openly gay person elected mayor
I don’t know if its intentional, ignorance, or just bad writing, but she is nowhere near the first openly gay mayor. Houston elected one nearly ten years ago, and my West Texas town elected one probably 12 years ago (for certain values of “openly” – he never said as much, but everybody knew).
The author seems to mean the first for Chicago. Which as far as I know could be BS also.
Sure, but that ain’t what xe wrote. It is easily read as the first gay mayor anywhere. I wonder if it was intended to be misleading that way.
The landslide victory makes Lightfoot the city’s first black woman and the first openly gay person elected mayor.
I haven’t diagramed a sentence in 30+ years (and I never did it well back then) but I believe “the city’s” modifies both ‘first black’ and ‘openly gay’ in relation to the mayor of Chicago, unless you think the first part is claiming that she’s the first black women in Chicago. It might be clunky, but not intentionally misleading in my opinion.
It is clunky. Should read “and its first openly-gay”.
They keep saying “openly” so that Harold Washington is kept in the closet.
Fake names.
Lightfoot is a pretty cool one, though.
Is she related to Gordon?
You fucking with me?
Nah, just incompetent apparently.
Wow, what’s worse is I somehow accidentally replied to Tundra with a Gordon Lightfoot link instead of RBS
I like the live version!
Here’s a bonus song for you.
And the same song.
I guess I could’ve done Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, but I like Sundown more.
Fist bump, bruh.
/both are perfectly cromulent
I wish her opponent had been named Thunderbolt.
Now available on Netflix.
How’s vacation?
Really enjoying it, thanks. Turks and Caicos is a pretty amazing island for a beach vacation.
Snorkeling yesterday, I saw a large fish with what looked like a bunch of feathers and spikes, like the tropical fish Wanda was in a Fish Called Wanda. But I have had the worst internet search ever trying to find it. If you even enter “species of fish named Wanda”, all you get for page after page is reviews, cast lists, or sites to download the movie.
If anyone knows what kind of fish that is, please let me know.
I thought Wanda was just an angelfish.
Feathers & spikes sort of sounds like a lionfish.
According to this White Angel Fish
*smdh* We need more diversity in Angel Fish casting.
Yeah, it’s our fave. Been there twice and planning a third.
Did you see the Potcakes pups yet? A major high;ight for my kids.
Are you on Grace Bay?
Yes, we’re in Grace Bay. Salt mills is a quick drive from here, we’ll check out the pups tomorrow, thanks!
And thanks, it was absolutely a lionfish! Google images was like a photocopy. So glad to get that figured out!
Do not touch the lionfish. Do, however, eat the lionfish. Invasive fuckers.
I have a friend that is a diver. He spends his vacations hunting lionfish.
I was looking at T&C for my wife’s *mumble*-th birthday this Febuary, but doing just a long weekend from Boston was impractical – flight there wasn’t bad but the flight back was something like 12 hours, since we couldn’t go direct.
It was all set up for week-long stays.
Next time.
Aruba was pretty great, with multiple daily direct flights – which is why it’s overrun with Bostonians.
“Every day, we make decisions about what speech is harmful, what constitutes political advertising, and how to prevent sophisticated cyberattacks,” he began. “These are important for keeping our community safe. But if we were starting from scratch, we wouldn’t ask companies to make these judgments alone.”
The government is expressly prohibited from violating the freedom of speech. And now my eye is twitching because this crap is so dangerously stupid.
“Teacher claims she was fired over topless selfie to boyfriend
A Long Island middle school teacher was fired last week when an old topless selfie that she sent to a boyfriend surfaced — in the hands of a student, according to a new court filing.
Lauren Miranda, a 25-year-old former Bellport Middle School math teacher, was fired Wednesday after a student somehow obtained the image, according to her lawyer, John Ray.
Miranda and Ray have filed a notice of claim in the case as a precursor to a $3 million lawsuit.
“Long ago, she sent her topless unremarkable selfie to her companion, never to anyone else,” Ray said. “By unknown means, a student obtained it. The school district took possession of it, excoriated her, and fired her because her breasts were displayed.”
Miranda and her lawyer contend that a male teacher would not have been subjected to the same treatment in similar circumstances and that she wants her job back.
“This would never have happened to a male teacher,” Ray said. “The Suffolk County Administrators and School Board have not yet discovered that women are equal to men. Lauren is rightly proud of her female torso. A woman’s breasts are not inherently prurient.””
https://nypost.com/2019/04/01/teacher-claims-she-was-fired-over-nude-selfie-to-boyfriend/
“Teacher fired over topless photo, threatens $3M federal lawsuit, alleges gender discrimination: report”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/long-island-teacher-fired-over-topless-photo-threatens-3m-federal-lawsuit-alleges-gender-discrimination-report
Ok look I agree that she should not have been fired unless there is evidence that she sent the picture to the kid herself but lets get real here, There is a huge difference between a topless man and a topless woman. Feminists can deny it all they like but the human female breast is an inherently sexual display
How patriarchicahalal of you.
Yep. Another denial of reality. I do like this line from Creepy Lawyer, Esq.:
“Lauren is rightly proud of her female torso. “
Chris Pratt shirtless in Guardians of the Galaxy would like a word with you.
Blurry man boobs are a huge turn-on.
You both must have missed Scruffy’s math teacher link.
Huh, Pietro Boselli’s ass was seen in the wild and I’m just hearing about it two years later? I’ll be damned.
“the human female breast is an inherently sexual display”
Dirty titty, dirty titty. We must protect children, particularly the very youngest ones, from these inherently sexual uncovered boobies.
If they aren’t, then we must codify and harness whatever teaching technique is used to convince people that bewbs are hot and apply that to libertarian propaganda.
I thought that was the role of Mythical Libertarian Woman.
Eh, we worked this over already. She’s an idiot, her effectiveness as a teacher is impaired, and the school is right/not wrong to fire her dumb ass.
Her gender discrimination claim is bullshit, though. If that’s her lawsuit, it tells me she probably doesn’t have a case under her contract.
How is the school right for firing her if she didn’t release the photo?
For being a dumbass.
Your job belongs to your employer, not you. If something happens that makes you unable to do your job effectively, even if it isn’t your fault, the employer is correct to fire you. Up to this point I agree with RCD, the question to me is whether this actually makes her unable to do the job effectively.
My thought is that it’s indicative of 2 things: 1) a complete lack of good judgment and foresight, and 2) a breakdown of authority in the classroom.
Like I said in the earlier thread, if those flaws are showing up in her job performance already, nows the time to can her. If she’s a good teacher who just got bit for doing something stupid, then let her off with a slap on the wrist.
My guess is that she wasn’t good enough of a teacher for the administration to bother going to bat for her.
Shen was approximately 22 when she took the photo. If we’re going to fire any teacher that has a nudie photo appear years after it was taken, then . . . well . . . we aren’t going to have many teachers left to choose from. Right or wrong, people coming of age nowadays pass those photos around like a joint at a Grateful Dead concert. I’m not willing to condemn anyone for the mistakes they made years earlier. I believe in redemption.
Plot twist, the student was the boyfriend?
And now my eye is twitching because this crap is so dangerously stupid.
Inspector Clouseau is waiting to see you.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/437189-gop-triggers-nuclear-option-to-speed-up-trump-picks
Senate Republicans deployed the “nuclear option” on Wednesday to drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to confirm hundreds of President Trump’s nominees.
Senators voted 51-48 to change the rules for the amount of time it takes to confirm most executive nominations with only a simple majority of the chamber. GOP Sens. Mike Lee (Utah) and Susan Collins (Maine) joined with Democrats in opposing the rules change.
Republicans are expected to trigger the “nuclear option” for a second time later Wednesday to force through the same change for district court nominations.
The combined actions will result in most nominations that require Senate confirmation needing only two hours of debate after they’ve defeated a filibuster that shows they have the votes to ultimately be confirmed. Before Wednesday’s rules change they faced up to an additional 30 hours of debate.
This may come back to bite them, although considering the Dems invented the nuclear option, I doubt that a future Dem majority wouldn’t have done the same thing but for the Repubs doing it now.
The thing about having supermajority requirements like the “filibuster” is that the majority can always take them away. The minority should deploy them carefully and judiciously, not indiscriminately. Whether the Dems have been “abusing” the supermajority requirement to block/delay perfectly good nominees, I really couldn’t say. The road to weakening the filibuster may have been paved when it went from being a real filibuster (a Senator actually had to hold the floor of the Senate) to a purely procedural supermajority vote, which is much more easily abused.
Here’s something for when the clear liquid hits.
Was that supposed to be a link to an Imodium advertisement?
Goddamn you’re harshing my buzz today, HTML:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wae9iDJQHIs
Cool clear liquid, bro.
Dudes. Umm… what? Oh, quit harshing my buzz.
Elon Musk’s rocket might save the day
Just don’t let a grade-school teacher fly in his rocket. (I’m going to hell for that one…)
how’d they know Christa McAuliffe had dandruff?
they found her Head and Shoulders.
What’s this button do?
So has the Canadian LP offered Jane Philpott and Jody Wilson-Raybould party membership?
God dammit, I hope not.
It may not have been obvious over the years, but I’m not a fan of PM Zoolander, his idiotic cult, or even the Liberal Party. But for once, he’s a Less Bad Guy in all this. Because if he loses, the Natural Ruling Party gets taken over by less attractive, more stridently harridanish AOC clones and then the country finds out what lies beyond STEVE SMITHING.
the Natural Ruling Party gets taken over by less attractive, more stridently harridanish AOC clones
They’re not all already in the New Dictators Party?
points at Zoolander’s cabinet
They used to be, than the idiot dragged them into the halls of power. I mean, consider Friedland’s books and tell me how the fuck she belongs with Liberals and not New Democrats.
So the history of liberalism since the 1890s?
I mean we have the Trudeaus thanks to Lester Pearson. Gerald Butts started in the employ of Allan MacEachen who was first elected under Louis St. Laurent. And both Pearson and St. Laurent were brought in by Mackenzie King who was brought in by Wilfrid Laurier, etc…
Um didn’t his Dad due that already?
Can’t believe I spelt that word wrong.
No, he got their votes, and gave them dick in return.
This is a mess of Zoolander’s own making. Instead of taking loyal party soldiers like Heddie and Sheila and stuffing them into meaningless positions, he wanted to show off how cool and fresh he was, and the Parliament now looks like a student takeover of a US university.
This was pretty obvious with the expulsion of all the Liberal Senators as if he ever intended the Senate to not a partisan body,
Funny how corrupt corporate liberals do this all the time and it fucks us all up. Wilson Raybould’s tinkering with the jury system was perfectly fine with him until she turned against typical Liberal Quebec corruption. Also Harper was mean to the Natives but him ignoring their wishes is fine.
I mean we are supposed to prefer Pelosi and Biden to AOC despite the former two being advocates of Obamacare which the GOP inability to repeal it being terrible.
And prefer the old-school urban machine democrats to the woke brigade. Nevermind these machine Democrats were the ones who created the welfare state that is bankrupting us.
Evergreen Parliament! Good luck with that, dudes.
https://reason.com/blog/2019/04/03/an-economist-walks-into-a-brothel-what-p
Peak Gillespie?
He’s muscling in on our territory.
China Quietly Sends 100 Troops to Venezuela
That’s probably not good.
I wonder how Chinese and Russian foreign intervention fits in with libertarian foreign policy. I see a lot of talk about American Foreign policy but not a lot about actual libertarian foreign policy.
Rothbard and Rockwell would/will say something about how China and Russia only interfere in the affairs of their neighbors, unlike the US, and say something about spheres of influence. Of course by that reasoning the US intervention in Venezuela is much more justified than Syria or Iraq due to proximity and historical reasons (Monroe Doctrine) so all they have left is whataboutism.
“Advisers”.
Or repo men. Venezuela owes the Chicoms some like $20B.
^^This^^ I’m willing to bet they’re there to protect their assets owed by Venezuala, as opposed to Maduro.
Good luck getting that back, unless they have actual claims on their oil.
Look what they did in Nigeria. They now own a major port in the region. And they’re doing the same thing to other countries that can’t pay back loans, by design. There is definitely collateral outlined in the agreement with Venezuala.
It’s like they’re interviewing different suitors to be a puppet-state to.
I wasn’t able to post this in response to the C.O.B.R.A. link
A history of the 1911
“One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It?”
Napoleon Dynamite?
Hank Johnson could really use a hit of that stuff.
As I explained below, no one will be getting anything to enhance anything, because as I explain downthread it will either be illegal or a gray area making it hard to get and expensive. Of course, I admit, you have enough money to spare, you can get anything you want. But if you’re on a budge and need to eat, you’ll be shit out of luck because FYTW.
See: modafinil.
Modafinil is overhyped. I was part of a research trial where I tested 3 drugs for effectiveness as a cognitive enhancer. Modafinil was one of them, and was by far the least effective.
Now Tolcapone, that stuff is legit.
I’ll research that, thanks.
I was more interested in modafinil as a keep-me-awake type thing.
I, for one, am entirely shocked by this development.
“Will gangs get rid of their weapons? No,” Fatu told the outlet. “Because of who we are, we can’t guarantee our own safety.”
Citing an April 2017 report by the Law and Order Select Committee, Stuff notes that a 2014 police analysis found that nearly half of gang members were charged with firearms offenses. Gang members have admitted that many of those weapons have been obtained illegally. But, Fatu insists, they are necessary for their own protection — and haven’t resulted in the kinds of mass violence that occured in Christchurch.
“It’s not in our culture to inflict harm on innocent people like what happened in Christchurch,” Fatu told Stuff. “The attacks between our organizations are gang-on-gang, they do not involve the non-gang members.”
I don’t know anything about these so called gangs, but interesting nonetheless.
When you’re a Jet you’re a Jet all the way.
They want an ethnic carveout. Money quote:
“[H]ow many [mass shootings] have been committed by someone of Pākehā origin?” he asked, referencing white New Zealanders. “
“Anyone got a CRISPR machine I could borrow?”
If there is ever anything discovered that can be used for ‘enhancement’, the FDA will either outright get it banned or regulated to the point that it can only be used for treating symptoms of some disease, not for enhancement. Just like they do with testosterone. We’ll let you know if you need any enhancement peasants, and you don’t.
Mutilate your genitalia and hormonal balance in an attempt to be another sex? Fine, even celebrated.
Attempt to improve your cognitive or physical capabilities through enhancement? We’ll be having none of that.
Well, that, yeah. But the trannies are not enhancing anything. They’re destroying their own bodies and mental health. Makes then more likely to vote for crazy dems, so it’s all good.
Most of the MTF’s I know are right of center, and from what I can tell from people online, they tend to get more lefty the less passable they are.
Hmmm…what if I identify as a genius? Do I get to have the cognitive enhancement now? And if not, is that bigotry against my lived experience?
So many questions.
* hides testosterone prescription behind the mouthwash *
No pellets?
Pellets weren’t offered as an option – not sure they were even available when I started. The gel is fine, just need to either shower before bed or keep a t-shirt on.
been doing some genealogy lately. traced my family back to an English immigrant who landed in the Virginia colony in 1669. haven’t found anything yet about the American Revolution but i do have ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War. it’s amazing how much of that archival stuff was maintained and digitized.
sidenote: when looking at casualty numbers from the Civil War for each unit, “disease” was far and away the biggest killer
Apparently the Russo-Japanese War was the first time that the actual war caused more casualties than disease.
Yep, the muster from my ancestor’s regiment (garrison troops, basically) was zero combat deaths and seven by disease.
Large groups of poorly fed people marching around the countryside in the weather before antibiotics. An open invitation for plagues.
And shitting everywhere, Drake. How can you forget that? It’s like Woodstock, only worserer.
“‘disease’ was far and away the biggest killer”
Interesting. But remember that mid-nineteenth century medicine knew jack shit about germ theory, surgical sterility, sepsis, listeria, etc.
If you’re ever in Richmond, Virginia do visit the Civil War Medical Museum. The horror, the horror. They cut and sewed human bodies like shoddily engineered sails. Wash the instruments between surgeries? There’s no time, man.
And a blood soaked apron was an advertisement for how quickly you can get surgery done.
Trauma medicine and surgery have been hugely advanced by war and the automobile. Trauma medicine and surgery have been hugely necessitated by war and the automobile.
You can say that again!
Hey! Johnny Tremain was able to get a great Revolutionary War surgeon to fix his metalsmithing-damaged hand.
And America matured at the same time.
/Junior high English teacher who showed novels can work on several levels.
I look forward to the MASH Civil War Edition reboot.
Pretty sure there is a PBS show like that.
I dub thee ‘Sir Loin of Beef’
Uncle Tom just told everyone to kiss his black ass.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/clarence-thomas-says-hes-not-retiring-for-30-years
He’s got to outlast RBG.
He enjoys the RBG Death Watch circus and wants the next Democrat president to have one, too?
The U.S. Army Selects New Submachine Gun – for a mere $7k per gun.
Nothing left to cut.
I’d like to pick up a HK MP7 from my local gun store. Also, fuck PSDs.
I cannot wait to hear the reasons for this.
It was really cool.
$7,000? Do the bullets aim themselves?
It’s Swiss, man. What do you expect?
Gold plated ammunition?
They couldn’t at least find a US company to give that gravy to? Assholes.
It better come with the C.O.B.R.A scope.
COBRA rifle – https://geekologie.com/2019/02/a-custom-cobra-commander-themed-heckler.php
How much does a new MP-5 cost?
Woman in state senate votes against Equal Pay Day resolution. Somehow this is news…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/local-politics/colorado-senate-gop-woman-member-votes-no-on-equal-pay-day-resolution/73-0eab0832-c740-4fbd-aed0-193572bda990
Democrats pounce!
She has principles?
Yes, yes, of course, I see gay bodies in ditches everywhere, the result of being denied custom cakes.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lgbt-rights-are-under-attack-america-needs-the-equality-acturgently
“All over the country the backlash to LGBT rights is getting bolder—more outrageous and more vitriolic—while anti-LGBT evangelical leaders, working within the base of the GOP, continue their attempts to disguise a religious crusade against fellow Americans as as struggle for “religious liberty.” “
If such things happen, it’s because they didn’t stop with equal rights or tolerance or acceptance and had to push for endorsement.
Good, now watch me never visit your garbage-site again.
Horseshit. I am at the point where I just assume all of these attacks are staged.
That’s Michelangelo Signorile. He’s never been sane.
Aren’t most anti-LGBT evangelicals leader some of the biggest closeted gays?
Most? Nah.
There may be some who have–the ones that made the most noise, maybe.
*drawing a distinction between historical/orthodox beliefs and actually “going after” any/all LGBT groups.
I don’t know if we’ve discussed this before, I was probably drunk, but I want one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkNVYz9uajU
I linked it like last week, but it’s cool enough to watch again.
I need a replica of Robocop’s gun like that.
Ah! That was it. I was pretty sure it was here.
Not sure if anyone posted this link this morning – https://www.wacotrib.com/news/twin-peaks-biker-shooting/no-one-will-answer-for-twin-peaks-shootings-after-da/article_124b9c6f-d3ab-581b-bb85-56ed33560735.html
Interesting that the current DA ran on this case – specifically because the guy who started things did such a shitty job with it – sounds like some common sense…
I heard the FBI was assigning some guy named Cooper to figure out what really happened.
The gum he liked came back in style.
To bad it’s a private company, it would make for a nice short right about now.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-03/sorry-wall-streeters-you-now-need-to-earn-your-patagonia-vests
Let’s politicize everything. Douches.
If I bought Patagonia products, I would be upset. But I don’t, so…
…are they trying to go bankrupt? “Let’s eliminate 95% of our possible business from the pipeline. What could possibly go wrong?”
I love the bit about “mission-driven companies that prioritize the planet” – as if eeeevul Wall Street doesn’t generate a shit-ton of wealth that makes a lot of that feel-good crap possible.
Hold that thought, JB:
“I mean, we don’t want to actually LOSE business with our
stridencystance.”Surely there are plenty of other companies that produce items that are just as good, and, possibly cheaper? Yeah, yeah–Patagonia is image, and all that shit…
Frankly, I’ve always thought the Patagonia fleeces looked pretty damned idiotic. They’re the outfit of the kid a couple of years out of B-school who wants to look “corporate hip”. If you’re actually a manager, you go with the Barbour or go home.
It’s corporate logoed clothing they sell to companies.
“We’re in business to save our home planet.”
At least they’re humble.
They are in business to make money. I suspect this will prove to be a misstep.
We’re in business to save our home planet.”
Did they get approval from other planets too? If not, how earthnocentric.
Greetings from sunny Orlando. *swoon*
Kmele lights the GILMORE signal
He is correct. He is, however, wrong about his white sneakers looking good with a suit – I don’t care how much those cost, that still looks stupid.
‘white sneakers looking good with a suit’
Jeebus, how could anyone think this? At least get a pair of black loafers.
I know, right? And after Labor Day? Like, OMG.
Okay, why is it that when I click on one of your all’s twitter links, the time stamps and such are in Cyrillic? Am I being Russian colluded?
Не знаю. Я это не вижу.
Me neither.
My God, I’m seeing it everywhere!
B.P. is a Deep State operative.
Greetings Pomp
Say hi to Mickey for me
AND BY SAY HI MEAN….
“The world is going to end in twelve years. If you have kids, it will end in probably like six years or something because they’ll just breathe more,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on a recent Instagram Live broadcast. “I have the science right here.” Ocasio-Cortez held up a copy of National Geographic. She later realized she had been referencing an article from 1989 warning that the world would end in 2001 if deep and wide environmental policies were not enforced. “If scientists from thirty years ago said the world was going to end in 12 years, who am I to doubt science?” she said upon realizing this.”Science is science.”
I know its Babylon Bee, but hasn’t this actually happened?
You don’t science, obviously.
Now see, that’s just not believable at all. She got the subtraction right? Swing and a miss.
When I was a kid, it was the New Ice Age coming, if this is global warming, I’m not seeing it. SoCal temps have been lower on average for at least twenty years, and I’m sorry, I want my warmth back, thank you very much,
I remember my dad complaining about horrific winters with blizzards that shut down his college campus for a week because nobody could get into the neighborhood. Restaurants and grocery stores closed due to lack of food.
He said back then everyone was saying global cooling would kill us all and we were basically in a mini ice age.
Wouldn’t a little global warming be a *good* thing if that was the baseline? Its not like the Medieval Warm Period or the carboniferous period were marked by climate cataclysms (dinosaur killing asteriods notwithstanding).
Of course warmth is better for life. It just adds another level of silliness to the global warming alarmism. At least global cooling would be a serious problem. And it *is* going to happen someday, we just can’t say exactly when.
When I was a kid, it was the New Ice Age coming
Yup I remember hearing that.
I can believe there’s warming going on, but being caused by humans? Fucking prove it. Especially with the late 90’s pause.
And the current two-year decline.
Hide the decline!!
And no, this isn’t referencing any actual emails that came out of actual “sciencing” places that allegedly science on global warming or nothing. Nope. Because they’re all on the up and up.
The fact that those private emails were leaked (probably by Russians) means we should ignore their content and focus on how we can blame climate deniers for colluding to interfere with the elec… er, scientific process.
A few years ago there was a report by NASA that Mars appeared to be experiencing some global warming. Silly me thought that would show CAGW activists the Sun was likely responsible for any actual climate changes we witnessed.
Nope. Memory holed.
Fantastic. Did they hire all the good Onion writers or something?
This just rolled around on Spotify.
SpaceX should license.
Youtube just queued up this tune from Dead South. I’m digging it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3UfPXAowDg
Dead South is a good band. Whenever I hear “new country” I want to vomit. Fucking new pop songs with a twang vocal, and occasional slide guitar.
If you havn’t already heard them, check out Turnpike Troubadours. Especially this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTYq66Tx1GY
OUTLAW COUNTRY!!! No seriously if you Sirius/XM the Outlaw Country channel rocks (so to speak)
I luv Turnpike Troubadours thanks to one of you reprobates but honest question: what differentiates them from “new country”?
“New country” bands wouldn’t have a fiddle player.
“New country” bands may well have a keyboardist
“New country” bands would have songs with “crossover pop” appeal
“New country” bands songs’ suck.
Those are my 4 reasons
Sounds about right.
PS. I wonder how much shit they catch from the title of this one – another of my faves.
One time new country
https://youtu.be/
New country” bands would have songs with “crossover pop” appeal
Conway Twitty.
I remember when New Country was a return to more traditional country sound and rejection of the pop turn of the 70’s and 80’s. (But even that era’s popish country is far superior to today’s crap country)
I agree, love these guys. Lots of good music like this out there right now.
God, I hate Karen!
So I walk up to this bitch (apparently right after she got divorced) and say “what’s up Karen you wanna go for a jog this afternoon haha” and she’s like “please just leave me alone” and I’m like “whatever bitch” and then like an hour later get called into our HR person’s office and they’re like “you gotta stop harassing Karen she’s going through a lot right now, she’s just signed her divorce papers”
And I’m like “hah who’d married that skank, someone with a wheelchair fetish?” And my HR person (Hank) was well like “come on man, they’ve been married for 16 years. They’ve been having trouble since her accident last year. She thinks he blames her for getting into the accident that killed their kids” and I’m all like lol
So I leave and I’m hungry so I go to grab my lunch (turkey and provolone) only to see, lo and behold, that dumb bitch Karen set her bag of lunch RIGHT in front of mine!! so I write out a note saying how glad I am to be working with her but if she puts her lunch in front of mine again I swear to fuck I will finish the job that God couldn’t
So I go through the rest of my day joking around with Karen every time I see her even though she is I giant cunt about it (my favorite was ‘accidently’ dropping a pair of scissors on her colostomy bag lol) and I have to ignore the picture of that fucking rat whenever I walk by her desk
So I finish my day asking for her ex husband’s number since I need a new wingman to look for some babes with and she fucking flips it and when she’s yelling at me I’m all like “maybe if you don’t want to get divorced you shouldn’t have gotten hit by a drink driver you ever think of that bitch” and then she rolled away aggressively
So that was my Wednesday. How was yours?
I thought I made it clear that I don’t start reading series unless they are already finished.
Not that alpha.
It’s like I always say. The problem is too many sober people.
Not in this household.
And, seriously, has anyone ever met a Karen who wasn’t completely fucking insufferable? Nobody ever asks what the Karen’s of the world did wrong.
Sorry, Bro. I’ve known a few Karens who were pretty cool. Different life paths, and all that.
I kind of like Karen, but Mandy didn’t.
I enjoy the cat / Karen memes.
https://images.app.goo.gl/DeVwYBUY5cqmBkBv5
ERMAHGERD FERGED ERN FER* is back tonight!!
*For the old farts: “oh my god, Forged in Fire”
I love that show!
I love all the testosterone on the show, but my favorite winner was the chick, Kelly. SHe kind of reminds me of me, only way tougher.
Awesome! “Your knife, it will keeel.”
Baseball Twitter is the worst Twitter. Especially when people you follow for other reasons start Tweetering about it 24 fucking 7.
You could have stopped at “Baseball is the worst”. 😉
Of course you think that, Ted. Because the Yankees suck.
Just because they lost a series to the Orioles?
Can’t think of a more glaring example.
Just dogging an NY resident about their baseball team. NH residents don’t have to pay sales or income tax, but they do have perform some basic functions.
Probably chose a bad year to do it, though.
Jeebus, the Sox pitching this year is horrible.
Ok, but even fucking Jacob deGrom hit a home run today vs. the Marlins.
Who’s in the what now?
Call me in Oct only if the Twins are still in it
I can tell you right now.
Out.
Tough news, Kirby Fuckett. In your favor is the fact that the Sox and Yankees are sucking up the field right now. If that continues, wide open field (NPI).
The division has been shit for years. Doesn’t matter.
Dude, right now it’s TB Rays > BAL Orioles > TOR Blue Jays > NY Yankees > BOS Red Sox in the AL EAST.
The Sox look to suck this year, with horrible pitching. Like a rerun of 1977 – some lumber, no arms. The Yankees (I hate to say) may have just gotten off to a bad start. But so long as they eventually lose, too, I’m okay with that.
I have a habit of reading headlines and not clicking to read the articles. This week I thought Bieber made a joke announcing that he was pregnant and I thought the media outrage was from him making a self-deprecating trans joke.
For those of you familiar with KC BBQ. The local favorite Joe’s partnered with a popular local pizza joint Minskys to make a BBQ pizza. It is amazing. I’m gonna put on 50 pounds before this limited time offer ends.
I meant to come home and rant about people not moving to the right hand lane tonight on the highway. I came home and got drunk instead.
I find it best to combine the two.
I got to a happy place and lost the edge. ?
Huzzah!
Speaking of rants, fuck the assholes who let their dogs roam the neighborhood, whether because they don’t maintain their invisible fence or because they let the dogs out in the yard unattended.
Had a fucking bulldog charging my 1 year old in my front yard. He was about 10 feet from having his head severed from his body with a shovel.
I prefer children to dogs, so I’m torn here.
Sorry, that should be reversed. Dogs > children.
Had a fucking bulldog charging my 1 year old in my front yard. He was about 10 feet from having his head severed from his body with a shovel.
Why would you do that to your 1 year old? I mean, he’ll get better around animals as he gets older.
Because he can’t make another dog, but he can make another kid.
Just tried, wish me luck! ???
Mazel tov!
That does seem a little harsh.
It’s a dog eat dog world, and if you’re not an alpha, then you’re just a little slithery snake. You know what we do to snakes? We chop off their heads with shovels.
Do you know the owner?
Some yes, some no. Over the past 6 months, dogs from at least 4 different houses have ended up in my yard causing various levels of mischief. The most common offender was the next door neighbor, but his dogs are old, so they’re not very aggressive. He just replaced his invisible fence, so those dogs shouldn’t be an issue anymore.
That drives me nuts. We have an invisible fence around the property and I still make sure I know where the dogs are. We have neighbors who just let their dogs out and they roam around. We had one neighbor who found out why their rescue dogs were rescue dogs. They would come over the three rail fence and charge any dog they saw. After a couple of letters, they had to add wire mesh and extend it above the top of the fence. Just as bad is the people who walk their dogs off leash. People have found out the hard way to control their animals so the don’t come onto our property. Big dog does not suffer fools gladly.
I am tired of neighbors walking their dogs in my residential area and casually letting the dogs way out in the middle of the street or even off the leash.
They are confident they’ll hear any car coming (they tend to walk on the right, against all advice) but they haven’t realized that electric cars are everywhere now. Sometimes I honk quickly, sometimes I roll down the windows so they’ll hear AC/DC blasting and look behind them.
Natural. Selection.
Our dog lost his voice about a year ago (he’s getting old), so he’s not much of a deterrent anymore (even before, his bark was the only intimidating part about him) . I’m the only functional deterrent to keep my wife, daughter, and pets safe now. I don’t suffer fools gladly either. I do so with shovels, steel toed boots, and if the message isn’t received, lead pellets traveling at transsonic speeds.
We have a similar problem with our neighbors who have a rotting fence and 2 rather aggressive pitbulls. Recently they busted through the fence and chased our other neighbors cat into their house damaging some things in the process. Those dogs would have been dead if they came in my house.
I try to be as gracious as I can. Our dog has gotten away from us before. Our dog has acted aggressively before. Shit happens.
However, when you show no interest in the whereabouts of your unleashed unsupervised dog for 15 or 20 minutes each and every day, my patience wears out. That describes more than 2 of my neighbors.
My wife and two-year-old were at the beach. She was reading and the kid was playing in the sand making engine noises while running his toy cars across our dog’s back (a rescue shepard/greyhound mix). The dog felt his mission in life was to protect our kid.
A woman walks by with an unleased shepherd that ambles over and raises his ruff and gives our dog a bared-teeth growl. Charlies isn’t much for BS. In an instant he had the shepherd on his back with his neck in the jaws of death. At the same time he was raking the shepherd’s belly with his rear claws. He was going for the kill. The woman starts screaming. My wife says “Charlie, Stop That.” Charlie goes and sits between our kid and the shepherd that runs off howling. The woman continues screaming at my wife who just says “Control your dog. Next time I won’t call mine off.” and goes back to reading.
I want a dog like that. Ive only had the toddler-like ankle biter dogs inherited when I married my wife. The idea of a dog that is well trained, big enough to defend the house/family, and protective sounds amazing.
He was an incredible dog. Loved to run. I’d take him along the beach and he’d run off as fast as he could go (which was really fast) and then turn and run back and look at me with disappoinment that I couldn’t keep up. The off he’d go again.
Awww. What a great dog.
Our mini-Aussie normally a sweet little thing, went protective of my wife at the dry cleaners one time. They couldn’t find some clothes and my wife was pissed at that and their excuses (more the second). Came back to the truck and was seething. Then went back inside when they found them. Our doggie bolted from the truck and ran after her looking for the threat.
Has anyone seen Unplanned yet? I’m wondering if it’s a decent movie or a typical over the top Christian movie.
From what I’ve been reading, they avoided the preachy end of Christian movies.
Same. I’m still trying to decide if I want to see it.
Twitter, because it’s a venal, petty, squalid little shithole, is doing its best to silence any fervor over the movie.
It backfired bigtime. They now have more followers than Planned Parenthood.
Will probably stream this eventually – still need to catch up on Gosnell myself. Talk about your media blackouts.
I had planned on going to see it last weekend. Had all the bases covered. Then something came up and I had to abort the mission
BTW I was in my driveway just about to pull out when I had to abort.
My bowling team name was the Pull Out Method, our slogan was “we’re effective 80% of the time”
Toys!
I got these in the mail today
https://lokgrips.com/gun-grips/cz/cz-shadow-2/palm-swell/bogies/cz-shadow-2-palm-swell-bogies-blue/
I only put the one on the side for my shooting hand (I’ve only got one palm in contact with the gun after all), and it’s like I’m goddamned Spider Man.
The color is not nearly as bright as my monitor makes them out to be, but still kind of crayola-colored. Whatchagonnado? They’re G10.
Srsly, how many pairs of shoes does one gun need?
These shoes actually make the gun seem lighter somehow. I’m guessing it’s because I’m not having to work as much to keep it still. Before to really lock it down, I was having to be very deliberate about getting the backstrap between the muscle groups and applying a lot of pressure both in and back with my support hand. Now, I can keep it immobile just using the two lower fingers on the sooting hand, like I was holding a sword.
Uh, ok.
Canadian grips he says?
Actually those are pretty nice!
Mini rant: One of the officer level people at the firm I work at submitted a VERY URGENT REQUEST to me over the weekend. He wanted to know where some old project data was stored so he could use it to compile a SUPER DUPER IMPORTANT PROPOSAL. The request arrived to my inbox at 6:30 in the morning on a Saturday morning, and I was able to dig up the location remotely and provide it to him within an hour while sitting in a Home Depot parking lot waiting to start on a personal, labor intensive weekend project. After that…silence. No thanks, no acknowledgement, nothing. The tone for what I had hoped would be an enjoyable weekend was now set. This is the same asshole that has an acute tendency to get irate at low level support staff over problems caused by stupid decisions made by upper management. Why am I telling you this? It’s because dickhead extraordinaire here has adopted corporate wokeness as one of his guiding principles. Every so often you can catch him yammering on about how there should be more social justice initiatives or whatever the fuck idiotic idea gets stuck bouncing around in his empty skull for a fleeting moment. This week I took a look at a pinup board that’s been sitting in one of our common areas all of last month to commemorate International Women’s Month. I normally avoid entertaining such brainless virtue signaling as it is far too frequent of an occurrence at my workplace, but this time I took a peek as it was propped up right next to the coffee machine. It featured portraits and mini-bios of the usual feminist heavy hitters like Angela Merkel, Michelle Obama, Marie Curie and…wait, who’s this? Well, it’s none other than the aforementioned halfwit’s own teenage daughters being proclaimed pillars of their community with no explanation given. I was very tempted to cobble together a bio of Elizabeth Bathory to pin up right next to theirs, but my better angels managed to grab the wheel. Where the fuck do people like this come from?
That’s pretty awful. However, it definitely fits my biases about egotistical SJWs driving corporate wokeness. The corporate wokeness is getting out of hand. No, I don’t need 4 emails a day about women’s month. No, I don’t need implicit bias training. No, I don’t need to receive a biweekly inclusion and diversity newsletter bitching about how I don’t attend the monthly diversity and inclusion roundtable. Let me do my work and pay me a fucking salary. Leave the preaching for the pulpit.
Good read on the topic
And the long march through the institutions continues apace.
Leave the preaching for the pulpit
I always wonder how many of them are such miserable people that their non-work life is empty of friends and companions. Who wants to hang out with assholes voluntarily?
So they look at work as a great place because they can force people to sit and listen to them.
To be fair, we all hang out here.
But you’re all Tulpa, so the only asshole here is me. Wait…
Amen.
One of the more insidious parts is it minimizes actual accomplishment and substitutes identity. See Marie Curie above. Same with an exec at our company who has an interesting & impressive record, whether she was a woman or a man, but instead gets relegated to the woman’s month.
I wonder if some industries are more woke than others. My ex-company (finance, ~7500 employees) had none of this; I mean, nothing beyond the occasional web training exercise that everybody made fun of.
It’s even department by department. I’ve worked at 3 large tech companies, and the wokeness of legal is off the charts compared to engineering. Granted, much of the corporate wokeness seems to have sprung up while I was in law school, so it may not be an apples to apples comparison.
Yeah, we engineers are a practical bunch bent on provable facts.
But there’s something wrong with us, you see, not them.
We also have to come up with something that works. HR can never “work”.
This.
There seem to be whole career paths built around changing shit for no apparent reason.
Yeah – “management”.
Yeah. When I say “everybody” I mean my colleagues in IT – we generally don’t have any patience for stupid shit like that. I don’t really talk to any other departments except for work issues of course.
Completely random thought….
What’s the minimum est mass required for a shaped, guided carbon rod dropped from about 80k feet to cause catastrophic damage to say….a semi truck/trailer? Just bouncing some ideas…
I have… no idea. *slowly backs away*
What is the “catastrophic” damage you’re looking for? Knowing the desired kinetic energy you want on target is important.
Don’t know what you’re working on, but being able to dispense fragments just before impact is helpful. Would need some high explosive content though, but not much.
If you’re going to just drop the rod, better aim for something vital on the vehicle.
Velocitas Eradico
So if you just let it drop free fall, it will take 70.5 seconds to travel 80k feet (ignoring friction). Terminal velocity will be 691.6m/s (2269 ft/sec).
Kinetic energy is 1/2 mass times velocity squared.
So solve for mass by 2x the desired kinetic energy divided by 691.6 m/s squared and you’ll get your answer in kilograms.
A stick of dynamite is about one megajoule of energy. So I randomly picked 5megajoules and got 20kg as an answer.
I recommend tungsten.
If anyone here was going to (seriously) answer that question I knew it would be you.
Oops. If the question was a joke, it went right over my head. Or apparently through my heard from the top down 😛 at 691.6 m/s.
This topic has nothing to do with my job at all. (Clears throat and fades away with Rhywun)…
I assumed it was a joke. Either that or LT_Fish is a Bond villain.
Maybe he’s going after a road runner?
Everyone knows ACME tungsten is the best tungsten!
Thanks for the calculations. Just some random thoughts for the future…options, alternatives, wargaming, etc. Heard some outside the box thinking from one party and thought I’d take it a bit further.
LT, you’re still up? Wait–are you even State-side, or just up early (or, whatevs)?
Excellent work
Why thank you. Now we just have to drop them from weather balloons because 80k feet is waaaay up there.
I’m already ahead of you
Take a really deep breath before launch!
Wear clean underwear!
Whale Oil has nothing on Whale Milk.
Hayeksplosives is awesome. That is all.
It is known.
I didn’t know I could still blush, but you guys managed to make me do so!
Is this for something fictional you’re working on or is the Navy looking for an alternative to rail guns?
Mass destruction of supply convoys from space?
It’s been thought of. “Orbital bombardment systems with conventional warheads are permitted under the terms of SALT II. Some of the proposed systems rely on large tungsten carbide/uranium cermet rods dropped from orbit and depend on kinetic energy, rather than explosives, but their mass makes them prohibitively difficult to transport to orbit.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_weapon?wprov=sfla1
Just need to build the space elevator first.
Nah, Elon will have cheap transport of the rods up there in no time.
Unfortunately India might have inadvertently set us up for this already by blowing up one of their own satellites as a show of strength. But it broke into 44 fragments, some of which went in orbit ABOVE the ISS, so they could conceivably strike it on their decay back to Earth.
So we just need to take a trash compactor up to orbit and pick up all the shit that is already there. Two birds; one stone.
A FOAF was working on pushing space debris out of the way with lasers. That’s some futuristic shit right there.
Space junk is becoming a big problem. We’re looking at all kinds of things to either destroy it outright or push it down into the atmosphere to burn on re entry.
The Russkies on the other hand, launch satellites that sneak up on other satellites and either jam their comms or physically shove them off orbit.
There’s an autonomous mini shuttle circling the planet for a year and a half at a time. Hmm, wonder what it could be doing…
Back in 1975, Jerry Pournelle described something like what you imagined. http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=1582
My first husband got me onto pournelle. Liked most of it, but it got formulaic.
For some reason this discussion caused this to pop into my head.
https://youtu.be/vxsPLXX1QLI
OMG never saw it. Hilarious.
That series is, often, gold. I adore it.
“I don’t care for your tone, Karen.”
Ah! A comedy call-back from up thread to boot!
Lol.
Wow
Orbital kinetic weapons – This isnt something you can call up on an instants notice. Slingshot the damned thing around the moon and get it up to meteor speeds…17-20K fps(average).
If you are going to use something like that then dont fuck around. Go whole hog.
All options are on the table. 😉
I simply answered the question that was asked.
Just no
https://youtu.be/t433PEQGErc
Really? I mean, to each his/her own, but I’m intrigued.
Hey guys I haven’t been open to you about this, but I’ve been building up the strength to say this so…oh boy here it goes:
Over the past 2 years I have suffered from chronic masturbation syndrome (CMS). Every morning I wake up and beat my meat at least 6 times in a row and every night I slaughter my sausage until 3 in the morning. At my worst points, I can’t hold back my crying, but it’s like I can’t stop myself, so I cry as I masturbate in the dark. It’s gotten so bad that my mom cries herself to sleep every night knowing I suffer this way. I don’t even clean up anymore, so my bed is drenched with penis juice. Some even got into the carpet. My porn history keeps getting worse. It’s not even vanilla stuff anymore. I’ve started jacking off Shadman hentai on 8chan. You can’t even find pornhub a million lines down my history. It’s so bad, a well curved Prius turns me on. And the worst part is: I have lost so much skin on my dick that it’s infected with gangrene, I think. My dick actively goes limp when I grab it. My body rejects, but I can’t stop. There’s no stopping in sight. There’s no future for me.
Help.
Just the last 2 years? Huh.
What
BrockSlumbrew said. I’m really skeptical of the time frame.Are these things not normal?
Get a grip, MAN!
A favorite!
Heh nice
youtube.com/watch?v=2CoS5MrRGO4
Ummm I don’t even know how to respond to this. Maybe ask your doctor for some Clindamycin lotion to take care of the gangrene while also providing lubrication…
Step away from the Japanese car commercials.
Well you should be getting plenty of blood supply so probably not gangrene. You may be developing a mutant super dick which is good. I think you should cash out your retriement savings and spend it on escorts to give you oral. Go to oral until you feel well enough to go back to constant masterbation, switch back and forth as necessary. As far as porn goes, you just need to push yourself, you CAN go further. Have you tried speedballs along with erotic asphyxiation? Also, get one of those vibrating tongues for your ass, that should help you cum faster and reduce wear and tear. Must importantly, stay hydrated.
And they say it’s impossible to get good advice on the internet.
My pancreatic cancer plan is to liquidate everything and head down to that Sex Island off the coast of Colombia for a bender of hookers, viagra, and ayahuasca until either the cancer or brain aneurysm takes me.
What’s your pancreatic cancer plan?
That sounds like a solid plan, minus the ayahuasca. I can’t imagine that much self-reflection would be… healthy? in your case. Or my case. Really, I’m not sure any of us should do that.
It is the way of my people.
The mulattos or the sexual deviants?
Which book of the Torah is that in?
You know they can remove your pancreas now. You should still do the trip, but have your pancreas removed first.
There’s a future for you. Google “One armed man”.
Hey Chafed, do you know my e-mail? I’ve got something I want an opinion on, I’d ask Digby, but he’s been late the last few nights.
I mean, I have your e-mail from patreon, just look out for an e-mail with my handle in it, it might go in your spam.
Will do.
Or, maybe–just maybe–you’ve been early…?
C’mon, I gotta work, and there’s so many damnable early posts I gotta work my way through.
I can’t help it if I find you lot interesting, and want to see what clever things you say.
/I actually managed to type that without laughing my ass off
Paranoia is coming to get me.
Did they release anything else or are they a one hit wonder?
I don’t know.
After watching this I know what I need, makes me feel like Q. I probably need a shower now.
She was dope, but all I remember Bitch, not that track.
I gave that album many listens, but I’ll admit it was spurred on by the videos not as much the music.
I’m pretty sure I owned that CD, but it looks like I didn’t bother ripping it.
Aimee Mann was more my jam at that time – and even still.
The song was so slow and it said ‘I’m with Stupid’ in the picture, so I just wanted to listen to Static-X
That’s about the slowest song on a slow album. Not sure anything will really be to your liking, but maybe Choice In The Matter, or maybe the “hit” from that album, That’s Just What You Are.
De gustibus, just not in a headbanging mood.
I can tolerate a slow dong from a band I like, but it has to be earned and catchy.
Dust for Life was a Rock band, but the last song on their first album came to mind from the country music talk above.
Their big song was Step Into the Light, if you were wondering.
Probably already been posted, but for you metalheads out there, Sabaton announced a new album yesterday.
I’ve seen man ‘Huzzah’s recently. That’s how I respond to SF posts, did I start something, or did I join something?
I meant to say ‘many ‘Huzzahs” didn’t mean to be sexist.
It seems to work with monocles, top hats, spats, and orphans.
I would hope those work on womyn’s Huzzahs
OK, maybe not the orphans…..
/They can watch
Excelsior!!
Well, since it seems everyone has buggered off, I’m going to presume that it’s because you’re all getting well-deserved sleep (Hayeksplosives? Baked Penguin? I’m looking at you…)
Ha HA! You are wrong, pitiable fool. I’m wide awake to defeat your dastardly plan against humanity!
“He didn’t count on me: Lemming. Arthur Lemming, of the British Dental Association.”
/I’ll be damned, but I can’t find that whole sketch online.
That’s okay, well remembered from many nights in my teens.
The only use for PBS, IMHO – prior to the advent of streaming. Monty Python was great until its’ 6th season, which we can avoid speaking of.
“6th season”
6? I am only aware of them doing four, when Cleese left, mostly.
Otherwise, my dvd set is missing some shit.
Point taken about MP/PBS.
I did discover more Brit stuff once I started watching, though
The DFW station loves to brag about being the station that brought Flying Circus to the states. So, I got that going for where I live.
That, and the whole Kennedy thing.
/not her…him!
Looks like you’re right, if Wikipedia is to be believed (and it’s a non-political issue, so probably). OK, their last few shows sucked.
The Kennedy comment is kinda ..uh…spicy, even for me.Let me diffuse this with my mighty powers of Internets.
Huzzah!
Smoking, even!
And yes, I do mean her.
/didn’t realize until after….too soon?
I’m not bothered. Kennedy is a hot, libertarian woman. *clears throat*
Yes, that tends to happen quite a bit with ladies who even nominally espouse liberty/freedom. (lucky us!)
Also, teachers. But that’s a whole different issue.
Yeah, have you seen Liberty Doll? https://www.youtube.com/user/libertydollshouse
or Blonde? https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpbyOgUSjTSPpvVUAT2OyHw
The ‘right’ gets fewer wamen, but they definitely seem to be higher quality. The awesomeness of the ones around here are proof for me.
Yes, we have some outstanding sheilas here. Crikey! (couldn’t resist)
I think I’ve seen Blonde recently, but wasn’t aware of her.
Liberty Doll is new, so, thank you for the direction!
Ugh.. aware = familiar.
And, “new to me”.
Also, Lauren Chen, Lauren Southern… etc.
I like Southern a bit, but, she’s either getting a really bum rap by others (go figure, but I do mean REALLY), or she dances closer to alt-right than I am fully comfortable with. Granted, I haven’t watched a lot of her, and everyone will eventually have some “Gotcha” moments.
/no true libertarian, and all that
I will definitely check out their channels.
I’ll grant your point about L Southern – she’s definitely not libertarian, but she’s 1) hot, and 2) usually worth listening to. I’m dubious about her being truly alt-right. (Note: I could be wrong/ open to evidence, etc.) Still, I understand where you’re coming from.
IIRC, Lauren Chen and Blonde were both libertarians before moving to more traditional conservative positions. I think immigration (specifically illegal immigration) was a big issue for both of them. They’re also both really hot, and they have good ideas
I often enjoy the live podcast by Blonde and Matt Christiansen – Beauty & The Beta. Blonde seems, to my mind anyway, to harbor some smoldering Jew
hatreddislike that seeps out occasionally in her commentary. Not outright animus a la Minister Farrakhan but more some good old fashioned Bircher style fear of a shadowy cabal of Red Sea Pedestrians.I haven’t noticed that, although I have heard her say that she doesn’t care for Ben Shapiro.
I could quite easily be misreading her; I am, admittedly, sensitive to that sort of thing. And to be fair, there are any number of reasons to dislike Shapiro.
I like the little putz. I generally prefer to see him argue vs other…what, pundits? He seems to have a pretty good sense of humor, which usually makes him worlds more tolerable than his opponents.
“He seems to have a pretty good sense of humor, which usually makes him worlds more tolerable than his opponents.”
Second.
Matt, I’m somewhat familiar with. He seems very level-headed and consistently freedom-oriented. He’s also got a relatively soothing speaking voice–I fear ever seeing him lose his shit, presuming it happens.
The (((animus))), presuming you’re reading it right (why wouldn’t you be?) is a downer. I would cut her slack if it’s a matter of it only being about the Left-side in the Jewish culture, but, she should be careful to point out that it’s about political behavior, and not ethnicity.
Matt’s voice is creamy dreamy and was what initially drew me in. I dig Tim Pool as well but his voice gets annoying after a few minutes. Radio voice is something that must be cultivated and practiced.
I’ve only heard him on a few videos. I thought I was pretty sensitive to voice, but, I never noticed anything about his.
Now, I’m gonna be listening for it when I see him.
Yeah….::sigh:: Dammit
I’ve seen Beauty & the Beta for a while now. I’d generally agree with Sir Digby’s assessment. Matt is a calm guy, and fairly libertarian in most respects. (I’d vote for him over Weld in a second).
The only problem I have with ‘ she should be careful to point out that it’s about political behavior, and not ethnicity.’ is that it buys into the PC narrative that we all have to explain our views to specifically rule out racism as the cause. Is this where we are, current year? Racism is fucked up, but do we have to point it out over and over and over again? At some point, it really seems like apologia to the leftist narrative.
Hmmm…never thought of it that way. I think that if you are pointing to an ethnic group (I say it’s ethnicity and /or culture, as opposed to race) multiple times, it helps to re-assure an audience that the gripe is with a behavior or idea, as opposed to it being an inherent quality.
I don’t think it ought to be done over and over. No, that IS FDS territory (Fuck Dat Shit). So, no, I don’t mean to suggest that every complaint she makes be tagged with a disclaimer, per se. Just that, if she hasn’t made it clear (it seems to be on some radars), she should clarify.
If she just doesn’t like Jews, she should also be clear about that, too.
Sir Digby, can you point out some relevant examples? I’m willing to listen to evidence.
I should’ve included l0b0t in this narrative. L0b0t,if you could provide some examples, it’d be real helpful.
Unsolicited opinion – The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers stands as one of the 5 best comic titles in the world.
Good series. Way back when I smoked weed, fun to read, too.
+1 Here’s your pound of weed, sorry, no baggies!
“Fat Freddy, take our last $40 and score a lid. And don’t get burned this time!”
“Score a lid” ha ha ha.I’ll take phrases that haven’t been used in the last decade, Alex.
That said, Ive said that in my lifetime…uh… but not in any time soon. Statute of limitations long since passed.
Just in case anyone out there was wondering.
I have scored a 5 finger lid of Colombian gold before and I had a few trips on Mr. Natural acid. Obviously, the statute of limitations has run out.
Dude, dude, respect.
Is that a chainsaw in your pants or are you just happy to see me?
https://abc30.com/video-man-walks-out-of-store-with-chainsaw-hidden-beneath-his-clothes/5233179/
It takes more than petty larceny to Rev my engine.