Hey guys, my car parts just arrived, so I’m gonna go try to fix more than I break. Have a great afternoon.
Is stealing your wife’s press secretary like sleeping with her cousin?
It seems the climate change is unevenly distributed. Is Al Gore in town?
When Florida Man says he loves children, he means like OMWC
You’d think the Germans would have tried this already.
I wish this was true. I got all sweaty just taking it apart.
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Extra snow = global warming
Climate Chaos!
That’s CAPTAIN Climate Chaos. He and his son both did good work.
HOMER: Gee, Lisa, looks like tomorrow, I’ll be shoveling 10 feet of global warming.
LISA SIMPSON: Global warming can cause weather at both extremes, hot and cold.
HOMER SIMPSON: I see. So you’re saying warming makes it colder. Well, aren’t you the queen of crazy land! Everything’s the opposite of everything!
(Homer dances, twirling and waving his arms.)
HOMER (singing): La de da de da. I’m Lisa Simpson! La de da de da!
LISA (muttering): Really? Really?
I nearly forgot…..turn it to 11 and HIT THAT ISH
FYI – I also had a “summer solstace dump” but it didn’t make the news.
Fun story:
The first time I went to Argentina for grad school, I, for some reason, got wickedly blocked up (opposite of what you might think).
Well, after 8 days (!), I was feeling very much not well and got some industrial strength Latin American Ex-Lax then went back to my cabin to watch House MD on my computer. The results were epic requiring 4 intermediate flushes to prevent clogging. It was better than at least 50% of the sex I’ve ever had.
I then went out and got drunk to celebrate.
Pro tip, next time you are backed up and you think the problem is about to solve itself, weigh yourself before and after. Then tell your 10 year old kid about it over dinner. He’ll think you are a God and you won’t need to listen to your wife talk to you for 12 hours.
I highly recommend Jack In The Box’s “bacon ultimate cheeseburger” the next time you’re in this situation. It’s delicious, and a few hours later your bowels will empty in such a way that only SugarFree could adequately describe it.
“Like being ridden by the loa of a dark voodoo god,” perhaps?
Stinky brown raisins the size of softballs.
When you want to empty your bowels, just do a colonoscopy prep. I refuse to get another colonoscopy.
Dave Barry wrote the best column ever about getting a colonoscopy. .
I compare it to an inverted Mt. Vesuvius eruption.
While volcanoes are larger than the shuttle and accordingly spew a greater volume of material, I think the shuttle wins in terms of violence-discharge density and duration.
I did levitate.
Scientific Consensus!
Every “blessed event” I have is like that. What’s the big deal? It’s basically Tuesday with IBS-D. :-/
It’s not a compootition.
{golf clap}
8 days? Holy shit.
Ok, maybe not holy shit. That would 40 days, but still.
“And on the 40th day, a dove alighted upon a crest in the ocean of feces, holding a roll of TP in its beak.”
Chanukah is 8 days, and they don’t have Lent.
(((Holy))) Shit, then?
OK, so I guess he’s Jewish.
So on Chanukah, you won’t Lent a guy a roll of TP?
I also had a “summer solstice dump” but it didn’t make the news.
A regular morning occurrence for me, which I refer to as the “blessed event.”
Is stealing your wife’s press secretary like sleeping with her cousin?
Marty Brodeur slept with his sister-in-law.
Hence the ol’ MSG chant of “Uncle Daddy”
Alpha AF.
In Grad school I met a guy who had married into a wealthy family where he was from in Mexico. After a number of drinks he admitted that a major reason why he was in grad school in the US was to get away from the large estate where he was living with his wife and her extended family – because he had been boning 4 or 5 of his in-laws and didn’t know when it was all going to come crashing down.
The beauty of “climate change” is that the claims are so vague and unfalsifiable that literally anything, including weather staying exactly the same, is evidence of its existence.
Totes not a cult.
Totes the Cult.
it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.
“trans friends” “are already looking beyond” “hold negative” “silver lining” “solution” “where society currently stands with respect to including” “progress” “this research underscores the consequences of shared societal prejudices that impact our trans friends, partners, family members, and coworkers”
Psychology is a cesspit. Could you imagine an author doing a possitive study in the hard sciences using this kind of normative language to describe their results?
Cool threading, bro. :-p
Damnit
Well, no. The results of the hard sciences rarely have policy implications as well, as much as “climate scientists” want them too. Whereas the natural sciences developed the application of empirical methodology to natural philosophy, the social sciences developed from the application of empiricism to moral philosophy (aka ethics). A major pillar of ethics is the study of normative ethics, as such, rightly or wrongly, you would see this concern rub off on the methodology of the social sciences – because the hallmark of the social sciences is the empirical study of people (individually or in aggregate).
Now, do not mistake this for an endorsement of the social sciences, quite the opposite. Because prescriptivism is baked into the very essence of the field, the collective output of the entire enterprise should be taken cautiously: when the results support our preconceived notions of how life is just as much as when they don’t.
So you endorse antisocial science? 😉
No. Social Anti-Science.
Best career move possible.
*golf clap*
Now that’s how you select a song for PM lynx.
Dang.
This was the first CD I ever purchased (the single). 6 years prior to owning a player. Hemi on the cover, Ministry, and Gibby.
Stolen from one of the video comments,…
I don’t always listen to Ministry…but when I do, so do my neighbors.
My office mates seemed to like it.
The spiritual predecessor Ram Jam has similar comments.
My neighbours called the police on me because I played this too quietly.
My wife didn’t believe me when I told her they started out as a pop synth band.
One of natures great jokes.
Back in the days mimicking British accent was a thing
England Dan agrees.
It was interesting to listen to the early days, (the faux British accent).
Then there was the 10000 Homo DJs with Reznor during the early years.
cover of Supernaut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xjho-zVgDXo
Heh I had no idea that was a cover. Probably danced to it a million times back in the day.
Homo?
HATE SPEECH!
Heroin is a helluva drug. Saw Ministry last year. There’s not much left of Al at this point.
I only saw these guys live once, and it was great. It was an outdoor show with a south-facing stage. They went on right at dusk, and the whol sky was blood red and yellow. A thunder-storm rolled in from the west to the north of the stage. Everything around us was dark, the rain came down in big heavy drops that stung your skin, the hill we were on turned into a mud pit, and the band played infront of Mother Nature’s light show that was better than any pyro created by human hands.
It felt like a concernt in Hell. The mosh pit (what up 1990’s) was as close to a riot as I’ve ever seen, with people sliding down the hill at high speed into the pit, lightinging strobing us, etc. It was a sea of blood, mud, sick bass, distorted vocals, and Doc’s.
The 1992 Lollipaloza I saw them at was one of the most vicious outdoor pits I’ve ever experienced.
Amateurs are the worst. Most fucked up I ever got in a pit was at a They Might Be Giants show…
What do you call a group of 20 women sitting quietly in a circle waiting for their periods to synchronize?
A Lilith Fair most pit.
MOSH
FUCKING AUTOCORRECT
Damn your nimble fingers, which you should be using to fondle tittays!
‘Moist’ would have been funnier.
Most what, damn auto-correct? 😉
Gibby is awesome. It always cracks me up that a)he played college basketball b)was an accountant.
Al Jourgenson is, in many ways, a complete jackass, but he did create some great songs. Just One Fix and NWO are in my regular rotation.
Best live set I have seen in my entire life was Ministry in Cleveland at Lolapalooza in 1992. They brought the fucking house down.
Shocking news from the world of science: the vast majority of heterosexual men and women are not sexually attracted to individuals possessing the same sexual organs as them. What could possibly explain this?
some -ism, I’m sure…
Penis envy?
Anti-trans bias ingrained in our society?
The patriarchy is stronger than we expected. We must redouble our efforts, comrade.
What could possibly explain this?
Election of Donald Trump, obviously.
A river in Egypt according to some.
Transphobia.
Everything’s a damned phobia now. I’m not afraid of chicks with dicks. I just don’t want to fuck them.
Then you’re just a hater with false consciousness and toxic male whiteness. You’re also probably a closet case who can’t get it up because you are too ashamed to admit that you actually want to get anally railed by a BBC tranny porn star.
And you’re a racist.
And an untermensch.
Off to the oven.
I’d figure the tranny porn stars are on Deutsche Welle, not BBC.
Ow, I just broke the narrower on my gaze.
No such thing as chicks with dicks; just dudes with tits.
No such thing as chicks with dicks
Oh, yeah?
NSFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And did I mention, NSFW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The dipshits tying themselves in knots to explain it away are aneurism bursting.
Tell me about it. There’s one that prattled on that “bu-but if you were attracted to someone you didn’t know was trans and then not attracted once you found out they were, then you’re a bigot!”
Which is absurd. Yes, there are men who can pull off a fairly convincing female disguise. Congrats to them. They still lack a vagina. They can chop off their equipment and have a doctor carve out some misshapen knockoff (and most of them don’t even do that anyway), but it’s still fugazi. Sorry, I’m not interested.
Why is it that trying to talk a gay man into going for girls is considered hateful, but trying to talk a straight man into liking dick is stunning and brave and woke?
Don’t underestimate the meme in Trump’s personality cult that progessives are progressing towards Christian hetero white males being re-educated/genocided/whatever
Umm, its not impossible for a man’s interest in an actual woman to take a nosedive once the makeup comes off and you can see how much of a favor her clothes were doing her.
Don’t care that he’s a guy. Would totally do Lauren Southern.
I met her in a club down in North Soho….
The one with the shitty champagne?
Is that the place that has champagne that tastes just like cherry cola?
“He walks like a puppet but types like a man”
Rufus…roo roo roo a roooofus ♫♪♪
woah, slow down their chief with this individual freedom stuff, someone is going to get some crazy thoughts in their head.
Don’t worry, in literally the next line, the author makes statements concerning whom an individual should date or consider dating.
I had never thought about it this way, but as some people mentioned in the replies, how is this point of view any different than incel creeps who are enraged because they feel entitled to have women have sex with them?
Ah, you see, straight men = bad, trans=good. That’s why the author loaded up her article with all the possitive language to discuss her normative study. The purpose isn’t to illuminate, its to coordinate the tribe of people to which the author already belongs.
Every culture favors some socials roles and castigates others. Right now, its time to castigate white males. I’m sure in 25 years, it will be some other group.
In realworldland it’s not.
In crazynutbagwokeland it’s completely different because incels are toxic subhuman males and trannies are wokified heroes fighting on the front lines of the Glorious Revolution.
That allegedly heterosexual men and women are not sexually attracted to that subset of the opposite gender is even more proof of climate change (unless The Guardian (UK), in which case, substitute climate emergency for climate change). /sarc, jk, whatever
“The Marines are looking for a few good men…
and so is the Navy… but mostly on Saturday night in Olongapo
Good luck with your truck. Don’t forget to pay the blood & tool sacrifice.
Oh, that will happen whether he wills or no.
I keep a suture kit in my toolbox.
*drops gloves*
Are you an edc’er?
Who isn’t?
This guy gets it.
True story: I was changing an oil pan and didn’t cut myself and it leaked. Took it off and reinstalled, cut myself and no leak. That’s science.
I read that as “blood and stool”
That’s the last article, bruv.
The new motto of German scheisseporn Nazis.
Us soft handed mechanics can’t help but pay that toll.
From the gut article:
Post-marathon, Veillonella genus bacteria increased substantially compared to other bacteria in the competitors’ guts, they found. The natural function of this bug is to break down lactic acid,-
Seems to me this is just a bacterial response to activity. I don’t really see how that is worth noting.
That was my thought too. A bacteria that thrives on lactic acid is more prevalent after an activity that generates tons of it…really?
Yeah, but we should have HM eat some atheletic ass just to be on the safe side.
That was going to happen anyway.
A culture of HM’s mouth shows an increase in coliform bacteria.
I use Listerine!
It should be noted that you failed to mention the where and the how of your use of it. Given your demonstrated interest in fetishes, one cannot assume that that you aren’t using listerine for an off-label purpose.
I just assumed he misspelled “Listeria”. Fire with Fire etc.
Because writers at CNN do not know how to write and the editors did not fix this. What should have been the money quote: “Treadmill tests showed this bacteria-enhanced diet boosted the animals’ performance by 13% compared to mice not given Veillonella. “
https://twitter.com/PDRennert/status/1143298929682989056
I can’t remember who asked for my opinion on the SW shield 380 EZ, but I got a chance to shoot it last weekend and am very impressed. It only needed minimal break in and then fired without incident 10 different types of ammo including cheap blazer and tulammo. Really easy for my wife to manipulate and pleasant to shoot. Definitely worth considering for people with hand strength concerns that don’t want to go the revolver route.
Mama like it?
Totally. I got a dozen different brands of ammo so I can see which is most accurate then I’m going to buy her a case.
That thing kicks ass.
PS: “Really easy for my wife to manipulate and pleasant to shoot”
Which “pistol” are we talking about here?
It can be both. ?
Maybe me? In any case, appreciate the mini review. I’ve fallen in love with mouse guns. I’d love one of these to come home with me:
http://www.usarmamentcorp.com/manufactured-products/colt-1903-pocket-pistol///
I believe it was, but couldn’t remember. I like that colt. Very classy.
Baby wants a diamond ring.
Love don’t come for free
This diamond ring?
My first 45
Enjoying Titty Tuesday proves you are a transphobic bigot.
http://archive.is/zqF9C
Guilty as charged.
OT: Anyone here going to FreedomFest this year? “JULY 17-20, 2019 | LAS VEGAS”
Sheri’s Ranch isn’t far away.
The Chicken Ranch claims it “is the closest brothel to Las Vegas.” The Love Ranch Vegas is also reasonably close.
Sorry, Vegas is an April thing for me. And possibly Memorial Day Weekend in future years.
Nothing shocking, but the % incarcerated chart is handy.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/boomers-are-blame-aging-america/592336/
Travel today, interview tomorrow. Currently in Detroit airport.
Detroit? Our prayers are with you man. Hope you make it through your time of trials.
Just a layover, but still.
ATL on the way back tomorrow, which is better, I guess.
Atlanta can be a nightmare. Sometimes you’re connecting from one far end to the other. Trams, running, barely time for a bathroom break.
And the customer service is the about pits.
The Detroit airport is the best feature of the city. They do a nice job there.
I have seen a 4 gate range, but it seems nice, as airports go.
Flying home from Okinawa in 2004, my connection got cancelled so I was stuck in the Detroit airport for 9 hours, which led to me getting gloriously drunk.
Still a Northwest terminal back then?
When I was in the service, I would often get stranded in MSP for the night because a delay would make me miss the connecting flight to Fargo.
The good news is that MSP had a kickass Servicemen’s Center. They had a decent spread of food you could get there and actual bunks that you could sleep on during the night.
For some reason, the flights to and from Tampa go in and out of the gates on the end. Although that changed after the 737 Max debacle. Probably because fewer planes.
He looked a lot like Che Guevara, drove a diesel van…
Saw the new PresSec from a different angle; baby got boobs.
Also:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2019/06/google-executives-go-into-hiding-and-delete-their-social-media-accounts-after-james-okeefes-latest-expose/
I don’t know why they would bother, it’s not like any “mainstream” outlet is gonna cover it anyway.
Diamond and Silk should have become joint Press Secretary for The Donald.
Would have been epic.
I will actually miss Sarah a bit. I always enjoy seeing smug reporters smacked down.
The well-deserved contempt she obviously had for the White House Press Corp was entertaining indeed.
SLD on campaign finance law, but holy shit that looks like a massive in-kind contribution to the Dems.
Yeah, when it’s corporate policy to run what amounts to advertising for only one side, that strikes me as campaigning. It’s not longer individuals in an individual capacity, but more PAC-like. I would think that their Legal is careful about this, but otoh, it’s also obvious their corporate is convinced of their own righteousness and doesn’t give a damn about anyone’s beliefs but their own. I would bet the law has not caught up to digital media in this, and thus they’d be safe, but I also know if I was at DoJ or in Congress and looking to find a lever, I would be looking at that one.
“baby got boobs.”
These are the important takes that I come for
“Head of Responsible Innovation”
I guess that’s like “Ministry of Truth?”
And here I thought sex toys were determined by your equipment, regardless of how you “identify”.
https://www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a27972213/sex-toys-trans-gnc-folx/
Don’t worry, I’ll see myself over to the re-education camp.
Adopt whatever identity you want, it won’t make your anus disappear.
Well, that went to a dark place.
*applause*
Don’t worry, we’ll be evacuated soon enough.
What if they pile on?
Gawd this place is a dump.
Years ago, Gabe from Penny Arcade was hounded by the goodthinkers because he didn’t understand why “how to use sex toys for women” class was controversial and not inclusive, and his crime was to utter the phrase “all women have a vagina.”
Remember “dick wolves”?
“Folx”? Oh go fuck yourself
I was more puzzled why idiots who went to the overpriced “health” food store in the mall had different tastes in sex toys.
The Fleshlights for enlarged clitorises intrigue SugarFree.
*makes mental note not to read the next SF story*
Yeah, yeah, you know you’ll read it anyway.
It’s true! *SOB*
Sometimes, I just need a good laugh
My 1st exposure to anything trans was the 90s song The Sweater.
That was a pretty funny album. I didn’t know she went he.
+1 addadictomy
Not Phranc?
Shocking news from the world of science: the vast majority of heterosexual men and women are not sexually attracted to individuals possessing the same sexual organs as them. What could possibly explain this?
Baseless prejudice. Bigotry. hate.
I blame it all on them teaching magnets in 2nd grade. Bright, impressionable kids are taught that like repels like. Stupid kids just learn to love ICP music.
Hey guys, my car parts just arrived,
This is a lie. We all know they are dildos. And the scary kind, too.
They can serve as either, with correct lube applied.
Complete with receipt, Austin Powers at the airport style?
Yes. Brett is a paid spokesman for Big Scary Dildo Inc.
I hear Big Scary Dildos are his bag, baby.
Black dildos with the thing that goes up…your butt?
Ahh, the ol’ cam shaft.
Remember the time Brett was on the news?
When he tells you you have a nice muffler…
Brett’s Limey cousin NSFW
*You know what it is, but you will click anyhow.
I didn’t realize Brett had that much hair.
He uses his back hair for a comb-over.
1000 is too many. I’m not a whore.
So the Hoover Dam might fill back up next year…?
I’m sure California can find a way to use all that water before it backs up.
It will all be diverted before it hits Lake Mead
California will probably dump all that fresh water into the ocean. For Gaia. And social justice.
But not the Gulf of California. Wherever it’d cost the most, in dollars and carbon output, to ship it to. Via chartered jets. But not the chartered jets carrying delegates to the Save The Gulf of California summit, additional chartered jets.
Ooooooh, I like it. They should use bizjets. Billions and billions of flights of nothing but bizjets. For Gaia. And social justice.
Followed by declaring next year a Megadrought.
If sex with a minor is against the law, why isn’t Sissy Spacek (and for that matter a shit ton of WV wives) in jail?
Sources familiar with Trump’s thinking say the Orange Man is going to have Hail to the Chief replaced with this.
I will only accept this
https://youtu.be/pWOTg3LYFNI
My friend: hey Tulip, how’s the online dating going?
Me: I’ll show you
***opens laptop***
heyy baby wanna hookup? Hi Heyy! Wannafud
Wannafudwannafudwaannnaaffuuddwannafud
****slams laptop shut*****
Friend: eep
JFC I’m a dumpy 50! I can’t imagine what 25 yr olds face
I have a buddy (52 now) who goes through dating sites like a hot knife through butter. His secret is that he has never been married and is moderately successful financially. All the women in their early 30’s who just had their first divorce and are looking for Dad #2 for their kids see his profile and throw themselves at him.
It is amazing watching how many women he “dates” from those online sites. Of course he has the advantage of a) having no morals and b) no problem loving ugly women too.
https://pics.me.me/this-yoga-position-is-called-my-kid-needs-a-step-25269548.png
Imagine a tsunami, but instead of water, it’s all pictures of penises under extremely unflattering lighting.
Me at work:
Co-Worker: Wanna see this dick pic this rando sent me?
Me: No. No. Nonononononono. Why would I?
Co-Worker: Uh, because it’s funny!
Me: OK.
Me: Ew. [explains Peyronie’s disease to co-worker]
https://youtu.be/tplzQveTdgQ
Pro-Tip:
If you are Googling Peyronie’s disease, , do not go straight to images until you have read what it is and can make an informed decision.
Too late.
It feels like a fell into one of your stories.
OK, that’s bad.
So…you’re saying it was a success?
If all I wanted was to hookup, I don’t need the internet. Men are easy.
Not me. I suffer from crippling social phobia, making human touch something I crave, but find terrifying.
Tomorrow’s headline: Wayfair hiring ~550 workers.
Not after AOC gave them a signal boost.
I keep double-taking at our internal hospital emails. The administrator-on-call naturally goes by the TLA “AOC”.
As in “AOC diverted patients from the north ED due to water leak”.
And I’m thinking “WTF is that moron doing in my hospital?”
Socializing the costs so everyone pays less?
I thought yesterday the complaint was they’re sleeping on the floor.
Just what I was thinking. Which is it? Sleeping in dirt or beds…
Its almost like we are getting led around by the nose by each faction
So the Wokesters are now demanding that illegals be forced to sleep on bare concrete? I thought they were pro-illegal immigrant.
I guess this is all part of the campaign of Congress refusing to appropriate funds to ease conditions and speed the court processes so that Drumpf has no choice but to release the migrants into the wild. All the while refusing to actually change the laws to reflect their open borders position.
Well look at you. Looking at what the Dems actually do rather than what they say. You must be a bigot or something.
Yesterday I saw a woman on a street holding a sign that said “Trump: Child abuse is not ok.” She tried to draw drivers’ attention When I asked her what she meant, she replied it was about those detention centers on the border.
Does she mean the detention centers that she didn’t give a damn about when her personal messiah was in office?
Chick-fil-A named America’s favorite restaurant chain for fourth year running
*snort*
I’ve had it once or twice. Wasn’t impressed. Don’t get that at all.
Me either. I’m a Krystal man.
I miss Krystal. Up here they only have White Castle, which is fine, as long as you’re drunk, and enjoy a little extra time to read in the toilet.
I mean, yeah, I guess I’m their target demographic. Lol
It’s decent fast food but the major difference is their service. Like day & night when compared to McD’s or BK.
It’s the only fast food restaurant where the people serving you are smiling. It’s fucking weird. And they bus your trays.
Social signalling isn’t just for leftist.
Hey! These colors don’t run!
Or..or…and hear me out here, I know it sounds crazy, but maybe people just like their food.
Crazy, I know
But, the idea that America is just social signaling totally makes sense too. Go with that
Time to change your handle to “chick-fil-a” apologist.
Eh…they barely have any near me. But, when I’m traveling I usually stop at one mainly because it’s the cleanest fast food with polite servers. That’s why people like them. The closest by me is about two miles from work and I’m not going out of my way for fast food.
I do concede that one time I did go out of my way to eat there a couple of years ago when the city was threatening to not allow them to build a restaurant because of the founder’s beliefs. That was pretty blatant religious discrimination. But, I guess that’s OK now and I was just social signaling. I also didn’t vote for Trump specifically because of his proposed Muslim ban. There I go again social signaling against blatantly illegal government action. So not libertarian
All I’m saying is Chicken filet is not my favorite fast food restaurant and they should be run out of business. That’s all. I don’t see how that conflicts with libertarian principals.
Their gator nuggets and waffle fries are the bomb. Especially with a fresh meth lemonade.
Am I the only one who’d make a point of trying their Gator Nugs?
Anecdotal proof: My Sister, who has never set a foot in a Chic-fil-A, will answer any poll that Chick-fil-A is her favorite fast food place because they have (or at least have the impression of) the right politics.
So, it’s genetic, huh?
Fuck, I shouldn’t Be laughing at that, Touche, Rat.
BURN!
I’m sure some people do like them for that reason, but I don’t that’s a substantial part of the country. I think of some of my friends who first told me about the place. They didn’t even know it was “controversial”. They just ate there because they thought it was good.
Most of the country doesn’t care about this crap
I’d venture to guess 15% of the country cares about any topic that we obsess over on this site. And even that percentage I think is maybe high
Were they the favorite chain before the whole controversy thing started?
That doesn’t happen from social signaling.
Looking at that list, they’re definitely better than those restaurants. Taco bell has gone shittier and expensive. Wendy’s went downhill after Dave Thomas died. McD’s is consistently mediocre. BK is a shell of its former self.
If only by attrition, Chick-fil-A is rising in the rankings. Add in consistent, quality food and actual service, and the only better places on my list are regional chains.
And if anything, they’ve moved down my list since the controversy, mainly to make room for whataburger.
Social signalling cost Dick’s billions of dollars but the adverse can’t be true? (Insert meme of sweating superhero with two big red buttons here)
Dick’s stopped selling something its customers wanted, of course sales suffered.
Here I did it.
The most obvious difference is the asymmetry.
One is about saying “X is welcome here” and the other is “Y is banned here.”
And we know that people’s emotional responses are likewise asymmetric — Slate doesn’t write adorability bait or hopefulness bait.
The problem is that your argument makes no sense. What social signaling does chic-fil-a do? They sell chicken. Dick’s went out of it’s way to social signal. Chic-fil-a doesn’t do anything but sell chicken.
You just don’t like them because some icky people may like them. You’re the only one social signaling
https://web.archive.org/web/20110929105406/http://www.chick-fil-a.com/Media/PDF/ClosedonSundaypolicy.pdf
So they are social signaling by being closed on Sunday because they’re Christians?
Being a faithful Christian is social signaling now? That is akin to making a declaration on a hot button social issue?
So basically your position is informed by bigotry? Do you also think that a place that is closed for a religious holiday is social signaling? Or only if it’s a Christian holiday?
How are you not arguing from a position of religious animus here?
So they are social signaling by being closed on Sunday because they’re Christians?
yes.
Do you also think that a place that is closed for a religious holiday is social signaling?
Yes when they broadcast it, as is the case with Hobby Lobby they don’t simply close on Sundays, they have signs on the doors stating that they are closed so that their employees can go worship, this is social signalling. and I have no problem with that, more power to ’em, all I claimed was that they benefit from such signalling, as heartfelt as it may be. Once again if Dick’S suffers from their signalling , I don’t see how one can claim that Chick-fil-a, Hobby Lobby etc doesn’t gain from theirs. It’s marketing pure and simple.
Your argument would make more sense if chic-fil-a was saying that they opposed abortion because of their Christian faith. That would be akin to the Dick’s situation. Instead you seem to be faulting them for being faithful to their religion.
If you view someone’s religion as just another policy choice then I can see the rationale. But, instead I think a more apt comparison to chic-fil-a being closed on Sunday would be comparable to a Jew wearing a yamaka (I know the spelling is incorrect, but I don’t want to find the proper spelling) at the office or someone opening a gluten free restaurant because they suffer from celiac disease. If you view someone’s religion as more than a mere policy choice, but rather as a defining aspect of their existence then you would see how a comparison between that and a policy position are vastly different.
I’ll admit that your position is fairly persuasive. I grant you that. I just don’t think they’re comparable. Nonetheless, it’s a fair point even if I might disagree
Hype is too virtuous for virtue signaling.
Thanks for noticing, I try to be as consistent as possible.
Hyp, you inspired a nugget of an article idea in my mind. The working title is “it’s worse when they do it”. It would talk through the ways the left and the right use the same tools (e.g. virtue signaling), and why it’s so much more annoying to me when the left does it.
Be careful I got drunk and submitted an article idea last night, and before I could sober up and take it back SP already green-lit it, so now I have to get drunk and write the damn thing, curse my parents for instilling a work ethic.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/25/britain-remain-brexit-tory-party
As usual, The Fascist Britain in Guardian’s journo’s head sounds way more appealing than actual UK.
ready to drag the county into the no-deal abyss
Don’t ever change, Grauniad.
both men are equal austerians, both small-state tax-cutters
Yes, go on . . .
ready to fulfill the will of the electorate and accept the outcome of Brexit
both men wouldn’t touch the source of massive public debt, both giant-staters but with some tax cuts
How’d I do, Guardian?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/25/the-guardian-view-on-social-immobility-time-to-rebalance
Policies that attempt to bridge and repair the divisions and rifts that deface British society are desperately needed.
Well, nothing like collective punishment based on race, sex, and religion to create bridges.
Like ignoring rape gangs?
Home ownership rates in particular have fallen sharply
Of course the best way for reduce cost of housing is for people to stop thinking of their homes as investments.
Good luck with that.
People love “affordable housing”. Just not their housing.
Or anywhere within their field-of-view.
It’s going to work this time! Just you wait and see!
You mean it’s been tried before!? Hmmm. Well, I’m sure those people didn’t have a good grasp of the historical reasons for homelessness like we do.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/25/an-avocado-cafe-is-my-worst-nightmare-but-this-is-instagrams-world-now-we-just-live-in-it
Who cares? This is a stupid thing to worry about.
“Isn’t capitalism beautiful?”
Yes it is. I suppose you were paid for this article? Fuck off, hypocrite.
In Soviet Russia, media socializes you!
My current musical obsession:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc
Anyone who reads this could manage the USWNT to a World Cup title
Agree with this 100%. Also Rapinoe is awful and has no business being on the field.
I think there’s a real chance they will lose to France if they keep this up.
God I hope so.
Ugh, lose to France? I won’t stand for it.
Sad to say, Rapinoe is not awful and the only reason the US won the first elimination game.
She’s just an awful person.
Planted safely in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Liking the spaciousness of the new place, and the neighbours. Liking the extra cash in our retirement account. Liking the gasoline that’s approximately 40% cheaper than in the Lower Mainland. Liking the food prices which, counter-intuitively, seem to be mostly lower than the Lower Mainland. Liking the fact that random strangers strike up friendly conversations with me. Liking the lack of a provincial sales tax.
Siskel and Ebert would give the move two thumbs up. So would I.
Oh, forgot to mention: liking the fact that I’ve already been to a music festival here with ten venues and around 45 acts, and we’d only been in the house for four days. Good stuff! And the food scene here’s exploded since we last lived here fifteen years ago.
Did I mention that I’m pretty happy with this move?
The only thing I know about Edmonton is that Gretzky played there.
Back in the 80s. Then he got sold to some effing U.S. Left Coast city’s team by Peter Pocklington.
Eh, close enough.
Everything’s a damned phobia now
Phobiaphobia. By insisting you’re afraid of the things you disagree with I put you on the defensive about your fear thereby disarming your ability to argue your disagreement. You’re too afraid about being afraid to refute.
I’m gonna have to flow-chart what you just wrote in order to understand it. I think.
If i could just post the flow-charts in my head it’d save us all some time.
Re: trans sexual preferences.
My theory: It is possible to cover 50% of her body in such a way that anyone with a penis would accept a blowjob from her.
^Referring to Blair White
My penis just identified as a vagina. Thanks.
Apple threatens CEO of Parler, a Facebook like service, with removal of their app from Apple’s app store if Parler doesn’t censor content:
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/tech-bias-apple-tells-parler-to-censor-free-speech-or-lose-its-app/
I’m convinced the big tech companies just want the government to step in and smash them at this point, they’re just begging for it.
Did he release the actual message Apple sent him?
Nah, just that he was told this. Apple did disable push notifications when he refused though so it does sound like he’s on the up and up.
Regulation allows barriers to be put in place for smaller startups that can’t possibly meet the said regulations, therefor, we get Big Tech forever.
Its of course their end game.
No different than a Mom n’ Pop store in town lobbying for zoning regulations making them effectively the only shop that can be open.
Which is why Section 230 reform is the answer. Don’t control them. Don’t give them their barrier to entry. Open them up to the same liabilities as other content providers (when you determine the content, you’ve become the provider) face. Free speech would be a platform the tech giants can no longer compete on. So let them whither under the plague of plaintiffs’ lawyers.
They’ll whither hither and thither.
Correctamundo.
Agreed but will it actually happen. The current platforms benefits the current House makeup. You think they want to correct this before the most important election (since 2018, 2016, etc.) Of our lifetime?
Well, they are fucking it up. There is starting to be more and more noise about removing their protections. They think they can swing this upcoming election and thus keep their protections in place. Aint gonna happen. I will be president before any of the gaggle of half-wits the D’s are running and it is not impossible the R’s could take back the house.
“Why don’t whiny right wing snowflakes just build an alternative to Facebook if they don’t like it’s policies?”
This is one of the many reasons why. As I’ve lamented previously, in order to build such a service, you must first replicate the entire tech infrastructure.
One reason I strongly support the blockchain industry (and try to sell people on bitcoin [knocking on $12k btw…]) is because that’s basically what’s happening – a total rebuild of the internet infrastructure that will enable real competition to these entrenched tech zaibatzus.
Get a OnePlus, use Brave, transact in crypto, sign up for Voice, watch videos from bitchute, ditch gmail for protonmail, etc. The web 2.0 network has been hijacked – blockchain is web 3.0 and still libertarian.
^^^is exactly why they want regulation. For now, we can seek alternative choices. Once they get the regulation they want, we will have no choice but use gmail, youtube, etc.
I see that loon accusing Trump of raping her is being called ‘credible’ by CNN.
Credible = I want to believe
They can go duck a fuck. Jesus there is plenty to actually perform real journalism on and they choose this path.
X-Files episodes were more believable than the lunatics on CNN or MSNBC now.
One of my friends pointed out that men are more likely to rape women who are NOT their type. They’re committed to throwing Clinton under the bus.
It won’t end until everybody is raped or lies about being raped. Then we’ll say, “That wasn’t such a good idea.”
This is quite the coincidence.