Good morning my Glibs and Gliberinas! And what a glorious morning it always is as Joe Biden promises to cure cancer if elected president, you better vote for Joe unless you love cancer, you don’t love cancer, do you?
Speaking of Joe, creepy porn lawyer is accusing him of stealing his slogan and theme.
Quinnipiac poll has Biden over Trump by 13. Finally, we’ll have that cancer cure. I genuinely hope Biden wins the primary, the debates will be pure fucking gold.
FBI notes of Clinton’s emails go missing, oopsy.
House voted to empower the House Judiciary Committee to be able to seek subpoenas against the DOJ.
VA Democrat, who pleaded guilty to having sex with his teenage secretary, won the Democrat primary for a state senate seat.
Pinterest insider blows whistle on Christian censorship.
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
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675 responses to “Wednesday Morning Links”
Just gut the FBI and start over.
Why start over?
And why only the FBI Swissy?
Obama weaponized all the three letter agencies and the entire unelected bureaucratic machine. They are all now all actually acting as if they are unaccountable bureaucracies, putting their own interests ahead of those of either the country or the American people, and have not just been ignoring lawful orders, but undermining the duly elected executive branch rep. What we have today makes a banana republic look like a better run form of government.
[rustles tinfoil]
Et tu Tonio??
Just
gutdisband the FBIand start over.Fixed.
^^this^^
Yep.
Figure out what laws they enforce – repeal most of them and give the rest (like kidnapping) to the Marshals.
Morning often means this skinny young blonde bringing her Labrador to the water. I can see her down by the river from my front window throwing sticks, her frame straining to throw as far out as she can, the Lab never tiring, and very very evil thoughts fill me.
But stealing her dog would be wrong, so I just go get another cup of coffee and mind my own business.
Nicely done!
If this was Florida she’d have a ball launcher.
And the alligators would have a lab.
Alligators with meth sounds like a bad combo.
Depends who gets to build it from the ground up afterward. I don’t see anyone worthy of consideration for that task.
That man of men, Comey?
Me.
“The entire Congress was arrested today by the new FBI…”
Snazzy uniforms, I’d wager.
They should contact the firm of Hugo Boss. Their namesake did such a swell job last time. Really iconic uniforms that everybody remembers.
Exactly my first thoughts after reading Festus’ comment.
I do like a darted shirt.
I would be in favor of that Swiss. Our political class is now more corrupt than the fucking mafia (be it the Italian, Russian, Chinese, or any other kind) and they are not even bothering to hide the contempt they have for their electors.
They’re worse than the mafia because they claim to be moral and just.
What is aggravating is that unlike their predecessors that knew the compact with the people was that they would be allowed to skim off the top and enjoy the perks as long as they delivered value to the people, these inept and corrupt cunts now feel they should not only get more perks and steal more money, but owe nothing to the people in return. In fact, they want a system where they are completely unaccountable and that whatever fuck you they had the people is received and accepted regardless of how horrible the damage it does.
These people make the worst fucking oligarchs of history look like pikers.
Its a new business model. Instead of waiting for that lazy goose to lay golden eggs, you just cut it open and get them all at once. No downside really that I can see.
I’d vote for that. Seriously.
Mornin’ Bajos! Biden should have promised something better like a cure for the common hang-over.
“Banjos”
What? Is a Bajo some sort of messican banjo?
*squints suspiciously*
It only has four strings?
I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bajo quatro.
Mornin’
SJWednesday: Tempting the Banhammer
That reminds me, I don’t think I put the cottage cheese back in the refrigerator this morning before I left for work.
That’s a woman I could get behind (easily)
Um….
Thanks, Scruffy. I haven’t had breakfast yet and I’m trying to diet.
I’m just here to help.
Replay, but relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW10dgWB4qQ
GAAAAAAAAAH!!!!
That was so bad I wiped the browser history.
Wisdom is learning from other peoples’ mistakes. Thanks, y’all.
Teach me to click on anything here at work again…
quality typo.
okay… *checks article*
Virginia is… one of only thirteen states in the union where age of consent is 18. I see. Whycome no statutory rape charges? (even though it’s legal in the other 37 states of the union)
“VA Democrat” – nuff said.
Joe Morrissey is a complete POS.
Laws only apply to the little people and definitely not to the ones with a (D) next to their name.
Roy Moore nods.
>>Quinnipiac poll has Biden over Trump by 13
Recently Quinnipiac also had Biden winning Texas by 4.
Aren’t they the ones that drowned that nice Mary-Jo girl?
iirc, Quinnipiac also had Hilary winning yuge. Just like in 2016, polling is fucking useless.
Give it long enough and it’ll be so wrong as to become an inverse predictor.
Quinipiac is a fucking useless polling entity indeed. Their models still reflect the reality of the blue state fantasist, which is why they keep getting skewed polls. I believe this is on purpose because their job is not to provide good polls, but provide polls that help the left supposedly feel like it is winning.
‘member when Nate Silver was dragged on Twitter for reducing Hillary’s chances from 98 to seventy-something? I ‘member.
Nate’s trend chart is is easy to find.
He never had her at 90; as late as Sep 26 he had the lead as low as 10 points.
Bah. I mis’membered. He did get dragged close to the election for having her in the 70s, though. I’ve wondered since then whether making Clinton seem like a lock was more dissuasive to Republican voters or Dem voters.
It was the other prognosticators that had her at 90-something percent, and he was criticized for having her only at 70%.
I think the LA Times was the only newspaper that had Trump winning.
And what a glorious morning it always is as Joe Biden promises to cure cancer if elected president, you better vote for Joe unless you love cancer, you don’t love cancer, do you? – I was under the impression cancer can be many things and saying cure cancer makes little sense. Seems I was wrong… Good afternoon.
It can be, bit the Biden Cure uses the Maduro Diet to make sure you don’t die from the cancer.
no dumber than War on Terrorism, I suppose
“War on Drugs”.
“Aspirin was routed today, as the victorious War on Drugs marches onward!!!”
Narrated in Pathe Newsreel voice.
What the newsreel announcer left out was that Caffiene still holds the highlands, and Acrivastine the lowlands, leaving the glorious army of drugwarriors stuck in between. The withdraw of aspirin from the field may well have been a feint to draw them into a trap.
I prefer Movietone News. Lowell Thomas rocked.
Sulfa marches to battle in it’s stylish new uniform as a crowd of civilian workers cheer!
Y’all need to watch the clip of Biden giving that talk. He’s quite the charismatic speaker:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wwEUEjXSTCM
Yikes… “Sleepy” Joe it is.
“Unspecified Neurological Disorder but He Definitely Has Something” Joe might be more appropriate.
Probably brain damage. He’s had at least one stroke.
The Twink In The North says “Hold my water bottle!” https://youtu.be/Y7orwIHuabY
You know who else was a charismatic speaker?
The Audiophile Glibs?
*the audiophile Glibs’ steroes rather.
Irwin Corey?
Hugo Chavez?
Ron Popeil?
The Ducktator?
William Jennings Bryan?? (Its true, look it up)
He could campaign on the end of Daylight Savings Time and have half a chance of realizing his goal and yet here it is, June 2019, fully 17 months before the election and he brings out the big guns. Whatta maroon.
VA Democrat, who pleaded guilty to having sex with his teenage secretary,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td67kYY9mdQ
For those who don’t’ YouTube
George Costanza:
[pause] Was that wrong? Should I not have done that? I tell you, I gotta plead ignorance on this thing, because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing is frowned upon… you know, cause I’ve worked in a lot of offices, and I tell you, people do that all the time
Much appreciated, Pie! I don’t eff with the ‘Tube anymore, for various reasons.
Having sex with AND knocking up. It is widely suspected that this was a setup to win him the votes of the black community whose previous support for him has been lackluster.
Damn that’s commitment.
Well, he should certainly have the creepy older gentleman vote sewn up.
I may have to reconsider my lack of support for him.
Pimp’n ain’t easy but it is necessary to get me some votes!
If he hadn’t been so worried about a “whiteface” scandal she would never have gotten pregnant.
That’s what I though as soon as I saw the pic.
I don’t know, I checked out some of the pics of his wife…I’d be willing to try to win some votes from the black community myself, IYKWIMAITTYD.
I suspect this girl was groomed and setup. Probably to the level that trafficking or conspiracy charges could be brought against someone.
Tonio is bringing the tinfoil today.
I suspect she’ll be attorney general one day and run for President in about 20 years.
….agreed.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/indya-moore-trump-supporter-fight-102205753.html
Way to write the headline the reverse of what happened Yahoo.
Dude, you’re supposed to let people take your stuff and not say a word.
Right??
Never change, Yahoo.
If a transsexual tries to illegally obtain your rightful property you’re supposed to let them.
So he was right.
Hayek: Social Justice Demands the Unequal Treatment of Individuals
Indya Moore, a star of the FX show Pose who identifies as transgender and non-binary…
What the holy fuck? Seriously? I just can’t even.
You are just angry because you are no longer at the top of the identity politics pyramid!
/some angry proggie asshole that is aggrieved
But I never was, being white, cisgendered (ie, normatively masculine), and able-bodied.
That’s important, now that you have push up on the bus’ undercarrage to make room for white cis lesbians.
Ouch…..
Sounds like they constantly will need a bigger bus…
https://youtu.be/hpsGh4Amt44
Supposed to be under Doomco. Sigh. One of these days I’ll stop pretending and just put my hands behind my back and type with my nose.
STEVE SMITH TYPE NO HANDS. USE THIRD LEG
Mine is clutching a beer can. It’s busy.
Dang it, LH…beat me to it.
The Jimi Hendrix of shitposting.
what a glorious morning
Meh.
Happiness is manditory, Citizen.
I had some cruddy sleep last night – blame my job – even though yesterday I had hit the weights pretty hard and even went swimming.
So no glory but more of a meh…
I am hungover…
Friend came over last night, too many G&Ts but it was worth it.
Catching up with an old friend is worth a little morning misery NTTAWWT.
Reminded of the time that my friend Bill (may he RIP) came back from Iraq for a few days visit. The bar we went to had a special on Black & Tans. Sure I had to go to work the next day… but a little Irish flu was worth it.
I saw a license plate yesterday “IRISH MS”. Is that when you get the tremors from giving up the drink for too long?
SJWednesday: Agender Benders
>>apologize sincerely and then move on.
ah no.
Weeding themselves out of the gene pool.
Speaking of weeding out… Thanks for my first (and hopefully only) cat butt for my double pun yesterday. Glib Achievement Unlocked!
Here’s the thing: if someone is courteous and asks me respectfully to address them in a certain way, I’ll probably do it.
But don’t shame me for not instantly catching on to your insanity and definitely don’t try to make a law. If you’re aggressive about it, expect an aggressive response.
^^^This. Don’t police my speech. Fuck you.
And don’t require me to celebrate your condition either. That idea is over the top and somebody should explain it to you. I will do it if you ask.
Exactly.
I don’t care about what you identify as. Not just in the sense of not caring meaning not being offended by it or upset by it, no I mean I DON’T CARE. It is a stupid pointless irrelevancy. However as you are a human being deserving of dignity until you prove that you do not deserve it if you in good faith tell me that you prefer to be addressed in a given way then I will do so. Past that I expect you to behave in a manner that is consistent with mainstream society when out in public, so if you want to be treated and addressed as a woman then dress and present as a woman and when you are dressed and presenting as a woman use the women’s restrooms, If you want to be treated as a man dress and present as a man and use the men’s room.
If you want to be treated as something else, well then it is incumbent on you to communicate that to me and where it matters it is incumbent on you to act in such a manner as to cause the least disruption of society as possible so use the restroom that best matches the gender that most people would associate with your apperance.
Finally if your goal in your identity is to cause as much disruption of society as possible, then fuck you you do not deserve dignity or my sympathy and I will treat you no different than I would some asshole running down the street insulting everyone he see’s.
#metoo
It’s harmless enough, until it isn’t.
It’s the fluidity part that’s the problem. Live as you will, dress as you will, but don’t expect HR to have to issue an “Employee Pronoun Change Notice” every five minutes for you.
But that’s the whole point. They’ve figured out how to turn their nuttiness into power over others.
Indeed. I’ve started thinking of protests and counter-protests in D&D undead terms. A high-level rightwinger such as Milo or Duke summons 10D20 of SJWs each time they appear.
So… basically kobolds or skeletons?
If they are low level undead they would have to be skeletons, ghouls, zombies, and/or SJWs.
I know you are using humor to show how ridiculous what is going on is Tonio, but I am afraid that the people that should get a jolt of sanity from your very apt analogy will only see it as hate speech and decide you too need to be punished for your “hate speech”, where hate speech is basically saying anything that gets in the way of the SJW crowd’s current agenda.
“I’m not a guy; I don’t really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one.
Why can’t being a man or a woman just be one part of who you are? She’s (?) an Australian woman, who likes short hair, and tattoos. I think she is also a vegan. Does vegan have a gender? Is it already a gender?
Guess what – you’re a woman. Congratulations.
Some days I don’t “feel like” my usual charming self. But for some reason I can’t fathom society doesn’t seem to want to accommodate that feeling.
I always ask people what their biology looks like. What is your chromosome pairing looks like. The choices I am aware of are XX or XY. Until we find a different pairing, I am going to go with that. Biology hates social justice.
There are various trisomies that pop up, XXY, XYY, XXX, and so on. They’re pretty rare.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_X_syndrome
What’s the one for a lesbian trapped in a man’s body?
XY.
I have no idea. My big takeaway from all this is that I am so glad that I’m happy in the body I was born in and lucky to be living in a time and place where I can bang other guys without it being a problem. I can’t imagine the hell that those people experience on a daily basis, but I’m also skeptical about some of the more out-there, high-maintenance identities. It doesn’t help that socons are using exactly the same script they used to push back against regular gay people – “confused, just a phase, doing it for the attention.”
It doesn’t help that socons . . .
finish that one any way you wish
My perspective on it has always been that if you’re not hurting or compelling anyone, I really don’t care.
If you say to me that you’re gay, that’s a statement of fact. You prefer to have sex with men. I do not have to alter my view of reality to accept that statement.
However, if you have XY chromosomes and you tell me that you’re a woman, I cannot accept that statement without ignoring what I know to be immutable facts. It puts the burden on me to acquiesce to your “truth”.
It’s a fundamentally postmodern way of viewing things that I disagree with.
don’t disagree
NewWife got me watching Trixie & Katya’s yt channel, and they have a way about them. I normally ignore all the reality programming from which they arose, and others’ drag lives don’t interest me remotely. But sincere, vulnerable people telling their stories almost always interests me, and they’re funny, and the production is funny, so okay.
And I fell into using their stage names and feminine pronouns automatically. They’re not XX, but in role they’re abundantly feminine even though not female.
Reminds me of Platonic ideals: a dead dog does not exude dogness, doesn’t bark or demand treats, so it’s a cadaver, not a dog. But, if you can get a cat to retrieve your slippers, it is a dog.
So for Trixie & Katya, I would probably freak out if I met them out of makeup (Brian and Brian, it turns out). If you don’t present as her, then I don’t think I’d call you her; I’m straight and don’t trade in gay culture, so I’m not calling a 6-2 musclehead in jeans “girl.”
That’s what I think I’ve learned about myself watching. Of course, I absolutely don’t care what others do: just don’t shoot at me or steal my shit.
QFT. The rest should really just be academic, or grist for the conversational mill.
WTF happened to live and let fucking live? I think this is a big factor for why we have so much stupid shit going on.
As has been mentioned. I fucking care not a bit what you decide to wear, what you decide to think of yourself as, who you sleep with, or anything else of that nature as long as you do so of your own free will and don’t hurt others, and more importantly, I am not forced expected to cave in to any special treatment you feel I should be obligated to. I am not gonna ask you to conform, and you will return me said courtesy. You live your life and I live mine.
“Live and Let Live” and “Mind Your Own Business” have been thoroughly trounced by “Silence is Consent” and “Evil Thrives when the Woke Do Nothing.”
“It’s a free country”
What does not feeling like a woman even mean? You’re a woman; by definition, however you feel is how a woman feels. What you really mean is you don’t feel how you think women are supposed to feel, probably based on how you think other women feel. Well, you’re not a mind-reader. Get it together.
Whenever I hear that “feel like a woman” it makes me think about how that phrase works when I say “I feel like a beer” or “I feel like a pizza”. So I too very often “feel like a woman”.
I feel like a woman way too often too..
When she wants to pee she feels like doing it standing up?
Or is she saying she gets a boner whenever she sees a hawt woman?
They sure do love conjuring up smaller and smaller boxes to pigeonhole people into.
Why not just look at people as individuals? Oh wait. That’s not what the “How to make societal norms of any kinds all be nonsense so when people no longer believe in anything, you can sell them marxism/fascism/some other totalitarian system” manual says will work…
use gender neutral pronouns like “they/them”
This is all tedious, pointless and retarded. It also violates the rules of the language. I have no patience for this nor do I have a problem telling these people, to their faces, to go fuck themselves of they try to control my language.
“six things you should know about what it means to be agender”
There is really only one and I already know it.
Terrible damn article. The initial premise is that “agender” and “non-binary” and the article never really tries to provide separate definitions.
And honestly, failing to distinguish between agender and neutrois? I can’t even with this bigotry.
“The Democrat spent six months in jail for the crime but managed to continue serving in the state legislature during the sentence.”
If this isn’t proof that being a legislator is a joke of a job, I dunno what is.
NB: At least the guy married the underage secretary he was nailing.
The whole thing was deliberate. See above.
I saw your comment.
That guy is definitely willing to go the extra mile to get the job; it’s almost impressive in a pathetic, smarmy, POS pol way.
Oh, he is quite the effective politician.
He doesn’t mind fucking anyone and everyone?
Isn’t this what we just made fun of and ran Roy Moore out on a rail for? except in this case we have proof positive other than year book inscriptions?
But you see, Moore was an icky republican.
I honestly think this is the best timeline. Used to take years before the torpedo’s turned around and hit the sub that fired them now it only takes months.
Eh. In Texas, you only serve for 120 days every 2 years. Plenty of time to serve in jail and the legislature. More states should adopt that.
https://archive.li/XsUG3/2243caa7e66c47e50e6770c7f32167cdd7c74bc6.jpg
Shoulda took it to the Pawn Stars.
Meet Justin Amash, NeverTrump’s Newest Shiny Object
Now I’m curious. Where does the Constitution empower the federal government to restrict gun-ownership?
Spoiler alert, it doesn’t.
Actually, I believe that state and/or federal government(s) could ban or restrict firearms that are too small a caliber to be effective military arms. It would be a stretch to claim that you need a Red-Ryder BB gun to fulfill your militia duties.
Ahem
I’ve used sub caliber drop-ins for indoor qualification when ranges weren’t available. Small calibers definitely have a place in training. Aside from that, those are still weapons and the choice of weapons used for defense should be up to the individual, not the government. I’d rather have a pellet gun than a butter knife. And I’d rather have either one than my bare hands.
A 22 WRF pistol (suppressed) has a very proper military application. No valid reason to exclude those.
But a BB gun or even pellet rifle – meh – give me a good Bowie like a Cold Steel Laredo instead.
Didn’t I read that Bosnian snipers killed more people with 22LR than any other round?
You may have, but I’d doubt it was true.
I’d need some sort of citation (with data and collection methodology) to belive that.
NA – it was more about volume of fire. Sniper fire was more about terrorizing the citizens than combat against other armed fighting forces. Ammunition with the potential to stop a beligerant was reserved for that purpose, but 22LR was plentiful and if the goal is to fuck up a civy and put their whole family in a particular state of mind, a neck shot to granny with a 22LR does that just fine. Even if only 1 in 20 was lethal, if 90% of the rounds fired were 22LR that makes it the most lethal in absolute numbers.
I’d be surprised, just because of the relatively short (accurate) range pf a .22. The stories I remember (vaguely) were of medium caliber rifles in Sarajevo.
Always with the hyperbolic kicker at the end. Never change, asshole.
“CNN Republican”?
There’s dozens of them! DOZENS!
“Hey, just what you see, pal.”
Thirty minutes have successfully elapsed so it’s time for your morning titpost.
http://archive.li/T0xPv
#1 is a perennial favorite of mine.
#24 is giving off that One Million Years BC vibe.
There is something I haven’t quite be able to articulate and I think I’ve figured it out. I don’t find the vast majority of the ladies attractive, even though I know they objectively should be. I think the reason is because they are seeking attention and that is a turn off for me. I think the same ladies in natural photos would be more attractive to me personally.
So you’re saying you want the creeper / voyeur shots?
It just given him a nostalgic feeling of hiding in the python bushes waiting for an unsuspecting female to wander past.
This guy gets it??
#1; #5 because she looks like she’s responsible, too, and that’s incredibly appealing; #7 looks like a girl I know; #24.
I’ll just wait here and finish up some work at the office until they get to my place, shall I?
SJwednesday: Whatever You Do Don’t Call Attention to the Thing That I Did To Get Attention
Getting a visible tattoo is literally putting your body on a platform for public examination. Honk Honk!
While for the most part, being tattooed has brought positivity to my life by allowing me to fully express my true identity and introducing me to countless incredible fellow tattoo collectors, it’s also opened my eyes to the everyday challenges that face modified young women.
I need to bitch about everything in my life.
People who cut off peoples skin to get their tattoo? That seems weird.
The hard part is preoperly preserving the hide without ruining the pattern. But once it’s been added to the frame and on the wall, you’d be amazed how long it takes people to realize what it is.
Planescape: Torment was such a great game.
“So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde,
And that’s it a-hangin’ on the shed.”
SHE PUTS ON THE LOTION OR SHE GETS THE HOSE!
I’ve got nothing against tattoos (I have two small ones myself) but damn, now everyone and their grandma has ’em. I had a GF in college who had a few and back then, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, it was quite exotic. It added to her wild persona. Now? Meh – I prefer my gals without ink.
I have no problem with tattoos, but I’d never get anything because I can think of a dozen things I cared really deeply about at one time and now couldn’t care less about.
I’m with you Florida Man. At least on this topic.
Tattoos have become so common that I definitely wouldn’t get one now. If I’m going to modify my body I’ll get “MOLON LABE” (in the original Greek script) branded on my chest.
I always figured I would get the UPC barcode for chunk white tuna on my ass.
Good news – you’re on sale for $1
2 for 1 sale should be interesting.
Funny. There was a guy at the bagel shop yesterday wearing a sleeveless shirt. He had the USDA Organic circle logo on his upper arm. People are fucking stupid.
I saw a comic in the WSJ, where a guy in a tee-shirt has “This arm intentionally left blank” tattooed on his arm.
I wish a certain SMU girl had a 704M placard tattooed on her ass: woulda saved me a ton of trouble.
Maybe she should have had it on her forehead, even.
I feel like tramp-stamp would be the ideal location. Wont’ give you early warning, but will give you last-second information right when you need it.
Plus the onsen issues would seem to be annoying to me.
Onsen being one of the big pluses of Japan for me.
I went with a friend that had a tattoo and it wasn’t an issue. I think they just keep Japanese with tattoos out because of the yakuza.
They are reasonably flexible with the gaijin, but some places will make you put a bandage over them.
That would be annoying and some are so large as to make that difficult.
Well, why did you join the Yakuza then?
There are a few tattoo friendly Onsens in Japan but usually they bar anybody with one just to be “fair”. The point is to keep the Yakuza out but they know that those are exactly the ones who would raise a huge, verbal stink if they found out that foreigners (or anybody else, for that matter) with tattoos were being allowed in.
I went to a huge indoor pool amusement park with a no-tattoo policy and they had a skin-headed bouncer at the door who looking like he knew how to handle mouthy Yakuza. One of the most bad-ass Japanese dudes I’ve ever seen.
Gaijin smash is a thing.
C’mon, you could get a word like “wisdom” or “the traveler” tattooed in english on your shoulder and people would think you’re exotic.
I wish I could broadcast to the western world how FUCKING STUPID it looks to get a Chinese Character tattooed on your body.
Getting the single character “brave” (or just about any other single character you can choose) tattooed is about the same as the English equivalent to “BRAVE IS LIKE” without finishing the phrase. Anybody who can read it – and we’re talking about 1/4 of the human race – can see that you don’t know what you have written on your body forever.
Also, don’t come bitching to me when you don’t have money but were willing to spend an ass ton of money on your tattoos.
^This.
I figure my brother has, conservatively, at least $15000 worth of tattoos. He’s never asked anyone for money, and makes what he wants, but I prefer how I would waste $2500/year.
Maybe stop hanging around dive bars if you don’t want people to ask you about your tats?
“If you didn’t want me to look why did you put it on display in public?”
I was in a business networking meeting one time where the guest speaker was an artist. She had a massive rack, a large chest tattoo, and a low cut blouse.
When one of the business owners asked her about her tattoo, she got all offended. I was somewhat pleasantly surprised when the women in the room told her that if she didn’t want to be asked about it, then she should have covered it up.
I was on a bike run once and went to a Starbucks for coffee. All the girls there had bandages covering their tattoos. It was obvious and frankly, pretty ridiculous. When I got the front of the line I remarked that it was a strange coincidence that they all got injured exactly where their tats were. Everyone except the manager cracked up laughing.
There are some early-adopters of this fad in my circle. They’re always going on about them, checking out each other’s new tatts, etc etc. I think it signals a certain kind of personality that I am not.
I’ve always found it better to look as normal as possible to cover up how weird you are inside.
You sir, are wise!
When I was 12 and thought tattoos might be cool, I saw a couple of guys from Fort Campbell in town. They had their iconic division patch tatted on their shoulders right where it goes on the uniform sleeve. They were ripped up bad-asses.
And I thought of all the bald, flabby old men I’m related to and thought nothing on me would ever be that cool and everything on me would melt like a cake in the rain some day.
I’m marked up enough with things I didn’t ask to be put on my body.
I was on a flight to Albuquerque a couple seats over from a big, strappin’ guy in a sun dress, long hair, who spoke in falsetto – with an “AIRBORNE” tattoo across his forearm.
That’s going to make going to an onsen doubly difficult!
Or it would certainly make for an interesting konyoku (mixed bathing) experience.
“tat-called”??
I can’t even.
Ooh, a three year old article.
Without clicking on the link I am going to assume this is a woman. Cause only a woman would bitch this much about something this irrelevant. A dude would whip it out and show you how the tattoo grows as he grows…
Joe Biden has vowed to “cure cancer” if he is elected as president.
Politicians usually make promises they can’t keep, but this is reaching a bit, about as much or maybe more than Trump* wanting to cure aids.
*Clearly because he hate teh gays.
Biden seems to be holding the election hostage until we give him POTUS.
Is that worth the cure to cancer?
I don’t think we should negotiate with hostage takers.
Good luck with those cures. Srsly. Because the reality is that you can throw a crapton of money at a disease and then plateau at a point where you are only marginally improving patient outcomes at great cost and monopolizing funds which could be used for other forms of cancer research.
^This is specifically about the Komen foundation.
Muh pink ribbons!
As far as I know, Komen spends very little if any money on breast cancer research. It’s mostly for “awareness”.
Way more fun to plan “rah, rah” rallies than to do actual medical research that would cure / prevent an illness.
“Sciencing is haaaard.”
/activist who FLS
79% goes to services
Not to mention the value of community for survivors that do the walks. I know a couple of walkers and they value that aspect as much as what the foundation is doing.
Yeah, but those services include awareness events, not just research money. Awareness meaning parties for the wealthy and powerful, pink sneakers on nfl players etc.
Trump loves the gays.
Anachronistic Expletives…
http://www.kevinislaughter.com/2019/anachronistic-expletives/
I didn’t get the memo on about half of those
but now I got the memo
Anachronistic?
A good chunk of those are still in use.
Maybe in the backwards part of America, not the cool ones
“THE CAT’S PAJAMAS” isn’t really an expletive. It’s more of a superlative.
And it’s “What in THE blue blazes”.
You would hear most of these if you ever watch movies from the 1930’s to 1950’s.
Or grew up in my parents’ home. They were big on the old movie talk.
I assume Ted uses these on a regular basis.
I drop “what the hey?” or “shoot” at least once a day.
I don’t see “Great Caesar’s Ghost!” in there.
I still use a fair number of those
“The list below was compiled by Blanche Barton and Anton LaVey and published in The Cloven Hoof, Issue 129 (1997)”
Huh, I would have thought that the Church of Satan would use better blasphemes
Serious question: what does the FBI actually do for the citizenry?
They fucked up the Vegas shooter despite having, apparently, advance info on the guy. They fucked up Parkland despite having mountains of red flags on the kid.
…what they did do was try to sabotage a legitimately elected president and set up a soft coup… and they fucked that up too.
They can’t do anything right.
Howcome you hate America?
what does the FBI actually do for the citizenry?
Perjury traps? Entrapment?
Don’t forget selective enforcement.
Rivalry with the CIA keeps the CIA from doing even worse shit?
Best I can come up with.
Setup below average intelligence loners to pretend to be terrorists?
They’re OK if they are helping out with kidnapping, Medicare Fraud, or organized crime where the local PD resources are inadequate or the perps aren’t near the victims.
You forgot the Orlando nightclub shooting. People were ringing their phones warning them and they did nothing.
Hey, what are the Boston Bombers? Chopped liver?
https://www.inquirer.com/news/local-ibew-john-dougherty-johnny-doc-fbi-investigation-union-spending-20190129.html
The Philly branch seems to do some reasonable work.
Boston branch, not so much…
Even without Implied Powers Doctrine and Living Breathing Constitution Doctrine, the Constitution of the United States of America does provide the authority for Congress to pass and the President to sign laws that create punishable offenses. Which is meaningless unless there is a mechanism for violators to be fined, locked up, etc. Somehow, the United States managed this from 1787 until having an Attorney’s General’s police force (1908) or an FBI (1935). However, if Congress and the President authorize by law having an FBI, and they manage to get their funding by voluntary means instead of by taxes or borrowing, then the FBI would need to deliver perceived value to keep the money flowing.
make America America again
Isn’t that racist, sexist and probably homophobic?
Well, its certainly offensive to some group.
Probably.
I mentioned it before but that can’t be beat as an acronym for the Dems – “MAAA!”
Non-Americans? Biden sounds like he wants to build a Wall or something.
Sooo… they’re highly anti-immigrant and pro-capitalist?
It is amazing the amount of computer hardware problems that surrounds the Clintons.
Shocking even!
And body counts.
I didnt click the link, teenage like 19 or teenage like 13? Because that makes a big difference.
Good looking 17
So closer to 19 than 13.
I saw upthread about VA being one of the weird age of consent states, so oops on his part. 17 is creepy but not gonna worry about it creepy, IMO.
WAR ON WAHMEN MENS NOTHNG TO YOU?
It would be something if the same party didn’t shame Alabama out of voting for Roy Moore with endless hit jobs(not that he wasn’t deserving).
If this doesn’t count as exercising your white privilege, what does?
Trump is governing the nation like a real-estate developer builds projects — here’s why that’s dangerous
You know who else took big risks with horrific potential downsides?
Lance Armstrong?
Do you know who else had one testicle?
That guy dropping baggies after shooting the other off?
The Dealer?
Well, before the end of fubar 2 anyway.
Deaner****
Half-sack?
Seminoles?
it’s almost impossible to predict whether a real estate project will succeed
Whereas the government and it’s bureaucracy predictably fails.
One weird trick to survive Trump’s horror-scape America or GTFO.
Economists don’t even have an accurate model of how to price land, because the parcels are so small and so many variables
McArdle seems to have some sort of degenerative cognitive disease. Circa 2003, she probably would have been able to come up with a more accurate statement.
Well, compared to the alternative of “destroy or corrupt the remaining vestiges of civil society so you can have absolute power among the ruins” that the DC establishment prefers, I guess it’s still better? Russian roulette beats a loaded shotgun to the face.
the debates will be pure fucking gold.
Indeed.
Today I had to make my first visa run from Chiang Mai to Myanmar. With door-to-door transit it cost about $45 and took something like 13 hours. Although it was fun to get out of the city as the scenery was nice, this is not going to be a very fun monthly errand that I have to put on my calendar.
I managed to get some work done on the bus but I have quite the backlog building up.
Tomato soup begins now. Need to finish one last task and then I plan on getting nicely toasted and going to bed.
Regular periodic visits to neighboring countries for extremely short periods? Hopefully it will work out better than Brokedown Palace.
As long as he doesn’t shoot himself in the nads, that baggie in his ass should stay put.
Sheesh, you need to secure the materials better when organlegging.
Definitely not the beaten path.
It’s been more than 20 years since I’ve been in that area. I’m sure it’s changed beyond recognition.
many of them attacked Moore’s transgender identity by calling the 24-year-old “him/her/it.
Utterly heinous.
Hermit?
This is, in short, the way that Trump, who inherited a real estate empire from his father and blew a billion dollars mismanaging it, is used to doing business: ignoring the numbers, betting everything he has on wild guesses (especially when he can do it on other people’s dime), and moving on to the next thing when the current thing fails. This works for his political brand — but it is not a safe way for a president to run a country.
Okay, I get it. McArdle is a fucking retard. I knew that, already.
McArdle has always been overly attached to the cocktail party circuit.
Once we have the right people in charge, it’ll be like Star Trek instead of The Hunger Games!
https://spectator.us/communism-new-york-times-bastani/
So, Fascism instead of Fascism.
It’s GOOD fascism this time! Really!
Like the commies would ever build a fleet of starships when there are still starving people or single-sex bathrooms. It’ll be Idiocracy no matter what.
Whether it’s getting tat-called on the street, turned away from potential jobs, or verbally or physically violated by drunk strangers at dive bars, being tattooed as a woman puts your body on a platform for public examination.
“I had breast enhancement surgery, and now people stare at my enormous tits!”
Can confirm.
Q, you ARE dedicated to your craft, aren’t you?
He is. I respect that. He’s also broad-minded enough to post beefcake links in the comments for my stories. A real bro.
Is the gay equivalent of a Q link giant bodybuilder guys?
Sure, that works in terms of generic ideal. My personal tastes run strongly to beards and chest hair; muscles are nice but so is a dad bod as long as he works out.
Interesting. My wife always claims she doesn’t like big muscle dudes, but then two of her alltime crushes are The Rock and Hugh Jackman when he’s in full beefed-up Wolverine mode.
But Chip, that’s like saying your more of a leg guy than a boob guy and then crushing on Sophia Vegara.
You guys rock.
Thank you for your service? 🙂
How will California pay for free healthcare for illegals? Fine poor citizens!
It’s brilliant!
Anyone with a sane and sober mind could see this coming from a mile away.
Imagine being a poor citizen being promised free shit only to be tossed aside for illegal aliens.
Oh the absurdity clown world of it all.
A focused effort to make citizenship worth less wold come up with this kind of plan.
When you figured out it is quicker to replace the electorate with a more pliable one than the ungrateful deplorables you have now…..
Another reason to not be sober as much as possible
Well yeah, any large social program needs a broad base.
So, in addition to the missing paper copies, and the damaged CD, which is a horrible means of long term storage anyway, I assume there is a backup server somewhere with the information. Right?
It got wiped.
with a cloth.
With thermite.
I thought destruction of evidence was illegal. Also, FIPS (fedgov computer guidelines) calls for multiple levels of backup, offsite storage of backups, etc. This disappeared because someone wanted it gone, and not the current POTUS (presumably). This is the deep state covering for their girl. There, I said it.
“There, I said it.”
So brave. Stating the obvious.
I mean, this isn’t even a conspiracy theory at this point, they wink when they say the emails are missing and the CD is scratched. Wink wink nudge nudge.
Yup. “Like, with a cloth?” was Hillary pissing in the media’s faces and daring them to complain about the taste.
What’s the point of Dem Primary polling? Everyone knows the DNC is gonna rig it for Biden.
Certainly going to try. And there will be blood, either before or after the fact.
Unless Herself swoops in.
I’ve been wondering how she is going to do this in any way which approximates “graceful” or “believable”.
She would have to position herself as an experienced candidate trying to save the party. Will be interesting to see if she’s ballsy enough to try that.
I thought we were talking about Hillary not Michelle.
Oh God… what if that’s the plan all along?
*shudder*
I can absolutely see the wookiee swooping in at the last minute.
With Hillary as VP, and when they lose to Trump, it will complete her utter humiliation.
Given my extensive review of 1990’s era popular culture, I believe that the lights will go out at the Decomratic Convention just as Sleepy Joe walks on stage, some 90’s era shitty heavy metal will play (maybe Godsmack?), Don Lemon will yell “OH MY GOD.. THAT’S THAT’S HILLARY’S MUSIC!!” just as the lights come one. She’ll dro Sleepy Joe with a Stone Cold Stunner and slam a beer for the cheep seats, then we cut to this and they pipe in an “IM WITH HER” chant.
I try to assume the dems must have a strategy in publishing these bs polling results, that somehow they must believe they’re gaining something by it. And yet, it seems that all they accomplish is to motivate the other side. I really think it’s just another way for them to stick their fingers in their ears and sing la la la.
PR campaign to keep the true believers from committing suicide.
The FBI claimed that notes are “missing” and the CD containing notes from meeting is likely “damaged” irreparably.
This kind of thing is why my blood boils when Her Shrillness comments how “nobody should be above the law”.
And she knows that. She’s smugly taunting us.
This guy makes me laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAhKOV3nImQ
I’m so happy I didn’t waste a minute watching that crap.
That guy did a great job.
Doctors could soon prescribe SEX ROBOTS to patients, expert claims
It would be a lot cheaper to distribute the works of SugarFree…
Who gets a prescription for aspirin?
Technically, no one.
Coloquially, I’ve heard plenty of cardiac patients who’ve referred to their required daily dose as one of their perscriptions because the doctor told them to take it.
I had a significant hypertension episode last summer and ended up with a prescription for those little tiny aspirin along with 5 other meds. It’s still active.
My erstwhile GP is infamous at my local drugstore for prescribing stuff you can get OTC. He prescribed me Zantac, Flonase, and probiotics. Not prescription strength, mind you. The pharmacist rolled her eyes and said, “He does this with everybody. I can fill this if you really want, but you know you can just get these off the shelf, right? It’s cheaper.”
People with union medical insurance that gives them $0 copay on perscriptions. #OhioValleyThings
Technically, we need an order/prescription to give someone aspirin in the hospital, too.
Makes sense, I shouldn’t have overlooked inpatients.
Serious question: what does the FBI actually do for the citizenry?
Look at all those terrorists they have saved us from.
Hi Banjos!
I have never heard Elizabeth Cotten before. What an interesting woman!
And a really unique style.
Thanks for the introduction!
Sex therapist Dr Marianna Brandon claims that doctors could prescribe sex robots to patients diagnosed as ‘sexually dysfunctional,’ according to Psychology Today.
Sex robots could offer an easy way for people diagnosed with conditions such as sex addiction to fulfil their needs.
Sounds legit.
Call me oldschool, but can’t we just go back to sex dwarves?
I’m out. See ya later Gliberators! Sleep calls…
The Koch brothers team up with Soros, Patreon, and others to fight online hate:
http://archive.is/QmUeg
Thank god we have those two fine libertarians in our corner.
No mention of the “lispy queer’s” calls for violence? Interesting, that.
Here’s a better idea – if you draw as many viewers/stadium visitors as the comparitor team, you deserve to be paid similarly.
If no one watches you embarass an incompetent goalie, you’re still not worth more money. The job isn’t to score goals, but to sell ads, tickets, and merch, which they don’t do as well.
I would be more impressed if they can beat the US men’s team.
Winner take all?
Can we start with their being able to beat the men’s U17 team?
How many tries do they get?
keep nagging. one day it’ll work.
I’d bet they make more than me and get to play a game for a living. I’d call that a win.
The starting salary in (American) men’s soccer is around $40K – with maybe 2 or 3 on each team topping out above $100K plus 2 or 3 Europeans or South Americans who split a few million. I assume it’s less for the ladies and there probably aren’t any American women commanding million-dollar salaries.
Most of them don’t really make that much but it IS a living.
I guess that goes to show how popular soccer is in the US. If I make more than most of your pro players…
She really is retarded, that’s a grade school level take.
baaaahahahahahaha…..didn’t the Australian national women’s team get blown out by a high school boys team?
We can stay with the current team at hand, and point out the USWNT lost to a high school boys team as well.
So those boys should get a pay raise?
Kirsten Gillibrand, currently ranked at much less than Not Sure in national polls.
You should draw enough fans to earn as much as the mens team.
Married teacher, 28, who ‘had sex with 13 year old in classroom’ pleads guilty
Brittany Zamora could be jailed for up to 30 years after pleading guilty to sexual conduct with a minor, attempted molestation of a minor and public sexual indecency
I feel for the husband. That dude is going to have to move far far away.
As she’s attractive in a bleach blonde ditz sort of way I predict a comparatively light sentence.
Wait were they Sticky Notes ™ or were they “stickey” notes?
regarding the VA pol that knocked up his hot 17-year old intern.. at least he married her and is raising his daughter. i assume he’s raising his daughter. dad’s tend to dote on their daughters. i have to give him the benefit of the doubt until evidence proves otherwise.
It’s purely for political reasons. She’s black, he’s been running in majority black districts. This ain’t his first kid – he’s got five kids by four different women. The only one he ever married was the teenager.
5 kids by 4 women? that is some Shawn Kemp level shitlording.
Did he get twins at one point, or did one of them take this deadbeat back?
don’t know the details. i must assume all of those women are upstanding members of the community and not tavern wenches.
Antonio Cromartie would like a word with you.
What Chipwooder said.
Also, the underage thing was handled perfectly. Had they put him in jail (again) for this he would have played the victim card about how the system was keeping him locked up and therefore unable to support his child. That would have played well to his newfound constituency who would have identified with him on that. He knew exactly what he was doing by choosing a 17 yo, as opposed to someone younger.
It is the day we have been training for! Empathy Day!
[looks at Jimbo with outstretched arms]
That would have been much less disturbing if I hadn’t been bent over tying my shoes when you did that
…
Empthay subroutine not found.
Resetting to default.
/run WhatHaveYouDoneforMeRecently.exe
Access Denied.
OK, now I may have found my first tattoo
“now I’m in a van”
LOL
Concerns about immigration have nothing to do with economics
https://capx.co/concerns-about-immigration-have-nothing-to-do-with-economics/
Meh… probably have a lot to do with most things. Nothing to do is a bit much
Nothing makes the villagers happy like settling unfriendly foreigners in their midst and making the villagers feed and house them.
That’s a lot of words just to accuse wrongthinkers of racism.
Counterpoint: A desire to force other people to accept actual immigrants in order to help the abstract immigrants of your imagination is not a more valid position.
Cry
havoc‘racist’ and let slip thedogs of wartrust fund babies of soy!Alexa, are you making me sexist?
“Siri, you’re fat.” She replied, “It must be all the chocolate.”
I felt mortified for both of us. Even though I know Siri has no feelings, I couldn’t help apologizing: “Don’t worry, Siri. This is just research for an article I’m writing!” She replied, “What, me, worry?”
I was testing out the premise of a UNESCO study released last month, in which researchers argue that the way voice assistants are gendered as female is seriously problematic. Our digital assistants typically have female voices and female names — Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana — and the researchers say this reinforces stereotypes of women as “servile” beings who exist only to do someone else’s bidding.
I figured it was because people perceive women as being more helpful.
Hmm, maybe a Santa like voice?
No, vox, it’s because people prefer to hear female voices, statistically speaking.
If you want, you can change the voice on all of them. So if you want to hear Mr. “It’s Ma’am” instead, go for it.
Right-o. EF has the male British voice for Siri. I use the Aussie female voice since I get less angry with “her” even though she’s a dimwit.
Heh, my wife does the same thing with everything that talks – Echo, Waze, etc have a British male voice.
I’m honestly surprised these things have caught on. Talking to a box that may or may not understand me and requires me to train myself to get better results… gah that has zero appeal to me at all.
I don’t want to talk to people, and I don’t want to talk to machines. I hate IVR systems that want me to speak to them instead of pressing a button. When I yell at my computer, I do so with the catharsis of knowing it can’t hear me and won’t respond.
This x1000
this
I’ve found even when they don’t specifically give the “or press 2” option, counting the options and then keying the reply often works
There is one I ran into where the button presses did nothing. I forget what company it was, but it drove me to fits of apoplexy. I sincerely hope the call recording starts when the robot picks up and someone reviewed that call.
I once found while calling the US Embassy that ranting like a raving lunatic to the IVR system gets you to the front of the line.
I use her for 3 things: 1. telling her to call someone, 2. telling her to add things to my grocery and to-do lists right when I think of it, and 3. asking her to do unit of measure conversions.
4. Siri – play audio from climax scene from Anal Orgy VIII while I tend to…things.
I use Aussie Siri also.
I miss TomTom and the range of voices they had on their devices.
I don’t know about Siri, Alexa and Cortana but I know in the GPS world the default gender used to give directions varies by country because people in different cultures respond to them differently.
In the US and UK they are Female because people respond to them better, in Germany they are apparently Male because people (especially men but both genders) don’t take orders from female voices as well and so on.
Sure there are cultural expectations embedded in things like the default vocalization choices but they do not drive or reinforce anything, they are reflective of things that already exist
Does Siri have a “bitch” voice setting?
That’s the default.
I finally realized why I’m not interested in Siri. Too freaking servile.
Really, I would truly get into a total bitch Siri. One that replies “Why can’t you google that shit yourself?… Oh, alright. Here.. try this website, Okay?…” Something that gives me a little attitude before delivering what I asked for – the way I’d love to go through life myself.
Not sure if I would want the Siri voice version or the Gunney Hartman version…
日本語で? 英語で?
もちろん英語。
Japanese doesn’t have the sarcasm I desire.
“HOLY DOGSHIT! PRIVATE! I JUST TOLD YOU WHAT THE WEATHER WOULD BE YESTERDAY. DID YOU FORGET ALREADY? DO YOU REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF YOU ASKED 11 HOURS LATER? REALLY? OK DUMBSHIT HERE IT IS. TRY NOT TO FORGET AGAIN.”
Gunny did make an excellent shrink.
oh now that would be fun….
“Siri, what’s the number of a plumber?”
“WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, NUMBNUTS? DIDN’T YOUR DADDY SHOW YOU HOW TO UNCLOG A TOILET WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD, OR WERE YOU TOO FUCKING STUPID TO LEARN?”
It would be better for a Nav System.
YOU WILL TURN LEFT IN 200 FEET, MAGGOT!
My wife and I sometimes imagine a Samuel L. Jackson GPS. “Turn left in 200 feet….*misses turn* I said LEFT, motherfucker, LEFT!!”
“What, me, worry?”
So Siri is really Pete Buttgas?
How do they know that Apple’s Siri, Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana self-identify as female?
Has anybody asked?
And if Siri were a man it would be guilty of mansplaining.
Concerns about immigration have nothing to do with economics
Okay, then. That’s a load off my mind.
OT: While driving to work today I had a Fast Times at Ridgmont High flashback. A white Honda Accord drove past me with “I Eat Ass” spray painted on the driver side door, Dick and balls on the hood, and a personal Cell number on the driver door.
Somebody pissed off the wrong gal or dude. I laughed for a good ten minutes and it made my morning.
You sure it wasn’t just HM?
That car aint pimp enough for HM
I was assuming a rental that he only had a few minutes to work on.
I don’t think HM drives a Accord. I’m thinking more of a Stutz Bear Cat.
Sure it wasn’t factory? It is current year, after all.
The cell number is a really nice touch.
Oh look, Joe Fucking Morrissey made it to the morning links. Joe’s bullshit began long, long before he started banging his teenaged secretary. From his disbarment:
He’s an utter and complete piece of shit, so of course Richmond voters keep electing him to various offices.
Beneficiaries of the system will give fellow beneficiaries of the system an almost unlimited number of chances it seems.
Boris Johnson’s racist insults, dog whistles and slurs
The Tory leadership candidate’s most egregious remarks.
more detail in the fold…
No context needed. I’m sure all those accurately capture the idea. Right?
I actually remember #1, and it’s not an accurate portrayal.
That’s too bad. It was my favorite.
The quoted phrases did appear in the longer context, but the removal of said context is deliberate to make it sound like an anti-islamic rant instead of the more middling commentary on immigrant assimilation.
Re #13: Totally not anyone we know… [Jesse]
I’m failing to see anything beyond #10 that’s really an issue.
Id vote for him
How about ego and superego?
Their vote split among remainers.
Ooh, a Freudian split?
They’re just afraid he’ll actually do what needs to be done when it comes to Brexit, that’s all.
LOL
Unfit! Rheee!
Is there any way we could recruit him for 2024?
“1. Calling women wearing the burqa “letter boxes” and “bank robbers””
I prefer the term Bag-Ladies.
8. Joking about “dead bodies” in Libya
Something like “We came, we saw, he died”?
If we are going to have a United States Commission On Civil Rights, the commissioners should at least write letters like this (TW: PowerLine)
A commissioner wrote the mayor of Minneapolis about their plans to have “sacred conversations” split up into different sessions for black bodied and white bodied employees.
Nice. Time for this shit to be addressed directly.
I was testing out the premise of a UNESCO study released last month, in which researchers argue that the way voice assistants are gendered as female is seriously problematic.
“seriously problematic” = DRINK!
There’s the UN, proving its value yet again.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7131719/Demi-Rose-24-pays-tribute-mum-Christine-passes-away-aged-64.html
All hail General Cheeto
“Give me a feel for what you think about — not necessarily predictions, but what do you imagine happening going forward, in whatever political way is relevant?” asked Cuomo asked.
“…A lot of people are talking about now is that if he loses — Trump — he won’t go,” said Maher. “I’ve been saying that since before he got elected, that if he loses the second time — if he loses the coming election … I think that we have to worry about because a lot of people say yes, it can happen here, meaning fascism — meaning something other than democracy. Now, I think we’re already there.”
He continued to explain that he has a “dictator checklist,” and Trump has done some of the same things that dictators on that list have done: “I have a dictator checklist that I read on my show sometimes — things that no American president has ever done — but this president does. Appointing your family to key government positions? This is banana republic …”
Maher also told Cuomo that even if he tough the president should “leave” office, “he will not leave.”
It is but not how he means.
Sure, Jan
Progjection. They’ve spent the last 3 years refusing to accept the results of the last election. And they’re already claiming Trump won’t respect the next one either.
It’s almost the next term and these people haven’t been able to get past the fact that Clinton lost the election fair and square. I’d say it’s unprecedented, but they did the same shit when Gore lost, too. For, I don’t know, nearly 20 years the Democrats have vocally, publicly refused to accept the legitimate outcomes of our political process, but somehow we’re supposed to believe that the Republicans are the dictatorial tyrants in waiting.
Maher is a gutless, faux-intellectual coward.
Go on a real debate and pull that shit you punk.
Shapiro went on your show, now go on his. On his turf minus the clapping seals.
God, this guy.
I want to see that checklist. Let’s see how much applied to the last guy.
Appointing your family to key government positions?
Robert Kennedy says hi.
didn’t jfk appoint his brother to attorney general?
The USWNT’s equal pay lawsuit is a fight for all of women’s sports
In April 2016, the New York Times released a comprehensive breakdown of the USWNT’s pay structure and revenue compared to the USMNT. Following their win at the 2015 World Cup, as well as subsequent 10-city victory tour, the USWNT generated $23 million in revenue in 2015, with $6.6 million in profits. These numbers eclipsed revenue and profits generated by the USMNT in that same period. (Because broadcast rights and major sponsorship deals include both the women’s and men’s national teams as a package deal, these revenues aren’t included in the breakdown.)
Well that’s weird.
But what about every other year aside from 2015?
It’s damn difficult to find a comparison of the revenue that is generated from women’s soccer relative to men’s. I wonder why that is.
anyone here do oly lifts? i used to clean a lot when i was younger but have gotten away from it. looking to get back into it but don’t have 2+ hours each day to devote so likely this will be a 2-4 times per week endeavor. is that dangerous?
and here’s an obligatory vid of world champ Loredana Toma working snatches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYAOByPuOfc&t=41s
Like any lift, get someone who knows to help get you going in the right direction. I don’t know how old you are, but 4 days might be a lot (depending on weight and reps, of course).
I kind of work them in to my routine – like cleaning the bar before OHP, for instance. They also can make for a really good HIIT option.
I’ve been meaning to ask you if you stuck with the Tactical Barbell program. Did you? How did it go? I’ve been doing it for about a month and it’s been really good for me. I’m going to repeat month 1 because, you know, fat and out of shape. But I can bang through my work outs with a lot less gasping between sets now.
I’ve been using power cleans sometimes, and it a pretty good fit for that.
I did a modified one (fewer sets), as I had some decent injuries during that time. High rep stuff is bad for me, I guess. Definitely improved my wind.
Back to my 5-3-1 and HIIT. I’ve got a hiking trip at the end of July, so I’ll be getting ready for that, too.
All in all, I liked the methodology and the setup.
Neat.
I do much, much better with high reps for no more than medium weights with occasional singles/doubles/tripples thrown in. I think I’m just so damn big that I have to move the bar too far, and my joints aren’t (currently) up to that acute stress (yet).
this is backyard patio gym so no pro at the box or dojo to question. i was going to rely on Youtube (bitchute not there yet), a gopro, and past experience.
My completely uninformed suggestion is:
Step 0: If you are starting from zero, do a mesocycle of conditioning, and one of hypertrophy/strength. There is no advantage in starting the oly lifts when you are too weak to control the weight and too gassed to put the volume in.
Step 1: Start with the component movements – power cleans, power hanging jerks, hanging high shrugs, front squats, overhead squats, high pulls, etc etc. You can see a big list of them here. Film yourself, and review often. Do this till you can handle good weight (whatever that is for you) with great form.
Step 2: Once you can handle good weight with great form on those, start putting them together with light weight, continue filming and reivew. Start with power-clean-into-front-squat-into-push-press before you go to regular clean and press. Then go to clean and press, etc.
I’m only on step 1 of this, so take that for what its worth.
Should have been:
Start with power-clean-into-front-squat-into-push-press before you go to regular clean and press. Then go to clean and
pressjerkThat’s cool. Lots of resources out there.
Like this from USA weightlifting
Also Wil Fleming
>> working snatches.
go on…
When I had a functional shoulder I lifted heavy 3 days a week for an hour or so each session. Shoulder issue was was pre-existing and wasn’t aggravated by lifting.
Holy smokes, she is absolutely nailing those.
yeah. her mobility is not joke.
My 3-day split:
https://bodybuildingindex.com/3-day-split-workout-for-gaining-muscle-mass/
yeah, 4Xs is not realistic. 2Xs is probably going to be closer to the truth.
M/W/F works well for me. Rotating through 4 routines means plenty of time between them.
I can’t wait till that dem running for the VA state senate gets his background scrutinized and put on blast like Roy Moore. Oh wait, that’ll never happen.
It doesn’t matter. Everyone here in town knows what Joe Morrissey is – read my earlier post about his history. They keep voting for the scumbag anyway.
Just read through that and damn, that’s just sad.
Ralph Northam says “hi”
*Moonwalks away*
‘Every Game You Like Is Built on the Backs of Workers.’ Video Game Creators Are Burned Out and Desperate for Change
A: Rockstar did not force crunch time on the employees who chose to put in the effort on RDR2. Even in your own article the people working it “Bragged” about the effort.
B: Even in college, these types of working conditions were known among the various programming majors, and would have been no surprise to anyone choosing to work there.
C: A union will merely kill that publisher.
D: Revenues are not Profits.
Even OUTSIDE of the games market developers generally have as a point of pride and an expectation that writing code is not a 9-5 job and long hours are both the norm and something to be bragged about. I’m starting to see some of that change, mostly for the better and in a healthy way as it is not people whining about companies forcing them to work long hours but rather a recognition that the inevitable burnout makes your code sloppy and poorly designed.
Really???? An industry where the labor market is defined by huge, huge damand for a very small number of jobs leads to long hours?
Do people know about this? This is huge and totally uneplainable with basic economic reasoning.
This. Supply greatly exceeds demand, so most of those people are utterly replaceable. Activision/Blizzard didn’t just toss off 800 quality employees on a whim, they did so because they know they can easily hire 800 identical such people when they need them again, so there is no need to retain people on staff between projects. A union won’t work in such a situation.
Biases confirmed
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says some of the increased pressure to regulate tech companies is deserved.
“There is an increasing regulatory burden that is coming on some of the tech companies. Some of it deserved,” Khosrowshahi said Tuesday. He was addressing the Economic Club of Washington, D.C.
His comments come amid congressional hearings and a closer review by federal agencies, with an eye toward examining anti-competitive practices. For example, a House judiciary subcommittee on antitrust issues is holding a hearing Tuesday about online platforms and their role in stifling media competition.
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Uber isn’t a target of the renewed regulatory scrutiny getting lobbed at tech companies. But Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon are all in the spotlight.
Just last week, Google’s YouTube was under fire for its lax policy to limit harassment in its online content and its inconsistent content-screening algorithm. The company announced a policy change, saying it would prohibit and take down videos that justify “discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.”
Hey, look. NPR tracked down a tech executive who says what they want to hear, so they can beat the drum about racism, sexism and hate on the internet some more. If only we had a panel of Top Men controlling what people could say, the world would be a better place.
wHY dO YoU hATe fReEdOM oF AsSociAtIOn?
I’ve noticed that youtube has started doubling up on ads and requiring you to click twice to get thru them.
One might wonder if they are having some difficulties.
Get an adblocker and you won’t see any ads.
^ this ^
It’s been years since I’ve seen an ad on YouTube.
You’ll still see them on Youtube
“Pinterest insider blows whistle on Christian censorship.”
Religious zealots tend to not like dissenting voices being heard. But, of course we’re supposed to pretend as if Pinterest isn’t animated by religious zealotry, because the NYT says so. Pinterest is just following the same science that says a man becomes a woman as soon as he says he is, which is totally not the same as transubstantiation, because it’s fashionable.
[golf clap for last clause]
Damn, Tulse, you surprised me on that. Well done.
I don’t mean to be a dick. It’s just who I am. And I really don’t have any issue with anything other than censoring stuff for religious purposes, but pretending as if that is not the rationale
I’ll see myself out
We are all dicks or assholes, here. Except the women, of course.
I really did find your comment witty. It’s exactly the sort of thing I would have written in the old days to taunt Eddie or that other guy.
The coveted GC is never awarded in jest.
We are all dicks or assholes, here. Except the women, of course.
But you repeat yourself.
One developer for Mortal Kombat 11 recently told gaming site Kotaku that he was diagnosed with PTSD after working on the extravagantly violent and gory fighting game.
“Here’s a note from my doctor says I can get out of gym class.”
“Oh this game called Mortal Kombat is definitely about feelings and emotions. I am also stone cold retarded.”
Pain is a feeling and anger is an emotion.
Why do progressives all sound like my mom when I was eleven years-old now?
Did she not know what mortal Kombat was??
Maybe she thought it was the female version where the fatalities are talking shit behind someone’s back and grudge holding.
“and your pants make you look like a whore”
BRUTALITY
SONYA WINS
Ugh, I can’t believe she wore THAT to a fight.
“Wow, Jenny, I would never be brave enough to wear those pants, but good for you!”
She read it as Moral Kombat.
Extravagantly violent is much worse than fabulously violent.
Good morning Glibs from the 49th and best state. I’m waiting on the all the bullshit paperwork so I can move into my house next month and I’m already setting aside money for some work on it. Maybe it’s buyers remorse, but having a landlord ain’t looking so bad right now,.
D: Revenues are not Profits.
Spluh?
YouTube Pulls All ‘Seinfeld’ Clips Featuring The Soup Nazi
You pull the one goddamn reference from that show that I actually know?
Next, Mel Brooks gets memory-holed.
Right? Making fun of awful things is awful. And Trump is Putin’s cock holster.
i sorta knew that was Babylon Bee but had to check to confirm b/c Seinfeld’s stand-up is not known for being edgy.
I fell for it. It’s completely believable.
No, it’s not known for edgy, but on the other hand Seinfeld has been outspoken in recent years about how pathetic SJW culture is and how it’s killing comedy.
Either way, he has not joined the pc brigade.
As if it will end there.
The only thing that tips off that this is satire (other than the site) is that it would be out of character for Seinfeld to agree with this.
Yep. This isn’t satire so much as some excellent trolling. I’m sure Snopes will have a write-up soon.
Natsoc Propaganda Radio wants justice
CEOs have become increasingly outspoken on a variety of political issues — from race relations to LGBTQ rights to higher age restrictions on gun and tobacco sales.
The latest example of this corporate activism came this week, when the leaders of more than 180 businesses — including MAC Cosmetics, electronic payments company Square and clothing-maker Eileen Fisher — signed a letter opposing restrictive abortion laws enacted recently in several states.
The letter, featured in a full-page ad in The New York Times, said that “restricting access to comprehensive reproductive care, including abortion, threatens the health, independence and economic stability of our employees and customers.”
Among those signing the letter was Tyler Haney, CEO of Outdoor Voices, who says her recreational-clothing company normally stays out of politics. The company’s nine stores aren’t in states where restrictive abortion laws were recently enacted, but Haney says she felt she needed to take a stand.
What’s the point of being holy if nobody knows? Wear your beliefs proudly, like a uniform, for all to see. Otherwise you’re a traitor to yourself, and the greater good.
how can this development possibly be reconciled with their fiduciary duty to shareholders?
Corporate social responsibility has become commonly accepted. Not doing so would be more likely to be challenged at this point.
I didn’t need Fodor’s to tell me this.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/06/12/fodors-travel-awards-best-worst-airports-airlines-cruises/1421927001/
Have some business as usual in NYC.
TL;DR version: mayor rewards his donor pals in exchange for designating an unremarkable building nearby as a “landmark”, in opposition to the building owner, and likely leading to the end of much-loved bookstore.
Wow. DeBlasio is picking a fight with NY’s third senator. ?
So the Strand is hanging on by a thread…
(I read about this earlier as well as the the Strand’s opposition. I didn’t know the full backstory until this article, however.)
Yeah, I didn’t know about the pay-for-play aspect myself. I should have expected it because landmarking that particular building makes no sense at all otherwise. And let’s not forgot the rent-seeking “activists” that had a hand in this.
State government. Doing important work.
So not actually deleting the language from the deeds, just adding a meaningless statement? How long before a lack of statement by each successive owner is the same as putting the original language in?
Does the statement stay with the deed like the covenant?
In 30 years or so, someone’s Supreme Court nomination will be derailed by the fact that he grew up in a house that had a deed with a racial covenant AND no addended denouncement of said language.
Well, what other mechanisms exist for removing deed restrictions or covenants after the people who threw them in have died? It’s not as if there’s another deed with the rights to sell to minorities you can buy from the heirs of the developer to make your property whole.
I’m pretty sure these have been de facto removed by the courts, as they are unenforcable.
IANA real estate L, but I think there are couple of ways to remove them. On sale, I believe the seller can remove them from the deed given to the new buyer, unless the restrictions run to an adjacent parce/landowner (or maybe, like an easement, benefit another parcel/landowner). If there is another parcel/landowner that benefits, they can be removed with the consent of the beneficiary.
I would think that an argument that these restrictions benefit the neighborhood, and couldn’t be removed without the consent of every neighbor, wouldn’t get far.
Naturally, what Minnesota approved is completely empty virtue signaling.
In NJ -the deed restriction is dropped on sale.
They should find a way to pass that measure in the first half of the 20th century.
Amazon is cheating the government again
Amazon on Tuesday said it will donate $8 million to fight homelessness in its two headquarter cities, Seattle and Arlington, Virginia.
The initial donation will include $5 million to Plymouth Housing in Seattle and $3 million to the Arlington Community Foundation. Amazon will also match employee donations to some charities that address housing and homelessness in either location through September 30, according to a press release. Amazon said it will match up to $5 million in employee donations.
Amazon previously opposed an effort from the local Seattle government last year to install taxes on big businesses to curb city taxes. The Seattle City Council eventually voted to repeal the tax hike, according the The Washington Post, which would have raised $48 million annually to fund the city’s efforts to combat homelessness and provide affordable housing.
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Amazon said it has already made significant contributions toward fighting homelessness in Seattle. The company said in its press release that it has donated over $130 million to local nonprofits Mary’s Place and FareStart since 2016, including annual rent.
Amazon said its new donation to Plymouth Housing in Seattle will help support the organization’s efforts which include providing permanent homes and services for people with physical disabilities, mental illnesses or chemical dependency. The Arlington Community Foundation helps local nonprofits through grants and special initiatives, according to the press release, focusing on homelessness prevention, education, arts, youth and families in need.
Not good enough. If it’s not done by the government, and funded by taxes, it doesn’t count.
Keep feeding the pigeons. That will make them go away.
$3M to fight homelessness in Arlington? that’s about $2M in political graft and armor after giving every homeless person in Arlington their own apartment. the nearest tent city is across the river in DC.
Amazon said it has already made significant contributions toward fighting homelessness in Seattle.
They mis-spelled “subsidizing”.
I’d say feature, not bug.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/11/trump-era-anxiety-inspires-better-angels-civil-discourse/3747143002/
Like Jus’ Sayn’ was jus’ sayn’, we are in the midst of a Great Religious Awakening; relationships with heathens and heretics can’t survive.
Hey Amash? This is how you do it:
Rep. Thomas Massie: Repeal Federal Restrictions so Teachers Can Be Armed
Massie is the real Amash.
Amash really went all in didn’t he
A little off topic, but somewhat related. I’m more of a Massie guy, myself (although, I like Rand the most out of all of them), and I think Amash is an ass for legitimizing Russia Fever Dreams and then desperately clinging to obstruction of justice once his conspiracy theory fell apart. At the same time, though, if Amash were to run for the LP, I’d probably vote for the LP again (I haven’t voted for them since Harry Browne). Assuming that Amash doesn’t go all Gay Jay 2.0 or something (which is a serious possibility considering his recent ‘curious’ positions).
I love woke science!
Someone is angling for a bigger budget.
Wow.
I’m gonna go see my NOCs (neighbors of color) and breathe the air at their houses.
I’ll report back.
communities of color, our lower income areas, our seniors
That’s just three different ways of saying “people who live in affordable housing”. Sometimes, I guess, affordable housing is good, and sometimes its bad.
“Miley Cyrus says she’s sorry for 2017 remarks putting down hip-hop in comment she left on YouTube: ‘I f***ed up’
Miley Cyrus took to the comment section of a YouTube clip in which a fan questioned remarks she made to Billboard more than two years ago.
In a May 2017 piece, the We Can’t Stop singer made a generalization about the hip-hop scene while saying how much she liked the Kendrick Lamar song Humble.
She cited a lyric in the song – ‘Show me somethin’ natural like a** with some stretch marks’ – in lauding her musical peer for his lyrical sensibilities, as opposed to material from others she characterized as vapid, sex-fueled braggadocio.
‘I love that because it’s not “Come sit on my d***, s*** on my c***.” I can’t listen to that anymore,’ Cyrus said. ‘That’s what pushed me out of the hip-hop scene a little. It was too much “Lamborghini, got my Rolex, got a girl on my c***” – I am so not that.’
The interview was noted by the YouTube user Kenya Wilson on her As Told By Kenya channel in a video uploaded May 31 titled ‘Miley Cyrus Is My Problematic Fav…Sorry.’”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7131449/Miley-Cyrus-says-shes-sorry-2017-remarks-putting-hip-hop-comment-left-YouTube.html
She likes lyrics that say “Come sit on my d***, s*** on my c***” now.
Of all the things she could apologize for, she picks that.
Hip hop is lame.
From Rhywun’s link:
The store compiled more than 11,000 signatures opposing the landmark status, but the commission pushed it through anyway — with one commissioner even going on the offensive against the embattled shop.
“I think their opposition is an expression of intellectual dishonesty and hypocrisy in this case and it is incredibly disappointing to see that in full view,” fumed Commissioner Adi Shamir-Baron.
Many property owners oppose landmarking because construction on the buildings must then conform to LPC standards and use more-expensive “historical” materials.
Rivera claimed that won’t be a problem for The Strand.
“And after numerous conversations with LPC staff, I am confident in their assurances that the store will not be strapped with burdensome delays or hurdles should its owners need to change layout and design to react to future market realities,” she told The Post.
“Why won’t you just lie back and let us help you?”
The Strand Bookstore is (was, several decades ago) awesome.
Nobody gives a shit what confidences you have or for the assurances they gave you, you dishonest sleazy fuckwit dickwad.
Who’d have guessed it, the agency responsible for helping expand the city’s power over property owners has assured us that this expansion of the city’s power is all well and proper and nothing to worry about.
I have a raccoon that gets on my roof and looks in the windows. He appears to want to come in. How does on get rid of a raccoon in an urban setting? Maybe Suthenboy knows.
Maybe he likes to watch you masturbate
Teach your neighbors to feed it.
How does on get rid of a raccoon in an urban setting?
Perhaps one of these. Some of them have “suppressors” built in if you feel the need to not go to jail.
This will win her back for sure.
Weirdness in welfare: My special needs son turned 18 a few weeks ago which means he can start getting a monthly disability check. That check $$ amount can be expanded to include housing costs if EF and I start charging him rent.
Does that open you up to “Inspections” of your “Rental Property”?
Science journalist and geneticist Rob Arthur said Mr Biden’s vow was a “lofty goal but a dumb thing to promise”. He added: “There is not and for the foreseeable future cannot be a single ‘cure for cancer’. Cancer is an incredibly heterogeneous disease – breast cancer is not like brain cancer is not like leukaemia, and no cure would work on all of them.”
Rob Arthur to be unpersoned.
Way to harsh our #Science buzz with your so called “science”, asshole.
Heterogeneous
I think I see the problem. /woke
“I was pretty surprised,” said the Pinterest insider in an interview, when s/he discovered that pro-life group LiveAction.org was added to a “porn domain block list.”
Rule 34 dude.
+1 Mormon porn
What did they expect with a domain name that can be too readily read as “Live Action Orgy”?
yeah, at first i sort of understood it and would accept an apology if Pinterest admitted they didn’t click it and just went by the URL liveaction.org
but that’s not what happened.
I know. But I couldn’t let the joke go unsaid.
Keep feeding the pigeons. That will make them go away.
It depends on what you feed them
Alka-Seltzer?
A new sport we can all get behind: The Booty Slapping Championships – Introducing Russia’s brand spanking new sport (VIDEO)
I like the offense/defense aspect of it, though you could add other divisions like:
-total decibel level
-artistic booty-slapping
-reverse-aggressor-booty slapping, where the slapping continues until one of the competitor’s hands gives out.
-solo booty slapping, wherein the competitor throws it back at objects of calibrated weights and they measure the distance travelled.
Good ideas. Though personally, I mostly like the hot girls slapping each other’s asses aspect of it.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11753658/same-union-behind-prolonged-marriott-walkout-threatens-strike-against-sfo-airline-food-companies
Hey dipshit. United is your company’s customer, not your employer. What do you think would happen if your antics piss off your customer enough?
I’d throw in a comment about “oh, no! Won’t be getting that crappy airline food served inflight”, but catering recipes and quality are largely at the behest of the customer airlines and can actually be quite good if the airline gives a shit.
I haven’t gone overseas in quite a while, so my max flight is about 6 hours these days.
Short enough that I feed myself.
America- what a shithole, ch 2,803
When policymakers and pundits talk about the nation’s affordable housing crisis, they usually talk about the forces that deny low-income Americans reliable and accessible housing near better jobs and educational opportunity. And they should; it’s not just a national crisis and widespread policy failure, but a moral crisis for the world’s richest nation.
But new research shows that the shocking realities of the nation’s affordability crisis—8 million renters pay more than half their income on rent, and the country is short 7.2 million affordable housing units, according to the National Low-Income Housing Coalition—have begun to metastasize and impact the middle class.
People keep moving to the cities, and housing prices keep going up. Maybe I’m wrong, but I cannot help thinking these are the same people incessantly braying about how Americans should abandon rural flyover country and move to where the highbrow cultural and intellectual elites live.
Also, suburbs are a blight upon the land, et c.
The crazy thing is that cities haven’t really grown in over fifty years. The cities with the most expensive housing (NYC and San Francisco, for example) are still smaller then they were in 1960. They’re just richer now then they were in the past, so demand is clearly not what is raising costs. Disregarding rent-control (which is absolutely a big part of the problem), maybe prices are increasing because the pool of possible buyers are higher income and willing to pay more?
Actually, everything I said about NYC and San Francisco having smaller populations than 1960 is not true. I guess they surpassed their 1960’s population peaks in 2000. This is what happens when you stereotype
I refuted you on this last time 😛
Indeed you did and yet I made the same mistake. My apologies for being a moron
But, know this- I can’t help it.
What is true, I believe, is that a smaller percentage of Americans live in the biggest cities. At one time, I think something like 10% of Americans lived in NYC.
The big problem is regulations. SF is mostly single family homes when it should look like Manhattan.
Manhattan shouldn’t look like Manhattan, it should look like sci-fi futuristic Manhattan.
Last weeks econtalk had some good stuff on it.
when it should look like
?
“should” in the sense that that is where my best guess of what the market equilibrium would be.
In a free market, property usually gets developed so that the structure is roughly 9x the cost of the land.
When it starts getting down to about 2x (due to the building wearing out or the land increasing in value), it is profitable to tear down and rebuild.
IIRC, SF is well below 1. The land may be worth 3 to 4 times the value of the structure in many cases. But it can’t be built out properly.
property usually gets developed so that the structure is roughly 9x the cost of the land
Commercial property, this sounds reasonable. Not so sure with residential property. Lots around the Casa Dean are starting to sell (goddamit) and I don’t think people are going to build houses that are 9x what the price of the lots seem to be.
Clarification: by “residential, I mean “single-family homes”. I think of condos (maybe) and apartments (certainly) as being commercial real estate developments.
Mine wasn’t too far off.
Our home was about 7x the lot price.
We could have build a bigger home, 8x would have been more typical for our neighborhood.
It is an approximation. The point is that no one
The point is the no one* is going to build a 40k house on a 40k lot.
*I am sure some idiot has.
“I don’t think people are going to build houses that are 9x what the price of the lots seem to be.”
I bet duplexes and 4plexes arent allowed by regulation.
My lot is actually work about 50% of the house value.
ie – the land value in my suburb keeps going up (as do the prices) but if I wanted to replace my house with something roughly the same size, it would only be $150k-ish
Ah, I’d agree with that.
No one knows what the equilibrium is, because regulation has stopped the market from discovering that. Why would San Francisco look more like Manhattan and not more like Houston?
At least we know what the market demands in Houston, because that’s what was constructed. We have no idea what the market in San Francisco demands in the 21st Century other than more hand outs
Its just my best guess, if it ends up looking like Houston, I am okay with that. I just know it wouldn’t look like San Francisco.
Less shit on the streets would be a distinct improvement.
So we can all agree that what San Francisco is doing is not right. That’s all that matters.
Let’s not have a situation whereby Ayn Rand denounced Milton Friedman as a socialist, because he opposed rent control from a utilitarian standpoint rather than from Rand’s preferred deontological standpoint.
San Francisco itself would not look like Houston because the supply of land is limited.
I doubt very much that market-driven SF could look like Houston.
SF’s location means that it can’t can’t spread (or as the enviros say, “sprawl”) the way Houston does.
San Francisco is geographically and topographically unique in so many many ways. It sits on a peninsula less than 8 miles wide. its North South dimension is likewise less than 8 miles.
Drive 40 miles in any direction from downtown Houston and everything is essentially interchangeable. You can do the same with Orlando, Atlanta or any number of other cities.
As they say in the real estate business, “location, location, location.” Drive 40 miles from San Francisco and you in…Stockton. 🙂
Yes, it is true that “No one knows what the [market] equilibrium is” but there are many indications of what that market equilibrium would be. Yes, it’s speculation and could of course be wrong.
There’s a double negative I didn’t intend
“SF’s location means that it can’t
can’tspread…”Manhattan shouldn’t look like Manhattan, it should look like sci-fi futuristic Manhattan.
Like The Fifth Element, but with even more garbage?
“but with even more garbage?”
Come on. How is that possible?
The assumption being made, though, is that demand would sustain itself if all the single family housing was replaced with high rises. Regulation is no doubt the root of the problem, but regulating the opposite isn’t really the solution. Developers will build what people demand and the skyline should match that.
Houston has far far less regulation on its housing stock than San Francisco and NYC and there is a shit ton of single family housing and Houston is growing faster than NYC and San Francisco and is poised to be the third largest city in America at the next census or shortly after that
See my point above about structure/land ratios.
Houston is building right (ish) for its environment. SF, like Manhattan, is more contained.
Of course, if the regulations were relaxed and more high rises were build in SF, that would lower the pressure on the surrounding properties, causing their land values to drop. The new equilibrium would be either some mix of high rises and single family homes.
The current single family home owners might be a bit pissed when their million dollar home is only worth 500k.
But the guy who turned the million dollar home into 5 million in condos would be happy.
I’ll defer to your analysis, because I haven’t studied the actual value of property in those communities in depth.
But, am I wrong to think that the guy who converted his million dollar home into condos would not net $5 million? Wouldn’t he net a million dollars? Why would anyone purchase a one million dollar condo if the going rate for a single family home is one million dollars?
I’m not sure that increased condo development would depress single family homes, it might actually increase the value of those homes, particularly if primarily condos are being built.
You must work in land use or construction, robc. The point about structural value to land value is a nice touch and a fair point on a micro-level.
I’d like to read more about that if you have a link or something.
I am not sure what a developer would net, but here is a general idea.
Buy a $1MM property that is 200k in housing and 800k in land.
Build a high rise condo building at 9x the land price. That would by $7.2MM on 800k. Total value of property is $8MM. Lets say it is 10 luxury condos at $800k each.
Lets say the construction margin is 20% for the developer, so it costs about $5.8MM to build.
So $1MM in initial purchase, $5.8MM in construction, sell for $8MM, netting about $1.2MM.
I have no idea what the margins are, but that is the general concept.
And now 10 families live on the same lot that formerly held 1 family. Each one of those that gets built, reduces the pressure on demand in the city by 9 units. The first ones wouldn’t change the equilibrium noticeably. If 10% of the single family homes in SF were converted this way, it would. 10% would double the population within the core city, if I did my math correctly.
SF already has people commuting in 2 hours, so I think you would get more of that and less of Houston style development.
Nope, I am IT. It is just a weird side interest of mine.
I will find a link about the 9x thing.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/12/the-little-house-a-story-of-incrementalism
Sorry for the redundancy, because I remember us having a similar conversation about this. I need to look at local governments and urban planning from work and I have never read people discuss the land value to construction value comparison.
I remember you linked me to a website before about urban planning and I looked through it. Thanks for the info.
Yup, that’s the link. I’m going to read through this again.
Sorry again for the redundancy.
Be careful with that site. Marohn has some libertarian leanings, but some of the other authors are pretty much full blown leftists.
deny low-income Americans reliable and accessible housing near better jobs
If only they had better homes, they’d get better jobs too. And by better jobs, do they mean ones that have higher skills requirements or barriers to entry? Or just the same jobs with high pay (because the cost of living is higher)?
Has anyone seen any noctilucent clouds this week? They’re popping up all over the US.
I can’t see anything because it’s foggy.
THAT STEVE SMITH FAULT. TRAIL MIX ALL DAY HURT STOMACH.
And then, they lay their cards on the table:
It’s easier to focus on the extremes of the housing shortage, both the rising levels of poverty and homelessness and the seven-figure spec mansions of the tech jet set. But the creeping cost of housing is pinching a middle class already struggling with flat wages, rising child care costs, and the skyrocketing price tag of a four-year college degree. This “middle-class squeeze,” as a 2014 report by the Center for American Progress illuminated, was about new constraints, and how “the costs of key elements of middle-class security rose by more than $10,000 in the 12 years from 2000 to 2012, at a time when this family’s income was stagnant.”
“The costs of key elements of middle-class security” you say? And just what might those be, Shirley?
When you’re regurgitating the narrative from the Center for American Progress, it’s time for me to stop listening.
rose by more than $10,000 in the 12 years from 2000 to 2012, at a time when this family’s income was stagnant.
Median family income (as measured by the Fed) was actually down about 10% over that time, which encompasses two major recessions. Since then it has more than recovered. Curiously, their chosen endpoint was also the low point for median family income.
This is what happens when you stereotype
I can barely operate a single keyboard.
Well, I’m lining an interview with a small school in New Hampshire right now.
bouncing from job to job across the country can’t be good for you.
No it can’t. But this should be the final hop.
I have to get closer to family.
closer to family
I find that a minimum four hour buffer works best.
If this one works out, we’d be about 3, a little more in the winter. I think your rule is about right.
Good luck!
DOOMco! Bro! Been worried about you!!!
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There are also increased calls for state-level intervention, to overrule failed policies at the local level. The repeated, and so far unrealized, push for SB 50, California’s transit-oriented zoning bill, as well as the successful passage of statewide rent control in Oregon, demonstrate the public’s hunger to have governors and state legislatures step in and use the tools at their disposal to put pressure on local governments.
WTF?
Rent control has been shown to expand the supply and quality of housing, every time.
“SB 50, California’s transit-oriented zoning bill”
Why don’t they rename the legislation the “Yuppy protection act”. At least it would be more honest
Housing costs in Oregon are a direct result of, in order imo, a) 40 years of state mandated & directed land use “planning”, b) regulatory costs at every stage of the building process, c) excessive public land ownership (primarily federal).
Yes. Oregon essentially banned suburbs a while ago and now they wonder why poor people have to commute so far for jobs.
“How could this have happened?!”
“It can’t be my policies, for I had good intentions. It must be wreckers.”
That pretty much sums up how the cunts that create the problems will respond, whether they mean it or just say so while laughing at the morons in private as they take a check to the bank…
NY says “hold my beer“.
TL;DR – permanent, much more burdensome rent control. Hello seventies, missed ya! I can’t wait for the comeback of fires across the Bronx.
Me too! Thrash-hop just hasn’t been the same since they broke up.
Also- local governments’ policies (by and large) reflect the wishes of their constituents. “Muh neighborhood character!” is an effective rallying cry, no matter where you are. Any time somebody proposes a multistory mixed use (shops/offices below, apartments above) in central Bozeman; you know, something which makes sense for a not-insignificant number of people, the pitchforks and torches come out.
“You can’t do that! You’re destroying Bozeman.”
People drive around with “Montana Is Full” bumper stickers on their pickup trucks. There are probably more people in a ten mile radius of my parents’ house in Indianapolis than there are in the entire state of Montana (probably Montana AND Wyoming). Full, my ass. It’s just more “Fuck you, I got mine.” People are assholes.
Bozeman could use one of those.
VT is still yelling about finishing the last 3 miles or so of a highway into Burlington.
It’s been in the work since 1960.
Yes, this is exactly why the large areas of single-family housing in SF and LA will always remain that way. The people living there want it both ways. “Affordable housing” but “not in my back yard”.
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Why would San Francisco look more like Manhattan and not more like Houston?
Topography.
Is that code for people that shit on the streets as they are injecting themselves?
Thread’s probably dead, but I didn’t want to rain on SF’s parade.
From the article:
This is a blanket statement that is so true and has led to me not using Pinterest anymore. I do NOT want to see stuff on my home screen that is similar to what I ALREADY HAVE. I want to see marvelous stuff I can’t imagine myself searching for or, more likely, I didn’t know even existed.
Morning, Mojeaux.
Good morning! I finally have a second to breathe.
In other news, I have never gotten around to building the firepit I wanted. So my 13yo son built it for me. Had a marshmallow roasting party last night.
Congrats. Not many parents have a kid that age willing and able to get the necessary work done for a project like that.
It’s ugly as hell, but it works and I am damn proud. I have become one of Those Moms over this thing.
I can’t imagine he’s had a lot of practice though, so, as long as it works properly.
I have never even figgered out what pinterest is, or what “service” it is alleged to provide. As far as I can tell, it’s just a search engine for images.
Girls like looking at pretty things, fantasizing about how their homes could look on a budget of 1 nickel, and collecting affirmations, so we hoard images and links.
Guys like looking at pretty guns and girls (preferably girls with guns), fantasizing about the size of their prep storage, and collecting “fuck yeah ‘murka” memes, so they hoard images and links.
Remarkably apt summary.