I got nothin’ ….so have a generic libertarian image
You want content?! Are you daft? But since it appears we have gained a lot of people, and SP labored long and hard to upgrade this place…
A CONSPIRACY OF PRIVILEGE, SQUASHED!!!
Residents of the East Coast express dismay at AGW evidence.
Ungood, plus ungood, or double plus ungood?
Afghanistan continues its disintegration.
First of all, I’d like to thank Old Man with Candy’s wife for the upgrade. There was a lot more traffic than expected, and it was necessary. What makes this really amazing is the fact that his wife is only 8 years old.
Second of all, I’d like to her. Again.
To be fair, she looks 12.
She’s a child at heart, and in reality.
Preet round 2: Crime-fighting attorney busts libertarian pedophile ring
Hoof arted?
Maybe they should raise the college age to 21 – it wouldn’t do to allow minors to attend.
I see nothing but positives from this.
Term of the Day: Kafkatrapping (not an Everyday Feminism link, I swear)
http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/wendy-mcelroy-beware-of-kafkatrapping/
It does describe though the EF mode of attacking.
Yeah, I like McElroy. Funny that the creator of the term commented and had met her when he was younger.
Good link. Useful, unemotional explanation of a common mode of attack/argumentation. Will bookmark for future reference.
“Oh, i guess someone hit a nerve with her. Why is she so angry?”
/an MO frequently seen at “H+R”
It goes back to Eric Raymond. That guy is a treasure. I remember him being a “big thinker” quoted often in the early days of the internet.
Ah, but those people often say Offensive and Deplorable things. It is known.
Seen recently
The original ESR post on kafkatrapping: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=2122
Thanks pap.
STOP PICKING ON ROBBY
The picking on Robby has only just begun…
“They expressed their opinions in almost a sarcastic way.”
The horror, the horror.
The protest, which began through a social-media campaign, urged immigrants to not spend money and to not attend work or school for the day.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but what point is there to skipping school in protest? They’re so mad they’re going to not receive their free education and you’re going to be sorry?
I’m just surprised any actual immigrants participated. It mostly tended to be older white people that were doing the protesting.
Some did and, at least according to some facebook posts, lost their jobs. The only way I can imagine actual immigrants being persuaded to join the protest is if someone assured them everything would be ok. For example, some 20 something fresh out of law school, save the world legal services volunteer.
Good. What’s the point in protesting a “wrong” if there are no consequences?
That’s why I think Scott Walker should have formed a commission to determine if teachers were calling in sick and then going to the protests when he destroyed their union. I’d have loved to have seen them find out who did so and fire every single one of them.
Quite a few doctors should have lost their medical licenses or been charged with fraud, especially in the Madison and Milwaukee areas, for passing out sick notes like candy to teachers.
Out on the east end of long island where there are lots of immigrant workers (construction, landscaping) the majority didnt show up, i was very suprised.
Plutocrats hardest hit.
See: every student protest walkout in Europe ever, ostensibly in protest of austerity.
The combined absence costs school boards lots of money.
In what sense? Aren’t salaries essentially pre-allocated/budgeted and unworked wages not reported on time sheets not lost?
Schools get fed/state money based on attendance – kids don’t show up the school doesn’t get paid.
They’re probably getting a better education not going to the government schools.
I loved Day Without Illegals. Next, let’s make it a year!
Going to end of a dying thread and informing us of a new post? Man, I could get used to this site. Could you burn a mole off my back, too?
::fires up acetylene torch::
What pressure does one set the gauges for dermatology work?
The SJWs at Yale have been going nuts. Amongst other nonsense, they want to get females into the all-male choir and force fraternities to allow in women
Without even clicking on that second link, I’m guessing they’re not demanding the same gender equality from sororities?
Why the hell would a woman want to join a fraternity, anyways? (After seeing what my roommate freshman year went through I wonder why anyone would want to join one, but that’s another story)
It’s like you’ve heard this song before!
And they also don’t want to force men into the all female singing group. As a matter of fact, the female group don’t want females allowed into the men’s because they are concerned it will hurt their numbers. But never mind that…onward justice warriors!
Ah, there is nothing better than the more enlightened forcing their dimmer sisters to accept the progressive future.
Why would they want to? Because it’s not about factual reality to progs, it’s about obtaining power for the Party
Think of all the fake rape allegations they could make. Not to mention all the annoying anti-male lecturing they can do everytime a man acts like aman.
The easiest way to stop this is to get the biggest most obnoxious dude bros and have them make a counter movement to be allowed into a sorority.
I volunteer.
I’ll even wear my gym shorts that are 2 sizes too small. You can totally see wang. My wife calls them my “pervert shorts”.
I don’t need to wear shorts two sizes too small for you to see my wang.
Using the possessive when referring to your Chinese friends? #problematic
What is this? I can’t even.
Excellent. The crazier they get, the sooner it all collapses. Maybe.
force fraternities to allow in women
Don’t they know they’re all going to get raped?
Or are they going more for a “I’m not in here with you. You’re in here with me!” thing?
Welp, Time to search for some Rule 63 gender-swapped Rorschach porn.
And I thought I was going to have a lazy Sunday.
Thank God for TOR. It’s not even NSFW. I just don’t want the possibility of anyone ever knowing that I’ve seen that.
Yet they still haven’t addressed the slave-dealing of their namesake.
Well, if the renaming of the Calhoun College is any indication, when they get around to it it will be messy. They renamed Calhoun after a great feminist, but she’s not a great enough feminist, because she’s white. Can’t make this shit up.
Grace Hopper: White Supremacist
JFC
This is cute too:
Have they covered all the bases yet?
Of course. Don’t you notice how she made the brotha stand in the back?
Needs a demand for foot washing stations and a prayer room for Islamic students.
And don’t forget the allahu snack bar in the cafeteria.
::ducks::
Vegan halal only if you please.
“signing the petition will give students a chance to “dismantle these archaic structures of power based on bodies alone.””
Wow. A fucking campus singing group is now a “power structure”? Holy shit.
Just wait until they complain about the tyranny of the treble clef.
Lizarribar said that the ban was also based on “events that transpired” on one of the days preceding Tap Night, the evening where members of Yale’s secret societies roam the campus in masks and ritual robes, inducting new members
That actually does sound like rape.
“I’d tap that!”
That actually does sound like rape.
Ya, that made me raise my eyebrows too. What are we tapping? The tops of kegs, or some other orifice?
My first thought was a tap on the shoulders, the way people were knighted in old movies.
Morning, folks.
Thanks for the hard work put into the place and the upgrade.
That is not a Libertarian image, Swiss…that looks like a Road
It’s not a real road unless it’s govt licenses and approved.
Professional libertarians? WTF?
Hmmm, well, I’m a lawyer and a libertarian…soooo…where is my check?
I keep hearing people talk about the shadowy alt-right but when I look where they point all I see is a very blurry photo of a guy in a monkey suit.
STEVE SMITH KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN…HARD TO FIND GOOD PHOTOGRAPHERS.
It’s hard to hold a camera steady when STEVE SMITH is in raping range.
“The problem isn’t with the photographers, Big Foot is just naturally blurry. And that’s what’s scary, there’s a big blurry monster wandering around out there.”
That’s really misogynist of you to refer to Hillary that way. Look, she may be stalking the woods of Chappaqua, but the photos are blurry only mostly because the poor can only afford cheap Android phones. Senator Sanders will be introducing a bill for this soon: iPhones for everyone. I think we should support him in this endeavor, and I fully expect reimbursement, as I’m still paying off my iPhone loan.
Sent from my iPhone
They’ll get my Pixel XL when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.
What’s with ENB now? I thought she used to be one of the better contributors at the Olde Site.
She’s good at setting aside her biases and approaching things from a factual point of view when writing an article. That doesn’t mean that she never expresses her biases or that her biases aren’t terrible.
Meh. She came to libertarianism pretty much from the left, as I imagine most of those folks did. I think this election has pushed a lot of people back to their old alliances. It’s natural to seek old comforts in times of unease. I am fighting those urges myself.
I mean that’s the whole yokel/cosmo thing. I was a Republican, but the combination of the 16 year war and the realization that they’re completely unserious about fiscal responsibility makes me a libertarian. If the GOP actually did cut the budget, I would stomach their socon bullshit. I have a preference hierarchy, and I think the SJW nuts do have a point that said hierarchy is influenced heavily by my race, gender, and sexual identity.
If 4 years from now Trump has signed some gun control repeal, signed an Obamacare repeal, reformed and cut taxes, and moved away from the bipartisan consensus foreign policy of Team America World Police, then he will be the most libertarian President since Coolidge, even it comes with immigration restrictions and tariffs. But that’s from my POV. To a left libertarian, it’s all about the pot and the ass sex and the Mexicans, and things like fiscal responsibility and gun rights are a little too….declasse. They have a different preference hierarchy.
“socon bullshit…gun control repeal”
Most people who use the term “social conservative” include gun rights among the socon causes.
Really? I’ve always seen socons as limited primarily to porn, sex, booze, drugs, and other vices. Maybe you can toss abortion in there, but I think that there are plenty of non-socons who are against abortion.
When I think so-con, I think the theological-based stuff; ie. using God as a basis of what statist shit they want to impose on people.
Ever heard the phrase “God, guns and gays”?
Also…
“According to the polls, white evangelical Protestants are the U.S. religious group most likely to have access to guns, with 57 percent of them living in homes with one or more persons owning such weapons….
“According to an August 2012 survey done by the Public Religion Research Institute, only 35 percent of white evangelical Protestants and 42 percent of white mainline Protestants favored the passage of stricter gun control laws, as compared to 62 percent of Catholics and 60 percent of people without religious affiliation. In 2013, after additional gun massacres, another opinion survey by the same non-partisan organization found that white evangelical Protestants continued to constitute the religious group least likely to support stricter gun control laws, with only 38 percent in favor and 59 percent opposed.”
I was born in 1972, so even as a teenager I recognized the evils of Communism and eventually came to libertarianism from the right in part because of the fetishization of the military from the first Gulf War, and in part from the day-care sex abuse nonsense. Oddly enough, what cemented my libertarianism was in the spring of ’96 seeing the difference in how Michael Irvin was treated for his use of a non-state-approved drug as opposed to how Brett Favre was treated for his addiction to state-approved prescription opioids.
From there I began to get fed up with the rest of TEAM RED’s socon bullshit.
how Michael Irvin was treated for his use of a non-state-approved drug as opposed to how Brett Favre was treated for his addiction to state-approved prescription opioids.
______________
Well, leaving aside the whole racial thing, which is probably a big factor, popping Vicodin to get through the pain is different from snorting to blow to get high, for most people. Same reason why medical marijuana has an easier time passing referendums compared to recreational marijuana.
Pretty much this. It’s jarring to me that Trump’s efforts re deregulation (to give one really good example) have gotten no positive response from the staff at TSTSNBN. Libertarians can have honest disagreements on particular issues, but can you really be considered a libertarian if you don’t care about the size or scope of government?
In reply to that tweet:
Oh jeez.
That’s it. We’re done here.
Commentator: “Coming to you live from the Twitter proving grounds in Washington, DC, this is live coverage of ‘Will She Take The Bait?’
Today’s contender is Elizabeth Nolan Brown. 39 minutes in, and she hasn’t wavered. ”
Color Commentator: “ENB has come to play today! She hasn’t even looked at that retweet button yet!”
Commentator: “That’s right Robby’s Hair, she has been training in 140 characters or less for three years now, but the task today is unlike any she has had before.”
Color Commentator:”Thanks Jacket! Her competitor Mary has already picked off one contender this month, and she ain’t done yet!”
I don’t see that, but then I don’t really know how to use Twitter so maybe there is a next page I don’t see.
Ah yes, libertarian purging. Always a great outcome. Of course the more, shall we say, ‘left-leaning’ libertarians don’t have to be held to any standard of libertarian purity whatsoever.
Yeah, there are people who definitely fit the bill of ex-libertarian, turned alt-right. If only a blind eye wasn’t turned to the same process happening on the Left libertarian front. (Cough:shikha:cough)
This is how the left works. They infiltrate something, they put their social justice stink on it, and then when everybody else leaves the room, they claim ownership of it. Prototypical example: the term “liberal”
1. Identify a respected institution.
2. kill it.
3. gut it.
4. wear its carcass as a skin suit, while demanding respect. #lefties
/David Burge
Your saying the left is actually just a merska?
Do you have any idea how monstrous it is to put up a link to D&D nerd as a response to an Iowahawk observation? DO YOU?
If only there was a recipe for institution building, so that we too might shelter our revolutionary brethren…
OMWC, that just made me log in for the first time on twitter in 6 months.
Wow, I really fucked that one up. My commentary is above, the tweet I’m responding to is below.
I wish we could say the same about the SJW movement, but those ‘libertarians’ keep calling themselves libertarians.
In case you need some ideas for your Not-My-President sign.
“…Our Selfies.”
Shorn armpits. Obviously a fraud.
Also lipstick, smartphone and clothes.
She’s got the bingo wings/soupy/ pale/flabby fat/ “not obese but will be in a few years” thing going on though.
That broad is edgy. Look at her script tat. She’s fucking HARDCORE.
I wish I could zoom in and read it since it’s probably something taken out of context and misattributed.
Or it’s lyrics to a Carly Simon song or something equally retarded.
I have a vague memory of a little story coming out of one of Murka’s major cities some years back when Chinese character tats were all the rage. A young woman was approached by an elderly Chinese man who wanted to know why she had those particular Chinese characters on her shoulder blade/arm/ass/wherever.
She replied that those were the Chinese characters for Peace and Love or some such crap. The old man said “No, that say chicken and fried rice!”
Turned out a local tattoo artist was copying characters out of a pile of Chinese restaurant takeout menus.
Anyone else remember that?
If you track down the news article I would be interested.
It doesn’t give specifics of who or where, but I found this article of a girl who found out she had “Chicken Noodle Soup” tattooed on her back.
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2013/04/25/a-tragic-but-kinda-funny-case-of-tattoos-gone-wrong-but-why-oh-why-did-this-happen/
Most excellent
Clearly a Nazi salute. The Daily Stormer should make her the face of their site. *BTW, damn to hell the humorless media for making DS trolling legitimate to a point.
Man, Alicia Silverstone has let herself go.
“Here, have a coat-hanger.”
No thank you.
We need to come up with a Spring/Summer version of the Pink Pussy hat to sell.
Maybe just the ears, or a golf visor or something
I was nearly to the bottom of the page looking at signs before I realized that is not a parody.
First three letters of the last three words spell “MOP,” so looks like she played herself.
::barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen::
Our I’d like those lip wrapped around my….
… Vaporizer?
Trombone?
Now that’s in my browser history. Thanks for that.
Gawd I hope you’re not married if you don’t know how to clear a browser history.
This goes into the list of benefits to single and childless life. Boat money, pantsless Sunday and never wasting time clearing browser history.
Only Sunday?
let me rephrase that
This is why God invented private browsing.
One of them is a from a facebook post by “Dr. Krissy.” It was a picture of a “this pussy grabs back” sign. I enjoyed her comment:
Nice
Lest we all forget that Elizabeth Nolan Brown used to write for Bustle.
I had somehow never heard about this.
Long story short, Silicon Valley firms were accused of collaborating to suppress wages (no cold-call agreements). Now, it’s in California and they settled out of court, so who knows if they were actually guilty? But there was smoke, so maybe fire.
From a libertarian standpoint, I don’t really like this kind of suit. But I still can’t help but have some schadenfreude from these progressive entities being half-busted colluding to suppress wages. I imagine that since they were suppressing the wages of high-income earners, it didn’t get a lot of press. Still interesting.
Would not surprise me if they were guilty. I lived in the Bay Area long enough to learn that the “progressive” tech companies there are notoriously unpleasant places to work. If you don’t think twice about treating your people like crap when it comes to things like bad benefits, crazy work hours, banning telecommuting, “open office” desk layouts, etc, you probably wouldn’t think twice about this.
But they give you bean bag chairs and free dinner!!!11!!!
/sarc
Lighten up, Francis.
Grrrr.
Question for those of you who can see behind the curtain;
Just out of curiosity, how many
subscribersmembersreadersne’er-do-wells have signed up for this glorious website?Not sure how that ended up being a reply straffinrun…wasn’t intended to be. Damn squirrels! …or more likely operator error.
Just one. It’s sock puppets all the way down.
He is a pinko useful idiot. He is upsetting our culture. How am I supposed to respond to “Is the pope catholic?” anymore?
“Does the Pope wear a funny hat?”
“Yeah, Glenn, I guess it is kinda funny.”
Clearly, we need the Young Pope.
Where is Francis?
Hey guys. This is really impressive – free markets at work indeed.
One question though. Have y’all quit your day jobs (assuming you you had any)? I’m an old retired fart and I can’t keep up with all the conversations.
Anyway y’all are doing the Lord’s work here I hope we can sustain it.
Now back to my regularly scheduled lurking.
Is it ok to post Sunday feasting plans on Glibertarians?
Breakfast: steak and eggs with leftover gyros meat, a leftover Italian sausage. Over hash browns with olives and tzatziki. Fresh oranges and kiwis. Bloodies, of course.
*hangs head in shame and shuffles off to have some oatmeal and Folgers coffee*
*hides McDonalds wrapper under the couch cushion*
I live on coffee. No regrets.
I live on whiskey and bad decisions.
Made ersatz donuts with the kids; biscuits-in-a-tube (honey butter flavor), quartered and deep-fried with a tableside toppings bar. It’s warm enough to fire up the grill here in NYC so tonight will be skirt steak that is already swimming in mojo criollo.
Some bullshit at the airport. Poorly fried eggs.
How can one screw up frying an egg? That would take actual malice…
Break the yolk?
Braised eggs, FTW
Unnecessary autoplay video because Epicurious.
My grandfather showed this to me a few years back and it’s been my go-to fried egg replacement since.
Looks good. I have yet to do the scotch egg, maybe this week.
I just use scotch eggs as an excuse to go to Scottish cultural festivals and watch men with thighs like tree trunks throw tree trunks in man-skirts. Homemade ones are good, but you have to be careful with cook times and temps just because any given layer has a potential from going from under to over cooked at a different time.
it will be one of the hardest things I’ll cook.
That is a good reason to go to those festivals.
Lemme know how they turn out. Sometimes “I tried, I failed, I got McDonald’s” kitchen stories are more fun than the successes.
Will do!
Butter not spray oil but yes, I found that trick somewhere too. Works great.
Most mornings it’s the pan I’ve just cooked bacon in, which can get kind of gummy. The braising helps it release from the pan without trouble.
I didn’t get autoplay video. Must be your browser settings.
(Of course, Twitter videos don’t play in my browser. And fuck GIFs substituting for video, just on principle.)
Damn you! Wife had oral surgery three days ago. Cant have anything chewy here out of sympathy. We are having a lot of soup around my house until she recovers. Luckily tomato soup is one of her favorites.
You don’t have to chew vodka.
Ouch. Hopefully she recovers quickly.
Egg based “mess” of eggs, cheese, Krakauer ham, onions, spinach, and mushrooms with bacon on the side.
Oops… Krakauer has beef in it too.
Chocolate Chip brioche French toast with sliced banana.
Just want to comment and say thanks for putting this all together. I occasionally commented over at the site that shall remain unnamed, but mostly lurked. The comments always provide great fits for thought and give me a lot to reflect on and help shape some of my views. I’m a recently turned small-l (last 7 or so years) and appreciate the views expressed, whether I agree or not. This discourse by you commenters has been vital in my conversion. Cheers to you all.
And by “fits for thought” I meant “food for thought”, but obviously autocorrect is getting the better of me today.
The lack of an edit button makes it feel almost the same as the other site.
Some of us have an edit button….
COMMENTELITIST!*makes signs up for the protest*
And yet lack an avatar…
Yours is broken.
And now your avatar is back!
*cracks knuckles*
Just fired off a couple of submissions.
Fingers crossed!
Great work, guys. Too bad the avatars got nuked with the upgrade, but I’m sure they’ll find their way home.
I’m kind of thinking that folks just need to re-upload their pics. I created my account after the upgrade and I’m seeing about half of the avatars.
Yep, you’re right, it worked.
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You risk summoning Cummybot with your invocation.
Don’t trifle with things you aren’t prepared to handle.
NOOOO!!!!!!!!
*hides*
HM is an emoji nazi, there I said it.
I’ve ?found?my ??gaming habit?? is very♀?? attractive to ???♀women. I’m a ??competitive gamer??? and top ??????? ranked in a couple games, and ?believe? it or not ?♀?women???♀ find that ????sexy????. I think it’s because it’s because I take it ??seriously??, so they do to. I’m ?♂️not?♂️ embarrassed ? by it, and my last couple✌❌ exes ❌found it “Strangely ?hot? when you?⛏⚔️? kill ???⚔️someone in a ?game? and then whisper? “fuck I’m a badass? fucker?…”” Women ??find? passion ????sexy????. If you’re passionate about something, and good✔️☑️ at it, a lot of women??? will be attracted??to that. Unless your passion is my little ??pony ??or some ?shit?
https://cdn.meme.am/cache/instances/folder331/500x/27566331.jpg
My avatar didn’t go anywhere.
But I do need help with Monocle – I have to re-install it every time I restart Chrome. I have ticked the “Developer” box so that isn’t it.
Uninstall Monocle, then install the tampermonkey extension from the chrome web store, then click this link.
That should do it for you. For security reasons, Chrome has recently locked down use of non-vetted user scripts (like Monocle).
I should warn that I’ve been recklessly switching between Mac and Windows this morning – if there is any difference.
Anyway… now on Mac, and I did what you said. However the script won’t load unless I click “Load unsafe scripts”. A tiny hassle.
🙁
Hm… after testing the HTTPS stuff mentioned below, now Monocle loads without clicking “Load unsafe scripts”.
Why does the internet have to be so hard?
Google doesn’t like not having control over the extensions loaded on their browser. On some level I don’t blame them, people click some really stupid things and then get all their personal info stolen. However, to not have a blatantly obvious override to say “I trust this script” seems really stupid.
Eventually I may look into what it takes to get Monocle into the chrome web store.
Thanks trshmnstr for the monocle and the reminder about greasemonkey, it’s been a while since I’ve used it. giggles
Thanks for Monocle. I was finally able to install with the help of tampermonkey. Now timestamps make sense again.
Adding Tampermonkey did the trick, I think. Thanks, trshmnstr!
I like your handle. That was an excellent book.
Thanks. Reaper Man was excellent. One of my other favorites is Jingo.
My first reply had a lot of URLs and is waiting for mods. You’re probably logging in and remaining on the HTTPS URL for the site. Many of the avatar images are linked on the page to HTTP URLs, which your browser is protecting you from.
I have submitted a couple but never showed up. I dont think I did it right. Either that or I am more boring that I thought I was.
*probably the latter
They have a backlog of material. I submitted something early last week that won’t start to run until tomorrow.
That was more, we didn’t want to let a good serial lose momentum over the weekend. We’re trying to set all y’alls work up for success.
We are getting quite a number of submissions. And to think, we were concerned about having enough content! Seems silly in retrospect, of course this bunch of eloquent pedants can write their thoughts out well, with good supporting arguments. Duh doi.
That’s really good to hear. I don’t know what areas you’re light on back there, but I should have some things submitted in a day or so.
You might want to try to resubmit, Suthen.
Articles? Currently, to the best of my knowledge* we’ve accepted virtually everything. If they were leads, we do still have a couple of the meatier leads floating in the pipeline, waiting on follow-up contacts. I’ll go check again, but – mind you, working on me coffee yet – I don’t recall turning anything away from you.
*which ought to be pretty damned good.
“Just fired off a couple of submissions. Fingers crossed”
Impressive. With or without lube?
Submissions, not emissions. Geez.
Although I do get a kick out of the email address. Submit at glibertarians, indeed.
KNEEL BEFORE LIBERTARIAN ZOD!
SP is a cool lady who doesn’t afraid of anything. Thank you for making the Promised Land.
It’s so nice to see so many familiar names and faces (shudders) migrating – Richie, Ralph Malph, Potsie, Chachi, Fonzie, Joanie, Al, Arnold, Carmine, Laverne, Shirley, Lenny, Squiggy, Howard, Mrs. C….it’s comforting.
Don’t forget about Chuck. Everyone always forgets about Chuck.
No love for the Tuscaderos?
And what about Mork?
Illegal aliens don’t count
they weren’t all happy days, like the time Pinky Tuscadero crashed her motorcycle, or the night I lost all my money to those card sharks, and my dad Tom Bosley had to get it back
Boston considering building a wall across Boston Harbor
It would be a massive, highly controversial wall sure to cost billions of dollars. But this barrier would be much closer to home — and potentially more expensive — than the one President Trump has proposed along the Mexican border.
As rising sea levels pose a growing threat to Boston’s future, city officials are exploring the feasibility of building a vast sea barrier from Hull to Deer Island, forming a protective arc around Boston Harbor.
The idea, raised in a recent city report on the local risks of climate change, sounds like a pipe dream, a project that could rival the Big Dig in complexity and cost. It’s just one of several options, but the sea wall proposal is now under serious study by a team of some of the region’s top scientists and engineers, who recently received a major grant to pursue their research.
I was sure that was going to be some SJW response to you-know-who.
Jesus Christ. It’s like watching a circus of compulsive thieves. Once the coffers are opened for the scam there is a feeding frenzy. The best way to protect yourself against AGW is to bury your money in mason jars.
It helps to remember the purpose of large construction projects in Massachusetts.
Make-work for unions.
None of this should surprise anyone.
Did they ever finish the big dig? I remember watching an pbs program on it in the 80s.
That sounds insane.
I think it would destroy the ecosystem of the entire harbor. (not a marine biologist disclaimer here) What is the elevation of the two islands? What is to stop the high water from going over/through the islands and flooding Boston and the water then being trapped in there by the wall? See the Florida barrier islands and the army corps of engineers on the success of changing what is a natural path for water.
“What is to stop the high water from going over/through the islands and flooding Boston and the water then being trapped in there by the wall?”
I’m not seeing a problem here.
good point
If they are really serious, they just need to hire the Dutch.
Ah, UmAss professors.
Just hire the Dutch to do it. I’m sure it’ll be fine.
DAMMIT!
Reached for comment, one resident of the nearby North End replied, “That’s fackin retahded!”
New New Amsterdam?
“a project that could rival the Big Dig in complexity and cost.”
The Big Dig is a case study of corruption and government boondoggles costing way more than expected and delivering way less than promised, so if we could avoid another one of those, that’d be great.
With that said, I wouldn’t mind if they just let Boston slip into the ocean. Terribly overrated city.
When you visit this site over HTTPS, a good half of the avatar images break, as do the front page images. I’m going through:
https://glibertarians.com
For example, this is OMWC’s avatar image:
http://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/avatar_user_4_1487178617-80×80.jpg
…I can’t see it because Firefox does not include insecure images when going to a HTTPS URL. Straffinrun’s avatar is:
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/avatar_user_145_1487259313-80×80.jpg
…I CAN see that one, since it’s coming in over HTTPS. Different from both of those is HM’s avatar:
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/avatar_user_20_1487517007-80×80.jpg
From the page source, every avatar is being presented with a full URL instead of a relative path. It doesn’t matter when going over HTTP, but it is a weird inconsistency. Anyhow, I like flipping off the man and going over HTTPS.
Seconded. The site layout is wrecked when using Firefox and HTTPS. It’s fine with plain HTTP.
Looks fine with S in Chrome. At least right at this moment, it does.
When I first got on the site today, my avatar was missing. URL says I’m using HTTPS. I just uploaded my avatar a second time.
On Firefox with HTTPS avatars seem to come and go for me. About half the time they decide not to load. The rest of the time most load but a few don’t. Site’s whitelisted in uBlock Origin and trusted in Ghostery, so shouldn’t be a problem there.
You can get them to load if you click the lock to the left of the URL then click the arrow to the right, then click “allow” or whatever it says.
The unread comments button is pure genius.
I redid my avatar.
Thanks for the upgrade work SP!
A-TO-MIC KA-RA-TE.
this is an avatar test and only an avatar test.
This is also a test.
You are user number 28, and you uploaded that avatar on Sun Feb 19 10:42:00 CST. Test successful!
Also a test, but I should point out that my avatar hasn’t studied all semester.
Test
F-35 vs F-18: thoughts?
F-15. And stay off my lawn
My father always favored the F-350, but I say if he had to drive all the way to the other side of the state to get the engine he wanted then then 350 can’t have had a good selection on offer.
F-35, because you can’t kill what you can’t see. Also, there’s a reason why we’re happy to sell a bunch of F-35s to allies… it’s because the way to win aerial combat has much more to do with electronics and software than pure maneuverability, and we keep those sensitive electronics and software packages for ourselves.
/completely uninformed opinion
Some people give Frank grief. Personally I like the guy aside from our vehement disagreement on some subjects. When it comes to this subject he is the go – to guy for me. It was his profession. I will withhold my opinion until we hear from him.
Suthen =
agreed – but i think there are actually 2 different arguments, and Frank is actually only really an expert on one of them
One argument is, “which is more cost-beneficial for current practical applications we need aircraft for”, and the other is “Which is technically the superior aircraft”
I think Frank would point out pretty convincingly that on the latter point, the F35 wins hands down.
But i’m reminded of something a client told me = “You’re selling me a cadillac when all i wanted was the ashtray”;
We don’t necessarily need a “4th generation (or whatever it is) fighter” to do the jobs in what are often numerous and disparate “2nd Generation”-style conflicts.
Having ‘more’ (if not ‘the best’) planes means you can deploy them more regularly, and have people getting more hours flying them, and developing the core-skills we need pilots to have. We also coincidentally happen to already have an entire logistics train set-up to support the F18; people who know how to repair it, replacement parts, etc. And on and on.
I don’t know if that argument actually even works in favor of “More F18s”, but my peripheral look at “what the military wants” versus “what congress keeps trying to shove down its throat”, seems to indicate that the military keeps asking for “please help us keep the shit we have up-to-date”… and congress far prefers to ignore those requests, and instead shoves “new projects” with “next generation technology” down the pipe, because those things allow them to deliver more pork to wider range of constituents.
just my 0.02
Exactly this. The issue with the American defense sector is not quality. They’re very very good at making lethal weapons systems.
See Iron Law 4
You are starting with a false premise.
It takes 20-30 years to develop a new fighter from concept to initial operating capability (IOC). That means you are not designing an aircraft to defeat current threats. You are designing an aircraft today to defeat the threats that are still 25 years into the future. Which is exactly what we did with the F-15. It was designed, in the 60’s, with the immediate goal of countering the Mig-25. It did, but it was an order of magnitude better than that. Consequently, with a few upgrades along the way, it can still defeat the latest Russian gen 4+ fighters (Su-27, 30, 35). That’s 42 years after the F-15 obtained IOC.
Our gen 5 fighters decimate our gen 4 stuff. Both the Chinese and the Russians have gen 5 fighters (Russians take delivery this year And neither country has any qualms about exporting to every tinpot dictator in the world.) Which means they can defeat the Super Hornet right now. The F-18 airframe is about maxed out on the new technology you can pack it with. The T-50 and J-20 are just getting started. If they can beat our gen 4 now, what happens in 25 years when they really get going?
So, you shitcan the F-35 in favor of Hornets and start developing a new fighter today, you are a complete generation behind and will never catch up (barring revolutionary technology). And even if you can jump a generation ahead technology wise, you leave a vulnerability gap of 30 years. And I haven’t even touched on the surface to air threat.
So the notion that you only need an ashtray is quite simply false. If you want to win wars decisively (and I’m not talking about this nation building shit), you need Air Supremacy (IIRC, not one American soldier has been killed by an enemy aircraft since Korea) and that means being 10 years ahead of everybody else, not behind or even at parity.
“” the notion that you only need an ashtray is quite simply false””
Tell it to the people who want more F18s, not me. I was simply summarizing why someone might make that case.
Those “people” who want more F-18s are Boeing and the politicians who support Boeing.
National security’s got nothing to do with it.
If you say so. There are nevertheless actual branches of the military making specific requests for “more of the old stuff” in addition to their current orders for “more of the new stuff”.
And wanting ‘more old stuff’ in the interim is not, as you suggested above, only an “Either-Or” choice, which somehow reduces their future capability.
They aren’t doing it because they’d rather have Super Hornets than the F-35. They are doing it because delays in the F-35 mean they need jets to fill the gaps. They aren’t making C/D Hornets anymore as they are all supposed to be replaced by F-35s. They are falling apart. Not to mention the Navy drops a few in the ocean every cruise. And the current commitments to support the ongoing 16 year long debacle means they put at least twice the number of flight hours on the E/Fs than they were designed for (to date).
That leaves more F-18E/Fs as the only option to to continue to meet their operational requirements as delivery of the F-35 has been pushed to the right 10 years.
These are “get us through” jets for the Navy. It does not represent a preference for F-18s over 35s, which is what certain special interest groups (and the uninformed) are advocating for, and to whom I was referring.
As far as “either or” goes, yes, there will be gen 4 and 5 aircraft flying at the same time. While one ramps up the other ramps down. They don’t get replaced overnight. But there are MANY groups claiming we can shitcan the F-35 with no loss in combat capability. That’s false.
You can compress development cycles for combat aircraft by simply designing for more near term threats and rolling out aircraft ahead of them. The other way is by having a real handle on your requirements, which you can only do if you have good definition of what the user wants in a platform. This works well if your satisfying one user. F-35 has had gestational issues not because of any one technology or even integration of technologies. It has taken forever and continues to to be a dog because of the joint service nature of the program. From a systems engineering and program management standpoint it is a pants-on-head ridiculous way to do things and the services should have split the platforms long ago. Any of the guys worth their salt knew this going in, and all the optimists needed to do was go look at the F-111 program to get a reality check. The political climate and budget constraints of the time of course meant we got what we got: a collection of great systems in three related but compromised platforms.
The program has in fact been so painful to everyone in contact with it that it might actually prevent the bureaucrats from trying something similar again. That, at least from a defense procurement standpoint, will be the most enduring legacy of F-35. From an engineering standpoint however, the legacy will be the lift fan and the sensor fusion model. That is the way toward air dominance. I say this for two reasons:
1) an in-flight clutch-able shaft can drive a generator for a solid state laser
2) with a laser and the continuing spirals to F-35s sensor model, including networked UAS escorts, nothing in the sky is safe because you’ve compressed the kill chain to just about zero.
Other than big stupid institutional inertia, this is why the services have put up with F-35 in spite of all the other compromises they’ve had to make.
The Growler
http://www.boeing.com/defense/ea-18g-growler/
I got to fly the Boeing sim. An incredible jump in technology from the stuff I flew.
Wow, now that would be cool!
They let me land on the boat.
For all the bitching about getting on the boat I’ve heard from Naval “Aviators” for 20 years, it was pretty much as I suspected…Navy pilots are pussies. 😉
Drone swarms and missiles (both ground and air fired). Numbers usually defeat sophistication; the USAF trick is to always keep the number of hostiles engaged within performance limits of the aircraft – works great in sims or an enemy that is willing to play the game your way.
F-35. Bite the bullet and move to the future. Many successful planes had teething troubles and cost overruns.
ManyAllsuccessful planesgovernment projects have had teething troubles and cost overruns.*hangs head in shame*
The problem with the F-35 is it being multi-role, multi-service. This is a case where different roles pose different requirements and the compromises to partially meet them (since it isn’t possible to fully meet all) lead to something so sub-optimal in all missions that it should never have gotten off the drawing board.
I’ve also lived the experience of working a joint program and the reality is you have one service that loves you, one that is ambivalent (at best) and one that hates your entire existence.
Rand Paul on McCain
Have to agree with Rand. I actually am not sure who would be worse, McCain or Hillary. I’m going with both.
I really dont understand the hard-on the hawks have for Russia. What exactly do they think they will win in a war with Russia? What are we doing to win in Syria, or was the Syrian war really about screwing Russia?
There are two places in the world where no one in the history of the world has pulled off a successful invasion: Afghanistan and Russia. We already stuck our dick in one hornet’s nest, why the burning desire from Hillary and company / McCain and company to stick it in the other one? What the hell is that?
I have asked this a hundred times and never gotten a clear answer.
I think part of it is that they just cannot let go of their ‘Putin hacked our democracy’ bullshit.
War is the health of the state?
This is my guess. In order to keep a vast military-industrial complex chugging forward, we need a suitably alarming enemy to fight.
Eliminate or weaken a long-standing geopolitical competitor, make themselves look like the good guys fighting the Evil Empire, plays well with some of the population who grew up in the Cold War and will never be deprogrammed to see Russia as anything but the Eternal Enemy.
Afghanistan and Russia
Mongols say hi.
No one is more a child of the cold war than I am. No one is more anti-pinko than I am. I never saw Russia as an enemy, I saw the commies as the enemy and they aren’t restricted to Russia. Putin is no more a socialist than we are…hell, not as much of one as we are.
I wonder how much of it is just a desire to poke Putin in the eye because he punked Obamas swishy ass over and over; a personal vendetta in which they are willing to sacrifice other people’s children.
I’m certain as much as the 2nd Gulf War was motivated, in part, from the fact that Saddam attempted to assassinate W.’s dad.
Trying to kill an ex-Pres because of his policies is a few orders of magnitude worse than causing a Pres some embarrassment.
The first is an act of war.
Oh? There’s a reason they call him Alexander the Great
When I’m elected Supreme Overlord, I’m appointing HM as History and Culture fact checking Czar.
Give that job to John T.
I want to be Secretary of Ass.
Screw that, I want to be Secretary of Balloon Doggies.
Wait, you’re not?
I have already said that if I ever gained SUPREME POWER, HM would be my Minister of Culture. He could have Deputy Ministers of Memes, Twerking and Animation from the East.
Is Almanian here? Just curious, don’t remember seeing him. But I saw him on that Google groups thing last night, I think.
HM, we have to work up a theme for your Ministry of Ass. *rap beat* We at da Glib now… (something about ass now)… I’m really no good at this, you have to finish it.
By that standard both the US and Russia were successful.
I clicked on the link and read the blue part as Greco Bacterian Condom. I think HM’s other links may have influenced that mind trick.
I think the Mongols successfully invaded Russia. The Germans would have won if it weren’t for Hitler being an absolute idiot.
I’ve suspected that it’s driven at the high and low levels by people who studied Russian at DLI, and are pissed off that the demand is now for Arabic, Dari, Pashto, and Farsi.
Is the Golden Horde chopped liver?
““He would bankrupt the nation. We’re very lucky John McCain’s not in charge, because I think we’d be in perpetual war,” Paul added.”
Um, Rand, those cows have left the barn, died, gone to cow heaven and are being eaten in a hoagie by St. Peter.
WarCows
I saw them back before they got big and sold out.
54/40 opened up for them and blew them off the stage.
In cow heaven, they don’t have to eat corn. It’s all grass.
Rand Paul needs to do his wrestle mania campaign skit with him in the cage with those two. I want to see the folding chair and a DDT used on both, maybe even a Stone Cold Stunner to top it or a People’s elbow. I can’t believe I know this much about wrastlin’. *clothesline’s Heroic-Mulatto*
Best part is, Trump would probably be willing to do it.
{Snorts} I, bacon-magic, {Snorts} hmmmmm, have a question, mmmmm, to answer your question.
{Snorts} As you, bacon-magicccc, travel to WRESTLEMANIA by conventional means, the normals you travel with experience malfunctions. As you realize ALL THAT IS LEFT is total self-destruction, do you, bacon-magic, show self pity? DO YOU, BACON-MAGIC, try to reason why? Do you, bacon-magic, try and comfort the normals that have even more fear than you? Or, do you, bacon-magic, kick the doors out? Kick the cockpit door down? Take the two pilots that have already made the sacrifice so that you can face this challenge. Dispose of them, bacon-magic. Assume the controls, bacon-magic. SHOVE THAT CONTROL INTO A NOSE DIVE, BACON-MAGIC! Push yourself to total self-destruction. AS YOU REALIZE, bacon-magic, you are about to enter a world close to Parts Unknown. Ah, smell it Gilbertarians. DO YOU, bacon-magic, look for a place to hide? Or do you, bacon-magic, face that challenge? That may be more powerful THAN EVEN YOU ARE, BACON-MAGIC! You, bacon-magic, must self-destruct. So that you will know, bacon-magic, who is… the chosen one. FOR BACON-MAGIC, I am not the chosen one that you speak of. I am not. I, bacon-magic, am the only one.
{Snorts loudly and vigorously}
I hear you “talking”.
Man, I miss classics like the Camel Clutch.
These euphemisms…
Camel Clutch… Is that something like ‘grab it by the pussy’?
We can’t have exclusivity and privilege at Yale. That isn’t why people attend Yale. Folks might talk.
And once that gets around, no one will want to go there.
Obama being Obama
“Added the ex-president: “I promise you that next year Michelle and I are going to be right there with you, and the clouds are going to start parting, and we’re going to be busy. I’ve got all kinds of thoughts and ideas about it, but this isn’t the best time to share them.
Point is, I’m still fired up and ready to go, and I hope that all of you are, as well.”
And they have a training manual! Grass roots movement!
I guess we will get to see his organizing skills. Should be fun.
Have fun with him guys. Until the day he dies Obama is going to endlessly lecture you and utterly fail to consist that his Presidency might have something to do with why Trump got elected.
“the clouds are going to start parting”
This guy really does have a severe case of the narcissism. I wonder if he stands in front of a mirror half the day dressed up like one emperor of Rome. The guy is sick.
He’s a massive narcissist with incredible charisma and public image skills. It’s disturbing how his supporters are just absolutely IN LOVE with that man. When you get your supporters to that point, it’s psychologically impossible for them to admit that you were anything less than a perfect president.
Obama’s fans : Obama :: Teenage girls : Justin Bieber
Hey, Akira, good to see you here at the Glib.
What? But he’s so humble!
Yeah. I mean, even if you aren’t at all partisan, it should be hard to see Obama’s Presidency as anything more than tremendously disappointing. The whole purpose of nominating him over Hillary in 2008 was that he positioned himself credibly as the anti-George W. Yet he failed to reverse any of the Bush policies that Dems hated (war in Iraq, Guantanamo prison, extralegal domestic spying, etc), and in many cases he doubled down on those policies. Yet none of these people seem to care.
Uh, yeah. Anyone who publishes multiple autobiographies before they’ve actually accomplished anything in life might be guilty of taking him/herself a tad too seriously.
Why cant that slimy motherfucker just go play golf?
Stay classy Barry.
He’s quite the shit head.
Remember when George W. Bush said that Obama “deserves my silence”? I mean, I guess he could have hung around, tried to incite riots and puppeteer a shadow government, but he let it go.
Yeah, but at least he’s going God’s work of destroying the Democratic party. You have to give him credit for that at least.
Thanks Obama!
In my adult lifetime (born 1972) the only exPOTUS I remember criticizing another POTUS was Carter. Obama is about to make Carter’s bullshit look like playground taunting.
Oh yeah. We’re gonna have to deal with him for another 3 decades or so. Of course, I believe if Hillary had won she would have tried to stick him on the USSC so thank god for small favors.
Three decades would be getting off easy. You just KNOW that even after that dingus is dead, the left is going to be commemorating him in a billion different ways. Both his birthday and the day of his passing will probably be federal holidays. Every public library, highway overpass, and inner-city boulevard will be named after him.
Why not start now? Should name a drone after him.
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring Obama drone!
Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom Obama drone!
Obama’s so cool, he’ll drone your child’s school
Don’t forget the hospitals, ’cause he’s intellectual
The MSM: “Trump is violating presidential traditions!!”
“Isn’t it great that Obama is violating presidential traditions!!”
More! Virtual-Crate-Digging Adventures
#1 “We Funk You Long Time!”
A 1978 All-Girl Vietnamese Lounge Band Playing Kool & The Gang
The record also opens with an Average White Band number. The above is the weirder of the 2. It sounds like they were ordered to do this at gunpoint by Communist propaganda officials. There is an underlying quality of desperation in their playing.
#2 Il Dio Serpente
I’ve recently discovered “Italian Production Composers of the 1970s” – music made for TV, Film, commercials, whatever… and there are a dozen or so composers who seemed to churn out 1000s of unbelievably good pieces of music. Most of it seemed ‘unused’, and merely archived on Library-records, but occasionally they get attached to some movie project… and in this case, the movie was… well, here’s the plot snopsis =
And here is the main theme to “Attack of the Serpent Sex God”Sex God”…which is just a mellow, choral sing-along with a very modern-feeling melody. Apparently the song was a pretty popular hit, and outlived the movie… a movie i don’t necessarily want to see, but is worth perusing merely for its softcore-porn-value. The sexpot star was blazing @*#&@# hot.
Dude, you are killing me with the two or more links things – you know we mod those, right?
“”Dude, you are killing me with the two or more links things””
(sigh) Really? a more-stringent link-limit than… the other place? (*it previously treated all HTTPS as ‘1’)
I’ll keep it to 2 if it avoids trouble. but i am officially smdh
Do you have spyware loaded on my computer?
I swear, just an hour ago, I was on a Youtube blitz on stuff like this.
This is my new theme song, by the way.
Keep it to one at a time, if you want instant publishing. Otherwise one of us has to go in and approve.
You can’t change that setting? not complaining, just curious.
HM – one of the many ‘record-collecting’ channels i subscribe to has lots of 1960s-1970s south asian pop stuff. I tend to skip 90% of it because the recording quality tends to be atrocious. The funk-covers tho were irresistible.
There’s another guy who has a interesting collection of Japanese jazz & psyc-rock music of the same period (mixed with more bog-standard funk/soul music).
Gilmore, it can be changed and originally was that way, but we were hit by a bot storm on the first or second day that SP quashed mercilessly. Two+ link moderation shifts some of the work of keeping the bot uprising quelled to the rest of the mods so SP can do the stuff that we’re too ignorant to pull off.
ah.
If 1 link makes the place work ‘bot free’, then i see the point.
I’d think that simply keeping registered users in limbo until approved would prevent that, but i really have no idea how the whole word-press thing functions in the background
What I find interesting is vintage Eastern European stuff.
For you = A channel devoted entirely to Eastern European/Soviet Jazz/Funk/Avante Garde
This one is from Slovakia.
Im less into the “world music” scene for variety’s sake itself, as much as it is simply a less-plumbed body of work for DJ-friendly tunes / sampling-fodder.
e.g. This is a great tune by some Estonian woman (she has a face for radio); its a cover of a single by a former member of ABBA, but its way better than the original. It sounds like dub-reggae meets 80s pop.
‘Bout time you showed up here.
Runner-Ups
#3 – A 1980s Japanese Jazz Fusion Record…which, while the music is sort of unexceptional, the Album Title and Cover are just…. Epic.
Thank you. More of this please.
What I’m listening to: https://youtu.be/UQSqac0liiQ
Dude. Where you been? And I take it you got my text last night and that’s why you showed up.
At least I hope that’s why.
Yes. I got your texts. I poked around hnr and found the info for this place. I wasnt interneting much this week anyway, so I wasn’t aware of the mass migration. Good to see ya’ brother.
I’m glad to see you here, man. Thanks for the link – great video!
Wait, isnt that roughly the plot of every edited to soft-core italian movie ever?
I’m not super-familar with the genre. But i’ve come across a handful, and there seems to at least be 1) “Beach-based” ones and 2) ‘Schoolteacher’/naughty-nanny related ones.
the Beach-Based italian softcore seem to fall in either “romantic” or “horror” (or combinations thereof) subdivisions.
Hey, Gilmore – glad to see you here. When we were surveying the Glibertariat earlier this week, you were called out on the short list of “Hey, we gotta get these guys over here”.
I’m unsure whether to completely abandon the other place or not.
at first i thought the “melodramatic goodbyes” were pointless; but now i’m actually thinking it might be the only way to get them to realize that they’re shooting themselves in the foot, editorially-speaking.
Its not about Trump; its about the exclusion of other topics, and the absurd-extremites they’ve gone to justify their posture.
i summed it up like this =
I’m splitting my time, too. I am reluctant to give up on them, given the many good memories.
I haven’t left altogether, either.
I lurk a bit, but even that is diminishing as this place gets its legs under it.
Nice summation! I’ve made my views abundantly clear, so I won’t rehash them. However, I will say that this is spot on.
What in the name of God is that thing you have as an avatar?
Looks like a sci-fi papaya to me.
It was explained last night. I consider him my spiritual father.
From the wiki on him =
basically, he was arguably the funkiest white man to ever live. when Elvis is biting your chops, you’ve next-level.
Someone in the comments nailed him = Its like James Brown and Jerry Reed had an albino baby. And blessed him with Conway Twitty’s hair and Jackie Wilson’s feet.
I can totally understand people not wanting to abandon the old site cold turkey, but I’ve pretty much moved over here full-time. Unlike the other place, I actually enjoy the content over here, and the comments over there have become so troll-infested that I don’t have the patience to read them.
Yeah, I kinda don’t have a choice anymore; now that all the decent commenters moved over here, lurking there is exceptionally unrewarding. Never having to read Steve Chapman again is a nice value-add, though.
Monocle seems to be broken and I can’t get rid of that tall dark gray archives DIV at the bottom of the screen. I’m in Chrome. Anyone else having this issue, or is it just me?
The archives div follows the window around? Monocle doesn’t touch that div at all, as far as I know.
Ok, maybe the Archives DIV is there by default and it’s not floating up. Anyway, muh Monocle is broken. Is it working for you? Maybe I just need to close Chrome and reload, but I’m lazy this morning.
The thing I find odd about the Archives DIV is that it’s too tall. Well, maybe that’s just a matter of taste. I’m not a web designer, I’m a developer. I typically bring in more designy people to help with layout and styles. Is that a word?
What do you develope in Hyp?
.NET
Cool. Ive been teaching myself ASP with C#. Im not a developer, I mainly write SQL all day for recons and analysis. I had created some databases with forms and reports in MS Access years back and had always wanted to learn how to do the same thing via Web application. A lot of similarities actually. Using Visual Studio and SQL Server to learn along with an outdated book.
I think we might have discussed this before:) At tje time I was probably teaching myself Java. Might have been you who had recommended the .NET now that I think about it:)
Sounds like MS moving to CORE framwork which I guess is MVC focused? I haven’t got into MVC yet but on agenda.
‘Core’ is their answer to the open-source, cross-platform movement. For example, I can develop .NET on a Mac now.
Well, Monocle is definitely not working in my Chrome now.
Well, fixed it, sort of.
trashy (& Hyp) – props on the Downfall mashup yestiddy, btw
Thnx. trashy hit that one out of the park.
You were the inspiration, Hyp. I just took creative license to include Nazis
Thanks. I’m humbled. I was actually thinking of a follow up on it. I started working on it, but no hurry, I don’t want to burn out the theme. But maybe you can do another of those? That was killer vid editing. And the libertarian moment and then the bread and butter issues just put it over the top.
The link to the tool is in the description of the comments.
There was a better tool out there, but it had a Captcha verification that wasn’t working for some reason. A quick google search should turn it up. It was really helpful in getting the cadence correct because it gave me a blank for each caption, and then played that portion of the video once I had completed the caption. The beginning of my vid is a little screwed up because of the migration to the tool that wasn’t broken.
Better Tool
I do a lot of SQL also, and a lot of javascript. Do a lot of SSRS too. I taught myself to code back in the 80s when there were no fancy tools like we have now, Then I got a CompSci degree and my first gig was C++, the old Borland DOS compiler. .NET with it’s separation of HTML and code behind is the greatest thing since sliced bread. What a relief from classic ASP.
Heh, I have the Borland Turbo C++ DOS compiler floppy disks still. Ah, memories.
I’m enjoying it. At some point I want to get a website or two and start playing with this stuff “live”. Want to learn the security/encryption side too. I know. NET has a lot of built in stuff but haven’t got that far into it yet. I have a book on SSRS that I haven’t looked at yet. Not sure how old it is or where I even got it though. Someone may have been getting rid of it at work.
First post so many thanks to those who went through the hassle of putting together this site.
Behind you!
I’m guessing this little spat has made the rounds. I think Spencer ended up getting kicked out
https://youtu.be/v20KQy6XMfU
Yeah, he and some group called the “Herman Hoppe Caucus” met in the bar and pretended they were one of the conference breakout sessions. The manager ended up asking Spencer to leave and escorted him out.
Wonder what the point of all that was? Attention?
For the “caucus”? Trolling, probably. For Spencer? Exposure, definitely.
Dear admin,
You might consider using the CSP upgrade-insecure-requests directive as a quick / lazy fix for the mixed content issues.
OK all you rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.
I am heading out for a while. Try not to break the site.
Wait, no shitlords? We’re all shitlords now. Except for the wiminz. I’m not sure what we call those, but it’s probably sexist, which is of course appropriate for your aspiring shitlord.
As long as you’re gone, I think I’ll post this article about the hospital which operates drive-through circumcisions.
If it’s vaca have a good one!
Pfüat di!
It may be time to revisit the war room. Over on the other site that is not named, they’re not even getting a Sunday link and I’m starting to envision another episode in the war room…
Sad!
SP has provided a superior product that doesn’t break down every two days, the market works!
The biggest upside so far, is that there are no posting issues. I was complaining about that a lot recently at H&R, but it seems to fall on deaf ears over there. It was just getting ridiculous, having to post something 2 or 3 times, logging out and back in, closing browser, clearing cache, logging back in to try again. And then getting triplicate posts. Cheap reliable web hosting is readily available for cheap. If you want to host your own server, at least know what the fuck you are doing. I was starting to honestly think that they were doing it on purpose.
with more comments even.
Those war room vids are hilarious
Australia to cull 2 million feral cats
Who knew feral cats could survive all the other things that can kill you in Australia.
Cat murderers! Save the cats!
Pit the ailurophiles against the bird lovers.
I’d always read best practices was to sterilize as many as possible and leave most of them in the wild. Culls rebound pretty quickly because there’s a wide open environmental niche and everyone left hurries to fill it.
Killing feral cats leaves you with a lot of dead feral cats and just as many live feral cats.
Australia doesn’t have Chinese restaurants?
You can’t domesticate them so yeah if they’re a pest not sure what else you can do.
Eat some pussy. Best way to solve over abundance of any animal/plant is to put it on a menu with some hot sauce on it,
I was just surprised that the other deadly things in Australia did not take care of the problem. One of the cats in the article is a monster of a cat.
what if they bring more cane toads in?
The apes will freeze in the winter.
I had never heard of the whole cane toad fail until I worked in PNG for a few seasons with a bunch of Aussies and Kiwis. At one camp they would go out at night with headlamps and shovels for toad golfing. Apparently they had made it to PNG.
We learned about it in some biology class as the semester was in its lame duck phase.
Trap, neuter/spay, and then release back into the wild.
Speaking of Australia…is invisible furry hand going to appear here, or has she?
On that video…Morrissey and Brigitte Bardot spoke against the program for being anti-animal.
This being a govt program it will probably double the feral cat population, but why can’t these animal rights types see that other animal species are threatened by all the goddamn cats? They should be happy that Someone’s Doing Something About It.
Today: took the kid to the playground, ate brisket, Mastodon, David Gilmour, sanded some wood, and no fucking working. It’s an ok way to spend a day. Maybe I’ll eat the wife’s ass later or something.
How do you do links in WordPress? It doesn’t like normal HTML. Presumably there’s some kind of markdown-like bracket syntax.Ah, that’s better. Fair warning: I have the power to edit posts. Anyone’s posts. I haven’t done it yet, but I am absolutely going to abuse this power. It’s gonna be awesome.
Normal HTML: [a href=”link here”]Text of link[/a] (with angle brackets)
Really? Maybe I fucked it up before.
Also, why the fuck doesn’t the chrome store work on mobile? I want this monocle extension, but I don’t want to dig out my desktop from the pile of bullshit it’s under.
^this
You ate mastadon brisket? That’s fucking awesome. I want some.
It was the very last one
sanded some wood
Naked?
[a href=”URL” target=”_blank”]LINKTEXT[/a]
More user friendly if you use the target=”_blank” because it bounces a new tab on standard left click instead of leaving the site and having to go back and reload losing the list of unread comments and whatnot.
ah, I didn’t know that. Test.
I like that pro-tip.
Trshmnstr; can this be written into monocle? Please excuse my total and complete lack of knowledge on this shit
Test Link and Monocle Update Link
COMMENTTest 2 Confirmation
Test3
I’m under the impression that non-mods can’t do target=”_blank”
Monocle has been properly updated, but the target attribute gets stripped out when I post.
Bummer. I’ll query SP about it when it’s a decent hour.
test 2
this better work
some stuff is the same, like links. Some things are odd, like strong or em.
I don’t pay too much attention to HTML tags for style since i typically use CSS. But i is not a deprecated tag. em I think it supposed to show emphasis on a word, but i is quicker to type, so who cares, except in an odd case like this where it won’t work. I thought that strong was deprecated, but like I said, I don’t pay much attention to HTML for style purposes. This paragraph is probably fucked up. PREVIEW feature!
I think em and strong are for text readers
The WWW consortium recommends “em” over “i” and “strong” over “b” because HTML was intended to emphasize “purpose” not specific formats like italics and bold.
OT: Ran 1.4 miles just now without stopping. For 300+ and completely out of shape, I’ll take it.
I’m starting week 3 of cutting all the carbs and sugars I can. I will become unfat, and you’ll all see for yourself
in six months when I release my swimsuit calendar. Speedos, topless, vaseline on the lips, air brushing all the
major stretch marks – it’ll be awesome.
Way to be! I’m on the other end of the scale, but my cardio is shit. I have to start running again.
Good job. Keep at it. Running is habit forming. I’m hooked.
Awesome job! I started eating healthier and exercising back in 2009, and it was one of the best choices I ever made.
Great job, Jr.! The diet will be the biggest thing for retraining your body to burn fat. When you feel up to it, add in some weights and you will be a beast.
Good luck!
What’s a good “get started” program for weight training? I know dick about it and have only done it, half-assed style, a handful of times.
I like Strong Lifts, although I have fallen off the wagon because I’m a lazy fuck.
I’ve been kicking around the idea of writing a column on that. Stay tuned, maybe.
In the meantime, look up Mark Rippetoe, Jim Wendler, and Dan John.
I would like that Warty. I look malnourished.
This has been widely recommended as a precursor training for anyone who hasn’t worked out in a while who might move eventually to weights
https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/kb/recommended_routine
basically, its bodyweight routines which lead eventually to barbell squats/deadlifts
I would start by reading Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe. His program is simple and works well.
Stronglifts, as Viking mentioned, is a similar program. I think Rip does a great job of communicating the technical aspects of the lifts, so his book is worth it regardless of the program you choose.
Feel free to email me if you have questions.
Nice job! I have been recovering from an injury and have put on 30 pounds in the last 8 months. I hate myself, but I get over it once I have a beer. The beer might have something to do with the weight gain, but I am holding out for more conclusive research.
I guess now I have to get my lazy ass off the couch and go for a walk. Lol. 55 degrees today so no excuse.
Since when is anything in the morning or afternoon links OT?
I can’t do the running, but I took up cycling two years ago, and love it. It helps that a lot of the local breweries have discounts for cyclists. I’m pissed that the first weekend there’s good weather, I’m not feeling well enough to ride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWvgAM7ISmI
You fried the link and didn’t use bacon grease.
I sf’ed it?
Sweet!I’m still getting used to it. I think it might be getting moderated.
Maybe this.
Test or quiz…whatevs
I must say I am astounded at how quickly this site became not just viable, but popular. The posts have more comments than the old gathering place! Amazing. Good work.
Time to get going. Have a nice day, everyone.
The magic of underserved markets. And its not like we didn’t tell our previous supplier what we wanted, either.
Their customers are the Koch’s who finance their operation.
oh, come on. I think the Kochs are like 20% or so of Reason Foundation funding. the Mellon Scaife foundations i think eclipse them.
And i doubt either even so much as bother to note WTF Reason magazine is actually doing. The people who influence the editorial direction of the publication are probably very different groups. Of course i have no idea who those people are, but i’m hugely skeptical they’re necessarily directed by any of the ‘Top $ funders’, who donate far larger sums to a wide variety of other outlets.
Huh, yeah idk then. I doubt they’re getting all there bread and butter from clicks though. Although I could be wrong. Wouldn’t be the first time.
someone posted their #s the other day. they cover a fraction of their operating expenses from donations, and probably less from ‘clicks’.
I’m not arguing the koch-groups aren’t at all directly involved in Reason Foundation activities – just that the editorial decisions at the publication probably is a level of micromanaging which is so deep in the weeds that its far below any donor’s pay-grade to waste time with.
I get the feeling its probably “not cool” to hem and haw too much about ‘the other place’ here. So i’ll just leave it at that
I’ve observed that people seem to be okay with talking about the past, but bringing up present stuff going on at TSTSNBN crosses a line for some. Also crossing a line: talking about the trolls and being overly malicious toward the staff.
That’s cool
My point wasn’t about Koch influence. It was about commenter infuence or lack thereof.
I think if this place really does suck up all the high-volume commenters… we’ll see if there is an effect in about 6-months to a year
Not many left to draft.
Grylliade was popular. At first.
So Was Epi.
Not going for popularity. We’re here for the groupies.
It’s the power of half decent comment threading.
Were The Village People too hetero for you?
Here’s YMCA, performed by Finnish men in basketball uniforms.
shit really pops off around the 0:54 mark
A ’70s TW would have been nice. I was expecting something a little less… greasy.
Any chance Monocle information could be in a FAQ? I missed the train, and already feel like I would have to hunt around to figure out how to get it.
Or maybe it’s only for the mods. Far as I’m concerned, the site looks fine. But then I’m a Linux guy, my visual esthetics are nugatory. In fact I may just read the site using curl .
http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/japanese-american-relocation
Just an FYI, today is also the 75th anniversary of FDR’s executive order to start up the Japanese internment camps.
Ah yes, the left’s hero.
I still think they have a massive guilty conscience about that, plus the fact that internment camps and perhaps mass sterilization and/or euthanasia are the logical conclusion of “progressive” leftist policies.
Wish I could agree, but most leftists I know always brush such details aside, claiming that wasn’t real communism, socialism, progressivism, or whatever.
The problem with all collectivist thought (not just progressivism), as I see it, is that once society or “the greater good” is the thing that matters, individuals and eventually entire classes of people can be labeled as undesirable or even subhuman. Once you’ve done that, all sorts of abuses and misdeeds not only can but will be necessary. That’s what led to Japanese internment, slavery, and most of the other terrible deeds in the United States, not to mention the rest of the world.
Hey, hockey heads!
how are you feeling about this expansion draft? I don’t think I understand the process well enough, but it seems to let most teams keep some of their top players.
I hate it because I am going to see the Blackhawks lose more players, as if the salary cap doesn’t attrit them enough already.
Turns out barberries are poison. The things you learn as a parent.
Liveand learn.Ugh, islamophobic
Finally made it over here.
As a longtime Reason subscriber and lately professional H&R lurker, I was getting truly depressed about the state of not just the magazine/website, but also the comments. The troll infestation almost made me long for the days of White Indian.
I went to a signing of Declaration of Independents once in Ohio and asked Nick and Matt about what they thought needed to happen to expand libertarian influence into the mainstream. I’m sad to say that they seem to have jumped on the Gary Johnson bandwagon of “let’s make common cause with people who would set up internment camps for their enemies if they could”.
I have to say that even when I’ve disagreed with many of you, you’ve always made me think and challenged me with new perspectives, information, and material. I look forward to being similarly stimulated (go ahead, have at it) here going forward.
bar berry pirate
Long-time Reason lurker here. Just wanted to come out and say hi to the folks at the new site! I’ve enjoyed the commentary of many here for a while now on the other site, so here’s to this place turning out swell!