It is sort of dreary and blah around here, and work is a grind. What cures that? MOAR fluff links. Prepare for a dose of the “not have to think too hard” links!
- AIEE!! DANGER!!! DEATH!!! (possibly, maybe sometime in the future. Perhaps)
- CLOWNZ!!
- Ah, Divorce Court and legal fees – who wins (other than the lawyers, of course)
- German-Polish relations strained?! Has that ever happened before?
- This one is for Playa Manhattan.
Thar they be. Bat them around, comment on whatever, and enjoy.
Jesse likes 55 gallon drums of lube because he’s a jerk off.
There. I said it. ;p
I just appreciate wholesale pricing.
Nothing wrong with money management..
Lol. Volume discounts are nice. *contacts butcher about whole hog*
Is this turning into an episode of Black Mirror?
Nah, IASIP.
“I’m pitting two pig dealers against each other!”
Ugh.
Always with the racist mirror.
It’s alway black and white with these people.
I just appreciate wholesale pricing.
And really, who among us does not?
These are mighty fine links. I thought this one would make it.
Gentleman, start your genders!
That ones going in the trash like the rest of them did. I guess because gender bias this time.
Fuck it, I identify as Jedi. Yes, Jedi is a gender, don’t oppress me.
Playa is Palin’s Buttplug.
Playa LOVES Chipotle. So I just wanted to keep him up on the latest.
…
*waits for cat-butting*
Huh, so does PB…
Are you going to insult everyone before this thread is over, or are you just playing favorites here?
I’m curious about this. What do y’all think about the felony murder doctrine when it’s applied to the death of co-conspirators?
Thinking about this case in Oklahoma. Three men broke into a home and the homeowner shot and killed all three of them. Clear self defense according to all parties.
The woman who was the getaway driver is being charged with murder in the case.
I just can’t see how that works as justice, but maybe I’m missing something. I don’t like it though.
Charge her for the crime that the was committed by the other 3. Heck, choose the crime with the highest penalty or charge her with all the crimes of the others. But charging her for the murder of the other perps?
Well, at the very least, there was no murder so it seems a little odd that somebody can be charged with a crime that everybody agrees didn’t happen.
Not to be pedantic, but yeah, there actually were three murders. The homeowner’s self-defense claim is properly understood as an affirmative defense (“these killings were justified”), not an erasure of the crimes (“no murder occurred”).
Self defense is not murder.
Legally, it is. By claiming self defense you admit guilt, but deny culpability.
Self defense is a justifiable homicide, but it is still homicide.
Your personal definitions may differ.
Homicide != murder
Murder: the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
So, Hyp is right.
Defining self defense as equivalent to murder is not just a stretch, it’s just wrong, period.
I’m not sure where you got that particular definition of murder, but it’s not the common-law definition I learned in law school and it’s not the definition provided by the Model Penal Code. The element of premeditation, in particular, has to do with the degree of the offense, not the substance of it.
Self-defense is an affirmative defense to the crime. Hyp is wrong.
It’s the definition.. as in THE definition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder
I didn’t say it’s not homicide. I said it’s not murder. I’m not really sure how you’re defining self defense. Here’s just a couple of definitions as I understand it:
the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another.
The unlawful killing of another human being without justification or excuse.
I could find a lot more, but they all sort of sound the same. Self defense is not murder.
This is TCR. Common law Murder is one class of homicide.
Fair enough. I was goning by the following definition:
The Model Penal Code classifies homicides differently, without degrees. Under it, murder is any killing committed purposefully and knowingly, manslaughter is any killing committed as a result of recklessness, and negligent homicide is any killing resulting from negligence.
Murder in that definition being killing someone intentionally, regardless of legality. Like I said, definitions differ.
Read also articles I and III of the MPC, and also the underlying cases in your Criminal Pro. book. The defendant may be charged with Murder, but may only be convicted thereof absent justification or excuse. I’m not sure why you think “killing someone intentionally, regardless of legality” has bearing on what we have established for argument is a legal definition. The only definition of Murder for our purposes is legal and the presence or absence of a legal justification or excuse is outcome determinative as to the issue of Murder.
Legally it is not Murder. There is a legal distinction between a justification and a defense but I understand the confusion as courts are often imprecise in how their decisions are rendered. Procedurally, Self Defense is an affirmative defense. Legally however, it is a justification – hence there can be no guilt. I.e. the act of killing was not an immoral act whereby guilt is ascribed. A individual asserting claim of self defense admits culpability but denies guilt.
Furthermore, to differentiate murder from manslaughter, prosecution would under normal circumstances demonstrate that the defendant acted with mens rea, which in a legitimate defensive shooting scenario, is difficult to achieve.
Manslaughter also has a mens rea element. This is sort of hairsplitting but the difference, which is important, is that at common law Manslaughter is where you wind up if you successful exercise a defense (to the mens rea required for a Murder charge) of an ‘extreme emotional distress’ or ‘recklesness’. This defense operates as an excuse as to the underlying homicide, the defendant in essence is admitting guilt but denying culpability by virtue of being not in his right mind at the time of the actus reus.
Is the murder charge a ploy to get her to plead guilty to something else?
I’m sure edge cases can be found where it’s a reasonable charge, but most of the time it’s yet another cudgel for the prosecutor to use against a defendant. She’s an accomplice to 3 counts of burglary, which would likely get her plenty of prison time. Roping her into 3 counts of felony murder doesn’t serve any purpose beyond FYTW.
She could be charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery, attempted armed robbery and nothing else I can think of.
With the lack of accountability prosecutors have, I think it’s bad law. If they ever become accountable, it still seems like bad law, but I’d at least be open to having a serious discussion. Under our current system the more “tools” we give prosecutors it seems to just allow for more abuse.
Think “Woodchipper”.
Several years ago a bank I work for was robbed. It was one of those scary robberies where they come in guns blazing, beating people up, etc. Anywho, the head teller managed to set off the silent alarm and the robbers got in a car chase with the police. Eventually the driver lost control of the car and two of the robbers died in the wreck, one was shot to death by the police and the fourth robber was paralyzed (I don’t remember if it was in the wreck or the shootout). The surviving, paralyzed robber was charged, and convicted, with three counts of first degree murder in the deaths of his accomplices.
Why stop there? Charge the bank teller for murder too. If he/she hadn’t set off the alarm and called the cops, they would have gotten away and nobody would have died.
/sarc, in case you were wondering
I’m fairly certain that there is Supreme Court jurisprudence which would overturn those convictions on the basis that: if the police are justified in shooting the suspects, then, by operation of law, there is no murder. In fact, you might be referencing the very case I’m thinking of which generated the appeal.
If there is a conspiracy then all parties to the conspiracy are party to the entirety of the crime regardless of what part they actually played in it.
Unless someone can make a good case for why this shouldn’t be I am gonna stick with not having a problem with it.
Did you miss the detail that the dead people are the co-conspirator robbers?
I don’t see how a lawful killing perpetrated by person A (he acted in self defense) becomes a murder charge for person B (who participated in the creation of the circumstances for the lawful killing).
To illustrate the point I think I’m making further :
I have no problem with the driver being found liable in a civil wrongful death suit, because their actions contributed to the wrongful death of their co-conspirators.
The theory is that the felony robbery is the proximate cause of death and that therefore all parties involved in the felony are culpable for the death.
Not unheard of for someone in CA to convicted for sitting in the car when the cops kill the armed robber.
Or conversely, a girl who was a passenger in a car when another person pulled a gun and ‘drived by’ was charged with felony murder when she informed on the shooter.
No I didn’t miss that detail. The killing, lawful by the homeowner, was facilitated by the actions of the co-conspirator. Suppose the get-away driver participated in the planning of the crime, waited until the robbers entered the premises and then called the homeowner and warned them that people were breaking in so that the homeowner would kill someone the driver wanted dead? The homeowner’s actions would be legal but the driver would in fact be committing murder by proxy. That is not a far leap from participating in the planning and commission of a crime in which people are likely to be harmed.
I still have no problem with this but there is one aspect that troubles me. Prosecutors have very little accountability and this law does enable them to have more ability to engage in abuse of the legal system. The fix for this would not be to get rid of the law but to increase prosecutor accountability. Increasing prosecutor accountability would fix a lot of the problems with the legal system. Put cops on that list as well.
then called the homeowner and warned them that people were breaking in so that the homeowner would kill someone the driver wanted dead
Note to self- Do not engage in criminal conspiracy with Suthenboy.
One too many hypotheticals in your argument.
It was a wrongful killing for anyonr but the homeowner, due to his unique affirmative defense. It was a wrongful killing for others who contributed to the death. That’s the throry, and I’m still undecided. I don’t disregard common law essily.
+3 for the home owner.
She should be charged as an accomplice to the attempted robbery. Nothing more. This is just more feel good fucking bullshit. Fuck the people who thought that shit up. She already has to live with helping get 3 people killed for the rest of her life.
Who can beat Chipotle’s bloody diarrhea?
I found that article to be hilarious. Now, I’ve felt not-so-great after a McDonald’s lunch, but I’ve never gotten e. coli from them.
Sometimes McDoald’s is really unsatisfying. But no one makes a better chicken nugget. Nobody.
Chick-fil-a
Yes. But that’s real chunks of chicken. Not a mystery nugget. So a different class to me.
The challenge of using the parts of a chicken that they don’t sell at KFC and getting people to eat it is a fucking certifiable miracle.
Just one moar and we can have Saint Ronald of McDonald.
There’s an entire country where they eat the parts of the chicken which Americans don’t eat.
It’s called Jamaica, and they import an awful lot of dark chicken meat. Not a euphemism.
“There’s an entire country where they eat the parts of the chicken which Americans don’t eat.”
So estou comendo as partes nobres.
I ain’t eatin no nasty chicken feet or guts or any nasty stuff like that!
Maybe the lips and assholes are the tastiest part of any animal?
Not bad, but the sandwich is better. Why? Pickles.
Damn you all….now I am going to have to really struggle to resist the Chik-fil-a that is right on the way home from work.
My typical order is “2 chik-fil-a sammiches with extra pickles and three packets of mayo. And a diet Dr Pepper, please.”
Its perfect.
Mmm. Spicy Chik-n sammich. If they could only make their fries better.
The fries are greatly improved by asking for them well done/extra crispy.
This.
Also, In-N-Out fries suck ass. They only single fry them instead of double frying them, leading to a very dry and powdery fry.
Just to piss all the Californicators off: In-N-Out burgers are mediocre. They’re very fresh tasting, but lack the flavor of a Whataburger or other equivalent “high-end fast food” burger.
You’re just jealous you can’t eat them every 20 minutes like us cool kids can.
The Double Double is an immaculately created vehicle.
Wendy’s
And that doesn’t talk about the danger that would result from that earthquake causing Gibraltar to fall into the ocean and causing a tsunami that would wipe out the entire US East Coast!
+1 Guam tips over
Gibraltar falling into the ocean and causing a tsunami that wipes out the US East Coast is something I read when I was a kid that scared me so bad I didn’t sleep that night.
AND THIS IS OBVIOUSLY HOW IT WILL HAPPEN!
I would worry about the effect of California falling into the ocean, but then I remembered all the hot air should help it float.
Is that the day you’ll go back to Annandale?
I was disappointed that one of the photographs wasn’t captioned:
“European beaches, such as this nude beach in St. Tropez (or Nice, or wherever) are in danger of tsunami…”
Dammit, Daily Fail, play to your strengths!
I have seen and wished to unsee some of those beach bunnies with boobs hanging down to their navels..
That’s why we need (usually solid) professional curating service that Daily Fail provides…
Eye bleach CAUTION: USFW, or girlfriend/wife.
That’s not ultra safe for work!
I thought it was the Canary Islands splitting that was the problem.
And let’s not get started about the Yellowstone supervolcano.
Needs moar funding.
Yellowstone goes up and the U.S. coasts will have their dreams come true.
It’d certainly stop people bitching and whining about imaginary global warming.
I’ve introduced you in times past to the genius of Neil MacDonald, brother of Norm and a Very Serious Journalist at Canada’s Beloved State Broadcaster.
Today, he wrote something that surprised me:
The budget’s gender-based analysis forgot to look at one thing — men
His writing is usually reliably left-Torontonian, of Trudeau (Senior) school of Liberalism. Is the older generation of centre-lefties finally noticing that SJWs are fundamentally damaging to their cause?
If they don’t want them the NDP will welcome them with open arms. Until the party splits back into the socialist party and the union party.
Grind
Do you guys really listen to that? Is it a joke and I am just unaware?
I do. “We” do. A lot.
NTTAWWT
as an alternative
Is that guy gonna be OK after he finally pushes that shit out?
I mean, tat’s what’s going on, right? A serious case of Chipotle shits?
To be fair, that clown motel is only marginally less creepy than the overall vibe of Tonopah. It’s an odd place.
SugarFree’s opening his own “hotel.” The free market at work!
Crusty rusting out over there. Shame. I think I see Fist in the trees…
*polite applause*
As seen along the way to Warty’s dungeon.
Pripyat?
No thanks, I’ve already eaten.
Salmonella and E. coli are natural. I’d rather have ‘clean’ than natural.
How For-Profit Colleges Sell ‘Risky Education’ To The Most Vulnerable
Transcript
So I skipped past the charlatan slinging her cheap and easy progressive circlejerk material, to get to this bizarre back and forth:
GROSS: …One day at this, you know, bar-restaurant. And you write, (reading) I saw a few white couples imbibing and beginning some version of bodily grooving to the DJ. I told my partner that one of them would be offering me free liquor and trying to feel my breasts within the hour (laughter). And of course…
MCMILLAN COTTOM: Yep.
Uh…
MCMILLAN COTTOM: (Laughter) That’s a great question – what is going on? No. So the story was about this thing that happens to me a lot, which is – when you’re black in a majority-white space that is a social space, so not work – right? – but that is a social space, we have so much, sort of, self-segregation by race still in this country – most people are friends with people who are the same racial group as they are, especially white Americans – that the social space has become like a microcosm for, like, all of our racial angst – right? – in the country.
What in the manner..?
So I get lots of really bizarre, unsolicited overtures from white people in those social spaces, especially where alcohol is involved, that almost always revolves around them wanting to touch me physically. It happened so much that it’s a joke among my friends. You know, at what time tonight – we usually call an hour – by what time tonight will Tressie be felt up by a stranger…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!
Not to be totally dismissive, because I haven’t been there, but I’m calling bullshit.
Do I believe people try to get her drunk and feel her up at a bar? Yes. (although I haven’t seen her so maybe not)
Do I believe it has some subconscious racist ‘lets fuck the darkie’ thing behind it? FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO YOU PROJECTING STRUMPET!
And what difference does it make what COLOR the people are that want to fuck you? Is it okay if a black guy does it, you crazy racist shitheel?!
Okay I just looked her up. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nopenopenopenope. NOOOOOOOOPPPEEE. Negative, ghost rider. Not a chance in hell. Not pretty, not thin, not young. And this is coming from a guy with some serious jungle fever. Not a chance in hell. Bullshit 100% confirmed. If she truly believes that she is certifiable.
There’s definitely a niche for land whales, so i am sure she isn’t deprived of attention.
Do I believe people try to get her drunk and feel her up at a bar? Yes. (although I haven’t seen her so maybe not)
There’s a picture of her in the article. I’m going to guess that she is exaggerating just a bit.
Just a bit?
I’m assuming that there is a substantial number of people that touch her without consent. I also assume that most of those people were just trying to get around her bulk and failed.
When you occupy that much space (“She’s twice the woman you’ll ever be!”), it’s hard not to get touched.
Cady: Well, what shall be my compensation, sir, for being held down and sodomized by four white guys or… four black guys? Shall my compensation be the same? What is the formula for compensation, sir?
Oh look, it’s you!
We get signal.
Jeeze, Pomp sets us up and still no takers?
Yes sir. How’s it feel to be a big shot writer?
They were all impressed with his Halston dress.
+ cocaine spoon
Blurbs about attractive men and furries is hardly being a big shot writer.
She secretly digs that shit.
Leela: Guys who call too much are the worst… I bet…
Uh-uh. It’s just us dastardly whites hanging with each other.
I’ll add the person who wrote this has never been on a college campus with a high percentage of Asians — they’re practically symbiotic.
And maybe, just maybe she is conflating alcohol usage with whiteness???
There is (in my experience) a stark difference between the behavior of Asian-American students and international students from Asia, and even among the latter group, a noticeable difference in the behavior of students from countries with a large number of international students like China and those with a smaller number like Korea.
I am sure I am in the minority (no pun intended) but no person in my social circle outside of my family is white.
You can see us?
He’s typing from inside the house!
I wouldn’t call us a “social circle”…. more like a dysfunctional rhombus.
I mean real people, silly! You’re all just FBI plants, of course.
I only socialize with people like me: Part-Scottish, Part-Indian, Part-African, Part-Chinese, Part-Ashkenazi Jews.
A jew! I knew it…
So, what are you two doing this weekend?
*shrugs*
Sitting on the couch, playing video games.
Dammit you cut the best part:
Man, she actually gets groped by white women? She should write a sitcom pilot, it sounds way better than Girls.
That’s kind of how I read it, but whatever unpaid intern (gasp!) tasked with reviewing the transcript might be phoning it in. Can’t be arsed to give the audio a second pass.
One thing’s for sure, NPR programming brings the batshit rantings of a leftist pseudointellectual to the comfort of your home. No need to audit courses anymore.
Diane Rehm, dipshit and unintelligible.
You can’t get that just anywhere. Not without federal funding.
Diane Rehm, she dead. At least her radio personality is.
Well, she is, bi and large ….
OH SNAP
most people are friends with people who are the same racial group as they are, especially white Americans
Let’s take a look at racial voting patterns, shall we?
Looking at the pic, I’d have to say you’re right. Whew.
Hey now, you’re dismissing her reality. Take her at her word, because WOMAN and BLACK. To do anything else would be racist and misogynist.
I bet she’s told that crap innumerable times.
You can take my Chipotle from my cold, dead lower intestine.
Chipotle is necessary for the sustainment of life.
They should develop an ad campaign that emphasizes how all that natural bacteria can get your septic system operating at peak efficiency.
It’s a dessert topping and a drain cleaner!
No need to “take” it from you. It’s be coming out of you on its own at nearly the speed of sound any minute now.
It’s so bad it could defeat ISIS
barf
By my understanding, if you’re eating Chipotle, that’s where they’d have to take it from during the surgical resection.
“A devastating mega tsunami could hit tourists hotspots in Spain and Portugal at ANY TIME killing thousands, warn scientists!”
Can we speed up the process?
With Global Warming, duh.
Once again, the urge to buy a Hummer returns…
We still doing phrasing?
I’ll let it slide as he capitalized the proper noun.
A good Hummer is always proper.
I’m sorry, but you don’t get to talk shit after you were the one who broke the seal on that stupid fucking “NO GMO” nonsense while slathering E-Coli on everything.
This sort of thing is legion for food companies = any time one person claims an implicit benefit over the others? the others are just going to do it right back at-cha. SUCK IT.
Although overpriced, almost every time I go to Panera, the food is exceptionally “clean” and usually delicious. So, it’s a correct characterisation.
That Polish foreign minister interview is hilarious. I don’t know if it’s translation or what, but the journalist was more combative than a debate participant. Leading to this hilarious exchange
Damn, I thought Trump-Russia thing wasn’t going to cross the ocean! Serves me right for sticking to UK-based media for my Euro needs, I guess…
How does one say “How bou dah?” in Polish?
jimne pivo
Cash me outside!
Isn’t that rich coming from Chipotle?
So I think I’ve talked about it before, but I’m of the mind that the whole “trans bathroom controversy” is silly. I can guarantee you and everyone you know has used the bathroom at the same time as a trans person and just didn’t know it. Whatever. It’s silly to ban it and it’s silly to mandate it.
(there’s my virtue signaling out of the way)
That being said: This bill in Arkansas (click on “Download”) is causing all kinds of controversy. It’s being called a trans erasure bill, an excuse to arrest trans people for using the “wrong” bathroom.
I read the bill itself (had to search for it, because I couldn’t find the bill number in any reporting), and… I just don’t see it. It’s a slight change to indecent exposure law that doesn’t have anything to do with a trans person using the bathroom. Maybe I’m nuts. Help?
“Arkansas Tranny” would be a good band name.
Probably an interesting night on the town, as well.
Don’t ruin the narrative. Never ruin the narrative
Yep. You sound insane to me. Also, denying people the right to subjective, over-reactive hysteria is transphobic.
It’s being called a trans erasure bill,
Vince Clarke is a woman now?
trans erasure
Andy Bell likes to dress like one every now and again.
I got to meet them once, btw.
And I’ve said it before, but the opposition is about men being able to access women’s showers. Sorry, but I don’t want to worry about my wife’s safety if she showers at the gym, and I sure as hell wouldn’t want the football team deciding to “identify as chicks today” when if they saw my daughter or her friends headed for the showers after track practice.
Nobody gives a shit about Corporal Klinger taking a dump in the women’s room at Starbucks.
I’ll give you a hint = everything else the census asks for information about? Is something related to FUNDING
They also made up two new races. Now if you are of Middle Eastern origin your race is some made-up name. Also, if you are Hispanic you will no longer be seen as an ethnic group. You’re a race now!
And I’m sure there is no reason to create this whatsoever. It’s not like they are going to use this information to create new ‘protected classes’ or anything.
if you are Hispanic you will no longer be seen as an ethnic group. You’re a race now!
Might as well, almost everywhere the do demographics, they mark anyone who indicates Hispanic as Hispanic, unless you’re Zimmerman-Hispanic.
What about Black-H or Asian-H, or American Indian-H?
That’s just too bad, because like both the previous censuses I’ve responded to, they’ll get the bare minimum information where it’s mandatory, and nonsensical responses (like the stuff I type here) for the rest.
That interview between Der Spiegel + the Polish Minister is awesome. Just check out how it starts =
And it gets more hostile from there.
Nice to see Trump isn’t the only politician to realize the media is the enemy.
You note how he asks, “What do you think of that” and the journalist just skips on by?
you’re not allowed to ask the media questions.
You’ll know what I think based on the horrible photo of you I chose to use and my creative editing that makes you sound like an imbecile.
Scott Adams has a good article about how to spot a hit-piece as he volunteered to be the subject of one.
i read both that and the piece bloomberg wrote. I spotted about half the bullshit he later flagged as examples of “hit-piece”-work. it was riddled with barely-veiled contempt.
Any comment from Dieter?
No comment, but would you like to stroke my monkey?
There’s a reason why Austria, Prussia and Russia ate them. Poles are stubborn neighbours.
I thought McD’s owned Chipotle?
they were early investors but were out in 2006
They got out quicker than diarrhea!
Much more cleanly, though.
Raiders-themed brothel to open in Nevada
That’s the place where if you’re a Raiders fan you get fucked in the ass by a chimp with a bowl cut, slapped like a bitch, and you still spend additional 1000s on Raiders gear and merch.
Yes
So.. exactly like the Oakland Alameda Coliseum?
He didn’t mention sewage backups, so who knows.
The NFL is going to have a problem with that.
Yeah, THEY’RE the only ones that get to fuck their fans!
I think they allow sloppy seconds.
Are the hookers decked out like Gene Simmons?
They’ll close as soon as the clientele realizes they aren’t getting what they paid for.
Or maybe not. The Raiders never did.
…. well…. one does not necessarily require the other.
Not ever tectonic boundary is by definition prone to “tsunamis”. In fact, the more-active the boundary, the less likely large shifts occur, and the less-likely there would be a tsunami-generating event.
Also, the layout of the sea-floor and coastal regions highly influences how a tsunami can possibly develop. In short, there’s a lot more involved in the recipe than the author seems to acknowledge.
I think the main indicator of whether one is possible is how often they’ve happened in the past. and frankly, i can’t recall a single example of a Spanish/Portuguese Tsunami in the 20th century.
*here’s a list of all the tsunamis to hit Europe
note that in 1000 years, Spain only gets hit *twice* (1680, 2003); and the latter was off the Balearics, not the Atlantic fault
the article notes that “underwater landslides” are actually a primary source of tsunamis that hit the EU. which was basically my above-point about why “merely having a fault” nearby isn’t actually the sine qua non of Tsunamis. There needs to be something to generate the displacement-wave effect other than a mere tectonic shift. and i don’t think the Azores fault is the kind of fault that generates those large, sudden shifts.
Inasmuch as any fault is ‘simple’, the Azores fault is transverse, so yeah, it’s one of the more benign, simple situations, only outdone by creative margins, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
Come on, kids, we all know about the Gell-Mann effect. The average 5th grader can out-science these journalists.
LOLwhut?
Straight outta Dickens
That there is a nice find! Gold, even!
So that Polish foreign minister interview reminded me of the Andrzej Sapkowski’s (writer of The Witcher stories and novels) interview at Eurogamer:
Somehow that grumpy picture of him is exactly what I imagined.
Yowza. I can understand why he would be salty. His own fault, naturally, but man, I’d wear out so many boots kicking myself.
And he needs to accept that the books are selling outside Poland due to games, not vice-versa.
I mean, they are excellent. I read Last Wish years ago and it was unimpressive. But recently I read everything else that’s currently available and damn, it’s really, really good. They improve the games too – finally I can see just how much attention the dev team made to the world. Outside Triss favoritism, I don’t think Sapkowski can complain about anything (well, maybe Blood and Wine ending).
Yep, I imagine his international sales have certainly benefited.
Apparently publishing crappy novel adaptations of successful game franchises is profitable, so good stuff should have decent sales.
Uber to pull out of Denmark
Damn, they really are pissing off Right-Thinking people everywhere. What the fuck did they do to became Trump of private companies? Lyft doesn’t get a fraction of hate they do…
They were first/most visible/successful.
Unfair competition is when you have govt regulate your competition out of business, not when you offer a superior product at a lower price.
Funny how the people who crow about fairness dont seem to know what the word means.
Outcompeting is not the same as unfair competition.
lyft is woker than uber.
Uber’s CEO dared to meet with Trump.
Uber has a more obnoxious name.
Hyperion, are you still around?
I have been out in the garden and tending bees. I just now see your gumbo request.
Mmmmmmmmmm Gumbo. You will roux the day I make you some Yankee gumbo.
Puns already? Oh wait…yankee gumbo…rueing the day…thats not a pun. It is a warning.
bee tender ?
what does that entail ?
changing the water in their bowl ?
fluffing up the honeycomb for a goods night sleep ?
removing the dead ones ?
Feeding, changing out the oil trap for small hive beetles, making sure they are fat and happy (I fed them some sugar/honey mixture) and added a super so they wont be tempted to swarm. Plus all that you said.
Bees are funny critters. They are very social animals and like all social animals they can read your behavior and they recognize individuals. When I approach the hive they come out in droves and light all over me. When I put food out they run to it just like dogs do. When I open the hive they never get mad. I never wear protective gear and I never get stung. When others approach the hive they get the ‘fuck off trespasser’ treatment.
One beekeeper was asking me why I never get stung. It was a mystery to him. I have seen guys like that before. He was waving his arms around, talking loud, leaning on the hive with his hands and moving parts around crushing bees…Jeebus. “I dont understand why you never get stung!” he yells while waving his arms around. Well, if he watched me and paid attention and still doesnt get it there is no way I can explain it to him.
Fascinating.
We had a relatively famous bee keeper lived in our town. Just watching him from afar was a real education.
He did wear protection most of the time, but he used to do school visits to watch him harvesting, and he used to give the kids a very clear set of instructions on what not to do (aside from sit in the shade, about 20 -30 feet away.
My uncle and grandfather tend bees sans protective clothing, and I’ve helped, but I have to be in full protective gear. Bees tend to seek me out and hit me whenever they’re agitated.
We went to a neighbor’s farm to look at a swarm on a tractor tire one time (seeing whether it was worth messing with or whether to just let them move on), and I stayed at the truck (about 500 feet from the hive). My grandpa walked right up to the bees and had them crawling on his hands without any issue. I got stung by a random one that wasn’t looking where she was going and decided to sting me for it. He blamed it on me looking like a black bear (finishes setting jesse trap).
Puerto Rico man bites head off girlfriend’s Chihuahua
Just to increase the wtf factor around here.
No bats were available?
Was the first thing that came to mind for me too. I could see how, after years of drug abuse, one might make that mistake.
Be fair, Ozzy thought it was a plastic bat.
Or at least that’s what he claims.
Yo quiero… a hot dog?
Florida Man Syndrome spreading at alarming rate, quarantine not effective.
Local taxi driver unions and politicians have complained that Uber poses unfair competition by not meeting legal standards required for established taxi firms.
Better product = Unfair competition
Everybody knows that.
I haven’t really followed the whole thing closely, but Bloomberg ran part of the phone video of Kalanick getting bitched at by the Uber driver. When the guy started raving about how he went bankrupt because Uber cut fares, I was right with Kalanick with the “WTF?”.
How is that Uber’s fault, and how the fuck did you go so far into debt based on part time driving people around? Not credible.
Postal workers are the same all over the world
Just an admin error! We always tell our postal workers to store all unaddressable mail in their basement.
Corretion – government services and employees are the same all over the world. Shitty.
Was his name Newman?
I see Suthenboy got there ahead of me.
Since Warty doesn’t seem to be around, I’ll link for him: Mob Rules.
There’s a sucker born every minute
The race to develop electric autonomous cars might have just become more interesting: Chinese internet giant Tencent has acquired a 5 percent stake in Tesla, becoming the fifth largest shareholder of the US electric car maker.
The Shenzhen-based company, known for messaging app WeChat, paid $1.78 billion for 8.2 million shares through a recent stock offering and open-market purchases, according to a regulatory filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday. The investment – the largest by a Chinese company in the market of self-driving vehicles and related services – provides Elon Musk’s Tesla with an additional boost as it prepares to launch its mass-market Model 3 electric sedan this year.
“Welcome aboard. Here’s a bucket. Start bailing.”
Maybe they’re actually betting on the stupidity of the American investor/consumer
more likely betting on the FOR SALE sign on every Congresscritter eilling to exchange subsidies in return for doantionbribes.
^This^’
*bell rings*
So a prog friend of mine shared a page on Facebook called “Left Action”. Their cause of the day is saying that we should “Repeal and replace Paul Ryan”, whatever that means (SLD: Ryan is an idiot and should be fired. out of a cannon. into the sun). But lets copy and paste some of the “better” comments, shall we?
(actually I like that one)
(“cocclusion”)
I hate it when the government steals my moy.
Too bad Preet’s not around anymore.
It’s not like the constitution stopped him the last time, why would not actually being a US Attorney stop him?
It’s a lot harder to file your brief when you don’t have the keys to office anymore.
I would just like to say that when the far left and the far right are arguing to put the politicians against a wall at the same time, the politicians should start sweating a little.
The problem is that the lefties want R’s against the wall, some of the R base want D’s against the wall and the only people calling for both sides to be purged are libertarians.
Moy? A fusion of mole’ and poi?
Or a lot of other options
I’d think the left would be pretty gitty about having a guy like Ryan in charge of pushing Trump’s agenda through Congress.
Exactly. I was thrilled every time Obama handed anything to Biden, because I knew an awesome sound byte and a hilarious fuck up was right around the corner.
A couple of those comments could actually pass for a drunk libertarian. Maybe That Other Place was onto something after all.
Yes! What should actually happen is that this election result must be annulled and the presidency handed over to Hillary Clinton!
Indeed.
*that’s all I’ve got.
yeah, I have heard a lot of that lately. If you try and point out that that isnt how it works they let it out pretty fast that what they want is for Hillary to orchestrate a coup. Couple that with the AntiFa people actively trying to provoke violence in the street…
package tutorial1;
public class application {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(“Don’t you people work?”);
}
}
Looks like the Rufus bot needs some tweaking…
Who keeps sticking things into its output port?
United States;) DROP TABLE government;
i have now completed about 7 lectures/ tutorials. Who would like to hire me as a programmer?
VACUUM FULL;
Ah, Divorce Court and legal fees – who wins (other than the lawyers, of course)
Why is divorce so damned expensive? Because it’s worth it!
Why do men die before women?
Because they want to.
Too funny:
Reality Show Set in Wilderness Canceled, but No One Tells Contestants for Months
If that is not the absolute best practical joke in history I do not know what else could be.
it sounds like the basis for a George Saunders story
I think it was the basis for a Simpsons episode.
23? The odd number of people just seems like an extra special ‘fuck you’ to the bunch as well. Somebody wasn’t just ‘raising’ their livestock.
Thirteen of the 23 contestants quit the show during the year as sexual jealousy, infighting and hunger took their toll.
Well it went down to an even number at the end, so..
Wouldn’t be surprised if “The 10 Amish contestants remained on set for a year afterward and had to be forcibly removed by Scottish authorities.” had been the last sentence of the story.
Is promiscuity a foreign concept to you? Because it happens on almost all of these reality shows.
The odd number just meant that they raised the livestock in the traditional Scottish manner.
Is that real? I mean, I HOPE it is.
Just seems too unlikely.
it almost feels like a story-plant as a trailer for an upcoming comedy-film
it WOULD make a great comedy film, fwiw.
Seems like there’s nothing funnier than reality/truth.
So long, climate policies. Good riddance!
I hope I can get flood insurance before the liberal tears reach my house.
I did a little dance and sang a little song. Goddamn. Who would have guessed this a year ago. The liberal outrage seems to me that watermelons think once they get some bullshit like that decreed that it can never be undone. “You cant do that!!!!” is what I am hearing. Of course the best answer is a calm voice saying “It’s already done.”
I might actually put some money int eh stock market.
Dammit, I keep getting my blood pressure up about Trump and then every couple weeks he does something like nominate Gorsuch, or this. I’ve got a bad feeling I could find myself in a red MAGA hat in 2020 going wtf?
I’ll say this much about Trump. He has balls. Something almost every other Republican seems to lack. I keep thinking that his success will wake them up, but it just seems that their pussification is so complete, they no longer have the ability to grow a pair.
“We won’t hesitate to protect those we serve</strong? — including by aggressively opposing in court President Trump’s actions that ignore both the law and the critical importance of confronting the very real threat of climate change," the coalition, led by New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, said in a statement."
Well, of course you won't, because that would be you and your rent seeking asshole buddies.
GDamnit, edit fairy! Could you guys at least give the tech savvy ones of us some admin privileges? I’ve been trusted with some truly sensitive data for decades, I promise not pull a Russian hack job on you.
Oh, sweet fucking Jesus.
The retard is strong with this one.
It’s HuffPo, did you expect something else?
Of course not. But damn, this one is over the topper even them.
The sad thing is that it isn’t. I have had personal friends I have known for relatively long periods of time stop talking to me because I voted for Trump so therefore I must hate everything that isn’t white with a penis (not paraphrasing). This is despite the fact that I have a black partner (might as well be my wife at this point), black roommates (in MY house), black friendships spanning decades, and my own biological father is an immigrant.
I’m going to defend the cute, derpy little Mexican girl here, actually. Assuming she isn’t full of shit about what this guy believes, I could see someone here illegally (since the age of 4) along with their whole family taking it a bit personally that he seems to be big on deporting people. Just a little.
Wanting to follow the rule of law does not make someone racist, even if the law is not right or completely fair.
I called her derpy. Doesn’t mean she doesn’t have any legitimate gripe against said individual.
Nope that just makes someone an asshole.
If she had simply called him ignorant or an asshole I wouldn’t have said shit. She specifically went for the racist label, which is 100% bullshit, and considering his behavior as described in her own article he is demonstrably NOT racist.
Do you normally take your legitimate gripes against individuals and turn them into HuffPo editorials? or do you confront people directly?
Because it seems to me she just made that individual up out of thin air for the excuse of writing a bitch-piece in Huffpo
I suspect a lot of these kids yelling “racist!” at every opportunity are trying to convince themselves as much as anyone else.
So I’m an asshole because I want a more permissive legal immigration plan but don’t want our system flooded with people living in the shadows, sucking up social services, stealing identities to work and not paying their medical bills but instead just changing their name to something else new when they have a major medical expense?
That doesn’t seem like a fair characterization of me
Just because I don’t think we should let every single person come here unless we abolish all forms of welfare and make everyone subject to the same laws.
So I’m an asshole because I want ……
Nope, I was responding to this
even if the law is not right or completely fair.
If you want to enforce unjust laws you are an asshole, full stop.
“Unjust”.
There’s a lot of gray area there.
‘Not right’ to me equals ‘unjust’ , however, It’s possible I’m not doing this pedant thing right.
I’m not calling you a pedant. Please don’t take it that way. I’m just saying there’s a lot of gray area for what different people would consider “unjust”. That doesn’t mean people are assholes when they think laws are in different places on the justice continuum. It just means they disagree.
Likewise there’s a lot of grey area for what different people consider asshole-ism (and whether it’s ‘gray’ or ‘grey’.) On the far end of my asshole continuum are people who as Vyrhus stated ‘want to follow the rule of laws for laws that are not right.’ We’re mostly in agreement, only you would rather argue about justice where I would rather argue about assholes.
…so to speak.
don’t want our system flooded with people living in the shadows
What does that mean? They aren’t in government databases? They don’t have I-9 forms on file?
I say, good for them.
Well, I prefaced everything I wrote with assuming she isn’t bullshitting. Though, as obnoxious as the SJ left can be, there are some college Republicans/conservatives who do come close. This isn’t completely unbelievable to me, though I’d never discount any prog making shit up to showcase their narrative.
“Are you going to let politics ruin a friendship?” First of all, yes. Second of all, this is not about politics; it is about my existence as a person of color in this country. Third of all, yes.
You know, some people just deserve to live alone.
You mean “people who can’t close tags”?
Those people are the worst!
OK, second worst. The worst would be people who like 80s music.
If I’m you sample size, then yes.
“Person of color”
Right there. Identity politics. Fuck you idiot.
I am an American and I identify with Americans – by that I mean people who subscribe to certain ideals. Skin color means jack-shit to me.
Do those ideals include freedom of movement, freedom of association, and freedom of contract?
among others, yes. Dig a little deeper though and I am betting thats not what she is about. she is laying the foundation for the opposite.
Ah, ok. You’re just criticizing the racism charge. I agree that the stupidity of the article is accusing “friends” of hers of being racist because they support immigration laws that would putatively deport her. It’s not necessarily racism. It’s seems more like a form of cognitive dissonance. “I want those illegals deported! Well, not you, you’re one of the good ones.” And I’m not sure I can glean from the article what kind of foundation she’s laying. It just sounds like she doesn’t want any law to be enforced that would result in her deportation and she’s frustrated that people who are otherwise nice to her want those laws enforced. With that said, I have no idea whether or not these people she’s addressing in the article are real or imagined. She’s doing herself no favors by alienating herself (sorry) with all the finger pointing and calling everyone who’s nice to her racists.
Remind me to write shit about people on HuffPo instead of actually talking to them about their beliefs in a civilized manner.
She’s retarded, but based on the small grainy bio picture…would.
I read that and now I have a concussion because my brain was desperately trying to escape. I hope you’re happy.
No trigger warning for a HuffPo link?
Where is my safe space?
These links! THEY’RE SO FLUFFY, I’M GONNA DIE!
The DNC has purged all of its staffers. Tom Perez demanded their resignations. Seems like the little Marxist really hit the ground running here and is way ahead of schedule.
Does this make Perez literally Stalin, as Trump firing everyone made him literally Hitler?
There are still a lot of Bernie people who have beefs with the former-Clinton people, and they have both been sources of leaks against the others.
Basically the DNC is riddled with people with competing loyalities, and with the new boss in charge, he has no idea who is 100% on his team and who’s not.
So fire them all and rebuild. I mean, it makes sense. But it really is another sign of how fucked up things are on their end. Which is basically why he picked the “Shriek Nonstop about Russia!” as his first strategy-move (IMO). Because it gave their competing groups a chance to point their fingers at something outside the country which would keep people from talking about the obvious failures of the DNC in local/state races and their obvious problems with generational pressures from the harder-left.
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