Happy Monday. Sloopy got his pool painted, I’m getting someone out to handle mine. Because although I have a degree in Chemical Engineering, I don’t care to fuck with it when someone else can handle it cheap. Specialization, its not just for insects!
- Wells Fargo will be taking $75M back from former executives who fostered a culture of fraud. Funny, no word about the key bad player seeing any sort of legal consequences.
- I think Lord Humungus will be safe from this — I can’t even say it with a straight face– hybrid Ford High Speed Police Interceptor. I’m sorry, but the Ford Fusion will never strike terror into my heart.
- Of all the bad ideas I’ve heard about US-Iran relations, backing the Shah’s son for a return to Iran may be the worst.
- Whoa, shit, did I set the alarm clock too early? Bears in Sierras confused at all the white stuff on the ground as they emerge from hibernation. I blame AGW.
- Run walk away! Brain eating parasite spread by snails in Hawaii.
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299 responses to “Monday Afternoon Links”
Of all the bad ideas I’ve heard about US-Iran relations, backing the Shah’s son for a return to Iran may be the worst.
No, Nicole is.
Kermit Roosevelt hardest hit
Are we returning him to be punished for his father’s sins? Kinda biblical, in a bad way.
https://mkremins.github.io/genderquiz/
Free online gender quizz. What gender are you my fellow glibs? I got:
Your gender is: VENDING MACHINE
Other times, I think I am not.
Oh, I am some sort of Angel from some sort of cartoon.
I am a CUBE
Well, your avatar is sort of cube like.
Somehow I am a robot even though I said I was meat and not metal… I want a recount.
Wouldn’t that make you a Cylon?
“I am a meat popsicle.”
SMOKE YOU MAN!
From the next video
https://youtu.be/I_63gVt7WUk
Sweet, I’m “UNDER CONSTRUCTION”.
That means I can use everyone’s toilet, right? It’s like having that one blood type where you can donate to everyone?
Nobody wants you to donate your ‘bodily essences’.
Sicko.
I. Love. This. Quiz.
My gender is: 3
I always knew…
Wait… I thought the 3rd gender was Thai Ladyboys or something….
Do you have something you’d like share with the group Zunalter?
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Ugh, I think some of the question should have ‘WTF?’ as an option.
I’m BANNED IN THIRTEEN US STATES. I guess for strongly disagreeing that I don’t have any identity crisis about gender. This thing has to be parody.
“This thing has to be parody”
It’s hard to tell what is and isn’t parody anymore
“This thing has to be parody.”
Paging captain obvious to the white courtesy phone…
Your gender is: THE INKY VOID BETWEEN STARS
I’ve never felt so validated and understood. Hopefully you cisgendered shitlords will pay me proper homage for being so unique and wise
Why does everyone but me get a cool gender identity? It’s not fair!
Please check your goddamn privilege when talking to me.
I also am a vending machine.
It must be cooler than it sounds.
Stop denying my lived experiences!!
Well, alright then.
Also, “This isn’t even my final form” followed directly by “I’m not trapped in here with you, you’re trapped in here with me” basically means this quiz wins all the quizzes
I somehow knew you would be a cactus.
I’m really just a degenerate hedgehog… I guess?
You’re prickly, but not a prick. 😉
I am doge, hear me roar….
Post of the day.
Your gender is: FINE (cartoon picture of dog surrounded by flames)
Seriously, it’s completely fine. Nothing wrong here at all. This is a totally acceptable and normal gender with which to find yourself.
Well I love this cartoon enough to want it on a tee shirt, so this quiz is totally accurate.
Also, the question: “Overall, my friends have more gender than I do.”
Brilliant.
So, you’re a gender fluid bronie?
Well I love this cartoon enough to want it on a tee shirt
I can do that for you.
Also, I was “Fine” as well. I feel totally gypped.
Well, I was assigned Fine by the quiz, but I actually identify myself as Cube.
Your gender is: CAVE
Awesome!
A nice, moist cave.
Nice!?
Your gender is: TUBBS FROM NEKO ATSUME
Whatever the hell that is.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_Atsume
Wow..
So I’m allergic to my own gender? That can’t be good.
OK, now I am triggered…
Yeah, not sure if this thing isn’t a random insult generator or something..
I am a fern. Suck it bitches.
I am a fern also, however, you are stuck in here with me.
I am Fine. That’s it, just Fine.
“Seriously, it’s completely fine. Nothing wrong here at all. This is a totally acceptable and normal gender with which to find yourself.”
There is a cartoon pic of a dog wearing a hat while sitting at a kitchen table. The house is burning down, so I think Fine may be incorrect.
Do you even internet, bro?
I also got fine.
Bees.
My gender is bees.
Bees!
https://media.giphy.com/media/8Jww0ZIXMZoXu/giphy.gif
Nuuuuu!
Same here, R C.
I quite like it.
I’m a Missingno:
Your gender is a dual-type Bird/Normal glitch Pokémon in Pokémon Red and Blue, and a dual-type Normal/randomly named glitch type (which often has ‘9’ in it) glitch Pokémon in Pokémon Yellow. It is arguably the best known glitch Pokémon, closely followed by ‘M (00) and it is the easiest glitch Pokémon to find in the localizations. It has five distinct forms.
What the Hell does that mean? I’ve made it through five decades of life without once being confused about my gender and now this. I feel so lost.
That makes two of us.
If it makes you feel any better, I got it. 😛
Well at least I’m not the only one to predate the Julian calendar in here.
The Moon from Majora’s Mask, which is apparently some video game thing so all you nerds probably know what it is. I got no clue.
God you all are so old.
Get off my lawn!
It was a game I played as a kid/pre-teen. Part of the Legend of Zelda series, follow up to the hugely popular Ocarina of Time which was the first LoZ game to being properly 3d adventure. Recently ported and re-released because Nintendo is the worst at running their IPs into the ground.
If it’s console only, I wouldn’t know, or care.
Lol Nintendo doesn’t develop for other people.
Just because they can’t make a console that’s worth owning for more than a week doesn’t mean they should switch to being a game developer. Come on.
Gamer here. No idea either.
This is the Moon from Majora’s Mask
Don’t crush us, bro.
TUBBS FROM NEKO ATSUME
I do not have a fucking clue what that is.
I bet HM does, though.
Your gender is: MURDER MYSTERY
nice! I didn’t even have to waste time filling in the circles for it to know either!
Apparently I am: THE ANGEL RAMIEL FROM NEON GENESIS EVANGELION
“Your gender is the Fifth Angel, one of the largest and second most powerful. It becomes the first Angel to physically penetrate the Geofront when its drill bit breaks through the armor. It is defeated during Operation Yashima (ヤシマ作戦).”
I don’t know what this means. Where can I drop a duce?
Hey, me too! We should start a club or something.
I am also the Angel Ramiel. Any Geofronts out there wanting some penetration?
*Disclosure = I just clicked the middle answer (“neither agree nor disagree”) on everything
I was under the impression that the answers didn’t matter and the resulting gender was RNG.
Which is why i answered that way.
It is if you enter nothing. And probably is for most values of the quiz.
what’s a Doge? Me I guess
Doge
Enrico Dandolo was the Doge of Venice.
I’m a goddamn fern.
I am FERN.
3
Your gender is: THE MONOLITH FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Those questions were pure gold.
Your gender appears at the beginning of the story, set in prehistoric times. It is discovered by a group of hominids and somehow triggers a considerable shift in evolution, starting with the ability to use tools and weaponry.
I got Top Hat!
the most glib one!
So did I! We’re the true Glibertarians.
It’s the best one. we can start a club.
THE MONOLITH FROM 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
Behold my inscrutable depths and tremble, apes.
My gender is cactus, which is confusing because there are only two genders and cactus isn’t one of them.
I am a cactus, so I guess you all really are stuck in here with me.
Hybrid police interceptor? Awesome, so all I have to do is outrun the police for 30 minutes till their batteries die. Time to get the crew back together.
It’s Hybrid, which means it has a gas engine too.
“You may have seen police in your neighborhood driving hybrids like Toyota Priuses or Chevrolet Volts.”
Yeah, no. Police shootings around here would go up exponentially due to assholes like me laughing at them.
I lost allotta respect for all those involved in the quiz above.
Ooh. A late-breaking link. Bioware is doing a reboot/remake of KOTOR. Which I love in spite of the fact that they basically just reskinned their engine 3 or 4 times on KOTOR and a couple of other games.
Excellent. Take one of the greatest games of all time and add Social Justice, ugly women, and MMO style bullshit tasks. I think I will enjoy Bioware raping the corpse of their former glory.
+1 skinsuit
She puts on the lotion or she gets the hose…
Sounds a little bit like the video game version of The Magazine That Shall Not Be Named.
Why come up with all the trouble of creating a new and compelling storyline when you can just reskin that last one you made!
There’s a whole MMO that’s supposed to be doing that shit. The hell are they doing?
Oh well, best thing about it will be that Andromeda will probably go on a big sale when it comes out, and I’ll pick it up then.
OT: Pan, picked up that EU4 tutorial series you recommended last week. The tutor is very thorough and easy to listen to. The trainee is, as you said, occasionally aspy. I found myself many times completely comfortable with a newly explained mechanic and then having to endure 6 or 7 questions about it.
Very good overview, however. Thank you very much for the recommendation.
Hah, I actually meant Arumba is getting way aspy! 😀
Seriously, I had the same reaction as you the first time around. Then I played the game. I recently watched it again as a refresher and found myself screaming at Arumba “No! You’re going into too much detail! He doesn’t need to squeeze that marginal advantage, the risk is too high, and you still haven’t explained how the fucking trade works, and you have culture slots empty while you’re eating huge unrest in Ireland!”
you still haven’t explained how the fucking trade works
“Hey, you’re being too complex, instead talk about that insanely complex system that literally took me a year to figure out.”
Well, again, once they get to trade, he spends 20 minutes on it, could have summed it in 5 to give Filthy 80% effectiveness.
I know because after going over it again, I reassigned merchants, conquered Venice, and trade income went up 30%.
Problem is Arumba is always on “Full Speed” and could have shaved about 25% of the time in the series had he pulled back a bit on min-maxing and took the long-term strategy view first.
The hell are they doing?
“Oh god we’ve been sucking for years so let’s just cash in on our old, well received products?”
I…guess? I mean, DA:I sold well from what I understand, and ME3 wasn’t horrible because EA made them do a shitty game (it also wasn’t horrible just because of the last 15 minutes, but I’ve linked Seamus Young’s analysis of why that is several times).
And if they wanted that, they should redo Jade Empire. Fix the combat system a bit and keep most of the story and you have a pretty cool, gorgeous game with my favorite Bioware Twist ever (though they stopped doing those after…ME1? DA: Origins maybe, but the ‘twist’ would be too early to count as a proper one).
Please, you think an EA controlled Bioware is ever going to roll with original or weird IPs again? Nope, it’s going to be whoring for the pre-established brands, got to cash in on the necrophilia around Star Wars lately.
I do think it probably drives current Bioware employees nuts that they’ve gone a fairly respected Western RPG maker to a bad joke over a decade in the ‘video game zeitgeist’.
Hey, Jade Empire might work if they spin the “Muh Asian Markets!” excuse. Shit, there was no other reason for a Zatoichi knockoff in Rogue One and yet there was one.
You’ve got to comply with Chinese censorship laws, which I believe a lot stricter on video games than for movies. Don’t know how much ‘MUH social justice’ you can fit in while constantly worrying about whether your major market will work out.
Far as I remember, Social Justice in JE consisted of same-sex relationship option (one apiece for gents and ladies), which might have to go, and John Cleese playing clueless conquistador in a hilarious short scene, which would get big thumbs-up. Maybe just extend it into more Dumb White Would-Be Conqueror Barbarian Gets His Comeuppance?
2005 Bioware is a far different beast than 2017 Bioware. If they’re doing a ‘reboot/remake’ rather than just a graphical upgrade you’d better believe they’ll shovel some shit into it. Andromeda apparently has a trans character that managed to offend both their consumers and the trans groups.
Mildly amusing anecdote: About 20 years ago or whenever that game was new I immediately played through it twice so I could experience life as a boring soulless monk and then again as a hilariously cartoon evil piece of shit. For my second game I named my character Revan. So when I got to the SHOCKING TWIST REVEAL the dialogue was all my character saying shit like “What are you talking about? I can’t be Revan, I am Revan. Come on guys you all know I’m Revan. How could I actually be Revan?” My roommate was very confused as to what the fuck was happening on screen.
Holy shit bro! spoiler alerts!
I’m only cool with this if they let Obsidian remake KOTOR 2, because at least that’s something you can look forward to.
If they just take the original game and bring it into a brand new engine, that’s all that’s needed. Make it look and sound better, and make the combat not suck. Don’t touch anything else about the game, the rest of it is perfect!
Unfortunately it did not work
Nevertheless, they persisted?
It may not have worked, but it was still awesome.
Drinking from skull remedy for metal workers or Metal workers receive cure from drinking skull?
While I have no idea what that is anout it the bottom one made me think .
It said Iron Wokers.
When welders are welding on galvanized metsl the fumes will give you flue like symptoms unless you drink milk off and on while you are welding and breathing the fumes.
I can’t remember if it cures the symptoms if you drink it after they occur.
don’t breathe the fumes, don’t get metal fume fever
Iron Wokers? Is that like really “progressive” welders?
It does.
The drinking-milk-from-the-skull thing probably actually did “work.” The skull was just (probably) superfluous. It would do a lot for ambience, though.
I’m sorry, but the Ford Fusion will never strike terror into my heart.
b-b-b-b-b-but….torque.
To be sure, a properly designed electric car will murder an equivalent gas powered car in performance… for the first 20 to 50 miles. After that, though, well I hope you have some fresh batteries.
+1 high speed chase.
as someone pointed out above it is a hybrid not electric though.
Still most true hybrids are unable to maintain significant speed when running on just engine.
It aint gonna beat no Hemi!!!
Yeah, problem is you might be able to outrun the cop car but you can’t outrun his radio
Our local PD has a twin turbo Ford Fusion interceptor. He told me it was very fast, and not to be fooled that just because it had a Fusion body strapped to the chassis.
Bears in Sierras confused at all the white stuff on the ground
Jesse left them a lot of cocaine.
This mountain is made entirely of Snow? Do you have any idea the street value of this stuff?
A mountain boom boom down….
I’m thinking someone would be Better off Dead
The photog for Mammoth’s gay ski week likes snow bros more than he likes bears. I’m sad I don’t have campy ski bear photos to link.
Ski + bear = dead Kristen
Knock over a snowboarder.
This is how the New York Times does supposedly straight news article on Gorsuch’s swearing in:
“[Trump] showcased a rare domestic victory after a chaotic first few months in office marred by legal troubles over his travel ban, the failure of his effort to repeal the health care law and intense feuding inside his senior team….
“The Rose Garden ceremony, on a sun-soaked spring day, recalled one just over a year ago in which President Barack Obama announced his selection of Judge Merrick B. Garland…
“Justice Gorsuch’s confirmation process, too, was marred by an extraordinary degree of partisanship.”
And yet, the Times looks sober and responsible in comparison to the Washington Post
I am pretty sure the Grey Lady could not be unbiased even with an actual gun to the heads of every reporter and editor in the building.
I’m sure their offices are a ‘gun free zone’, so your scenario is impossible
I hope they have that sign up to ward off any would-be shooters. And the cloves of garlic.
Mick Mulvaney Orders Federal Agencies to Prepare for Massive Cuts
Yes! Cut them all! Cut them deep! Don’t stop!
Do they need the assistance of the Glibertariat? Fire up the mulching apparatuses!
I love the sound of woodchippers echoing off of marble pillars…
You’re missing the point.
Ordered to make cuts, HHS will cut aid to crippled children.
The National Park Service will close down veterans’ gravesites.
The Justice Department will transfer guards away from the maximum security prisons and leave the doors unlocked.
Then they wait for Trump to get over his insane budget-cutting ideas.
Your missing the point. I don’t care.
Hasn’t Trump placed his evil deplorable minions in charge of most of those agencies? IOW, I’m not sure that is what will happen.
I fucking hope they do that, because Trump isn’t a cuck like the last few sods. The moment they do that he shows the whole country exactly what bullshit they’re up to, and that they would rather pay their directors 6 figure salaries than feed starving children or protect the public. I can’t WAIT.
Wasn’t it Thomas Sowell who came up with the thought experiment:
Imagine a government department that does two things: feed starving children and erect statues of Benedict Arnold. If you cut its budget, all of the cuts are going to come from the part of the budget that feeds starving children, because if you cut the part erecting statues of Benedict Arnold, people would start to wonder why anyone was erecting statues of Arnold in the first place,
Well, he was a pretty kick-ass general. And he probably wouldn’t have betrayed the Revolution if he hadn’t gotten screwed over for political reasons.
Did you just unironically use cuck in an argument?
Well it was semi ironically.
Serious question, how would unilaterally cutting functionality not be the Executive equivalent of a line-item veto? I mean, I’m all for less government, I just don’t understand how that could be constitutional unless they waste even more of the money Congress allocates them.
I thought government budgets were “use it or lose it”. Sounds like the Trump Administration is using their authority to order them to “lose it”.
how would unilaterally cutting functionality not be the Executive equivalent of a line-item veto?
The micro-management decisions of where to spend each nickel are well within the Executive’s jurisdiction. Much of the “functionality” of these government agencies is very very difficult indeed to trace back to a specific and detailed legislative mandate.
I would not that it is apparently perfectly legal under our civil service jobs to reduce someone’s salary to $1/year. Technically, they aren’t fired, so its all good.
I’d move lots of civil servants to places like Appalachia or middle-of-nowhere Kansas and Oklahoma.
I would start shifting whole departments to various cities scattered around the country. It could be part economic stimulus, part decentralization of Imperial DC. Every agency could maintain a small liaison office in DC, but all of their worker bees would be out in the Real US somewhere.
It really would help the cities where you moved the agencies – that’s a lot of good jobs added to their economies. And it would break up the concentration of power in DC. Not only would the agencies leave town, so would the beltway bandits who make their living off the agencies.
To really nail it down, I would tear down all the beltway office buildings that would be vacant, and turn it into a big new national park.
Why would you reward them?
Trust me, for these bureaucrats, being banished from the Imperial Capital is not a reward.
“constitutional”
What does that have to do with anything?
Unilaterally cutting is stupid. They need to use a register. When the financial crisis hit, my company had to cut $1B in spending. we decide a 3% cut from all parts of the business would be a bad idea.
I meant a risk register.
Meh. I’ll let it slide.
Interesting question.
I would think he could simply fire them and not rehire replacements. The position is still funded, the money allocated, but not used. So the government spending continues, but on the plus side, no further harm is being done.
How many of the agencies are constitutional in the first place?
Are these actual cuts, or are they the normal “Your budget is only increasing by 5% this year instead of 10%” cuts?
I’m hoping they are of the “thank you for your service, now please leave the building” variety.
Well, me too. But what normal people define as “cuts” and what the government (and media) defines as “cuts” are two very different things.
Literally Hitler
*glances about nervously*
There is nothing left to cut Drake.
Anyway , plus one multiplier effect makes cutting Goverment stupid.
/ereybody noes dat
China ‘deploys 150,000 troops to North Korean border
Huh, Obama bombs people for 8 years and nothing. Trump bombs someone and the world shits it pants.
Pyongyang’s response: “You guys got any food?”
Also be aware that the Dailymail has a habit of making shit up.
True. It’s unconfirmed at this point, AFAIK. But it wouldn’t surprise me, China has been talking about renewing NK sanctions with the US, which could create a refugee problem pretty quickly.
I’m not sure how that works. People either starve or if they attempt to escape, they are shot by the NORKs or electrocuted on one of the fences. Doesn’t leave many refugees.
I wouldn’t assume the regime is all that stable. I doubt the Chinese do.
Probably comes down to one thing. Kim is able to keep the army well fed and keep the top ranks very comfortable and he can keep things going.
Otherwise, he could lose control. Unfortunately, I don’t see this turning out very well for the people in that country.
That’s like what? A platoon in the Chinese Army?
Or an over-strength section, they’ve been trying to keep pace with India.
I used to know a korean war vet. If half of what he told me is true then they better send more than 150k.
My father was in Korea shortly after the shooting stopped.
Some of the stories he said he was told by the actual combat vets were insane.
Wave after wave of poorly armed and poorly clothed soldiers HOPPED UP on something running right at you knowing they were running to their deaths.
Frozen bodies stacked like cordwood for protection since you could’t dig in the frozen ground.
After hearing these stories growing up I feared Vietnam while in highschool.
By the Grace of God I missed the draft by 1 year.
Yes Sir. Those stories are the same from all the combat vets from Korea. The worst being that they told me our jets (still new technology) killed far more americans than the enemy did.
A lot of those cordwood bodies were Chinese.
After Inchon, Mac kicked the NORKs ass all the way to the Yalu. Then the Chinese crossed the river and we got chased all the way back to the 38th.
The Chinese attacked with more men than they had guns, instructing them to pick up the gun of anyone who fell.
My FiL was in a Recon Bn, stuck 7 days behind enemy lines in just that situation, having bodies piled up in front of his hidey-hole. He doesn’t talk about it, but after he had a stroke, I think he went back there for a little while.
Bad shit, man.
Yes. I believe all the bidies were Chinese by this time.
I’m not sure that tactic would work against a well armed army with today’s modern weapons but I don’t know much about military stuff either.
Hey Southen what up ?
Do you know whatever happened to Groovus ?
His last post I read was that he was going to start a medical post answering questions here. His one stipulation was that no one bitch aboit him being part of the medical establishment who makes a decent living after a decade or so of study.
I had what I thought was a funny question to ask him and so I looked for him but never saw him again.
This. Also, Hamster/Jo.
Trump’s got them right where he wants them.
Jeebus. Trump bombs Assad, and China immediately puts 10 – 15 divisions (Western count) on the Nork border. That’s . . . awesome. 8 years of jugeared limpwristed diplomacy and the Chinese never did dick about the Norks. 100 days of Trump, and they are mobilizing on the border.
+1 Trump needs to learn how to lead from behind while not doing anything stupid.
My guess is that the Chinese are going to round up the NK leaders when the shit starts and they try to hop the border. Anyone who weighs more than 150 lbs goes to jail.
Isn’t the main reason the Chinese deploy the military to the border is to help keep North Korean refugees INSIDE North Korea?
(looks at story)
Yeah, i think the misleading part is what is meant by “handle”. The chinese routinely militarize that border, but its mainly to serve as a dissuasion against any popular flight out of NK; basically, propping up Kim’s regime in times of pressure.
So would the U.S. allow China to essentially occupy NK, I wonder? And I wonder how the SK’s would feel about that?
How is this a automatically a bad thing?
We need like a one year boycott of air travel but everyone will probably just continue to let the airlines treat them like shit.
http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/10/video-security-drags-screaming-united-airlines-passenger-off-overbooked-flight-literally/
The video is just… holy crap…
Thank goodness for smartphones. I loved one thing about this video–as it was clearly escalating, more and more people start taking their phones out to record. Good on you guys.
Supposedly, he was a physician on his way to do something doctory with a hospital patient.
I hope that’s true, because its about the only way this could be worse than it looks on video.
That is what he claimed. I believe it but we will see.
United said they needed the seat because their employees needed to be in Louisville the next morning. He responded with, “I am a Doctor, I have patients to see in Louisville tomorrow morning.”
Ok, the last video makes him looks a bit nutty.
THey interviewed a travel writer on our local news radio station this afternoon, and apparently the rules are the airline is supposed to keep offering higher voucher prices until they get takers. Sounds like United just said “fuck this shit” and stopped the voucher price at $800 or whatever it was, and decided to just remove people. Because FAA regulations say passengers have to obey the commands of crew members.
My understanding is that people don’t want their shitty vouchers because they are a pain to use, have all kinds of blackout dates and restrictions, etc. I bet if they offered cash, they would easily get takers.
What’s sad is that they booted paying customers for a deadhead crew that wasn’t flying until the next day. You can’t tell me that other arrangements couldn’t have been made to get them there, or they couldn’t substitute another crew.
Yep. THat’s some sound business practices there. And you can’t tell me United doesn’t have any other way to get a crew to Louisville than that one flight.
Little known fact is that airlines will help each other out with things like crew transport but will rarely boot paying customers to do so. Also, sometimes crew might have to do an unnecessarily-long routing, waaaah.
Now, they might have been getting the crew there so they could have FAA-mandated on-the-ground time, but again that’s the airline’s problem not that of the flying public. The airline had other options – bumping vacationing employees and family, bumping employees of other airlines, bumping travel agents, etc. And then there are always other crews.
They handled this badly. I hope the public makes them pay for it.
The airlines have been occasionally acting like asshats since 2001. This is about the worst I’ve heard though.
If you’ve ever flown AA, then you know the annoying question thing they do ‘did anyone else help you pack your bags, blah blah blah’.
One time on a connection in Miami, the morons caused us to miss the connecting flight, so I got an overnight layover. By the time I got to the hotel they put us up in and and had a couple beers to calm myself down, it was 1am, and I had to be up at 4 to make the flight the next morning. I may have slept 2 hours, woke up late and had to throw some clothes on with no chance to shower so I could maybe get there in time.
The AA bitch that asks the ‘did any terrorists pack your bags for you’, for some damn reason asked me to take off my hat. Fuck, that pissed me off. I said ‘Do you know why I’m wearing this damn hat?’ and proceeded to give her hell, finishing with ‘Hell no, I’m not taking off this hat’. Then she’s all nicey and ‘enjoy your flight sir’. Fuck you very much, assholes.
Anyone read ben rhodes twitter? He is taking being out of power pretty hard.
I’ll give anyone 2-1 odds that he’ll be in jail in the next 18 months.
Make me an offer.
Yea agreed. I am guessing it wasnt just rice
He seemed awfully shaken by Eli Lake’s reporting about Rice unmasking Trump associates. Somebody better lawyer-up
“Anyone read ben rhodes twitter?”
Was that a serious question?
Its an odd posture for a guy to take. He was never ever a policy-strategist. His job was to take whatever shitshow Obama cooked up, and provide the best possible spin for the press.
Meaning, Rhode’s input on foreign policy was completely in the “marketing department” side of things. The MFA wasn’t being asked for his views on geopolitical relations. Why anyone thinks his insights matter now is weird.
He basically seems to be terrified that his narrative-pumping-powers are vanishing. “WHY WILL NO ONE LISTEN TO MY POV ON THIS”
wink-wink/nudge-nudge
Butt hole bleached?
it sounds like it has a lot of euphemistic potential
Quebec has its own Wells Fargo (in terms of being a ward of the state; not necessarily fraud). It’s called Bombardier. $9 billion in debt, billions in subsidies given to it in the last 40 years, consistently messes up (despite quality products) leading to the usual layoffs and the executives announced they were giving themselves 50% pay raises. One guy as VP makes $3 million a year. Normally, I couldn’t care less but because this company constantly has its hand out I’m pretty peeved about it; especially given how I have to pay for it.
So all the pants shitting about trump seems to me the lefties are focused on symbolism and imagery.
Trump hasnt done a lot action wise that would be considered chaotic (excluding the roll out of first travel ban which wasnt good).
To me his no1 success to date was pulling that healthcare bill
Yup. Force a vote on a garbage bill to ashcan it and clear the decks for something . . . different.
I mean like the gop would have hanged themselves for obamacare light which would be stupid
If they want to get rid of the aca, it needs to be when it shows how bad publicly it is
I was saying at first and still contend that the left are really fooling themselves thinking Ryan’s ‘save Obamacare’ bill going down in flames is some sort of victory for their side. Victory for libertarians, yes, but the worst thing that could have happened for the left. They are not exactly masters of logic or long term thinking.
Exactly. It would have been a ticket to power back for basically 80 percent obamacare
What is funny they hated ryancare as being terrible but love obamacare when they are in reality pretty similar
The big difference was that, under RyanCare, you qualified for a tax credit if you bought insurance, and under ObamaCare, you got a tax penalty if you didn’t buy insurance. Amazingly, the tax credit and the tax penalty worked out to be the same.
And before that, they hated Romneycare.
So i had thought trumps tweets were irresponsible as i didnt think he would have much to show. However after the rice thing, nunes and king comments on intel….i am glad trunp did.
The schiff response or lack there of after review was pretty telling imo. He just put out a statement should be reviewed in proper procedures whereas before he wasnt shy about running mouth in front of camera
NASA puts the Earth up for adoption
My tax dollars at work. It makes me proud.
Seriously, Trump needs to start throwing pinks slips around like confetti.
Are they turning a profit on it, like the star registry people?
Tim Berners-Lee toys with the idea of locking down the Internet because “nasty, mean ideas” are being spread by some people sometimes:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/needs-rethink-stop-nasty-ideas-spreading-says-creator-112424774–finance.html
Money quote:
“We actually have to not leave people to make whatever social networks they like.”
Do we have a term for someone that gives life to a positively brilliant concept that alters the course of human existence but then proves to be as dumb as a stump later on? If not, I propose “smartarded”.
He and Al Gore invented the innertubz?
The intertoobz for me, but not for thee.
I think the established term “idiot savant” would suffice.
Hyphenated last name continues to be a reliable indicator of lefty derposity.
I have $32.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4398676/Woman-charged-raping-robbing-male-taxi-driver.html
Um, I was expecting some big bulldyke like thing. I mean, I’m not really sure she ‘needs’ to force anyone, someone maybe ‘would’ go along willingly.
well, they didn’t identify the ‘sex act’.
I’d definitely want that identified before I agreed.
Otherwise, a knife isn’t going to be enough, the male of that pair of carjackers would end up extremely dead.
Everyone clicking this link is only doing that to make a would/would not call.
Would not.
Maybe if she were clean, but that’s a serious drug problem right there.
Carter performed an unspecified sexual act on him.
That leaves a lot of room for all sorts of unenjoyable shit.
Yeah. Forget “crazy.” Never stick it in “JUNKIE.”
Those are some of the craziest eyes ever.
^This.
Is it just a filament of my imagination, or do we have a sudden influx of newbies?
They were drawn in by your musky aftershave.
Well, I do what I can. *runs and gets more aftershave to slather on*
Is the site attracting more than just refugees from the other site? That would be cool.
I was a lurker over there, drawn to the more open feel this place has. I really enjoy this site more tbh.
I haven’t posted here but am long time lurker from the TSTSNBN. Probably won’t post much, but might as well stick my toe in if you’re guys are trying to count numbers.
“This Centipede has shoes to drop” = John “He who yells at clouds” McCain
Razorfist reflects on the increasing absurdity of The Maverick One
I’m just going to go ahead and bookmark this…
Having viewed Razorfists customory rapidfire yet poignant analysis, I agree on most fronts but he did leave out a key factor. McCain is a known quantity to the demographic he focuses on: old people (no offense). Most of those retirees he mentions in Sun City (W. Phoenix) are are from the Midwest, East coast and Canada. When those people vote they are mostly doing it by name recognition. Couple that with heavy concentrations of conservative leaning demographics in Mesa/Gilbert/Chandler (SE Phoenix) such as 3rd/4th gen Hispanics and LDS who will view nearly any team blue candidate with distain and you can see where his base lies. I think Joe Arpaio played to this same base and I might even go so far as to claim this is how AZ has stayed red with these parts of Phoenix voting with the rural parts of the state.
He actually spoke at my high school on a couple occasions. Once for a course on the Vietnam War. He explained tap code, told a few stories. What strikes me, now that I’m not 16, was his self-depriciating humor. He kept joking that he was a terrible pilot, as if he drove the plane into a SAM–that sort of thing. He was a shitty Sailor and he knows it, he just needed to know the cameras were off. The second time was right after 9/11, which was a predicatble speech but at that point I already decided I was going into the military so I may have paid more attention than most. .
He’s also benefitted from running against inexplicably unacceptable opponents. For example, the media mde a big deal about Hillary being “competitive” in AZ. The reason I didnt believe it at all was that McCain was polling +10 over his opponent, Ann Kirkpatrick. The same retards that would vote for Kirkpatrick are the same that would vote for Hillary–just these ones stomp their cowboy boots into the dirt with a shit-eating grin.
In the end, he is unpopular among other POWs from Vietnam. What does that tell you? He is the poster child for repealing the 17th amendment. By the time I was 26 I would have based my vote for state legislature entirely on who they would vote on for senator. I’m done ranting. Fuck that guy.
I wish he had gotten into McCain’s constant history of incompetence in the military, the crashes, his idiotic response to the Forrestal fire that made things worse, how ignoring orders is part of the reason why he got captured, the way his dad covered for him, etc. Because what he does bring up just makes him look like he’s shitting on the guy for giving up after being tortured. Sure, that doesn’t make him a war hero, but there’s a rich tapestry of what an utter joke John McCain’s military career is. He’s so incompetent that the nepotism of his daddy admiral and his family history of officership couldn’t get him promoted.
Is grrizz not here to enjoy the bear pics?
He might be on his way to Sierra to help his people/become their God-King.
This is now head canon.
I moved last weekend (within Boston) and there’s a report deadline tonight — great coincidence. No time for bear pics.
So, I hate personal injury work. I get really irritated when clients demand “their money” because, it is isn’t “their money” at least not all of it. When this attitude is combined with the client who really has no damages, it’s awful.
Entitlement.
You know what my wife really hated back when she had to deal with that stuff?
Those companies that loan money against a future judgment. Shitloads of paperwork, and the clients stop showing up and returning calls after they have money in hand.
Then why take on a client who really has no damages just necause there is some money in it for you ?
I have clients from time to time make me wish I had not agreed to do their job. A little warning bell goes off inside my head saying you’re going to regret this later on.
My sense of eternal optimism says my intuition is wrong and my desire to make the money always over rules my intuition when closing the deal.
That’s what makes me do it but even my bad clients have true damages as perscribed by a third party before I’m involved
I have some leftover clients from my previous job that were assigned to me then they decided to stick with me when I switched firms.
Are you in need of more alt-right bullshit, but with a veneer of Euro-class? BBC has you covered: French election: Young alt-right making waves
and because, why would I think it wouldn’t come up?
Police departments across the country will now be able to chase fleeing perps in a car that gets an EPA-estimated 38 miles per gallon.
Not while they’re chasing perps they won’t.
Depends. I doubt running over fleeing felons hurts the mpg too badly.
Fuck Sessions.
Ok, that was decidedly less enjoyable of a link than I had hoped for 🙁
Maybe I should have gone this route:
Balkoooooooooooo!
Wow. Balko has changed a lot. When did he start wearing glasses?
Just couldn’t resist, could ya, WaPo?
Doesn’t look good on the face of it. How effective was this committee?
https://www.justice.gov/ncfs/work-products-adopted-commission
This has been dribbling out whole weekend, and looks like it won’t stop till Thursday
PM Zoolander to legalize pot on Thursday
Are there laws about how much Canadian Whisky one is “allowed to hold”?
“Run walk away! Brain eating parasite spread by snails in Hawaii.”
Dr. Henry Goose has a cure for that.
Is David Burge back on the Tweeters????? I just saw a post from him!
Yep, he started posting again out of the blue just a couple days ago.
YIPEEEEEE!!!!
Cool airplane photo!
Nice. Cool aviation-related clip (youtube auto start):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc
What a beaut! I have a model Emirates A380 on my desk.
As a chick, you might appreciate this:
My boss’s boss stopped one day and asked where I got the A380 model. I said it was a Christmas present from my dad. He said: “Oh! Is he into airplanes”. Is HE into airplanes. Yes, my dad gave me a model planes because HE’S into airplanes.
Hah! See this is why women are never free from oppression – the patriarchy is every where.
And, of course, as you suggest, there’s a total logic fail in there too.
Note: I’m not a chick (although I must be signalling something as you’re the second commenter who thought that).
YOu know what? I just completely “senior momented” your user name and read it as Riven. And I’m not even a senior!
Hah! Fair enough.
Sadly, I technically qualify as a senior now.
*Muses* Get off my lawn!
I am so tickled that health industry companies (like medical supply businesses) use the word “Obamacare” in their advertising. That thing is hung very firmly around his neck. The Republicans better not fuck with it and hang their own albatross around their own necks.
School shooting follow up
Ok, not the first report on this today, but what made me post this is comments of one of the persons mentioned in the article:
“What I am surprised at is how this person got onto the school campus. The schools are very safe and it is extremely difficult for a stranger to get on campus,” Penman said.”
I’m going to take a wild guess here. The person is on the campus because they work there. This was either workplace violence or what one might call a ‘crime of passion’. Obviously, the only way to stop this is abolish schools. And everything else where people gather in public.
murder suicide. Sounded like the teachers ex?
I thought an 8 year old died…
this made me laugh
I want one of those.
Took the sailing vessel “dethavosol” out the inlet today. Went offshore. Sailed up sailed in. Perfect.
I haven’t been near a sailboat since my senior prank.
The sage has spoken…
Emily Ratajkowski Opens Up On Trump
The author wrote that because he needs to lie to himself.
“He”?
I’m sorry, was she speaking?
Just arrived in Hawaii (Spring break and family stuff) and NOW i find out about brain munching snails? Eww. I’ll have to go find happy hour somewhere and pickle them
What are those parasites cats have that make mice fall in love with them–and infect some huge portion of the American population, too?
Here it is!
“The CDC reports that 22.5% of the US population over 12 has been infected with Toxo”
http://www.businessinsider.com/toxoplasma-gondii-the-cat-brain-parasite-2015-1
Cats have a parasite that burrows into people’s brains and makes them fall in love with cats. Or, stated in another way, cats have a parasite that has been driving internet content since the web was young. I’m telling you, technological development isn’t driven by Moore’s law. It’s all about porn, fantasy sports, porn, and people being controlled by parasites that burrowed into their brains and makes them want to see more cats.
Anyway, if that doesn’t scare you, I wouldn’t be worried about the snails. If being controlled by cats doesn’t scare you, then you should get checked–you’re probably one of the 22.5%!
i give you people gold.
I had a disagreement over ethics with ENB today, in which I was right and she was wrong.
It was about posting the picture of a girl who’s been horribly victimized–again. I don’t understand why they do that over there. I don’t think any reputable news organization would do that. It’s freakin’ shameful. When the Puritans put some poor bugger in the stocks, at least there wasn’t an internet so when everybody who googles you as a job candidate, for the rest of your life, looks, they find out that you were pimped at 16, were beaten into miscarrying more than once, that all your brothers and sisters ended up in CPS, etc.–complete with a picture ENB copied from your Facebook profile.
I’ve never seen anyone at any news website but Robby and ENB do that–using photos of crime victims from their Facebook profiles at the top of lurid stories about the victims. I asked ENB if she got permission, and her first attempt at a justification was that the police published the victim’s mug shot–as if that were an excuse. The subject of the story was about the injustice of prosecuting a victim, and she’s justifying publicizing the victim’s likeness by saying that if the police did it, then it must be alright? It’s a good thing the police didn’t beat the shit out of the victim, or I guess it would be okay for us all to . . .
And comments over there are worse than ever. The only people left are Paul, a few people from here, stray newbies, and Tulpa and Shrike with like four sock puppets each. The place has hit rock bottom–not even a dead cat bounce.
Did somebody say rock bottom?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFrJtpzDG2Q
You’re welcome.
It’s not too hard to win an ethics battle against that one, considering that she’s a borderline sociopath.