Its another edition of the Tuesday Afternoon Links.
- “Stay the fuck out of [Miami], [Vásquez Orellana]!” (Former Chavista minister gets hounded out of Venezuelan bakery.) [ED: Link Fixed. Sorry!}
- “Men’s” fashion alert — rompers for men are never okay once you can dress yourself. (They know it, too. This guy, chose wisely in not wearing his romper to a Cubs game)
- Slate says you should believe anonymous sources over an official going on record because — I shit you not –“The Post’s sources have made factual allegations that can be checked. The administration hasn’t.” My days of not taking Slate seriously is coming to a middle.
- And for the serious news — King of Thailand, normal guy. Well, I mean, he’d fit right in in Florida. But apparently his government is unhappy about this display.
- Its weird, somehow this cop OD’d on something (just by touching it!) that lots of other people encountered without PPE. I’m not saying its not true, but it seems a little breathless.
- Also, it looks like the US is looking at ditching 5.56 chambered rifles for the 20th time in 10 years. Although a 6.5mm seems like a decent trade off between weight on your back and energy to the target when fired.
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Yep
All bullet points…must be a trap for Gilmore.
The last link was bullet related.
They’re not actually bullet points. They’re just made to Trick Gilmore into believing they’re bullet points. This gives us something to snicker about.
Trick Gilmore?
You’ll get my M-4 when you….oh, wait. I am in the retired Reserve. I don’t have an M-4 anymore.
If that’s what you need the State of Illinois and the County of Cook to believe, we’ll go along.
I never did – always the M16A2.
M16A1 was the last rifle I ever qualified on.
Armor/CAV guy, though, so I qualified with M9, M2, M25 Bushmaster, and the M68A1 main gun.
Played with one once – the A2 was a huge improvement.
Absolutely, I fired the A2 but never qualified with it.
Sales thru CMP once deaccessioned?
/wishful thinking
A good rule with government is that big things “coming in the near future” are not to be paid attention to until they have been implemented.
They were going to switch 6.5 Grendel a couple of decades ago. As the 6.5 Grendel and Creedmoor are both much better long-range rounds, the Marines would love it. And you could eventually replace the SAW and M240 with a single weapon.
Remington .260 looks like it’s right in the sweet-spot too (both the Grendel and .260 have been used to win NRA long-range championships). It makes sense – so it will never happen.
I wish the military would switch to something different, if only because the milsurp market for .556 would make prices bottom out. I would love to pay 50 bucks for 1000rd cans of .556
For a while, and then it would go way up. I don’t think we have the huge stock-piles that the Soviets had for 7.62×39
It would be cheap well past all of our lifetimes. .30 carbine and .30/06 are still cheap 50 years after they were last issued to troops.
We do…..and its the current NATO standard….so factor in several more orders of magnitude.
Not only do we have tons of 5.56 but there are so many ARs and derivatives in circulation that we will never stop producing it. I bet 500 years from now you will still be able to get 5.56.
The commies phased 7.62×39 out over 40 years ago and they still use it.
exactly
I’m glad the military is at least considering modern advancements in high-BC bullets. 6.5s are a great balance of high-BC and weight for a 308 sized case.
~25% less wind drift just by switching from 308 to 6.5:
http://precisionrifleblog.com/2015/04/25/how-much-does-cartridge-matter/
That article skipped past the best part of the intermediate calibre story – our NATO allies were all ready to adopt one (likely 7×49) back in the early 50s, but we muscled them into 7.62×51… then a decade later decided that it was suboptimal and switched to the equally suboptimal 5.56×45 (once again dragging everyone behind us.)
The Brits were pretty pissed. They had a cool .280 bullpup designed and ready to go.
Renee Studler – U.S. Army Ordnance – reportedly hid some of the .280 test results because they were so determined to have a .30 cal.
Why didn’t they just adopt whatever they wanted?
They were really committed to a single standard for all of NATO.
While I understand wanting to simplify your supply, we did manage to supply British and American troops with a wide variety calibers in WW2 – way before we had computers to help with the complexity.
Bah. You and your quick German fingers.
I guess I was looking for what wizardry the US had that caused everyone to bend to our will as opposed to the other way.
We were way the fuck bigger than everyone else, and there was undoubtedly some degree of concern that we might take our toys and go home (like last time)… so when we *really* wanted something, we got it.
The NATO countries wanted to be able to shares stores of ammunition between countries in the event there was a supply disruption in any one country. Also why most NATO spec rifles use NATO standard magazines (the AR mag).
That’s STANAG magazine.
Can you smellllllll what the polls are cooking?
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2017/05/health-care-puts-house-in-play.html
I’ll agree to this only if Kane gets to run for the Republicans and the election is solved by ladder match.
Also, the winner gets a belt with the Presidential logo on the front.
JBL is the Republican candidate. Kane is the Libertarian candidate.
Shhhh don’t tell the Republicans that, I want my legendary Kane/Rand Paul tag team.
Kane tag teams with Paul Ryan, turns on him, and Rand Paul runs in to help Kane beat Ryan some more.
Celebrity Presidents. what could go wrong?
I look forward to the 2024 election between justin beiber and Miley cyrus. That shold be a hoot.
**closes eyes, prays to SMOD to get here by 2023**
If you’re going to have celebrities running for President, the LP should win. We have Vince Vaughn and Penn Jillette and Teller and Drew Carey.
I wouldn’t want any of those four in the office.
I would vote for Penn & Teller 24.
As long as the silent won is President.
Mike Rowe is about the only celebrity that I would consider voting for. He seems pretty good, from what little I have heard from him.
Toilet Plunger in Chief.
As far as I can tell, he’s the celebrity, or politician, who’s primary message is-
Learn a skill that provides value and then get to work. That sits pretty well with me.
…vs. every Hollywood retard imaginable. Matt Damon and Ben “that’s racist” Affleck still win out.
Ah yes. Ben “that’s racist!” Affleck, from the most racist city in the US (and it isn’t close), lecturing us all.
According to the internet he was born in Berkeley, but I assume you’re talking about Boston.
Penn “Don’t blame me, I voted for Hillary” Jillette?
“I’m a Beiber birther. He ain’t no American” *spits*
Miley Cyrus
Have said this before but what perfect tits that woman has.
And she likes weed and other mind-altering substances.
She is now back to ‘normal’ Miley. The marketing worked!
Her ta-tas area a bit on the small side.
Still would.
Idiocracy is becoming a documentary waaay too quickly.
You’re fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit’s all retarded.
That movie always disturbed me as much as it amused me. Too close to reality.
–“20% of voters want the Penguins to win the Stanley Cup to 15% for the Ducks, 10% for the Senators, and 9% for the Predators. 46% don’t care who wins that one.”–
Sloopy has a sad
Ducks. I refuse to have any nice thoughts toward a pro sports team named after a Disney movie.
I don’t know a damn thing about Dwayne Johnsons politics but he does seem to be a fairly intelligent guy and a reasonably decent human being from the 10000 foot range and if those pan out that would make him one of the top 5 or 6 candidates any of us has ever been able to vote for.
He could end up being a joke but until he proves otherwise I’d rather an actor than the professional politicians we have been getting so I’d give him a shot.
An actor as president? Especially one that has starred in what is essentially an endless stream of B-movies? WTF are you thinking?
Maybe they could make him head of SAG for some political street cred.
Or he could start out by becoming the Governor of California or something…
Perhaps he, too, has grabbed a pussy?
I have been predicting for a while that the democrats will run some “ringer” character in 2020. Someone from outside normal party-politics; a celebrity, a billionaire, a businessperson, etc.
I do not think it will be The Rock. But i think the fact that anyone’s even speculating about that sort of thing is unsurprising. I think it will be one of the few pieces of spaghetti they throw against the wall between now and then. They’ll also test-market some new obama-esque people, like Booker, Kamala Harris, maybe others.
I think it would be funny as fuck if The Rock ran for president just because I could take all those objections to Trump and throw them back in the “progressives’” faces.
“But he has no political experience at all! But he’s a TV personality! TOTALLY UNQUALIFIED!”
Let’s call him a racist for good measure.
Thais were ridiculously worshipful toward the old king.
They apparently played the King’s anthem in movie theaters before the start of the movie (Taiwan did the same thing with their national anthem), and when I mention this to people, they immediately get that it seems odd. Suggest that playing the Star Spangled Banner before sports games is similarly odd, and people go nuts.
I think it’s a little odd. At the NASCAR races they have a minister give a prayer, which I find downright creepy.
They do that at a LOT of races, they just don’t televise it.
I finally got around to putting last year’s Indy 500 on a DVD for my dad* last week (hey, at least I got it done before this year’s) and when I checked it I saw the minister and was like, “What the hell…?” He always has watched races since I was a kid, but he always muted the pre-race stuff so I had no idea what was going on. Just a little bit creepy.
* He did already watch it. I’m not a total monster, making him wait. He just wanted to have the pre-race and the race on a disc since it was the 100th, so I downloaded it for him last year and eventually got around to burning it the other day.
Whoops, thread fail. That was supposed to be in reply to Vhyrus.
On the grounds at the 500, it’s an excuse for drunk people to shout AMEN at the top of their lungs.
To be fair, if I were in one of those cars, I’d want someone praying for me, too.
Devil’s advocate – the personal anthem of a ruler versus a symbol of the nation unrelated to the leader of the day can make the difference between odd and not so much.
Well, in Taiwan it wasn’t the King’s anthem.
Hail to the Chink?
The Star Spangled Banner is played in (military) movie theaters here too.
I saw the photo, isn’t that more New Jersey than Florida?
Anthem before the first movie of the day in the Philippines and other places too.
The cop must have brushed that fentanyl so hard it flew right up his nose. Happens to everyone.
What happened to the suspects who were tossing the stuff all over the inside of the vehicle? They must have died on the spot with that kind of exposure.
I’m sure he was just trying to figure out what fentanyl smells like so he can catch
lepersopiod addicts better.New York wants to confirm that your dog is second-class. One rule for us; another for you.
I’m almost to the point of suggesting that harming agents of the state should carry lesser penalties than harming non-agents of the state. First-degree murder against a cop should maybe be just a misdemeanor?
I’m good with this as long as K9 cops automatically face capital murder charges when their “partner” dies in a hot vehicle.
Like shooting Apu, it should be a $50 fine.
Insulting the King of Thailand? *Brett gets arrested under lese majeste laws*
87 degrees here today – using God’s own scale – and it will be 66 on Friday. Uh yeah.
We had unseasonably cool weather here in Phoenix, too. 78 and a bit gusty.
I also noticed the wind here in PHX recently. I am hyper-sensitive to it right now because I just attempted to construct a cheap awning-esque cover over my garden and the wind has been tossing it about. The engineer in me will not let this wind get the best of me though!
The weather in Tucson today reminds me of being in the White Mountains in June. I’m liking it.
Wow, there are a lot of Phoenix people around here.
So, is the Seth Rich/wikileaks story from this morning a real thing? If it is, I would say that should be huge. I just don’t know how to sort through the partisan reporting from left/right outlets to determine if this is a nothing burger or not. That I haven’t seen a lot of denials from my proggie friends on Facebook today leads me to believe that the Progressive talking point masters have yet to come up with a way to square this circle. That leads me to believe that there is likely something to it.
Unclear. You have the PI saying Rich forwarded 44K (or however many) emails to WikiLeaks, you have Rich’s family saying they were never shown any evidence of it.
Interestingly, the family’s spokesman is Brad Bauman, a political consultant that works exclusively with Democratic candidates and, I believe his firm does/did work directly for the DNC.
I lean towards the family having more of a reason to lie than the PI, but there’s no real evidence to consider yet AFAIK
Also, there appears to be a second source with a story roughly squaring with Wheeler’s.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/16/slain-dnc-staffer-had-contact-with-wikileaks-investigator-says.html
Rod Wheeler, a retired Washington homicide detective and Fox News contributor investigating the case on behalf of the Rich family, made the WikiLeaks claim, which was corroborated by a federal investigator who spoke to Fox News.
Yeah, I feel the same way. Neither seems overly credible based on current public information. I would say we’ll wait and see, but more likely we’ll wait and not see.
I read the retort from his family. A I understand, the laptop with the evidence is in the posesses of the DC cops. I question both sides. Without the laptop, how does the PI know anything? And, how would the family know anything about what Rich did or did not forward to wikileaks? I’m sure he wasn’t telling people, that would have been hazardous to his health.
I do seriously doubt he told anyone “hey I am spilling party secrets to Julian ‘Hiding in the Embassy’ Assange”
The one thing the family said that sounded off was a comment that “Even if an email were produced tomorrow, that wouldn’t be enough because emails can be faked”
Just struck me as an odd comment to make unless you know there’s a high probability that something is out there.
Yeah, that struck me as odd too, and had me wondering if Bauman was doing a little future battleground preparation for when emails start leaking out.
He’s priming the pump
I find his family’s behavior a little odd.
Note to my family: If I’m gunned down in the middle of the street, avenge my death. I don’t care who killed me or why they did it.
Next of Kin style? Crossbows?
I’m cool with a hit and run. Especially if it’s my mom behind the wheel because it would be in slow motion.
Something like this?
“Stay quiet and you will be cared for. Talk, and the same can happen to you.”
I did find this bit a little odd…
Brad Bauman said even if purported emails were to surface, it would not necessarily mean Rich had helped WikiLeaks.
“Even if tomorrow, an email was found, it is not a high enough bar of evidence to prove any interactions as emails can be altered and we’ve seen that those interested in pushing conspiracies will stop at nothing to do so,” Bauman said. “We are a family who is committed to facts, not fake evidence that surfaces every few months to fill the void and distract law enforcement and the general public from finding Seth’s murderers.”
AVENGE ME FUCKFACE, AVENGE ME!
As Rich was Bernie-Bro working for the DNC, I assume the rest of the family are lefties too. Not sure that’s a tribe big into revenge (other than bitching and suing people).
Chances of seeing it reported on TV anywhere except maybe Fox = 0.
It may get a little coverage, but only so it can be dismissed as “conspiracy theories.”
Well you can count me in on thinking someone thought Seth Rich needed to be whacked.
We’re allowed one conspiracy theory a year and that’s mine.
I’m crossing my fingers that this pans out to make Watergate look like a speeding ticket.
If it really turns out that the DNC had a man assassinated because he was leaking embarrassing info about the DNC, All the top people in the DNC should have step down and many of them should be prosecuted. That would leave the leadership of the DNC wide open. Whether or not that would be a good thing, IDK. It would be nice to see some sanity from the opposition party, but I don’t know if that is what I would get with a wholesale leadership replacement.
If they murdered him, I think it’s a little more serious than some resignations.
Nothing short of prosecution and the demise of the party has to be the result.
Look, we all know the left – when pushed – resort to violence so is it that much outside the realm of possibility?
My impression is that its a weaksauce retort to the media’s constant attacks on Trump. The right-media is trying to find anything they can throw out there to get people to stop hyperventilating about Trump 24/7. won’t work.
might have some truth to it, tho.
So the same people who use ‘password’ for their passwords are also capable of orchestrating a criminal conspiracy involving the D.C. police and the FBI? Forgive me if I’m a bit skeptical.
Re: Bro Rompers. I believe nearly all trends are people trying random shit to see if it sticks. My gf’s purse broke recently and she’s been using a soft lunchbox as a purse. She was at the doctor’s office and the high school girl and her mom asked her about her purse, to which she cleverly replied “Oh, this is the new style now! People are making purses that look like lunchboxes!” Well apparently the girl and her mom bought it hook line and sinker. So if in 6 months you start seeing girls running around the mall with lunchboxes you saw it here first.
You bastard! Now people will misconstrue the box I carry my food to work in!
That’s okay. You were already uncool.
Are you afraid the purse snatcher will come back to beat you up when he finds he only scored lunchables?
It’s worse – I’m on a diet… if they don’t know you need to add salt to make it not taste like crap, they’ll shoot me.
Low sodium *is* a capital offence in any civilised society…
I add the salt before I eat it, but the damn producer cuts it down to make it fit arbitrary requirements.
I just carry salt around in my pocket.
It gets messy, and it sure stings a lot when it gets wet, but it’s totally worth it.
especially when you get attacked by witches or ghosts!
*only* lunchables? Lunchables are the bomb!
Interesting. I bring my lunch in a grocery bag. Maybe that will catch on too.
I used to, but then I impulse-bought a tactical lunchbox. It has better insulation than one-ply plastic.
Is it a really nice grocery bag?
My current one is from Food Lion. So, no.
Everyone in my office, including me, uses plastic grocery bags for lunches. Our fridge is packed full of them.
I buy lunch at restaurants everyday. Anyone I want. I enjoy being affluent. It’s great!
You eat out of a purse?
WTHF?
He’s a man, so it’s a murse.
I have been wearing Jean shorts with goat-ropers for years. I’m still waiting for it to catch on.
Gainesville, FL is waiting for you. You’re gonna be big there!
Goat-ropers? With or without knee high white socks with stripes?
No socks. I don’t believe in them.
They do actually exist. You can believe in them
Finally, it’s time for Dr. Venture to shine.
In a speed suit you say to the world, “Look out! I know what I’m wearing for the rest of my life!”
No link, but I think that has to do with the protest I mentioned seeing on Saturday. The protests were because of a Chavista minister (assuming it’s the same guy) who lives in a golf course gated community ($$$$) near where my mom lives.
I remember when Chavez died linking to a story about his daughter waving a wad of benjamins, and there were assholes defending this.
Rompers for men…..why not? Given contemporary American society, it seems like a logical development.
No! God dammit–I don’t even like rompers for women.
Although, I guess they do make more sense for men. I have exactly one romper, and you’ve got to take the whole damn thing off just to take a piss.
Bodysuits on the other hand…Man I miss the 90s.
I miss tap pants.
Go on…
Pics please
Oh come on…they can be cute.
Or was that what you were saying? 🙂
Onesies for grown adults should never have become a thing in the first place. If a man wears one it’s just telling me that he has girl parts AND he’s a fucking baby too. Thus, I support Romphims. Anything that better enables me to identify douchebags at a distance is a good thing. (cf. hair gel, jewelry for men, etc)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0niuhiQtUQ
What about union suits? Don’t fucking tell me you’re anti-union suits. Those things are fucking great in the winter.
I don’t know what rompers are. And I’m pretty sure I don’t want to know.
They have a whole room for them.
*narrows gaze*
“I see Playa, and Swiss, and Rufus…”
Forgot the link for context.
The only way to fly
I knew exactly what you meant.
1992 Aussie flick with a young Russell Crowe as a skinhead
The fuck’s a romper? *clicks link*
…
…you southerners are weird.
Did everyone have a happy Nakba?
Right of return for the Sudeten Germans, too, I suppose.
You know who else…sigh, too obvious.
You know who else didn’t finish what he set out to do, for obvious reasons?
Moses?
Terry Schiavo?
Jefferson Davis?
Armando Galaraga?
Venezuela is having a blast!
I’ve been applying to new jobs for the past couple of weeks. The dedication to security companies place on their application portals is sometimes inspiring. The requirement for a absurd password I’ll never remember and the multiple security questions really are assuring. The recommendation to use Yahoo if I do not have an email address, not so much.
f*CkY0urP@sswordr3Qu1rements!
you’re welcome.
I did once use a very concise, 1337 sp34k retelling of the Battle of Arnhem for a password.
I don’t share my password algorithms so I don’t have to come up with new ways of deciding passwords.
Using pa$$w3rd for everything isn’t much of an algorithm.
You go ahead and believe what you will.
Oh, and if you do get into my e-mail, go ahead and process all those automated messages from the file transfer servers. The person who set it up seemed to think everyone cared when each and every file did or did not show up, even when it wasn’t remotely related to their work.
Just ask John Podesta!
When you have requirements beyond the threshold of human capacity, and a requirement that you change it every X days, you will end up less secure than with lesser requirements, becuase people will have to start taking shortcuts to just manage to get in and do their jobs.
Just check the nearest notepad for all the passwords
Yeah; at work the password has to have a capital letter, lowercase letters, and numbers, so my password is the same word incremented each time I have to change it.
Of course, if people want to do my work for me….
Yup. Every freaking 30 days I have to come up with a new password that hits all the requirements (uppercase, lowercase, 8+ characters, a numeral, a special character) that also isn’t one of my previous 12 passwords. Tedious.
It also has to have at least 3 characters different than the last one.
Easy enough…
P@ss123word
P@ss456word
P@ss789word
P@ss012word
P@ss345word
…
If you need more than 10 passwords before you can repeat alternate between @ and # for the special character, that will get you 20 before you start recycling.
The only password I really care about is the wink app that unlocks my front door.
I take it very seriously because if it gets hacked, there’s gonna be a body count.
The ones that just let you transfer your linkedin profile are even easier. Plus, the hiring company gets to see all the crap you “like” on linkedin. So they know you’re “with it.”
Why would you put data on publicaly viewable websites?
I said it makes it easy, I didn’t say I did it.
Why wouldn’t someone that wants to market their talents?
I have a LinkedIn account that is basically just my picture and where I work since the SC Bar considers pretty much everything else to be not cool for attorneys. Apparently I hurt my aunt’s feelings when I rejected her various endorsements of me.
RBS is a wonderful boy who always treats his mother nice. He helped me one time with the phone company on a bill that was incorrect. He was so grown-up looking and dashing in his suit and tie.
P.S. Here are pictures of him naked in the bathtub.
I don’t have a Link’s Inn account but this guy I barely know keeps sending me invites but he’s not the sort I want to be linked to.
Link’s Inn?
I got one from the other site’s former web person. I passed on adding someone whose professional interests were writing about sex since I don’t work in the adult entertainment industry.
But if you ever wanted to….
The rest of the industry would quit en masse on my first day.
I fucking hate those proprietary online job applications. They have me manually fill out an entire resume using text input boxes and drop-down menus, then they ask me to ATTACH MY FUCKING RESUME! Why not one or the other? Jesus.
On the other hand, I guess I can see why there’s not much drive to make an easier application process:
HR guy: “Sir, a lot of applicants are complaining that our online application system is slow and cumbersome. I think I’ve figured out a way to-”
Manager: “So let me get this straight: you want to spend time and money so that our company can accommodate a lazier class of applicants??”
I hate the ones like that that attempt to parse out your resume. Mine is formatted with an invisible table, so it ends up with stupid things like Went to High School from [birthdate] to present.
That’s funny considering WordPress (cough cough Glibertarians) requires 23-letter passwords with 3 numbers, 2 consonants, 14 vowels, 2 special characters, and a random underscore and a half.
http://www.foxnews.com/health/2017/05/16/teen-dies-after-drinking-too-many-caffeinated-beverages.html
Okay…
//cracks open Rockstar.
We have a 16 year old who drank a mountain dew, which can be easily determined via Duckduckgo search to contain 55mg of caffeine. Followed by a McLatte which is a giant calorie fest of watered down coffee with whipped cream, falls between 115-175mg. Assuming he drank the most potent of energy drinks widely available, Rockstar at 240mg, though I have imbibed a few that have 300 or more but those are only available in certain states, and in the case of CO must be a certain distance from a school.
So at the high end of this estimate will total 470mg. If I were to guess, this is not Rockstar’s fault. Rockstar has sold the same product to the same people who want to party like rockstars for the past ten years. Somehow, among the thousands of cans sold in the last week, nobody else died. Because sometimes partying leads to bad decisions, Rockstar is not responsible for the stupid choices your kids make.
And seriously, Fox, why are you interviewing an orthopedic surgeon as an expert for an unusual incident involving a 16 year old dying of CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA?
Yeah….no. I replaced most of my blood with caffeine sludge during grad school with no ill effects beyond intensifying a preexisting insomnia problem. Seriously, if they could have measured my blood caffeine content it would have read somewhere between HOLY SHIT and HOW ARE YOU STILL ALIVE. If I didn’t manage to kill myself in that time frame then I’m skeptical of anyone dying from a caffeine overdose (unless they snorted caffeine powder like cocaine. That ought do it)
The only ill effects I’ve seen from energy drink intake, other than the obvious chemical dependency, are ulcers. Quite frankly if you met that guy’s wife it would give you an ulcer as well.
I’m willing to bet that caffeine isn’t the cause of death. I highly doubt Fox News will issue a correction, though,.
I’ve heard that congenital heart defects can be undetected until they seriously fuck your shit up.
When We were quite a bit younger, My little brother and I drank a 12 pack of red bull and half gallon of Yeager. Aside from not remembering most of the night and a bit of a headache, there were no I’ll affects.
I gave my dog a Jaeger bomb once. She howled all night running around the coffee table. Ten years later, she is still hesitant when I set a bowl of food down in front of her.
We used to pound Jolt Cola when I was in high school, they had around 100 mg of caffeine per can I believe.
“All the sugar and twice the caffeine”
So, about the same as a cup of coffee.
We would order the ‘.357 Magnum’ caffeine pills thru mail-order when I was a young soldier for field problems.
Consumed large numbers, stayed up for 3 days straight on an ARTEP. When I laid down on a pile of netting in the back of a 5-ton, my left leg immediately seized up with the most horrible Charlie horse.
Caffeine kills.
Just rub the instant coffee on your gums. You’re sure not going to boil any water to make it. Or snort the tabasco. That’ll keep you awake too.
My “caffeine overdose” story is actually from adulthood…
I didn’t drink much caffeine for most of my life, but one day I went to a coffeeshop on a whim, had a latte, and really enjoyed it. I started researching different types of coffee brewing methods and decided to order a Moka pot. When I took it out of the box, my first thought was that it’s pretty small, but I went ahead and made a pot. It only spewed out enough liquid to fill up one standard coffee cup. I poured it in and drank the whole mug. Little did I know that the coffee from a moka pot is sort of like espresso – in other words, really fucking strong. I was jittery and talking a mile a minute for about five hours, then I crashed hard and slogged through the rest of the workday like a zombie.
The LD50 for caffeine is between 150 and 200 milligrams per kilogram. Unless this kid weighed 8 pounds, he didn’t overdose. He may have had an undiagnosed heart or nervous issue that the caffeine exacerbated, but that isn’t the same as overdosing.
Link to the Miami story.
PLEASE!
Whoops.
They showed remarkable restraint for that degenerate.
So this fucker helps destroy his country’s economy and then gets to live the cushy life in America? If you needed definitive proof that our immigration system is fucked up, here it is.
While in the employ of a government who blamed all their problems on the USA, I should have added.
The Union of South Africa was pretty shitty.
king’s got a real crop top fetish..
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/king-thailand-crown-prince-maha-vajiralongkorn-prepares-to-ascend-throne-a7393356.html
Whoever let the king go outside for that last picture needs a good caning.
If you’re going to take it that far, why even wear a shirt at all???
That’s a great link. I wish i posted it.
Drier than Yuma in August……
My late aunt’s name was Yuma.
Your jeans sir… they’re… shrinking….
In my inbox yesterday:
As you may already be aware there is an ongoing world-wide ransomware event impacting many organizations. Currently, there have been no attacks detected on the VA network. Since Friday afternoon, OI&T has had a dedicated team of professionals working around the clock to employ significant proactive measures to ensure the security of our data and services. We have implemented blocking procedures at our network perimeter, enhanced our monitoring, and scanned our internal systems to identify those which are potentially vulnerable.
Given the average age of the typical VA employee is around 55, I’m sure somebody will crack into our fool-proof IT system.
Was that last line part of the quote, because if so, I like your IT director.
No, I’m new to this tagging business.
Dang. Its always too good to be true. I fucked up a link and I don’t have that excuse.
Are you also around 55 and fool-proof?
I’m 33, and can’t properly tag. //sobs
I’m now going home to pound the other half of the Jack Daniels bottle I opened during the presidential debates.
So what you’re saying is that we don’t need to fix the VA, we can just wait 10-15 years for all the employees to retire/die and not replace them?
No, but it would help.
Yes. That is also when we are going to switch to the metric system.
My best “.gov sucks at security and always will” story is from the VA.
Another vertical in the company I worked for finally wasted so much money that they were shut down. The only assets they had were some IP around health care and a contract with the VA to use that IP. We took a look at it to see if our vertical wanted to take the IP and try to build on it. As an incentive we could also get the VA contract (which was a lot of $$ each month).
Due Diligence showed that the whole project was completely fscked. The VA contract was using an alpha version of the IP. Why? Because the new version of the system ran on linux and the VA had not yet gotten around to certifying linux as an acceptably secure OS. So the VA was using the first release of the software which ran on Sun Solaris (and used a modem bank).
For some strange reason we passed on the opportunity.
There’s nothing wrong with Solaris per se…
Wait, they were probably using 7 or 8, weren’t they?
I started on Solaris and Sparc work stations, so I too have a soft spot. But the fact that you couldn’t upgrade to even Red Hat because they hadn’t vetted it was troubling.
The other problem was that the IP that was supposedly so wonderful was actually pretty trivial. And it was in Health Care so the certifications and overhead would suck up all the revenue in no time flat.
I wouldn’t call RedHat an upgrade, more like a lateral move. I still support both, and can’t say I’d advocate one over the other as a universal rule.
Debian or GTFO!
/religious war is brooding ^^^^
Let’s all watch our sporting events with some dignity, shall we?
This one is my favorite, because she’s pretty milfilicious, and obviously a lunatic. Just like I like in a woman.
And speaking of crazy drunk bitches at football games….
WTF is with all the violence? Can’t we all just get along? (NSFW)
And if you want another heart warming story. Look at how in Minnesoda we bring Gopher fans and Hawkeye fans together.
It’s been known for 100 years that 6.5 is the ideal rifle caliber. Ask any long-range shooter or Kennedy.
Where’s Oswald…oh, there he is!
It is clearly wrong – it’s in metric.
There are two kinds of countries in this world. Those that use the metric system and those that have been to the moon.
Yeah the metric system and base 10 are shit. Base 12 is where we need to be.
Do you have six fingers on your right hand bychance?
Do you always start conversations this way?
Don’t worry, my name is not Inigo Montoya
Sometimes, if you look closely, you might see what appears to be six fingers. Though one is overlarge.
i have heard this many times. It makes me want to buy a 6.5 grendel. Then I read the ammo prices and suddenly lose that urge.
Oddly enough, during the 2010 panic buy 6.5 Grendel was the only rifle caliber I could manage to find on store shelves. Pricing might have had something to do with that.
http://5newsonline.com/2017/05/16/charges-dropped-against-woman-who-shot-at-teen-trying-to-allegedly-rape-neighbors-dog/
Just saw this on my local news. We keep it classy around here.
I thought you were in NE Arkansas.
I’m uh… a mile or two from that.
NW. There’s not much in NE Arkansas I’m interested in seeing.
Amazing how people think. This past week-end someone was telling me how House of Cards echoes how Trump operates.
I looked at him puzzlingly and then explained the show began before Trump and resembles Clinton Inc.
Such is the power of the left to keep people believing they’re the good ones.
I’ve never watched that. Ever since American Beauty came out, I am ever so slightly creeped out by Kevin Spacey.
UK version is better (and shorter), there’s more distance from the subject matter so you don’t see the, ah, ‘coastal bias’ seep in. Also Richardson plays a way better scumbag politician than Spacey, who’s drawl makes him come off as half serial killer. Whereas Richardson is a very cheerful sort of sinister.
I’ve not watched the US version but agree that the UK version is excellent. There are three series (4 eps each). The first one is brilliant, the second one decent, but the third one, meh.
See you could have trolled him and explained that Trump uses HoC as a model for the executive branch.
A friend of mine at work was postulating Lindsey Graham. I don’t know where he got that idea but there you go.
The Lincoln Homestead, the birthplace of the father of former President Abraham Lincoln in Rockingham County, has been added to Preservation Virginia’s 2017 Most Endangered Historic Places.
President Trump offers to build a Trump Hotel on the site.
Shhh…don’t tell anyone I made that last part up, I want to see who I can freak out.
PS – Abraham Lincoln didn’t really like his Dad that much, I hear.
If we’re moving to a larger round I’d like to suggest the 7.62X39. While we’re at it we can issue our guys AKs which every right thinking human being knows to be the superior platform when compared to, well, anything.
If you aren’t worried to much about accuracy, sure.
True that. I do have a Hungarian made AK variant that’s surprisingly accurate but I’ve shot a couple that couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn. Spray and pray I guess.
Is there much accuracy difference between milled and stamped, or is it mostly factory quality?
Not sure to be honest, I’ve only shot stamped. From what I’ve seen, and I’m not an expert by any means, as far as country of origin goes (not sure about individual factories) the Russian and Chinese AKs I’ve shot were well put together and were accurate enough while the couple or three Romanian origin AKs I’ve come across were disasters. I’ve only shot a dozen or so different examples though so my sample size isn’t very big. If you’re looking, Arsenal seems to be the creme de la creme of newly manufactured AKs that are available in the US.
I have an arsenal and I have a century Yugo, and pound for pound I like the Yugo better. I haven’t done an accuracy comparison between them (since they are different calibers it wouldn’t mean shit) but I can hit 12 inch steel plates with the Yugo at 200, and you really can’t ask for more than that from a $600 AK.
My understanding, from years ago, is that the stamped ones tend to be sloppier, but that is also what made the AK such a great ‘weapon of the people’.
The ability to drop it in a puddle of sandy mud and pick it up and fire it. The milled versions have higher quality specs, but give up some of the famed dependability.
I have no idea how that applies to the newly manufactured versions, but this was definitely true with military surplus.
Rifle accuracy is 90%+ barrel & ammo quality
I have a shirt I’m fond of wearing.
AR15-I’m more accurate
AK47-I’m more reliable
FAL-Children be quiet!
The FAL is the most badass looking rifle that’s for sure.
I bought one 4 or 5 years ago. It’s a blast to shoot. Not the most accurate, but it sure is fun. Most people don’t have one, so it’s usually a good talking piece when I bring it out.
I shot one. It feels like it was made from a solid block of steel, in both a positive and negative sense.
If it fails during a critical situation, you can always beat someone to death with it. I feel the same way about my garand.
“Do I think Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler? No. But [etc.]”
It’s interesting to see them talking about the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s rise to power but the only meaningful parallels I would draw between then and now would be the left’s overreach and cannibalization of each other.
Some progressive activists have explicitly taken up the legacy of the Lincolns, including at least some of their children. Jo-Ann Triantafyllos, the 66-year-old daughter of a volunteer, worked for Bernie Sanders’ campaign and joined recent anti-Trump protests.
Not that you need more, but here’s another example of how absolutely spoiled rotten Westerners are. Being a shock trooper in a civil war is now compared to supporting a senile old Marxist and protesting in a country that guarantees their right to do so.
(Of course, this is classic Guardian, fetishizing short term ‘anarchist’ communities that could barely survive or function and got destroyed swiftly by more competent forces)
I prefer Williamson’s ‘Comrade Muppet’.
(by the way, this was the first article I got when I put “fascist” into Google News. Not “trump fascist,” just “fascist.”)
OK, technically it was the *second* article and the keyword was “fascism.” My memory must be deteriorating.
Also let’s note that those Republican groups the Guardian is praising are seen as the ancestors of modern day ‘anti-fascist’ anarcho-communist groups, hell, they use the same flag. And yet no mention of, say, the massacres committed in Republic territory.
The Guardian is effectively writing Agitprop for Antifa.
It’s funny… Back when Obama was in power and I would raise concerns about his abuses of power and how we need to heed historical lessons about runaway government, I was always shouted down with a laundry list of excuses:
“That’s a crazy conspiracy theory. Have you been watching Alex Jones or something?”
“That’s ridiculous; America is not going to turn into a fascist dictatorship. We’re much better than that.”
“If people don’t like what a politician does, they can just vote him out.”
The “progressive” mind must be like a chameleon.
This right here:
https://youtu.be/JvAbophptmM?t=3m2s
Swedish social justice is dialed up to 11.
This list has a bunch of people on it who are moderates and libertarians. The Swedes are fucking terrified of anyone discussing what’s going on in their country openly and have painted it all as race/hate baiting. Disgusting.
I’m glad our country has the 2nd Amendment to protect the first. This is never coming to our country. Count on that.
Tim Pool, who had the temerity to report even-handedly and from both sides of the issue is on the list.
He’s an independent journalist who seems to tell truth as he sees it. Can’t have that shit.
It’s amazing how many on my Twitter follow list are on it, a bunch of my followers too. There are zero white nationalists, white supremacists, neonazis, etc. following me. Yes, some are critical of Islam, but none are hateful people.
I didn’t make the list. Yet. I’m surprised they didn’t do analysis of the list to see who follows whom in order to yield up more people to block. I even have a couple of Swedish followers, how ’bout that?
Just head on over to Red Ice TV and leave a favorable message. If you’re disappointed about not being on it that should increase your chances exponentially.
What’s up with the guy’s hat?
He always wears it because people don’t recognize him without it.
wouldn’t that be a good reason to take it off?
He’s also a skateboarder and has kind of made it part of his image. It makes him stand out, and people recognize him all the time. For example, he’s been livestreaming the Antifa riots at various rallies and people notice him and call him out by name.
Whatever works for making yourself known, I guess.
An even handed report on Sweden would conclude they are slipping into totalitarianism.
You know who else registered Jews and other undesirables?
The Pharaoh?
The Screen Actors Guild?
King David? (2 Samuel 24)
Donald Trump? Oh wait I thought you said registered with Jews and other undesirables!
They didn’t have the guts to put the POTUS on the list.
My nieces bat-mitvah organizer?
Also why I’m glad we have the 1st Amendment (and the 2nd to protect it). This is what the swedish in the pink box at the bottom of the article means (per google translate)
I have wondered if there was ever some tangible line we could immediately know when crossed if things had officially gone too far. I now see what that line is.
Not quite an eternal flame.
Anyone calculated the carbon costs for running the flame yet? It’s only a matter of time!
Is this an eternal flame?
I’ve an “eternal flame” for that little Jane from the Go-Gos.
Is this burning an eternal flame?
Also an eternal flame.
I was under the impression that “Herpes Simplex II” was an acceptable answer in the 1980’s but sure, I can dig that. Good one!
The media/intelligence leaks are in full attack mode today. It’s going to be a long, long year.
Maybe Trump can fire _EVERYONE_ and restaff them by randomly picking names from the phone book. It couldn’t be any worse 😉
This is either the greatest troll in history or McConnell just let the mask slip something fierce.
McConnell recommends Merrick Garland for FBI director
Don’t make nice, Yurtle! It’s Hares, all the way down…
Yes, make someone with a grievance against the Republicans into the director of the FBI to investigate the guy who filled the seat he (Garland) thinks he should have had.
This just seems like a bunch of policy wonks were bored and decided to play “Damaging Political Maneuver” with painted little men on a board game table.
It’s hard for a reactionary prolife extremist like me not to laugh and laugh when I hear progs bemoan the Persecution of Poor Merrick Garland.
But he was our pick! OURS! They still don’t get it, the next two picks have to be ratified by a majority Republican Congress and they still blame the sights on the rifle even though that toe was asking for it.
I was all ready to say “Fuck McCain” until I noticed it was McConnell who did this.
Oh, hell, fuck McCain on general principles.
I’m not much for registration of undesirables and enemy lists but unless you are Jennifer Aniston from twenty-five years ago you have no business wearing a “Romper”. Heck, she was as hot as billion suns and barely pulled that look off.
You know the DNC staffer wikileaks story? There must be something to it cause Pravda 2.0 is already running damage control.
And I fucked the link.. one second
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/dnc-staffer-s-murder-draws-fresh-conspiracy-theories-n760186
Well, Rachel Maddow told us that we’re not dreaming so all bets are off. It’s been Kristallnacht and burning effigies since November 9.
It might be a fascination of conspiracy theorists, but it also should raise an eyebrow of anyone who is not a partisan hack.
I am pretty sure intelligence agencies did not say Wikileaks got their info from Russian hackers, but said “Russian hackers did attempt to hack the DNC”. Wikileaks says it was not from Russian sources. Good job NBC for making shit up.
I am not big on conspiracy BS, but this I believe. Rich was the leaker and was murdered for it.
I’ve gotta say – the new Smores Girl Scout cookies are practically orgasmic. Definitely a great addition.
I stopped buying from them when there were reports of “Social Justice Scouts” in the mix.
But Keebler probably sells them under their own label without the Girl Scout markup anyway.
I stopped buying Girl Scout cookies when I heard they supported Planned Parenthood and admired massive racist Margret Sanger.
The local troop was selling them outside the Chick Fil A. I bought extra for the cognitive dissonance.
You and your Thin Mint privilege….
I’ve had both versions of the Smores and they’re both pretty good, but the one that wasn’t a sandwich cookie was definitely better.
The new one is definitely non-sandwich.
THere’s two versions, depending on which of the bakeries your local GSA region buys. LA got the sandwich ones, but OC got the other ones.