ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. SINCE ZARDOZ IS ALL CAUGHT UP ON CORN AND SOYBEAN DELIVERIES, ZARDOZ WILL PROVIDE EXTRA LINKS FOR HIS FAVORED BRUTALS. REJOICE IN THE BOUNTY ZARDOZ BRINGS YOU, CHOSEN ONES.
- ZARDOZ WISHES THIS WAS TRUE. WORLD WOULD BE RID OF MANY BRUTALS, AS PROG HEADS EXPLODED.
- ZARDOZ NOT SURE THIS COUNTS AS SLAVERY. ZARDOZ KNOWS SLAVERY, AS ZARDOZ USED TO HAVE BRUTAL ENFORCERS TAKE ACTUAL SLAVES TO GROW GRAIN FOR THE TABERNACLE.
- AVIANS VERSUS THE WELSH.
- ZARDOZ THINKS THIS MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY BETTER THAN LOOKING AT TENTACLE PRON?
- WORLD SHAKING SPORTS NEWS!
BONUS LINK FOR ZARDOZ’S FRIEND, STEVE SMITH.
Oh! Hey! First! ???????
egould, fuck yeah.
Saturday Night, first on links, and three flags. You’re living right.
Listening to Bowie’ “Hunky Dory”, sipping a vodka collins. Wife’s making some lamb chops and Greek salad. On the internet with you guys; pretty good Saturday.
ZARDOZ, in daylight? What gives?
Well, we’re only a couple of days out from solstice, so there’s a lot of daylight hours. ZARDOZ gotta be somewhere.
‘I asked him why he was crying and he said ‘mum I’ve been washing pots’.
Send him to see Robin Williams: “It’s not your fault. It’s not your fault.”
Zardoz, it’s about time. Brutals were starting to think you had forsaken them. Brutals grow restless, you know?
The Shrike is coming for you….
I already stuck him on the thorn tree.
RE your grocery store tale last post. You should have kept walking andcrop dusted her. Plus the link is a game review, and I know many of you geeks like a game review.
Easy to say when you don’t have the terrifying girth of a Triggly Puff bearing down on you.
That India vs Pakistan to qualify for the Hockey World Cup is hilarious. I had no idea.
I learn something every day at Glibertarians. Sometimes it’s even useful.
Those Indians have some sikh hockey skills.
*narrows gaze*
Result!
“Vengeance is mine,” sayeth the Swiss.
I just get to LOL at a good pun job.
Come on, people. Pun job. Punjab. Geez.
I got it. Sorry we didn’t singh your praises.
Please do the needful and stop it!
or “Frozen Cricket” as they call it.
That’s field hockey, of course; not real hockey.
Now I has a disappoint. But I am better informed, so thank you.
Why do you hate chicks with sticks, Ted? Why do you hate girls in kilts running up and down the field flashing their thighs?
Wasn’t the article about men’s field hockey?
Getting pretty picky there Ted. Skirts is skirts. Get with the times man.
“Why do you hate chicks with sticks. Ted?”
Coca cola – Nose – fuck you, Tonio. When I stop laughing, I’mma fuck you up.
And speaking of hockey, I just learned about the existence of this movie today.
Have you seen this movie yet?
What movie?
India and Pakistan were ranked 6th and 13th in the world, respectively. It is the Hockey World Cup, not the World Cup of Hockey.
You know, real hockey.
*jumps behind bulletproof glass waiting for attacks/ heads to explode.*
*patiently waits in parking lot for mr simple while rythmicly tapping ICE hockey stick into palm of less dominant hand*
So the Welsh are judging all gulls by action of a few? Gullophobics.
Where’s Daphne du Maurier when you need her?
Off dreaming of Manderley again?
In an inn in Jamaica, I bet.
With a cousin.
Sooo, I had a great outing to Colonial Shooting Academy Richmond today. Blew through 3 x 50 rd boxes renting an XD Compact, 1911 (Springfield maybe) and Glock 21. Lots of fun. Surprisingly…the XD was the most comfortable and I like the dual safety setup a lot. I’m not a huge fan of the magazine shape (or a quarter portion of the grip), but it worked well enough. The 1911 mag was a lot harder to load – single stack mag seemed a little small and hard to feed cleanly. Glock wasn’t bad, but definitely larger.
Decided against buying anything this time. Still leaning towards the used P220 if I have a chance, but possibly a used XD Compact (including a laser – not the best but nice to have) for $450. I’ll head back down there next month.
Great service, great staff – not sure about competitive prices, but highly recommended for anyone in the central VA area. I haven’t seen too many indoor ranges that are cool with you shooting rifles (certain ammo types banned) or shotguns, and hell, they have a stack of full auto guns you can rent and try too.
Side note…they were advertising it there, but for a first time purchase…would it potentially be worth it to build an AR piece by piece rather than buying a stock model? I have had plenty of experience with M16/M4 in the Army/Navy – just never got an optic or anything at the time – unnecessary for my “job”. I haven’t done any research lately…but would it be worthwhile (economical or otherwise) to look at getting a single lower – and multiple uppers – 5.56/7.62/6.5/etc?
Thanks
Oh yeah….did all my shooting at a 25ft target. Maybe excessive but gave me a good feel for things. Apparently after the first shot of each mag, I was sliding down and right from a centered point of aim. Apparently that means I don’t have enough finger on the trigger?
Down and *right* could be a couple of things. You might be tightening your whole grip when you’re about to fire, or you might be using *too much* finger rather than not enough.
Buy an uplula mag loader. Seriously.
Not just the loader…I’m brain freezing on terminology but I mean actually feeding the mag – it was so thin compared to the rest of the grip that it was hard to align when reloading without looking at it.
Some more modern single-stacks have chamfered mag wells that make feeding the mag easier, and some 1911-builders have them.
I have an XD compact. It takes a little while to get your pinky used to wrapping around the magazine.
Just get a black rifle now. Doesn’t matter which one. Don’t go home empty handed. The governor of your state is an asshole, and could potentially ruin things at any moment.
Definetely build it. You get a better understanding of the weapon as a whole. Plus you wont have a bunch of spare parts that you didn’t like or want if you built it the way you want from the start.
Only places to splurge is the bolt/BGC, barrel and maybe a trigger group. Make sure the buffer matches with the gas system length.
RVA, represent, Ell Tee.
Build. It’s cheaper, especially if you wait for the components you want to go on sale. It’s also easy, fun, and educational.
Even if you only plan to make one, just buy a handful of stripped lowers at once. They can be had for around $50 each, and you’ll want more later.
Make sure you follow federal/local law on stuff like barrel length, evil features, etc.
I agree with MS above, get a good barrel, bcg, and just spend the money up front on a good trigger. You don’t need a $300 trigger, there are good ones in the $100-150 range that are vastly better than what you get in a lower parts kit. Get a nice selector to go with that, and buy the rest as loose parts.
Buy the right tools up front. Like a proper armorers wrench and block. Magpul makes good ones, get their BEV block. You’ll want these tools even if you didn’t build it from scratch, so not a waste.
I haven’t priced out a build but I would be tempted to go that route if I were buying an AR today. I’ve had Colt Sporter A2 for close to 30 years and it’s fine the way it is to me. Needs new optics is about it. So many options now days. Why not pick and choose your parts.
My next pistol. Probably for Christmas.
http://www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/products2.cfm/ID/138716/227r345sas2b/sig-sauer-p227-sas-carry-gen-2-45-acp-centerfire-pistol-with-srt-trigger
I bought a SIG 716 last year that I really like. I’m not sure that it can convert to a 6.5 without replacing the entire upper. I believe some AR10 platforms can.
Well I know the upper would be different for each caliber, but is it possible to get a single lower or would the mag size be too variable? I know it’s supposed to work with the new DoD convertible battle rifle….or at least the ones they keep profiling in military times, etc.
There are generally speaking two different lower sizes. The most versatile is the std. AR-15 size, which can accept uppers in a bunch of calibers. A lot of these calibers even feed from the same type of magazine.
There are even bolt action .50BMG uppers or crossbow uppers for these.
If you want a larger caliber like .308 or creedmoor and make the lower interchangeable, you need to plan your purchase better. There are a few competing standards.
Modular Weapons Systems are becoming of a thing now where you don’t even have to switch out the entire upper to change calibers. They’re making these types of systems for AR10 and AR15 platforms.
http://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/lewis-machine-tools-lm8mws/#lmt-lm8mws-swmp-jan-lead
I guess I should watch this movie…
What’s the consensus of required watching materials?
Drugs? Alcohol? Or yes to both?
Alternatively, watch it sober and try to figure out what drugs the screenwriters and director were on.
Ok….I don’t think we can be friends. Sorry.
What movie?
Oh are you talking about Zardoz. About a minute of the trailer was enough for me. But sure Coke, weed, whisky, and beer.
The movie is waaay deeper than it first appears.
I was in Baltimore near the airport (Linthicum Heights) to refuel my rental car before returning it, and I happened to notice a black and white police car pulling out onto the main road. At first glance it looked like any city’s police car: B&W paint job, Call 911 on the back, POLICE in trendy font on the side. But then I saw where they usually put the city name under POLICE it said National Security Agency.
WTF? The NSA is in Laurel MD, not Linthicum Heights. I could see the NSA having a police force dedicated to their own Laurel campus, but I found it a bit odd that they’d be driving around a Baltimore suburb 18 miles away. I wonder if they need a warrant to make an arrest?
Ft. Meade sits between Laurel and Linthicum Hts. There are contractor offices in the latter as well.
OK, thks. I have just been curious about “police” jurisdictions after seeing the “Federal police” uniforms outside the courthouse after the Boston Marathon bombing when charges were expected to be announced.
Love your Rumpole avatar, BTW.
GSA has the same bullshit “Police” lettering. No, you’re fucking security guards and your authority should extend to federal facilities only just like any other private security guard employed by a private company.
Yeah, unfortunately after 9-11 the Federal Protective Service (GSA Keystone Kops) got rolled into DHS. At least TSA still doesn’t have LEO powers, yet.
The FPS, for some reason, always reminds me of FDS…
Feminine Deodorant Spray, that is.
We have the same problem with the DoD police here. They’re responsible for a tiny Air Force base in El Segundo (literally one square block), and they love to drift. They get lunch and get their cars washed 10 miles away. Same with airport CBP.
They begged the state for peace officer powers, and they finally got it.
Maybe they weren’t even working. Here in podunk, (and this is not entirely LE related) our little community workforce of weed whackers/park lawn mowers, meter readers, and general layabouts has grown from one truck when I built here 11 years ago, to four. I am not sure how many they have, but I see them going to work when I go to town in the AM. These guys live in the next town which is a real town and drive their work trucks for transportation to and from work. Pisses me off. Park it and go home on your own tab. Also all the sheriffs deputies keep their Sheriff trucks outside of their houses. How did the taxpayer become the provider of transportation for these people?
How else do you expect them to earn the pension you’re paying for.
Maajid Nawaz is Suing the SPLC for Calling Him an “Anti-Muslim Extremist”
To the surprise of many atheists, the list included Ayaan Hirsi Ali along with Nawaz.
Yes, the SPLC unfairly demonizing people as extremists is certainly unprecedented.
“B-b-but we’re the good guys! How could the SPLC publicly slime us when they’re supposed to be publicly sliming the bad guys!”
“To the surprise of many atheists”
Really?
**Doing a happy dance**
This socialist monstrosity is dead for at least another year. As a California
residenttax revenue provider, this scared the crap out of me. $400B cost with no real way to pay for it; who do they think they are, the Federal government? How can a state with so much going for it be such a cesspit of idiocy? (says the idiot who lives here…)“The California Nurses Association condemns the decision by Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon to destroy the aspirations of millions of Californians for guaranteed health care without being bankrupted or forced to skip needed care,”
Rather bankrupt the state instead?
How can a state with so much going for it be such a cesspit of idiocy?
It’s an interesting question, actually. Seems to hold true for every major region where there’s a lot of prosperity. I’m not sure what it is about the combination of natural resources, affluence, culture and big business that inspires deeply totalitarian political ideology. If anything you’d think it would be the opposite.
There is abundance, so what’s the problem with sharing a little?
I blame it on the pubsec unions – they run the show.
How can a state with so much going for it be such a cesspit of idiocy? (says the idiot who lives here…)
Probably because it has so much going for it. Rich places with a lot of advantages can afford a lot of stupidity. People lose track of the fact that it wasn’t the stupidity that brought the wealth to indulge the stupidity. And each stupidity creates its own client class.
‘I would like to say, to every parent, talk to your child, ask them how was your day, if they were in trouble ask them why.’
I don’t usually have kids, but when I do, I don’t take parenting advice from someone who feels the need to suggest regular interaction with your kids.
Stay Thirsty My Friends.
That reminds me, it’s beer o’clock.
If by “beer” you mean “vodka”, indeed.
Dammit! Out of vermouth.
DIRTY SANCHEZ TIME!
You’re late. Catch up already.
Working on it!
*Chugs beer, crushes can on head*
Paaaaaaaarrrrrttttyyyyyyy!!!!!!
*drops to floor*
*does the worm*
I picked up a 6-pack of 8.2% IPA from Trader Joe’s this morning for all of $5 bucks. Blue screen of death, here I come!
You micro aggressing shitlord*
* https://m.liveleak.com/view?i=78d_1494960863
Ha! That has to be parody, right? They can’t be serious.
Is there anything left that isn’t a micro-aggression? I’m going to be a good libertarian and drink even more, then!
Unfortunately they seem beyond parody these days.
I can see how compulsory attendance laws, plus assigning students to schools where manual labor is part of the curriculum (for all students of just for rulebreakers) could be seen as slavery, but only if the parent has no viable option of a non-manual-labor school.
In other words, a choice of schools with various approaches would mean that choosing the manual-labor school was voluntary, not involuntary.
*or* just for rulebreakers
Why do you bother training your orphans?
ROI
Voluntary by whom?
I love that the linked article didn’t at all touch upon the morality of the state forcing the child to do academic work, because that’s definitely not slavery.
That is because I am taking the weekend off.
It said “Whole Foods” not “Hole Foods”.
^ sparks a genius grocery store chain idea.
So they sell Swiss cheese and bagels?
Doughnuts, ho-ho’s, hookers, anything in a bottle and or can be smoked in a pipe. Fruit and hole making utensils………Everything has a hole, otherwise you couldn’t dispense it.
Holes for sale!
I always read your name as westerns-loper.
Whenever I see your avatar, I imagine all your comments in Grandpa Simpson’s voice. I do the same thing whenever I see something written in all caps.
THE METRIC SYSTEM IS THE TOOL OF THE DEVIL. MY CAR GETS 40 RODS TO THE HOGSHEAD AND THAT’S THE WAY I LIKES IT.
***
I WORE AN ONION ON MY BELT, WHICH WAS THE STYLE AT THE TIME.
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LAST TIME THE METEORS CAME, WE THOUGHT THE *SKYYYYYYYY* WAS ON FIRE. NATURALLY, WE BLAMED THE IRISH. WE HANGED MORE THAN A FEW.
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YOU IDIOT. THAT”S THE WRIGHT BROTHERS’ PLANE. IN KITTY HAWK NORTH CAROLINA IN 1903, CHARLES LINDBERGH FLEW IT 15 MILES ON A THIMBLE FULL OF CORN OIL. SINGLE HANDEDLY WON THE CIVIL WAR IT DID.
How come you know so much history, Grandpa?
I MOSTLY PIECED IT TOGETHER FROM CEREAL PACKETS.
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SUGAR PACKETS
NOT CEREAL PACKETS
YOU FAILED
ALL THIS YELLING HURTS MY EYES!
LOUD NOISES!
I don’t even really watch the Simpsons but do enjoy a good cloud-yelling.
McDonalds Saudi Arabia pledges “loyalty and obedience on the Quran” to Crown Prince
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/mcdonalds-saudi-arabia-pledges-loyalty-and-obedience-on-the-quran-to-crown-prince
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“We pay homage to his royal highness Mohammed bin Salman. We promise loyalty and obedience on the Quran. We pray God safeguards our kingdom’s security, stability and safety,” the tweet says…
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I’m always perplexed at these huge international corporations are perfectly willing to intentionally alienate a good 25% of the US population (sometimes more) in order to be on the right side of any given political issue, and at the same time being perfectly willing to kowtow to any tin pot dictatorship in the world for a few extra million in revenue. I mean the latter makes sense if they are just evil capitalist whores willing to sacrifice anything for a buck, but not the former.
Money is only worth what it buys and a few million in a tin pot dictatorship is a lot of power.
True, but I’m not sure if that really fully accounts for it either. What’s at stake for, say, Coca Cola or McDonald’s in Saudi Arabia from a political perspective to make it worth it? They’re not exactly going to wrestle much political power from the House of Saud. At the same time, these aren’t sound decisions from a purely capitalist standpoint either, so something’s going on. Losing distribution in Saudi Arabia entirely would be the same as pissing off only about 10% of the US customer base.
You over-estimate the hell out of how much Americans financially care about the foreign actions of multi-national corporations. Lots of light, but very little heat.
Just to be clear, I’m not saying that their actions in Saudi Arabia are going to piss of American consumers. I’m saying they’ve been willing to very publicly hop on domestic political bandwagons, like the NC tranny bathroom thing for example, and risk alienating a lot of American consumers in order to be politically correct. Then at the same time they are willing to literally kiss the ring in order to operate in a totalitarian shit hole with a population of 30 million. I don’t begrudge them kissing anyone’s ass in order to eek out a few more pennies for the bottomline, it’s just surprising how much clout a piece of shit like Saudi Arabia gets compared to, say, homophobic Americans.
Oh, I getcha. Yeah, I agree with the up-thread person that probably “homophobic American citizens” are not a very valuable target demo when compared to “the rulers of Saudi Arabia” even if it takes in the same order of magnitude of cash to “buy” them.
I think 10% is vastly overshooting. Those who would applaud their wokeness are not McDonalds customers. And on the other hand, there are probably lots of people willing to give them business for not playing ball in the ME.
I see your point, but who cares. If you have to kiss their ass to do business there and want to do business there, I don’t care. It’s not my business, it is theirs. On the other hand, if McDonald’s comes out and starts preaching how North America is the misogynistic horde of evil I will have a problem.
I don’t think they will lose any business in their big markets. People don’t care.
Oh don’t get me wrong, I don’t care who they whore themselves out to for whatever reason or no reason at all. It’s just an unusual set of political and business sensibilities. Keep in mind their CEO hired Obama’s former spokesman Robert Gibbs in an effort to rebrand as “a modern, progressive burger company”
I didn’t know that. See, I would be more inclined to not go to McD’s over them hiring Obamabots than I care about them making nice with shitlords like Saudi Arabia. The Saudi’s are upfront that they are shitlords. Obamabots just lie about it.
Because I think they’re kowtowing to the tin pots in both cases. The 25% alienated in the U.S. aren’t going to do much more than maybe personally refrain from buying your product (and that’s a good thing). It’s the people demanding that alienation who come around with demanding others refrain from buying their products. You get the social justice cadres at NYU demanding that Coke be banned from campus, for example. How many left-of-center politicians were talking about refusing Chick-fil-A from being allowed to do business in their jurisdictions, for example.
good read
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/the-left-has-one-more-argument-kill-them
My God.
THEY FOUND HIM.
The left are “so cool”… https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/corbyn-chants-t-shirts-and-sculptures-jeremania-hits-glastonbury-1.3132591
The Guardian also covered Corbynfest/Glastonbury https://www.theguardian.com/music/live/2017/jun/24/glastonbury-2017-saturday-jeremy-corbyn
It’s amazing how quickly “Don’t trust anybody over 30” gave way to the hip youth culture worshiping geriatric machine politicians (see also Bernie Sanders).
But he’s so dreamy! *swoon*
Qatar. Is it “Cutter” or “Kuhtaar”?
It’s spelled “quarter”, buy a fucking dictionary already.
I only have one qwartaar.
Catarrh.
^This
The former is for when you’re signalling.
*cough*
Kindly turn your head when you cough.
Catarrh, ye mateys.
Kwaytare
It sounds closest to guh-ter.
The first letter represents a sound that does not exist in English, which sounds like g but with a hard, clicking sound. It’s like a cross between g and k.
The t sound is also a harder than English. To say it properly, pretend someone is choking you.
Arabic sounds are fun. There is a letter called ‘ayn that looks like a a backwards 3. The best way to say it is to imitate the sound of a car engine right before it changes gears.
Thanks. The guy next to me in the coffee shop just gave me the Heimlich.
Which letter is that in, I’m assuming, the German alphabet?
The fact that English doesn’t possess those sounds is a reason that it’s stupid to try to imitate them.
If I tried to tell everyone to say “München” instead of “Munich” they would laugh in my face, and rightly so.
I wouldn’t laugh in your face. And you could always try saying »Мюнхен«. 🙂
OK, the 99 percent of Americans who have no knowledge of German.
And ю != ü either so they’re doing it wrong, unless you made that up.
ю makes the preceding constant soft and the remaining sound is actually close to ü. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu_(Cyrillic)
consonant
Russian transliteration of foreign languages is interesting. That is in fact the Russian name for Munich, and Russian generally does transliterate the ü as ю. The ö, and the French eu, get transliterated as ё.
Given that “München” sounds much more like “Мюнхен” than “Munich” I always find it hard to stick to the contrived anglicized pronunciation of city names like Munich, Cologne, Zürich, Budapest, Montréal, etc.
Depends on the audience. Given that I was born and live in the US and spend 99.99% of my time speaking English to other English speakers, I use the established English names for these places. If I’m in Germany or speaking to a German person I use the German names because I can speak German.
Well, I’m Russian. Because of the need for transliteration, the geographic names typically sound in Russian the same way as do in the local language — unlike in English it’s not possible to keep the city name intact, it has to be written in Cyrillic. Then I can also speak a bit of French, German and some other languages. That’s why the English pronunciation of many cities appears to me like the third or “wrong” pronunciation.
Гребаный медведь.
I probably should have used a smiley in my original comment.
Grizzly: Not always, as something like Рим implies.
And I was always amused how Texas became Техас, although that’s probably from Spanish. And then there’s Arkansas/Kansas. 🙂
If you want to be understood, you have to get somewhat close.
One reason it’s a lot harder to understand English with a Chinese accent vs a French accent is that Chinese speakers often drop terminal consonants unless it’s one they have like n or ng. They also tend to slur consonant clusters so that a word like “world” sounds like “wud”.
Not disagreeing with any of that – my beef is with Americans eschewing the English pronunciation of Qatar in an attempt to curry favor with Arabs. If you in Qatar and trying to speak Arabic, knock yourself out. But American newscasters with their “Guttar” nonsensee… GTFO.
Lahss Anjeles.
Lowss Ang-a-leez. Not uncommon before World War II.
Wikipedia pronounces it both ways, if you trust them as a source.
Cutter is closer. Say it quick almost like your trying to avoid the vowel sounds and roll the r slightly.
ˈqɑtˤɑr
IPA or GTFO
How about you can have all the big booty women and IPAs and I’ll take all the bikini models and Belgians.
Woah, all?
I’m happy to share with my bitches. Can’t speak for HM.
I pronounce it Kuttaar. It is not like you are going to have perfect pronunciation on Arabic words if you are not a native Arabic speaker. I have found people just appreciate the effort and laugh at you behind your back. All good.
If you are there and learning the language, sure. Otherwise, English already has a perfectly good word for it.
I have committed the egregious crime of stealing my grandmother’s Official 2017 Democratic Party Survey out of her mail. Who wants to hear what they’re asking their base this year?
SECTION I: YOUR PERSONAL PRIORITIES
1) Which domestic issues are most important to you? (Please choose up to three)
_ Ensuring that our democracy is free from Russian interference
_ Enhancing voter registration efforts and fighting voter suppression
_ Affordable health care
_ Ensuring that our immigration policies are fair and constitutional
_ Women’s reproductive rights and protecting Roe v. Wade
_ Protecting environmental safeguards and EPA regulations
_ Marriage equality and expanding LGBT civil rights
_ Protecting Social Security and Medicare from privatization
_ Free college tuition and reduced student debt
2 Which international issues are most important to you? (Please choose up to three)
_ RUSSIA OMG
_ CHINA OMG
_ NORTH KOREA OMG
_ CLIMATE CHANGE OMG
_ ISIS OMG
_ IRAN OMG
_ NATO OMG
_ We should be best friends with Cuba
I’m guessing “none of the above” and “we should mind our own fucking business” aren’t options?
I am very disappointed to see nothing about Lizard People on there.
(or is Russians code for Lizard People? I bet Russians is code for Lizard People.)
Nothing wrong with Lizard People. I think they are okay. I just hope they save me for dessert when they start to cull the herd. I’m a little fatty, but well marinated.
Reptilian brown-nosing race traitor.
Da tovarishch!
SECTION II: THE REPUBLICAN AGENDA
1) Which Republican policies do you find most troubling? (Please choose four)
_ The repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)
_ The unconstitutional ban against Muslim immigrants
_ The deportation of law-abiding immigrants and the building of the border wall
_ The systematic reversal of President Obama’s executive actions, orders and memorandums
_ A “voucher” program for private schools that will de-fund public education
_ The addition of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court
_ The dismantling of EPA regulations that protect our clean air and water
_ The lifting of “roadblocks” to resume the Dakota Access and Keystone pipelines
_ The renegotiation of, or withdrawal from, NAFRA and other trade treaties
2) Which aspects of the Trump presidency do you find most disturbing? (Please choose four)
_ His erratic temperament and judgment
_ His early morning tweets
_ His disrespect for President Obama
_ His reckless foreign policy positions
_ His admiration of Russian President Vladimir Putin
_ His disregard of the US Constitution
_ His dangerous and hateful rhetoric
_ His views about nuclear proliferation
_ His verbal and physical assaults on women
_ His views on women’s reproductive freedom
_ His dismissal of climate change and global warming
_ His refusal to release his tax returns and eliminate conflicts of interest
If you were a shape, what shape would you be?
A Black Hole
Kinky!
“His refusal to release his tax returns and eliminate conflicts of interest”
Yes, he should at least disband his Foundation…oops, wrong politician.
Republican policies: 2’s clearly been discredited enough times, 3 is nonsense because there’s been nothing related to law-abiding immigrants, 4’s at least real but suck it, ‘election’s have consequences’, 5, 6 and 7 are great, Keystone and Dakota have some imminent domain issues but they’re still net improvements for the economy overall, and I’m going to call bullshit on the Democrats giving a shit about free trade. I reward you the smallest violin in the world.
His disrespect for President Obama
He’s open game if he doesn’t have the decency to disappear like Bush did folks.
His disregard of the US Constitution
…
After 8 years of Obama blaming Bush for everything bad that ever happened, I have zero sympathy.
As for getting rid Obama’s EOs, maybe Obama should have used his pen and phone to write some bills and have Congress vote on those issues.
I want to see the Republican equivalent letter.
SECTION III: PRIORITIES OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY (DNC)
1) As Democrats prepare long-term strategies for the 2018 midterm elections, what electoral issues and messages do you believe should be our highest priorities? (1 = most important, 9 = not as important)
_ Building an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the very top
_ Making America the clean energy superpower of the 21st century
_ Cutting taxes for the middle class, not just the wealthiest Americans
_ Making investments in America’s infrastructure
_ Increasing the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour
_ Enacting laws that keep weapons of war off our streets
_ Increasing access to Medicare while reducing drug costs
_ Closing tax loopholes for US corporations and Wall Street greed
2) Please rank the following elements of the DNC’s election strategy in order of importance to you:
_ Reaching voters who did not vote Democratic in 2016
_ Organizing Latino, African-American, and other communities of color
_ Protecting the right to vote and expanding access to the ballot box
_ Investing in technology to preserve our edge over the Republicans
_ Holding Republicans accountable for their words and actions
Building an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the very top
My first recommendation is an 80% tax on the speaking fees of all current or former politicians.
clean energy superpower
This phrase makes zero goddamn sense. Superpowers are a diplomatic concept that is based off IR realist…you know what, forget it.
Cutting taxes for the middle class, not just the wealthiest Americans
Then you’re probably going to have to vote Trump. The two things immediately following that openly conflict with the this.
Enacting laws that keep weapons of war off our streets
You that desperate to keep broadswords and spears off the streets? …oh right, bullshit Democrat propaganda term, disregard.
Closing tax loopholes for US corporations and Wall Street greed
Holy shit, you honestly think the party of Clinton gives two fucks about this? …man, no wonder the Bernie Bros are pissed.
Investing in technology to preserve our edge over the Republicans
Might want to start with your network and email security first.
My first recommendation is an 80% tax on the speaking fees of all current or former politicians.
Excellent idea
you had me at “forget it”.
If the one about “weapons of war” meant not giving surplus military shit to the pigs, I’d support it.
But somehow I bet they mean gun confiscation.
Well, it is good to see they are not above making shit up.
100% of citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen are denied entry.
Fewer that 100% of citizens of these countries are Muslims.
As non-Muslims from these countries are also banned, one cannot accurately describe it as a “ban against Muslim immigrants.”
There is a “ban against certain countries whose populations are majority Muslim.” But that’s not the same thing.
I wonder why Team Blue, the Party of Togetherness, would want to turn a discussion about national origin into a discussion about religion? Probably good reasons related to Togetherness?
‘His disrespect for Obama’
lol.
Like Obama is entitled to it.
*gasp*
Huh. Nothing about the budget deficit or the national debt? I’m sure it’s just an oversight.
It had to absent itself from the pamphlet. Too oppressive.
My top priority is sending everyone’s money to a bunch of semi-retarded lawyers in Washington DC and having them decide how everyone should live their lives. Plus free everything for people who don’t work.
I also want all everyone from the Middle East brought here plus social protections for women and gays.
Has a flaming eye appeared, hovering above the Washington monument?
That’s where my other eye is. Ignore the eye and go back to the shire and eat, drink, and be merry.
_ Seeing Hillary Clinton indicted
_ Seeing Hillary Clinton sentenced
_ Seeing Hillary Clinton in jail
Never happen. Even if there are infinite universes, she doesn’t get jailed in even one of them.
Nothing sticks to the Clinton’s.
Except other people’s money
Quarks have super-delegates too.
It’s what they mean when they say reality has a liberal bias.
If it’s not reported it doesn’t exist.
Is this just an update from a few years ago when it said “Marriage equality”?
Or is there some way in which Gay Marriage is now unequal from Straight Marriage? If so, someone should let the SCOTUS know?
I’m just wondering when they’ll get around to unmarried equality. Seems so obvious.
They’re fighting for my right to be acknowledged as a black women, unlike all those cis-hetero shitlords keeping trying to insist that I’m really a white guy.
Did you know non-Democrats don’t want the dead or imaginary people to vote? They also want Democrats to only vote once! We cannot stand for this.
You know the only people who are going to reply to this stuff are the hard-core superprogs. So what few non-delusional options are presented here will be ignored in favor of the unicorn farts and rainbows. Leftward ho!
Hell, I’m actually shocked that there’s a ‘Fuck China’ option. I mean, the CCP’s constant bribery and influence over Western politicians apparently isn’t paying out so well.
TDS has officially gone too far.
Would, hell she could even keep the hat on if she wants.
Thrak, you have the oddest time schedule for posting. Do live on a 29 hour day?
I work second shift, and usually get off around 11. So I usually post before or after work.
See time stamps like 4am and wonder, up all night or early riser? Have to say that Glibs schedule fits my time zone much better than that other site. Side bonus.
Usually up really late. So if I want to have a few a few beers and play video games after work I end up staying up pretty late. Same basic schedule as someone who gets off at 5 and goes to bed around 10 or 11, just shifted a few hours.
mental meandering
The biggest obstacle to tackling Islamic terrorism is that whenever someone correctly states that Islamic terrorism is the result of what Islam teaches about jihad and martyrdom, they are shouted down with what-about-isms and screeching about Islamophobia.
Christians and Jews have made a conscious effort to de-emphasize, re-interpret, or just plain ignore the violent commands present in their scriptures. Muslims have not; in fact, the violent teachings often get codified into law.
I don’t see how it is possible to defeat militant Islam without criticizing the beliefs that fuel it. It’s impossible to reform without criticism.
“I don’t see how it is possible to defeat militant Islam without criticizing the beliefs that fuel it. It’s impossible to reform without criticism.”
That’s not really how you fight wars though. We just simply don’t have any power over their beliefs. Seems like all we can really do is make it known that if you mess with us, we destroy you.
I’m just not interested in arguing with anyone about what Islam is or isn’t. If you say you’re a Muslim I believe you whether your a cool dude or a head looper. It’s pure fiction and therefore wide open to interpretation.
“It’s pure fiction and therefore wide open to interpretation.”
Eh, a Muslim who says alcohol is a no-no is has more tradition and scripture on his side than one who says otherwise.
I mean, if someone told you “I’m a libertarian” but supported higher taxes, gun control, higher govt spending, the war on drugs, etc, how seriously would you take their self-assessment?
One reason why jihadis mainly attack other Muslims is because they view them as sinful hypocrites.
I don’t think you can compare different people trying to interpret 14 century old religious text to libertarian ideology. How many dominations of Christianity are there? Which ones right? The Catholics, the evangelicals, the Episcopalians, the coptics, the snake handlers, etc, etc. And how many adherants to those denominations are devout purist. Jesus is considered a profit in Islam. So they should follow the golden rule right? Religion is a tool, like a woodchipper. I can help you clean up your tree branches or I can put you in feet first. I use a tool to achieve what I want.
Religion had always been used to justify people doing what they would have done anyways. The older and more abstract the text the the easier that is. Do you honestly believe we can lecture them on their religious beliefs? I mean how would that work. Hey guys, admit it, your religion is sinful and you should convert?
Prophet not profit. Lol. Yeah I’m a libertarian.
There is not much to interpret in the Koran. In fact, it states over and over that its teachings are clear and final.
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“This is the book, in it is guidance for sure without doubt, to those who fear Allah”. (2:2)
“And this is a book which We have revealed as a blessing, so follow it and be righteous, that you may receive mercy”. (6:155).
“A book revealed unto you, so that your heart be not in any difficulty on that account, (so that) with it you may warn (the sinful) and teach the believers”. (7:2).
“and We have revealed the Book to you explaining clearly everything (16:89).
“These are the verses of the book that make things clear”. (26:2).
“Verily We have revealed the book to you in truth for instructing mankind. He that receives guidance benefits his own soul, but he that strays injures his own soul”. (39:41).
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Well it’s settled then. Do the Middle East nees outlets have a “letter to the editor” option so we can splain Islam to them?
How many dominations of Christianity are there? Which ones right? The Catholics, the evangelicals, the Episcopalians, the coptics, the snake handlers, etc, etc.
True. But, there are certain essential beliefs. You can’t really call yourself a Christian, for example, if you think Jesus of Nazareth was just a really cool dude with some great ideas and that’s it.
Unless you’re Episcopalian….Seriously, that’s why the North American Anglicans re-split from them.
Seems like all we can really do is make it known that if you mess with us, we destroy you.
But, that only works if you’re willing to define “you” and “us”.
You just made the list.
-SPLC, probably
random memories
A few years ago, I was a process engineer in a plastic bag factory. Plastic bags for meat, that is. Anyway, one problem they had was that the bags would get stuck together by static and jam the machines. To counter this, small amounts of a flour-like substance was rubbed on them. The process used tons of it, and I thought that perhaps I could find a cheaper replacement and save the company some money.
I did find a cheaper replacement but there was a catch: it contained traces of gluten. I spent a couple of months consulting with people higher up the food chain as to whether that was a problem. Turns out it was, even though the gluten content was way below the threshold for triggering someone with a gluten allergy and that it was going on the *outside* of the bags, not the inside. And to make it more absurd, it was going to get hosed off anyway at the meat packing plant. I tried to reason with them, but no luck.
One of the reasons why I stuck with engineering even though I didn’t like it was because I could say “at least I don’t work for the government.”
The cost of the non-gluten product was probably cheaper in the long run than fending off the inevitable lawsuit on behalf of the unharmed.
Yeah, a lawsuit was the main thing they were worried about. Food processing regulations are byzantine and appear to have been written by hypochondriacs.
White Privilege Conference to unveil new app to document bigotry; bans all recording at conference
http://eagnews.org/thousands-of-educators-flock-to-white-privilege-conference-in-kansas-city/
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A critical component of changing America’s racist white supremacist system involves uncovering bias for all to see, that’s why WPC 18 organizers are promoting a special smartphone app that will be unveiled this year to report racists.
“The Institute for Research & Education o Human Rights is excited to be launching a new smartphone app at WPC18. It is called ‘Trepper’: the anti-bigotry app will allow users to securely capture incidents of bigotry on video, notify users of local incidents and events, and harness the power of social networks to report,” according to the WPC18 program. “It provides a toolkit for anti-bigotry organizing and security, and share (sic) the latest news and updates.”
And while WPC18 is rife with generalizations and stereotypes about white people that would provide the perfect opportunity to try out the new app, attendees will have to wait until they’re back home. Ironically, organizers banned all video recording and pictures for attendees.
“All WPC content is copyrighted. Sessions may not be recorded or videotaped without prior written permission from the White Privilege Conference and anyone who will be included in the recordings,” the program reads. “No materials received at the conference may be reproduced without written permission from the White Privilege Conference and the author.”
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‘member Attack Watch? I ‘member.
Obama Campaign’s ‘Attack Watch’ Becomes Victim of Conservative Mockery
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The #attackwatch Twitter page was immediately spammed with tweet after tweet heavy on sarcasm regarding the president’s stimulus and jobs creation plans.
“hey #AttackWatch I heard the only good ‘Cash For Clunkers’ did was get all the obama stickers off the roads, thank you,” tweeted @speedyjerry.
“Hey #attackwatch, I saw 6 ATM’s in an alley, killing a Job. It looked like a hate crime!” wrote @thorninaz.
Obama campaign spokeswoman Katie Hogan told the Washington Post that 100,000 people had signed up for the site in the first 24 hours.
“This site is a tool providing our supporters with the facts they need to fight back against lies and distortions about the president’s record,” she told the newspaper.
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Of course, the ban on recording is so that none of the crazy shit becomes public.
Fuck those people. Did the white privileged have their pockets picked to pay for those “educators” to attend that conference. We’re there not any conferences going on to help them do a better job of teaching?
I doubt an “Abolish the DOE!!” conference would go over too well.
Neighbors decided to light off some fireworks, just finished sitting on the deck watching and sipping some Jameson Caskmate. Life ain’t too bad.
Same here in Brooklyn (minus the deck). A sick display just went off outside my window a couple streets down. I have a great view of everyone’s rooftop fireworks from here.
http://cafehayek.com/2017/06/much-value-x-willing-acquire-x-expense.html
Don Boudreaux’s letters,are often brilliant but I found this one exceptionally so.
I don’t know who Nolan McKinney is, but he sounds like a dick.
Nice
Continued example of eating their own, Goths are deplorable Cis-het shitlords now. http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2017/06/23/goth_culture_needs_to_embrace_the_gender_identities_of_all_its_members.html
I WILL NOT TOLERATE THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR BELOVED GOTH COMMUNITIES.
/Guy who got laid by a lot of goths in high school.
I hung out with all the goth kids in college – hell, my current circle is loaded with them, or more accurately, what they became, since we’re all middle-aged now. Fortunately, none of them are navel-gazing retards like the author of this article.
Same, but still, I won’t defend the sexual adventures in a young teenage mind…
Sad clown
“Gender is a social construct but I can’t understand anything that doesn’t have a specific label so you all have too agree to my label on my gender.”
“Gender is a social construct.”
Yeah, so is equality. No go make me a fu**ing sandwich.
SEC!!! SEC!!! SEC!!!
Ahem. Gators v Corndogs for the stick & ball championship.
So Johnny Depp has earned about $650 in the past 15 years or so and somehow, he’s almost broke.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/johnny-depp-a-star-crisis-insane-story-his-missing-millions-1001513
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By all objective measures, Depp’s representatives seem to have served their client well. Following 2003’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the actor routinely earned $20 million upfront against 20 percent of the backend per picture and had a perk package worth approximately $3 million. According to one source, he reaped more than $40 million apiece from his share of the backend of the Pirates movies and made some $55 million from his profit participation on 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, which earned $1.03 billion worldwide.
It is unclear how much Depp understood that these large numbers were not the amounts he could spend. UTA took 10 percent off the top; Bloom and Mandel each took another 5 percent; taxes and business expenses further reduced the income to far less than half the gross number. And after a trifecta of big-budget flops — 2014’s Transcendence, 2015’s Mortdecai and the Alice sequel in 2016 — it became clear the spigot was tightening.
Depp’s current lawyer, hired in October, insists the actor was not properly advised and that Depp’s interest lay in his artistry, rather than his finances. But reps for TMG say Depp repeatedly was told to tighten the reins. The Mandel countersuit alleges that he ladled out $75 million on buying and updating 14 residences; owned more than 200 artworks, including some by Klimt, Warhol and Modigliani; kept a memorabilia collection in 12 storage facilities; and spent another $1 million archiving it.
After he connected with Heard, on one occasion “he walked into a [high-end jewelry] store, sat for a couple of hours,” says an insider. “They showed him a lot of stuff, gave him champagne, and he walked out with a $400,000 diamond cuff. It was a classic sort of moment because it wasn’t worth $400,000.”
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I wonder how high the bankruptcy rate is among celebrities/athletes. That is, is it in the norm, above, under the median? I know there have been plenty of stories like his but how prevalent is it?
I’m guessing it’s probably about the same as for lottery winners, which is about 70%, since most people really can’t comprehend the kinds of money involved.
50-65 % range for retired athletes is what I have seen.
If I made that much scratch peddling endless amounts of garbage I’d probably go a little crazy too.
Almost broke to him is not the same as almost broke to us. He obviously has some assets there so probably more cash “poor’ than anything. Nothing one more movie won’t cure. He just needs to realize that there won’t always be one more movie. It is crazy how much can these celebrities can burn through though.
He could sell one property and use the proceeds to retire himself and everybody on an entire city block if he wanted to. No. Johnny is not hurting for cash.
“It is crazy how much can these celebrities can burn through though.”
This. I’m a drunken wastrel, but if I somehow got $1mm after tax, I wouldn’t burn through it , simply because there’s just not that much I want. As soon as I gots my two trailers and 4 mistresses, I’m good.
Problem is that Amber Heard ain’t any ordinary mistress, by all accounts.
oopsy- $650 million that is.
I hate it when I think I wrote a word but actually forgot it.
To a nicer guy, it couldn’t have happened.
I’ve often wondered if the reason show business people hate capitalism so much is that they act like the worst caricatures of capitalists (insanely excessive consumption, underhanded business methods).
And a lot of their success is down to luck.
suicidal scientists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertram_Boltwood
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Bertram Borden Boltwood (July 27, 1870 Amherst, Massachusetts – August 15, 1927, Hancock Point, Maine) was an American pioneer of radiochemistry.
He graduated from Yale University, and taught there 1897-1900. He established that lead was the final decay product of uranium, noted that the lead-uranium ratio was greater in older rocks and, acting on a suggestion by Ernest Rutherford, was the first to measure the age of rocks by the decay of uranium to lead, in 1907. He got results of ages of 400 to 2200 million years, the first successful use of radioactive decay by Pb/U chemical dating (isotopes not discovered yet). More recently, older mineral deposits have been dated to about 4.4 billion years old, close to the best estimate of the age of earth.
Boltwoodite is named after him. He was a member of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.
In his later days, Boltwood suffered from depression and committed suicide on August 15, 1927.
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What a shame. Boltzmann, Carothers, Turing…all these smart guys offing themselves.
Never heard of this guy til just now:
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Jenő Egerváry (or Eugene Egerváry) (April 16, 1891 – November 30, 1958) was a Hungarian mathematician.
Biography
Egerváry was born in Debrecen in 1891. In 1914, he received his doctorate at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest, where he studied under the supervision of Lipót Fejér. He then worked as an assistant at the Seismological Observatory in Budapest, and since 1918 as a professor at the Superior Industrial School in Budapest. In 1938 he was appointed Privatdozent at the Pázmány Péter University in Budapest.[1]
In 1941 he became full professor at the Technical University of Budapest, and in 1950 he was appointed Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Research Institute for Applied Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.[2]
Egerváry received the Gyula König Prize in 1932 and the Kossuth Prize in 1949 and 1953.[2]
He committed suicide in 1958 because of the troubles caused to him by the communist bureaucracy.[3]
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Huh… Wikipedia sez Turing may not have offed himself after all. Although if the government gave me a choice between lady hormones and jail my mind might be get of sorts so who knows.
Ugh that got mangled
Yes, it seems there’s a lot of evidence that it was accidental and apparently occurred well after his “punishment.” I was very angry when I found out the movie was a pack of lies, and not just about that ending.
MMW=HE+NR×T
MMW=man’s material wealth
HE=human effort
NR=natural resources
T=tools
MMW-G=HE-G+NR-G×T-G
solve for G.
99% of blah blah blah won’t get it.
I got HE+NR+MMW over T+1
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G = Government
You subtracted G once on the left side of the equation, but 3 times on the right side. That’s a Romper Room No-No in algebra.
People act like algebra is super hard when it only has 2 rules:
1. do the same thing to both sides
2. get x by itself on the left
I think the main reason people struggle with math is because it taught as pure numbers and then the connection to real amounts gets awkwardly shoved in later.
It’s amazing how many people can’t figure out something like long a 100 mile trip will take at an average speed of 50 mph. Hell, I met someone who couldn’t figure out how long a 50 mile trip would take at 50 mph.
Okay Okay.
Human Material Wealth = (human energy)-(Governmemt) +(natural resources)-(Government)×(tools)-(government)
Fuck I haven’t taken algebra since high school. PEMDAS. Youre correct. In the above more well thought out equation, the lower the value of G the higher the value of HMW.
I got the joke, it’s just that my brief stint as a math teacher made me sensitive to these things. I hope it didn’t come across as a put-down.
God damn progs ruin everything.
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Valeri Alekseevich Legasov was a prominent Soviet scientist in the field of inorganic chemistry, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is most famous for his work as the chief of the investigation committee of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26th 1986.
After the Chernobyl disaster, Legasov became a key member of the government commission formed to investigate the causes of the catastrophe and to plan the liquidation of its consequences. In August, 1986 he presented the report of the Soviet delegation at the special meeting of International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. His report struck the Western colleagues with the depth of analysis and full honesty in discussing the extent and consequences of the tragedy.
Legasov’s open and firm stance, however, caused a lot of trouble for him at home: the Soviet government was very uncomfortable with the frankness and rigor of his position. As a result, when in 1986-1987 his name was twice entered into the list for those to be awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor in recognition for his work, both times it was rejected: the second time his name was crossed out by Gorbachev himself.
Having exposed himself to the radiation on the ground of Chernobyl, Legasov’s health began to rapidly deteriorate, which coupled with his depression over his lack of recognition, led him to take his own life on April 27th 1988.
On September 20, 1996 Russian President Boris Yeltsin conferred to Legasov the honorary title of Hero of the Russian Federation (posthumously) for his “courage and heroism” shown in the course of the liquidation of the after-effects of Chernobyl disaster.
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Nicolas Leblanc was a French chemist and surgeon, famed for being the first person to manufacture soda from common salt.
Born in 1742, Leblanc developed an interest in medicine at a young age and enrolled in the Paris College of Surgeons in 1759. In 1780, he became private physician to the household of Louis Philip II, Duke of Orleans.
In 1775, the French Academy of Sciences offered a prize for a process whereby soda ash could be produced from salt. The French Academy wanted to promote the production of much-needed sodium carbonate from inexpensive sodium chloride. By 1791, Nicolas Leblanc had succeeded in producing sodium carbonate from salt by a 2-step process. The prize was awarded to Nicolas Leblanc for a process which used sea salt and sulphuric acid as the raw materials. Later, a plant of his own was in operation producing 320 tons of soda ash per year.
Two years later the plant was confiscated by the French revolutionary government, which refused to pay him the prize money he had earned ten years earlier.
In 1802, Napoleon returned the plant (but not the prize money) to him, but by then Leblanc was so broke he could not afford to run it. He killed himself in 1806.
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Goddamn French.
Another suicidal scientist:
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Percy Williams Bridgman (21 April 1882 – 20 August 1961) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. He also wrote extensively on the scientific method and on other aspects of the philosophy of science.
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Bridgman was a “penetrating analytical thinker” with a “fertile mechanical imagination” and exceptional manual dexterity. He was a skilled plumber and carpenter, known to shun the assistance of professionals in these matters. He was also fond of music and played the piano, and took pride in his flower and vegetable gardens.[5]
Bridgman committed suicide by gunshot after suffering from metastatic cancer for some time. His suicide note read in part, “It isn’t decent for society to make a man do this thing himself. Probably this is the last day I will be able to do it myself.”[8] Bridgman’s words have been quoted by many in the assisted suicide debate.[9][10]
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I thought “suicidal” referred to someone without a rational reason to end their life.
OT – Watching Tucker clips – Whenever he’s confronted with derp he looks just like my dog when I move the leash from the counter to a drawer.
The Judge and Tucker: the only decent people on Fox.
Did I get here too late to ask what everyone is drinking? I’m drinking Bulleit bourbon with a beer back.
Coffee. And reading the newspaper. Fun, aren’t I?
Gin and tonic and lime with lots of ice. It’s still 78F outside at this time of night.
The Moral Politics of Dirty Harry
a lot of interesting comments in this doco.
Just watched that this week. I didn’t realize it was all that controversial at the time. Times do seem to be repeating, though.
Also, would you call Dirty Harry an “ubermensch”?
i have not read much neitzche since college, but i think no
you might say he’s confronting the whole slave/master morality thing. by seeing that the law is meaningless if it fails to serve the interests of the ruled, and takes it upon himself to sometimes act above it. but he’s very internally conflicted about the thing – or at least he wishes he were a more-perfect servant of the law.
the Ubermensch thing was more of an idea about ‘what comes after the realization there is no god’. That mankind would be forced to create its own value system to fill the void of nihilism. i think things like ‘genetic engineering’ are the sorts of things that border on Ubermenschian-ish ideas… not so much in that we’d use genetics to create a super-man/transhuman, but that the very idea of taking our genetic future into our own hands, to stop relying on “nature” or “fate”.. that would be the sort of Ubermenschian gesture. when people brush aside anything that challenges human self-empowerment.
That’s a legitimate point. Guess I’d have to watch the movie again to see what his motivations were. Hated injustice so much that he would break the rules to fight against it. Which is why I thought of the Walrus mustache: Be careful when fighting monsters that you don’t become one.
Some incredible derp here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR3lSSL3yaA
the gist: zero sum economics, slavery was invented in the US, crazy conspiracy theories
$14 trillion is just a drop in the bucket of what blacks are owed in reparations. I like this guy. He thinks big.
I always want to ask people how white-to-black reparations are supposed to work, considering:
– Only a small portion of white people actually owned slaves
– Black people who gained their freedom sometimes became slaveowners themselves
– The majority of white Americans today are descended from waves of immigrants who came here after slavery had ended
– Some black people in America are immigrants or are descended from immigrants who came here after slavery had ended
… Not to mention that the very idea of reparations is questionable when both the aggressors and the victims have been dead for generations.
PS: How would reparations work in the case of half-black half-white people? Do they have to mail themselves a check?
Opening day at Oakland’s Museum of Capitalism
Oakland’s new Museum of Capitalism is charming, enriching, and sure to infuriate conservatives
http://www.salon.com/2017/06/24/opening-day-at-oaklands-museum-of-capitalism/
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As you can probably tell by now, the museum is not a celebration of the planet’s dominant economic system. Plenty of museums already do that, mostly unintentionally — including Chicago’s Museum of Industry, New York’s Museum of American Finance, Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum … actually, pretty much any museum dedicated to technology, war, industry, or art produced under capitalism could be considered a solemnization of our decaying economic order.
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There is no one way to traverse the museum — it is “rhizomatic,” to quote one famous Marxist duo — yet it is shaped roughly like the letter C, meaning there is a rough linear order. If you follow it as I did, you may end your trip in a large room with dozens of television screens and accompanying headphones. Each one features a thinker discussing alternative economic systems. The arrangement of screens feels intentionally overwhelming, and the message overall is one that would make Goldman Sachs uneasy: This system exists not because it is the best idea, but because for now it is the best at reproducing itself. Yet the mere existence of such a museum calls even that assumption into question. It feels like a rupture — the crack where the light gets in.
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[head desk]
the museum is not a celebration of the planet’s dominant economic system. Plenty of museums already do that, mostly unintentionally — including Chicago’s Museum of Industry, New York’s Museum of American Finance, Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum …
Because capitalism actually leads to the creation of things worthy of being put in museums. Because capitalism creates material progress. Capitalism creates new things that enrich our lives. All it sounds like this pathetic little museum can produce is a lot of whinging about how their particular form of systematic human oppression was never tried.
I’m a little baffled by this canard that war is a capitalist thing.
War always results in the government spending more and cracking down on economic freedom, including taking over certain lines of production. Capitalism is liberating and productive; war is degenerative and destructive. They’re total opposites.
A White St. Louis Police Officer Reportedly Shot a Black Colleague Whom He Mistook for a Criminal
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/23/white_st_louis_officer_shot_black_officer_he_mistook_for_criminal_report.html
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An off-duty black St. Louis police officer who joined the pursuit of individuals believed to have stolen a car ended up being shot by one of his white colleagues, reports say.
A St. Louis Post-Dispatch piece describes the Wednesday night incident but does not identify the officers involved by race. A local Fox affiliate’s report says the officer who fired his gun was white and the officer who was hit is black. Neither has been identified by name. The officer who was shot was reportedly treated at a hospital for an arm wound and released Thursday.
Both the Post-Dispatch and Fox say the off-duty officer left his house armed with his service weapon after hearing “commotion” related to the pursuit of the stolen vehicle, which crashed after its occupants reportedly fired shots at police. From the Post-Dispatch:
According to a department summary of the incident released later Thursday, two officers who encountered the armed off-duty officer ordered him to the ground. He complied. When they recognized the off-duty officer, they told him he could stand up and walk toward them.
Another officer just arriving at the scene saw the off-duty officer get up and, not knowing he was an officer, fired his weapon once at the man.
The officer who was shot is said to be an 11-year veteran of the force who is 38 years old; the officer who fired on him is said to be a 36-year-old who has been with the police department for eight years. Fox reports that the white officer told investigators he fired at his colleague because he “feared for his safety.”
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And yet when any non-cop is arrested, the mug shot immediately makes the TV news.
But there’s no double standard, no sirree.
The pigs are, of course, trained to say this as their get out of jail free card.
There is a double standard! Dunphy proved to us all at the old site that cops are held to a higher standard!
Whatever happened to that POS? Did you all run him off?
Wait, WTF times are you faggots’ posts being published ? The fuck? I cannot possibly need to drink more…
Fuck…
Oh, wait, Dunphy? I suspect he’s involved in several public lawsuits around use of force. They’ll be dismissed, but he’ll have to leave the force because of their egregiousness.
This is a tad old, but I can’t think of a better WTF? moment. The woman is pretty cute, and her look is priceless.
Anyway, I need to finish SNP, so I’ll piss off now…
The woman reacting is pretty cute….
Also, SNP will be late. As usual, I blame you. Yes, you, reading this now. It’s your fault, so SFTU and accept the blame. Jerk.
Note: SNP will be late again. I blame everyone who isn’t me.
Also alcohol. Also, fuck you, suck my dick.