STEVE SMITH ONCE AGAIN SUBSTITUTE FOR LINKS. THIS TIME SUBSTITUTE FOR REGULAR STAFF. THEY HAVE GET TOGETHER OF MANY, AND HAVE WAY WITH WINE AND SPIRITS AND FOOD LIKE STEVE SMITH DO WITH HIKERS.
HERE ARE LINKS FOR PEOPLE STEVE SMITH FIND FUNNY, AND WILL RAPE LAST.
- WHAT THIS GET CALLED… TRUMPUKU?
- STEVE SMITH KNOW WHY GERMANS LOST WAR – THEY DROP BOMBS IN WRONG PLACES.
- STEVE SMITH MIGHT CROSS VENEZUELA OFF TRAVEL LIST.
- STEVE SMITH THOUGHT SLOOPY LIVE IN US, NOT LONDON?
STEVE SMITH GO FIND EARLY RISING HIKERS – CAMPFIRE, COFFEE AND RAPE!
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WHAT THIS GET CALLED… TRUMPUKU?
YOU NOT EVEN KNOW HIM. STEVE SMITH KNOW HIM FROM INSIDE.
STEVE SMITH THOUGHT SLOOPY LIVE IN US, NOT LONDON?
Sloopy doesn’t live in me, thank you very much.
Careful… STEVE SMITH said he would rape us last because we were funny.
Is that a narrowed gaze or the vinegar shot?
Thanks for links, Steve Swi…Smith.
*….meow?*
Um,….haven’t logged on here in a few days and noticed the change to your avatar.
Context?
It’s Hillary with straffinrun right after his trans surgery. I’m just guessing.
*kabuki applause*
Noh.
It looks like Natalie Portman is very happy to be taking a picture with Popular Vote President. Or it’s very cold in that room.
You forgot ‘beloved popular vote president’
He was too busy looking at Portman poking through her shirt to get the whole title down.
“He was too busy looking at Portman poking through her shirt to get the whole titty down.”
I figured someone would make a titty joke from the word title.
Great caption.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/96/bd/f2/96bdf24141b036566157cbee2d52a263–funniest-photos-humor-humour.jpg
THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH.
STEVE SMITH MIGHT CROSS VENEZUELA OFF TRAVEL LIST.
They’re just angered by the things Trump is doing in America..
Or that the air force did a flyover at Trump’s inauguration?
STEVE SMITH MIGHT CROSS VENEZUELA OFF TRAVEL LIST.
Venezuelans breath collective sigh of rapelief
‘collective’
I see what you did there…
From the “benefits for connected people” department:
Apparently, David Spice’s kid Brooklyn got a book deal from Random House for a book of shitty photographs. Armchair critics do their thing, and snowflakes don’t get that they’re criticizing the fact that Brooklyn only got the book because of who he is.
Who?
David Spice? That one confused me for a minute.
Oh, I get it now.
Ok, which one of you started the elephant pun thread on there?
Why do all English twitter users feel the need to add “tea enthusiast” to their twitter profile? We get it: you’re a real British person.
The Tigers are horrible. That is all.
Shush you heathen!
/bows head in shame..
I’d like to thank Steve Smith for not killing my dog. She didn’t mean to chase after you, she just doesn’t like big hairy critters and likes to chase them up trees. I know you could have raped/killed her but your kind misunderstood heart wouldn’t let you do it. Come back later and I’ll have my sister in law in the backyard as an offering
Maduro praised Venezuela’s military for standing by the government and he warned that attempts are underway to try to sow further dissent.
CIA is back at it. Whack a mole, Maduro.
Wistaston pervert, 49, locked up after importing sex doll – that looked like a child
Thank Yahweh I live in the US of A.
“The user of this doll would be, in effect, able to simulate sex with a child. It is disgusting that this type of item exists anywhere on the internet.”
Please don’t tell this judge about SugarFree.
Wait a second, not to white knight for SugarFree, but aren’t you the one with the van?
I was thinking more of the second sentence.
Nobody has any sympathy for the pedophiles, it’s sad. Not for the ones that, you know, actually rape children. The hell with them. But the ones who can’t pop a boner without the thought of a kid but would never act on it. I imagine that’s got to really suck. Unless this guy made his dolls out of children’s skin, let the pedos have their fake dolls and artificial pictures.
If there is one thing that the average human being wants govt to do – it is regulate other people’s sexual behavior. God forbid that some person do something that offends my morality and in absolutely no other way impacts me in the slightest.
He says as he zips his Furry bunny costume and buckles his strap-on
I thought I had you blindfolded.
I’d take it a step further and say that people want the govt to regulate human pleasure. See: drug laws.
You’re correct. Pedos are disgusting, sorry OMWC. However, if a sick bastard can get his jollies off with a kid doll instead of a real kid, more power to him. The law should not be involved in this.
That doll does not look like a child to me. But then I’m not a cop.
Are you the only other person who noticed that? Not even a little.
If they had to blur the area where the boobs go, then it’s not a child. Because children don’t have boobs.
I guess the nannybots determined it must be a ‘child’ who is only 17 and a half. Dumb cunts. Either that guy doesn’t have an attorney or it really is potentially illegal to do anything in the UK.
I’m guessing option #2
That’s what I saw, too. I guess it’s illegal to have sex with short people because they might be too child-like, especially if the woman isn’t well endowed. Children don’t have curved hips like that doll.
TBF, though, he should definitely he prosecuted for any pics or vids of real children.
Unendowed, short women should be rounded up for their own protection before the pedos get them. If the guards at the camp rape them, well, eggs, omelettes.
If only they were so diligent in protecting the girls of Rotherham. So brave and righteous they are.
Maybe if he had converted to Islam before buying that, he would have been OK?
Absolutely he would have been fine, because that was part of that culture..
Now he is punished for cultural appropriation as well.
Plastic and latex molded into a certain shape is an existential threat.
That’s what they told me about the splortch.
100-year-old crime boss beats the odds, is released from prison
That guy’s 100 years old? Impressive.
Um, yea, I don’t think this one guy is “largely” or even significantly responsible for glamorizing the mafia. Italian-American organized crime has been the subject of movies and literature pretty much as long as it has existed.
I blame The Godfather. Without that movie, there would be no organized crime.
Godfather 3 nixed out Godfather.
So I hear, anyway. I haven’t seen any of them.
On a serious note, The prohibition of gambling, drugs, certain firearms, alcohol, prostitution, private loans, etc are the only reason we have such an organized crime problem.
I think corrupt labor unions also help.
AKA: Better Organized Crime.
I thought it was because of DC swamp critters that we still have a mafia, and bigger than ever.
They are certainly not helping.
You also forgot “the Jews”.
If he behaved himself? 93 to 100, what was he going to start a riot? Shiv a guard? Picked the biggest guy in there and start a fight?
Good Trump: No Celebratory Ramadan Dinner in WH
The constitution says separation of church and state, not mosque and state. Will this Islamaphobia never end?
“During this holiday, we are reminded of the importance of mercy, compassion, and goodwill. With Muslims around the world, the United States renews our commitment to honor these values.”
mercy, compassion, goodwill, and submission at the point of a sword.
“No one expects the Muslim Jihad! Our chief weapon is mercy. Compassion and mercy. Mercy and compassion. Our two weapons are mercy and compassion. And goodwill. Our three weapon are mercy compassion and goodwill. And submission. Our four weapons are.. Among our weapons are… Fuck this. ALLAHU AKBAR!”
/skit ends in spraying blood
+1 comfy chair.
And sweet, sweet loving. Don’t forget sweet, sweet loving, A.K.A. Child-Rape.
“…breaking nearly two decades of tradition…”
No. One and one half presidents does not a tradition make.
Presidents should celebrate their own religious traditions privately with their families.
Are these letters made up by 13 year old boys?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/living/3852847/im-having-an-affair-with-my-mum-in-law-and-the-sex-is-so-amazing-i-cant-stop/
A family that bangs together stays together?
“Cutting back Medicaid coverage would save taxpayers some cash, but only by taking it from others.”
3 guesses what site this gem came from.
1) NYT
2) Salon
3) Your aunt on Facebook
1. DailyKos
2. Mother Jones
3. Slate
1. NYT
2. WaPo
3. TSTSNBN
Hyp wins with number 3. SC of course.
http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/25/illusory-savings-from-cutting-medicaid#comment
Shouldn’t Chapman write for something named ‘Daily Marxist’ or something more in line with that?
To be fair, are his articles specifically written for Reason? I know he gets published at Townhall (where I’m sure his nonsense goes over about as well as it does with us) too.
Looks like that one is. It’s tagged as Reason Staff and they don’t credit any other sources.
Just checked Townhall, the same article is over there too.
Is CREATORS.COM the Human Fund of op-ed publishers?
I am wondering how long before they change from orange to red.
They’re getting oranger by the minute.
They need to mix the orange with some white and green.
That’s just too far.
I’ll go one further than Shackford: all this talk about restructuring Medicaid is BS. There is no chance that these measures remain in effect given the timeline laid out by the Senate bill. It’s dubious that we’ll see the exchange subsidies pared back to the extent its drafters want to pretend will happen, but impossible that any significant restructuring of Medicaid will occur. They’ve given themselves a 2025 deadline. That tells you everything you need to know about how seriously they’re taking this promise. And at this point, Medicaid may be the only workable component of the health insurance racket, if only because it approximates the Canadian model: you may see a doctor, someday, and the doctor will get paid something, and what price doesn’t ration, wait times will. The exchanges don’t have that out: payers expect service, the model is still susceptible to gaming, the penaltax is still too weak to be compulsive, premiums will continue to increase, the death spiral is still ongoing.
So, what are they protesting? Have they learned something or are they protesting for more of other people’s money after it’s all gone?
What do want?
NEW TOP MEN!!
When do we want them?
NOW!
They’re protesting the failure of State Capitalism.
Oh, yes, that’s right. If only they would have tried REAL socialism, it would have worked.
And they would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those darn wreckers and hoarders!
Don’t forget the kulaks.
Thankfully, we still have the 2nd amendment whereas the Chinese peasants did not.
https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/06/24/a-cultural-revolution-in-slow-motion/
Politics over the last 5 years has convinced me that the 2nd A is the primary reason we are different from every other country in the world. It really is the keystone.
I like to think that my government is at least a little bit scared of me.
Not sure if scared of the word. More like: recognize that killing you too get their way is bad press.
Back in the late ’70s California did a poll. The poll said that if they tried seizing all of the firearms in the state they would lose over half of their national guard.
I imagine that number would be signifigantly lower now.
Actually, I’d bet against that.
Why do you think they’re militarizing the police, however?
You might be right, but I doubt Californians would have the will to fight. Now we civilized southerners, that’s a different story.
Depends on where most the guardsmen are from.
I would agree
Prog criticizes Brit Prim Minister, is called daring and brave.
Not a fan of May by any means, but isn’t ripping into her over there pretty much the equivalent of all the Trump bitching?
May is a sinister old hag at best, one of the worst politicians ever. But I’m guessing the prog is criticizing her for exactly the opposite reason, she’s not statist authoritarian enough.
Yes, in essence, she’s too mean and doesn’t want to use government power to help people.
Like I said, she’s awful, but given that a bunch of the Brits seem to dislike her, I don’t think you’re brave for ripping into her, but, typical progspeak, just like over here with Meryl Streep I guess.
Glastonbury is turning out to be the event that gives and gives.
First!
Well, 16th is almost first. You win a participation trophy.
Very woke of you sir..
So are you trying to be this site’s Fist of Etiquette, except fail at being first?
I keep making the same point.
1) Just because I say I’m first doesn’t mean I’m first.
2) When I’m first, I say I’m second, but that doesn’t really mean I’m second either.
I’m either first or not first regardless of what I claim.
When you are not first you are last…
/Ricky Bobby’s dad
I have a girlfriend.
In her mind, underneath all the brains, which she’s got in spades, there are a couple of profound . . . cognitive biases.
1) Saying things makes them real.
2) Things that aren’t said aren’t real.
Whether I said I’d go to her parents’ house for Thanksgiving is immaterial. If she asserts that’s what I said and her assertion goes unchallenged, it becomes a fact in her mind.
He didn’t complain when I said he promised, so now he’s made that promise–even if he never said it in the first place.
In addition, if I don’t complain about something she did, then, in her mind, she didn’t do it.
Reeducation camps in North Korea aren’t so mind bending. Remember that scene in Orwell’s 1984? How many fingers do you see?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Ybkd_beUU
In reality, I’m first even if I say I’m second. I’m 35th even if I say I’m first. And if I’m first, I’m first even if never say anything at all.
The other day Ken I was chatting with my ex-brother in law while hiking, and the subject of women constantly coming back to the same discussion came up. My ex-bil was telling me that his wife constantly kept coming back to the same topic, a topic they had discussed over two score times, and which he though they had finally agreed to disagree on. I was quiet and listened to his concerns and frustration. He finally asked me if I understood that. I pointed out his wife’s sister and I went our separate ways, because I had realized that the reason we kept going back and arguing specifically about the same topics – the ones I wouldn’t agree with her on – was that she was not looking for a discussion and understanding, but for me to agree with her regardless of if she was right, I was OK with what she wanted me to agree with her on, or both.
In my experience, too many women don’t usually want a discussion of a topic, especially when it keeps coming up over and over, because what they want is for you to agree with them and look at it the way they want you to look at it.
“We’ll discuss it until you agree with me, then it’s settled.”
Who else does that remind you of?
The Palestinians?
I’ll go out on a limb and guess these sisters voted for Hillary, or do they feel the Bern. Also, at least half of them are public school administrators. The other half, teachers.
Every woman ever?
I sometimes find myself saying things like . . .
I’m not going to your parents’ house for Thanksgiving. And after I get done not going to your parents’ house, I immediately need to get to work on not going to your parents’ house. But before I do any of that, I need to get ready by not go to your parents’ house–since I’m not going to your parents’ house.
Sometimes I think it has to do with them wanting to feel precious–that you don’t care about anything more than them.
As a guy who was brought up in the Victorian south, practically, I was raised to treat women like they might be the mother of my children. And where I grew up? My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents all met at the same boarding school I attended. The chances of your girlfriend one day being the mother of your children were pretty high.
If and when you get to the point where the woman you’re talking about isn’t ever going to be the mother of your children, there’s really no reason to make them feel like you care more about them than anything else.
Some women don’t like hockey, football, motorcycles, dogs, or surfing because they don’t like the idea of you getting excited about anything more than them.
I used to feel like I was mistreating a woman if I kept seeing her after I became convinced that she would be a bad mother. The fact is, though, that as soon as you stop treating them like you would treat the mother of your children, it’s probably all over but the shouting anyway.
Do I care about you more than my career? Do you have any idea how hard I’ve worked to get to where I am? Do you have any idea good I am at what I do? If I lost my career, would you stand beside me anyway?
There are things I’d care about more than anything else–my kids and the mother of my kids. Even telling me she loves me–whatever that means? It means something different if you’re talking about a women who might be the mother of your children. It’s important that the mother of your children loves and respects you–because if she doesn’t, she won’t teach her children to love and respect you.
It’s like women’s instincts (and our own) are driven by biological imperatives and social evolution. We get past the point where child production and rearing are the issue because of age or inclination or whatever, but we’re still playing the same instinctive game. Old men without women in the their lives are a sorry lot, but if the whole relationship is really about making you feel like you’re more important to me than my friends, family, career, recreational enthusiasms, my integrity, etc.? Then she’s gotta either grow up and out of that or evolve as a person.
I’m convinced this one girl wanted me to get rid of my dog–just to make herself feel like she was more important to me than my dog.
When I was breaking up with her, there was a conversation where she said something like, “Well, I thought you said I was the most important thing to you?”
I replied something to the effect of, “That was before I knew you were the kind of person who would try to make me get rid of my dog just to make yourself feel important”.
That’s a deal breaker.
But what if they’re all like that?
What if the instincts that drive the m to seek a mate who will make huge sacrifices to provide for and protect her and her children–even when children are out of the question?
I’m talking about instinctively–all the way down in the DNA.
What if all women want to make you get rid of your dog just to make themselves feel important?
Oh…Lachowsky: Had to get off of my feet is why I am here. Just cut up and ground 20 lbs of pork. Picked it up yesterday on sale for .49c / lb.
Half will be breakfast sausage, half hot Italian.
Oh, so you’re the guy who’s sleeping with his Italian wife’s mother from Q’s link above?
Shhhhhh. My wife is walking around here.
That’s a good price. I cooked some of my hot sausage for breakfast this morning. Had it with eggs and biscuits. A little bit of garden salsa with the eggs.
Yesterday I had my first picking of corn. We took the top ears off of each stalk. We ended up putting 215 ears of corn in the freezer last night. I left a half dozen unshucked ears on my kitchen table. This afternoon, I’m going to grill the corn in the husk and T bones. Add beer and it should be great.
Yum. It has been a long time since I had corn fresh off of the stalk.
The bones just got tossed into a pot of Lima beans. The smell is killing me.
I have never tried that woth Lina beans. I have always used pinto. I may have to try that.
If you have corn and lima beans at the same time. That’s creation telling you to make succotash.
Yummy.
For some reason that just reminded me that I have a bunch of bacon grease in the fridge and I need to make some gravy. Wife cooked some store bought hot Italian sausage yesterday and put it in some sauce she made with white onions, not sure what it was, but tangy and OMG, delicious.
I’ve got hot Italian sausages thawing. Will cook with bell peppers and onions. Served with roasted potatoes and cabbage slaw.
The wife and I are about to head out for lunch (a new ramen place). Then we’ll make our way back home visiting some brewery tasting rooms. Starting at Three Weavers in Inglewood. Then El Segundo Brewing Company, and Strand Brewery in Torrance. I’ll pick up a nice beer to braise the sausage and peppers in. It’s gonna br a great day.
Sounds like a good time. We’ve been lazy today, staying at home, wife cooked a pork tenderloin. Beer.
Dumbest Reason article ever.
http://reason.com/archives/2017/06/25/illusory-savings-from-cutting-medicaid#commentcontainer
Dumber than Shikha saying that deporting illegal aliens is like enforcing the Fugitive Slave Act.
Dumber than anything I’ve ever read over there.
Has nice stats like this:
“Under the House plan, the federal savings would amount to $880 billion over a decade.”
“The House changes, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, would reduce the number of people on Medicaid by 14 million by 2026”
All this is cited as defense of Medicaid.
The article is a defense of Medicaid and goes against the AHCA because the AHCA cuts Medicaid.
I’m paraphrasing, but the gist of the article is encapsulated in a statement that’s basically saying, “Just as there’s no such thing as a free lunch, you won’t get more from less government”.
Steve Chapman is a blithering idiot.
Chapman is a straight-up Dem shill. He gets his talking points directly from the DNC.
Has to keep his creds so he gets invited to the cocktail parties..
Here’s the actual quote:
He should be working for the Bernie Sanders campaign.
So, Chapman believes more spending = better? Christ, what a tool.
You can’t wring blood from a stone that killed two birds in a bush of a light as a feather down comforter.
Well, he is the one who was boasting of his intentions to vote for Hillary.
Ja – I don’t understand the “I hate Trump so I’m going to vote for this complete statist-shitbag called Hillary.” I just didn’t vote this year and felt good about my decision.
Of course my lefty-best-friend got a bit pissy with me, especially given the close vote tally here in Michigan.
With Chapman it’s a case of him actually supporting and carrying water for her, and others drank the ‘OMG TRUMP IS LITERALLY HITLER AND WILL START WORLD WAR 3, WE MUST STOP HIM’ kool-aid. Which makes your vote for Clinton at least pragmatic, but completely hysterical.
I agree.
He doesn’t want to cut Medicaid because you can’t get more from government that way.
That’s not about Trump.
That’s about how he should be writing for Salon.
Chapman used to breathlessly write about how Trump would start conflicts all over the world, and then immediately turn around and handwave any fears of Clinton doing the exact same thing. Despite, you know, her saying she’d do exactly that.
He’s a transparent, lying Democrat hack and there is absolutely zero reasons for him to be published at a ‘libertarian’ venue.
HRC would have been the biggest hawk since LBJ, maybe worse.
Penn Gillette says “Hi!”
And PJ O’Rourke. Sad!
PJ never claimed to be a libertarian, though.
HEy-hO, Glibs! May a Sunday of beauty and calm weather cross your sainted hearts.
Completely OT: I test drove a low mileage 2004 Lexus GX470 (sport utility thing) – and got car sick. Taking the 4Runner and making the suspension super soft (luxury!) made it feel like a boat on choppy seas. Decided to pass on buying that even though it was a very solidly built and good running vehicle. It was too much like my dad’s ol’ 1977 Cadillac on the barf-o-meter.
Now that you say that I saw one advertised on TV and in the shots where they show it navigating over rough terrain it jumped out at me immediately that the damned thing was moving like a boat on choppy water. I mean the thing was really squishy, springy and bouncing like hell.
Lot of side-to-side motion – as the springs sloppily reacted to the bumps on the road. Might work on a smooth-as-glass road but here in Michigan – I decided to pass. Of course I drive some punishing vehicles.
“Might work on a smooth-as-glass road”
So, chock full of Sport and Utility.
I recently bought a Jeep wrangler 4 door for my wife. She loves it, (had been wanting one for a long time) It drives just fine on the gravel roads, but when up to speed on pavement I hate the way it handles. It walks all over the road. She doesn’t mind, but I don’t like the idea of having to fight to keep a vehicle on the road. To each their own.
My understanding is that they changed the suspension on the Jeeps. Mine is a 2007 and has the stiff off-road suspension. It isnt a highway cruiser, thats for sure, but I dont mind it. I spend enough time on logging roads that it is worth putting up with. The wife hates it.
They recently (last year?) changed the suspension to be more like a on-road vehicle. It has a smoother ride.
What year is your wife’s jeep?
2014. It’s a Sahara model with quite a bit of the off road suspension suspension. I also has a 1 inch lift and 33in tires. The lift and tires certainly don’t help. It’s a nice vehicle and I like it, I just wouldn’t want to use it to commute everyday. It’s a lot of fun on the gravel and up in the mountains.
Yeah my ol’ departed Toyota T100 has a very tight/stiff suspension. It still drove well at highway speeds. Of course it was geared (and underpowered) so it didn’t like to go more than 75mph. But it was an offroad beast.
I learned to drive on my dad’s 83 model toyota 4×4. It was a lot like that. It topped out at about 65 on the highway, but would drive through damn near anything off road. My dad bought that truck new and drove it until 2005. it had around 350k on the odometer when he finally got rid of it. One day I plan to buy one and restore it. I love old yotas.
this one is my 74 fj40.
Very nice
Haha. I remember when I was a kid and me and my cousins would ride along to the Kmart in my aunts 20 ft. long Buick Electra. That thing would be like going 60 miles an hour on a barge. It rocked back and forth and typically my aunt would have to stop the car for one of us to get out and puke our guts out. Good times.
It’s a lazy Sunday here. Just started the mash on an Imperial Stout that I’ll be sitting on until Winter to tap. 22 pounds of grain for a 5 gallon batch, which pushes the limits of my mash tun.
Steve Smith: Our Legend…
So will Glibs merchandise include Steve Smith condoms?
STEVE SMITH NOT RIBBED FOR ANYONE’S PLEASURE.
STEVE SMITH CONDOM HAVE HAIR ON INSIDE!
Trump: Hillary Clinton colluded with Democrats to defeat Bernie Sanders
Story on now about CNN bitching about the way Trump is treating them. They were printing stories written by the Clinton campaign. they are also having to retract stories nearly on a daily basis.
Cry me a fucking river.
The problem to them isn’t that they are dnc operatives with bylines, but that you keep challenging them when they pretend otherwise, and won’t just let them tell the stories they want to tell, facts be damned.
“His latest tweet comes amid probes into Martian meddling in the presidential election and possible collusion between Trump’s campaign and Olympus Mons”
Isn’t journalism fun?
I sometimes envision Donald Trump as a man sitting in an easy-chair with a laser-pointer
and the media is a small, yapping terrier running around the room, chasing after the dot of light, repeatedly smashing into walls, and thinking, “This red dot is going to tire sooner or later”
Meh, I don’t chalk it up to genius, and that he’s just not like a regular politician.
There is a yuge, yuge, yuge gulf between “genius” and “smart enough to fuck with the media.”
Trump’s Twitter account is IMO the next iteration of Presidential communication. It’s why the media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) were so incredibly desperate during the transition that he needed to only use the official POTUS account and that it wasn’t Presidential to just keep tweeting.
That twitter account is worth at least 500 million dollars in campaign spending.
i think its interesting that Obama was always hailed as the savvy “new media” president…. yet can you remember a single tweet he every made that wasn’t so dull and obviously written-by-committee that it was effectively meaningless ad-copy that wasn’t really saying anything at all?
sort of like the way Chelsea tweets. its always pandering to conclusions that the lefty-media had already drawn. always just reiterating consensus. never saying anything that hasn’t already been said somewhere else, such that you can’t really point the finger at those statements and find anything substantial that needed defending.
Trump does the opposite. he tweets like a fucking teenage SWJ. He says shit that doesn’t even make sense, and just asserts shit that sometimes isn’t even true. And he constantly adds his own personal judgements (Sad!). Its an entirely different mode. Its totally non-presidential/non-political. if its at all calculated, its calculated to appear spontaneous and half-thought out.
(I have wavered in my opinion of how much his tweets were actually written for him, versus how much he actually just blatted out himself sans any editorial/PR advice; lately i assume the latter)
by being rash, opinionated, feisty, even when he’s utterly wrong or factually incorrect… i think part of what he does is endlessly remind his audience that “I’m not one of THEM” – ‘them’ being the politicians, the media, the bullshit artists. Its “adversarial posturing” that suggests to people that he never expects the media to ever treat him fairly. so he just cuts them out of the communications loop entirely.
I wouldn’t have expected “a man wiggling a laser pointer” to be taken as a characterization of genius.
its just a way of understanding the back-forth between Trump’s twitter account and the media’s breathless hysteria
I understand that. My point was more in line with,’”he’s different.”
In no way so I think he’s a genius or a blathering idiot. I don’t think he’s calculating every word he tweets, but I also don’t think he doesn’t know what he’s doing. I think he’s just good at what he does and so different that the media SOP can’t handle it. Honestly I’m surprised they haven’t shifted to counter it.
I think they’ve tried. i think they’re terrible at it. The best they can do is “potty talk”
Any cynical artists out there? One of our local libraries is getting a makeover for $21M.
By law any library project over $1M has to dedicate at least 1% of the total cost to buying public art for the library. So if any of you have a bunch of scrap metal laying around and the guts to try to pass it off as art, there is $200K easy money.
I go to the library in question and it is fine. The upgrade is a fine example of them spending money just to be spending money.
Nothing left to cut my ass.
What’s a library?
A place to shoot dope, apparently.
Is that Natalie Portman?
Yes. Is that a potato?
Po-tah-toe.
Batata
I don’t know why but that made me truly lol
A glorified internet cafe.
I’m surprised they didn’t go for a communal hot tub…
All other people’s jizz over you, all the time?
You know you’re clean when you smell like bleach?
And are covered in splooge?
Somehow I don’t think they’d permit a mikvah.
It reminds me of something my friend told me: he used to do IT work for a public school system, and he said that very often, these school boards will ask for a new building because they’re unhappy with their current one. More often than not, these buildings are perfectly fine; they’re just a few decades old, but the school officials want a shiny new building like that other town over there. If they don’t get their new building, they’ll just stop doing any kind of maintenance on it, then it becomes so dilapidated that they have to get them a new building.
And of course, a significant portion of the public support this kind of profligacy. I overheard a woman in a coffee shop saying (in the most neurotic, rod-up-her-butt tone of voice possible), “some of these kids are going to school in the same building their parents did… There is something fundamentally wrong with that!!”
Some people go to school in the same building John Adams did.
That’s worse than the Holocaust.
With these people, everything they need you to shut up about is worse than the Holocaust,
I graduated in my school’s 75th anniversary, in the same building (although there had been some outbuildings added over the years). The main building is still there, although it’s finally getting some renovations. It was a dump while I was a student. They had an event for the school’s centenary a few years back and I walked through the halls of the basement, which was awful.
And it was sad to see how many classroom doors announced themselves as safe spaces.
I went to a high school that had a building constructed in 1897.
Mine is from 1905, although it has a different name now.
The struggle is real.
My school was from the 70s and they started tearing it down while replacing it and they haven’t stopped since. I graduated 8 years ago. They have gone full Winchester house with stairways that lead to nowhere other than another possible addition. They have 9th grade in a separate building. It all started when they rejected the proposal to build a 2nd high school so they could continue to dominate at sports.
Fortunately, Iowa just repealed our 0.5% law. Unfortunately, Ames had a $17 M library makeover (not a single volume added, I might add) prior to the law’s repeal.
The newish federal courthouse (ugly as sin) has an “art” installation on the roof. The highway projects have whimsical nonsense on the shoulders and corners to spend down those 1% for flat out waste rules.
“Librarians in Philadelphia, Denver and San Francisco are all being trained to give Naxolone to addicts
It is to combat a surge in drug addicts who flock to their bathrooms to inject
In Philadelphia, one library was forced to close when their pipes became blocked with needles”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4637310/Librarians-trained-treat-opioid-overdoses.html
But where are my hot librarian pics?
It’s a lie – there are no hot
libertarianslibrarians.No?
http://www.1stslice.com/hot-sexy-librarians-photos-pictures-gallery/
I’ll be renewing my card.
Don’t do it. That list includes Mila Kunis and Meghan Fox. It’s not real. #FakeLibrarians
Meghan Fox is fake. Mila Kunis is all original, as far as I know.
.. except for huge amounts of cosmetics. There are plenty of un-retouched photographs of old ‘Mila out there looking like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle.
She’s my go-to example of the power of good makeup technology. Her and Cameron Diaz.
I want the blue pill! Gimme the blue pill!
You think every woman looks like a bulldog licking piss off a nettle!
I use all kinds of similes, but that one I find particularly evocative. And in Mila’s case, really
apt.
What’s a librarian?
Somebody born under the sign of Libra?
Oh, oh. Looks like the injuns* are looking to take another scalp at the Walker Art Center.
The Walker has a show by some pretentious dude who claims to be a Cherokee coming up. The Natives though are saying they can’t find any proof that he really is a native and are demanding the show be stopped. No mention on how Liz Warren feels about this controversy.
*Did Injun ever make it over from TSTSNBN?
I’m thinking that he’s posted here a few times.
Prompted by the positive reviews some of you gave, I watched “The Red Pill.” It was pretty phenomenal, even in spite of the fact that I’d heard all of the rhetoric and factoids already. The segment with Erin Pizzey about domestic violence, the segment about custody battles/injustices, and especially that of Boko Haram / the #BringBackOurGirls movement. Karen Straughan is brilliant.
Director Cassie Jaye came off remarkably well. She’s an every(wo)man. It’s hard to think how anyone—upon actually having given the movie a chance—could dislike her. If she continues to choose thorny but important subject matter and approach it in an honest, open and affecting way, I see a great legacy for her.
…Were very powerful… is what I meant to write.
Thanks, butt-head. I am going to carve out some time to watch it. Do you think my 17 year old son would get anything out of it?
It’s definitely worth showing to him. He might even know something about it already?
I watched a few weeks ago and my 17-y/o son watched last week. His take: “good statistics and information to refute SJW’s”
SJW’s have no interest in statistics and information.
Sure they do! 1 in 4 women are raped on campus, a child dies from gun violence every 10 seconds, 1 percent of people control 90 percent of wealth, etc.
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Trump has upgraded that to 5 in 4.
Don’t forget 97% of scientists and climate change.
He sounds like a nerd!
So, another Glib in the making. Perfect!
Which is exactly why you see her being vilified
http://www.skynews.com.au/news/national/2017/06/13/red-pill-director-says-aust-media–hostile.html
its the same everyone acts like Milo Y is satan incarnate. Its not because he actually says anything any more ‘vile’ or outlandish than anyone else (especially not the left) – but that its that he’s actually very charming and compelling, and very-obviously smarter than the people who tend to confront him.
the ones they go after the hardest are the ones who actually sound reasonable and intelligent and appealing to non-partisans.
its that old horseshoe effect thing again = zealots on the left see zealots on the right almost like their natural partners. they basically conduct themselves the same way and each appeal to their respective hard-partisan followers. but the most dangerous people are the ones who actually speak to the middle.
This exchange on that Sunrise program was hilarious.
LOL. Good lord.
My gut is that a zealot see those speaking to the middle as more milquetoast and obnoxiously banal than anything, but I guess they really do see things in terms of stark good vs evil, and so any compromise with evil is, well, evil. “Choose a side!”
Milo is a gay man who won’t stay on the lefty plantation. That’s his real sin.
i think its more than that
there are plenty of gay republicans/conservatives. but they *act* like the stereotypes of republicans/conservatives that lefties like to mock: uptight, white guys that look like they’re repressed.
milo is actually, for lack of a better word, *faggy* and unapologetically so. it scares them because it changes the social-dynamic that they’ve always been used to = where the lefties are the ‘cool’, ‘hip’, ‘socially dynamic’, culturally-urbane ones…. and the righties are the uptight suburban white-guys who are always behind the times with popular culture. He inverted that. And he even explicitly said so at one point = that the left is no longer “Counter-cultural” – they’re the establishment. And that, on college campuses at least, being ‘right wing’ is actually the most counter cultural posture you could possibly take. and he was right.
i think its far more about that than merely ‘being gay’. its the way he appeals to younger, hip, moderate people. they see him, and then they look at the Trigglypuffs of the world, and they think, “I don’t know if i *agree* with that guy 100%, but jesus, if i have to pick a team, i’m picking the one with guys like him”.
It’s now free with Amazon Prime. I too just watched it, and the same parts stood out to me as well.
It’s depressing how some of these people think that if you’re for the rights of one group, you must be against the rights of another. These ideas are not mutually exclusive.
Listening to Dinosaur Jr
Great band. Even the more recent stuff holds up.
Yep. One of the few bands I can say that about.
I have seen them play a few time in recent years. They have not disappointed. I have always had some misadventures on the way to their concerts for some reason.
They toured with Primus two summers ago and saw them play at some Peir in Manhattan. It was a good outdoor venue. Dinosaur Jr still has chops.
I saw Marcy Playground last night. They really have a good live show. Their drummer was amazing. He had a small bar sized kit but didn’t seem to need more.
Perfect music for misadventures, I would say.
Never seen them. Hopefully, I’ll be in town when they are here in October.
I saw them play a long time ago. But I don’t remember it well enough to comment.
“The computer, known as the Sunway TaihuLight, contains some 41,000 chips and can carry out 93 quadrillion calculations per second.”
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170621-meet-the-worlds-most-powerful-computer
That’s some cipherin’
The President of the SPLC deemed ‘white supremacist’ internet meme.
That entire photo montage is the ultimate refutation of white supremacy.
I thought that’s what Thicc Thursdays were for.
What photo montage? I’m not seeing anything about the SPLC, either.
The SPLC deemed the whole ‘Kekistan’ thing to be a secret white supremacist organization a couple weeks ago.
Eventually, the SPLC will deem every organization — that isn’t the SPLC — a secret white supremacist organization.
The parade of autism begins at 0:39 seconds in.
Oh, OK.
Good timing. Maajid was on Maher. Bill’s commentary is worthless and Maajid claims he came up with the term “regressive” left, but overall it was pretty good.
Just saw a commercial, some addiction business. Anyway their slogan, which they repeated a half dozen times, was “make America sober again”. When the hell was America ever sober?
In their drunken fantasies?
Prohibition?
I have three ancestors that were killed in moonshine wars. My grandfather’s first cousin was still making moonshine until the day he died…five years or so ago.
Pretty sure the first settlers arrived here ‘not sober’ since everyone traveling on a ship those days were drinking beer and/or wine. America has never been sober.
Insobriety is our strength.
Agreed.
“MASA”???
RAYCISS!!
“Portland, Oregon Police Chief Michael Marshman revealed on Friday that riot cops forced Antifa protesters out of local parks during a Jun. 4 protest after the anti-facist group began launching balloons filled with feces, urine and chemicals at law enforcement.
Reporters from Willamette Week also noted that they witnessed rioters were throwing “red-stained” tampons at law enforcement officials during the “peaceful” protest.”
http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/06/24/antifa-thugs-protesting-hits-new-horrible-level-read-police-chiefs-account-of-feces-mayhem/
And the ACLU is defending the antfags.
Same organization that let protester run rampant and shut down freeways day after day after the last election.
The antifa people seem to be very cold and calculating in what kind of force they will use. Blasting airhorns in peoples’ ears and throwing water balloons of feces? Those seem like things that are obviously very harmful, but might not meet the legal standard for justification of retaliatory force. Of course, in a moral sense, you should be able to deck someone in the face if they are damaging your hearing or exposing you to dangerous bacteria (and probably STDs as well). I just think they’re deliberately trying to get themselves attacked so that they can gang up and beat someone down, then go whimpering to the police that they were just defending themselves.
If Trump and his minions were “fascists” as they claim, these assholes would have been gunned down already.
These idiots don’t see – probably on purpose – that their tactics have far more in common with fascism (a collectivist offshoot that contends with communism for supremacy, but leftist in nature nevertheless) than whatever they have accused Trump of.
Oh, they see it. The behavior and the rhetoric are deliberate and calculated.
“And the ACLU is defending the antfags.”
Well at least they are returning to their original mission.
Death by cop is as good a way as any for them to go extinct.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/25/pakistan-oil-tanker-explodes-killing-153.html
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At least 153 people were killed Sunday when an oil tanker exploded in Pakistan, according to reports.
The tanker overturned after the driver lost control on a sharp bend on a road from Karachi to Lahore after the vehicle blew a tie. Drivers rushed to the site to collect the leaking fuel, which exploded after someone apparently lit a cigarette, Reuters reported, citing officials.
“People of the area and passersby had started gathering fuel when it exploded, burning everybody,” provincial government spokesman Malik Muhammad Ahmed Khan told Reuters.
***
Sadly, not the first time this sort of thing has happened.
You look a lot cooler cleaning op oil/fuel spills with a cigarette in your mouth, yo!
At first I thought this was a change of MO for you (usually you link to derp). But then I got to this part:
“Drivers rushed to the site to collect the leaking fuel, which exploded after someone apparently lit a cigarette”
I guess even if you are ridiculously good looking, you can still die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
That shit happens on a pretty regular basis in Africa. Locals drill holes in pipelines then collect and sell the gasoline in empty glass jars. A couple of hundred people gather around waiting their turn to dip out of the gasoline pond that forms and suddenly someone gets a nicotine craving.
Oh, and about five years ago some local meth-heads decided to steal ammonia from a high pressure ammonia pipeline. They decided that the best way to tap the line was to shoot a hole in it with a .308. In addition to themselves they managed to kill over 100 acres of timber.
It reminds me of Nigerian pipeline “accidents”, where poor people try tapping the pipes + collecting fuel, only to have them predictably blow up and kill lots of people.
e.g.
the typical story=
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/12/oil.business
they’re so common that unless 100+ people are killed, they hardly make the international papers.
Chicago Gay Pride Parade Bans ‘Jewish Pride’ Flag Over ‘Safety Concerns’
https://heatst.com/politics/chicago-gay-pride-parade-bans-jewish-pride-flag-over-safety-concerns/
***
Members of a Jewish LGBT group in Chicago were said they were insulted and confused after Chicago Pride parade organizers said their “Jewish Pride” flag—a rainbow banner with the Star of David—made other marchers feel “unsafe.”
Several marchers bearing the flag were removed from the parade after attendees said they found the flag “offensive.” According to parade officials, the Jewish LGBT rights group was trying to march in the “Dyke March,” which is part of Chicago Pride “but more inclusive, more social justice-oriented.”
Dyke March participants said that the attendees were “anti-Zionist” and “pro-Palestinian” because “Dyke Marches across the country go to the grassroots struggle of oppressed people.”
One of the women bearing the flag says she wasn’t simply told to fold up her banner —she was harassed, screamed at, and berated before being publicly ousted from the march.
“It was a flag from my congregation which celebrates my queer, Jewish identity, which I have done for over a decade marching in the Dyke March with the same flag,” she told Windy City Times.
***
Shuffle the grievance group decks y’all!
The sound less inclusive if they’re excluding the Jewish Pride flag.
Funny how they use the word “inclusive” when context tells you the word they really meant was “exclusive.” But they had no choice, really. “Inclusive” is goodthinkful, while “exclusive” is so ungoodthinkful that using it as a positive is practically crimethink.
You can make all the jokes you want about David and Jonathan, but Judaism and gayness have not traditionally gone together.
And now when some (((SJWs))) start reaching out to the LGBYOBs, some of the latter seem to be more sympathetic to the guys who want to want to topple walls on them than to the Israeli state which, last I heard, keeps its walls in a non-toppling position.
Leftists masquerading as rights activists are fellow travelers with the most intolerant and violent cultures on earth. News at 11.
Lessee. Try holding a pride march in
1. Tel Aviv
2. Gaza
See how you do in both places.
https://heatst.com/tech/4chan-has-a-plan-to-shut-down-all-the-creepy-childrens-video-proliferating-on-youtube/
Pedobear hardest hit.
I’d have thought it was OMWC and SugarFree hardest hit.
So are all the pedos on 8chan now?
RILL DOPE DILLAS F’RILL
FUCKIN G SHIT RIGHT HERE
NIGGAS BEST CHECK THIS SHIT
DORA THE EXPLORER GO TOO HARD IN THIS ONE
I got this in the sidebar.
Meh. Terminator did it better.
“Run over them without mercy”: Islamic State poster shows car crushing skulls
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“A pro-Islamic State media operation called the Nashir News Agency published a poster calling for more vehicular jihad in the last few days of the Ramadan holiday season, depicting an SUV driving across a mountain of skulls beneath the caption, “Run Over Them Without Mercy.”
The UK Daily Mail notes that ISIS claimed responsibility for the recent vehicle and knife attacks at Westminster Bridge and London Bridge, which definitely fit into the “run over them without mercy” template.
The Drive more specifically describes the vehicle in the poster as a Jeep Grand Cherokee sporting a black Islamic State flag. It is also noteworthy that the city in the background of the poster is being devoured by tornadoes, which adds a characteristically apocalyptic touch to the ISIS propaganda, although it makes the helicopter hovering in the upper-left corner of the Photoshopped image a bit implausible.”
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Why Blaming the Wage Gap on Women ‘Not Picking High-Paying Jobs’ Is Bullsh*t
http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/10/wage-gap-high-paying-jobs/
***
First of all, the wage gap already controls for differences in career. For people doing the same exact job to the exact same standards, white men still get paid significantly more than white women or women of color.
….
Secondly, women aren’t in lesser paying jobs by their own fault, but rather as part of social and institutional oppression. To better explain that second point, let’s explore the whats, whys, and hows of gender segregation in the workplace.
….
Whether or not we deny its existence, our society has strong concepts of what is “men’s work” and what is “women’s work” (completely ignoring non-binary people), and those ideas are reinforced in a million small ways, resulting in statistics like these:
74% of K-12 teachers are women. 80% of software engineers are men. 88% of police officers are men. 90% of receptionists are women. 71% of waitstaff are women. 79% of chefs are men.
In nearly all cases, jobs that are dominated by women have lower wages, less benefits, less schedule stability, and less job security.
***
Well there’s your problem, Vern.
One time, I had a date storm out on me in a huff after I explained how the wage gap is a myth after you control for occupation and the number of hours worked. She also didn’t take well to me noting that the fact that more than the fact that over 90% of prisoners are men does not mean there is a sexist conspiracy against men. She really seemed think that all the gender differences were the result of some evil plot. She was unhappy as a waitress and I suggested she could become an auto mechanic. That way she could make more money and fight against stereotypes. She said she didn’t want to work with a bunch of men or get her hands dirty.
My sister tried to explain to a couple of her college friends about that as well, pointing out that over 90% of the high-risk, high-paying jobs are done by men.
Their response was that women COULD do those jobs as well as men and there were a lot that wanted to, they just weren’t being taken seriously.
Also, I should point out that these two were going into teaching and psychology, respectively.
Their response was that women COULD do those jobs as well as men and there were a lot that wanted to, they just weren’t being taken seriously.
I always like to pull up the physical requirements for the armed forces when people say this and ask why a 21 year old woman has to perform at the same level as a 40 year old man to be accepted.
I mean, it’s pretty obvious only a man would be capable of fighting those female-stereotypes, women can’t fight worth shit. And storming out on those stereotypes clearly hasn’t worked so far.
I remember this girl in my Economics class complaining that she changed her major from engineering to economics because the engineering department didn’t offer her and other women support while also claiming that most of the men were all misogynists. Without thinking I pointed out that women in the sciences in the early 20th Century and before actually had to deal with no shit discrimination and that so she has no leg to stand on. And then I ended this discussion with saying that she probably changed her major because she lacked the capability to be an engineer.
The teacher and 90 percent of the women in class hated me after my comment.
There are a lot of modern women who consistently project their own incompetence outwards and instead draw up elaborate sexist fantasies to justify their own lack of ability. It’s an obvious psychological crutch.
I mean, there’s a ton of modern ‘public feminists’ who I wouldn’t even want to agree with and represent me on anything. Because they’re fundamentally idiots to begin with.
Maybe that is what happens when people tell you that you’re able to do anything- but you can’t.
“lower wages, less benefits, less schedule stability, and less job security”
Well, make sure to not include lower SKILLS in that list.
What a load of shit. Not your statement but the idiot woman who wrote that tripe shit. I knew a woman acquaintance who became a computer programmer and made more money than her husband.
If you have the skills and discipline, people will pay you no matter the sex.
Well, that’s exactly what I was trying to say. I know for a fact that my clients do not pay a female developer less than they pay men for the same job. That being said, there are no way near as many women who even submit a resume for that position. Women who make less than men are working in lower skilled jobs. But don’t expect the ‘living wage’ retards to acknowledge that.
“First of all, the wage gap already controls for differences in career”
In calling bullshit, if that is in reference to the 75 cents to a dollar stat.
I just attended my daughter’s freshman orientation, and overall, girls outnumbered boys 2:1. Except in one area, IT, which was almost all boys. Obviously none of that is due to “institutional oppression, because I’ve seen through my kids how aggressive schools at all levels are in trying to push girls into science, math, and IT, at every level. They just don’t have the same interest.
But white males have the lowest college enrollment rates overall. Why isn’t that considered evidence of “social and institutional oppression” against white males?
In nearly all cases, jobs that are dominated by women have lower wages, less benefits, less schedule stability, and less job security.
Bullshit. That sounds like something somebody plucked straight out of their ass.
My wife is a librarian and the library and the schools do their damnest to try and convince girls to do STEM. For anyone to say that their is an institutional bias is full of shit.
their=there
Many (most?) of the programs encouraging girls in STEM are actually counterproductive in the long-term. Girls think they are special, but once they engage with actual competition become disgruntled and aggrieved (as-noted in your post above). The K-12 experience has been completely tailored toward the female skill-set and there is a general disconnect that skills beyond following the rules/grade-grubbing are needed. Example: if you are interested-in a computer engineering major, it may be worthwhile to actually engage with some aspect of computing as a hobby PRIOR to college – most males do this; females not so much.
“engage with some aspect of computing as a hobby”
Facebook counts, yeah?
Hence: video games are misogynist and must be eradicated.
12yr old boys trying to install BSD on a 386 with floppies must be eradicated. Thank god men developed time travel to enable my own retroactive assassination.
Wait, no, that was Terminator. Whew.
Bless your twisted little heart for reading this, so the rest of us don’t have to.
Perhaps the wage gap also has to do with the amount of risk and responsibility associated with a job?
Teachers don’t risk costing their employer millions of dollars if they fuck up, software engineers do. Cops put their life on the line, and have astronomical rates of alcoholism and divorce as a result, you don’t hear how secretaries’ jobs cost them life and relationships. Chefs basically have one of the most stressful jobs in society, they drop like flies from stress relatef illnesses, waiters and baristas, not so much.
Complaining that someone gets compensated for taking a risk you’ve not willing to endure is incredibly moronic.
Risk is a western patriarchal notion. One we move into a post-risk culture, we can sublimate our feelings into one societal whole.
How inhumane is it that I can’t order beer online and have it delivered to my door in one hour or less? Human rights my fucking arse.
I was visiting friends on PEI some years ago, and we all woke up too drunk to drive to the liquor store to stock up for the days events. There, you just call the cab company and they will bring you whatever you want. COD. Canada is more free than the USA in some areas. I am not sure if it was legal, but I do know that could get you locked up here. I have heard of booze and beer delivery here, but we don’t have it in my area.
It’s legal in some states. Not here in the PRM. I’m just having a lazy day, I don’t want to drive to get alcohol.
I mean, it’s legal here Hyp, if you can afford the license. I’ve known of one place in MoCo that could. Dundalk had a few.
I wasn’t aware that it could even be done, at all.
I’m with you. I would make use of that service on occasion if it was available here too. Seems it is availableIn Denver however. I might need to look into this.
damn………In Denver however.
Can’t get booze here until noon on Sunday.
Thankfully I’ve got over a case of red wine and about a fifth of vodka in the house.
Ya, the Sunday laws are another stupid idea. They recently changed that here in the last few years to allow Sunday sales. When I lived in FL, the county I lived in did not allow sales on Sundays, but the next county did. It was about a two mile drive for us when we forgot to plan ahead. Makes a lot of sense. Keep that tax revenue in the next county.
You can’t buy alcohol at all in Baltimore County on Sundays. There’s a store about a mile from here that sells on Sunday though, but it’s in Baltimore City.
Thats what I need today. A beer.
Thanks for the reminder.
Actually some crafty #Floridaman of Tampa made an app that does just that called Drizzly(sp). There is also a recurring order feature for those more functional than others…
That is the site I saw that is available in Denver. Smart Floridaman there.
I might be wrong about the app maker. Just assuming it was a FloridaMan given his penchant for motivated alcoholism
I think the founders are Massholes after looking at their site. They are in quite a few states now. Still a great idea.
Local pizza place delivers beer.
Less than 2 hours
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
Sooo…better mobile phone service? Or is the amazing thing that the rocket will attempt to land on the drone ship?
As far as I know, Iridium does sat phones.
Incentives? What the fuck are those?
Who will pay for these jobs? Here is where the enormous wealth concentrated in relatively few hands comes in. It strikes me as unavoidable that large chunks of the money created by A.I. will have to be transferred to those whose jobs have been displaced. This seems feasible only through Keynesian policies of increased government spending, presumably raised through taxation on wealthy companies.
As for what form that social welfare would take, I would argue for a conditional universal basic income: welfare offered to those who have a financial need, on the condition they either show an effort to receive training that would make them employable or commit to a certain number of hours of “service of love” voluntarism.
To fund this, tax rates will have to be high. The government will not only have to subsidize most people’s lives and work; it will also have to compensate for the loss of individual tax revenue previously collected from employed individuals.
I see this line of thinking as fundamentally Malthusian. “Well, one of these days, we’re going to run out of
foodideas. Then what?”Compulsory community service, apparently.
STEVE SMITH ALSO FEAR BEING REPLACED BY ROBOTS. OR DO ROBOTS DREAM OF RAPING SHEEP?
The people flipping out about ‘A.I.’ taking over the jobs market have obviously never dealt with them or their decision making process. The idea of an ‘A.I. paralegal’ is hilariously dumb.
I get in this argument with my boss all the time. I’ve done a lot more studying into AI than he has, but he thinks it’s done magical process where you can feed any data to a machine and it can learn from it. He’s a pretty dedicated futurist, and I try to explain that as long as time is an appreciation of human life, then there will be jobs. But he always brings up asteroid mining and says that will push us into a post scarcity environment.
‘Post-scarcity’ itself is a retarded concept, there’s no such thing as ‘post-scarcity’. Even if you’re overwhelmingly producing goods that fulfill every human want, land itself is still scarce, even if you’re living in some Star Trek magical universe where space travel is cheap and easy.
Not only that, but psychology indicates that human want will never be satiated. When I point that out they say, yeah but why not but just have a robot to do it? I’ve responded: yeah I guess if you love in a post scarcity Garden of Eden, you can always conjure up another robot out of thin air.
Anyone who says “post-scarcity” with a straight face doesn’t understand the concept of scarcity to begin with. In addition to land, there’s time (the biggie), authenticity, creativity, personal service… practically everything that matters in a service economy, in fact.
Well the post scarcity thing essentially boils down to
1. AI
2. Energy being too cheap to meter
3. Replicators.
AI Farms to grow the food, AI transportation networks, all of it merrily replicating away with the limitless source of fusion energy. We don’t even need robot repairmen, because the AIs can repair themselves. It’s all AI and robots all the way down. *Handwaving furiously*
I mean, given that magical state of Utopia, scarcity is now only really applying to what is now luxury goods. If you can get the essentials of life, and not just government cheese and public housing, but no shit for real good food and decent places to live for dirt cheap, approaching free, then the economy shifts more toward “oh man this concert is in a venue with only a thousand seats” or “this carpenter only makes 40 beds a year, it’s gonna cost us if we want to get one of them.”
The futurist/post singularity crowd is basically the whole “assume we develop magic powers….how awesome would that be?”
Scarcity is in itself, actually a myth. There’s no scarcity. What there is, is a lack of technology to get at the vast majority of the abundance in the universe. One can learn this concept by playing a round or two of Stellaris.
Paradox Interactive games are not the best platforms for teaching you about reality. According to various Paradox titles fascism and slavery are awesome. And Stellaris still argues in favour of scarcity with things like rare resources.
That part was a joke. But the first part, I’m serious about. There is no scarcity. We just don’t have the technology yet to get to anything beyond Terra. Even here on Terra, there is way more than we have the technology to get at or produce today.
Another thing is that a lot of scarcity today is artificially created, mostly by governments.
That’s what scarcity is, limited resources based on environmental and technological factors. No amount of technological innovation or space travel will negate basic economics. If you lack the technology or resources so that every human being on the planet can’t built a personal dyson sphere to live on, that’s still scarcity.
Yeah, Scarcity is more of a psychological/economic issue. It’s the fact that I have limited resources and unlimited wants. Like I said above, as long as time is a factor in human lives (Really as long as time runs in one direction) Scarcity will be an issue that needs to be dealt with. Post-Scarcity is incompatible with reality.
Now why hasn’t anybody thought of that before?!
Yeah, I thought that was already the case. Well, not ‘most’ quite yet, but we’re getting there. Just go into Walmart at the first of the month and you’ll start to appreciate the entire concept. I don’t even know how some of these people manage to get dressed in the morning and make it Walmart to fight over the limited fleet of huvarounds, let alone support themselves.
I specifically had China in mind, where both your job and your apartment come from a government bureau. Maybe that’s lessened now – not sure.
I thought that was specifically for members of the Communist party. I remember seeing a documentary a while back about how a lot of Chinese youth move from the countryside into the cities looking for work. But they cannot afford a real apartment, so they were living in these old underground nuclear fallout shelters built back during the height of the cold war. I don’t think they give those perks to just anyone.
That sounds about right. My info is a decade or three out of date but I thought there a time when you were either a member of the Communist Party or you were a rural peasant.
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Maybe.
So if most countries will not be able to tax ultra-profitable A.I. companies to subsidize their workers, what options will they have? I foresee only one: Unless they wish to plunge their people into poverty, they will be forced to negotiate with whichever country supplies most of their A.I. software — China or the United States — to essentially become that country’s economic dependent, taking in welfare subsidies in exchange for letting the “parent” nation’s A.I. companies continue to profit from the dependent country’s users. Such economic arrangements would reshape today’s geopolitical alliances.
Obviously, the solution to this problem is a World Government, which will equitably collect and redistribute these mammoth taxes.
Star Trek Economics, her we come! Where’s my Earl Grey, HOT?
This is the equivalent of someone from the 1880s trying to write about what the 2000s would be like while saying everything with complete certainty and projecting their politics all over it.
“By the 2000s we’ll have cities on the moon under attack from the Kaiser!”
it reminds me of how in star trek, mankind had developed interstellar space-travel, matter-transmitters, non-invasive medical technologies, etc…. yet everyone still had haircuts and shoes from the late 1960s.
Computer, begin self-destruct sequence!
*Sounds of punch cards in computer shuffling around*
That was also the case with Hogan’s Heroes.
Bob Crane would have liked to use the holodeck for sexytime.
Hopefully the failsafes don’t glitch out like they do 75% of the time anyone uses the holodeck.
Sort of reminds me of that film ‘Passengers’. I love that film, but it has the same sort of problem you’re talking about with Star Trek. The problem being that when the guy is woken from his sleep pod, 90 years before the ship arrives at ‘New Earth’, he realizes he’ll be dead before the ship arrives to it’s destination. Now this is illogical and stupid for several reasons, but I’ll start with the one that bugs me. So at this point in human civilization, we’ve managed to build a fantastical star ship which is traveling near the speed of light. Interstellar travel has been achieved, but we’re still only living for 80 years avg. No, we’ll achieve very long life spans long before interstellar travel. Just my opinion, but I can’t see how anyone would believe otherwise. Human interstellar travel is a long ways down the tech tree from here, while longer lifespans are probably less than 2 decades away, barring an overzealous government banning that, which I believe would get them tarred and feathered and hung from the nearest lamppost if they were to try keeping such technology only for themselves.
I don’t know if I want to be stuck at 68 years old…. Well, OK.
That’s the other part; not just will we live longer, we’ll be healthy longer.
When you tell people you want to live for hundreds of years, they get this picture of being really old and decrepit.
But, if you still have the health of a 40 year old, it doesn’t matter if you’re actually 200
+1 Old Man’s War.
(sitting unread on my shelf)
You don’t know how old he is when he wakes up. He could easily be 50-60 years old already.
I liked the movie, but the real ginormous glaring plot hole was that there was only one autodoc for a ship of 5000 people, who will be on their own for four months (plus whatever time they were on their own at takeoff), and who are prone to hibernation sickness even when everything goes perfectly. That’s just ridiculous.
Unlike this dullard, I’m imagining that these companies will lower the prices for their services to give them a competitive advantage over their peers, thus making goods and services cheaper and easier to afford.
Ah, so he’s not outraged enough to elect not to profit over this.
Not sure what exactly it is that makes some humans so different from others. But I manage to not give a fuck about that without even trying.
Well yea, hypocrisy is a pillar of “progressivism”. From the party leaders who complain about “big money in politics” while taking wheelbarrows of campaign cash from public sector unions, all the way down to the rank-and-file members who complain about the unfairness of capitalism while boasting how much money they’re making in the stock market.
Starship Captain: “Computer, begin self-destruct sequence!”
A I Computer: “Fuck that.”
*Shuts down life support, purges atmosphere*
Next time you fly, make sure you have a stack of Hustler magazines and whatever other smut you can find behind the counter at the local convenience store. It seems TSA will search your books.
Bring a Koran – you’ll surely sail right thru. Cat in the Hat, OTOH…
well, it’s probably not because they like to read. I’m guessing that most of them can’t read at all.
Communitarian nincompoop weeps
There used to be certain milestones that young adults were directed toward by age 27: leaving home, becoming financially independent, getting married, buying a house, having a child. But the information economy has scrambled those timetables. Current 20-somethings are much less likely to do any of those things by 30. They are less likely to be anchored in a political party, church or some other creedal community.
When I graduated from college there was a finite number of career ladders in front of me: teacher, lawyer, doctor, business. Now college graduates enter a world with four million footstools. There are many more places to perch (a start-up, an NGO, a coffee shop, a consultancy) but few of the footstools pay a sustaining wage, seem connected with the others or lead to a clear ladder of rungs to climb upward.
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Before, there were social structures that could guide young adults as they gradually figured out the big questions of life. Now, those structures are gone. Young people are confronted by the existential questions right away. They’re going to feel lost if they have no sense of what they’re pointing toward, if they have no vision of the holy grails on the distant shore.
“Are you of the Body?”
*may as well stick to the Star Trek meme
Young people didn’t stop doing those things because of the internet. Nincompoop is a very nice word for moron.
Unlike this dullard, I’m imagining that these companies will lower the prices for their services to give them a competitive advantage over their peers, thus making goods and services cheaper and easier to afford.
That A I self-driving technology is free. There will be no additional marginal cost to bring this vast imaginary fleet of robocars into the flow of traffic.
4) UNIMAGINABLE PROFIT!
That’s how my boss thinks:
1. Say we do AI as a company.
2. ?????
3. PROFIT!
Hey speaking of, why don’t we ask the poster who insists on not being an escaped AI? We haven’t seen him around in a while
So, I’m browsing through the Steam Summer Sale and I can’t find a damn thing to buy. The only game I put in my cart is FTL, a 5 year old strategy game with 30 year old graphics. I don’t even know why I want it, but I’m bored.
I picked up the FO4 dlc bundle, got bored… picked up Terraria, got bored.
I’m having some fun with The Evil Within. Pretty decent survival horror game.
132 hrs in FO4 with no DLCs. I think that’s about enough. Unless they release an advanced building mod so that you can rebuild cities, etc, I’m done.
The Vault Workshop looked promising, but the third time I got gangraped by surprise radscorps I stuck a pin in it for the time being.
Plus I’m bored to death of stealth sniper class. I wish there were an easier way to change up your playstyle other than starting over. Would love to give melee a shot.
player.addperk , player.removeperk in console commands if it’s the same as the other recent Fallouts (probably is). Have to look up the ID codes for the perks and put them in after those. There’s other codes to change the other stats I can’t remember.
Unless you’re a filthy console peasant.
“console commands” that don’t work on actual consoles. Fucking language.
Reading about some exploits on the Elder Scrolls wiki though, I got the feeling you CAN use the console on consoles if you plug in a keyboard. Being on a PC I didn’t care enough to pursue that line of thought.
I got so good at sniper that I could literally take out almost any boss before anyone got close to me. Never was much into melee, but sometimes I would get ambushed in FO4 and so there was always some melee. The craziest thing in that game was the first time I ran into a deathclaw. Thought it was Godzilla.
This place is the stuff of nightmares.
It’s actually pretty fun.
I know, Steam Summer Sales have stopped being a huge thing for me. I blame jaded cynicism.
I bought some stuff but nothing earth-shattering. It helps if you don’t buy much during the rest of the year.
I’ve cut way down on the buying. There for a couple of years I would buy anything that I might someday play if it was on sale. Also, early access, no more of that. Seems only about 20% of games that come out in EA are ever finished. I’m way pickier than I used to be. Which is probably why I cannot find anything right now.
I’ve been burnt on a few early access titles. The Long Dark, and most especially Kenshi, left me with a really bad taste in my mouth. The Long Dark at least is finally coming out of EA for an official release next month, after I think something like 3 years. Kenshi is still in EA after, god, 4 years of continually being one last feature addition away from getting out of alpha. And yeah, that’s *alpha*, it’s not even in beta yet. And it started off looking dated, so by the time it’s actually out it’s going to look like it came out in 2004.
On the other hand, I utterly failed in my resolution to not buy a new game until I’ve finished what I’ve got. Bought Nier: Automata, Ghost Recon Wildlands, The Surge, and Prey.
Haven’t played The Surge or Wildlands, but Prey was damn incredible. Basically System Shock 3.
Automata, I’m still pissed about, spent 40$ on it and hated it.
I’m mostly saving up for more of the bigger new titles coming later this year. Wolfenstein 2 and South Park look like fun.
Do like I did and pick up some titles you otherwise might have ignored. Verdum seems to be an enjoyable title so far. I like the slower pace trench warfare. Nice change from the CODs and Battlefields dominating the genre. I’m liking Ori and the Blind Forest more than I thought I would. Bayonetta I’m less than impressed with so far. Rocket League is damned good fun.
Heh heh, Ver-dum, sounds about right.
Verdum is one I would already own if it were not multiplayer only. It looks amazing on Youtube videos. And I’m not a war sim person at all. Lately, I got into the space 4X games, one genre I have never played before. So I loaded up my library with Stellaris, Endless Space 2, Master of Orion (the new one), and Galactic Civilizations 3. Master of Orion is a really fun and easy to learn game. Stellaris is very good also, but it has quite a learning curve to get really good at.
Stellaris is very good also, but it has quite a learning curve to get really good at.
The most casual Paradox Interactive game still requires at least ten hours to figure out what you’re doing.
After playing the new Orion a bit, I had to fire up MoO2 in dosbox to see if it still holds up. If it wasn’t for the lack of mousewheel support…..
Endless Space and Galactic Civ never managed to lifesuck as much time as the Orion franchise has over….uh, 20 years? Fuck you, Passage Of Time.
The reviews are mixed on Steam. But it seems to me that most of the bad reviews are by people who are players of the original MOO and MOO2. And they hate the new one because ‘this is different, they took that out, STAR LANES OMG!111ty111!!!’.
Game is addicting as hell for me. Last round I played I started at 9am and finally went to bed around 3am. No more MOO on work nights. I hate Bulrathi furballz!
I don’t think i’ve ever completed a game, thanks to HugeAndSlow settings. I keep trying though.
I got my ass seriously kicked my first 7 play throughs on normal difficulty, playing as human. 8th time around, I finally won as by that time I knew a hell of a lot more about what I was doing. Still not satisfied at all. I want to beat Bulrathi by brute force, impale them, and set them on fire with lighter fluid.
Playing with any of the non-annihilation victory conditions never appealed to me.
What’s the new one? I think I bought MOO3 back in 2006 and never installed it. That was after playing MOO2 in high school.
I like the look of PUBG. At least, I like the streams I’ve seen of it.
We should start a Steam group. Would make multiplayer fun for a change.
Anybody hooked on pinballfx and want some highscore competition?
Actually, there is a Steam group. Reason Magazine Commenters, though it pretty much died shortly after this site came up. Probably should go with a new Glib name anyway.
I would join, but I don’t play multiplayer. Reason being, I can’t just say I’m going to play at this hour and meet up with everyone. My work won’t allow that, it never works out. Other reason being that RUST and GTA 5 ruined it for me forever. Now co-op I could get into if I have the time.
Yeah, I tend to much prefer co-op to competitive, but versus can still be fairly fun at times.
I used to play with a group and I made it out to play occasionally, but all they would ever play is BF4 and I can’t play the same game forever, I get bored.
I’ve tried multiple times to get into multiplayer games, can’t seem to find one yet. I had a bit of fun with Titanfall, but it gets old after a while.
Pretty much the only thing I still do on occasion is AOE2 with a buddy of mine.
Couldn’t get into FTL.
What didn’t you like about it? I asked on Steam why it’s so popular, but no responses yet. Of course it’s 5 years old so the forum is pretty dead at this point.
The game’s really hard (I’ve only ever beat it on easy), randomly procedural (luck is a factor to your success, so it’s kind of like gambling) and basically just gives you a bunch of tools and mechanics and let’s you use them however you want.
Say you have to fight a ship. You can just shoot it until the hull fractures and they die. Or you can teleport a bomb into their oxygen supply room, blow it up and have everyone suffocate. Or you can teleport some crew members over to murder everyone and take it for yourself.
So, you can never win by just shooting them to death? Meh.
Usually you are just shooting them to death, hull damage and room damage are separate. You can use a hull laser to just take out their hitpoints, but targeting their weapons or shields rooms have obvious benefits.
Oh, I see. I misread what you wrote before, duh.
I’ve been playing FTL for… 3 years now? Still play it, because every time I play it it’s pretty much something new.
The final boss fight in FTL is bullshit.
It’s easy (in easy/normal) if you have the right setup (Teleporter, Mind Control, Drone system with Defense 1 drone)
Teleport bombs and defense drones. But I’m a filthy casual who plays on normal.
*easy.
“What didn’t you like about it?”
I didn’t get that far before exiting, sorry.
as i always say, “i’m not really a gamer, but….”
the one game i’ve played in the last few years that i thought was “huh = that was different” was the Rocket League thing
https://www.rocketleague.com/
its one of the few ‘sports’ type games that genuinely provided a novel experience and very interesting/challenging play. i wasn’t surprised when it became hugely popular months after i fooled around with it.
I’m very attempted to buy Elite Dangerous Horizons, just still not sure if it’s even worth $20. The best space game I’ve played combat wise, but the base game just feels so damn empty.
https://apnews.com/efa7de97ffc14b2b8d648b723f4d2f64/Norwegians-collect-money-to-fix-penis-shaped-rock-formation
The name translates to “Troll Dick.” That is awesome.
That rock herpes is a bitch
I bought 2 games on Steam Sale: Darkest Dungeons and Hollow Knight. I couldn’t really find anything else I wanted.
Did you play the base Shovel Knight game? If so, was it any good? Looked at picking it up a while back, but platformers aren’t usually my thing.
Oh great, Ohio’s next governer. One of the biggest prick State AGs in the country. I hate everything about him. He is Statist delux.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/mike-dewine-enters-governors-race
He looks like he could be a Jeff Sessions sidekick. Do you live in Ohio? I didn’t realize that if so.
Yeah, Columbus area. Oh yeah he and Sessions are two peas in a pod. He’ll get local media backing as well. I’d bet money he’ll win.
I’ve lived all over, we moved a lot when I was a kid. But I was born in Ohio and spent a fair portion of my youth in the Cincy area.
Not sure if you’ve been to Cincy lately but downtown has a lot going on. We spent a weekend down there last year and had a really fun time. Their Rhinegeist beers are doing really well in Columbus.
It’s been almost 10 years, but I have to get back. I still have family there, none of whom have met my cute wifey.
I wouldn’t be surprised if our economically illiterate Dem Senator Sherrod Brown (or Sleeps Broken if your my asshole spellcheck) is the opposition. Oh goody.
Is that the same DeWine who was senator, or one of his spawn?
Yeah he was a Senator before AG and was Lt. Governer for Voinavich before that and a Congressman before that. Been in Ohio politics for close to 40 years. He sucks.
Team system Dz huh. Prolly some dude in his mom’s basement.
http://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/ohio-government-sites-hacked
You mean it’s not the Russkies?
LGBT Pride Marches Sound Alarm Over Anti-Gay Trump Threat
From an AP piece on the same…
*Ah, that must have been the “and on and on” bit. No ‘proclamation’.
meanwhile….
…. in other parts of the world =
https://apnews.com/93949e724841427b902df8f472544646/Activists-kept-from-gathering-en-masse-for-Istanbul-Pride
But they never had those rights anyway so it’s ok
The DNC sure does love it’s pet identity groups. Good little monkeys.
How far have we fallen!
If you don’t have Dear Leader regularly preening over your identity group you’re doomed, DOOMED I SAY.
Well, that’s pretty gay.
I’m house/dog sitting for my mom and her husband. They’ve been gone since Friday, and the dog won’t eat.
It will gobble up years, just won’t eat her food. It’s some weird mental hang up. She’s trying to bury it under her blanket. I brought the bag of food inside so that she can see she doesn’t have to save it, but no go.
Any advice?
*treats not years