Happy Wednesday. It feels like Friday since I worked all weekend. But nope. Anyhow, I’m going to see the American National Communist Football Club take on some tiny island nation with my brother tonight. ‘Murca! Fuck yeah! Let’s hope Arenas’s management doesn’t screw this up.
Sauce for the gander. Lawmakers cite Russian collusion in Greens’ attempt to block fracking. The thing about treating every political struggle like a war is that your ‘enemy’ may use the same tactics.
Iceberg the size of Wales falls into ocean. I am interested to see how fast a 1250 km^3 ice cube melts. Some might blame global warming.
August Busch IV, Florida Man?
Fed looking to wind down its bond portfolio, signals little interest in making American bonds a savings vehicle.
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472 responses to “Wednesday Afternoon Links”
First?
I don’t care what Arena does, he’s still better than Klinsmann. I could’ve managed the team better than Klinsmann. My 8 year old daughter who hates soccer could’ve managed the team better than Klinsmann.
Grats on first.
Sad, but true
Your daughter sounds like a sensible girl.
I probably couldn’t manage the team better than Klinsmann, but I know mine would have been more entertaining (especially the first time Messi went running down the wing and got laid out by one of my safeties, like Cam Chancellor.
….oh, you mean it’s NOT that kind of football?
Oh well. *chuckle*
As I said to my Man City friend, he could have coached Bayern to three titles like Guardiola did, and he would have actively been trying to make Bayern lose.
Guardiola leaving Bayern is one of the most puzzling moves I’ve ever seen.
I liked Klinsmann for awhile but I’m liking Arena better.
It will interesting if the game actually takes place around the storms – why do they always schedule these things in Florida again?
YOUR TEAM SUCKS Mwahahahahah! /total dick.
Fuck it, <a href="http://www.collingwoodfc.com.au/"HTML sucks , too.
Oh, suck a dick, HTML. Asshole.
oh, that’s a rough day.
That’s a big drink.
Now if only a California the size of an iceberg would fall off into the ocean.
I had to reread that. Well done.
Oh wait, you’re serious.
I just sent the same video to a prog friend of mine for saying (on this net neutrality thing) that internet access should be government-run because “they are much easier to get in touch with if there is a problem and are at least accountable to voters.”
“Remember that time we voted on the TSA gropers? Yeah, me neither.”
That last part is fucking funny. What’d he respond with?
He hasn’t, yet.
Unfriended.
by now? probably.
Um. One of these things is not like the other?
… The Russians aren’t behind the iceberg?
I’m guessing that this is the work of the Trumputin’s sharks with lasers on their heads.
I’m still laughing about stopping icebergs.
I just had no idea that “toxic whiteness” had an impact on the environment–or that the effect is magnified by Trump being in the White House…
Wait a second… toxic whiteness, White House… Coincidence?!
IMPEACH TRUMP!!
SAVE THE TITANIC!
“I just had no idea that “toxic whiteness” had an impact on the environment”
Duh! Everyone knows that!
She’s a denier!
A denier with toxic whiteness. Nothing is worse!
Except for a female denier with toxic whiteness who hangs out with libertarian shitlords. Nothing’s topping that for worst! It’s worstest!
Nicole’s not here Man!
Whiteness is a good thing. High albedo lessens heat absorption.
Nice hat
I have to assume you made that up, or whoever made it up, that it’s parody.
I made it up. Every so often, I have to stretch my batshit lefty muscles or they grow weak.
I was going to say, that hits a little too on the nose for every insane prog talking point.
ohthankyoujesus
If you’re religious, how can you consume the unholy pineapple on “pizza?” Heretic!
I had al pastor pizza for dinner yesterday. If that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.
I figure, you know, forgiveness or whatnot.
I think I was quoting that guy who walked across the grand canyon on that wire.
Wood.
Isn’t that the plot of 2012 more or less?
I must believe this is satire. My brain may cease to operate if I believe otherwise.
Clue: It’s exactly like something a prog would write, but with better grammar and spelling = Glibertarian parody
Perfect.
It’s exactly like something a prog would write, but with better grammar and spelling = Glibertarian parody
This may be a new rule, a corollary to Poe’s Law.
The Hyperion Corollary. Works for me!
I like it! I’m famous! Infamous? Thank you, Glibertarians! Do I get my own personal edit fairy now?
The Hyperion Corollary.
Sounds like a Ludlum novel. Who play Hyp in the movie?
Just saw the trailer for An Inconvenient Sequel. It does a great job of making Al Gore look like Jesus.
Did someone nail him to some planks?
I wish.
It was a natural event that wasn’t caused by man-made climate change, said Swansea glaciologist Martin O’Leary.
I guess Swansea glaciologist Martin O’Leary has his own source of income.
It’s true. When it gets really hot, I’m going to feed off the efforts and the bodies of the LGBTQ community.
There’s no other way.
I, for one, can’t wait for our end-of-the-world rich, white guy sausagefest.
the bodies of the LGBTQ community
You can’t eat that! Too stringy and unpleasant.
I just render em down for cooking oil and soap.
The tattoos make for interesting lamp shades, too.
It looks like useful idiocy has reached critic mass in that one
I want warn all of you before you are all feeding on me, I eat a lot of peanuts. Just in case you have a allergy.
(((Iceberg)))
No no no. It’s not Goldberg or Silverberg. The only way (((Iceberg))) works is if the ice we’re talking about are diamonds.
JEWelry, eh?
What is this? Zero Hedge?
I thought you said we hit a Weissberg!
Where do they find a yarmulke large enough?
It’s made out of penguin shit.
I knew the Jews were to blame for the sinking of the Titanic.
Things are so bad in Venezuela that people are rationing toothpaste
Man, State Capitalism can sure eff up a country…
From a glibertarian.
They just need to raise the min wage again. 43rd time is the charm.
You’d think by the third or fourth raise they woulda figured this out.
+1 Illinois
Since taking office in 2013 after Chávez’s death, Maduro has decreed 16 increases to the minimum wage. But the purchasing power afforded by the raises in pay is wiped out almost as soon as the ink dries on Maduro’s orders.
That’s how minimum wage increases work.
Still, the Pope is really encouraged by the increasing equality Maduro is bringing about.
If he keeps equality-ing, everyone’s either going to be equally dead or have equally deserted the country.
The Venezuelans around me are getting increasingly pissed off. Thankfully they’re still making awesome arepas. (Was that racist? I think if I was on another forum someone would call that racist.)
From the article: The giant block is estimated to cover an area of roughly 6,000 sq km; that’s about a quarter the size of Wales.
Way to read, Brett!
I heard Delaware as the size. The iceberg has more going on than Delaware does.
Jesus. Just how many shady corporations does the iceberg have?
I did a grant proposal a few years back related to the supposed island of plastic floating around in the Pacific (“the gyre”). In researching articles about it, it was 10% the size of Texas, the size of Texas, and ten times the size of Texas. Then again, Brett thinks his penis is 6″ and his wife tells me that it’s 1.6″. So quantification is not an easy thing.
She may have met 1.6 arc seconds. Now we just need to understand the scale of the arc.
Divide it by parsecs, you’ll have your answer.
I always *knew* the “Kessel Run” was a euphemism…
Isn’t the “island” just an area of water with a higher than normal concentration of plastic particulates? It’s been a while since I’ve read anything about it, but I seem to remember being severely disappointed that there was not an actual plastic island there. I was hoping to found a Bioshock style dystopia there.
Here’s a NOAA report that basically confirms what you write:
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/about/media/how-big-great-pacific-garbage-patch-science-vs-myth.html
And here’s another one which basically says there are no scientifically sound estimates of the size:
https://marinedebris.noaa.gov/info/patch.html#5
FTA: “It is possible to sail through the “garbage patch” area and see very little or no debris on the water’s surface.”
Yes, it is- the photos used to illustrate the articles show clumps of large garbage (plastic bottles, straws, bags…) probably taken near a New Jersey beach. Not that “science” reporting is dishonest but… well, it’s dishonest.
The metric system was created so more guys could claim to have 8.
Brett is shocked that you did. Well done, lord of the Wankel!
“wankel lord” does not sound pg.
Earl of Magical Spinning Doritos?
Duke of rotary?
If your friends don’t give you constant shit, who’s going to?
A quarter as big as Wales?!
Why are we even talking about icebergs?
That’s like Krugabe’s Trillion Dollar Coin!
If not’s not bigger than Ontario I don’t care.
I think he meant “Whales” as in a large pod of the seafaring mammals.
Open my iceberg
It’s as big as a Wales
And it’s about to set sail.
+2 beehives
Officers found three other loaded guns while searching the helicopter, along with several other bottles of prescription drugs.
Auggie Air! The only way to fly!
What a tour of the city.
I swear, I had something for this.
Auggie’s a piece of work.
But if I had his money, I probably wouldn’t give a shit either.
probably?
Alright, alright….
most likely
The top hat is a nice touch. Well done.
I can add one to the Hanson brother if you so desire.
How about adding one to the Crimson Ghost in mine>?
Remind me tomorrow
Here you go
http://imgur.com/a/zp8uH
SWEEEEET!
So very glib. Thanks, Scruffy!
It’s about time you stopped refusing to wear the
ribbontop hat. Where’s the monocle?Ugh. End tag malfunction.
Hahahah, I made you look stupid by fixing it.
Shit, I feel honored, OMWC. This is the first time I have been graced by the edit fairy.
I’m not a fairy, I like girls!
I found a new avatar for you, edit fairy.
That better?
So needy.
See, this makes me want to be a filthy rich trust funder. Helicopters, drugs and guns! Throw in a hooker or three and I could die a happy man.
The FAA is going to be all over him. They love getting some licks in on otherwise untouchable rich dudes. That’s like a Christmas treat in July.
Dexamethasone?
Ummmm…. that’s not a controlled substance or an intoxicant.
and… “Police said the prescription was for his wife.”
That’s an incredibly stupid thing to say. They’re fucked now. I assume this dude already has an army of lawyers
I noticed that. Whenever I see a ‘sone’ I think ‘steroid’. Sure enough.
Dexamethasone is used to treat inflammatory conditions such as allergies, skin conditions, ulcerative colitis, arthritis and breathing disorders.
Australia Man, International Florida Man.
Australia man checks in single can of beer as luggage.
Just when I’ve lost faith in humanity, the Aussies come through again.
Was it this one?
https://lornasvoice.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/giant-beer-can.jpg
..yes, I RTFA..
Actual Australian beer bottle: http://www.zeroxte.com/journey/images517/photos_5_3_16.jpg
77oz
Look, if a bloke’s gotta go walkabout you know, it’s fucking hot in Australia!
Suthen,
Got that Model 94 off of Gun Broker. A lot of the bluing is gone, but I’ve read it’s extremely hard to reblue pre-64s (not worried about value, using this as a deer gun/something to pass on to potential offspring, etc). How hard is it to maintain Winchesters with bluing missing/any tips, especially if it’s actually going to be used?
Where do you live? If it’s in a humid place you just have to keep that sucker oiled and attack any signs of rust immediately.
Kentucky, so yeah, humid as a mug. Thoughts on Oxpho-blue?
There is a really good article by Dispeptic on TTAG somewhere about bluing a barrel. I cant find it from my work computer.
Can’t you just have a gunsmith professionally reblue it?
Could, but that’s probably $200+ and I’ve heard even good bluers sometimes can’t get the steel on the pre-64 Winchesters to come out right. No idea if that’s accurate, just what I’ve been reading here and there
You can get cerakoted relatively cheap(less than $200)…I know a guy.
Think you can get me a hook up? *adjusts tube top and mini skirt*
how was your buying experience with Gunbroker? I’ve thought about it, but I’m a bit hesitant to buy a gun online.
Haven’t finished it yet, so won’t say anything is 100%. But so far so good. The bidding process can be tedious as someone today kept waiting until the last minute and upping their bid (gun broker has a 15 minute rule, so all he was doing was extending the auction 15 minutes each time and wasting my time).
I’m buying from a brick and mortar store, so hopefully that helps the process go more smoothly. The credit card fee they, and a lot of others, charge is outrageous imo
Might just soak it in WD40 Specialist (not for lubrication or cleaning). Shit seems to really be the bee’s knees for corrosion inhibiting
Krylon.
Stops rust cold.
Does anybody have a pointer to a good book that comprehensively explains what details are involved with the ginormous clusterfuck that is the American Medical system? It is terrifying how little i know about the thick layers of turd that separate the consumer from “free market” healthcare, i.e. IMO, regs, insurance billing procedures, etc. I’m interested in knowing more about the guts than “muh health care”
This book is on my list of things to read
Lol. Great minds…
It’s the hat
*tips hat*
I’ve heard good things about this one.
I like this one!
Thanks everyone. I found this on my Amazon wish list and will bundle buy recommendations with it.
I have one. It starts out something like “abandon all hope, ye who enter here.”
Start by doing a google search on the purpose and origin of chargemasters. If you want to get really angry, that is.
And, of course, the origin of chargemasters is the Federal Government’s Medicare and Medicaid programs that account for about 60% of hospital revenue.
Medicare and Medicaid mandate that each hospital have a single chargemaster. Fedgov has negotiated huge percentage discounts to the chargemaster’s price list and allows insurers to negotiate somewhat less huge discounts to the chargemaster. No covered by Medicare, Medicaid, or private insurance: even if you’re willing to pay in cash today, tough shit, no discount for you.
I read about the charge master 5 years ago when i was baffled at the bills i was getting after my son was born. My initial reaction was disbelief, followed by horror, followed by rage.
That was interesting, thanks for the tipoff, I had no idea. It didn’t make me rage, only help make greater sense of the $50k first invoice I received after my daughter was born (which “muh inshuruns” handled afterward). Unfortunately the sources I could find were extremely light on the history aspect and I find what I was able to determine with regard to why they are such common practice, and why the stark contrast between hospital system billing and what I imagine the 1950s house call-visiting doctor did in terms of billing.
Gonna keep my eye out for more references about this and I hope my books provide better detail about the chargemaster history. It’s easy to spin a “greedy hospital corporations taking advantage of the underserved” narrative without knowing more about this shit.
Cronies and rent seekers will suffer. Can’t have that.
ACLU does AMA on Reddit about “Net Neutrality”, goes insane singing praises of Linda Sarsour and smugly dismissing her public support of female genital mutilation, Sharia law, violent threats towards Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and apparent fraud in not disbursing money donated to repair a Jewish cemetery as FAKE NEWS despite the public tweets being linked. ACLU useful idiot declares that “we share so many values” and “we stand with her in fighting for equality, free speech, protest, and racial justice.”
Oh, yeah, and climate change is racist, too.
hurrrrrkkkkkkk
Not even getting into “Net Neutrality” as this shit disgusted me too much right off the top.
Good response:
Again, I want to make it perfectly clear. I have no problem with the ACLU defending her right to speak (on any matter, even ones I disagree with). I don’t have a problem with the ACLU standing up for her against those who would harass or personally threaten her (as that shit is completely intolerable). And I don’t have a problem with the ACLU defending her legally in any matter related to typical ALCU related topics (aka I WOULD have a problem with the ACLU defending her on a murder charge, but you don’t do that kind of legal work, so it’s not really relevant).
But I DO have a problem with the ACLU saying “This person is a good person who upholds the same values as we do and who should be admired.” Because she does NOT uphold the values that the ACLU that I know upholds and she is NOT a person to be admired in more ways than she is, and she is not, in general, a good person.
[…]
Islam is “rooted in my oppression & denial of my humanity and right to exist.” As an LGBT individual, Islam, as an idea, is, by far, the biggest threat to my safety, security, and rights. Nothing else comes close (certainly not Christianity, which has long since stopped being a serious, life threatening idea for the most part).
But it isn’t JUST me who Islam wants to oppress and deny the humanity and right to exist to. There are MANY other minority groups.
And this is the kicker. It doesn’t matter what Linda Sarsour personally believes. I believe that her past actions and words prove she is a liar and a fraud when she claims to be an ally of the LGBT community. But that’s irrelevant. What IS relevant is that she champions a religion where the majority of it’s adherents world wide think that I should be executed by the state for existing.
The progosphere is also trying to walk back the whole ‘her calling for holy war on the Trump Administration’ by peddling that ‘no, don’t you see, jihads can be non-violent’ horseshit that no one bought ten years ago.
“The ACLU: We’re Working Hard to Become as Ideologically Corrupt as the SPLC!”
Hey, ACLU: ask Sarsour if Israel has a right to exist
Is that a civil liberties question?
She certainly has the right to say that the Jews should be exterminated, and it would be delightful to see how that gets rationalized. “Well, ‘exterminated’ can mean de-lousing, and that would be a kindness to them. And Zyklon B can be very effective against parasites.”
I hope the ACLU etc win and net neutrality becomes a thing. because then I’m going to subscribe to the NY Times and then sue them for full use of their printing press.
Stop sleeping around so much you sluts!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/07/11/syphilis-rates-rising-dating-apps/455104001/
I think at this point I’m incapable of understanding the TDS people any longer. I think they went full retard. Trump Jr. met with a Russian lawyer hoping to get some dirt on Hillary Clinton. And this is treason! I don’t see how it could be even remotely inappropriate. I used to be a foreign national myself. And in the past I actually met with people working in the Russian government. Does it mean that my boss who once had some formal advisory position in the Obama election campaign had to report each and every meeting he had with me? It’s insane.
Dealing with reality is a lot harder for these people than a pleasant fantasy. It’s mass delusion as politics and it should be constantly pointed out as such.
Today’s history lesson for the kiddies: Google “Charlie Trie.”
– Iowahawk
THAT’S DIFFERENT! THIS IS SERIOUS!
I think it’s funny how Twitter’s actions have caused me to view lack of a blue checkmark as a good thing, because it’s taken award/rewarded frequently based upon ideological compliance and not as actual ID–see Milo getting de-verified. Iowahawk, Ace of Spades, Instapundit… all lacking one right there I can see, while every doorknob polisher at a Bay Area startup nobody’s heard of has one.
Secret Asian man, secret Asian man, he’s taking Clinton money and pushing the Chinese plan.
*should be “giving”
Charlie Trie owned a pretty good Chinese restaurant in my town. Restaurant is still here, I assume under new ownership.
“The PRC’s constant attempts to influence, hack and undermine Western countries don’t count.”
-Media owned by major corporations with interests in China.
Image of Chinese reaction to everyone focusing exclusively on Russia.
My brother was ranting that “they need to lock up the President-elect” back in November. A few months ago he was ranting about impeachment. “For what?” I ask. He doesn’t actually have an answer. Also, his ego has totally lost contact with planet Earth now that he goes by “Doctor” so it’s even more impossible to talk with him about this stuff than even before, because it compounds the TDS a millionfold. After all, all the intelligent, credentialed people he knows agree with him, etc., etc. Other family are similarly afflicted.
Also, if I happen to actually win the argument, it gets forgotten by the next time we meet because they’ve already watched the Two Thousand Minutes Hate on MSNBC and get reprogrammed. Sigh.
It’s the great beauty of the Trump Presidency: He causes people to rip off their masks and expose themselves for who they really are. Every insecurity and emotional imbalance comes to the forefront.
Might I suggest ridicule and mocking? You aren’t going to win an argument with a prog.
And subtle hints at hypocrisy. I like to agree with those kinds of rants while tossing in shit like Charlie Trie, the vast fortunes of Gore and the Clintons, etc…
I can’t win the hypocrisy argument with my brother. He was doing ye olde “you want the old and sick to die in the streets if you don’t want the government taking over healthcare” line, and I put forth to him that AMA cartelization and restriction on the supply of doctors artificially raises the price of medical care.
He actually agreed, but said that he had busted his ass off getting through medical school, so he had earned that money. It’s not “fuck you, got mine” when he does it, of course.
I mean, I can try smacking him about the head with Ayn Rand and some hardcover von Mises until it sinks in through osmosis, but now his degree provides him with an impenetrable shield of smugness, so I think it’s a lost cause for the foreseeable future.
I really don’t understand this ‘my degree makes me better than you’ idea. I have a masters degree and I know I have a high IQ and I still assume I am the stupidest person in any room I walk into until I can prove otherwise. Where does this assumed superiority come from? Because you paid a cars/house worth of money for a piece of paper? Okay…
and it really only says “Im up to speed on _______, and that’s it.”
I grew up in a college town, with university professor parents, one was in STEM and seriously no mental slouch. The vast majority of the most insufferable people I knew had PhDs. They were also, by and large, the people most lacking in life skills.
I assume he went to work for the VA, right? I mean, they are single payer and they really need all the good doctors they can get to help those vets.
Hahaha.
Please don’t give him any bad ideas. I work with enough nationalists and enough socialists.
I’m sure your brother is going to be ecstatic when we have single payer and he gets payed by the government, that their mandated rate. If he’s ambitious, then we know exactly what he’ll do. Go work for the private sector care. Because nothing says everyone should be forced into government healthcare like bailing out of it as soon as we get it.
If he’s so charitable and smart, why doesn’t he already work for the VA?
damn your fast fingers.
Great minds…
A Doctor of what? If you don’t mind my asking.
Several lawyers have already spoken up, and not all of them on the right, and said there’s nothing there. What he did is in no way illegal. Yet the media still regurgitates this garbage.
and here we go…not that it will go anywhere
House Democrat files article of impeachment against Trump
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/341677-house-dem-files-article-of-impeachment-against-trump
He can ‘accuse’ anyone he wants of anything. But the fact that there’s no evidence makes it a complete joke.
The law doesn’t give a damn about right and wrong, so I’m not sure why it would care about messy things like evidence.
The party of the President controlling both houses of Congress doesn’t help either.
What exactly would be the crime? Has anyone at Justice or a law enforcement agency charged Trump with obstruction of justice?
The crime is he’s a Republican and he won.
Sherman’s mostly virtue signalling to his deep blue constituents (That district, though…), but I wonder if there is a strategy behind this. What I mean is that if he can peel off a few NeverTrumpers and GOPers in Clinton-won districts to vote for impeachment (won’t happen), then it strengthens his party’s position in the midterms since the GOP base will turn against those Reps.
No, imma say the strategery here is the Pelosi Gambit. In many certain California districts you are securing your base by going completely bat-shit, hard-left, insane.
wow, that district seems to be playing ‘oh yeah, hold my chardonnay’ with itself. It’s last three reps, in order…
Xavier Becerra (the current A.G. of California, and full-retard partisan hack)
Henry Waxman (’nuff said)
Brad Sherman (the guy in the article)
The only way they could keep this up is to import Mattress Girl to be the next Rep
You mean government run healthcare is inferior? UNPOSSIBLE!
http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-medicaid-reduces-health-care-access-recipients-may-receive-worse-quality-care/
This is why we need real single payer like in Canada and Europe! /derp
One day, we will recognize health care as a right.
/sobs/
Then everything will be better.
Further evidence the NYT is circling the drain
This is the first of a weekly column.
That’s right, girls and boys, Lindy West is now a New York Times columnist.
As for the actual content? I think, “Men Suck” effectively captures the threadf of it.
Did we ever establish whether or not she fabricated the troll from her famous “Lindy West confronts her troll” story? I know when I heard it on This American Life my first thought was this guy is not a real person.
“They are two stand-up comedians in their mid-30s… investigating how to be better straight white dudes…”
I think we can all agree, without having seen them, that these are not very good stand up comedians.
Maybe it’s a sneaky plan to get the likes of Dowd and Krugabe to look good in comparison?
In case you missed it in the other thread:
Illinois paying $1 billion per year to retired teachers and administrators each making $100+ per year
Well, when you have a huge surplus like Ill does…
Talk about an iceberg
$100+ will not buy many deep dish tomato casseroles.
Looks like I missed a “k”, or a bunch of zeroes.
“How to build a better white guy” is a conversation that could turn academic fast, replete with all the jargon that the sneering class finds so tedious: intersectionality, emotional labor, systemic oppression, the dreaded “privilege.” But when I sat down with my friends, only one question sprang to mind, and it was personal, not pedantic.
“Do you ever stick up for me?”
“I never said you were an idiot. I thought everybody already knew that.”
“How to build a better white guy”
Steve Austin.
Stone Cold or Lee Majors?
Yes.
Pointless virtue signaling from our special needs governor.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2017/07/11/john-hickenlooper-paris-climate-agreement/
DENVER (CBS4)– Gov. John Hickenlooper signed an executive order that states Colorado will join the Paris Climate Agreement.
LOL. He must be something else to be able to get elected with a name like Lickenpooper.
He’s just so exciting.
any news on the job-front?
Got offered a job in the Springs. Not out of state like I wanted, but gets me out of Progtopia and into lighter traffic.
A checkered shirt and polka-dot tie?
Dude, the guy’s name is Lickenpooper. If you can get away with that, what’s an oddball looking ensemble like that?
“Reduce range anxiety”? That’s an artificial-sounded little phrase, heh.
“Reduce range anxiety”? That’s an artificial-sounded little phrase, heh.”
Obviously caused by climate change and white privilege.
Or a short penis.
Deer and antelope make me anxious too.
How do you feel about discouraging words?
They’re a bad a cloudless skies.
Tesla’s love the Colorado winter!
Yeah this. I don’t know how many cans of ether I went through trying to fire up a diesel bucket truck. It didnt help they kept buying biodiesel and it gummed up the engine.
Denver to Moffat county? Oh you mean what every normal car can do without a second thought. Got it.
P.S.: Fuck you for ruining what was once the best state in the fucking country. Die in a woodchipper.
No one in their right mind is going to go on a cross country trip in an electric car anyway. Every two hours you have to stop to recharge it for 4 hours? A train would almost be faster.
Well, not an Amtrak train.
It’s only ~40 hours from LA to NOLA by Amtrak.
Last time we left late because of a suicide on the tracks and still got their early because they made up time speeding through the vast emptiness of Texas.
That’s absurd. I’ve driven from LA to Miami in just 7 more hours than that.
I have a family history of substance abuse, I can’t just mainline amphetamines like some people.
My bil, a True Believer Tesla and Leaf owner, had to borrow my parent’s car (a Prius, lol) to go to fucking Duluth!
My Passat gets damn near 40mpg on the road and has a range of more than 600 miles. Suck it, EVs.
I assume Colorado’s electricity is hydro-powered and not coal-fired?
https://www.eia.gov/state/?sid=CO
It’s not running on unicorn farts yet, that’s for sure.
Not necessarily, but here towns like Aspen can claim they are 100% renewable by signing agreements with some so called green energy provider that trickles some energy onto the grid. In short, some Coloradans are fucking morons.
I know how to “reduce range anxiety.”
DRIVE A GODDAMNED CAR THAT RUNS ON PROPER FUEL!!!
If there is money to be made providing extension cords to people in electric cars, let investors pay for it. Jebus he is an embarrassment.
https://twitter.com/DanielLMcAdams/status/884528546219270145
Cathy Young’s ‘jihad’ (it’s non-violent, bigot!) against Ron Paul continues. People who thought Reason contributors had principles that differentiated them from the two major party hardest hit. The Weekly Standard is ecstatic.
On the other hand…
Fair point
To be sure…
Alright, which one of you is Bionic Mosquito?
I like this guy’s style.
He’s obviously a glib or a disaffected reasonoid. Woot.
If they aren’t a commenter, they are very close.
“beltway mainstream libertarian” = “cosmotarian cocktail party crowd”, yep
The worst part about Young’s article is that it was the featured article on the cover of the last Reason issue. I’m glad I discontinued my subscription
A magazine that bitches and moans about how American foreign policy should become ‘more non-interventionist’ throwing at article about how ‘economic sanctions are totes awesome guys’ is incredibly rich.
And a magazine that was shitting its pants so hard about Trump starting a possible trade war with China- literally wants a trade war with Russia.
China= good
Russia= bad
Why? Because, shut-up, bigot!
From the comments:
Reason: the Libertarians’ CNN.
The Reason crowd is tied to the New York City-Washington DC-Los Angeles axis of evil. Its members would not get invited to cocktail parties unless sufficiently anti-Russian and anti-Trump.
The crazy thing is that the same axis of evil praised Obama for cancelling Bush’s plans to deploy ABM in Eastern Europe whereas same crowd condemns Trump who has resuscitated the ABM plan. And they perfectly well accept FDR’s support of Uncle Joe while condemning the faintest cooperation with Putin in fighting Islamic terrorists.
This axis of evil is certainly adept at simultaneously holding mutually contradictory notions.
It ran long, so I’m thinking Ken Shultz
I’ve been able to venture back to /r/all on Reddit since I started doing this, but the new subreddits keep popping up like weeds and I keep needing to add to it.
But this takes care of at least 95% of the idiocy.
https://i.imgur.com/PFsGWbH.png
It’s really pretty hilarious what happened there–corral all the wrongthinkers into pretty much just a single subreddit, restrict how many things can hit r/all per day from a single subreddit, then make 500 new, frequently botted anti-Trump astroturf subs that keep popping up like weeds to flood the front page. The admins turn a blind eye (or are actively supporting) the rulebreaking. Meanwhile, posts hit the front with 44k upvotes and 2 comments–both by the OP–in a totally organic fashion, so long as the politics are right… and by right I mean left.
UN: Gaza will be unlivable in three years
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/UN-Gaza-unliveable-10-years-after-Hamas-takeover-49939
Big suprise!
All Israel’s fault I’m sure.
When in doubt, blame the Joows! It’s all the rage on all sides these days, even among Jews (hat tip Tom Friedman)
Israel is the UN’s scapegoat for pretty much everything that goes on in the Middle East.
And the New York Time’s favorite whipping boy
My favourite Palestinian conspiracy theory is about how the Israelis are dumping birth control chemicals into the water to make them infertile…well it sure as shit isn’t working in Gaza, a place that is literally fucking itself to collapse.
Your link didn’t work for some reason. Try this:
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/UN-Gaza-unliveable-10-years-after-Hamas-takeover-499391
Hat tip ?, thanks!
But they’ll have plenty of tunnels and makeshift rockets, so they got that goin’ for them.
This is of course caused by climate change. If only the US could provide a few trillion.
Here’s my entry into the Derpnomicon for the day. On one of my regular gun blogs there’s a troll that regularly pops up and writes more or less the same response every single time. He usually responds to any article critical of the gun laws of other countries, specifically the UK. Here is his latest comment:
Our country is not really free if it has a death rate higher than any 3rd world country
This pretty much sums up every single comment he has ever made. As far as trolls go he is far below even reason standards.
IDK, amsoc/Robespierre has been breaking new ground lately.
^I shudder to think how many potential libertarians have been turned off by articles and comments of TSTSNBN.
Sad.
Legalize drugs and watch those numbers fall.
How many people have been murdered by NRA members? If these morons are going to spout unsubstantiated bullshit, they should be called out on it.
It’s because gun control advocates don’t care about logic or being consistent. I’ve had friends who are strong 2nd Amendment advocates disputed and dismantled the gun control crowd arguments and it does nothing. They usually double down on their bullshit and start burning straw men or call you names.
It’s basically that they don’t care about logic and facts. It’s all about feelz. If they feel something should be a certain way, then it should be, end of story. You can’t reason with someone like that. It’s why I don’t try anymore. I just subtly mock them.
I thought the death rate was 100% for every country?
Except here it’s like 120%.
175% only woke people are fully alive.
120% is for Chicago. Obama voters, you see.
OT: I’m working in Heber, AZ for the next three weeks. I’m off on Sundays if you (or any other Glibs) are in the area. Still under fire restrictions, so no shooting. {my sad face} Fair warning: I don’t have a personal vehicle.
Its getting a bit sticky and theres some high clouds over the mountains outside Phoenix. Maybe it’ll rain, we’re due for a storm.
There’s been afternoon storms since I got here Monday. Got in a good one yesterday out in the woods. Hail looked like snow piling up. Forest roads were running with water. Damn near got the truck stuck. Hopefully it keeps up, but it does make working a bitch…
Taking a Mandarin class and was unsurprised to find Roosevelt in Pinyin is Luósīfú. Quite fitting.
The bad guy in Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps is supposedly based on Franklin Roosevelt.
Really? I need to fire up the DVR and watch that again
Norm MacDonald Live is coming back!!!
My favorite Norm Macdonald role was Death in Family Guy. I think he only did the one episode and then they got another actor.
Replaced with Adam Carolla who’s good but not as good as Norm.
You can get a weekly Norm hit in “Mike Tyson Mysteries”; he voices a pigeon. Doesn’t make any more sense in context, so just go with it.
“Trump is a half term president, at most, especially if I ever get within 10 feet of that pussy.”
http://freebeacon.com/politics/maine-democrat-threatens-trump-in-profanity-laced-facebook-comment/
I predict a van with letters on it will be visiting his residence shortly.
Why would OMWC visit him?
There’s no letters on his van, just a big smiling clown holding a purple “ice cream cone”.
In his avatar, it says FREE CANDY.
Its the vans without letters you need to worry about.
I’ll bet the Secret Service guys are fighting each other about who gets to take the piss out of State Rep. Scott Hamann.
In Maine. Is Maine really that progressive? I thought it still had some rural hunting vibes.
he’s from Portland. From what I have heard, that Portland is trying to make itself into as much of the image of Portlandia as possible.
This man is obviously delusional.
When people say that, it’s either because they are delusional or willingly ignorant.
An acquaintance wrote something similar to this and when I said that with the exception of jailing journalists, destroying whistleblowers, droning brown people in the Middle East, destabilizing Libya, continuing the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and shitting all over our civil liberties, he was a great President.
I got some partisan mealy mouthed response from him and he also somehow blamed the GOP for Obama doing all of these things.
Someone should ask him about Fast and Furious and Benghazi, just to witness the deer in the headlights stare.
Just watched ’13 Hours’. aka ‘Jim from the Office kicks ass, rather than tapping it”
All in all a really good, enjoyable film.
Loved that movie. Book it is based on is pretty good.
watching it now.
“he also somehow blamed the GOP for Obama doing all of these things.”
Huh, the usual response I get is that many of those things never happened – they were just conservative lies.
100% Denial Rate. That is, when they’ve even heard of those scandals. Some are so cocooned in sweet prog cotton candy brain drain bullshit that they wouldn’t even recognize those terms.
He forgot to include “Murderer of Children” in his list of achievements there.
What about the healthcare sector?
Oh, so Trump didn’t just “grope”, he’s a rapist? Is that what this tool is saying? (else he’s claiming there were no rapes in the US under Obama which “rape culture” progs never would agree with).
anyway, it’s all so disgustingly worshipful. For as much as people complain about Trump followers, Obama sycophants are the worst, by far. barf.
It’s weird how Trump’s “grab ’em by the pussy” statement is held up as rock-solid (these euphemisms, I know) evidence of forcible rape even though he followed it with “and they let you!” I guess “progressives” are so out of touch with reality that they’re unaware that there are women who will let a pervy rich guy basically do whatever he wants in the hopes of getting some cash and/or jewelry.
Politics turns individuals into irrational imbeciles.
Politics turns irrational imbeciles into congressmen.
/FTFY
Every time I think people can’t be more stupid….
“100% of intelligent Americans agree that Trump is a complete loser.”
This is why you guys are losing. Now just double down on that. Thanks.
Wow, you should have quoted more of this guy. Step aside, Obama, this is the new greatest orator of the modern age. That FB article doesn’t even have all of it (the Russia quote), from the Dailycaller one:
And he keeps going on, haha. Love the “Obama was absolutely flawless, classy and scandal-free” bit too.
His rantings and ravings are a work of art. He should publish a book.
Maybe Trump hacked his facebook page?
Why aren’t the feminazis pillioring him for using “pussy” as a pejorative? Or did I miss that?
Principals not principles.
Is it really that difficult to get your objects and your pronouns to agree? “Their head*s* up their ass*es*.” Is that so difficult?
NOT glibertarian parody. The real derp.
She agrees with you.
Kittel wins the stage, Froome still in yellow. Ho hum. When is the next mountain stage? And will anyone, someone, anywhere, challenge Froome?
*sigh* I just don’t understand soccer
Come on, Mike, she’s obviously talking about rugby.
I thought it was cricket.
Ha! If I ever play, I will insist on being the “sweater collector.”
Just be sure to stop the fights over who makes the best tea before they get out of hand.
What car was that in the background at the beginning? A Morris, maybe?
Looks like a Morris Minor traveler van?
I think you are right. Pretty cool.
Just say it’s one of those things that are not real football, it’s easier.
One concrete sign of the decline of American education is the inability of Americans to understand and appreciate cricket.
Tomorrow is three climbs in the Pyrennes. Saturday and Sunday are mountains. Aru is only 18 secomds behind Froome
Do I need to Google translate your comment?
I think he said ‘I’m climbing some mountains in Spain or Portugal which are not real mountains. But on Sunday, I’m climbing some real mountains and Aru and this guy named Froome are right behind me’?
SPOILER ALERT – I am watching this tonight after a lovely happy hour and dinner. Jeez.
Feeling better after a very productive couple of meetings at work. Hopefully I can string together a bunch of good days.
*hands KK a beer*
Local news.
Something something, free association, something something…
Free association is fascism.
FIRE listed Harvard as one of the 10 worst colleges for free speech when the proposed policy wasn’t nearly as restrictive as this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/58ac64bfe4b0417c4066c2f1
So no more black-only graduations?
I assume the Greek system will be dismantled there as well, including the All-African American frat?
Didn’t college used to be fun?
I remember when student organizations weren’t *allowed* to have non-students. Except the faculty advisor.
They can’t reatrict Harvard student club membership to actual Harvard students?
What the actual fuck?! These people are insane.
Finals clubs and frats aren’t recognized by Harvard.
Feeling better after a very productive couple of meetings at work. Hopefully I can string together a bunch of good days.
Glad to hear you’ve backed away from the window ledge a bit.
Just remember, complacency has destroyed more careers than paranoia.
Florida men protest Chick Fil-A
Vegans, man.
*sigh*
Chickens wouldn’t exist if people didn’t like eating them.
That’ll learn those bastards!
See, it’s not only Trump supporters who can talk like complete assholes. As long as that’s what’s coming out of that side, then I’ll match you dumb fucks word for word,” he said.
Indisputably true.
His skill at calling people names is almost as developed as his skill at misspelling words.
Gosh, I’ve got a ton of emails today from corporations about how corporations want to ruin the internet.
It takes a special kind of moron to think, “How can we make sure that this commodity remains accessible and innovative? Oh I know – let’s get the federal government involved!!”
Senator Rock of Michigan?
The stream of nope nope nope from blue check nobodies makes it all worthwhile. Even if it is just a stunt to sell merch.
I hate the whole celebrity – politician cross-over thing, but I would make an exception for him.
He’s openly libertarian and likes Ron Paul, which is more than I can say for most people in Washington. He has my support.
I’m assuming he would not be running as a Democrat. But I think it’s a marketing ploy. Look at the website.
He was one of the few open celeb Trump supporters, so definitely will be on the R ticket.
I don’t know…who is he going to challenge, the formidable Debbie Stabenow or the awesome Gary Peters?
/sarc
Looked it up, it’ll be Stabenow. I think he has a good shot at winning. I think celeb candidates are good in places that are not traditionally red, since they can get more crossovers than a traditional nominee.
I like how it’s Idiocracy now, and not when, say, Al Franken made his own dubious way into the Senate.
So do they really listen to “Sweet Home, Alabama” in northern Michigan?
Kid Rock for Senate
Is that his legal name, because if not the elections people will try and pull a fast one and stick his real name on the ballot.
Wikipedia says he was born Robert James Ritchie.
That’s nothing that a few government forms can’t fix.
Any AZ Glibs headed to the Get Outdoors Expo this weekend in Scottsdale? I took my son last year specifically for the fishing catch & release, though the attention span of a 4 year old didn’t allow for us to get to hardly anything else. This year, however, my son is with Nana and Papa on an extended trip, so I’m un-tethered and headed there to actually see all the other stuff.
Not familiar with this event. educate me, shitlord.
First off, it’s indoors.
http://www.azgetoutdoors.com/
Bunch of different displays, all outdoors related (duh). I don’t recall a ton of “gun stuff” but there’s some, along with fishing, camping, archery, boats, RV’s, those dogs that sprint down the dock and jump into the water as far as they can. It doesn’t appear to be going on this year, but I saw mutton busting there before. Wildlife education, rock climbing, kiddie catch & release pond, food court, etc. And it’s indoors.
It does appear to be more family oriented vs. hardcore, either way I’m headed out there for one of the two days, unsure which at this point.
Nope. Another family function in Tucson/Mexico.
Have a good time, it sounds a hell of a lot better than what Im doing.
Cue the outrage machine
that’ll be fun.
Trial balloon? Fire the low-level official if the outrage builds up too much, or back her up if the polls support her statement?
Compare and contrast with the last administration. Elections have consequences, or so I’ve been told.
Here’s a thought: go to the police if you believe a crime was committed. Why are Department of Ed functionaries adjudicating allegations of rape, for fuck’s sake?
So it can be tried in star chamber alternate courts with “preponderance of feelz” instead of “reasonable doubt” as the standard.
Every woman deserves to be believed.
Because a lot of leftists including Obama and many who were in his administration, believe that academia should rule the world. They’re the smartest people alive, after all, so it’s just right they get to be cops and courts as well.
That’s not how this works. That is not how any of this works.
A 2015 study published in the journal Offers from Nigerian Princes found that the prevalence of false claims of African royalty falls between 2% and 10%.
That second comment isn’t really fair. There are real rapes, both reported and unreported. This “I had sex voluntarily but regretted it later” bullshit just makes it harder for genuine victims to get justice.
I know I’m late, but that 2 to 10% number is for allegations that are:
1. Brought to the cops, not to the feminism diversity office and soda fountain.
2. Determined by the cops to be a false accusation, rather than ‘cannot be proven’ (for that to happen, the woman basically needs to recant).
That’s pure apples and hand grenades from Miss Davison. She’s comparing questionable she said/who cares what he said vs cases that were actuallly brought by the police.
From Jackson’s Wikipedia page:
“She authored the 2005 book Their Lives: Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine, concerning the biographies of Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick, all of whom reported sexual harassment or abuse by former president Bill Clinton. Jackson coordinated the appearance of several of these women in a press conference before the October 9, 2016, presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. She also produced a 2015 video profiling Kathy Shelton, a survivor of a child sexual assault whose assailant was represented in court by Hillary Clinton in the 1970s”
So she actually fights against actual sexual assault and those who would blame the victims of sexual assault?
Delicious.
Have any of you used a product like this to fix a coolant leak? My leak is bad and getting worse.
The shop wanted to replace the water pump, hoses, and belt, but I’m hoping I can get away with a bandaid fix because the price they quoted would put a good dent in another used car if I have to go that route. And given the head gasket is getting ready to go, I might have to in the near future.
What kind of car is it? a water pump is usually a pretty easy job, you might want to look into doing it yourself.
2003 Subie Outback. I’ve been looking at videos, but I am not a very hands-on kinda guy. The biggest job I’ve done myself was replacing an alternator in another car, and that was pretty much a plug-and-play situation.
Waterpumps aren’t too bad in general, just a little messier than the alternator.
If it isn’t the radiator or the heater core, go for it. a used water pump with a new gasket and hoses is a good call.
I’d also shop around for other quotes.
god dammit if you pour stop leak into a subaru I will hunt you down.
True that. The only thing that should be poured into a Subaru are five really drunk hippy chics who said they want to take you home for some sexy time. Other than that, Subaru’s should be avoided.
that and oil. they looooove oil.
Okay, okay 😀 I won’t. Thank you, that’s exactly what I needed to hear. And it seems pretty dubious anyway.
Do you love your car? Do you think of it as a long term investment that you plan to keep for many years and/or possibly make a decent trade with later on? Then DON’T EVER USE STOP LEAK!
If this is just a beater car you want to keep running a little longer and don’t give a shit about, then go for it.
Yeah, this is pretty much what I did to an old car of mine. Stop Leak basically clogged the radiator.
It really is meant for “i need to get home, and it’s worth a lot of cleaning time and money tomorrow”
Where’s the leak at?
Haven’t the slightest. I am pretty pathetic when it comes to auto maintenance.
how many miles?
~160k, but the engine was replaced maybe 6 years ago
Any white smoke?
None. Just the leak and intermittently heating up. Never to the red line, but above its normal range. That’s when I know to top off, but it’s getting to every other day.
Water pump. Easy peasy. Vhyrus can probably walk you through it.
Ya, good question. How do you know the head gasket is on it’s way out spittoon?
Because it’s a Subaru ☺️
That’s why engines are so cheap!
As someone that just had to have the headgasket replaced on his STi, fuck you.
The last time I took it in, I think to get the emission system looked at, the mechanic (same place) told me the head gasket is probably next to go. It IS getting up there.
I would hope the head gasket would last longer than 160k. I drove a Nissan truck and had to replace water pump, alternator…..etc as it aged. All the externals, but the thing was going great when I sold it and it had 320+K. I never touched a head gasket. Great little trucks those 90’s era Nissans were.
Subaru head gaskets are known to be fragile. I blew one at 100k cause my radiator blew and I didn’t notice it immediately.
I’m guessing it’s a seal on the water pump, though, since the shop was so eager to pull it.
And I might have let them, too, except when I picked it up for the weekend because they couldn’t get to it right away, I arrived home in a cloud of steam. They never put the coolant cap back on! It was still sitting wedged up under the hood, which wasn’t fully latched. Pissed me off so much I’ve been topping off since.
I’d try a gasket.
Check the hoses, I had a crack on the hose at the bottom of the radiator, right behind the clamp. it only leaked when it was hot. It was just a little wet on the clamp if I let it sit for a minute.
Does it have those stupid spring loaded hose clamps that the Japanese auto manufacturers insist on using? If so, I would replace those with proper worm gear clamps.
Ha! I have one left on mine. Luckily it’s on a heater hose I shouldn’t need to touch for a long time.
Do NOT put that stuff in your coolant system. It may seal your leak. It will also seal up passages in your radiator and heater core.
Since commod asked a car question, I have one. Any of you gear heads ever done a lift on a truck? I have an older Excursion that needs some major front end work, as in probably all bushings/whatever wears out needs replacing. When I bought it I wanted to give it a couple inch lift for better off roading, and wondered if what comes in a lift kit would pretty much cover all the wear outables in the front end like tie rods and the like.
Stay away from rough country- not firsthand knowledge.
Most kits will have all you need or almost all you could need.
I think the Excursion is close to the same as a 350? You might be able to just use a 350 suspension and get some height and rigidity.
I think they are built on the 250 frame. Not sure if it is the same suspension. They are lower to the ground than than the trucks, so I imagine they are not. The thing is great. You can fit a full sheet of plywood in the back. I couldn’t do that with my Dodge 2500. I got rid of that because of all the diesel exhaust issues. They won’t let a diesel run efficiently these days. It was a pain in the ass and too much shop time for cleaning of the exhaust.
A lift will alter the suspension geometry, and you’ll be wearing out those bushings even faster.
I was thinking nothing more than 2 inches. The thing is so long it drags belly on some stuff/water bars and the like. Do you think that minor lift would change it that much?
I’m not saying you shouldn’t do it. Having suspension parts wear out faster is a lot better than splitting open the fuel tank when you bounce it over a rock. Just be aware that bushings and the like will wear out faster from the lift, even if the truck never ones goes off road.
1 inch won’t do much, and a good company should be accounting for those differences. offset bearings, angle corrections.
This also happens which is why land cruisers need to have their axles cut and rewelded for stuff over 4″. more than that and you start needing to adjust how your transmission and transfer sit.
Huh. Who knew. Thanks, that was interesting.
Thanks, everyone. I will try to track down the leak this weekend. Let you know how it goes.
Or I’ll finally learn to ride the family motorcycle.
If it’s been sitting I hope you know how to clean and jet a carburetor.
Always gotta be something, doesn’t it
Ethanol is a bitch.
Uh, not anymore. I am not sure how he maintained it other than by lying about medications. And what the hell is a woman doing wanting to have a child with that guy? She didn’t hear about his past dead girlfriends? Dude is the Ted Kennedy of the beer world.
And what the hell is a woman doing wanting to have a child with that guy?
I assume you can point to a few hundred million reasons someone would take those odds.
good point
I only listen to the real gangsta shit.
I don’t like know which I love more, the song, or the fact that this video actually existed in an uncut form.
the fact that someone saw that song in the original video is amazing.
I’m bumping this on my way home
Common tactic for agw scammers: take some regular but not well known natural occurance and sensationalize it then blame global warming. Pure chicken little.
Notice all the Weasley headlines – among the largest…, one of the largest…., largest in recent history….
It’s their usual attempt to deceive. After a few years of accelerated growth ( from global cooling) the ice sheet breaks off in larger chunks. This giant ice burg isn’t unusual or even the largest ever in human history by a long shot.
“If it remains intact at calving, 6000km2 LarsenC iceberg will be 3rd largest recorded since satellite tracking began”
So third biggest ever recorded (since, what, the 70s?), if it remains intact… which means larger sections may have calved in separate pieces, which wouldn’t have gotten as much attention.
Since 1979. So third largest single-break calving in the past half-century.
I think we’ll survive.
I especially enjoy when they say that some weather event is “the largest in world history”. How would they possibly know that?? Did they have monitoring stations set up in the ancient world? Weather has only been reliably measured for the past century at best.
Everything before that was perfect and idyllic. Before capitalism and industrialization, humans loved in a veritable Garden of Eden.
The Other Place had a very strange piece today which said, in a nutshell, “everybody knows AGW is real duh, so why aren’t they buying the science behind the damage caused by minimum wage”.
I saw that article. I thought it was a stupid idea. I’m not a fan of stooping to un-scientific tactics. Especially with something like econ.
From 2013, but someone I know posted it on Facebook. Especially since things have gotten worse since then. Also, this is the first Slate article I’ve ever agreed with.
Hoppy beer is awful and brewers should stop making it
As someone that hates bitter beer I actually agree with this argument. Beer should not taste like I’m eating a grapefruit rind.
For the longest time I thought I hated beer because the only thing people would drink in Boulder were IPAs. Since then I’ve gotten into sweet/sour beers, dark malty beers and can even appreciate American Lager on a hot day. But every ninny with brew kit seems to think they just need to pour on the hops, add a dash of some flavor or another and they’ve got something amazing. It’s like the deviantArt of alcohol.
*hides open citradelic*
we do not!
Hoppy beer is not awful. Beer that is TOO hoppy and thus too bitter is awful. Like pretty much every IPA ever created.
Non-hoppy beer is awful, too.
Meh. I can go for an IPA at the moment.
OT: Brett, you’ve mentioned liking Charlie Stross’s Laundry Files, so I’m picking on you. (Anyone else who’s read them, chime in too.) I was a gigantic fan of the series, but hadn’t read the last few. Unintentionally skipped over the Rhesus one and am about 2/3 through The Annihilation Score. (Aside, I could type Annihilation until I’m 100, and still botch it w/o autocorrect.)
Anyway, when did Stross drink about two gallons of Social Justice kool-aid? Am I the one who’s not getting it? I don’t remember in previous books, whether Laundry or his other stuff, the constant whining about this and that political issue, or the complaining about a lack of diversity, or the ham-fisted metaphors for terrorism and Islam in the UK. Usually, his (to use TV Tropes’s language) assorted Take That! was done wryly. E.g., the bit about the Septagons in the Iron Sunrise universe getting poetic justice for their Libertarianism. This book is a lot less subtle about it. Even in something as recent as Rule 34, I don’t remember the tone being the above.
It’s been detracting from a series I’m normally a fanatic about. Annoying, considering how long I’d waited between reading Apocalypse Codex and this.
I’ve only read the first book; haven’t been motivated to read any of the others.
Looks like a smart fella.
Lions and tigers and Russians and… sex bots, oh my!
What’s that smell? Oh yes, more shitty britches. So you make a premise about sentience and you run with that. Never mind that you don’t even seem to know what sentience is. Get back to me when someone proves that a machine is sentient.
LOL the Mirror readers don’t seem to be on board with the panic.
You’re joking, but right there is a perfect example of why feminists are terrified over sexbots.
“Make me a sammich, June Cleaverbot!”
I love how it says it raises moral dilemmas. Call me old fashioned, but I think that the mortality of the issue is something that could be sorted out already.
Ya’ll may remember this gem of an article. Yes the neopuritans will be very much concerned about how people treat their sexbots.
https://qz.com/911681/we-tested-apples-siri-amazon-echos-alexa-microsofts-cortana-and-googles-google-home-to-see-which-personal-assistant-bots-stand-up-for-themselves-in-the-face-of-sexual-harassment/
I started a Glibertarians Discord.
https://discord.gg/5aKBR2E
Basically its a little real time chat server.
How’s that resistance going, bro?
Hmm I’m getting a 500 error.
Jesus, he really has hit rock bottom.
He will not divide us!
I’ll just state I hope he gets the help he needs, finds sobriety and a newfound purpose in life.