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Tee hee! Crotchety old man with back issues is first in the egg-spoon race!
My wife’s car has an intermittent backup camera problem, and I looked up what it would cost to replace… 400 freakin dollars! I may as well strap a GoPro to the back and pocket $250!
Hopefully it’s just a loose connection. I need to get the wiring diagram and find out.
What’s the problem?
The video will drop randomly when in reverse. Sometimes the video just goes black (like I put my thumb over the camera), sometimes it displays an error saying to take it to the dealer, sometimes it kicks out to the main screen like I’m in drive. I’d say one of these happens 1/3 of the time.
Supposedly Fords of this vintage (2013) are known for having backup cameras that will go on the fritz. I just don’t want to pay $400 for a friggin camera.
Just take your thumb off the camera then.
When you put your car in reverse, the same wire that turns on your reverse lights is the one that applies power to your back up camera, I’d start there. Of the camera shows a picture, then I doubt your problem is your camera.
Couldn’t be happening to a nicer bunch
GILLLLMMMMMOOOORRRRRREDDDDDD!!!!
yeah, damn dude. I was just trying to be helpful.
Not only Gilmore’d but Salon’d. This trshmnstr guy has it out for you.
This. And check transmission sensor (what used to be nuterule safety switch)
Do they remove the mirrors when they install those cameras?
No, they don’t. However, a lot of newer cars with those cameras have thicker pillars and taller doors in order to comply with the latest Federal safety regulations. This makes it harder to see out of the car. These changes don’t affect the side mirrors that much, but they’re hell on the rear view mirror.
I have a ’13 Genesis. It replaced an ’03 Crown Victoria. The Crown Victoria was easier to back up than the Genesis because the Crown Victoria’s pillars were smaller and the doors shorter. Mirrors, windows, it didn’t matter which I used when I backed the Crown Vic up, backing up the Crown Vic was easier. When I test drove the Genesis, the back up camera saved it. If the Genesis had to comply with the same safety regulations in effect in ’03, I wouldn’t need the back up camera.
However, a lot of newer cars with those cameras have thicker pillars and taller doors in order to comply with the latest Federal safety regulations. This makes it harder to see out of the car.
This is the issue with my wife’s car. Even with the mirrors adjusted properly, there are blind spots due to the massive pillars and the length of the vehicle. They’re not big enough to lose a car in, but a motorcycle or pedestrian could easily be lost (especially when backing up without the camera)
When I first started driving I had my mirrors adjusted in wrong way. I forget how long I had been driving when I read about the correct way to adjust mirrors, maybe a few years or so. I tried it out, and I wondered how I ever managed to drive with the mirrors adjusted the wrong way.
My father mocked me any time I would do the look over your shoulder while backing up thing. I’ve driven a few cars with backup camera and still used the mirrors exclusively, the camera seems wrong to me.
My dad was a long haul truck driver, he made fun of me for even using the rearview mirror, should be able to back up only using side mirrors.
When I’m backing up, I’m more worried about small things (pedestrians in the parking lot, the well head in my driveway) that are likely to find the gaps in the mirror coverage. The camera gives me the peace of mind that I’m not about to run over some kid who bent over behind my car to tie his shoe. I use the camera and the side mirrors when backing up.
I always look over my shoulder – in my car, I get a great view of almost the entire rear in one shot – don’t like having to adjust my seat position while moving backwards.
I borrowed a Lexus CT (it’s a small hatchback) and it had TERRIBLE views. The rearview mirror was completely useless because the back window was about the size of a postage stamp, and the corner pillars were so big i felt I was in a cave. I hated driving that car.
What kinda pussy goes backwards?
I blame the new structural regs for my first collision/scrape in 16 years of driving. Relatively minor but it was still annoying to get repaired
The car does not have a back up camera
I hate driving my wife’s car for this reason. I don’t need half of the shit that they blare at me. Put her in D and let’s go. I’m terrified that when I try to change the radio station that the little fucker will stall out because there’s a back door lock assisted thingy. Unnecessary tech. Fuck me on a fork.
I’m all about the tech. My car has auto wipers, lane keep assist, blind spot sensing, front and back proximity sensors, rear camera, and a bunch of other crap, too. The only one I’ve hated was auto-brights. They would come on at the most inopportune times.
Needs intermittent bum-wipers, just to be sure. Hey! Robby’s car!
My giant 2000 Ford expedition has no back up camera. It has a cassette deck and no USB output/input. It also has no problems and is ridiculously cheap to maintain.
I’ve got an 02 silverado with 240k miles on it. It does what I need it to do.
You’re almost in the “rebuild safe zone”. Trucks from earlier decade were prone to rust but at least you could do a top-end rebuild without much fuss and bother. I tuned up my Tacoma a few months ago and it was a total cunt.
I rebuilt the engine at about 220k. I have replaced all the brake calipers and shocks. The front end, rear end, ttansmission, and steering sector are still all good. As things start to fail I will replace them. If I have to spend a thousand or so every year or so to keep it running, I’m way money ahead. A 2017 iteration of my truck would cost me 50 grand.
I have no shop but I do bow before you, Good Sirrah! I’ve shade-treed my way through a lot of what Detroit and Nippon could chuck at me. Getting older and not happy with gravel-back no mo.
I guarantee you can build a shop and put tools in it for less than the price of a new truck.
My pampered steed has only 130k miles. I have a ridiculously short commute because I decided to live in a 1950-1960s inner ring suburb (hemmed in on three sides by a park, a railroad, and a large creek) instead of trying to move into the fashionable new pop-up (tree-less) developments “up north” that quickly become overcrowded.
It was funny because when I was looking to buy a house in 2006 (bad timing–I know) the bank approved me for $450k mortgage. I laughed, and promptly set my own budget at around $250k, which is what we ended up closing for. Thank goodness, because we all know what happened to home values a few months later. Finally above water on the house again last year. And I plan to drive my car into the ground too.
The Mr Hayeksplosives and I have talked about taking this Ford, when it is finally toast, to a custom shop to have it overhauled and made awesome without modern weight restrictions and tracking devices, instead of getting a new car. I like that plan.
(For context, this is Minneapolis, so a $250k house is not luxurious by any means)
Housing prices are something else.
250k would build me a damn near mansion. I paid 50 for my current abode. I spent a lot of time and effort and about 15k get it into good shape. I know that in most places, the home is the primary expense, but I bought mine in 2010 and and had it paid off last year.
Real estate markets apparently vary greatly from place to place
I am hoping that I can sell eventually and move down south again where $100k gets you a long way toward a nice place.
For now, I need the corresponding high salary that the MinneApple provides.
You’d love the Bay Area. You can’t even get a fixer-upper “starter house” here for under $1 million.
My folks bought their place in Greensboro, NC within easy walking distance from campus in an area that’s getting renovated now. I think they put in 80k for theirs – but have done some additions – like a master bathroom, etc. A lot of those houses are a lot older though. They’ll probably sell it later this year and look for something closer to Durham.
pop-up (tree-less) developments “up north”
To be fair, it’s Minnesota. Trees don’t survive the winters there.
How short?
Mine is 5 minutes, and when I start this new job, it will be cut down to 4.
It’s 2.7 miles. Takes about 6 minutes with traffic lights. I am PISSED when it is more than 10! In blizzards, it might take me 20.
I’m wondering what to do about my 1999 Saturn SL1.
I had it about four years, it’s about to turn 200K miles, and runs like a top.
Should I just leave well enough alone, or is there something important to do around this milepost?
My first car was an 85 Chevy Celebrity which I kept for about 12 years. No air conditioning, no power locks or windows. Sometimes the horn would honk for no reason. That was always fun when a cop was around.
I got rid of it when I had to get it towed and the tow truck driver said the bottom was so rusted, he had trouble finding a place to put the hooks.
Forgive me, author of Drive It Forever. I tried.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Drive_it_forever.html?id=aqn8z7L8eVUC
Nice new avatar; i thought that pic was pretty nice my own self.
Does she need a replacement camera? Is the visibility that bad on whatever model she’s driving?
Everything I’ve read online says it’s a faulty camera causing the issue. However, I’m going to check the wiring as soon as I find a wiring diagram. It would be great if it’s just a loose connector or a frayed wire.
What I mean in this case is – does it matter? Sure she might have gotten a little used to having it, but she’s probably been driving for years before now without one.
It has only been really acting up for the last 2 months or so, so she’s used to using it. I’m especially used to it because my car has one.
Sheeyit, it costs us $400 to replace the tires on our damn Highlander. At $400, it’s still well within the range that, if I can’t fix it in about twenty minutes with crap I’ve got in the shed, I’ll pay someone to do it.
“Two toddlers’ deaths were ruled as homicides after police claim their mother left them in a hot car for several hours in order to teach them a lesson. Cynthia Marie Randolph was arrested after her two-year-old daughter Juliet and 16-month-old son Cavanaugh were found dead in Weatherford, Texas, on May 26. Randolph, 25, was charged with two counts of first-degree injury to a child causing serious bodily injury on June 23. It was revealed Sunday that a medical examiner ruled the young children’s deaths as homicides, dying of heatstroke while they were inside the hot car on the 96F day. Police said Randolph was trying to teach Juliet a lesson for not coming out of the car when asked. The mother allegedly went back inside to smoke pot and take a nap.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4766300/Deaths-two-children-left-hot-car-ruled-homicides.html
If the alleged crime happened as the story is told, Then I’m all for locking that woman is a car in a walmart parking lot in the middle of July and allowing her to die of a heat sroke.
I don’t even leave my dog in the truck when it gets above 20 degrees. I hope they fry her on a skittle.
What lesson was she trying to teach to the 16 month old?
I thinkMary Kay Letourneau’s Guide to Parenting might touch on it.
Yeah. like a 16 month old is capable of getting out of the car when she tells him to. Stories like this turn my stomach
Krist Novoselic and friends attempt to appease STEVE SMITH with his very own theme song.
It’s actually pretty good. Captions recommended.
STEVE SMITH LIKE. HE APPEASED ….FOR NOW.
Phew! That’s a relief. Still…I think I’ll avoid the Pacific Northwest for a while and leave it to all the hippies and hikers. And Grunge rockers. And STEVE SMITH.
You think STEVE SMITH only hangs out in the Pacific Northwest? Clearly you’re unfamiliar with his RAPEAMANIA annual global tours.
From the comments:
He’s one orphan comment from becoming a Glibertarian!
How do we push him over the edge?
Invite him to Thicc Thursday?
I really wish I could find the old Coast to Coast AM episode I was listening to where a woman talked about being abducted by Bigfoot, being dragged off to his cave and being raped (eventually getting all Stockholm and loving him). I lost my shit when I heard it.
Is this the one?
I could have sworn it was Art Bell era but I only heard it on a full episode on youtube a year or two ago. Don’t remember the alien and telepath stuff.
Art Bell or Phil Hendrie.
Hendrie’s whole show was setting up trolls like that to dupe first time listeners into calling and freaking out on his “guest” (who was actually also him doing another voice).
Hendrie had an episode where the HOA rep was fining residents for putting up harvest theme decorations, because they made children think about having sex with animals.
Halloween decorations were fine, though.
I believe that may have been one of his best recurrent characters, the head of the “Western States Homeowners Association”. RIP Phil.
Art Bell was awesome.
Grand Theft Auto:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4766024/Three-teens-die-stolen-car-crash-driving-100mph.html
I’m pretty sure that billboard shown in the picture of the intersection is for a personal injury firm…
Ah, Florida Teen.
And 16-year-olds with a kajillion tattoos.
Some day aliens are going to visit the ruins of human civilization and wonder why their self-portaits consist entirely of them staring down at a piece of plastic attached to their hands.
The part of me that gets angry when people park in front of my house (it’s a public street) thinks this is karma and good riddance. The part of me that isn’t an asshole remembers a childhood of petty (and not so petty) theft, car theft (not me personally) and B&E with other teenage delinquents, and is thankful and relieved that I made it long enough to learn some morality without having a criminal record. When I hear about shit like this, it really is a case of “There but for the grace of God went I”.
Which part of you would win the struggle if your next door neighbor turned his house into an airbnb motel?
I have survived my longest ride to date. Final distance was ~76 miles. I missed my goal of average moving speed of 15 MPH over the ride, but I did reach my goal of getting to the finish before the beer tent opened. I do want to hit whoever decided that the finish should be uphill.
what sort of terrain?
Maximum grade of about 8%, average grade of .2%, total climb was about 2,300 feet, total final elevation change was about 50 feet. The first ten miles or so were mainly downhill, with a long period of relatively flat roads through corn fields, then finishing the last 25 miles rolling hills having the majority of the climbs. There was a killer headwind of ~15 MPH for the mid portion of the ride though.
Only heard of one accident which was an asshole driver trying to pass riders on an uphill, hit one of the riders, then hit a car that crested the hill. From what I heard, the rider had a compound fracture and was expected to make a full recovery after being Life Flighted to the hospital.
sounds like fun. sorry to hear someone got hurt. you make it sound like its normal for at least one rider to go down.
i never was a road biker. i mountain biked pretty hard for a long time, and would put road-wheels on my bike to cruise the city sometimes, but now my shit has been rusting in the garage/attic and i’m realizing that my cardio options are probably going to eventually lead me to road bikes sometime soon. i have a titanium mb frame that could probably take road-wheels and be a passable rig, but i think i might just be better off buying a cheapie road bike to break before trying to build a franken-bike.
There is nothing wrong with a hybrid. There is a huge difference between a road bike and a street bike. Road bikes are lightweight, spidery things that are great for smooth pavement in perfect weather. They are better suited for racing than city streets that are often in various stages of disrepair. Adding some weight for more spokes, stronger rims, wider tires, front suspension, suspension post, rear view mirror, gel saddle, etc. is often worth it. You’ll spend less time truing your wheels and icing your testicles. Fenders are good option if you want to ride in wet weather.
I was a bike tech @ REI in new rochelle when i was 18. i know the variances between styles of bikes and how they handle different territory. my own riding was almost always 100% offroad because… well it was just fun. and wearing spandex was faggy. i never liked road-riding because it just seemed like exercise rather than ‘whoo hoo!!” (crashes into tree)
my issue now is that i’m getting old and out of shape and my collection of bike parts is becoming increasingly useless but might be potentially resuscitated in the service of some form of exercise machine.
the only thing the back of my brain is wondering is whether its actually cheaper to just buy a ready road-bike, rather than to try and reconfigure some old components. the reconfiguring stuff can get expensive quick, because no one wants to fix shimanoXT parts on the cheap.
anyway, no biggie in the meantime.
Faggy? What I can’t be a MAMIL (although I don’t have the expensive bike, I do wear that jersey and shorts)?
It was somewhat amusing the first time my girlfriend saw me in cycling shorts. She wasn’t aware that the entire crotch region is padded, and said: “Those make you look… bigger.” I have also caught a couple of female gazes at some of the local breweries from time to time.
lol i knew i was going to catch shit for saying it.
you are forgiven, brother. wear your padded lycra with pride and comfort.
i bet your ass looks fantastic.
No forgiveness asked for, nor required. I understand that I look god damned ridiculous wearing a jersey and shorts. It makes the long rides easier though. And it does add entertaining tan lines to me.
I was never a professional bike tech. But there are plenty of options to buy a decent street bike “off the shelf”. Imho, you are better riding a mountain bike (not a heavy “downhill bike) on the street than road bike. Upgrading stuff can get expensive, but it’s less expensive if you aren’t that much concerned about weight. My bike was a cheap “road” hybrid with an aluminum frame that I upgraded with Shimano parts (eg. better brakes) and various accessories to make it safer, more reliable, and comfortable on the street. If you have a titanium frame, then start with that, even though it’s a mountain bike. Wheel size isn’t that important.
It was a good ride, long and brutal with the head wind. I’m glad I didn’t decide to make the jump to the full 100 mile ride. I’m still a bit stiff and sore today just from the 75. Then there’s those who rode down and rode back up this morning (75 mile route was the only supported one for that). We did raise a lot of money for MS, and at least one member of my team was bribed to ride up in a Deadpool costume (sans mask, we don’t want him to die).
Out of the five or so large group rides I’ve done, three have had accidents. However, in any ride with over 1,500 riders, there will probably be at least one accident. Part of it is drivers doing stupid shit, and a part of it is riders doing stupid shit. If you’re on a group ride, the calls of car back, car forward, and car passing should be echoed up and back so you can ride with information. If you ignore the information and ride like an asshole, you’re doing no one any favors.
I haven’t done the mountain biking, I started with a hybrid since I live by a park with a hiking/biking trail that’s too rough for a road bike, and I was just getting into cycling as a healthy hobby. My first year, my average rides were in the 10 mile range, I did a 25 mile ride, and then signed up for a tour that hit 50 miles. Second year (still on the hybrid), I signed up for the 50 mile ride on the Sweet Corn Challenge, thinking I could probably do the full century, but I’d try the short ride first. It kicked my ass, since most of my riders were relatively flat. Later that same year, I did my first 70 mile ride which was another flat ride. Last year, at the end of the season, I picked up a used road bike for ~$350, which I’ve been riding a lot. It’s a big change from the hybrid, but I’m still pushing for my first century ride, and I’m hoping to get it in by the end of the season.
basically, biking offroad has 2 interesting parts = going down stuff really fast and not dying, or going up technical stuff and not puking your guts out.
the ‘going up stuff slowly/carefully’ is actually where the really technical skill lies. the competition mountain bikers who do bomber runs down mountains is really not what its about at all. the best mountain biking terrain is 10miles of broken ground where you do a few thousand feet of up/down. It will kick your ass and also present lots of scary/dangerous-stuff occasionally.
Ah, the first century is a great feeling.
If you haven’t made the move to clipless pedals and proper bike shoes, do so immediately. They make a massive difference, not just in efficiency but also in safe handling. (Make sure you get comfortable with them before riding on the road, however – otherwise you’ll end up on your side in a ditch, wheels spinning, like my old man. I told him…)
I haven’t made the jump to clipless pedals (or even baskets yet), but that’s the goal for next year. I’ve been doing small incremental upgrades for each season. I’ve gotten some respect from people who have been riding much longer then me when they learn my first 50 was wearing a pair of Doc Marten’s, almost all of my metrics have been done on a hybrid bike (carrying a rack and panniers to carry shite), and that I’m still riding with regular pedals and shoes. Hell, I had a homeless guy yell at me one day about how much energy I was losing by not snapping into my pedals.
That’s pretty hardcore… but when you do make the switch, you’ll kick yourself for not listening to the homeless guy. Since I switched, I’ve done 12 or 13 thousand miles on clipless, and about 2 blocks on waffles.
A proper road bike makes a massive difference too. I spent more than a decade on a steel-framed touring bike, which got the job done pretty well, especially with some upgrades (like road wheels) – hell, one summer it carried me across the US. Then a couple of years ago I finally upgraded to a really nice (but not crazy nice) aluminum-framed road machine, and it was like going from a station wagon to a sports car – just an entirely different experience.
I can appreciate that, and respect those who do that (as well as cyclocross), but I’m too old to risk that kind of stuff. Hell, I’ve noticed myself getting more risk averse on some downhills just in the past year. I enjoy both the road and path biking as a way to give myself an excuse to go out, as well as a way to challenge myself.
I know that anytime I fail to meet a goal, it’s my fault. I also know that anytime I’m successful, it’s because I worked at it. It gives me that small burst of pride and accomplishment. And no one ever says they jogged to a local brewery for a pint.
Next time they should put the beer tent on Alpe d’Huez.
Some of the people tried to defend the ending on a climb with the phrase, “The Tour de France ends on a climb.” We’re doing a charity ride, not the Tour. I don’t mind a challenge, but being able to coast into the finish and look happy at the finish can help. I heard tale of at least one person who bonked right before the last climb, and dumped their bike.
Over at Newsweek, they have developed an obsession with the eclipse. Apparently they found some astrologers to interview, and it means curtains for TRUMPUTIN.
I couldn’t be bothered to actually read the damned thing, what with the autoplay video and generally obnoxious site design.
Just the end of Trump? This eclipse is really missing some good apocalypse mania.
The Apocalypse would be not the end of Trump.
I know your works, tribulation, and poverty. I know many things. I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not. Fake Jews! They are a synagogue of Satan, folks. Sad.
“Why Professional Cuddling Is Booming Under Trump”
http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/why-professional-cuddling-is-booming-under-trump-w495042
Hookers who don’t even give you a happy ending.
Then again, it is Rolling Stone, so who knows if it’s true.
Regardless if it’s true or not, it’s Trumps fault.
Penn and Teller had a bit on these folks in “Bullshit!”.
Rolling Stone, or the cuddlers?
The cuddlers.
I did a little digging. I can’t find the clip but I found that it was part of their “Life Coaching” episode.
The Explorer was going as fast as 100mph when it ran a red light and hit a car driven by 29-year-old Ricky Melendez at the intersection of US 19 and Tampa Road.
The stolen car then flew into the air, hit a billboard and rolled down the road before it burst into flames.
Melendez was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and is expected to be fine, WTSP reported.
Fucking hell what was that Melendez guy driving? An ex- Secret Service armor plated Suburban?
I wondered the same! Thank goodness he will be OK, as the (seemingly) only non-idiot involved here.
Hope he gets full replacement value on his armored tank.
I hope Pan is OK. Sorry about his gf.
STEVE SMITH FIND BRITISH MAXINE WATERS.
Diane Abbott is also the woman who said that Mao was a great man on live television.
Also Corbyn’s fucked her. If you wanted more evidence of how incestuous and dysfunctional the socialists running Labour are.
Thank you for your service, kind Xer!
Proper fucked?
My wife’s car has an intermittent backup camera problem
It keeps coming on when you shift into reverse?
Snickers uncontrolably.
Too many layers of euphamism.
Musical rape?
Ear Rape. Title IX does not apply.
I was going to pick this, but it sounds consensual to me.
Which one do tee I off on first? That shit drives me over the bend, through the bush and back to the putting green.
make way for the new moral panic: digital blackface
We Need to Talk About Digital Blackface in Reaction GIFs
http://www.teenvogue.com/story/digital-blackface-reaction-gifs
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Now, I’m not suggesting that white and nonblack people refrain from ever circulating a black person’s image for amusement or otherwise (except maybe lynching photos, Emmett Till’s casket, and videos of cops killing us, y’all can stop cycling those, thanks). There’s no prescriptive or proscriptive step-by-step rulebook to follow, nobody’s coming to take GIFs away. But no digital behavior exists in a deracialized vacuum. We all need to be cognizant of what we share, how we share, and to what extent that sharing dramatizes preexisting racial formulas inherited from “real life.” The Internet isn’t a fantasy — it’s real life.
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[head desk]
I cribbed this from Sargon, the UK’s leading derpetologist.
So no more Jimi or Jazz? The Man That Is More Freckle Than Boy since yesterday strongly disapproves!
I have a Pilsner in my hand right now, and I’m wishing it was scotch, in the same bottle.
All I got out of this was “we need to talk” means “no we don’t, because you’ll just stay some stupid shit”
and
“I’m not suggesting” is some kind of cover story for when the article gets linked as an example of PC run amok. “I didn’t say this was wrong in all cases, just in enough cases that white people should listen to me hector them about it.”
We need to have an important conversation about how I am going to be a total cunt to you in the next five words…
I really don’t get Sargon’s appeal. He’s a hardcore lefty who anti-SJW who doesn’t have a clue how the US works legally or socially (hell I live here and I’m still trying to figure it out), and he’s got nasally voice bordering on the cleft palate with a condescending tone.
Condescension sells. It makes people feel superior. That’s like 80% of social media these days.
I think his appeal is an intellectual sounding accent and an infectious laugh.
The laugh is probably the most important because ridicule is more potent than reasoning in the culture war.
IMO Sargon like many others has his uses. He’s makes being leftist culturally uncool to younger people.
Sargon is a leftist; he just hasn’t succumbed to the identity politics brain rot. He’s a “classical liberal” the exact same way Bill Maher was a libertarian… trendy labeling. Look at his economic positions.
I think he’s lifetime lefty who is transitioning away. If the world was Sargon and Dave Rubin leftists vs libertarians it would be better than the current breed so while I don’t always agree with him I’m not that worried either.
Sargon is not a hardcore lefty. He’s moderate-to-right leaning. He calls himself a liberal, but he means it in the classical liberal sense. He’s trying to take back the term from progressives. He’s pro-capitalism, anti socialism (see latest video), and pro individual rights and liberty. He does believe there needs to be some sort of social safety net, but he does not believe in an all encompassing welfare state.
I guess that’s subjective. To me anyone who advocates for the government to put a cap on CEO pay of 25 times the lowest paid person at the company sounds pretty left wing.
He’s really not for individual rights beyond free speech. He believes in a planned economy and his economic views sound more like marxism than anything else (See cap on CEO pay and his video “Answers for Libertarians.”) He’s a statist at heart who believes the TOP MEN and RIGHT LAWS bullshit.
There are some libertarian videos tearing him apart. This one is pretty good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPg-Xw0zGTg
I like this guy Shane Killian because he goes straight up insane on his commenters. Like allcaps batshit insane.
https://twitter.com/_David_Edward/status/894044798105124865
Wait, what?
She should ask her boy/girlfriends to bathe more regularly or at least take a wet-wipe to xer nethers…
wow.
Sydney suburb bans construction of synagogue over fears it could be a terrorist target
Locals in Bondi, Australia, were worried that the space would pose a security risk to nearby residents and chose to reject the proposal, a decision that has infuriated religious leaders.
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The temple was to be built in Bondi, a short walk from Australia’s famous Bondi Beach. But locals worried that the space would pose a security risk to nearby residents, motorists and pedestrians. As evidence of that threat, the council pointed to the synagogue’s own design, which included setback buildings and blast walls. They also said the design would have an “unacceptable impact” on the street and neighbourhood.
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Friends of Refugees From Eastern Europe, a Jewish group, immediately appealed that decision to the Land and Environment Court. The protective design, the group said, was not a commentary on the risk the temple faced, but rather a best practice used at lots of synagogues. It also offered to do a redesign.
But the court sided with the council. In its decision, the court explained that western countries are under threat from Daesh, also known as ISIS or ISIL, and that the potential of an attack in Australia is considered “probable” by government officials. The court also noted that the designs would serve only to protect those inside the building, not those outside.
The announcement comes just days after Australian authorities foiled a major terror plot to blow up an airplane using a homemade explosive device and to release poison gas.
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[face palm]
This is pretty much the definition of “The terrorists have won”, isn’t it?
Or is it OK if only (((they))) are the ones losing freedoms?
“This is pretty much the definition of “The terrorists have won”, isn’t it?”
Not quite. There was another incident in Sweden where Jews were banned from a Kristallnacht commemoration ceremony:
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/In-Sweden-a-Kristallnacht-commemoration-without-Jews-432498
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According to local media and the leader of the city’s small Jewish community, organizers from the local branch of the Arbetarpartiet, or Workers Party, failed to invite them to attend or address the gathering, which some believe has been re-purposed for political reasons.
Carrine Sjöberg, head of the city’s organized Jewish community, said she was shocked to learn that the reason she was not contacted was because organizers believes that “Jewish people will be scared to come” because often Israeli flags are on display with swastikas daubed across them.
She cited a statement by Jan Hägglund of the Arbetarpartiet, one of the primary organizers, to a local paper in which he asserted that he had not involved the Jews because “it can be perceived as an unwelcoming or unsafe situation for them.”
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You see? That’s what “the terrorists have won” looks like.
That wasn’t the “terrorists have won”. That was the blatant antisemitism that our European betters are so known for (and so proud of).
It’s mind-boggling, is it not?
I am pretty much as British as they come, and have no genetic Jewish heritage, but I am a lover of law and freedom, and to me the Jewish traditions are very much as (if not more than) important to “Western Civilization” as ancient Greece and Rome were. Ok, definitely more than.
As an Oklahoma native (protestant Christian of course) teenager, I read history about antisemitism but thought that was an aberration or an ancient relic. Only as I got older (and especially after living in Europe) did I realize that antisemitism is alive and well in Europe and other spots.
Even though American Jews tend to dislike American conservatives, they should really look into it and realize that there are their staunchest allies.
Holy cow. That is terrible.
I was a Master’s degree student in Stockholm for a couple of years, and I learned that Swedes were very smug about all the American press articles saying how awful and racist America is, yet what I personally witnessed was that Swedes were very racist themselves.
Antisemitism was less on my radar, but I did hear the murmurings at times. When I was there (90s), Turks were the main component of the islamic unemployed in the Govt Projects. Now, They have all kinds of Somali, North African, Afgan, Iraqi, etc. They have admitted 120,000 “migrants” into a population of 10 million.
I think the public rejection of local Jews from this commemorative event is an attempt at appeasement at their newest group of “Swedes”. Good luck with that, Sweden. Remember you gave us the Vikings; might be time to remember that instinct for self preservation.
She cited a statement by Jan Hägglund of the Arbetarpartiet, one of the primary organizers, to a local paper in which he asserted that he had not involved the Jews because “it can be perceived as an unwelcoming or unsafe situation for them.”
Huh. I guess Arbetarpartiet macht dich nicht frei.
This is called “cowering in place” and should be adopted by every right-thinking individual. Common sense! Crikey!
You’d think that, if Israel was the worst threat to peace in the world, then Australia should ban mosques for fear that the Israelis would blow them up.
/sarc
Duh, Israelis don’t attack anything unless there’s Palestinian children in them.
Those big Red Cross/Swastikas aren’t helping much.
That’s not what Prager U told me!
Australians ban synagogues, London Council mandates gay bars:
From the linked Grauniad piece:
Bolding of the position of night czar, previously unknown to me, is my own. How does one get this position? What are the salary and benefits?
Sure you can: laws are magic, after all.
You’re not making this up, are you?
I’d have also linked the Guardian directly if not for the delay. So if both Breitbart and the Guardian are reporting the same thing, it’s either doubly true or doubly fake news, right?
“What are the salary and benefits?”
http://www.theonion.com/blogpost/why-do-all-these-homosexuals-keep-sucking-my-cock-10861
This is satire, right?
Another NYT tearjerker about the persecution of the deep staters at the State Department.
“We support paring back the number of special envoys, especially when the function can be folded back into the bureaus, clarifying the lines of authority,” said Barbara Stephenson, president of the American Foreign Service Association. “We also support streamlining cumbersome administrative processes that eat up precious hours of every workday. However, the ship of state can, and must, keep moving during this process.”
At a rare meeting with reporters in July, Mr. Tillerson acknowledged that the State Department suffered from poor morale but was generally dismissive of the criticism at its root. “It is to be expected that we will go through some morale issues early on,” he said, adding that he was “mindful of it.”
“I pay attention to it,” he said.
But he said he was carrying out the policies of a president elected by the American people, and to those who cannot adjust to the new administration, “we have given them permission to go do something else.”
Oh, golly, what will we do without those noble lifers and their institutional inertia? We’re doomed, I tell you.
And they’ve been doing such good work for the country!
All the lovely “leaks”, all of the time. They want the American Experiment to fail. They don’t care.
Bearded Popes
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9889139/Why-we-wont-get-a-bearded-pope.html
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The last bearded pope was Innocent XII (reigned 1691-1700). The 23 popes before him, from Clement VII (1523) onwards had beards.
The 17th century saw the arrival of the neat Van Dyck beard. In the 16th century papal beards were full. Clement VII was said to have grown his, when a prisoner in the Castel Sant’Angelo, in 1527, as a sign of mourning for the sack of Rome. The precedent was set by Julius II, as depicted by Raphael, who wore a beard only in the months following the loss to the Papal States of Bologna.
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But if Roman Canon Law forbade clerical beards, why did it? The last things to look at are practicalities. Rational canon lawyers of the 19th century saw a reason for forbidding moustaches, because priests drank from the chalice at Mass and must avoid any irreverence to the blood of Christ. Yet Canon Law did not apply to religious orders, some of which made beards obligatory.
Much earlier the great debate had been whether St Peter himself was bearded and whether he shaved his head. The point of the argument was that popes were the successor of Peter, so popes and their clergy should imitate what he did.
The late John Higgitt of Edinburgh University contributed a most learned chapter on beards and tonsures in Anglo-Saxon England to St Cuthbert: His Cult and Community (1989).
A key piece of evidence is tantalisingly absent, the missing face on the moulded silver depiction of St Peter on a portable altar found in the coffin of St Cuthbert (died 687). Was he bearded, or not?
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But the beard remains an emblem of the East, and an Eastern rite bishop is unlikely to be elected Bishop of Rome. We may get a black pope but not a bearded one.
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“an Eastern rite bishop is unlikely to be elected Bishop of Rome”
….because….?
We’ve already had a former head of the Ordinariate for the Eastern Catholic Faithful in Argentina elected Pope. Guess who?
This is why Orthodoxy remains the manliest Christianity.
I don’t rock a beard but I’ve been sporting the “Zappa” for twenty-odd years. Devil-Pope, perhaps.
Fr. Deacon Robert Cripps, St. Emilian Byzantine Catholic Church, Brunswick Ohio
A bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church
Nowhere near the same league.
Why else did you expect from the last true Romans?
“If you don’t like Trump’s foreign policy, then quit.”
Hey Ted, it’s Robert Mitchum day and his only film I can find to stream that I haven’t already seen is Heaven Knows, Mr Allison . It looks sorta chickish, is it worth watching or should I just re-watch Cape Fear and/or The Friends of Eddie Coyle?
It is sorta chickish but excellent. Mitchum as a marine and Deborah Kerr as a stupid nun on a Pacific island the Japanese are fighting for in WWII. The climactic showdown with the Japanese is definitely not chickish,
Cool, thanks.
I don’t know if you’ve seen them or if they’re available for streaming, but I’d also recommend His Kind of Woman which was already on today, as well as The Big Steal which wasn’t.
His Kind of Woman is available on Amazon, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it but added to my Watchlist anyway.The Big Steal is unfortunately not.
And of course, The Longest Day. It’s not solely his movie, but the Mitchum scenes are great.
Yeah, that’s on Netflix but aint nobody got time for a 3 hour movie.
Beers saves life of man lost in desert
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/06/arizona-man-stranded-in-desert-for-3-days-with-only-water-and-beer.html
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An Arizona man wanted to go on an adventure and visit a new town up north, but he ended up getting lost and stuck in the desert for just about 72 hours.
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Thankfully, he had some carbonated water and beer in the backseat. However, that quickly ran out.
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How did he lose his way in the first place?
He didn’t take that left turn at Albuquerque.
Good one.
HEARTY APPLAUSE.
Personally, I’d love to be able to spend three days in the Bradshaws wandering around drinking beer right now. Referring to the area around Crown King as the “desert” is… well, I guess it’s scientifically accurate, but being over a mile high means some of the best weather you can get in AZ right now.
Antarctica is technically a desert.
Click on this if you’re brave enough to read a true socialist tweeting all the exciting goings on at a socialist convention.
https://twitter.com/kid_mao
On the bright side, they seem to hate Matt Yglesias, so we do have something in common.
ill pass, kthxbai
I abandoned communism for a reason.
What was the reason? How did it happen?
‘The reason’ in this situation is I don’t want to listen to shrill idiots lie to themselves and others, but there’s a bunch of different reasons and it’s really too talk to sum up with comments. The short version has a lot to do with a greater understanding of human nature/personal ideological expansion (i.e. more reading) and actually interacting and trying to achieve things with the insecure elitists, middle class asshats, and bratty spoiled children that make up the modern socialist movement coupled with their desires to shove their pet issues into the worker’s revolution (this was a couple years before social justice became a big thing but you could definitely sense its idiocy coming).
Oh dear, I was a card-carrier too. My parents were members and most of my teen-aged friends. I tried communal living when I was 21. It was awesome until the top couple started ordering things. The money was running out at the same time. Picture a bunch of headless chickens scampering around the barnyard, stopping to furiously fuck and then running away again without laying a single egg. It was a teachable moment.
Wow, multiple ex-commies here. I thought I was a rarity for half-heartedly adhering to the default, standard-issue urban Democrat politics in my youth.
My Mom and Dad (mostly Mom) were dyed in the wool Socialists. She worked for the NDP until she drank herself out of position. She couldn’t let any slight go but she lived on the retirement package quite comfortably. OOOHHH how she hated Lois Boone. Mother was terrible at being the second fiddle.
Sowell’s got a story about how he was a Marxist because he’d work in downtown Manhattan, see the wealth, and then ship home every night to his ghetto and Marxism ‘gave answers as to why that was the case’. Same thing, but swap the places out for dirt poor rural areas and major urban centers instead.
I grew up kind of poor but my mom set a good example by getting us the hell off of welfare by my early teens.
I would think that even a cursory reading of the history of any communist nation should be enough to make anyone realize that in order for communism to work, millions must die. Unless one is a complete sociopath, then that ideology shouldnt square with you.
Do they stand for anything other than Palestine…?
Yes, she appeared to be completely for the elimination of Israel, and ridiculed Jonathan Chait for pointing that out.
A quick survey at a socialist convention would give you 40% old people who either live on social security/welfare, and 50% college kids and recent graduates who don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground, and 10% trustifarian rich people who inherited wealth and usually run the Socialist groups.
The key members of SDS, for instance, were more than half kids of the super-wealthy. the leadership of these socialist orgs are almost always these types. I would bet $100 this ‘kid mao’ is exactly that demographic.
I think you missed the contingent of 30- and 40-something burnouts that partied too hard in their 20s and never really made a life for themselves. Now that all of their cohort has established families and well-paying jobs, they feel like they’re owed the same.
Yeah, you’re right. sorry. they’re like sprinkles on top of the aforementioned sundae.
but there is a distinct ‘hi/low’ nature to their membership. lots of oldies/youngsters; too-rich/never had any money at all.
the thing they all share in common is they never had real jobs, or never held onto them for more than 5 mins.
hayeksplosives linked a sasquatch song above, I feel a link to Tenacious D is in order.
Noice!
Illinois governor signs bill to commemorate ‘Barack Obama Day’
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/06/Illinois-governor-signs-bill-to-commemorate-Barack-Obama-Day/3531502060257/?utm_source=sec&utm_campaign=sl&utm_medium=1
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Aug. 6 (UPI) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill that will make Aug. 4 “Barack Obama Day” in the state.
The commemorative holiday, which is the former president’s birthday, will begin in 2018 and be “observed throughout the State as a day set apart to honor the 44th President of the United States of America who began his career serving the People of Illinois in both the Illinois State Senate and the United States Senate, and dedicated his life to protecting the rights of Americans and building bridges across communities,” the bill reads.
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who began his career serving the People of Illinois
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Well, serving one person in Illinois.
Aug. 4 is the feast day of a guy you might call a community organizer.
Careful! That could be interpreted as digital blackface- see post 13.
digitalnigga please
Sasquatch v. Beastie Boys
I’m surprised the part about the wedding is treated positively:
Trump shows up unexpectedly at wedding party at club where he’s staying
Of course, there’s the usual idiocy about a TEAM RED president’s “vacation”.
American University prof first in the U.S. to get ‘gender-neutral’ driver’s license
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35230/
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An American University alum and current adjunct professor is officially the first individual in the country to be granted a gender-neutral driver’s license.
Nic Sakurai, also the associate director of the University of Maryland’s LGBT Equity Center who uses the pronouns “they” and “theirs,” told The Eagle that to “finally have that corrected and at least not feel excluded based upon that is quite an exciting thing and relief to finally have.”
“I feel like every day of my life I’ve had an I.D. that isn’t accurate to who I am,” he said.
(Curious — given their choice of pronouns, shouldn’t they have said “We feel like every day of our life we’ve had an I.D. that isn’t accurate to who we are”? Sheesh, Jordan Peterson may have a point.)
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Uh oh.
It’s a conservative site. They are cruel and evil and they misgender people.
/sarc
Nic Sakurai, also the associate director of the University of Maryland’s LGBT Equity Center who uses the pronouns “they” and “theirs,” told The Eagle that to “finally have that corrected and at least not feel excluded based upon that is quite an exciting thing and relief to finally have.”
Oscar Grouch, also the associate director of the Univerity of Sesame’s SJW Eradication Center who uses the pronouns “fuck” and “you,” told The Big Bird that to “not give a shit about whether some peckerless confused guy feels excluded or not is quite an exciting thing and relief to finally have.”
When I hear an individual human referring to him or herself as “we” and “they” and “theirs”, I am forced to remember Babylon 5’s Ambassador Molari after his “Keeper” was installed on his shoulder to control him. The only way Molari could free himself from its influence was to drink heavily so it passed out. Then he could be himself for a few hours.
Cheers, Ambassador!
Crap on a stick! Hit the wrong button and uploaded this week’s review early…..oh well. Don’t expect another full review before next week.
At least you get boobies in this one – age restricted.
The gorgeous Serbian film – “Tears for Sale”. – why can’t they put this out in a solid blu-ray release???
I did get a little video embedded using the screen cap function on my video editing software. Slowly getting the hang of this. Let me know what you think – also feel free to comment on the video itself.
Interestingly did get an automatic copyright flag on it almost immediately – I think because one company is labeled in the trailer and there may be a VOD version of the full movie somewhere else on youtube – doesn’t affect anything really though – because I already lose possibly future monetization just by labeling it “age restricted”.
Also possible that the clip I used was a tad too long and tripped something else, but just including the trailer seems to have done it this time – as opposed to my last couple of reviews (although I did edit out a logo in the first one and that might have adjusted the length…might try some more tweaks next time, but should be fine for the moment) – but doesn’t appear to have any other effect on my account or viewing options by you guys – if anything, the original guys may get ad credit – but I kinda doubt it since again…age restriction requirements.
Making the video not be fullscreen (for the trailer) will help it not get flagged.
Pretty good, it may be a tad long but that could just be you not having done this enough and with practice your commentary will tighten up and smoothen (smoothify?) the flow. I really like how your review isn’t just one big recap of the plot like so many reviewers tend to do, you discuss imagery and style and themes, keep that up, even when they avoid spoiler the “here’s what happens” reviews really bug me.
Looks like the kind of movie I would enjoy, but I’m one of those guys that doesn’t like subtitles. Not because ‘readings dumb, harhar, but I’m a slow reader and I find myself concentrating too much on the text and not able to enjoy the visuals.
On a separate note, style wise, editing your audio to cut out spots where you have to resay something or get a mind blank, along with a quiet music bed (royalty free music so you don’t get flagged) will help the videos flow better. (Meant as constrictive criticism, this is my field of work).
Appreciate the feedback. No point making any real edits with this vid since I’m still going to keep it marked adult due to the trailer nudity. As far as the editing – some people said they prefer that I don’t have a lot of jumps and edits and talk a little more naturally. I’ll see if I can find a happy medium. Cyberlink PowerDirector came with a Wave Editor as well, but I’m still not sure if there’s a really fast way to edit bits and pieces and re-merge the audio or not. I’m learning quite a lot as I go along and each one is becoming a little easier.
Thanks again.
Once you get the hang of editing waveforms (audio), no one can tell that you edited it, but it gives you a chance to cut out ums, ahs, breaths and long pauses. Not familiar with what cyberlink software offers now, but most bundled video/audio software packs let you import the audio from one program to the other pretty well. And the point of doing it even on lesser projects is just learning, the more you practice it the more it becomes second nature and eventually just by looking at the waveform you’ll know exactly what to cut out to make it still sound natural. Good luck.
8 yr old me is so jealous:
Dinosaur labelling mistake spotted by 10-year-old boy visiting the Natural History Museum
‘It was claimed to be an Oviraptor but it looked like an early dinosaur from the Triceratops family’
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A 10-year-old boy has been praised by the Natural History Museum after he noticed that one of the dinosaurs was labelled incorrectly.
“We were walking around looking for dinosaur clues,” Charlie Edwards told the BBC. “So I read this one sign that had an egg but then it showed the full dinosaur side-by-side comparison to a human and I saw that the shape of it was wrong.”
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/dinosaur-label-mistake-10-year-old-boy-spot-natural-history-museum-charlie-essex-oviraptor-a7865426.html
Oh, so jelly…
Boy Found Million-Year-Old Fossil by Tripping Over It
While walking through the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico, a now 10-year-old boy stumbled over one of the state’s rarest finds.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/stegomastodon-fossil-discovery-boy-new-mexico-desert-video-spd/
What did the kid say when he saw the R label on the McCainosaurus exhibit?
zing!
Tonight’s beer. I don’t like the hops they used.
More interesting electoral news: Democrats may actually lose more seats in Florida next year as well as the governorship (again). Their state Democratic Party has just hired Sally Boynton Brown, DNC Chair finalist, as their new president. Apparently they think that doubling down on racial identity politics will be an excellent way to gain back the state legislature and pick off house seats, based on her platform, anyways…
If you’ve never seen the clip of the DNC Chair Forum earlier this year, here’s Sally in all of her racist glory. If the GOP played this in any of the Florida swing districts before the election, they might even get a few minorities on their side, too.
That was turribull. Jest feckin’ turribull. I hope that she dies a fiery death somewheres that a person of color can’t rescue her.
It’s going to be a hilarious massacre next year if there’s somebody smart enough to weaponize this speech in the final weeks before an election. Even in certain Democratic-leaning districts there’ll be some people that’ll be like “Hmmm, I don’t like Trump that much, but why would I vote for that?” and stay away from the polls. That’s damaging stuff right there.
She’s there to listen? Awesome. Throw in a sammich and I’d marry her.
While this is state-level, I have a friend from high school who went to George Washington and now works as an apparatchik for the national DNC in the middle of the swamp. The last time I actually interacted with him was that ridiculous Slate hitpiece about Nozick, Wilt Chamberlin, and how libertarians are evil and racist.
If his DNC millennial-aged social cohort on Facebook is even remotely representative–and quite frankly that appears to be the case–expect full-bore identity politics in the near and coming future.
“My job is to shut other white people down when they want to say, ‘Oh, no, I’m not prejudiced!’ ”
How, exactly, does she propose to shut me down?
Of course, I wouldn’t say something as milqutoast and defensive as “oh, no, I’m not prejudiced.” I’d say “fuck off and stop projecting your racism onto me, you killer of black babies, I’m prejudiced against assholes and your trigger my prejudice.”
Of course, I wouldn’t say something as milqutoast and defensive as “oh, no, I’m not prejudiced.” I’d say “fuck off and stop projecting your racism onto me, you killer of black babies, I’m prejudiced against assholes and your trigger my prejudice.”
This is the key. They thrive on indecisiveness and defensiveness. If you turn it around on them and go on the attack, they look like deer in the headlights.
See, so much of it is a projection of their own insecurities, therefore progs are always looking to find opponents that may be as insecure as them.
Also, they tend to have all of their political discourse in echo chambers. As a result, they know how to bounce leftist talking points off of each other and agree, so they think they’re very well-informed on all the issues, but they don’t actually know how to defend these positions at all… Kind of like those wannabe badasses who watch MMA and other martial arts on YouTube and think they’re some kind of ultimate warrior, but they’ve never actually been in a real fight and have no idea what they’re doing.
I worked in the Social Services back in the 1980’s and it was a B.F. Skinner-fest. Everyone agreed with the text, nobody questioned, nobody died. It was lock step conformity and I found it so disgusting that I had to walk away. The sweet, sweet co-worker cooze was what I missed most of all. When a random chick asks you what you do for a living and you reply that you work with the disabled=better than any gin.
Not the most fun of weekends here.
Yesterday afternoon the power went out. Just our side of the street. Entire rest of the neighborhood was fine. Power didn’t come back until overnight. Was hot as fuck in the house.
Then was going around this morning spending gobs of money on school supplies and uniforms. Didn’t think on what I was spending. ‘Twas a lot.
Get home and it’s hot as fuck in the house again, though the power was on this time. A/C was blowing hot air and the outside compressor wasn’t doing anything. Blew out the condensation drain, resulting in a near flood of milky colored water, which means some gunk’s been piling up for a while. Or maybe it was a result of the power outage. Reset the breaker on the a/c and it seems to be working.
Now time for Game of Thrones.
uniforms?
Uniforms. The only thing I don’t like about the kid’s charter school, though it’s really not a big deal. Just a polo shirt with the school logo and navy shorts.
Uniforms:
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lmyeargcqn1qeyz1c.png
Someone had to creep out and better you than me.
I hear that charter schools are literally Hitler, so the uniforms are probably khaki with a Sam Browne belt.
Chris Hedges lets out a particularly pungent brain fart from his spacious mental colon:
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The ruling corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the country and pollute and degrade the ecosystem to feed an insatiable lust for wealth, power and hedonism. Wars and military “virtues” are celebrated. Intelligence, empathy and the common good are banished. Culture is degraded to patriotic kitsch. Education is designed only to instill technical proficiency to serve the poisonous engine of corporate capitalism. Historical amnesia shuts us off from the past, the present and the future. Those branded as unproductive or redundant are discarded and left to struggle in poverty or locked away in cages. State repression is indiscriminate and brutal. And, presiding over the tawdry Grand Guignol is a deranged ringmaster tweeting absurdities from the White House.
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_dance_of_death_20170312
I wonder what he has to say about Venezuela.
state capitalism
Oh, it’s even nuttier than that:
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A decade ago left-wing governments, defying Washington and global corporations, took power in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Venezuela, Uruguay, Bolivia and Ecuador. It seemed as if the tide in Latin America was turning. The interference by Washington and exploitation by international corporations might finally be defeated. Latin American governments, headed by charismatic leaders such as Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil, Evo Morales in Bolivia and Rafael Correa in Ecuador, won huge electoral victories. They instituted socialist reforms that benefited the poor and the working class. They refused to be puppets of the United States. They took control of their nations’ own resources and destinies. They mounted the first successful revolt against neoliberalism and corporate domination. It was a revolt many in the United States hoped to emulate here.
But the movements and governments in Latin America have fallen prey to the dark forces of U.S. imperialism and the wrath of corporate power. The tricks long practiced by Washington and its corporate allies have returned—the black propaganda; the manipulation of the media; the bribery and corruption of politicians, generals, police, labor leaders and journalists; the legislative coups d’état; the economic strangulation; the discrediting of democratically elected leaders; the criminalization of the left; and the use of death squads to silence and disappear those fighting on behalf of the poor. It is an old, dirty game.
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http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_empire_strikes_back_20161002
I don’t know who that is but I think he might want to seek medical attention.
He is easily the most pompous, empty-headed, left-wing dingbat walking the face of the earth. He combines the personality of Chomsky with the critical thinking skills of Marcotte. He is also a serial plagiarist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLaoJrg80JQ
Make it through that video and you earn the Derp Ranger tab.
“Part 1” is over 1 hour LOL – well, he’s got the leftist oratory habits down pat.
I wonder what would happen if he was allowed to talk for as long as he wanted. He’d probably starve to death.
Yes, Mr. Hedges, you make some very interesting points.
That’s, um…. yeah. That’s something. I’m not sure what it is though.
That poor fucker should clap a hand on his vulva before he bleeds out.
Survey reveals Japanese women’s ideal husband is surprisingly ordinar:
Women who favored men working in public sectors or major trading firms said that job stability and high income were the deciding factor.
[licks eyebrows, books flight to Japan]
IBJ also asked women to choose the one trait they would not tolerate in a marriage partner:
1. Gambling addiction (40 percent)
2. Filthy (24 percent)
3. Tendency to cheat (19 percent)
Christ, Pachinko’s done a number on their culture.
“You can fuck your secretary all you like, but stay out of Shinjuku!”
Every time I’ve been to Pachinko it seemed the majority of customers were women.
I can second that. Not like I hung out in pachinko parlors though… >.>
Also, why Shinjuku? Pachinko is everywhere.
It’s where I got to play it.
I don’t get it.
Where does “carry my purse” rank?
It’s a moot point.
During the dating time, a man will carry a purse on command.
During the marriage time, that’s going to stop.
I have been trying to find info on whether the Osprey has a worse safety record than other military transport aircraft. I can’t make a comparison without knowing the total number of flight hours.
One would think a tilt rotor would be more prone to accidents than a regular helicopters.
KISS-
keep it simple, stupid.
I have a hand in building all kinds of industrial control systems. This simple platitude is a ore core tenant of my controls building ideology.
Ah, KISS. That one’s up there with “good, cheap, fast- pick 2”.
even better: there are no solutions; only trade offs
That was one of the complaints when it was first being tested/introduced. I doubt you’d be able to find actual data but I haven’t heard about Osprey accidents the way it was in the beginning and they seem to be used a fair amount in Afghanistan. I think FdA mentioned something about them a while back.
How the Animorph books became vital representation for trans kids
https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/5/16097664/animorph-books-became-vital-representation-trans-kids
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When I meet trans people for the first time, especially in mixed company, I’ll sometimes try out this line where I mention Animorphs offhand, as if I don’t take it seriously, as if I didn’t spend the majority of my first puberty wishing that I were turning into a bird or a tiger instead of into a young woman. More often than not, trans folks will say something to me like, “Oh my god, right? Tobias was totally trans!” Cisgender people will usually take this as their cue to get another drink.
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There’s a second one? Time to invest in a company that makes sheets and socks.
My first puberty is the “money shot”. What a cunt.
A starfish? Lol
Very, very interesting, please, tell me more
How dare they publish such anti-aeromorph material! Machinepeople have the same rights as animalpeople!
Should Light-Skinned People of Color Voluntarily Exclude Ourselves from People of Color Spaces?
http://everydayfeminism.com/2017/08/light-skinned-poc-spaces/
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Yet we still encounter white people who want to know why it’s okay for BIPOC to gather but not okay for white people to form their own separate groups.
Problem is when white people gather separately we end up with groups like the KKK, Stormfront and the Trump White House (please avoid ‘splaining about how the cabinet is not actually completely white).
Bottom line: When life, wellness, and happiness are at stake, Black, Indigenous and People of Color have a right to gather without white people in order to address issues that are important to them.
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[head desk]
Yes, yes, please go on about BIPOCs, it’s all very interesting…
Derp, you really need to take a vacation. Ready all of that derp can’t be healthy. I just barely browsed your recent posts and am feeling my brain starting to melt.
Stay strong, friend. You are Almighty, are you not?
It true but these people seem to be getting dumber by the minute.
Seriously, guys. BIPOC? Just say “Not White”. Would there be any difference.
Well, it doesn’t include asians. At least not east asians. It probably includes people from the Middle East, as long as they aren’t Jews are Christians. No idea about Indians. Or all the various ethnic groups in eastern Russia, which they probably never heard about.
Yellow isn’t a color?
Not if wypippo aren’t indigenous to Europe.
They’ve made that argument? So much I don’t know.
“not okay for white people”
And you think we care
Light-Skinned People of Color Voluntarily Exclude Ourselves from People of Color Space
Sherwin-Williams hit hardest.
Good god. People need to be working longer and harder and more so they don’t have time to waste on that garbage.
The ruling corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the country and pollute and degrade the ecosystem to feed an insatiable lust for wealth, power and hedonism.
Somebody should remove the massive weeping gangrenous pustule atop that guy’s shoulders.
I think the French designed a machine for that.
That ain’t a canker, that’s a carbuncle.
never change, CNN
Storm at Google over engineer’s anti-diversity manifesto
Google executives have responded to a 3,300-word manifesto written by one of its male engineers that argues women aren’t suited for tech jobs for “biological” reasons.
http://money.cnn.com/2017/08/06/technology/culture/google-diversity/index.html
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Google — like most large Silicon Valley firms — has long grappled with stubbornly low rates of non-white and non-male workers.
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and of course, it must be because of bigotry
Please, continue to voice you perfectly valid and intelligent critiques of that memo
Bottom line: When life, wellness, and happiness are at stake, Black, Indigenous and People of Color have a right to gather without white people in order to address issues that are important to them.
“Yes, Sir. Your meeting is in there. The Wilson Room. Where the ‘Coloreds Only’ sign is.”
Skin color is a factor in determining a “right”? Sounds a tad dangerous to go that route.
Cisgender people will usually take this as their cue to get another drink.
While muttering, “RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!” in the manner of the knights in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, to themselves.
I refuse to use that prefix. I’m dying on that hill if I have to. That and the xe, ze, and xer garbage. I lost the oxford comma struggle, but by the hoary hounds of hell this shall not stand!
Cisgender is a perfectly useful word. But the pronoun crap isn’t.
So i spent the last 2 weeks listening to the Avalanches new record.
conclusion: meh
its the same as the latest DJ Shadow record (“the mountain will fall”). It has 1-2 bangers, and the rest is disposable. I don’t think the AV’s record even hits the ‘bangers’ requirement.
never meet your heroes. learn to let go. don’t expect bands to get better. Everyone’s best ideas are probably their first.
Bangers was awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5oAw3MmIPM&list=PLzx6e0xDmkn3agErTrBSIrWz83RjKaFL8
needs mash and gravy
She’s vegan.
ah.
see, what i’m talking about is, “where is hiphop going”. which is a weird question. because no one is clear on what it is in the first place.
i think there are fewer and fewer people doing it. and the ones that do arent doing it good.
but some are fucking crazy.
I’m not sure that is hip-hop either. But I don’t consider Bangerz hip-hop. Although it’s certainly was an influence, among many others.
Did socialism fail in Venezuela?
Eva María explains why the answer depends on our understanding of socialism.
https://socialistworker.org/2017/06/07/did-socialism-fail-in-venezuela
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The U.S. media portray Venezuela as an oil-rich country that fell into the hands of a communist-style dictatorship allied with the Castro regime in Cuba. They link the horrible and indefensible conditions that Venezuelans are enduring today with the imposition of a socialist system by a dictatorship.
By contrast, revolutionary socialists view what’s happening in Venezuela not as a result of socialism failing, but as a consequence of the fact that it was never implemented. What we see in Venezuela is not the crisis of a socialist society, but rather an acute crisis of capitalism that is crystallizing across the region, whether in countries with a more free market-oriented system, or those like Venezuela with a more state-directed economy.
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[head desk]
I could jerk off in my hand, wash my face with the discharge while deflating an air mattress by rolling back and forth on it and make more sense.
(starts website devoted to air-mattress fetishes, writes exploitative contract for straffinrun)
“Venezuela with a more state-directed economy”
Umm, yeah, that IS socialism. Maybe someone can point his out to the author, they seem a tad confused.
They don’t get it.
They seem to define socialism as some kind of redistributionist system where business owners just keep producing and allowing the lion’s share of their profits to be taken by the state, and state officials are always totally honest and fair in how they spread these profits out to the people. The problem is that this is totally incompatible with the laws of human action. That kind of system is always going to set up bad incentives and invite corruption, and those two things will eventually destroy it.
It doesn’t matter what is or isn’t “real socialism”; the fact is that “real socialism” is impossible.
OK, I hope everyone like my country music depressapaloosa yesterday.
Now for a series of *cheerful* songs.
I Love You (not the Barney version)
Shiny Happy People
Come on people now
Smile on your brother
Everybody get together
Try to love one another
Right now
As socialist Venezuela collapses, socialist Bolivia thrives. Here’s why.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2017/01/05/as-socialist-venezuela-collapses-socialist-bolivia-thrives-heres-why/?utm_term=.a30ddbf8bb85
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How can this be? It’s true that Bolivia has been on the receiving end of a staggering boom in natural resources for much of the past decade, as both the volume of its gas and mining exports and the price they fetch abroad jumped at the same time. Export revenue grew six-fold in the decade after Evo Morales, the charismatic hard-left president, took power, from $2.2 billion just before of his election to $12.9 billion at the peak of the boom.
So yes, that’s a bit like putting the game settings on “easy” when it comes to development. But it can hardly explain why Bolivia thrives while Venezuela spirals: Venezuela enjoyed an even bigger commodities boom, with exports climbing from $23 billion before the oil boom to $153 billion at its peak.
Turns out it’s not the boom itself that matters, it’s what you do with it.
Venezuela’s socialists spent the entire export windfall, and then some. Bolivia’s socialists saved much of theirs.
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So, without capitalists, where does this ‘windfall’ come from?
Be cheerful – King Henry himself commands you!
Pastime with good company
I love and shall until I die
grudge who lust but none deny
so God be pleased thus live will I
for my pastance
hunt sing and dance
my heart is set
all goodly sport
for my comfort
who shall me let
Now is the month of Maying
When merry lads are playing
fa la la la la
Fa la la la [etc]
You really are “Martin Prince”, aren’t you?
Always look on the bright side of life
See the conquering hero comes
Sound the trumpets, beat the drums
<a href="This is a link“>America the Beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0bs9ZvM8gQ
<a href="Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, and the walls came tumbling down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPZuWzZvoYQ
Without getting spoilry about Game of Thrones; since the beginning I’ve been rooting for Tyrion to take over control in a sort of republican fashion after monarchy fails. From all the fan theories obsession with Denaryous and Jon Snow, at this point it would seem like a good ‘twist’. Thoughts?
The found the bluebird of happiness at home, where it had been all along.
Prithee, sir disk jockey, wilt thou playeth louder?
I’m pickle Rick!!
Why should I not be cheerful? Do I not have THE POWER?
I HAVE THE POWER!
Ok so I “liberated” Primer, and yeah, I knew I had seen it, it was even what I thought I had watched. But other than a few scenes it was like first time watching it. Confusing. Also, ok movie but what’s the big deal about it?
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it cost nothing to make and was a better sci-fi movie than 90% of the shit they spend 100m on?
If you’re talking about the 2004 movie Primer. It was the first movie shot on a prosumer digital camera. Other than that, not sure what the big deal is to people not thinking about the tech.
Just checked… it was pulled from Netflix (you used to be able to stream it). As for the big deal, it’s a low budget sci-fi movie that stays internally consistent, and doesn’t hold the viewer’s hand. It lays out a premise, and runs with it.
You can stream it on Amazon, I just checked. Anyway, why are we talking about a movie made 13 years ago? I’m lost on this one.
It was original and not a remake or reboot like 99.7% of all films made nowadays?
I have to admit that rewatching it with the director’s commentary helped a lot.
Ok, thanks. I’ll have to check it out.
philosophically and scientifically I found it to be an OK movie, but, at least for me as someone in the field, the use of the tech was the amazing thing, which let it be made for low budget and look good, which others here are praising it for.
If you enjoy time travel movies, I advise you find a way to FAQ About Time Travel. Good fun.
Ok. So, apparently Primer has something that a subset of the population thinks is really cool. Like I said, I’ve watched it at least twice that my whiskey addled brain can recall: it’s ok, I don’t see what makes it great, except for CPRM’s technical critique, which I’ll accept at face value, lacking the ability to make such judgement myself.
But, am I correct in coming away from this discussion believing that Primary is a big deal because it’s an example of using tech rather than money to produce a movie? Or something like that?
Because of the tech, it was able to be a smart low budget movie.
myself, beyond the tech, I don’t see the mass appeal, other than they were able to make a smart movie for a low budget. Altogether, I don’t think it added much to sci-fi beyond the technical bits; but for others this may have been their first foray into logical time travel scenarios as well. The tech allowing them to the story within budget.
I think it’s the 00’s version of “El Mariachi”. A sub-$10k flick that sure doesn’t look like it. And the fact that it has a plot that makes sense (time-travel no less), with decent characters and acting – it’s pretty much the standout of the decade. Not a gimmick flick like a found footage POS – and unlike Peter Jackson’s early projects, it didn’t take 3 years of weekends to crank out.
My house was struck by lightning on July 15th.
The bolt hit my boyfriend’s foot, and knocked him on his butt.
I was at my computer and saw a flash of light emanate from the air conditioner and jump across the room.
Several circuit breakers tripped, and numerous electronic gadgets and appliances were rendered to scrap iron.
I love, love, love Foremost Insurance Company, as they promptly shelled out enough moolah to fix or replace everything, with enough left over to buy a nice set of bunk beds for the little ones, and a large drum of lube for us big guys.
So far, I’ve been thinking that this season of Preacher has been way better than this season of Game of Thrones. Game of Thrones has been laggin’ so far, tying up loose threads, etc. –until tonight. Damn, that was awesome!
Pickle Rick started out suckin’, but came around somewhat at the end. I guess I still can’t get past Leibniz and the fundamental observation that if we assume that God is benevolent, then the world we live in must be the best one we can have–given what is possible. Take God out of the equation, and you’re still limited by what’s possible. Pickle people, pizza people, even in infinite dimensions, these things just aren’t possible.
Now, I appreciate that there are some things that aren’t possible, but only slightly so. Brian of Family Guy is a talking dog, and dogs don’t have the mechanisms necessary for speech, they haven’t passed the mirror test for self-awareness, and so on. But a talking dog doesn’t strain credibility like a pizza person or a pickle person. A talking dog isn’t possible, but dogs have a skull and a brain and a circulatory system. How do you get blood to a brain if you’re a pickle or a pizza?
In parallel dimensions, there may be infinite possibilities–but you’re still limited by what’s possible, right. It’s not infinite impossibilities, right? There’s are an infinite set of numbers between one and two–but they all have to stay between one and two.
Talking dog? Okay. Talking pickle?
As Mussolini once said, “If it bends its funny. If it breaks, it’s not funny”.
It’s also okay to take liberties like that if it’s central to the plot. When they introduced Mr. Meeseeks, it was an exposition on existentialism, with the Meeseeks offering an example of the very opposite of humanity. Where existence precedes essence for people, Meeseeks only exist for a specific purpose. Of course, a Meeseeks is impossible, but it’s an ingenious impossibility that’s necessary for that plot. That impossibility is the plot.
Was being a pickle central to this plot? Yeah, but there wasn’t much plot in that well. It didn’t go anywhere. There wasn’t anything larger to draw from Rick’s pickleness.
Right?
Right.
I’m just sayin’.
Most of Weiner’s neighbors were Hillary Clinton supporters, and blame him for her loss because former FBI Director James Comey reopened the investigation into her e-mails after the feds seized Weiner’s computer.
So, they hate him for being a political inconvenience and not for sending dick pics to underage girls. Such lovely people.