Man, what a weekend. It was my birthday on Saturday and I managed to install a new dishwasher, take my kids to the park, cook a really good low country boil and have a few beers. Then on Sunday, my brother in law and his wife had their first child (congrats! – hopefully he sees this, as he lurks from time to time). And we ended it all by watching the best episode of GoT in quite some time.
Also, the Astros, Yankees, Dodgers, Red Sox, Nationals, Twinkies and even OMWC’s beloved Orioles won yesterday. That doesn’t leave much room for losers, other than Team Canada. And the Rockies, although they’re safely in the wild card spot. Also, Hideki Matsuyama got some national revenge yesterday by winning the WGC-Bridgestone. So we can finally put the enmity between Japan and the USA on August 6th behind us. Which I’m sure both nations will appreciate.
OK, time to say sayonara to sports and get down to the business of…the links!
The gears of justice grind slowly, but they grind fine. Except, you know, the last paragraph refutes that concept. But “justice” and Title IX rarely belong in the same sentence.
Uber has been searching for a female CEO for a while now. All three of their finalists have penises. And people are butthurt. Heaven forbid they’d try to attract the person who will bring the best ROI to their investors and steer the company through the choppy waters of inhospitable municipalities and regulatory capture by the taxi cab cartels. Nosiree! They have to go for a woman or they’re sexist.
What could possibly go wrong? Just a heads-up: you don’t own the sky because you carry a badge, assholes.
What the fuck am I reading? (That’s all I can write.)
People are shitting their pants because a movie is going to use language from the book it was adapted from. Oh, the horror!!!!!
And lastly, if ever there were a poster boy girl child ummm, let’s see, a spokesperson, for not letting children undergo gender reassignment, I think we’ve found him. Or have we found her? Because the answer seems to constantly change. (TL;DR: what a shitshow).
I figured enough of you would bring politics up, so I left it alone today.
This is for Banjos, and the last ten days after getting home from my lengthy trip.
That’s all I got. Now go out there and have a great day!
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450 responses to “Monday Morning Links”
Happy Birthday, old man! (you’re probably younger than I am)
“Then on Sunday, my brother in law and his wife had their first child, congrats! ”
Either that’s your wife’s brother or you have an interesting relationship with your sister.
I thought I was pretty clear. I addressed the direct family relationship first and then acknowledged his spouse.
Serious question: is there a style guide that addresses this? Because now I’m curious.
Wife’s brother had a kid. No?
Yes. He and his wife had their first child.
Congrats! Let’s outbreed the slavers.
I’ve done my part. Nobody can claim otherwise.
So you’re saying that you’re done?
Well, Banjos is. Tubes all tied up after Justice Forall Sloopy Juneteenth Spicer came along.
I suppose I could set up a stud service. But I’m gonna have to get the green light from her before that becomes a reality.
Wife’s brother had a kid. No?
I know you’re in Japan but in the U-S-A, womenfolk still bear the children.
Such confusion would explain Japan’s low birthrate…
RE: the drone story
If the cops don’t get their way, you know Jeff Bezos will
I like Amazon, but has it ever had a profitable year? Or, profitable quarter?
I like Amazon, but has it ever had a profitable year?
Yes and no.
No doubt. Big business likes them some regulationing. Can’t be having Joes Drones delivering anything now can we? It would be chaos.
For the big business’ bottom line?
I fly Big R/C planes and Quads, I’m AMA and FAA registered, the Cops can FUCK OFF! I got more credentials than they do, never will I install that Bullshit on any thing I fly,
/ Rage ceasing
The American Medical Association has an interest in r/c planes and quads? Huh, learn something every day.
I’ve been working on more stories, and ran into a question of opinion. So I decided to ask for opinions.
When writing “Lucid Blue” I re-edited Hangman’s dialogue to make him less overtly racist, though his goals and motives remained the same, albeit somewhat unsaid. One of my active projects has an opening for his return, but I’ve been asking myself if I should let this villain be as bigoted as originally intended, or if that would distract from the actual story as it’s a background detail.
Make him as bigoted as possible. Base him on an affirmative action proponent.
Technically he has already stated his desire to equalize outcomes – and that was before he got thrown into chemical apparatus by a guy who appeared to be blond (but was still white either way).
Does it look like it will limit your readership? Because unnecessary details can be perfectly fine so long as they don’t limit the number of people that are likely to buy your product, enjoy it and then buy another one of your books.
Just ask Melville.
I don’t know. The sales/feedback ratio means that most people who read my work never tell me a darn thing about their reaction or what a change might do to their patronage.
I’ll need a new shovel, the one I have is ill-suited to digging up graves.
You need to ask POCs not this bunch of shitlords (and ladies if applies)
“Black people can’t be racist.” – actual quote.
Off course they are not racist themselves, but are authorities on all things racist that is why you need to ask them.
If I applied their analysis they’d say that having Hangman deliberately attempting to engineer newer iterations of Lucid Blue that only worked for specific non-white peoples would not be racist because in their utterly absurd framework, it’s imposible to be racist against whites. The action, however, would be entirely in keeping with his prior actions and motives – though it may not be fully obvious given how redacted his speech about equalizing outcomes had been in the original Lucid Blue.
Change “Lucid Blue” to “Prussian Blue” and leave everything else as-is. That alone should be racist enough for ten books.
I think I should fully articulate the issue.
I’m concerned about reactions to the fact that there is an uneven distribution of powered individuals among various populations should attention be drawn to the detail. This information is already in the books if someone picks over the details. The commentary on the second world war in particular stated the Japanese had a shortage of powered individuals and had to create the Kaiju to fight them. Since it is a nonproportional quasi-genetic attribute (the potential to manifest powers is a heritable trait), Hangman’s dialogue would make it impossible to avoid facing.
My concern becomes one of people attributing motive to me with regards to why my fictional world has an uneven distribution of special abilities. The real reason actually stems from wanting to have Kaiju and giant robots. The giant robots are there to fight the kaiju, and if you have superheroes, you don’t need the investment in robots. And the war gave a good excuse as to why there are more kaiju now than in the past. But the logical implications just kept cascading to make a world that just ain’t socailly just.
Based-on this clarification and the concerns voiced above, I would avoid/minimize overt racism unless necessary to capture character or story.
Does it make the story better?
I think that’s the crucial question.
I have no idea. Believe it or not, my method of writing is not grounded in any literary theory or analysis, so I can’t tell beforehand if a detail like this will be beneficial.
You’ll draw a whole new sjw crowd with that bigotry, cash it in.
Why can’t it be both?
How intersectional feminism transformed me from an asshole to an activist
So what this guy is saying is that Intersectional Feminism is appealing to assholes who like bossing people around?
As well as sitting down to pee..
Wasn’t there an Onion article about a trump voter changing him mind after reading intersectional feminism? Is this kinda the same thing?
Close enough https://www.facebook.com/TheOnion/videos/10155397968279497/
Wasn’t there an Onion article about a trump voter changing him mind after reading intersectional feminism?
Nah, you’re thinking of this one
So, still a massive asshole by his own admission.
“systems of oppression”
So we mechanically and deliberately build oppression?
AWESOME.
Activist is a narrower definition of asshole. He (she? didn’t read) is just refining his craft of assholery.
That’s what that means? I thought it meant, “do you want to get doughnuts”.
*narrows gaze*
I believe you mean, *narrows glaze* for those doughnuts.
Doughnut tell him what kind of gaze he intended
With how much he sprinkles them around, he’s bound to mess up once in a while.
His frosty glare has been known to burn holes
Bear claw!
You just have to ruin the pun game, don’t you Sloopy?
I want to fill some doughnut holes with custard now. I’ll be in my
bunkkitchen.Maybe they were talking about Idiocracy?
“Dude, your shit’s all retarded and you talk like a fag!”
What’s up Scro?
Go ‘way, baitin’!
What are you, some kind of cop?
is this some kind of bust?
Fail. I assume you meant this?
Very impressive.
My first SF’d link. *sniff*
You never forget your first.
That’s what she said?
TW: Zero Hedge
LA County Admits Number Of Registered Voters At 144% Of Resident Citizens Of Voting Age
Well, thar’s your problem, you nationalist bigot, how dare you disenfranchise those illegals, dead people, nonresidents and furriners?
What? You missed the people that like to vote more than once…
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy.
+1 Yours etc. Captain B.J. Smethwick in a white wine sauce with shallots, mushrooms and garlic.
Followed by a Pudding and some Port Wine
Why are we TWing Zero Hedge? Nutty as they are, still better than most media.
(((Jews)))?
Ah, the comment section.
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Shouldn’t that just be “(((Fucking)))”?
Trying to capture their formatting fail. It’s like reading (((the matrix))).
I honestly don’t believe Alex Jones to be any less credible than the mainstream press. but I wouldn’t express that sentiment in decent company.
IT’S GOING TO MAKE THE FRIGGIN FROGS GAY!!
So HRC’s popular vote margin was due to voter fraud?
All three of their finalists have penises.
That doesn’t mean they aren’t female, shitlord.
I’m somewhat surprised no company has thought of this to solve their diversity problem: just deem half your employees female, and call anyone a bigot who attempts to object. Although I guess I’m really not surprised, as the type of person who would do this is probably the type of person who ignores whining about diversity to begin with.
Senate passes ‘right-to-try’ bill by unanimous consent
Seems mighty libertarian of em. What’s the catch?
John McCain might live another five years.
+1 Brilliant!
Ah, some good news.
Don’t worry, some idiot court will rule it unconstitutional, because reasons.
D.C. circuit, I’m lookkng at you.
Not sure… one too many or one two few ‘k’s in that.
People are shitting their pants because a movie is going to use language from the book it was adapted from. Oh, the horror!!!!!
Just as long as they faithfully portray the intense homosexual love affair between Huck and Jim.
It’s sad that people who love to pat themselves on the back about how educated, cultured and sophisticated they are get in an uproar over the character of Huckleberry Finn using dehumanizing language about Jim when that’s part of the fucking point.
Racists will read it and miss the nuance. Then they go out and shoot up a black church. We’ve go to be careful.
Lena Dunham’s brand of feminism is hindering political change
ah fuck it.
Not a chance in hell I’d fuck that.
STEVE SMITH WITH YOU, BROTHER.
“as well as false accusations by white women toward black men”
But women never lie about rape.
I fully support these people eating their own.
“black male bodies”….tedious as ever
Max Planck was a coal burner?
A “real woman”?
I’ll walk past a dozen better looking women going from the parking garage to my office (which is adjoined to the fucking building). In fact, chances are almost certain that the random women that ride in the elevator with me are better looking than Lena.
Wait wuT? Lena is a woman?
Do you know who else used to like to say nigger?
LBJ?
Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle?
Johnny Rebel?
N.W.A.?
Dave Chappelle?
Huckleberry Finn?
Every rap artist?
Quentin Tarantino?
Joe Conrad?
Is there a high / medium country boil?
I doubt it. Unless they’re boiling possum meat or something else that lives in the Smokey Mountains.
Does the “low” part refer to the rapidity of the boil, or relation to elevation in which this particular dish originated? Never heard of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Carolina_Lowcountry
Get low
Low
Aah, ok, so what did you have in yours? Shrimp and crawfish and what not? That sounds like a proper birthday dinner there.
Shrimp, sausage, corn, taters, onions. I couldn’t locate any blue crabs. And crawfish are out of season here, so they were a no-go.
But damn, was it good.
IMO, crustaceans aren’t really about the food, I think people just like tearing them apart. Too much work for my taste.
That’s for the best. Crabs worth buying are meant to be steamed in cheap beer and J.O. Seasoning.
And happy birthday!
Wait, not Old Bay?
Better be careful what you say there Bill or they’r gonna kick you out of the state
I’ve heard that most places that sell steamed crabs use JO. I certainly don’t object to Old Bay though; I work (as a contractor) at McCormick.
Old Bay’s good as a general seasoning, but for actually steaming crabs, J.O. is the shit. It doesn’t have the clove and it’s a little saltier.
Submitted this flavor in that Lay’s potato chip flavor contest. Was bummed it didn’t get chosen.
I’ve been asking myself if I should let this villain be as bigoted as originally intended, or if that would distract from the actual story as it’s a background detail.
What could possibly be more villainous than a bigot?
Well, there is the whole part about nonconsentual human experimentation with often fatal results.
That’s just social engineering.
Trump?
Someone fighting bigots?
These guys are making their way through North Dakota.
Careful – they might be mistaken for free-bleeding trans-activists.
Yeah, those man-ladies have really ruined the optics of a bloody crotch.
They’ll be all the locals are talking about for about a good 15 minutes, I suppose.
Yep.
“Hey Jim, did you see those fucking losers with fake blood on their crotch?”
“Yep. Must be nice to have nothing to worry about but stupid shit.”
“You got that right. Hey, check that relief valve. Valero ain’t paying us $80 an hour to sit around talking about stupid shit.”
I’ve seen them here in Ohio. Dumb.
Fifty-years-old with four kids:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4766816/Kellyanne-Conway-spotted-New-Jersey-beach.html
Britain is still a world-beater at one thing: ripping off its own citizens
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/03/britain-world-beater-ripping-off-citizens-rail-fares-water-energy-bills
“Think about the scandal of people having to pay huge ground rents just to stay in their own homes.”
Now to be honest the idea that you own the building but pay rent for the land it is on must be a British thing cause it ain’t like that in Romania
I’m sure Robc will be around to explain how that’s the moral way of doing things.
Well a land tax is not the same as rent to private investors. Those investor I presume pay tax to the government, so that still exists. This is a second layer which i find strange.
http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/117/008/soon_honey_beer_bottle.jpg
Price they pay for civilization. Imagine living in America, bereft of choo choos.
Lots of businesses are in land leases in the US, but I don’t know of any private residences that are aside from trailer parks.
Some condos too, I think.
I thought condos were set up on a collective land ownership. Which is why they usually have assessments when they’re going to make capital improvements. If they were in a land lease, wouldn’t they be immune to the costs of improvements?
It may be that I’m wrong, I have never owned a condo. And the one my parents owned at the beach is the only one I can recall knowing anything about. But I do remember my dad bitching more than once about assessments being more than the mortgage on the damn thing.
Yeah, it’s not the typical condo ownership structure, but it happens. I can’t imagine why you’d buy into a condo on leased dirt myself, but to each his own.
Oh man, the first little bit goes into people owning homes on land under control of the forest service. I had completely forgotten about that. There are a ton of people I used to know that had homes in Sequoia Natl Forest. And the government had recently passed some policy (not sure if departmental or legislative) that said they could only pass ownership off to their children and those children could not pass it on when they died. So basically, the government was exciting the homeowner from land they previously owned and that was taken from them when the park was established.
I don’t know if they were compensated for the land grab, but I’d be curious to find out.
So basically, the government was exciting the homeowner from land they previously owned and that was taken from them when the park was established.
Reminds me of the situation with the grazing rights here in NV that led to the terrorism charges for the ranchers.
USFS did that here as well, although I don’t believe all of the cabins are preacquisition. Trying to push private ownership & “unacceptable” cabins off of their land. No more of this just showing up at your own place. Either camp in a sanctioned campground (max 14 nights) or stay in an approved concessionaire’s hotel.
Quit being a Greedy Gus, there’s just not enough forest to go around.
Some retirement communities are. A relative of mine lives in a 55+ community. His house, which he owns, is on leased land. I think the lease runs for 99 years.
“99 years? Long enough for my purposes…..”
And there is a tiny city, Salamanca, in the Southern Tier of NY where the entire city sits on land that is owned by the Seneca Nation of Indians. Residents there have leases on the land on which their houses sit. There was a huge uproar a few years back when the original 99 year leases were up and the SNI was trying to decide whether or not to renew them, and, if so, to whom did the improvements on the land belong. It received heavy coverage in the Buffalo press.
That’s what property taxes ultimately are.
Not a thought, just pointing this out:
Democrat Socialist Party Of America (DSA) membership is surging.
::good edit faerie tips his cap as he flutters by::
Umm, edit fairy?
Actually, I think we get the point.
“The Prince George’s County city, home of the flagship University of Maryland campus and some 30,000 residents, is considering a measure to let noncitizens cast ballots for mayor and City Council — making it the latest target in a movement that has had more success in Maryland than anywhere else in the United States.
College Park officials are debating the charter amendment after a divisive national election in which immigration played a prominent part. Many left-leaning cities, including Baltimore, are now at odds with President Donald J. Trump’s initial efforts to fulfill a campaign promise to crack down on immigration violations.”
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bs-md-immigrant-voting-20170805-story.html
As a naval officer I abhor the implication that the Royal Navy is a haven for cannibalism. It is well known that we have the problem relatively under control, and that it is the R.A.F. who now suffer the largest casualties in this area.
Good ol’ Maryland. God I can’t wait to get the fuck out of here.
If I lived there, I would stop paying taxes because the law no longer matters.
69% Of British Teen Girls Identify As Feminists, A New Study Shows
‘ello, guv’n’r. Fancy a ride ’round the block?
Followed by a trumped up rape charge? No thanks.
” great news for anyone hoping to see more young women step into career fields traditionally dominated by men.” – wait just cause they identify as feminist means they will all go into engineering? I doubt it
Speaking purely from personal anecdote, I have observed that the correlation between feminism and career success rounded to a whole number is exactly 0.
Yeah, wouldn’t most seriously “feminist” women tend to go into shit like gender studies?
Exactly my first thought.
We’ve found that when they depart the indoctrination centers the treatments begins wearing off.
I’d like to see the methodology used here and how leading the question was. Because I’d expect it to be a higher number, tbh.
And if you will notice, I bet the numbers would have been the same for those demographics a decade or three decades ago. Teenagers will always identify as more “radical” when it comes to all sorts of identity groups. But as people age and mature, they shed those labels and become more concerned with their individual or their family’s development.
nice
That seems low given the number of hideous-looking British teen girls.
ah fuck it.
Not Lena Dunham. No way. Not even with Hillary’s dick.
I love how “real woman” is a euphemism now for “shapeless hurting chubster”. My wife is a real woman–I know, I’ve checked–and she blows Miz Dunham out of the water.
It’s not like this is new. I haven’t seen them, but from what I understand, Quentin Tarantino isn’t exactly niggardly about using it in his films.
Did an Author From the 1800s Predict the Trumps, Russia and America’s Downfall?
Maybe Marx reversed tragedy and farce after all?
It’s like de Tocqueville never existed.
So out of the millions of books ever printed in English, one happens to have some character names like our current president’s family? Amazing.
Something something monkeys typewriters Shakespeare.
If we replaced the monkeys with humans, the odds of a Shakey result would have to increase wouldn’t they?
Fake news.
Praise Kek!
Reading more of the backlash against the #googlemem it is amazing how not selfaware these people are. Basically he said that you should be able to express unpopular opinions and the reaction was he needs to be fired and have his life ruined for expresing his opinion. Not to mention calling it screed or rant when it was nothing of the sort, screaming sexist or mysoginist – also the standard he is a white male he should not ask for free speech cause opression. And not really challenging his evidence except a few cases of bullshit social science studies. It is funny and tragic at the same time.
It’s mostly tragic though.
Chinese tourists detained in Berlin for Hitler salute
Keep on rockin’ in the free world
Free world? China and Germany? Of all people the Chinese should understand that places don’t respect free expression.
The Chinese fucked up, they thought they were in part of the “free” world.
You might’ve thought that the Germans would have learned their lesson about forcibly suppressing unpopular speech.
It works?
You know what other German the forcible suppression of speech worked for?
The Carthusian Order?
You know what other gesture is forbidden in Germany?
Kindness?
a finger going into a hole made by the opposite hand?
Given their love of Scheiße Porn, I doubt that one is banned.
That is indicated by a finger going out of a hole made by the opposite hand.
This one?
V for Victory?
Should’ve clicked Mike’s link.
Video footage
Gee, didn’t (((someone))) put that in links this past weekend? DO YOU EVEN LINKS, BRO?
“NEW YORK – The US-based clothing website Teespring is selling T-shirts and sweatshirts branded with swastikas, aiming to make them a “symbol of love and peace”.
The designs, created by KA Designs and sold on the site, all display large swastikas in the front. One shows the Nazi-associated symbol in rainbow colors with the word “Peace”, another one with the word “Zen”, one reading “Love” and a third design, in black, shows a spiral of swastikas. They range in price from $20 to $35”
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-T-shirt-company-sells-swastika-design-as-symbol-of-love-and-peace-501687
The Hindus are taking it back
They changed the shirts, and they’re still idiots.
http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/US-T-shirt-company-swaps-swastika-designs-with-anti-swastika-items-501785
Hey, if they can make a murderous thug like Che into a symbol of freedom and standing up to The Man, maybe they can rehab the swastika.
As aggravating as it is to see ignorant people walking around with a mass murderer on their shirt, I still get a laugh out of it because you know some American clothing company is making a very handsome profit off of these wannabe-revolutionary idiots.
It’s still a symbol of well-being primarily in Eastern cultures. Once and awhile you get some stupid controversy over Japanese music videos or something where “OMG THEY USED THE SWASTIKA.”
Ok, I didn’t don’t bring it up in the links, but I will here:
I have an issue with Meuller convening a grand jury in the District of Columbia. I think it sets up whoever doesn’t have a D after their name for instant indictment, regardless of evidence. That shithole is 95% Democrat and it’s nearly impossible for someone to get a fair hearing there. And if the evidence is in New York (supposedly), why isn’t the grand jury being convened in that circuit?
The whole thing is obviously a political witch hunt where the deep state is attempting to squash an outsider’s influence before their bullshit house of cards is fully exposed and gets knocked down. But shouldn’t they at least be forced to address it in the proper venue?
Something something ham sandwich.
This is happening because the Republicans are totally on board with going after Trump so they can get back to business as usual.
It’s funny, but I think the House Reps have actually been doing their job, relatively speaking, and I think it’s because the establishment knows what happened to their boy Eric Cantor when he lost touch with his base. I think the Senate needs a similar punch to the teeth in next year’s primaries.
Which is funny, since they got a punch in the teeth in 2010.
This is happening because the Republicans are totally on board with going after Trump so they can get back to business as usual.
Yup. The establishment Repubs hate apostates and heretics worse than Dems. The submarined the Tea Party, and they are going after Trump now. Look at who is giving him the worst time – the establishment types he brought onto his team: Priebus (now gone), Sessions (recused himself unnecessarily and appointed a conflicted partisan Dem special prosecutor), even (maybe) Pence, around whom there always seem to be rumors that he is positioning himself to displace Trump (anonymous hearsay, though), the Senate Repub leadership, etc.
I’m honestly afraid they are going to barf up an indictment, there will be pressure for impeachment, and those of us who despise the Deep State more than the Elected Establishment are going to have to march on DC to bring this slow motion coup to an end.
Isn’t it fairly simple to get a change of venue?
For a grand jury? I doubt it.
Especially for a grand jury of a secret investigation that is an open-ended fishing expedition.
They could literally just subpoena anyone and everyone ever involved in the election and start asking them leading questions. The language appointing the special prosecutor grants him the ability to do something that is so profoundly against our fourth and fifth amendments, it’s disgusting.
The language appointing the special prosecutor grants him the ability to do something that is so profoundly against our fourth and fifth amendments, it’s disgusting.
That has been something that has been burning in the back of my brain for the past week. How is it even constitutional for a prosecutor to have an open ended investigation. The DA just can’t pick your life apart and hunt for a crime because your neighbor doesn’t like you and made a complaint. They have to have evidence of a possible crime. The only evidence of “wrong doing” is that Hillary lost and nobody thought she would. This should scare the shit out of everybody regardless of how you feel about Trump.
Well, to be sure, such an open ended investigation is a bit problematic. However, Trump is such a boorish, idiot, authoritarian thug with no idea how to run government, that he needs to be removed immediately for the sake of liberty. /RS
How was that?
At least with Whitewater, there was evidence of a specific crime. I’m still not too jazzed up about it leasing to Clinton being impeached for something completely unrelated. Starr should have passed anything he heard to another prosecutor to handle the case if there was evidence supporting an investigation.
But these witch hunts totally go against our system of justice.
To be fair to Starr, it was the Clinton administration that pushed the tangential issues over to him in order to block Congressional investigations.
The DA just can’t pick your life apart and hunt for a crime because your neighbor doesn’t like you and made a complaint.
Yeah, they can.
Anything that causes the gears of the State to get jammed up is A-OK with me.
But this isn’t designed to do that. It’s designed for the deep state to eject an outsider that was freely and fairly elected.
This special prosecutor’s sole purpose is to establish the state as off-limits to outsiders and to ensure nobody but entrenched bureaucrats and politicians ever get power again.
And the implications are fucking terrifying.
I don’t care about what the intention was, only the result. Total gridlock. I am in favor of that.
This might result in temporary gridlock. But if these people get their way, there will never be gridlock again because outsiders will never get in office and the entrenched powers that be will do their thing unopposed.
Don’t let a little temporary positive benefit blind you to the systemic problems that come with a successful witch hunt here.
Sloopy gets it.
So much this Sloopy..
The resistance movement is about making sure everybody learns the lesson that the establishment will not brook dissent or tolerate someone not of its circles in charge. They are willing to wreck the country to make sure everyone knows that.
It is frightening to me that so many people, even when they see this is the case, shrug or even support it because it is either their team doing it, or because they dislike Trump.
Another tongue bath for Tesla-
BMW and Mercedes should be concerned. This automobile is clearly targeting their market. Since Musk handed over keys to the first 30 cars on Friday, I’ve heard a lot of people trying to compare the Model 3 to GM’s all-electric Chevy Bolt (known as the Opel Ampera-e in Europe). Although they’re similarly priced and both run on batteries, the parallel ends there. The Bolt is basically an economy gasoline car that’s been electrified; the Model 3 is, well, something altogether different.
Tesla aims to sell 500,000 electric cars next year. In order to succeed, it will have to tear down the artificial distinction between a “car buyer” and an “electric-car buyer” and go straight at the heart of the $35,000 sedan class: the BMW 3 Series and the Mercedes-Benz C-Class. The Model 3 is Musk’s missile aimed at this target.
Tesla aims to sell 500,000 cars next year, and I aim to win the Nobel Prize for biochemistry.
You probably have a better chance of achieving your goal.
Considering its reliability is almost certain to make FIAT look like Toyota in comparison I’d say you’re correct.
Enjoy your forty thousand dollar shitbox, suckers.
I still don’t get the FIAT unreliability tag. It’s the most decorated car company in Europe. The new 500s seem to be no different than any other car in terms of reliability. Meanwhile, VW seems to not get enough hate on reliability. I’ve owned those for decades and their rep doesn’t always match the reliability.
Toyota and Honda are different beasts altogether.
Somewhat tongue in cheek on my
part-the 500s are pretty good cars for what they are. The non500 FIAT models are by and large reliability disasters though.
Yeh read about those. As an aside, I remember listening to a car history show on the radio (I forget what it was) talking about FIAT in the 1970s where most of that rep was born. Among other things, one factor that didn’t help them was they stopped using Italian (and I think German) steel in their cars because of the cost forcing them to use the less expensive but also inferior Russian steel which rusted quicker.
The one Honda I owned had to be push-started, and would stall out changing gears.
My girlfriend has a 500 and its a fine car for what she needs.
My BIL swears by his Arbath. Even in winter.
Swears by</em or swears at?
I picked up an Abarth on the cheap because they depreciate so fast due to Fiat’s reputation. It’s a kick in the pants to drive, especially in sport mode, but the reliability still isn’t up to the standards of boring Hondas or Toyotas. I’ve already had to replace the CV joints and the side skirts are separating from the body. But I knew what I was getting into and it’s our third car, so I’m not to bothered by it.
Ultra Burn!
This morning, as I was driving into work, I pulled up behind a Tesla Model S. From a distance I thought it was an Audi.
Anyways – electric cars are still a niche thing. There will be some buyers for the Tesla, but moving 500,000 units a year will be a very, very tall order. That’s more US sales of BMW – across all of their model lines. That’s more US sales than Lexus across their entire model lines.
Also selling a sedan when the CUV is the hot new “thing” is also going to be difficult.
Never underestimate the price people are willing to pay for smugness.
Most of the idiots I know that own one of these expensive boondoggles struggle with how to not come of sounding like douche nozzles when they are stuck having to balance their need to complain about the inherent limitations, problems, or expense related to this immature technology or the lack of any infrastructure to support it, with their need to virtue signal.
Locally, a new 3-series will run you $40-50k. Chapman BMW did not pay me to link this.
Which puts the Model 3 in the same spot a the Model S. If I am going to drop that much coin on something its at least going to have a pedigree, and a dealer I can yell at when it breaks down.
Well since the “real” Model 3, not the base model, costs $10-$20k more, it damn well better be more.
Was talking to Mrs. Dean about electric cars. The fundamental problem is battery technology – either it won’t go far enough and/or takes far too long to recharge. That relegates these cars to a niche for big chunks of the car market – a car you will never, ever need to drive more than 200 miles in a day. Even then, a trip to Phoenix from Tucson, which could be done on one charge, will have to be planned around the car’s charging needs – you can make the drive (on way), but you can’t much else that day with that car. In more rural parts of the country, its just a flat non-starter. I think the market is people who live in congested urban areas who want a commuter car, and will either fly, rent a car or own a gas car for anything outside their commute. That ain’t 500K cars a year, no way no how.
Was talking to Mrs. Dean about electric cars. The fundamental problem is battery technology – either it won’t go far enough and/or takes far too long to recharge
The lack of a supporting infrastructure to do the charging, the fact that the electricity is generated and distributed at not just a hefty cost, but in toto has a larger carbon footprint than just burning gas in your combustion engine, and the fact that these batteries are chemical waste hazards that ill not just financially cost a fortune to dispose of, but creates a whole new series of serious environmental problems that nobody wishes to acknowledge, seems to also never come up in these sorts of discussion.
The lack of a supporting infrastructure to do the charging
When it takes hours to recharge, the lack of recharging stations along the interstates is pretty much a non-issue. If you have to pull over for hours every 200 or so miles, you aren’t taking the car on long trips, period, no matter how many stations there are. That’s why you never see anyone using the charging stations that some people have put in their parking lots – the amount of charge you can get while running errands isn’t worth the hassle.
The other question, of course, is where is all the generating capacity going to come from to support a large percentage of electric vehicles?
The Model S battery pack was originally designed to be swapped out at a battery change station. They had demonstrations of the technology that would swap in a fully charged pack in about 90 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5V0vL3nnHY
Then they had the accidents where road debris punctured the pack, so they had to add a titanium plate to guard the front that nixed the system as originally designed.
I’ve always felt that a industry standard towable range extender would be a solution. When you need the 200-400 mile trip distance you go to the dealer or u-haul and rent either a large battery pack (300 mile) or a towable IC engine. recharge @ night and that gives you 400 miles a day for travel. (8ish hours) This allows you to market the under 100 mile base range cards Leaf, etc. The target market is going to fly commercial for longer trips.
I would love to see that sporty Tesla dragging a u-Haul vehicle behind it for extended battery charge…
Less the Tesla market, than the Nissan Leaf, Bolt, BMW i3, Smart etc.
What we have seen is that IC motors are so cheap that throwing one in and making a hybrid makes financial sense (even if when you go 300+ miles it has to limp along < 50mph). Part of the problem is that to get the California green stamp of approval they had to neuter the BMW and put in a tiny gas tank (much smaller than available in Europe).. so that x% of the range had to be electric
You can also rent a car for those occasional long trips. Now the market currently is for that second commuter car, and social signaling. The Tesla will recharge to 80% in 40 mins… Use the Supercharger at lunch restaurants and it "works" for some people.
I'm no longer a good judge of needed range, I don't like to drive more than 2 hours distance.
People looking to buy an electric car must have so much money they can spend on both an over priced new vehicle and pretty much all chance of resale value? How fast does an electric car depreciate? We buy used cars exclusively, and there will be no way I would ever think about buying a used electric car that would fall in my price range.
DNA evidence links convict to multiple rapes, but authorities can’t do a thing
The word illegal somehow becomes null if it is placed in front of immigrant.
Enough time passes and you’re rape gets forgotten. Unless you’re the state. Rape them and they’re Methuselah.
Please don’t poke the intersectional bear.
I am no longer even at the company…
Further demonstrating just how wrong the memo was…
Way to prove his point, dipshit.
He’s just white knighting for the diversity contingent.
Seriously though, his argument is that the author is rocking the boat in an unacceptable manner. DON’T ROCK THE BOAT.
“: not only was nearly everything you said in that document wrong, the fact that you did that has caused significant harm to people across this company, and to the company’s entire ability to function” – any evidence to that claim?
This is just the modus operandi for leftists: assert that some horrible damage has been done while not being able to prove it at all.
Worst copy pasta ever.
Which region of Italy does that copy pasta come from?
Also “arguing that some large fraction of your colleagues are at root not good enough to do their jobs, and that they’re only being kept in their jobs because of some political ideas.” – well it kinda seems that way for a company who declares a focus o diversity not competence
Yeah, but you are not supposed to point that out, you shitlord…
These people are making him a martyr. Delicious.
“We aren’t close-minded, now fire that fucker!”
Stop hiring people who assault their coworkers, mebbe?
tfw you’re so intolerant that tolerant people have to punch you in the face
Genuine tolerance — as opposed to the old-fashioned liberal idea of tolerance — requires both intolerance of intolerance and intolerance of the tolerance of intolerance. Intolerance, the tolerance of intolerance and any expression of such must be suppressed by any means necessary. If it takes a punch in the face, so be it. This is pretty much the central message of Post-Modernism’s leading intellectual, Herbert Marcus, in his essay titled Repressive Tolerance. This philosophy finds expression in the antics of BLM, Antifa, various campus lunatics, and a certain strain of Democrat political activist.
I guess they consider that an appropriate response to opinions you disagree with. So they shouldn’t mind if others return the favor.
Not all Google employees disagree with anti-diversity polemic
From the author’s twitter:
Apparently I don’t either when the actual requirement on paper is written as genitalia or skin color. So please elaborate.
Skin color and genitalia are obviously good indicators of soft skills. Way to stereotype buddy.
There’s a dick joke in there somewhere but I can’t put my finger on it.
Small Hands?
/heh
Whatever you say, Dr. Funke.
My genitalia got a lot softer after reading that?
Christ the replies…
No shit, that’s not the argument. The author did not call for an exclusionary hiring process, merely one that was grounded in objective skills over superficial traits.
It’s SJW dogma, Scruffy. There is no such thing as ability (unless it’s claimed by favored groups). If more wrong people get into a particular class, it must be because of discrimination.
the top N out of a widened pool of candidates will be better not worse
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on whether the incremental increase in the pool includes anyone who is actually qualified for the job.
a good number of the people you might have to work with may simply punch you in the face
A good sign of intelligence and professional skills is going straight to violence when you can’t debate a point.
You just put out a manifesto inside the company arguing that some large fraction of your colleagues are at root not good enough to do their jobs, and that they’re only being kept in their jobs because of some political ideas. . . . .causing other people to get up and say, “Wait, is that right?”
Well, is it? Isn’t that a perfectly legitimate question?
I am no longer even at the company
Why not? And do you think its appropriate for Google employees to be discussing these internal matters with an ex-employee? BTW, does your current employer know this is how you are spending your time?
I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you
I’m unclear on how and why you could assign anyone to work with him, since you don’t work for Google at all.
Nanoparticles trick body into accepting organ transplants
STEVE SMITH TRANSPLANT HIS ORGAN INTO YOU WITHOUT NA-NO PARTIES.
STEVE SMITH HAVE PARTY IN HIS CROTCH!
As a transplant nurse this is pretty neat. Growing organs in lab would be another great step for patients needing transplants.
I can’t wait to start raising my own Lil Pancreas Pig.
I write this from corporate housing in Colorado Springs before starting my new job. I flip on the local news and literally the very first thing on TV is an ad sponsored by the news station for a charity trap shooting competition heard toward kids (an ad whose existence in Denver would be impossible). I think I’m gonna like this place.
Now tits.
http://archive.is/Rm4IV
“Corporate housing”, “plantation”… “potato”, “potahto”.
My gruel was very well prepared.
It was the hate and prejudice.
Congrats on the job too, for realsies.
So many good choices, but I’ll take #38, Irene Nell.
They should have silicone and non-silicone segments. (I prefer non)
Maryland city mulling over idea to let undocumented residents vote
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/07/maryland-city-mulling-over-idea-to-let-undocumented-residents-vote.html
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Supporters of the measure say that local elections focus on issues like trash collection, and other municipal services and they are issues that affect residents of the city, regardless of their citizenship status.
“These are folks who have a significant stake in our community, and who rely on the facilities in our city,” College Park City Councilwoman Christine Nagle, who is sponsoring the measure, said to the newspaper. “To me, it just made sense.”
Others in the community say that immigrants should not have a say until they have completed the process of becoming a citizen.
“On a personal level, I do not agree that noncitizens should be voting,” College Park City Councilwoman Mary C. Cook said before adding that she will listen to her constituents before making a decision.
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Why not? Dead people are already voting.
Got to protect the DNC drones from jail time
Speaking of DNC drones and criminals, wasn’t some guy accosted by your usual DNC operatives with bylines when he pointed out that someone else’s comment that half of the mayoral candidates for the city of Detroit were criminals, should have been expanded to end with, and given enough time the other half would end up criminals too?
Many places require that candidates be eligible to vote in that jurisdiction. Not Detroit, I guess?
“X affects everyone, therefore everyone should be able to vote” is such a dumb argument.
What parents do affects their children, but children don’t get a say on how the household is run. How people think this shouldn’t translate to voting I don’t get.
Violent criminals should have a right to vote because criminal statutes directly affect them.
Well, they’re pretty sure the new people will vote for their side, so it works out logically.
My friend’s parent’s grocery list affected my life when I would go over to raid their pantry as a kid, but that didn’t mean I should have had a say in what they bought at the store.
Makes no difference in national elections and would only be a different version of lunacy in state and local.
Yeah. Because there’s no way in hell the poll workers in these overwhelmingly-Dem cities couldn’t “accidentally” give full ballots to the non-citizens.
Don’t be naive. This is an attempt to undermine the entire concept of citizenship.
I think the relevant point is that its Maryland. It’s not like it’s going to go Republican in any election.
Yes, that was my clumsily made point.
To clarify a little bit, there is a motive for a Maryland prog compound to do this. The Governor is a Republican, and an extremely popular one at that, and is favored for reelection next year because non-moonbatty suburban Dems like him a lot. His popularity is also, for the first time, threatening the Left’s near-century supermajority in the Senate. Therefore, the prog hellholes like College Park want to increase the moonbat/intersectional base.
That I didn’t know. Good point.
This is a good way to lose the people.
I find limiting voting rights to residents to be intolerably exclusionary. Unless we’re talking about straight white men, of course.
/superprog
And as for its impact on you: do you understand that at this point, I could not in good conscience assign anyone to work with you?
Oh, horror.
He’s so much more emotionally developed than thou.
Illinois financial woes haven’t stopped high-dollar university salaries
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35246/
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Facing junk bond status, high debt and the threat of downgraded credit ratings, the state of Illinois is in dire financial straits – yet thousands of public university employees continue to pull down high-six-figure salaries.
Many of those employees are located at the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, with more at its Urbana-Champaign flagship. More than 3,100 employees make at least $100,000 and more than 500 make $200,000 or more at the Chicago campus.
Four doctors alone make a combined $4 million, and the top 14 employees at Chicago all make more than $500,000, according to OpenTheBooks.com, which tracks “disclosed spending” across federal, state and local governments.
When asked about these salaries, UI spokesman Thomas Hardy told The College Fix via email that “compensation for faculty and academic staff generally follows the market for the respective positions. For example, our engineering, medical and college of business faculty, as well as senior administrators, earn compensation comparable to their colleagues at peer institutions.”
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If there’s not enough money, the fact that their salaries are similar to other universities is irrelevant.
“compensation for faculty and academic staff generally follows the market for the respective positions.”
Prog academics: “WTF I love markets now.”
Something about Market value?
Here we go again:
US providing support to Philippines in its fight against pro-ISIS militants, Tillerson says
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The U.S. has been providing the Philippines aircraft, surveillance capabilities, training and information in its battle with pro-Islamic State militants who besieged the southern city of Marawi, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Monday.
Tillerson, speaking at a regional security summit in Manila, said the equipment includes a few Cessna aircraft and a few drones. He said they will help the Philippines battle “an enemy that fights in a way that most people have never had to deal with.”
“We think they are beginning to get that situation under control,” Tillerson said. “But the real challenge is going to come with once they have the fighting brought to an end how to deal with the conditions on the ground to ensure it does not re-emerge.”
Tillerson argued there was no contradiction presented by the U.S. decision to help Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte fight the ISIS militants, despite human rights groups criticizing President Trump for his willingness to address Duterte’s bloody drug war. ISIS’ grasp on Marawi has stoked the fears about the terror group exporting violence into Southeast Asia and beyond.
“I see no conflict — no conflict at all in our helping them with that situation and our views of the human rights concerns we have with respect to how they carry out their counter narcotics activities,” Tillerson said.
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Fine. Stuff Tillerson on the next flight to Manila and shove him out the door over the jungle.
Plague Eradication?
Parachute optional?
Not for nothin’, but we been doing that shit for 15 years.
The press has conveniently forgot about it for the last 8.
You have just created a textbook hostile workplace environment.
Expecting people to be good at what they do, and produce something valuable which adds to the bottom line of the enterprise, is the ultimate hostile work environment.
“What? you’re not just paying me to wander around aimlessly and bullshit all day? That’s mean.”
LH hardest hit.
Pfft, that’s what the mask is for.
Most employers these days see paying a whole swat of useless people to do this diversity shit a whole lot of money, as the price of doing business…
ISIS and Taliban join forces in deadly village attack, Afghan officials claim
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/07/asia/taliban-isis-joint-afghanistan-village-attack/index.html
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Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN)Taliban and ISIS forces launched a joint attack on a village in northern Afghanistan, killing 50 people including women and children, local officials claimed.
The village, in the Mirzawalang area of Sar-e-Pul province, came under attack by militants from the two groups, Mohammad Noor Rahmani, the head of Sar-e-Pul provincial council said.
Zabiullah Amani, a provincial spokesman, said that the joint force attacked the area Thursday afternoon and had secured the area in 48 hours. He said 10 militants were killed in the attack, and a further 12 injured.
They beheaded some of the 50 victims, and shot others, he said.
A Taliban spokesman denied that the two groups had joined forces.
“it is completely wrong, it is propaganda of our enemy, ISIS is our enemy, there is no ISIS in Sar-e-Pul. Our commander in Sar-e-Pul is called Ghazanfar, who is not an ISIS,” Zabiullah Mojahid, a Taliban spokesman, told CNN.
Another Taliban representative, Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, denied killing the civilians, also saying it was “propaganda” from the group’s enemies.
In the statement he said “only 28 local militia were killed”, adding that their bodies were given to local elders.
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More Plague Eradication needed here
On that German chick who wants to be a black barbie with big tits.
Germany: The Florida (Ohio?) of Europe?
boo hoo
A Googler’s Would-Be Manifesto Reveals Tech’s Rotten Core
Office culture is only part of the problem.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/08/why-is-tech-so-awful/536052/
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An anonymous Google software engineer’s 10-page fulmination against workplace diversity was leaked from internal company communications systems, including an internal version of Google+, the company’s social network, and another service that Gizmodo, which published the full memo, called an “internal meme network.”
“I’m simply stating that the distribution of preferences and abilities of men and women differ in part due to biological causes,” the Googler writes, “and that these differences may explain why we don’t see equal representation of women in tech and leadership.”
The memo has drawn rage and dismay since its appearance Saturday, when it was first reported by Motherboard. It seemed to dash hopes that much progress has been made in unraveling the systemic conditions that produce and perpetuate inequity in the technology industry. That includes increasing the distribution of women and minorities in technical jobs, equalizing pay, breaking the glass ceiling, and improving the quality of life in workplaces that sometimes resemble frat houses more than businesses.
These reactions to the screed are sound, but they risk missing a larger problem: The kind of computing systems that get made and used by people outside the industry, and with serious consequences, are a direct byproduct of the gross machismo of computing writ large. More women and minorities are needed in computing because the world would be better for their contributions—and because it might be much worse without them.
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It’s a conspiracy! These people trade in myth.
Talk about assuming your conclusion.
Once again, evidence please that superficial characteristics like skin color and genitalia provide unique skills that contribute to the company?
The idea that one needs evidence to prove an assertion is a byproduct of the Patriarchy, shitlord, and I refuse to empower your hate by acceding to such a sexist demand!
/progspeak
Examples please. And no open source.
The author is a professor for some degree field called “computational media” who is just pissed that so many of the male students at his school prefer the computer science degree (the one that’s actually worth something) over his program.
OMWC linked to the actual document in yesterday morning’s links. See WRONGTHINK! WRONGTHINK!
The ‘Trump Effect’ on Canada’s Classrooms
Schools are feeling reverberations of the political climate across the border, and some educators are adjusting their lesson plans accordingly.
https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/08/the-trump-effect-canadian-classrooms/535425/
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Standing at the front of her classroom this past February, the public high-school English teacher Jana Rohrer wrote the words “American Flag” on the board and asked her ninth-grade students to tell her what came to their minds.
Over the past six years Rohrer has used the exercise as part of a lesson to help explain symbolism in Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird. And over the past six years, the students’ answers had become routine: Freedom. Independence. Patriotism.
This time, there were new words mixed among the more familiar responses: Hate. Racism. Danger.
“It was like when you hear a record scratch and the music stops,” said Rohrer, recalling the moment from the classroom exercise. “I was just floored.”
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[head desk]
Sounds like bullshit to me.
Lots of students know that they get a better grade when they write what the teacher wants.
I don’t believe this for a second. A classroom full of students that said things like this would be a prog’s wet dream, therefore, you know its a total fabrication. Reality never matches up with the prog’s imagination.
Relevant: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxF_d_gUUAAt-Y2.jpg
8 is the Word of the Day, go get em champ!
Eight-Year-Olds, dude.
With how the kids are being brainwashed by their proggy teachers, I’m sure this probably is what these kids associate with America.
That is what I was going to say. I wonder where those kids get those ideas? For the most part not one damn thing has really changed other than the occupant of the white house.
We stopped arming terrorists in Libya and Syria. That has changed as well.
good point. Forgot about that one.
Why do all these dopes complain about US-centrism, yet can’t help churning out bullshit like this?
And why exactly are the idiotic opinions of teenagers relevant? Are you admitting that the people who currently share their opinions are acting like children?
The opportunities for trolling in school now are just so much better than Back In The Day.
“OK, class, what does the American flag make you think of? Li’l RC, why don’t you go first?”\
“Rape.”
“Oh, my, well that’s not really appropriate, Li’l RC. Why don’t you try again?”
“White slavery.”
Etc. ad infinitum.
Where are the all-female software engineering firms hell-bent on disrupting the industry? I’m sure they’re out there. I blame the media for refusing to tell me about them.
Leave It To Beaver.
Lickety Split Web Developers, LLC
That movie really did have everything
I swear to Bob I did not fuck that one up.
This link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS3LWOTCW4A
Especially since they’d only have to be paid 79 cents on the dollar. Pure profit!
Society doesn’t allow women to be entrepreneurs because sexism. Any and all current and former CEOs are simply props used by men to hide their sexism.
The memo has drawn rage and dismay since its appearance Saturday
Impotent rage, and ostentatious dismay.
Have you posted the link for the fantasy football league yet?
I sent the link to everybody already in it. We have one straggler (Butts Wagner). And if he doesn’t show up by tomorrow, I’ll memo out to the league to see what we want to do. We may just have one more player or we may add 3 and go to a 12 player league.
Is there interest in a second Glibs league? Because I could possibly set it up but I frankly don’t have a lot of time to be a league commissioner.
Is there money on the line?
Nah. It’s just been a funsies league for the last 6 years.
When I see that photo of the monkey, all I can think of is the Church Lady saying “His bulbous buttocks engorged and tingling.”
Thicc Monday
From the Atlantic article-
Even the fateful Googler’s memo enjoys the spoils of a world already designed for male supremacy. What is this letter, after all, but a displaced Reddit post? Certain but non-evidential. Feigning structure, but meandering. Long and tedious, with inept prose and dead manner. This false confidence underwrites all the claims the memo contains, from its facile defense of jingoism as political conservatism to its easy dismissal of anyone not predetermined to be of use.
Speaking of meandering, tedious inept nonsense…
This fucking idiot is operating from the same ass backwards superstitions as all the other “Employers evolved as a means to hire people and hand out paychecks” morons running around out there. The “computer science” model we have was brought into existence by those people who understood how to make it work. His “what if ‘regular people’ wrote software and built the internet?” question is just as pointless and idiotic as asking, “What if Queen Isabella had sent ships full of talking monkeys out to discover the New World?”
I hate these dumb motherfuckers.
What if Queen Isabella had sent ships full of talking monkeys out to discover the New World?
Dysentery?
The question I have to ask is did these people actually read the commentary? If so, it really looks like they were reading something fundamentally different from what I read.
Well, you’re probably a CIS-normative-hetero-shitlord, so that’s why?
What is this letter, after all, but a displaced
Reddit postHuffPo/NYT/WaPO article? Certain but non-evidential. Feigning structure, but meandering. Long and tedious, with inept prose and dead manner. This false confidence underwrites all the claimsWorks for me.
The brother in law and his family and ours are at a mountain hot spring in Gunma this week. Father in law is getting treatment for rectal cancer, so they couldn’t make it for our annual summer trip. It’s sad without him and the mother in law.
My friends back in the states wonder why I don’t move back. Truth is that the familial bonds that the Japanese have makes for a society that is infinitely more tolerable than one that is filled with broken people. For me anyways. The US can keep trying to smooth the waves left in the wake of destroyed families (caused in large part by government policy), but if the family is rotten, you can’t fix the root problem with a welfare patch.
I’m having a wonderful week with family and the shared worry we all have for Otohsan is a blessing in its own way. Take care of your families, boys, and hopefully provide examples of what a real society of compassion and caring can do. Fuck the state and its destruction of the family.
God Bless you Sir, That made me feel better on a shitty Monday morning,
Much respect for OtohSan, I lost mine ten years back,
That made me feel better on a shitty Monday morning
Me too. One nice thing about marrying SP was marrying into her family. My f-i-l is somewhere beyond awesome. We’re worried about him making it another year, but what a blessing he has been.
I’m sorry to hear about your father-in-law. I hope the treatments work and he makes a speedy recovery.
Also I hope you have a good vacation, even with the absence.
I appreciate all your well wishes. Getting to that age where I have to start dealing with this sickness stuff more often. You guys enjoy your summer, too. Scarcity. There are only that many we’re given.
My best wishes to your extended family. Cancer sucks.
Sicilian firemen exercise old world mafia tendencies
They stole that idea from Americans!
Kenyan official responsible for overseeing fraud-resistant voting system found tortured to death before election.
Dayyyum
Sounds like Clintonian suicide.
“People are shitting their pants because a movie is going to use language from the book it was adapted from. Oh, the horror!!!!!”
When I saw that, I thought, “what book could that be? Obviously it’s not Huck Finn, that’s way too old.”
But it is.
“Look, nobody is going to stone anyone until I blow this whistle. Even, and I want to make this perfectly clear, even if they do say n_____.”
Look, the rule is very simple: Ice T can say it, Mark T can’t.
Or maybe I’m thinking of Ice Cube.
Anyway, they go together, don’t they?
New Plinkett Review supposedly coming soon from RLM
Fun fact. I’m related to the author. His name is really spelled Carnagey, but he wanted to market himself in a way that would make people perceive he was related to the industrialist, not the buncha Kentucky & Missouri hicks that were his real family.
My father read the book and took a Carnegie course when I was in high school.
I received a copy after I graduated from High School many moons ago (too many! What year is this?!) and brushed it off for much the same reason as the author in that piece.
Maybe it’s time I picked it up and actually gave it a read. I trend towards cynical nihilism a little too often.
In case you need to feel superior to another commenting community:
78 Famed Artists Including Kara Walker, Cindy Sherman, and Marina Abramovic Condemn the Dana Schutz Protest
Holy fuck, these people are touchy idiots.
Gawker comments are facebook shitposts without the self-awareness
Cancer does not exist in the Soviet Union comrade. Whatever you are ill with, it is most assuredly not cancerous.
Are there any commenting communities not inferior to here?
Maybe SSC, but only maybe. Popehat and Ordinary Times are cesspools of self-satisfied semi-educated pseudo-intellectuals.
Our self-satisfied pseudointellectuals actually have an education!
City of dreams
Mr. de Blasio will announce a so-called millionaires tax on Monday for wealthy New York City residents to pay for subway and bus upgrades and for reduced fares for more riders, an idea that has been successful in Seattle.
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Mr. Cuomo faces a re-election campaign next year and is thought to be considering running for president in 2020.
He’ll out- Bernie Bernie, I guess. That’ll work.
Seriously, what could possibly lead deBlasio to believe he could get any sort of traction in a national election? The guy’s utterly delusional.
A delusional New York City mayor? I’ve seen everything now.
Next to DeBlasio, Fernando Wood was sanity itself.
There, once was a mayor
wanted secession, hadn’t a prayer
took every dime that he could
corrupt and no good, Fernando Wood
LOL, Bernie progs hate Cuomo, at least the ones on Twitter. A major reason might be because he’s one of the few major Democrats (other than Cory Booker) to ever voice support for charter schools in any context.
How the fuck do bullshit taxes like this pass constitutional scrutiny? They all but go out of their way to say they target people with more wealth than others. That should be a violation of the equal protection clause.
“Your honor, my property is not equally protected. The government confiscates a larger percentage of it than this guy over here”.
Seems like a pretty simple thing to take down.
The courts used to view such laws with suspicion, but now the decided that judges need to defer to the elected branches of government.*
*except when they don’t
now they decided
With NY’s ten years tax-free program, Cuomo is admitting corporate taxes kill business. The TV commercials for the program state this outright. Progs don’t like that attitude.
Cuomo’s a mainstream Democrat and isn’t quite a socialist (yet). In the prog world, relatively pragmatic = HEATHEN!
He’s not relatively pragmatic. He’s corrupt in the Hillary school. The tax breaks are for specific chosen companies, and not readily available for their compeditors.
I should’ve put “pragmatic” in quotes, but yeah he’s basically a corrupt cynic in the mold of secret Wall Street tape Hillary.
The script should have just read:
“Taxes kill business. Taxes kill business. Taxes kill business. Taxes kill business.”
“Taxes kill business. Taxes kill business. Taxes kill business. Taxes kill business. We promise to not kill you for 10 years.”
/FIFY
After that it is all STEVE SMITH doing the business thang?
I made it back from Mexico without incident. The guy in a Suburban that swerved around me and made a break for it on the shoulder about 1.5 miles from the border? Yeah he totally missed the late model Dodge Ram that said “Policia” on the side. He was pulled over and got an M4 in his face.
This reminds me of the time I was in Los Angeles two weeks ago where a guy in a Sentra swerved around me and a few other people only to miss the convoy of LAPD squad cars that pinned him into a corner. He was pulled over and got a Beretta in his face.
I really need to find better places to spend my off hours.
Waaa? It sounds fun. Time off well spent.
I loved that scene in Sicario
Glad you got home safely.
Whoops like I misread that. Cuomo is thinking about President. Same reaction, though. Is anybody in Nebraska, or Oklahoma, or North Dakota going to vote for Andrew Fucking Cuomo?
Based on how I read the article, that tax idea is too batshit insane even for Cuomo. That’s an accomplishment, I guess?
Happy Birthday Sloopy.
ahh. jackie wilson.
i would gladly make the argument that he was a better song+dance man than james brown & michael jackson. i’d probably lose but before i did i’d walk it back and say without jackie wilson the rest wouldn’t exist. I just love the dude. I wish there were footage of him boxing somewhere. I heard he was a fighter before he became a showman.
Him and Sam Cooke.
Real deal masters.
I love sam for his smoooooooooooth. they both were kings of croon,but sam was a pussy eater, and jackie just smashed it.
Without Gene Krupa, Buddy Rich (and a whole bunch of other showy jazz and bop drummers) probably wouldn’t exist – but Buddy > Gene, even though I love ’em both.
Does chick webb fit in that formula anywhere?
(sigh)… I have a friend with whom I was in theatre in high school. She’s a very sweet, devoted Catholic. However, she buys into the liberation theology social justice wing of Catholicism. She is 32, and like most SJW catholics, she’s completely miserable. She tries to convince herself that she’s happy, and that letting her heart bleed makes her happy, but I can just tell she’s miserable, and wants nothing more than to settle down with a nice man and start pumping out babies. From the time she entered college (at SLU) until now, her entire life has been about “sacrifice” and “doing good” (by SJW Catholic standards). And I see post after post on Facebook where – if you read between the lines – you can tell she’s just completely miserable.
And now her life is at a crossroads. Either some guy (who will be able to put up with the unrealistic expectation of waiting to bang until their wedding night) will sweep her off her feet, marry her, pump out some kids, and she’ll slowly swallow the red pill as she raises children in the age of progressive sexual identity politics and cultural marxism, or she’ll wait too long, and her ovaries will dry up In the latter scenario, she’ll likely end up doubling down on the SJW nonsense, because admitting that it is the root of all of her misery, and that it cost her a lifetime of happinesss, is just too miserable of a reality to admit to. I have seen these typed of 40-something, barren and lonely SJW Catholic women in my church through the years. They are the most miserable cunts on earth. That future awaits her unless Chad Thundercock can sweep her off her feet, but patiently wait until their wedding night to give her the best dicking she’ll ever get.
“the unrealistic expectation of waiting to bang until their wedding night”
The voice of modern conservatism, bravely taking on the Left.
Chad Thundercock
I larfed.
Pics?
You know Chad? I hear he’s taken though.
Is she hot? Asking for a friend.
You know what? She’s not bad. In high school, she was a very plain looking skinny girl (she’s very petite). She hasn’t changed a bit since high school. So now she’s 32. Everyone else has gotten fatter and uglier. And she’s kind of just stayed the same. So she is by default probably in the top 10% of women in her age group.
When i went to my 10 year HS reunion, the “plain girls” who played sports were all hot as fuck, and all the “hot, popular girls” who had relied on their appearances and cruelty to maintain dominance were all dumpy hags.
Its like we went to the same reunion.
I haven’t been back for another one, BTW.
I went to 25th HS reunion. All these middle-aged people were lying about how they went to high school with me.
That was 20 years ago. I’m sure I wouldn’t remember a single one of them.
I need to find a link, but there’s a really good Theodore Dalrymple article about this topic.
No single dudes in her church? No Catholic singles meetups or groups?
And why can’t she fuck until she’s married? From what I know about the Catholic church, you just go tell the priest all your sins, do some Hail Marys and Our Fathers and you’re good to go.
I’m sure there are single dudes in her church. But I’m sure guys who are interested in intersectionality and its implications in the Catholic Church and vice versa are not exactly the kind of guys who get the juices flowing. Like most prog women, I’m sure there’s a serious disconnect between what she thinks she wants in a guy, versus what actually gets the ol’ motor going.
pic absolutely related: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1MeBm3UcAAWezl.jpg
From what I know about atheists, all you have to do to meet women is go to your nearest Satanic coven.
Or maybe I’m wildly generalizing?
But at least atheists don’t have an SJW problem!
/sarc
But where do agnostics go to meet chicks? I can’t decide!
I can’t explain, I think it’s love
My in-laws tell me that the confession thing only takes if you actually mean it, though. Like I think if you plan on the confession as part of the sinnin’, it doesn’t work and you still go to hell.
How the fuck do bullshit taxes like this pass constitutional scrutiny? They all but go out of their way to say they target people with more wealth than others. That should be a violation of the equal protection clause.
This tax is specifically to be imposed on people who probably NEVER EVER ride the subway. That’s what pisses me off. If you ride the subway, you are the one who should be paying for its operation and upkeep, not somebody who hasn’t seen a subway station since he graduated from Columbia and got a job.
ahh. jackie wilson.
That decoded as Jackie MASON, in my head. Had a little WTF? moment until I got it sorted out.
That’s because you’re racist. You went straight for the white Jew first.
oy vey, the goy can’t tell a schvartzer from a yid
Pics?
She’s the one in the pussy hat.
Also- on my little excursion to the Atlantic, I found Ta Nahisi Coates’ response to that horrific pro-slavery show about the confederacy. I read a few paragraphs, but couldn’t slog my way very far into it.
tl;dr- NOT OKAY
Not one use of “black bodies.” smdh
“And the Rockies, although they’re safely in the wild card spot. ”
You’re jinxing my team, Sloopy.
https://youtu.be/bw7ezvR-fuM
I can’t decide if this is a Blue Oester Cult ripoff, or more of a pastiche of the style. Either way, fun.
Waiting to hear back from a place I interviewed. This sucks.
On the plus side, peice of shit boss threw a tantrum and went home because his feelings are too feely. The cause? I discovered a fundamental flaw in the software that makes everything that’s been done on it for the last 8 months invalid. And, satisfyingly, it originated right after I got moved to another project. Then as soon as I got asked to do some work on this project, I immediately found it. So that’s pretty satisfying.
I hear a lot of Maiden as well. Either way like it.
Then as soon as I got asked to do some work on this project, I immediately found it.
Coincidence? I think not, Monsieur Saboteur.
He’s a wrecker!
Headline: Gay teens have higher pregnancy rates than their straight peers
Sub-Heading: Experts said the trend could be driven by a lack of education for LGBTQ youths.
I’m going to go out on a limb here are say the lack of education may be what the definition of “gay” means.
So you’re going to hetero-splain to them how reproduction works?
So, to reduce the teen pregnancy rate we need to get these gay teens into conversion therapy?
/sarc
How the fuck can anyone, not matter where they land on the intersectionality keyboard, not know how babies are made by the time they are out of grade school?
And just how LGBTQ are these kids, anyway, of they are doing the old PIV in-out in-out, anyway?
It’s simple, she identifies as lesbian, and he identfies as a lesbian too, but has no intention of transitioning surgically.
OMFG this CMS is a piece. of. shite.
Only a couple more months til WordPress…