A short schedule of games yesterday means you won’t hear much about baseball today. But the Cubs won, as did the Nats, the Twins and the Orioles. So there should be some happy Glibs out there today. The real sports news happens later this week as the PGA Championship kicks off Thursday and the McGregor-Mayweather freak show/money grab reaches its conclusion. So tune in later in the week for more in-depth sports recaps (or don’t, if you don’t like them. I’ve got thick skin.)
I told you that was gonna be short. We’re already into…the links!
In what will become one of the least surprising stories of the 21st Century, Google has fired the person that penned that memo on their hiring practices. Hilariously, they noted their acceptance of all opinion in their public statement about firing someone…for giving their opinion internally. Will this be a seminal moment in the PC wars? We shall soon find out. Banjos thinks it will. I think it won’t even be a blip on the radar. And do you know why I feel that way? Because Bing isn’t that good a search engine and the people that boycott google will come running back in a matter of days, if not hours.
Miami-Dade County stops being a sanctuary city. (Yeah, I know they’re a county.) Will be assured of federal grant money. Meanwhile Chicago, who has the most abusive police department in the country, based on the per capita settlements they’ve paid out in excessive force claims, has sued the DOJ over their policy of not giving grants to sanctuary cities. I guess they don’t want to tell the feds about their black-bag jails where suspects disappear for days at a time with no info given to their families or attorneys.
Will Minnesota finally go red? asks the Weekly Standard. Our contingent of Minnesodans can weigh in and educate the rest of us on the real likelihood of that or if it was just a blip based on Hillary Clinton’s lack of enthusiasm last season or Trump’s willingness to show up and campaign. Methinks its similar to the situations in Georgia and South Carolina where Team Blue outperformed expectations in special elections earlier this year: sure, they got closer, but once Team Red felt a little hot breath on their neck, they gave it their attention and comfortably won.
In case you’re planning on attending the “Unite The Right” rally, which I’m sure nobody here is unless its to laugh at the racist assholes, you better not plan on using Air BNB. Because they’re purging all accounts associated with the group.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I were you, Ms Lakshmi. This has been par for the course for unions since they formed.
Protip to police officers: if you’re going to apply for a job in a different jurisdiction, be sure to hide the stash of kiddie porn you have stored on your electronic devices. It just might turn up on your background check, dumbass.
I’m just glad I don’t have to post links this often. But I’m glad I get to do other things this frequently IYKWIMAITYD.
I’m dodging floods again today. But I’m still gonna try and make it a great day. You do the same!
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542 responses to “Tuesday Morning Links”
I can easily dodge flooding where I am.
Oh, you were talking about making the day great again.
I would really enjoy watching Google’s “diversity” initiatives get spit-roasted
There is some truth to the statement that others have made: by all appearances, Google will always be first and foremost a marketing company, and secondly a technology company. I don’t think it’s honest to not call them a technology company, but letting RHEEEEEE significantly affect your talent pool isn’t a good look.
Actually this stuff will work itself out just fine, IMHO. As their diversity hiring practices replace productive people with the usual grievance mongering SJW types, they will start going at each other even harder. Eventually the place will be all people with minimal or no actual technical skills, right at a time when stupid ideas dominate Google’s future vision and investment, and the place will burn itself down. Yeah, they can get the leftist in government to use the power of the law to help subsidize and keep them around for a long time, but sooner or later they will end up like AOL and other such companies that lost track of what made them great in the first place.
“AB: Your concerns about intolerance towards employees at Google mirror the concerns of ordinary web users about intolerance towards them. Many people now fear that Google, Facebook, and other companies are moving to control and censor their content. Are these fears justified?
Hal: That is absolutely what Google is trying to do. The pro-censorship voices are very loud, and they have the management’s ear. The anti-censorship people are afraid of retaliation, and people are afraid to openly support them because everyone in their management chain is constantly signaling their allegiance to far-left ideology. Our leadership (Sundar in particular) is weak, so he capitulates to the meanest bullies on the block.”
“Hal: That is absolutely what Google is trying to do. The pro-censorship voices are very loud, and they have the management’s ear.”
Agree with you except it isn’t what they are trying to do: they have been doing this for a long time already. Google searches are rigged. So are Google’s practices.
Walking pile of shit warmonger Bill Kristol just won’t go away and is taking forever to die of a heart attack in the middle of autoerotic asphyxiation.
And surely the Renegade Party should play an important role too, huh Bill? You warmongering cocknozzle.
What about David French????
Please FOAD, Bill. Yeah, it’s not the overextension of military assets and massive & constant debasement of the currency, that shitty debt-incurring disaster of a war you succeeded in agitating for, or a whole host of other issues where you see a historical parallel. It’s the weaksauce pop culture lense comparison of Trump with (wait, is it the Western or Eastern Roman Empire, Bill???) — in the form of a duly elected clown presently in control of the Executive that, based on even the most casual observation, is still being kept firmly in check by the the Judicial and Legislative branches.
Another more contemporary reminder of what Bill Kristol is.
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In the past I have considered floating a resume to Google to see what they come back with. Now I'm 100% sure that living in Yokelstan is much better. I'd like to visit the moon, but I wouldn't want to live there.
You better take it easy, Pomp. You’re gonna end up with an aneurysm.
However, I do share your sentiment.
Wasn’t Kristol behind running whats his face in 2016? That bald ex spook dude. I don’t even remember his name.
Kristol can fuck right off. Warmongering cocknozzle is an excellent descriptor.
Egg McMuffin
I think that dude was literal controlled opposition and anyone idiotic enough to get behind him…
(Including Balko. RIP Balko. I hope you’re enjoying the WaPo cocktail parties.)
Wow. That Tweet.
The more the left and establishment GOP act this way the more they give life to Trump.
Drain that motherfucken swamp.
Yeah, but the replies to that tweet are heartening. Kristol is a vile person, but his movement is struggling, and that’s a good sign.
It’s too bad that “fool me once” moment had to be the Iraq War II.
Yeah, that was a hell of a learning experience.
That’s why calls for crackdowns on speech has life. More often than not the ‘will of the people’ is at odds with the elites and must be shut down.
So much this Rufus…
Well, it is a harsh mistress.
Seems to me like Trump is about the only thing saving the Republicans right now. It sure as hell isn’t guys like you keeping the party alive.
Actually, I have to give the cocknozzle a bit of gratitude. He played a significant role in my becoming a libertarian. For a long time, and especially after 9/11, I was pretty much a conservative, willing to accept the bullshit from the GOP about how we needed infringements on our freedom to stop the terrorists and how we needed to adopt Dem Light domestic policies or the Democrats would win. I went to a speech Kristol gave at my club, drumming up support for more endless adventurism. I asked a pretty straightforward question about the interaction of financial and strategic security. Not only did he not answer my question and dismiss the issue without any factual support, he basically gave a sneering dismissal of even asking the question. It was then that I started to realize that the neo-cons were nothing but smarmy flim-flam artists.
About a month later, Andrew Napolitano spoke at the club.
Did he ask a lot of questions?
Who am I? Why am I here?
Did he ask a lot of questions?
Not that I noticed. But, he did explain, for the first time that I’d heard, why the Patriot Act was a terrible piece of legislation, in terms beyond making fun of its name and decrying the fact that it allowed investigators to access to the same library records I used to be able to find out by looking in the sign-out card in the back of the book.
That’s one of the things that really irks me with the “we gotta spend more and more and more on the military cause nothing’s more important than national security!” crowd – a strong economy and sound public finances are also absolutely essential to national security. Where do they think the money for the military *comes from*? Have these people ever read a history book written by a non-moron? (“The Sinews of Power” is a fine example, if you haven’t read it already.)
TW: Salon
The right wing in America has long tried to destroy ‘government schools’
So segregationist Democrats in the 1950’s were right wing? The people who exhibited the most reaction to Brown, such as George Wallace, Orval Faubus, John Ben Sheppard, etc. were all Democrats.
But they, like, switched parties. Don’t you even history, shitlord?
-modern leftist just before they go on a diatribe about state capitalism ruining Venezuela.
But they, like, switched parties.
It’s always frustrating when people say this seriously, since it is counter to the facts. The majority of anti-civil-rights Democrats remained in their party. As the south became less racist it became more Republican, an inconvenient truth the Democrats strive mightily to obscure.
Literally all but 3 Federal politicians stayed Democrats. The numbers might be larger at a state level, but I doubt it, since the narrative is so convenient for Democrats.
And the actual growth of Southern Republican voting has been researched and doesn’t bear that narrative out in the least. The growth in GOP voting in the South largely stemmed from suburban districts and precincts that had little or no history of racism. You either have to believe that all of a sudden the racists moved to less racist districts or precincts or you have to look for another cause.
Roughly around the same time as the Civil Rights movement, the Sunbelt migrations of the 50s-80s saw large numbers of business-minded, middle class, voters move to the South.
It also started with Eisenhower, before Brown ended segregation.
He and others who were part of this libertarian movement at the time, I was shocked to discover, really rallied in excitement over what was happening in the south. They were thrilled that southern state governments were talking about privatizing schools.
Yeah, it’s just mystifying that a person could advocate for the liberty of everyone, including racists.
Tell us all about how AZ NAACP co-founder Barry Goldwater invented the southern strategy too.
Is this a great country or what. Even our dumbest people can make a living. I love capitalism.
To all these lefties finding the great origin of libertarianism in racist south US, I have one word. Bastiat. There are few things truly new from the 1800s in libertarianism.
Or Galiani. Or De Molinari.
This is just intellectual parochialism on the part of American academics and, of course naturally, progressives. They talk as if things like racism and slavey began and still exist in the south and only the south completely excluding other options or factors. It’s a massive logical fallacy meltdown.
And it’s fucken insufferable at this point.
They are quick to forget that Boston and Chicago are probably the most racist cities in America when it comes to institutional racism and police abuse.
Don’t forget too add NYC to that list. The most racist people I have ever met where north eastern liberals that wanted you too know how woke they were compared to you because they were pro socialism and some other really vile ideas (eugenics, letting government pick winners & losers, and using shoddy science to push collectivist pap, for example) that they feel makes them so much smarter than everyone else.
It’s because the south is less urbanized and tends to be more conservative, both politically and culturally, than the urban northeast and west coasts. That makes it easy to think of southerners as a totally different people, and a kind of people who are the antithesis of what coastal leftists see themselves as. When a southern governor tried to stop a black woman from entering a school, it was symptomatic of popular opinion all across the south and required the National Guard; when busing in Boston started years of riots and violence, no such response was forthcoming.
That’s my take, anyway. Progressives in the Richmond to Boston corridor, the Metroplex I believe it’s sometimes called, see southerners as an alien people.
The busing riots in Boston were more about class than race but the media decided the race spin was more fun. Rich white liberals who came up the idea were never going to send their kids to a shit school in the hood. Their privileged kids were in private schools – or in nice safe public ones in Newton.
The poor whities in South Boston and the North End who were trying to raise their kids right and probably put a lot of effort into making their public schools as good as possible… well fuck them. We’ll send their kids to the shittiest schools in Roxbury and bus the kids from their to the school poor whities fixed up.
Of course their was violence. Unfortunately it was misdirected.
I always pointed out to the idiots that sided with the democrats on public schools that if these democrats peddling centralized government controlled public school as the only viable option really believed that shit and practiced what they preached, the vast majority of them would not be sending their kids to super expensive and exclusive private schools where they could both avoid the hoi piloi and the system they foisted on them.
It’s weird. I’m from urban, hip Montreal. Yet Quebec, to me, has a lot in common with South (not as polite though) and so when we do visit it doesn’t feel as alien to us. How can Americans be so alienated from one another? It’s not like it’s a completely different culture and you speak the same language not to mention it’s a highly mobile population that interacts with one another.
I find the cultural differences it to be much more of a urban versus rural thing. A man from rural Maine will have much in common with his counterparts from South Carolina or West Texas. An urbanite from Miami or New Orleans can be (but isn’t always) just as obnoxious as their counterparts in New York and Boston.
Racist history of school vouchers? Really? How exactly does letting families pick a school of their choice equal racist?
If we allowed that, some white parents might pick schools that were predominantly picked by other white people. That, and what happens if Hardworking Minority Mother tries to get their children into the good white school but can’t because all the racist whiteys took all the spots?
DUH! Choice, especially when you make the choice that these people don’t like, is racist!
Yea, that little jab was pretty funny.
Some inner city school districts are de facto segregated with the impoverished minorities stuck in shitty war zone schools based on their geographical area of residence, but I’M a racist if I want to change that system. Uh huh.
Ignored the rest once I hit “Democracy in Chains”.
With this sort of hard-hitting, fact-based journalism, I find it hard to understand why Salon can’t pay rent.
And let’s ignore the origins of mandatory public school enrollment such as https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierce_v._Society_of_Sisters
Huh. Look at that. Democrats and the KKK (when it was an actual political force, not just three losers with two of them being FBI informants and the third being an undercover FBI agent). Who would have thought?
conservative libertarian plans for privatizing what they called “government schools.”
ultra free market property supremacist ideas
first manifesto for school vouchers
I love how they just shove as many buzzwords in as they can so progs can nod knowingly and say, “Triggered! They’re totes racist.”
I like how “government schools” is in scare quotes. As if this is a buzzword instead of a descriptor of our modern school system that’s mandated, funded, and regulated by the government.
So much this…
I may have to steal that.
“In 2016 we established the Airbnb Community Commitment reflecting our belief that to make good on our mission of belonging, those who are members of the Airbnb community accept people regardless of their race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age,” Airbnb shared in a statement. “We asked all members of the Airbnb to affirmatively sign on to this commitment. BUT NO IRISH!”
This is a perfect example of why anti-discrimination laws are so fucking stupid and unnecessary.
Bing really is not as good. I’m trying to use it on my phone right now. Isn’t Bing from Microsoft?
“Bing maps” is superior to “Google maps”, though.
I guess I’ll go back to using web crawler.
With Google, I can hold,my thumb down on a link, and an option pops up to open the link in a new tab. With Bing, that doesn’t happen. I am sent to the new page.
*right-clicks*
*Open in new tab*
Huh, I guess the PC is superior still.
I tried carrying my laptop around in my pocket, but kept forgetting it and it would get washed in the laundry.
So you settled for a tiny screen, terrible input methods and less capable applications?
I don’t get it.
I also use toenail clippers to trim my chin whiskers.
The PC is superior, but when you are mobile you settle for a phone.
Just like steak is superior, but when you are camping you settle for a hotdog.
When I am not at a computer – I have no real need to comment on Glibs. there is usually something more important vying for my attentions.
“Just like steak is superior, but when you are camping you settle for a hotdog.”
You are not doing camping right bro. I have had some of my best meals while camping including such things as steak, lobster, truduckeon, and a whole pig roasted under ground…
Phones today lack the capability of PCs because of the hardware limitations creating software ones. Rather than accepting that as the de factor state of affairs, I say we should all push harder for that to be solved.
>>The PC is superior, but when you are mobile you settle for a phone.
Yes, yes, yes,
>>Just like steak is superior, but when you are camping you settle for a hotdog.
No, no, no.
Church camp out is best camp out. Home brewer brings his home brew. Cigar guy brings the cigars. Whiskey guy brings the whiskey. I make… whatever the fuck I feel like. I’m thinking marinated artichoke hearts and capacola on fresh bread, shepard’s pie, and grilled whiskey-glazed pineapple for desert this year.
>not running KBOX on your Android mobile and doing everything in a linux terminal
Richard Stallman is dissapoint.
Without a proper keyboard, that sounds like a recipe for pain.
I’ve been using Bing for several years. I don’t notice any difference compared to Google.
Use DuckDuckGo. Works fine and you’ve got the added advantage of them not tracking your searches like Google does.
Yep, DDG is an excellent search engine.
I still use Yahoo as my default search. I like that is opens pages as new tabs.
So you’re the one.
I just saw the Almanian news… *sigh* He and I were never close but it’s sad to see a fellow Michigander (and the rare libertarian) go to the great beyond. Now I feel bad for not following up on some of his suggestions to meet up some time since we were only an hour or two away from each other. As usual life and my chronic introverted personality gets in the way.
I am going to listen to bagpipe music tonight and lift a glass to him.
Here. For Almanian.
Don’t sweat it. I’m one of those guys who doesn’t go out of his way to organize such things because of (insert excuse here) including being a natural introvert.
But I do feel guilt whenever things like this happened.
Over 20 years ago I was in college with a buddy and we saw a girl from high school we knew from afar. He asked if we should go say hi. I said that we’d see her later on tonight. that night she was killed in a car crash.
La vie c’est le bitch.
Plus ultra monsieur.
You have a chance to make up for it. 10/6, our place.
Will there be free candy?
How old are you?
Old enough to suspect that if I bring some younger orphans along I might be able to take their free candy,
*looks at article on union bullying*
Those guys don’t look anything like mobsters at all.
I’d be surprised if they didn’t look like extras out of a mob movie.
I also like how the production people and Ms Lakshmi expected the cops to intervene and protect them. Don’t they know the cops are in a union too? They’re not gonna stop their brothers from putting a little fear into someone that’s contracting outside their racket.
Fun fact – not everyone who is in a union joined willingly, or is willing to abandon their jobs (as in not perform the duties) for the sake of the parasites taking a chunk out of thir paycheck every two weeks.
No shit. But the unions don’t randomly select people to go out and “engage” with people that have chosen to use non-union labor. They don’t show up to discuss the merits of using their guys. They send goons to intimidate and scare people into succumbing.
I feel bad for guys that are forced to join. They’re having pay forcibly taken from them so they can be represented by amoral scumbags that use violence to force people to use their services. But they’re going to be guilty by association until they get the goons out of leadership and attempt to gain business by conversation rather than coercion.
We try to get rid of them.
And for the past several union leadership elections, the incumbants have lost.
It’s just the difficulty of finding someone who is willing to go through the extra work of campaigning for the post who isn’t a power-hungry authoritarian motivated by their chance at petty iotas of power.
“Getting rid of them” takes a lot of courage. I once worked with a guy whose father led a revolt against his union leaders at Miller Brewing in Milwaukee. A tower of kegs mysteriously fell on him, crushing him to death.
My Union consists of Lawyers, Nurses and IT people.
I’m not sure what method of silencing would be used…
I’m sure we, and society in general, all misunderstand the unions and are incorrect in stereotyping many of them as goons.
I remember when my teachers went on strike in high school. I remember the replacement teachers being shot at on the buses they used to ferry them to the school. I remember them having their tires slashed, their windows smashed and their homes vandalized.
The union goon is a well-earned stereotype. Government unions haven’t resorted to those thug tactics because they don’t need to intimidate their prospective consumers/employers. They merely fund their election campaigns before they sit across the negotiating table from them. So in that respect, you’re lucky. Your union doesn’t break legs to get their way. They just break budgets once they’ve gotten it.
I was hoping to inspire some lighthearted brainstorming on ways lawyers and IT guys might attempt intimidation of their peers.
Nurses have too easy access to scary options.
Like with Boeing, when I see someplace has an engineer’s union or an IT union or a lawyer union, I mark them off my list of employment options.
http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/hearings/107th/wp/beck51001/beck.htm
Testimony of Harry Beck (of Beck vs CWA) concerning what he and others went through first to getting a local that would actually represent their interests and finally trying to leave the union. I didn’t know him personally but I worked in the same group as him later in his life. Later found out that’s who he was.
I was hoping to inspire some lighthearted brainstorming on ways lawyers and IT guys might attempt intimidation of their peers.
Frivolous lawsuit threats and ransomware, respectively?
I worked at a GM factory for a few summers when I was in college. Made a lot of money for the time, and had union dues taken out of my paycheck for it. Met my Union Rep once. He was a very large Italian gentleman who should have been a Hollywood thug. Stereotypes are usually based on reality.
In the case of unions it is frighting how that isn’t usually, but practically always, Drake…
This made me laugh.
It is a glorious victory that this wrecker was terminated. Let us forge ever forward in creating the New Soviet Man.
Also, I don’t get the hate for Bing. Most people I know that use it by proxy via Siri on their iPhones don’t seem to have any complaints.
Indeed. I’ve used Bing for quite a while and never had any issues with it. In fact, it’s better than Google, because I don’t recall MS doing any of the stupid social signaling that Google would do with their Google image. What, it’s Black History Month? Quick, throw out the Black History version of the Google title! Gay Pride Month? Quick, paint it up in the rainbow flag!
How about a Hitler face on one of the O’s? There’s a meme for you.
Microsoft isn’t any better. Their “suggested links” on the Windows 10 lock page clearly lean SJW and there was a big blow-up on Github not too long ago because they audited their C# compiler code for political correctness violations. Did you know that the word “blacklist” instills fear in the hearts of African Americans? Well, actually, it doesn’t, but it also doesn’t matter whether it does or not, because it could and that would be bad.
Oh, I wasn’t saying MS wasn’t left leaning. Just that I haven’t seen any social signaling nonsense at Bing.com like I have at Google.com.
In Google’s defense, the memo was a shitshow of presumed stereotypes which invited the backlash. It would have been simple enough to pen an essay on the risks of placing diversity over competence and skill without going into nebulous claims about women and technology or conservatives and drudgery.
He wanted to explain away the gap in the representation of men and women instead of just pointing out that the gap is unimportant and merely representative of revealed preferences among the potential pool of employees. He tried to argue that the gap should exist but at some statistically derived level based on his referenced population studies. It was a stupid point to try to make.
The author undercut his own position by distracting from the overall point and inviting the argument to be about the stereotypes instead of the hiring/promotion process.
True dat, but my criticism isn’t aimed so much at Google as it is toward the people who barely stopped short of calling for this guy’s head on a spike.
They would have done so regardless, and I suspect with even more vigor had he done what Scruffy had suggested.
The author was pretty clear that tendencies are important, but individuals are not all in the first deviation around the mean. I saw it stated about a dozen times. However, if you hire/promote X women who don’t meet all your other standards for male hiring or promotion, your population of women will necessarily look more like the larger population, not your smaller population. If simple statistics is sexist or racist, we’re all fucked.
Now, you and others can argue with the author about whether the bold part is true, but if the bold part is true, the following clause is also true.
That is correct and that should have been the end of it. But instead he went into tripe about women are more artistic, neurotic, etc… Regardless of the validity of the stereotypes, it distracts from the major point and invites an argument that the progs want to have, while ignoring the main point.
Actually his main point was about the ability to debate ideas inside the company, not only about the diversity hires.
That is what I took his main point to be. That the hiring process led to a thought bubble, and you could not voice any other opinions or you would be chastised. Which I guess is true, because him voicing his opinions, right or wrong, got his ass fired.
So basically he put himself in a no win situation. Unless Martyr is a win.
Dude is going to make shit tons of money when they settle with him to kill his discrimination lawsuit. Hell, I don’t know much about whistle-blower statutes, but they’d be worth a quick look.
I mean I would not in any way written it like it was, but I think shitshow is a bit much.
In Google’s defense, the memo was a shitshow of presumed stereotypes which invited the backlash.
To me, though, that’s not much of a defense. If some guy working for Chic-fil-a decided to pen a missive about how the company was wrong to focus on Christian values and not support same-sex marriage, I’d say they’d be pretty terrible for firing him for doing so.
The guy made a stupid argument? Fine. Google could have responded by saying “You’re wrong because of reasons A, B and C. But, thanks for the input and thanks for the opportunity to explain our thinking. Now, what’s the ETA, on that project you’ve been working on?”, and they’d have come out smelling like a rose. Frankly, they’ve earned any ill will they get out of this.
“The guy made a stupid argument? Fine. Google could have responded by saying “You’re wrong because of reasons A, B and C.”
The only problem with this claim that the guy made a stupid argument is that Google’s A, B, and C would have been easy to see through SJW type bullshit and unless you were a SJW type with an agenda, you would know that.
Google’s A, B, and C would have been easy to see through SJW type bullshit…
That’s just it, though. Maybe I’m being cynical, but, to me, it would have been the act of not firing him that would have undercut his argument. The counterpoint could be whatever generic pabulum you felt like dishing out. Firing him makes him a martyr, proves his point about crushing dissent and casts the company as a participant in the culture wars (rather than something like “our searches are good for Democrats and Republicans). He’s some dude who sent an internal e-mail. Google could easily virtue signal their disagreement with the guy without screwing the pooch like that.
“Firing him makes him a martyr, proves his point about crushing dissent and casts the company as a participant in the culture wars (rather than something like “our searches are good for Democrats and Republicans)”
That is certainly the case for people like us Bill, but for the the SJW types firing him is his just rewards for rocking their gravy train, and serves as a deterrent to any other people that would dare point out the emperor is wearing no clothes.
too much derp to unpack here so check out the LiveScience (for shame!) link if you need more.
Woman, Scientist … Activist: Female Researchers Take Charge
Ooh, progressive mad libs. I love these.
_______ is demonstrably strengthened through intellectual diversity and inclusionary principles.
Barbecuing is demonstrably strengthened through intellectual diversity and inclusionary principles.
Gutter repair is demonstrably strengthened through intellectual diversity and inclusionary principles.
Cattle farming is demonstrably strengthened through intellectual diversity and inclusionary principles.
You haven’t had good beef until it was raised by transgendered black midget retards.
New-half ganguro kobe is the bomb.
I read that as “new-half kangaroo kobe is the bomb”
But they don’t want intellectual diversity, they want intellectual conformity. To them, diversity is people of different backgrounds all expressing minor variations of the same opinion.
Diversity to these people means everyone that thinks like me…
“Sarah Myhre is a Seattle-based climate and ocean scientist who is also a passionate science communicator.”
“science communicator”
smh.
She talk big science with science mouth.
For example, we would never say, “You biologists, you have no value here. You’re dismissed,” or, “Geochemists, you are no longer important. Get out of the room.”
Sheldon Cooper would.
Science is demonstrably strengthened through intellectual diversity…
This much is true. Of course, people like the author are the most eager to stifle actual intellectual diversity. What she’s arguing for is ideological conformity coupled with demographic diverisity.
This…
“………the people that boycott google will come running back in a matter of days, if not hours.” – No, this one will not. I haven’t used google in an age. I have never hated a corporate entity with as much passion as I do google.
DuckDucKGo FTW
Yep
Ditto. My use of Bing and my Windows phone attest to my feeling on Google. (I am giving DuckDuckGo a spin this week.)
Thirded. I haven’t Googled anything in several years. Bing works just fine thank you.
Just started using my Brave browser with DDG as my search tool today. I still have gmail I use from time to time unfortunately. Yahoo Mail is hot hackable garbage.
How do you like Brave so far? I’ve been using Firefox for years.
I started using Brave on my phone recently. Functionality is pretty much the same as Chrome, and it gives you a handy drop down menu for security settings for every site.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I were you, Ms Lakshmi. This has been par for the course for unions since they formed.
Am I the only one who looked at the pic to the left, and then read the last part as, “This has been a pair….”
Not me. But those knockers are beautiful.
…no.
Obviously I did. See: alt-text.
So about the google memo thing, which I think is kinda being blown out of proportion (and the dude really did his best to look like a stereotypical nerd. Power-lifting needs to get cooler in the computer programmer community programmers need more swole), besides most of the initial rabid attacks that held no substance and that misrepresented the memo, some started to attack ti in a more argument based fashion. Sadly a lot of it is based on social sciences stuff which I cannot trust because I saw to much biased nonsense in the field.
Now you can read these views, and I did, and they do try to make some point, though they fail to address even more. And they also fall pray to the economic illiteracy that often plagues the social scientists.
One example is this:
https://timeline.com/women-pioneered-computer-programming-then-men-took-their-industry-over-c2959b822523
The basic premise is that in the 50s programing was seen as clerical work and as such low paid and made by women. In time it became more prestigious and better payed and the men conspired to drive the women out. Sadly the article has few links to evidence to claims made.
One fundamental mistake made by this articles is they miss programming is very different now than in the 50s. The number of companies involved in programing, the scope of programing etc.
The mention Grace Hopper and cobol as foundational for programming, which is true and no one denies it – no one said women cannot be elite programmers, not in the memo not otherwise.
But then there are claims like “Programming was being recognized as intellectually strenuous, and salaries were rising significantly. More men became interested in it and sought to increase their own prestige, according to historian Nathan Ensmenger. They formed professional organizations, sought stricter requirements to enter the field, and discouraged the hiring of women.”
Did programing just start being recognized or as tech advanced there was more need of it? And while professional organizations always seek advantages for the member, I find it tough to believe it was just one big conspiracy and nothing else.
Also while there was obvious bias in tech against women in the 50 60 70s it does not clearly explain why since 2000 when all these things massively changed, the number of women programmers is not increasing in any advanced society. There may still be discrimination, but it can hardly account for the entire disparity.
Further more a lot of the neurology/biology data shows it is very often preference as much or more as aptitude, and this is not addressed at all in this articles. Were women in the 50s passionate about computer programming, or were those just some of the few available to them in tech in that time? If few workplaces hired women, women got what work they could. Furthermore societies were poorer back than and even now there are more women programmers in poor countries, despite those countries having worse gender equality. Because when salary is not life and death, the preference may manifest itself.
I am not saying this is the case fully, as much as why those articles do not address this. The difference between programming and other jobs in the 50s versus now.
I’m fairly sure the actual work the 50s computing women did day to day was very monotonous sorts of tasks that did in many ways resemble clerical duties by dint of what was actually involved. The later jobs in the field didn’t take over the work they were doing – it was moved onto the chip and the computers themselves took it over.
If I recall my history, I think the reason this was a job done mostly by women was because they typed up punch card instructions other people (engineers usually) wrote up for them, and then ran those through the computer. Men usually didn’t type stuff back then, which does show some sexism, there, but there was no conspiracy to suddenly make typing cool and pass software off to men. As computers moved away from punch cards to accepting somewhat direct commands, the people that used to think that punch card typing was beneath them found themselves doing their own input work.
This statement started out someone comprehensible, then you appear to have departed English.
So, you don’t even lift, bro?
I started, but that doesn’t mean I speak nonsense babble.
swole
adjective
1.
USinformal
(especially of a man) extremely muscular.
“if you’re swole you’ll look good in anything”
Stop trying to pretend that’s actually a word.
Somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning.
DYEL bro?
Funny – I don’t remember hitting the wall.
But really, I prefer new words to be interesting instead of irritating.
When I got my first programming job in the 80s – as a teenager at a local insurance company – there were zero women working there. When I went to college, there were maybe two or three women taking the higher level computer science courses. Needless to say the one blonde – who wasn’t _that_ good looking – got tons of attention and quickly scored a job after graduating.
In my “professional” career – it’s more like a hobby – I’ve run into two female programmers. But the idea that they are being “pushed” out by males is a load of BS. HR would love to hire more women in IT.
Most women I know/knew, when asked, readily admit that STEM field jobs are boring if not downright horrible ways to make a living. Not enough opportunity for human interaction,, and too geeky. That plus math/logic is yucky.
Exactly this. I am a female scientist – most women in my field move VERY quickly to management or switch careers. Most STEM fields are boring, thankless, and often demoralizing. All the more so now that most companies have created reporting structures where technical reports to business/marketing.
All the more so now that most companies have created reporting structures where technical reports to business/marketing.
Driven by the same people who decided the technical work was too boring/thankless/demoralizing and moved into management instead…
It’s like a self-licking ice cream cone. Until the revenue mysteriously dries up, anyway.
Above comment is not necessarily limited to women. Plenty of guys go into management for similar reasons.
You never hear about that though. I have pointed out that most guys avoid STEM for the same reason women primarily do: it is difficult and it takes a certain kind of ability/personality to succeed there. But no, it has to be a conspiracy…
I’ve worked with some very talented female software engineers, and I can tell you that they’re well outside the norm for women. That’s not a bad thing at all, but it does explain why they are so rare. Most of the more “normal” women engineers I knew ended up moving to HR, technical sales, or consulting (or quitting when they had kids). Also, quite stereotypically, our UI team (essentially web design) was much more female than our other teams.
I met a UI designer (female, ‘natch) and she just look confused once I started talking code / software.
Which made me wonder – who gets these jobs? Oh yeah – she was pretty hot which may have helped to get a non-tech technical job. Or maybe people feel better when a “pro” picks the colors, fonts, and decides how the UI should work?
Hot has nothing to do with it. Most companies are drooling over anybody with ovaries and a STEM degree. I worked in the internship and co-op office during engineering school, and I saw girls outperform their male counterparts who had pretty much the same resume and an extra third of a GPA point. Girls at a 3.0 had the same opportunities as boys at a 3.3. Same was true for underrepresented minorities, if not even more so.
The GPA and qualification gap is much wider now. My son’s ex-girlfriend is a computer engineering student – 2.5 first-year GPA (actually failed the intro comp sci course) and landed an internship at General Dynamics after her Freshman year.
There are articles like this
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/09/what-programmings-past-reveals-about-todays-gender-pay-gap/498797/#comment-2880891193
Which basically ignore economics and decide there is a cabal of patriarchs which decide that jobs like by women should be payed less or something:
“But in this debate over earnings, the sticking point is how pay-gap skeptics interpret the wage disparity between female- and male-dominated industries. The logic employed by the RNC and others assumes that pay is a clear reflection of a job’s difficulty or importance, that female-dominated fields pay relatively poorly because the work is less challenging or of less societal worth.”
No mention of supply and demand. pay is a clear reflection of a job’s difficulty – not really some hard jobs – in agriculture for example – are not well paid. This is not true.
“Scholars have attempted to understand why occupations with a greater share of women pay less that those with a smaller proportion, even when they require the same level of education and skill. ” – how do you calculate same level of skill in different professions? where is supply and demand?
” A study from 2007 that examined skills needed for certain jobs found that men’s low-wage jobs demand far less in terms of skill, education, and certifications than women’s low-wage jobs, yet the male-dominated ones usually command higher hourly pay.” – what about death rates, injury, being away from home, strenuous physical work ? that does not count?
Again, I do not want to draw conclusions, but these things are not covered at all.
“pay-gap skeptics”
A new brand of heretic is born.
Deniers!
The proper argument is that it doesn’t matter. Stop trying to screw with the employee pool in pursuit of some holy grail of equality of outcome. If men prefer programming, then more men will apply for the work. I don’t see anyone crying about a need for more male nurses or social workers.
Well I agree but it doesn’t matter does not go down well.
Nobody is arguing for equal number of female linesmen or garbage collectors, either. Although both pay at least as well as nursing.
Disagree; I wish Google the best in their crusade against gender inequality. Because it’s going to mean losing top-tier men to companies that better appreciate their superior skillsets, and privileging relatively mediocre women to bolster female representation. Godspeed, you glorious maniacs. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of wannabe social engineers.
He’s probably a beta cuck too.
What professional organizations?
I suppose there may have been some that actually had power in the 50’s and 60’s by even by the 80’s there was no generally recognized professional body that controlled hiring for programming jobs and even the few that tried to offer certifications in it were held in little regard and are still not widely used or required in the industry
This. There was an ‘against the grain’ feminist who’s blog I read a couple years ago who pointed out that as hiring practices became less ‘discriminatory’ women still have been gradually avoiding the computer sciences. She pointed to how many women were getting degrees in computer science in the 80s in comparison to now and it’s dropped by a third.
If anything the societies that push for egalitarian or even quota based employment find that the sexes have preferences that ensure a 50/50 split in most fields is impossible (see Sweden, the self-proclaimed ‘feminist country’ and how their sexes have congregated into specific fields overall).
The Comp Sci degree/employment rates for women are pretty damning which is why feminists don’t talk about them. A field with no real barriers to women entering (the alleged “frat bro culture” notwithstanding) with a long history of prominent female contributors (Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, Margaret Hamilton), and after 30+ years of “get more women into STEM!” the most they’ve accomplished is to drive women away from CS.
Clarification: the historical trends in the rates, not the current rates themselves.
STEM fields require rigor, the ability to remain logical, oft in the face of problems that seem daunting, and have very little room for people that excel at personality & human interaction over those other qualities. Pointing out that geeks, people with low interactive skills and often a dislike of human interaction, tending to attracted to these fields never seems to strike anyone as some kind of conspiratorial thing. People in this field self select usually. But bring in the victim-hood peddlers, and boom, you got a great opportunity to use the power of government to demand an artificial solution that does everyone ill. How many people are suddenly not going to like the idea of allowing unqualified people to for example, design, build, and program the software that flies an airplane (or be the surgeon working on them, even if it is just for a boob enlargement or some other cosmetic reason) when they know the person doing it likely had it easy because of some artificial program, and probably lacks the skills to do the job well, huh?
Since when does the government care about “unintended” consequences?
Fortunately, I see no traction on this during the next 4–8 years. I don’t know what happens after that, and no doubt big companies will start the push internally before then.
Yeah, I used to think this wouldn’t be the case either kbolino, until I recently interviewed some kids that basically made it very obvious to me that even the engineering and hard science departments no longer retained immunity from the PC shit being peddled. And no, when I asked they told me this stuff didn’t come from fluff electives they took, but was now part of core STEM programs where they were pushing for diversity over actual STEM skills.
Sloopy – The Astros will start getting fat today – the Sox are trotting out the Human Torch to pitch.
Holland is giving up a run an inning since June 1st. How does he get work at that level of ineptitude?
Derek Holland? Didn’t he used to be good?
That’s what happens when you let guys like Quintana and Sale go. But yeah, you’d think they’d give some AAA guys a shot. Then again, Reinsdorf is cheap enough that he probably doesn’t want to start the service time clock on anyone good.
If you’re the Astros, do you try and pick up Verlander and his, gulp, ~64 million remaining through age 36? Guess it depends on whether Keuchel/McCullers can get back to where they were in May.
Verlander has been killing it lately. Just like he seems to do for the 2nd half of every season. The Tigers would eat the rest of his contract this year for decent prospects. His last two years at $28/year is really not that bad. I just don’t know what the Astros can send for him. Anyone on the 40 man has to clear waivers to be traded which takes out Fisher who the Tigers really seem to like.
AIUI, the Astros have quite a few prospects at AAA and below (as they should, picking 1st three years in a row) that the Tigers would want. Problem is, I don’t think Crane wants to spend money, and in fact I can see him trying to milk out the last of the blue chip prospects’ team control years before deciding to spend FA money on more than 1 or 2 of their stars.
IOW, Crane is going to try and keep payroll as low as possible, while still being “competitive” until the last the of the number one picks exhausts their team controlled years. Then we’ll see stuff like a threatened stadium move, Root Sports private Astros network 2.0, stuff like that.
Adding a 28 million dollar Verlander cuts against keeping payroll low and hanging on to great prospects. Despite the increasingly apparent reality that the Astros just don’t have enough pitching to be a favorite in the ALCS or World Series. Which is a shame, considering the career years from Altuve, Correia, and Springer.
OTOH, the Astros successes in FA have been, well, mixed. For every Reddick , Guriel and McCann, there’s a Carlos Gomez, Feldman, and Kazmir.
And the 17 million they gave Beltran may as well have been set on fire. Not hard to feel sympathy for Crane if he’s leery of Luhnow saying, “Trust Me,” when it comes to Verlander’s next two years.
It seems as if every time I turn around, my eye is assaulted (insulted) by the sight of a woman with huge, hideously ugly tattoos. Tattoos which are poorly conceived and horribly executed. There was a woman the other day with one from shoulder to elbow which looked like somebody had spilled a plate of spaghetti and it had taken, more or less the shape of a horse’s face, but apparently it was supposed to be some sort of female “wizard”. It was revolting. Yesterday, it was a girl with what appeared to be near-total coverage on her legs, so it looked as if she was wearing some really ugly leggings, but they can never be taken off.
Why, why, why?
Thus endeth my rant.
but apparently it was supposed to be some sort of female “wizard”
You mean a witch? Don’t you even Harry Potter, bro?
The worst is when it’s some obese woman with tattoos all over her body.
Stretched out tattoos because she got them when she was young and hawt, but now, 1000 lbs later that cute tattoo resembles some nightmare from a B rated scary movie…
Now we know where Pat got his pic from.
People like to express their individuality by stupid things.
by doing stupid things.
The author of the Memo was one James Damore.
“British caterpillars are being killed by a rare ‘zombie’ virus that makes them climb to the tops of trees before EXPLODING in a shower of infectious goo ‘like in a horror film’”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4752950/British-caterpillars-killed-zombie-virus.html
I remember that X-Files episode.
Is wrong that I laughed at your description. Bring on the caterpillar zombie apocalypse!
“Actor Haruo Nakajima (b.1929) died on August 7. Nakajima played Godzilla/Gojira in several films, beginning in 1954 with Godzilla and continuing until 1972’s Godzilla vs. Gigan. He also made appearances in The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai.”
https://www.sfsite.com/news/2017/08/07/obituary-haruo-nakajima/
He’s still big, it’s the pictures that got small
RIP obscure Japanese man who made my childhood tv time awesome!
I have been using duck duck go, lately, but I’m also an android phone user, and am inextricably entangled in the googleverse.
Are you going to stop using light bulbs because Thomas Edison was an asshole?
YES!!!
*lights kerosene lantern*
When there are alternatives that work just fine? Sure.
And what is your alternative for a phone?
Apple? Just as bad as Google or even worse. Microsoft? Maybe just barely not quite as much of a progressive shithole of a company but they have their own problems starting with the fact that their phones sucked and they don’t make them anymore. Blackberry? Sorry they are moving to Android.
You can ditch Google as a smartphone, map, and email service but right now there really isn’t a better option for phones.
You could, you know, have a phone that is just a phone.
But that is not a replacement for a smartphone.
The argument was that there were other options to get THE SAME service. Sure I could go with a Nokia flip phone but that does not get me the same features as a smart phone and is therefore not a replacement for a smart phone.
So yeah I could decide to do something I don’t feel like doing because I don’t agree with the politics of any of the companies operating in a particular market space but you know if I WAS going to do that and be consistent about it then it would mean living without electricity because I don’t agree with the politics of any regulated utility that uses government monopoly grants which protect their markets and write their profit margins into law either. Or I can just keep doing what I like unconcerned about the politics of the people/companies that make the products I use beyond bitching about them and making my displeasure known where possible in the hopes that someone notices and decides to start a competing product which I can more agree with.
I was referring to Google.com actually. Not the phone. Also, I had a Windows phone as my first smartphone. Worked pretty well as far as I was concerned.
I won’t. But I this is going to be the catalyst for conservatives/libertarians to create alternatives to google, YouTube, and twitter.
There are already plenty of alternatives to all of those. Several different search engines. Vid.me. Minds.com. Between this and the crap Google has been pulling in YouTube for the past few years, there might finally be a real push to really migrate to these other platforms.
Please use Minds.
I want my investment to pay out at some point.
(No, seriously, I bought into the venture capital crowdfund effort.)
If Google/YouTube wanted to be thought of as and treated like public utilities, then damn it, they need to start acting like them. When I picked up my landline (when I still had one) to make a call, it doesn’t ask me who I voted for, or what the subject of my conversation is going to be. It just places the call. Similarly with a light switch or the outlets in my house.
My power company doesn’t discriminate against me for using their service to assist me in political speech. They just provide a service. Why can’t Google, et al, do the same?
I’m sure they’d be happy to accept a fairness doctrine… proposed under a Democratic administration and with the knowledge that the bureaucracy will tilt leftward.
Only way to make sure it values and supports diversity….
“A mother-of-three is being investigated by the police and social services for allegedly using bleach enemas on her young son to ‘cure’ his autism. The woman, from Cheshire, was reported to police after she appeared to write on a secret Facebook group for parents who believe autism is caused by ‘parasites’ that she had used the ‘treatment’ on her son. Parents on the highly-secretive group, which allegedly charges £60 for membership and has 8,500 members, routinely share images of the ‘parasites’ leaving their children after treatment while congratulating themselves. However autism campaigner Emma Dalmayne claims images in fact show children’s bowel lining that has been burned out of their bodies by the bleach and is mistaken for parasitic creatures.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4767618/Mother-investigated-using-bleach-cure-son-s-autism.html
I’m not a professional science communicator, but squirting bleach up your kid’s ass sounds like a bad idea.
I bet that got him talking, though. PROGRESS!
Thus making the case that this condition might be hereditary.
Are you saying that anyone stupid enough to believe bleaching their kids insides through the ass might be a good thing to do also is autistic? I wouldn’t go there. Especially since some of the most idiotic and dangerously stupid people I have seen have been people that had a long list of credentials and desperately needed to make sure everyone knew how smart they were because they believed and supported the right SJW shit.
Greg Gutfield discovers the thing i once called “moral narcissism”, writes essay about it.
*King Buzzo Osborne of the Melvins renamed the same idea Ethics Hipsterdom. Respect to Buzz (can’t front on that hair), but i still like mine better.
I like that.
Gutfeld use to be more libertarian before moving towards traditional conservatism (probably has something to do with his rise at Fox News), but he’s still a fantastic writer. Spot on.
Gutfeld was also much better when he had the freedom of Red Eye circa 2010; the golden age of Red Eye
TW: Picture of Lena Dunham
My mind was blown when I found out that Buzzo is a huge fan of Thomas Sowell.
That……that’s amazing. I had no idea. I always knew King Buzzo was awesome!
It’s tragic when couples fight
Also- google-wise
As long as their “competition” consists of whiny hipster douchebags like the guy who excreted the article in the Atlantic, they will continue to rule the landscape for the foreseeable future.
I’ll take Travis Kalanick over a hundred SJW moaners.
This Texas Town Went Full Libertarian and Hilarity Ensued
And? I’m not seeing the problem with any of this. There are no cops shooting dogs, you have no redundancy of services, the city doesn’t have a great deal of expensive overhead, and no one seems particularly bothered by the lack of a useless municipal website.
I live in an unincorporated town where the town council was so corrupt and inept that they dissolved it and all functions were delegated to a county advisory committee. Policing was always done by the county sheriff. If you didn’t know any better, you might not have noticed that anything changed at all.
Also, letting your pets roam is a dick move. But animal control doesn’t give a fuck anyway – what is this, 1935? Call them up some time to report a stray dog and see how you fare. Might as well call the cops to report a burglary after the fact. And it’s a self correcting problem if you actually go full libertarian and let people trap or shoot them.
I didn’t make it past the first sentence……..
We prefer our death-funnels spanning the continent on tires, like God intended!
Train wheels don’t have tires.
Occasionally derailing, then. Like God intended!
Ahem.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_wheel
Steel-belted coaxials?
Von Ormy is a suburb, and practically a de facto part of San Antonio. Hell, it’s inside 1604, for cryin out loud. They’re just making the judgment that Bexar County/San Antonio is going to pick up most of the public services their citizens need, so why duplicate them?
Places like that, I expect to have not much more than a traffic court and a motor pool for their fleet of cops running laser on I-35 South.
Heck, I read an article on this town and they only incorporated recently in order to avoid being annexed by San Antonio. They literally had no government, formed one in order to avoid being under the thumb of someone else’s government, and when things didn’t work out as they planned they scaled back the scope of the government they formed. So they accomplished their main goal, maintaining independence, and really are no worse off than before incorporation. It’s basically a non-story.
The Indian chick with the fantastic breasts is 46 years old. I know plastic surgery is a helluva drug and all, but that’s damn impressive.
*runs to bunk*
Salman Rushdie’s ex-wife certainly is a looker.
I wonder, being a chef and all, her position on sandwich making?
You could ask her and Bobble-head, I mean Giada. Although Nigella was the FoodTV lady that I found the most appealing.
Nigella thicc and I love it.
Giada; can’t deny those puppies, tho.
Canadian lesbian hated her massive boobs.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-4769230/Woman-reveals-EXERCISED-massive-boobs-away.html
If I wanted to see pancakes, I’d have gone to my stove. Or watched the shower scene from Starship Troopers.
How about a TW next time?
Yeah, that is pretty disgusting. Goes from not bad looking, to barf worthy.
What? Dina Meyer was hot.
This trainer looked good in the in-between photos, then took it way to far.
Um, “too”.
Does the Mail not employ editors anymore? What does, “she didn’t need to have she started working out,” mean? And, no shit, you lost your tits once you started working out. Women everywhere are amazed. Especially all of the 19 year olds off shift from the pole that FLBP keeps highlighting.
A new leftist narrative is required
The difference between the progressive populism of Sanders and the reactionary populism of Trump is, however, that Sanders does not construct scapegoats.
Uh huh.
One percenters are not scape-goats: they are the scions of the devil!
For clarity = they mean this as a very bad thing
I love the presumption of an enemy that is enslaving the new, improved, proletariat.
Marxism never dies, it just gets dumber.
” slave away on unpaid care work” – visiting my mother is unpaid emotional labor. Where is my compensation?
No, no, no, you’ve got it backwards, the emotional labor you enact now is repaying her emotional labor raising you. Don’t you get it? You’re in emotional debt – so keep visiting her.
That’s the problem with these Ponzi schemes based on intergenerational emotionable debt, with changing demographics there’s more debt being paid by fewer children. And my sister isn’t pulling her weight!
In a sense it is unpaid labor when my wife stayed home with the kids, because she didn’t get a paycheck. But in the real world, a penny saved is a penny earned.
Sure as hell can’t use the truth.
Sanders scapegoats the rich all the time, then goes to one of his three homes to relax.
Fight, fight, fight, fight, fight, fight…
They see life as one big Itchy & Scratchy cartoon.
What?! Does she mean taking care of your own fucking kids? Because other people should be forced to pay you for taking care of your own fucking kids?!
No, silly, the children should be seized forcably from the parents and put into SocJus indoctrination camps before they even learn to crawl, then money forcibly extracted from “the rich” to pay a generous “living” wage to the professional greivance indoctrinators.
Unpaid care work…
I recall watching a video of little bit of a nutter, but something he said was of interest. He stated that government people wanting to get females out of the house and into jobs because the income they make at a job is taxable (also the daycare that has to be provided) but work in the home is not.
It has more to do with a utopian dream of equality of outcome than anything else. There’s no other explanation for the disdain that the progs have for women who choose to stay at home and raise kids.
I think it was the NYT that ran an editorial about that a couple years ago. The editorial demanded that stay at home parents pay income tax on the fair-market value of the services they provide (daycare, personal chef, housekeeper, etc). It completely missed the point that income tax is levied on income received and not labor itself.
They pretty much outright admitted the States owns people and their labor. Very Norkish.
U.S. “refugees” entering Canada illegally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1XpJ73v7QU
Rebel Media claims this was encouraged by Trudeau.
Didn’t Trudy outright say “You are welcome in Canada” to them?
I don’t know. I try to ignore that walking gasbag goofball of embarrassing gaffes.
Yes, yes he did. He Twittered the invitation to them and said they could all stay with Rufus.
But if Rufus has to take care of them, HOW WILL HE WORK?!
IT’S UNPAID WORK!
All those NeverTrumpers will become AlwaysTrudeauers!
Horror at the Beach: ‘Sea Fleas’ Dine on Aussie Teen’s Legs
Never get out of the boat.
You went into the water around Australia?
You’re lucky it was only sea fleas.
Sea wasps sound pretty bad. Good thing they’re only around Northern Australia, not Melbourne.
Pretty much everything in Australia tries to kill you, yes? It’s basically Harrison’s Deathworld, with Fosters?
I think Fosters is only for export?
Sea fleas huh? Guess that’s better than sea herpes.
Or space herpes…
Don Baylor has passed away. I loved the guy when he played for the Red Sox in ’86. He was just tough. He would lean out over the plate, and if the pitcher hit him, he jogged to first base with a smile on his face. Don and Jim Rice kept order that year – with the rest of the team and other teams. I remember a couple times other teams getting worked up to fight, then Baylor and Rice would stroll out of the dugout and they’d change their minds real quick.
And Fuck Cancer.
Yeh he and Daulton back to back.
I loved Dutch. One of my favorite players of all time.
And he retired in the most awesome of ways: Batting cleanup for the Marlins in Game 7 of the ’97 World Series and winning the ring that he should have won in ’93 DAMN YOU JOE CARTER
Didn’t you mean, ‘DAMN YOU MITCH WILLIAMS!’?
+1 falling off the mound
His championship year with the Twinks was great. I agree with how he would manage to twist like he was trying to avoid a pitch and somehow let it hit him right in his big ass.
2nd all time in HBP. I’d remembered him having the lead in that category, but I forgot about Biggio.
How could you forget about Biggio? Heck, there were even Astros commercials making fun of it (one with all these kids in arm guards raising their hands at a Biggio Q&A or clinic-type thing).
Yeah, his armor is pretty hard to forget. And I’m not much of a baseball fan.
Chinese restaurant offers bra size discounts
Fight on, brother!
Technically correct, as positive discrimination is still discrimination.
Just try to get the discount with moobs…
Schumer eats free.
Christina Applegate and Angelina Jolie paying full price.
It may be illegal to fire the “anti-diversity” memo-writer
I wonder if Democrats will now rail against Federal Labor Law as unfairly protecting wrongthinking misogynists
to be honest, Google should be able to fire him.
Sure, but it’s always nice to see the left hoist by their own petard.
That’s why lawyers write complex and vague ‘codes of conduct’ and other assorted liability-reducing measures. Labor law turns hiring people into a vast expansion of risk. I agree that they should be able to shitcan him for whatever reason, my point is just that it would be amusing to hear the left assailing the legal infrastructure they themselves put in place.
Good ole dose of their own medicine and all that…
They should, of course. It’s the double standard that’s irritating. And it doesn’t matter anyway, because the EEOC is not going to act on it and any judge in California will throw it out if he sues. The icky people exemption applies to employment law as with everything else.
Sure. But, allow me to use the cosmo argument that is so often employed against religious adherents that don’t want to perform gay weddings. “If we are going to have anti-discrimination laws then they should be applied equally”.
Good and hard.
Why would I unilaterally disarm myself when my enemies are still attacking?
Squawk on the Street just reported that Wikileaks is offering him a job- nice move Assange.
Dan LeBatard has one of the better sports shows on the radio but sometimes he can be such a cuck.
He read a message from someone who bet he could crowdfund $8 million to get Jemele Hill, Jessica Mendoza and Sarah Spain fired because to him they’re that bad.
LeBatard – went LeRetard (I know cheap and lazy) – and said the only reason the person is doing this is because he hates women. He sees nothing wrong with them.
Probably the ESPN PC poison in his brain. He’s not fully free of it.
No other reason could be at work. None. Nope. It can’t be that, in fact, they are not all their cracked up to be or all that good. Just misogyny.
More of that logical fallacy at play I’m afraid.
I actually think that texter was goading Dan. A lot of the texters purposefully say shit like that, because they know Dan won’t be able to control himself.
That said, Dan definitely gets hyper conciliatory and unduly deferential to black people and women in a weird, almost fetishistic way. But, meh, it’s still the best 3 hours of entertainment you’re likely to have on a given day (4 if you count Wake & Take…Rash em).
That reminds me…Greg Cote Tuesday. Listenin’ it!
He was the same way back when he was just a writer for the Miami Herald and on his local radio show before ESPN took it national.
Still like him though.
I agree with you both. To me, it’s the best show with the best crew. I thoroughly enjoy it and accept his sometimes PC fetish.
Those ‘Look like’ segments with Kirkijan and Ron McGill are a scream and a blast.
I don’t know who the other two are, but Jemele Hill is fucking cancer.
Sarah Spain has gigantic tits and used to be thinner and made it somewhat OK. Now, she’s just annoying and thinks she is very intelligent, but isn’t at all.
She’s basically the girl who wants to play tackle football, calls all the guys pussies, plays way too hard, etc. Then when guys start actually playing full speed and hit her, she cries and calls everyone assholes.
Reminds me of the time when five of us were on a playing field dicking around pitching and catching and kicking the soccer ball around. A girl’s field hockey team came and claimed they reserved the field (which they couldn’t prove and was par for the course at that field) and asked us to leave. We politely refused but my friend offered to play them in a game of filed of hockey. Winner stays. They laughed and high-fived each other convinced they would win.
We SMASHED them. We didn’t beat them but SMASHED them. Five against whatever they were. During the game they complained about EVERYTHING. Roughness, how we held the sticks, how we talked – whatever. And each time we said, ‘Fine. You tell us the rule and we will oblige.’
The massacre continued.
And we stayed in all our misogynistic glory.
Reality harshed these ladies’ world view? makes me smile brah.
[Google Images searches ‘Sarah Spain’] Jesus Christ, you weren’t kidding. Sturdy gal.
Jessica Mendoza is on Sunday Night Baseball. Relatively speaking I actually think she does a pretty good job.
–“Dan LeBatard has one of the better sports shows on the radio”–
WTF planet are you on.
The dudes show is unlistenable with virtually no sports content and unless they are specifically talking about the Heat or Dolphins LeBatard routinely shows that he doesn’t know the first thing about sports. The ONLY thing that makes the show even somewhat tolerable is Stugatz is actually funny sometimes. Hell if I was gonna listen to a SJW sorta kinda talk sports I’d rather listen to Bomante Jones who at the very least actually knows his sports and occasionally even as an interesting take on it.
*gong* You don’t get the show
Virtually no sports content is the point. What sports radio show actually gives you any sports content? I mean real content, not just the same few takes recycled and repackaged again and again. If you listen to Mike & Mike (god help you) in the morning, you’ve literally heard everything that will be said that day on every other “sports show.”
LeBatard at least has guys like Cian Fahey who provide stats and breakdowns you won’t hear elsewhere. Read twitter and various websites and you’ll get more sports info than listening to 24 hours of ESPN radio. Given that, I’d rather laugh and make fun of the entire concept of ESPN than hear 3 more hours of “I’m somewhere in the middle on Kaepernick”
Bomani is full of himself, but that’s also his entertainment character. His show is as interesting as anything ESPN short of OTL and 30 for 30.
Actually Mike and Mike does give pretty good sports content and is the only thing worth listening to on their station (I get it on the radio, I don’t waste time watching it) , Mike and Mike used to be better before the directive that they go all SJW all the time but it is still pretty good. Ryan Russillio is also decent, hell I’ve even heard him shooting down the idea that there is some kind of conspiracy to blackball Kapernick from time to time but he spends a bit too much time talking college sports for my tastes.
“Manhunt for woman accused of having oral sex in McDonald’s”
http://nypost.com/2017/08/07/manhunt-for-woman-accused-of-having-oral-sex-in-mcdonalds/
She must have been pretty good.
*Insert super size joke here*
Ugh. Patriarchy. Personhunt!
I wonder if they kicked her out before or after she got her order of special sauce.
#Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheeseandablowjob
“A horrified wife discovered her husband had been repeatedly raping her in her sleep when she found videos of the sex attacks saved on his mobile phone.
The court heard the sickened victim contacted her husband after watching the video collection and told him: “I’ve just watched videos of you raping me on your phone.”
The attacker never returned home and handed himself into the police.
He has now been jailed for nine years.”
http://nypost.com/2017/08/03/woman-finds-out-husband-raped-her-from-videos-on-his-phone/
But was it rape-rape?
Heavy sleeper?
I don’t get it. She slept through multiple actual rapes?
ATTACKS!
Was there violence involved? Had she previously registered a protest to him having sex with her? They were married, so is any presumption of consent allowable?
He pled guilty so those tapes must be pretty damn bad. Without videos, I would think all those questions would get him off the hook.
She’s still better off than this lady: Woman shot in vagina in sex game gone wrong
I guess I need to add that one to the Conversations with Your Kids list.
“Honey, if someone asks to put a shotgun in your coochie, just say no.”
I taught my kids Jeff Cooper’s 4 rules. Pretty sure this couple broke all 4.
They were married, so is any presumption of consent allowable?
The 2nd wave feminists won the spousal rape debate in the ’70s dude.
It’s the UK. Looking sideways at a protected group is a capital offense. Figured it was worth asking.
I think presumption of consent still requires consciousness.
So if you and your wife get hammered and she passes out but you still do the deed, it’s rape?
I can see the argument where there is no presumption of consent (not married), but inside of a marriage, that seems unreasonable.
Well, I think it’s really fucking weird to have sex with someone who isn’t conscious regardless of consent.
But, I still think the presumption of consent requires consciousness. The presumption of consent basically means I can put my dick on my wife’s back and not get charged with sexual assault. It doesn’t mean you can slip her some GHB and do whatever you want
I don’t disagree, it’s creepy at the least. But I’ve heard of weirder behaviors in marriages that are consensual.
In that case it seems like the ground rules were approved beforehand. Of course that’s fine.
I’m more talking about just some normal couple where this subject hasn’t been broached.
Agreed, but in those cases it’s usually talked about beforehand.
It appears to me that they are implying that he was doing things that she wouldn’t agree to were she conscious, things he knew she wouldn’t consent to, and that he was taking advantage of her incapacitation to have his way with her.
I think that’s the assumption. It’s just the way that the article was written, it leaves a lot of open questions. Par for the course I guess.
Oldie but a great read. One person’s realization of the cognitive dissonance on the left.
That’s good. Tho i can’t get past her references to “Professor X” without thinking of the X-Men.
Prof X did run a special snowflake outpost of academia with a privacy-invadin panopticon…
Excellent read, thanks.
My favorite line:
i was siked not to hear/read about the anti-war left the last eight years. they are some of the most annoying protesters the left has on the menu.
“Working-class Bohunk” – great band name or new Glib handle?
We need to start planning a Trump memorial.
Maybe a giant gold statue of the Donald right in the middle of the reflecting pool – with him pissing onto a mini-capitol building?
It’s going to be ‘uge. You’ll love it.
So classy…
Mental illness is no crime
You know who else had a solution straight out of the 1800s…
Sherlock Holmes?
7%
“Would you care to try it?”
Listerine?
Every Marxist ever?
On whether she suffers from ‘Resting Bitch Face’:
“Completely. I’m really not introverted – I’m just not acting all the time, which is what it would take to look like how people expect famous people to behave.”
“Men cannot say bitch anymore, I’m sorry. Say something different. Say, ‘You’re rude,’ say, ‘You’re a dick,’ whatever. Just to say, ‘Oh that bitch.’ You can’t say that because there’s nothing I could say to you, there’s no retort that would be equal to that, therefore it’s demeaning and literally on par with… something homophobic or something racist.”
http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/fashion/fashion-news/longform/a43015/kristen-stewart-september-issue-cover/
“Men cannot say bitch anymore, I’m sorry. Say something different. Say, ‘You’re rude,’ say, ‘You’re a dick,’ whatever. Just to say, ‘Oh that bitch.’ You can’t say that because there’s nothing I could say to you, there’s no retort that would be equal to that, therefore it’s demeaning and literally on par with… something homophobic or something racist.”
How about mewling quim?
Maybe you could say, “You’re a dick.” Right? Or am I missing something here?
Men cannot say bitch anymore
Thanks for the heads up.
Shut up, bitch.
Now go make me a sammich?
Is she trying to look like a 13-year-old boy?
This will be perfect when I do my Glib article submission containing the word “bitch”
I’ve noted that “bitch” has been edited-out of many movies. TCM also dropped the word “dyke” from “The Way We Were” – ruined the scene.
The left really is doing their best to make 1984 a reality.
To them it was a “How to” manual….
I changed my username for various reasons. Will the username on my previous comments change?
Whatever you say, Tulpa.
I just ran a search in the comment archives and this is the only comment under “LJW.” So the answer is “no” it seems.
What handle did you use before?
China has taken down two online robots that appeared to go rogue, with one responding to users’ questions by saying its dream was to travel to the US and the other admitting it was not a fan of the Chinese Communist Party.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/36619546/china-kills-ai-chatbots-after-they-start-criticising-communism/#page1
To be fair, they do the same thing to people who say that.
Equality!
Garbage human
I’ve got an idea on how to handle him once he’s found.
Maybe he was just trying to get her pregnant. /Tony
And I thought exercise was supposed to make people more happy and pleasant, on account of the endorphins. Who knows – maybe this is him being more pleasant than he would be if he wasn’t exercising.
As far as I can tell, Endorphins are a myth. I am never more disagreeable, cantakerous and unpleasant a person than immediately after exercising.
I only get them from cardio. They don’t make me pleasant, just calm. Weights, yoga, pilates, leave me cranky and hating the world.
If yoga leaves you cranky, you’re doing it wrong.
Endorphins as far as I remember only get released when doing endurance work.. Like running or biking long distance… A normal workout, unless you are doing some boot camp shit, will not produce them.
Nice job by the bus driver.
I agree that the guy was an asshole, but I also don’t think he meant to knock her down and into the bus.
He looks like one of those runners who think that they have 100% right the road. He was probably miffed she didn’t get out of his way and just meant to bump her as a way of letting her know she was in “his way”.
Like I said, it was a very dick move, but it was also not an attempt to kill her.
“BREWER, Maine (AP) — Changes in the worldwide fisheries industry have turned live baby American eels into a commodity that can fetch more than $2,000 a pound at the dock, but the big demand and big prices have spawned a black market that wildlife officials say is jeopardizing the species.
Law enforcement authorities have launched a crackdown on unlicensed eel fishermen and illicit sales along the East Coast.
Although not a well-known seafood item like the Maine lobster, wriggling baby eels, or elvers, are a fishery worth many millions of dollars. Elvers often are sold to Asian aquaculture companies to be raised to maturity and sold to the lucrative Japanese restaurant market, where they mainly are served grilled.”
https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2017/08/07/us-government-clamps-down-on-eel-poaching-as-value-grows
If they can raise them to maturity, why are they not simply breeding them in captivity and spawning multiple generations?
Might need special conditions for spawning or the government may ban it under the guise of protecting the species. I’d think the former would be surmountable though for $2k/pound.
The life-cycle of eels is extremely complex and not well-understood. As far as I know, american eels can only get it on in the Sargasso Sea. They’ve tried Barry White, scented candles, and it just doesn’t work.
Everyone knows you do side one of Led Zeplin IV, man….
My hovercraft is full of eels.
When I was younger, I wanted two or three kids max. Now that I already have two, I want four or five. Am I crazy?
Yes
He can always sell the extras to the orphan farm, recouping any losses from the first two.
Nope. I originally wanted 5, still do. But my pregnancies were so brutal that I had to stop at 3. Probably will adopt.
How old are yours?
4, 3, and 2.
such a cute age
It can be. It can also be an age when they destroy everything in their path and laugh about it as you are forced to completely clean your house on a daily basis.
This is what blocks and grandparents are for. My parents had these luminescent neon colored blocks that made fantastic walls, and would make a satisfying crash when knocked over. My grandmother still brings up playing with me with those things to this day. Then I got into Legos, and out of the destructive phase.
I would comment more if that wasn’t true. I have twin 3 year olds.
Same for me and Mrs. Chipwooder. We were planning on three, but after both our kids were preemies (the second one earlier than the first), we reluctantly accepted that two kids are what we were meant to stop at.
Once you hit six, they start taking care of each other. At least that’s what I’ve been told.
I knew a mormon family that had nine kids. She basically said the first 4 took care of the last 5. she just oversaw the NCO’s, basically.
My sister has 9 kids.
That said she is a religious freak (she is a member of the quiverful movement) who won’t associate with her heathen brother so I can’t really speak to how it worked out for her
Pretty much true according to my mom, who was one of nine. Irish Catholics back when they took that birth control condemnation seriously. In mom’s family, the first four were all girls and born within a five year span (which meant my grandmother was pregnant for pretty much the entirety of the early ’50s), and they later were the babysitters for the other five. My oldest aunt and my youngest uncle were born 17 years apart to the day. Grandma used to say that it was a sign from God that she should stop having more kids.
You don’t have to have a bunch of kids to take care of you in your old age anymore, we invented Social Security and Medicare so you can die alone in a decrepit state run elder care facility.
No, end up at an even number though. We have three and when it’s just two (any pairing) playing it works out great but when the third shows up it goes downhill.
That’s… actually good advice. Thank you.
The arithmetic behind It’s Always Sunny.
4 is minimum if you want proper litter-bearing capabilities
My dad came from a family of 8.
Needless to say as the years went by, the family gatherings crowd grew exponentially. It got to the point where I didn’t recognize half the people there as grandkids started showing up.
certifiable
So I have 4 ages 17 (M), 14 (M), 14 (F), and 9 (F) and here are some things to consider.
1) where you will live. With 4 kids the optimal case is 2 of each gender fairly close in age meaning you can get by with a 3 bedroom house. The minute you get to the 5th kid or if the genders/ages don’t work out so well (either 3-1 gender split or a more than 4 year discrepancy between kids who would need to share a bedroom) it will become very very difficult to impossible to get by with a 3 bedroom home and finding an available 4 bedroom place that meets all of your other needs gets very difficult and/or expensive. If you needed to find a 5 bedroom place you are probably screwed on the rental front and buying gets very expensive very fast with that many bedrooms.
2) transport. 2 kids and you can get by with a cheap fuel efficient car. Add a 3rd and you will have no choice but to go with a minivan, SUV, or larger sedan. Add a 4th and the sedan is out the window and large SUV or minivan is your only transportation option. That means that your cost of buying cars basically doubles over just having 2 kids and you will pay more for gas (because of lower fuel efficiency) than you would with 2 kids. Once you add the 5th kid your only option is one of the largest SUV’s or minivans and your vehicle costs are going to triple.
3) activities. Things like dance/music lessons, sports etc. With even 2 kids that can get expensive with 4, unless you are wealthy with an income well into the top 5% you can just forget about your kids ever getting to do them because you can’t afford them. That is unless you feel like picking and choosing which kids to have activities and which don’t.
4) vacations. with 2 or maybe 3 kids you can get by on a single normal hotel room with 2 queen beds. Add a 4th kid and you either need a suite or 2 hotel rooms so your accommodations costs come close to if not double. Also once they reach their teen years and are no longer eating off the kids menu even setting foot in McDonalds to eat out becomes prohibitively expensive (we don’t generally eat at McDonalds but a trip to Wendys or Hardees or Taco Bell runs us between $60 and $80) . Going to a sit down restaurant, well $80 for dinner is about as cheap as you are gonna find and normally expect to pay $100.
So basically depending on where you live if you make less than $100,000 to $150,000 a year in household income you probably can’t afford 4 or more kids and if you are under $200 to $250k a year you aren’t going to be able to afford them and maintain anything really resembling a middle class lifestyle.
I have two and (4 and 1) and the oldest is starting pre-school. Considering all the extra chaos that change in routine creates, I can’t imagine adding onto the madness with a third kid.
The wife wants 4 total and I think I’ll just kill myself before I let that happen.
“Minnesodans”
I feel giddy with the acceptance of the Glibs for the proper spelling of my people.
Shouldn’t it be Minnepopans?
*rimshot*
*audience groans*
*Swissie narrows gaze*
Uffda.
Not too bad.
SPEND, SPEND, SPEND
After their protracted failure to repeal Obamacare, congressional Republicans have indicated that taxes will be next on their agenda. It’s a misnomer to call their plans “tax reform,” though, because they have proposed little more than the same deep cuts for corporations and wealthy individuals that they’ve always wanted.
Real reform would honestly confront the fact that in the next decade we will need roughly $4.5 trillion more revenue than currently projected to meet our existing commitments without increasing the federal debt as a share of the economy. Even more would be needed if the government were to make greater investments to lift productivity and living standards through education, infrastructure and scientific research. Real reform would do this by diversifying methods of taxation while targeting individuals and sectors best able to pay.
————-
New forms of taxation are also needed. Even prominent Republicans like James Baker III, George Shultz and Henry Paulson Jr. support a carbon tax imposed on emissions to reduce greenhouse gases. Theirs would pass the proceeds back to taxpayers to compensate for higher utility rates and energy prices. But revenue generated by carbon taxes could be used for other purposes as well, including investments in renewable energy and public transportation, lowering other taxes or reducing the deficit.
No, fuck you. Cut spending.
I love the built-in moderator in that statement.
“Gee we’re so sorry that we made this huge bloated government. We have to find new ways to funnel cash into it’s gaping maw”
Since when do they care about the debt? I thought the debt didn’t matter?
New forms of taxation are also needed
We must develop new, novel methods of extracting blood from the tax cattle!
I honestly do not get how anyone who claims to call themself an economist or economic policy “expert” could be in favor of a fucking carbon tax. Our national debt is so fucking gigantic that the only fucking way we’re ever going to be able to get out of it is to, at minimum, freeze spending (or slow its rate of growth) and grow our way out of it. Yet these fucking morons want a carbon tax. They literally want to tax production and disincentive industry and growth. Just fuck my shit up fam.
“Theirs would pass the proceeds back to taxpayers to compensate for higher utility rates and energy prices.”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry. Could’nt help myself.
From the same Google News “recommended” subheading:
Government Report Finds Drastic Impact of Climate Change on U.S.
‘Dodgy’ greenhouse gas data threatens Paris accord
What journolo am I supposed to believe?? Fake news all!!!
Longish twitter thread about sex and gender probably also triggered by the whole google memo thing but found it interesting
https://twitter.com/M_Methuselah/status/885460266510635010
I agree with that. But I still think Twitter is a poor medium for writing anything long.
Love you, sloopy. You’re an amazing husband. I’m incredibly blessed.
Awwww.
Well thank you! I’ve tried to make up for lost time since I came back. Guess I’m doing something right.
If my wife said that in mixed company, even money says she’d be doing it to fuck with me. And I’d love her for it. Of course, I’d get revenge, though.
“….I would assume she had either just wrecked the car, or wanted to spend thousands of dollars remodeling some room”
Well, she did manage to flood the house last night when she let the tub overflow for 15 minutes.
::ponders ulterior motive::
Nah. I’m sure this is sincere.
So much this…
If I still had a wife that is… Tried for 23 years before we quit..
This is no place for emotions, lady.
Daaawww. Reminds me of when you two were courting in the comments section at the TOS.
An Irish veterinarian with degrees in history and politics has been unable to convince a machine she can speak English well enough to stay in Australia.
Louise Kennedy is a native English speaker, has excellent grammar and a broad vocabulary. She holds two university degrees – both obtained in English – and has been working in Australia as an equine vet on a skilled worker visa for the past two years.
British second world war veteran, 92, facing deportation from Australia
Read more
But she is now scrambling for other visa options after a computer-based English test – scored by a machine – essentially handed her a fail in terms of convincing immigration officers she can fluently speak her own language.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/08/computer-says-no-irish-vet-fails-oral-english-test-needed-to-stay-in-australia
So, my tendency to mumble means I can’t move to Oz? (Not that I would go to that death world, but still).
Speech recognition software is not anywhere near the point it would need to be to determine verbal fluency.
“Crikey, we can’t have sheilas running around that can’t even understand regular English terms like ‘waltzing Matilda’ and ‘barbie.’”
One is reminded of the Scottish elevator
An Irish veterinarian
There’s your trouble.
Heard Dave Smith talking about the ten planks of the communist manifesto on his latest podcast. It is creepy how many of them the US has nailed already.
The left has won this war and the world will be looking at dark times sooner than later…
Of course, as Heinlein pointed out, these people will all call what this shit brings bad luck…
I don’t think it will have a huge impact on search engine usage or advertising spend — maybe if the likes of Limbaugh and Hannity straight-up tell their audiences to switch to Bing, I dunno.
However, I think it probably will have an impact on their workforce. Folks that have been thinking of departing will have more impetus to do so, fewer qualified individuals will apply, and fewer applicants extended job offers will accept them.
Unfortunately, if there does end up being a noticeable impact, it will probably be ascribed to the wrongthinkers driving rightthinkers away.
If I’m being optimistic, it will also impact their cloud business (IaaS and PaaS, not so much G Suite), where they already have a reputation for being unreliable and mercurial.
What’s the female term for Peter Principle?
It’s still the Peter Principle, shitlord. Just because one has a name normally associated with men doesn’t mean it can’t equally apply to women, the transgendered, intersexed and pansexual beings.
I think it was also the surname of the guy who posited it.
It wouldn’t even fit the Peter Principle anyways. It’d be something where you continue being promoted even after you reached your level of incompetence.
That would be the Dilbert Principle…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilbert_principle
–“I wrote The Dilbert Principle around the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don’t want doing actual work. You want them ordering the doughnuts and yelling at people for not doing their assignments—you know, the easy work. Your heart surgeons and your computer programmers—your smart people—aren’t in management. That principle was literally happening everywhere.”– Scott Adams
I think it will have an impact – but not one that will have people pointing to this as a definitive causal factor. The internal rot has already set in and is ongoing, which means they have moved to resting on their laurels. Without a cultural change, they will slide into mediocrity and join Yahoo among the ranks of the has-beens. But it will not be fast, and it will not be immediatly obvious. They may already be past the tipping point where they shed anyone of value and offer incentives to retain the mediocre, water-treaders.
Men cannot say bitch anymore, I’m sorry. Say something different.
Whatever you say, you dumb twat.
Cunt? I could use cunt.
https://twitter.com/andrealoko_/status/894789193003446273
What’s wrong with all these eight-year-olds?
(Parents of) 8 year olds, dude.
You need a backstory to follow these tweets. Is it serious or snark? A one off or taking off of another meme? How much free time do people think I have?
Jobs that
AmericansMexicansanyone won’t do.The World Now Has a Scorpion-Milking Robot
I don’t want to handle anything called a “deathstalker”.
I nick named one of the ladies I dated that.. it was appropriate..
Without a cultural change, they will slide into mediocrity and join Yahoo among the ranks of the has-beens.
Ouch.
About the Minnesoda article.
I don’t think much will change. The only reason it was close was because Hillary was terrible. So terrible.
It would have been an easy win for just about anyone else (even Bernie).
The governorship may change. Really depends on who runs. The fact that the writer of that article thinks T-Paw (Pawlenty) could come back and win makes me think he never got too far out of the bathroom stall in the airport. That guy sucked. He won more because of who ran against him than his own record.
Sadly, I don’t see any chance that our senators will change in the next 20-30 years. With incumbancy and no real statewide GOP pols who could challenge them, Klobuchar and Franken are here to stay.
my condolences
David Brooks weeps for a bygone America, ch. 7,402
Over the last several decades mainline Protestantism has withered. The country became more diverse. The WASPs lost their perch atop society. The mainline denominations lost their vitality.
For a time, we lived off the moral capital of the past. But the election of Trump shows just how desiccated the mainline code has become. A nation guided by that ethic would not have elected a guy who is a daily affront to it, a guy who nakedly loves money, who boasts, who objectifies women, who is incapable of hypocrisy because he acknowledges no standard of propriety other than that which he feels like doing at any given moment.
Donald Trump has smashed through the behavior standards that once governed public life. His election demonstrates that as the unifying glue of the mainline culture receded, the country divided into at least three blocks: white evangelical Protestantism that at least in its public face seems to care more about eros than caritas; secular progressivism that is spiritually formed by feminism, environmentalism and the quest for individual rights; and realist nationalism that gets its manners from reality TV and its spiritual succor from in-group/out-group solidarity.
What of decency? What of kindness? What of generosity of spirit?
Oh, WOE!
What a maroon.
Who is David Brooks and why do people care what he says?
He’s the gray old lady we’ve heard about.
“secular progressivism that is spiritually formed by feminism, environmentalism and the quest for individual rights”
One of these things is not like the others.
He has no grasp on what a “right” is.
I don’t want to hear it from people like David Brooks. I mean, I agree and have said before that Trump is crass, vulgar, a low-rent modern Barnum; far better at marketing himself than actually creating anything profitable. But he was still better than Hillary.
It’s just galling, reading how bad Trump supposedly is, when these same columnists didn’t say word one about Hillary being the most corrupt, personally loathsome Presidential candidate since LBJ. I’m not listening to you if you didn’t have the integrity to call out Clinton as well.
So, he seems to be tying the decline to WASPs losing their place atop society? Does he even realize what he seems to be saying here?
“Suppose I wanted to convince you that men and women had physically identical bodies. I run studies on things like number of arms, number of kidneys, size of the pancreas, caliber of the aorta, whether the brain is in the head or the chest, et cetera. 90% of these come back identical – in fact, the only ones that don’t are a few outliers like “breast size” or “number of penises”. I conclude that men and women are mostly physically similar. I can even make a statistic like “men and women are physically the same in 78% of traits”.
Then I go back to the person who says women have larger breasts and men are more likely to have penises, and I say “Ha, actually studies prove men and women are mostly physically identical! I sure showed you, you sexist!”
I worry that Hyde’s analysis plays the same trick. She does a wonderful job finding that men and women have minimal differences in eg “likelihood of smiling when not being observed”, “interpersonal leadership style”, et cetera. But if you ask the man on the street “Are men and women different?”, he’s likely to say something like “Yeah, men are more aggressive and women are more sensitive”. And in fact, Hyde found that men were indeed definitely more aggressive, and women indeed definitely more sensitive. But throw in a hundred other effects nobody cares about like “likelihood of smiling when not observed”, and you can report that “78% of gender differences are small or zero”.”
http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exaggerated-differences/
Read that this morning as well, good read.
He just needs an editor. His articles would be much better if they were shorter.
I’d put it differently; his articles would be much more widely-read if they were shorter… and perhaps that is “better”. A bigger audience would mean he’d get his points more widely circulated.
But i think he’s also one of the few bloggers who does bother to *comprehensively* rebut things. His “You’re still crying wolf” piece is a great example of his sort of soup-to-nuts deconstruction of a bullshit narrative.
It IS depressing, tho, that he’s largely ignored by many in the wider media.
Yes, how many of the differences Hyde studied affect what kind of job people end up in, or how well they can do a particular job?
I recently picked up a lot of four vintage 1960s-1970s board games. Three of them were made by 3M as part of their bookshelf game, while one is an old Avalon Hill title.
My wife and I already played Acquisition – the game of hotel mergers and stocks.
Last night we played Breakthru, which looks more exciting than it is. A very simple strategic game of blocking and attack. The heavy game pieces – real metal! – look like spent casings.
We still have to play Feudal, which looks like a castle capture game, and Stocks and Bonds, which has an obvious title.
Excuse me, it was Acquire
Obviously a capitalist shitlord game.
🙁 Avalon Hill got bought by Wizards of the Coast (who went on to get bought by Hasbro).
Knowing that makes me sadder than if they’d folded.
*correction – Hasbro bought them and moved them to being part of WotC in a reorg.
One of the saddest stories in my life. I grew up on AH games, and were it not for a broken pipe behind a closet wall, I’d still have all of them. Some survived, but these days it’s hard to find people to play with.
Republic of Rome was my favorite of the old AH games that I’ve played. Each player controlled a faction in the Roman Senate Pre -Empire. The goal was to maneuver things such that you could get one of your Senators named Dictator for Life (aka Ceasar) . Problem is everything was handled by weighted voting (each player voted by the strength of the vote was weighted by how powerful your individual senators were) so winning meant either somehow building up a massive power base for yourself so that you became more powerful than the other players combined or tricking someone into voting for you without them realizing it would give you the victory (or getting someone else to be willing to play kingmaker for you) . This was all complicated by the fact that all of the players were simultaneously fighting against the game itself. You needed to keep the mob fat and happy or they would rise up and depose the lot of you and the game ends with everyone losing, you had to fight wars that popped up periodically and if those didn’t go well enough Rome could be conquered by Barbarians and again everyone lost. In the end that meant the game was simultaneously co-op and competitive
and Stocks and Bonds, which has an obvious title
A game about pre-modern public humiliation?
I tell all board gamers I know – if you ever see the Duran Duran board game in any kind of sale, if it’s in good condition, with all its parts, I will pay you for it if you can buy it for under $50.
On ebay right now for $43.
Not in the condition I’m looking for. I should say “excellent/unplayed” condition instead of “good”
Assuming this is the correct game, it looks like it’s availability is tight in the aftermarket. I’m only seeing one sale, which was long ago, and no one has it up for trade.
There are some copies on ebay that are near-mint for in the $90-$150 range. Too rich for my blood for a board game. Hoping someone has one at a sale and they don’t really know what they have and want to get rid of it.
Wow. I never knew that was a thing.
My Dork-Meter just exploded.
We have an ancient copy of Facts in Five from that series. My wife loves that game. It is like a better version of Scattergories but damn if it wasn’t harder than Scattergories ever thought of being and the level of knowledge it expected normal people to have was astounding.
I got the original Acquire for Christmas. Sadly, with the new kid my wife and I haven’t found the time to play board games, maybe 3 times this year.
Fun hobby though. I look forward to introducing the kid and any others that we have to the hobby.
Yeah that’s the problem – finding the time _and_ the people who want to play board games. My wife and I have another couple who like to play card games, but anything complicated/overly long and they quickly lose interest.
Speaking of Minnesoda.
Trump is evil because he hasn’t condemned the bombing of a local mosque yet.
Hmmmm…. He doesn’t comment on things that happened in other countries and I think the teenager in VA was a simple road rage incident. How dare he not comment!!!!
Odds that the Minnesota mosque explosion was an overenthusiastic hobbyist? Where the science project assembly went something like this?
“And carefully cut the wires leading to the clockwork fuse at the head.”
[Trapper cuts the wires]
Lt. Col. Henry Blake: “But first, remove the fuse.”
Given that the explosion was conveniently early morning when nobody was present to pray, I think false flag is not out of the question.
Or an insurance scam, or a member of the Mosque who didn’t like something the Imam said, or an attack by a rival faction of Muslims, or any of a hundred other reasons more likely than an attack by anti muslim extremists.
Last night’s viewing pleasure was not police chases, but rally race saves & fails. Fun stuff.
I’ve got four books I’m part way through, an essay I’m working on and I haven’t bathed in two days. Fine, I’ll click that.
Have fun in the rabbit hole!
Swedish rally. The upcoming crash compilation has more Toyota pickups with heavy mounts in the bed.
I like to watch Nurburgring crashes and racing videos. Amateurs racers getting over their heads in some expensive and inexpensive iron.
These days whenever I hear about that track, I can’t help but think of the Grand Tour episode where they ended up in Nuremburg instead and decided to hold a rally.
I always think of the Top Gear episode where Sabine Schmitz, a German professional motor racing driver for BMW and Porsche, said she could get around the track in a van faster than Clarkson had done in a Mercedes, and we were treated to video of guys in their Porches and BMWs getting passed by an old van, driven by a girl.
I never watched Top Gear. Though in hindsight I might have liked the show. But now I’m in a “Boycott the BBC” phase, so I’ll watch Amazon’s rendition.
Awesome!
always fun.
Mustang vs people makes me laugh.
My baking “for the office” is going to be orange-chocolate macarons. Not to be confused with Macron.
Mmmm. I love citrus and chocolate. Good luck!
Recipe please, KK.
This is the basic macaron recipe: https://www.popsugar.com/food/Basic-French-Macaron-Recipe-21651110
I will add some orange extract to the cookies instead of vanilla (and some orange food color), and make an orange-chocolate ganache for the filling. Perhaps a little candied orange peel twist on the top of the cookie for decoration.
Danke
https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/894903811420164096
LOL
You know it’s better when you have to tell people it was.
Just like you have to tell people you’re in charge, pretty, intelligent, empathetic, and/or rational.
And above all, humble.
Well, it is a MANifesto.
Obviously I don’t support the intimidation or assault or really most unions in general, but I really hate to dumbing down of everyday language. Why is this the concept that grown people go to when they’re being harassed or attacked? It just seems so childish.
It’s part of the infantilization of everything. I regularly hear ostensibly mature adults refer to food as “yummy”.
I think her statement needs to be taken in context to what else hadn’t been happening that day.
1. Teamsters trucks had been prohibiting non-union vendors from getting on set.
2. Multiple reports of vandalism and physical intimidation levied at people on the production team.
3. The men approached her who had no business interacting with her for a reason other than to intimidate her.
4. Based on reputation alone, she probably felt like they might attack her physically. Based on the evidence I just stated that had occurred that very day, she had legitimate reasons to think their verbal intimidation could lead to a continuation of the violence they, or their union associates, had already carried out.
This isn’t dumbing down. This is a woman who was legitimately scared because of prior events coupled with overtly hostile actions directed at her.
I don’t think that’s the point mr simple was making. It’s the language she used, i.e: “bullying”. It’s not anything I’d expect from anyone above twelve years of age, and especially when it’s in reference to violent thugs making actual threats of violence.
Sleeping with Salman Rushdie doesn’t mean you can turn a phrase like Salman Rushdie…
If she was a cop, she could have opened fire.
Headlines:
Looks at actual memo, page 7
If he expected people to read it, why would it be on page seven?
FAKE NEWS!
I larfed
Hottest Man In Canada
just read that anti-literacy Recode screed on Google..
Perhaps most disingenuously, the author also claimed that he had no voice, even after penning a 3,000-word memo that he was able to send companywide and also was read by millions more.
In other words, he got heard.
being heard (and fired) is not what “having a voice” means.
“Psychological safety is built on mutual respect and acceptance, but unfortunately our culture of shaming and misrepresentation is disrespectful and unaccepting of anyone outside its echo chamber,” he wrote.
Well, maybe so, but it also looks like it also will lead to more serious consequences for the employee.
why did Recode’s Kara Swisher write “maybe so, but”? if anything, his firing proves his assertion that Google’s an ideological echo chamber. there is no “but”.
“With demographic targeting in AdWords, you can reach customers who’re likely to be within the demographic groups that you choose. For example, if your business caters to a specific set of customers within a particular group, you can show your ads to customers according to their gender, age group, parental status, or household income. Follow these step-by-step instructions to reach your customers.”
“I would like to advertise to social conserviatves, free-speech advocates and firearms enthusiasts.”
*three minutes later*
“Why have I been banned from AdWords?”
If you click through, gender is limited to “Male,” “Female,” and “Unknown.”
Google’s code shop may be a shitshow of theatrical virtue signaling and social engineering, but their ad department knows how their bread is buttered.
Nothing like finally getting a feel-good story out of Venezuela…Yulimar Rojas picked up the country’s first ever Track & Field World Championships Gold Medal yesterday. She’s a triple jumper who beat a nearly-unbeatable Colombian (the defending Olympic and 2x World Champion) by just 2 cm. No doubt an inspiration to millions of impoverished youth who can lift their status through sports.
But wait…she trains in Spain, under former Cuban world (4x) and Olympic champion long jumper Ivan Pedroso. Why have these successful socialist athletes abandoned their homelands and migrated to Europe?
Side question…are there Chipotles in the UK?
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/08/sport/gastroenteritis-world-championships-2017-isaac-makwala/index.html
https://chipotle.co.uk/
Speaking of Chipotle (kinda), I went to a poke bowl place last night. Pretty good stuff: I ordered a “specialty” bowl and I wish I’d made my own, but it was delicious. Except for the crab salad. I will never not gag a little on crab salad.
“”poke bowl””
I think that was something playa brought up a while ago.
Personally, if i’m going to eat raw fish, i’ll just get sushi.
Comic book social justice warriors and their media hangers on continue to blame their own audience for not being woke enough to buy and/or praise their comics.
This is one of the reasons I’m kind of glad Gamergate happened. Sure, there was a bunch of stupidity involved in it, but if there hadn’t been some kind of pushback early on it probably would have ended up as insane as large parts of the comic books industry currently is. Video games still have their regular bouts of social justicing but nothing on par.
From the comments:
So I recently finished Horizon: Zero Dawn. It was actually a pretty good game, but if you go deep into the backstory it is full on prog derp. Apparently in the future evul corporashuns! directly run for congress through proxy politicians, and this coupled with another evul corporashun! making war robots leads to literally the end of all life on earth. There’s even a small bit of a Colbert Report type parody of a Limbaugh/O’Reilly guy bitching about how young people are going to China in the future to look for work. It was almost a deal breaker but it’s deep enough into the plot that you can ignore it and still enjoy the game.
Anyone else been watching the new Twin Peaks – 25 years later series on Showtime? I got free Showtime access over the weekend and got caught up. I swear David Lynch is fucking with his audience to see how much he can drag out each scene.
Yes. It definitely has a huge dose WTF. But it’s been very entertaining.
Awkward and uncomfortable pacing was one of the hallmarks of the first series. Go rewatch the very first episode and see how many scenes involve lots of unnecessary lead up and follow through simply to show you someone doing something like, “dialing a phone” or “picking up a ringing phone”.
*confession: i only know this because i recently rewatched season 1, and the awkward editing/pacing stood out.
Lynch did a live Duran Duran concert years ago that was broadcast on Youtube. Everyone just about hated it. I loved it – it was so damn irreverent and silly.
Sample: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvTmcpWqg4Y
He can drag out the scene with the chick (Audrey?) doing the bit with tying the cherry stem in a knot all he wants.
He got a blank check (it seems) from Showtime to indulge all of the shit he couldn’t get made over the past 20 years.
That said, I love it, although for different reasons than the original.
Regarding the iron laws listed in the FAQs:
Is it worth adding Pournelle’s iron law? Also, Robert Conquest’s 2nd law of politics (and David Burge’s restatement) might be worth including.
I think Pournelle and Conquest’s laws are corollaries of the Iron Laws, with the possible addition of some unstated premises. Might be good to mention them nonetheless, though.
Can someone tell me about minds.com, please?
I went to the site, and it seems to want me to create a page or something.