It looks like the Road Warrior on my FB feed. I haven’t sawn off my shotgun just yet, but I am getting the bunker ready. Everyone in Florida stay safe. The rest of you Glibs go do something appropriately stupid and dangerous for us this weekend. I’m sure there will be some epic Florida Man stories to come out of this one. Hopefully, the funny and slightly painful, not the all-time Darwin Award winning. Let’s do… the links!
Is there nothing Hollywood won’t chew up and spit out an inferior version of? The musical was bad enough, but for fuck’s sake? These people are the new Heathers? Not a one could carry Heather Chandler’s jock-strap.
A small reminder that Floridian aren’t the only ones suffering. (Not a Patriots link)
Latest Fox News report on Great Korea. I was 90% certain they got confused by DPRK News Service, but apparently not. So sexist to only call a female politician a “political prostitute”.
They say music makes sex better. They’ve never accidentally left their whole music library on random during sex.
Should I go with the stupidly obvious, or just pretty obvious, or the old, tired standard?
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Well? What did you decide?
I’m going Center of the Storm. https://youtu.be/b1TrFugkEq4
Here’s an off the wall choice.
So very Ted S.
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the the CIA uses that song for torture.
That show will NOT be so very.
When LARPing gets real as fuck.
How do you even come across such a video?
That way lies madness, friendo. It is better not to know.
How does his YouTube suggestion list not get reported as a toxic superfund site?
At first I thought it was too short to bate to, but I managed.
Loop it man.
I…. assume you’re referring to the video.
They wanna kill her, then fuck her? Niiiiiiiiiice.
Hey, you can’t spell necromancy without “romance”. Well, “romanc”.
Well, the title was good.
*lightning bolt*
*lightning bolt*
I call it my “magic missile.”
That looks like one of those old Misty Mundae movies that used to be on Skinemax.
I wish you were Sundae.
But not this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVFgEBq0EKM
A small reminder that Floridian aren’t the only ones suffering. (Not a Patriots link)
Leave it to a libertarian to shove messicans into the Lynx.
I don’t think Jonah Goldberg is the one who gets it.
The so called true conservatives who are never trump just want to bloviate about being conservative while not actually doing anything despite now having 3 branches. They had no problem repealing Obamacare prior to trump. It is obvious they wanted Hillary so they could just be lazy, enjoy the high life and make excuses
The trump deal was a warning shot to those who obviously talk about conservativism but don’t want to deliver spending cuts, Obamacare repeal or tax reform
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/451176/donald-trump-democrats-deal-indicates-he-clueless
I can’t stand some of the national review and their self righteous bloviating as if they are smarter than everyone else
It shows that Goldberg is clueless, is what it shows. Here’s what I think the Trumpian calculation was on going to the Dems:
(1) The Republicans have shown zip, zero, nada inclination to engage in any kind of spending or budget reform. Ergo, there is no difference in the outcome between a Dem spending deal and a Repub spending deal. How the spending bill comes out will not be effected by whether the Dems or the Repubs do it.
(2) The Republicans have shown no motivation whatsoever to enact Trump’s agenda on major items – taxes, immigration, healthcare. He’s not going to get anything out of them as long as they don’t pass Republican bills, so they are, again, no better than the Dems when it comes to advancing his agenda.
(3) So its really just tactical/negotiations who he does the spending bill with. By going to the Dems, he might pick up a little something on the other side of the aisle that might help later, and may deliver a wake-up call to the Repubs that they need to work with him, because they aren’t the only game in town. By going to the Repubs, he just does the same thing that has failed so far, so why not try something different.
The Repubs have managed to turn control of Congress and the White House into a reason to marginalize them and take them out of the conversation. Think about that. They are so bad at advancing anything remotely like a Republican agenda that a Republican President actually is better off sidelining them and working with the Dems.
Next step, immigration “reform” worked out with the Dems that includes amnesty, no wall and some pittance of increase to CBP/ICE as a bone to the few Republicans paying attention.
That’s pretty much what Trump tweeted. He berated the Repubs for failing to do anything about Obamacare and then warned them to get their shit together for tax reform.
Trump isn’t even a Republican president, except in name. They’re so bad at politics that they can’t even win their own primary. They should spend more time taking advice from libertarians on policy, and less time taking advice from Libertarians on political strategy.
Bullshit. There’s nothing like hitting it from the back and then hearing this come on.
Or this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1amCxgGmENw
Doing anal or in the cunt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AIJuRGYmWk
top comment.
I retract my comment about the LARP’ing video having a good title. The bar just got raised.
How bout this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0AbbYx4BDs
Bit aggro for me, but certainly “outside the box”.
Looks like that family friendly certification is gone.
hey!
Not to worry, we’re still good
Fuck yeah!
Family Friendly was code for ‘gay friendly’.
A lot of things suddenly make sense.
What was that? I can’t hear you over Sister Sledge.
If you have an adblocker, turn it off and it should show up in its full glory!
Yeah, like I’m really gonna turn my ad-blocker off. Pfft.
Although, I am getting kind of pissed that more and more sites are adding code to block you if they detect your ad-blocker. Yes, obviously I just fuck right off most of the time but once in a while that’s not an option. The fact that they can detect and block them tells me the adblockers are losing ground technically.
I will never go to a site that has that. I don’t mind ads. we wanted them on the side, silent, and last to load. or at least would be okay with them.
None of that ever happened. they pop up new windows. they autoplay and kill my ears until I find the right tab. They got worse at every junction.
Live dangerously!
Or, more sensibly, whitelist glibertarians.com. Don’t worry, if they want to compromise your…everything… they’ll send STEVE SMITH instead of fucking with JavaScript.
You’re going in the wrong direction. I’m busy trying to figure out how to block the images sloopy posts on the main page. I want to be less offended, not more.
Brother, are you at the wrong place…
Full orchestra version
https://youtu.be/yadjlomgF2Q
This, and I sing along with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsB3IfttE50
this was criticized as “presuming too much” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7_Od9CmTu0
So I moved to Tampa two days ago and so far Florida reeeeaaaaallly fucking sucks. We’re in the Carrollwood area of Tampa, so outside even evac zone E. According to google our house is 53 ft above sea level and we’ve got food/water/ammo for at least a couple of weeks of apocalypse. What we don’t have is storm shutters or plywood . The wife wants to fly the fuck out tomorrow, but I tend to think meh. We probably won’t die. Of course, she is a lot smarter than me….
So Florida natives, how fucked are we?
Amazing that a)this was published in Time b)this was published at all:
Cool link, Gilmore.
Obviously that wasn’t meant to go here
Apparently Chipwooder thinks roving bands of Muslim terrorists will be Negroni’s biggest problem.
nah dude. I said I had plenty of ammo
He thinks they won’t. How cute.
Or do people want to accuse me — an Islamic scholar — of being an Islamophobe too?
“To know Islam, is to loathe Islam.” You can be both an Islamic scholar and an Islamophobe, you know.
*Probably* not fucked in Tampa, unless it takes an unexpected track (heading up the west coast instead of going in near Everglades City as expected).
She’s moved west. Tampa is going to take a hit. I’m just hoping she slows down a bit before she gets to us.
Fingers crossed for you sjc. Y’all stocked up on food, booze, and ammo?
And peanut butter.
I’ve got my crunchy and creamy all lined up.
You betcha. Putting up the shutters tomorrow and then the rest is out of my hands. I had some menfolk explain how to use the generator so as long as I can find gas I should be able to keep the fridge going and maybe a fan or two. I’m still more worried about water where I live than wind. I’ve been through a Cat 3 before so I figure I can do it again.
2 days ago?
Did the seller not disclose the hurricane?
the wife moved here a month ago. I had loose ends to tie up back in Texas first. Besides what’s more Florida Man than packing up and moving INTO a hurricane?
Driving nonstop cause you’re on a meth binge.
Wearing only adult diapers.
While blasting your AK-47 at the moon out the driver’s window.
The driver’s window? I thought that was what the “Moon Roof” was for!
With only the guitar solo from Freebird on a continuous tape loop. https://youtu.be/0_5H0EVl1G8
T-Tops.
Come on, people!
That’s a home-made T-Top, using your cousin’s Sawzall, with cardboard covers held on with duct tape.
So in a way, it’s her fault.
You won’t be able to fly tomorrow, most likely. Should be down to cat3, which we laugh at like Lt. Dan, by the time it gets to Tampa. Maybe Cat2.
Are there good rates at the Gaylord this week?
Dunno. But I heard Port Orleans had so many cancellations they are using it as a shelter.
Just checked. They’re closed through the 15th. Probably also being used as a shelter.
You guys can come over to Pinellas and hang out. We have partial plywood on the ground floor, an air mattress, and are 61′ above sea level. Send me an email at brett_bolt(at)yahoo.com if you want to connect.
Pinellas? And get shot. No thank you.
Someone forgot to pick up bath saltz and is hoping y’all will bring some over when you crash at his place.
Thanks for the invite Brett. I think we’re gonna ride it out here, but if our house gets smashed we might come invade your house. Likewise if our house stays solid and the storm throws a car through your house or something then come on over and crash here. You can catch me at guthrum at gmail.
The Carrollwood area should be fairly safe. You aren’t going to have water damage and while you’re going to see some wind unless you have big trees close to the house you should be okay. I’ll think happy thoughts for you and yours.
This.
I’m also in Carrollwood, and our house is at over 80′, so no fears from water. Not bothering boarding up windows, and about the only real prep work I’m doing on the house is getting the items that could be blown around put up and trimming back a branch from an old oak that hangs precariously over the house. Actually wouldn’t mind too much if the storm blows off a fair bit of the roof – then the insurance would pay for the new roof that we are putting on rather than us!
I’ve sat through a fair number of hurricanes in the past, and unless you are in a flood zone it really isn’t too dangerous.
Let’s keep in touch after the storm – if we have power, we could house some Glibs that don’t for a while. My email is shedendbluegmailcom.
sweet. you just made my wife very happy to hear that you aren’t doing more than we can.
Absolutely. If my place survives with power, then any and all are welcome here. Also if anyone local needs a hand with manual labor after this shitshow passes, then I am happy to help out.
You’re probably not going to die or anything, but… is it worth the cost of a plane ticket to not have your wife seriously pissed off at you if the storm hits your area?
I’ve been through category 1 & 2, and while it’s not too bad, it can be unnerving for people who don’t like storms. I know quite a few people who were in South Dade for Andrew, and it was absolutely terrifying for them.
The Core of Liberty Is Economic Liberty
https://fee.org/articles/the-core-of-liberty-is-economic-liberty/
McCloskey is losing it. Had me until “The economic nationalism of the new Alt-Right “.
Stop right there. Protectionism isn’t some new right-wing schtick, it’s the freaking heart of unionism which is still a leftist cornerstone. Just because the Dems ran a golem like HRC and the GOP was too stupid to see they were getting played by a RINO is no reason to now stuff unionism onto the right. “Alt-right” is just the name leftists give to their members that occasionally leave the plantation.
I think he lost it about 1995.
“The change” didn’t affect the writing before. But once one starts using the jargon/epithets of the opposition, one has been assimilated by them.
I was hopeful because the forecast models (and the official NHC forecast) had moved towards the southwest coast (meaning we only get fucked instead of megafucked), but just found out that the Weather Channel is stationing Jim Cantore in Miami, so we’re back to being megafucked I’m sure.
I can’t find membership numbers in any place but “good PR press releases” Gilmore.
maybe the way back machine and wikipedia #’s?
I really wouldn’t worry about it. The LP is as utterly irrelevant today as it was a year ago.
I want the data to be able to prove that LP leadership is harming the LP.
All the more reason they wouldn’t release it.
To any fellow Glibs out there that do Data Science:
My employer has recently offered to pay for a certification by Data Science Council of America (www.dasca.org). Does anyone know if this is a legit operation, or is it a fly-by-night certification mill?
“My employer has recently offered to pay”
Is the answer you are looking for.
True, I’ll take advantage of it one way or another, however if there’s a more legitimate cert out there, I could argue they pay for it instead.
I’ve never heard of them before, but a brief look at their website did not set off any red flags.
Cool, thanks.
Browse through Linkedin and see who else holds the specific certs. I didn’t find anything in job postings so YMMV. Also, what Playa said.
Is it un-libertarian of me to wish seeing all of the Equifax c-suite execs strung by their balls in a public square?
The execs probably didn’t do anything.
But it certainly looks bad.
Top level execs in a lot of organizations tend to view IT as a liability instead of an asset. From what I’ve read so far, this very well may prove to have been the case here as well.
The execs waited till after they sold $1.7 million in stock before announcing the issue (and then watching the stock tank) 2 months after it took place.
The 3 execs all have net worths somewhere in the high 7 or low 8 figures.
The trades totaled $1.7 million in proceeds. The stock price is down about 12% as of close today. That means that the alleged “insider trading” netted the 3 executives a tad over $200,000 combined.
Could I see somebody who’s broke taking a risk like that? Yeah.
Someone who’s worth over 5 mil? No way.
That’s a pretty convincing point. That will probably never ever show up in the articles to be written.
Someone who’s worth over 5 mil? No way.
Actually, that doesn’t give me any pause at all. I completely believe that someone with lots of money will try to cheat to get a little more.
If you decided to risk insider trading charges, wouldn’t you sell ALL of the stock? The penalty is the same.
The CFO still owns several million dollars worth of EFX stock.
I’m very skeptical of whether this was intentional. The process is arduous, and their window of opportunity is very small. Corporate execs can only sell for a few days a quarter. The idea that they were able to sync up the disclosure of this hack with their pending share sale stretches believability.
I totally agree. The media is going to spin the fuck out of a criminal intent angle, but the whole thing just smacks of garden variety incompetence. The timing of the sale just makes them look doubly stupid. One of the execs that sold stock is “president of U.S. information solutions” according to Bloomberg. I can’t wait to see the statement they’ll release to try to explain this.
How small was their window? It happened between May and July – they sold in Sep – and then the announcement came out.
They sold the stock before it tanked.
BTW – via Metokur and others on twitter – the “check” your status and sign up page on Equifax is apparently unsecure and blocked by some service providers – also you waive your right to pursue in a class action suit if you sign up. That last part will probably be thrown out in court though.
We’ve gotta finish with the OPM people first.
Is there Data Breach insurance? Seems companies who are dumping money into things trying to prevent breaches (and failing) could just as easily pay for a policy that covers damages from breaches.
Yes, but it is expensive (the excess layers will cost damn near the same as your primary, too) and has lots of conditions – you cannot just buy a policy and do nothing, security wise…
Nothing with Christian Slater is good. True Romance was merely acceptable, mostly for the scene with Hopper, Walker, and Gandolfini.
Mr. Robot is solid, at least Season 1 was.
Uh, Cuffs…
Pump Up the Volume?
yes
Si.
Infidel! Pump Up the Volume was a masterpiece!
It was the extra exclamation points that slowed me down.
Gleaming the Cube?
Pump Up the Volume?
Broken Arrow?
Christian Slater is my generation’s Brando.
I’m the proud owner of a copy of Gleaming the Cube, but I don’t have a VCR anymore.
I’m sure you can snag a vcr at Sal Army. Film festival at Playas this weekend!!
Dude. DUDE. I just found it in Hi Def!!!!
Oh, Mind Hunters.
Archer! Although he did bring down the quality of his episodes.
Screw Slater, you cannot replace I Wanna Ryder.
No love for Flatliners?
I did like the final? episode of Breaking In, with the Breakfast Club ending.
Do not tell me you just confused Christian Slater for Kevin Bacon.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/09/why-the-equifax-breach-is-very-possibly-the-worst-leak-of-personal-info-ever/
Gripe #2 – Work calls on my day off because some shit is broke and no one else knows what to do.
Unless you signed a bondage agreement, quote them a price and demand 50% payment upfront. Otherwise, see you Monday.
Salaried employee…
Still not a bondage agreement. Negotiate. Should be able to get 1.5x commensurate off time at minimum.
Then the Union would break my knees.
Union? Then it IS a bondage agreement.
Eh, I usually settle for not reporting my work time as PTO. However, you have shit tons of leverage to get a raise.
You forget – I’m not allowed to negotiate on my own behalf, that would obviate the need for the union, they wouldn’t be happy about that.
Well, in that case, crack open a beer and enjoy your day off.
Ick, a unionized, salaried employee. Sounds like the worst of both worlds. Sorry brah.
I don’t get through more than 48 hours of PTO max without having to deal with some fuckery at the office, but at least I take it back out of them in additional time off.
Have you considered being a scab?
Not sure if you’re asking me, but it Is actually illegal for me to strike.
Making it illegal never stopped school teachers from striking.
Eh, I usually settle for not reporting my work time as PTO.
When you are salaried, there is no such thing as comp time or PTO in chunks of less than a day.
If they call you on your day off, then its not a vacation day anymore, and they shouldn’t ding your PTO account for it.
If they give you any shit, tell them if they want to treat you like an hourly employee, they need to pay you like an hourly employee – overtime and all.
“Bondage agreement”
*lights Jesse lamp*
He’s a little tied up right now.
“Fine. This doesn’t count as my day off.”
I see you’re in IT too.
Yep.
I think I might have mentioned it before.
No, the people skills gave it away.
I sometimes forget, but little clues like, “I had to come in on my day off because no one knows what the fuck is going on” is a helpful reminder.
“Political prostitute”
They’re gonna have to be a LOT more specific.
What is Cenk Uygur?
How about this for the hurricane?
DO ANY OF YOU WORK?!
I got canceled Monday.
Any chance you might have to go in for emergencies?
If a hurricane blew a 2×4 through my torso, I’d probably want to be anesthetized.
Oh man, I saw that episode of Grey’s Anatomy. Spoiler: the black guy dies so the white woman can live, but she’s heartbroken because they became friends during their ordeal.
That describes about 15 episodes.
I’m thinking specifically of this one. I like that google’s autocomplete got impaled right away when I typed “grey’s anatomy two patients”
Such a deep metaphor.
When’s our next Grey’s viewing party? I’ll bring the Midori sours.
Something something jumped the shark after the plane crashed.
I think you’re giving it a longer lifespan than it deserves. I checked out waaaaay before that.
Something something jumped the shark when George died?
You’re talking about Lost, right?
When’s our next Grey’s viewing party? I’ll bring the Midori sours.
Bright green cocktails are out, polishing off a bottle of wine is in. You’re showing your age, Playa.
They are running an emergency only crew Saturday through Monday. I could volunteer to go in and relieve if travel is allowed on Monday. I might depending on how things shake out.
Define “work”.
I am on a webex teleconference with 4 other groups. We’re waiting for the 5th because they’re the ones who have to actually make a change to fix the problem.
Tax money at work!
5th group showed up – did what I said needed to be done – problem is gone.
Once upon a time, I was allowed to fix these things myself.
The great thing about object-oriented programming is that when someone else’s objects fail you can’t proceed until they fix their shit.
“Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.”
~Edsger Dijkstra
Opinions, one way or tbe other?
Eh, the original idea of object oriented programming was good, at least for a subset of problems. What it turned into, especially with the advent of Java, is a different story. I’m assuming that Dijkstra is referring to the latter, as that was developed in California, while the original concept as proposed by Alan Kay was developed in Massachusetts.
Either way, the predominant model that Java put forward has at least proceed itself serviceable, though it has shown its weaknesses. It isn’t the worst idea in programming.
I think OOP means different things to different people. I see the major developments that accompanied OOP as:
1. Encapsulation (keep the data and the code that manipulates it together, only show the properties/operations that a client cares about)
2. Polymorphism (you can substitute one implementation of an abstract concept for another without changing the client code)
3. Inheritance (a cat IS-AN animal IS-A living thing, yadda yadda)
In my opinion, 1 and 2 are good things, but 3 is a clusterfuck. Fortunately, you can almost always use composition instead of inheritance. Unfortunately, not everybody got the memo. A number of newer languages (Go, Rust, …) have done away with inheritance entirely* and I’ve never felt like anything of value was lost when using them.
* = You can “extend” interfaces in Go and traits in Rust but that just adds to the method set, it doesn’t carry any shared data or behavior like a subclass does
+infinity for Rust. Polymorphism is complicated, though, since OOP only brings subtype polymorphism.
Thanks to everyone for your thoughts.
Only for another half an hour. Then, carnitas!
Im doing carnitas tomorrow. I was about to head to the store to get all the fixins.
I’m thinking tacos al pastor.
And beer.
Kettle fried?
Pork butt, browned in a dutch oven, then braised in lard, bacon fat, and whatever citrus I can forage here in the neighborhood. Maybe finish it under the broiler just to get some crispy “burnt ends”.
Corn tortilla tacos, garnished with a pickled relish of jalapeño and red onion. Topped with crumbled quesa and chopped cilantro. Squeeze of lime juice.
Beers, left over tequila, and bourbon. And 12 hours of college football Saturday.
Pork butt, browned in a dutch oven, then braised in lard, bacon fat, and whatever citrus I can forage here in the neighborhood. Maybe finish it under the broiler just to get some crispy “burnt ends”.
These euphemisms
“Citizen”; I do not think it means what you think it means.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/371463.php
couple more months we’ll just drop the “undocumented” part and there we go.
Are they really “undocumented” any more either? Don’t most of them have some amount of government paper work for various programs they have access to?
If by some accident of fate we found out that these individuals were, as a group, likely to overwhelmingly vote Republican, every alphabet soup network, the NYT, WaPo, and the online leftosphere would be a howling mass of shrieking harridans demanding that these filthy brown people be launched back to their origin countries by cannon.
Yep.
‘member wet foot-dry foot?
So, anti-immigration people should really be working to produce misleading studies that prove that immigrants in the long run lean Republican and favor conservative values?
Florida avocados had the good sense to get out of FL in a timely fashion and are currently making local produce aisles worse. “Slimcado” completely defeats the purpose of and avocado.
I can’t take a shit in a paper bag and sell it as a Fuji Apple, so why in the fuck are they allowed to call those things avocados???
I’d be fine if they drew little goatees on each one so people knew they were the evil universe version.
“I can’t take a shit in a paper bag and sell it as a Fuji Apple,”…. have you tried?
I run everything by my lawyer first.
Sometimes I listen, sometimes I don’t.
Not much of a salesman.
“Fuck you, Fuji apples are for closers!”
Nobody’s forcing you to eat them.
*puts away bondage accoutrements and FL avocados*
Next time, Jesse!
Huh, you’ve successfully piqued my interest in slimcados. I hope you’re getting a cut of the advertising money.
“Click to see more ads like this one”
I figured you’d be into bear avocados, not twink avocados.
Yes, they are, Ted. Yes. They. Are.
They are terrible.
Who says “you know what crop I’m going to grow? Florida avocados.”?
Sadists?
What is wrong with you people and your avocado fetish? That is not food for humans.
FIFY
Culture of corruption.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-irma-virginislands-insurance/u-s-virgin-islands-spent-money-intended-to-help-after-hurricanes-idUSKCN1BH38I
This is my shocked face:
(._.)
“During years of yawning budget deficits, the U.S. protectorate tapped the V.I. Insurance Guaranty Fund to pay for other public services, according to government financial records reviewed by Reuters.”
Yet another thing that would result in significant jail time if done in the private sector.
I mean why not? If I was a government parasite that’s the first fund I would steal from. It’s not like we won’t give them more money to help hurricane victims.
We’re all Illinois now.
Were I a resident of the VI, I’d start thinking seriously about encouraging a torches-and-pitchforks movement.
I’m holding the resident Minnesodans personally responsible for this guy.
https://pjmedia.com/faith/2017/09/07/citing-the-splc-sen-al-franken-compares-alliance-defending-freedom-to-pol-pot/
*skates to box – feels shame*
5 minute major at least.
That sounds like an open invitation to pore over Franken’s campaign finances if I’ve ever heard one.
No, Senator, they don’t ‘track hate groups’, they call anyone they don’t like a hate group and then depend on hectoring idiots like you to denounce them. And now, I question your honesty.
It’s as if he accepted information from an organization without first learning what they do.
Ran across this during lunch.
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/local/gray-matters/article/I-downloaded-an-app-And-suddenly-I-was-talking-12172506.php
While a great tale about the power of volunteerism, I want to highlight how deeply the thread of credentialism and permission runs with people these days.
Now this last one is understandable, people doubt themselves when emotional fatigue sets in, but considering they were essentially following a script and had been doing that correctly for hours, falling back on the fact they don’t have an official badge shows something about how they see the world.
It’s still amazing that an ordinary highschool teacher went from dread fascination to lending a helping hand and she deserves praise, but it’s still disquieting how uncomfortable she is with informality.
I posted this at the beginning of the summer. It’s a local news story about a woman who lives on a stretch of dangerous road, and how she and her neighbors dealt with a car crash that happened there. And then there was a bit that absolutely enraged me:
No, you ignorant state-fellating reporter, Teri and her neighbors were the first responders, not the people with credentials.
I always call my cop buddy a “second-responder”.
When seconds count, police and paramedics are there in minutes.
Speaking of bad remakes, holy shit is the new Star Trek going to suck. They are making the Klingons deplorables.
We knew that when the fan works looked better than their official output…
“new Star Trek is going to suck.”
So, just like the old Star Trek then.
You take that back or I’ll… I’ll… send this red shirt to throw you in the brig.
Dead man walking.
I going to give the Seth MacFarlane spoof a try. Would love it if they mock the new show brutally.
I’m so surprised…..
TOS or GTFO
I’ve seen most of TOS, TNG, and half of DS-9. Is GTFO any good or is it like Voyager?
*gives Vulcan salute*
Please, anything but Jimmy Buffett.
Nope. You’re safe.
What?
Rejoinder
WTF did I just watch?
The glorious show, Yacht Rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_Rock
I seriously had an idea similar to this a few years back. My story was going to be built around Bertie Higgins’ “Key Largo”.
Laws are for peasants!
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/09/08/doj-declines-to-charge-lois-lerner-in-irs-scandal.html
Q C, whyfor you try enraging me on a gorgeous Friday afternoon?
Drinking motivation?
Now that pisses me off. That arrogant bitch all but gave the finger to everyone confident that chocolate jesus would shield her.
The reason these pieces of shit keep doing things like this is because they are never punished.
All of the above PLUS holding these fuckers accountable was one of the things Trump campaigned on. Not that I expect politicians to actually keep any of their campaign promises, but god damn.
Lee Hardcastle is a master…That is all.
Claycat series is the best though – esp. “The Raid”, “Doom”, etc.
Just not the same without McCormick, though
The question on the news today:
Some places face earthquakes and hurricanes whereas we face harsh snowstorms and the odd ice storm but it’s generally not as destructive: Are you happy you live in a northern climate?
My answer is “yes” but I encourage people to leave, especially the poor.
Yes.
I also like having more daylight in the summer. (And don’t mind less in the winter. I enjoy having four seasons.)
There’s a Four Seasons in Hawaii that’s quite nice.
Walk like a man?
I’m happy that I don’t.
What’s wrong with earthquakes?
Everything.
There’s no warning, they shake the whole place, so your shit all falls down, and then they rumble along.
Yeah, that’s all that’s great about them. You can’t spend excessive time fretting about when the next one will come or preparing for earthquake season or whatever. We build specifically to avoid shit falling down, but some broken glassware is still cheaper than flood damage or having your house leveled by tornadoes or whatever. They’re rare, finish quickly, and you can move on.
I don’t like unpredictable events.
My snowy weather is easy to see coming, we know when it will be an issue, and it’s cheaper to clear the walk than replace all my stuff.
replace all my stuff
We literally had one item in our house break for Northridge, and in the Loma Prieta quake my mom lost about 5 inexpensive glass vases. Admittedly we were lucky not to have a brick chimney like the neighbors did in ’89, and we weren’t living downtown that had been built on leveled riverbed and immediately liquefied during the quake, but still, they aren’t that bad.
I was about 25 miles from the epicenter of Loma Prieta. A bottle of gin fell of the top of my refrigerator. It was terrible.
On the other hand, my uncle’s house in Reseda was condemned after the Northridge quake. Now, there’s probably a very good chance that it would have been condemned with no earthquake, but still…..
“They’re rare, finish quickly, and you can move on.”
Earthquakes are the sashimi of natural disasters.
When I was living in one certain apartment at Purdue, we had an earthquake, a blizzard, a tornado within close proximity, and a flood all in the span of 24 months.
LA had fires, floods, an earthquake, and a riot when I was in middle school.
Good times
Thankfully, I was studying in Russia when the Rodney King riots happened.
I was in a 6.3 earthquake….in Afghanistan. Talk about piling on.
You are on shaky ground there.
I see some cracks in his façade.
I can’t fault him for that.
The part where we fall into middle earth and get raped by gnomes that all look like John Malkovich?
I…I wish to avoid that, plz.
I’ll take the once a decade storm you get a week to prepare for over freezing to death every winter.
My wife’s aunt lost her house to a rare F5 tornado that pretty much made a small Iowa town disappear in a few minutes. This is still chicken shit compared to what Irma is going to do this weekend.
My skin dries out in the winter really badly to the point it bleeds. So no.
Jergens isn’t just for keeping by the computer, yo.
Barbarian! I only use Curel!
Rookies.
^^^^^^
I guess I’m probably the only one here who actually uses this as it was intended on cow udders?
I have the same problem in winter with bleeding skin and bag balm is the only thing I’ve found to help.
I use it to keep my lips from bleeding while skiing. that cold air cracks them every winter.
Oh I’ll milk something with it…
I guess I’m probably the only one here who actually uses this as it was intended on cow udders?
Probably. I was entertained by the “please don’t use this on humans” warning on the old containers of it while it was being sold in the skin care aisle.
Aquaphor is also an excellent product.
It used to have mercury, I think.
We used it on the dairy cows when I was a farm kid. Long ago.
You’re doing it wrong.
4-0? Pretty smooth, Playa.
A real man would grab the 60-grit and get to it.
Don’t you want a finish?
“It’s going to be like a mouthful of sand.”
Mine too, especially after I go jogging in -9 degrees.
Protip: Dump some olive oil, coconut oil, and beeswax pellets in a pot and gently heat them just until everything is melted and mixed together. Pour it in a tupperware dish and let it cool (if it’s still liquidy, melt it again and add more beeswax; if it’s too hard, add more olive oil). Rub it on your whole body after every shower, and rub it on your hands throughout the day if they get dry.
I don’t really live in a northern or southern climate per se… but we don’t have earthquakes or hurricanes or ice storms or tornadoes. We do get a lot of snow, but it doesn’t really seem to affect things much… what did you ask again?
Where the fuck do you live? Hell?
Colorado Springs? Right, yes. Colorado Springs.
Boulder winters are nice apart from the snowflakes. *looks at camera*
having winter a half hour away is great.
Didn’t you almost burn down a few years ago?
Yeah, there have been a couple of bad ones. Hayward in ’02 I think (that was before I was here) but I think you’re referring to the Black Forest fire two (maybe three?) years ago. That was a bad one.
That and Waldo Canyon the year before. Up north was Four Mile Canyon in ’10 and High Park in ’12. Seems like only one metro area in the state was smart enough to build a respectable distance away from forests in drought country but close enough to the front range to mostly avoid tornadoes.
So, you don’t live in the USA?
As I get older, I hate winter more and more. The cold, snow, and short days bother me more each year. Maybe that’s why old people move to Florida and Arizona.
Meh, “happy enough”.
I do like having 4 seasons, and you’re not a real man if you don’t know how to drive in snow and ice. But if it weren’t for having a lot of family in the area, I’d move to somewhere with mountains, probably CO or NC.
Fucken right. We used to attack our skis to a car and go through the streets after a storm.
Plus if you don’t know how to strike a puck properly (and I’m average at it) you’re not a man either.
We used to drive around in my dad’s Chevy Suburban and find cars in ditches to pull out. Lady drivers obviously.
Plus if you don’t know how to strike a puck properly (and I’m average at it) you’re not a man either.
Amen.
Are you guys calling out half the bruisers in the NHL?
A what?
Are you happy you live in a northern climate?
Yep. I love winter.
Although I do like to escape to a beach once winter.
I like having seasons and rain here in DC. If I could replace the DC culture with the Dallas culture, it would be perfect.
The only thing I have to worry about, besides the odd blizzard, is Kim Jong Un getting an itchy trigger finger.
unless you have a vacation home in Guam, i think you’re safe
I think Guam is going to tip over first.
but it’s generally not as destructive:
As an earthquake?
And what does the north have to do with earthquakes? Ok, what am I missing here?
Shit yes. When my father was stationed at Langley I’d spend March through November pretty much curled up around the air conditioner. Thank god he retired back to NH in the mid 90s. If this climate change thing is real, I may have to move further north.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Heard about this from S-town (podcast).
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2014/10/16/Son-of-Sen-Jeff-Flake-charged-with-dogs-deaths/3261413471418/
I have no words.
The douche doesn’t fall far from the cunt.
So, the lazy a-holes put all the dogs in a small room. Just nail the plates to the table, and throw a bucket of water on ’em – easier to clean that way.
I pay a lot of money to board my dog at a really nice place run by really cool people.
Worth every dime
That’s the way to do it if you can. When we just had a couple dogs, we took them to one place that let all the dogs play all day in a huge backyard with a 8 foot fence. It even had things like a tire swing and sprinklers running all day in summer.
Now with 3 GSDs and a retarded hound rescue, it’s just easier and cheaper to hire a house sitter. Plus, my male is not neutered and doesn’t take kindly to other dogs sniffing around his bitches.
We have awesome retired neighbors who come over to our house 4 or 5 times a day to feed and let our dogs out when we’re away. Our dogs are old and completely sedentary anyway.
Goddammit. I cant believe what I just saw on the TV. Some show wife is watching called Salvation. An asteroid is bearing down on earth and instead of trying to solve the problem in earnest everyone in the government is running around stabbing each other in the back. In one scene the president is firing the secretary of defense and replacing him with some other dude. The conversation between the president and the new secretary is LINE FOR LINE, WORD FOR WORD identical to the purported conversation between Trump and Comey where Comey claims Trump asks for loyalty.
Comey didn’t even bother to make that shit up. He stole it from a cheesy TV show.
hey suthen
tried asking you like twice elsewhere;… i’m off to NoLa later this evening for a weekend of drinking, eating,
whoring, and avoiding arrestetc. any suggestion on fave places/things i should try and catch while there? others have provided some helpful suggestions… but wanted to check in w/ you.i used to visit the city often in my 20s and early 30s. its been about 10 years, and my last visit (for jazzfest) didn’t even have me around the city very much.
I am sorry Gilmore, I didn’t see you. I haven’t been back to New Orleans since Katrina. I cant really recommend anything because everything I knew is long gone.
thanks anyway
Go to Lafitte in Exile, get blindingly drunk and wake up in a student housing next to a very handsome Brazilian medical student named Diego.
(eyes suspiciously)
i never told anyone about that. how did….
in a bathtub full of ice…. with a note taped to the mirror….
“We regret to inform you that your warranty has expired. This liver service will cost you…”
“You are now automatically eligible for our LiverLock protection service for the next 12 months at no cost to you.”
*applause*
Go to Drago’s for chargrilled oysters, go see Kitty at the Hustler Club, get a hand grenade, get a hurricane, go hang out on Frenchman. Don’t let some shit puke on you on the way. The End.
An asteroid is bearing down on earth and instead of trying to solve the problem in earnest everyone in the government is running around stabbing each other in the back.
So they went for realism, did they?
I got it backwards. Apparently the writers for the show stole the Comey skit and inserted it in their plot. Comey cooked his story up first.
So. Is Bennett full of shit?
Yes. Who?
Tony?
Bill?
Dr. ?
Mr Bennet? Probably.
Mrs Bennet? Yes.
3/5 daughters yes, say bad things about Lizzie and I’ll cut you!
Haley?
Cerf?
♪, ♩Come, Mister tally-man, tally-me-some-hate-crimes♪, ♩
Guy who supported Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Chavez, and even Stalin, to help explain to New Yorkers about the hateful, racist legacy of people like Christopher Columbus, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Andrew Carnegie
fuck. the link
I mean, it’s a very attractive link, but it’s just not my type.
small-irony alert=
So funny I forgot to laugh.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/stephen-colbert-gives-trump-nazi-salute-over-charlottesville
i’d take this sort of thing more seriously if they weren’t so desperate to contrive hate-crimes out of literally nothing.
its sort of like Obama’s “failed coffee-cup salute” being used against, which was a dumb exaggeration of a small thing (if emblematic of Obama’s limp presidency), … but every single day, on every single thing, all the time.
No one is actually trying to meaningfully engage anyone about anything at this point are they? It’s playing to the base 24/7/365 on “all” sides innit?
It is worse than that. Most of what is being said has no connection whatsoever to reality. It is almost like they are all trying to one-up each other with the biggest lie.
As opposed to Obama and Hillary who completely ignored disaster victims. I think the chocolate jesus was seeing a play while a whole town in Alabama disappeared in a tornado then jetted off to Europe and never said a word. Hillary was fundraising in San Francisco hob-nobbing with elites while Trump was passing out blankets to Louisiana flood victims.
A fine point. I assume Chels is already on the ground in FL dishing out water and gasoline paid for by Clinton Foundation cash.
She sent a tweet, what more do you expect from her?
A tweet criticizing Trump I assume.
I distinctly remember seeing a woman tearfully complain about Obama’s ignoring the tornado disaster and she (black) just couldn’t understand why he would desert ‘his people’. The town was almost entirely black and apparently voted for him 100%.
I cant believe how many people deluded themselves about that guy. He told everyone up front that he hated America, Americans and intended to fuck every one of us to death. He might be a liar’s liar but he never lied about that.
The whole saluting thing by civilian presidents is bullshit. But if one stopped doing it, it would be disrespecting the troops now.
Technically the President is the Commander-in-Chief of all of the military.
He is and he’s still a civilian. He’s not a member of the armed forces, he’s not a member of the uniformed services and he shouldn’t be rendering hand salutes.
I dunno, I thought they’d lose interest or momentum, but if it keeps up for two more years, I’d be tempted to get rid of Trump just to shut them up. And I don’t live in US.
Please no this will just enable them
If you reward bad behavior you get more of it
I’m not a parent so I’ve not developed immunity to “scream until you get your way” approach beyond “wait them out” and that ain’t working…
If you get rid of trump. They will do it to pence. It won’t stop
Look at college campuses and how they are going after liberal professors
They’re not getting rid of Trump and it wouldn’t shut them up if they could. It would make them worse.
The progs like usual just ignored his comments and what actually happened to make up their own movie
It’s ok when they do it, trust me on this one.
clearly, the message here is that being *small* is what makes cities dangerous. there are no other relevant demographic details which they might have in common.
You may be on to something here. Did anyone check to see how many of these shootings happened within 10 years of a Republican administration?
Having grown up in Syracuse, that does not surprise me.
Apparently poughkeepsie caught the magical violence-bug as well
It’s like when they compare Canada and US infant mortality rates and say Canadas is lower due to national health care. There may be another more obvious reason.
Is this before or after subtracting “nonviable birth” from one countries statistic?
Well that’s without consideration of demographics.
You can’t believe anything the media say about national healthcare. They use all sorts of trickery to get the right results. It’s like when they make claims about the ‘happiest’ countries. Those countries always have national healthcare as one reason why they are so happy. Doesn’t matter if they are dying waiting on a life saving surgery because of rationed care, they’re happy, because we say so!
In any case, Richmond is much larger than most of those cities – pop is about 230K, metro area is 1.3 million, twice or more the size of the others listed
Headline and photo have strangely incongruent messages
Deal with Trump, GOP retirements have Dems riding higher
They honestly think “agreeing w/ republicans that spending more of other people’s money is a great idea” is a sign of their political success.
I had to go to town wednesday. I was riding around in the car when I heard on the radio about Trump’s deal and how giddy Pelosi and Shumer were.
I am surprised the cops didn’t stop me I was yelling and screaming and waiving my fists around so much.
We are cattle Gilmore. Nothing more to them.
Trump only did that to put GOP on notice who don’t want to do anything conservative
I think he did it for 2 reasons. He wants to spend a bunch of money on hurricane relief to make himself look good. 2nd he wants to spend a bunch of money on other stuff, not the same things that dems want to spend money on, like a big wall.
The GOP wanted an 18 month extension. It would have taken away any leverage for him to get things like tax reform. They want to campaign and not do anything
The relief money was going thru anyway anyhow and is one of the few things I approve of fed gov doing which are
Trump wants to do massive spending on infrastructure as well. I think that several Republicans who are playing the never Trump game are going to get primaried.
True. But what have they been the past 10 months since trump won on tax cuts and reform?
Defunding planned parenthood?
Trump said he would be cool with clean repeal of ACA? And replace later. Where are they?
Trump proposed 30 billion in cuts to agency in budget. The GOP said they weren’t doing them
The never Trumpers are the problem. McCain is solely responsible for the ACA not being repealed right now. He should probably die from cancer or something. Wouldn’t that be some karma.
I think he only pulled this to not look like he and the Reps were pinching pennies while Houston is wrecked and another hurricane is bearing down on Florida. Fiscally it’s not such a good move but politically it makes sense.
Goddamit Gilmore, how did you manage this?! It looks like URL, mouse behaves like it’s a URL but it isn’t! It looks fine in Firefox dev tools too…
Let’s try fixing.
If the mouse behaved like a URL a right click would have “open in new tab”
yeah, you can’t actually do anything else except vote for overlords to force people to do shit.
Nope. no other form of human activity. No cooperative, voluntary behavior; indeed – she herself can’t even change her spending habits or her electricty consumption unless some bureaucrat forces her to. The fact is that mankind has no free will except voting.
(i think i understand other people a lot better now)
(oopsie)
^(technically a reply to the ‘trump is force of nature’ thing below)
Gilmore, you don’t have to explain Gilmoring a post anymore. We all understand. It’s ok buddy.
So, my SIL managed to get himself stuck in Orlando. Not sure how bad it’s going to get, but it doesn’t look too good.
Stuck in Orlando? I’d rather be stuck in Dawn ifyouknowwhatimeanandithinkyoudo. https://youtu.be/qsZTiD4VQ30
Now see, only an old codger like you would use that example. And only an old codger like me would get the reference instantly without clicking the link.
You’re alright Suthen.
You can add me to the old codger list as well:) lol
[Dawn knocks on pipes twice]
Not sure if this has been discussed here, but I keep reading articles about how Branson’s compound on his private island was completely destroyed. Has anyone even seen a single picture of this ‘destruction’?
Not saying it didn’t happen, but I’ve read several articles about this now and have not seen one picture. The guy is an attention ho. He survived the storm in something like a fallout shelter that would survive a nuclear hit. Meh.
Trump more powerful than Nature!
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kristine-marsh/2017/09/07/jennifer-lawrence-mother-natures-rage-directed-us-because-trump
Dude, he caused like 2 earthquakes just today. One of them was an 8.1! I mean Bush would have only been able to cause a 6.3 in comparison!
Aren’t these the same crowd that made fun of Pat Robertson for saying that the San Francisco earthquake was god’s vengeance against the gays? Oh, and 9/11 too.
People keep assuring me that TDS is not a real thing.
Religiosity is only stupid and ignorant when mouthed with a southern accent, otherwise it’s soulful and deep.
The UPS guy just now arrived with my table saw.
I could have saved my time off and gone to work. (especially since they called me anyway, and then you get into the weeds of the messy rules on that for our contract).
I was hoping to have it all set up earlier in the day. You know when places were still open.
Yeah? Which saw did you get?
I used to have a Shop-Smith but it disappeared in a divorce. God, I miss that thing. Just have a regular ol’ saw now.
Better than you disappearing in it in a divorce.
DeWalt DW745
And I know some things:
1: The instruction manual was written by someone who knew the system inside and out. I can tell, because it assumes the reader knows the system inside and out and leaves off important information.
2: The saw works
3: Hearing protection is a must
4: The 60-tooth sawblade cuts a fairly smooth split down a pine 2×4 (the same 2×4 I tested the drill press on yesterday)
It came with a 24-tooth sawblade, but I bought the 60 because I wanted the cleaner finish.
Good choice.
Oh, and I should mention: be careful and learn how to use it well. There are a zillion instructional videos on youtube. You can build a damned space shuttle with that thing. There is almost nothing you cant do.
Right now, I want to square the rip guard. It’s marginally further away at the far end than the front. It wasn’t as important on the 2×4 test, as I was trying to make sure it worked, but it’ll matter when I have real work.
I lurked on the other thread and can’t stress the importance enough for UCS to purchase a quality compound miter saw forthwith! Angle cuts are foundational. Just be sure to tune it every time you move it, they can be cantankerous and a degree out in any dimension will fuck larger projects before you can say “Ow, My Budget!”
Is your ex-wife at least making good use of the saw in some sort of productive capacity?
Of course not. Her brother took it apart and left it on a dirt floor in a leaky shed. It rusted to pieces.
Oh well. I got my freedom and ended up marrying my current wife. Small price to pay.
If she’s anything like my Ex, she would have used it as an ornamental planter. Bitch sold my hockey gear (and everything else of value) for pennies on the dollar when she found out I had a new squeeze. Vindictive. I was prescient enough to take my golf clubs and skis with me when I left. Twenty+ years and it still burns to the touch.
I cant count how many hurricanes I have ridden out. Bad ones and not so bad ones. It is almost boring to me now. I would probably feel differently if I lived in a trailer park instead of my concrete lair. I had to get the wife to change the channel away from the news earlier because I was tired of hearing about it.
I keep disaster supplies year-round. Around here we have floods, ice storms and hurricanes so that covers the whole year. I am always amused by the people fighting over bottled water and propane the day before one of these things hits like it caught them by surprise.
And yet, these same people probably make fun of “preppers” who stockpile food, water, ammo, and batteries in their homes.
Now that you mention it, yeah.
Mr Hayeksplosives teased me last year when I put together my own first aid kit (after seeing none online that were adequate for real emergencies), then put together containers of dehydrated food, water pouches, handcrank radios (shortwave, regular, and weather), handcrank/solar chargers, lighters, flares, etc. And yet he was enthusiastically on board with laying in more ammo.
But you can’t eat ammo. Either you prep for an emergency, or you don’t.
Trappiste Rochefort 10 @ 11.3% just what I need to start the weekend.
I’m having…..
Wait for it….
Bud Light PLATINUM.
What? Shut up!
What’s the deposit on a Platinum can?
Bottles. Sapphire bottles.
Sapphire. The fanciest form of aluminum.
let me guess: you found it in the garbage, and being a good citizen, knew that beer should only ever be disposed via male-plumbing.
**true story: i was once in a meeting with Augie Bush III (then VP of marketing, later to become CEO and seller of the company) and he was talking about their push to create a ‘superpremium’ line of Budweiser to compete against imports. and i actually laughed out loud and said something to the effect of, “look you can dress a fat slob up in a tuxedo, but it still doesn’t make him james bond”
a few people actually laughed politely, but i could see this, “ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE” look in their eyes, like they knew my body was going to be found floating in the mississippi later that evening. Augie took it quite well and continued to try and convince me that Bud could be extra-super-special-premium.
Well I’m back on coke zero while feeling tipsy from the first one. I’ll probably chase it with a Devil’s Backbone Vienna Lager – always good straight from the bottle.
**as he further tried to convince me of the plausibility of this idea, he also explained, “We’re partnering with Jay-Z to do a series of promotions”
i laughed out loud again. i was like their worst nightmare that day.
I had to look it up: it was “Bud Select” at the time, not Bud platinum.
Their strategy of just buying domestic crafts and micros is going to work out better than trying to create it themselves.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anheuser-Busch_brands
No, I actually paid for it, but there’s a good reason.
I’m going out much later tonight, and I’m trying to keep the calories down before I go. If I have cocktails, I’ll end up drunk and hungry 2 hours before dinner starts.
BudPlatinum is 6% at 130 calories, my usual Sculpin is 7% at 230 calories. Gotta stay hydrated.
I admire your responsibility and restraint.
“I’m going out much later tonight…” That’s why God gave us cocaine.
You know me, man. I don’t even smoke weed.
Which is why I have to drink twice as much to make up for it.
I can’t even imagine what you would be like on cocaine. You’re very ornery when you’re sober. Doubly so when you’ve been drinking.
It’s not bad. That 6% catches up quickly in a light beer.
Finally! Someone poured a drink around here. I’m going for a Jim Beam cut with a splash of water.
I had a Sauvignon Blanc with dinner, and will have vodka tonight.
Panty-remover! So who’s the special feller?
Heineken.
My poor hubs isn’t feeling well so he is skipping alcohol altogether tonight. I feel bad for him. But not bad enough to refrain from making drinks for me…
You so mean.
Yeah, well…at least I am not asking him to make them for me, as he usually does. Or even asking the orphans to do so! They have the night off in honor of the OK State game.
Alternating good beer and cheap beer.