It appears that Brett is actually working for a living…I know, right? (jesse: my Brett joke was…less kind) So, while I idle away on the fondue plantation, I have managed to scrape a few links together….at the same time, Jesse wanted to help. So with two sets of links done, we did the only proper thing…combine them for ULTRALINKS!
Links….COMBINE!
- So…this sounds about par for the course.
- Mr. Arkwright say make Nigerian students no worry!
- A cop…guilty?! Look what it takes to actually get a cop in trouble. [Alternate title: SugarFree scripts a cop drama episode?]
- A reminder, that while there are still checks in the book…we are broke.
Get this man a presidency: Justin Amash wrangles broad bipartisan support for rolling back Jeff Sessions’ rolling back of an Obama-era curtailment of asset forfeiture. *takes deep breath*- Speaking of presidencies: Sanders will introduce universal health care, backed by 15 Democrats. There’s your field for the next election cycle. Now for three years of attrition and attempts to out lefticate each other with proposals that will turn us into Venezuela if enacted.
- “Nun with a chainsaw“, a phrase sure to instill terror in hearts of Catholic school graduates, is the surprise feel-good story of the day.
- Katie Quackenbush, you haven’t heard of her yet, but her music career is gonna be huuuuuuge…at least after she finishes serving time for assault with a deadly weapon.
- This one even has Old Man With Candy scratching his head. “No be di uncle get di pickin.”
Bonus Link: Drunk European says “who needs you anyways?!”
Them’s the links. Now go take on the day.
Premeditated Spam time…
My table saw threw a piece of cedar at me when I tried to turn it off. What’s the best way to prevent/avoid kickback from table saws?
Luckily the cedar is a practice piece, and I got out of the way, so I didn’t lose anything important.
Threaten it’s family?
So lawless. Clearly we need better table saw regulation.
The Founding Fathers couldn’t have foreseen that we’d have such powerful saws at our disposal. Plus, only militias can use them.
I blame assault saws.
Threaten it’s family?
Why would you threaten it is family?
Keep firm preasure on in. Go slower with harder wood. If it starts to bind, pull out and then push back in. ?
What Archie said sans euphemism.
A couple ways. First, leave the anti-kickback prawls in place. (Yes, I’m aware we all take them off). Another good tool is a featherboard.
What exactly were you doing? Ripping it? Small piece?
I was cutting width-wise, making 11.5″ lengths. (They are going to be the sides of a simple box)
By width-wise I assume you mean cross cut, make a cross cut sled, not hard and can be made from scraps, you-tube has many how to’s.
I suppose that is the correct term, I’m willing to admit I don’t know for sure.
If you are taking a 4 foot 2×4 and cutting it into 4 one foot 2×4’s you are cross cutting, making those cuts against the fence is dangerous, it is easy the bind the wood on the blade, causing kickback, straining the saw, etc. A sled allow you to make cross cuts easier, of coarse if the board is very long you’ll want to get oit to rough size first with a hand,circular,jig saw. Sleds are also good for cutting small pieces and repeatable cuts, a dado blade and some simply mods and you have a nice box jointing jig.
Then yes, I was cross-cutting.
Crosscutting can be a bear. If you are only using the miter gauge it is really tough to do it safely.
Someone recommended a crosscut sled. I totally agree with this advice. There are a bunch of simple ones online that you can knock together easily and will help you make even small cuts way easier and safer.
And making your own sleds, jigs, etc., is a great way to improve your mad woodworking skillz
Frankly, I even make (well, used to make, I’ve been dormant on the chair-making for a while) my own featherboards, and shooting sleds as a ‘warm up’ when I got back into the craft.
I dunno how ‘old school’ you are, but you might waste 10 mins of your time making a set of measuring sticks (sometimes incorrectly named ‘story sticks’) . I used to use them when making fitted boxes and frames. Far easier (and more precise) than a ruler, even when you’re not semi-mass producing.
I make story sticks for trim jobs all the time.
*tees one up for the kids*
All of what was already said. Bonus: Making your own crosscut sled and fine-tuning it to make perfect 90-degree cuts is fun, too.
The wood was in the saw when you turned it off? Sounds to me like the blade slowed to where it was no longer cutting and began gripping the wood (pinch) until the wood accelerated outward. Pass the wood through cleanly and completely, then turn off the blade.
And wear eye and ear protection.
The saw is too loud to even think about turning on without ear protection.
In addition to all the other excellent advice, make sure the cedar really is dry, especially when you start to rip it (cut along the grain).
It’s one of the less well-behaved woods if it’s still a bit green.
And wear a dust mask. That stuff fucks me up.
There’s a joke about your adult entertainment career and well-behaved wood in there someplace
Look, guys, I was just a bag-man, OK?
Is that like the fluffer’s apprentice?
Worse. This was his kit.
Who fluffs the fluffer?
Well, I can comment there.
Sets often have multiple fluffers, and in some studios, it’s a kind of unpaid internship, and often, after a long day, they’d do each other a solid.
*cough* submit(at)glibertarians(dot)com *cough*
A couple hundred words on why Triga’s videography and editing is absolute rubbish would be great.
So…you’re actually the one left holding the bag?
I hereby invoke my right to remain silent ….
That’s the guy who wears a bag over his head so nobody can see his face?
I see someone also watched a lot of ’90s German porn.
I see someone also
watchedstarred in a lot of ’90s German porn.This cedar is not green. But the next step might introduce some moisture as it’s gluing them into three panels to form the bottom and two sides of the box. (the top and two other sides will be Sapele. I think the two-tone effect will turn out well, plus I don’t have enough cedar to make the whole box out of it.)
That’s no shit
Try cutting live trees with a chainsaw
It will gum up the chain
I had one catch my bar on fire once
How’s that for a euphamism
That’s not a limerick.
It’s an Haiku.
If table saws didn’t have so much power, you wouldn’t have to pay kickbacks to them?
Don’t turn the saw off with wood on the blade
It slow to a point where it can’t cut but still has enough energy to throw
Also never stand in line with the blade
Make sure wood is firmly Down and against the fence and firmly pushed through
It can also throw wood if the plank wiggles up and down or side to side
Yes, please, please, please if you’re not doing so already, push the material you’re cutting all the way past the blade on both sides.
A wasted piece of wood is a fair trade for keeping all of your digits intact. If the cut is going pear-shaped, so what? You can use the pieces for some other project. Breathe deep and start over, Buddy!
CLEAR THE BLADE! If you ever use a radial arm saw or the like ensure that the wood is firmly fenced because that shit will explode.
I would just add to this thread that this is a great place to get quality woodworking tools. I know the companies founders. The business started when the husband found some scraps of perfectly good wood left over from some manufacturing process. He thought they would make a great workbench and started experimenting. This is like 20 years ago). Today, they are worth millions and millions of dollars. Innovation and free-markets, how do they work?
*waits in suspense*
Rockler? Bench Dog?
TELL ME!!
https://www.quality-woodworking-tools.com/
Free UK delivery? No good here.
Yeah! Inquiring minds want to know!
Second a crosscut sled. You always want to make sure the long side is supported cuz angular momentum is a bitch.
After reading all the good suggestions, I am wondering if you were crosscutting using the fence? If you were, that can be super dangerous sometimes. A crosscut sled is not needed for simple crosscuts. They are good for big panels, but smaller width stuff the miter gauge is fine. Check that it is square to the blade. Mark the piece of wood and get the fence out of the way. It binds easily if the fall off is between the blade and the fence. Easy to catch one in the forehead doing that. Same as turning the saw off with material near the blade any time if you don’t have a good grip on it.
Seems they don’t even pretend to say in the bill how it will be paid for. Maybe magic.
Or a few tax hikes on the rich will surely work, right?
The rich being anyone over $30K a year, and at a 50% payroll tax.
EDIT: “anyone making over $30K a year, WHO ISN’T A UNITED STATES SENATOR, and a 50% payroll tax.”
Laugh but that’s exactly what they do. They lower what constitutes ‘rich’. In Quebec, household income of 130k according to the PQ party is ‘rich’.
Now pay your fair share!
And that’s CAD 130k, which is barely above minimum wage.
That’s what these guys never want to come to terms with. You can’t do socialized medicine off of the backs of the rich. The numbers just don’t work out. There aren’t enough rich people and they aren’t rich enough. Those socialist “workers paradises” Bernie and Company like to tout have much less progressive tax systems than the U.S. They have to. Because, in addition to soaking the rich, they have to soak the middle class to pay for it.
But because of the multiplier effect, those dollars taxed and spent on healtchare are, like, 14 times more productive than if we hadn’t reinvested that money into society /Krugman
When this gets soundly rejected, these assholes are going to blame to evil rich one percent for not helping them get one step closer to utopia.
Then head off for fundraisers with Wall Street Bankers and Silicon Valley tycoons.
But all of those people will loudly proclaim their desire to pay their fair share, if only the meanie elephants hadn’t obstructed them!
On the rare occasion that people actually advocate raising taxes on themselves (not just those evil rich people) I like to send them here.
Reportedly they plan to introduce a second, separate funding bill explaining where the money for all of this will magically come from. You really can interpret this in one of just two ways:
1.) They gave no consideration whatsoever to funding yet, as number crunching isn’t exactly their forté. (shocker, that one)
2.) They really did the actuarial work on this and their findings were so outrageously expensive that they needed to split the bill up to mitigate the imminent PR damage that revealing the numbers would cause.
They’re either idiots, swindlers or both.
Too bad everybody already knows how much it will cost because of the various statewide attempts. This is hilarious, bring it on.
haha, I just saw Hirono from Hawaii is ALREADY adding 11 million illegals to Medicare-for-All. Just in case you thought there might be a limit or two on who qualifies to receive the magic.
But I guess when you’re wishing for a pony, you might as well wish for a unicorn.
interfering with civil rights, a misdemeanor
3 felonies a day does not include officer road rape. Who knew?
To me, this:
was the stunning part of the story.
How long until we get to the point where an arbitrator decides he was wrongfully terminated and gives him his job back (with full back pay, including overtime)?
They say he is on the sex offender registry. I don’t know if it’s even possible to get off that list.
I picked up on that too. I’m guessing more than a few officers in his jurisdiction have daughters they wouldn’t want this asshole being around.
“Bolton, who’d been on the force for 16 years, was fired within two weeks of the traffic stop following an internal investigation.”
Apparently he was doing a little internal investigating himself.
“Sanders will introduce universal healthcare”
The re-elect Donald Trump campaign is getting started pretty early.
“Make America as Great as Britain! NHS for all!”
“I know you can touch your toes, Winston!”
“It’s great for everyone! Just ask Charlie Gard.”
Farage makes me laugh.
My more enlightened friends hate Farage but I sort of like his tendency to point out the bullshit of the political class.
There’s a weird habit amongst Europhiles here in the UK of repeating Juncker’s pronouncements as if they represent a fantastic argument against Brexit. If I were a Federast I’d be pretty embarrassed that the glorious European project was represented by an unelected dipsomaniac. But I don’t think reality obtrudes at this stage.
Juncker is such a pile of shit.
“So…this sounds about par for the course.”
24-year-old Brandon Echevarria told me. He was at the front of the line, having arrived outside Monday night at 10, too excited to sleep.
What in the holy fuck is wrong with this person? That’s almost a level of sycophant I haven’t seen before.
He’s probably been hired by the same firm Apple uses when they need a line in front of their stores, and he doesn’t get paid until he gets through the door.
Oh yeah, those guys. I guess you can get paid to actually go stand around outside a restaurant also, to make it appear the place is very busy, even if there’s really not many people going there. I’ll just look at reviews first.
Night clubs keep a line of people standing outside when they’re nowhere near capacity for this very reason.
That strikes me as counterproductive. Crowds at restaurants mean noise and slow service, so if I see a place that looks busy, I keep driving. The only place I’ve seen that managed fast, accurate service with a crowd was Chik-fil-a.
People who would go to a place because it’s popular don’t care about service. They care about being seen in a place that’s popular. More importantly, they’ll pay through the nose to pretend they’re part of the in crowd.
The only place I’ve seen that managed fast, accurate service with a crowd was Chik-fil-a.
Their speed of service continues to impress but their food has gotten incredibly bland since they made a big expansion push a few years back. Although I suppose that for you that would be “and” instead of “but”.
My wife used to work as a waitress in Vienna at a coffee shop on Stefansplatz. If business was slow, the boss would tell some of the waitresses to sit at the outside tables to make the place look popular.
I’ve just returned from Vienna. Stefansplatz was mobbed with tourists. No need to do this.
There can be a need in the middle of the week during the off-season.
Check it out in January.
What’s the Austrian word for bikini barrista?
Hitler?
Katie Quackenbush, you haven’t heard of her yet, but her music career is gonna be huuuuuuge…at least after she finishes serving time for assault with a deadly weapon.
Scooped you, this morning. And- just from hovering over WaPo link: “OMG She shot him because he *asked* her to move her PORSCHE!!!11!!”
One suspects the truth lies somewhere between this and her tale of the rabid menacing crazy homeless guy.
The real lesson here: Don’t leave yourself open to contradictory testimony.
The real lesson here: Don’t leave yourself open to contradictory testimony.
Always shoot to kill.
Two in the torso and one ‘accidentally’ in the cranium.
If you have a 5 round revolver, put the last two in the body and say you kept on firing until all that you heard were clicks.
If you have something with a bigger capacity, that excuse is met with a bit more skepticism.
Oh, and make sure you’re the one that calls the cops. And please, have the gun in a safe condition when the cops arrive.
https://www.quora.com/I-am-white-Thats-all-you-know-about-me-Am-I-privileged-based-on-that-alone-and-assuming-I-am-should-I-feel-guilt-and-what-should-I-do-about-it/answer/Omar-Ismail-33?ref=fb
“Same with white. Advantages. It doesn’t mean you’re rich. It doesn’t mean you’re luckier than a lucky black guy. Nobody wants you to be crippled with guilt. Nobody has ever wanted that, or means those things.
It means you have an advantage, and all anyone is asking is that you *get* that. Once you get that, it’s pretty straightforward to all the further implications.”
“Nobody wants you to be crippled with guilt”
Citation needed.
That was the line that caught my eye. It’s pure bullshit because the intention of bringing up white privilege is to make the recipient feel guilty about their ancestor’s supposed sins and thus capitulate to whatever bullshit demand or argument they are making.
I’d like a cite for the author being a “comedian”.
Some content providers need to get their URL’s under control.
And I won’t ‘get’ that because it’s retarded and intellectually regressive.
Asshole.
The white privilege argument is the coward’s way out and a surefire way of making the person who you’re trying to convince tell you to fuck off or if they are polite, simply stop listening to you.
The white privilege argument is the coward’s way out
Or the con man’s.
But why is this one particular “advantage” something that I am being demanded to *get* and confess to, to the exclusion of all other random variables that have provided me with advantages or disadvantages throughout my life?
Don’t worry. Your whiteness is just a starting point. All other inherent advantages will be dealt with in due time until the Harrison Bergeron utopia we’ve all dreamt of finally arrives.
That’s exactly what I think of every time I read that sort of tripe.
Lighten your soul’s burden and let it fly free in the clouds beneath your knees.
Yeah, no. I learned a long time ago that anyone coming around looking for me to “lighten my soul’s burden” is looking to lighten the burden placed on my by my wallet. And, ultimately, that’s what all this is about. The people pushing this want power over others. And they’ve realized that there are people out there stupid enough to give it to them if it gets them approval or sends the right social signal.
So no, except yes. Got it.
It’s straight up hatred of albinos.
Along these lines, why in hell do clothing stores put jeans with shorter inseams on the higher shelves and longer inseams down below. It’s always seemed backwards to me, but at least I can climb fairly well.
Further implications
Yeah, what would those happen to be?
“It means you have an advantage, and all anyone is asking is that you *get* that.”
Animals’ reply: “I’m hoping you can *get* fucking off.”
Swiss, you know if you want to link up with Jesse, there are other videos besides Voltron…
Tamer than I expected.
I’m still at work.
OT: Anybody know how to make Android not try to optimize apps on startup? It’s done this three times to me in the past two days, and I don’t have the time to wait for my phone to start up.
Google is no help as everything seems to be about turning off notifications. I did that and the thing still tried optimizing (not that I notice any optimization) on startup.
Mine only optimizes on startup after an OS upgrade.
That’s gonna depend on your version of Android. I forget which one, but a version of Android was notorious for how long it took. Optimizing apps should be a one-time deal when there’s a system update.
KitKat, I think. The phone (a discontinued LG Transpyre but I like it) says version 5.1.1 and that the system is up to date.
I wouldn’t care if it optimized on startup after an upgrade since I can choose when to do the upgrades and have the phone charging. I don’t seem to have any way to choose when the thing is going to “optimize” for me.
Oh that’d be Lollipop. I think before L you’d wipe the dalvik cache and it’d rebuild and you’d hope everything would be fine after that. It really shouldn’t be doing that on every reboot and it sounds like there’s some corruption in there someplace. Have you recently added any apps? Unfortunately it could even be something caused by a standard app update.
130 Ton “Fatberg”. I’d say “let that sink in” but apparently it can’t.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550465000/behold-the-fatberg-london-s-130-ton-rock-solid-sewer-blockage
“FATBERG! RIGHT AHEAD!”
“Listen, Rose. You’re gonna get out of here, you’re gonna go on and you’re gonna take lots of shits, and you’re gonna wipe them. You’re gonna die an old… an old lady shitting fat in her bed, not here, not this night. Not like this, do you understand me?”
“Poop on me like one of your French girls.”
If this were (was?) the level of writing in New Doctor Who, I’d still be watching it.
It would certainly be an improvement in dialog & plot over the drek being released.
You could always just turn the sound off and watch Clara prance about the screen.
How do we go about getting SugarFree designated as a national treasure?
Step One: Draw a map to me on the back of the Constitution
Wouldn’t it be more appropriate to draw a dick on the back of the Declaration of Independence?
At least equivalent.
As they note, not uncommon. London actually gets off lighter than some other cities like Manchester, whose sewer systems are older and more fragile. WW2 denied the Mancunians the dubious benefits of a generous Luftwaffe program of urban clearance, which means that the North West Water Authority (as was, when I knew more about this stuff) had to deal with this kind of thing, in a city that had sewers that were too large to clear properly – that’s right – a key part of good sanitary design is to anticipate the flow rate and make the bore of the sewer small enough that they jet any solids out on a fairly regular basis.
Fatbergs are pretty bad. The habit of flushing large, slowly degrading sanitary towels becomes a real clearance problem (my understanding is that swiffer cloths and Snuggles fabric conditioner sheets are also a real problem, means you get some really lovely blockages to deal with – like plugs of fat with huge assemblages of feces and dead animals (and on occasion, humans) behind them. It’s like one of those blocks of clay you can buy where you pick away all the muck and find a cheap toy for your trouble.
Except the sewer worker finds a headless, decomposing corpse.
So you know sewage and porn. You are either a Renaissance Man or German.
An engneering geologist by training, but not vocation.
Note to self: See a ‘Help Wanted’ sign at the local water authority, keep walking.
Katie, shooting homeless people is an age old tradition of the entitled rich, but you broke the golden rule. Confirm the kill.
Your wise words remind me of this.
SEE?!?
Bernie has an opinion piece in NYT. Same old tired nonsense about teh PROFITEERZ. Also, people in all the other advanced industrial countries are never sick, and live forever.
Extra risibility points for a United States Senator complaining about bureaucratic inefficiency (on the part of profiteering insurance kkkorporations).
If Bernie’s going to write for the Times, I’d much rather see him review “What Happened” for the NYTBR
I would so read that.
So are we still pretending like Democrats aren’t socialists or can we finally admit what is so plainly obvious?
Are they even pretending any more? They seemed to have dropped all pretense of not being socialists in Obama’s second term.
I remember when they used to howl with indignity and yell “red baiter” at the use of the word socialism. And then Bernie Sanders almost won the Democratic nomination.
Zero superdelegates and 1/3 of the votes in a 2 person field that was billed as a coronation since 2012.
10 percent of the delegation to sign on to his idiotic bill.
Team Blue has been trending socialist, but it hasn’t gone full retard commie quite yet.
It has on a local level in many areas.
Sanders did a little better than you say (43% of the vote and 6% of the superdelegates) but it’s true that he was farther off from winning the primary than a lot of people think.
Why do people still think that government and profit are mutually exclusive? Putting the government in charge of something doesn’t circumvent that icky profit motive; it just changes the people who are getting the profits. It’s actually much worse because unlike government agencies don’t need customer satisfaction to survive, unlike private businesses.
I’m sure in an American single-payer system, all the government doctors and nurses would be forced to join the SEIU. Don’t fucking tell me there’s no profit involved, Bernie.
Who are you to judge whether comrade Sanders needs three houses, you running dog!
24, aye? He’s been waiting for a better work of loser-literature ever since his disappointment with “Mitt Romney: In his own words” in 2012
Brandon Echevarria sounds textbook White Hispanic
“Get this man a presidency: Justin Amash wrangles broad bipartisan support for rolling back Jeff Sessions’ rolling back of an Obama-era curtailment of asset forfeiture. *takes deep breath*”
WTF? Does Amash have the space dildo?
FWIW, would.
https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2017/09/12/nikki-haley-first-woman-president/
And any Democrats refusing to vote her, assuming she isn’t running against another woman, are ipso facto misogynists.
No see, as a Republican she’s a gender traitor and not a real woman. Really, voting for her is misogynistic, since the only people who would do that are deplorable trying to hide their sexism from the goodthinkful people.
I don’t like here and no way would I vote for her. She’s about as left as you can get in the GOP, unless you’re McCain.
I heard that she was a pretty right-of-center as governor, not the worst, but the problem is that she deeply buys the neocon establishment consensus on foreign policy. I’d be a big no on her as president for that reason.
Yes, the war-boner is a bad look for her.
I’ve already got Angie Harmon playing her in the movie.
If she ran, you would see how much the Democrats really love women.
Again, you mean. I think we’ve already seen it when that dumb hick Sarah Palin ran.
She’s from S. Carolina, isn’t she? Have you seen their flag? It has a crescent moon, which is a dog whistle for her wanting to implement Sharia Law on the Wimmenz.
See, easy.
“Speaking of presidencies: Sanders will introduce universal health care, backed by 15 Democrats. There’s your field for the next election cycle. Now for three years of attrition and attempts to out lefticate each other with proposals that will turn us into Venezuela if enacted.”
Oh, and there’s more. Free college, $15 an hour minimum wage, and all the identity politics you can handle. I mean at least identity politics are free, it may be their best platform.
Local progs are wet in the panties about Franken getting behind this bill.
Wetter than a 40 year-old woman’s panties at a Tom Jones concert
Too dated. For a 40 year old you’d have to go with Keith Sweat or something.
It’s the 70 year olds getting damp for TJ.
He must not remember how close the race was here back in Nov. I think there are a lot of people outside of South Minneapolis/Highland Park who are not happy about this shit.
He knows the GOP will run some horrible candidate against him. Not sure who that will be, but I doubt he needs to sweat it out.
+ 1 trunk full of misplaced ballots
The left want to turn the US into Europe. No right to bear arms and just pacified down into dumb sheep. No one actually likes single payer healthcare, they’ve just learned to accept it like they do everything else the government comes up with. They’re losing their free speech via ‘hate speech’. They’re being deliberately invaded by hordes of 3rd world savages. Angela Merkel promises to take all that will come, even though they’ve suffered terrorist attacks and it’s unsafe in lots of areas there for women to even go out alone. Yet, the Germans are going to elect her another term. Europe is fucked and they just accept it.
Is the “Medicare” brand actually that popular? I mean, I know it’s popular in the “we need to have it because otherwise old people will die in the streets” sense, but It’s never struck me as being particularly popular in the “oh fuck yeah, gotta get me summa that sweet sweet Medicare” sense that Bernie seems to be pushing here.
Popular when they slap on that 20 pct payroll tax and folks lose their employer provided compensation?
A 20% rise in income taxes will not cover it. We’ll also need a 20% VAT. This is how Europe does it and keep in mind the care is extremely rationed, wait times are extreme, even compared to post Obamacare wait times in the US, and death panels are actually a real thing.
And, the service providers could not give less of a fuck about providing you with service.
They try as hard as possible to not provide any care now. They still get paid the same but they don’t risk any liability when they don’t actually touch you or give you anything.
As I linked before, the NHS actually paid a bounty to hospitals that implemented active and effective “Liverpool Care Pathway” programs until 2012.
Then someone let the cat out of the bag and they simply changed the name and the incentive model.
The main problem with single payer is that it will become an immense bloated bureaucracy almost on day one. And that bureaucracy will become like all the rest, it’s primary goal will become nothing at all about healthcare, but only a means to get more funding to make the bureaucracy ever bigger and the bureaucrats fatter.
Only if you don’t elect Democrats, man. They’re the ones who want to run government efficiently.
Oh, I know and it won’t cost a dime. It will save money because we aren’t going to count the taxes or the rationing.
They should have called it the Harold Shipman Pathway.
Historically Medicare has been seen as one of the entitlements that aging Republican voters can get into while Medicaid is something pretty much everyone is willing to gut if they’re forced to make cuts. I’m assuming it’s a branding attempt geared toward moderate Rs.
It’s real popular when you’re old and cannot afford anything else.
Seems they don’t even pretend to say in the bill how it will be paid for. Maybe magic.
It will be paid for by the savings realized when all the insurance companies go out of business, ,and you no longer have to pay insurance premiums. So, yeah.
Magic.
Haha I would say if this is true…why have insurance at all and just pay out of pocket?
Ask that question of a proggie sometime.
The answers are entertaining.
The answer I get most of the time is some variation of ‘Look, we’re the only civilized country in the world without healthcare!’.
Because the government cannot steal 50% of your income that way.
Because there won’t be anything in your pocket to do that with.
Real answer? In their minds, most people wouldn’t be able to afford life-saving treatments if it was paid out of pocket. Because cancer wards and heart surgeons can sustain themselves by treating 3-4 rich people per year.
This one even has Old Man With Candy scratching his head. “No be di uncle get di pickin.”
This is way fucked up shit, if you want to read it in Queen’s English, with extra helping of child rape statistics. I was debating posting it when it escalated to “kill me” stage this morning.
Got, that is horrible. I guess the ultimate white privilege is spending all your time being upset about Confederate statues and who is or isn’t woke, instead of how many times your daughters will be raped before they’re 10.
“A reminder, that while there are still checks in the book…we are broke”
Anyone have ideas on how to capitalize on the coming collapse? I’m asking seriously.
The conventional answer is hard commodities – at least some of them ‘useful’ ones (i.e. not Gold).
Land?
Lead.
Timber more than land if your investment horizon is long enough, but land? Probably not. Land’s likely to lose its value over the short- and medium- term, because it’s only worth something if someone can put it to use, and the primary use is business and residential, and demand for that will dry up.
Ideally something that you could take physical delivery of like …. see below …. lead.
Lastly – I must note that I am not a Registered Investment Advisor, and hence anyone that reads this should not construe it as professional investment advice.
Too late, I’m already suing you.
Depends on the level of collapse. If it’s Weimar Republic bad, inflation resistance is the important part. If it’s end of the Roman Empire bad, survival is the important part.
White privilege is a nice way of saying white power in order to justify paternalism to minorites
Pass
Wondering what caused the hurricanes.
Nobel Laureate-not-really Michael Mann has an has an explainer article up at Scientific American . His theory will shock you!
Lots of things happened in last two years, that this could be correlated to.
Tony Watts replies here.
What about the 10 years before them?
Irma hit land as 3 if I recall correctly
Curious what was their definition of strongest storms. Sounds like some nice cherry picking
Check the charts available online. There were storms about the same severity back in the 1920s. It’s all hype.
We have absolutely no clue how strong storms were before the satellite area. We also have no clue where they were and how many they were. We only knew if either 1. The storm passed a ship, the ship had reliable wind measuring equipment, the ship passed through the strongest part of the storm, and the ship wasn’t sunk by the storm, or 2. The storm hit land where it was populated and they had reliable wind measuring equipment.
Is this where I remind people once again that we only have about 50 years of true history when it comes to hurricanes and hurricane strength, and everything before that is just guesswork?
Top 10 strongest hurricanes in history in the Atlantic basin, by wind speed:
1. Hurricane Allen, 1980 – 190 MPH
2. Hurricane Irma, 2017 – 185 MPH
2. Hurricane Wilma, 2005 – 185 MPH
2. Hurricane Gilbert, 1988 – 185 MPH
2. Labor Day Hurricane, 1935 – 185 MPH
6. Hurricane Rita, 2005 – 180 MPH
6. Hurricane Mitch, 1998 – 180 MPH
8. Hurricane Carla, 1961 – 175 MPH
8. Hurricane Camille, 1969 – 175 MPH
8. Hurricane Andrew, 1992 – 175 MPH
Top 10 strongest hurricanes in the Pacific basin, by wind speed
1. Typhoon Tip, 1979 – 160 MPH
2. Typhoon Bess, 1982 – 145 MPH
2. Typhoon Megi, 2010 – 145 MPH
2. Typhoon Haiyan, 2013 – 145 MPH
5. Typhoon Rita, 1978 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Wynne, 1980 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Elsie, 1981 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Mac, 1982 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Abby, 1983 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Vanessa, 1984 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Dot, 1985 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Flo, 1990 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Yuri, 1991 – 140 MPH
5. Typhoon Meranti, 2016 – 140 MPH
Only one of the top 10 strongest storms in either the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans has occurred in the past two years.
I was in Japan for Typhoon Melor, but it wasn’t much of a much and had pretty much devolved into some moderate wind and rain by the time it moved inland to Shiga Prefecture. I was a trifle disappointed.
The fact that he still gets treated like some kind of respectable expert says a lot about the “climate science” field, none of it good.
Over on a football board where Harvey and Irma came up in the off-topic section, you’ve got your usual idiots blaming it on climate change, with one particular asshole praising China’s “green” initiatives. I pointed out that Communist economic statistics are a complete joke, and the guy responded that China is a capitalist’s wet dream.
I don’t know how Derpetologist deals with this shit.
He’s slowly and carefully built up an immunity.
How much do we need to cut carbon emissions to never have a hurricane again?
“Juncker dismisses Brexit as he makes fresh push for EU superstate with ALL countries having to join the euro”
I mean, there’s nothing dictatorial about that or anything, what’s the problem here? I just wonder how he’s going to ‘make them’ do it?
You know who else wanted to force all of Europe to become part of a superstate?
Joey Tempest?
Nice.
I think “Carrie” is a good song. I said it.
Caesar Augustus?
Charlemagne?
Ghengis Kahn?
Joseph Stalin?
Otzi the Iceman?
Way too late in replying to this, but at the next recession, Juncker and his chums will not let a crisis go to waste. They’ll pick up on Macron’s suggestion of a proto-fiscal union to ‘save the Euro’, in line with OCA theory, which they will belatedly acknowledge. All EU countries will have to commit to this, because otherwise the contributors would be jealous of those who are still in the EU, but not have to fork over yet more money.
They can’t actually force Denmark in particular to join the Euro, but they can make them commit to the new institutions that support it, such that it doesn’t make much sense for them not too.
Because Brexit isn’t going to lead to instant prosperity, to say the least (particularly if we’re stupid enough to elect Corbyn), the governments of Europe will go along with this. There might be a few eastern European countries that struggle a bit, but the ‘liberal’ consensus will be that this is the right move and that insisting on accountability and democracy and other gee-gaws is tremendously old fashioned.
One of these days the dollar is going to collapse. So the best way for the Euro to be the super-currency that will take over after the dollar is to do all the stupid shit the federal reserve did, but crank it up to 11. That will ensure that Euro-supremacy.
The New York times with an unpredictably sane op-ed on Ben Shapiro speaking at Cal-Berkeley
Twitter users with a predictably derp-tastic response
I like Max Sparber.. He’s got it going on man.
/dead pan stare.
It was written by Bari Weiss (do I have to put parenthesis around her name or something?). She is almost as hated at the New York Times as Brett Stephens. They both came from the Wall Street Journal so they still suffer from ‘wrong think’
Also, they’re both (((joows))) which means the Left automatically hates them or something for some generic anti-Semitic reason.
anti-ZIONIST, not anti-Semitic. Get it right! They totes don’t hate Jews! They just want to see Israel destroyed.
…and Jews pushed into the sea
I like the “I can’t actually list anything objectible he says, but those words create Nazis in online echochambers he has nothing to do with, so he’s still evil” twit.
Ben Shapiro totes hates Jews and is a nazi
He’s not really a joo, that yarmulke is a distraction tactic!
I’ve run out of bad words and phrases to describe Hillary. So I’m going to stick to miserable cunt.
Don’t you have some wop words you could use?
You got any white trash phraseology to share?
Troia.
Scrova.
Putana scrova.
Porca putana.
Putaiona.
Pezza di merda.
Sfigata.
Strunza.
Bruta putana.
La beffana di merda.
Can you put some ketchup on it also?
^ Monologue to get Jamie Lee Curtis going, from SugarFree version of The Fish Called Wanda.
Le beffana bruta.
Anima nera.
Una cagna.
Supercilious bloodfarter.
GWAR character?
Ha!
Syphilis-infested Anal Fistula.
Geriatric grifter
Fan of the classic, myself: “Prevaricating witling.”
I know it’s more of a moniker than a descriptor, but I still like “chappaquatch”.
https://twitter.com/JamesHeartfield/status/907752206627213312
The most qualified candidate for president ever in the history of ever lacks basic reading comprehension
What, you didn’t think the villains in the book were the few bad apples who made Big Brother look bad?
The best answer would be “trust is earned”.
There were a bunch of lefties denying that this was real yesterday, but too many people trudged to a bookstore to take a picture and confirm it to keep the denials going, so I’m wondering if there’s going to be a new spin or if they’ll just try to ignore it.
Reprint.
Could always blame it on a white supremacist proofreader who slipped it in right before going to press.
The Russians hacked the printing press.
Congress Passes Measure Challenging Trump to Denounce Hate Groups
It’s remarkable how stupid the establishment Republicans are. They had two years to learn from Donald Trump, who has a much higher political IQ, and they learnt nothing. They seem to be happy to unilaterally disarm in front of the Left. Only two weeks after Trump condemned all violence after Charlottesville, the Dems were on defensive, essentially repeating what Trump said earlier and vigorously condemning antifa, which apparently polls really badly. But no! The GOP has to reflexively whitewash antifa by insisting that KKK and Nazis are the only ones worth condemning.
$100 to whatever Trump charity/foundation there is if he denounces CAIR, Israel Apartheid Week, Justice for Palestine and suchlike as “anti-semitic”!
I denounce Antifa, Al Sharpton, and the SPLC.
Come on, you know it would really be: CNN, NYT, and MSNBC.
It’s the kind of stupidity that can only be born from irrational fear of the uncontrollable, i.e. the sensitive feelings of the moderate squish. Here’s a suggestion: focus on who your loyal followers are and what they like before you worry about the squishes.
Joint Legislation condemning contemptible Free Speech is what it is
Fuck, even Pelosi condemned antifa, something that the establishment GOP seem afraid to do. Spineless fucking cowards.
Pelosi is an evil, cunning radical, but she is ten times as smart as the average GOPe person.
Bungie removes hate symbol from Destiny 2.
Go ahead, guess what the hate symbol is – no peeking!
Gadsden flag?
Yellow Star of David?
And just like that, Bungie falls completely off my radar. Permanently.
BTW none of you will guess it.
Blizzard logo?
Blizzard is providing them with network infrastructure for PC release, so probably not.
Although, I’d laugh if they put in Tracer as a raid boss or something.
I’d buy the stupid game on release if it had Overwatch mod, though.
The Kekistani Flag.
Yes!
Well, a thing that sorta looks like Kekistani flag if you squint but yes, SF wins my respect yet again!
You obviously looked at the link first, otherwise you would have said something flippant like ‘Alex Jones’ penis’ or something
I think you cheated.
I did not read your link.
I read a different story about it yesterday.
I didn’t post the link to begin with but I was right. You must now strip naked and perform the walk of shame.
Unlock your front door. I’ll be right over.
I saw it a day or so ago elsewhere. If I’ve seen it, it’s probably old news.
So basically, it’s a ‘HATE CNN’ symbol that we’re talking about.
I know, it’s so retarded it’s unfair.
Well, maybe ZP will, he knows his memes.
So, spoiler: the thing they removed was some logo that looked like ‘kek’.
For those who didn’t read the article, ‘kek’ originated from StarCraft and is a stand in for ‘lol’ for reasons of how the in-game chat worked for opposing teams (it would scramble the letters).
Somehow it got taken up by the Pepe-set, and, like the cartoon frog, has now become poisonous.
Which makes me wonder: what if a deplorable group took up something that is enjoyed by Hillary voters? Like, what if Milo came out and said “you know, I really like Lena Dunham” and then Richard Spencer followed on with something like “Lena would be welcome to contribute White Babies” (or whatever the fuck)? Because apparently now things can be totally poisoned by who likes them, and thats pretty powerful. I mean, look at Taylor Swift.
Slight correction. Starcraft players are free to chat among themselves. (I had a few SC matches that basically ended in a stalemate, and ended up chatting with my opponent over who was going to quit first.)
Kek originated on Starcraft as the Korean version of Ha. So kekekeke basically translates as hahaha. It was WoW that scrambled communication between sides, and Kek was the translation of lol for the other side, since it was already a meme among Blizzard fans.
Comic book retardation continues apace.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/superman-protects-undocumented-workers-armed-white-supremacist-latest-comic-1038448
DC has been doing this for a very long time.
I dunno. Superman vs. The KKK was an entertaining way to handle the problem.
Isn’t it bizarre, that the KKK is so awesomely powerful, mere mortals cannot withstand its noxious advance.
The people who write and consume this stuff without ironic intent must be incapable of understanding what human agency is.
If you want a villainous organization for your comic, early-mid century KKK isn’t a bad start, though. Nifty uniforms with convenient hoods, embedded in local government and elites, horrible ideology, theatrical names for ranks…
They are like more retarded Hydra!
And beclowning them to children so that the children playing Sup vs KKK make parents feel bad about belong is entertaining is all getout.
Very early Superman in the 1930s was actually quite classical liberal though.
A very long time
(Fun fact: The ones from the 1950s came from a campaign for racial harmony based on the proposition that communists want us to be divided, so we had to get rid of racial hatred and be united to scare off the commies)
Look, Kal-El is an Illegal Alien with a fabricated citizen identity. Of course he’s biased. The only two reasons he hasn’t been deported are 1: It’s a bit difficult to force him to leave and 2: we can’t find enough pieces of Krypton to send him back to.
Diversity & Comics guy solved it: he’s either an adopted child of Martha and Pa Kent (thus a citizen by adoption), or he’s their pet, as he’s not a human being.
Not via legal adoption. They committed fraud on the forms. Or they falsified his birth certificate (depending on the origin story.)
And if he’s a pet: leash laws.
Maybe we could figure it out if Lex Luthor paid his fair share in taxes.
Did he not disclose them when he ran for President?
I’d like to think here that this author heard the “going to go shoot some ‘cans” joke for the first time and furiously raced to pen somebody with an American flag do-rag who apparently wants to randomly murder illegals… because, you know, that happens all the time in Trump’s America.
I’m not saying it’s aliens but….
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/644559/sea-creature-alien-beast-hurricane-harvey-storm-gulf-of-mexico-texas-city-pretti-sedai
It’s one of those sand worms from Tremors.
Check out the accompanying slide show on strange sea creatures. I won’t be going in the ocean anymore.
Looks like a big fish after the birds or the elements had already gotten to the eyes and fins. Not exactly a huge mystery. I’m sure the Ichthyologists or fishermen out there could be a bit more specific, but it looks like a big sandblasted fish to me.
I want to social signal without repercussions!
Local pols say it isn’t fair that people who walked off job at local Nazi bar can’t get unemployment.
See what people will endure to not have MikeS show up on their doorstep?
“It’s not fair that I can’t just voluntarily walk away from a job and then get free shit as a reward!”
Pussies. Everyone in this town is hiring.
Yeah but I bet a lot of those jobs are undignified.
And I thought that the progs were setting up some GoFundMe account for these poor workers. Must not have collected very much.
Sigh.
If the progs ever stood behind their own beliefs, they would be so much more tolerable.
*also, maybe if you didn’t threaten the working stiffs who happened to be working there, they wouldn’t need to bail?
I’ll start believing it’s a crisis when the people who say it’s a crisis start acting like it’s a crisis.
They are. Their belief is that YOU, and everyone else, should pay for it.
Good link Pope. Some people just don’t get it.
*keeps reading
Hey!
Well we know one of his appendages still works.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4881142/Wounded-war-vet-names-baby-son-medics-saved-him.html
Not necessarily – did they test to see if it was actually his?
Would.
Representing the OMWC party candidate…Nice van!
Ummm, I’ve never known a single male who got a manicure.
http://www.mensjournal.com/style/articles/yes-women-judge-your-hands-w500828
Eh, I have. I was running an aunt around before she went back to Kabul and while we were at the mall picking stuff up she decided she wanted a manipedi. My options were to get a hand and foot massage on her dime or sit there bored watching her get a hand and foot massage.
I made the right choice.
Um, Q, you yourself posted a story just above this one about a vet who got an extreme mani/pedi.
I stand corrected; but that story should serve as a cautionary tale for anyone else considering cuticle-care.
Ahem. Indirectly, you do now.
And I’m man enough to admit it.
I got my eyebrows tweezed once. That’s about the gayest thing I’ve ever done.
No it didn’t get me laid either. If it had I’d still be doing it.
I suppose a pedicure makes more sense cause feet a gross. Unfortunately that’s not an option for me as I have the toe fungus from Hell that I’m sure will eventually kill me. I have tried three different treatments and all have failed.
Here.
LOL
Neither have I, in the USA. In Brazil, men do it all the time. They were actually shocked that I didn’t want to get one. Weird.
Since we’ve already gone there and we’re just a bunch of worthless degenerates anyway:
Policy on manscaping?
For myself, I keep it trimmed and under control but never the works.
I shave it every now and again. Girls don’t enjoy picking pubes out of their teeth anymore than guys do.
Hm.
Does this mean I enter some kind of finalists contest and if I lose I get vaporized?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Absolutely.
Does he get you if he wins? Sounds like a fair cop.
That’s silly. The prize is getting vaporized, but you know, erotically.
Not even Mr. Riven “gets” Riven.
What happened to the last loser.
You don’t want to see what happened to the winner.
Try me.
*Breaks out nipple clamps and lotion, gets comfortable*
I periodically buzz everything below the neck down to about 1/4 inch.
My wife has always claimed that I should’ve been born with strategically-placed dotted lines that say “Stop shaving here” or “Stop cutting hair here.” Naked, I look like Steve Smith’s older, wiser, shorter brother.
Go on…
Did I mention “older”? Implies “saggy in places I didn’t want.” Even with the weight-training.
I wish I could just get rid of my back and shoulder hair for good.
Word.
Make sure you use a separate trimmer for that job.
Combination of clippers and razor around the twig, and Nair for Men on the berries.
Nair? Yikes, that shit would irritate my skin I’m afraid. No way I’m putting it on my ballz, lol. A razor works fine.
Heh, as long as I don’t do it right after a shower when the pores of the skin are open, it works fine. A lesson hard learned, I admit.
I’ve done that a couple of times myself, but I tended to have trouble applying it consistently, so I had to do it a couple of times to get it all. (More to the point, don’t do multiple applications in quick succession, or you can just forget about sitting down for the next day or so.)
Beast Mode gets a pedicure and drops some knowledge
I love that guy. I didn’t see that, thanks for the link. I guess it’s sort of cool to get a pedicure now. One of the first times I was in Brazil, my wife tells me come on we’re going to get a pedicure and I’m like ‘WTF!? Are you crazy, I,m not a girl! Then she tells me my son-in-laws are going to, and I was like ‘you guys are so fucking weird, I’m not going’ and instead went to drink lots of beer with one of my drinking buds.
My wife made me get one the day before our wedding, since there would be pictures taken of our hands with the wedding rings. I’ve never willingly gotten one, though.
When they start growing hair, I trade ’em in.
SP strangely silent.
My days are numbered.
I saw Nun With a Chainsaw open for Bruce Dickenson’s solo project at the Whisky back in ’91.
Good news everyone! Minnesoda Supreme Court rejects bans on “disorderly conduct” at public meetings. In other words “fuck off slaver, I can say what I want!”
Added bonus: The judge who wrote the majority opinion (spanking the original judge who said “The Court has made clear that “the First Amendment does not guarantee the right to communicate one’s views at all times and places or in any manner that may be desired,”) was David Stras.
For those of you who don’t live in Utopia on the Prairie, Stras was appointed to the circuit court by Trump. Klobuchar and Franken held up his nomination. Klobuchar was trying to trade the return of her blue slip on his nomination into some appointments for US Atty locally. Franken basically said he was too extreme.
ESPN decides to commit suicide.
Jemele Hill.
Ugh.
A no-talent hack without a single original thought with mediocre writing skills. And she’s gonna wax poetic on politics? Yeah-k.
But Lebatard told us it’s not factually true all this is happening because no one ever told him to be SJW!
I want to save Dan because I like his irreverent anarchistic approach to sports entertainment but he needs to open his eyes and be less of a rube on this matter.
ESPN sucks. Fox Sports, beIN, I’ll even watch Roger’s or TSN if it’s a Canuck game. But fuck ESPN.
TSN, while not political, is derp too when they do get involved. There’s no where to run.
Fox and Mad Dog sports right now seem to be the ones who stand to gain. We’ll see how sharp their execs are.
She’s fairly easy on the eyes. That’s about the only talent she needs until that fades away.
Yeah, this story suggests to me, at least, that ESPN’s problems go a lot deeper than their penchant for SJW presumption. It looks a lot to me like their corporate culture is pretty much toxic and the company is sort of in freefall. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think the political grandstanding is a front for the fact that they just don’t function very well as an organization.
She did this in college. I’ll never forget the first time I saw an article by her in print, and was like, “What the hell is that race baiter doing covering a football game”?
Looks like old habits die hard.
ROOOOOOSKEEEEZE
Federal agencies were ordered on Tuesday to develop plans to remove antivirus software made by a Russian technology company, Kaspersky Lab, from their computers, citing suspected ties between executives at the firm and Russian intelligence agencies.
Elaine C. Duke, the acting secretary of Homeland Security, issued the directive. It gives federal agencies and departments 90 days to discontinue using and to remove products made by Kaspersky or related companies from government computer systems.
Kaspersky is considered one of the foremost cybersecurity research firms in the world, and has considerable expertise in designing antivirus software and tools to uncover spyware used by Western intelligence services. Yet despite its prominence in the cybersecurity world, its origins in Russia have for years fueled suspicions about its possible ties to Russia’s intelligence agencies.
I don’t even know enough about this stuff to comment, but this seems excessively paranoid.
Eh, probably not far from truth. In a just world, it’d be replaced by Malwarebytes.
Not Mcafee, though. John “What Could Have Been” Macafee had to make a video on how to uninstall that piece of crap even though he had nothing to do with the company for decade and a half.
It’s beyond paranoid. It is straight up certifiable.
It’s quite possible they’re tied in with the Russian intelligence community, but frankly, I mind less about Russians knowing a lot about me than I do about US agencies having that information.
The real problem is if Russia joins Five Eyes.
Why? Do people think it’s excessively paranoid not to hire Chinese nationals into security agencies? I guess if your response is “it should only be installed on systems that don’t have sensitive information” that might be reasonable, but then you’re dependent on government imbeciles to not fuck up and install it in the wrong place.
I would call this somewhere in between mildly paranoid and sensible. It’s not like you can’t find American vendors of anti-virus software.
Of course you can.
You can also find vendors of American cryptographic elliptical-curve algorithms that are vulnerable to cracking. You used to be able to find websites that used SSL 1.0 and SSL 2.0, which were known by the USG to be vulnerable, and yet the vulnerabilities were not disclosed, because those vulnerabilities were far too valuable to the agencies to announce.
There’s very little in computer security and telecommunications that we can be utterly confident of, but whenever a threat has got past me, Kaspersky has stopped it (with one notable exception), and I function in a challenging environment from time to time. If Kaspersky is forwarding my identity to a vulnerability database somewhere, nobody’s made any use of the information. The only time I’ve been a vitim of credit card fraud was because of someone at the USMC Museum Shop down in Quantico. The only time I’ve had other identity issues has been Experian (fingers crossed that my response was fast enough), and when the IRS records system was being hacked.
Kaspersky has been a far more reliable custodian of my privacy than Uncle Sam or his rent-seeking friends have ever been.
On the personnel front, no, I wouldn’t expect to be let anywhere near US Security facilities or assets, let alone nationals of nations with whom we will be (at the very least) future regional rivals.
But it’s pretty much par for the course with the US Government, because they don’t give a shit about the people of America.
I wasn’t attempting to say that Joe Number.sixpack should be paranoid about using Kaspersky. I was saying that it didn’t seem completely unreasonable to me for federal agencies to give careful consideration of their supply chain with respect to security products.
I couldn’t agree more with you that for us random schmoes, Uncle Fuckup is by far the greater danger.
It’s always going to be a trade-off, and often, the stupidest answer always seems to win. The US has wasted *decades* not securing the internet and its information systems, because as a matter of policy, they always expected to be one step ahead of any of the competition, and has been sourcing most of its infrastructure from wherever it felt like.
How many Lenovo laptops are owned by USG? How many other devices that include components in them that have embedded microcode? The days for prudent sourcing of components, services, software and personnel are so far behind us, I can’t even see if they’ve closed the gate after this horse has bolted with the 8×40 telescopic rangefinder here on my desk (which, while being made in China, I am forbidden by ITAR from repatriating to its country of manufacture because it might help them defeat us in a military conflict)
I agree, albeit late, I think it’s appropriate that some prudence be applied when it comes to permitting foreign nationals anywhere near our industrial, military and political centers. Keeping Pakistani techies out of DNC headquarters looks, in hindsight, like a good idea, but I’ll tell you right now, there are American citizens out there who are selling information to America’s enemies.
So, sure, I think it’s boneheaded to put (for example) Chinese nationals in ANY US agency, but hey, if you want a panopticon state, you need to staff and equip it, and eventually, someone somewhere has to fire up Excel and discover the only way you’re going to get that promotion at the NSA is going to be bringing in cheap labor of dubious loyalty. After all, it’s not like you’re gonna be fired when the inevitable happens.
It is not clear how widespread the use of Kaspersky software is inside American government systems, which tend be a jumbled-together collection of often-aging software and hardware.
Naaah. That can’t be right.
Jumbled tpgether collection? That sounds legit.
MWAHAHAHAHA!!!1!1!
Because I know this is an area of interest to Glibertariat, PM Zoolander’s government is starting the marijuana legalization process.
I was skeptical of them hitting the target date, but Goodale is one of the Big Men in the party, and he wouldn’t commit himself to the date if failure was likely.
Trudeau and Morneau are engaging in class warfare with their tax proposals attacking small business.
Nothing like a couple of millionaire SJW who didn’t have to ‘build that’ running our economy.
Can’t let the green menace be that close to our border. Sessions is pleading with Trump at this very moment, to invade Canada. For the children.
For the
childrenhockey players.I’m cool with that.
Maybe we can just trade them a few tons of flannel to stop this refer madness? I mean, you know the only reason they’re doing it is to get Americans sneaking across the border and get addicted to the devils weed so they keep coming back and spending $$$ on weed maple syrup.
Weed maple syrup on buckwheat pancakes?
*invades Canada*
BAD Libertarian! {whacks nose with rolled-up newspaper}
Don’t you remember that it’s cheaper to just freely trade with us?!?
I’m confused about this (and perhaps the way Canadian laws are passed in general). Did this have to pass Parliament first? It seems to me that this has more or less been a Zoolander by fiat thing, but maybe I’m wrong.
This is the part of passing the Parliament. Public hearings before the law is written, to gauge public support and make pretense that various voices are heard before the government starts legislating.
But, unlike in the US, legislature by and large originates with the government, is discussed and debated, then presented for vote, either being passed, or returned for modification and resubmission.
And government-initiated legislature is by default assumed to have PM’s backing. So ultimately it’s a Zoolander fiat thing to get the ball rolling.
Exception: Private member bills do exist, but for stuff of this magnitude, they would never be even considered by the government. And if government doesn’t want something, majority of MPs won’t vote for it (99.9% of the time).
So do you think this will actually pass?
Before I saw Goodale go on record with the date, I assumed this would be half-assedly ran then delayed “to be sure it’s done right,” challenged and essentially die as new election comes onto horizon.
Now, I am leaning towards “they’ll actually pass something that will be legalization.” It won’t satisfy the libertarian-minded folks, but probably something similar to Washington. Which provinces might fuck up, as Ontario is poised to do.
It’s the Feds. They’ll regulate the crap out of it, and hapless stoners everywhere will long for the good ol’ days where they could buy a hundred different kinds of herb of very good quality. Now they’ll be getting government-inspected “meh” weed, one type only (’cause variety’s too hard to deal with), taxed up the yin-yang.
You broke it, stoners, you bought it.
Nope. The black market’s going to keep on rolling. Most regular stoners now are just going to continue using the people they have now, especially when the government’s producing worse and more expensive weed.
It’s the people who never did pot when it was illegal and think that ‘it’s ok’ now are the ones who are going to get fucked.
He’s also gauging things with the small business tax proposal.
And being an asshole about it.
Limousine liberal of the worst kind that idiot. Morneau is just a dope. He’s no Paul Martin. Once upon a time Liberals were a party that did act in the interest of business. Now they’re just SJW morons.
Doctors should be pissed.
First toe tapping in the men’s room, now doing links together. It’s a budding romance!
When your Senate is not elected, but appointed with limited possibility of ejection, you get people committing political suicide with no remorse.
She does mention Liberal proposal in 1969 to do essentially that, spearheaded by the future PM Chretien.
So, are they going to pull a Quebekistan and start scalping people?
So, Amash just denied the funding for the thefts? How do you kill the program for good?
‘Sopranos’ star Frank Vincent dead at 78
Now go get your fuckin’ shinebox
Oh dear. They whacked a made man.
I’m not into mob movies but that scene is one of the funniest things ever.
-Shocking News From the World of Motorsports-
Vaganica Patrick’s contract will not be renewed. What a tragedy.
*I cannot even be bothered to recall what team; Tony Stewart?
*crickets*
Isn’t she involved in one of those series where the cars only turn one way?
“left turns for prize money’
From the Ohio enforcer article:
“He then used the toy, which was in the car, to sexually assault them as they sat in the vehicle.”
STEVE SMITH THINK AMATEUR HOUR
I’m really, really hoping 4chan or some other
trollsmerry pranksters take advantage of that with a, shall we say, unconventional choice. Perhaps “The Art of the Deal,” or “Clinton Cash,” or maybe print out and bind some of SugarFree’s fiction and get a signed copy of an erotic Clinton/Huma adventure.You think Herself would deign to sign ANYTHING not “authored” by Herself ?
The only two options were “What Happened” and the children’s version of “It Takes A Village”.
Ok guys Pidgn links were funny at first but getting stale. Too much effort to read.
Poppy thinks reading is hard. Do you think reading is hard?
Reading gibberish is not worth the effort unless it’s something cool like Jabberwocky.
YEah, I don’t read the Pidgin ones. I don’t see how that’s supposed to be easier to read for non-native speakers.
What’s surprising about this thread is the implication that people actually read the other links.
Lol. Sometimes:)
fake news
You bin done no read links because racism?
NYT article about fires, and a study being done in Yellowstone. Not completely awful, but plenty of OMG GLOBAL WARMING DOOOOOOM.
Anyway, it caused this idiot to puke up this glittering gem:
C. Whiting Madison, WI 1 hour ago
We speak about climate change as though it were a negative yet fixed set of conditions to adapt to.
But the reality is far more unsettling:
The more the globe warms, the more feedback-loops kick in to warm it ever-faster. There will be no new normal, just a steady, inexorable rise in temperature.
If our focus is on adaption (getting ‘used to it’), and not mitigation (stopping it), there will be no future Yellowstone forest, period, just like there’s no forest in my oven.
I drove through Yellowstone just after the fires. I was told I’d see a ecosystem in the process of regenerating. What I saw was a moonscape. Grey, desolate, lifeless.
Unless we put the brakes on this madness right now, the future will not stop until it looks like that, everywh
Yeah whatever due. Take your meds.
~~~edit faerie away!~~~
For 4.3 billion years, Earth has teetered on a climatological knife-edge, and now, a bunch of simians are at risk of destroying that fragile equilibrium.
What hubris.
Humans made plastic and plutonium. Their work here is done.
Going with your gut reaction when you first see something is the foundation of all science.
Remember those old science fair tri boards? What was it? Purpose, Hypothesis, Background, Materials, Procedure, References, Results, Conclusion, Whatever Feels Right?
It must be science because he used the term “feedback loop”.
Lol so truth and reality based
He drove thru it RIGHT after the fires. Does this person not realize regeneration takes time?
It sounds like he supports the Party of Science™, so I’m sure he knows everything there is to know about climatology and botany.
So if the feedback loop has already started why is the amount of c02 even a concern?
Ignore the diminishing returns aspect
Fucking idiot
I’m sure they’ll blame the Yellowstone supervolcano on climate change too.
Either that, or blame it on Trump.
Trump caused climate change, climate change cause the supervolcano, therefore Trump caused the supervolcano to erupt.
NASA has a plan to stop the eruption. And if they get enough funding and can come up with a solution by at least a half million years after the thing erupts, then it was all worth it. Anyway, there’s no profits to be made off super calderas or asteroids, so climate change continues to be the most urgent issue.
Sounds like the plot for Armageddon II. C’mon Hollywood.
Well. I certainly fucked that up.
We’re used to your fucking up threading.
NYT article
Comment:
C. Whiting Madison, WI 1 hour ago
We speak about climate change as though it were a negative yet fixed set of conditions to adapt to.
But the reality is far more unsettling:
The more the globe warms, the more feedback-loops kick in to warm it ever-faster. There will be no new normal, just a steady, inexorable rise in temperature.
If our focus is on adaption (getting ‘used to it’), and not mitigation (stopping it), there will be no future Yellowstone forest, period, just like there’s no forest in my oven.
I drove through Yellowstone just after the fires. I was told I’d see a ecosystem in the process of regenerating. What I saw was a moonscape. Grey, desolate, lifeless.
Unless we put the brakes on this madness right now, the future will not stop until it looks like that, everywhere.
What’s really offensively stupid about this is, I drove through the park the summer after the big fires in ’87(?) and what I saw was lush green grass growing in burned out areas where the sun had not penetrated for decades. The buffalo, elk and deer were all happily grazing away. I do not believe they shed a single tear for those burned up trees.
The earth is an oven. We’re all gonna bake!
“Unless we put the brakes on this madness right now…”
I agree. Let’s start with comments like this one.
Ever see Children of Men? Lets legalize those euthanaisia kits. That way everyone that is so afraid of this madness need not worry about it.
The rest of us can sell euthanasia kits.
Various publishing thoughts of the day:
• I’ve noticed a pattern with authors published by Disney Hyperion. A lot of them were not political at all, and suddenly they went full-tilt derp. Rick Riordan was one. Another I was friends with who managed to keep her mouth entirely and completely shut during election season, around inauguration time, etc (which is why I never muted her) suddenly has been going full REEEEEEE with identity politics. When I went to her profile today to mute her, I noticed that while her first two books were with St. Martin’s, her upcoming one was signed with Disney Hyperion. When you combine this with the insanity of ESPN and how they’ve been forcing all their Marvel actors, including the ones who’d previously indicated libertarian or conservative tendencies, to virtue signal… I think something’s up. *tinfoil hat*
• I saw a book deal in Publisher’s Lunch today with a premise that sounds like “would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler,” except it’s about hypothetical WWIII—the girl finds out one of her classmates is going to start World War III at some point in the future, and she has to decide whether she should kill his current, still innocent self. I am side-eyeing this so hard because I have a feeling it’s going to get hilariously political.
• I’ve been having to deal with distributors today and I hate everybody and no one answers emails in a timely fashion because this industry is filled with people who think “in the next few days” is three months from now. Really hope this heartburn I have right now is not an ulcer.
• The book I turned in to the derpier of my two publishers last month is kicking ass with preorders. Like, assassinating my other series. Publisher wants a sequel. This would get me more money, but also more derp. Thoughts?
Thoughts?
When business takes a turn for the better go crazy because it won’t last. The derpier publisher clearly has marketed your book properly. Go make more money.
• I saw a book deal in Publisher’s Lunch today with a premise that sounds like “would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler,” except it’s about hypothetical WWIII—the girl finds out one of her classmates is going to start World War III at some point in the future, and she has to decide whether she should kill his current, still innocent self. I am side-eyeing this so hard because I have a feeling it’s going to get hilariously political.
Solution: she tries to turn him into a Lothario, on the assumption that if he’s knee-deep in pussy, he won’t be starting shit. But what happens when she starts developing feelz for him? Twist: she starts WWIII instead.
• The book I turned in to the derpier of my two publishers last month is kicking ass with preorders. Like, assassinating my other series. Publisher wants a sequel. This would get me more money, but also more derp. Thoughts?
“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” Take the cash, play the REEEEE persona if it pays well enough!
Solution: she tries to turn him into a Lothario, on the assumption that if he’s knee-deep in pussy, he won’t be starting shit. But what happens when she starts developing feelz for him? Twist: she starts WWIII instead.
When in doubt go for a plot-twist that’s already well worn: she eventually does the “right thing” and tries to murder him and he’s emotionally scarred by the experience and that’s why he becomes NuHitler.
I still remember my 14 or 15 year old self telling my much smarter buddy, (he was our DM and had had articles published in Dragon) about my brilliant ‘pre-cog-only-commits-crime-because-he-was-trying-to-prove-he-didn’t’ plot and the dismissive laughter I received, This was thirty years ago.
You know who else made a decision to kill Hitler?
River Song?
Jack Benny in To Be or Not to Be?
Some money will get you thru’ times of high derp better than no money will get you thru’ times of no derp.
Do you write under a pseudonym, and if so have you used that pseudonym on other books? I personally think that this derp fad is going to have a serious backlash and crash hard, and I would not want my name attached to contributing to some of the derp, even if you say you were just doing it for the sweet, sweet money. Just my two cp.
It is a pen name. I’m planning on writing some different genres under a different pen name. I don’t do anything under my real name (including the name on the email address I use to submit articles here, mods ?) so I at least have that protection. Sooooo many authors I know use their real names and are sorry later. My paranoia has paid off in that regard, at least.
Ok, so this pen name …
Edna Cross?
Jane Parker?
Shaniqua Biro?
Elizabeth Nolan Brown
*runs away*
…to make a sammich?
I would like to buy your books. How do I identify them?
I’m a wannabe writer, so I find the posts by you and UCS about the business and process of writing fascinating.
WTF is this Hyperion thing? I didn’t give them permission to use my name. Neither did Simmons. *on phone with lawyer*
Take the cash, they’ll publish your good stuff after you die and they find the Great American Novel on your desk.
today with a premise that sounds like “would you go back in time and kill baby Hitler,” except it’s about hypothetical WWIII—the girl finds out one of her classmates is going to start World War III at some point in the future
You dumb motherfuckers, stop trying to kill Hitler, it never works out the way you want it to.
Speaking of Montana Burning- there is water falling from the sky!
YEEE HAAAW!
Nice
Feel free to send some our way, too. Smokey AF here right meow, And not the kind I usually like
*Blows kiss at edit faerie*
WaPo publishes a study linking flu vaccine to miscarriage, commenters lose their shit.
My GF was given a flu shot as part of her initial prenatal care, right before she miscarried. Coincidence? Probably, but maybe not.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/09/13/researchers-find-hint-of-a-link-between-flu-vaccine-and-miscarriage
I guess they only fucking love science when it fits their narrative.
The flu shot caused her to fall down those stairs?
^ This guy gets it.
Careful Vhyrus, voicing concern about a specific vaccine is double plus ungood. Your GF not getting a flu vaccine would somehow result in millions of children dying of measles.
Seriously though, I’m sorry to hear that.
Careful Vhyrus, voicing concern about a specific vaccine is double plus ungood. Your GF not getting a flu vaccine would somehow result in millions of children dying of measles.
God, as someone who is pro vaccinating against almost everything, I’m constantly surprised at how weirdly some people on both sides of the debate react to me skipping the flu vaccine every year. You’d think me not getting a proven ineffective vaccine that causes an immune response in people stronger than my normal response to spooning with a flu-feverish BF was an admission that I don’t believe in vaccinating anyone ever.
If it a proven vaccine for a known serious illness, I am all for it. The flu is neither of those things.
I’d be fine with it for the immuno-compromised, the elderly and school kids generally, but again, it’s had as low as 19% efficacy rates and I think maxed out at 60%.
I’ve gotten a flu shot once in my life. My FIL was dying of cancer and they said I couldn’t visit him without it.
Otherwise, like you say, what’s the point?
Yah, even at work where they push everything health care they admit the vaccine is best reserved for those cases. I’ve never done it.
Last time I was at the doctor’s office the MA or nurse or whatever chipperly asked me if I wanted the flu vaccine after I’d just asked to update my Tdap, get the hep A/B combo, and the meningitis vaccine. I declined politely and was surprised that she dropped it without a fight.
You always see places like Walgreens and the local urgent care pushing flu vaccines. No one had to beg people to get polio vaccines, or smallpox vaccines, or measles, or any of the other diseases we vax against. Why is that? Maybe it’s because people were begging doctors to get it so they didn’t die. If you have to hard sell something it probably isn’t that great of a thing to begin with, and if the flu vaccine were so awesome there wouldn’t be big banners advertising it outside of every pharmacy.
I’ve skipped the flu vaccine the last three years and have suffered neither more nor less flu/colds, etc.
Eh the cultural landscape around vaccination has changed a hell of a lot since smallpox and polio. I assumed it was more an issue of the flu vaccine was lucrative and easy to distribute, and didn’t require prior consultation with a physician, so everyone wants to get your business first.
My little brother got…mumps? measles? I dunno which because the MMR causes autism and my parents declined to vaccinate. Meanwhile nobody else in the house got it because they hadn’t stumbled upon this bit of weirdness until the other kids had gotten their jabs.
All my kids are in school and I work at a hospital. That vaccine is worthless to me.
But I’m required to get it and I’m not paying for it….
The whole vaccine topic has become pure dogma, much like global warming. You have shit tons of people voicing strong opinions who haven’t even read a single article in the peer-reviewed literature to educate themselves on the topic. Question one little piece of one vaccine and you become labeled an anti-vaxxer, much like a climate skeptic.
Fuck the flu vaccine. And I say this as someone whose father had polio.
I’ve never gotten one. My wife always gets hers. The reason I’ve never gotten one is that my parents have been almost religious in getting theirs, for the last 20 years or so. I sort of stating noticing how they got the flu, severely every single year at least once, while I was rarely sick.
Once upon a time, the Atlantic published interesting articles challenging the prevailing dogma. I still think that this piece about flu vaccines is among the best science-related articles I’ve read in the mainstream media.
Bonus broads.
http://archive.is/nf0RV
For Rufus: Italian city demonstrates both prejudice and lack of taste:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41237816
How low on the journalism totem pole do you have to be to be assigned that story?
And where is the lack of taste? Bocce is played across the country and no one ever gets a concussion and even a concussed cricket player can understand the rules. Plus, you can play it drunk.
Plus, you can play it drunk
Round these parts you’re disqualified if you aren’t holding a beer.
Ah, a connoisseur! Molto bene!
Same rules for when I play boules with my Normandy cousins. Although any booze counts, not just beer.
We’re a fairly low-class bunch – Strohs, Old Style, and Hacker-Pschorr Weisse, but we’ve been known to make exceptions for those degenerates that prefer Kicken’ Chicken, MD 20/20, or Laphroaig.
I meant the decision to ban it was the lack of taste.
i get it, but cricket is weird. Let’s just teach the Pakis and Afghans to play bocce!
I wonder if this would be international news if the Afghans and Pakistanis were switched out for Indians and Sri Lankans.
Switching out Afghans and Pakistanis for Indians is what I would call a huge improvement.
He did it for the children!
Bolzano is a hockey hub. I smell a conspiracy.
My first job was custom roundels for a bocce ba’ll court at an expensive home. Pure brass.
My dad’s first job was working as a pin monkey in a bowling alley, back before they were automated. If you didn’t reset the bowling pins fast enough on league night, those drunken bastards would consider hitting a pin monkey a strike.
Wrong Steve Smith nominated for NFL hall…
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2733010-the-other-steve-smith-nominated-to-pro-football-hall-of-fame?utm_source=cnn.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=editorial
STEVE SMITH RAPE ON FIRST BALLOT.
The scariest part is that there’s a STEVE SMITH JR! Oh wait, wrong Steve Smith again… but what if?
They finally got imagery of cudjoe up. Our House is relatively intact. Some mild roof damage and all the trees are gone. Hilariously the trailers we tied to trees are still where we left them.
I’m sorry your trailers weren’t strong enough to save the trees. Glad the house is relatively unscathed!
Yeah, that’s great news, V. What about Sarasota?
The vehicles in Sarasota were completely unharmed according to the storage place.
Here’s another fun fact: A lot of people parked their cars near the bridges in the keys to save them from the storm surge. It appears to have worked cause they are all still there.
See? It was worth the adventure.
Nice work.
Looks like someone makes their own luck, so to speak.
I wouldnt say unscathed. We have no idea whats inside. The whole thing could have been blown inside out and we wont know til we get there. There is not a whole lot of debris around the house though which is good.
Well done.
Good to hear. I mean sorry about your trees, but still good news since Irma was still a cat 4 when it hit The Keys.
One of my aunts in Fort Myers lives in a trailer home near a canal and has lawn furniture. She heard yesterday not only did her home make, but her lawn furniture didn’t move either.
We have a relative who lives in Tampa and she said that her neighborhood is virtually untouched. Which is amazing since Tampa seemed to be the primary target after the Keys and Naples.
This is good news.
Thats good news!
Forget Star Trek vs. Star Wars.
Forget The Millennium Falcon vs. The Starship Enterprise.
Now we’ve got a real nerdy-ass food fight.
I give you *drum roll*
Ron Paul vs. SpaceX!!!
“Allowing SpaceX to obtain a monopoly over launch services harms taxpayers.”
—-Ron Paul
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/for-some-reason-ron-paul-has-taken-to-fox-news-to-skewer-spacex/
Let’s do the Paul family mind-warp again!
It’s just a jump to the left.
And then a step to the right.
Actually, that’s the Time Warp, not the Paul family mind-warp. The Paul family mind-warp goes more like this:
I support free trade, so I oppose free trade agreements!
I want to get the government out of healthcare, so I oppose replacing Medicaid with vouchers!
And now, we have:
Government space contracts cost too much money, so I oppose Space X!
In a better world, we libertarians would have better icons.
We do have better icons, but none of them ever actually held positions of power.
From the article:
Yeah, I can’t possibly see why a libertarian would object to the government subsidizing one company so it can purportedly provide a comparable service as some other private company at roughly the same price. Good catch there, Ken, derpety-doo.
Oh, there’s always a rationalization.
That’s why he opposed free trade agreements.
That’s why his kid opposed privatizing Medicaid.
Meanwhile, Space X brought competition to what had been a monopoly before.
And who else has developed the technology to use relaunch vehicles–isn’t the whole point of that technology to save money?
Again, the Paul family mind-warp is all about fixating on a piece of bark on a branch of one tree while missing the whole forest around it–oh but I guess we should defend their myopia anyway–because they’re libertarian icons or something?
I wouldn’t do that if Ron Paul were voting with the UAW on free trade.
I wouldn’t do it if Rand Paul voted with Bernie Sanders and Liz Warren on replacing ObamaCare.
I’ll never do it ever.
My bad, I didn’t realize we were going there again. Carry on.
Way OT but that is a super sexy song, right?
Yeah, I’ll forget about Rand Paul’s betrayal of capitalist principles when Medicaid is privatized, the individual mandate goes away, and the employer mandate disappears.
He won’t even be able to stop the bailout of the insurance industry.
If Rand Paul had fought for total capitulation to single payer, he might not have done more harm than he did.
And I will not forget it.
You know who else wanted to reform health care and hated the Paul’s?
Musk is just trying to save us from AI.
That being said, it’s pretty damn clear that after 50 years not leaving low earth orbit, NASA is completely fucking worthless. They are now just like any other bureaucracy, their sole mission is sustaining the bureaucracy. If private space industry does not get us off this rock in some permanent settlements, then we’re never going anywhere, never becoming a space fairing species.
Until we can overcome some fundamental problems with getting out of our gravity well for a reasonable cost, we never will be a space-faring species.
One of those things would be having a permanent settlement and space center on the moon. It’s pretty easy to get off it.
I’m still hoping the space elevator can actually work.
I’m not too sure about that. It just seems to weird too bizarre to me. I’m thinking the better way is to just learn to build stuff on the moon.
So TW, this is i09, but here’s an article about why a space elevator on Earth is unlikely but could work on the moon:
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5984371/why-well-probably-never-build-a-space-elevator
Odds are that we will become space faring when we can transfer our consciousness to an AI and shed the biological limitations of space travel.
+1 Anson Guthrie
Definitely a legit idea. The issue is ‘what is consciousness?’. I mean this is some seriously deep thinking stuff. For instance, let’s say we learn how to transfer someone’s entire brain to a machine. So we turn it on and we ask the machine ‘Is that you, Scruf?’. And the machine says ‘yes, it’s me!’. Of course it would say that, because it thinks it’s you. But how would we know it’s really you?
Compare its Google search history to mine. If there’s no chubby porn, it’s probably still me.
But it would effectively be a clone of you. Except that doesn’t mean it’s actually YOU as in having your consciousness. The only test is that your body dies and you still have consciousness and you say to yourself ‘hey it’s really me!’. But no one else could know this.
Close, but wrong. The Sex Robots will succeed biological humans as the dominant race, have no issues with space travel, and not give a shit about retaining our inferior consciousnesses.
It would be a huge mistake to program AI with human emotions, like fear. It makes perfect sense that humans developed these primitive senses. 50,000 years ago if you met another group of humans, the best reaction would overwhelmingly be to kill them before they killed you. And you would know they are thinking the exact same thing. This makes no sense for an AI unless you programmed it with that.
We only need to offer people a better life in transit than they enjoy on earth.
The people who leave to go colonize the galaxy won’t be the well to do. They generally have life pretty good.
It’ll be like the English who originally came to the Colonies in North America.
Religious fanatics, indentured servants. The people who had it great back home didn’t come here.
Ever spend any time in an expat community somewhere? The people who leave aren’t those who have it good.
And you just have to offer them something better in transit than they have on earth. If they don’t live to see wherever they’re going, that doesn’t matter so much as the fact that their lives on-board ship should be better than what they have now.
Imagine a princess cruise ship with much more living space and areas devoted to industry and food production.
We don’t need a scientific breakthrough. You just gotta offer people a better life than the one they have.
Funny how that stuff leads to the most free greatest civilization in history. I’m all for letting that happen again.
Do you know how many people would sign up to go to the moon or Mars right now? A lot more than needed.
LIBERTOPIA IN SPAAAAACE
Excellent round-up of the “public health” scam, especially regarding tobacco. Nothing we don’t already know but it’s good to see it from someone who has the ear of the NYT.
That is … really odd.
Thanks for that. Good article.
Now that the World Health Organization has redefined its mission to be the achievement of “physical, mental and social well-being,”
They don’t recognize the mental and social well-being of being left the fuck alone.
Public health types are a bunch of perverts who get their rocks off bossing other people around.
I’ve known many of them. They are all hardcore leftists with gigantic ban boners.
Yes. The school of public health at Hopkins has corrupted the entire institution.
I’ve come to believe that the single biggest threat to humankind is the compulsion to act like a wise, benevolent leader who steers the stupid sheep of society away from the foolish decisions they would otherwise make. It’s truly a disease of the mind.
Yes, this entire attempt to avoid risk at any cost is madness. If our ancestors had this attitude, we would have never evolved much beyond apes. We may have simple stone tools at best, unrefined, like Chimps use, just basically rocks to bang on things. Fortunately, our ancestors had fully functional intact balls and were able to walk out of Africa and survive an ice age, develop sophisticated technology, and ascend to the top of the food chain over the entire planet. I mean at least I see that as a great thing, I know a lot of leftist self loathers think it’s bad.
It’s hubris. Some asshole decides he or she or xe is going to save you from yourself so that they can feel better about themselves. So they cook up some statistics to raise funds from the government and blow 100 million dollars to change the behavior of exactly three people. Success!
Well, funding is a lot of it. And if your idea is leftist/pro big government enough, you can probably get some funding no matter how stupid and worthless your research is.
Oh come on, Hyperion, I’m sure that the people holding the government purse-strings are not THAT free-wheeling with our money. There’s surely a reasonable limit to the stupidity they will fund.
Oh wait…
That’s hardly the stupidest study you’ll ever see, not even close. It’s probably not even the stupidest study this week to seek public funding.
I knew I was exceptional.
Well, apparently gay mean also have better taste in home decor. Stop bragging.
mean, lol, I’m on a roll…
I’m quite exceptional in that regard, too.
I’m actually not bad. I think that because when I was a small child, I spent a lot of time hanging out at my grandparents house and my grandmother taught me housework, cooking, gardening, decorating, all of that. Which I thought was awesome since at that age there’s no one to tell you it’s not cool for a boy to do those things. My wife is actually an almost out of my league competition on almost all of that, but she knows I can manage it all on my own, and manage very well.
Oh yeah, and I’ve actually been asked several times if I’m gay, last time by an ex GF because after I kicked her out of my house, she later came back to get something and the house ‘looked better than she ever saw it look’. She asked me if I already had a new GF. I said, none of your business, but no. So she asks ‘Are you gay?’.
My home has been described as “sparse” and “minimalist”. I just don’t do decor or collect a lot of things. OTOH most of my friends are pack rats at least by my taste. I am very lazy so it helps with the minimal amount of housework I do to keep it presentable.
You sound like my wife, Rhywun, she’s to me, extremely minimalist. I mean I don’t like clutter, but she’s way way minimalist compared to me. And a lot more modernist. I’m sort of eclectic, but I like a more contemporary sort of warmth.
Aften 10 years on my own, I’m still debating whether to buy a coffee table. I haven’t found a use case for one yet.
So, the Bette Davis lithographs – the Austrian drapes -all – a trope?
*sob*
Not even any torso prints.
Even the the Rislampa wire lamps of environmentally-friendly unbleached paper?
I would fill my unit with Ikea if they didn’t charge a fucking fortune for delivery.
Isn’t IKEA DIY? Hence, you know, do it yourself, don’t get it shipped? I don’t know, we don’t them round here.
I live in NYC & I don’t have a car.
don’t you have cabs that are minivans? The Cash Cab was.
I still see the utility of a coffee table. We currently have an Ottoman which sort of serves the same purpose.
Also, having a coffee table gives you an excuse to buy matching end tables on which you can put cool lamps, which you never use.
My decor is a mix of what was here when I moved in (it was grandparent’s house, I like to keep some things the same for nostalgia) and things my childish self finds amusing (replaced some family pictures with a portrait of Ash from The Evil Dead. I got my Darth Vader and Storm Trooper helmets on display. Spider-man posters.)
I still recall one of the fist homes I remember living in, near Cincinnati when I was a kid, but in an outlying area, a century plus old farmhouse which must have housed a very large family, because the place was huge. Anyway, it was full of fantastic Art Nouveau items, which are still clearly remembered for me, today, almost half a century later. I especially liked as a 10 year old some of the nude sex scene pewter pieces, like ash trays and lamp stands. I can’t even imagine today the value of some of this stuff, yet back then, no one paid any attention to it. The other weird thing about this place is that, it sat atop a hill with several sets of stone steps up to the walkway that led to the house. A the first stop of this flight of stairs, sat 2 black rocks on each side which look oddly like the statues on Easter Island. The local legend was that these rocks fell from the sky. This was in the early 70s. I didn’t notice the resemblance to the Easter Island stones until I saw them many years later. They looked to be some form of black pumice or volcanic stone. I’m not making this up, there’s a lot more. There was a fat blonde chick I went to school with who tried to sit on my face at a Halloween party, seriously, she was like possessed and was trying to shove her little girl panties in my face, with an evil grin on her face. She had me pinned down in a pile of very colorful leaves. That was a very weird few years and I’m not even mentioning the dreams, the giant bull, the 5 lb single amethyst crystal, or the endless staircase which went deep underground.
Shit, before I learned I had sleep apnea and got a CPAP all my waking dreams were horrifying, yours sound much better.
The staircase and the bull might be, probably are dreams. The rest of it is absolutely not a dream.
Horny tweenage fat girls does not a devil possession make.
Dude, she was 9-10. But I do concede that she was a German immigrant. She probably wanted to pee on me.
I’m a sad sack for saying this, but ‘I Want To Believe’…it feels dirty. I have memories of things that seem supernatural from younger years, but no proof. Since I started looking for proof, I’ve found answers. I made a wedding video once where I heard a demonic voice scream ‘Get out!’. When I investigated the audio, it was a baby at the back of the church that coughed, and by the time the echo reached the front of the church it was a DEMON voice. Audio matrixing, crazy shit. Or maybe I’m just pissed that before my dad died he said he’d come back and get me proof when he died, but instead it’s just a very sad life. Who knows.
Damn. That’s an excellent article, Rhywun!
I’ll be circulating it to my proggies – should be amusing.
I just reflected on it and realized that this is part of it.
“England’s national health agency, which endorsed its use”
The Democrats are getting ready to put all of their eggs in the single payer basket. We’re the only country in the civilized world, you know, that doesn’t have healthcare. And the most non-foreign entity we know who does have healthcare is our cousins over in Limey Town. Starting to make sense now. How can we be more like Europe unless we’re more like Europe?
If the Dems manage to shove single-payer down our throats, I can’t see them suddenly starting to make sense on vaping. At all.
If they manage that, we’ll no longer be the same country. Hate speech and thought crimes are next. End of the 2nd amendment in sight, for public health reasons.
Excellent article!
Thanks.
Public health has always been about social engineering. I think the article does a good job of laying out the differences between the 1964 campaign to publicize the dangers of smoking and the modern smear campaign against vaping, but in so doing it puts public health of the past on a pedestal. “Three generations of imbeciles are enough” said Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1927 when the Supreme Court upheld a law that forcibly sterilized people in the name of public health.
Man, that is not even the scariest part of Holmes’s opinion:
Holy fucking slippery slope, Batman!
I read “Jesse” and “Asset forfeiture” in the preamble and my mind went immediately to “ass” and then I smiled…
So I live in Illinois (for who knows how much longer though), yet somehow I missed this which apparently has a lot of people steamed:
http://takimag.com/article/sambogate_david_cole
I don’t know what kind of retardation pills people have been taking lately, but holy shit is that some strong stuff.
“So how was Rauner’s pandering received? Illinois’ top black Democrats went after him even harder
This is a lesson that GOP Congress apparently cannot learn even if they are beaten over the head repeatedly with it.
It got the desired effect. Personally, I would have called them all pieces of shit for that accusation and not ceded an inch. His mistake was not acting like Trump in that scenario.
The GOPs entire problem is not acting like Trump. There it is right before them, the ticket to success and there such huge pussies they can’t do it.
they’re
Well, I’d rather they acted like someone principled. You know, “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard this week, but to be fair, it’s only Tuesday.” Then just roll your eyes and say, “When you want to discuss something important, let me know.”
If that’s what you mean by Trump-like, great. But I suspect if Trump were called on the latter, it would not be pretty. Rauner is considerably smarter, but does need to get more backbone.
I meant stop acting like pussies and stop trying to appease the left. The Democrats have been using the GOP for doormats for a fucking century. Trump is the first person I have seen stand up to them. This apparently makes most of GOP Congress shit themselves in fear.
Well, I’d rather they acted like someone principled.
Me, too.
stop acting like pussies and stop trying to appease the left.
That would be a good start.
Yeah, there’s something in the air. That’s madness.
The kid is depicted basically with the same shade of brown as my skin has in reality, and I’m not even of 50% black heritage.
What if the kid had been bigger or more muscular? Then it would have been the trope of the superpredator black male. There is no winning the argument if you accept their terms for debate. On this, Trump is absolutely correct.
What if the kid had been white?
Yep – no winning.
Risky click of the day
No wonder the horse has so much gas. Did you see the cow who’s been riding him?
The center justification gives it away. I’m not clicking that.
Don’t be a pussy.
Heroic Roulette.
Fun game!
That’s some toxic masculinity right there. I wonder when the Democrats will sponsor a bill to legalize equine/human marriage. I wonder what the term for fearing that will be.
Centaurphobia
Who doesn’t love ponies? Who wouldn’t want a pony?
Ponies
Alogopeosophobia
Not gonna click on that. Wouldn’t be prudent.
There is no concern regarding STDs or unwanted centaur babies
Andrew Mendoza is unsure on this point, but is willing to experiment.
” This is one of the reasons I think that I can’t get a girlfriend since there is no way I could compete with that.”
My instinct tells me that that isnt the problem.
Haha oh wow:
Hillary Clinton Is More of a President Right Now Than Donald Trump Will Ever Be
TW: Jessica Valenti
Well, pretending is cool, right? It’s just like being a kid again.
I want some of whatever she’s on. Jesus.
I note this is yet another example of inserting politics where it didn’t used to be and doesn’t belong. Keep at it, media.
The weird thing about The Orville is that the captain has the voice of Brian from Family Guy.
Ken, Preacher is all about style. I know the source material and plotlines and subject matter is iffy but it’s like Guy Ritchie has a TV series. And, you get a budget Karl Urban and Ruth Negga. Just relax and enjoy!
I do enjoy it!
But I think it’s about more than style.
PREACHER SPOILER ALERT!!!
Jackie Earle Haley cradling his meat baby and demanding that the Preacher renounce God as promised is about more than style.
The Preacher’s devotion to God despite it all is about more than style, too.
So far, it seems like a picaresque, which can seem pointless because they don’t have a plot, as such. Candide is a picarewque without a plot, really, as such, but it definitely has a point. Regardless of whether we live in the best world possible, we gotta tend our garden. I keep looking for “tend your garden” in this series somewhere. It’ll probably be at the end–if anywhere. I haven’t seen it yet.
Although I did see it in an episode of Rick and Morty Also, . . .
RICK AND MORTY SPOILER ALERT!!!
It’s pretty clear to me after the last episode that Rick is Morty when he gets old. Rick and Morty are the same person.
My case is based on the school for Mortys. You saw Simple Rick sitting there, and he was too dumb to graduate–so he’d been sitting there in the school for Morty’s so long, he finally aged long enough to become a Rick.
Is there any other explanation?
You do way more drugs than me?
The simpler explanation is that there are an infinite number of Ricks, and at least one of those Ricks is a retard, or got hit by some sort of retard-ray. It’s heavily implied that Mortys tend to go through Ricks at the same or higher number than Ricks go through Mortys.
I mean I hate to get into set theory math, but there are different amounts of infinities. Math gets weird.
At the risk of posting on a nearly dead links!, I’m going to share a few music vids. While Bluegrass is on the fringe of my top five favorite genres, I’ve been on a bit of a kick for it lately.
So I humbly submit a nearly forgotten favorite: The Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir. I think they do an excellent job of blending bluegrass with delta blues.
To keep in accordance with forum rules, I shall submit a few songs in order of my personal preference.
P.S. If this gets buried and looked over, I’ll post it again. I’m persistently annoying like that.
First song: Go Back Home
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-znw35eCkg
Rainstorms In My Knees
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zQwsAn_nMc
Both excellent choices, thanks!
Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed them.
I’m still around. I’m listening to your song while I’m posting one I stumbled on last night. So far, I like yours.
I was going through some German language videos and stumbled on this. Last night I dreamed of breasts.
I was half expecting scat porn.
After watching that, I kind of wish it was.
What’s German for “punch-face”?
Backpfeifengesicht?
I didn’t notice the guys.
Ouch. Yeah. Those guys are annoying.
At least they’ve stumbled on a way to monetize… whatever the hell it is they’re doing.
whatever the hell it is they’re doing.
Making my attempts at hitting on a woman look smooth and suave?
Oops.. I should proofread first. Last night was when I stumbled on that video.
I got the gist, no worries.
Oh Sorrow
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HAEmG45n5J4
My first band was a mix of Southern Rock/Blues. The other guitarist who was my co-founder, his brother was an excellent bluegrass guitarist. I never got into it, but I did get into the Southern Rock stuff that was sort of reminded me of it, like The Outlaws.
Nice! What instrument did you play? I once owned and tried to play a five string guitar but I’m a bit tone deaf and after years and years of boxing I tore multiple ligaments/and or muscles in my hands. As consequence, my fingers don’t move very well independently of each other.
Basically what I’m saying is I suck.
Guitar. We played about everything Lynyrd Synyrd ever did, along with other Southern/Country and our unique blend of Blues/Southern rock.
Ah, gotcha. You made the fact you are a guitarist straight off. Sorry.
…did I mention I drink?
Holy shit these are good! Here are some of my favs
OCMS – Motel in Memphis: https://youtu.be/MOQzFhsoZ0w
OCMS – Methamphetamine: https://youtu.be/C4Bp-68W-2c
Steeldrivers – Midnight Train to Memphis: https://youtu.be/MWnyq9p3rwM
Hackensaw Boys – Alabama Shamrock: https://youtu.be/xEBpT1a1prY
Many more but these are top of mind. Thanks again
I’ve seen their northern cousins, The Hackensack Boys
I’ve bookmarked this and will check them out later. As for now, I need sleep. 5:30am rolls around quickly. 🙂
Also check out Devil Makes Three. An amazing sound even without any percussion
Oh! Bonus entry! I’ve actually partied with these guys a few times. Good natured guys and I love their attitude.
Mountain Sprout: Screw The Government
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EluzaTTLDwg
Lol. That’s great:)
+1 “I bury my money in Mason jars”
A music nugget for the late night glibs.
Zuck has rolled his standards by which you will be judged if you want to monetize your content. I’m confident in his ability to be even handed.
https://media.fb.com/2017/09/13/standards-and-guidelines-for-earning-money-from-your-content-on-facebook/
“Those who share content that repeatedly violates our Content Guidelines for Monetization, share clickbait or sensationalism, or post misinformation and false news may be ineligible or may lose their eligibility to monetize.”
They still have no idea how to actually make money off of it for real.
Fucking Cracked. I used to create content for them. Fucking hell. Part of my family that left Europe were named Muskovich. So, we found Fivel amusing. WE DID NOT BASE OUR ENTIRE IDENTITIES AROUND AN ANIMATED MOVIE AND HOW IT WRONGED US. Old school, I know.
I miss when when Cracked was was just a Mad magazine knock-off, rather than another site telling you the top 5 reasons you’re boss is a racist. (#5 might surprise you.) Now It’s just another site that that got Buffalo Bill’d.
Ok, next vid is up – I’ll post again later – “In China They Eat Dogs” – hilarious Danish crime-comedy. Highly recommended! This was made before Gilmore and co’s latest suggestions – still haven’t had time to test audio more. I’ll try this weekend for the next review – will also try doing a live/non-scripted comic discussion for some books by a friend.