My entry for dumbest hot take on the Las Vegas shooting:
Hospitals Aren’t Fully Prepared for Mass Shootings, and It’s the Gun Lobby’s Fault
Man-made mass casualty incidents seem increasingly common. But are medical teams actually learning enough from them? Are we really getting any better? The answers are unclear because in the United States since 1996, there has been an effective ban on federally funded research on firearm injuries. At that time, pro-gun members of Congress actually tried to eliminate the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention simply because it was funding research on gun injuries. The members instead succeeded at removing $2.6 million from the House’s CDC budget—the exact amount of money allocated to firearm injury research. (The money was later reallocated specifically for research on traumatic brain injury.) At the time, Congress’ language was difficult to interpret, but the result of that language has been clear as day: The CDC stopped funding gun injury research. The National Institutes of Health followed suit. Almost everyone in the research community now errs on the “safe side.” Research on the epidemiology of who, why, and how people die as a result of gun injuries in America has virtually vanished.
VANISHED! I mean, how does a bullet traveling at supersonic speeds even penetrate human skin? Why does blood come out of the hole? Which is the worst place to get shot? We just don’t know. Damn you, gun lobby! [shakes fist at sky]
Chess player banned by Iran over hijab switches over to US
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A young woman banned form the Iranian national chess team, allegedly for attending an international competition without wearing an Islamic headscarf, has joined the U.S. team, an Iranian news agency reported Monday.
The semi-official ISNA reported that Dorsa Derakhshani refused to wear the headscarf, known as the hijab, during a February competition in Gibraltar, and joined the U.S. national team.
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran has required women to wear the hijab in public places.
However, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Monday that the president of Iran’s chess federation, Mehrdad Pahlevanzadeh, said that Dorsa had in fact changed her national federation to the United States, which was not unusual among chess players.
Her brother was also banned from playing for the Iranian team for the dread crime of agreeing to play chess against an Isreali. He caught them Jew cooties!
Nagging daughter harangues father into returning Native America robe
Sara Jacobsen, 19, grew up eating family dinners beneath a stunning Native American robe.
The teacher told the class about how the robe was used in spiritual ceremonies, Sara Jacobsen said. “I started to wonder why we have it in our house when we’re not Native American.”
She said she asked her dad a few questions about this robe. Her dad, Bruce Jacobsen, called that an understatement.
“I felt like I was on the wrong side of a protest rally, with terms like ‘cultural appropriation’ and ‘sacred ceremonial robes’ and ‘completely inappropriate,’ and terms like that,” he said.
“I got defensive at first, of course,” he said. “I was like, ‘C’mon, Sara! This is more of the political stuff you all say these days.'”
But Sara didn’t back down. “I feel like in our country there are so many things that white people have taken that are not theirs, and I didn’t want to continue that pattern in our family,” she said.
The robe had been a centerpiece in the Jacobsen home. Bruce Jacobsen bought it from a gallery in Pioneer Square in 1986, when he first moved to Seattle. He had wanted to find a piece of Native art to express his appreciation of the region.
Appreciating the art of different cultures is straight up bigotry.
Egypt: Police don arrest 22 people on top gay matter
Tori be say for di last 3 days, police for Egypt don arrest 22 people wey get anything to do with LGBT rights.
Activists say since 23 September dem don count at least 33 people wey police arrest because di people raise one rainbow flag to support gay rights.
According to one lawyer, Amr Mohamed, wey dey represent two people wey police arrest, im say dem say na because dem “join group wey no dey obey law”.
Im say di authorities charge one of im clients, Sarah Hegazy, wey be di first woman wey dem go arrest for dis kain matter, for wetin dem call “promoting sexual deviancy and debauchery”
And di Supreme State Security Prosecution don order say make dem detain dem for 15 days.
No word on if bottoms were also arrested in the sweep.
Where in the US do small countries usually keep embassies? Anywhere besides DC? I have a small fictional country and one of the characters has cause to visit one of their embassies. So I’m trying to figure out where the closest one would logically be.
By ‘small’ I mean population 3-4million, with Cold War ties to the US. (Staunch anticommunists, talked the US into giving them scads of foreign aid.)
Call it a consulate.
Whatever the term, how many do countries of that size even maintain?
Maybe an embassy in DC and consulates in cities with a large immigrant population.
I was afraid of that.
Poor bastard has to go to DC, since there’s no real expatriate community from this place.
Aw, c’mon. As a fiction writer, a hive of scum and villainy is exactly the setting you want, right?
But then the fortress-like design of their building would seem less like paranoia and more like practicality.
I believe some small countries have embassies in NYC in conjunction with UN.
“I stand here before the representatives of well over a hundred examples of how not to run a country being lectured to about how to run my country. I will not stand for it any longer.” *walks out*
–Reginald Tasker, Lord Proprietor of Sanalta, last and only address to the UN.
Where’s a collection of their citizens, UCS? That’s where you’ll find the consulate.
Houston has a few consulates that are basically overgrown houses in the burbs, mainly because everybody seems to live and work here.
Hilarity ensues when HPD forgets pesky things like the Vienna Convention.
I’ve been thinking, and all I come back to is their cultural character would make it easy to assimilate into any other English-Speaking western country.
Then I guess stick the thing in any city required for the plot. Unless there’s a reason it has to be the Embassy vs a consulate. IIRC, you can have only one embassy, but I know you can have multiple consulates. As to the practical differences between the two, I dunno, but it shouldn’t be hard to research.
The whole plot purpose of the “Embassy” scene is supposed to be the first glimpse into the paranoia of the foreign government and help to build tension for when the narrator has to actually go there. It’s one thing to say that “Sanalta is a xenophobic quasi-police state like the UK turned up to tweleve”, and another entirely to build up the correct atmosphere. His visit should be less like a carribean vacation than a jaunt through East Germany with a better economy.
I’m a fan of Martin Smith’s Arkady Renko novels. So, I like that kind of literary device: travelogue, while you’re ostensibly trying to solve some other plot problem. Robert Harris does it pretty well too.
Those kind of scenes, the best ones, IMHO, are also played for comedy, the sheer absurdity and volume of paperwork in the Third World (or ComBloc).
Good luck on the new novel!
Thanks.
I’m working out what the impact of some of their stranger internal regulations would be on economic activity. Their foreign trade zone is liable to resemble modern western cities. Other islands are liable to be less well developed, because the incentives are drastically different.
I’m not sure if they’re agriculturally independant, etc.
Embassies are always near the center of political power. It doesn’t make sense for them to be anywhere else, honestly.
There are consulates in NYC, Boston, Philly, New Orleans…most major cities have consulates. Small countries? Well, Luxembourg has one in DC and I think had one in San Francisco. Tuvalu has one in NYC.
Indianapolis has several. As far as ‘small’ countries, Luxembourg, Romania, and Switzerland have consulates in Indianapolis (the internet is a wonderful thing)
Japan has one in Denver. There is a surprisingly large Japanese ex-pat community around Denver.
That’s actually the Nihonjin tribe.
If it’s fiction, why don’t you put it in the Epcot Center?
You mean like El Salvador pop about 6 million The embassy is in D.C. As mentioned I don’t know if they would have embassies in all 192 countries but they would definitely have something in major nations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_El_Salvador_in_Washington,_D.C.
Well, I’m really just trying to figure out how far the character needs to travel to verify that his passport is real. (It’s complicated, I had to make sure there was a sane recap just so I didn’t lose the plot, let alone the poor readers.)
Say the Embassy is in DC but your character lives in Arizona so he goes to the consulate in LA.
Ahem. You mean the consulate in the Epcot Center.
I went to a wine and cheese pairing Saturday at Epcot. I had no idea how filling aged cheese is, and delicious.
This is one of my favorite aged cheeses:
https://beemstercheese.us/products/x-o
I just hate when they try to serve me that rotten shit. Hey, man, I’m only paying for cheese that didn’t rot.
Looks tasty, Sean.
I would suggest finding a real world country of similar population and wealth and then doing a search for that countries consulates in the US.
Why are you refusing to enact his labor?
That’s just how I roll… bitch.
Here’s what Wiki says about New Zealand (which is close to your plot needs):
“The Embassy of New Zealand in Washington, D.C., United States (in Māori: Te Kāinga o te Māngai o Aotearoa i Washington D.C.) is located at 37 Observatory Circle, Northwest, Washington, D.C. in the Embassy Row neighborhood.
The embassy also operates consulates general in Los Angeles, New York City, and Honolulu and honorary consulates in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Tamuning, Houston, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle provides assistance to New Zealand citizens and issues travel visas to foreign nationals who wish to visit New Zealand.”
Thanks.
He gets a cut now. The rest of us do too for all the proofreading and editing. You’re welcome.
*sends invoice*
*rejects invoice*
Without a contract agreed-upon beforehand there is nothing you can enforce, as this is open dialog.
I GOT PLENTY OF WITNESSES. ha ha ha ha ha mofo
We gettin’ paid sucka.
I repeat – with no agreement you provided your ‘advice’ voluntarily and without remuneration. This is no different from asking questions of other patrons in a bar. You can decline to answer, but if you decide to answer you can’t demand compensation after the fact.
I asked before.
You just didn’t pay attention.
*files paperwork*
*puts little bit of pink salt in envelope*
*mails to UCS*
*return to sender*
*adds cease and desist order*
We work for hat tips.
*boils UCS’s bunny*
Top hat tips!
*Tips Top Hat*
*picks hat up off floor*
I need to get this thing cleaned.
They also have about 15 consulates here too.
In ’98, my trip home from my office in Tokyo went right by the Iraqi embassy. It was sort of sad because it was in an alley and had one poor sad sack looking dude staring out from in front of a huge picture of Sadaam.
I stayed next door to the Iraqi embassy in London. With the exception of the flag, it was very low key.
Damn nice neighborhood, too.
Iraq had an Embassy in Japan?
In ’98 they had some important office. My Japanese coworkers thought it was hilarious to walk by with me.
They were sure that the poor Iraqi guy would be scairt shitless by an American.
Maybe they was scairt of the big ‘merican pope hat?
Almost every nation has an embassy in DC because America is kind of a big deal, and US aid. Some countries also maintain consulates in other US cities, but only if there is a compelling reason – either that city has a large population of nationals of that country, or that city is a port of entry.
What Sugar said.
Taiwan would match the description, and has ‘liason offices’ in several cities.
Historically, you could have had trade legations, or even customs houses.
I’m kinda rusty, but IIRC the Hanseatic League was quite advanced in that respect, and the merchants established guilds that had pretty much diplomatic protection. So if your milieu was a kind of alternative-history, you might have an entirely parallel diplomatic structure that is there purely to serve the interests of the Sanaltan Unobtanium Mining Co.
Not sure of the general tone of what you’re writing, but as long as you’re going with counter-factuals like fictional countries this might be an opportunity to get in an entertaining bit of fiction about why this small nation has a consulate in some out-of-the-way spot like Dubuque.
Nagging daughter harangues father into returning Native America robe
Women learn nagging at a young age.
She’s gonna make some lucky guy very miserable one day.
Some poor boy is walking around not even knowing the trouble he is in already.
So will the poor dude get his money back? Or would getting a refund be “cultural appropriation” (aka: Indian Giver)?
Golf clap.
Relevant
i woulda burned that old ass towel out of spite. we can erase history even quicker than we appropriate it.
It’s probably symbolic of one tribe oppressing another. I say organize a march around it, spit red paint over it and have Antifa burn it.
Adult women sponging off their fathers is also cultural appropriation.
“I learned it from YOU, Dad!” Whatta cunt…
These are great links.
Doom, you have a little something on your nose.
The man just recognizes good work when he sees it. Doesn’t make him a suck-up.
*tries to remove white powder* like being able to read it here! It’s easier to pull more quotes for good firsts.
Thank Zardoz they didn’t see the hookers behind you.
Don’t all wypipo have at least one Native American artifact in their home?
We’re all 1/16th Cherokee, so, yeah, by definition.
Nah, I’m 1/64th Beaver Creek Indian though!
I’m 1/16 Black, in fact, everyone in my family is 1/16th Black, parents, kids, grandkids
I do. And some anthropology nerd tried to give me shit about it once. It didn’t go well for him.
I’ve pretty much gotten rid of all mine after the season FSU is having.
I’m proud of my KC Chiefs gear.
I have several pairs of old flip flops.
TP?
Yes, and I bought it from a Native American at a NA festival. And I don’t look at all like a NA.
I’ve got several. Pre-Colombian pottery and spear heads mostly.
And the skeleton of Chief Sitting Bull?
My mom’s family are the ultimate cultural appropriators: they not only have a bunch of Native American artifacts in their home, they have a Native American.
There is a woman who’s prominent in YA publishing who went on a big screaming tirade a few years back about the supreme evils of adopting Native American children and how they should be forcibly taken from their adoptive parents and given back to the tribe. This did not go over well with my uncle, who has never been in contact with the tribe or his birth parents and has no interest in doing so. His perception and experiences are very similar to those of the character in that Problematic Book. When my first book came out, I had to do a social media event with her and it was very difficult to keep my temper.
Yep, and the Pueblo people who made the pots have some American artifacts from the US Treasury in exchange.
Yes. I have arrowheads. And arrows.
Wanna see some more cultural appropriation?
I do. And that’s not even counting the made in China dream catchers that some Indian school keeps sending my mom because she donated to them one time. I also have a lot booze at home, but I don’t know if that counts.
Damn gun lobby! Giving money to politicians! How dare they do what people who give them money want!
I don’t even like chess, but I could learn if it involves cute Persian ladies staring into my soul with their sexy cat-eyes…
Anyway, if you’re 19 years old and living in my house, I could have an actual Native American hanging on the wall and you’d better not say shit, goldbricker! And if you’ve moved out, feel free to hang or not hang the items of your choice on your walls.
I would have told my daughter very calmly that if she didn’t like what I had hanging up on the wall, she has two options: ignore it or move into her place where she can hang anything she wanted on her wall.
Seriously, if I did this to my parents, they would have cold clocked me and told me to GTFO.
Seattle.
A father being cucked by his own daughter isn’t a pretty sight.
Does my 8 year old talking me into taking her to lunch at Olive Garden count as that?
Persuasion, not coercion.
Not a cuck.
Olive Garden? No. Chipotle? Yes.
I’m trying to imagine my parents’ reaction to something like this. Is there such a thing as “amused fury”?
The memory of the legendary ass whipping I would have received probably inspired me to invent time travel, go back in time, and convince myself not to act like a little smartass, thus creating a paradox resolved by my never having done it in the first place.
If my kids approached me about it in a rational manner and put forth a rational argument about the value of the piece being in a museum. I might consider it as an act of charity. But I sincerely doubt that was the case here.
“That belongs in a museum!”
LOL
Jones, again we see that there is nothing you possess that I cannot take away.
I don’t know much about this stuff but seems to me that these things belong in a museum for its own sake is ridiculous. The father clearly admired the art. That’s respect, no? It’s not like he was using it to shag on.
It’s the personal preference of the owner. I don’t buy into all of the white guilt shit for a second.
Seems to me that using it to shag on would the the ultimate act of respect.
But the father let himself be played.
I can tell Daddy is a beta bitch. Never admit you wrong when you’re the father. Right there is why no one believes in Santa Claus anymore.
*throws a rock at some kid about to step foot in my yard*
“Go on, get!”
*throws one at his little dog too*
“I got defensive at first, of course,” he said. “I was like, ‘C’mon, Sara! This is more of the political stuff you all say these days.’”
Pussy. A real father would’ve told he where she could stick her opinion of his wall art.
“Oh, isn’t that cute. She thinks her opinion matters.”
“It’s not that I don’t understand. It’s that I just don’t care.”
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A young woman banned form the Iranian national chess team, allegedly for attending an international competition without wearing an Islamic headscarf, has joined the U.S. team, an Iranian news agency reported Monday
Cute, smart and defiant; too bad I’m already married.
Definite would
I don’t understand why she is playing for the team where ‘literally Hitler’ is president and society is The Handmaiden’s Tale?
No, see, you’re confused – the country she’s moving to is the Handmaiden’s Tale.
That’s what he was insinuating!
Is that an extra timer-clock in your pocket or…
“Can I polish your bishop?”
She could Iransplain chess to me all day, everyday.
…but does she play en passant?
I’d be more than happy to let her take my Bishop
Into pegging?
*scribbles on note pad*
NTTAWWT
To paraphrase Bill Murray from Stripes, I haven’t got any experience but would probably be willing to learn with her
Reminds me of this.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLEOXNnV4AAp4Yb.jpg:large
Speaking of hospitals and analogies to gun violence, how many negligent hospital deaths would it take for a single payer advocate to disavow the system?
Extinction would not be sufficient.
When a nurse commits 80+ murders in a socialized medical system, it isn’t the system’s fault she had access to immobilized patients and poison, right?
The government is never wrong, just underfunded.
Reposting from the last (fantastic) article. . If anyone wants to use my numbers for gun control arguments feel free. It took 4 and half months start to finish. It was $1031.25 including 400 rounds of 9mm.
Oh. It was more. I forgot to include ear protection in that. $1064.18
A third of a year and several months of saving. But sure. Let’s make it harder for low wage workers to be able to defend themselves.
250 days, $205 tax. That’s what I’m looking at for my silencer.
Is it 250 days now at the ATF for Form 4?
If you e-file for individual it’s 250. Longer for paper and trust.
And trust is the way to to, afaik
It’s more money and more complex, but more flexible. I’m not leaving my silencer to anyone or loaning it out, so I went individual.
That is for a permit to carry?
That was for me to go from no guns to being able to carry the gun I bought.
I could have spent a few hundred less if I didn’t get the ppq but 600 isn’t really crazy for a handgun.
Where do those numbers come from, Doom? The costs for you to take training, or something like that?
Never mind. Congrats on the purchase, the PPQ is sweet. Now to find a holster… (Cue demonical laugh, makes room for extra drawer in the garage for all of the failed ones.)
I’ve been drooling over the Q5.
Huh. First I’d heard of it. (I don’t get out much.) 860 or so MSRP, and Gun Genie/GoG doesn’t list it as available in my area.
Something new to try!
Black arch makes a good IWB one. It was on sale for 65 before shipping. I have that and a paddle I got off Amazon for under 30. Used that at the range until the permit came in the mail.
I kept a list of everything I’ve bought gun related. I wanted to get a handgun about a year ago. 6 months ago I decided I really need to do it. That’s the cost of a gun, 2 holsters (one being less than 30 bucks), the ccw permit, training, tax, background check, hearing and eye protection, and 400 rounds of cheap ball ammo. Boulder county waited 5 weeks to get me my permit.
I’m working a min wage job currently, so I went with pretty cheap stuff.
Did you take advantage of the Summer of Rebates and get the $100 Walther?
Yeah, I have not gotten my check or whatever yet. It will basically cover the tax boulder took on it, and cover the training class where I donated 20 bucks.
I like the ppq a lot by the way! Highly recommend it.
Too bad other Walther’s don’t come with that trigger’s smooth feel and crisp break. The PPS M2 is a gravel road compared to the PPQ M2.
The ccp felt pretty close.
I carry the pps gen 1 and the trigger is pretty good for ccw.
I see nothing there about hollow points and extra mags. You’re not done yet!
I’m not. That’s the worst part. It’s been a thousand dollars just to have the ability to carry down the street. I’d like better sights at some point, and I don’t even have a 3rd mag yet.
Don’t forget body armor, for when some nut starts shooting at you from a 32nd floor window.
Well there goes another grand.
and that rail’s not going to grow its own light!
I can start a go fund me if you all want.
No gun lock? No safe?? What kind of irresponsible Teathuglican gun nutty whackadoodle are you?!
Don’t tell the rest of Boulder…
My first class at the range is this Saturday.
Yay! Congrats, kinnath. Keep us posted on the process for you
Congrats man. Possibly the most valuable morning’s education you can get.
I like this links format. I didn’t have to click any of them to find out what’s in them. This would have come in handy early today when there were two Salon links.
YOU MANIAC!
I disagree. I don’t like the idea that SF feels he can -horizontal- rule us in the links.
No word on if bottoms were also arrested in the sweep.
Bottoms hardest hit.
*smiles, waves, exits stage left*
So is that father qualify as a cuck?
Are you a fan of bad science fiction movies? I am.
Yesterday, I watched something called Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet. Yee Haw. Want an incoherent, completely ludicrous story? You’re in luck. Neck-snapping edits? Extras dressed in rubber dinosaur suits in hand to hand combat with astronauts who shoot them with pistols? Baffling lurches down ill-conceived narrative blind alleys? Them, too. A female astronaut, left to mind the orbiting ship, who dresses like Laura Petrie from the Dick van Dyke Show? Got one o’ them. And a space hovercar that looks as if it were carjacked out of the Disney “World of Tomorrow” exhibit at the 1960 World’s Fair? It’s all there, for a nominal price of admission.
Take your mind off the ugliness and and sorrow in the world with this stupendous foray into surreality. On Amazon Prime.
You’re welcome.
Amazon Women on the Moon? Granted, the frame story was meant to be egregious, but I always like how the flame and smoke from the “space rocket” had a definite “up”
Space Mutiny!
We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese!
Cowboys vs Dinosaurs. Filmed next door to you in Livingston.
Yesterday, I watched the original Star Wars. The special effects were actually kind of funny by today’s standards. Not Plan Nine from Outer Space, but clearly dated.
Reporting from last thread because I’ve yet to see him called out in the media:
Turns out Caleb Keeter, the Josh Abbot Band guitarist who “flipped” on gun control within hours of the LV massacre has always been a gun grabber:
https://twitter.com/voxday/status/915180397729865728
Limelight grandstanding fuckstains gonna be limelight grandstanding fuckstains I guess. Of course nobody in the media will ever shine any light on this.
Reposting…grumble, grumble
“Research on the epidemiology of who, why, and how people die as a result of gun injuries in America has virtually vanished.”
Who: People who have been shot
Why: Because they were shot
How: Gunshot wound
Where’s my grant money?
And we know the money was definitely going to that treatment efficiency research, and totally not toward positioning guns as some sort of public health crisis that could only be solved by gun control laws.
I forget, what does the ‘D’ in CDC stand for again? Danger? I think it’s Danger.
Guns are a disease, don’tcha know?
I caught the bug!
I know you didn’t likely mean that comment all that seriously, but I think there are a lot of interesting things we could learn from dispassionately studying patterns of injury by firearm. But of course the entire field of public health long ago abandoned even a fig-leaf of dispassion, for a proudly worn and well-appointed wardrobe of advocacy.
There’s a lesson here for both scientists and “scientists,” I think. If you don’t want science politicized, it might be wisest to not make it an organ of provincial politics in the first place. We can search for truth, be humble in our pursuit of it, and humble about the degree to which our narrow expertise makes us authorities on policy and politics, or we can search for political ammunition. I do not think we can do both at the same time, and if we obviously search for the latter, especially if entire fields do so, we should not be surprised if the sort of freedom of inquiry science requires becomes constrained by the strictures of politics.
“Nagging daughter harangues father into returning Native America robe”
I’m going to guess her father became a Trump supporter after this encounter
He returned it. With a huge ceremony and a lot of self congratulation.
Well that kind of ruins the remark. Thanks for that
I was just letting you know that he did something even more assholish.
So you’re saying he’s still a d-bag? I can live with that. Thanks
Probably a huge appraisal for a huge tax deduction as well.
It’s funny, I have this nagging suspicion that the “firearm injury” research was actually sociological and not medical, which is why it was shitcanned. Also, even if it was legitimate medical research, that’s a function of the NIH not the CDC.
Doctors Kellermann and Hemenway hardest hit.
How the fuck did you not link a Tom Petty song? Savage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqYZLNMDVJc
Petty was from Gainesville, Florida. On the campus at UF there is (or was) an 8 story dorm called Tower Village. When I spent my first couple of years of school at FSU, I’d visit friends from HS at UF. There was always a legend that the song was about a girl jumping off a high balcony and killing herself. Everything about the song (“She could hear the cars roll by out on 441”) fits the geography as well. He said the legend wasn’t true, but it made sense.
Tom Petty was probably my favorite American singer of all time. Been to multiple concerts, had the chance to meet him once. Fucking legend.
Yeah, and be the one that gets Loud Reed jokes thrown at him for the next six years.? No thanks.
Lou Reed and the Cleveland Browns are the death jokes and nothing will change that.
Abe Vigoda hardest hit.
I have never understood the appeal of Tom Petty. I mean, RIP and all that, but I don’t get it.
How old are you? His first records came out just as I was starting to become musically obsessed.
His Buried Treasures show on XM was fantastic.
Same here. I was 13 when he had his first hit, and 23 when his chart topping streak basically ended. Definitely right place, right time for me. I’m not a super-fan, but he was certainly a memorable part of my youth.
42. My first exposure to TP was on MTV back when it just starting up, back when I was about 6 or 7.
Was not big fan at first then my taste in music coalesced into actual taste in good music. He was a true musician that will stand the test of time.
White folks talkin’ ’bout Tom Petty.
This is what he sounds like to everyone else.
I’m not white.
Go on…
It’s what color you are on the inside that counts.
Pink?
That looks like where rap albums are made.
Only the most illest, underground shit is produced in the bathroom.
All day, every day.
Have some Millie Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk7Xg5vUk9g
And if he bought it from an actual Injun, who was willingly selling it at what he/she determined to be a fair price? Well, we can’t have that!
“Great now I’m out five beads and an eagle feather”
-Father
Eagle feather? have fun in federal prison.
A friend of mine is Native American. He’s talked about how much bullshit he has to go through with the feds to be able to use eagle feathers in ceremonies.
Fucking eagles….
They’ve always sucked.
I’d use Joe Walsh in a ceremony, iykwimaithyd. By which I mean I would definitely listen to “Life’s Been Good” while on peyote. Seems legit, though possibly appropriative of “Yacht-rock” culture.
The courts have recently allowed native american churches to legally acquire eagle feathers thanks to the federal RFRA. Also, I thought it was funny, regardless of the accuracy
Correction, the case is ongoing:
http://www.becketlaw.org/media/government-returns-confiscated-eagle-feathers-tribal-leader-still-enforces-arbitrary-law/
“Hey, Dorsa, show us your torsa!” – Drunk chess fans
This guy gets it. Well, probably not “gets it”, but you know what I mean.
“I’d like to get freaky with that sheik-y” *nudge* *nudge*
– Even more drunk chess fan
“Show your bobs and vagene!”
-Drunk Indian chess fan
+1 English Rugby Song
Are we sure she is actually not a tranny?
“Hey Dorsa, you can move my bishop any time!” – Even drunkerer chess fan.
EAP only pawn in game of life.
I used to play a lot of Chess when I was a kid. I was never that strong (I peaked at around low-Expert strength when I was around 16, and realized I’d never be good enough to justify putting a lot of study into it.) But I did wind up knowing a lot of very strong players, and a surprising number of them were fall-down-the-stairs drunks. Actually, the strongest active American-born grandmaster for quite a while comes to mind.
It’s a bit of a tradition, really. Alexander Alekhin, one of the greatest players of all time, apparently peed in a corner of the exhibition hall during a world-championship match.
Isn’t that just the Russian, not necessarily the chess player, in him?
I can see this as a smart strategy under some circumstances, but you also wouldn’t want to cry wolf too much or people will stop believing you about the attacks you actually did commit.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4944646/ISIS-release-new-video-bragging-Vegas-shooting-REVENGE.html
ISIS said he converted a few months ago, and there are now reports that he sent tens of thousands of dollars overseas. I’ve read conflicting reports that his girlfriend is either an Indonesian or Philippine native, both areas prone to Islamic terror, and the gov is now looking hard for her overseas.
I’m not saying I think Islamic terrorism is likely. At this early stage, it looks like there is at least a plausible trail so I don’t understand why the even mentioning the possibility is being shot down so fast by some officials. Gambling issues or politics seem plausible too.
That would be wild, if true.
Whatever happened to penning a thousand page manifesto before going all bat shit murdery.
Like, you know how long it would take to tweet all that?
/Mil-Twit
Fucking Internet ruined everyone’s attention span.
I’m confused why silencers are getting so much attention. Congress has a bill that would actually do some good. The crazy dickhead didn’t have a silenced weapon. How would keeping them under the nfa do anything?
Obviously you don’t follow Hillary on tweeter. I’m starting to think you aren’t even woke.
Dude, he drives a Gaia-raping ICE beast, carries a gun and believes in the sanctity of the individual.
Doom is the poster-boy for un-woke.
LITERALLY. WORSE. THAN. HITLER.
We, thanks!
Aw * this phone needs to learn not to correct shit.
He’s also schizophrenic!
Since when do you expect logic, or coherence, from gun control types?
I don’t know…
You’re thinking too logically. We’re talking about gun control activists and the media. Their mantra is ‘feelz before realz’
Anything pro-gun right now is going to be used as a cudgel. I say fuck them and vote on it anyway. It’s not like you are going to get the anti-gun nuts to vote republican or support Trump.
Statues and flags had fuck-all to do with anything too…
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
“He caught them Jew cooties!”
Also known as Jooties.
(((nits)))
Analysis of Bluetooth security in sex toys: “You’re fucked”
*Lights Swiss signal*
“Lomas noted that while walking in Berlin recently with a Bluetooth discovery app on his phone, “I was genuinely surprised to see the Hush BLE name, LVS-Z001, pop up.”
Because of course there’s somebody walking around Berlin with a bluetooth enabled buttplug.
I find this completely unsurprising
In the article, it talks about messing with a person’s hearing aid, and I see where that can be a problem. But what’s the worst that can happen if someone hijacks a sex toy? Can they somehow mind control a person through their butt hole?
I’m just going to come down on the side of: It should be your choice whether or not some random person on the train is controlling your butt plug or not.
So, your saying ‘someone’ should wear a T-shirt announcing the presence of said toy along with the address for controlling it if they’re in the mood?
That sounds sensible, but my version might make a good movie script, or maybe a Warty Hugeman episode.
(cell phone rings) “Listen very carefully, and do exactly as I say. We have control of your butt plug. If you do not follow my instructions, we will vibrate your anus right out of your body. Now walk into the nearest bank, demand $1 million in unmarked bills, and have them place it into a plain bag. After that we will call you with further instructions.”
Paging SugarFree — winning idea here
There’s a short story idea right there.
I like this tweet.
https://twitter.com/davealvord164/status/915309389573181442
Would.
Would.
Would.
Would.
Would.
Would.
Would take for a walk x2.
UGH YOU’RE NORMALIZING THE RACIST ALT-RIGHT WITH THAT RHETORIC
/ENB et al
The IDF has developed the most effective way to cause massive cranial blood loss in the enemy. They do it by redirecting the blood to their throbbing boners.
Tom Petty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMSZALOGF_M
Fucken-A.
Petty:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E30XxSYgmqo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUTXb-ga1fo
Here.
He had quite the catalogue.
This is the only Petty song that a actually enjoy. I don’t change the station when Petty comes on, but I never understood his appeal.
Since there wasn’t enough Salon in this morning’s links: I told you that romance wasn’t safe from the derp.
Ugh
(picture of hayseed in overalls reading “Mein Kampf”)
Probably keeps hookers, too.
I’m not in the least surprised that electing a strong, virile man like Trump has activated the libidos of all these ladies in way that President Mom-Jeans never could.
“…and they let you. They let you.”
“Nagging daughter harangues father into returning Native America robe”
Insert crying Indian cultural appropriation joke.
Interesting side fact the crying Indian wasn’t even Indian. He was Italian American actor Espera Oscar de Corti.
RAAAAAAAAAAACIST WHITE WASHER@@#!#@(@!)!@@
Which was later used in a plot for the Sopranos
So what’s the hot take on this?
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-gay-sex-death-penalty-un-same-sex-relations-human-rights-council-saudi-arabia-iraq-nikki-haley-a7980981.html
I’m going with horse trading for yes votes elsewhere.
I’m guessing there is more to the story that can’t be found in the article?
Nothing public as of yet.
Wow. Those yes votes better be good.
Given that Japan voted against it, maybe there was some trading for cooperation from China on the best Korea
I don’t think it was horse trading. There’s more to the resolution than the death penalty for homosexuality et al. The US voted for it because of the parts of the resolution that talked about the death penalty in general. Stuff the government’s been fighting internally (mainly the death penalty against the “mentally handicapped” (however defined) and those who were under 18 when they committed the crime), both of which have been only very recently been declared unconstitutional.
(sld; Fuck the death penalty. While some may deserve death, I don’t trust the government to do it in a fair manner and I don’t trust the government not to kill innocent people in the process)
A Scottish lesbian I’m acquainted with shared the article, but then she commented in a bizarrely even-handed fashion, “US votes against anything related to the death penalty, it’s their policy probably to avoid looking like hypocrites in the international community.”
Rather than PROOF TRUMP HATES TEH GAYS!!!!! which is what I was expecting.
That sounds like a great start of a joke.
How are a haggis and a Scottish lesbian the same.
No one willing eats either.
ba dum tissss
Honestly it sounds like the start of a great Penthouse letter. I can’t match that, but I did once get it on with a dubiously bi-sexual girl from Yorkshire. Close enough for jazz, right?
In news that only people I know on facebook seem to care about: Dakota Meyer slams King of Instagram Dan Bilzerian for filming himself running away moments after he saw a woman shot in the head in Las Vegas
Somebody’s shooting at us!
*takes selfie*
Who? And who?
Dakota Meyer is a Medal of Honor recipient. I have no idea who the other guy is.
Wannabe Most Interesting Man In the World, Tactical Teddy edition. Trust fund type who plays a lot of poker and cavorts with a bunch of Instagram models. Great gig if you can get it.
I looked at the pics. The one with the EoTech does have a slide fire stock.
You can tell because the grip and the stock are a single piece that slides over the buffer tube.
He’s apparently a walking, talking, douche.
Here are a couple of non-douches.
TW: Twitchy
Good link, thanks.
Since it was a Marine, hard to say if he was motivated more by heroism or thinking he’d get laid.
Why not both?
Now he gets both.
Damn, that’s awesome.
Dakota Meyer: Received Congressional Medal of Honor, has a large social media following.
Dan Blizerian: Asshole. Washed out of Naval SPECWAR, poker player, beloved by tactical timmies, also has a large social media following.
I can’t even comprehend the self-absorption of someone who would take a selfie at a time like that.
The word you’re looking for is “Brobdingnagian.”
After 20 seconds of research, it seems he couldn’t own up to the real reason he didn’t make it through BUD/S (range safety violation) so he made up a bullshit story about cursing out an officer. I suppose he thought it made him sound like a badass rather than a moron.
You know what I want from people who are trained to infiltrate and kill singly or in small groups? A hair trigger and a fragile ego.
Also, while I haven’t examined his play, as a former professional poker player myself I am skeptical of the occasional trust-fund kid that claims to be a winner, let alone Bilzerian.
Sounds like a well rounded douchebag
As a reasonably skilled poker player with thousands of hours at the tables, a modestly growing bankroll, and lots of experience with gamblers, I doubt any claims of being a winning poker player, sports better, day trader, and track punter. People remember a few big scores and forget their many modest losses.
Are you saying you doubt this even if the person making the claim is otherwise a complete douchebag?
I’m definitely up > ten thousand dollars over my lifetime poker play, but… mostly because of playing with idiots and games with too-small antes/blinds (which make it too easy to sit back and wait for idiots to idiot.) I wouldn’t even claim to be decent at poker- I’d just claim to know when I have a fish on my hands, and play accordingly. My success at poker is 20% math and 80% social.
I do have a good friend who plays a lot of poker, and he’s up a few thousand this year, over a number of games and tournaments that makes it very statistically unlikely to be luck. But.. a few thousand in local tournaments just means he is playing against a better class of fish. I should mention that he’s one of the best Caucasian amateur go players in the US, so… good at games.
Of course at higher levels, where real money is on the line, the differences in skill are so small that luck plays a much larger part.
He might be a professional but he isn’t a profitable professional based on all I’ve seen and read about him.
He is a professional as such that he started out with a large trust fund and doesn’t have a job.
Someone on facebook posted a photo today of a guy in a tank top with a beer in his left hand, raising his right hand high in the air and flipping the bird at the shooter. Several people were trying to guess which branch of the military he had served in.
I’m guessing those people have never lived in Florida or Texas. I’ve seen stupid that looked brave many times. The really stupid people were the people laying down around him. Niven’s 2nd Law. Never be next to someone starting shit with someone with a gun.
Several facts that are not mutually exclusive or inclusive:
1. Bilzerian is a major league trust fund douche.
2. The overwhelming majority of people when faced with a situation like that would run away.
3. Taking selfie video during such a tragedy is beyond retarded, disrespectful and narcissistic.
4. Meyer is a hero.
5. Criticizing someone for running from that situation is fairly douchey.
He was critizing the douche because he is always dressing up in tactical gear and posing for pics with guns and bikinis.
Dakota referred to it as “operator dress up” and told him operators don’t run in that situation they help others.
He’s just a loudmouthed Molle Molly, much beloved of 15 year old weenies at high school who see him on facebook and want to grow up to be just like him, rather than actually lift some weights and build their own non-fake life.
I would just Indian given the kids’ college money.
But I’d bet the idiot father co-signed on a loan.
OT : Apropos the recent round of my-partner-is-pregnant announcements, let me be the first to say…
“Don’t any of you jerk?”
Before noon?
Research on the epidemiology of who, why, and how people die as a result of gun injuries in America has virtually vanished.
Who dies as a result of gun injuries? People who get shot. No research needed.
Why do they die? Because they were shot. No research needed.
How do the they die? From traumatic injury, depending on where they were shot and what they were shot with. No research needed.
A couple of points of intellectual dishonesty in that one sentence.
“Gun injuries”? You mean, if I drop a gun on my foot? No, this is really “gunshot wounds”, but that doesn’t achieve the desired totemic demonization of an inanimate object.
Epidemiology is defined as “the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of health and disease conditions in defined populations”. Gunshot wounds are not a disease condition, so as applied its really “the study and analysis of the patterns, causes, and effects of gunshot wounds in defined populations”. As noted, this really isn’t a mystery, and is not a matter of “public health” properly defined, but of civil society and law enforcement.
The house left the barn a long time ago
I hate autocorrect.
That horse…
Civil Society and Law Enforcement don’t sound all that science-y. Don’t you remember the rallies for science lat year? Every political problem can be solved by pretend science!
“I feel like in our country there are so many things that white people have taken that are not theirs, and I didn’t want to continue that pattern in our family,” she said.
Bruce Jacobsen bought it from a gallery in Pioneer Square in 1986,
He didn’t take something that wasn’t his, he bought it fair and square.
What a fucking pussy, to cave in to an ignorant, whiny child like that. You’re gonna get more of what you just rewarded, Bruce. May you have the joy of it. If she just wouldn’t shut the fuck up, have it appraised and tell her she can buy it from you and return it, if its that damn important to her.
Glib perverts hardest hit.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/arts/design/louvre-pulls-domestikator-sculpture-tuileries-fiac.html
First-rate trolling.
A+
Some good news: my SIL had her adoption finalization today, so I have (legally) a new nephew.
Congratulations!
An infant, or older kid?
23 year old muscular pool boy
How big is his penis?
I hear it’s Bluetooth enabled.
He turned one a couple weeks ago. They’ve had him since he was six weeks old. I learned that adoption is evidently a year long kick in the nuts and wallet. They’re happy, so I guessing it’s worth all the stress.
A couple I know has been trying to adopt for more than a year. As you say, it’s grueling, but I think it’s cool that people are willing to go through it.
Never too early to buy the little guy some fishing gear and a BB gun!
His parents are city folk, so hopefully they’ll let me introduce him to some of my red neck ways.
He’ll shoot his eye out!
Be a subversive uncle ….. with this.
So pretty much like procreating the old fashioned way…
THis guy gets it. ^^
I lol’d.
As an attorney I have handled many adoptions. It takes so long because everything has to be perfect legally. You do not want a situation where some asshole comes in and claims he was never given proper notice of the adoption and now the court takes a 5 year old away from the only family she’s ever known.
They’ve had many legal issues with this adoption. They are really private people so I won’t go into the details.
As both an adoptee and a lawyer, what’s your opinion on open vs closed adoptions?
I’ve hear good and bad things about both.
From what I’ve read or been told it depends on the situation. If the adoption is the result of a young girl that made a mistake and knows she could not care for the kid. It’s usually ok. But if the family never learns from their mistakes, never makes (or attempts) any of the rehoming goals and raised an abusive household The reunion days of an open adoption can be awful for the kids. As reunion day approaches bed wetting begins or intensifies, acting out and other misbehaviors manifest more frequently or more dramatically, etc
My wife has friends that by keeping in touch with the birth mother when the birth mother became pregnant again. She asked the family if they would take the kid from the second pregnancy.
That’s cool. I was adopted so I’m always happy when successful adoptions occur. Although…
Why aren’t you on that list?
Thanks…
*palms knife*
According to anecdotal evidence in this thread, 100% of lawyers are adopted. Extrapolating from the numbers in your linked article article, 16% of lawyers are serial killers. Now, 16% is closer to 50% than 100%, therefore half of all lawyers are serial killers.
Obviously, either you or Playa is a serial killer. I’ll show you the math paper!
Congratulations!
Congrats to your entire family!
Congrats
Kierkegaard to the white courtesy telephone please.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/03/magazine/the-golden-age-of-existential-dread.html
I tried. He didn’t notice the existential threat his tired ramblings posed on my attention span for bullshit.
I’ve got all sorts of stuff from my military conq…er…travels that I purchased from willing natives. My future kids would be in a heap of trouble if they came at me like that, and so would the school for teaching them horseshit debate skills and horseshit “facts”.
Might as well just burn it all now you culturally appropriating shitlord.
That’s horseshitlord to you buddy.
It’s horreshit all the way down.
Dammit.
heap big trouble
So, that’s where the mountain of skulls and the loincloth came from ….
Why if only there were some agency with deep enough pockets to privately fund that research?
I don’t believe that claim anyway. Surely the DoD has an interest in such research; it may be classified but I’d bet dollars to doughnuts that it exists.
“The members instead succeeded at removing $2.6 million from the House’s CDC budget—the exact amount of money allocated to firearm injury research. (The money was later reallocated specifically for research on traumatic brain injury.)”
Everyone knows everything about TBIs, but nobody knows how guns cause injury! Fuck your actual research, muh narrtiv is at stake!
News Media Run New Poll Showing News Media Very Trustworthy, Unlike President
strangely, they provide no longer term comparison to show, say, the natural fluctuation in this same data point over the last few years…
e.g. from last september
http://news.gallup.com/poll/195542/americans-trust-mass-media-sinks-new-low.aspx
shows overall trust in media in steady decline since the 1970s
polling a dead-cat bounce, basically
I see they’re going with the same blatant misrepresentation that the cocktail-sippers at Reason did: that Trump attacked the news as a fundamental institution, instead of pointing out the repeated lies and hypocrisy of political activists masquerading as journalists, and refusing to give them undeserved respect.
This is one area that I am 100% with Trump on.
Every time Trump says something mean about the media, that’s an attack on the First Amendment.
Every time a speaker gets shut out by a university or municipality, that’s just an unfortunate consequence of wrongthink.
We discussed this a bit at a work dinner the other night, I think that overall Trump’s coming out ahead in his war with the MSM. They’re certainly going out of their way to prove that they’re guilty of everything he accuses them of and then some. It’s stepping-on-rakes-24×7. The level of barely-concealed panic that the jig is up is just delicious.
I didn’t expect this particular little side-benefit when he was elected, but I won’t say that I’m not enjoying it.
I read either that article or a similar one this morning. It’s a predictably-optimistic spin on “hey, we rose to the point where only half of the public said they have no trust in us at all!” High five, everyone. Awesome job.
Something awesome from the mists of time.
FANTASTIC!!!!
“guardrails? runoff areas? nahh. just pile some hay over there and its cool”
even the helmet seems a token gesture to ‘safety’. If there’s a crash, you might as well bury what’s left of the driver w/ the car
You’re singing Jackie Stewart’s song.
Didn’t Ford get into the racing scene out of spite for some Italian snub in a business deal?
Ford wanted to buy Ferrari and Enzo wouldn’t sell, so Ford built the GT40 and beat them at their own game at Le Mans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csFnDoXQKvg
Ford built the GT40 (around a british chassis) in the mid-1960s after Enzo Ferrari rejected a buyout offer by ford. they then competed and won @ Le Mans 4 years in a row.
ford did not get involved in grand prix racing, but rather endurance-racing
What a great video! Those cars look so squirrelly compared with the boring drones today. I’ll bet they were a blast to drive.
And people wonder why racing is dying a slow and painful death.
Racing has gotten a reputation for being VERY expensive, which is not deserved for the many grassroots racing organizations out there. Plus, “kids these days” have no idea how a manual transmission works, so there’s little fresh blood.
https://www.chumpcar.com/
To the rescue.
Jordan Peterson sat down with Camille Paglia for couple hours:
https://youtu.be/v-hIVnmUdXM
Shortcut favorited.
South side of Smokey Mountains in Cherokee. Native Americans have an entire town where they make their living selling Indian “stuff” ( much of which is made in China but it’s Indian style nonetheless) to the White devils. So the left things it’s morally wrong for white people to support that. If that town did not have that niche going for it, they would not be able to make as much because why else would you go there.
Thinks. Dammit.
Of course it’s wrong, they shouldn’t be selling their cultural heritage, they should be hoarding it and living off oppression points!
/prog
Totally OT.
The good news. I made it past the first couple rounds of interviewing and received confirmation to meet with a company on Thursday. This is the second interview with the hiring manager, third overall if you count the one with HR.
The bad news? Its located in the part of Scottsdale I’m not fond of driving to and I don’t think they’re going to pay me what I want.
What’s the growth potential and the job itself like? What’s wrong with the drive, just commute time or a bad neighborhood?
What do you do? Taking jobs you don’t really like the feel of is sometimes a necessity. I did so many very bad jobs when I was younger… depends a lot on the market.
A glimpse into the angry and banal rantings of a girl who’s woke. She twittered yesterday that she wished all Trump supporters dead claiming she wasn’t saying that for attention. Then she deleted it. And I’m supposed to not want to stock up on M1As, ARs, AKs and ammo?
https://twitter.com/cryingcassie/
Of course not, you’re supposed to convert or die.
Ammo run has already begun.
I bought a bunch a few years back after the last scare, but now may have to buy some more. It truly sucks to have to continually justify your constitutional right when cars and lightening are more dangerous than firearms. Most of the gun debate is really an urban versus rural debate. And don’t get me started on how the NRA is who pushes all this. Most rednecks I know don’t pay dues to the NRA. The reason we have gun rights is because most people want guns, not because of the NRA. ugggh.
Nothing’s going to happen. It’s a callous observation but if a bunch of dead kids didn’t lead to gun control when the Dems had the WH then this won’t lead to gun control now.
Yea, I think the post-Newtown furor resulted in something of a sea change; it seems like shootings don’t have the same effect they once did.
I just read through some of the comments; I think I lost about 10 points off my IQ.
Vapidity combined with extreme malice.
It’s a troll account.
Woke was my dictionary app word of the day. Sad.
Those cars look so squirrelly compared with the boring drones today. I’ll bet they were a blast to drive.
Yeah, you can have the “modern era” of formula one. Those cars were fucking amazing, and so were the MEN who drove them. The DFV only made a little better than 400 horsepower but it pushed the cars along pretty goodly.
Ammo run has already begun.
D’oh!
I’m kicking myself because I passed on an ammo can of M193 right before the shooting. Sold out the day of LV.
Time to break out the Rock Chucker.
I was discussing this whole unfortunate tragedy in Las Vegas and the Left’s reaction with a friend from college yesterday. I think the Left flips out partially because they have a hatred for guns and their owners. But I also think in a way, these shootings scares the shit out of them because it’s so fucking random. Think about it, when you go to work in the morning, take your kid to school, or go and enjoy one of your favorite artists at a concert, who thinks, “I’m may get shot today?” No one I hope, so when a situation like the one in Las Vegas does happen, we try to search for some meaning as to why this happened. When you get to that point, you have two options. You can either, if begrudgingly, accept that this random act of violence would have happened no matter what you or anyone else did (barring that you work or congregate at a place that allows you to be armed or have armed guards) or try to seek out how this whole thing could have been prevented.
It takes a lot of strength to take the first route and it sort of goes against human nature. We are so used to shaping the environment and creating outcomes (no matter how terrible those outcomes can be at times) so we usually take the second route. This whole thing with gun control isn’t only because they want to do away with guns but it’s also because of control. Not having control over events and others is an anathema to the Leftist’s worldview because without control, our lives are somewhat left up to chance.
The perception of safety varies a lot. My dad and his friends used to carry guns with them on the school bus and put them in lockers to go plinking or hunting afterwards. That would horrify many of the same people today who wouldn’t blink at all being next to omnipresent vehicles–the Nice Islamic truck attack had a death toll of 86, with 458 wounded.
Take, for example, the Concorde crash in Paris. A very unfortunate accident.
The French authorities filed criminal charges against Continental Airlines for their role in the accident.
That’s not the American way, and I don’t want it to be.
It’s human nature to fear things you don’t understand. Most people on the left have never seen a gun outside a movie or TV show and totemize them. Anyone who enjoys guns is just playing with fire, as far as they’re concerned, ignoring all the other very real dangers they’ve become accustomed to every day.
Another of their problems, even among those that aren’t die hard leftest is that they don’t think about things more than one step ahead. Ban guns equal problem solved. They don’t think about the consequences beyond that and don’t really want to. It’s like taking an opponents chess piece or the easy pool shot without thinking 2 or 3 steps ahead. It’s the same with drug prohibition. Drugs are bad mkay. So legalizing it would make the problem worse right? It’s simplistic thinking.
My first question to a gun grabber is always something like “what do you think the compliance rate will be and how many more jails will we need to build to house all the nonconpliant types who get prosecuted”. They never seem to have given this a seconds worth of thought.
This comment sort of reminds me of a time I went out on a date with a self identified peaceful collectivist. We got to talking about politics and she mentioned that the concept of private property was standing in the way of progress. I asked that if she had the power, would she get rid of private property? She of course said yes. I then asked her, what would she do, if someone didn’t want to turn their property over to the people (i.e. the State)? She responded that she would sanction them with some sort of punishment. I then asked, if that person said to fuck off even after being threatened what would she do? After a little more prodding she had to admit that she would need to resort to violence in order to fulfill her objectives even though she wouldn’t want to.
The crazy part is that I think she came to that realization once I prodded and never once thought of how exactly would she make people comply with her worldview despite being a peaceful collectivist.
Damn. She better have been hot.
She was nice looking and I thought she was really nice but the whole thing just sort of fizzled out. Looking back now, her principles were not in line with mine and also, her friends were annoying little Progressive shits. I shat on them and their bullshit view of the world whenever I could and that probably was a factor when we both stopped talking to each other.
From what I heard, she’s now an ordained minister in a very liberal sect of Lutheranism.
She probably decided to forget all about her plan to force people to submit 10 minutes later. Thats been my experience with that anyway. We cant be thinking about the negative consequences.
I think this is a huge part of it. To repeat a comment I made earlier, they’re so damn sure that they’re the smart ones in the room, but when you ask how, specifically, their proposals would actually solve anything, it immediately turns to flustered hand-waving and “well I’m at least I’m trying to do something, that’s more than what you’re doing!” Their ideas don’t stand up to even the tiniest amount of scrutiny. They have no fucking idea. Just like the rest of their ingenius proposals.
“We gotta do SOMETHING ”
But “something” never goes beyond “pass a law”.
It’s an interesting observation and I think the fear of not having control over one’s environment is also why a lot of people buy into conspiracy theories. I’m convinced, though, that many/most of the antigunners are primarily motivated by a simple hatred of the outgroup.
Libertarianism is the only political philosophy that does not promise utopia on Earth.
There will always be people who are poor because of their own bad decisions or just bad luck, and these people will suffer. People will ruin their lives with drugs. There will be deadly catastrophes – either natural or manmade – and nobody will know how to prepare for these or prevent them.
These things will never change. All we can do is promote maximum human freedom so that people can innovate and reduce the total suffering as much as possible. That may not be a happy thought, but it’s true, and that’s more than can be said for idiotic utopian visions like Hillary’s stated goal of “zero suicides”.
Just having this argument with my wife… fun times.
An argument with the choir or trying to convince?
Neither, just not accepting her position and stating mine. If she were convinced by it, that would be nice too.
It was the strangest set of arguments. It doesn’t matter that you’re more likely to get hit by lightning, we have to do something!
sigh…
I ende dup looking up the number of ‘mass shooting’ deaths (provided by Motherjones, so I know the number isn’t on the conservative side) <800 from 1982 until now, including Las Vegas. Something like 2.5 million people die every year. It just boggles the mind.
Why havnt you just told her what to think?
Call it willful blindness to the fact that the world, and life, are not completely safe, never have been and never will be. And no amount of well-meaning legislation or rule-making will eliminate risk. The most one can do is practice situational awareness and be ready to move.
Great post.
It applies to the global warming scare as well. Unpredictable hurricanes causing massive deaths? Must be our faults, collectively, and something must be done to change it.
It’s narcissism and fear of chance, randomness, spontaneity (and perhaps a little bit of disbelief therein).
I made a few corrections.
Damn straight.
I’d like to see a real-time version of this translation engine.
I need to be careful in how I phrase this to avoid sounding kooky, but I think there’s an undercurrent that the left is missing as they push gun control and confiscation. This isn’t the 80s or 90s anymore. The “patriotic capital” that existed in those eras to smooth over political differences has been exhausted. As shown with the NFL bullshit, the right knows that the left has no respect for the US, and the right’s patriotism is limited to the national symbols that piss off the left (flags, songs, pledges, military).
What does this have to do with guns? On a national level, the urban coastal areas are irreparably fractured from flyover territory, and guns are the poster child for this fracture. Many “gun nuts” I talk to have begun to speak of the inevitability of registration and confiscation on a national level, and have taken precautions for such a scenario. Beyond the panics that occur after each mass shooting event, people are acquiring weapons and ammo in a way that doesn’t raise suspicion and in a way that isn’t traceable by the fedgov. The sense I get is that they’re just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Now, it’s a very different thing to stock up on guns and ammo in preparation for civil unrest and a very different thing to participate in, let alone initiate the civil unrest. However, I think that Sandy Hook was the last stand for the pro-gun movement on the national level, and that the erosion will imminently begin. Gun owners will soon be made to be out of compliance with gun laws. At least, people are preparing as if this is what is going to happen.
Gun people shit the bed every time there’s a mass shooting and nothing will come of this except maybe a bump stock ban. On the other hand, if the Donald knuckles under God knows where we’ll end up.
I think it’s hilarious that the Democrats boasting about their plans for “getting these guns off the streets” results in a rush to buy guns, which means that there are more guns in civilian hands than there would have been if they had just said nothing.
Yep, happens every time.
Disagree. If an elementary school didn’t do it, nothing will.
And remember, by comparison, the left used to seem reasonable back then. A lot has changed. The whole “NAZIS around every corner” thing is off-putting to the vast majority of Americans.
I didn’t vote for Trump. But if it’s between him and Kamala Harris in 2020, I will. And there are millions more like me.
We’re in California, Playa. Our vote is going to Kamala no matter who you and I vote for.
At least she’s whip-smart and oh so beautiful.
I told my wife that if Harris or Warren wins the Dem nomination, I will vote for Trump in a heartbeat even though I didn’t vote for him in 2016.
She was sort of appalled but understood my stance.
I’ve said since 2012 if Warren even has a wiff of winning the nomination, I’m entering my bunker in preparation for civil war.
I’m not bullshiting. I identified Warren as my red line years ago. The minute I see her perma-scowl face on CNN, it’s on like Donkey Kong.
I hate Warren with a fucking passion. She reminds me a lot of Ivy Starnes from Atlas Shrugged.
I think I hate Harris more. With Warren I can see that it’s all just the same old scam, I think everyone can see right through it, and I don’t think she’ll be able to get traction all the constituents of the D coalition. She’s Hillary 2.0.
I’m think Harris really, truly believes her own bullshit and I think she might tap into prog populism much, much more effectively. She could turn out to be the progressive version of Trump.
I think Warren is the true believer. I’ve (begrudgingly) read her bankruptcy law textbook, and it is clear that she thinks she’s Woodrow Wilson 2.0
Warren sells well in Massachusetts. I doubt she’d sell well anywhere else.
She’ll kill it in the Twin Cities.
She is the perfect stereotype of the coastal elite academic. She’ll have the media wrapped around her clammy finger, and she doesn’t have the creep factor that Clinton does. If Warren had told Clinton to fuck off and had run in ’16, she’d be the President right now.
When’s the last time the Democratic base turned out at a national level to get behind a coastal elite academic?
You think there are that many people who didn’t turn out to support Hilldog but WILL turn out to support Warren? People in the midwest where Hillary lost? I don’t have a crystal ball, but I’m skeptical.
When’s the last time the Democratic base turned out at a national level to get behind a coastal elite academic?
JFK wasn’t an academic, but he was a coastal elite.
Bubba Bill was a Rhodes scholar.
Chicago isn’t what I think of as traditionally coastal, but Barack Obama was an elite and an academic.
So sadly true.
I can see NYC lapping that shit up, once she’s negotiated her cut.
I have to admit even I had the fleeting thought that maybe we should concede to more gun control after this horrible tragedy. That’s coming from a guy who put himself through college selling all kinds of guns at a store. In my college days I shot almost every day. But that was a fleeting thought. I think it will come slowly and incrementally. Just like the legally forced gay marriage, trans rights, Obamacare, etc, etc. Our country has moved very far to the left if you compare it to where we were 50 years ago. If you compare us to where we were 10 years ago, the shift doesn’t seem quite so big.
What exactly is a legally forced gay marriage, and should I as a single straight male be concerned?
I see you haven’t been to Warty’s basement yet.
I think it’s only a prison thing.
Thank glob for that, I already gotta keep the fatties and psychos from forcing me to marry ’em, If I had to also keep back those smoking hot queers, I don’t know i that I could withstand it.
Smoking Hot Queers, my band name if I start one.
Should be Smoking Hot Fags
Great acting in that show but I had to quit watching it. The sadism was just too much.
Wait, is that Chief Grady?
What I meant was that legally enforceable gay marriage was created through judicial fiat rather than legislatively, which would have been the legally proper way to handle it. And all the concomitant problems that has created — bake my cake, etc. Trying to save words…
Hasn’t it been illegal to discriminate due to someones gayness long before the wedding thing came up, you know just like race and age and religion? Now personally I think, as a business owner, one should be able to tell each or any one or some but not others of these classes to pound sand. I don’t see how the state sanctioned marriage bit makes a difference. Bakers should have to bake civil union cakes? but ‘wedding’ is over he line. Maybe the gay marriage panic prone are at heart concerned with freedom of association, but the way a lot of them highlight the wedding part has always smelled a tad past the sell by date to me.
Oh and the cripples, I forgot to mention the crippled.
“Hasn’t it been illegal to discriminate due to someones gayness long before the wedding thing came up, you know just like race and age and religion?”
No, it has not. Gayness has never been a protected class subject to strict scrutiny.
Huh, that’s news to me I was under the impression that most states had public accommodation laws that included sexual orientation.
It’s tempting to do that but something I learned about the Left, they will keep on pushing until they get what they want. Even if it takes them years and tearing down the foundation piece by piece, they will keep on going.
And they know to never give an inch back. The only compromise they’ll accept is to give them half of what they want instead of all of what they want.
I think a significant portion of the right – the people, not the politicians – have started reaching the point where they’re drawing the line. Nope, we’ve had enough bullshit from you, no more, not even a little bit more to placate you. Will it last? Will the politicians who nominally represent them get the message? I dunno yet.
Will it last? Will the politicians who nominally represent them get the message? I dunno yet.
I think the elephant in the room is the national debt. The right could win and win big for the next 50 years, and we’re still poised right under the sword of damocles. Not to mention that the GOP and many right wing people are statists who don’t push the gas pedal on statism quite as hard as the left.
I don’t want a strong, ideologically unified authoritarian right, that successfully gelds the authoritarian left.
I don’t think it would be any easier to deal with them than the current fuckers.
Next year will be an important turning point. There’s already some signs that right-leaning voters are willing to take more political risks now to get more conservatism, like Roy Moore for example. A lot of the folks that currently represent the Tea Party movement in the House are the kind of folks willing to risk careers to cut entitlements and some government programs. We just need more of them in Congress to actually move the mountain.
I don’t think there’s a lot of benefit in agonizing over the left/right issue, because it’s not productive.
It’s entirely natural to have a reaction to the news and focus on the first-order issue – if the guy didn’t have a gun, neatly 600 people would have gone home safely that night. The problem is that authoritarians see society as an engine with a huge number of switches and dials, and if you get the right combination of switches and get the rheostats set just right, the world will become perfect. Human experience tells us that if this is true, it may not be useful, because the tinkering and experimenting which authoritarians would need to undertake to get that permutations of switches right – assuming there is one – will be so draconian that we will be slaves. But of course, that’s the essence of The Fatal Conceit. They see society as an enormous pachinko machine that simply needs the ball to follow the correct path.
To walk down that route means that if you change a couple of switches, the second- to N-th order effects don’t matter. You’ve sent the pachinko ball down the ‘right’ route which avoids those inconvenient side effects entirely, and if it isn’t the right path, you move down to the second-order effect, and treat it the same way. Their view of the world is fundamentally deterministic. Press the right buttons, and you get instant nirvana.
Of course, not all adults (or children for that matter) see reality that way. Reality is *largely* deterministic, but it isn’t inherently modellable. So how do humans succeed in a non-deterministic, but somewhat predictable world? Well, the first thing they do is recognize that bad things happen. Some of the cogs in the machine are broken, faulty, or just plain missing. Authoritarians – when they meet these situations – will seek to route around the problems or hammer them into conformance (vide the Fabian Society), but society is not only non-deterministic, it also evolves in non-deterministic ways.
Once I ‘got’ this, I reconciled myself to the truth (as I see it) that some social problems are in a practical sense, un-fixable, because the problem isn’t the environment, it’s the participants.
But anyway, you can spot an authoritarian (left, middle or right) because their ideology is like playing chess and looking only one move ahead. Be better. You know there are no simple answers to this.
I agree with what you’re saying. If the solution was easy, someone would have found it already. As a society and throughout history, these kind of problems government, societies, and private organizations have massive incentives to figure out and exploit, and despite the carrot of a smoothly operating social machine, no one has been able to get it right. That means it’s confounders and human nature all the way down.
“Gun owners will soon be made to be out of compliance with gun laws. At least, people are preparing as if this is what is going to happen.”
Anti-gun laws in this country are actually weakening not strengthening.
Despite Sandy Hook (pretty much the worst incident you could imagine… knock on wood).
Polls indicate now that the majority of Americans — that’s right — want NO GUN LAWS WHATSOEVER.
The right may be paranoid but I think they’re winning.
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Also, I don’t know if I buy the patriotism claim. I have no respect for the U.S. either (at least if we are talking about the government) and I am not progressive in the slightest.
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Moreover, I’d like to point something out: Thanks to the advancement of the human race, it’ basically over for prohibition.
No, not as an attempted government policy. Governments will still suck.
But in terms of actually prohibiting things.
Guns are cheap. Guns are simple. Technology is advanced. Americans have more wealth and disposable income than any civilization in human history.
You could confiscate every single gun in this country and in 6 months there would be a million guns in the U.S. It’s over. You may prohibit guns on paper, but you’ll NEVER actually prohibit guns.
I’m sure we libertarians will keep losing every political war. But we’re going to win anyway. Nothing can stop the tide now.
Good god, UK has done it!
Sale of acids to under-18s to be banned, Amber Rudd says
And people here mocked the idea of “acid control legislation”…
What’s with all the fine young English lads splashing acid in people’s faces?
Probably some kind of weird cultural appropriation going on. That, or I got nuthin’.
Well, I guess nobody who’s advising them has ever heard of nitrating mixtures and alkalis.
I would *absolutely* rather have sulfuric acid thrown on me than lye.
Next up, a ban on pointy sticks and flammable liquids.
*raises hand*
I have a question. Was it primarily kids who were perpetrating the acid attacks?
Well, yes an no. As far as the UK Govt is concerned, sure, they’re misguided dusky little moppets who aren’t used to alien, British culture. But when they’re remanded, they look like 35 year old goat herders. Probably all progeria sufferers or something.
Supposedly lots of them were gang attacks – easier to get and dispose of than a gun, so good way to ambush people who tick you off.
The issue is that up until now, enhanced sentencing for knife attacks made youth gang members look for a weapon that could be dumped easier, and didn’t carry the extra penalty.
But make no mistake, chemical attacks are not solely the attack of choice for “disaffected urban youth gangs”.
I think y’all know who else I’m talking about.
God damn Mormons
H…Hitler?
Damn I’m bad at this game…
Col. Mustard?
Mohamed, in the face, with acid.
Abdul, in the market, with the Uhaul
Salim, in the parking lot, with a goat.
Col. Mustard, in the conservatory, with Prof. Plum.
Are we still talking murder, or something more recreational?
Professor Plum does have a pretty nice rack.
Clearasil?
Zed, in the basement, with a coupla’ hard, pipe-hittin’ african americans.
ugh. screwed that up
ZedMarcellus WallaceGet the gimp.
The Iranian Police?
Saddam Hussein?
Me, after a number of home-pickled onions?
You can take my acid from my cold, dead, Home Depot.
CNN links the acid attacks to austerity…
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/29/europe/london-acid-attacks/index.html
Of course, there hasn’t been any “austerity”.
Well, more austerity there than here, where we just print our way out of trouble.
Hmm. 60 month sabbatical for Krugnuts to help them get back on their feet?
Now that’s fake news. There’s no way in hell they don’t know what the root of that issue is.
“CNN links the acid attacks to austerity…”
If I were that stupid, I would kill myself.
Or throw acid in my own face.
I don’t think I would have the balls to do something like that. The Zec could do it.
So under-18s won’t be able to buy vinegar?
/me throws out his pickled onion recipe in disgust and ennui
See discussion above regarding liberal failure to consider things past step 1.
Y’all beat me to my point upstream.
Erdinger Wießbier for tonight.
Was expecting some kind of hot german female athlete/model. I am disappoint.
You can’t always get what you want ….
But with Google….
… you have to take it up the ass?
Totally Obscure and OT
*sigh* I’m getting old. Learning a MVC framework is much harder than I remember learning new coding patterns back 15 years ago.
Have you looked at CORE yet?
I sympathize. I did coding for a bit less than 10 years before I realized: I’m not interested enough to keep up with this shit every year.
This is one reason why I went to law school. Now I mourn the loss of all of my coding prowess. Even basic text manipulation scripts take me hours upon hours.
NERDS
I was looking at PHP frameworks in general, and landed on Phalcon for the moment, but I’m finding the practical side of things like Dependency Injection and Routing to be an unexpectedly painful learning curve. Doesn’t help that the dead-tree books I ordered aren’t here.
And by the time they arrive they’ll be out of date and the code/tools will no longer be supported.
Phalcon’s been around a while, even if it’s not huge.
I figure about half of what I learn will be generally applicable to proper object-based MVC technologies. The problem is that the code I intend to build could be built with Zend, but I’m philosophically opposed to building something for the future on an obsolescent technology (or one that’s more obsolescent than it need be)
DOZIER!!!
Glad I am not the only one watching!
ROSARIO!
Beat me to it, hayek!
Yanks are already warming up their middle relief pitcher. Not a vote of confidence!
Well, I was going to watch on a delay so I could fast forward thru commercials. Silly me, too many Twins fans on here! Go Twins!
Also, Dozier’s HR made me $27!
27 big ones! Pretty high roller for a Dakotan. 🙂
I am officially a Cubs fan, but I always wish well on the Twinks on behalf of my friends and neighbors. They are my “AL” team I s’pose.
Cubs fan? We’re done talking. (wink emoticon)
I married into it. Mr Hayeksplosives converted to Protestantism for me; I converted to Chicago teams for him (I’m from the pro-team impoverished state of Oklahoma).
… hard to know who got the better deal.
As painful as the Bears have been since 2007, the Blackhawks were a helluva ride the past decade, and the Cubs made some lifetime memories last year.
I don’t watch hoops, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
But for college football, it will always be Ok State for me. Go Pokes!
Wait….. what kind of Protestantism?
Oh, you know. We just protest random stuff like a bunch of SJWs would.
I keed, I keed.
I use the term Protestant on purpose because the exact denomination isn’t as important to me as the actions & beliefs of the local (literally a few blocks from our house) church body and leadership. If we move far away, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if we end up joining another “brand,” as long as they have the basics right.
Clearly you meant Catholicism then. 😉
Lutheran or GTFO.
My husband describes himself as a “recovering Catholic” so pretty sure he’ll never set foot in a Catholic church again if not for a wedding, funeral, or tour of a beautiful cathedral. We do however have a fantastic framed hand calligraphed “plenary indulgence” from the pope given to his parents back in 1963. Pretty hilarious.
We aren’t Lutheran, but we do go to a church founded by Swedish immigrants in the 1880s, the Covenant Church. covchurch.org.
The hubs plays bass guitar every Sunday.
yeah, i”m pretty much a tight ass! Haha. Put $20 on Twins to win and $10 on Dozier to hit a HR. I’ve always had a soft spot for the cubs. WGN was one of the first channels we had on cable.
You, sir, are worse than Pete Rose.
Nobody in sports is worse than Pete Rose.
Well, nobody that wasn’t involved with Penn State football anyway.
O.J.?
Not as bad as the Penn State people. All he ever did was rob some memorabilia that was probably his to begin with.
AND
The the whole cutting his wife’s head off. That too.
That was his son.
WRONG, infowars
Daaaaaaaamn! What a catch by Buxton.
Gold Glove
And now he’s out of the game. fuck
This is not going as well as we hoped…
I lost my bet. Oh well.
Actually, it went exactly as I hoped!
Twins were scrappy, but they just don’t have the horses.
1) Are we getting any better? We have the best trauma docs going. Ya, I think they have gotten better.
2) Congress may have slashed their budget, but they do not control that budget. Perhaps the CDC could have used some of the money that is pointed out as wasted here. to study gun violence.
Seems the CDC had different priorities and chose to spend their budget elsewhere. Fuck off.
Maybe a few more residencies in Chicago and Detroit would give well-needed experience.
“mass casualty incidents seem increasingly common”
*seem* Citation most definitely needed or can be assumed to be bullshit.
Honestly, I’m surprised they slipped and put a “seem” there instead of just “are increasingly common”. Not like their audience would have called them on it.
And as the other bookend to “Acid sales bans”, Britain makes viewing of terror content on the web.
And so, the noose closes. You can’t talk about it, accuse anyone of it, or even see it.
Gotta love that they gotta break their own law to enforce that. Never change, Government man, never change.
Olbermann has stated that Trump is Hitler, yet he wants to disarm the populace. Why does he hate Americans?
https://pjmedia.com/video/keith-olbermann-calls-nra-terrorist-organization/
Trump is Hitler who should take all the guns.
Lefty bigotry etc. etc. etc.
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/10/we-dont-include-muslims.html
thank mr skeltal
Just in case anyone was short on leftist racist garbage, almost no one can deliver it like Mark Morford.
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/White-men-with-guns-are-America-s-real-12246941.php
“There has been, on average, a mass shooting nearly every day in America since the Sandy Hook massacre in December of 2012, totaling nearly 1,400, and counting. And the vast majority of such shootings are at the hand of – you guessed it – white American males.”
Link goes to a Mother Jones that won’t open for me. Do I bother?
I didn’t. What a scumbag tool that guy is.
Pure, white hot, impotent rage.
“white hot”
RACIST!!!!!
No, this is conflating two articles (probably, I didn’t read it, but Newsweek basically ran the same numbers) — the 1400 number is All “mass shootings” whether or not there was a death, including gang activity, domestic violence (man shoots wife then self is still a “mass shooting” since it’s more than one) etc. The Mother Jones article only claims 93 ‘mass shootings” to get to their “vast majority are white males”, since they select more carefully for, uh, events with white males. So this is terrible statistics, which I’m sure you’re not surprised to know.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand communism. The identity politics are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of Žižek most of it will go over a typical economist’s head. There’s also a large amount of ethnic genocides, which is deftly woven into communist regimes – Joseph Stalin’s forced relocation of millions of Chechens, for instance. The teenagers understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of the theories, to realize that they’re not just starving- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike communism truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn’t appreciate, for instance, the social conditions in Che’s existencial catchphrase “The negro is indolent and lazy,” which itself is a cryptic reference to Karl Marx’s hatred of Jews. I’m smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Peter Kropotkin’s genius unfolds itself on their iPhone 6. What fools… how I pity them. ? And yes by the way, I DO have a hammer and sickle tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It’s for the ladies’ eyes only- And even they have to demonstrate that they’re of the proletariat (preferably not the lumpenproletariat) beforehand.
Hi I’m 83 and I just started using GNU/Linux and I can tell you for a fact it’s my favorite Operating System!!. Lik the one time the GPL said said it’s free and Open Source !!!! i was agreeing so much I’am smarter then you’re average STD gigolo at the nursing home to even though I am one. I may be old but I’m smarter then every Windows user on earth basically GNU/Linux is also really stable when they said like the kernel is monolithic I was so blown away as they must have big balls to put that in an Operating System so I told my friends on minecraft and they agree too. LOL once when my spongebath nurse took me to McDonald’s I asked for a journaling file system with a max partition size of 1 EiB and the dumb bitch didn’t even get the reference XD One time in arts n crafts time i evan shouted “I LOVE RICHARD STALLMAN” and Mrs.Janice told me to go outside i fucking hate that cunt proprietary software is for dumb ppl just like what Richard Stallman said, i m too smart for such imbicells. But yeah I love GNU/Linux and I’m actually smart enough to use it to.
You can’t do this in Linux.
HM, where did you get that Japanese copy pasta from or was it some rant run through a translator?
I found it on some copypasta archive, and I agree that it was originally a rant in English but translated.