ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONES. WHILE APPRECIATING THE POSSIBILITY OF HAVING A MASSIVE STORM CLEANSE A LARGE AREA OF BRUTALS, ZARDOZ PREFERS A MORE….PERSONAL APPROACH.
C’MERE, BRUTAL!
ZARDOZ WILL GIVE HIS CHOSEN ONES THE GIFT OF THE LINK, SO THEY MAY CONTINUE ON WITH THEIR LIVES, SERVING ZARDOZ!
- BRUTAL NATION OF SPAIN MAY COME APART. ZARDOZ STANDS READY TO SEND BRUTAL EXTERMINATORS TO HELP. HELP EITHER SIDE, AS LONG AS IT ENDS IN VIOLENCE!
- ZARDOZ APPROVES OF THIS SPORT! HOWEVER, ZARDOZ SUGGESTS THAT BRUTALS WORK ON GETTING MORE DEATHS, RATHER THAN “INJURIES”.
- ZARDOZ TELLS TURKS – GO FORTH AND KILL!
- STOP RESISTING! AN INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO?
ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
frist. btw, interesting links.
Yeah, I went to a UFC fight once and I had to break up a fight between Irish brutals after their brutal lost.
I saw two dudes, both driving pickups with “Tap Out” stickers, get into a loud altercation in a parking lot. After about 10 minutes of “Come at me, bro!!!”, they both left and drove away.
Was it like this?
(H/T to whichever Canuck posted this a few weeks ago. Rufus? JT? I don’t remember which…)
Titor.
The bastard turned me on to Letterkenny and Trailer Park Boys and I’m pretty sure I’m gonna need hernia surgery from laughing.
Naw, Canadian fights are more…gentlemanly.
Those legs. Of course, while I’m glad she got the drop on the guy, I’m also very interested (for science purposes of course) where she was keeping the pistol.
Very 80’s. Instrumental retro synth soundtrack music seems to be a thing these days.
Any idea who the model is?
Ha – you found a way to get me to click the link. I like it.
It’s in the comments.
LOL
I listen to a lot of the full albums at work via youtube (not much I can listen to there other than instrumental). I think Carpenter Brut is definitely the top of the list for me – eminently re-listenable and very intense – some of my coworkers compared it unfavorably to video game soundtracks though.
I bought ’em just based on that track – love that sort of thing. And yep, I immediately thought of video games – and anyone who thinks there isn’t any good video game music is out of their mind.
Um, I hope you checked the track titles. The three EPs were all collected in the Trilogy album – no differences there. There are a couple other singles and the Live album that was finally released on itunes has some nice variations, but the EPs are unnecessary if you have Trilogy.
I always do my research. Bought “Trilogy” and the live album. Looking forward to it.
Ship To Shore Phonoco is releasing some incredible video game soundtracks. https://www.shiptoshoremedia.com/
It is a wacky little label that is also releasing obscure film music, out of print schlock, Tiny Tim and more.
Just heard a great interview with those dudes on WFMU this week.
Here’s a link to the interview.
http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/75179
If you like soundtrack music, film scores, video game music, etc. , check out Morricone Island on Tuesdays @ 7pm eastern. Wfmu 91.5 and on the web at wfmu.org. Or best, the wfmu app.
Cool thanks. We just went to a concert here with Miklos Rosza’s Jungle Book. Made me want to go check out some of his soundtracks again.
Listening now – good stuff. The mood reminds me a little of these guys – which also isn’t video game music but could be.
What you posted earlier reminds me of the music from “Hyperlight drifter” check steam for it. Great game if you liked the Legend of Zelda at all, and similar music.
It should. It’s the same artist. And yes, I like the game a lot.
Ah, That makes sense.
It sounded a LOT like the game!
He has some amazing chip-tune stuff if you’re into that at all. Like little 8-bit symphonies.
Why is Swiss posting Zardoz’s links? Is Zardoz not real? Say it aint so Zardoz, I’m both confused and scared and drunk.
Well, I am partially drunk, but ZARDOZ posts what ZARDOZ posts.
Dude—we r in a global existential war where our enemy EXISTS in social media and u r jerking yourself off w/ marginaila!!!!
U should be OWNING this conversation because u r everyting they hate!!!
Drop your toys , pick up your tools and go help save western civilization
YAHHHHHH!! RAHGHGHHHHHHAAAAAAA!!!
Swiss, don’t fly your drunk flag too proudly.
You will get in trouble.
Peak doof.
Good day at the gun show.
I picked up a Steyr L9 A1.
My girlfriend picked up a HK P9S.
How do you like those funky triangle sights?
I think I’ll be ok with them. I hope to get to the range in the next couple days.
Were you able to take advantage of the gunshow loophole?
Great legs. But I have never understood how women can drive with those type of heels. Good for getting the drop on the cop.
Nanjing Disposable Cup Company, A Division of the Great East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere Holdings, Inc?
That’s like 60 DEAD CUPS per person in the world. Are you encouraging me to recycle?
The swan is a beautiful symbol of lifelong romance.
Holy shit that game is awesome but it should also be registered as a torture device because I CAN’T STOP DYING.
Welcome to the world of Dark Souls players since 2009.
You should play some Angband. Except it sucks now. <3.0.6 Angband.
Still no Ghost ‘n Goblins.
It can’t be more aggravating than Street Fighter 2020. Nothing is.
Never played it, but I did just watch the Previously Recorded episode on it.
The “teen” (they alternate between ‘teen’ and ‘man’) is on top of 1 cop and has his hands around his neck. The cop doesn’t swing at the dude until he’s unable to pry him off his partner.
he hits the guy twice, and it has no effect, and then a bystander says, “you need a hand?” and the cop says yes. he whacks the guy two more times. Meanwhile the other bystanders are screaming and narrating the thing (“He wilding! he wilding!”) and otherwise doing everything possible to make the situation worse and more hysterical.
I hate cops, but i hate people constantly trying to turn every single instance of cops-using-force into “Rodney King v.2.0”. The sound of that woman screaming literally serves to do nothing but inflame the violent reactions of the police. It creates an environment that sounds ‘out of control’, which basically prompts cops to go overboard trying to assert control.
I hate cops, but i hate people constantly trying to turn every single instance of cops-using-force into “Rodney King v.2.0”.
This
Maybe the inevitable settlement I’ll be contributing to will delay the life of crime the kid was clearly intent on.
Nope. He’ll just be able to afford a decent lawyer next time.
There are those that hate the rule of law, those that hate the rule of white people and those that hate bad police acting like barbarians. They all try to act like they are in the last group.
Ya that kid kind of deserved an ass beating there. He is lucky to be alive to be honest. Try to choke out a cop I am thinking they are going to retaliate with equal force.
When I was a young Festus the nightstick was a thing. Cops used to rough us up once in awhile but it was all part of the game. Know the rules and you’ll get home in one piece. Fuck that screeching baboon, she should be in cuffs, too.
Notice down in the article that kid was running all over town for days threatening people with a knife and robbing them. The kid is a menace. So yeah, in this case it is hard to blame the cops.
ZARDOZ TELLS TURKS – GO FORTH AND KILL!
They’ve tred everything else right? May as well let them figure it out.
That’s no body’s business but the Turks?
Sorry. I stopped trying to figure out who was on first and who was pitching over there.
Seriously. My eyes glazed over trying to read that article.
Constantinople?
OK, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcI5rNR5TGM
Istanbul.
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way
The other day I came across something funny in our CI logs, and went looking for an answer- why is “nyc,” failing I asked… well, it’s apparently a replacement for istanbul…
I kind of wish I’d been told “It’s nobodies business but how devops works.”
Though of course I would not have accepted that, so.
Canadian Mike Rowe on lazy complainers
The video is strange. It appears as though the person is resisting, but is he in the grip of the cop beneath him and can’t free his arms? I do think that he is lucky to be in the middle of a cop sammich because otherwise the cop on top would have just shot him. The guy tugging on the cop on top is damn lucky not to be dead as well.
I kind of wonder what the tugger was thinking.
I think you nailed it Gilmore. I bow to nobody in the intensity of my visceral distaste for cops and their thuggish ways but in this case the person appears to be actually resisting and the cops were showing restraint. I think the presence of the “bottom cop” kept the “top cop” from shooting early and often.
The crowd was not helping since if this was a good arrest for participation in actual crimes it is what we want our ‘thugs in blue” to do. This is not a case of killing somebody for selling loose cigarettes, being a kid with a toy, holding merchandise in a Walmart, living in a hole in the desert, telling a cop you have a CCP etc etc etc.
Swiss, unless he was thinking I want to be a Darwin winner and go viral I have no clue what he could possibly be thinking.
It’s the last punch or two that’s suspect. Up until then it looks like cops (and I don’t like them much either) subduing a suspect who is resisting. That might be OK. But at the end it looks like cops hitting a guy who has stopped resisting, and is unconscious. That’s a good recipe for killing people unnecessarily, one the cops shouldn’t follow.
A few shots for good measure. I think we expect too much of cops if we think they can turn off the anger at just the right time. Both sides need to realize cops are humans.
We might have to disagree. I’ve sat on people hitting them just like that, just long enough to make sure they knew they were no longer welcome. I did keep asking them the childlike question: “Are you done?” Childlike or not it is the only important question when you’re sitting on someone, hitting them, and thinking about letting them up.”Are you done?” If you are, I’ll let you up.
I think we expect too little of cops if we don’t give a shit if they kill people. That is what you’re arguing, right? ” A few shots for good measure?” Really? Nice, buddy..
I’m too tired to argue about this, but come on.
I think he left. But as of now, without viewing it, I agree with you.
Twas said in jest! Now off fine steed!
Sorry, I’m at work. My point is that when cops get in physical confrontations, its understandable that they go overboard at times. It’s wrong, but understandable. The situation today is that they go waaay the fuck over the line. So, I basically agree with most of what you’re saying.
BTW, by “shot for good measure” I meant a little jab in the ribs. Some fucker shoots at me and I chase him down, tackle him and finally wrestle the cuffs on him, yeah, I’d be tempted to treat him a little rough. Cops should be above that and lose their jobs for it, but it is a part of human nature. Gunning down suspects because you’re shitting your pants? That’s murder and is even worse when a cop does it.
“Officer, I have a Chinese Communist Party in my pocket.”
https://twitter.com/_Finntrovert/status/915826971690590210
LOL
*slithers in appreciation*
The Finn nails it.
More than a little suspicious of the absolutely glacial pace of information about this, particularly the motive. When they’re not screaming things from the top of their lungs 24/7 to fill the entire news cycle…
I love that smiley face with sunglasses meme. Never gets old.
HM in his previous life:
https://twitter.com/uejini/status/916364774371237888
Wait, so was I the clown or Betty Boop?
Why, the flying spermatozoa, of course. Or the magic mirror. Gentleman’s choice.
We were all flying spermatozoa once.
*Cues up Nelly, sheds a single drop of urine*
Sounds like every night before I go to bed
Up until near the end of that cop video I’d have to see what came before to know how justified it was. I was a bit of a brawler as a kid, and stepped in more than once to stop fights, and wound up holding people down and hitting them until I thought it was safe to let them up. You can’t tell how hard he’s struggling in a video like that, and once you have someone down like that you do need to beat the fight out of them before you let them up, or they’re just going to come back at you.
But the dangerous thing is hitting someone once they have given up. That’s how you wind up killing people. And while it’s hard to tell exactly what happened in this video it sure looks like the cop keeps hitting the guy after he’s unconscious. I understand the adrenaline involved in a fight, but if you’re a cop you’re supposed to be able to deal with it, right? If I’d killed someone under comparable circumstances I think I would have gone to jail. I’m not sure why cops should fare better.
Was looking for another book, came across Watchmen, and upon revisiting it… it did not age well. I don’t remember being as bothered at the time by the nonstop (often explicitly or implicitly pro-Soviet) political signaling and jabs, and, well, it’s not like I didn’t know going in the first time.
I really hate it when this happens–coming back to a work of fiction and finding it now repugnant.
herp derp
Don’t remember pro-Soviet as much as anti-Reagan (and Anti-Thatcher – normally rabidly so from most Brit writers – see also Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, etc).
“Woman wakes up to find 3 bears inside her car”
http://www.9news.com/news/local/next/woman-wakes-up-to-find-three-bears-inside-of-her-car/480846074
TW: Autoplay
The “too big, too small, just right” bear penis jokes just write themselves.
I knew a guy that found 3 bears in his trunk.
I once shot a bear in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.
There was a bear in a tree in the middle of town here a few days ago here. That is unheard of around these parts. Bears usually never come down this low. (around 5000 ft) Lake City has to be at least 8 or 9000 ft. I have not looked at the numbers, but I am thinking Black Bears might be getting a bit overpopulated in Western CO.
We have bears around here, and I’m only 500 ft or so above sea level.
I have never seen or heard of the bears coming out of the mountains around here. Lake City is in the mountains so ya, they have some bears wandering through. Where I am it is corn fields and orchards. The bears usually stay up high though, or at least they used to.
We’re infested with black bears yet every idiot on my street puts their garbage bins out the night before pick-up day. I work nights so it’s an inconvenience for me to get up early enough to catch the trashman but most of these people are 9-5 ers. Buy a bungee cord, asshole. I’ve yet to find a bruin that can figger that one out. There was a four hundred pounder in my yard last week and he knocked the bin over but never cracked it open to get at the sweet, sweet cat litter within.
Things change. When I was a kid in Vermont there were hardly any bear at all (same with Moose.) One came snuffling around my place and no-one would believe me. Now there are bears all over northern Vermont.
Went camping here once. Didn’t count on bears roaming the area (despite the name) but the ranger that came across us confirmed yep, bears.
You need to get more out in the middle of nowhere, like some of the campgrounds up in the Adirondacks.
Oh sure, but it’s impressive how wild it gets after just a few miles of hiking. I’m not any kind of outdoorsman but I’ve camped around the Finger Lakes and Southern Tier a lot. That’s sort of middle of nowhere.
Yeah, we camped at Watkins Glen one summer. The walk up the glen is extremely easy.
I remember hiking that a couple times – it’s beautiful.
“Ranger Smith, I have to ask because it’s been an issue before, but Death Trap Lake, just a name or…”
I guess. We have moose now too, but they were planted by the state to start a population. They seem to be doing well. I saw a few of them when I was camping once a few summers ago.
Dude, there are frequent black bear sightings down here in southern CT.
We had one walking down our street a few years ago.
Yep, but I was talking specifically about Vermont. There were lots of bears in Western Mass, for instance, during the period I’m talking about. But bears were almost unheard of in Vermont for many years. Eventually, like assholes from Connecticut, some migrated north.
Jesse hardest hit.
Exsqueeze me? Sorry, say again?
As to Chris Eubank Jnr, what is that guys body fat percentage? A negative 5? The dude is skin covered muscle.
“LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An Arkansas judge who gave lighter sentences to men guilty of minor crimes in return for nude photographs or sexual favors could get a bit of leniency himself after admitting Thursday that he engaged in what one state official called one of Arkansas’ worst-ever cases of judicial misconduct.”
nypost.com/2017/10/05/ex-judge-admits-to-giving-light-sentences-for-nude-photos/
Had a great time at the range. 3 hours of one-on-one instruction split between classroom and the range.
I think I fell in love with a Springfield Armory 1911 in 9mm. Who has experience with Springfield?
… having a 1911 in 9mm just sounds like Heresey.
It does sound odd, but 38 super 1911 are fairly common in Mexico, where military rounds are illegal.
My girlfriend has the SA range officer compact in 9 mm. It’s a nice gun. She likes it.
Springfield Armory’s politics aside, their handguns are decent to excellent, depending on the model. We have at least 6 and all are solid performers.
Thanks for the information.
The 1911 in any caliber other than .45ACP is unacceptable. It violates the Gospel of Saint John Moses Browning, the Awesome.
*ahem* Then why did he design most of the Hi Power? (The 1911, Refined) chambered in … hmm … let me look … oh! 9mm!
Because Euro-pussies need handguns, too!
A Springfield 1911 was the first gun I ever bought and I’ve been very happy with it, but, as other have noted, they backstabbed in an attempt to save their own hides by funding anti-gun groups/politicians. Sigh.
Rangers down 5-1. It’s going to be a long night.
Fuck the Rangers.
Thanks for your input.
You’re welcome.
Fuck the Dolans and MSG too.
Can we just say “Fuck the entire city of New York”?
Yes. Yes we can.
Watch out. NYC fucks back.
New York, New York, the city so arrogant they named it twice.
Stop it. MSG is a delightful flavour enhancer.
Ugh even worse – the Islanders over the Sabres 4-0. WTF.
Wow, now 5-5.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Popehat/status/916794621119807488
Never change, Dove advertising department.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Popehat/status/916795089808089089/photo/1
LOL. Even if that one seems more… inadvertent… than the first one.
I showed to a buddy of mine who’s less than PC and even he said he was borderline offended.
I couldn’t stop laughing. I’m a horrible person.
It is funny as hell.
Well who wouldn’t want a dumpy frumper turn into a smoking-hot Ginger just by removing her t-shirt? Happens all of the time if I remember my teen-aged years correctly.
Might actually be able to roll with that in China, what with their ‘the paler the hotter’ beauty standards.
Hmm- seems like the difference is a matter of what you say out loud about it, right?
It might be targeted to Western Africa too. Some of the ladies there use a huge range of skin lightening creams and other whackyness. At least that is what I was told by the young ladies I got to know there. Companies are going to market to what sells regardless if we think it is silly or not.
There are positive depictions of black people in Asian cosmetics, too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie
Cosmetic products is a code word for Black genocide.
Tatoo artists, as well. Not okay.
Hurricane Nate makes a first landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River at approximately 29.0N 89.2W.
Here’s how you can fight the NRA!
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/916683040633454592
Et tu, Betty White?
What a cunt.
78% of Americans don’t own guns
I’m extremely skeptical of that “stat”
About a third of Americans are below the legal age of gun ownership, and about half of the rest don’t own guns. So that’s probably how they fudged this number.
I looked up the study, and it say that 55 million Americans own guns, which would be about 20% of the number of adults in the US.
Of course, they get this stat from asking people “do you own a gun?” over the phone, so take it with a grain of salt.
It sounds plausible to me. Almost nobody on the coasts owns a gun. The percentage would be a lot higher outside the coasts.
Like drinkers, a small percentage of Americans own almost all of its guns. Its toward the end of the first day of a three day weekend so I’d lift a glass to all you gun-owners if I were sober enough to lift anything at this point.
Not a three-day weekend for me. 🙁
Dunno what to say man- kind of sucks you don’t get Monday off. You ought to agitate for it. I hear socialism gives everyone Columbus day off, so..
All I had to see was Guardian. I am not even wasting my time reading that.
Looking at the responses it looks like she blocks anyone who doesn’t agree with her.
It is twits like that when I regret I am too lazy to research and respond. These moms against guns have no idea what they are talking about. They want to end gun violence? Gun violence has been decreasing consistently as the rate of gun ownership has gone up. The few places that gun violence has increased is inner cities. The one thing that slowed gun violence in NYC (so I have heard but too lazy to research) was stop and frisk. An unconstitutional search lowered gun violence. Do these mostly white suburban moms support unconstitutional searches of mostly minority folk in the inner cities? Do they want to throw away the constitution for the brown folk to stop gun violence? Or did she just start a charity so she can work out of her home and make some good bank while she goes to the coffee shop and discuss the good fight her and her friends are putting up as their kids drool in their strollers?
TW: Heather MacDonald, but she makes an argument than now that stop’n’frisk is over, gentrification is what is keeping gun violence down in NYC.
Hmm. Interesting. If you can’t breed them out, buy them out? She says crime will return though. Is the homeless/crazy vagrants and garbage in the streets worse now than it was pre crackdown? I have been to NYC a handful of times, all of them just passing through so I have no knowledge of it other than what I read.
The reply thread is a frothing mess of incoherence. Here’s my fav:
Wait wuh?
sigh. A guy I know from work compared trump to Hitler IRL to me today.
My newly minted TDS friend compared him to Stalin back in February on a Friday. I left a copy of Gulag Archipelago on his desk the following Friday.
Only a few very limited comparisons between the two men are legitimate.
Just finished On Killing by Grossman. A lot of great information, but I didn’t like the conclusion, which was basically violent entertainment is the devil and the source of society’s ills. His analogy of the effect of violent entertainment on young black men being similar to the effect of alcohol on American Indians had me shaking my head.
Interesting facts:
About 1% of fighter pilots in WW2 made about 40% of the kills. This is consistent with research showing that 1-2% of men are capable of killing without remorse. When the military did research to find the common traits in top aces, the only thing they had a common was a tendency to have gotten in a lot of fights as boys. They weren’t bullies who prey the vulnerable. They were aggressive hunters who wanted to battle against someone who could hurt them.
Although stabbing is much more likely to cause a fatal would than slashing or bludgeoning, stab wounds in battle are rare. Even when bayonets became common, they caused very few casualties. The Romans had to train their soldiers very intensely to train them to stab their enemies and this was the main reason the battles they fought had such high body counts.
Alexander the Great lost only about 700 men during all his battles. Most of the killing happened when they enemy broke ranks and was cut down by the cavalry as they ran away.
When a soldier kills an enemy at range close enough to know for sure, they often go up to examine the body. This usually reminds them of the humanity of the one killed, and often the soldier will vomit and feel guilty. The initial feeling of relief and excitement is replaced with shame and disgust.
When the Vietnam Memorial went up in DC, it was branded “the black gash of shame” by some veterans. They had to protest to get a statue and a flag added.
I also read About Face by David Hackworth. If you read one book about war, read that one. I see that his recommendation to replace the M16 with a more rugged weapon that uses cheaper ammo has yet to be implemented. Doing so would allow soldiers to practice more often. It’s been almost 2 years since I touched an M16.
During one of our bull sessions, the question came up of how to destroy sensitive equipment to prevent its capture. I suggested that an armed grenade should be placed under the equipment so that it would destroy the equipment and kill some enemy if they tried to take it. The others said that this was a violation of the Geneva Convention, but my research shows that booby traps are lawful as long as they are not likely to harm civilians.
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul_rule80
Aren’t there like a zillion studies disproving any such “effect”?
Especially when one is comparing a chemical addiction based on long standing isolation (Indians and booze) with external stimulus of actions that historically has had far more direct and personal effects on young black men (i.e. the ‘effects of violent entertainment’ vs. the experience of actual violence throughout history).
The last item is a discussion that tends to be hashed out in bull sessions in just about every modern OTS. The general consensus was that you can’t have it both ways. If the destruction of the equipment is the objective, you need a lot of heat. Physical destruction via blast can leave key components such as solid state disks, memory etc intact.
It’s likely that your favorite local military munition supplier will have some Thermite-TH3 on hand, which is a nice little pyrotechnic thermite device (I think the designation is an AN-M14TH) in a standard ‘can’ grenade that ignites easily (unlike commercial thermite) and throws out enough heat and flame to deal with a PC-sized target.
If you really gotta maim or kill a few of those poor geeks who actually use the gear, save a claymore or 2 for ’em
When I was in basic, we got treated to a demo of a thermite grenade on a half-melted jeep (it was clearly the victim of many such demos). Of course, they told us to look away and close our eyes, but the after effect was dramatic.
Imagine one of those in a 19″ x 6″ rack-mounted computer, or in an instrumentation console. Say goodbye to anything above or below it.
Dad was in ‘Nam. Marines. Hoo Rah! He told me they used to keep a phosphorus grenade on top of the safe. Maybe I am misremembering. Of course, lots more paper than computer in ‘Nam.
Grossman is an asshole psychopath.
The history in the book is solid, but his conclusions are absurd. He comes off as a real creep in video presentations I’ve seen of him, especially the ones he gives to cops to encourage them to be more trigger-happy.
Right. I especially like the parts where he tells cops the best sex they will ever have is on the night they first kill someone. Or that cops should find a bridge overlooking their city and pretend they’re Batman.
lol.
i imagined a pair of fat cops parked on a bridge, eating donuts, looking at a beautiful full moon, … and one turns to the other and says, “bro… I’m batman”. (silence) “just saying”.
Is Grossman the people are sheep and cops are sheepdogs guy?
Yes.
4 is the not.
About 1% of fighter pilots in WW2 made about 40% of the kills. This is consistent with research showing that 1-2% of men are capable of killing without remorse.
Maybe. It’s also pretty consistent with what I’ve seen in online multiplayer games.
“Sailor” Malan was a cheating, asshole spawn camper!
Depends on the matchmaking. In unmatched “pubs” I’ll certainly just wreck everyone at FPS games, because I’m good, and they are not. In arranged matches between known good players, it’s different.
That said- I’ve been shot at twice, once accidentally and once on purpose. It’s pretty damned scary. I can’t imagine what real combat would be like. Nothing like the games I play, where having good mouse control and great movement lets me float around killing fantasy characters.
I suspect that fact is a lot of bullshitting. Most of the killing was bombing, and the body counts would be difficult to attribute. Even if you could attribute them they probably just fall into who got assigned a particular mission. Unless they have evidence pilots refused or sabotaged their assigned missions in mass numbers it’s difficult to believe.
My experience has been the opposite. Men in combat tend to kill when necessary and regret it much less often than people want to believe. I suspect the fairy tale that it’s a certain breed of people doing the killing is more comfortable than the reality.
eh, not really.
both datapoints might be true, but i don’th think they’re necessarily reflections of one another.
The reason those numbers in the former category are so lopsided is because of the rarity of combat engagements, and the ‘virtuous cycle’ of how experienced-pilots are then increasingly given the missions where they are *likely* to have combat engagements. Basically, once you start getting kills, you’re given more missions where kills are likely. perfectly competent pilots who are just as capable of getting kills are sidelined because they’re not ‘already on the board’. I don’t think that small # reflects anything to do with the actual distribution of a “killing psychology”.
You could still be right that there’s only a minority of people who will pursue engagements… or your other point about combat pilot’s mindset, etc. its just that i’d be wary of making those sort of data-point correlations.
Plus, fighting from a cockpit is much different than killing someone face to face.
If I remember correctly, Grossman based his “ratio of fire” stats in “On Killing” on S. L. A. Marshall’s work. Wikipedia on Marshall’s work:
Some veterans and historians have cast doubt on Marshall’s research methodology.[13] Professor Roger J. Spiller (Deputy Director of the Combat Studies Institute, US Army Command and General Staff College) argues in his 1988 article, “S.L.A. Marshall and the Ratio of Fire” (RUSI Journal, Winter 1988, pages 63–71), that Marshall had not actually conducted the research upon which he based his ratio-of-fire theory. “The ‘systematic collection of data’ appears to have been an invention.”[14] This revelation has called into question the authenticity of some of Marshall’s other books and has lent academic weight to doubts about his integrity that had been raised in military circles even decades earlier.[15]
In his 1989 memoir, About Face, Hackworth described his initial elation at an assignment with a man he idolized, and how that elation turned to disillusion after seeing Marshall’s character and methods firsthand. Hackworth described Marshall as a “voyeur warrior,” for whom “the truth never got in the way of a good story”, and went so far as to say, “Veterans of many of the actions he ‘documented’ in his books have complained bitterly over the years of his inaccuracy or blatant bias”.[16][17]
38 super 1911 are fairly common in Mexico, where military rounds are illegal.
I have a Llama 1911 knockoff in 9mm Bergmann (9×23, I think) / .38 super. I like it.
the effect of violent entertainment on young black men
Those black bodies are peculiarly susceptible, I guess, being nothing more than marionettes, awaiting someone to manipulate them.
more random thoughts
The North Vietnamese lost about 10 soldiers for each American soldier they killed. Ho Chi Minh said “even if you kill ten of us for each one of you we kill, it is you who will tire first.”
Ho Chi Minh died before the fall of Saigon.
Napoleon said that the effect of good morale is triple the effect of good supply. He also always made sure his army had the most cannons. King of Battle- field artillery.
Historically, in order to get a body of men to surrender, at least half of them must be killed, wounded, or captured. There are about 60k Taliban, so it would be necessary to kill about 30k in a year or so to get them to surrender.
I opened James Joyce’s Ulysses and the first phrase my eyes came across was “poop of a lovely”. I will do my best to read every last word of this pretentious gibberish.
If it (Ulysses) is a hardcover, I’d suggest that you mark the page, start using it as a door stop, recycle the pages as shit-wipe when the inevitable break-down of civilization happens and then burn the empty carcass for heat. Try to bleach Joyce from your mind and failing that, start writing poems about the noose.
Have you read his love letters?
I don’t mean to quibble… (ok, that’s a lie.) Napoleon was a product of the French Revolutionary system, which focused on massive armies moving dispersed and then quickly concentrating to deliver knockout blows. It was a system which worked very well in regions with dense road networks (to allow both rapid movement on parallel roads and then concentration at the right time and place) and with enough agricultural surplus so that the armies could live off the land (the French were often able to outmanoeuvre their enemies because they travelled very light by contemporary standards, possible because they foraged as much as possible.) Rapid dispersed movement and quick campaigns also meant that the armies didn’t strip the land and starve themselves. However, in less well-developed areas, the system didn’t work so well – the less-dispersed and slower-moving French armies couldn’t resolve the campaigns quickly enough, and so they *did* strip the land, which both caused logistical problems and incited partisan activity. The system worked in Germany, northern Italy and the low countries; it broke down in Poland in 1807 and in Spain after the initial blitzkrieg in 1808; and in Russia it led to an absolute fucking disaster. The issues were obvious by 1807 at the very latest, but Napoleon did almost nothing to resolve them – and thus walked himself into the probably the greatest military disaster in history to that point. In short, no great general has less worthwhile to say about logistics than Napoleon.
Napoleon was absolutely a fan of the guns – he was an artillerist by trade, of course, and went straight from the artillery to army command without commanding combined arms formations at lower levels. And he did increasingly rely on the artillery to win his battles as attrition ground away his previously excellent infantry. But the French rarely had enough guns to go around – their army was just too damned big – and the ‘solution’ was to re-introduce small calibre regimental guns, which had been abandoned by pretty much everyone a generation earlier as not worth the trouble. And even then the French gun:men ratio was no better than that achieved by their enemies. (It is true the French handled their artillery better for much of the period – in particular, they pioneered the concentration of the heavier pieces at the decisive point – but in due course their enemies caught up with them.)
I always thought it was the Polish cavalry that carried them, especially in Spain, when they overran a ridiculous number of artillery positions in the mountains with basically no troops.
The Poles fought very well in general, but they were never a very large part of the total forces available to Napoleon – the Duchy of Warsaw raised a lot of troops relative to its size, but it only had a population base of about 2.5 million. That puts it right between Bavaria and Saxony, who were hardly heavyweights. (France, by comparison, was about 36 million.) And the Duchy only came into existence in 1807, so fairly late in the wars – prior to that the only Polish troops in French service were a few regiments of exiles.
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I’m just a polish nationalist, despite being ~50% polish. Ever read Davies? Very enlightening. I’m not sure you could say just a ‘few’ exile regiments, they numbered in the thousands, iirc, though true, not much in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of french.
I certainly don’t mean to take anything away from the Poles – they fought very well. It’s just that, you know, with 2.5 million of ’em they were a pretty minor player… fuck, at Leipzig the combined armies were half a million. (I’m interested in the minor players myself – particularly the Confederation of the Rhine.)
78% of Americans don’t own guns
I’m extremely skeptical of that “stat”
Yeah, that reeks of bullshittery.
78% of Americans don’t own guns
Of course, you might get there if you are talking about every single American, including little children. Try again with “adults” or “households”.
Lol, a search for “percentage of american households with gun” ended up with a first result entitled “Self-Reported Gun Ownership in U.S. Is Highest Since 1993” and a second result entitled “Number of households with guns on the decline, study shows”
Fuck social “science”.
The answer, according to one “study”, is 32%. I have a feeling that some of the reason that number is so low is “response bias.”
“response bias.”
Specifically social desirability bias.
“Indicators of charity or “benevolence”, often inflated”
#bringbackourgirls
Oh God I hated that meme. I wanted to strike back with #takeallourgirls.
#takemywomenplease
97% of Americans agree that 78% Americans don’t own guns. See,I like to prove stuff.
97% of Americans believe that 49% of their fellow citizens should have their rights abrogated because FYTW. It’s scientiferic, check and mate!
fun fact
A former Viet Cong joined an American platoon as a scout and fought very bravely. He even started calling the VC “gooks”. When the Americans asked him why, he said it was because that’s what the Americans called them and that the VC called the Americans “big hairy monkeys”. He switched sides because a VC killed his wife and kids.
Blow back isn’t real! It’s hard to imagine a cause so morally righteous that you’d say, “I guess having my wife and kids murdered was worth it.”
It’s odd, because the likes of Jane Fonda didn’t need an excuse …
She did have a reason, though. There’s always a reason. I reckon her reason was, in my circle I’ll get lauded for this. Really an easy thing to do.
Profs: ‘white male privilege’ to blame for STEM gender gap
Two Seattle Pacific University physics professors argue that it is necessary to redefine our approach to science in order to combat “white male privilege,” which they believe is the primary reason that few women enter STEM fields.
According to Rachel Scherr and Amy Robertson, professors must work to “disrupt privilege” in their classrooms by de-emphasizing “male-socialized traits such as independence, competition, and individual victories.”
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“Physics strongly values male-socialized traits such as independence, competition, and individual victories,” they write, adding that “objectivity and rationality themselves, the foundations of scientific ideology, are also male-socialized traits.”
The authors also assert that science has been used as a tool of racial oppression and colonization, which further hurts minorities in STEM and physics classrooms.
“Historically, the questions that science has addressed have disproportionately advantaged White people, motivated by colonial expansion (to improve land and sea travel, mine ores, manufacture and farm for the benefit of Europeans living in Europe and in colonies),” Scherr and Robertson claim.
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https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9921
[head desk]
The US higher ed system needs to be nuked. What few good parts still exist are withering in a desert of perverse incentives, lunatic tenured profs, stifling bureaucracy, and education-last policies.
Businesses move toward competence and away from credentials and you can kill the beast.
Everyday, I help to do just that.
That’s why you have street cred.
To be clear, there is definitely a place for colleges in society. However, I think that a market-sensitive system would move away from many of the fundamentals that define the institution today (live-in students, broad scope of topics mandatory for graduation, curricula designed for 2 or 4 year increments, etc.)
Actually, you can stab it with your steely knives, but you just can’t kill the beast.
I would love to see this happen. However, we would need to deal with two things before the “higher education” beast of today can be slain:
– Ditch the occupational licensing laws that mandate a college degree from a government-approved college.
– Get rid of the subsidies and federal student loans for college. These only serve to inflate the number of college enrollments, which in turn leads to a job market where a lack of a college degree is seen as a glaring defect (because who wouldn’t get one when the government makes it so easy?)
I’m sure the achievement of New Soviet Physics will occur any day now.
Realistically, most STEM occupations aren’t very desirable. You have to be a bit on the spectrum to even want to do them if you’re smart enough to do them. You’d be much better off just becoming a doctor- and I’ll note that there are plenty of female doctors.
Doing sort of dumb front-end coding is suddenly very desirable, and pays ridiculously well at the moment, so of course there is a huge gnashing of teeth by women who didn’t get into it when it was looked down on and paid very little. Sad!
People who are more interested in things than in people tend to go into STEM. From time to time, there will be guys like Asimov and Carroll who make a bigger splash as artists.
I find it interesting that both of them earned PhDs in physics by writing dissertations on student learning rather than on hard physics:
Robertson: “An Investigation of University Student and K-12 Teacher Reasoning About Key Ideas in the Development of the Particulate Nature of Matter”
Scherr: “An investigation of student understanding of basic concepts in special relativity”
In grad school (for me anyway) that was a separate program all together; Physics Education.
When a similar post came up last week with respect to engineering, it turned out the two women involved held PhDs in Engineering Education. These two appear to be physics PhDs.
Thats fucked up. I didn’t even know there was such a thing as engineering education.
I hope someone throws them into a steel mill furnace.
/M.S. Eng.
Suddenly physics PhDs aren’t looking that impressive..
Video from the last Glibertarians meetup.
That guy gets crazy pussy.
The best pussy of all!
Technically correct pussy?
Nice pussy.
http://dailyoftheday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/yBnWJ.jpg
He has the face of a king- a Spanish Hapsburg one.
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The Habsburgs were a dynasty that brought suffering, and eventual ruin, on themselves through inbreeding. Their most famous feature was the “Habsburg Jaw.”
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https://io9.gizmodo.com/a-family-in-spain-displayed-three-generations-of-the-h-1679771704
Kind of mad you explained the joke.
Forgive me, my ass burgers must be acting up again.
Anything for you baby.
Plus you can never completely wipe away the taint of derp.
This crowd didn’t need the explanation, to be sure.
*raises hand* umm… Never mind.
I can’t remember (and don’t care) which one is a Hapsburg groupie, but either Just Sayin’ or John Titor will be pissed.
How dare you suggest I have a fondness for the Habsburgs. Duel’s are legal up here now you know.
My apologies, John. No worries. No one will think differently of you. Chin up!
Yeah, I think its just me ans Just Sayin’. And only because we have hardcore deus vult Catholics. 😉
That link led to Future Glibs
The school presentation cringe-comp related video is giving me horrible flashbacks.
I have some memories I wish were repressed there. I did a speech about motocross and Enduro riding wearing all my gear and explaining I don’t even remember what. I just remember I was laughed at.
You know, I love my cringe, but it’s just not the same when it’s kids. They’re allowed to be weird fuckups, it’s better when adults (who should know better) do it.
If I were Rand Paul, I’d introduce a bill to extend refugee status to a number of places where . . . um . . . hot chicks are feeling threatened.
Childless women under 30 or 35, certainly, should be free to come here as legal residents, and I’d extend that to the beleaguered women of Sweden, Ukraine, and, yeah, Catalonia, and elsewhere.
Swedish chicks should never have to buy themselves a drink much less worry about . . . anything.
When Mexico sends its people, they are not sending their hottest women.
Ken, if you marry the, they can come over here. /sekrit
Them*
Its what I did. American women are cancer. No offense to our female glibs.
I hear Venezuela has a lot of very eligible women looking for an escape… errrm husband.
Based on my extensive… research, that may not be a bad idea.
Incidentally, I knew a left-wingish girl from Venezuela, who left the country a few years back. I think she was the weather girl back there. Smart, but not smart enough to become right-wing(?). I only knew her online, but goddamn she was a bombshell.
I have a good friend who married a Venezuelan girl. She is nuts. It might just be that some women are nuts though.
I understand the Christian women of Lebanon are having a hard time, and I know there are some constitutional issues around discriminating on the basis of religion.
What about discriminating on the basis of BMI?
Show me in the Constitution where it says they can’t discriminate on the basis of BMI.
Show me in the constitution where it says they can’t discriminate based on anything. I got educated at whats its place about after visa status, but prior to visa grant they can discriminate against left handed people if they want. Probably should.
Right there next to all the other bullshit the supreme court dreamed up while high in ecstasy.
“objectivity and rationality themselves, the foundations of scientific ideology, are also male-socialized traits.”
Well, the world needs sammich makers, too.
Comment of the week!
RIP Ted Knight.
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/10/uk-soccer-club-staffer-converts-to-islam-sends-photos-of-stadium-to-pakistan
UK soccer club on terror alert after staffer converts to Islam, sends photos of stadium to Pakistan
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MILLWALL were placed on the highest terror alert last month over fears of a plot to attack The Den.
Club bosses were tipped off after discovering a member of staff, who converted to Islam, had been sending mobile phone footage of the Lions’ stadium to a pal in Pakistan.
The employee’s Facebook page contained screen grabs of the FaceTime conversation as well as links to the controversial Finsbury Park Mosque.
Millwall suspended the worker and called in counter-terror cops, who swiftly raised the threat level to the highest level for any club.
The member of staff, a middle-aged man who has worked at the club for over a decade, was admitted to hospital with concerns about his mental health.
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“mental illness”
[face palm]
It just knew it had to be Millwall.
I have to say, I like your posts the most. /straight crush
Fuck you, I’m Millwall!
PS: How bout them Nats!
Not baseball Nats.
No one likes them anyway.
They don’t care.
After the “Fuck You, I’m Millwall” guy, I bought a Millwall shirt.
“Nobody likes us, we don’t care.”
I wear it to work. I don’t even like soccer.
ZARDOZ, I find myself attracted to these Brutals? How can I cure myself?
http://archive.is/pQ6Qw
No reason to go past #1.
#14, ZARDOZ have mercy…
#1, 3, 6.
#5 is cheating. I hope she catches leprosy.
Well done Q.
I’d take them all, except a few cheaters.
No one’s around to appreciate it. What do they have, lives on a Saturday night or something? I haz sadz.
They’re probably banging Ms. Pacman or something.
Thats real curvy…
She’s T H I C C.
Gigantabutt is a trend that will peter out as soon as these young ladies stop being young and start dealing with the inevitable flop ass. Pert, tiny bums will once again be ascendant, just as God and Darwin intended.
I’m a tits man myself, but I shant look down my nose a finely formed rear.
Uh, except, there are new girls with nice non-floppy asses being born everyday.
Thanks for playing though.
Cure yourself with an orgy. Just exclude #26 for a stupid bull nose piercing and #29 for photoshopping.
Springbank aged 18 years tonight. With just the right amount of water to bring out the flavor.
How’d you get it to age 18 years in one night?
The Continuum.
James Woods retires from acting after saying he’s blacklisted because he’s conservative
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/07/james-woods-retires-from-acting-after-saying-hes-blacklisted-because-hes-conservative.html
But I’m sure there’s some version of James Woods they find quite charming.
He needs to pick one or the other.
You can’t retire if you’re blacklisted, like you can’t quit if you’re fired.
I’m just sayin’.
P.S. He couldn’t even get on NetFlix or Amazon? You’re supposed to find your own project these days, Jimmy. You don’t wait around for your agent to call.
Didn’t read the link, but I believe it. Even from Mr. Woods.
They’ve found roles for so many washed up starts, it’s incredible.
If they can resurrect Christian Slater and Winona Ryder’s careers, they can do anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYDfwUJzYQg
Oh, and what about Mel Gibson?
He went both misogynist and antisemitic, and Hollywood still brought him back.
Wasn’t he just nominated for an Oscar?
I don’t see the word Videodrome anywhere in that article. FAIL.
Who the hell remembers 80s Canadian body horror scifi movies besides Canadians and weirdos?
Debbie Harry
I remember Debbie Harry
True, I’m not Canadian.
Yes, but you’re a weirdo.
I think I’ve seen Videodrome over 20 times. One of those things I just put on in the background.
Man, I wish Cronenberg was still doing body horror and not boring tripe like Cosmopolis.
So much this.
I’ll probably do a review of Rabid soon – loved that one. Need to look up some more older stuff.
James Woods isn’t really that good. Maybe he should self finance stupid arthouse flicks as horrible as Steve Martin’s Shopgirl.
I think 2 of woods’ best roles were in movies that were, at least superficially, very ‘left’
e.g. Salvador, where he plays a gonzo journalist trying to expose the corruption of the US-supported regime and the CIA complicity in mass murder…
…and Citizen Cohen, where he plays Roy Cohn, Eugene McCarthy’s chief counsel and (according to the movie) gigantic-raving-asshole who helped stoke anti-communist fervor for personal career-benefit…. while living a secret life as a gay man (and while helping expose/prosecute other closeted gays in government)
i actually thought the Cohn movie was his best work ever. i think it was a TV movie, because i keep mentioning it to people and they’ve never seen it.
*Joseph 😛
The movie sounds interesting
oh right, i always mix him up with this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy
Ben Shapiro’s incredibly calm and almost overly reasonable rebuttal to Kimmel has been nuked from YouTube as hate speech.
“Disagreement = violence”
/prog
Not surprising.
Fuck youtube/google.
I’ve had a few Gmail accounts for a decade or more. I’m not sure how to get the Google out of my life.
Thats the problem I ran into when trying to extricate it form my life. My main email is form gmail, and its connected to everything I need in life.
this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfFyzpiy_WM
That’s a mirror, but it does seem to also be still up on his main channel.
I was on my phone at the time, this is the original video. “Hate speech.” Click to learn more… oh, wait, that part is fake.
Razorfist covered the youtube situation pretty well, the TL;DR version is “they want to be Netflix”. I.e. all those years of content creation by small, independent creators need to removed to make way for big company/traditional legacy media productions. The conservatives and the right-wingers are getting purged the most due to the ‘controversial’ nature of their content, but overall the entire realm of ‘political youtube’ is being assaulted. Hell, even non-political channels are getting fucked now. They basically don’t understand who their customer base is and instead want those sweet Netflix bucks, which doesn’t work because Netflix already exists.
Styx said this last January and he is being proven right, yet again.
*starts crying*
What a fucking bitch.
Anti semites at the google. I knew it.
Rowdy sex parties, poop antics causes New York winery to lose liquor license
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/10/07/rowdy-sex-parties-poop-antics-causes-new-york-winery-to-lose-liquor-license.html
STEVE SMITH LOVE THIS WINE! IS HEADY WITH NOTES OF LICORICE, RASPBERRY, AND RAPE!
More inappropriate:
public copulation or public defecation?
That depends upon who is fornicating or defecating and how much you’d like to watch that sort of thing. Call me old school but I’d chase Kate Upton off my property with a broom if I caught her taking a dump in my yard.
I’d wait for her to finish then demand payment.
You probably fire your shotgun with a string.
This is my rifle, this is my gun, one is for shooting one is for fun.
It can be both, B’rer Lack.
I fire my gun with a string too.
Like, a belt around your neck?
I use string to keep my onion tied to my belt, like god intended.
While researching for STEVE’s comment:
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Expert wine critics can’t distinguish between red and white wines
This one’s one of my favorites. In 2001, researcher Frédéric Brochet invited 54 wine experts to give their opinions on what were ostensibly two glasses of different wine: one red, and one white. In actuality, the two wines were identical, with one exception: the “red” wine had been dyed with food coloring.
The experts described the “red” wine in language typically reserved for characterizing reds. They called it “jammy,” for example, and noted the flavors imparted by its “crushed red fruit.” Not one of the 54 experts surveyed noticed that it was, in fact a white wine.
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https://io9.gizmodo.com/wine-tasting-is-bullshit-heres-why-496098276
voted the most pompous wine note ever:
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Overall character is that of a sex loaded scarlet; endowed, jaunty and erotically scented with every part smelling and tasting provocative, flamboyant and blooming. Its gorgeous, vaunting style is burning, mantling and amorous with a(n) extravagant softness that is grandiose, exotic and pursed lipped. There is a(n) edginess, sophistication and dominating air that questions whether your palette(sic) has the true aptitude to handle the complete clutch of this much worldliness. The body is chasmal, bounteous and a little weighty. In the tasting profile you will never find the true heart of this scandalous wine so just enjoy your x-rated time together. Be aware you will be left lauding and lost when you awake.
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I need a cigarette after that review.
“Dear Wine Connoisseur Magazine, I never expected this to happen to me but…”
That’s pretty hard to believe. Obviously it would depend on the white wine they chose.
Yeah, this is nonsense.
Good news, everyone: We’re not living in a simulation, scientists confirm
Calculations showed there aren’t enough particles in the universe to simulate the particles in the universe.
https://www.upi.com/Were-not-living-in-a-simulation-scientists-confirm/2701507120283/
I wish i found out before I blew all my money on black trench coats and kung fu lessons. And that red pill they gave me was just a stale Mike and Ike’s.
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And while plenty of philosophers and scientists are highly skeptical of the idea that our reality is simply a computer game, it may be an idea that’s impossible to disprove entirely.
“You’re not going to get proof that we’re not in a simulation, because any evidence that we get could be simulated,” David Chalmers, a professor of philosophy at New York University, told Scientific American.
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Excelsior! There’s still a chance!
“And that red pill they gave me was just a stale Mike and Ike’s.”
LOL
They don’t need a computer to simulate the particles they only need one to simulate perceptions.
Perceptions are formed in the brain. And what is the brain? A very complicated collection of many, many particles.
Simulations don’t necessarily need to simulate the underlying material causes, though, I imagine?
If you want to simulate an extremely complicated system (the universe) inside another extremely complicated system (the brain), it seems like would require a machine even more complicated than either the brain or the universe.
You, of course, are assuming the brain outside the simulation is as complex as it seems to us inside the simulation.
Violent October thunderstorm! It’s the Rapture I tells ya!
Where about in Canada are you, Festus? I did see some lightning far to my north on my way home.
Latest glibertarians meeting
The hair, the stache, the charm, the moves – get out of my 80’s, Lack! That shit’s personal!
😀
It is even better if you unde4rstand a bit of hindi, the double entendres…
About 1% of fighter pilots in WW2 made about 40% of the kills.
I wonder if this number is like the “average life span” number for the 18th century. Maybe it’s skewed by a lrge number of pilots who got shot down with no kills early in their careers.
The “average life span” wasn’t really that short, if you lived to see your fifth birthday.
great moments in US military planning
In the beginning of the Korean War, American tanks went into battle without lubricant for the main gun. When the guns were fired, the recoil blew the turrets off.
The bazookas were too weak to penetrate the armor of the enemy T34 tanks- a design that was 10 years old when the war started and after the US had access to German anti-tank weapons capable of stopping the T34.
That reminds me- according to Hackworth, the Abrams tank is so expensive to operate that crews do most of the training in golf carts. The thirsty beast uses 8 gallons of fuel to go 1 mile and it can only travel about 50 miles on a full tank.
That may have changed since he first wrote that (we’re on the M1A2). It definitely wasn’t brought up by Clancy in Red Storm Rising and I don’t recall hearing any major issues re: fuel supply during the invasion of Iraq, etc.
The UN forces in Korea should have been thanking the USMC on bended knee.
Just about all the heavy transport and much of the general purpose equipment had been hidden in warehouses at the end of WW2 instead of being sold off. Without the insubordination and packrattery of the USMC, the landings at Inchon would have been made by guys with small arms, landing in inflatables.
I’ve heard about the golf carts in 1990’s era military. Never heard it the last 20 years. I doubt the tanks are close to aircraft in fuel consumption.
An Abrams tank engine is a gas turbine, so it gets similar mpg to an aircraft engine.
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A tank like the M1 Abrams gets about .6 mpg, and a cargo vehicle like the M-1070 semi-trailer (designed to haul tanks) gets approximately 1.2 mpg.
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Jet fuel accounts for 71% of the entire military’s petroleum consumption, in part because flyboys move around the majority of men and a lot of heavy equipment.
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https://www.forbes.com/2008/06/05/mileage-military-vehicles-tech-logistics08-cz_ph_0605fuel.html
I’m very aware of what an M1 uses for an engine. All the engines I worked with in the Navy were GTM/GTGs as well – aside from the Caterpillar diesels on the FFG.
They really need to bring back the autonomous helicopter drones for fuel/ammo/etc resupply in AFG and everywhere else. Those things are 100% proven on the battlefield – I have no idea why they haven’t fully implemented them. (K-Max – but can’t find the long Stripes article I read about it before0.
I had to laugh. So this morning I went to a nice little cafe. I had Denver Ommellette.
So the the funny thing is that This little homestyle cafe restaurant was run by Persians. The local Italian Restaurant is run by Greeks, the local Greek Place is run by Lebanese people, the local Sushi place is run by Chinese, the Chinese place is run by Pakistanis, and the the Korean place is run by the Chinese. Hooray for delicious cultural appropriation
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Shame! SHAME! Make them apologize, make them plead for forgiveness. /white lefties
I find middle eastern food disappointing. Its like they have all the spices Indians have, but don;t know how to sue them.
And all of their kitchens are full of mexicans.
I remember washing dishes at a couple jobs and it wasn’t all Mexicans so much as poor college students and assorted weirdos. It wasn’t great but MW does go a lot further in the rust belt than say NYC.
Especially now that we’re going to have to start paying 12.50 or 15.00 for everyone doing anything.
Fucking NYC, build the wall Trump!
I;m not being facetious here. The only selling point of upstate was that cost of living wasn’t stupid like NYC. We;re going to be badly fucked by this MW law.
You’re upstate? Yeah I grew up in Rochester and went to school in Buffalo. I can’t for the life of me imagine how they’re going to deal with/are dealing with Cuomo’s diktats. The economy is complete shit already – let’s make it worse!
Yessir. I also went to school in real Buffalo schools. Just the best schools ever. The classiest. I finally got the fuck out of here, and my wife made me move back (further proving that the gheys are superior to us breeders). I don’t understand it either. I feel like upstate is the equivalent of Western PA. Sure Buffalo and Rochester would never see the light, but at least theres enough voters in the burbs and rural areas not to make the state a fucking shithole. Oh well.
One thing I’ll say for all new yorkers, up or downstate is that they’re fucking statists who want to control your life.
Enh FWIW I kind of miss Buffalo. I’m a city boy so the suburbs n shit are out of the question but I miss cheap rent and the more “laid back” aspects of the area.
I think its changed a bit. Rents in the center of town have gone way up in the last ~10 years. Elmwood village houses are going for 300K+ (not a lot to a NYC person, but almost astronomical here). My parents house was worth ~30k when they bought it is probably worth 300k now (neighbors sold for 250K this year after listing for 200K and have less Sq ft and needed a lot of work). Rents in downtown are 1k+. We’re still pretty laid back though. Got my suburban dream for 185k, though it needed a lot of work, thankfully I’m handy.
I’ve been toying with the idea of taking my NYC salary to Buffalo (we have an office in Williamsburg – meh…) or Cleveland (company HQ). It would be nice to cut my rent in half or more.
Gah – WilliamsVILLE.
Williamsburg, or williamsville. I live in Williamsville. Its nice… >.>;
Plus we could hang out, which is totes worth it. 😉
Yeah, Wmsville is very nice but reverse commutes are a bitch.
Wheres the office you’d have to commute to?
I work a bit north of downtown (off Niagara street) and even if I don’t get up early enough to miss the traffic my commute is <30 minutes typically.
Williamsville village. Somewhere off Main Street.
Obviously depends where you decide to reside, but if you live somewhere in 14221, you’d get there <10 minutes, and probably find an apartment in the 1k/month range. If you have 250k lying around buy a 2000 sq. ft. house outright that is practically pristine…
Nah, I would live in the city. I guess the 8 bus probably still runs out there but ugh.
Theres no avoiding having a car. 😉
You’d get here quick though.
A place that can do a good omelette can not be beat for hangover food. When I was my penance in OKC the place for breakfast was Jimmys Egg. It was started by a Vietnamese dude and now he has I don’t know how many locations. My go to was sausage, avocado, and black olive. Slathered with the green tabasco and grape jelly on the toast made from fresh baked bread. God bless cultural appropriation. Jimmy’s places could do some omelettes.
New video game gives junior soldiers access to experimental vehicles, guns
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2017/10/06/new-video-game-gives-junior-soldiers-access-to-experimental-vehicles-guns/
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I’m impressed the comments on the facebook page are still up.
Whoever recommended Nerkish (I think it was Lt. Fish) I hate you now because I had to listen to this story.
Why? It’s hilarious. Not as good as Basheer or Altered or some of the others, but still solid. Missed his first livestream due to connection issues.
I was eating while he started talking about vagina-cheese forming in his fat rolls.
I was eating when he talked about blood pouring out of his belly button in the shower…then figuring out he had lost some skittles in there ;p
I’m cool with blood, it’s the horror show of disgusting things that build up in an obese body that I can’t stand.
Hopefully this hasn’t been posted yet.
America Held Hostage
I thought it was gonna be about guns but it was sooo much better.
Behold the fever dreams of progs. “Those durn dirty yokels stole our country dagnabit!”
I think the hostage situation in America is more the progs doing this.
Except everyone else is the cast of Deadwood and they’re screaming “do it you cocksucker!”
The delusion is deep there. It’s funny because proggies wield a pretty sizable amount of influence even though their numbers of the population are not close to a majority, they command entertainment, academia, and media to a disproportionate degree.
There is an old saw that politics is about numbers, and in a true democracy that would be the case. But ours is not a true democracy.
So why then do conservatives control all three branches of government? More to the point, why do they control Congress and the presidency when Democrats got more votes?
Ya dipshit, you answered your own question. No we are not a democracy. Perhaps it was set up as a constitutional republic to protect us from the tyranny of the majority of dumb asses which you seem to be a part of. This person has no idea how lucky they are to have the spineless douches that make up the Republican party to bitch about. We are talking about shit we should not even be talking about if we had more than just a few principled people opposing the Democrats.
It’s fascinating how apoplectic the left is in facing a right-wing that is totally neutered. If Republicans start to take a hard stance and uphold, even fractionally, the principles that gets them elected, I can’t even fathom the insanity and vitriol to come from the genuine left.
Hopefully we get to that point.
Imagine if they passed the share act on monday like they were originally going to?
Demons are buying ice skates…
“You’re not going to get proof that we’re not in a simulation, because any evidence that we get could be simulated,” David Chalmers, a professor of philosophy at New York University, told Scientific American.
“Ahh, you’re-a crazy. There ain’t no Sanity Claus.”
I see no one is doing anything tonight.
I have a lasagna in the oven.
I’ll have you know, I also don’t do anything during the day!
fun fact: the ambush that led to the capture of PFC Lynch back in 2003 happened because of a wrong turn, which happened because the officer in charge had the wrong route marked on his map. Before he was an officer, that guy was an enlisted dental assistant.
He was a supply officer, not combat arms. I just looked up Battle of Nasiriyah this week.
A Mongolian guy just started at my company today. Out of the blue he asks me what the electoral college is so I explain it to him as objectively as possible. “Oh, they do that because each state is special.” How can a Mongolian 25 year old who’s never been to the US have better understanding of states rights than most Americans?
He didn’t get an American education, that’s how.
Is his name Genghis or Kublai?
Ogedei has a sad.
Subutei: Hey boss, what about me?
Evidently you keep your father’s name as your first name and your son then uses your last name as his first name and on and on.
“Also, Mr. Straffinrun, would you happen to know anything about the wall strength and height of American cities? You don’t have them? Interesting. Also, does the American military have any particular doctrinal weaknesses to, say, a lot of horse archers?”
Shoot and run, shoot and run. Undefetable.
Is that a technique that has been passed down the Armstrong line for generations?
Nah, we just punch big stones that explode in our enemy’s face, murdering them.
Arex Loius Armtsrong ha watashi no tomodachi deshita. Ano hito no gijuustsu ha ustukushiiendesuga…
I knew Alex Louis Arsmtrong, and you Sir, are no Alex Louis Arsmtrong.
I’d say the Mongol’s greatest strength was their composite armor- hardened leather over silk. It made the wearer nearly invulnerable to arrows.
Their biggest defeat came at the battle of Ain Jalut where the Arabs lured them onto steep, rocky ground where they couldn’t maneuver easily.
Random thought: there is an Arab fable about an elephant that carelessly trampled a lark’s nest and crushed the chicks. The lark vowed revenge. First, it called on the other birds to peck out the elephant’s eyes. Then, when the elephant was thirsty and stumbling blind in search of water, the lark called on the frogs to croak near a ravine so the elephant would think there was water and fall in. When the elephant fell into the ravine and lay broken, the lark landed a whispered in its ear: “you thought you were strong because you are big and that I am weak because I am small. But you forgot that I am more cunning than you and that is why you lie broken.”
This story is commonly told in the Muslim world as a parable of how a weak force can beat a strong one. A real example happened at the battle of Yarmouk where 20,000 Arabs defeated 150,000 Byzantines.
There are some really epic moments in Islamic military history:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Trench#/media/File:Combat_between_Ali_ibn_Abi_Talib_and_Amr_Ben_Wad_near_Medina.JPG
Indeed.
Detachment lets you view things more objectively/truthfully, since you don’t actually give a fuck.
I was talking to a client of mine the other day. He is a sixty year old man who has lived in San Francisco for four decades and has done very well for himself in real estate. He is big on Dem politics and has donated no small sums to Dem politicians. He was under the delusion that it was a possibility to eliminate the EC.
So what you are saying is it takes money to make money especially in a shooting fish in a barrel real estate market such as San Fran and has nothing to do with intelligence.
Did he ask you to watch him shower?
People with brains that saw other systems fail tend to look at successful systems to understand their value. Americans look at other countries broken systems ever devised and why we don’t adopt it.
Anyone seen/ listened to the interview with Tim Allen by Norm Macdonald?
Watched it the other day there candyman. Is it true they called you candyman in prison, candyman?
Yes. Him trolling and teasing Allen at the end about his cocaine prison stint had me on the floor.
“Candyman here. He gotta lotta ideas but he ain’t got a lotta coke!”
No, but I think Norm is always great. I will have to see it. Because Norm.
Allen was a very boring guest and also, unlike Rich Little for instance, not particularly pleasant.
This most recent episode with Jim Carrey was great though. What a wackjob.
Libertarian ethics question:
I mentioned the other day that my sister works for a Victorian house museum. She’s their event coordinator and they have a lot of weddings there. The museum is situated in a public park and there has been a massive increase in mentally unstable vagrants wandering the grounds and crashing the weddings. Tonight when she asked one to leave he got physically aggressive with her so she had to call the cops. The cops, from the dispatcher to the officers who showed up, treated her like a thorn in their side—the homeless problem in this town has gotten so out of control that any calls they get about vagrants they blow off as an annoyance.
Everywhere I go in this town, there are homeless people that you can tell immediately aren’t right—talking to themselves, yelling out weird things when you walk by, spitting on you if you won’t give them money. I know of at least one woman who is schizophrenic and whose mother is willing to house her if she agrees to take her meds, but she won’t and thus she wanders up and down the train tracks. It seems to me that in cases like that, the best option would be a mental asylum.
My frustration has been building over the lack of this option for years now, and it’s reached its boiling point. My question is, is there a libertarian take on this? If I were a statist, I’d be out on the streets tomorrow with a petition to try to get the government to bring institutions back, but I know already going into it that that would be a recipe for bloated bureaucracy, wasted taxpayer money, and human rights violations. But I’m not sure how to go about getting people on the side of “we should have privately-run psychiatric institutions to
lock up these lunaticshelp these poor people, and the state should allow this”. Especially in Oregon.* Note: I am going to tell her that I think after tonight the museum should hire private security for weddings and have it be part of the rental package. They have to have event insurance already, so adding event security to the contract doesn’t seem out of line.
Also, she texted me this while I was in the middle of typing that: After they got there and belittled my sister for half an hour (basically they thought she was being a pussy for letting him intimidate her), they ran a check on him and it turns out there was a warrant for this guy to begin with. But it was soooo inconvenient that she called them!
Why would cops care about minor crimes. My parent’s car used to get broken into all the time (along with everyone else along the street), and cops didn’t give a fuck.
Good luck.
People you describe have passed the point into assault, so almost anything is fair game form a libertarian perspective. Start arming your personal nukes.
Allow people to live in substandard locations. (a building in the style of a storage facility would be cheap for getting a roof over heads for charities to do.) Do not have ‘public’ spaces, (for minarchists roads and sidewalks may be left public) If it weren’t in a public park, it would be criminal trespass. Just off the top of my drunk head.
CCW for the win.
But also, I have the same mental debate in my head: mentally damaged people who are a danger to themselves and others probably should be in an institution. But I would hate to have situations where people are deemed nutty by their relatives or by the gov’t and really are nothing more than quirky. We have people advocating that climate change “deniers” should be jailed. What would be the recourse if a person was targeted for institutionalization? There would need to be some pretty dang strict rules about it.
That’s my issue. I struggle with it from an ethical standpoint for all those reasons, and yet… I am so sick of getting spit on whenever I go downtown, and hobos assaulting my kid sister while she’s at work is terrifying to me. And of course the city is planning to do jack shit about it.
People who violate the NAP also forgo the protections it provides them. We all know the state cannot be trusted to prevent breaches of the peace or protect people.
I thought you were further north MLW? Sounds like the south end of the valley. Luckily I only work there (sometimes) but it’s gotten worse in the last several years. Alway trash and litter around. Not just candy wrappers or things like that but half eaten food waste. And also human waste. Ten years ago it was drunk college kids pissing in a corner on the way back from a bar. Now it’s bums pissing and shitting in public, or letting their dogs do the same. Syringes.
The bums are more confrontation too. Used to be you’d tell them to move on and by the time you were halfway through, they were already packing and moving. Now it’s some punk kids that flip shit and give you lip.
Exactly. The climate change thing is disturbing.
Fuck you Bill Nye.
I think the first effort should be to assign family as caretakers. It’s how many mentally handicapped people are treated. I suspect homeless have a sizesble percentage with no family able to care for them though. In that case some sort of institution is the only method possible.
It could be private but in either case you need some sort of due process before allowing a person the power to hold others.
involuntary commission is a non-starter, but that just scratches the surface of the whole de-institutionalization subject
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionalisation#United_States
i know you might think things are terrible now, but one of the reasons the state mental-institution system was scrapped was because the degree of abuse/neglect/extortion… etc. that went on in those institutions was epic-criminal.
My younger brother is schizophrenic, and i’ve seen parts of how the “system” currently deals with patients. For the most part, if you’ve got family that can shoulder some of the burden, the out-patient system does OK. Its when the patients get old and no longer have support that things go to shit. But even then there’s tons of available resources for mentally ill people, provided they actually want to take advantage of them. But many choose to go hobo.
oh, re: the other part of the subject – CCW, as others have said. people shouldn’t rely on police for “protection”. Cops are there to take photos and carry away your body after you’ve been raped/murdered by crazy homeless people. Not magically intervene when said act is happening.
I’m not sure if she’s allowed to because the property is owned by the city. I’ll have to help her look into that. I know most government buildings are a no-no.
Only as a matter of policy, such as employees/volunteers or possibly leassees. Oregon is pretty good about limiting the ability of local governments to ban CHL holders with limited exceptions.
http://www.oregonfirearms.org/faq
Thank you! That’s a big help!
Some people just prefer the hobo life, even if they aren’t insane. My dad had a cousin who chose that life even though he had options not to. Hobos just gonna hobo.
My cousin is also schizophrenic. He is doing really well right now because my uncle is there to take care of him and his meds are working out great for the time being. I worry about what will happen when he’s older but that’s a worry for another day, I guess. Anyway, that was just to say I do know from experience that outpatient does work. But it depends on people having support networks and being willing to accept the help, which crazy Mr. Spit-on-Your-Shoes and Train Tracks Lady are not. I want there to be a solution for those kinds of people but I don’t know how to get one without basically creating a second prison system.
I can understand this as I was born and still live in SF, which has become an absolute homeless free for all. A city is a city, and of course there will always be more issues with drunk, drugged, unstable people but it has gotten to a whole other level over the past few years here. There are legions of zombies that wander around traffic. I have had my kids friends pick up syringes from bushes, I have seen the most crazy antisocial behavior that has become accepted. And this is not just in center It has gotten insane here in the avenues. It doesn’t look to change as the same hard left ejits keep getting elected.
I thought the homeless situation was out of control when I lived in SF twenty years ago. I can only imagine now. What a shame.
To give an example, a bit back I was working on a building on the Great Highway. A homeless dude was sleeping in the condo garage overhang next door. When I came out he was spraying crap all over the front door of the condo next door. There were bushes right across the street, he just did not give a fuck. I yelled at him and he yelled back. The lady called the cops. 45 min later an SFPD was asking what was the problem. “Take him down to Bryant Street, he just shat all over that woman’s door”. “No, I don’t want him in the back of my car and I’m not giving him another ticket to add to the fifty other ones he already has.”
I figure that SF being cursed with reasonably pleasant weather year-round has something to do with their homeless problem. Unlike here in NYC where it’s unpleasantly hot or cold most of the year.
It had been about 10 years since I’d been to SF when I went to see the Tut exhibit (I think this was in 2009 or 10?), and when I got off the BART the whole sidewalk for like 3 blocks was LINED with people in sleeping bags. It was a huge difference in 10 years at that point, so I can only imagine what the 7 or 8 years since has done.
Damn son, that sounds like fun- If we’d all known it was _that_ easy we would have followed your lead a long time ago. A city is a city, and I’m enough of a son of a bitch that I might actually enjoy the end of the world. That said, I’m not an idiot, and you’re going to have to sell me on this. But if you do… I can get some nuclear weapons, right? We’re going to need them.
That many Democrats huh.
In the modern era they are elected President.
positively 6th street
In medieval times, crazy people were herded onto ships, shoved into sea with a philosophy of sink or swim. Not very libertarian, but it inspired a band and a cool painting.
http://gutenberg.polytechnic.edu.na/2/0/1/7/20179/20179-h/images/p126.png
I want a floppy hat with bells and a goatskin flask!
MLW brings up a very good topic and one which I sometimes reach the edge of where my belief in personal liberty stretches: At what point does someone lose their ability to decide for themselves? I know the NAP is paramount and I hold it as a moral imperative, but with mentally unstable people it certainly gets quite hazy. How long does the netball outside your window get to yell at imaginary characters at 3 am?
My best friend growing up became schizophrenic at 21. I have been wrestling with those questions around it for a couple decades now.
The troll is strong in this one…
I don’t see the NAP stopping for the mentally unstable anymore than I see it stopping for someone who is not. Fuck assholes regardless of their mental state.
It is not so much a question of the NAP stopping as it is of degree of force returned. If there is a drunk singing outside your window at 3 am and you yell at him to stop and he curses you and walks away then there is not really anything more. If you have someone who is completely out of mental control it adds complexity.
Good lord
If I were a statist, I’d be out on the streets tomorrow with a petition to try to get the government to bring institutions back, but I know already going into it that that would be a recipe for bloated bureaucracy, wasted taxpayer money, and human rights violations
Are there no charities that cater to these people? We have this problem down the road a ways, but Catholic charities is huge there. We all like to stick it to the Catholics, but they help a bunch of people in those situations imho. As to people interrupting other peoples lives during a paid for service such as a wedding, hire security and chuck them out on their ass.
Are there no charities that cater to these people?
There are, but some homeless advocate in the local rag was bitching that they’re all religious-affiliated and so the Hi-Braü atheist LGBTABCDEFG hobos don’t want to go to them. It made me think of the “Food, water, atmosphere” schtick in SpongeBob SquarePants.
Maybe someone should reply to the homeless advocate that maybe they should help those people instead of the evil sky daddy believers. Or to shut the hell up.
Not enough opportunities for graft.
Could be. Or it could be people like that just like to bitch about a problem and not do anything about it. Like the Twit that someone posted above about the Moms against gun violence. What are they going to do? Start a charitable organization where they collect donations and pay themselves a salary and never do anything that matters in the least? The same with homeless advocates. How many homeless people are sleeping on their floor? How many has she helped get a job? I might be jaded, but I bet none.
“LGBTABCDEFG”
A bisexual woman ridiculing the sexual alphabet soup warms my heart.
I hope whoever filmed that with their cell phone gets medical attention for the Parkinson’s or seizures or whatever the hell sort of problem they seem to be suffering greatly from.
Beggars CAN be choosers! Isn’t that inspiring?
Family. Friends. Charity. Stop. That’s the order. In no way should we ever allow govt to get its nose in the tent. If people object and say, “Well, something has to be done for these people!”. Fine. Then do something, but don’t pull a gun on me to fund it.
In San Fran, my understanding is that funding of bum maintenance after your “charity” milestone is highly institutional and quite costly. Something something perverse incentive something. Yesterday’s charitable favour has become today’s expectation.
Public choice theory. Does the part of government that gets funding in order to address the homeless/mentally ill problem benefit from having fewer lunatics walking the streets?
The self proclaimed homeless advocates are the biggest problems. They’ve been doing their best to normalize and destigmatize being a bum. Shame and judgement are underrated means to deal with antisocial behavior in civil society.
There will always be people that do evil, insane shit. Deconstructing their behavior until all agency is removed means removing their humanity. Understanding a mental illness doesn’t mean we have to accept it.
In stone age tribes, misfits become shamans and their eccentric behavior is believed to be an effect of their strong connection to the spirit world. Here is one of those times where I think we are primitive and they are civilized.
Maybe the delusions of the schizophrenic guy on the corner are actually visions.
Don’t let him own a gun! He’s crazy! Oh, he’s just taking a shit in your rosebushes? Well, that’s just like your opinion man! Not everyone has to conform to your ‘orthodoxy’ on what you call ‘sane’.
Which one of you has a toad?
My internet has never worked so well.
So what is the Cal score?
It met or exceeded my expectations.
…because all the people that would normally be watching porn are at the Dodger’s game?
So your team lost?
—-Wall Street Journal
https://www.wsj.com/articles/marvel-drops-planned-joint-venture-with-northrop-grumman-1507418231
This horseshit isn’t just for college campuses.
Marvel is, of course, a wholly owned subsidiary of Disney. There are costs associated with capitulating to these SJW jackholes.
I remember when the Moral Majority used to try to intimidate Disney into doing this or that. I thought that was asinine, too, but at least Disney eventually realized that capitulating to those asshats had a big cost associated with it.
Meanwhile, the SJWs are coming after Weinstein,
The problem with SJWs is that eventually they run out of other people to hate.
Watching the SJWs go after Hollywood is like watching them go after the administration at Berkeley. What, the Red Guard wants them to go even further to the left?
Someday, somebody’s just gonna tell these people to just go fuck themselves.
Maybe James Woods taking his bat and ball and going home will change everything.
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I found the Russell Peters video that I was trying to link the other day