According to the CDC website, the most recent published estimate of lifetime HIV treatment costs was $367,134. That’s just one of many things to keep in mind as Jerry Brown signs a bill downgrading the punishment for knowingly exposing someone to HIV in California to a misdemeanor. WTF? I’m all for decriminalizing behavior that doesn’t have a victim. This is NOT one of those cases.
As people struggle to assign a motive to the Las Vegas shooter, this seems to be a very promising lead. He does, in fact, seem to be evil and crazy. FTA:
The woman, who spoke anonymously, said she would spend hours drinking and gambling in Sin City with Paddock, who she described as ‘paranoid’ and ‘obsessive’.
If he hit a winning streak, he would take her back to his room for ‘really aggressive and violent sex’ including living out rape fantasies, she said.
Spot the bullshit: Las Vegas Killer Had Better Rifles Than the U.S. Military. How many falsehoods can you find? I only got halfway through, and I’m already in double digits. I’ll get the ball rolling: “Paddock also outfitted his weapons with some of the best optics available to the public.” Hey, there, goalposts!!! Get back here!!! Available to the public???? Lemme run that through my lying liar translator: The military has much better optics. Let’s see how many more of these we can find. I’m betting at least 20.
All of the news emerging about Harvey Weinstein is horrifying and disgusting, except for this little gem… Judi Dench has a Harvey Weinstein tattoo on her ass.
http://5newsonline.com/2017/10/08/family-friends-speak-out-after-elderly-man-tased-by-police/
Local Heroes keeping our streets safe.
Hey, he could have been on marijuana. What if he shot up like 10 pots? That stuff even turns old ladies into the Hulk.
“Don’t tase me, son!”
*opera applause*
Lets see… owned guns, anti social, liked rough sex, interested in hookers…….
Nope, not at all like anyone I know. Excuse me.
*readies himself for ritual seppuku*
Should we just mass suicide?
I’ll set out the chocolate pudding cups.
How many falsehoods can you find?
Well, the headline seems to be a lie. Most of the features that are called out follow a pattern in this article. “Paddock had X. The military also uses X!” The only exception seems to be free-floating barrels, which of course the military also uses, just not in “base” issue rifles.
Of course, the main feature Paddock lacked was true full auto. Which he tried to work around, and the workaround caused several of his rifles to jam.
Reading the Judi Dench article. It appears the tattoo isn’t actually a tattoo:
Just a very silly prank.
I still think my point stands, dammit.
He keeps saying “free-floating” the way At Gore would say “lock-box”. It makes a rifle slightly more accurate – then he put bump stocks on them to make them way less accurate.
This guy went and found them the only circumstance where a bump stock actually helped a shooter in the real world .
So I went to Sonoma State and worked in Santa Rosa for a couple years after graduating. EVERYTHING IS ON FIRE. 99% sure my cousin’s house in Kenwood is gone, which I’m really upset about because she has my great-grandma’s photo albums and I wanted to scan the photos for the family but she’s been dawdling getting them to me. There’s a chance they’re still in her storage unit in Moraga and I’m really, really hoping that’s the case.
I hope so. Waking up this morning in the City there was more smoke and ash than I had ever seen.
“Inside a free-floating barrel, bullets travel without interference from micro-vibrations. Conversely, a bullet fired from a fixed barrel can be thrown off its intended trajectory by these external vibrations. The difference can be as much as 50 percent more accurate.”
This is relevant information because in order to rapid fire into a crowd of 20000 people, bullets fired out of a rifle without a free floated barrel would have been so inaccurate that the shooter wouldn’t have been able to hit anyone at all.
I can’t imagine there was much actual aiming, especially with a bump stock jostling things around.
“I’m all for decriminalizing behavior that doesn’t have a victim”
The way I see this, there most definitely is a victim in that the “receiver” does not know he/she is being exposed. I don’t understand the logic behind this.
What was it before? A trial? The only thing I can think of is if the person was told, and didn’t care. if you withhold that information, it makes no sense to claim there’s no victim.
“This is NOT one of those cases”.
There IS a victim, and knowingly giving someone HIV is much worse than your run of the mill felonious assault.
I, for one can’t understand why Playa wants to decriminalize giving people AIDS.
Exposing someone and giving someone HIV are different. There was a case recently where a porn star hooked up with an underage guy (who had repeatedly misrepresented his age to quite a few guys), the pornstar was HIV positive but consistent with his treatment regimen and they didn’t use a rubber. He was (rightly) under the assumption that transmission was impossible or extremely improbable under those conditions, but the prosecutor used knowing exposure as an add-on just because they could.
A recent CDC statement on the topic:
I hadn’t considered something like this, but given that the chances of contracting HIV is then 0, are they really knowingly exposing them to the virus?
Sounds like an edge case and something a jury/judge should throw out.
Well the CDC literally just came on board with this within the last three months, and his case was a year or two ago, but part of the problem is that how HIV Is handled by law and policy hasn’t really kept up with changing patterns of treatment and management. On top of that when you look at Hyperion’s comment below, you wonder if even someone bright and well informed can be 35 years out of date in their understanding of HIV transmission, what hope is there of a rando jury not being convinced by an overweening prosecutor that “effectively no risk” isn’t zero risk and blah blah blah.
Right, maybe the law should be rewritten, given this new (relatively, as I assume the CDC didn’t jump on board when the first study came out suggesting this) knowledge to exclude such cases.
I’m not at all ignorant of what you’re saying, Jesse. I was merely saying that when someone has a contagious disease and they knowingly go donating blood without informing anyone of it, that to me seems malicious. It’s very rare, but it does happen.
HIV from blood transfusion
And no matter how good testing is, humans make mistakes. At hospitals, they make some doozies sometimes. My comment also had nothing to do with any policy about profiling gay men who want to donate blood, which I of course think would be bad policy.
The CDC estimates 14.6 MILLION donations per year. That case is the last recorded time that someone got HIV from a blood transfusion and the last time before that was 2002.
Back of the napkin math: 15 years * 14600000 = 218999999 safe transfusions to 1 tainted one. That’s a spectacular track record.
Also a bit of context:
Worrying about HIV in the blood supply is like walking down the middle of the street and opining about how dangerous flying is. TRALI, the leading cause of blood transfusion death where your lungs fail sounds AWFUL as a side note.
Flying is dangerous, if there’s a mishap, your chance of living through it is pretty much zero.
Today’s fun fact about “OMG GLOBAL WARMING WORST HURRICANE SEASON EVER”
This season has been hyperactive in the Atlantic, and will probably end up as one of the top 5 seasons ever in terms of Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE (currently 220% of normal). But the rest of the world has been far below normal. By ACE, this season has only been 85% of normal in the Eastern Pacific and 50% of normal in the Western Pacific. Total, worldwide ACE this tropical season has been 95% of normal.
It’s almost like weather happens all over the world and not just in the western hemisphere. Or is this one of those things that’s simultaneously “weather isn’t climate” and “this weather proves climate change”.
We just got spoiled while the light bringer was in office and the seas were calm like he had commanded. It’s all our fault for not making him emperor for life.
By that logic, the God/Emperor is so petty and vengeful that He cursed us with a plague of hurricanes for not throwing out our entire legal history and making him emperor for life.
Obviously, we should have had a more…permanent…solution.
(PS: This is just a rhetorical statement based on an obviously impossible scenario, so you can fuck off, Preet)
Also, top 5 means we have been here before, regardless.
Who here smoke Menthols and why is that so rare? I feel like I’m the only one.
Vape bro. You can do eeet.
They banned them up here this year.
BLack people smoke menthol and there are no black libertarians. You’re welcome.
I did, back when I did. Mostly because no one bummed them off of me.
your avatar is very fitting in this comment. it made me laugh.
That was just at first, later it was just what I liked. They didn’t leave as much of “an ashtray shit in my mouth” taste the next morning.
Heroic Mullato smokes half menthols.
Camel crush were designed for mullatos.
I didn’t know you were black.
He could be a highschool girl.
Don’t doxx me Jesse! Soon I’ll have all these pervs trying to DM me and asking for titty pics!
2.7.33
Bollucks. There are no high school girls on the internet. If you think you are talking to a high school girl, you need to start looking around for the dateline news vans.
i really should look up sometimes
“Where Q Continuum Reveals He is Actually Black”
He sure acts like a white dude, privilege and all. And white girl titties.
I had one once. It was after two bottles of red wine and I bummed it off a friend. I turned about five different shades of green.
Maybe we should all be buying up all the Napa valley wine we can get.
Kools. Other smokes taste like dirt.
Also, SF’s reason. A bum who hasn’t had a smoke in three days will turn down a Kool.
I used to occasionally smoke Nat Sherman Hint of Mints as a change of pace from Black and Golds, but the federal government top men and their friends in Big Tobacco decided that real mint was doubleplusungood and only disgusting fake mint was legal.
Quit almost a decade ago, though.
I smoked Newpimps back in my early twenties/raver days. I just liked the taste while I was rolling for some reason.
I tried smoking them regularly for about two weeks before I started hacking up black shit in the morning, then kind of quit altogether(unless really drunk) for a few years.
I escaped the RAPECAGE™! I had fun and hope to eat and drink you out of stock again.
Good think you only ACT like an 11 year old, eh?
No kidding…it’s not an act. I am that immature. I’m a bunch of kids stuffed in a big ol’ gunny sack.
Well, you’re here on this site, so as much was assumed.
They are the equivalent of the U.S. military’s standard service rifle, the M-16
I’m pretty sure the m4 is the standard service rifle in the U.S. military.
I think they both are, IIRC (too lazy to look it up right now) but that the Army and Marines have switched exclusively to the M4.
Marines have not got me exclusive. The M16A4 is still the standard service rifle.
That, and the AR is NOT the equivalent of either.
I’ll take a 2 for 1 on that lie.
One of the few good things that GEN McCrystal was doing in Afghanistan was starting to transition infantry units back to the M-16 from the M4 since the average engagement distances were longer than in Iraq. He was also giving unit marksmen M-14’s. After he was relieved those efforts largely halted.
I tried reading that article Playa, I really did, but I could feel my anger rising and my IQ draining away so I got the hell out of there.
They also weren’t ‘normal’ M-14s.
The re-issues were often the rebuilds as the M14-EBR, one of which I’d love to add to my small collection.
I think the most angering part was that it was written by somebody who should allegedly know better.
Unless something has changed, they don’t hire Marines for their brains.
All of the news emerging about Harvey Weinstein is horrifying and disgusting, except for this little gem… Judi Dench has a Harvey Weinstein tattoo on her ass.
The evidence that the classical world was right about the status of actors continues to mount.
Agreed: they’re disgusting fakirs, a couple of rungs below those who work with garbage and leather tanners in my opinion.
The evidence that the classical world was right about the status of actors continues to mount.
You mean that they were held in low esteem, along with prostitutes? It make sense when you think about it, as the most skilled people in both professions tend to be very good liars. Which makes their services more valuable, but their opinions less so.
Non-productive scum who play dress up and generally find creative ways to avoid any sort of real work.
One of the best FEE pieces I’ve read.
No, I Won’t Disavow My “Racist” Friend
If anything, the number of people who have been talked out of various white nationalist causes (see all those guys online with their ‘I was a white nationalist’ books or that black guy that collects former KKK robes) shows that the number one way to actually combat it is to actually engage these people. Isolating them just puts them in a hugbox where their views are constantly reinforced.
It’s the most moronic part of the ‘punch a Nazi’ rhetoric. Ignoring the violent insanity of the whole thing, it’s been overwhelmingly shown that talking to white nationalists is a far superior way of actually addressing the problem.
Unless, of course, it’s less about actually dealing with white nationalism and more your own petty sense of having some degree of power.
The latter. This “discussion” is like a debate between flat-earthers and hollow-earthers.
Tucker had a little hissy fit the other day about people joking around w/ helicopter memes. “Not cool and unlibertarian!” he insists.
https://twitter.com/jeffreyatucker/status/917103990789287941
I have no pony in that discussion, but my thought was, “being a humorless moral-scold is sort of ‘the other guys’ thing”
No, it’s about discouraging so-called libertarians from cheering things like political violence and genocide
Ok Tucker, I’ll bite: how the fuck is helicopter memes related to genocide? Leftists are a race or ethnicity now?
In general usage, many people use the term “genocide” to include “democide”. I don’t think it’s such a great sin.
In the age of people whining about ‘white genocide’ because race mixing I’d say misuse of the term is a pretty great sin.
But is it a misuse? Yes, in its original coinage, it specifically meant the mass killing of an ethnic group, but the meaning of it has expanded to include democide and politicide. For example, people regularly refer to the “Cambodian genocide”; whereas, by strict definition, only a small group of those killed by the Khmer Rouge were targeted due their ethnicity or religious affiliation.
By its very definition, yes, it is a misuse. And considering the politically charged nature of its use as a term it’s fundamentally dishonest to use it in that context. Throwing around the term ‘genocide’ broadly is just as moronic as throwing around the term ‘Nazi’ broadly. All does is degrade the actual discussion.
Of course, this is all assuming Tucker was only referring to the helicopter rides meme and not the closely-related Pepe/Hoppe/Feels Good Man/Trump as Nazi officer operating the gas chambers meme.
Meh. Why does no one think of the Neanderthals?
Because (((Denisovians))).
Why are you othering the Floresiensis, HM?
You know what? Fuck Jeffrey Tucker. People joke around about helicopter memes because they’re frustrated by the fact that the pieces of shit Jeffrey Tucker wants libertarians to cozy up to are okay with initiating political violence while the assholes who ostensibly speak for libertarianism do their damnedest to make libertarianism not about liberty. People who use the memes are mostly joking.
And honestly, who here doesn’t think Tucker wouldn’t be the first in line to announce his boycott of Shaffer’s friend’s restaurant?
the pieces of shit Jeffrey Tucker wants libertarians to cozy up to are okay with initiating political violence while the assholes who ostensibly speak for libertarianism do their damnedest to make libertarianism not about liberty.
Tucker’s not actually that bad in comparison to say, Reason, from what I’ve seen. I don’t think he was anywhere near as transparent as they were when they declared that we suddenly had to ally with the Left in the Reign of Drumpf. He does view right-wing populism and collectivism as a legitimate problem for libertarianism, which is why he’s discussing it pretty often now. But he’s not acting like some garbage hack like ENB and Gillespie and trying to unperson libertarians due to them being ‘alt-right’ or Nazis or whatever, in fact he’s specifically been arguing against guilt-by-association and disassociating racists.
Jeffrey Tucker doesn’t want libertarians to cozy to the nutty left. In fact, he says liberalism cozying with the left is why “liberal” now means raging socialist, and that the dominant political movements are all statist.
Seriously.
He wants to stop cozying to the nationalist/statist right because he says its going to end up just like cozying with the left did.
Stop it. You’re making the nationalists and statists who think they’re libertarians feel bad.
*walks by whistling nonchalantly*
Please, HM, the term is ‘cultural libertarians’. By which they mean ‘shut down Shakespeare plays that make fun of Dear Leader, even when they don’t’.
A cultural libertarian
What if we just want to make fun of badly done Shakespeare plays that botch the implications of the actual play?
Then don’t stand up in the middle of it and scream like a jackass?
But I have a hard time believing Jack Posobiec has read Shakespeare out of high school anyway.
Honestly, I had to look up who Jack Posobiec even was. It doesn’t sound like he even claims to be a libertarian. And mock him to your heart’s content. He sounds like an idiot.
Posobiec’s one of those guys who claims to be a ‘cultural libertarian’ in the vein of Breitbart’s concept of the term a couple years ago. When in reality a lot of the time ‘cultural libertarian’ just translates to ‘I don’t like the left’.
I don’t get it.
Okay, I’ll take the defense of Tucker. His name just always seem to come up when all the rot going on at TOS and Cato is on display. And getting his panties in a wad over helicopter jokes strikes me as ridiculous. Maybe I haven’t given the guy a fair enough hearing.
That said, it strikes me that some of this paranoia over the nationalist statist right somehow infiltrating libertarianism is a little overblown. Libertarians don’t hate on cue. That’s one of the things I really prize about libertarianism. And that means when people tell us we should hate people because they’re nationalist or alt right, we’re going to naturally ask why we should hate them.
And, no, laughing about throwing communists out of helicopters isn’t a sign libertarians are about to start advocating political violence. That goes against what libertarianism is about. It still doesn’t mean libertarians are somehow exempt from the very natural human urge to want to see bad things happen to evil people.
So, now they’re saying that the guy shot the casino security guy before he starting shooting the crowd? So… if there wasn’t someone shooting up the crowd, what was the security guard doing up there, anyway?
The paper says he was checking a report of a door left ajar.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-vegas-shooting-20171009-story.html
The paper says the Fuckstick fired 200 rounds through the door- wounding the security guard- six minutes before he opened fire at the concert.
The wounded guard was still there when the police arrived.
If he hit a winning streak, he would take her back to his room for ‘really aggressive and violent sex’ including living out rape fantasies, she said.
“Hey, ten bucks is ten bucks.”
An argument that’s been made many times here:
http://amp.nationalreview.com/article/452426/second-amendment-armed-citizenry-vs-government-force-history?utm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&utm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED
From the quoted NYT piece:
They don’t know shit and expect people to believe them when they say they won’t unintentionally (or intentionally behind a veil of purposeful idiocy) ban entire classes of guns they say they won’t
Hmmm, how long before they pretend the Taliban/the Afghanistan Quasi-war is exactly the same as gun owning Americans/a civil war?
Ah paragraph six. So at least I know he’s militarily illiterate.
“Paddock also outfitted his weapons with some of the best optics available to the public.”
It’s too bad he wasn’t wearing night vision goggles.
80% of all pro net-neutrality comments on the web are generated by bots.
https://www.redstate.com/setonmotley/2017/10/09/83-bots-told-power-grab-‘comment-period’-titanically-stupid/
Not surprising, there’s only two or three real people here commenting.
You would say that, wouldn’t you…Tulpa.
One of those 22 million comments is from me, saying no to net neutrality in a 4 paragraph comment. I went through a few pages of the comments, most were those canned-responses that you get suggested to you by some email or news outlet. The ones where you just click 3 links and the full 20 paragraph comment goes to the FCC page.
“Please, your help is URGENTLY NEEDED save INTERNET FREEDOM threatened by Trump! You don’t need to type anything, we will tell you what to say, just click the link below! Time is of the essence!”
“How can you be against neutrality?”
“What makes a good man go neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?”
“A man like Ringo, got a great, empty hole right through the middle of him. He can never inflict enough neutrality to ever fill it.”
You know, I’ve basically read this headline more than few times before… screaming that 80-90% or whatever of all anti-net-neutrality comments were botted.
Bots all the way down. Russian ones, I’m sure.
Well, I know the front page of Firefox has been a ‘send a canned comment because Trump is giving the internet to oligarchs’ link for two weeks.
Therefore, this doesn’t surprise me.
Change firefox to load a blank page.
The first thing you should do is set the new tab and new window pages to about:blank. Why would anyone not banish the delay of having to load unrelated content before browsing?
Use Brave.
Ugh really? Now that I think about it, I recall O’Reilly and like-minded “open-source” ideologues being all into that shit. Fuck the lot of ’em. It’s their “Democracy Dies in Darkness”.
The 27-year-old woman said Paddock, 64, would often rant about conspiracy theories including how 9/11 was orchestrated by the US government.
So, he was a truther.
The truther is getting truthed. Ha ha.
So how do you discredit a truther?!?!? You commit a false flag atrocity and blame him for it!
WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!!!
I need to reread Robert Anton Wilson and up my drug regimen to get my mind limber enough to deal with that one.
Well, now it comes out that this guy actually talked about stuff with people? Shocking. Someone knows about what he was going to do because you can bet he talked or hinted about it for a long time before even planning it. It’s what people do.
This season has been hyperactive in the Atlantic, and will probably end up as one of the top 5 seasons ever in terms of Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE (currently 220% of normal). But the rest of the world has been far below normal. By ACE, this season has only been 85% of normal in the Eastern Pacific and 50% of normal in the Western Pacific. Total, worldwide ACE this tropical season has been 95% of normal.
So- Zero Sum Hurricane?
Haha, just kidding.
Hrm. Bought a projectile weapon, shot something, drank bourbon, baked a cake I celebrated Columbus Day in a suitable way.
But did you lift today, bro?
Not yet, but that’s between 6 and 7pm on the schedule.
Nice.
Is trebuchet ownership regulated?
Asking for a friend.
Not that I am aware of.
Flamethrowers aren’t. Check out the XM42.
I’m going to wait until my son is few years older, but Little Lachowsky and I will absolutely be constructing a trebuchet in the future.
I built one in high school after the physics teacher challenged me to throw a tennis ball out to the lacrosse field.
We also had a school project involving giant crossbows. we had a war in the soccer field hurling tennis balls at each other.
Good times.
I was out for a drive in the country the other day and noticed one in a field. A big one, too.
A nice reminder that Minnesota is more than the Twin Cities.
You prompted a search, which yielded this… pretty entertaining.
So much awesome in one small column. Thanks!
I want meat Hugo, though, which means there are more loonies out there. Thank G_d.
They must be gearing up for pumpkin hurling season.
I went to ‘punkin chunkin’ one year when it was still in Delaware. Good times.
I had to work.
If you didn’t spread Old World diseases to the New World and vice versa you didn’t celebrate hard enough.
I don’t want your diseases.
Yes. You. Do.
*helicopters bacon bits in front of UCS*
But was it a Nazi wedding cake?
A Nazi marijuana wedding cake, baked while held at gunpoint by Gary Johnson.
Close… but no weed.
What kind of cake? I tried your beer bread. It turned out great. Thank you.
Well… I’m still writing up the article, so it hasn’t gotten Glib editorial approval.
I’m surprised this hasn’t gotten a lot more attention in the national media.
Mac n’ Cheetos is now available in your local supermarket.
http://www.hellthyjunkfood.com/mac-n-cheetos/
Yes, they’re large Cheetos (outter shell) and when you bite into them, it’s filled with fried macaroni. Then you take them and dip them into, of course, cheese sauce.
Do you have any idea how long it will take them to find a new place to put more cheese in a Cheeto?
I wish they didn’t just sell them at Burger King. Other restaurants should get on board.
. . . I’d like to try them with Chipotle.
Of course you would.
It’s deep fried macaroni in a cheetos batter dipped in cheese.
Chipotle has this new thing they call “Queso”. Cheetos and “queso” might go well together.
It’s better than tortilla chips and salsa or guac. You’ve already got all that stuff in your burrito. That’s not a proper side dish.
That’s like ordering a cheeseburger with a side of sliders.
Eventually all fast food in America turns to deep fried stuff and cheese.
You know why people like bacon?
Because it goes well with deep fried stuff and cheese.
Yes I do.
Because it’s magic?
^^^
That’s like ordering a cheeseburger with a side of sliders.
How do you know what I’m having for dinner?
I tried the Chipotle queso the other day, since I like chips and queso and had heard that Chipotle’s offering was “polarizing”, which intrigued me. I was not a fan: something about their choice of seasoning didn’t complement the cheese flavor.
I’ve never had the Chipotle queso because I find Chipotle food to be a sin against God and man. Baja Fresh, my usual go-to, has queso that’s kind of mediocre, but Moe’s, which has crappy salsa, has absolutely magical queso. It’s like actual queso fundido. I think it’s made with asadero cheese.
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The Russian Orthodox Church glorified him as a patron saint of the Russian Navy in 2000. His relics are preserved in Sanaksar Monastery. He was also declared the patron saint of Russian nuclear-armed strategic bombers in 2005 by Patriarch Alexius II in the Cathedral of St. Theodore Ushakov.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fyodor_Ushakov
Anybody named Fyodor Fyodorovich has got to be a cool dude.
“patron saint of Russian nuclear-armed strategic bombers”
Thanks, that is the best thing I’ve heard in awhile.
I’ll stick with St. Barbara of the Artillery Corps
From “Ballad of St Barbara by GKC. (http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/ballad-of-st-barbara/1/)
Barbara is also the patron saint of miners. German miners celebrate her feast day, December 4, in a big way with a lot of speeches, food and beer. At midnight, everybody gets a little porcelain cup full of schnaps to knock back, then sing the miners’ song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnwg8YM56Fw
You get to keep the cup.
General purpose military has serviceable firearms designed to operate with not much love and a great deal of abuse. Special Operations has the really good stuff because they train enough to be able to get the performance intended and treat the weapons with the value they have. Fuckstick in Vegas had weapons and used them against a caged up population with a plunging “beaten zone”. By the nature of his firing patterns it was not aimed fire.
In a way it was good that he was using 5.56mm. With some estimated distances: 400yds distance and 100yds up his plunging fire was around 500yds from barrel to point of impact. Even with energy conserved by falling, the ft/lbs of energy has fallen from 1263 at the barrel to 474 at point of impact. If he had been using 7.62 NATO (or .308 Winchester) his rounds would have had around 3000 ft/lbs at the barrel and around 1418 ft/lbs at point of impact. The carnage would have been much worse.
The Founding Fathers in the text of the Constitution addressed the control of private navies and they had just beaten the World’s most capable military with private artillery batteries, militia and a handful of “regular” units. The militia were using the best rifles available in the world versus Brown Bess smooth bores. Madison knew exactly what he was saying in the 2A. I do wish he he been more succinct: “The ability of all citizens to arm themselves with whatever firearms and weapons they choose shall not be infringed.” Not that clear language would be an obstacle to those who wish to disarm others.
I think 7.62 would have stymied his desire to use bump stocks and pseudo-auto fire. 5.56 is hard enough to control with a bump stock, 7.62 you’d be spraying all over the place.
At least one of the photos I saw of the room included a bipod.
A 30-caliber semi auto with a bipod is quite manageable. Fortunately, that was not his choice.
NATO 7.62 would left more dead and fewer wounded as he would less capacity and as you said, it’s not fun out of a rifle after a while.
Put a brake on it, you can shoot it all day.
That crowd is very lucky the asshole didn’t choose to aim 30 cal projectiles and instead fired haphazardly with 22 cal projectiles.
I know Im waaaay late but he did use a 7.62, not with a bump stock. They found at least 1 at the scene.
FYI, should be ft*lbs, not ft/lbs for energy.
In other fast food related news, some of you may remember me pointing out that McDonalds was bringing back Szechuan sauce because of the huge response from the mention of it on Rick and Morty–for one day only, October 7.
It was a disaster for McDonalds.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41543636
At some stores, fans camped out over night to be first in line to get Szechuan sauce, but many stores were only sent seven portions each. When the people who came looking for sauce found out there was no more room in the inn, things got ugly. It ended in tears.
From the link, you can see angry Rick and Morty fans chanting, “We want sauce!”. The police had to get involved in some locations.
There’s now talk of organizing a national boycott of McDonalds.
Rick and Morty fans are not to be trifled with, and now they’re being pulled into Evil Morty’s orbit. Do you know what happens then?
You know who else wanted to boycott McDonald’s?
The McDonald brothers?
(I watched “The Founder” over the weekend. Kroc comes off as an ass. Keaton did a good job portraying it.)
Wendy?
Rick and Morty fans are the new bronies.
actually probably the same bronies who realized it was retarded and glommed onto a new thing to find meaning
Rick and Morty has a few episodes that if . . .
If I were teaching a survey of philosophy class, I’d start the existentialism introduction with a viewing of the Meseeks episode.
I don’t know that “No Exit” or Camus’ early work resonate for average people today like they used to, but the Meeseeks hit it out of the park in a way people can relate to.
There’s one writer there, and the episodes he writes aren’t just nerd-awesome. They’re awesome awesome.
The couple of episodes I watched were very funny and revolved around interesting ideas. I don’t think I saw anything in those episodes or what I’ve read of subsequent ones that would make me think it is this other wordly intelligent that only super genius can comprehend.
Most of my friends are big R&M fans and they talk about it like it’s Aquinas or Descartes. I jus mus b a regalar ol dumdum
which is why things like this spread like wildfire
Please tell me that’s a joke (which is going over my head).
Copypasta.
The short answer is yes. The long answer is maybe.
yeah, it’s transcending satire slightly
it’s called a “copypasta”
here’s another example of the rick and morty fans meme
meme
I assume it’s something Heroic Mulatto wrote.
I once saw Nothing Personnel Kid open for Hüsker Dü. They sucked.
You rang?
Angry crowd chants “We want sauce” as police force them back. 1000+ people camped out to get #szechuansauce but McDonalds had 70 sauces….
It’s like a Rick and Morty episode come to life.
Seriously.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
My gf waited for 2 hours only to find out that schezuan sauce actually means rick & morty posters in mcdonaldian. She was not happy.
They just didn’t expect there to be a significant response.
So let me get this straight: McDonalds simultaneously thought there was enough response to restart a sauce recipe that had been dead for 25 years but not enough to make more than a few hundred packets? That is a level of stupid that I would assume would preclude you from making upper level management decisions on a fortune 500 company.
Fun fact: Dan Harmon, creator of Rick & Morty, didn’t get a sauce packet either.
Dan Harmon deserves anything awful that happens in his life, ever. Except maybe cancer.
This week on ‘Get Off My Animated Lawn!’ With John Titor….
His animation is fine, him getting shit faced on podcasts and talking about punching supposed Nazis is not.
I’m tired of this and drawing a line. Anyone who advocates for political violence and ends up getting fucked in the ass by life deserves it.
That’s very strange he leans that way because I detect an extremely libertarian vibe throughout the entire show. Rick is basically Ancap prime of the universe.
Harmon has psychological issues, and if he knew better he wouldn’t be getting drunk and flapping his mouth off about things he knows almost nothing about.
Instead we get shit like this spewed from his Twitter.
I think lot’s of shows or writers characters end up being that. Firefly. Frank of IASIP. Rick.
Also, while Harmon seems to criticize the more extreme aspects of social justice culture, he still seems fine kowtowing to aspects of it. While Roiland just doesn’t give a shit because he’s a weirdo.
The sauces are made by Golden State Foods, and they probably had no idea what a Rick & Poochy was.
I went to a couple McDonald’s and had no luck finding the sauce. However, I fail to see why anyone thinks McDonald’s owes them szechuan sauce. Fuck off, slavers.
McDonalds doesn’t owe anyone anything, just like no one owes mcdonalds business. It’s simply a very bad business move to overpromise and underdeliver on a large customer base.
I don’t think they over-promised. McDonald’s website stated very clearly that most locations would only have 20 packets of sauce. All the news stories I saw hyping the event didn’t bother to mention that though.
The place my gf went to had ZERO packets of sauce. She was first in line and got nothing.
Did she go to one of the locations participating in the promotion? I had to pass 3 McDonald’s to get to the nearest one participating. They were out. 🙁
NERDS
Yes she looked it up online and everything.
I think it’s alright to be upset with a business that doesn’t deliver what you want to buy.
They did a bad job with this, and their customers should feel free to tell them about it.
I also think that with a generation of kids who grew up with movie tie ins and millennials with their never ending adolescence, McDonalds might start thinking about doing movie tie ins with adult movies and things, too.
They had a 1,000+ customers camping overnight to buy their product–and they had no product to sell them?
You know who should be mad?
The shareholders.
If I were a shareholder at the next shareholders’ meeting, I’d be sure to ask the CEO what they learned from this mistake and what they’ve done to ensure it never happens again.
Fandoms of any kind tend to be the worst.
How embarrassing.
Can we talk about how disappointing this season was? The premiere was great and set my expectations quite high — but all the other episodes were either just OK or flat-out sucked. Especially “Rickmancing the Stone”.
I actually lost interest halfway through and just stopped watching. Might get around to it later but it definitely feels like there’s been a decline in the standard.
I thought it was a disappointing season, as well.
Some of the best episodes–“Auto Erotic Assimilation” with Unity–and “Meseeks and Destroy” were written by Ryan Ridley.
He seems to have moved away from writing and become the show runner.
They should find another show runner and get him writing again.
I mean, some of the best episodes from prior seasons were written by Ridley.
In Season 3, he apparently became the show runner.
I don’t know if it’s the Peter Principle or just more time show running means less time writing–but they need to reverse the polarity on that system.
Someone hit-and-ran my new car in the parking lot. This happens to me way too often, even though I park so far away in order to avoid this. I filed a police report and asked my apartment complex if they have any security cams.. but no luck.
I fuckin’ hate people sometimes. Brand new black car, scuffed up with white paint.
That sucks. Had a car totaled that way once (not that the car was worth very much, but it still pissed me off).
I’m happy its not totaled. That would be terrible. My general response once the car gets hit is first to be pissed off as hell… then to say “fuck it”, get it buffed out and just drive around without getting the panels replaced. There’s too many cars around here to be constantly fixing it every time it gets scuffed. :/
Sorry.
Someone hit-and-ran my previous car when it was parked in a Cambridge, MA parking lot. Smashed the tail light.
as the occasional corrector of misconceptions regarding the mentally ill, i’d suggest these are actually unrelated and – depending on your definition of “evil” – mutually exclusive.
– i.e. if you’re ‘crazy’, you’re not capable of determining right from wrong, or objective-reality from an imagined one. The system used to make rational judgments is broken.
– if you’re evil, you know right from wrong, and you choose wrong, because you enjoy inflicting pain + killing for its own sake.
If you’re evil, you make preparations to conceal your intent and understand how people will react adversely when they confront you. If you’re crazy, you don’t even understand what you are doing, much less rationally understand how others are supposed to respond.
*i know the OP statement was just a common expression… its just something people were talking about the other day, and i thought i’d repeat the point:
– actual ‘crazy’ people – schizophrenics – are actually very very rarely ‘more violent’, or more likely to be intentionally cruel, sociopaths, or have misanthropic tendencies as a consequence of their illness. Its a misconception born of this idea of the Virginia Tech / James Holmes / Jared Loughner “type”; its not really a type at all. I’d argue that all of these people probably had capacity for violence prior to and independent of their illness…. and that their behaviors were less a reflection of an illness like schizophrenia (which all seemed to have symptoms of), and more a reflection of other, pre-existing personality disorders.
of course, you could say those personality disorders are the same as “fucking crazy” to begin with. But that’s the thing about people with the capacity for evil behavior: that its not really an ‘illness’ in any definable sense. Some people are perfectly healthy, in the medical sense, and still “broken”, in terms of socialization and moral reasoning. its not crazy.
Common usage. By your definition, evil and crazy are at odds with one another.
yeah, i know it was used in a colloquial way. i was taking the opportunity for disquisition anyway.
i don’t know if i’d go for any 100% mutually exclusive definitions…. just that you can’t take a pre-existing, sane-and-good person…. and then make them evil merely via illness
iow, ‘illness’ can’t create evil. you’d have to be an evil SOB to begin with, and the ‘crazy’ part would simply be a super-duper enabler + justification for acting out your medieval impulses.
I also think i’m using a specific notion of crazy which disallows the whole “personality disorder spectrum”. Specifically, “crazy” for me means the sort of cognitive disorder/disassociative effect of severe schizophrenia.
Part of the problem is that some people need to pathologize everything. Someone can’t just be “evil”, they have to have some sort of disorder to make them act that way.
+1 Free Will
I’ve heard just about enough from someone with Mixed-Melanin Attitude Adjustment Disorder.
He’s MMAAD as hell, and he’s not gonna take it anymore!
Don’t make me MMAAD! You wouldn’t like me when I’m MMADD.
–
that’s more than part of the problem: its pretty much the essence of what i’m talking about.
i think people forget that “evil” is an independent variable, and can be a quality that “sane” people actually have. merely being evil isn’t a sign of ‘illness’.
my point about mentally-ill people being less-prone to evil – due to inherently-disordered cognitive processes – is maybe a distant secondary issue.
Not really sure what point the author is trying to make here, but I’m pretty sure it’s BS whatever it is.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452063/hugh-hefner-gangsta-rap-emerging-moral-majority
“In an ideal world, a man like Stephen Paddock, who spent his time and money getting perks at Vegas casinos would be disqualified from this burden of citizenship, on account of his manifestly dissolute and aimless life.”
This is some statist horsehit.
yeah that whole article left a very bad taste in my mouth.
If you can’t justify your value to society, George Bernard-Shore will happily send you off to the gas chambers.
He declared $5 million in winnings a few years ago and paid taxes on it.
I would gladly give up “the burden of citizenship” if I didn’t have to pay taxes.
What the hell? He should have his rights stripped because he’s a dissipated hedonist? WTF.
I think I just figured out how to solve all our budget problems. Just deport all the retirees who are traveling around the country in Winnebago’s and frequenting casinos in their manifestly dissolute and aimless lives. We will save a fortune on Social Security and Medicare.
But who will take them?
Mexico. We’ll make them.
We should confiscate your property if you have the wrong views.
You know who else advocated property confiscation and denaturalization of certain groups?
Hillary Clinton?
US National Park Service?
Michelle Malkin?
Sulla?
+1 knowing your history. Good one swiss.
Columbus?
Stalin?
The correct answer is: Andrew Cuomo
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/19/gov-cuomo-pro-life-conservatives-have-no-place-new/
Christ, what an asshole.
Owen Jones is such a utter little scumbag. He’s never met a person he disagrees with that he didn’t want to crush with the power of the state.
It’s not really much of a mask. More like a gauzy veil, made of fairy wings.
Sometimes, I wish Owen’s could have his way and experience what would come of him the moment “his people” got control.
” Jerry Brown signs”
Yeah, we were discussing this a little in the last thread and I brought up the fact that this also pretty much removes any real punishment for donating blood while knowingly having HIV. That’s the definition of insanity. Needing some blood in Cali is liking playing Russian Roulette now. Do these people EVER think?
Yeah, we were discussing this a little in the last thread and I brought up the fact that this also pretty much removes any real punishment for donating blood while knowingly having HIV. That’s the definition of insanity. Needing some blood in Cali is liking playing Russian Roulette now. Do these people EVER think?
Wait, what?
Blood has been rigorously tested in the US since the ’80s with a pooling schema which is very effective. There’s virtually no chance of contracting HIV in the United States from blood transfusion.
And yet, they don’t want my blood.
Can you blame them? It probably smells like Cumberland sausage.
They should be so lucky. Good Cumberland sausage is like ambrosia.
Too much English beef in your life?
I spoke to a nurse, and my sense was that while CJD is a concern, they’re actually more worried about tuberculosis.
Number.6 has Mad Cow! Everyone point and laugh!
MOOO!
(I feel like Patsy Byrne now)
I’m also restricted just because I lived in the UK in 91-92 and I *might* have been exposed. (or at least I was still on the “do not donate” list as of 10 years ago, I haven’t bothered to try recently)
Mad Cow Fist Bump! lol
It’s more likely to be an udder bump.
::starts getting ready to reveal his sweater tortoises::
They’ve been testing all donated blood for HIV for a while now. This just makes it so the person who has HIV can perform an empty virtue signaling act with no consequences.
Eh, there’s still a prohibition on sexually active gay men donating blood in the US, even if I show up with recent blood tests showing no HIV or Hepatitis and knowing full well they’re going to test it. I gave once right before I lost my virginity and that’s been that, which is a shame because I bleed exceptionally well.
I thought that was over a while ago.
They changed the policy so that men who had been celibate for a year or more can donate now. I like sharing my life-giving essence with the world, but not enough to nut into a dirty gym sock for a year…
How can you share it with the world if you’re storing it in a sock?
So… you’re sharing your essence in other ways?
What if the gym sock were clean?
I thought the red cross was looking at changing that. is it law or just policy?
Your gayness shows up on the blood test?
I gave once right before I lost my virginity
So you gave blood and fucked the nurse who pricked you?
Or he pricked the nurse who fucked him. I don’t know how that works.
He nursed the prick who fucked him. Get it right.
I knew it was something like that.
It wasn’t quite that immediately.
C’mon Ted nurses are female, do you even patriarchy?
Tests aren’t 100% effective. I know the rate is small, but there are false negatives.
I’m not sure that matters in this context. You’re still going to get donations from people who are untested and unaware of their status containing a potentially very high viral load, which will then be screened through pooled-testing. The point of declining blood from men who have had sex with men at this point is to lower the chances of infected blood being in more pools and increasing the testing load and cost. If a bunch of HIV+ folks showed up to give blood it would still be a vanishingly small chance that poz blood ended up in the donation supply but subtesting all of the groups that were flagged positive would be expensive and time consuming.
Even discounting false negatives as you suggest (and I’m not sure why one would, there must be many millions of blood donations every year), unless there is a blood shortage, it doesn’t make sense to accept blood with a higher chance of being infected. There is no reason *not* to try to keep costs lowered, correct?
I’m not sure I necessarily care about the blood ban other than it seems unnecessary and anachronistic at this point. Why explicitly forbid a group of people from participating in an accessible type of direct personal charity because they belong to a group that posed a brief, but serious danger to the blood pool a generation ago?
Why not at that point ban college students from donating? When I was a student I knew people who used donating blood as a convenient, free, and less-embarrassing-than-talking-to-their-doctor form of STD testing.
But there is a blood shortage, currently. A major one. Serious enough to force some people to cancel elective surgeries in which they might have needed blood transfusions.
As you pointed out, the costs of testing can be increased. Men who have sex with men comprise about half of all HIV cases, while making up something like 5-10% of the population.
At certain points of supply and demand, that could make sense, though I would think older adults would have higher overall STD rates- though they may also be aware of their status and thus decline to donate.
Maybe they *should* lift the ban then, or start paying people to donate – depending on relative cost effectiveness.
As an aside, I wonder what the mechanics of a blood shortage are. As in, what are the contributing factors, and how are they solved? There must be some sort of leading indicator, you’d think they could get in front of before they have to start cancelling surgeries.
Testing cost and effort is currently dropping with automation, At what point does a diminishing cost fall below the benefit of having more people available as donors generally, or especially if something happens and there’s a pressing need? And as Hyperion’s article noted above the person who was the sole HIV transmission in the past 15 years through the donor system was getting “intoxicated” and fucking around with men and women indiscriminately and then denied he’d had sex with men.
I’m not sure why this somehow wouldn’t be true for MSM for as well. Why not have a ban on people who engage in unprotected penetrative sex instead of the overly broad MSM standard?
I assume that would depend on the relative costs of testing (plus downstream infection costs, though I concede they seem to be low) versus the cost of not meeting the increase in need. Since MSM (is that the acronym?) make up 50% of HIV cases, as well as about 50% of new cases, you’re talking an ~100% increase in the secondary testing costs for an approximately 5% increase in blood supply (assuming MSM give at similar rates as the general population).
I would assume, and hope it is true (that those infected would not attempt to give blood), but also acknowledge that not everyone knows their HIV status. In that regard I would think openly gay/bi people would be significantly less likely to be HIV+ and not know it than men who are on the down low, or in denial (but that is just my conjecture).
I would think the pool of people who engage in unprotected sex is a bit larger than MSM,. If you meant MSM who engage in unprotected sex, that would probably be a good revision to the guidelines, assuming those that have protected sex have a low risk, which makes sense.
@Lackadaisical
I am 100 percent for allowing blood donors to be paid. Thailand is one of the many countries that allow donors to be financially compensated, when I was there, I didn’t see piles of exsanguinated dead homeless people in front of Red Cross centers.
As for the mechanics of blood shortages, in the case of the US, I would wager it has a lot to do with a lot of old Baby Boomers and not enough young people willing to donate blood to meet demand.
@HM:
Thats what I was thinking as well, which would point to the problem exacerbating in the future, if other factors can’t nudge things. If they started paying I might donate, but I’m not sure that’ll ever happen here.
I sold plasma 2x a week for a couple years in college – $25/shot for a hour of sitting in the clinic and reading. I guess if they really need whole blood….but you’re only allowed to donate 1x every 4-6 weeks. I generally don’t hear that there are issues with shortages immediately after most issues here – people like to come out and volunteer – depending on location/timing/etc.
Now, if there’s an issue with a specific blood type (RH-, etc) – then sure – allow compensation if you’re trying to prioritize.
I might be too late for this, but this is sort of my industry. Men who have had sex with other men are definitely considered a significantly heightened risk factor for HIV and other pathogens. No judgement here, I could care less who sleeps with who, but that doesn’t change the risk factor for donated tissue and blood.
Other risk factors includes having certain types of tattoos, previous incarceration, intravenous drug use, and travel to certain countries.
Serological testing left a large open window that let through a number of transmission cases. Now we have NAT testing which greatly closed that window, but it is still not 100%.
*or couldn’t care less for the grammar pendants
Why, it’s almost as if economics was a thing!
I used to work for TBI. My contemporaries work for Lifecell or One Legacy. I have no idea what the policies are.
They make you sign a form at the hospital acknowledging that you might contract HIV from the transfusion anyway.
I believe it takes your body 45-90 days to create enough antibodies before HIV become detectable. I don’t believe they sit blood around for 90 days unused and then test every pint for HIV.
Regardless, public perceptions of the blood supply are important, even if they’re based on erroneous information.
See anti-vaxers for examples.
So they sent me to the ICU, and they told me that I don’t have narcolepsy. The reason I’m falling asleep mid sentence and the reason my feet have fallen asleep and won’t stop tingling is because I’ve lost 70% of the blood in my body. They’re amazed that I can stay awake at all, much less walked into the ER, but, oh, since I’m awake, I need to sign this risk of HIV acknowledgement form before they can give me a transfusion.
That was a shitty weekend. I was working on a deal that was either going to make or break my company and my life. In the meantime, I was bleeding to death internally–and didn’t know it. I knew something was wrong, but I had no idea I’d lost that much blood. Once the contract was signed, everything suddenly caught up to me. It was more than adrenaline keeping me going. I think there might be something real called “spirit”. It makes people do the only thing that could happen to win the game at the last second–despite an injury or whatever. How often does that happen? It happens all the time.
Incidentally, you can donate blood to yourself if you know you’ll need it for a specific surgery ahead of time.
But they can’t test blood for antibodies that haven’t had enough time to create a detectable number of them. If someone was infected 30 days before donating blood, then there’s no way, say, in an emergency like the one in Las Vegas, that they didn’t use all the blood they had in storage and put out the call for all their regular donors to come out and donate more.
I think they’ve managed to secure the blood supply to the extent they have by restricting high risk populations from donating–keeping out Mormons, teetotalers, and . . .
Actually, I think gay men and intravenous drug users are considered to be at higher risk of infection–but gay men and intravenous drug users benefit from having access to a safer blood supply, too.
Are they going to stop screening out high risk populations from donating–or are they just refuse to prosecute them for donating despite knowing they’re HIV positive?
I suppose those are two different things.
And I hope people can still, at least, sue somebody for knowingly harming them.
9 days. There is a 9 day window with NAT testing, the current point of care “rapid” testing is 45-90 days, but donated blood uses NAT.
A few years ago a Canadian student rejiggered an existing test to get NAT accurate results with point-of-care convenience testing, but I have no idea when something like that would come to market.
Are they testing every single pint?
Yes, and have been for 30 years. The efficiency and accuracy has gone way up now with more automated assays. Literally only 1 known case of HIV transmission due to transfusion in the past 15 years. You’re (much) more likely to get the wrong blood type administered.
Tough day for Wales.
So close to qualifying (or at least to get into the playoffs to qualify) since 1958.
Like any other then.
This time they were damn close!
Horseshoes, hand-grenades, etc ….
They can always comfort themselves with some sheep-lovin’.
In fairness, have you seen the average Welsh woman? They’re like English women, but more depressed and they have even worse accents.
Yes, but some of the outliers can be … stunning.
Probably the scions of some raiding Irish celts, but the girl I dated in college was Gwynedd thru’ and thru’,
34 minutes plus stoppage time. It’s not as if they gave up the critical goal in stoppage time.
Pe byddai’n poeni ni, byddwn ni’n newid.
I actually had to cheat with that one.
I don’t insult you every time. Got to keep you on your toes.
“Spot the bullshit: Las Vegas Killer Had Better Rifles Than the U.S. Military.”
Yeah, the last time I was in the international terminal of an airport, the cops had some pretty damn impressive looking scary guns they were carrying around. So, no, this guy didn’t have better weaponry than even the cops, let alone the military.
Didn’t you see how scary his guns were from that picture? I think they ALL had that thing that goes up.
Did they have this thing which tells time?
select fire is a thing, and none of his rifles had it.
Bump stock is the new scary. Now be scared!
Military rifles are selected for many purposes anyway. Being the “latest technology” would require outfitting millions of rifles every year. Still he didn’t have selectable fire meaning they lacked a feature the military has had for around 50 years.
It’s starting to get a little smokey here:
http://www.dailybreeze.com/2017/10/09/this-map-shows-where-the-anaheim-hills-brush-fire-is-burning/
Reaching me up the coast from you, too. Light was definitely getting an orange tint from smoke in the late pm.
You can have some of the moisture from here.
It’s been hideous today.
I cycled to work this morning and it was sunset orange from 1pm on. Remember kids, don’t exercise in apocalyptic hellscapes, ash gets in your eyes and your lungs turn sepia-toned.
Don’t know why I’m telling you soulless sharks. I was recently diagnosed with diabetes. Not taking it very well right now.
type 1 or type 2?
Type 2 at least that is how we’re treating it for now until I find out more
It would be callous and wrong of me to type ‘lose weight fatty’ so I’m just going to say you can beat this.
Now where did I put my candy bar?
Thanks, And ironically enough I dropped 43 lbs over the course of a year and kept it off for the past 2 years. Not much weight left to lose.
Controllable? Get it under control.
Not controllable, fuck .. that sucks. Sorry to hear it, man.
All diabetes is controllable. My mother has had type 1 since she was a child and is still alive 60 years later.
That sucks. Did your pancreas rot away from the corruption of your brain like SugarFree’s did?
I believe so. Or at least reading his “fiction” rotted my soul which left my pancreas open to be rotted.
People blame me for everything. It’s like being on a blog with my mother.
You don spread the dia-beetus?
Sorry to hear, mate.
I have type II under control currently. You can do it without much sacrifice.
Bacon is supposed to be glucose free.
I eat all kinds of bacon. Funny thing is Diabetes.org prefers you to go vegan. High protein/less carbs has been effective enough for me. I like veggies but no substitute for bacon.
Cannibal.
You eat maple syrup…
Contrary to popular belief, Canadian bacon IS PEOPLE, not maple syrup.
Canadian bacon is Soylent Green?
Nope. Ham.
Bacon should be cured with at least a little bit of sugar.
I get cured with thc and alcohol.
No, like God intended.
Salt, sodium nitrite and smoke.
Let’s agree that you’re wrong.
And gluten free, I think.
It’s gluten free too.
I hear it’s also gluten free.
Water is gluten free also. But they have to put a label on it so you know, because no one would ever figure it out otherwise.
Hey guys, does bacon have gluten?
I heard somewhere that it’s actually gluten free, which means it’s been cooked.
I wonder where you heard that?
I heard it depends on what kind of pig it’s from.
No, the rule is if it’s been cooked it’s gluten free, and if it’s raw it’s vegan.
The lite bacon doesn’t have any gluten.
That sucks. Just be prudent about checking your sugar and watch your diet and you should be ok.
Bummer. Pretty soon you’ll be penning filthy fiction.
For what its worth, you have my sympathies. My mom just got diagnosed with it a couple of weeks ago.
My mom has had it for over 20 years, and she’s a wuss. Best of luck — you can manage this.
Sorry.
Harvey Weinstein fucking Judy Dench…
Hmmmm…. ok, have some eye bleach.
http://archive.is/rTwRN
Excluded from the orgy: #12 (bull nose piercing).
Number 6 looks like fun. Number 1 is classic tourist on windward side Oahu pic- pass.
Iceland qualify for the World Cup, without having to go through the playoff.
bruins lost to the avs. My roommate should be a joy this evening. maybe I’ll go to the bar.
Anyone gonna watch the Caps vs. Lightning tonight?
Aren’t the Lightning the only team that did some anthem-protesting crap? I hope we wipe the ice with them.
Who’s “we”? Not everybody here is a Caps fan.
“We” is obviously anyone that thinks correctly and properly, which would make one person a caps fan, obviously.
history of the Caps
OUCH!
Let’s go Caps!
I tell myself I won’t watch until the playoffs again this year, but I always do.
.In an ideal world, a man like Stephen Paddock, who spent his time and money getting perks at Vegas casinos would be disqualified from this burden of citizenship, on account of his manifestly dissolute and aimless life.
Far as I got.
Fuck
off.
What qualifies one to get this citizenship perk? Getting a bullshit degree and fighting statues of dead guys?
So. I found out a little funny info at work today. One of our newest supervisors is one of the guys featured in this video.
https://youtu.be/2O79I9GoLe0
He graduated college like… a handful of years ago, and he’s your supervisor?
White supremacists dude, white supremacy
8-year olds, Dude.
He’s not my supervisor. He worked in the metallurgy lab and apparently knew what he was doing. He just got promoted a few weeks ago. He stays in the lab. We don’t let college age punks make decisions of consequence when it comes to dealing with the equipment.
See, there are Nazis all around us.
You’ve got a supervisor who’s that young?
ESPN suspends Jemele Hill.
Too bad it wasn’t for shitty sports writing but it’ll do.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/09/sports/football/jemele-hill-suspended-espn.html
Twit.
Good.
Lack of talent – No prob.
Calling the POTUS a white supremacist – A-ok
Calling for boycotts of the sports that keep her employer in business – not so great
There are some lines even MSESPN won’t cross.
I noticed that as well. Virtue signal all you want, but fuck with the money and you gots ta go bitch.
Not boycotts of sports, boycotts of ADVERTISERS, may of whom also advertise with ESPN.
When you piss off the customers (and the advertisers are ESPN’s customers not the viewers) then they got no choice but to punish you
She’s a moron. If she thought she could encourage advertising boycotts against an NFL team and not catch hell for it, she’s an absolute moron.
It’s to ‘foster change’!
C’man.
“Change happens when advertisers are impacted,” she tweeted. “If you feel strongly about JJ’s statement, boycott his advertisers.”
So, she was calling on the pro-kneeler crowd to do exactly the same thing as the anti-kneeler crowd: boycott the NFL/its advertisers.
Genius.
WHAT PART OF ‘FOSTER CHANGE’ DON’T YOU PEOPLE GET?!
“See??? We’re having an impact!!!”
“Change was fostered”
Crusty Juggler is Matthew Yglesias?! The incredibly boring reason Trump is on track to win in 2020
Crusty had this little pose he’d do…he’d disapprove of one side of a KULTUR WAR pissing match, but he wanted to appear as though he was above it all, so he’d declare himself bored by the whole thing.
Physician: heal thyself
I knew it!
Astros Win!
What qualifies one to get this citizenship perk? Getting a bullshit degree and fighting statues of dead guys?
I think that was a National review link, so more likely going to mass regularly and voting for people like John McCain and Lindsey Graham. And kicking mendicant hobos whenever the opportunity arises.
more in: Mass Media attempts at discrediting social media
“People say shit on Youtube and Facebook that isn’t true: ergo, more corporate censorship needed“
When do we start censoring major news outlets and government officials?
Let’s start by censoring politicians and government officials.
CNN says shit that isn’t true every day on TV, like thousands of times. Should be ban TV?
ESPN suspends Jemele Hill.
“After careful study of the available fedback, it has become obvious nobody reads or listens to you. Clear out your desk. The security guard will collect your pass and escort you to your car.”
They just wanted some pizza.
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/trending/video-mama-bear-2-cubs-break-into-estes-park-pizzeria-find-their-way-to-the-salami
That pizza place should be shut down for allowing those bears to eat poisonous people food! Bear abuse!
I can’t believe Estes Park doesn’t have a law preventing bears from breaking and entering.
Obviously the Pizza place is at fault for not installing the proper level of bear control.
There’s a $100 fine here for not using the bear proof trash cans on the hill. It might have gone down to 50, but it stacks, and it’s the property owners responsibility.
First its guys with assault rifles and now bears. JUST LET THE KIDS GO ALREADY!!
We’re here! We’re queer! We don’t want any more bears!
This is the kind of man we need in a position of influence!
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/news/aurora-city-council-candidate-abel-laeke-a-registered-sex-offender-has-lengthy-criminal-record/
I’m going to make a wild guess that his crimes are probably relatively mild compared to the people he would work with if he wins. Once he wins, he can make the big time criminal scene and not get into any trouble for it.
She’s a moron. If she thought she could encourage advertising boycotts against an NFL team and not catch hell for it, she’s an absolute moron.
I’m sure she considers herself to be some sort of “whistleblower” and is more likely than not shopping for legal representation as we speak.
Lucky for her she has “protected” employment status.
If that prissy douchebag from the National Review thinks Paddock lived a manifestly dissolute and aimless life, he’d probably go into cardiac arrest if he spent any time looking over my shoulder.
How dare he make money legally and then spend it the way he likes!
The Politburo gives the people wide latitude on how they will spend the money allocated to them, however there are limits comrade.
Was it French? Because that sounds like French.
No, if he’d been French that congratulate him for his ennui, instead of deploring his aimlessness.
There was an interview in the Atlantic mentioned here a while back… with a woman writing a book about ‘consent issues’ on college campuses.
we tore the living shit out of the article. I recall using the phrase “she sounds like malibu barbie after a few wine-coolers”. She made comments like, “Yeah, sure maybe guy’s rights aren’t 100% protected, but i mean, like, so what? a little imperfection is the price we pay for less-rape” (without ever demonstrating that said policies produce less rape, etc.)
Anyway, so now Nick has interviewed the same person. I have not watched/read. I can only assume he doesn’t bother prodding any of her stupidest ideas.
The first 20 seconds was too stupid to continue listening to.
As usual, skipping the article entirely and going straight to the comments tells me exactly what I need to know. And yes, he softballs the shit out of her. Rape allegations incoming, Nick.
The good news is the commenters are tearing the shit out of the interview.
There’s a reason why I say the best thing Gillespie could do for libertarianism is retire.
I don’t get that line.
So I went and listened to it (I ignored it earlier today) and found a bit but one minute in interesting about her saying along the lines, ‘we don’t care what you 45 year-old suburban mother thinks is consent or 55 year college president think is consent this is our bodies and this is what we say it is’ as she waves a pen around.
So much for the collective wisdom of our elders imparting knowledge on the less experienced.
I watched 10 minutes and heard enough.
When you pull the chord does she giggle and say, ‘I’m just a girl’?
She’s an awarding winning journalist? /face palm.
Last, Nick classifying Mattress girls as ‘he said she said’ is quite prickish. I thought it was proven FALSE.
You can’t prove a negative. This is the entire basis of the rape “crisis”.
They have sex. She claims rape. Rape, now being defined as a lack of consent, becomes impossible to disprove as it involves verbal interaction only and not physical force. Regardless of the legal outcome, the public belief that a rape occurred carries on because it is an article of faith.
That is the quote that made me shut it down. The level of stupidity inherent in that statement is beyond measure.
Yeh, epic in its absurdness.
Why did Reason interview that twit?
Trump supposedly to issue an executive order on Obamacare this week. Rumor is it will loosen regulations on individual and short-term plans. Will be interesting to see if that’s the case.
Can’t he just do his best Obama impression and nullify the whole law by EO? I mean, separation of powers, responsibility of the legislative branch, blah, blah, blah but I figured we got to the point in which we no longer wanted representative government and just had a monarch right?
Hey, congress hasn’t acted, and the people are clamoring for a solution. Therefore, executive order can be issued to solve the problem. /Obama-logic
The one silver lining for Congress continuing to abdicate their lawmaking authority by delegating the specifics of rule making to the executive branch is that all rules propagated by the executive can be repealed by the executive. It’s a terrible way to make law (and unconstitutional, IMO), but for the moment it’s the way things are.
Anyway, so now Nick has interviewed the same person.
“Were you always so brave and fabulous, or have you grown ever more wonderful as a person as the years have passed?”
Yeah, Nick has just become sad and pathetic. He doesn’t even try to back his assertions anymore. Very bush league.
How is it that this Kraft brand Mac-n-cheese is disgusting, but my 33cents/box Aldi brand stuff is delicious?
I demand answers!
#Smackncheese
The truth of the matter is that ALL mac and cheese is disgusting, and you’re clearly in the pocket of Big Aldi.
*narrows gaze, clutches Aldi bag*
I find that if I’m very very hungry any mac n cheese taste good. Not as good as homemade mind you, but good.
copious amounts of MSG.
I did just read the Kraft package and it says no artificial flavors or colors. That must be why. I want my chemicals bitches, need my fix.
Water is a chemical.
Relevant Penn and Teller Bullshit.
Kind of unusual to have a rattlesnake death in North America.
http://kdvr.com/2017/10/07/hiker-dies-hours-after-a-rattlesnake-bit-him-in-mt-galbraith-park/
Ummmm…. not trying to start an abortion debate here, but giving a river “personhood” status? SMH
http://gazette.com/guest-column-rights-for-a-river-an-effort-to-undermine-democracy/article/1612790
I’d be willing to give the river rights if it can petition for that itself.
Hopefully just gets thrown out. Cases like these are designed to subvert the concept of natural rights until they’re meaningless.
Your honor, I did not rape that river. It was already wet before I put my finger in it.
Kiwis are down with that, bro.
A Feel good story
http://abcnews.go.com/US/man-removes-nazi-swastika-tattoos-friendship/story?id=49496501
“Kent, a former neo-Nazi, credits an African-American parole officer named Tiffany Whittier with helping him to see beyond skin color and changing his views about white supremacy.
“If it wasn’t for her I would have seeped back into it,” said Kent. “I look at her as family.””
This is much more effective than punching a Nazis in the face or throwing feces on them.
How do you know she didn’t punch him?
Hahaha. It didn’t exactly say that but you never know. She might have beaten the racist out of him.
There’s a huge gulf between people who actually want to make a difference and people who want other people to think they want to make a difference.
*Edit Faerie giggles and helps*
stupid auto-correct. s/gold/gulf/
Here I was thinking it was Jew gold.
Edit faerie, what’s your phone number?
1-800-HAH-AHA!
Godfuckingdammit. That’s not even the number of a local Domino’s!
A former roommate of mine after chatting up a woman at a bar, asked for her phone number. She gave him a phone number. A few days later when he called the number, the voice at the other end answered, “Domino’s pizza, how may I help you?” He hung up. He looked up the local Domino’s Pizza, and discovered that the number the woman gave him is the number of the local Domino’s Pizza.
That would suck. But he did dodge a bullet. Domino’s sucks.
Maybe she worked at Domino’s….?
Sounds like the movie American History X which I recommend if you have not seen.
I highly recommend skipping it because of one scene. That curb stomp is forever etched in my memory.
Lies. You like the ass rape scene.
I would call it “rape” rape. That inmate uniform is basically asking for it.
Yeah, that was brutal.
Oh, that tangentially reminds me of seeing Sisko get blackwashed out of history in order for SJWs to claim that Star Trek: Discovery is breaking new racial ground. Because, you know, it was only white people in that fictional universe before.
I don’t think that’s a case of Sisko getting deliberately blackwashed out of history, I think that’s normie hack journalists who know nothing about Star Trek just applying their standard moronic social justice take onto everything, i.e. “it must be new, stunning, and brave because minorities and/or women”.
Plus DS9 was like a hundred years ago.
Thank you for this. It give me some hope.
They have 12 aircraft on the nearby (formerly) wildfire.
It doesn’t make any difference. It was almost dark at 2:30pm.
And… we just swiped the 10 Tanker from Nor Cal.
Sounds like UWisc may go to a 3 strikes system for snowflakes. Not holding my breath that they will follow through.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/09/university-oregon-students-shout-speech-schools-president/
He added, “Our demands will be heard. We will be heard…Expect resistance to anyone who opposes us.”
Rapist logic.
It’s funny because they have no real power. The president could expel them all today and they couldn’t do shit about it.
Their power comes from knowing that he won’t.
Bingo. If these assholes knew that there would be consequences, they would probably stop this shit. But the odd thing that no one ever talked about is the role of these student’s parents. If I was shelling out a shit on of money for my kid to attend college and they acted in a manner like the students in the article, I would immediately stop paying for school.
You’re not there to protest or start a fucking movement. You’re in college to learn a skill, expand your knowledge, and use both to gain a job.
Wrong link, I think.
Halfway down article
It’s sad to watch these middle age boomers signal how much they agree with the little monsters they created in some vein hope that they won’t turn on them.
*vain
I seriously think they should let these mentally disturbed overgrown children run the place.
Be interesting to see how this plays out. Doesn’t seem like the sheriff’s have much leverage here.
https://hotair.com/archives/2017/10/09/california-sheriffs-openly-protesting-new-sanctuary-state/
They just pick up the phone and make a call to ICE – who knows…?
Just made chicken and dumplings for dinner. Now the whole house smells like chicken and dumplings which is awesome.
Delicious.
Red Mo for tonight.
Nice. I love a good red.
I’m not sure which I prefer as I muck about on dating apps. Spam bots or people pretending to be something they are not.
Go to one of the Russian bride site and you can add green card gold-diggers and Russian mobsters trying to shake you down.
You mean to tell me the women on those sites aren’t looking for love but are looking only for a green card?
*Hurriedly changes Dropbox password AGAIN*
“Hey, Daddy!”
It’s beeroclock and I have Dry Dock Oktoberfest. Revel in your envy.
Link to be all fancy like DEG.
https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/12314/79415/
Looks interesting.
I am enjoying a Dale’s Pale Ale.
I just bought a keg of that and haven’t tried it yet. How is it?
I enjoy it.
Do any of you guys work?
Yes.
Only a liar would say that.
It all depends on how you define the word “work”.
Doing something that probably is not as fun as it was 20 years ago, strictly for money because otherwise you wouldn’t get out of bed to bother with it. That’s work.
Yep, I definitely work, except it was never fun. Not even twenty years ago. But, it is less fun.
How many people do you know who say they would still work even if they suddenly came into a fortune? Because those people are either liars or stupid.
My wife sometimes will say that if she won the lottery she would still work. And I say ‘Well, I won’t and it’s easy for you to say because you ain’t working now’.
By your definition of work, maybe not.
I would still write if I came into a fortune.
And I might take up a new career if it were big enough. (ie, buy up a big enough interest in a corporation and make the board of directors lives hell until they addressed certain problems in managemenet…)
You don’t want me as your lab partner. You’ll end up doing all of the work.
Also, you’re disloyal.
http://imgur.com/kmZLYyr
Oh sure, everyone forgets when we burned down Parliament, or lynched Asians, or the time Montreal cops went on strike and there was basically a gang war between taxi companies.
For those that want to read more.
Enjoy the quote of the day. From the ‘Bro science’ article at Patheos someone linked to this morning:
“Shem the Penman Maximian • 3 days ago
No one here, least of all me, wants to “replace the scientific method.” We’re just surprised that people have this idealized vision of science that doesn’t acknowledge the amount of bias and prejudice that it encodes, and how much skepticism we need to apply to its claims.
We’re talking about the difference between the truth and our wishful thinking, that’s all.”
and how much skepticism we need to apply to its claims
Somehow I doubt they have so-called global warming in mind.
How come I don’t get an origin story? Sadz.
Fine, I’ll let people know your origin story as well.
How’d you know?
That is Q.
I find that believable.
False advertising. I see no titties in that video.
Any Miami Dolphin fans here?
https://www.facebook.com/starr.sherrod/posts/10159564954420089
Another casualty of the culture war.
Jesus, the emojis also get copy-pasted automatically now, eh? What a world.
Would.
Too crazy to even look at the picture.
Just make sure no recording devices are around.
Ditto, but we’ll have to keep the convo away from topics like my skin color and my rescued pit bulls. And the fact that I think Kyle Kapernick isn’t a very good quarterback.
Wait, what?
She’s saying its hypocritical to say its OK for a dude to engage in harmless partying, but then ‘roast’ them because they beat their wives or abuse animals?
Sounds like they live in a binary world – it’s either hate or laove, no nuance.
That’s not smart. “Babe, let’s numb your clit!”.
As if it matters whether she enjoys herself.
I guess repeat customers aren’t part of your business model.
Fuck the Dolphins.
This skank is claiming this was done to support player anthem protests somehow. By showing how plenty of coaches are dirtbags. And supposedly excuses are being made for the guy who just lost his job.
Security guard was shot before the Vegas shooting started, not after as previously claimed. Former cop finds way to throw hotel security under the bus. See how many of the details in this story don’t add up…to include said confusion over the timeline to begin with given the presence of security cameras and, you know, the security guard and a maintenance worker being present:
Yep. And this took a week to correct. After the attention faded.
Wait a minute, so he shot the security guard first. Then it sounded like a short time later the cops show up coming out of the elevator? I thought it was 72 minutes after the guy started shooting when the cops got there? This whole thing is really fucked up, or seems like it.
One of the first comments on the article.
“Security guard has a radio and cellphone like he didn’t radio in that he’d been shot? Then the security people didn’t call 911? Just the facts please?”
Yeah, no shit, this is all sorts of fucked up.
How long did the guards remain conscious after being shot? Wasn’t one dead and one seriously fucked up?
I thought that only one guy got hit and that he survived.
I don’t know. I’ve not been too crazy about hunting down details.
They say that the guard was able to protect a maintenance worker who arrived on the floor after. So…yea. Lack of detail, and then a quote throwing hotel security under the bus plus a week to correct a narrative they had to have known was bullshit a week ago leaves me more than a bit skeptical myself.
Wouldn’t hotel management know that a security guy was just shot and what door those shots came from, pretty much immediately? In fact, wouldn’t that be the most important part of security guy’s job? They carry those radios around for a reason. And does it typically take cops in a city like this 72 minutes to arrive after someone is shot? This thing is beyond fucked up, someone needs to get some shit straight here. I’ve seriously called 911 one time in 10 years here in Maryland. I was actually in Columbia at the time and it took them less than 5 minutes to arrive. I mean ok, in the middle of buttfuck nowhere West Virginia, maybe it takes 72 minutes. In Las Vegas?
Even scratching the radio…they have security cameras all over the place. The official line here is that they really failed to inform the police for that entire time? Even after they knew an active shooter was in the area shooting down at a crowd from above?
No, it all sets off my bullshit detector. The hotel would be opening itself up to serious liability here if they didn’t contact law enforcement.
They didn’t throw hotel security under the bus. They threw themselves under the bus.
It’s possible they are as incompetent as claimed. But, then again, when it took a week for the cops to correct their shooting timeline publicly when they probably should have had this information within hours…I’m not really in the mood to believe them on other things like not being notified.
Get ready to see military guys walking around with machine guns in hotel lobbies, like in Latin America, because it’s probably coming.
I stayed at the Mandalay Bay in August. There was a lot of armed security. Everywhere. Even the guys in fluorescent green shirts riding bicycles in the parking structure.
Apparently the only time they don’t work is when a maniac is shooting up a concert from the hotel.
The timeline of the Orlando shooting was basically kept under wraps for a month because it was so hard to actually explain to the public.
Someone should probably be making a bigger deal over the fact that these authority types tell you to shelter in place when this shit goes down and wait for help when reality shows that help won’t be coming in time.
72 minutes ain’t that long, you need to be more patient with our shining heroes. Maybe they needed to grab a bite to eat before heading over. What, do you expect them to work likes slaves at your beckoned call?
police didn’t actually make any attempt to do shit for 3 hours. he started shooting @2AM. They breached @5AM and he shot more people while they continued to play defensive *inside the nightclub*. they didn’t kill him until he actually left the bathroom, having believed he already shot all his hostages in there.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/pulse-orlando-nightclub-shooting/os-orlando-pulse-nightclub-shooting-timeline-htmlstory.html
Fortunately, no police were harmed.
Shit, my bad, Gilmore, I was talking about LV, not Pulse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mia_Magma
She’s a “singer” now.
I guess she’s not the chick from this like a quick scan made me think. I love that movie poster, by the way.
That dirndl is not very traditional, and that’s OK.
interesting tidbits about the scumbag:
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He was “raised mostly in California,” attending high school in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles and college at what would become Cal State Northridge. He worked for a time as an IRS agent, then began to invest in real estate.
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He said he wandered about in black Nike sweat pants and had a favorite pair of size 13 black flip-flops — the pair he was wearing on the night of his accident at the Cosmopolitan in October 2011. He was on his way to the high-limit room when he slipped on some liquid and fell. He testified that he hurt his hamstring, which he said resulted in a lingering injury. An arbitrator ultimately ruled in the Cosmopolitan’s favor, according to two sources.
***
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/09/us/las-vegas-stephen-paddock-deposition/index.html
None of it was very revealing. The Daily Mail story on his love of prostitutes and rape fantasies said more, frankly. He was a moderately successful weird asshole. I think some of the reports on his gambling exploits scream bullshit, as well, but we’ll see as time passes. The reporting on everything related to this has been pretty damn sloppy.
First his GF says he’s just a normal guy. Then she comes back and say he lies in bed moaning and screaming all the time. I’ll give 100 to 1 odds that she lies.
She’s a woman. Isn’t that a given?
(This is why there are no female libertarians….)
Via funny libertarian
We should all use this day to remind our peers of this horrible man’s misdeeds
I’m wondering if I should drop that on Facebook.
I fully support you alienating more progs on Facebook.
Happy Che Guevara Death Day!
To leftists Trump is worse than Weinstein, Clinton and Che.
Claim: General likability trumps competence in the modern workplace.
Debate.
Don’t tell me what to do.
Now kith.
OK. Debate please?
My response
I do not get how “debate” turned into “Spew buzzwords as fast as physically possible” instead of “make a cogent argument that refutes the other side’s position”.
White guilt.
Bro wins this debate.
But I have no guilt, white or otherwise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=is07Rw6Lz-U
Well, I personally agree with their policies.
…I can’t argue with that.
Best freedomtoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sujCgaVsHn4
“Well I mean I don’t have sex with anyone because I’m Catholic.”
“And no one has sex with him because he’s an animator! And a libertarian.”
Priceless.
Thanks for the followup reply to the young commie thread. Another question: is the concept of the material dialectic something that was extremely apparent to you as you had become an experienced commie, or was that just an undercurrent of the swindle?
Ha!
It always has and always will until the reptilian overlords or Skynet enslave us all.
It certainly does for the interview process. An interview is basically “would I let this guy watch my kids?”
That can’t be true, OMWC is gainfully employed.
Guilty as charged. Except for me it’s “would I be able to work with this guy without blowing my brains out?”
Yeah, at least in some jobs. on the whole? no.
Yes.
To elaborate a bit: I’ve been at companies where we turned down job candidates despite their competence because we didn’t think we’d be able to work them. I think that was the correct decision. In a team environment, where the team is working on a product, you have to be able to work with each other. Beyond that, likability isn’t very important; however, lots of people put more emphasis on it than they should.
Well, at the interview, being able to come off as someone who gets along with people and works well with the team, is critical. We’ve also passed on candidates because although they seemed to be competent knowledge wise, they seemed off with people skills or communication.
Depending on what you’re doing. In technical work, skill is going to be critical. But likability is still important. I mean you may be able to get away with being a complete ass if your skill is at a very high level. But if you’re average then other average skilled guy who’s not an ass will be more highly valued.
I used to work with a guy who left to take a job at a large engineering company and I later ran into him a tech conference and we had lunch. He told me he was in a meeting with some of the top brass and there was this one German guy who was a little unhinged but a brilliant engineer, one of the best they had. So they’re sitting there and someone asked about a certain person who hadn’t showed yet, and this German guy goes ‘Ah, who the fuck cares, she’s nothing but a stupid fucking whore anyway’. Followed by stunned looks around the room and silence. So I asked him ‘Did he get fired?’. And he said ‘No, he got a promotion’.
To be fair… I have only interviewed folks that were already vetted by the consultant agency we worked with (but even then a few duds slipped through). The first few, I tried to guess their skills but I’m not a manager so it’s not like I’m making the final decision or anything. Eventually I just gave up on that and make my decision based largely on “do they show any interest in this stuff” and yes likeability.
Does a willingness to play gay chicken increase or decrease my likability?
I have a no frat boys policy – so, decrease.
You probably shouldn’t bring that up until after you’re hired. I’ve sat in on some weird fucking interviews. I guess that eventually happens after so many years.
There was this one middle eastern guy (yeah I know, Islamaphobe) who got seriously hostile in the middle of an interview, just out of nowhere. He got pissed because of a question someone asked him, it was just a typical tech skills question. Fuck, I thought the guy was going to pull out a knife and start stabbing people. The IT manager ended that one abruptly and asked him to leave the premises immediately or he was calling security.
The last weird one I remember, there was this guy who said he’d lived in Baltimore for 20 years, but he’d never heard of or been anywhere that was mentioned. Like the harbor, or Camden Yards. We were just sort of looking at each other like WTF? So I asked him ‘where in the city do you live?’. And he’s like ‘Oh… just outside the city’. That was fucking weird.
Then we hired this Chinese dude and about 2 weeks after he started one of my co-workers on a project came to my desk, to apparently talk about something. And she was acting a little strange. So I said what’s up. That’s when she told me that the dude, whose space was right across from here had been sleeping at his desk most of the week. So then she sort of motioned for me to come over there and sure enough the guy was sleeping, lol. He must have been moonlighting a bunch.
I don’t mention it. I just start playing.
Where I’m from (upstate NY) it’s pretty common for a “just outside the city” resident to have never set foot in the city, ever.
Yup, reminds me of my SIL’s mother. She was super racist and wouldn’t go in the city unless she absolutely had to. Can’t blame her too much on the latter part. What a shit hole.
I knew a similar guy (not german). He could have terrible manners, never followed dress code, he wore the same sweatshirt everyday and it had huge holes on the elbows of it. Also his coffee mug was stained black from years of use without having been washed. He was indispensable to the company. I always wondered how much he made.
I got a minor scolding for wearing the same sweater 4 days in a row at the plastic bag factory. Unless it’s dirty or stinking, why not keep wearing it? I was making spreadsheets, not shoveling manure.
Yeah, but you didn’t wear it for several years in a row.
Only an unlikeable person would say that.
Looking for a netflix show to watch with the wifey: any suggestions?
We typically like detective shows, and period pieces. (Turn, Father Brown are two of our favorites)
I like detective stuff too, but only reality based. I’ve probably watched every single episode of unsolved mysteries and 48 hours.
Midsomer Murders, maybe?
Peaky Blinders!
The new one about the Panama Canal.
I watched that one without her. I also posted a bit about it here.
Did you like Carter’s explanation for why he gave up the canal?
I don’t even think that Carter liked his own explanation.
Forensic Files.
Have you watched Longmire</em? modern westernesque police show, has some whodunnit-ish stuff, indians, and the chick from BSG with the nice rack.
Longmire is the bomb.
I mean that in the best way possible.
Absolutely excellent.
In that case you say it’s the ‘Bomb-Diggity’
We’re trying this one. thanks to all for your suggestions.
(tried posting this an hour back, but i guess it didn’t send)
I don’t know if you like true crime shows but I like Inside the Mind of a Serial Killer. Doesn’t hurt that I have a little crush on Linda Papadopoulos, one of the Psychologist narrators.
https://www.netflix.com/title/80189451
Have you seen any of the BBC’s Sherlock? I can’t recommend it highly enough. Not having Netflix, I don’t know if it’s available there or not… PBS has been airing it in the US.
Sherlock is on Netflix, and yes it’s good.
Other good BBC/PBS detective shows that may or may not be on Netflix: Endeavour (set in the 60’s), Inspector Morse, Foyle’s War (set during WWII), Wallander.
It is good, until Steven Moffat shits it up completely in season 3.
Why that man is allowed near anything that has an established continuity is beyond me.
I was into Sherlock at first…good production values, but then it started feeling really inconsistent. This vid explains why. Hint: shares similarities with Dr. Who.
All the characters are gay and speak 100 MPH?
My wife really likes Person of Interest. It one of the few shows of hers that I’ll get into sometimes when it’s on.
https://www.netflix.com/title/70197042
Sometimes they get it, other times I want to permanently disable my TV.
Suburra.
It’s a mix of The Godfather, Trainspotting and My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
it opens with a Roman orgy. And a Vatican official ODing at same.
It looks really similar to Gomorrah, which I loved. I was interested in it but my wife tends to be put off by too much blood and sex.
confused christian vs atheist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuDgcOp7U2w
I larfed.
People can find all sorts of ways to delude themselves when they want to believe something is true strongly enough.
mundis vult decipi, ergo decipiatur
the world wants to be deceived, therefore it is deceived
And thank goodness for that!
We’re talking about great TV, I recently finished watching the first season of “The Man in the High Castle”.
SPOILER ALERT MAYBE!!!
Without giving anything away, the whole point seemed to be that the future we have is a function of the decisions people make given what they choose to believe.
It seems like such a mundane observation, but it isn’t. There is a reason why the Americans defeated the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese and the Nazis and the Imperial Japanese didn’t take over America and split it between them. And it’s because crucial people did what they did because they believed what they believed.
Yeah, there was a way out of Nazi America and Imperial Japanese America, and we all found it.
In “The Man in the High Castle”, what people believe and feel made all the difference–it’s being able to transmit that. That’s what matters.
Yeah, we can believe what we want to believe–and by informing our choices, that what makes society the way it is. The North Koreans may continue on throughout eternity as they are now, simply starving their people to death periodically. They’re bound by the same external realities of economics, etc. as the rest of us. The difference between us and them is what they believe and what they choose to do (or not do) because of those beliefs.
Because we can make ourselves believe whatever we want, maybe that’s why there’s always hope that we can transform society into something better. All we need to do is persuade people to want freedom.
Yeah, there’s a way out of Nazi hell.
Huh, I remember seeing some previews but lost track of it. I’ll have to check it out.
I didn’t quite get it on the Ken level, but I found it to be an enjoyable alternate history/sci-fi/multiple timeline/action/drama thing. I’d say it’s a 7 on the 1-10 scale.
TOTAL COMPLETE 100% ABSOLUTE SPOILER ALERT!!!
So, what did you make of the ending of the first season then?
Why did he come out of his meditation with things the way they were?
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“Women’s rights lawyer” @LisaBloom planned to shame and discredit #HarveyWeinstein victims
Lisa Bloom? Would.
She might devour you afterward and not in a good way.
Rose McGowan goes after MATT DAMON for vouching for Weinstein in 2004. Calls him a “spineless profiteer. Silent on her own nondisclosure agreement/settlement with Weinstein after he supposedly raped her and her own willingness to take smiling pictures with him in the years after.
I mean, this all feeds into the bullshit that narrative that a victim is somehow courageous just by virtue of being a victim. Yet she was pretty damn silent herself until she was absolutely sure Weinstein couldn’t sue her ass into oblivion. She’s done nothing but send out some tweets and attack people she barely knows for having worked with Weinstein.
Watching Hollywood eat each other up is pretty amusing, I have to say.
It seems to me that river runs both ways.
I’m seeing people who might otherwise argue that prostitution should be legalized claiming that Weinstein should be treated like a criminal for offering women things in exchange for sex.
Isn’t that like a tu quoque fallacy?
I don’t think there’s any contradiction in believing prostitution should be legalized and believing that a man in a position of power using it to coerce women into sexual favors is unethical. There’s also the nature of how he went about it – which was apparently quite aggressive. You also have to consider that this is a guy who answers to shareholders who probably aren’t happy about him making decisions based on his dick rather than the bottom line. The NYT’s story supposedly killed in 2004 involved supposedly paying some Italian dude hundreds of thousands a year just to acquire him pussy.
“I don’t think there’s any contradiction in believing prostitution should be legalized and believing that a man in a position of power using it to coerce women into sexual favors is unethical.”
He comes across like Leisure Suit Larry, that’s for sure. What he’s accused of doing is smarmy and unbecoming, that’s for sure.
“You also have to consider that this is a guy who answers to shareholders who probably aren’t happy about him making decisions based on his dick rather than the bottom line.”
Weinstein is famous for making blockbusters on a low budget. I bet the shareholders love him.
If anybody’s thinking with their dicks instead of the bottom line, it might be the people who fired Weinstein.
However, Weinstein and his brother own more than 42% of the company.
Add those two things together, and I think it’s unlikely Weinstein was fired without his consent.
Weingstein is still a shareholder. Giving up his annual salary isn’t a big deal. And if the heat goes away because they can claim in the press that he’s been fired, then that’s probably worth giving up whatever salary–just so they can go chase some more movie deals.
Weinstein isn’t exiting the movie business.
I was thinking the same thing. The company seems successful, just based on the shear number of productions they seem to have, and I find I often like their films, so I assume they make money.
Getting Weinstein out of movies can’t happen soon enough. The shitbag shits over every single thing he touches.
He’s the reason we never get good imports stateside. ‘Shaolin Soccer’ came out in ’99 (IIRC) in HK (I had the first DVD) – took over 5 years to get a hackjob dvd release in the US without a theatrical cut.
He tried to hold ‘Snowpiercer’ hostage with a US cut 20+ min shorter than the award-winning International/Korean version.
Two examples off the top of my head – but given some time, I could dig up a LOT more examples.
I think one of the differences might be that straight prostitution would be a simple exchange of a service for a direct monetary payment. The impact of an unsatisfactory transaction is limited in time and magnitude.
Sell your body in exchange for a future career, and it’s no longer a simple transaction, it’s closer to entering into indentured servitude.
Are trophy wives in indentured servitude? Have you ever suffered through an episode of “Real Housewives of [ ]” People have entered into these kinds of relationships since forever–and it’s not just powerful men going after women. Ever heard of marrying the boss’ daughter? It’s a sure fire way to the top!
Men pressuring women for sex isn’t a hate crime by itself.
The last stats I heard suggest that gay men have sex more often than other couples.
Heterosexual couples have sex less than them.
And Lesbian couples have the least sex of all.
Feminists have used this to argue that all the times women have sex with men–more often than Lesbians do–amount to rape, even within marriage. These are situations in which the women didn’t want to have sex but ended up having it anyway–under some kind of pressure.
That kind of argument seems to miss the point that people can be persuaded to change their minds.
Regardless, the point I’m making is that we’re suddenly all starting to sound like feminists talking about the Anita Hill case–why is that?
Because it’s a Hollywood liberal this time?
My position on these things doesn’t change because we’re talking about Weinstein instead of Clarence Thomas. The double standard is a river that flows both ways. Yeah, point out that Hollywood is using a double-standard when it’s one of their own, but if a woman turns you down for a date, it isn’t sexual assault just because she says no. He respected being rejected? That’s an important question to ask.
No, I’m not attempting to conflate a marriage of convenience with a “casting couch” incident. I’m well aware of the transactional nature of many marriages, but that’s not what I’m seeing here assuming that the accusations against Weinstein are found to be true.
Weinstein was one of a very closed ecology of gatekeepers in Hollywood. To decline his advances closes one of very few paths into an acting career, unlike Real Housewives of Beverley Hills, since the woman can just bounce her way down to some other rich guy.
The issue isn’t that Weinstein is rich and liberal, it’s that saying “no” to him would have been to have effectively diminished an aspiring actress’ ability to pursue a career, and therein lies what I think is the distinction.
That is to say that there’s the possibility of a far higher degree of coercion implied here than whether Brandi Glanville manages to hook that rich guy when their eyes met, looking across the ham sandwiches in the commissary at Bravo’s studios.
This discussion needs to first make a distinction between whether we’re talking about laws or ethics. Most of the accusations the Times printed are of the harassment variety. So, is the question whether sexual harassment should be any form of a legal matter? That may be interesting, but it’s not really the point of the laughing most of us are doing.
I can on one hand as a libertarian argue for certain behaviors being legal while also condemning them on ethical grounds. You obviously know this. So, badgering a women to give you a happy ending until she cries, or demanding sex to further someone’s career aren’t things I can sign off on a persona level. Just like how I don’t frequent prostitutes even if I believe it should be legal.
Weinstein is sleezy and a hypocrite. So, that’s really what this boils down to. He claims to be a champion of women. He cloaks himself behind feminism and left wing politics. So, yea, people are going to point and laugh at him. I’m not seeing many people around here demanding he be jailed or even lose his job (though, I’m fine laughing at it because, again, hypocrisy here is blatant).
In this instance, you seem to be kind of tilting at windmills unless you have more specific objections.
I understand and agree, mostly, with what both of you are saying.
If this keeps going, watch other people in the media talking about it.
Watch for libertarians and people on the right to start sounding like feminists on this issue.
Once that happens, feminism becomes the standard by which these things are measured in the public conversation–and I don’t think we should let that happen without a fight.
Just to be clear, Rose McGowan was “raped”?
. . . or Rose McGowan was offered a roll on the casting couch?
Who said McGowan was raped?
Did she claim that herself and, if so, in reference to what?
She took a payout for being harassed?
Or she took a payout for being silent about her own rape?
I’m just asking questions!!!
This is the first I’ve heard that Rose McGowan was raped.
If Rose McGowan was raped, that changes my understanding of everything.
Was she raped?
That’s not a rhetorical question.
“Silent on her own nondisclosure agreement/settlement with Weinstein after he supposedly raped her”
Was there a claim made that Weinstein raped McGowan? Who made that claim?
She has hinted at it in the past. Saying that her ex sold a movie she was in to her rapist…a movie sold to Weinstein.
Gas, gas, gas!
Upgrade to MOPP 4
https://www.salon.com/2017/10/09/marvels-runaways-the-next-big-show-for-the-trump-resistance/
Marvel’s “Runaways”: The next big show for the Trump resistance
A new comic run and a new TV show revive Marvel’s story of kids who fight their supervillain parents
Amanda Marcotte
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The story is a dark one. Warning, there are spoilers ahead: A group of high school students (and one 11-year-old girl) discover that their parents are part of a demonic cult called The Pride, which meets every year to sacrifice a teenager to their otherworldly masters in exchange for the financial and professional success they enjoy. Rather than live with this evil in their lives, the kids go on the run, eventually developing some superhero skills of their own that they use to battle their parents.
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But while that sounds very romantic, Vaughan went to great lengths to portray the experience of the teenage runaway with surprising realism for a superhero comic. The kids start off as hyper-privileged, college-bound and moneyed, but swiftly have to learn to live with no money and on the margins of society, trying to survive without jobs, benefits or even a safe place to sleep much of the time. They go from lives of comfort, obsessed largely with high school kid problems, to living in terror all the time. Their old lives start to feel like a silly dream.
It’s a story that feels incredibly timely in the age of Donald Trump, a wealthy wannabe who indulges in fascist behavior to shore up his personal power, who is only out for himself and is utterly indifferent to the sufferings he inflicts on the rest of the country. Even the theme of generational conflict feels relevant. The majority of people under 45 voted for Hillary Clinton, after all, and their parents betrayed them and their futures by voting for Trump.
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I wrote about a character whose proggy parents chastized the selfishness of their six year old after the only thing he got for his birthday was photographs of other kids getting his presents because the parents wanted to ‘share the wealth’. It was written in an exercise of absurdism, but the more reports from the heart of the infestation, the more it sounds like a realistic scene.
I forget where I read it, but it was basically about how now there is an arms race among prog moms about who is the best at shielding their kids from anything remotely disturbing. One mom boasted of not letting her 10 year old watch Moana because she thought the beginning was too scary.
Vaughn’s run on Runaways was dope, and if the writers shut up and use the first 18 issues for their series they’ll be fine.
Trump, Weinstein, Cosby, Stephen Paddock, Richard Spencer and I’m assuming every other man she doesn’t like is pretty much the same person. Seems like a perfectly reasonable viewpoint.
https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/this-isnt-toxic-masculinity-its-sociopathic-baby-men.html
So, Hitler is basically the left’s Tulpa?
Blue Tulpa.
There is a pretty good baseball game in Chicago right now. Cubs lead the Twins 2-0 in the second quarter.
This is the just the showcase we need to win back wavering fans! /NFL exec
Are you suuuuuuure?
and the winner for this week’s tasteless joke award:
https://globalnews.ca/news/3784697/las-vegas-shooting-whatever-happens-in-vegas-cartoon/
Vermont newspaper apologizes for ‘Whatever happens in Vegas’ cartoon in wake of mass shooting
Jesus. Nice save.
previous winner
Shorter fuckwit editorial board: “He’s hurting the agenda!”
Calling all Minnesodans.
https://www.americanexperiment.org/2017/10/liberals-respond-usual-bullying/
Really interesting. I need some time to read through it a couple times. Will report back.
Thanks, Q.
Just did Jordan Peterson’s “Understand Myself” analysis, based on the “Big 5 Personality Model”.
The results. They are not good, but they explain why I’m here.
How much did it cost?
Just $10.
I was going to Patreon him, and then I thought, fuck it, I want something for my money. (Not a surprise when you see my profile)
https://www.understandmyself.com/
Agreeableness: Low
– Compassion: Moderately Low
– Politeness: Exceptionally Low
Conscientiousness: Moderately Low
– Industriousness: Typical or Average
– Orderliness: Low
Extraversion: Typical or Average
– Enthusiasm: Very Low
– Assertiveness: High
Neuroticism: Very Low
– Withdrawal: Very Low
– Volatility: Very Low
Openness to Experience: Typical or Average
– Intellect: High
– Openness: Typical or Average
The eyebrows were only raised for the Conscientiousness/Industriousness/Orderliness axis, but I’ll salve my ego with that being situational and possibly unrepresentative.
I saw the first part of the video of him hawking it. I considered it, but in the end, does it tell you anything a moderately introspective person doesn’t already know?
Well, based on what you see there, I’m going to be the kind of person who thinks he’s capable of reasonably objective self-analysis, but other people’s mileage might vary.
I’d like to *think* I’m actually more Agreeable and Open than the analysis provides, but then I take a deep breath and admit that no, I’m not agreeable.
This comes from a guy who did a hard STEM course, but used to write horoscopes for in-house magazines for British Insurance companies. We’re all receptive to reinforcement via pseudoscience, to some degree.
Heh. He said “stain”, and there’s a picture of bill clinton. heh.
probably worth a read. its more about the ‘why now?’ of the Weinstein story. the theory seems to be: progs now drive revenue for media, and clinton-power within lefty-media is now gone
Saw that at the other place. Yeah, makes a lot of sense to me. It’s like, everyone knew. There has to be a reason the NYT of all places is telling it now.
My guess is that they learned someone else might run a story about it, and they figured they had to get the scoop to prevent looking like they were (too) complicit.
Minnesota Glibs: Long story… but I’m looking for a new job. I’m 43 years old. College educated. I have a high IQ– but admittedly I am a bit autistic. I’ve spent the last 15 years working with “people”. The first ten years of that were fine because I was playing in bands and going on tour and such. The last five years have been a stalled-out mess. Anyway, if any of you know of anything in the MPLS/STP area please give me a heads-up. Thanks, you sick fuckers.
Welcome to early middle-age.
Go buy yourself a bright red Mazda Miata.
You’re welcome.
Actually, that’s a wonderful idea.
Also, he should play Eurobeat 24 hours a day and consistently smell of squash air freshener.
smell of squash air freshener
I can’t even, what is this?
It’s Engrish. It’s a particular Japanese scent that smells, to me, like a mix of bubble-gum and a crisp gin and tonic with lime. It’s a big tuner/drifter car culture thing.
I hate music now. Thanks a lot.
Don’t tell Groovus that.
What is it that you do or can do?
What is it that you do or can do?
Fake Goethe quotes as explained by Glenn Beck, begin it.
I’m gifted in the art of making snark comments. I need to find a market.
Guest Writer for Taki’s Mag?
I’m more interested in penning a manga entitled Goethe 13.
I am a bit autistic.
Are you sure you’re in the right place?
Switch around a detail or two and that’s half of the commenters here.
http://imgur.com/Ge1qTJh
That seems like a gross underestimate.
You mean welcoming people by wishing them a hearty ‘fuck you, Tulpa’ isn’t normal?
Spending the last few weeks with normies in the meatspace has been at times… challenging. People talk a lot, it wastes a bunch of time.
You mean welcoming people by wishing them a hearty ‘fuck you, Tulpa’ isn’t normal?
I think that depends on how narrow your demographic window is.
First thing I would do is get out of Minnesota. No matter what else is going on, you will be better off.
I suppose I set myself up for that. Thank you very much for your support.
Re-post this in the morning links. Pope Jimbo and/or Tundra will see it. (if they don’t see it tonight)
So, It’s been more than a week since the LV shooting. I would have thought that I would have a clear idea of what happened by now. I don’t. As far as i can tell all the information is still nothing but speculation and narrative pushing. I expect that for a day or two. It’s going on longer than normal at this point.
*dons tinfoil hat*
This shooting is wierd amd has been wierd since I first heard of it. There is a serious cover up going on right now. What the gov is covering up, I’m sure I don’t know. But, I’m sure there is something to it that the “authorities” don’t want exposed.
*removes tinfoil hat
I hope it turns out the shooter was just crazy
YANKEES WIN! THE YANKEES WIN!
What’s her problem?
She’s hot but a midget?
She’s a Dodgers fan.
Yankees Dodgers is a classic match-up.
Back when I was a yute, It was Dodgers-Mets.
When I was at a game where David Cone hit a home run, he was a Met IIRC.
I would love to see the Dodgers lose to the Indians in the World Series.
Chilling.
Isn’t that kind of the point of horror?
Nothing could be more traumatic than election night was. Think of the poor viewers – you don’t want horror-overload.
There’s horror, and then there’s election night 2016.
Bonus points if you recognize the soundtrack.
That never gets old. I was watching MSNBC and CNN on election nite and enjoyed some serious belly laughs at the sad faces. The YT thing is hilarious.
Damnit Supergirl! How is it that your writers prog harder than the writers for Arrow, when it’s an established part of cannon that the Green Arrow is a socialist?
So…The actual trailer for Star Wars VIII came out today. I was so excited when Disney bought Lucas Film. I love what they’ve done with Marvel. But, I think I’m done going to see Star Wars movies in the theater. (says the guy who owns a life size R2D2, a Darth Vader Helmet, a Storm Trooper Helmet and has spent countless hours re-editing the prequels to make them watchable)
It looks like they intend to just recreate the original trilogy note for note with a female lead and a black guy thrown in.
Darth Trump still amuses me greatly.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL4HCY5a1qhSIxgCwIyvXwJ2AGlQtoVexC&v=KU_Jdts5rL0
There is not enough popcorn in the world for this.
Oh, and since I’m the only one still up, Santa Rosa:
https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/22384197_1636803336382987_5848755846457733901_o.jpg?oh=0129539d805ce8bd7b343c8624eb801d&oe=5A39E3DB
That’s very very bad.
Understatement of the day, at least.
A song by Butch Walker after his house was burned in a California fire.
holy cow thats bad
It amazes me how all the house are gone (I presume there were houses), and yet there are a few green trees still there.
It’s really bad. The Mercury News has some decent coverage of the disaster: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/09/napa-and-sonoma-wildfires-destroy-wineries-bars-and-hotels-force-wine-country-wide-evacuations/
Per the article and feed, a bunch of wineries have gone up in smoke: Chateau St. Jean, White Rock, Paradise Ridge, Frey, Signorello. It looks like Chimney Rock might be joining them.
There are a gazillion little tiny wineries in the Mayacamas Mtns between Napa and Sonoma, where some of these fires are raging. There are multiple fires, widely scattered, in an area that frankly just isn’t that big. The list is going to grow.
The Merc has this page: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/10/09/maps-napa-wildfire-santa-rosa-evacuation-area/ which has MODIS fire data, basically a satellite that finds hot spots. The number of hot spots, and their proximity to houses and structures in Napa and Sonoma, are heartbreaking.
I don’t see our family friendly icon around anymore, did we end up losing our certification?
No, it’s still there. Still conflicted over whether it’s cosmic irony or pathos.