STEVE SMITH APPRECIATE HIKER AND CAMPER RAPE. BUT STEVE SMITH WONDER IF RAPE OF THE UPPER CRUST MORE SATISFYING? SO STEVE SMITH HAVE IDEA…HE BECOME STEPHEN SMYTHE, SOPHISTICATED RAPESQUATCH, AND SEE IF CAVIAR AND JET SET MORE FUN TO RAPE.
STEPHEN SMYTHE WILL BE …WINE SNOB!
STEPHEN SMYTHE THINK THIS VINTAGE GOOD. COME CLOSER AND TRY SOME!
STEPHEN SMYTHE MAKE SURE HE HAVE BOTTLE OF SIGNATURE WINE HANDY!
IT A BIT ON THE NOSE!
STEPHEN SMYTHE TRY OPENING LINE…”I GET BLACKBERRY,
THE RAPEAUX TAPESTRY
STEVE SMITH…ER, STEPHEN SMYTHE WILL LET FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLE KNOW HOW IT WORK. IN MEANTIME, HERE ARE LINKS:
- STEPHEN SMYTHE WONDER WHAT RANSOM DEMANDS ARE?
- STEPHEN SMYTHE LAUGH WHEN THINK WHAT DRUG WARRIORS SAY WHEN READ THIS.
- STEPHEN SMYTHE WONDER WHO ELSE MAKE AXIS?
- STEPHEN SMYTHE SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND CORRUPTION AND SELF DEALING IN ILLINOIS. BONUS, INVOLVES POLICE PENSION AND COP LEGISLATORS.
STEPHEN SMYTHE GO NOW, FIND RICH RAPE!
I always figured STEVE SMITH was a beer drinker.
Students support trump’s tax plan….
…when told it was proposed by Bernie sanders
Mais biensûr. Principals over principles.
Principals, not principles.
Who? Whom?
Reposting the Philly meetup survey. 3 responses so far, you can do better?
Survey: https://goo.gl/fyXcgP
Results: https://goo.gl/cWpCoQ
Woohoo! I was first!
I might be in the Philly area visiting relatives the weekend of the 4th. If I’m there that weekend, and have time between family stuff, and you’re having the meet-up then, I’d like to join.
I see someone suggested German food. Might I recommend Brauhaus Schmitz?
Full Disclosure: I’m a mug club member.
Reminds me of this. Not really relevant to Philadelphia, but if anyone ever has the misfortune of finding themselves in northeastern Pennsylvania, stopping there will ease that burden.
Cool, looks like they might deliver? I buy a lot from another German-themed place in Illinois that one of you recommended but this one is closer. Will investigate when I’m more sober.
Stiglmeier?. If so, that was me. An Austrian recommended them to me, and since Austrians almost never say anything good about Germans, that endeared the place to me.
Caput, I only drive through NEPA now that my grandparents are dead and I’ve hiked Rickett’s Glenn, but if somehow I stopped in NEPA, I’ll check that place out. Thanks!
Whoops.. I linked Stiglmeier twice. Rickett’s Glenn.
Yup, that’s the one. I have given them a lot of money.
I have given them a lot of money.
You and me both.
Rhywun, they do deliver, so you should be good. I’ve never had anything bad from there.
DEG, Honesdale is about an hour and a half drive from Rickett’s Glen, being in the North Poconos rather than the back mountain. Worth the stop though, but if you’re looking for different hiking grounds in NEPA, it’s an easier drive from Varden or Prompton state parks.
I’ve seen the exit signs for Honesdale off of 84.
I will keep your hiking suggestions in mind.
When I go back to PA, it’s to visit family in the Philly area and in the summer stop in State College. When my grandparents were still living in NEPA, I’d stop there to visit them. Now they are gone, NEPA is something to drive through. But, some relatives of mine and you manage to find things in NEPA that interest me. Sabatini’s comes to mind.
Sabatini’s is great. Had my first meeting with a fellow glib there.
I’m actually living in Philly now, but I was born and raised in NEPA. I’m up there most weekends to visit the family still. If you ever need/want something to do besides drive through it, I have a lot of hidden gems I could point you towards.
Placed an order. They seem a tad more expensive than Stiglmeier. Including the expected-high delivery charge, which is disappointing since I’m only a couple states away.
Well, we’ll see.
If you ever need/want something to do besides drive through it, I have a lot of hidden gems I could point you towards.
Thanks Caput! I will take you up on that.
My semi-throw-away e-mail is dgroves140 AT gmail DOT com.
Aren’t you in New York? That’s only one state away. (New Jersey doesn’t count)
Ha yes but I work in NJ so I’m pretty sure it exists.
I drive through New Jersey when I go to visit family in the Philly area. Sadly, it exists.
A friend of mine has a deli in South Jersey. I’ve stopped by to visit him a few times. I’m happy his deli exists, I just don’t like that it is in New Jersey. I understand his reasons for setting up shop there. He is doing well and I’m happy for him.
Looks similar to the import house in Cleveland that just opened a brewery wing Hansa. Unfortunately, the only website they have online is for the brewery, not the import house.
On the PA trail, I’ve been happy the times I’ve stopped at Stoudt’s on the way to Philadelphia for business trips.
Still watching with interest.
Would be +1 and anywhere (outside philly) that serves a reasonably decent steak is good.
The new Curb Your Enthusiasm is appalling slapstick – what was Larry thinking?
Honest, self-aware review: “The show hasn’t actually changed at all: I have, and the left has. We’ve lost our senses of humor and become hyper-offended, moral scolds, by politics infecting our very beings.”
The Guardian.. Not a surprise.
Also, method of not giving them clicks adopted, thanks!
I’ve tried to get people to use it before, but mostly in vain. I’m definitely never giving places like Vox any clicks regardless of uBlock.
Seinfeld would be too edgy for today’s left.
They bitched about the Puerto Rican Day episode back when it originally aired, and for a few years it wasn’t part of the syndication package.
Seinfeld would be -way- too edgy. The sad thing is that a lot of people miss the point…
You rib your friends, even sometimes about real shit, because you know they can take it, and they know it is (relatively) friendly. This is one of the ways in which you cement friendships, and defuse social tensions.
Seinfeld’s “not that there’s anything wrong with that” episode should be seen as a watershed moment in the extraordinarily rapid change in attitudes toward “the gays” we’ve seen in the last twenty years. But I doubt it will ever be aired again, because… well, it didn’t correctly anticipate the shibboleths of 2017.
Actually I see that one a lot still.
I’ve never seen the Puerto Rican Day one, though.
It’s prettay good.
Prettay prettay good.
Prime-cut John bait
Prime-cut John ‘bate
She looks like she’s been photoshopped to be larger.
Still making inside joke references to guy that’s banned.
John looms large.
Just like his women.
This is actually one of the great disappointments of the time I’ve been following TOS and now Glibs. Whatever other problems one may have had with John, and legitimately so, the whole chubby-chaser thing was hung on him because he had the temerity to disagree with another, more “popular,” commenter’s taste for skeletal, heroin-riddled models, and it (still) has not let up. Good-natured ribbing it was not; he clearly wasn’t laughing along with the joke, which stopped being funny, if it ever was, a long time ago. My two judgemental cents.
Here’s the thing though: John’s a bit of a cunt. Even when I agree with him, I tend to think he’s still being cunty. A little ribbing on him is fine in my view, because frankly, he deserves it.
I have to say, I agree. He got the nickname “Red Tony” for a reason. He earned it.
There are people both on TOS and here that got tagged with far worse memes than “chubby chaser”. They rolled with it. So to speak.
Yep, just like everyone has rolled with Winston’s mom. So to speak.
Kevin Williamson is the white people of National Review writers.
I don’t agree with him all the time (he doesn’t write about it much, but he’s religious in a way I am not, and that is an important part of his worldview that I do not share) but I’m inclined to think Williamson the best writer NR has, as well as the most libertarian.
Seeing a lot of hate for him here, and wondering why.
I usually don’t mind him. He’s definitely got some flaws though. That article has a good example when he makes the comparison between ‘acting white’ and complaining about ‘elitism’. Although he’s right that there certainly is an element of that, he throws the baby out with the bathwater and ignores the reality that most of the people complaining about elitist enclaves are more worried about the fact that these people want to control your life. They think they own you, which tends to piss people off a lot more than cultural differences.
Exactly.
This is the thing Williamson and the Beltway crowd don’t understand: when we reference the Declaration’s passage of “He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.” is that we’re not just engaging in some hyperbolic argument. We’re dead fucking serious. This is real life out here in the middle.
When an EPA agent bankrupts a farm because the owner of the farm filled in a ditch, that’s not some white paper or policy argument, that’s a family’s livelihood being stolen from them by a petty tyrant.
When a new regulation gets handed down and the owner of a small business is forced to fire an employee to make his numbers balance, it’s not some cocktail party conversation, it’s a hard working man looking his colleague in the eye and telling him that he’s losing his job because some cocksucking cuck of a Congressional staffer had a bright idea to “fix a problem” drawing on the towering experience and wisdom he gained in his five year poli sci program at fucking Harvard.
When a man is hauled away to prison because the stock on his shotgun is a quarter inch too short, that’s not some kind of “reasonable people can believe in reasonable gun control”, that is a travesty of justice.
When a woman has her house stolen from her so some connected developer can put up some buildings that are more pleasing to the eye of a politician, that’s not “the greatest good for the greatest number”, that’s a violation of the principles that made this country great.
In sum, the belief of the Beltway class that the growing number of people’s rage and distrust of them is some kind of unfounded, irrational, fever brained paranoia drawn from false premises, that belief is exactly why they got Trump.
Well said.
I second Rhywun’s comment. Unfortunately, I have run into folks of like mind to the Beltway crowd in my time living in New England. Their view is that this is a small price to pay in order to have a “better Society”. This is why I don’t talk to them anymore.
Moreover, it’s not just the “middle”. Here in NYC I have spoken to local businesspeople and they’re sick of all of the same petty bullshit. But what are they able to do about it?
Sure, it happens all over, but there’s a genuine geographic factor to it.
8 of the 10 richest counties in this country are DC suburbs. That’s horrifying for anyone who understands the history of how free nations decline. When prosperity becomes something handed out by the rulers to denizens of the imperial capital and not something that everyone in the nation can achieve, then there’s tough history ahead.
8 of the 10 richest counties in this country are DC suburbs. That’s horrifying for anyone who understands the history of how free nations decline
It pisses me off that those counties are the richest. I tried explaining why this is bad to some folks I know, and they were dismissive. “DC has always been rich.”
I’m always amazed* in arguments with progressives how they are willing to pull some random bullshit out of their ass and state it as it an obvious and well established fact that can’t be disputed.
*Not really amazed
I think you have completely misunderstood Williamson.
I haven’t. It’s the usual Beltway shit. Trump won because the economy was fucking terrible and Obamacare fucking sucks. The whole Beltway bullshit with this election is like a fish trying to get you to live underwater.
“Come live underwater.”
“I can’t breath down there, sorry.”
“Well that’s just a minor detail. What’s your real reason?”
“Uh, no, that’s my real reason, I need to breathe air, not water.”
“Yes, yes, I know that’s what you need to say in public. But really, you just fear us fish.”
“Uh no, I fear not being able to breathe.”
“Yes, yes, that is the polite way to say it. Really you’re just racist against fish.”
*Human walks away*
*Fish writes article in Fish Review about “The True Roots of Human Refusal to Move Underwater”, gets retweeted by Fish Salon on how he is a “real fish conservative who really gets the real issues”
srsly, wut?
Williamsons. Premise. Is. Faulty.
The Beltway obsession with who Donald Trump is as a person is the entire problem. His tiresome recitation of Trump’s personal flaws and foibles is the dictionary definition of “missing the fucking point”
Donald Trump didn’t get elected because people love Donald Trump. Donald Trump got elected because people want their 401ks to actually grow, and they want their taxes to go down and their health insurance premiums to drop.
I don’t get that all all- I’d say that I get the opposite not just from that article, but from his body of work. If there’s one thing he is really concerned with it is precisely the way in which “elites” elect themselves to direct even the minutiae of people’s lives.
I don’t agree with him about everything, but I think him not just one of the good guys, but the best writer among the good guys. I think the article you link to magisterial, and Williamson perhaps the sole remaining national treasure our press has. I mean- even when I disagree with him, the man can write…
My point was more that Williamson is subscribing motivations to people that are more his own projections of what he thinks they think, rather than what they might actually think.
Yep. It’s a thousand word screed written by the smart kid in class pissed off that the swaggering douchebag is still more successful then him.
It’s the typical Beltway bullshit re: Donny Two Scoops: they think Trump won because hes a douchebag. I think he won because for a fucking decade the annualized growth of the country has been below population growth, and because health insurance premiums are for many families costing them as much as their morgatge payments (but not as much as their income taxes.)
It’s the economy, stupids. It always is. But for the Beltway dwellers, there’s no such thing as a bad economy. The government always gets paid, they always get their spending increases, they never have to downsize or cut expenses. So they look for the alternate explanations.
If Obama had presided over a Reagan economy, Clinton would be President today. It’s that fucking simple.
Srsly, wut?
How so?
” They think they own you, which tends to piss people off a lot more than cultural differences.”
Yep; That’s the reason for most of the hostility.
Some dead white guy said that over a hundred years ago, so it’s completely irrelevant.
I don’t think he is the most libertarian, but he is their best wordsmith.
Well, we’ll have to agree to agree about his qualities as a writer. I am curious to hear who you think is both more libertarian and on the masthead of nr though…
Charles CW Cooke is a favorite of a lot of posters.
I don’t know the writer from anyone else, but reading this piece, he does a lot of ‘mind reading’, which iirc, was supposedly John’s specialty.
Example:
Not that many people celebrate the dishonesty or infidelity (?) of Trump, unless he’s talking about shitposters on meme pages, most of whom were barely alive, let alone politically active, during the Clinton years. People like it that he tells the media to fuck off, but thats not the same as what the writer is positing. Theres several instances where the writer has made inferences I don’t particularly agree with WRT the attitudes of Trump voters.
Williamson himself is to some degree a sneering elitist. And now that he’s shared those little details about his childhood it suddenly makes a lot more sense.
He is, and he doesn’t try to hide that fact. His elitism is much more about going out and getting a job than it is about being a legacy Harvard admit though.
“Williamson himself is to some degree a sneering elitist.”
To a considerable degree, rather.
When has Trump abused his children?
A professional writer asserted it in a professional magazine. What more do you need, you stupid fucking hick?
The fact that he lets Barron out of his isolation tank to be exposed to outside stimuli for even a minute is de facto abuse for someone at Barron’s level of autism.
THAT”S a kid who should be equipped with a helmet and a cam!
What? Kevin might have put on a couple of pounds over the last few years, but he’s hardly into John territory.
John had it out for KDW because of stuff like this, which he viewed as patronizing and elitist—which KDW waves away by equating alleging elitism with ‘blaming those better off for your problems,’ which is sometimes true but certainly not always (see John Titor’s comment). John was largely right, in my view.
There’s some good points in the article, though, mostly in the second half. There certainly is a lack of taking/acknowledging personal responsibility among the cohorts he’s writing about, and the likes of Hannity, O’Reilly and Trump are pretending, even lying, by representing themselves as speaking for “the folks.” Populist demagogues are full of shit. At the same time, were they not affecting these personas, who would represent those ‘folks’ against a haughty culture that sneers at them? Maybe they’re not so stupid, and they’ll just take what they can get.
I’m anti-elitist for none of the reasons he mentioned in the article, but for much of what his writing represents. Complain about poor whites and Trump being boorish as much as you want, but since the Republican establishment isn’t actually keeping its word and acting conservatively, AFAIC explicit fuck-yous are in order. Well-mannered behavior hasn’t been very successful.
And yet the whiners of all stripes are grating, insofar that they’re very, very wrong. Y’all see the end of the previous “South Park”? Who’s to blame for the opioid crisis? Not the drug addicts themselves, not the government and its war on drugs, but the drug companies creating new products to benefit people in chronic pain. How dare they give us new medicine by seeking to profit?
I’ll wear my anti-elitism so long as control-freak assholes are assuming positions of power over me and over companies which, in seeking profit, end up helping decent people—Thanks.
Like you, I’m anti-elitist for none of the reasons that KDW listed. I’m anti-elitist because, as political and cultural leaders, the elite — largely the products of the Ivy League colleges — have proven to be either incompetent or indifferent to interests of ordinary Americans, and they are either hostile or indifferent to the idea of individual liberty.
I used to be a minarchist, but no government would be better than any government run by today’s political elite.
So, one must ask, are you truly “anti-elitist” or “anti-these-elitists”?
I can’t speak for Cato, but I am definitely anti-these-elitists. And that is an issue that is also being conflated.
A lot of people aren’t anti-elite, so much as anti- the people the chattering classes think we should consider elite. Hillary Clinton’s major achievement was marrying Bill. If she hadn’t done that she would likely just be another lawyer advertising on bus stop benches. Likewise, Chelsea Clinton and Caroline Kennedy’s major accomplishments are being the children of famous parents, yet they are considered elites by the people in power.
Meanwhile, let’s use an example of a guy named Darnell. Darnell started working as a fry cook at McD’s when he was 16, and through hard work and self-discipline, by the time Darnell was 45 he owned a half dozen McDs franchises.
Now here is the thing, I can respect the hell out of a guy like Darnell, and any advice he gives is probably worth considering, even if I don’t agree with it. I can’t say the same about an elite writer like Joyce Carroll Oates or Ta-Nehisi Coates.
I get that. I’m also anti-these-elitists, but loathe populism as well. Populism, left or right, always leads to the Killing Fields.
Just as an aside, Oates grew up in extreme poverty, was the first in her family to go to high school, and went to college on a needs-based scholarship. Does that change your opinion of her?
I respect Darnell, because he works for a living, but to be honest I hope he is a teenager.
I made 300k in 2015, almost nothing in 2016 (but still more than Darnell- like maybe 40k or something, and Darnell would be right to ask “you think 40k is nothing man?”) I’ll make about 160k this year, I think.
Now, I think I am severely underpaid, and I’m gonna make some moves to ameliorate that situation in the near future. But Darnell- he makes 20k a year, and even my very modest salary pisses him off. I can’t say he’s entirely wrong to be pissed.
I’m not sure what to do about Darnell.
Darnell owns 6 McD’s and makes 20k? I think Darnell would make a bit more than that.
Darnell starts somewhere. He doesn’t start off owning a pizza chain. Maybe he starts off delivering pizza.
HM, My opinion of someone’s writing has little do with their background, and more to do with their ability to actually write. Oates is one of those people who is considered a great writer by a bunch of people who never read her books, nor can cite a moving passage by her.
And to be fair, I’ve never read any of her works, so I guess for the sake of intellectual honesty I shouldn’t pick on her too much. But I do think of her as someone like Pikketty, where a bunch of right thinking people have her books on the shelves to display their intellectual street cred without bothering to read them.
And I also loathe populism as well. If the majority of people agreed with me, I wouldn’t be supporting a political movement that is happy to pull 1% support.
I work in software, and I find it humbling. I really am demonstrably a lot smarter than most people, and that makes me well-equipped to write software. I still suck at it, because we all suck at it.
When I was a child I thought that being smarter than other people meant that they ought to let me run everythIng, because of course I was smart enough to run things, by virtue of being smart.
Then I encountered the world. It turns out that the world is so complex and difficult that being smart hardly helps. Being smart might help you run one little corner of it, but you’ll never be smart enough to do much more than that sucessfully.
Coming to understand that you’re really not smart enough to run things is something of a rite of passage for smart people, IMHO. It’s one a lot of the, miss.
I’m one of those with a high IQ as well (at least by most standards and tests), what it means is that my brain meat is broken in very special ways. Those ways mean that I am very good at analyzing patterns and seeing them. Other then that, it means nothing.
Where do you take a for real IQ test?
Those ways mean that I am very good at analyzing patterns and seeing them
This.
When I was a child I thought that being smarter than other people meant that they ought to let me run everythIng, because of course I was smart enough to run things, by virtue of being smart.
Intelligence is seen as a virtue these days, rather than wisdom. Intelligence is getting an answer by fitting information to an abstract model. Wisdom is getting an answer by fitting information to reality.
Any fairly moderate to large size city should have at least one psychologist who does psychometric testing with the WAIS, Raven’s, or Stanford-Binet.
@trshmnstr
Yes, but Mages can cast Magic Missile.
So, you have to find someone who administers IQ tests, then pay to take them? I’m always left scratching my head at stories of some poor sucker who had a high IQ. I don’t know my IQ. I know my ASVAB score. I know my ACT score. But other than shady internet quizzes, I have no idea what my IQ score is. Never ran into that.
@CPRM:
I took mine at a Mensa testing event. I’ve always been in the 99th percentile on every standardized test I’ve ever taken, and came in the same at the Mensa IQ test. I signed up with Mensa for a year (it gave me a discount on car insurance for group rate reasons), and went to one meeting, and one meeting only.
When I have better social skills then most of the other people there, it’s not a group I should be hanging out with.
Yeah, my ASVAB score was 99th percentile. I’ve never run across any place offering IQ scores.
Yes, but Mages can cast Magic Missile.
At higher levels, Clerics can cast spells like Holy Word and Insect Plague.
high IQ mean big penis
@CPRM
Well if you’ve taken the ASVAB then, congratulations, you have taken a for real IQ test! The ASVAB is recognized as a pretty good measure of g. I can’t remember the correlation between ASVAB scores and IQ because I have a splitting VOC-induced headache currently.
Back when I was younger, I had the military trying to recruit me for quite some time. I finally got the recruiters to leave me alone when I mentioned my height and weight (BMI of 17.2). But I had many of my friends who went into the military want me to go and take the ASVAB and use them as a reference. I feel I did better by not going that route.
Tbh, I don’t think it wise to give children IQ tests, and I especially don’t think it wise to discuss
the results with them. Smart kids are likely to be alienated enough from their peers, no reason to add to it.
**Facepalm** The original idea of IQ testing is to test how quick kids can pick up on new ideas and teach them accordingly.
IQ testing among adults is pretty much a pointless dickwaving exercise, outside of something like the ASVAB, which is kind of sort of, but not really an IQ test.
I have taken an IQ test once, scored 154, and I was top 2% of my aptitude tests when I applied for the military. Frankly I see personal character as a greater benefit that intelligence based on my own experiences. Which is a hell of a lot harder to test for.
Anti-these-elitists. Up until the Progressive Era, the 19th Century political and cultural elite in the US wasn’t so bad … excluding the pro-slavery and Manifest Destiny types (who constituted a pretty large fraction of the elite). At least they didn’t advocate for permanent war and insane social policies.
I would say that personally I am completely anti-elitist, but it’s largely a product of my upbringing. I’ve always been an advocate for localism, even as an idiotic idealistic communist, and I’ve always recognized, even as a libertarian, that the class dynamic matters. I don’t care for populism, as you note, because I’ve seen both the benefits and negatives of the lower class; some things work, others don’t. While I recognize Williamson’s point to some extent, I think he confuses a disdain for the delusional upper class with a full hearted support of what he calls ‘Trumpism’.
I’d like to see the bit where kdw argues for more government control over people’s lives.
Everything he has ever written has argued the opposite. He argues that people should take responsibility for their lives. That is his main point.
That’s what pissed conservatives off about him, actually. He argues that if your town is dying you should move in order to find greater opportunities. He argues that it’s up to you to deal with it when things like your town’s main industry failing happen. This is a very libertarian position, IMHO.
The issue is that the towns are not dying, they are being killed. Coal being the perfect example. Coal is not some kind of buggy whip industry. It’s being consciously destroyed by bureaucrats because they don’t like it. Trump gets in office, and voila, coal is booming.
King Canute cannot turn back the tide, but King Canute can goddamn well allow his people to build fucking boats.
I’m going to have to disagree- I mean some towns have been hurt by recent energy policy, but… for the most part Appalachia is falling apart of its own accord.
Look, I grew up all over the place , but especially in northern Vermont. I -know- about communities falling apart. I remember one year when I lived in Norrh Troy Vermont, about as far from anything as you can get. Ten barns burned down that year, and it went from a dairy town to a ghost town.
What do you do when that happens? You leave, if you have any sense at all. You see that your town has died, and you go somewhere else.
Start an arson investigation.
There was indeed an arson investigation, cause it was clearly arson. But even so, the farms never came back. Have you, btw, ever smelled a few dozen dairy cows burnt to death in a fire? You’d think it would be like grilling steak, but it’s actually this sort of awful sweet smell that hangs around for days.
Isn’t that just typical conservative talking points from a few years back? I guess I just don’t find it to be necessarily a libertarian position, or rather, that holding that position does not indicate that someone is a libertarian.
Never said he did. I’m taking issue with him distilling anti-elitism and populism into some temper tantrum of envy. It’s a complete misreading of the zeitgeist.
Exactly. It’s the constant refrain from these creatures, going on 3 years of it now.
“Sure, economic growth is below population growth, the labor force participation rate is terrible, the debt is growing, healthcare costs are sky high and rising, taxes are higher, college tuition is higher than ever, regulations are choking the life out of your small business, your 401k is not growing enough to retire on, yes yes all that stuff is important.
But you know what’s really important? Donald Trump is rude on Twitter, and his suits don’t fit correctly. How can this man Lead Our Country?”
God help you if you should ever attend a cocktail party in Georgetown, the favorite dumb trope of conservative talk-radio hosts.
HEY! That’s our favourite dumb trope!
Ya blew it
STEPHEN SMYTHE HAVE NO IDEA WHAT SILLY GLIBERTARIAN MEAN. MY GOOD FELLOW, LOOK UPWARDS! NOW MAYBE STEPHEN SMYTHE GET ON WITH RAPE!
My father-in-law is in town.
His name is Steve Smith.
I hope he doesn’t happen to walk by while I’m typing in this thread.
Get curtains, or maybe move the monitor away from the window?
interesting
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Saudi_Arabia
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Since 1998, Western diplomats and intelligence agencies have long believed that an agreement exists in which Pakistan would sell Saudi Arabia nuclear warheads and its own nuclear technology should security in the Persian Gulf deteriorate. Both countries have sharply denied the existence of such an agreement.[8] In 2003, globalsecurity.org reported that Pakistan and Saudi Arabia had entered a secret agreement on nuclear cooperation providing Saudi Arabia with nuclear weapons technology in return for access to cheap oil for Pakistan.[9]
In March 2006, the German magazine Cicero reported that Saudi Arabia had, since 2003, received assistance from Pakistan to acquire nuclear missiles and warheads. Satellite photos allegedly reveal an underground city with nuclear silos containing Ghauri rockets in Al-Sulaiyil, south of the capital Riyadh.[10] Pakistan has denied aiding Saudi Arabia in its nuclear ambitions.[11]
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In 1987, Saudi Arabia purchased between 50 and 60 Chinese-made CSS-2 intermediate-range ballistic missiles[28] designed and used by the Chinese as a nuclear-armed missile, but reportedly sold to Saudi Arabia with conventional high-explosive warheads. However their low circular error probable accuracy (1–4 km) makes them unsuitable for effective military use against military targets when carrying a conventional warhead.[29] The CSS-2 has a range of 2,800 km with a payload of either 2,150 or 2,500 kg.
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Newsweek quoted an anonymous source in 2014 that Saudi Arabia had acquired CSS-5 intermediate-range ballistic missiles from China in 2007 with “Washington’s quiet approval on the condition that CIA technical experts could verify they were not designed to carry nuclear warheads”.[32] The Center for Strategic and International Studies lists the CSS-5 as being capable of carrying either 250-kiloton or 500-kiloton nuclear or various types of conventional high-explosive warheads.
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If I had sponsored all of those Wahhabi “schools” I’d want nukes too.
STEPHEN SMITH SHOCKED, SHOCKED TO FIND CORRUPTION AND SELF DEALING IN ILLINOIS. BONUS, INVOLVES POLICE PENSION AND COP LEGISLATORS.
You aren’t supposed to let the upper crust mask slip.
STEPHEN SMYTHE INTO FORESTOLOGY NOT SEISMOLOGY.
STEVE SMITH GETTING A BIT BORED…TRY NEW AVENUE TO RAPE, AS STEPHEN SMYTHE!
“The voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new vistas, but of having new eyes.”
-Stephen Smythe, c.2017
AND BY NEW EYES, MEAN NEW RAPE!
STEPHEN SMYTHE WONDER WHAT RANSOM DEMANDS ARE?
A good solid gun will take care of those bears. Where is ZARDOZ when you need him?
Modern News
it makes more sense when you realize its just free promotion for politically-connected fellow media-orgs. Minor non-troversies are the new PR.
Yup. You hit the nail on the head.
trshmnstr, you had something posted about jQuery before; what exactly are you trying to do? I’m 5 Yuenglings into my evening, so I may not be much help at the moment but I’m a front end web dev, so if I remember when I’m sober I can probably help.
Basically, I’ve been experimenting with refactoring monocle in jQuery instead of plain JS. It has been a good excuse to get rid of some of the clutter. Features that are no longer necessary, half-completed features, etc. Anyway, I’m trying to do two things.
First is to use AJAX to reload the comments without having to reload the entire page. I’ve been using $.load for this so far, but each time it reloads, it clears the new-comment class for new comments from all prior reloads, which really sucks when you have “hide old threads” enabled and the function is running on a 45 second timer. I thought I had it fixed at 2am last night, but it was acting funny this morning, so I stopped messing with it.
Second is to submit comments without reloading the entire page. The main reason for this is because I want to retain the new-comment class for comments after where my comment is submitted to. Essentially, I don’t want to have to read the entire thread before posting a comment. I haven’t started work on this yet, but I’m wondering whether using $.post will keep the page from reloading on submit.
JQuery’s .post() function submits and http post request, so the page will reload.
If you want to keep the current data from the page prior to submitting and reapply it after the form loads there are a few ways to do it. Top of my head I’d use local storage. Pulling in new stuff without reloading the page is possible depending on the server’s set up, but requires more work.
If you want to keep the current data from the page prior to submitting and reapply it after the form loads there are a few ways to do it. Top of my head I’d use local storage.
I’ve been trying something similar to this for the dynamic loading of comments. Essentially, I tried to stick a comma separated list of the new comment ids into local storage and then in the .load() callback add the new-comment class back in for those comments. It wasn’t working for me last night, but I was being a bit lazy with it, so I’ll have to try again when I have time to insert debug code and figure out exactly why the new-comment class wasn’t being added back in.
Sounds like it should/could work. Next time you’re working on it and you get stuck, feel free to call me out of I’m commenting or shoot me an email anytime at gwynapnaud @ gmail. JavaScript and it’s idiosyncrasies is how I earn my bread, I should be able to help.
Thank you! I appreciate it! I’m just a lawyer who wrote VoIP code in C++ in a previous life. Monocle lives on google searches and trial and error.
Hmm- the vanilla js world is a bit of a mess right now, mainly because most people doing serious work in JS have moved on to doing SPAs with very complex webpack/babel setups, etc. You probly don’t need that level of complexity.
You most likely want to just get some data from an endpoint and insert it into a page. Fetch is built into most modern browsers and there’s a good polyfill for older ones. Bluebird is the promise library you probly ought to use. You could use jQuery to do the insertion, but vanilla doom manipulation is likely enough for your purposes.
A class level John-o.
most people doing serious work in JS have moved on to doing SPAs with very complex webpack/babel setups
*eyes glaze over*
Thankfully most of Monocle is just assigning classes to objects and writing CSS lines to handle those classes. Relatively simple stuff, and the only reasons I even included jQuery were 1) because I wanted exposure to it; 2) because it seemed like it would make my dynamic comment loading code easier; and 3) it looked to be much more compact.
Aren’t braids part of white culture anyway? Kinky hair can’t really be braided properly.
How dare you trivialize her beautiful diasporic hair!
May we touch her hair?
lol
Hair-touching is something that woke-black-women are constantly freaking the fuck out about.
We have noted this strange phenomenon before
guest starring: you
People are always touching my hair. Can I be outraged as well, or no because I’m a straight white cismale?
You know the answer
I used to get that when I started shaving my head but not sure if it was because I was young and skinny and people just liked touching my head.
Dunno, I’m the opposite. I have a massive amount of hair. Many women and one man have threatened to shave my head and steal my hair. The women to make a wig, the man to make a pillow.
I have weird friends.
Yes you do. Now put the lotion in the basket.
If people touched my hair without my permission, I would be pissed. I’m not sure this is a woke thing.
My reaction was based on my disbelief that there are people walking around touching other people’s hair (outside of close personal relations – friends, family). I agree it’s totally uncalled for from strangers – for anybody.
Solution: wear this every day
But what do I wear when black people touch my hair?
It happens. I’m about as white as they come, but when I had long hair, people would touch it and play with it, both with and without my permission.
*mind blown*
I would never, ever do that. Prolly the reserved northern Euro in me.
The without permission wasn’t that common, maybe once or twice a month. Generally, saying something would stop it, with the exception of the one pushy guy.
We’re not suposed to appropriate all the luck
Ah, AP, making an article about a photograph without actually featuring a picture of the fucking photograph itself.
It’s not like she’s dressed like Mohammed or anything, hyuk hyuk.
Jesus Christ. More fake news. They made the right design call, and now ‘Woke Sade’ and the rest of the woke police are on their case for it.
Tip to magazines: Don’t photograph these assholes at all.
More importantly, don’t apologize.
I think they should release a new cover that’s just her big braid hoop with just her forehead and the top of her eyes peeking over the bottom edge. “Happy now, bitch?” printed right in the middle of the hoop.
Tomorrow is the last day of Cleveland Beer Week. This means that tomorrow is another day of brunch, this one being the Belgian Brunch at the Tremont Tap House. Good food, and beers provided by Duvel, Petrus, Omemegang Orval, Bavik, Brasserie d’Achouffe, Wittekerke.
Current glassware count is up to 7 shakers, 2 nonics, 2 hefeweisen glasses, 2 wine glasses, a snifter, and a strange New Holland glass (from their high gravity collection).
You are tempting me to take a trip to Cleveland next time they have Beer Week.
I have about six or seven Hefeweizen glasses, a dozen or so Kölsch glasses, three Maße (Oktoberfest 2016 souvenir, SlyFox Bockfest 2017 souvenir, and a Hofbräu), I don’t know how many tulip and pint glasses, plus a few glass mugs.
Unfortunately, I can’t show you the full schedule of events anymore, as the website only shows the events from the current day on. It’s a full nine days with dozens of events every day all around the city. If you like beer, it’s a good time. A lot of places also get some rare kegs and bottles to open up for this week. As an example, the first Friday one of the locations did a Cantilon/Mikkeller tasting with flights and full pours of over 4 pages of beers. At least three locations this week have had Bell’s Black Note on tap, there was one which had Dogfish Head Carobock, and seven different collaboration beers done by all the breweries in Cleveland.
If you can only make it in for a weekend, I’d recommend the first weekend over the second, as you get to hit the kick-off, Bell’s Ruins Beer Week, Great Lakes Saves Beer Week, and the doughnuts and beer pairing.
I will keep that in mind, and when I go (whenever that is…) I will let you know.
Tall, Darth, and Handsome is interesting. I might or might not have received it from a fellow glib.
I believe there are more boxes that may or may not be landing over the next couple of days.
Thanks for setting this up or not setting this up. And thanks to the glib that might or might not have sent me this beer.
Assuming that everything goes smoothly, I may or may not set up a similar exchange come spring.
Excellent.
If you can believe it….I just bought 3 more short boxes of comics today – nearly all Indie stuff – tons of early Wildcats, Stormwatch, Savage Dragon, Dark Horse Conan, etc. I’ll put up a little quick round-up video later tonight.
If you’re a comic fan and live within an hour’s drive of Cville, this deal is completely worth it – $25 for a shortbox filled up from the “.50 cent issues” – basically all the non-valuable issues or even some that are decent, but not in perfect condition. There’re still tons and tons of boxes – probably a couple dozen long boxes I didn’t have time to look through in addition to all the others I’ve already checked out. Deal is ongoing through 31 October – but make sure you check their schedule on the site so you don’t show up on a bad day (ie. Monday) and screw yourself. http://www.atlascomicbooks.com/
Video is up – definitely looking forward to digging into these – just gotta set aside a little time. Also need to figure out how to determine keep/unload when I’m done (mostly for space purposes): https://youtu.be/53ndbttEPnc
are you a fan of indie comics? Ever read the Badger?
Picked up a LOT of indie stuff today – check the vid and the last one. Heard Badger mentioned, but didn’t come across anything by that name that I recognized…which publisher? I hit the “random indie” stuff for “B” on Tuesday.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_(comics)" title="
” target=I also photoshopped a movie poster a while ago.Capital Comics, First Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics Comics The Badger is from Wisconsin, and schizophrenic. I also photoshopped a movie poster a while ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger_(comics) – yeah, don’t think I saw any with him yesterday, but like I said I really just go through the boxes with a couple titles in mind, but 95% of it was seeing a couple of vaguely interesting titles with consecutive numbers – esp the Image stuff I never had the money for back in the 90s. Hell, I picked up some various babewatch style numbers but I’m interested in seeing some of those completely random cheap-ass indie books like Jackaroo and some insanely early Dark Horse “trekker” books.
“How much for a vial of crack? either $20, or 10 cans of Spam“
Yeah… nice try.
I think it goes back farther pre-WWII related to US stuff that traveled and traded well, etc. It is kinda weird, but whatever (I don’t mind chopped up spam in some fried rice).
Before I took up this whole “healthy eating” thing, I used to eat the fuck out of some Spam.
I’m gonna have to find a homemade Spam recipe so that I can make it and tone down the sodium content; I remember it being salty as fuck.
They do have a low (ok – lower) sodium version.
BTW OMWC – since I missed this morning’s thread again – I can believe that your daughter hadn’t seen Dr. Strangelove, but some of those comments/questions re: hardware, etc just seemed a little abnormal. Aren’t you one of the guys who has the vacuum tube collection/audiophile stuff – or was that someone else?
“”Aren’t you one of the guys who has the vacuum tube collection/audiophile stuff – or was that someone else?””
Also: Humongus
+1
I can say for certain i have never read the phase, “Drawn to a walrus rookery” before today.
“STEPHEN SMYTHE LAUGH WHEN THINK WHAT DRUG WARRIORS SAY WHEN READ THIS.”
Can we say for sure that pot legalization is the reason opioid deaths are down? Maybe everyone got on methadone?
If it wasn’t for the headline, i don’t think i’d be able to distinguish it from “
regularhetero rodeo”The guy pictured in the frilly dress and rainbow wig doesn’t give it away?
Rodeo clowns already come in many varieties.
Damn. Second play of the game and Barkley just ripped that vaunted Meatchicken run defense for a 69 yard touchdown.
This will not be pretty.
It’ll be funny. But it won’t be pretty.
Scrawled in a bathroom of a scrappy (i.e. top-notch quality) Mexican restaurant:
“Don’t worry about the 1%. You have control of your own life.”
“The 1% are parasites.”
“The 1% pays 65% of the taxes.”
“Don’t trust the media.”
Bathroom walls > facebook walls
Seen on the bathroom wall of a bar in the town where I did my undergrad:
“Yoga pants are proof God exists and wants us to be happy.”
“No they’re not. I could wear yoga pants and that would not make you happy.”
“Thanks Obama.”
HA
The surprise is yoga pants make men look hot, too!
In the bathroom of an upscale restaurant that I was in there was a small sign that said “men’s room attendant works for tips”.
Below it someone drew a penis with a sharpie.
“The path of least resistance is what makes a river crooked.”
that is no excuse for peeing on the floor
seen near a urinal:
“Look up”
“Higher”
“Higher”
“Stop! You’re pissing on the floor!”
I’ve always thought “toilet-stall scribblings” was the better analogy for Twitter
At a factory where I used to work (circa 2007) someone drew a giant swastika on the wall with a paint marker. They made an announcement in the general meeting about “unacceptable racist graffiti” in the men’s room and stated that they were looking into who may have done it. The next day, there was a huge smear on the wall – in the shape of a swastika. Below it, in the same color marker, someone had written “you suck at cleaning”.
Strangely enough, despite having a very diverse group of employees, nobody had a conniption fit over it; most people just thought it was funny in a pathetic, “what a loser” kind of way. It’s almost like people can recognize the difference between someone being a malicious racist and someone just being an edgy shithead.
Where I work, there are mostly just slurs about different bosses gay fucking each other written in the stalls. It’s pretty funny. There are often times illustrations. I’ll see if I can find one here in a bit.
http://imgur.com/tVymybR
Best I can find right now. Looks like some of the better ones from last week have already been painted over.
http://imgur.com/c8oyj60
Another one. this is more in line with what I normally see.
What, do you work in a bar or something?
Is your mill specialized?
It is a pepper mill.
Yeah. SBQ is our market. Special Bar Quality.
We make a variety of high alloy steel. It’s mostly used in automotive. Crankshafts, wheel hubs, transmission gears, etc.
We sell a lot to the big three automakers, but also have contracts with companies like John deere, caterpillar, dana, etc..
Interesting. I probably should have asked “what is your specialization?” Given your location, I didn’t think you’d be cranking out ‘standard’ sheet.
Given what Kobe Steel was doing, you might pick up some new business. Those assholes deserve what’s coming to them.
That’s interesting. I hadn’t heard of that. The article mentions Kobe was falsifying quality reports on ‘steel used to connect wheels to cars’.
Wheel hubs amd axles are a good portion of our business. Maybe we get some of that. More capacity is always nice.
Pretty funny shit, Lachowsky.
There was another bathroom where one of the 1″ tiles on the wall had been broken in, revealing an empty space behind the tile. People started stuffing toilet paper and gum into that hole, and somebody drew an arrow pointing to it along with the label “Tina _____’s Pussy” (she was a supervisor who was not well liked).
It’s pretty late, so I don’t know of you’ll see this. There is a guy named Tony who works in the maint department. He is a strange dude. In all of the most obscure hard to a cess places in this plant, “Tony is gay” is written in sharpie. It’s written inside electric motors, on the sides of PLC cards, in side electric cabinets, on the sides of high voltage fuses, inside the switch gears in the substations, pretty much anywhere you can think of and many places you can’t.
There is a shop in Milwaukee that we sent a lot of motors to be rewound after they fail. We have sent them so many motors that have “Tony is gay” written somewhere on them, That they have started writing it on the motors they send back. We send them a burned up motor, They strip it down, sand blast it, replace the bearings, rewind the stator, paint it, and then write “Tony is gay” on it before they ship it back.
Well, Tony admitted he was.
oopsy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonner_Fellers
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Bonner Frank Fellers (February 7, 1896 – October 7, 1973) was a U.S. Army officer who served during World War II as military attaché and psychological warfare director. He is notable as the military attaché in Egypt whose extensive transmissions of detailed British tactical information were intercepted by Axis agents and passed to German field marshal Erwin Rommel for over six months, contributing to disastrous British defeats at Gazala and Tobruk in June 1942. He was considered a protégé of General Douglas MacArthur.
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In October 1940,[4] Colonel Fellers was assigned as military attaché to the U.S. embassy in Egypt. He was tasked with the duty of monitoring and reporting on British military operations in the Mediterranean and Middle East Theatre. The British granted Fellers access to their activities and information. Fellers dutifully reported everything he learned to his superiors in the United States. His reports were read by President Roosevelt, the head of American intelligence, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Unbeknown to Fellers, due to a night raid into the American Embassy in Rome soon before USA entered the war, the P section of the Italian Servizio Informazioni Militare (SIM), the military intelligence, stole the American Black code, thus the Italians could read the reports: within eight hours the most secret data on British “strengths, positions, losses, reinforcements, supply, situation, plans, morale etc” were in the hands of German and Italian military.[5]
Fellers’ concerns about security were overridden and he sent his reports by radio, encrypted in the “Black Code” of the U.S. State Department. Unbeknownst to the U.S. government, the details of this code were stolen from the U.S. embassy in Italy by Italian spies in September 1941. Around the same time, it was also broken by German cryptanalysts.[6] Beginning in mid-December 1941 (coincidentally as the U.S. was entering the war), Germany was able to identify Fellers’ reports. This lasted until June 29, 1942, when Fellers switched to a newly adopted U.S. code system.[7]
Fellers’ radiograms provided detailed information about troop movements and equipment to the Axis. The information was extensive and timely to the Axis powers. Information from Fellers’ messages alerted the Axis to British convoy operations in the Mediterranean Sea, including efforts to resupply the garrison of Malta. Beginning in January 1942 information about the numbers and condition of British forces was provided to General Rommel, the famed German commander in Africa. He could thus plan his operations with reliable knowledge of what the opposing forces were. The Germans referred to Fellers as “die gute Quelle” (the good source). Rommel referred to him as “the little fellow.”[8]
The information leak cost the Allies a great many lives. For example, in June 1942, the British were attempting to resupply Malta, which was under constant air attack and was being starved out. The British determined to sail two supply convoys simultaneously, in the hopes that if one were to become discovered, attacks upon it would distract the Axis from the other. Code-named Operation Vigorous and Harpoon, and sailing from Alexandria in the east and Gibraltar in the west respectively, their sailing was timed with an effort by special forces teams to neutralize Axis ships and aircraft. Fellers efficiently reported all of this. His cable, No. 11119 dated June 11, was intercepted in both Rome and by the German Military High Command Cipher Branch (OKW Chiffrierabteilung). It read, in part:[8]
NIGHTS OF JUNE 12TH JUNE 13TH BRITISH SABOTAGE UNITS PLAN SIMULTANEOUS STICKER BOMB ATTACKS AGAINST AIRCRAFT ON 9 AXIS AIRDROMES. PLANS TO REACH OBJECTIVES BY PARACHUTES AND LONG RANGE DESERT PATROL.
British and Free French raiders went into action behind the lines in Libya and on the island of Crete. In most of these attacks, the raiders were met with the accurate fire of the alerted garrisons and suffered heavy losses while failing to inflict any damage upon the Luftwaffe.
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oopsy
He should have wiped his book with a cloth.
Thank fuck there was no You tube and the like back then. Nazis would have squirmed in there and bought tens of dollars of ad space just to make FDR look bad! Calamitous!
I have a recording of the concert that this video came from playing very loudly.
What is that? Scheherezade?
The Vienna Philharmonic’s Summer Night Concert. It’s a free concert on the grounds of Schönbrunn in Vienna.
In 2016 I visited some friends in Vienna and attended the concert. This recording is from the 2016 concert. The concert featured French music and the traditional ending of “Wiener Blut”. It was a great night. The weather was hot and humid during the day, which was a bit of a drag, but at night it cooled off enough to be just perfect.
At some point I’d like to go back for another Summer Night Concert.
Reminds me of having attended this once. It was wonderful.
Mozartfest is now on my ever-growing list of things to attend and see. Thanks!
Würzburg is a beautiful city. (Lived there for a year.) There’s plenty of other things to do there, too.
the best memory of Vienna i have (*we were drunk most of the time and only there less than a week) is when there was an opera being held at some very nice theater near the Rathaus… and they put up some giant projection screens on the building itself, and put speakers in the plaza in front of it (like so)… so everyone in town could basically come out and hear the opera. and there was beer and sausage stands aplenty. It was dope. Most of the time it seemed like a dead town, but that was good times.
The Staatsoper, if I remember correctly, regularly sets up a screen displaying the opera on the square outside the building. The Rathaus is near, but I don’t think that close to the Stastsoper.
I watched part of an opera in the square in front of the Staatsoper last time I was in Vienna. It was nice.
That could have been it. I was 18, drunk, and it was 1992. or it could have been the rathaus. we weren’t very particular about details.
Ahh.
I’ve drunk in Vienna, but never actually gotten drunk. Odd. Or maybe wise?
I was 36 when I finally made it over to Vienna.
My best memory of Vienna is not getting caught by the cops after pissing in the gutter. It was a close call – a couple of the local fuzz came by *just* after I finished, and gave me a very suspicious look.
Of course, I was 7, so I probably would have skated.
Little kids can get away with a lot of stuff.
That was one of the most overtly illegal things I’ve ever done. Christ, I’m such a square – how did I end up *here*?
(My best bit of lawbreaking was done as an adult, though – 43 in a 25 zone. On a bicycle.)
On my first trip to Munich, in 2007 if I remember correctly, I validated a subway ticket in the wrong spot (which means the ticket is not valid) and then rode the subway. Thankfully no inspectors came on board.
Schwarzfahren – a delightful word that’s totally not woke today.
Still amazed that buying your ticket before boarding a bus was standard practice there 30 years ago but still a novelty here in most of the US. I can walk faster than a NYC bus.
oh my goodness
I can walk faster than a NYC bus.
Even though you need to buy a ticket before you board the Green Line streetcars in Boston’s public transit system, there are places in Boston where you can walk faster than ride the Green Line.
Are they stuck in traffic? I’ve been on that line but it was separate from traffic where I was going.
But yeah pre-pay isn’t a miracle but it does have a noticeable affect, or at least it should based on how much time I’ve sat on buses while long lines of people slowly board and fiddle around in their purses for change etc.
Are they stuck in traffic? I’ve been on that line but it was separate from traffic where I was going.
In places, yes, the Green Line will be stuck in traffic. In some places the Green Line travels through dedicated tunnels. In others, it travels at street level alongside cars. In parts of both places, you can walk faster.
Mexico is the only military with a multi-billion dollar budget that doesn’t field jet fighters or tanks. They spend a bit more than Greece which has hundreds of tanks and jets.
I get the feeling that the reason so many countries have hundreds of tanks is because tinpot dictators like watching them on parade.
What are they spending those billions of dollars on?
Besides bribes?
Hell if I know.
I just assumed you were incorrect but a quick search shows you’re right, although they do field a number of APCs and the like. It looks like the Mexican brass is itching to get the T-14 Armata though.
Here’s a decent breakdown. A lot of helicopters, but not if the attack variety, mostly for transport. Maybe they plan on going full Chile? Probably not.
Transporting drugs?
Interesting, thanks!
Lots of aircraft, including lots of choppers – that costs; sizable navy, even if mostly small fry – ditto.
“Researchers noted a clear and defined increase in opioid-related deaths in Colorado in the 14 years prior to the legalization of recreational cannabis. However, what was truly noteworthy was the recognized decline in opioid-related deaths of 6.5% since adult-use marijuana was introduced, somewhat reversing the so-called opioid epidemic within the state.”
I was going to cop dope, but then I got high?
Damn it Canada. Someone is seriously starting a lawsuit about champagne vs. sparkling white wine.
And it’s a lawyer, quelle surprise.
“A projection of cyber code on a hooded man is pictured in this illustration picture ”
ok, brief rant:
i read some shit… years ago, where a bunch of ‘experts’ in cyber-warfare got together and talked about what any cyber-attack might look like…. and the consensus of these guys* ….
(*who were not 100% pentagonish types, but tech-security/hacker types, but some of whom were in intelligence, etc)
…best that i can recall, was that the stereotypical “cyber-attack which takes out the energy grid” is mostly a fantastic crock of shit.
they didn’t phrase it that way, but all of them said, “look, if you wanted to knock out powerplants, just blow up a few transformer substations.” iow, it would be a mazillion-times-easier to cause *lasting* and significant harm to the power grid via conventional means.
doing so via “cyberwar” has some significant problems; namely, that no 2 power plants really have the same industrial-control systems and processes. any hacking attempt would have to be specific to each single-facility, and probably require inside knowledge and an on-site-presence, not just 100% external snooping and infiltration.
basically, that the risk-reward of cyber attacks which tried to hit the *power* grid was… simply not worth it. and also: it wouldn’t actually cause permanent damage. They could just reboot the shit in hours.
Whereas, by contrast, substations weren’t based on any easily-repaired or replaceable technology; you damage one, it could take a shitload of time to fix. Making matters worse: most remote substations weren’t even protected by anything more than chain-link fence.
They all said the more-likely cyber-war threat would be the *networks themselves*. Cripple our IP network, and make things unable to intercommunicate, and it would be just as effective as an actual grid-failure. Who cares if the lights are on, but no one can communicate or share data?
When asked why the govt was always pumping this idea of our ‘infrastructure’ being at risk, one person smartly offered, “well, what else would you say if you wanted to appropriate shitloads of money from congress?”
… and the others basically made XNAY-ON-THE-OVERMENT-GAY-ENDING-SAY motions, because of course all their various interests relied on federal spending as well.
In short: every time i read these fucking cyberwar stories, all i hear is cash-registers ringing.
I dunno about any of that but the “cyber code” bit most certainly is a crock of shit.
its like they want to convince readers that they totally understand the very serious implications of all this Hi-Tech shit…
…but then immediately undermine themselves by using tacky tech-tropes from like 1996.
I loved the TVR from that movie
https://youtu.be/uLPvdbZO_O8
I loved Halle Berry’s tits.
Oh yeah
Boobpedia (NSFW) says they are C cups and real.
God damn! There really is a website for everything. Muffins, Toyota Tacoma fix-its and boobs. We are living in the golden age, son.
I’m no expert on the power grid. I do work in a large and mostly automated plant though. All our machines are networked in one way or the other to each other. However, the critical functions of the machines are not on the network. The network passes data, but not commands. If our network goes down, we can still make steel.
We had a furnace transformer blow up a couple years ago. We didn’t make steel for the three days it took us to replace it. The hardware is vastly more expensive and harder to fix than the network.
Ah… fireworks. One advantage of living in NH is fireworks are legal, though are regulated on a town-by-town basis with loose enforcement.
Darnold…
Next beer.
I’ve been maintaining with this one. A new batch was just brewed up and released.
That looks good.
It is. As concerned I am about the brewery’s finances (they’ve now got three full brewery locations, and are planning on opening a fourth one before the end of the year), they do some solid sour beers. They’ve been doing a kettle soured beer each month, and it’s finally circling back to the first they released.
From what I’ve heard from the salesmen and such, the most popular one they did was the Orange Blossom Gose. Several stores had some issues keeping that one in stock.
That Gose looks good. Gose should just have a salt taste in my mind, but sometimes a fruit flavor can work.
They should have a bit of tartness as well, generally from a kettle souring. They did that beer in collaboration with a local pop maker, hence the Orange Blossom.
I think I need our own cunning linguist to weigh in on this.
And I believe I can now give steps to reproduce Gilmoring, if anyone cares.
I’m skeptical. I’m nowhere near fluent in German or any of the other languages I’ve studied.
Makes perfect sense to me. I’ve seen it in German classes where my classmates were clearly chicken to pronounce stuff correctly because they probably thought it was gay or something.
Dropping you into the deep end with only natives has the same effect.
Considering how much alcohol I’ve consumed, and how terrible at foreign languages I am… I doubt the study as well.
Rant:
Anyone else sick of the Chevy commercials with the nerdy guy punking everyone? I have to mute that shit.
You may enjoy this
OMG is the not-Mahk part real?? I hate the nerdy guy and everything about this, but am glad Mahk exists.
“oh look, its Wyatt Derp and Cock Holliday”
I laffed
Mahk’s voice is fucking annoying.
I’ll take his fake Boston accent over nerdy guy’s weaselly drone any day.
I’d rather drink myself into a coma.
I hate the Ford truck commercials with the kinetic typography.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP1uNEzFjGI
That time when the Saudis demolished a graveyard:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_of_al-Baqi
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Al-Baqi cemetery, the oldest and one of the two most important Islamic graveyards[1] located in Medina, Saudi Arabia, was demolished[2] in 1806 and, following reconstruction in the mid-19th century, was destroyed again in 1925[3]:55 or 1926.[2][4] An alliance of the House of Saud, and the followers of the Wahhabi movement known as the Emirate of Diriyah, carried out the first demolition. The Sultanate of Nejd, also ruled by the House of Saud and followers of Wahhabism, carried out the second. In both cases, the actors were motivated by the Wahhabi interpretation of Islam, which prohibits the building of monuments on graves.
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The 2nd holiest mosque was built on Mohamed’s grave, even though he said:
“May Allah curse the Jews and Christians for they built the places of worship at the graves of their Prophets.” The Prophet was warning (Muslims) of what those had done. (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 8, Number 427)
There is a proposal to demolish the mosque and rebury Mohamed in an anonymous grave.
the proposal
Stranger Things is an overrated, predictable piece of shit.
Never really got into it. I tried watching 4 or 5 episodes, but it didn’t hold my interest.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand
Rick and MortyStranger Things.Everything retro is deep and interesting, obviously. Even if the retro setting serves no actual purpose and nothing is done with it besides some random and pointless pop culture references.
People like to ‘member things. Nostalgia outranks high-quality freshness these daze.
I ‘member when I had a luxurious head o’ hair and testosterone to burn. I ‘member…
Monocle v.2.00 available!
I’ve been debating whether to release this refactor as a new version, because there are only a couple new features, but the dynamic comment loading is working, and it’s a gamechanger (at least, it is for me)!
Features:
– New “Hide Less Threads” mode that includes more context around a new comment.
– New dynamic comment loading (which doesn’t bog down the system like the old one) adds any new comments every 45 seconds. I believe this is disabled by default. To enable go to Options — Dynamically Load Comments
The comments are kind of squashed together now 🙁
I just put an option in the Options menu to toggle the compact comments. Go ahead and download from the same link and it’ll have that option.
I am in need of a toggle in the Options menu when I log on to my bank’s site that would make my balance less compact. A little help here? I am talking just a few zeros. Four tops.
I don’t seem to be getting that update, at least after clicking around in Tampermonkey the same way that gave me the 2.0 update.
It looks nice! and will keep me from spamming the reload button for sure. Just as a note to you, at least on my browser, Monocle 2.0 will fail to load if you’re not logged in (as a lurker, I typically get logged out).
I’m no javascript expert, but it looks like the customFormatter function is unappreciative when the comment element is missing.
interesting
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USAF MANNED AIRCRAFT COMBAT LOSSES 1990-2002
Executive Summary.
Weak air defenses in Afghanistan during Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in
2001 and 2002 failed to down a single United States Air Force (USAF) aircraft. In
operations between 1990 and 2000, however, the USAF lost 17 airplanes in combat,
including 14 over Iraq and three over the former Yugoslavia. Thirteen USAF airplanes
fell to Soviet-designed surface-to-air missiles (SAMs): seven to heat-seekers (infrared)
and six to missiles guided by radar. Antiaircraft artillery (AAA) downed three airplanes.
One other aircraft maneuvered out of control after falsely perceiving enemy aircraft fire.1
Allied air superiority assured that no USAF airplanes were lost to enemy aircraft, either
in aerial combat or because of enemy raids on friendly airfields.
Given the number of sorties flown, the number of aircraft lost is miniscule. For
example, during Operation DESERT STORM against Iraq in 1991, the USAF lost a total
of 14 aircraft after flying more than 29,300 combat sorties, or .048 percent. This was
against an enemy with 16,000 SAMs, 7,000 antiaircraft guns, and 750 combat aircraft.
During Operation ALLIED FORCE against Serbia in 1999, the USAF lost one F-16 after
more than 4,500 F-16 sorties, or .02 percent.2
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So why do we need the F-35?
Why do you hate the economy?
From Wikipedia. I didn’t realize the number was this high. And I was in the AF at the time.
“In total, the United States military lost in Vietnam almost 10,000 aircraft, helicopters and 578 UAVs (554 over Vietnam and 24 over China).”
Interestingly, only about 200 US aircraft were lost to missiles during the Vietnam war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_US_aircraft_losses_to_missiles_during_the_Vietnam_War
amusing
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Roi fainéant (French: [ʁwa fɛneɑ̃]), literally “do-nothing king” and so presumably “lazy king”, is a French term primarily used to refer to the later kings of the Merovingian dynasty
…
The appellation goes back to Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, who described the late Merovingian kings as kings “in nothing but in name”,
There was nothing left the King to do but to be content with his name of King, his flowing hair, and long beard, to sit on his throne and play the ruler,…
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It’s good to be the king.
A history teacher during my undergrad had us read Einhard’s and Notker the Stammerer’s biographies of Charlemagne. I think I still have the book.
“to sit on his throne and play the ruler”
Again with the euphemisms.
Slowing down a bit.
She’s reasonably hot. She’s 37. She’s the new Prime Minister of New Zealand, and she thinks that capitalism is a “blatant failure”.
—-The Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/new-zealand-new-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-capitalism-blatant-failure-a8012656.html
Two out of three ain’t bad.
I’ve NOT terminated dates for worse.
Wouldn’t. Horse teeth are an instant turnoff.
Let’s not go overboard.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/Jacinda_Ardern_-_cropped.jpg
Everybody’s got a feature that isn’t primo.
My pecs are epic, but I’m sure I have a flaw somewhere. Usually, when women get mad at me, they don’t tell me about it, whatever it is. I usually get stuff about being mean–by which they mean to say that I didn’t call up and apologize for all the rotten things they said to me.
I know when it’s assumed I’m supposed to apologize for that shit, too. I think that’s what bothers them.
I once had a dog that was courteous. The dog wasn’t allowed on the bed (or the furniture), but when I woke up every morning, the dog would be hovering over me about an inch or two off my nose. It wanted to be there when I woke up so bad that it would break the house rules to be there the moment I woke up–but the dog was so damn courteous, it didn’t want to wake me up!
It was very disturbing.
That means that all the other times she was discourteous it wasn’t because she was incapable of courtesy.
There’s something with women going on there, too. Once they’re know you’re not just an insensitive dolt of a man, it raises their expectations.
I don’t know. If I dread the call to apologize for all the rotten things they said to me more than I want to see her again, that’s a pretty good indication that it’s time to move on. Also, if there’s a lot of screaming, crying, and knife play–I start thinking about whether the relationship is headed in the right direction. Just because I stop calling them, though, doesn’t mean they stop calling me.
I think it’s my epic pecs.
“Everybody’s got a feature that isn’t primo.”
In this case, her face.
Maybe she’s average for the Strand, but the Strand ain’t average.
Didn’t know hundreds of thousands of NZ children were dying every year.
Now I’m wondering why I keep getting Asian and defective African orphans for mines when there should be perfectly good New Zealanders on the market. I’m going to have a talk with my trafficker.
Nope, they’re all dying, that is why there are no NZ orphans.
Source: See comments from the PM above.
Yeah, they’ve got 4 million people.
The country always scores in the top ten in quality of life lists, and Auckland usually lands at #3 on the list of world’s most livable cities.
Question: to what extent does NZ actually practice capitalism.
They ranked third on the Index of Economic Freedom in 2016, right behind Hong Kong and Singapore and just ahead of Switzerland.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_of_Economic_Freedom
Cool. Can I assume that “hundreds of thousands of children living in homes without enough to survive” is complete horseshit?
Yep.
I think they do have some issues with local indigenous maybe not integrating so well. I suspect their problems are probably concentrated in a marginalized demographic. I think that’s fairly common in certain parts of the South Pacific.
And I bet the current “free shit” policy they’re most likely pursuing isn’t working so time to “free shit” harder.
They do have a robust welfare state which is not helpful. And the new PM has also basically announced the government will guarantee “free” college. The housing issue really revolves around Auckland: out of a total population of 4.8m, 1.5m live in the Auckland urban area (think 93m Americans living in the same city). The jobs are in the few large cities: Auckland, Wellington, and to a lesser extent, Christchurch. So urban housing is way more expensive than anywhere else and too expensive for people at the bottom of the income scale. Of course, widespread public housing and expanding Heritage listings in no way is contributing to this crisis.
In the 80s New Zealand moved away from Socialism to a market economy. According to this now dated book, gun owners and the police didn’t have an antagonistic relationship. The police lobbied to get rid of their gun registry. I’m don’t know what the current state of their gun laws are, but judging by other news, the country is moving back towards Socialism.
My understanding is that the gun laws in regards to ownership are pretty good. You’re not prohibited from owning them so much as you need to declare everything you have.
I’ve looked closely at these things before. If you wanted to establish a dual nationality, New Zealand is a good one. It’s not so easy to get it, though. It’s basically a sliding scale based on how much money you have, whether you have money invested in the country, how old you are, etc.
If you have technical expertise, it’s easier to get in pretty much anywhere.
Aramoana massacre caused a massive public shift (easier I guess in a smaller population). http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0839938/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 – I can review the DVD if anyone’s interested.
It is interesting how they swing back and forth so far – see also my previous essay on their movement away from cabotage regulation, etc. The last government actually lifted the ban on nuclear powered ships (don’t think any US navy vessels have pulled in since then – maybe 1 for a port visit after Talisman Saber ’15) – will they cancel that too?
Well, it’s only 66.7%, which is generally a failing grade…
I saw that her govt was floating the idea of banning foreigners from buying pre existing homes because the average Kiwi couldn’t afford them anymore. Crazy.
Here.
There’s something to that.
Wealthy Chinese have bid up prices in Australia, as well. They don’t move into the country. They’re mostly well connected and wealthy Chinese who are looking for a place to run when pitchforks and torches break out–or there’s another purge from above.
There are 2 billion Chinese people more than 10 million of which would love to buy a home and have a claim to enter the country–but have no interest in immigrating to New Zealand. If they’re bidding up prices and gentrifying New Zealanders out of a home, . . .
It’s more than just snobbery or elitism or socialism at work. If you can’t afford to buy a home because people who don’t live there are paying top dollar–and not even renting them out? I can see how that might be a legitimate problem.
When Disneyland gets too full during the holidays, they stop selling tickets. I’ve seen ’em do it.
Just like how Japan took over the US in the 80’s, right? Didn’t happen and they wound up losing their asses on many investments. If there was no space to develop, they may have a point. Not the case, though.
I think the market distortion was minimal for them.
If the upper 10% of Chinese can afford to buy a home in New Zealand and want to do so, that’s 200 million buyers.
There are only 4 million people in New Zealand.
And the Japanese paranoia was mostly about commercial real estate. It wasn’t about Japanese people bidding up the price of residential real estate so Americans couldn’t afford to buy.
We may have more readily developable land in the U.S., too.
If 96% of the distortion is created by China’s capital controls, that’s just begging for a remedy. Let the rest of the world buy in, but why should New Zealand need to pay the price for China’s stupid capital control system?
Michael Keaton stalled the Japanese efforts.
If they weren’t propping up real estate prices with monetary policies, I’d be more open to their concerns about Chinese home buyers.
Talk to somebody in Vancouver, BC about Chinese and real estate prices.
Ah, Hongcouver! The city that never sreeps! It used to be an awesome place and then everyone decided that it was a cash-cow.
I have listened to more than one kiwi complain of foreign investment driving up real estate prices there. Maybe she can allow foreign buyers to purchase if they take in a few of the homeless there.
Or, better yet, she can take some homeless home herself.
She lives in a studio apartment in Wellington.
So you are saying she has room for 12 of them. What is the N American impoverished to Kiwi studio apartment ratio?
I think it also might be about China’s export controls.
Getting profits out of China has been a headache since they first embraced free trade.
I think property ownership is one of the few things they’ll let local Chinese take money out of the country to do. People may just want to diversify their assets.
At that point, you’ve got a serious market distortion if there’s a $zillion in China competing with locals for homes–because of China’s stupid capital controls.
Shit, I remember being priced out of Manhattan in the aughts and everyone looking at my apartment (while I was still living there – what a revolting practice!) were snotty trust-fund Euros. Shit’s been going on for a long time.
Yep… we were priced out of Brooklyn when we had our second kid; trying to find a 3 bedroom for under $2000 per month was a fool’s errand. Rockaway Beach FTW – it’s like stepping back in time to the NYC of the 1950s. The 100th Precinct is VERY accepting of firearms ownership (well… it’s relative; they will actually issue permits for home storage here, as opposed to our old Brooklyn digs where the NYPD just says no and reminds you that your $380 application fee is non-refundable), parking is ample, streets are safe, we have a yard and garage, we’re right on the beach, and we are paying only a wee bit more than we paid for a 1 bedroom apt. in Crown Heights.
What have you terminated dates for?
If I don’t get a classic Ken Schultz 3,000 word comment on this, I’m going to be sorely disappointed.
Knives.
A couple of high speech chases.
One time a girl chased me around her apartment when I wanted to leave cause I thought she’d had too much to drink. She didn’t want me to leave. It was like being on the casting couch with Weinstein, I guess . . . except she was hot.
She’d just drank waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much.
I’ve lived an exciting life. Something about me brings out the . . . um . . . exciting side of their personalities. I think they tend to see me as the solution to all their problems. That’s not a good thing to be especially when they realize that maybe some of their problems are them.
I guess I’m supposed to fix that, too.
Stop talking out your ass, Wilbur!
Capitalism has failed to achieve utopia. It doesn’t even promise utopia. None of the cool people among the elites advocate capitalism.
Obviously, it’s a blatant failure.
Small doses raised hundreds of millions of peasants out of subsistence farming in China over the course of the last 17 years.
People should go to this link and click “Max”.
https://tradingeconomics.com/china/wages
. . . then tell me that Capitalism is a failure.
P.S. I maintain that China’s environmental problems are largely about the problem of land ownership and the failure of the courts to protect people’s rights. In the U.S., if a major company pollutes my property, I can end up owning the company. Just ask the tobacco companies (that are largely owned by plantiff’s attorneys) and the Dow company that made breast implants.
If a well connected company pollutes your property in China and you go to court, after they tell you to go fuck yourself, you’ll be lucky if they don’t throw you in jail for being a rabble rouser.
China has still failed to achieve utopia with capitalism. Obviously it’s a blatant failure there, just like it is everywhere.
Back in the 1980, the distribution of incomes in China had the lowest Gini coefficient of any country on earth. Now the inequality of incomes there is as bad as the United States.
Capitalism has been a blatantly horrible failure in China. I’ve even heard that there are stores there that offer 23 brands of deodorant. In China!
Things were going great in China until capitalism came along and ruined everything.
“The Apostle of God, peace be upon him, said that the best testimony is to fight in the foremost ranks.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ayDFXLaMoE
Translations are like wives: they are either faithful or beautiful, but rarely both*.
*This is why there are no libertarian women.
Broke rib in beer league hockey. Treating with assorted beers and whiskey. Breathing deep, sneezing, and coughing all hurt. Michigan losing is a nice salve.
You have my pity. I broke 7 of the damn things last year. It hurt to do anything including taking a dump. Beer did help though. Cheers.
Militants’ ambush of Egyptian security, police force kills at least 59
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The convoy was heading toward what was believed to be a terrorist camp, about 85 miles from Cairo.
Militants positioned at higher ground swarmed the eight-vehicles convoy with gunfire and rockets, police officials said. Hasm, an Islamist militant group said to be the armed wing of the now-illegal Muslim Brotherhood, claimed responsibility for the attack.
Al Arabiya, the Saudi-owned news website, reported that a former officer in the Egyptian army named Hisham al-Ashmawy led the militants.
The militants seized weapons from the vehicles and executed survivors, an Egyptian official, who wished to be anonymous, told The New York Times. The Egyptian forces were cut off from air support and functioning satellite phones.
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I found video.
https://youtu.be/a1Bx9nyw35w
Oh fuck me that was a bad movie! Even in my worst bongo days we watched it like once. Heck, we watched The Evil Dead and Reanimator dozens of times. Bad flick, just really, really bad.
HOW DARE YOU SPEAK ILL OF THE WORKS OF JOHN MILIUS!
Walter from The Big Labowski was based on John Milius; you can see it in this video.
Damnit, now I’m in a Milius black hole.
Watching Fat Francis talk to Milius in that last link, the little liberal bastard is just giddy to hear what Milius has to say. Men like Milius are why hollywood took so long to slide into shit.
I haven’t heard anything about him since he had his stroke.
In the Milius documentary they say his first response after his stroke was when his son put on the Conan soundtrack. I don’t know anything after that.
He wrote the Homefront games at some point before the stroke I guess.
Homefront is the dumbest shit because it’s basically a game developer going “we can’t piss off the CCP, China’s got millions of potential customers, so instead let’s shit on North Korea.”
Never played it; because it’s was an FPS, but I wanted to play it because Milius wrote it.
It has its moments, but it screamed ‘this is really about the Chicomms, but we can’t piss them off’. The CoD style hand-holding doesn’t help either.
We don’t tolerate Milius haters on this website, boy.
We’ve got a hundred million screaming Chinamen on our side.
I thought there were 600 million Chinese?
*throws whiskey bottle onto canpfire*
Honestly, the whole Weinstein thing is starting to become unbelievable to me. Not in terms of there’s no way he could have assaulted so many women, but that so many women in Hollywood played hard to get for him. I’m supposed to believe that group has that much integrity?
A beautiful woman using sex to get ahead is a clear example of men being pigs.
I’m supposed to believe that group has that much integrity?
They live in the land of make-believe, it comes naturally to them
The part that is jaw dropping to me is how many are 2nd generation in the business. If you knew this went on, and it was your daughter, what would you do?
My parents worried about me moving to DC.
But your parents aren’t worried about you posting on this site?
But we have a family friendly certification!!
Naked families, yes.
If you follow the money far enough, you will find that STEVE SMITH is behind the family friendly certification for this site.
(((STEVE SMITH)))!!?!!!?
You don’t want to know what his bar mitzvah was like…
…So much blood, so many lost innocents…
Everyone I know who went to George Washington was ruined.
Minibus bombing in Afghanistan kills at least 15 cadets
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At least 15 military cadets died Saturday in a bombing of their minibus in Kabul, bringing the death toll from attacks in Afghanistan to more than 150 in one week.
A suicide bomber on foot struck a minibus around the Marshal Fahim Military Academy in a part of Kabul that is roughly seven miles from its downtown, CNN reported.
Dawlat Waziri, a defense ministry spokesman told VOA News four others were wounded in the explosion.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said in an email to the media. The Taliban said it was the latest incident in an ongoing insurgency campaign to target the Afghan military and allies.
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Damn hippies!
Peak derp attempt
https://futurism.com/next-year-a-californian-city-will-launch-the-first-basic-income-experiment-in-the-u-s/
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However, Google shows us that interest in derp reached its highest level in July 2012:
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/06/derp-meaning-origin.html
Ah, but peak *interest* in derp is not peak derp.
I KNEW IT WOULD BE STOCKTON
My internet is down. Does anyone have the score to the USC game?
it’s not good.
Ok, so part one of my continuation of straffinrun’s Harvey Weinstein story is ready to go, so survey time; I’ve sent word to the Glib overlords about making it a feature. I havn’t heard back; should we just make this a linx thing? Should I just drop it in a linx? Or should I wait for it all to get organized?
What and when? I’ll make sure it’s looked into.
Saturday night, yo.
I emailed SP about the idea Thursday night. Sent a submission thing last night. The idea is to have this story being ongoing, done by sperate authors. Straff did the first two chapters, and I got one ready to go. I even have artwork. I just want to get the ball rolling while this is all still topical.
We’ll get it sorted out by midday tomorrow. You know…. alcohol.
Thanks. Be cool to have Straff’s run as features before mine. SP has my e-mail, and it is with the submission, just contact me and I can send the .doc file (and use the artwork I just linked instead of other copies I sent out, the new one includes a spelling fix that annoyed some madusa haired types). Enjoy your alcohol, I sure am.
Despite alcohol, I am working on that Lee-Enfield article I talked about.
Write drunk, edit sober. That’s my workflow. I don’t get much editing done.
I didn’t write much. I’ll write more tomorrow.
I actually do a lot of proofreading and PROOFRADING. I try to do all that while sober.
Just to give a taste, I’ll post the same snippet I did last night:
INT–LUXURY SUITE-THE MEADOWS—NIGHT
The room is dark, illuminated only by the TV. HARVEY is sprawled on the velvet couch in front of the TV, his robe open, nothing underneath. He is sobbing and masturbating to the image on the screen. A pile of tissues on his lap, another to his right for the tears. The video on the screen is a security video of Harvey masturbating onto a plant.
HARVEY
Plastic, fucking plastic. Just like all those sluts. Made up to look perfect, then they call me a creep!?
His motion grows faster. Tears roll down his cheek. Suddenly there is a noise. He stops masturbating, pauses the video and turns. Tears streaming down his face.
HARVEY
Whose there? Huh, one of those paparazzi fucks?
There is only silence. He un-pauses the video and resumes. A shadow emerges from the darkness behind him.
Baked Penguin had some work to add. Did you contact him?
Yeah, but it doesn’t apply to the direction I’m going. But I sent him a copy of this chapter, in case he’s interested in taking the next round.
ASTROS WIN! ASTROS WIN! ASTROS WIN!!!!!!!!!!
What a pitching masterpiece.
Good sports day for you. It’s always great to see the Yankees lose.
Not a ‘Stros fan but anyone that knocks the Yankees out is alright in my books. Go Dodgers?
I approve! It’s always a good day when the Wankees lose!
Go USA. We’ll take everything and make it better.
You could have just said “go Texas!!!”
And FWIW, I still think Deep Eddy makes a better product.
Election Day here and a big old typhoon has its eye trained right on us. Abe vows to continue his Abenomics and to expand the use of nucrear energy. Koike, his main rival, want to end Abenomics (her plan is called “Yurinomics”) and instead cut red tape and set up special economic zones. She wants to phase out nucrear energy by 2030.
IOW we’re fucked either way, just by a different monster.
Japan has readied itself to be fucked by a monster for 50 years.
A country with an average IQ of 106, off the charts level of “conscientiousness”, law abiding populace, diligent etc. It’s frustrating as hell that the people don’t recognize that the lost decade that turned into 30 years was caused by Top Men. Obviously Confucianism and Shintoism have bred a compliant culture, but if any culture could handle some form of ANCapism, I’d pick Japan.
“But the panty-sniffing Moe. Whaddabout all the panty-sniffing?”
Doesn’t violate the NAP if it’s consensual.
I wish my shiba inu were compliant…
Makeinu are quite compliant. And desperate. (I’ll let you google “makeinu”)
I DDG’d it and I am disappoint. “Loser dog”? Childless single 30 year olds? I was hoping for some HM quality stuff.
OK. Try “bukkake inu”.
Oh yeah.
That’s the stuff.
A giant monster and a sentient robot. Art becomes life!
laissez faire really is dead, isn’t it.
*said in the voice of Mako* “He did not care anymore. Life? Death? The same!”
Which one of you guys live in Norway?
Dogleg left?
If it’s shorter than a putter’s grip we usually call it a “gimme”.
Fuck gimmes, bottom of the cup or it doesn’t count.
“It’s all in the hips”
Depends upon how diligent the groundskeepers are, in this case. I don’t care if that’s a five buck Titleist, I’m not putting my fingers in that hole.
The . . . um . . . picture from the front page looks more like a Yeti than a Big Foot.
Or maybe a Yeti is a Big Foot! There can be two different names for the same thing.
Q: You know the difference between a reindeer and a caribou?
A: Every kid knows–reindeer can fly!
So, maybe a Yeti is a Big Foot that’s fled to the Himalayas to avoid rape charges or something. I don’t know.
Also, what the fuck is this thing?
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/667564378401677312/vfMqcDww.jpg
The wypipo of STEVE SMITH, obviously.
STEPHEN SMYTHE POLITE. SAY PLEASE AND THANK YOU. PLEASE BEFORE RAPE. THANK YOU AFTER RAPE. BUT STILL RAPE. STEPHEN SMYTHE JUST PAWN IN GAME OF LIFE. PAWN HAVE ONE MOVE. BY MOVE, MEAN RAPE.