I am going to be even more of a Geek this week….I will be gone, down at BoardGameGeek CON in the DFW area. So, here are my parting links for the rest of the week…and one more *narrows gaze* for the lot of ye, while I am out.
- A great success for Socialism! Take THAT h8ers!!!!! Wait…wut? Oh, I mean, a shame about state capitalism sucking like that. /Prog
- And in stories drawing the attention of OMWC…Howzabout those French, eh?
- TEH SCIENCE IS SETTLED! I await the ratings of our various man-watching Glibs (TW: Brits).
- Tax bill shitstorm a forming? *readies tranquilizer darts*
- From the FLORIDAMAN files….Hey, caught a square grouper!
So long, suckers!
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Don’t you even work?!
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Holla.
Hello, Rufus!
So, an uppercase first?
I finally got out of that meeting. The one-hour meeting scheduled to start a half hour before the end of the work day in the room with the malfunctioning piece of hardware making the high pitched wine just at the upper end of human hearing that drives a sonic ice pick in your brain, seated next to the co-worker who still loudly bites his nails, but only ever when the topic is what you’re expected to get done during the next workday when the boss is conveniently unavailable for a stealth reiteration of priorities. That meeting.
Ugh.
1st world problems.
high pitched wine
Is that a white or a red? Either way, I’m sure it has a screw-off cap.
It has hints of juniper berries.
What’s the reason? It’s belly pleasin’!
making the high pitched wine
I prefer a dry wine.
UCS prefers his pitched whines to be at exactly 440Hz.
A?
It was meetings that finally convinced me that I couldn’t exist in a corporate world. Well, that and Human Resource Directors. Has there ever been one who wasn’t the worst?
HR isn’t so bad. If you form an alliance with them you effectively have an immunity idol and can vote most everyone else off the island.
I came in to work on my day off last week for what was supposed to be a couple hours of training. We quit after 10 hours. I learned that splicing and terminating high voltage insulated cables is a little more involved than I would have expected.
Were you shocked by that?
Yeah, that’s a bit of a process. Apparently, you can make a nice living doing nothing but splices.
I had never done one before. You are correct. There is a lot to it. These were 35kv cables. I do a ton of work 480v and below.
Being able to cut through the cable jacket and sheild without damaging the semi conductor is something of an art.
I’ve never done it with a splicing knife, I had to get the semi-con off with the tool. Granted the cable the military uses is much simpler and than what is found elsewhere.
We had a tool for stripping the cable jacket, but the specs called for a very short length of shield. It made it so that the tool couldn’t be used without damaging the shield.
The tool we used to spiral cut the semiconductor away from the insulator was pretty cool though.
The jacket they taught us to nip a bit off the end and pull up on the copper shielding to cut it off about 3″ from the end. The rest is trimmed to size and “prepped” for the splice. Yes, they failed constantly but these were meant for expedience.
Yikes. The guy teaching the class would have failed me if I had done that. I can see why in a military situation speed may be more important than quality. The guy teaching our class stressed taking our time and doing it right, which makes sense in an industrial setting.
Speaking of failures. The last place I worked in had most of its electric run underground. Every now and then, we would get a hard rain and an underground 23kv would go to ground. It was always easy to find where the failure occured. All I had to do was walk around outside and figure out which manhole had the lid blown off of it and there the problem would be.
I waited +2 hours on my birthday to get my driver’s license renewed. ?
First world problems.
Couldn’t you renew it online?
I wanted to ensure that I get a license that opts out of Real ID
I went through that not too long ago. NH lets you renew on-line every other renewal. This renewal, I had to go in person. I didn’t want REAL ID, so it should have been easy right? Nope. I went went on the wrong day of the month. Two and a half hour wait.
Happy birthday! I didn’t realize it at first.
Lot of manspreading going on in the tubes.
These euphemisms.
Age of consent: Protecting the children, or fuck off slaver?
Discuss.
Fuck off, child slavers?
Judges?
Okay, we’ll allow it.
Artifact of convenience. In theory, consent would be limited to those that can process the implications of giving it. Since that varies from case to case, depending on what is being consented to, who is consenting, and who is asking for the consent, it is more expedient to ascribe arbitrary numbers as cutoffs. In some situations this will lead to people that can give consent not being allowed to, and people that can’t bring able to. It isn’t perfect, but but no arbitrary system would be. The alternative is incredibly messy, though, and an anathema to law.
No. The alternative is case by case rulings which is the essence of common law. Statutory prohibitions can fuck right off when the penalty is criminal.
You’re correct, I specifically meant statutory law, since no-one can “make” common law as it is built case by case from precedent. In a more perfect world, almost everything would be decided by common law and the legislature would be reserved to interactions between sovereigns, and if you ever find a portal to that world let me know.
We’d have to travel back to England circa 14 something. That or I hear Xeer law in Somalia is pretty solid. I’ve got an idea how to get back to that world but it requires first that the State stop paying judges.
There’s also the notion that criminal law should be clear and predictable, which weighs in favor of arbitrary rules as opposed to “I knows it when I sees it.”
Not really.
You could pass a law which states that under the age of 16 the presumption is the minor in question is not capable of providing consent. However if it can be shown that the minor in question is capable of consenting then the defendant must be acquited
If the Johnson fit, you must acquit!
That still seems like an issue that the ability to consent would most likely vary on the defendant’s ability to hire competent counsel. While the current age of consent laws are somewhat arbitrary, they are still less arbitrary than the alternatives.
There should be an age where some gov given rights are activated.
I don’t know if they should all be the same age. 18 seems ok by me for drinking, voting, buying drugs, and joining the military. sex? not sure. I don’t wan’t to jail two teens for fucking.
14 and under, 15 and older, and for a third answer I’m guarding my daughter with a shotgun for the next decade+.
so a 14 year old cant bone a 15 year old? Harsh man.
Half the boy’s age plus seven years. Works all the way into your 90’s.
Half the boys age plus 6 years and 364 days is why that’s flawed
I’m probably wrong, but as far as I can remember in VT there’s a sliding scale. I think it was 3 years? so a 20 year old could be with a 17 year old, but not 16.
I would go with a 5 year age spread until the youngest hits 17. Then all bets off. Could make 3 year spread a misdemeanor if youngest is under 13.
Half your age plus 7.
Good rule of thumb.
I still think 32 is too young for me, though.
37 would be two years younger than my daughter. The rule has its quirks.
Send ’em my way, then.
Puts the lower limit at 14.
….awww, that cuts me off at 20…
1/3rd your age + 10
So if you are 18 then you can hook up with a 16 yer old
If you are 30 you can date a 20 year old
if you are 45 you can date a 25 year old
And honestly once they are over 25 they are old enough to make their own damn choices without anyone questioning them anyway so fuck off and mind your own business
But if you’re 15…
Fractions are hard. Can’t expect people to know what 1/3 is when they can’t even figure out how much change to give me back at a gas station without the computer telling them
That rule seems a little too strict.
I was happy it existed, I was dating a girl in my younger brothers class after I left high school. I was 19, she was 17. 4 years is where I’d pick, but I think it’s the correct approach. just because someone turns 18 before the other shouldn’t end a relationship.
Many parts of the U.S. over do it, treat different acts differently, make exceptions for marriage, differences in age, etc. There is no consistency, logically or numerically. In my opinion, in most cases the age of consent for sex is too high, and in some places the age of consent for marriage is to low. If I’m not mistaken, the first age of consent law were passed in England, and that age was 12. Saying age is just a number is way over-simplifying it. Regardless, there are mature 16-year-olds and people who cannot accept responsibility for the sexual choices in their 20’s (just look at college campuses). In regards to this French proposal, “Twice in recent weeks, French courts have refused to prosecute men for rape after they had sex with 11-year-old girls because authorities couldn’t prove coercion”, 13 sounds too low, but it’s better than allowing sex with 11-year-olds. On the other hand, there are States in the U.S. where 16-year-olds can drive cars or get married, but can’t consent to oral or anal sex until they are 21.
Just to throw my 2 cents around, 14 or 15 is probably a reasonable AOC, and I would accept 13 if there was some cap on it, like 5 years.
If there is no ‘coercion’ than it isn’t rape. Criminal enforcement of statutory prohibitions on intercourse are underpinned fundamentally by the notion that the government has a property interest in the ‘violated’ party.
You are arguing by definition. It depends what one calls “coercion”. What is called “sexual coercion” on college campuses isn’t rape.
Regardless, 11-year-olds having sex is harmful. I have no idea what you mean by “government has a property interest in the ‘violated’ party” since rape, kidnapping, assault, murder, etc. aren’t property crimes either. Although, since France has socialized medicine, avoid paying years of psychiatric treatment is in the financial interest of the government.
I really should write on this topic… but I try and keep it short and explain what I mean. As an initial matter, the below analysis is applicable only to English common law systems where there is a distinction between law and equity and the genesis of action is based on a violation of right. Further, we are only looking at statutory rape. The genesis of the action at law i.e. money damages – is based in a violation of a property right – ‘harm’ is immaterial. Kidnapping and assaults at law are a ‘trespass against the person.’ Without getting into the greater details, what we think of as ‘statutory rape’ was dealt with purely on a restitutionary basis. the old courts punished non-consensual (on the part of the father) consensual (on the part of the daughter) intercourse with an unwed daughter as a deprivation of a property right (value of dowry etc.). This action, brought by the father was only available at law – there was no action in equity. Felony rape (i.e. no consent) is a different kettle of fish. In modern statutory rape (i.e. consenting parties), the statues accord the State a right of action (at equity, which is a secondary but equally bad issue) however the State’s right of action it is still predicated on the same basis as the father’s right of action at common law. This is the issue.
Regardless, 11-year-olds having sex is harmful.
Is it?
I mean it certainly isn’t good but historically it was not unheard of for 11 year olds to be married and having sex and even in our culture there isn’t too much evidence that it is axiomatically harmful. Growing up in a welfare city (Lowell Ma) I knew more than a few people my age who started voluntarily having sex when they were 11 – 12 years old and yeah there weren’t any cases where I can say it was a good thing but there were a couple where it clearly did not cause them any greater harm than the current reality of their lives had caused them
“Many nights have passed, trapped in a strange land. I’m hungry and all I can do to pass the time is hump. I will hump this rock. I will hump this tree. I will hump this beast of the land and put my seed in it.”
If there’s no consent, it isn’t rape. Fucking an unconscious person is rape even though no coercion is applied.
Thing I hate about this issue is how you cannot even rationally discuss it with most people.
For example nearly everyone has an assumption that underage sex is inherently damaging to the minor in question, Just look at the linked article here, where they claim the minors in the 2 cases face a life sentence. As if they fact that they had sex with an older man is axiomatically going to ruin their lives. Depending on the age of the minor in question it is usually the case that sex with someone older is going to cause some level of psychological damage it is far from universal as according to the very little research that has been performed on the issue as many as half of those who reported having sexual encounters while underage reported them as either having been a positive or neutral experience for them. The problem is the minute you bring up these facts you are labeled a pedophile or at the very least an accessory to pedophilia and so no rational discussion of the actual issues is ever possible.
If it is axiomatic that the law operate to shield us from harm, then all harm may be done in the name of law.
“Early marriages are a sign of a rural society” — paraphrased from St. Heinlein.
His point was that kids raised on a farm didn’t need sex education and “if she’s old enough to bleed she’s old enough to breed” pretty much covered age of consent for much of human history. If I’m not mistaken, when I was a yute the marriage age for girls (and therefore the age of consent) was 14. I knew a guy in the Air Force in 1973 who had a 21 year-old-wife and a 7 year-old kid. He was probably 26-27 at the time.
It seems to me that the half your age plus seven rule helps you from making an ass of yourself at both ends of your life.
… Hobbit
Board games….
SMDH.
What happened to libertarianism??
Why? Did it claw its way out of the shallow grave again? should we dig a deeper one?
Is it too much to ask for hookers and cocaine?
IS IT?
^^^
no, just expensive.
Erm have you seen the prices of some games?
It’s called “Plastic Crack” for a reason.
Pretty sure crack is cheaper by weight than most 40k minis.
It sounds like a lot more fun than Monopoly.
What about Monopoly AND hookers w/coke? Huh-huh??
A lot cheaper to make it rain on them when you are using monopoly money
That’s for tightwads. Board games are for true addict who cares not about money.
Have a great trip though, Swissy!
*shakes sarcasm meter*
Oh well…. thanks.
No, that one was sincere.
*squints suspiciously*
I will take your word for it…..this time.
Remember; you told me the other day that the “Minnesoda Nice” was just a front. Don’t fall for it!
We can’t always be talking about guns & titties. (Just like 90% of the time.)
That also sounds like a good board game.
“Tit for Rat-a-tat-tat?”
Would buy
Maybe a reboot of Mouse Trap?
It would be called Rat-a-tit-tit. The goal would be to drop a pair of breasts on a rat.
I know it doesn’t make a lot of sense, but it has tits.
I want to know which board games he’s playing before I vote to kick him out of the club.
Also, my vote can be bought off with beer.
It passed Go and collected $200
Which one of you people is posting these videos?
Was posted a few years ago so I’m assuming you took the GayJay poster down.
From the thrid lesson “The Police are there to kidnap you off the street and take you and lock you in a cage!”
Men don’t know how to dress anymore.
You’ve had the same shirt on ever since I’ve know you.
*snort laughs*
IT’S A CLASSIC.
Tax bill shitstorm a forming? *readies tranquilizer darts*
It’s gonna be fun. Ace had this set of tweets that cracked me up.
Something something petard hoisting…
This comment:
Never fear. John McStain will make sure to fuck the American people.
They don’t make cancer like they used to, I guess.
No, they do, it’s just being held as a POW inside McCain’s brain, to be used as propaganda when appropriate.
*applause*
Vhyrus wins today.
Dems object that Rs are inserting health care into the tax bill with individual mandate repeal.
“My understanding is the individual mandate is a tax,” Thune responds, referencing SCOTUS decision
My understanding is the individual mandate is a tax,” Thune responds, referencing SCOTUS decision
SWEET!
No. It’s all about those greedy KKKorporashunz for expecting money they lent to be repaid. If they’d just forgive Venezuela’s debts, it would be a paradise.
This is how you build support for your union.
Local transit workers think that striking during SuperBowl week will give them the leverage to wring some extra goodies out of the taxpayers wallets.
I’m skeptical about how many people who have shelled out $$$ for tickets to that game will actually be taking the train or the bus. And even if you think the light rail train will be important, you only need about 20 scabs to run them anyhow for that single day.
Plus this city has a ton of cab and Uber drivers.
At least until your new commie mayor is sworn in.
I think that there isn’t enough time between the inauguration and the SB for them to kill off Uber and Lyft.
Especially since we elected two black transgender council members. That alone is going to take a lot of back slapping of congrats before any real business can be run out of town.
Ken hardest hit
Give him a stuffed sea otter toy and get him to a safe space.
Dammit, I knew somebody was going to make that joke before I could!
Don’t worry, there is always Winston’s mom.
Who hasn’t been there? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
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I still can’t believe they gave Ken bail. He broke six of his ribs!
Because of the (R).
*golf clap*
[thunderous applause]
tl;dr
DeBlasio Aid Says Chicago Pizza > New York Pizza
http://nypost.com/2017/11/13/de-blasio-staffer-says-pizza-from-chicago-is-better-than-new-york/
The guy is right, but he’s wrong about the best pizza place. Peqouds Pizza is yuppie pizza. Lou Malnati’s or Pete’s Pizza is the best Chicago pizza.
Cardboard pizza lovers hardest hit
DeBlasio?
You take the word of that Socialist moron?
Oh, one of his yes-people
It was his aid and even a broken clock is right twice a day
Except when it points to Chicago.
Psst…upstate New York is not even New York. Chew on that
Well, he does have a point there.
A proper analog clock, if broken, is right only once per day.
And a digital clock is never right once broken.
And I thought Swiss attending a board game convention was dorky, but you win.
This isn’t even my final form – my pedantry is unbounded!
Geeky…GEEKY!
Have fun at the convention, Swiss.
This pedant says everyone else always gets this wrong…it’s a stopped clock that is right just twice (or once) a day. A broken clock can be right anywhere from 0 to an infinite number of times per day. What if its hands are turning at the speed of light?
wouldn’t that be a malfunctioning clock?
/further pedantry
That’s retarded. If you were close enough to observe the hands accelerating toward some fraction of c you’d be annihilated by the expanding fireball of super-heated plasma or the x-rays.
Chicago pizza is another testament to the ingenuity of Midwesterners. They can fuck up just about anything if they set their mind to it!
*readies cat butt*
Don’t you have some form of interstate transit to catch?
*sonic ice pick activated*
I was just talking about your food, not your bedroom proclivities
I tease, because I love.
Except your food
and a lot of your people
and your weather
and your accents
other than that, though
We gots pimps here yo. Don’t need yo ass anyway sucka.
Now that is funny, y’all.
You take that back. It is delicious. And St. Louis style thin too!
“And St. Louis style thin too!”
woah, woah, let’s not get crazy here
Pfffft
*tranq dart hits Just Say’n in neck*
*collapses and awakens in Cairo, IL*
For you.
Cairo Egypt is probably still safer than Cairo, IL
St. Louis pizza is fine…as an appetizer.
With toasted ravs.
Toasted ravioli wasn’t bad, exactly. I was just disappointed. I was expecting something really crunchy on the outside and gooey in the middle. Instead, got something closer to a pizza roll.
Now, don’t get me wrong, pizza rolls are awesome. Just not what I was expecting
Exhibit A-Z of terrible Midwest food.
Take a bland cracker crust, load it up with sugary sweet tomato sauce, “melt” a pound of horrifying cheese product on top
That’s not pizza, it’s an abomination
*adjusts for windage*
*FIRE*
You jealous, bro?
Provel is a petroleum by-product, I believe?
Smegma collected from sundry boat captains along the Mississippi is what I assumed
Two things that the Midwest excels at: being fat and drunk. We have perfected the fine art of deliciously fattening food and beer. Sorry that we’re better than the rest of the country
Umm, maybe the drunk part, but the South outfats you by a lot. So much of Midwest fatness comes from inferior stock and being incapable of exercise 6 months a year.
The South’s fatness is 100% due to our delicious food. We even have to overcome poverty and meth to be fat. Sorry, no contest
The midwest has no shortage of meth, Jefe. It’s practically a condiment.
Pssht…meth from the South is sub par. Drive through rural Indiana- now that is meth.
You can get outdoor exercise in the snow: cross-country skiing or snowshoeing.
Souther meth, Midwestern meth all the same. It’s all made in mexico. There are some local makers of artisinal meth here and there, but the majority of it comes from south of the border.
I LIVE IN THE MIDWEST AND I AGREE!!!!
He’s wrong, and if New York were still New York, he’d be chased out of town before sundown. DeBolshevik eats pizza with a fork for crissakes – clearly he’s hiring people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
Who’s going to chase him out of New York? The Williamsburg progressives who yell at the sky? Or the street toughs in Manhattan?
Nothing. That’s what you guys are going to do.
Chip’s not chasing anyone anywhere, he’s a carpetbagger.
That’s my point – NY is nothing but bobo transplants from tony suburbs across the country now. The real New Yorkers like my relatives have almost all moved away. They’re like two-thirds of Dade County, for example.
How do you eat it, with your hands?
Chopsticks? A spoon?
Mouth.
It’s the only way to properly eat a slice.
And you eat a slice unless you’re eating that Midwestern Cheesy Tomato Casserole.
He should be run out of town in a rail, but if people in New York expected competency from their elected leaders, none of the people in charge would be.
New York style pizza is the Nick Gillespie of pizzas
Wrapped in a leather jacket?
I never knew Nick Gillespie was delicious.
Wait, did you just try “New York Style” pizza at some chain and not like it or have you actually tried pizza at a reputable NYC establishment? There are some bad pizza places here, as there is approximately 1 pizza place per 10 residents, but, having lived in both cities, a good New York slice is the best pizza available.
Ouch!
Dammit, threaded comments! My above reply was to Just Say’n.
(And yes, I have tried New York pizza in New York. It’s good. just not the best.)
I see they waited after the election to come out.
Lou Malnati’s is indeed great.
If you’re looking for great, non-deep dish, square cut pizza, check out Ach-N-Lou’s in Aurora, IL.
How, if You’re a Man, to Deal With the Fact That You’re Probably Trash
It’s just cultural marxism all the way down
First comment ftw. It will never stop until literally everyone is fighting each other because their unique identity requires priority
Now that’s a true gold medal Victim Olympics performance.
That was the first comment? ?
The progs may literally start killing each other soon.
She didn’t stop there. Those comments were the only bright spot in an otherwise cancerous post, specifically for the humor of the infighting. That and the “ZOMG my faith in humanity it’s restored because some men called themselves trash” posts. What a bunch of sadness.
While I don’t agree with this commenters evaluation of the analysis, I can’t say the analysis itself is wrong. What are these guys doing other than virtue signalling to get approval? As far as I can tell, the original author does seem to be saying “Other Men are Trash”, not himself, of course.
These people can’t actually be such tedious assholes in real life, can they? It’s has to be at least partially an act, doesn’t it?
It seems to be the proggy version of ‘No True Libertarian’. Progs use ‘RacistSexistHomophobeIslamophobeHaterBIGOT’ as a way to silence any dissent, it’s not surprising that a random leftist will use the same thing on the inevitable disagreements that occur within the party. I’d suggest just sitting back to watch the show (and bring some marshmallows for when they burn down the whole Progressive edifice).
How did I know it was the root? Oh yeah, because the root is pure cancer.
So they’re not Very Smart Brothas after all?
As always – if you have to tell people how smart you are…..
The root is such pure cancer that it gives cancer cancer.
Being “oppressed” gives you automatic moral superiority. That is what all of this SJW culture stuff boils down to, at its essence.
between moral superiority and military superiority.. hmmm.. that’s a hard decision. which one would i rather be… hmmmmmmmmmm…
A couple of years back I had one of the gibbering anti-colonial idiots give me some gibberish to the effect that ‘Black and Native folk are the moral superiors of white folk’. I countered by pointing out that those moral superiors were killing and eating the weak, burning women alive in ritual along with other forms of human sacrifice, raping children, enslaving anyone they were able…etc etc. They were/are savages.
“That doesnt give you a right to use a rifle to tell them what to do.”
My reply: “I dont give a fuck. That shit has to stop and I am the one with the rifle.”
+1 Lord Charles Napier
−1 Wounded Knee
They were lots of barbaric practices all around. People seem to find this need for one side to be barbaric and the other civilized, when there were in fact lots of shades of gray.
I was addressing Raston’s rhetorical quandry. Moral or Military superiority, which to choose….
Understood, but I was questioning the whole possession of moral superiority to begin with.
Attacking someone who’s done you no wrong is immoral. That doesn’t make your target moral.
Other than a recognition of self ownership for all individuals I am not sure what moral superiority would look like. I am just glad that western civilization has slowly moved towards less barbarism. A lot of bad shit happened along the way. Let’s just try to keep steering the ship in that direction.
“Attacking someone who’s done you no wrong is immoral.”
Unless you are defending someone. It would be immoral to not defend an innocent from attack.
shades of gray
That reminds me, I recently saw a bit of Fifty Shades of Gray. Honestly, I had no idea it was a comedy. Seriously, I laughed quite a bit. The girl is cute though.
Is historicity related to the interocitor?
Use only genuine interocitor parts!
Historicity is bullshit. Wonderful, profitable bullshit. /Robert Childan
Man, when is season 3 coming out? Should be in the next couple of months, no?
the moral superiority of historicity
The fertilizing superiority of bovine scatology?
“We are all active contributors to rape culture. All of us. No one is exempt.”
Of course, the author doesn’t back this up with anything.
If you try to invalidate xer feels, you are part of the patriarchy!
Clearly, Count Potato is trash.
It is Original Sin for proggies.
So all of the studies show that women like bigger dicks and manly men but some misandrists are squawking that men should denigrate themselves and shun everything that being a man means. Uh huh.
I am a man. I have a hairy chest, big balls, dont complain when I bleed, love doing manly things, kill spiders without blinking and will step in front of a bullet for a child or a woman without hesitation. Anyone who doesnt like that can kiss my ass.
I am not doing this feminist thing right, am I?
Anyone who doesnt like that can kiss my ass
Even gay dudes?
BTW, doesn’t html work here anymore?
what were you trying to do? WP forces us to use the current versions not the simple /i and /b
[strong]BOLD[/strong]
[em]ITALICS[/em]
Preach it, Suthen.
Yep, let’s extrapolate Weinstein, C.K., and Spacey to all men, that’ll work.
Found a welcome to Japan video on the plane explaining traffic laws, crimes not to commit (stealing an old bicycle!), and some other items. Hilarious segment where the newly arrived Westerner tells his Westerner resident friend that he’d like to stop at a hardware store when they go out so he can pick up a knife for protection. The horror!
You gauche American rubes with your age of consent laws……don’t you know how sophisticated the French are?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTM40o3WgZo
Fun with statistics!
FBI says Minnesoda has increased hate crimes AGAIN!. Oh, it went from 109 from 2015 to 119 in 2016.
Damn, we’re not very good h8trs.
It’s not the quantity, it’s the quality.
If you adjust for police shooting people of different races, it probably would have been a decrease.
Don’t sell yourselves short; you’re 19th in hate crimes per population among the states. That’s second quintile! DC, of course, leads all states in this statistic.
BEHOLD WHAT TRUMP HATH WROUGHT!!!!
119 in a state with a population of like 2,000 is pretty significant
But they were all over who has the best hockey mullet.
I’ve got an ape drape, yes I do!
They’re giving them to anyone, that means you!
I wish.
5,420,380.
69 are libertarians.
“69 are libertarians.”
They purposely keep it at 69 for the laughs
Of course. We send any excess to North Dakota to hang out with MikeS.
Send MOAR!
757,952
6.9 are libertarians
A 69 with a period in the middle of it is no laughing matter Mike
Uff-da!
No you dont. You guys kill the oldest Libertarian when a new Libertarian is born. I’ve seen your movie.
We don’t kill them. We just send them out on the rink as a goalie without pads. Nature takes care of the rest.
So…in other words, the entire study is basically worthless?
TUNDRA: The libertarian kid who ran for Mayor of Minneapolis got around 400 votes. Woo Hoo! We’re on the RISE!
Wooohooo!
We’re coming!
Turns out the fairer sex is just as superficial as men. They like men with muscles and money.
No shit?
Wasn’t there a study a while back that found women like bigger dicks? I am going to apply for a grant to study whether or not water is wet.
It’s a shocker to people who’ve agressively educated themselves into believing untruths about the nature of things and denying the value of any form of traditional wisdom.
Salt is good.
I wanted to reply to someone who was ranting about water chlorination by reminding them that salt is half chlorine, but it was a video, and they wouldn’t have heard me, so I just turned it off.
And the other half is metal.
…a metal that explodes in water!
If your test subjects will get the water splashed on them, and they are female, and braless, and hot, I will support your effort to get this study funded.
Money, muscles, big dick…..man, how did I manage to get married?
I once had a guy complain that he had a mushroom on his dick. I suggested that he see a doctor, that it was probably some form of STD. He refused to believe that. He said it was impossible that it was an STD because he never cheated on his wife.
Ok then.
It was obviously a fungal infection.
Tractor seat?
Please tell me you’re joking.
I am not joking one bit. I was standing in the middle of the fucking amazon jungle waiting for my ride and this dude just appeared out of nowhere, a complete stranger. I didn’t think there were any people around for 100 miles and all of a sudden there he was. He just materialized out of the bush. I guess he thought that since I was a gringo I am some kind of medical expert so he just starts talking about his dick. He wanted to show me the goddamned thing but I stopped him.
“I have never cheated on my wife!”
I wanted to snarkily ask him what his wife did for a living but my better judgement told me to keep my mouth shut. There would have been blood.
You were just visited by one of the ancient gods of that area…penisshroomandshowit
What were you doing in the amazon jungle?
Searching for rare mushrooms.
Well he got an email from Amazon telling him that they were having troubles finding his house and would he mind coming down to the depot and picking it up himself.
Next thing you know…
This story is reaching Kramer levels of absurdity. You could publish this as a book.
If you only knew….
Life imitates art….poorly.
Was it a magic mushroom?
If you rub it, you will be granted three wishes?
No but it will dispense hand lotion.
You do that, while I lock up all the grant money stuying which gets the women wetter, the big dick or fat wallet
Hell, I can tell you that right now.
Shhh keep it quiet and I’ll split the grant money with you
Rufus,
I expect a hello in Tos shortly
YOU’LL GET NOTHING AND LIKE IT, PORK-BELLY MAN
Ruuuuuuuuuuuffffffffuuuuuuuuus !!!
Just so y’all know: I 1sted fist. The secret is mine!
*gollums*
Huh, Tubecrush has been waaaaay down in photo volume over the last two years. Also I’m not sure how the study would be able to parse anonymous users taking pictures of of random men in public as women…especially when they used gay bobsleigher cum rugby player Simon Dunn as an example of photos taken. Bah, now I’ve GIS’d Simon Dunn and will be too busy to comment for the rest of the day.
^ What does this mean?
I donno, some mudstained ape in a field, I guess.
Translation: Jesse will be in his bunk with the hunk.
What part of it. Sorry for the much larger than expected image, btw.
No you’re not. You blew it up for a reason.
Dirty boy! Dirty, dirty boy!
Eh, the proclivities of the man in question in no way precludes women from ogling/fantasizing.
Sure, but I’ve had Tubecrush on my RSS feed for…several years. Here’s the blurb from Simon Dunn’s post
Some other user names that have submitted: @MrGaggies, @TimmyLDN, Gaymboy, Benjamin P…
There are a few lady names in there and some that are ambiguous or just initials, but surveying the site isn’t going to give you a clear picture of “what women want”
Aha…..I missed the point. Get it now.
I see what you did there.
Also, I miss Manly Mondays
I do too, Tonio, I do too.
You both sound like it’s gonna be a box of tissues and the Notebook movie night tonight.
I’ll see that, and suggest they’re going to need a couple boxes of tissues.
What happened to “Manly Mondays”?
And where was the MACtion articles I was promised?
The day-of-the-week articles were mostly attempts to keep a regular drumbeat of content going while we got up and running. I was covering Monday and Friday until Vhyrus started his wildly popular Firearms Fridays. My content had a niche following and I’ve ceded the space to content producers with broader appeal.
I see what you did there.
It’s ok to fill the niche.
That sounds like consent.
Manly Monday should come back and be complimented by Womanly Wednesday. Furry Fridays, maybe?
*narrows gaze*
Fur Friday was a bit of a blind item. One week furries, one week people losing their shit over Ivanka wearing real endangered island foxes or some such bullshit. Sometimes it’d just be hunky guys standing around with hatchets, beards and fur loin cloths.
Y’all drove off Thicc Thursdays.
Boooooooooooo
So, how do you guys determine what is popular and what isnt? Is it comments? pageviews? I’m curious. I’m curious how much lurker traffic this site has. Are there many people who actually enjoy reading this comment board yet don’t participate.
That’s a question for SP. Show up on her stoop with a bottle of fine Kentucky bourbon and ask nicely… You might get a shotgun blast to the chest, or an excellent vegetarian meal, a terrible hangover and the answers you seek.
Kind of a coin-toss there.
Dog will bark.
I would, but I really have no desire to go to Chicago. I guess I shall forever wonder.
Actually, we don’t really care whether we or any content is popular. In case you hadn’t noticed.
Seriously, though, some things just seem to run their course, others don’t catch on, and some staffers just get tired of coming up with stuff. You didn’t really think we have a plan, right? Right?
I spent a couple days in Little Rock a few weeks ago. You could have bought drinks then for an in-person reply to all your site queries. But did you? No, you did not.
Oh, and in answer to the last bit, we aren’t really doing analytics. Our intent was not popularity or traffic, so I don’t take time away from my real life to do it.
as long as you still love us.
you still love us, right?
Copy.
Thanks for building this place SP. I appreciate it.
Oh, c’mon Jesse. I have zero interest in looking at dudes but I enjoyed reading the threads and even commented but probably off topic. I read every article and have deep appreciation for every contribution. Besides, around here that niche is a pretty significant percentage of the readers.
Indeed.
Please bring back Manly Monday.
I make no promises, but it sounds like it’s a legitimately missed feature, so I’ll see if it’s something I can fit back in.
I’m as straight as it gets,and I liked Manly Mondays. Good fun, and for me a look from a different perspective type of deal. I say bring back the oily Turks and sweaty/grimy rugby players!
More like appealing broads.
I’m afraid to ask…what is cum rugby?
Gateway Pundit headlines are pretty great this afternoon:
IT’S A FAKE! Analyst Says Judge Roy Moore Signature Inside Gloria Allred Accuser’s Yearbook Was FORGED
Video: Joe Biden Fondles Little Girls’ Breasts; Uses Bible to Entice Girl at Senate Ceremony
Former Secret Service Agent Who Worked with Hillary Savages Clinton Over ‘Missing’ Emails
Former Joe Biden Service Agent: We Had to Protect Women From Him, ‘Weinstein Level Stuff’
Body Language Expert: Judge Moore Denial of Gloria Allred Accuser’s Claims is 100% ‘Genuine’ (VIDEO)
Sexual Harassment Rampant on Capitol Hill – Female Lawmakers Have ‘Creep List’ of Men to Avoid ‘Especially in Elevators’
Democrat Arrested for Texting Photos of His Genitals and Creepy Stalking of Woman in New Mexico (Video) (Democrat David Alcon is running for the open Second District Congressional Seat in New Mexico.)
That guy was sane….a decade ago.
“Body Language Expert: Judge Moore Denial of Gloria Allred Accuser’s Claims is 100% ‘Genuine’ (VIDEO)”
This doesn’t sound retarded
That body language analysis stuff is somewhere between Voodoo and phrenology on the validity scale.
On that topic, has there been any peer review of the microexpression stuff?
I’d be surprised if there isn’t but I don’t know of anything off the top of my head. Google Scholar could point you in the right direction but most of that stuff is pay to see.
A little.
I believe Adrian Veidt conducted such a study.
Is it too much to ask for a GungaDiner in this town?
So you’re saying we need someone feeling the bumps on this chick’s head, pronto
Hey!
That headline about female pols having a creep list wasn’t from Minnesoda. I think they are plagiarizing us. “We’ve learned how to survive” is the headline we had last week about how horrible our state lawmakers are.
Sounds like the invisible hand at work.
Have fun at the Con, Swiss!
I’m sad I missed a 200+ comment board gaming thread today.
It’s okay. Half those comments were people telling me I’m wrong.
If you weren’t wrong so much…
/sarc
With the remainder of comments agreeing with the first half?
no they weren’t.
I’m going to level with you. I got about 1/4 of the way in and decided if I was going to be reading legal hairsplitting, I may as well get paid for it, and went back to work.
I feel like I always get to the NN threads late and most people ignore my comments. At least yours get read!
If you want to make a stink, ya gotta post some shit!
New glibertarians.com motto.
So let it be written, so let it be done.
s/ignore/miss/
Anyway, I should probably do a full-length post on it rather than just comments.
I read your stuff KB. it’s usually pretty damn good, if often late.
I’m always late in the morning so I corpse fuck the thread.
+1 smell of rancid bacon
Hihntagious.
Roy Moore and the End of Republican Credibility
over at the old site.
By: the Hack Jacket
That seems like some collectivizing. I wonder if there’s another group that has some bad apples…
The market street fruit gang?…
The Osmonds?
Nick Gillespie is the n-word of libertariansim
I thought he was the white people of libertarianism.
White people are the n-word of humanity
Eh, let me correct that comment. I mean that to call a libertarian Nick Gillespie is like using the n-word
Numbskull?
Nincompoop?
Nonlibertarian?
I was going for “Nick Gillespie”.
Should read: “Nick Gillespie is the Nick Gillespie of Libertarianism”
Fonzie has put on his life preserver and is coming around for another run at the shark.
His closing remarks at that debate with Jacobin Magazine.
“Look guys, socialism isn’t cool and if I know anything, it’s about being cool. I mean I wear a leather jacket for Christ’s sake” *does Fonzi thumbs up*
I forgot that due process wasn’t for Libertarians.
What’s the gist, that Reps are supporting him when they condemned Clinton and Kennedy and other letches or is it that they haven’t thrown him under the bus sufficiently?
Roy Moore and the End of Republican Credibility
I posted a couple of comments on that. Honestly, it strikes me more as the end of libertarian credibility. If there’s any issues that seem like the sine qua non of libertarianism, it’s support for things like due process, the presumption of innocence and the rights of the accused. It seems hard to me that claim that you’re an advocate of liberty when you don’t support those things. As things stand, what exactly is the evidence against Moore? I’m not saying he’s a good guy. But, as things stand, we have a forty year old accusation from someone working on his opponent’s campaign that never came up in the decade he was loudly banging his bible about God and Christianity. And we know that she could have met him when she was young. That’s it.
What Nick seems to be endorsing is sort of the imposition of college kangaroo courts on the entirety of our national civic life, a world where an accusation constitutes proof and insistence on due process and the rule of law amount to implicit endorsement of the worst of crimes.
Bravo, sir.
Didn’t he pretty much admit that he dated teenagers as a thirty year old, and with his weak non denial denials, strain his credibility? And maybe I’m conflating different accusations but didn’t he sign the girls yearbook? I don’t have any problem with people (not the state) deciding to accept accusations (credibility is always going to be a variable) and acting on that choice,
Didn’t he pretty much admit that he dated teenagers as a thirty year old
And? Not everyone considers it outrageous that a single man dated young women above the age of consent. I don’t think there’s any proof that he attempted to have sex with a 14-yo girl.
And, the people who do find it outrageous or maybe even just a little cringe-y get to act on those findings, no proof of some objectively wrong action is required. If enough people are in the “Ewww” camp, then having a noticeable number of R’s or L’s defending the ‘icky but not illegal actions’ will harm the cause/s that those hand-wavers claim to represent.
I suspect wdalasio had in mind something like this.
I have always thought that the ‘defending the indefensible’ was about state actions not individual ones, I am not a big fan of dog fighting, I would not associate with someone involved in that activity, I would not frequent their establishments, nor would not want them in public office or any position in which I have a say about, but I do not want them thrown in jail and will begrudgingly defend their right to treat their property in ways that I find repulsive. One is defending scoundrels from the violence inherent in the system, not from the fact that most decent folk are going to think the scoundrels are assholes and treat treat them accordingly.
I’ve spent some time around evangelicals, and while a 30 year old saying an 18 year old is somewhat icky personally, there isn’t anything immoral about it. I mean an up and coming ADA isn’t exactly the world’s worst boyfriend, especially for a woman planning to major in an MRS degree.
Easy to write article.
Doesn’t require much journalism at all.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DOhzx9AX4AEyB4i.jpg
Cool story, bro?
“There’s a difference between refusing to call a non-binary, dragon-kin gender studies student “xer,” & refusing to call Blaire White, who passes perfectly as a woman & has a medically legitimate diagnosis, “she.” Let’s not let our opposition to SJWs turn us into a-holes, k?”
https://twitter.com/RoamingMil/status/930211094508994562
Apparently, it was the Daily Caller, not the author.
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/930182429616336896
“We’ll use your preferred pronoun if you share our politics. Unless we’re called out on it. Then you forfeit your pronoun.”
The thing is that Blaire’s politics are pretty much on the same side as the Daily Caller.
Exactly. My good buddy is friends with a female who became a male. Funy enough he goes by “Chris”. I have zero problem using the preferred pronouns and such, it is common courtesy. I ain’t playing along with that dragon-kin xer shit, no way.
You ever notice it is always dragon-kin or some similar cool ass creature, you never have someone go “I identify as a goblin-kin”
Look, I’ve already told you all I’m part Irish.
Alright, we’ll take the ladyboys and the dragon-kin… BUT NO IRISH.
And in stories drawing the attention of OMWC…Howzabout those French, eh?
Okay, 13 is way too young. But when I was 24, I coached a woman gymnast who was 15. She was beautiful, from a well-off family, highly educated an witty as hell. No reason why — were she consenting — we couldn’t have hooked up except for that whole power dynamic thing and the Pennsylvania Age of Consent being 16-years-old. Really, had you spent time with her you’d think she was a sophomore in college, which a 24-year-old would be allowed to date even today.
13 is way too young…. says random person?
I agree its probably not something I would pursue myself but I have seen some 13 year olds that made me wonder what they had been eating.
For me personally. Yes. But for you, have at it.
I have a hard time believing that as little as 367 days one can go from “way too young” to “I’d tap that”
sure, 11 is way too young, 13 however is not and there absolutely have been and continue to be 13 year olds who were more than capable of consenting, at 15 years old maybe as many as half of them are able to realistically give consent.
Yeah I would not set the age of consent as low as 13 but I also would not have the penalty for having sex with someone that age be as great as the penalty for someone having sex with an 11 year old either
14 to 17 used to be when young women were married off – usually to a young man a few years older.
To my understanding it was almost always to somebody older as her parent’s consent was required. I would think a potential suitor would need to be older to pass the, “not a fuck-up” test.
Or the “bank account” test.
I thought those were the same thing.
Or have learned a trade and have a future.
Tax bill shitstorm a forming? *readies tranquilizer darts*
The fuck is with Rand?
He’ll vote for it in the end. Unless he wants Ken to kick his ass again
Conspiracy theory: Ken IS Rand. Ken’s voice is actually the voice of Rand’s inner demons that try to draw him towards the dark ways of the GOPe.
Dr. Paul and Mr. Schultz?
He’s catfishing us? Well, it IS Kentucky.
Further proof Joe Biden’s a high functioning retard (thx AOSHQ).
Biden pushing gun control on the Today Show:
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/930362687409631232/video/1
We gun nuts were horrified when Obama appointed a special council on gun control.
Then he appointed Biden as the head and we all breathed a sigh of relief and chuckled a bit about the bullet we dodged.
Tangentially, can you imagine a debate between Trump and Biden? OMFG it would be a massacre.
Then he goes on about shooting the front door with a shotgun and it became freaking hilarious.
I love the mag limit argument.it makes no real difference.
I’m not sure where you get the ‘high-functioning’ part?
Yeah, that’s not very kind to retards.
The smartest strategy for dems is to keep playing the culture war game to be sure.
I want more people to be able to do this when going against gun control advocates
That was awesome
That was just delightful.
The Senate tax plan reportedly repeals the individual mandate, which, obviously, means Rand Paul will vote against it, right?
If he voted for a replacement bill that repealed the individual mandate–and also did a lot of other great things, in addition to that–then why would he vote for a bill that repeals the individual mandate and does less?
On the other hand, the Senate tax bill doesn’t slash Medicaid spending by more than $700 billion, so maybe Rand Paul will support it. After all, that’s been the pattern. His mouth says, “Blah, blah, blah–woof, woof!”, but, in reality, what he actually does is vote against any bill that BOTH slashes Medicaid AND has a chance of passing with his support.
Rand suggested repealing the individual mandate in the tax plan
You made this same comment above sir.
Ha!
Hey Ken, I posted about hydrostatic shock in the previous article specifically for you. Look towards the end of the thread in ‘Shall we play a game”
Durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
what he actually does is vote against any bill that BOTH slashes Medicaid AND has a chance of passing with his support
He also votes for them, because there are 0 such bills and so your statement is vacuously true.
Case in point: the bill you keep talking about, and linking to the CBO analysis of, failed 43-57.
Unless Rand Paul has 7 votes in his back pocket, he didn’t stop that bill from passing.
To pan fried wylie: porntipsgizzardo
To Charlie Suet: I saw it. I did, I saw it.
“US comedian, Kathy Griffin, who posed in a photo with a prop meant to resemble the severed head of President Donald Trump has told BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur she is “not sorry” and “takes back 1,000%” the apology she made in the immediate aftermath.”
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-41918064/kathy-griffin-not-sorry-for-trump-photo
TW: autoplay, Kathy Griffin
She was sorry, when she thought saying it would let her keep her job.
I should start an online mask store. The dems have been ripping theirs off and burning them so fast, demand has to have skyrocketed.
It wasn’t like she could become less popular.
*clicks link*
OH MY GOD IT’S A MAN, BABY!
I was wondering when Julie Andrews was going to try meth.
Day-um!
Sounds like she needs the publicity.
Like a crack whore needs…. Uh….. crack.
Yeah, that’s the ticket.
Pass
“Rose McGowan was arrested and booked on Tuesday for drug possession, before being released on a $5,000 unsecured bond.
The felony charge stems from a police investigation sparked when the actress left her wallet on a United flight arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on January 20.
Cleaners found the wallet and handed it in, but a police investigation was sparked by two small baggies of cocaine found inside”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5083043/Rose-McGowan-arrested-drug-possession.html
All my heroes are letting me down….
Surprised she didn’t claim the russians planted coke on her.
Wallet was out of her possession.
Good point.
Yeah, if someone else turned it in, for God’s sake, don’t admit it’s yours. A half decent lawyer would make hay with that.
How does that work? I’m pretty sure if there was coke in my checked baggage I would be in a world of trouble. would they have to wait for me to retrieve my luggage before arresting me or could I be arrested without having the drugs in my possession.
One of Harvey’s former Mossad agents on the payroll just made a deposit at that fancy preschool his wife’s been nagging him about.
Yeah, these people totally hacked our elections.
Russia posts video game screenshot as ‘proof’ of US helping IS
Your link doesn’t do the linky linkly thing.
FFFFFFFFFFAAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41991012
BURN
EDIT FAIRY!!! EDIT FAIRY!!!!
you just want to see anime titays
I’m now scared to ask for edit faeries after it was revealed they all come from OMWC’s loli hentai stash.
This made me laugh much, much more than it should have
There’s a dog that sometimes comes to the dog park named Elvis. He doesn’t actually try to hump the other dogs, just stands behind them, all four paws on the ground, and thrusts his hips. Hence the name.
That’s actually hilarious.
They set up a sting. A sting! For people selling homecooked meals around the neighborhood!. Government, ladies and gents. And the DA seems to think it’s all good.
“I don’t write the laws, I enforce them. And the legislature has felt that this is a crime,” said San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Kelly McDaniel.
DA McDaniel would have no problem gassing jews.
“She said selling any food not subject to health department inspection puts whoever eats it in real danger, not to mention it undercuts business owners who do get permits to make their food.”
There’s your real reason. It’s a protection racket, plain and simple.
Apparently I’m putting my family in grave danger every single fucking night. Who knew?
We all knew you were a monster.
I feed my kids Chipotle breakfast, lunch, and dinner. They’re safer that way.
“Food prepared in a facility that does not inspect it creates a risk to the public,”
Tell that to the Wendy’s that laid me up for half my vacation with a bug that had me vacating both ends of me for four days, you fucking retard.
“I don’t write the laws, I enforce them. And the legislature has felt that this is a crime,” said San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Kelly McDaniel.
… before explaining why she thinks the law is great.
Are there diesel powered wood chippers? Just asking for a friend.
They didn’t pay tribute. The state will look the other way on a lot of things but not paying them tribute is not one of them.
African pornos are weird.
Is this more of less NSFW than a dog play fucking a cat?
I don’t do spoilers.
I’m sitting in a bar and I’m askert 🙁
I dunno. You probably won’t be run out on a rail for watching it in a bar.
NSFW ok? May I?
Oh my God the TBC meme. I remember this! Hahahah
Wa dafuq.
I’m reminded of the Lemon Stealing Whores.
Footage of Roy Moore in his 30’s uncovered.
Imagining his sexual assaults to yacht rock make it so much worse.
Thank you so so much. I can’t believe I’ve never seen that video. It makes the song so much more. … creepier.
From the FLORIDAMAN files….Hey, caught a square grouper!
I know this song takes place in Texas, but it is apropos. I’m saddened no one here linked it.
In my defense, I have linked to that song a few times in the past when similar stories have popped up.
Oh My! The ROOSHUNS are at it again.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/george-takei-thinks-russian-bots-spread-sexual-assault-accusation-article-1.3628635
This is just too funny. I’m buying stock in a popcorn company tomorrow morning
Nah, just the Klingons up to no good again.
I did not smash my Keurig machine today. I even descaled it last week.
there’s an article at TOS about the fda making a move to ban Kratom, again. It’s helped a ton of people kick their opiate habit and will give you about the same buzz as a Benadryl. These control freaks are fucking evil, if there is a hell I hope there’s a special place there waiting for them. Damn that pisses me off
Kraton is a gateway drug. Why do you want kids to die from fentanyl overdoses Archie?
Wanna know what happens when you OD on Kratom? You get constipated.
I ordered some and all it did was make me mildly drowsy and it helped my back pain I was having at the time. The abuse potential has to be near zero. People take it to help kick opiates, for chronic pain, and for insomnia and anxiety. It wasn’t for me but fuck anyone who thinks it’s really a problem.
Me either but I know a couple people who credit it with helping them kick nasty habits.
How do you know that?
Does Kratom shrink my brain like Benadryl allegedly does?
yeah, my mom was in several days of pain because her Lyrica prescription needed to be refilled but they had to get the form from the doctor reapporved or some shit because it’s Schedule 5. I looked up why it was scheduled at all, since all the ads claim “not habit forming, etc”. Well, apparently some/a few users it’s used to make other recreational drugs a bit stronger. That’s it. fuck them all.
A good interview with Sargon of Akkad interviewing Dr. Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist and claimed libertarian, on The Thinkery (Sarg’s alternate channel). It’s a bit long at 75 min but it’s definitely worth a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi7u6PnYpnU
Video from the last Glibertarians meetup. (I’m the guy in the red shirt)
Wait, so a black family can have Princess… Frozen on, but a white family with… M…o…ana…? are awful cultural appropriators?
Shouldn’t they be shaming black people for celebrating white princesses, and thereby diluting their precious heritage, and encouraging white folks to attenuate their special white privilege with brown skin pride?
It all seems like ad hoc bullshit to me.
It’s all good. Elsa is an octoroon.
Good people don’t spew bullshit.
Amen.
I had a crazy afternoon, spending time with a woman I worked for back in high school. She is an old school feminist hippie. She is as obsessed with feminism as I am with skiing.
Anyhoo, we ended up at some expensive restaurant with a couple leaders of some women’s activist organization that’s trying to get the ERA going again. When I told them I was currently unemployed, one woman said “well, what do you want to do? What’s your passion?”
I seriously had no idea how to respond to that, and given my at-face-value social skills (which can be deadly in DC), I said “I’d like to pay my bills”.
I am a bad person, because i imagined her running down a hill, shouting, “MARRIAGE IS RAPE!!” and then hitting a tree.
That seems unwise.
One of the women in the restaurant is some kind of artist whose main focus is being naked a lot. Like, all she could talk about was nudity.
Would you all like to see some ERA feminist tits?
no thank you.
wtf is “ERA”? Equal Rights Act?
didn’t we do that, like 100 years ago or something? I’ve been watching Boardwalk Empire and they just mentioned women getting the vote. You’re welcome, ladies.
Did no one tell them yet?
Yes – they’re trying to revive it.
Everything women need to be equal before the law is already in the Constitution.
Unless the ERA in question is circa no later than 2005… thanks, but no.
No… earlier… fml 😛
Not even if I sweeten the pot with implied lesbian sex?
The lesbian sex fantasy mostly only works with an implied threesome where the ladies are super horny for dick, but none is available. Hence why so many lesbians are in prison.
Once the cable guy is trying to explaIn how he had to rewire the attic, the fantasy is dead.
I’m acquainted with my share of lesbians. So no.
Not particularly.
Did you try asking her what her opinion would be of a man that was equally obsessed with others seeing him naked?
This is cool
i said that before i learned the thing was gear-limited to under 60mph
still
My favorite car of all time. I particularly like the Arrow replicas…they can be fitted with an alfa v6.
lancia made some really cool cars. The stratos is awesome.
Current Affairs serves up some top shelf whining:
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I hate how helpless I feel in a world where the free market determines the course of development. If there’s money to be made by turning every unit around me into short-term rentals, well, sucks to be me. If our historic block of wooden houses could be better monetized by sticking in one of the cookie-cutter structures seen popping up next to every highway in America, then it’s going to happen no matter what. The residents may want to keep a neighborhood’s historic character (and my impression is that, if Bywater residents could vote, they would overwhelmingly support requiring new structures to fit in seamlessly with the old ones). But they don’t decide; money decides. The money-made world is a depressing one: your fate is in the hands of people much wealthier than you, and they are choosing to build lonely, isolating places that will make all of us feel more depressed. Advocates for gentrification and development often remind us that “cities change,” that all things must pass. But, first, it matters which changes we choose to make, and whether those changes make life better or make it miserable, with neighborhoods becoming bland and lifeless. And second, it matters how changes are decided upon, whether people will decide for themselves what they want, or whether they will live in a dictatorship of the market, where the power of money is supreme.
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https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/the-wealth-made-city
Christ, what an asshole!
Because the beauty of Soviet Russian housing was so uplifting.
What a stupid asshole.
Stupid asshole indeed. I’ve spent many years fighting with the same type of asshole (but with real power) on the Vieux Carre Commission. (no visible changes allowed to facade, no HVAC untis allowed to be seen from street OR air, they fly over Da 1/4 and take pictures to enforce compliance). Fuck… I’m getting the agita just thinking about it.
Running extra late as always – Swiss – see if you can check out the new “Thing” board game – I’m sure they’ll have something since it’s pretty local.
Since I’m so late and the other thread is dead – maybe Evan from Evansville can back me up on this – “board game cafes” in Seoul. That was pretty fun. Obviously some of those boxes are big, take up space, folks over there have tiny apartments, etc. So you get a couple buddies – head to a nice big, open cafe and “rent” a board game for a couple hours. Basically you’re just paying for the coffee and snacks. Taught a couple of my ROK military buddies how to play Carcasonne (or Settlers – I can’t remember) – using what was actually a Korean-language edition IIRC.
Also have a few good memories of playing Axis and Allies with some guys from my last contract job in Arlington on Saturday afternoons. Need to dig things up and try with some local folks – still haven’t even opened my new “Escape from Colditz” that I bought this summer 🙁
Read a bit about Waterloo the other day. There was a British officer who got shot. As he rode to the rear, he got thrown off his horse. He was then carried to a shed, which somehow caught fire. One witness wrote “the combined shock was too much and he expired not long after.”
I presume the shed then fell over and sank into a swamp.
Check out Lt. Alonzo Cushing who was in charge of several cannon in front of Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg in 1863.. A shell fragment castrated him but nonetheless he kept firing at the oncoming enemy until a bullet went through his mouth and killed him. He was finally awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor a year or two ago.
Also – Justice Willett’s confirmation is scheduled for tomorrow!!
I was bored and made a Glibertarian ‘First’ gif
Nice!!
Can I post it to twitter?
knock yourself out.
Added to media library.
That’s bad-ass!
Excellent work!
Okay, season one Detectorists was a bittersweet but endearing setup for the second season, I’m convinced. It’s off to a great start. The characters are more colourful and the humour is flourishing.
I watched that series several months ago and loved it. Whycome the British are so damned good at producing quality, low-level shows like this? It could never be done here in the Colonies.
today I learned
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/largest-native-american-tribes-ban-same-sex-marriages
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The Navajo and Cherokee are the largest Native American tribes (with 600,000 members collectively) and have both reaffirmed their decades old tribal laws banning gay marriage. Since 2011 six smaller tribes have revisited and let stand their laws defining marriage as between a man and a woman. This brings the total of Native Americans not following the national same sex marriage law to one million according to the Associated Press.
As North Carolina began issuing same-sex marriage licenses the state’s Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians took it upon themselves to update their law to ban same-sex marriages from being performed on their tribal land. At least ten other tribes explicitly allow same-sex marriage with others remaining neutral.
Cherokee officials in Oklahoma and North Carolina say there is nothing that prevents same-sex couples from simply getting marriage licenses in other counties.
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I’m not holding my breath for SJWs to hector Navajos and Cherokees the way they hassle College Republicans.
Wow – Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has a Republican on Finding Your Roots tonight!
For first time in 40 years, Congress debates U.S. president’s nuclear power
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When asked before the hearing if he was concerned about Trump’s authority, Corker said, “This is not specific to anyone.”
Committee member Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., had a different motive for the hearing.
“We are concerned that the president is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear-weapons strike that is wildly out of step with U.S. national-security interests,” Murphy said.
Another committee member, Sen. Edward Markey, D-Mass., has proposed legislation to require a president to obtain a declaration of war from Congress before they are able to order a nuclear strike.
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So I assume they’ll be repealing the War Powers Act any moment now? After all, we can’t just have the president going around bombing countries Willy-Nilly without congressional authorization first. We can’t just have the president start bombing countries without congressional authorization. Just imagine if the president was allowed to go around bombing countries we aren’t officially at war with, like Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, and Syria. Why it could destabilize the entire Middle East, North Africa, and the Sub-continent.
I’m so glad congress has managed to finally start to make headway in making sure that the president doesn’t exceed congress’s authority when it comes to waging war. Who knows what kind of mess we might have had if it weren’t for congress using their separation of powers to reign in an overly powerful executive branch.
“…the president is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic,…”
How many wars has Trump started? After 8 years of a war mongering pinko they think Trump is a danger? This is why these motherfuckers need to go.
Swiss, enjoy the trip!
Dinosaur of Ta Prohm
Hoax, mistake, or evidence of dinosaurs in human times?
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/dinosaur-angkor-wat
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At Ta Prohm, near Angkor Wat and built by the epic builder king Jayavarman VII in the late 1100s, a small carving on a crumbling temple wall seems to show a dinosaur – a stegosaurus, to be exact. The hand-sized carving can be found in a quiet corner of the complex, a stone temple engulfed in jungle vegetation where the roots of centuries-old banyan trees snake through broken walls.
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Several different theories have been advanced to explain its presence. Some maintain it’s a recently-carved hoax, while others say that the ancient Khmers could have unearthed a fossil and figured out what kind of creature it belonged to. One theory has it that the image actually shows a cow or rhino with a palm tree in the background – the palm’s fronds being easily mistaken for the fin-like blades running down a stegasaurus’ back.
Or maybe the carving is evidence that dinosaurs really did live on until much later than previously thought. (Creationists would certainly like to believe so.) Perhaps here in the humid, ancient jungles of Southeast Asia, where the climate has remained largely unchanged since the dinosaurs’ days, giant reptiles lived on well into the human era – long enough to persist in the Khmer folk-memory. If only these walls could talk, we might have a clue.
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Fun times in Zimbabwe tonight.
Time will tell if it goes any “better” than Burundi’s.
Great. Hopefully something similar will happen in North Korea.
Military claiming they are targeting “criminals” who surround Mugabe. Classic “we love the king, but the king’s men…”
OT:
Got some foundation problems. I went down to the basement and noticed that the old stone wall is wet. There are also a few mysterious piles of dirt in the ground, and I’ve read that those could be gophers or mice.
How difficult and expensive is this to get fixed? There was no visible trickle of water, but about two square feet of the wall was damp, and roughly for square feet of the floor (that’s where the dirt piles were).
I’m not exactly Bob Vila, but I’ve had fairly good results “winging it” on home improvement projects. Is this something I can patch up myself? I just want to avoid having to pay more than a few hundred bucks because I’m really not in great financial shape at the moment.
Couple of questions. – Have you had an unusual amount of rain? how old is the building? has there been any changes to the landscape/grading around your house? If none of these, is the dampness near where your water line comes in or sewer goes out, or near where a corresponding exterior water source is, i.e. spigot or downspout?
Rain has been heavy the past few days.
The house was built in 1920.
No changes to the grade or landscaping.
As far as I know, the leaky wall is no where near a water line. It’s actually sort of of in the middle of the house. Only part of the area of the house has a basement; the rest is a crawl space that is physically inaccessible to me. In the other side of this leaky wall is just dirt, but about two or three feet up, there’s a crawl space roughly two feet high.
That is odd, unless a spring recently decided to pop up under your home, there has to be a external reason for water to be on your basement wall, you said the crawl space is inaccessible can you get a good look in there at least. Perhaps the crawl space area has a leaking spot and it only now, with the heavy rain, has been enough to travel through to the spot you can see. I’m not sure what good patching the damp area will do if the water is still getting behind the wall it will simply travel to another spot. One last thought do you know if your house has a footer drain and if so can you check that it is not clogged, although I would think if that were the problem the leak/dampness would be close to the basement floor not up a few feet.
https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/38934/
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“The issue here is the ease in which ‘Not My President’ allows scared liberals to disavow any cultural responsibility for the conditions that made Trump’s platform so appealing,” Basiliere said at the American Studies Association’s annual conference, recently held in Chicago and themed around “pedagogies of dissent.”
The scholar said the “Not My President” campaign has garnered acclaim because it is “an escape into a fantasy world where Donald Trump is really not our president.”
“I don’t like it,” Basiliere said. “I can work to resist it everyday, but Donald Trump is absolutely my president.”
“As a white, liberal, excessively educated voter, to say anything but is to disavow my role in creating a world in which a platform based on exclusion had such a broad appeal,” added the professor, speaking in a venue coincidentally located near Chicago’s Trump Tower.
Basiliere’s comments about the anti-Trump campaign came during a presentation that provided a broad look at how commentators have analysed rural voters during and after last year’s presidential election and framed a rural-urban divide.
Basiliere argued media coverage has often summed up Trump’s electoral success as “a contrast between his conservative, uneducated rural base and his liberal, urban, educated critics,” drawing attention to headlines like “Why Rural America Voted for Trump” and a media graphic that broke down how counties with either a Cracker Barrel or Whole Foods voted in the 2016 presidential election.
But Basiliere asserted the rural vote alone cannot determine the outcome of a presidential election. She said media coverage that depicts this contrast risks stereotyping rural Americans as backward and uneducated and “serves to absolve urban liberal voters of any responsibility for Trump’s presidency.”
“Rural America is not the problem here. The problem is an environment that makes racism, xenophobia and sexism palatable to more than 50 percent of white voters. This is really why I find ‘Not My President’ so objectionable,” the professor said.
Basiliere continued: “To disavow responsibility for Donald Trump’s presidency is to disavow the reality that racism and sexism remain so deeply embedded in our cultural imagination that they swing presidential elections.”
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Christ, what an asshole.
…..
*facepalm*
Yeah, it was racisexihomophobism and not the kind of shit you just wrote that handed Trump the nuclear football.
That would be a Trump 2020 bumpersticker quote if it wasn’t so long.
He’s right though, sexism and racism are the only reasons people vote Democrat. He misspelled hoplophobia though
This is the job applicant’s “I push myself too hard” of political analysis.
And this is why Trump will be re-elected easily.
More governments manipulate media with ‘bots,’ trolls: study
“While the online environment in the United States remained vibrant and diverse, the prevalence of disinformation and hyperpartisan content had a significant impact,” the report said.
“Journalists who challenge Donald Trump’s positions have faced egregious online harassment.”
Have you ever been digitally raped?
Have you ever been stuck reading a Turkish Facebook feed?
We do need manly Mondays back.
If I were forced to read it, I’d bring up the Armenian genocide so that I’d get kicked out.
Have you ever been digitally raped?
Like, with fingers?
There was that one time at my doctor’s.
Help me out here, please. What is the appeal of this?
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2017/11/14/colorado-lands-multimillion-dollar-investment-from.html
that sweet sweet crony cash?
Well, duh. Those subsidies aren’t gonna spend themselves.
I was asking about the overall public appeal of things like this. Strip away the terrible postmodernist concept renderings and the made up technical jargon and you’re left with…a train. Sure it goes fast (theoretically), but it’s still just a train. Despite this obvious, there is still a sizable contingent of tech nerds that absolutely cream their jeans at the mere thought of it. I just don’t get it at all.
Also, here is the hip, dreamy guy behind this project. You may notice that he curiously seems to hit all of the right progressive notes:
https://twitter.com/bambrogan?lang=en
Never trust a man with two first names.
“We’re getting a reputation as a state that’s willing to partner with private companies to do innovative work,” Bhatt said.
Woohoo, people think we’re fascists.
Straffinrun gets it. That’s the textbook, mussolini approved, honest-to-god, definition of facism.
CHRIST! I wish people understood that.
I could explain it to you, But You and I would be the only one’s smart enough to understand.
These motherfuckers have been around forever. Awesome sales pitch, huge money, deliverables way out in the distance.
Complete bullshit.
Too many disgusting tatts.
That is all.