Sometimes sports updates start with tennis. Today is one of those days. Roger Federer took out Marin Čilić and Jack Sock shocked Alexander Zverev to both reach the semifinals of the ATP Finals. Sock will face Dimitrov. Federer’s opponent is yet to be determined (but it will be David Goffin or David Thiem.
Jose Altuve got the AL MVP, as expected. And Giancarlo Stanton won the NL award barely eking out a win over Joey Votto in the closest race in a few decades.
The NHL had a whopping 12 games on the slate last night. The winners were: the Maple Leafs, the Islanders, The freaking Coyotes (?!?!), the Penguins, the Lightning, the Minnesoda WIIIIIIILD, the Jets, The Avalanche, the Blues, the Army, err Las Vegas Black Knights, the Bruins and the Sharts. If your team name was not mentioned, hang your head in shame for the next ten seconds (unless they were off like the Blackhawks…relax Swissy, they’ll be just fine).
OK, now. Chin up. Put on a brave face. And let’s get ready for…the links!
Wait, I had no idea that Frankenstein was such a breast man. (I know its Frankenstein’s monster before one of you pedants points that out. Just roll with it, fer chrissakes.) I’m giving points for the nickname. By the way, here is HuffPo’s story on it. Note in the comments how its all nothing and probably a Trumpalo smear campaign. Even with the photographic evidence they either wave it away or blame the victim because she’s done some “fashion” modeling. Some go so far to say they believe the Moore accusers more than this one even though Franken has apologized in part and there’s freaking photographic evidence. Nice hypocrisy there, dickheads. It was the same at Salon, by the way. But I ain’t linking to freaking Salon today.
Does this high school student-banging teacher lady not realize its inappropriate…inappropriate to wear a christmas shirt before Thanksgiving? Also, she looks a bit like Geena Davis to me. Fortunately without the massive gums. Anyway, I doubt her husband, the school’s football coach, is gonna be too happy. Freaking Oklahoma…always trying to be like west Texas.
What do you do when your ponzi scheme is about to be exposed? Some people try to flee the country. Others double down because their entire business is propped up by government largesse and social signaling by the dumbs hits who buy into their schtick. Is a sucker being born every minute enough to keep the enterprise alive? Only time will tell.
OK, maybe if it was one person, I could see it being an accident or someone not paying attention. But when you plow into five pedestrians and two other cars at an intersection, common sense leads me to believe you might have been to one being unsafe, sirens or not. But take solace int he fact that an investigation is underway…by the coworkers of the dudes who plowed into the cars and people, killing two children. Strange how the news story gets a quote from a cop spokesman who wasn’t there but never got a word from a single crash victim or witness. Great reporter-work there, Lou. Also, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say the LA County taxpayers are about to have a huge check written on their behalf.
Chicago its taking some crooked cops off the streets. And placing them one desk duty. Because what greater punishment can there be than making someone’s job easier and considerably less risky?
Gee, what did you expect to happen when you create what is essentially a hostile environment? But its all cool. The government will solve what the government has created. I mean, they always do, right? Once the gorillas freeze to death.
I wanted to find an 80s song heavy on keyboards and bass. This is the only one I know.
Be sure to have a great weekend. Its Illibuck trophy weekend for me. Go Bucks!
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Frankenstein is a surname. As Victor’s creation, it would be perfectly acceptable for the monster to have inherited the name.
But how is it pronounced?
Blathersmythe.
I saw a documentary that had the correct pronunciation.
Fire Bad! Boobs Goooood!
+1 Vampire Slayer
Holy shit, I saw this on ENB’s Twitter:
So apparently it’s all just Trump trying to make an issue out of nothing.
Stalking ENBs twitter and posting things here is literally harassment you monster.
Hey, at least I didn’t tell her to make me a sammich.
but you were thinking it which is just as bad. Also sandwiches represent oppressive colonialism.
Thanks. I would never have known what Dave Weigel was saying on twitter since he blocked me.
What a loser piece of shit…blocking someone he supposedly* doesn’t even know.
*but all the old school Reason commenters know the truth.
Mike M. will be screenshotting this.
STFU, fakin’-tragic!
“I’m a feminist, but only in the sense that I hold abortion to be sacrosanct. If some women have to be molested in order to preserve that, so be it.”
– ENB
“Even with the photographic evidence they either wave it away or blame the victim because she’s done some “fashion” modeling. Some go so far to say they believe the Moore accusers more than this one even though Franken has apologized in part and there’s freaking photographic evidence. Nice hypocrisy there, dickheads. It was the same at Salon, by the way.”
If it was not for double standards, these people would have none. That is why I firmly believe that we should refuse to play that game they rigged by their rules, and we should forget this idiotic notion that staying out of the gutter these people are in makes anyone else better. Until they are broken, exposed for the frauds they are, and removed from the levers of power, we must remember that not stooping to their level means letting them win. I for one believe we got Trump precisely because he refuses to play that game and because so many people are aware that playing the game by the double standards the left has set up means the rest of us lose.
^^^^ THIS
Trump was the only one in the primary that most people trusted to call Hillary a crook to her face. The rest of the punks in the field would have mealy mouthed their way around the bald facts.
This has been a pattern Jimbo. That idiot McCain and that mealy-mouthed RINO Romney tried to play nice instead of calling Obama and his crime syndicate out, and they got accused of being Hitler and run out of town. I understand why McCain still is desperate for approval from the left and thought he could get a fair shake from the dnc operatives with bylines, but I never understood how Romney won when it was obvious he was such a pushover and would not fight back against the dirty machine.
I was told yesterday by one of the common proggie double XX chromosome types that permeates the feminized halls of corporate America these days how evul these men that disrespected women were that I had no place reminding he, after she had just finished defending Al Franken with the usual proggie lawyerese nonsense and had repeatedly defended Bill Clinton’s behavior in previous conversations, that I was the problem. I then pointed out that if the problem was that I was pointing out the hypocrisy and that these people were single minded in their pursuit of a system that would put people in charge. and especially females, while also absolving them of any responsibility for their actions, choices, and the crap they foist on the rest of, I was glad to remain a problem without a solution.
I don’t want any part of a world where the rules are there to promote an insane and dystopian society, hell bent on self destruction, deciding whom is a winner and whom loses, based on some totally arbitrary rules, all so the usual mental basket cases and the real predators that seem to flock to the ranks of the feelz types, can lord it over the rest of us that simply want to be left alone and live our lives in peace.
It’s really not any different than all the hand-waving politicians (mostly D’s) do whenever police corruption is exposed. They keep saying “just a few bad apples” but the fact is close to 90% are bad apples. And it’s by design – they just hire a few honest ones for cover and hope they don’t go of the reservation.
Fun fact – one piece of rotten fruit in a bushel will accellerate the deterioration of the other fruit around it.
Au contraire.
I always get a little glow of pride whenever ENB reinforces that my initial impression of her from the day she started being published by Reason was correct. Some nobody student makes a “go make me a sandwich” joke on tweeter? Destroy him! Al Franken mimes groping a sleeping woman because he was angry that she wouldn’t kiss him? Eh, nothing to see here.
I also find it interesting how virtually all leftist media types are focusing solely on the picture and not addressing the unwanted kissing at all.
i linked it in yesterdays PM one, but she and robby didn’t know Move On was started for clinton’s, um, extra curricular activities.
They found out yesterday.
Weigel is an even bigger cunt than she is.
The Monster himself in the novel says he should be named Adam, of Eve fame.
Adam Frankenstein.
MYbe he just wants to be called Adam. No last name, like he’s some kind of Brazilian soccer play or a washed-up pop singer from the 70s notorious for being a whore whose ex-husband died while skiing.
“Frankenstein. Adam, Frankenstein.”
Did he change it from Eve to Adam after the transition?
To be honest, a sex change op for ol’ Frank would be….I don’t know. Good practice for a med student? Not a whole lot that can go wrong there.
He just wants to be able to say “Madam, I’m Adam”. That was my experience with my one friend named Adam, anyway.
“I be named Adam, because I a dam good-looking guy!”
Is Lindy West writing the NYT editorials?
The Republican tax proposals were bad from the get-go. But they have become steadily worse as they have been turned into bills, which seem so cartoonishly evil they could have been dreamed up by Mr. Burns from “The Simpsons.”
Consider the latest changes to the Senate tax-cut bill being championed by the majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and his merry band. It lavishes generous permanent tax breaks on corporations, while modest tax cuts for the middle class would vanish into thin air after 2025. Millionaires would enjoy average tax cuts of $5,580 in 2027, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, at which point families earning less than $75,000 a year would pay more taxes.
Let that sink in. This tax bill would take money from working families and give it to the world’s wealthiest people.
Something something not taking is giving.
What is a Lindy West?
Sounds like a life preserver for fat people.
A Nazi sympathiser that writes for the New York Times?
And I’m assuming this is for a middle class family in New York, or other similar high tax blue states? Because I don’t see how the plan would increase anyone’s taxes, but a very few people (like Lachowsky).
Actually, one of the things the left is particularly furious and scared about in this bill is the fact that it exposes people living in the very high tax blue states to more of the tax liability they hide today through special interest rules. When blue state snobs suddenly lose the federal deduction of their state taxes, they are going to be hit where it really counts. Considering past examples where these collectivist twits were all for some huge social program as long as they believed someone else paid for it, only to then become vehemently opposed when it hit them in the pocketbook, the dems have a good reason to call this plan evil. It after all exposes their chicanery and will cause them votes.
It lavishes generous permanent tax breaks on corporations…
The screwed up thing about this is that I remember just a few years ago, I remember liberal policy types agreeing that U.S. corporate tax rates were uncompetitive. Their preferred solution was to shift the taxes to “taxes on the rich” through personal income taxes. Now when there’s a possibility of actually making U.S. corporate tax rates were competitive, they act like it’s a plan from Satan incarnate.
I would hope that a family making less than 75k NOW will be making more in 10 fucking years. I know I plan to work my ass off to jump a couple tax brackets over the next 10 years.
Yes, that sure is a lot of money to a millionaire. I can see how it would be worth them going to the trouble to rig the entire system with that kind of cheddar at stake.
Ron Paul posted something similar on Facebook – (The article was written by Robert Wenzel)
It quote Lily Batchelder, an NYU Professor (so, neutral, non-partisan, scientist obviously) with the rather contrived “On average people making under 75,000 will be worse off” – not paying more, just receiving less welfare via “refund”.
So… What’s up with Ron Paul?
barely eking out a win
Extra credit for correct usage (and spelling) of “eke”.
Eek, I didn’t notice.
Maybe it’s because I skim past the sportsball…
“I’m no longer surprised by the people who commit these crimes, because predators come from all walks of life,”
Today in ‘words that no longer have any meaning’.
Said without a hint of self awareness.
“But we just can’t arbitrarily take the job away from people.”
No, just their property.
Future income, public standing, self respect, the will to live. Just cracking a few eggs, here!
Not only take their property away, but somehow banning them from ever living in your town again.
Does this high school student-banging teacher lady not realize its inappropriate…inappropriate to wear a christmas shirt before – as a highschooler totally would have
She’s lights up the candles for sexy time, but thinks a stupid shirt and work out shorts are appropriate? Where’s the lingerie, baby?
Call me a man-whore if you must, but a 22 year old in workout shorts is enough to get me going.
What if it was a 22 year old Lindy West?
*embeds funnel in skull*
*pours bleach*
And for that, you deserve to be haunted by nightmares of Lindy West in lingerie.
Seen on a bar bathroom wall:
“Yoga pants are proof God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
“No they’re not. If I wore yoga pants, that would not make you happy.”
“Thanks Obama.”
Where were these teachers when I was in public school?
Police Body Cameras Can Threaten Civil Rights of Black and Brown People, New Report Says
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-body-cameras-threaten-civil-215851117.html
The vast majority of the nation’s biggest police departments allow officers to watch footage from body cameras whenever they want, including before they write their incident reports or make statements
Because an officer’s memory of an event may be altered by watching body camera footage, doing so will likely alter what officers write in their reports. That, in turn, can make it more difficult for investigators or courts to assess whether the officer’s actions were reasonable based on what he or she perceived at the time of the incident
Meh I dunno I mean fact are facts in the end and body cameras show if there is misconduct. So I think cameras are better then not cameras regardless, although it is important for them to be turned on the whole time
Quite frankly, if the recording on camera is unaltered, then relying on that instead of the Officers “Recollections” would improve accuracy, and allow for a better assessment of the reasonableness of their actions.
Yeah I don’t get why it matters what the cops perception was at the time, if the camera shows his actions reasonable then I see no issue.
Because it is harder to accuse someone of being motivated by one of the left’s buggaboo isms, if the facts just show the fact the LEO just acted like someone with an authoritarian boner. In the first case you can not only get off scott free and with a huge payday and a lot of lefty narrative. In the latter, while there could be a payoff, there is less of an opportunity to grandstand and accuse the country of being a racist. misogynistic, patriarchal evil entity to gin up votes and support for the party of reeducation camps.
How can cameras threaten civil rights? If you’re in the commons, you have no right to privacy. And faces of innocent people can be pixelated out when the cops go into a private residence.
If the black and brown “communities” fall for this shit, then cops will continue to abuse people with little recourse barring third-party recording of an interaction in its entirety.
I think they want to not allow officers to review footage before writing reports. I think.
So they aren’t looking at the big picture? Because the cop unions and departments won’t budge on this. No review=no cameras at all.
It’s not ideal, but it’s better than a cop’s word against someone else’s. Especially with an entire gallery full of their “brothers” in a courtroom gallery staring at a jury when one is charged with violating someone’s rights.
I agree cameras is much better than no cameras
That’s my impression to. But, I don’t see why cops seeing facts is bullshit. I don’t think the law is not supposed to be a memory test (for either side). The film is going to show the facts. And if facts show the police were out of line, that’s not going to change just because the cops get to see they were out of line.
Question: does the alleged perp get to see police body camera footage before he or she is asked to plead guilty or not guilty? Seems like there are plenty of instances where a not guilty plea (therefore expensive trial) could be avoided if the alleged perp sees the actual footage of how he or she behaved.
I think that it would be perfectly reasonable to make that a legal right of the accused. Again, this isn’t supposed to be a memory test for either side.
Speaking as someone who has been involved… I wish it worked like that. More than half of em will still take it to trial even if when caught in flagrante delicto. The bottom feeding criminal types simply don’t operate like other people, “Of course I shot him, he ain’t kin, he shoulda give me the register!” It’s never their fault and they didn’t do anything wrong. Cameras will reduce the appeals costs though, which is good.
I have to agree with you here. The administration of justice is not supposed to be a contest to see who can get away with what. If a police officer’s memory is refreshed by a video showing him doing the right thing, that doesn’t change the fact that he did the right thing.
The problem is: We know the cops lie all of the time.
Now, if they get to see the camera footage before they write the report, they will make sure that what was on the camera footage is in the report… and that anything off camera can be safely made up and spun to their advantage.
When the report and video is shown to the court, the prosecutor will argue, see how carefully his report matches the video, therefore the entire report is just as truthful, and his hearsay evidence should be taken without question.
If they didn’t have access to the footage, the report would be much less likely to match the video footage (like we see now with video not under their control) , and the defense could argue, look at how mistaken the officer was about this… we should take the rest of his report with just as much skepticism.
I am of the opinion that if an event could have been officially recorded, and for some reason it was not, it should be assumed that the missing/not recorded evidence was exculpatory, and the officer’s testimony inadmissible.
didn’t turn on your camera?… they get off. deleted video? malfunction? no case. it needs to be like the exclusionary rule. failure taints the entire investigation.
Repost
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/11/16/keystone-pipeline-spills-210000-gallons-of-oil-on-eve-of-key-permitting-decision/
To summarize: admittedly questionable workmanship on an isolated area of the pipeline that caused a leak was contained within fifteen minutes nowhere near a water source and the resulting public pressure will in all likelihood ensure more stringent safety measures in the future.
The response, predictably: proof of imminent doom and a demand for a complete halt to all construction and oil transportation.
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Da fuk happened there?
*looks helplessly for Edit Faerie*
Bless you.
Get thee behind me, Al Franken
Before Thursday, I’d hoped Franken would run for president in 2020. A hugely gifted communicator with entertainment chops, he seemed well suited to take on Donald Trump, assuming the demagogic showman seeks re-election. A decade ago, when Franken first considered running for Senate, I spent a few days trailing him around Minnesota and found him serious, earnest and decent. As a lawmaker he’s been — in what now seems an awful irony — great on issues of sexual assault. He was behind one measure that made it easier for people who are sexually victimized while working for defense contractors to find justice and another ensuring that survivors don’t have to pay for their own rape kits. He hired feminist women, including Stephanie Schriock, who managed his 2008 campaign and is now president of Emily’s List.
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It’s not worth it. The question isn’t about what’s fair to Franken, but what’s fair to the rest of us. I would mourn Franken’s departure from the Senate, but I think he should go, and the governor should appoint a woman to fill his seat. The message to men in power about sexual degradation has to be clear: We will replace you.
Qualifications, schmalifications. Just put a vagina in that seat.
It’s like these people have never heard of Sarah Palin. The concept of a free market conservative woman is completely alien to them. I’d like nothing more than to see this blow up in their faces, with the rise of a female conservatives.
Those are not real women
But I repeat myself…
“He was behind one measure that made it easier for people who are sexually victimized while working for defense contractors to find justice”
Except it turned out to be a hoax.
Before Thursday, I’d hoped Franken would run for president in 2020.
No need to read further, since this person is obviously deranged.
Or a MAGA fan.
Hugely gifted? Well-suited?
Oh shut up.
These things are all self-evident, because Franken has a “D” after his name.
If Gov. Mumbles appointed Michele Bachmann to the vacated seat, I am sure this person would be totes outraged.
“Just put a vagina in that seat.”
STEVE SMITH LAMENT LACK OF FURNITURE
So you mean someone like
damnit where’d my link go?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Bachmann
Pope Jimbo stole your link.
“demagogic showman”
How does this not describe Franken, too?
I dig me some Stone Roses too.
And what’s with the Charlatans and the Charlatans U.K.?
There was an American band in the olden days named the Charlatans. I’m sure their label made a fuss.
Staying with the theme.
You two know your 80s Brit funkypop. Obviously I could have chosen a thousand songs that fit my criteria. I just wanted to make a quip with the song title. Hence “the only one I know”.
I do love that genre. Next week I might do a little Electronic. Sumner and Marr were really fucking good together.
More 80’s
https://twitter.com/superdeluxe/status/930903751782678528
I love the Stone Roses
Don’t forget the La’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xX9TDQcCyVE
See also, Suede vs. The London Suede.
Here’s one. And another.
Science proves kids are bad for Earth. Morality suggests we stop having them.
We need to stop pretending kids don’t have environmental and ethical consequences.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/science-proves-kids-are-bad-earth-morality-suggests-we-stop-ncna820781
In the last couple of years I have been seeing more and more articles like this in the lefty press and frankly I find it creepy. First of all beyond the fact that many people want kids – human nature, legacy or whatever – so it seems rather inhuman to me to suggest not having children.
Also, I never see anything to address welfare policies that incentivise reproduction of people who cannot really take care of children. So basically responsible people should not have kids, when it comes to irresponsible ones WHO ARE YOU TO TELL THE POOR NOT TO HAVE KIDS YOU NAZI SHUT UP AND PAY MORE TAXES is the standard lefty thing. It is quite stupid and dangerous
It’s beyond the pale and goes to show we can rationalize anything (in this case human suicide and probably murder because what this mentality leads to is…camps. For example, a Hitler for the environment backed by ‘science’.)
“I am certainly not arguing that we should shame parents, or even that we’re obligated to have a certain number of children. As I’ve said elsewhere, I don’t think there is a tidy answer to the challenging questions of procreative ethics. But that does not mean we’re off the moral hook. As we face the very real prospect of catastrophic climate change, difficult — even uncomfortable — conversations are important. Yes, we should discuss the ethics of making babies with care and respect; but we should discuss it.”
But we should shame them and kill the kids. To be sure….and safe.
“Travis Rieder, Ph.D, is the Assistant Director for Education Initiatives, Director of the Master of Bioethics degree program and Research Scholar at the Berman Institute of Bioethics.”
Ah. Bioethics. The art of finding ways by psychopaths or sociopaths to murder in the interest of science and faux-morality.
And another thing. Reider is a prime example why people like him shouldn’t know where the guns are.
But “eugenics” just means good genes. Why do you hate science?
Not just good genes, but only the genes that an elite few deem to be good for their own cause.
Bioethics existence as a field would be a good way to find psychos. So you are interested in studying Bioethics? Right this way please
We need bioethicists!
When we are able to genetically bioengineer every aspect of our kids we need credentialed Top Men to specify the exact perfect skin hue that our vat grown daughters will be*.
*of course it will only be women being born then. All bioethicists agree that men are too icky to be allowed to continue.
This asshole shows up in a hilarious article about people convincing themselves not to have kids…
https://www.npr.org/2016/08/18/479349760/should-we-be-having-kids-in-the-age-of-climate-change
Surprise, he has a daughter. Also…
“I am certainly not arguing that we should shame parents, …”
No, please, Dr. Rieder, shame me for having a kid. I would relish the moment.
I think there is an answer: breed like rabbits and expand into space, we’ll be the space mammals that all the aliens complain about taking their jobs.
And I find their tone disturbing and creepy. You can almost feel the smirk in the corner of their mouth as their dead eyes look into the abyss of nothingness.
They all look and sound like Nurse Ratchet to me.
Environmental Progressivism is decidedly anti-human. Well, all Progressivism is. The enviro types were simply for first to take the masks off.
Without higher intelligence there are no moral considerations. Nature don’t give a shit.
So fuck off.
Stop having kids. If we happen to need some later, I know where we can import some from.
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Elect women.
Elect Black women.
Elect queer women.
Elect trans women.
Elect Muslim women.
Elect Latina women.
Elect disabled women.
Elect Jewish women.
Elect low-income women.
Elect Muslim women.
Elect Native American women.
Elect immigrant women.
Elect women.
Pass
Where da white women at?
And the Asian women…
“Elect people based on their genitals, not their policies, character, experience and accomplishments.”
And this actually makes sense to these lunatics.
Their genitals, or what they wish their genitals to be.
Really she means: why didn’t you elect Hillary Clinton? There would be no sexual harassment if you had elected herself.
Well, nobody would be talking about it, anyway. It would have remained firmly hidden.
And seeing how detrimental it has been to the left, I can see why they would want that.
It’s always refreshing to see the hypocrisy so apparent. “Moore needs to step down because of these allegations- this is just game news against Trump”
Um, why would Hillary Clinton have a National Press Secretary? Last I checked, she was unemployed.
Human Rights Campaign
I don’t know if this is a fake tweet, or she deleted it. But she’s still an idiot.
https://twitter.com/josh_hammer/status/931369090572259328
Is there an order here? Like what if it’s a Latina trans woman against a queer black woman?
That’s the game!
“Dad, I don’t like this 2017 version of Stratego.”
“We tried playing settlers, but you didn’t cut it out with the ‘Wood for Sheep’ jokes.”
So Settlers is a board game about colonizing New Zealand?
If I have my victim hierarchy down right, Black beats Latina and queer beats trans.
How do trans men for on this? They were women. And the same goes for trans women, they were women. In fact transgender kinda ruins the victim Olympics for the left. Probably why some femenists have them.
Hate*
We need to publish the points system so we all know.
They can’t do that, the game thrives on the competition of each group declaring they deserve more points.
And by “victim hierarchy” you mean plot for BDSM video?
It’s all fifty shades of Pussy hat, all the way down…
“So Latina trans wins over queer black?…What if one of them were in a wheelchair? Would that tilt the balance, or are you pretty hard on your LatTrans over QBlack matrix?
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Interesting. What if one of them were blind? Does that sweeten the deal? Ah! Who would win, blind or deaf? What’s your stance on that?”
Final event.
Hermaphrodites are the white men of women.
You know, part of me just wishes we could give these assholes their own little country. Safely away from the rest of us. With no immigration from their country permitted and no despoiling of their way of life by contamination by contact with the developed world. Hell, I wouldn’t even mind granting them an area that was already developed as a sort of apology/settlement/condolence.
Maybe their thinking is right and mine is wrong. Maybe they would establish paradise on earth. But, after separation, the issue wouldn’t even concern me. Their success would prove a lesson for the rest of us. And if my thinking was right and their society quickly devolved to misery, starvation, disease, squalor, and barbarism, that too would serve as an object lesson.
So, she gets to keep her blue check.
If Franken survives this, it’ll be because of his left hand in that photo. He’s not making full contact. He’s making a disgusting groping “joke,” but holding back just a little.
So the same people who want us to believe every social slight on campus is tantamount to forcible sodomy are now conducting the same sort of tendentious lawyerly scrutiny which gave us the phrase, “It depends on what the definition of ‘is’ is.”
“Come on, it’s not like he was slapping her in the face with his cock,or something crude.”
The horrible sub-text — that this is sucking the air out of the Roy Moore discussion where it belongs — is pretty fucking horrible. Although a quick survey of the outspoken feminist left on my FB would leave me to believe that Al Franken is not as attractive as Bill Clinton, because the ladies aren’t forgiving him.
That and he’s not married to the most femenist of all women: Herself.
It seriously astounds me that femenists love Clinton. She has never done anything for anyone but herself. Unless that’s what feminists are pushing for…
I’m a bad person. I actually laughed when I saw that photo.
It’s hilarious because that’s what the left considers “A hugely gifted communicator… serious, earnest and decent. ” And U.S. Senate material.
A serial liar and psychopathic entity, unable to tell the truth or empathize with anything or anyone, unless she benefits directly from it? Cause that’s what Shillary is.
She got Bill elected president. If it wasn’t for her raw ambition, gov of Arkansas was as high as he would ever have gone.
She’s the brains of that outfit. He’s the charming face of it.
2016 begs to differ that she was so smart.
Fuck that, Bill’s got a sociopathic cunning that she utterly lacks. Clinton likes to pretend she’s smart but she’s fundamentally unable to understand how other human beings think.
Yup, a case with actual photographic evidence and an admission of guilty that took place just a decade ago is taking attention away from a case that supposedly happened almost half a century ago, has no evidence, and is just he said, she said.
Really no need to dig any further.
Look, everyone! Semi-truck!! Hyperloop!!! Roadzter!!!!
SPACESHIP!!!!! WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
Elon Musk, in lego form
Thank you. That’s hilarious!
Honestly though, SpaceX is probably the best thing to happen to the aerospace industry since the Wright Patent Pool.
Injured defector’s parasites and diet hint at hard life in North Korea
“Lead surgeon Lee Cook-jong displayed photos showing dozens of flesh-colored parasites – including one 27 cm (10.6 in) long – removed from the wounded soldier’s digestive tract during a series of surgeries to save his life.”
North Korea responded by demanding they return the worms to their rightful owner.
Life is hard only for the traitors and the wreckers
I blame state capitalism.
“flesh-colored parasites”
Hope they have Antifaiotics.
Bravo, bravo my good man.
Drought. That’s the issue here.
Drought caused by global warming!It’s not North Korea’s fault!
50 years from now: Kim Jung Un had no control over the weather. To blame him for the starvation deaths is just wrong.
+5 million (give or take) dead Ukrainians
You think Kim Jong Un had some kind of weather machine that made their crops fail? Huh??
That’s about accurate and utterly depressing.
Remember that drought from a couple years back in the US? People starved to death by the millions.
Am I the only one who saw “defector” as “defecator”?
He’ll be able to do that again soon too!
Those worms belong to the people.
Flesh-colored parasites are the white people of parasites.
Prime Minister Zoolander in an intersectional quandary as to who to nominate for Canada’s Supreme Court
tl;dr: The female Chief Justice of Canada’s Supreme Court is retiring. Some people are demanding he nominate another woman because equality. Others are demanding that he nominate an indigenous person. And that person has to be from British Columbia, apparently.
And the nominee has to be functional in both English and French, but since that might exclude the possible indigenous nominee is that racist?
This won’t end well.
And yes, the practice of bilingualism at that level is discriminatory and pisses me off because it squeezes out so many better candidates.
Canada: Where sizzle over substance matters. All for the glory of splendid mediocrity.
Won’t end well for whom?
/slap.
Aliens.
Literally.
How do you write Fuck You That’s Why in French? Seems to be the full extent of language one really needs for a government position.
I saw the discussion about Fisker the other day, long after the fact. I thought they were tits-up, too. It was Bob Lutz, I believe, who was buying chassis from them and putting a “Corvette style” drive train under them, but I haven’t heard anything about that in a long time.
Which is exactly what I said. That and they ruined Fisker’s awesome mustache because they didn’t get the design rights. An original Karma is on my list of cars to acquire once I’ve got a deep enough treasury.
Tesla is becoming like those independent-engineer designers of the 20th century on the tax payer dime. At least most of those guys used their own money and went bankrupt sometimes staring over or getting swallowed up by auto manufacturers.
What’s Musks’s game here?
Milking those sweet government subsidies for as long as he can until the whole thing goes tits up and he escapes with his fortune.
He’s going to “sell” all of the battery and charging patents and assets to his solar company at firesale prices?
What’s Musks’s game here?
Ego. He did well with Paypal, but it’s really hard to catch lightning twice. He started in software and is currently getting a solid education in the realities of manufacturing. The crony shit just enables his fantasies.
And entrepreneur and business magazines jump on it. My BIL told me about ‘Success’ and how I should read and maybe subscribe. I told him those magazines are usually just bull shit and will chase people who don’t deserve to be on it. I think they had Musk on the cover.
Here’s my article for submission: Musk uses public money. The end.
For me, if your a publication that glorifies nitwits (Rolling Stone with Tsanaev, GQ with Kaep etc.) I ain’t paying for it.
Bingo. Designing boutique, obscenely expensive supercars with a production run numbering in the hundreds is comparatively easy. Manufacturing hundreds of thousands of quality daily-driver sedans is hard. Elon done been edumacated.
He’s going to make good on the promise of the Bricklin!
Modern day Preston Tucker
YEAh but Tucker got ass raped by the Big 3 cronyism.
Via the government.
In the same way Tesla has been constantly fighting with cronyism in dealer laws? I get nobody likes him taking public money but that is part of the business. Boeing can compete with Airbus because we have ExIm. If your competitors are using market distorting programs and you are not, they bury you. From a business perspective, you need to be on that program as well to maintain the balance. His car business is subsidized by taxpayers to the extent allowed by the law but his car business is also the first entity in 70 years to win any victories against the fucking auto dealer cartels. He’s been able to avoid tuckers fate by getting the FedGov more or less on his side which Tucker was unable to do.
I am pretty sure he see’s himself as a real life version of this guy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delos_D._Harriman
And his end game and the only project he cares about is getting humans to Mars
Won’t it be ironic when he also gets stuck on Earth because the project would fail if he left?
I’ve compared Musk and Tesla to this story before, and I still stand by it. “The Dale”
I’ll have a Trump Burger please
A line of customers queue up at Munch’s Burger Shack restaurant in Tokyo Thursday. The cheeseburger U.S. President Donald Trump had during his recent visit to Japan is still drawing lines at the Tokyo burger store. One customer, Haruyuki Sano, traveled 1 ½ hours for a taste of “Trump Burger.” The “President Trump Set,” a new addition to the menu at Munch’s Burger, includes a serving of coleslaw and a side of fries with the cheeseburger and sells for 1,400 yen . The juicy beef patty comes layered with crisp lettuce, melted cheese and tomato between hot soft buns.
The juicy beef patty comes layered with crisp lettuce, melted cheese and tomato between hot soft buns.
In that order? Because if they’re putting lettuce on the meat, then cheese and then the tomato…then in my opinion we should have never accepted their surrender and we should have nuked every square mile of Japan until it was glass. Because that’s literally worse than Hitler.
Yanagisawa’s dream is to open a restaurant in New York. He hopes to show what Japanese sensitivity and attention to detail can bring to a burger.
I see seppuku in his future.
Lettuce or tomato do not touch the meat. Some people have never short-order cooked.
Yeah, melt cheese to the meat, otherwise you have a demented grilled cheese.
it’s probably just the dumb writer getting stuff out of order.
You know what else comes layered between hot, soft buns?
“Second Trans Woman Accuses Transparent Star Jeffrey Tambor of Sexual Harassment”
http://deadline.com/2017/11/jeffrey-tambor-sexual-harassment-claims-trace-lysette-transparent-actress-amazon-1202210145/
This is surpassing my wildest dreams.
Not in this case for me, because Jeffrey Tambor is awesome.
Meh I only believe 12 accusations or higher
12 inches or longer, Amirite?
12 years.
America’s finally catching up in equality of harassment
What’s Musks’s game here?
Siphoning tax money into his own pocket.
While trying to rebang Amber Heard. Which to be honest is understandable.
Eh. She seems like a dumpster fire. Waaay outside my own H/C tolerances.
Yeah, no way I’m going anywhere close to someone who actually married Johnny Depp.
Tonight’s agenda. It will be nice going to a punk show where I’ll probably not be one of the oldest ones there.
Excellent! I’ve got my 13 year old listening to them now.
Very nice! Small place?
It’s a House of Blues, so fairly large with overpriced drinks. It’s not a bad venue though, and you know going in that the show will be over at midnight (+/-10 minutes). Plus, there’s a brewery right around the corner with some really good small plates.
Very cool. Never saw them, although I did see All a few times.
Still hoping I can make my trip to LA to see the Misfits on NYE a reality.
Who is in the Misfits now? I’ve seen The Undead and Samhain. But I missed the Misfits before Danzig left.
It’s the (almost) real thing – Danzig, Doyle, Jerry. Dave Lombardo on the drums, so not quite original, but Dave Lombardo is so badass that it doesn’t matter. They played two reunion shows last year (at RiotFest in Chicago and Denver, which I sadly had to miss out on), claimed that was it, then decided to play one more in LA this year. The money’s probably good enough that they won’t be able to resist doing more, but I’d rather not take the chance if I can help it.
Have fun at the Dents show. Saw them a year ago. Fun time. I only lasted about 4 minutes in the pit though.
I went to see Ne-Hi here in LA on Wednesday.
https://youtu.be/7f4Sug9KRlM
I was probably the oldest guy there. But at least I could pay attention to the band and not constantly look at my phone.
Great band. Lots of energy. Noisy and loud, but under control. I’ve recently added them to my Spotify playlist “Jangle Noise”.
Video trigger warning: host with man bun.
So I was poking around YouTube on the music link and came across Kirsten Dunst singing Turning Japanese.
Why? Although I found it oddly entertaining.
Shorts skirts help. And short skirts, makeup, and blue hair really help Kirsten.
She has a fine rack and a certain j’n sais quois of crazy.
She looks pretty good by the river? in Melancholia.
Thanks man, that made my morning.
Origins of Winemaking Stretch Back 8,000 Years
Archaeologists uncover evidence of grapegrowing and winemaking from 6000 BCE in two ancient villages in Georgia
http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/Origins-of-Winemaking-Stretch-Back
In Romania they were making wine 10000 years ago.
I’m so sorry.
At least someone finally tought you how to distill the alcohol out of the rotted mess.
You don’t like wine or scotch, but you like grappa? Weird.
Brandys rank higher than wines on the drinkability scale.
Wines rank higher than scotch, which sits near paint thinner in drinkability.
Putting all wines into one bad-tasting group is akin to saying “I don’t eat vegetables because they taste bad”.
There are so many varietals with completely different tastes that it’s impossible for me to believe you’ve drank enough to determine that all wine tastes like shit.
You’re really limiting your exposure to great things by making an assumption like that based on what I can only imagine is a very small sample set. No offense, but that’s retarded.
I haven’t met a single example that didn’t reek of rot. Other people say they don’t smell it, so my current hypothesis is an aromatic sensitivity to a common ingredient. From the way it also shows up in other alcohols steeped in woods, that hypothesis is that it’s wood tannins. If you can recommend a wine not stored in wooden barrels as a control to test for this, I can try to rule it out.
I just got sick of pouring bottles down the drain.
I’m not much on the wine side of things, but I know there are some unoaked chardonnays, and I believe some other styles are traditionally not oaked. What’s your opinion of meads?
Did a quick search and Verget keeps coming up. From what I can see, you’ll be looking for a label with ‘un-oaked’ on it.
I will do a search for exemplars and see if the results come out differently from the barreled wines.
And regarding your imagination of sample size – how many disgusting glasses would you imbibe before you take note of a pattern?
de gustibus non est disputandum
<Likes both deepdish and traditional pizza
<Thinks most IPAs taste like swamp water and really really wishes that this trend of all IPA all the beer aisle would end
Find a better store
I thought you didn’t drink. Or is it just wine and beer you don’t drink?
Very weird tastes you have there.
He only drinks everclear neat
Spirytus Rektyfikowany.
Oh dear god…..one of my best friends in the Marines was Polish-born. When we were in Okinawa, he found a bottle of that at the Pink Store (a liquor store, so dubbed by us because…..well, it was pink). Drank it that weekend mixed with Hawaiian Punch.
People often speak of blacking out, or not having any memory whatsoever of anything that happened the night before. I’ve drank a fair bit in my life – not as much as some, but more than a few – and that’s the only time I truly didn’t remember a single thing after about four or five of those drinks. Later on, I saw a picture another friend of mine took of himself and his girlfriend at that party. In the background, I could see my legs lying on the balcony where I had collapsed.
192 Proof. Only 4% of what’s in that bottle is anything besides Ethanol.
I’m amazed at how much you military guys can put down.
When we went to my cousin’s first wedding, my brother tried to keep up with my cousin and his Air Force buddies when it came to doing tequila shots. It did not turn out well for him.
*snorts* Air Force…….
Seriously though, for a Marine I wasn’t quite a lightweight, but maybe a middleweight. Okinawa was by far the most I’ve ever drunk in my life – separated from my wife for a year, couldn’t leave base alone because I was a non-rate (only NCOs and above didn’t need a liberty buddy), not a whole helluva lot else to do, so I drank a LOT. In the 11 years since I got out, I’ve been truly drunk maybe 10 times.
There are a ton of high functioning alcoholics in the Corps. Maybe it’s all the exercise. We had a big formation run once the day after the Marine Corps birthday ball, and it smelled like a giant moving distillery.
My chemist buddy reminded me the other day, unless your alcohol is 200 proof then it is indeed a solution.
I can’t be part of the solution, so I’ll settle for being part of the preciptiate.
Bad chemistry jokes are bad.
Hey now, I fit two bad chemistry jokes in the same joke, I should at least get a better reaction than that.
*NaRhOS GaSe*
So far the “willingly consume” list contains Vodka, Krupnik, “Moonshine” (in quotes because it is taxed rather than bootlegged), Some Xolotl products, a very small number of bourbons, Barenjager (if cut with Krupnik to reduce the sweetness) and some others that escape me at the moment.
In Soviet Russia, wine make you!
The peasants, maybe. Their ruler, however does not drink. Wine.
So I was poking around YouTube on the music link and came across Kirsten Dunst singing Turning Japanese.
Somebody linked to that a while back. It’s awesome. I daren’t watch, though. If I watch it once, I’ll end up watching it twenty times.
And by the end you’ll be turning Japanese?
No, no, no. It is just that spending that much time watching a video monitor tires his eyes out and makes them look squinty. But after a bit of rest they go back normal.
Who’s gonna die first, Manson or Mugabe?
“The Man may die but the Idea will never perish!’
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My prayers go out to Charles Manson and his family in this time of pain.
Tweet of the Year right there. Sorry Trump.
Now there’s a comedian who would make a great senator.
You can’t have him, he’s OURS! You can take his panty-twisted sister Neil, though.
Fuckin’ Norm, man…..still the king.
Go on YouTube and check out his Weekend Update bits on the Clintons – he was savage. Imagine that – it used to be acceptable on SNL to destroy Democrats as well as Republicans!
OTOH, Norm’s stint in part contributed to the existence of Senator Al Franken.
Come to think of it, it’s remarkable how petty Franken is.
How a Gift from Schoolchildren Let the Soviets Spy on the U.S. for 7 Years
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/how-a-gift-from-schoolchildren-let-the-soviets-spy-on-the-us-for-7-years?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=atlas-page
In 1946, a group of Russian children from the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organisation (sort of a Soviet scouting group) presented a carved wooden replica of the Great Seal of the United States to Averell Harriman, the U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
The gift, a gesture of friendship to the USSR’s World War II ally, was hung in the ambassador’s official residence at Spaso House in Moscow. It stayed there on a wall in the study for seven years until, through accident and a ruse, the State Department discovered that the seal was more than a mere decoration.
It was a bug.
How the fuck would they not suspect that from the get-go? Incompetent idiots always and forever.
Because it had no battery and no traditional transmitter. Its a very interesting story.
“Children! Children! Children are the future!”
The Russian’s disassembled Clinton/Obama’s reset button as soon as they were out of sight, because they sure as hell suspected the thing was rigged. Suspicions that the evul Brits would spy on him is also why Obama ordered the Winston Churchill bust removed from the WH I heard.
Bad news for Progs… My toxic masculinity was too much for my wife a few weeks ago. She couldn’t say no. She asked me to put my privilege inside of her and release my patriarchal seed.
This morning, we found out Baby Number Three is now on the way!!!!
Congrats!
Thanks! We’re excited. Time to go car shopping though! Need something bigger than my Accord or her Camry.
You’re gonna have to swallow your pride and get a mini van. It’s okay. it happens.
Yukon or suburban.
Prices are obscene, though.
^^^^ This. New trucks too.
I have been wanting to get a new truck for years. My silverado has 240k miles on it and is starting to have problems. I keep fixing the problems because a new truck identical to what I have now is well over 45k.
Yeah. not great, especially compared to a minivan. You can find some rust free used ones down south, and the prices for used are rather good. Around Denver, they didn’t even have that many miles.
We had an 01 or 02 suburban. thing ran like a top.
Seriously. I don’t know if it has gotten better in the last 4 years but large family vehicles were hardest hit by cash for clunkers and when we had to replace our Freestar it was literally cheaper for us to by a brand new Town and Country than it was to get anything used that was younger than the 14 year old Freestar was.
Minivans are a good option. We had an Odyssey but we managed to find the one in a thousand Hondas that’s a lemon. Have a CX-9 now – not quite as practical as the Odyssey, but seats 7 comfortably and still has decent cargo space.
Would have loved to get a Suburban but the prices on those things are astronomical. We got the CX-9 at 40K miles and 5 years old for 18K. That same price would have gotten us a 10 year old Suburban with about 130K miles.
Suburban Time! We ended up with a 4 door Blazer for the gas, POS!
Congratulations on potentially bringing a new shitlord into the world!
Congrats on both of those feats.
Didn’t the read that science! (honor to it’s name) has proved that kids are bad for the environment!!! What can are you thinking?!?!
Congrats.
Congrats. But remember the moral implications of your action and consult your local bioethicist
Yes! Congrats!
Congrats Gaia Killer!
Congrats!
Nice work!
I’m telling you, something about libertarian websites make the swimmers stronger. Congratulations, your family is now above average!
He’s actually adding to the population and not just replacing him and his wife. I was informed by Newsweek that this is problematic
Wohoo! Congrats, shitlord!
If all three will be in car seats at the same time, a minivan or bigger SUV is in your future.
The VW Atlas is kind of nice.
Congrats!
Congrats!
Remember: “Trump” if it’s a boy, “Maga” if it’s a girl.
Was it just male privilege you put in her, or is she not white and so you filled her with white privilege as well? Also, congrats and good luck with that. You breeders are crazy.
Congratulations, good sir!
Way to go!
After the child is born, I hope you will assess a free market value on the child. Obviously, he or she won’t work as hard as a traditional orphan that I like to employ in my booze mines, but I’ll throw out a bid anyways.
Congratz, though ZARDOZ may not be so happy.
Congrats!
And a great announcement post to boot.
Congratulations, Shitlord! Anything that helps give Travis Rieder an aneurysm can only be a good thing.
Congratulations!
*lights ZARDOZ signal*
Woot.
Congratulations!
What if it was a 22 year old Lindy West?
That’s gonna be big, sweaty pair of workout shorts.
Baby Number Three is now on the way!!!!
You’re literally killing Mother Earth, you bastard.
But congrats just the same… Gaia deserves it being a fake feminist.
Did somebody say Eighties music heavy on keyboards and bass?
Dance Wolf!
Magic Dick hardest hit.
Toronto drug-squad investigator died of overdose, police disclose
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/toronto-drug-squad-investigator-died-of-overdose-police-disclose/article37006336/
He just touched the devil’s cocaine and it killed him!
Must have been fentanyl on his shopping cart
I would have gone with public toilet seat but yours is more believable.
“I always had wonderful conversations with Mike,” wrote Wade Alphonso, a Toronto police staff sergeant. “Regardless the topic, he could put a positive spin on it, and his smile was infectious.”
Yeah, he was high.
Did work longer, so he could earn more?
My teen-aged years and early twenties seemed to be a rush of bonhomie. We smoked and drank an awful lot and smiled most of the time. Those old-schoolers are only adept at catching drunks.
https://twitter.com/thongria/status/930864178201579533
WOULD
Keep posting links like that and Q might get all Highlander on your ass.
I didn’t know you were into dildos.
NTTAWWT
Nah. It’s like Q’s links. What would I actually do with the car when I catch it?
The answer is “hump it”.
Stick your dick in the trunk?
I am searching for the SNL skit where the guy bangs the car, but alas, cannot find it.
Ask how her studies are progressing and whether she has an eye for any of the young chaps wandering the Green? A handy would be nice if you’re cool with that.
THAT’S NOT THE TRUNK!
NSFW
That’s the ticket1
Fucking Russians. They’re like Germans on steroid-viagra.
A little NSFW warning would have been polite.
Sorry, I ddn’t see any nudity. And Twitter usually does the block sensitive media thing.
“Amazon Key door-entry flaw: No easy fix to stop rogue couriers burgling your place unseen
Patch incoming, hardware recall required to fully address underlying problem
Analysis Amazon has pushed out an emergency security update to its door-unlocking system called Key – which is used by couriers to let themselves into people’s homes to drop off packages inside when folks are out.
Delivery workers show up at a home, and use a smartphone to temporarily disable the lock on the front door so they can pop in. As part of the system, a Wi-Fi-connected webcam watches the door from the inside to record any theft or other mischief.
One little flaw: if you flood the camera off the wireless network with deauthorization packets – and an attacker doesn’t need to know your Wi-Fi password to do this – it effectively freezes the equipment and prevents the door from being locked. The camera stops streaming its video feed across the internet to Amazon’s cloud, so anyone monitoring the scene from Amazon’s app will just see a still image: the last shot received. That means they won’t see a rogue courier jamming the Wi-Fi and slipping back in to get up to no good.
Amazon’s patch, being pushed automatically to devices, will allow the system to instantly alert customers of what could be suspicious activity if the camera is knocked offline, but a bigger question over the technology’s security remains unresolved – and may require a hardware fix.”
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/16/amazon_key_wi_fi_vulnerability/
Anybody who signs up for this deserves what they get.
And I hope my wife’s employer isn’t the company Amazon is using for their P&C insurance, because this product is going to cause a massive class action lawsuit in five years.
How fucking hard would it be to buy a small box with a lock and leave that outside for delivery services to use? Shit, I don’t even bring my girlfriends to my house when I need me some-some, all so I can make sure they remain unawares of the booby traps I have put in place to handle intruders.
Plus the screams coming from the girl in the well and the collection of moths creeps them out.
SHE PUTS ON THE LOTION OR SHE GETS THE HOSE!
Amazon has lockers in my part of the world.
That whole concept is really bad. There’s no way I’d put an electronic lock on my house that can be disabled by any third party.
But it’s the IoT, dude! All the cool kids are doing it!
So this is the day I give up being cool.
Uffda!
Tundra, you are fucking up my snake oil cart. IoT is always good. There are no unforeseen consequences to it at all. It is the future.
Now pay me my $200/hr consulting fees to help you not fucking step on your dicks when you instrument this business of yours.
I’m so uncool I had to look up “IoT”.
“Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of about 30 billion objects by 2020”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things
If you really want to get in on the ground floor of the next consultancy buzz word game, anytime someone says IoT, look down your nose and say “I think you mean the Web Of Things“.
Its not the IoT, but it sort of captures the dumbness of the IoT:
We have probably half a dozen electronic timers around the house – on the stove, microwave, phones, etc.
The first timer we reach for, and the one we always use unless its occupied, is the olde style twist timer with the bell. Its easy, fool-proof, does exactly what we need. About the only thing the electronic timers offer (besides being a relative pain in the ass to use) is the ability to specify the seconds rather than just the minutes. Which you practically never need to do, anyway.
A lot of the “improvements” of IT aren’t really improvements at all, IMO. What the fuck do you need an internet enabled door lock for? What’s wrong with a hard-keyed lock? Protip: hardkeyed locks are what is used for the highest level of security, at least in hospitals. Most of our “secure” doors are badged, but the doors that matter the most (inpatient psych, pharmacy) are hardkeyed.
I’ve got home automation gear, but it’s not Internet enabled. I don’t run any of the cloud-based stuff – the automation controller sits behind my firewall, and there’s no direct route to it. Any wifi stuff is connected directly to the controller (it’s a wifi router too), and there’s *no* route enabled to/from my main router to any equipment.
So far my principle of applying my memory of the early days of the Internet of Information to the early days of the Internet of Things has not steered me wrong. To whit, nothing that I consider vital shall be sourced to the IoT until I start seeing security standards groups shunning major players.
Three dumb routers is the advice I give to anyone who asks me
Basically buy one router that you connect all your IoT/Smart Home devices to. This is the one that will probably be hacked. By doing so, at least the damage done by any malware on a smart home device will be limited.
The podcast behind this idea is somewhat tedious, but it does have some good info at a very basic level.
My sister works in IT for Best Buy here at their corp HQ in Minnesoda. We were talking and she was telling me that all of the BBY folks are laughing at this concept big time. They think it is really stupid too.
I told her that all my Chicago colleagues LOVE the idea because they are tired of having all their shit stolen or having to jump through hoops to get it securely delivered somewhere.
I think your opinion on it really depends on if you live in a nice place where your neighbors won’t rob you blind or not. Congrats on living in a nice place.
It’s not much of a choice.
Risk analysis goes as such – if your neighbors pilfer the packages, you’re out whatever was in the boxes. If the courier burgles thr house, you’re out whatever was in the house. It’s a smaller amount of damage to risk the boxes than the house.
If I had a serious enough problem with people stealing packages I would catch the theif. Either that or stop ordering packages. Adding another way to get ripped off on top of how I was already getting ripped off seems like a government style solution.
Also, yeah I am speaking from a position of privilege. People don’t steal each others packages on my road. It’s dangerous.
Seems like the answer to that is to GTFO of Chicago. “My neighborhood is so hip and fantastic! Sure the crime rate is high, but that’s hip here. We just need sensible gun control.”
Clearly you need an entry area with a separate lock to the main house, and they deliver to this area.
Architects have failed to design for the future.
People can use the garage for this once we have autonomous vehicles.
we aren’t going to have autonomous vehicles.
They will eventually take the place of self driven cars, but not in my lifetime, and never completely
This was covered in a set of Niven stories. The first teleporters were put in directly in people’s houses. Then they were used for crime, and entry vestibules were designed so that your arriving guests were out of the weather, but still had to be let into the main house.
Heh, I knew I was thinking of something.
Need to pull the Niven books out of storage if I can’t even remember the sources anymore.
Also, vestibule was the word I was looking for, I originally used atrium, but knew it wasn’t right.
Boston Dynamics Atlas Robot Does a Backflip in Absolutely Incredible Demo
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/robots/a13789715/boston-dynamics-atlas-robot-does-a-backflip-in-absolutely-incredible-demo
Jackie Chan hardest hit
“Twitter says it will judge verified users’ offline behavior
The gist is this: if a user breaks Twitter’s rules on Twitter — that is to say, by tweeting — that user will still be disciplined in all the usual ways, a spokesperson said. What’s new is that Twitter now plans to do at least some monitoring of verified users’ offline behavior as well, to determine whether it is consistent with its rules. If it isn’t, users can lose their badges. And so a hypothetical verified user who tweeted nothing but pictures of kittens but organized Nazi rallies for a living could now retain his tweeting privileges, but lose his verification badge.”
https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/16/16667668/twitter-verification-removal-judge-offline-behavior
No more holding back, it’s FULL PROGTARD!!
Twitter just said: fuck it if we won’t make and money, might as well signal while we go down the tubes.
Twitter has never made money.
This raises the questions… Can an event organizer turn down organizing an event for Nazis? I know they should be allowed too, but under the ‘bake the cake’ regime, would they be allowed to?
Here’s the problem…
To them, Nazi = anyone to the right of Marx…. and Nazi rally = any gathering of people that are to the right of Marx.
Twitter is fucking retarded.
You know who else monitored the offline behavior of people with special badges?
http://cookpolitical.com/analysis/house/house-overview/wave-comin
Are we living in a bubble? Maybe. According to polling the Democrats are expected to dominate in the midterms. This may or may not happen, but I’m somewhat surprised. It would seem to me that people would have just kept Republicans in power because they are so ineffectual.
Anyways, this is the Nick Gillespie of polling results for Republicans
In 2016 we made the mistake of rationalizing away the prospect of a Trump victory. He was too unorthodox. He couldn’t possibly sustain momentum through the grueling primary campaign. We should not make same mistake in 2018.
And yet it looks like that entire article is making the same mistake they made in ’16.
Sop much this..
I expect regression to the mean. 2016 was demographically favorable to the Republicans before the Trump wave. 2018 is going to be a bounce-back election unless the Democrats go full Whig and split apart.
Some incumbents will likely be protected by gubernatorial races. For example, Texas has 3 districts represented by the GOP won by Hillary. Because of Gov. Abbott’s popularity, there is no serious Dem challenger willing to take him on. That impacts turnout a lot.
Hey, they’re talking about running Wendy Davis again. That should certainly help get out the vote in Texas.
If they run Fort Worth Barbie again, I will vote for Abbott, and I hate that smarmy crippled fuck.
2018 is going to be a bounce-back election unless the Democrats go full Whig and split apart.
I agree that that is what should happen. I’m not so sure it will. The Democrats’ strategy has seemed to be “rally the base”. But, rallying the base only works if your base doesn’t come across as a bunch of unhinged lunatics. Screaming about how much you hate the middle class, white people, men and anyone who doesn’t consider anyone to the right of Trotsky a Nazi isn’t a solid way to tell voters in Middle America, “you should trust us with power”.
Democrats will gain some in the House, but I think a few legislative accomplishments, mainly tax reform, will help the generic ballot a lot towards the Right’s favor. Libertarians tend to like an unproductive Congress, but we’re in the minority.
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lol
i can’t believe anyone even says this anymore.
much less the same distance away from the election as when ‘polling previously showed’ Jeb! as the #1 GOP contender
The polls do look bad at the moment for the Rs, but they also have a nice advantage in the House. The generic ballot currently is approaching the level of D advantage as before the 2006 wave, in which the Ds won 30 seats. The Rs have a 23 seat advantage, so a 30 seat swing would put the Ds up 13 seats in the House. However, the big question is whether the swing towards the Ds is concentrated or dispersed. If the swing is occurring mostly in D territory, then that will limit the impact. The recent elections the Ds won were generally won in D territory, with the Rs generally not doing worse than Trump did in 2016 (the Ds did better, by picking up the middle). Trump won 205 congressional districts by over 50% while Clinton won 184 congressional districts by over 50%, so I’d say it’s a safe bet that the battle for the House will be fought over the other 46 seats. We’ll see.
ftfy
So I’ve been doing this whole dating app thing for awhile, and I’ve developed a rule that if someone mentions “Trump” – be it positive or negative, I’m not interested. Last night, I had someone as me what my politics were – I told them that I lean libertarian, and have both liberal (in a classical sense) and conservative view points.
Then she said “yay or nay to the following: White supremacy, pedophiles for office, hunting elephants for trophies”
I said no to the first two and said “no opinion” on the elephants. She flipped a fucking shit, to which I responded that I don’t understand why everyone feels like they have to have strong opinions on every. single. subject. Not that it matters, she lives 200 miles away from me which is a deal breaker anyway. But still, ugh, online dating sucks in so many ways.
FIFY
“Dating”? What is this word? I usedta just go to bars and get laid. I met serious girlfriends through mutual friends. I actually re-upped with high-school girlfriends in my twenties (don’t do that thing, if they thought you were second best at 16, they’ll think that forever!).
We can’t be friends TK (unless you really are Tom Kelly, then all is forgiven for ’87 & ’91)
Correct answers were “No opinion, No Opinion, Fuck yeah! on elephant hunting”
All the countries that allow elephant hunting have thriving herds of them. The ones that ban it have almost 0 elephants there now.
Ugh. I waded into the hunting discussion re: black rhinos with my daughter’s teacher. Facts be damned. It’s the feels that count.
Practically everything card carrying progs are for is about feelz.
I honestly don’t care. I don’t care if there aren’t any elephants.
New at this Game are you? Let me rack the balls this time around…
I’m not going to lie to try to get laid with some crazy prog chick that lives 200 miles away.
Well. Hold on now. What’s she look like 😀
200 miles? Dude needs to move outta the bush. That was only ever going to be a one time and even if it worked you are setting yourself up for a long distance failed relationship. Who in fuck drives 3-4 hours for pussy?
Na, she was the one that messaged me. She lives way out in the bush. I live right next to DC.
I already knew it wasn’t going to work from the start. But I was also tipsy at home and it was 11PM, so I figured why not.
You MONSTER!
How she wants you to act.
I forgot how hammy that was. Thanks, straff!
I love that movie and that scene. Thanks.
*takes the fucking elephant*
*runs like Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread*
I mentioned this yesterday.
If it weren’t for rich people hunting elephants, there wouldn’t be any elephants.
Also, I can barely talk politics with my wife. I don’t think bring them up on a first date is a very good idea.
The animals least likely to be on the extinction list are the ones humans eat, keep as pets, or derive some valuable need from. The ones most likely to be on the extinction list are the ones that we are told can’t be touched despite the fact they provide no measurable value to people. In short, the best way to make sure there is an incentive to keep elephants around, is to make it financially rewarding to keep elephants around. But thinking like this is anathema to douchebags.
Chicken, pigs and cows will always be plentiful. Imagine that.
Don’t forget turkeys, both of the fowl and the political class variety. If man eats it it will not go extinct.
Same logic/rule applies for the ones we make pets…
My favorite bit of derp with regard to elephant hunting is the people who destroy ivory. Like, they literally gather up poached tusks and burn them.
It’s the dumbest fucking idea on the face of the Earth.
Let’s make ivory even more valuable by destroying it. That will stop them poachers.
At least old-school conservationists would have been smart enough to sell the already-harvested ivory to raise money for conservation of living elephants.
These idiots are actively harming their own stated cause.
If I ever reenter the dating pool I foresee many very short dates like that. I don’t even understand the questions really. Was she asking if you are a White Supremacist? Or do they have the right to free speech?
Pedophiles for office? Is that some new political party.
Who knows. I took it as “are you a white supremacist?” Which, no, I’m not.
OMWC for President!
As someone in the dating pool, I tell you that the majority of these fucking snowflakes are all insane, super insecure, and downright idiotic neurotic basket cases at my age. There is a reason they are still out there dating. I am a stubborn bastard and set in my ways, and unwilling to have a hag that either wants to lord it over me or use games to manipulate me and get her way, and I am coming to the conclusion that means I am likely better off not dating anyone for more than a few weeks. With a few exceptions, the crazy usually comes out by then.
Are you in your 20s? Because I am and holy shit you couldn’t be more accurate.
Also, yes, I find the crazy comes out pretty quick. I went to a coffee meet-up with someone early on that bragged to me that she verbally berated a guy for asking her to send him a full-body shot (because all she had were head shots on her profile).
She was heavy, which was disappointing to me. So I’m just thinking in my head “well, you’re going to disappoint virtually every guy you meet up with on this app because you’re pictures are misleading and your profile says you’re athletic… so… I don’t blame him.”
I bet she probably complains that everyone on the app is flakey and no one calls her for a 2nd date. It’d be best if she was just honest so guys know what she’s actually like in real life.
“Are you in your 20s? Because I am and holy shit you couldn’t be more accurate.”
I am actually in my mid 50s. Divorced after 25 years when I just couldn’t put up with the nonsense anymore. Keep myself in good shape and make a real good living. Own my home, have near zero debt, and am well traveled and highly educated. I have done quite a lot of dating after my divorce and quit online dating because they were all broken people looking to snag a guy as soon as they could so they could revert to their normal state of insanity. Didn’t have much luck doing my own leg work to find women without issues. Heck I even dated foreign women hoping I could avoid some of the crazy, but found even they seem to suffer from the usual stuff that simply make me wonder if women are born with some form of mental issue simply because they have double X chromosomes.
Oh, yeah that’s a completely different kind of crazy. I imagine you’re catching them on their 2nd go-around too? So they probably have a certain way they were in their marriage and are looking forward to reverting back to that way. It can’t be easy to separate the crazy from the worthwhile.
Online dating in your 20s is just a different kind of crazy. But I run into a fair number of people that make me think “oh, okay I understand why you’re doing online dating.” Which is kind of silly I guess, because so am I so… whatever.
Try volunteer work or join a club like Rotary. You’ll already have something in common with the other people there.
Have done a variety of volunteer work. Met a couple of ladies through that I thought might be prospective. Time proved me wrong as hell however. They were just better at hiding the lunacy. And I am not a big joiner, especially not just so I can find dates.
Maybe the problem is me. I am not willing to put up with much crazy or the usual illogical demands from these women desperate to tie you down and make you take care of them and their offspirng, so that is where I am.
Anyone who asks about politics on the first two dates is a red flag. It’s best if the other person’s feelings can be discovered organically, i.e you have to build a relationship first so they trust you with their personal political leanings.
Yeah, I agree. At this point it’s kind of a deal breaker for me. I don’t like people that are obsessed with politics. Glibs and the Defranco Show are pretty much the only places where I get political news – I try to avoid it in my day-to-day real life.
It pisses me off when I’m out with my brother and politics comes up in any form, because he’s a pretty thoroughgoing prog and immediately calls me to account for whatever disagreeable opinion he knows I’ll have. I don’t know how to explain to him or anyone else that I’m not at all interested in having these conversations with laymen or even informed partisans. I’ve curated a library of professional opinionists who live and breathe this stuff every day. I don’t need the half-cocked, ill-informed, semiliterate musings of people for whom party affiliation is either a jersey or an armband. And of all topics on earth–it’s a big world! Where did you grow up, where have you been, what do you do, who do you know?–why settle for the most hackles-raising, mood-killing subject imaginable?
I really couldn’t have said it better myself.
Have you tried yelling “FUCK YOU SLAVER” and flipping a table over? I’m told it is the traditional way to express this.
He means well, and I know he’s just trying to draw me into the conversation because politics is something we’ve discussed extensively in the past. But these days, it’s like someone slipped a needle in me when politics up. It’s a literal physical sensation of numbness and drowsiness and a fervent desire to crawl back into bed and not be around anyone who takes this shit seriously.
“yay or nay to the following: White supremacy, pedophiles for office, hunting elephants for trophies”
A: Define your terms.
Shit, forgot to close tags.
White Supremacy: Holding political views to the right of Stalin
Pedophiles for office: A Republican who has been accused of sexual contact with anyone under 18, no matter if there is any proof of it or not
Hunting elephants for trophies: You don’t think hunting should be illegal
^ Based on our conversation, that’s pretty much the vibe I got.
““yay or nay to the following: White supremacy, pedophiles for office, hunting elephants for trophies”
1) Redundant
2) Redundant
3) Redundant
No to thought-crime, no to child rape, yes on hunting for conservation!
So what is her position on white elephants?
$10 max; two trades.
I avoid people who put that stuff like that in their bio’s.
Also terms like patriarchy or feminism. if that is what you decide to define yourself as in the short area you can describe yourself, you can not be a fun person.
unless it says anarchist or libertarian. which i’ve seen 2.
My preferred gender is patriarch.
I like shitlord.
“I like shit, Lord.”
-Tundra
jk
No, that’s also true.
Ever notice how anyone that puts “feminist” in their profile does it somewhat like this: “Woman. Feminist. Socially-conscious. Vegan. If you like Trump just swipe left because I have no time for white supremacists.”
Ugh, and I have no time for your obsessive TDS. *swipes left*
jeez, I think we’ve seen the same girl online.
Because feminists are part of a hive mind, there is no individual when you’re a feminist.
I pass on anyone that mentions Trump (though if she has great assets and voted for Trump, I might make an exception), being progressive, being feminist.
So yesterday The Hyperbole posted his gif for a new #1 gif. He complained that since he submitted it to the editors, no one has used it.
I feel his pain. Last week I sent them a gif to use when awarding someone a Fist award. Like Hyperbole, I can’t wait to see it used by the editors any longer.
Hey, this site is certified family friendly!
Manson family, maybe.
Swirls brandy, arches eyebrow, brushes orphans away, “Indubitably!”
Who’s Marilyn?
https://twitter.com/allahpundit/status/931502982264508416
The apologias for Al Franken have begun. Maybe in 20 years when he’s not useful anymore, like a certain former president, they will start denouncing him
How can the working man find time for rape culture?
There was some guy on Twitter who critiqued Judge Gorsuch’s bacon joke (which Democrats made a big deal about during the hearing) by stating that he wrote a ‘dissertation on comedy’.
De-fund colleges, now!
Willett.
Good catch. My remark was the Nick Gillespie of remarks. So dumb
white people are the nick gillespi of comments.
Agreed.
I’m re-posting this, in case people aren’t familiar with the definition.
From Merriam-Webster:
Nick Gillespie (adj.)
(1) an object or person that is lame or pathetic
(2) an object or person that is leather clad and douchy
(3) an older person that refuses to age gracefully
Eg: Everyone in the meeting agreed that Tom was the Nick Gillespie of the company after he failed to meet his sale projections for the third quarter in a row.
We need some sticky posts that provide the following reference information.
1. All Iron Laws
2. The point system for the Grievance Olympics
3. A Glibs Dictionary
All comedy can be summed up as “Ow, my balls”
STEVE SMITH GIVE CRASH COURSE!
I study rape culture
So, he studies Islam and the rest of the Third World?
He studies it through a Victorian peep-hole, like a proper gentleman!
this thing, you did, I saw Bill Paxton do, yesterday, hmmm
It amounts to: he votes for things that I think women like so he should get a pass to do what he pleases with women. Can you get a better poster child for “principals before principles”.
Bill Clinton redux – look, given everything he does, women owe him!
It gets worse:
https://twitter.com/KateHarding/status/931221435665797120
Then she said “yay or nay to the following: White supremacy, pedophiles for office, hunting elephants for trophies”
Good grief.
They’re talking about Musk The Magnificent on my teevee. The alleged semi purportedly has a range of 500 miles, so I guess that means it can carry about as much freight a a Ford Ranger pickup truck.
It can carry a ton of freight. The only problem is that it’s all batteries it needs to get 500 miles.
My pickup can also carry a ton of freight and go 500 miles. Way to go Musk. You’re a fucking genius.
Yes, and when it gets thirsty there are millions of troughs from which to drink spread hither and yon across the public ways and thoroughfares.
Poor Umi-chan. 🙁
awesome
I sure hope the Democrats nominate him in 2020.
Uncle Sniffy? Grandpa No-No?
It’ll be a three-way race between Biden, Franken, and Hillary. Sounds like the start of a joke, but alas…
A three way woth Biden, Franken, and Hillary sounds like the start of a sugar free story.
Who gets to wear the peg and whom shall we call “Peggy”? It’s a toss-up but what does it matter, at this point?
I’m betting Perez and Ellison are suffering through some night sweats, lately.
http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2017/11/12/i-will-survive/
Justin Raimondo has been diagnosed with late stage cancer. Like him or not, the man has been a consistent critic of American interventionism and was a colleague of Murray Rothbard
That sucks.
Not a fan, but I wish him well.
American Public Media derp: Mendacious cunt economist Jeffrey Sachs says corporate tax cuts: “a heist”
Hey Jeffrey: fuck you, cut spending. And guess what, Jeffrey, Hong Kong is getting ready to heist their way into a 10% corporate tax rate. And guess what else, they don’t carry a public debt that eclipses GDP, you shitstain. In fact, they almost always have a large surplus.
God damn man, these Top. Men. sycophants really get under my skin.
Drive productive companies and the jobs they create elsewhere, that’s the ticket.
Shistain Jeffrey Sachs would prefer, as an alternative, that Congress and Treasury step up their aggressive tactics and get more Treasury tendrils into foreign banking jurisdictions and bully foreign banks with onerous shit like FATCA. Eventually the incentives to cooperate with Treasury will disappear if competitor nations offer a better deal.
I love this asshole’s institution: Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, the implication being that the things they study are inherently “sustainable.” This fucker.
It’s right there in the title.
Jesus, man, keep up.
“Earth Institute”. Flowers and sunshine, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions need not apply.
All productive activity despoils Mother Gaia. Hence, all productive activity must be stopped to sustain the All-Mother Earth.
“Even if tax revenues go down, the government still has bills to pay”
Is this when the lefties get on board the Fuck you cut spending train. If only.
The government’s “bills” (debt service, facilities maintenance, PILOT, emergency services, etc.) pale in comparison to its transfer payments. Mendacious fuckwit.
“Sen. Al Franken is a major proponent of Title IX policies that would get college students in trouble and strip them of due process when facing investigations for the exact same kind of misbehavior he seemingly committed.”
https://twitter.com/robbysoave/status/931245711760478209
Seemingly, to be sure.
Consider that the harshest rebuke of Franken’s behavior that you’ll see from cosmotarians. ENB and Weigel are busy pimping excuses for Franken, because abortion is sacrosanct to them and nothing else.
Democrats could build bridges if they leapt off this particular hobby-horse. I’m personally indifferent regarding what someone wants to do to their own corpus but other people, especially women feel really strongly about this issue and it seems to cut right across partisan lines. I know life-long Leftists (All Women, by the by) that oppose abortion.
As bad as she is, don’t put Weigel in the same category as ENB. Weigel is a straight up leftist, he was never any form of libertarianish anything, which was obvious even when he wrote for Reason.
The people who hired him in the first place should have been sacked.
Trigger Warning : Whining and Self Loathing to follow.
So I quit/got canned from my job last night.
My boss seems to be all-in on compliance worship, and didn’t take well to the fact that I got my truck rolling 2 and half hours before Uncle Sam says it’s ok. I guess my former employer can’t understand why I wouldn’t enjoy an unpaid mini-vacation at a service area on The Massachusetts Turnpike, and would rather get on with it instead.
To be honest, this has been building for some time. I’ve been working for these guys for a little over a year, and it was my first trucking gig in the United States in a decade, as I had been pretty much exclusively working in Alberta, The NWT, and then a foray in Western Australia …. where they don’t yet have Electronic Log Books, and there is still some respect for the autonomy and decision making capabilities of those who drive for a living. Long story short, my observations on the changes in the business lead me to believe that it’s fucked, and after 21 years of driving rigs all over the world, I’m done with it; at least here in the ‘Land of The Free’.
Long form submission detailing my observations on how The Bureaucratic State and Legacy Carriers have destroyed a once noble profession. Stay tuned.
“is in the works”
Jesus I can’t post a single damn thing here without screwing it up.
This is why adequate rest time is very important. 😉
Caffeinated fingers hitting buttons before adequate editing, slaver.
That sucks. Hopefully, you don’t stay on the bench too long.
That suck man. Sorry you lost your job. Also, fuck the government for telling you when you can drive. It’s none of their business.
This guy gets it.
Fuck Off, Slavers.
Sorry to hear that. Good luck searching.
Nah, no searching here. I mean it, I’m done with trucking.
3 people in my immediate world are contractors who I help out on occasion, and another couple of guys I know are ‘horticulturalists’ who always need a hand. I’ll be helping one of them later today, as a matter of fact.
Finding work is never heard for those who want to contribute to society.
Finding a job that hasn’t been given the STEVE SMITH treatment by the state or by the Compliance Junkie Complex is the trick. A very difficult proposition in these times.
*never hard
FFS
Good luck, G. Enjoy the next chapter!
Carry on Brother, Attitude like yours make America a Great Place to live,
Sorry to hear. 🙁
sorry about uncle sam being a giant slaver.
good luck in your next pursuit!
Sorry
Sorry.
I look forward to seeing your article.
Both my grandfathers drove trucks. One as part of odd jobs he picked up during the Depression, the other full time after the Second World War. Both had a few stories.
You are not alone in turning away from the trucking business, and you are very likely making a great decision in going with a complete career change. I did a search on “truckers leaving” and got a lot of hits. Lots of hits were bullshit industry sites with fake articles about how to keep truckers from leaving the industry that were so literally copy-pasta that they had forgotten to find-replace ‘doctors’ with ‘truckers’.
One of the things that I saw stated was that the average pay for truckers was around $34k/yr (can’t vouch for accuracy). I was roommates with a trucker for several years in the mid-nineties, and he was making $40k+/yr back then. If pay is really that bad now, that industry is on its last legs.
This is just Derptastic… “I left STEM because Drumpf!!!!”
Apologize, glibs.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/11/17/viera-why-i-left-stem/
Wow. Just… wow.
But eating does. Just sayin’
Also… this is Harvard… these are your future judges and congress-critters.
These are (supposedly) the best and brightest America has to offer.
We’re so seriously fucked, it’s not even funny.
That was the biggest and boldest lie the Ivy League ever got away with. Best and Brightest they are not.
I have several Ivy League friends, and while they can bullshit with the best of them, none are in my Top 5 smartest friends. My top 5 smartest friends went to South Carolina (followed by law school at NYU), Cincinnati (both for undergrad and masters in aerospace engineering), Virginia (followed by Michigan b-school), Georgia Tech, and the Coast Guard Academy (followed by grad school at MIT).
Those five guys are absolute ass kickers, and when I need ideas, I email them as a group. The friends I have from Ivy League schools can’t even compete with them. But they are good bullshitters.
My smartest (and most successful) friend never even finished college.
A woman I know told me that her company recently hired a kid from the SD School of Mines over one from Harvard. I think word is getting around.
Thanks!
I don’t get the impression that the rigor of the weed-out classes in Harvard hard sciences curricula like Chemistry and Physics have relaxed all that much, but maybe I am wrong.
Of course!
It’s just too bad that she can’t get a degree without keeping up in the STEM fields. Totes racist.
What a fucking loser.
– Trump pushes for merit-based immigration
– She promptly switches major from chemistry to literature
She’s might not be bright, but she’s Hahvahd Smaht!!!
There are no immigrants in STEM programs, Scruffy.
It is known.
I certainly never saw any.
*picks at foot long nose*
“I wonder if I would’ve felt more welcome if I didn’t have to constantly deal with all of my intersecting identities—especially my immigration status.”
Shut. The. Fuck. Up. You. Fucking. Crybaby.
Math does not care about identities. Faker finds they can’t BS it. Drops out of degree.
I disagree, math cares a lot about identities. The identity matrix, accounting identities, etc.
Yeah, that’s what I got out of it. Couldn’t hack the curriculum in chemistry, makes whining excuses for switching to something much easier.
What in the name of Ho Lee Fuk…..
何李服 – He was an honourable man, with many fucks to spare.
“I took on three board positions related to my identities that I felt I had a duty to be involved in because I couldn’t forget about the rest of my life.
But this choice hit me hard. Between all my extracurriculars, I felt like I couldn’t keep up with my classmates even though I went to the math question center four out of five times each week.”
You got out of STEM because you decided identity politics were more important than your studies.
And decided to take gimmee nonsense classes instead so she could party with her lib retard friends.
Intramural posing was easier than I dunno, studying?
this struck me:
Wait, gas laws as a driver. Whatever floats your boat, but…..Chemistry at Harvard is no fucking joke at all. I expect the curriculum to be brutal, with little allowance for constantly being distracted by inane shit like “Drumpf.” What a god damn fool.
At least she’s now doing something where she feels productive…I guess.
P Chem always sorts ’em out.
My little brother has a degree in biochemistry. He told me that P Chem was hard. that’s the only class he ever mentioned having trouble in.
Right. I have to admit, that’s when I knew that I was never going to set the world afire. I got a solid B, and I couldn’t have done better.
Oh yeah, my first semester PChem instructor was a Harvard chemist. Tough class. Especially because he was so smart he didn’t need to do examples. He’d start to do an example and then just revert to the general equations because “you can just plug in anything”. He was unable to comprehend why we’d want him to carry specific values through the all of the steps.
Good lord ^^THIS^^. I nearly failed that class, if not for the lab component. I think I got a 53% on the final.
Chemistry is the same no matter what college you go to.
Apologize, glibs.
I ain’t apologizing for shit!
Would you settle for a repent?
Translation: She couldn’t hack the work and is looking for excuses.
https://twitter.com/KatTimpf/status/931324103620825088
Lou Reed died?
What will happen is we will have bulging budget deficits, we will have a fiscal crisis
Psssst- I know this may come as a surprise to you, Shirley…
From Soave’s twatter link above: I have no objection to Title IX as originally implemented, but the Obama era guidance had created chaos by undermining due process. Now rapists expelled under Title IX are suing colleges—and winning—because of rights denials. Not good for anyone.
Sure they are, you fucking twat.
Sometimes, for Split second, I think “Robby just sucks at phrasing what he means”. But then it passes. He’s a leftist who sucks at writing.
He’s a leftist who sucks at
writingthinking.There’s no sugarcoating it: Soave just isn’t very bright.
fucking due process.
If they didn’t get sued for equating a murdered honorably discharged veteran with a convicted mass murderer, they probably won’t get sued for this, either. But Jesus Tittyfucking Christ, could they at least try not to defame people they don’t like?
Obvious correction: Lanza was dead by the time anyone could have convicted him of anything. I confused him with Loughner there.
Guessing this means they equated Chris Kyle with Adam Lanza, I take it? Missed that one, but it doesn’t surprise me.
Behold, in all its glory
Ah, man, some good names in that comment thread (and some not so good). The old days…
Ah, a Richman piece. Of course it is. I’m sure he managed to work some praise for Iran and rage at Israel into it somehow.
Don’t forget the time Soave stated that Trump admitted to sexual assault because of the pussy comment. Because committing defamation against a thin-skinned egoist is a brilliant idea. They’re lucky they’re so obscure.
“In the case of great men, we have to consider their careers whole. Gandhi had some very weird personal habits and a lot of very stupid ideas about politics and economics, but he was right about his One Big Thing. The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., too. We are lucky that Jefferson wasn’t as influential as he might have been among the Founding Fathers, given that he harbored some truly insane political ideas. It’s a difficult thing to do, which is why good historians and good biographers are so valuable.
Happily, in the case of Senator Al Franken, we don’t really have to do very much of that. He’s a putz.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453821/al-franken-groping-photo-what-will-democrats-do
KDW is fun to read, even when I don’t agree with him. Not that I disagree with this.
“We are lucky that Jefferson wasn’t as influential as he might have been among the Founding Fathers, given that he harbored some truly insane political ideas.”
I’d love to hear what the fuck he’s talking about.
The great tragedy of America is that Hamilton and Washington won the fight and not Jefferson and Henry.
Here’s one
Man, thanks for this!
I haven’t heard them in years. They were pioneers in digital recording and really fucking good musicians.
And they were from Minne!!
I can’t stop laughing about this.
IT……COULD….WORK!
The best part is that his name is Professor Sergio Canavero.
So Kapernick’s body might still have a chance to play in the NFL?
I’m assuming they can find a bunch of really smart, gritty QB’s who never made it because they didn’t have the physical tools to play at that level. But they understood the game and loved playing it. Put their head on Kap’s body and now you’re talking!
Brady in 5?
Part of the rationale against Kap is that he lost 20 pounds after an injury. For a running QB that leads to a lot of questions on durability. So even his body isn’t going to play.
My current mood at the moment, set to music.
I wish I had that much energy right now. Took day off today, rolled out of bed almost an hour ago and so far haven’t done squat productive.
I was going to change a compressor until they said I can’t pick it up til Monday, Early Weekend? Hope so…..
Why does life have to be a balance of good & bad? Got the job I wanted, but my uncle and dog training mentor are both in the hospital on their last legs, it seems.
Fuck this shit, man.
That sucks. I’m sorry.
Sorry to hear KK.
Life is both good and bad because it has to be. If everything was good, then the less good would become the bad.
Could it just be all good for, like, a month or something, tho?
The sooner the hammer drops, the less you have to dread.
Hopefully.
NO
/life
Hey Yusef. Been meaning to show you this. Put it in a few years ago and it’s great.
http://imgur.com/a/mRye3
Sorry to hear that Kristen.
Update: looks like Lloyd’s (dog training guy) CHF is not that severe this time and he’ll be home soon. This is something like his 8th or 9th bout with CHF. I expect the recurrences will become more frequent.
No word on Uncle Peter, but his executor/friend said it was only a matter of days a couple days ago.
Life is like Australia, Everything wants to kill you, and eventually will,
So God made Beer,
Enjoy!
Sorry to hear KK God’s speed
I’m sorry to hear that, KK. It seems like life usually pairs the good with some bad… but also sometimes life just says “here, take all the bad. It’s all bad, it all sucks, take it, asshole.”
At least you have some good right now.
Sorry.
I’m sorry to hear that. That has kind of been my life for the last 6-8 weeks. Good news, followed by bad news.
Sorry.
’78 but they were still touring in the 80’s. I saw them in Dayton.
https://youtu.be/w5mmlObjQvA
#notallweathermen
oh, and Iowahawk makes Weigel into his personal hand puppet
That makes it worse. He was groping out of his league.
Leeann Tweeden is out of almost everyone’s league.
She used to do a show on local sports talk radio. Annoying speaking voice (capped teeth Give her a weird lisp/brace face speech impediment ), bad sports takes (knows jack shit about sports), not funny (but thinks she is), patriotic posturing (reminded audience every 8 minutes or so that her husband is in the air force, she did USO tours, she loves the troops, they protect our freedoms, she loves the troops, they protect our freedoms, her husband serves in a he air force….). She’s the worst.
All I want out of her is prime fap material, and on that she delivers. Verdict: not the worst.
I am really looking forward to Welch and Moynihan blaming all this on Trump somehow on the 5th Column despite Kmele’s attempts to get them to just once admit that they might be overreacting.
I wish they would fire Welch. I’ve quit on two or three episodes where he gets drunk and goes on anti-Trump rants. I get that he’s a smaller big government guy, but its lame. At least Moynihan has good stories about nearly everyone and everything. He’s probably a blast to drink with.
If it was the Kmele show, I would still be listening to it.
Take Me To The River
although I suppose it did come out in the 70’s.
fine, some other Talking Heads song from the 80’s.
Al Green young Man,
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGD8aQ2GKr0
I consider Kirsten Gillibrand (D – Basic Bitches) the “bellwether senator”, because wherever the winds are blowing in the Democratic Party, she sways towards that direction. If it’s trendy to like avocado toast, she’ll eat avocado toast 7 days a week. If it’s trendy to #resist, she’ll #resist. If it’s trendy to bash Bill Clinton, she’ll bash Bill Clinton.
Meanwhile, at Copper Mountain
my new mountain, Sugarbush (where I used to work!) is officially open today.
It’s a white ribbon of death, but it’s open.
Nice!!! I love Mt. Ellen!
I’m hoping the winter is strong here, so I can get some days at Mad River. I used to race there.
then I broke myself at Bolton.
Bolton is my “home” ski area. It’s a bit different now than it was in the early 80’s, but actually not that different. The great thing now is the large number of green runs, and the ability to do a figure 8 back & forth all day between Vista & Timberline
I really like bolton, and if I was any closer it’s be home. It’ll be nice not being 3 hours from the mountain this year!
Did you move back to Bristol?
Yeah. until I can figure out what to do with my lease in boulder, I’m still paying rent there. So back home for a bit to get back on my feet.
Good for you! Bristol is lovely, even if living with family! Too bad the Village Creemee Stand is closed for the season, though 🙁
I don’t mind too much. My little brother has missed me, and I’ve lived in a different state for 8 years, so I wasn’t around for him too much. it’s a good chance to bond.
I haven’t had a creemee since ’15, now I really wish they were open. I’d still buy from them in the winter.
I understand SkiCo which runs Aspen & Vail is currently freaking out. It was 64 in Aspen yesterday.
Mammoth, this morning.
6 feet on top last night.
Hah! SkiCo is listing 1″ on three of their mountains and 2″ on the other. Supposed to open on Thanksgiving.
I don’t have my tape measure out, but…..
And that pic is at the base.
Well, Aspen’s base is rather low. Copper is doing OK. Vail is looking a little bare, but they’re also 1000′ lower than Copper. This is why I chose Copper when looking for a new place to ski. Gotta love that almost 10000′ base altitude!
Here in Denver the high is 65 today… with snow. Apparently, the temperature is going to fall off a cliff sometime this afternoon.
Yeah, that’s what I hear. I’m on the western slope for Thanksgiving and I’d said the temp has dropped about 5 degrees in the last couple of hours.
Copper just got 1″ in the last hour!
Might get a 1-2 feet up that way.
vox writers are unionizing. ????
“Organizing a newsroom union makes your journalism better…” LA Times guild.
So, without collective enforcement you write shit?
“Better” == “More inline with the goals of the LA Times Guild”
They want to make sure their ranks are not sullied with people that are not “dnc operatives with bylines” that could produce news that actually should be covered by a pillow until it died to protect their movement…
“We, also, would like to go out of business!”
“If you read @SBNation @voxdotcom @Curbed @Eater @verge @Racked @Polygon or @Recode you should support their workers organizing for fair treatment, voice, and worker power. #VoxUnion #1u @vox_union”
Oh, I absolutely do.
Is Eater the webzine of people who can’t stay on the Overeater’s Anonymous wagon?
I think eater is the one with the recipes like “HOW 2 MAKE A DELISH SNACK LOG OUT OF 70/30 GROUND BEEF, VELVEETA, AND HEAVY CREAM”
New word I’ll be using all the time: “snack log”
I used it all the time, but in reference to food that’s not on the way in.
That’s not going to stay together in a ‘log’ when cooked.
Hence why they had to write a story about it, to remind people to use an egg and breadcrumbs.
You just reminded me I have a half pound of ground bison in the freezer.
Now all I can think about is the dishes I could make from it.
I thought you’d recognize the recipe. And yes, it’s the same as UnCivilServant’s low sodium snack skillet.
Why can’t Millenials eat ketchup sandwiches like generations of poor young people did before them??!!!
Get it right Brett, it was ketchup soup…
Hot dog broth.
Heating the water cost more than the old sale bread.
worker power
Over pay and benefits, or over editorial direction?
If the former, then you’re still going to run smack-dab into the reality that your woke-posturing is not that profitable.
If the latter, how much farther to the left can you get?
She was brought on USO tour as part of comedy skit so that she COULD be groped !
She was begging for it, the slut.
How… unsurprising.
Drag a $100 bill through a USO show ….
Oh look, leftists are already researching for talking points against LeeAnn Tweeden. (Note: she actually is conservative)
Got any quotes there? Company doesn’t allow drive access.
If you look up “leeann tweeden” on Google Search, the top two options are “leeann tweeden republican” and “leeann tweeden hannity”.
So much like it “doesn’t count” when a Republican senator is attacked by a Berniebro psycho, it doesn’t count if a conservative woman is harassed by a progressive senator. Fucking lefties, always showing their feathers.
(And I’m guessing the reed on which they hang her conservative credentials is a thin one indeed.)
It’s a screenshot of Google suggest: the suggested completions all have it look like like are trying to tie her to the right. Because if Obama taught us anything is that if you can show that people complaining about ethics violations are on the right, it’s a fake scandal.
FAKE NEWS!
If the top search result wasn’t “LeeAnn Tweeden Nude” you can’t trust the rest of the results.
Exhibit A
“I highly doubt she was treated like a woman of substance by Playboy. LOL. Excuse me if I have a problem with women who take their clothes off and expect to be respected for their brain. I’ve worked too damn hard for this shit.”
I’m sorry, who are you again?
And this “I worked so hard” shit? Fuck you. That’s Hillary Clinton loser talk. Results or GTFO.
Excuse me if I have a problem with women who take their clothes off and expect to be respected for their brain.
And we’re supposed to be the retrograde sexists?
Showing some skin is pretty much in the playbook for most actresses. Does she disregard them even when they agree with her?
Another idiot is complaining that this is just a weaponized accusations. Funny how you don’t mind when the weapon is pointed at the ‘them’ team.
Oh yea, all this “I believe women” bullshit goes out the window REAL quick when it’s a Lefty being accused – or rather, proven to have engaged in – some kind of sexual misconduct.
I’m hoping the winter is strong here, so I can get some days at Mad River.
I always wanted to go to Mad River, but I never made it. Oh, well.
Sen. Al Franken championed a Minnesota rape survivor’s bill. Now she wants a new sponsor
What exactly did his internship involve?
She had to stand in front of a fake mirror and he was behind it as Stuart Smalley…soon as she says “and I like myself” he would grope.
Groping. Lots and lots of groping.
Ain’t it funny that some of the assholes doing the loudest grandstanding about the moral degeneracy on the other side tend to be projecting? My instinct is that whenever I see some proggie grandstanding about some bad behavior, we are dealing with someone doing a lot of it and assuming the other side must be doing it constantly, because they know people not part of their tribe are subhuman predators and evul.
I was pretty young at the time, but this all seems quite a bit like the televangelists that get caught doing glib things with loose women and big bags of drugs.
Self selected assholes with an unearned claim to moral authority turn out to be compensating for deep moral failings. The left used to have a field day mocking the hypocrisy of these right-wing moralists.
How to molest through body armor?
Fucking Credit Reporting companies. Just pulled my credit reports because I was looking at refinancing. They all just dropped my scores because I let Chase cancel a credit card that I hadn’t used in several years because I have another card with the same bank and I don’t need more than one card. This had the effect of increasing the percentage of available credit that I have a balance on because now I have less available credit, not because I have a larger balance. I have one 30 day late payment from 2012 with a credit union because I co-signed on a loan for my daughter and she was late on the payment. Total bullshit. So I guess now I need to go out and get a couple more credit cards I don’t need.
Ask for a credit line increase on the cards you already have. Mine are about 10x what I need.
I went ahead and paid a third of the balance on the one I have. I get offers all the time from my bank so I’ll apply for it the next time I get one which will probably be within a week.
Mine let you do it online. It’s one of the menu options when you’re logged into the account. (at least that was the case for 2 of my cards. I had to make a phone call for my Amazon card).
Cool I’ll check that out thanks
Don’t ever close a credit card. Just cut up the cards and get rid of them.
This ^
I used a credit simulator from…I think Chase? Anyway, I simulated closing one of my credit cards. That one thing dropped my simulated credit score by about 40 points.
Yeah, mine dropped 16 (Experian) to 51 (Equifax)! That was my reward for doing nothing except paying all my bills on time another month. Total BS. Was just approved online for a new credit card from bank. Between that and paying a huge chunk of balance on the existing card should help. Those assholes will probably raise it 5-10 points. I’m totally pissed. Called the credit union about the late payment my daughter made in 2012. I have to dispute it through the reporting services for them to even look at it.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/360874-navy-acknowledges-pilot-drew-male-genitalia-in-the-sky
HAHAHAHA!
“The Navy holds its aircrew to the highest standards and we find this absolutely unacceptable, of zero training value and we are holding the crew accountable,” the officials said in a statement.
Excellent!
Reminds me of this.
Is The Hill a sanatorium for lefty imbeciles? The first several comments… flipping Christ, people, get a grip.
It has to have SOME training value. I mean, donging the clear blue sky can’t exactly be easy, right?
Yeah, I gotta believe that’s a little more challenging in a jet than an old biplane.
That’s awesome. If you don’t like seeing cartoon dicks drawn everywhere, don’t join the military.
This X a million. Every shitter in Iraq had cartoon dicks drawn on the walls. Every single one.
I had an Airman that would follow me around while I was tracing underground HV cable…drawing dicks on the ground corresponding to the direction of the HV cable run.
(salutes the sky in pride)
zero training value
I dunno. Seems to me like it shows some facility with the aircraft. I mean, if it was easy, wouldn’t everybody do it?
I forget who said it, but some conservative random-content-generator said 20 years ago we fought a battle about whether or not character matters, and we got our clocks cleaned. Why is any of this surprising?
PS, you know who probably isn’t going to get mired down in a sex scandal? Mike Pence
PSS One of my all time favorite authors is RAH. I think of his work as asking the question “What if we swept away normal social mores and replaced them with these new ones? What would that be like?” To a young glibby, it was an exhilarating question, even if I didn’t like the answer. I hadn’t learned of the French Revolution yet. I didn’t know that in real life, you only get the “What is we swept away normal social mores?” and you don’t get the new ones. As a young glibby, I didn’t understand Chesteron’s point about fences. These last couple of years have, unfortunately, been instructive.
I’m not a fan of Ed Driscoll at Insty, but he has a good line he quotes from someone who was talking about ’70s Hollywood – once they upset the apple cart, what do we do when we just want an apple?
When did being right become pedantry? In Generation Snowflake, I guess.