Flamethrowers can be rented as well, though require a 3 day licensing course prior to departure
Licensing? Licensing?!
I thought this was Somalia!
Scotticus Finch
by Justin Delaney on Apr 1, 2011
Damn. I really wanted that to be real.
Derpetologist
How many fetishes can a person have before it can be said they are aroused by everything?
Heroic Mulatto
Mu.
Derpetologist
OK, but does a dog have a Buddha nature?
inside joke:
Mu is the answer to a famous koan about whether a dog has a Buddha nature. From wiki: The term is often used or translated to mean that the question itself must be “unasked”: no answer can exist in the terms provided.
So Chinese can summarize that entire speech from Billy Madison (“most insanely idiotic thing…”) with one syllable.
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What’s more, his security clearance was revoked, and then restored.
Why did Kang serve in the US Army for one minute after he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State? Because the US military is avid to have and feature Muslim soldiers, so that it can show that it is not “Islamophobic.” And this at the expense of security, as we have seen before with Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood jihad mass murderer, who continued to serve in the Army even after he frightened his coworkers with his talk of jihad, and contacted jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki.
***
[head desk]
DOOMco
…
dbleagle
I actually had a chance to see Hassan’s infamous powerpoint presentation before it got tossed into the memory hole. I was completely pissed off that he was not instantly pulled from patients, had his security clearance suspended until it was revoked and processed for “resignation in lieu of court martial.” His entire chain of command should have been relieved for cause and prosecuted for failing to perform their duties. The only surprise is that he did not shoot up Walter Reed vice Ft Hood.
If this account of Kang is true, then people should be losing their careers over this as well. This was pure political correctness BS on the part of the Army and DoD.
This arrest is getting huge air time on Oahu.
Playa Manhattan
Do you have anything that’s non-vegetarian?
Because frankly, I find this disgusting.
It’s interesting the number of great scientists, inventors, and artists who were unmarried and/or childless. Such as:
Newton
Tesla
Nobel
Da Vinci*
Beethoven
Copernicus
Plato
Heaviside
Poe
Erdos
I think it comes down to this: people who can make great strides in these fields are often more interested in things and ideas than people. They want to focus on their work.
On the other hand, there are guys like Tolstoy and Euler who had a slew of kids in addition to being extremely productive.
*”The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions.” – Da Vinci
DOOMco
I also assume many were very introverted. were many famous or rich before old age?
Derpetologist
Nobel was rolling in dough and Beethoven was basically a 19th century rock star. Although he did spend a lot of money taking care of his sick brother.
Heroic Mulatto
people who can make great strides in these fields are often more interested in things and ideas than people. They want to focus on their work.
I think that definitely describes someone like Erdos or Newton, but from what I remember Beethoven had a passionate affair with a noblewoman. He couldn’t marry her because he was a commoner.
dbleagle
Newton had plenty of non-science related work. As the head of the Royal mint he was the mind that invented reeding on the side of coinage to prevent people shaving of bit of silver/gold prior to using it. Now you know.
Well, I mean how do you have time to ponder the secrets of existence and all of that if the wife is constantly nagging you to take out the garbage?
thrakkorzog
Feynman was a pretty good PUA by his own account and some of his contemporaries, which probably contributed to his several failed marriages.
Descartes had at least one acknowledged bastard daughter that died when she was 5. That may have contributed to his work in math and philosophy.
Akira
I remember reading somewhere that most geniuses are very unconventional and “outside the box” in their thinking, and while that can lead them to make great discoveries that other people overlooked, it also results in some very odd personal behavior that sometimes isolates them.
Obviously, this is not an absolute, but it sounds plausible.
DOOMco
oh, great. I get to discuss net neutrality with my girlfriend.
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A UBI remains a desirable prospect, if it is introduced in pursuit of the right objectives. But if any sort of basic income is to be instituted, it cannot be at the expense of other forms of governmental assistance; that would just perpetuate or worsen the status quo. Under current proposals, the UBI wouldn’t even cover a year’s healthcare and housing costs. Any UBI proposal must supplement improved versions of existing social services, including a robust single-payer healthcare system. Furthermore, we might consider a “progressive basic income” (PBI) instead, which does not pay all people the same amount, but pays them in proportion to their financial need, with the poorest receiving the most.
…
One shouldn’t underestimate the social harm done by tech capitalism. It’s a key contributor to the precariousness faced by workers across the economy. Ride- and home-sharing services like Uber and Airbnb employ and exploit “contractors” who, in a better economic environment for the working class, might not have chosen to open up their personal spaces to complete strangers. Companies like Facebook and Google own users’ data and can still sell it to advertisers, sometimes continuing to do so even after the user shuts down their account. It’s an industry that runs roughshod over municipal governments, avoids paying taxes, and is hostile to any attempt at unionizing its workplaces.
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[head desk]
kbolino
Furthermore, we might consider a “progressive basic income” (PBI) instead, which does not pay all people the same amount, but pays them in proportion to their financial need, with the poorest receiving the most.
It’s called a negative income tax and people smarter than you came up with it a long time ago.
huh the link i supposed to start at 1:40. oh well.
peachy rex
Hey, at least God has a Complaints Dept now. When He was starting out, all enquiries were forwarded directly to the Smiting Desk – maybe it reduced return business, but hot damn was it *efficient*.
Gilmore
Church of England Vows to Create Religious Ceremonies Marking People’s Gender Transition
I’m imagining God, Adam & Eve, all looking at the serpent and going, “I know you had something to do with this”
and the snake being like “No i swear they just came up with this shit entirely on their own. I don’t even know how i fit into their @(#*$) religion anymore”.
Derpetologist
This one definitely falls into the “don’t look at it, Marion” category.
‘Member Nathan J Robinson? The asshat whose brain droppings I link to from time to time?
I actually think Current Affairs – despite being harder-lefty and more intellectually pretentious – is a more worthwhile mag than the sort of stuff you see on Slate + Salon.
the latter, people like Jamelle Bouie + Amanduh Mcctte, are just dull-witted hacks who parrot whatever the rationale du jour is to justify the current bout of Lefty outrage.
at least NJR and the people who write for CA are sincere. i mean, it has to be given how low-exposure it is.
Gilmore
*and i’ve said this before like 3 different times, but i’ll throw it out there again anyway.
straffinrun
Hiragana and katakana, eh? Use some kanji or that looks like a kid’s picture book. One they’d use in Germany.
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The American system of kidney donation is badly broken. Every year, 4,500 people die waiting for a transplant (that’s 30 a day), even though donating a kidney carries few negative health consequences. The tragedy of this situation has been widely remarked-upon, yet for decades it has persisted. Despite a number of proposed fixes, the number of unfortunate souls awaiting transplants now tops 100,000. Yet there may be one route out of the quandary that serves both kidney patients and justice alike: a universal mandatory nationwide lottery.
***
[face palm]
Derpetologist
***
At the personal level, it is almost certainly morally indefensible for an individual not to donate his or her kidney. After all, a life is saved at relatively little cost to one’s self. But the gross selfishness of withholding one’s organs does not seem a sufficient motivator for people to voluntarily close the transplant gap. (I have not donated a kidney myself, despite knowing full well that not doing so is killing someone.) More vigorous measures must therefore be taken.
***
I got a better idea: you donate a kidney and leave me alone.
Gilmore
More vigorous measures
Surely the best solution to an inefficient market is to rip human organs out of unwilling donors at the point of a gun.
DOOMco
It’s the most moral!
Gilmore
Yes, nothing is more “moral” than empowering agents of the state to literally treat human beings bodies like public property.
DOOMco
Hey, buddy, you signed the contract when you were born here.
I should stop drinking.
one more.
Bobarian LMD
He should donate both since donating a kidney carries few negative health consequences
dbleagle
How about they donate both kidneys and go the fuck away.
Damn these people embrace slavery quickly.
dbleagle
The govies could solve the organ shortage program quickly by allowing people to sell their kidneys and by permitting survivors to sell the deceased organs. Heck the government can incentivise it by making any income for organs to be tax free.
I revoked my donor box on my drivers license and informed the shocked clerk exactly why: everybody gets something of value from organ donation EXCEPT for the donor and their family. The doctors, nurses and hospitals get paid, the drug manufacturers sell anti-rejection drugs for decades, the recipient gets something of great value, and medical device manufacturers sell their products. Me, the donor, gets nothing. Of course I’m dead so I don’t care except that my family gets nothing. I have made it clear to my ex and kids not to donate my parts and to explain exactly why. Of course if they get a good value under the table, they should consider it.
Hyperion
There’s an actual solution to this that does not involve luddites with torches and pitchforks forceably removing organs from people. It’s called 3D organ printing, and it might be available sooner than you think if we can get luddites and government parasites out of the way.
thrakkorzog
I fail to see how this is any more moral than waking up in a tub filled with ice with ‘Call 911’ written in lipstick. The statists are moving into urban horror stories here.
Waterfall Insurance
This is a really obvious example of instead of helping people their solution is just to cut everyone down to the same size.
Please tell me that none of this is real. I’m still holding onto the thinnest thread of hope in humanity.
Derpetologist
Look on the bright side: a guy like that has zero chance of being elected, so at least we can sleep easy knowing he will never have any power to enact his hare-brained schemes.
Derpetologist
oopsy- thought you were replying to me
Derpetologist
Huh. He’s like a bizarro version of me. He watched Fox News for 24 hours straight.
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Greta Van Susteren ends, and passes it over to…Bill O’Reilly! What?! I had forgotten that The O’Reilly Factor repeats at 11. I can’t watch this. Not yet. I switch over to MSNBC, in the faint hope that maybe Rachel Maddow will be on. She always restores my faith in people.
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Comments
71 responses to “Glibertarians After Dark: My New Fetish”
At first I though, sweet! Bonus article on hump day!
But now Im all, WTF?
kitchen staff, man.
From the front page pic I’d thought you’d discovered /r/pokeporn
(don’t go there)
(I actually don’t know if that exists)
(but it probably does)
(so don’t go there)
This is why JB is King of the Weebs people. The man will watch anything.
I cannot be the Weeb King. I only have one figure and no hug pillow.
The lady doth protest too much
If them boys get too aggressive with the carrot peelers, those poor girls are going to be scared for life.
(assuming they weren’t already)
STOP THE FUCKING PRESSES!
Guys, we’ve totally been scooped!
Dubai tour company offers pirate hunting cruises off horn of Africa
What the actual fuck!
Licensing? Licensing?!
I thought this was Somalia!
by Justin Delaney on Apr 1, 2011
Damn. I really wanted that to be real.
How many fetishes can a person have before it can be said they are aroused by everything?
Mu.
OK, but does a dog have a Buddha nature?
inside joke:
Mu is the answer to a famous koan about whether a dog has a Buddha nature. From wiki: The term is often used or translated to mean that the question itself must be “unasked”: no answer can exist in the terms provided.
So Chinese can summarize that entire speech from Billy Madison (“most insanely idiotic thing…”) with one syllable.
Muslim soldier pledged allegiance to the Islamic State in 2011, allowed to continue to serve in US Army
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/07/muslim-soldier-pledged-allegiance-to-the-islamic-state-in-2011-allowed-to-continue-to-serve-in-us-army
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What’s more, his security clearance was revoked, and then restored.
Why did Kang serve in the US Army for one minute after he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State? Because the US military is avid to have and feature Muslim soldiers, so that it can show that it is not “Islamophobic.” And this at the expense of security, as we have seen before with Nidal Malik Hasan, the Fort Hood jihad mass murderer, who continued to serve in the Army even after he frightened his coworkers with his talk of jihad, and contacted jihad mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki.
***
[head desk]
…
I actually had a chance to see Hassan’s infamous powerpoint presentation before it got tossed into the memory hole. I was completely pissed off that he was not instantly pulled from patients, had his security clearance suspended until it was revoked and processed for “resignation in lieu of court martial.” His entire chain of command should have been relieved for cause and prosecuted for failing to perform their duties. The only surprise is that he did not shoot up Walter Reed vice Ft Hood.
If this account of Kang is true, then people should be losing their careers over this as well. This was pure political correctness BS on the part of the Army and DoD.
This arrest is getting huge air time on Oahu.
Do you have anything that’s non-vegetarian?
Because frankly, I find this disgusting.
Yes.
It’s interesting the number of great scientists, inventors, and artists who were unmarried and/or childless. Such as:
Newton
Tesla
Nobel
Da Vinci*
Beethoven
Copernicus
Plato
Heaviside
Poe
Erdos
I think it comes down to this: people who can make great strides in these fields are often more interested in things and ideas than people. They want to focus on their work.
On the other hand, there are guys like Tolstoy and Euler who had a slew of kids in addition to being extremely productive.
*”The act of procreation and anything that has any relation to it is so disgusting that human beings would soon die out if there were no pretty faces and sensuous dispositions.” – Da Vinci
I also assume many were very introverted. were many famous or rich before old age?
Nobel was rolling in dough and Beethoven was basically a 19th century rock star. Although he did spend a lot of money taking care of his sick brother.
I think that definitely describes someone like Erdos or Newton, but from what I remember Beethoven had a passionate affair with a noblewoman. He couldn’t marry her because he was a commoner.
Newton had plenty of non-science related work. As the head of the Royal mint he was the mind that invented reeding on the side of coinage to prevent people shaving of bit of silver/gold prior to using it. Now you know.
And knowing is half the battle
Well, I mean how do you have time to ponder the secrets of existence and all of that if the wife is constantly nagging you to take out the garbage?
Feynman was a pretty good PUA by his own account and some of his contemporaries, which probably contributed to his several failed marriages.
Descartes had at least one acknowledged bastard daughter that died when she was 5. That may have contributed to his work in math and philosophy.
I remember reading somewhere that most geniuses are very unconventional and “outside the box” in their thinking, and while that can lead them to make great discoveries that other people overlooked, it also results in some very odd personal behavior that sometimes isolates them.
Obviously, this is not an absolute, but it sounds plausible.
oh, great. I get to discuss net neutrality with my girlfriend.
Thanks, every fucking website but this one.
went quick. no ground.
‘Member Universal Basic Income? Pepperidge Farms remembers
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/07/silicon-valley-wont-save-you
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A UBI remains a desirable prospect, if it is introduced in pursuit of the right objectives. But if any sort of basic income is to be instituted, it cannot be at the expense of other forms of governmental assistance; that would just perpetuate or worsen the status quo. Under current proposals, the UBI wouldn’t even cover a year’s healthcare and housing costs. Any UBI proposal must supplement improved versions of existing social services, including a robust single-payer healthcare system. Furthermore, we might consider a “progressive basic income” (PBI) instead, which does not pay all people the same amount, but pays them in proportion to their financial need, with the poorest receiving the most.
…
One shouldn’t underestimate the social harm done by tech capitalism. It’s a key contributor to the precariousness faced by workers across the economy. Ride- and home-sharing services like Uber and Airbnb employ and exploit “contractors” who, in a better economic environment for the working class, might not have chosen to open up their personal spaces to complete strangers. Companies like Facebook and Google own users’ data and can still sell it to advertisers, sometimes continuing to do so even after the user shuts down their account. It’s an industry that runs roughshod over municipal governments, avoids paying taxes, and is hostile to any attempt at unionizing its workplaces.
***
[head desk]
It’s called a negative income tax and people smarter than you came up with it a long time ago.
(directed at author of quote, not Derpetologist)
Church of England Vows to Create Religious Ceremonies Marking People’s Gender Transition
https://heatst.com/world/church-of-england-vows-to-create-religious-ceremonies-marking-peoples-gender-transition/
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“I hope that we can make a powerful statement that we believe trans people are cherished and loved by God, who created them.”
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Pardon me, but why did this god person create them with the wrong body?
He’s the Creator, not the quality control inspector?
Needs moar KPIs, possibly even a hoshin kanri. This isn’t Lean Six Sigma at all.
Sorry god. No flag for you this year.
another good one is at 1.05
huh the link i supposed to start at 1:40. oh well.
Hey, at least God has a Complaints Dept now. When He was starting out, all enquiries were forwarded directly to the Smiting Desk – maybe it reduced return business, but hot damn was it *efficient*.
I’m imagining God, Adam & Eve, all looking at the serpent and going, “I know you had something to do with this”
and the snake being like “No i swear they just came up with this shit entirely on their own. I don’t even know how i fit into their @(#*$) religion anymore”.
This one definitely falls into the “don’t look at it, Marion” category.
‘Member Nathan J Robinson? The asshat whose brain droppings I link to from time to time?
Yeah. Here’s a video of him reading his antifascist children’s book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mpUrE0uOYc
He sounds like Jay Sherman’s dad from The Critic.
for comparison:
https://youtu.be/rNbe2Nnwf_8?t=1m19s
I actually think Current Affairs – despite being harder-lefty and more intellectually pretentious – is a more worthwhile mag than the sort of stuff you see on Slate + Salon.
the latter, people like Jamelle Bouie + Amanduh Mcctte, are just dull-witted hacks who parrot whatever the rationale du jour is to justify the current bout of Lefty outrage.
at least NJR and the people who write for CA are sincere. i mean, it has to be given how low-exposure it is.
*and i’ve said this before like 3 different times, but i’ll throw it out there again anyway.
Hiragana and katakana, eh? Use some kanji or that looks like a kid’s picture book. One they’d use in Germany.
He’s an unstoppable derp engine.
Could Government-Mandated Kidney Donation be a Good Thing?
By Nathan Robinson
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/could-governmentmandated-_b_6585126.html
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The American system of kidney donation is badly broken. Every year, 4,500 people die waiting for a transplant (that’s 30 a day), even though donating a kidney carries few negative health consequences. The tragedy of this situation has been widely remarked-upon, yet for decades it has persisted. Despite a number of proposed fixes, the number of unfortunate souls awaiting transplants now tops 100,000. Yet there may be one route out of the quandary that serves both kidney patients and justice alike: a universal mandatory nationwide lottery.
***
[face palm]
***
At the personal level, it is almost certainly morally indefensible for an individual not to donate his or her kidney. After all, a life is saved at relatively little cost to one’s self. But the gross selfishness of withholding one’s organs does not seem a sufficient motivator for people to voluntarily close the transplant gap. (I have not donated a kidney myself, despite knowing full well that not doing so is killing someone.) More vigorous measures must therefore be taken.
***
I got a better idea: you donate a kidney and leave me alone.
Surely the best solution to an inefficient market is to rip human organs out of unwilling donors at the point of a gun.
It’s the most moral!
Yes, nothing is more “moral” than empowering agents of the state to literally treat human beings bodies like public property.
Hey, buddy, you signed the contract when you were born here.
I should stop drinking.
one more.
He should donate both since donating a kidney carries few negative health consequences
How about they donate both kidneys and go the fuck away.
Damn these people embrace slavery quickly.
The govies could solve the organ shortage program quickly by allowing people to sell their kidneys and by permitting survivors to sell the deceased organs. Heck the government can incentivise it by making any income for organs to be tax free.
I revoked my donor box on my drivers license and informed the shocked clerk exactly why: everybody gets something of value from organ donation EXCEPT for the donor and their family. The doctors, nurses and hospitals get paid, the drug manufacturers sell anti-rejection drugs for decades, the recipient gets something of great value, and medical device manufacturers sell their products. Me, the donor, gets nothing. Of course I’m dead so I don’t care except that my family gets nothing. I have made it clear to my ex and kids not to donate my parts and to explain exactly why. Of course if they get a good value under the table, they should consider it.
There’s an actual solution to this that does not involve luddites with torches and pitchforks forceably removing organs from people. It’s called 3D organ printing, and it might be available sooner than you think if we can get luddites and government parasites out of the way.
I fail to see how this is any more moral than waking up in a tub filled with ice with ‘Call 911’ written in lipstick. The statists are moving into urban horror stories here.
This is a really obvious example of instead of helping people their solution is just to cut everyone down to the same size.
Didn’t Monty Python do a sketch about this?
of course they did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq4uCWtQE24
Please tell me that none of this is real. I’m still holding onto the thinnest thread of hope in humanity.
Look on the bright side: a guy like that has zero chance of being elected, so at least we can sleep easy knowing he will never have any power to enact his hare-brained schemes.
oopsy- thought you were replying to me
Huh. He’s like a bizarro version of me. He watched Fox News for 24 hours straight.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/nathan-robinson/what-its-like-to-watch-fo_b_112350.html
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Greta Van Susteren ends, and passes it over to…Bill O’Reilly! What?! I had forgotten that The O’Reilly Factor repeats at 11. I can’t watch this. Not yet. I switch over to MSNBC, in the faint hope that maybe Rachel Maddow will be on. She always restores my faith in people.
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Ew ew ew
this is far, far worse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzVL8PtpWm0
That’s it, I’m getting this guys laserbox.
Finished listening to The War Report by Capone N Noreaga.
Now it’s Crooklyn.
Up next might be Group Home? Jeru?
i got to hit the sack, but here’s something i haven’t listened to in forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPAKaXqWvWQ
i don’t remember them being the best lyricists, but the beats were always good, and they had that tag-team rap thing that was popular for a while.
I fell into the Wu umbrella, Ice Cream.
Then Big L.
You’re next up.
night man
Also, Black Moon are brooklynites
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNbPR0Le8Ig