I caught a lovely respiratory infection just before my trip. Home remedies of fantastic Texas BBQ (if you can ever go here, do so!) and a bigly amount of beer didn’t cure it, so I surrendered and went to the clinic right after getting home. Oh, and I hurt my trapezius right before all this, by lifting in a very non-Warty fashion. So every cough hurt like @#$%. The muscle relaxants I got are nice and all, but I cannot work (or post links) while taking them. So, a very First World bitching on my part, as I have antibiotics and stuff for the ouch.
I do have to share one joke from BBG CON – Q: What do you call a 3XL T-Shirt? A: A boardgamer’s medium!
So here are you links, with no further squeaking on my part.
- This was his rifle. There were many like it, but this one was his.
- I wonder if this will have more impact than a Streets and Sanitation strike? TW: Jezebel (they are still publishing?)
- Florida
ManJuvenile decides to act stupidly in an area where cops are already on hair trigger alert because of a serial killer. - ADRIAN!!!!!
- I am at a bit of a loss what to say about this one.
I am going to go stick my head in a vat of cough syrup now. You all enjoy the links.
Comments
561 responses to “*cough* Swiss Servator’s *cough* Return Links.*cough, cough*”
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*sarcastic slow clap*
How did I end up with the smart, brazen mice? Came out during the day, crossed the open floor and clearly avoided the trapped routes. Also, clearly the poison isn’t being eaten.
It’s time to borrow a cat.
It’s time to borrow a cat.
Make sure you do your research first. Cats seem to come in two models: hunters and divas. Get a hunter, and it will destroy your mice with the vengeance of Genghis Khan descending on civilization. Get a diva, and it will watch that mouse scurry across the floor and then lazily look at you like “lol, you’ve got a mouse”.
Had a girlfriend once who had the hunter cat of all hunter cats. His name was Eddie but she changed it to OJ because it was a pure killing machine (topical jokes from the mid-90s!). She’d constantly be finding little dead critters all over her house and yard.
I had a cat named Twister that would hunt mice relentlessly. A feral cat turned house-cat at about 11 months. She would only eat the tasty viscera and then dismember the carcass and strew the pieces about. I’d get up in the morning and the hallway looked like a Lakota post-battle ledger drawing.
I have already explained this to you.
peanut butter, bb gun. This is not rocket science.
I like the rifle reunion story.
Judging by the picutre, he now weighs about as much as the Garand does.
That old Leatherneck looks like he could still drill a bullseye with it.
Definitely a great story. I might use it to break my 30 day streak without a Facebook post.
Nobody needs to be reunited with their rifle.
Nobody needs to be
reunited withseparated from their rifle. Fixed it.I like the way the Swiss do it – that rifle belongs to that soldier for life.
Seconded.
I also like that the writer kept it to human interest and didn’t turn it into a “OH MY GOD YOU CAN BUY GUNS ON THE INTERNET! THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW!” story after mentioning gunbroker.
Scientists discover scary side effects of energy drinks</a
Being a natural skeptic I wondered what's with this fear mongering? So I went to the original science article on the study and I found it
From the original study:
"Lack of Regulation and Taxation"
I’d say the biggest risk of energy drinks is megadoses of B vitamins.
Don’t drink 6 a day and you’ll be fine.
I’d agree.
caffeine in those doses can give you quite an elevated heart rate, but really it’s just slightly above most people’s coffee orders.
I bounce between coffee, espresso, yerba mate, and various energy drinks depending on what’s going on and where I am.
There’s something nice about wake up in a can.
You want to wake up on the toilet?
If you’re Elvis, yes.
I lol’ed.
Caffeine has a nice feedback loop. You know when you’ve gone too far, and you don’t do it again for quite a while.
I just take a 200mg tablet when I wake up.
x2. I enjoy starting my day with a couple cups of coffee, but replaced my afternoon fix with 100mg caffeine tablets instead.
Pill head
Tablet head.
Now that was uncalled for
Is there a difference between a tablet and a pill? Are all tablets pills but not all pills tablets? I dunno
Capsule: medicine in a digestible … capsule
Tablet: powered medicine compressed into a … tablet
Pill: any solid medicine in capsule or tablet form
You left out suppositories.
I thought it was tough to overdose on the water-soluble B vitamins.
Hypervitaminosis A, on the other hand, is nasty.
I think it’s either b-6 or b-12 that causes panic attacks in high doses.
I used to know, but I can’t remember now.
Google says B-12
So you agree that we need common sense regulation to prevent people from drinking more than 5 a day? Won’t you think of the children? /prog
We just have to ban the 40 oz ones because no one will even think of just drinking 4 12 oz ones. /proglogic
Sorry for the HTML fail. What I got from the study is sugar and caffeine in excess is bad. No shit Sherlock we already knew drinking too much pop was bad. I would assume the same applies to sugar filled energy drinks. Why didn’t they do a study on sugar free?
They did. There were no survivors.
Prayers for their families.
and thoughts. Don’t forget thoughts.
What about a moment of silence?
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I recently quit drinking energy drinks. I have found that I still hate coffee, I look like a snob when I buy a bottle of Perrier (carbonation) and it has become easier for me to fall asleep at work.
I’ve quite caffeine a few times. The sleepiness persists for about 4-5 weeks.
I quit in September…maybe I should switch to steroids?
I saw a billboard for TRT back when I was in Vegas. I was very tempted.
Swizzy – I would suggest a steady intake of red wine. Or whiskey.
It takes the edge off.
I like my 1 or 2 cups of coffee in the morning and my daily dose of vitamin/supplement. But as for the evening, a little alcohol really hits the spot.
Black tea, honey, lemon, and whiskey.
Yay swiss! Too bad I’m firewalled @ work now.
Spoiler alert:
If you go to the daily mail link, there are some disgusting pictures of Tara Reid in the sidebar.
I had to delay my lunch by a half hour:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5100501/Tara-Reid-wears-midriff-baring-vest-top.html
Heroin use?
There might be some psych issues in play.
Wasn’t she under fire a while back for getting a little chunky. By chunky I mean thin in the eyes of normal people.
I think there was something about her being addicted to plastic surgery a few years ago.
Don’t go to Tijuana for surgery, people.
Yeah, we do a fair amount of fixing “cheap surgery” at my hospital. Not worth it.
Yikes! That was way worse than I expected.
Yeah. She looks like she went to Tripoli and got doused with acid.
CHEMICAL PEEL and a steady diet of coke and air.
Yikes. She was cute in American Pie.
I also learned from that sidebar that Bella Hadid suffered a double nip slip. Exciting news!
Tara Reid, 41, continues to cut a stylish figure as she stepped out in West Hollywood on Friday following a catch-up with pals.
Sure, if by “stylish” you mean “son of a submariner, what fresh Hell is this?”
Yeah, to the Daily Mail, every female celebrity is stylish, striking, or sexy even if they look like a dumpster fire nowadays.
You know she’s on the way out when they don’t use the term “effortlessly stylish”,
OMG, she looks like an anorexic Edgar Winter. That’s scary stuff, I’m a gonna have nightmares.
So you’re saying you wouldn’t take her for a free ride?
One of my favorite MST lines of all time – Jim Henson’s Edgar Winter Babies.
Eye Wash
Tara Reid
I like a comment near the top on that: “When Tarkin turns around in Rogue One.”
Ronald Jones has another spot to try but that does look pretty tasty.
I only got to shoot the Q5 a little. Accuracy was decent, tends to stove pipe if you limp wrist it. I really need to spend time breaking it in to give a real verdict. My range is doing a Black Friday special for annual membership, so I’ll probably get to shoot more often in December.
I haven’t had any stovepipes on the ppq to my memory, but I did notice the few failure to feeds died off after a few hundred rounds. could have been ammo, could have been me or the gun. who knows.
Good to hear, I hope it gets better!
It was my wife shooting it when it got the FTEs. When I shot it, it ran fine. I’m going to put a few hundred rounds through it before I buy an optic.
You could try breaking it in with hotter ammo.
The Nato spec 9mm stuff might run better for the first couple hundred rounds.
Good idea.
Be sure you get NATO spec 9mm *pistol* ammo.
A lot of it is intended for SMGs which have much harder primers on them, although a new firing pin isn’t going to cost you an arm and a leg. They’re also non SAAMI spec, so they may be way up well into +P+ territory.
Was she limp-wristing?
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it was technique and not the weapon.
I have over 5000 rounds through my XD-9. Not a single FTE.
But my wife has had several on the same gun.
I also shot my cousin’s ruger SR1911 in 10mm. That’s a fun gun and really accurate. I don’t know why the FBI passed on 10 mil. I found it quite pleasant to shoot. We also shot his desert eagle in 50 AE. Fun, but not pleasant.
I don’t know why the FBI passed on 10 mil
Female agents
I need to look up the test gun they used, because out of a steel frame 10mm 1911 I noticed no difference in recoil from the 9mm Q5 in polymer.
How about spring stiffness?
Can Tara Reid rack the slide?
I doubt she could hold one. My cousin’s wife was able to rack it and Saturday was her first time shooting, so not terrible.
As Brett says – the unspeakable – female agents, but also, follow-up shots. Getting a 10 back on target takes a LOT more practice.
Not just female agents. These aren’t exactly J. Edgar Hoover’s G-men anymore. Most of them are accountants and IT geeks.
Actually, Hoover’s original G-Men were exactly that. Well, not IT, obviously, but accountants and lawyers and clerks. They weren’t even armed until after the Kansas City Massacre in 1933, and their initial forays into carrying weapons went really badly. Hoover was forced to swallow his pride and bring in some real gunslingers as agents, Texas Rangers and Western sheriff types, which he was very reluctant to do. He was adamant about the superiority of what he termed “scientific policing” as opposed to the dumb ol’ gunmen, and only relented because his FBI was looking toothless and ineffective.
Also, the superiority of women’s clothing.
NTTAWWT.
I did not know that. I just assumed the FBI was designed from the start to shoot up bank robbers and rumrunners without any remorse.
Honestly, I don’t enjoy shooting 10mm. Call me all the names you want.
What were you shooting? I probably wouldn’t like it out of a sub compact.
Stallone will not cave to these baseless, #meetoo accusations. I look forward to seeing how that story unfolds.
Both his ex-wife and the guy who supposedly set up the tryst came out VERY strongly against it. Didn’t happen; no way, no how.
There should be a police interview with the alleged victim, according to the original story. Also, a former hotel employee to track down.
We won’t get a single word from the bodyguard who was supposedly double teaming with Sly. SoCal police killed him a few years back. He was unarmed, but they said he told them he had a gun with him.
I caught a lovely respiratory infection just before my trip.
Anyone make a Ricola joke yet?
Ah, Florida
ManBoy, you never fail to fail.So, I was playing ELEX last night and sometimes the NPCs say some pretty hilarious stuff. I was laughing my ass off over one last night. I was made the leader of Origin after completing a bunch of quests and the next time I talked to one of the NPCs, he said something to the effect of ‘So what are we supposed to call you now? Bigshit King Dictator? Ok, big shit king dictator whoop de doo’, in a very sarcastic tone. I guess some of the Germans actually have a sense of humor, lol.
For anyone that keeps score on completely pointless shit, ENB is now petulantly walking back her comment about punching Ben Shapiro:
https://twitter.com/ENBrown/status/932702538620551168
While it was incitement, TO BE SURE, it’s difficult to imagine the noodle armed dorks in her circle of friends punching their way through a greasy cocktail napkin.
To be fair, I’ve been tempted to punch Ben Shapiro by the sound of his voice. So I won’t hold that sentiment against her.
Of course, UCS only likes bland monotones.
Have you heard him speak? Regardless of content, his voice and tone are irritating.
Alright gang
‘Make me a sandwich’ not funny.
‘Punch Ben Shapiro in the face multiple times’ totes funny!
Dumb skinny prog.
Who arms themselves with noodles?
Mmmm… Fair trade organic hipster ramen…..
The wife and I made our own ramen soups with grilled pork belly last week and watched “spirited away”. A tasty date night.
I’m a big fan of homemade ramen.
It takes forever, though.
But did you use hipster ramen noodles (full disclosure: Lotus Foods noodles are really fucking tasty)
NO sir. I think you put hipster m, Jesse.
Out, not put.
I read that too quickly and saw “hampster ramen” – too soon after the Daily Mail link.
Peruvian is the original fusion…
Do you mean Syrian?
It’s guinea pigs that are from the Andes.
“Also don’t give in to the context collapse, literalism, & performative victimhood that make this site so toxic”
Translation: Sorry, not sorry.
… it’s difficult to imagine the noodle armed dorks in her circle of friends punching their way through a greasy cocktail napkin.
Yeah, it’s odd how often those least suited for violence have the most colorful violent fantasies.
This is why children should be acquainted with violence at a young age.
Best response:
Always keep in mind: ENB says that the goals of social justice are noble, even if the means to achieve them aren’t desirable.
Context collapse?
That’s a new one.
Jana Novotná, 1968-2017
Fuck cancer.
I have an idea for a fetish porn website where people have sex with models who have ovarian/vaginal cancer, colon cancer, titty-fuck women with breast cancer, etc.
It would help pay their medical bills…
I think you’ve crossed a line now. You should be ashamed.
Wait, would it include oral with chicks with throat/mouth cancer?
Just factor the three shot series of Gardasil 9 into the production costs, and it’ll be grand. Besides HPV is a major cause of most of the other cancers mentioned other than breast cancer there.
Colorectal cancer for anal fetishes?
Related?
Fred was not happy.
“I was not happy.” He said.
*Scrolls up to check on status of family friendliness badge*
Somewhat Relevant
https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2017/11/daily-chart-14?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/
Bottom row, right most and second most right chart, left side of the x-axis. Fancy a drink hot stuff?
One summary:
Over 1/3 of American young adults think it’s “always/usually” sexual harassment if a man who not a woman’s romantic partner compliments her looks.
About 1 in 4 young women say it’s always/usually SH if he asks her out for a drink.
Something something sexual liberation?
The progtards are progging their way right back to the dark ages. Fuck the enlightenment, that shit was totally racist.
We can only hope that this tendency towards hypersensitivity leads to a fear of sex and a subsequent reduction in their tendency to breed, thus reducing the size of the prog community over time. Natural selection at work.
So, the U.S. birthrate is going to collapse because its young men can’t manage to figure out how to request a date without igniting a shitstorm of outrage?
By no means are all women like that. Hopefully the ones who are, are self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool.
Nah, I guarantee the ones that think it’s sexual harassment are the most promiscuous.
Doubt it. Culture generally follows economics. If hardline feminism continues after the dawn of the sexbot, women will find the price of male companionship (in terms of tolerance or reasonableness of expectation) has increased dramatically. That will be the death of hardline feminism.
Yeah, I’ve long been saying that the sexbots are going to cause the shit storm of the century. The feminists are going to completely go off the rails. I’m so going to enjoy this.
I don’t know, man. There would need to be tremendous leaps in the tech before owning a sexbot beats firing up the web browser once in awhile.
Just so long as it has an off switch.
We’re already seeing that shit storm play out vis-a-vis porn, aren’t we? Feminists say it’s damaging because it gives people unrealistic expectations about women, but of course they have it wrong: it’s damaging for women because it helps liberate men from their parochial role as providers who have to work for sex. Now we enjoy a smorgasbord serving every preference in women and every fetish imaginable. It’s simulated sex with virtually no obligation or trade-off. There may eventually be a market in gynoids, but as far as the social disruption of sex disintermediated from family, that’s already here, women are already suffering from it, and feminists are feverishly digging themselves deeper.
The feminists are going to be one of the tremendous leaps all by themselves. I’d rather live with a fucking toaster than one of those insufferable harpies.
Either that or the culture shifts to where women are the pursuer. Even been to a Sadie Hawkins dance? Me neither.
To a certain extent it’s already true. When I was doing the online dating thing, I had lots of women contact me, to the point that I actually avoided making first contact, because it wasn’t necessary. Of course you have to wade through the trash that way, but there’s no cost. Women are way more aggressive than they used to be when I was younger. Maybe it’s because feminists have scared off so many men from aggressively seeking women and so it’s started to turn around.
Look at pretty boy over here. If only we were all so lucky.
Listen horse face, this is science! I freaking love science!
Just post a picture of your pay check.
That should be effective if it’s really yuuuuuge!
It’s always the same. Fuckers just wear different masks. Roundheads vs. the Cavaliers. Oldest American story. People with good intentions, a desire to reform the world, and somber, well thought out ideas…..that always end with them telling the rest of us how to live. It’s just Victorian thinking under a different name.
Thankfully, if you make fun of them enough, they’ll vanish for a couple of generations before rising up again.
Rand Paul nods enthusiastically, wincing a little.
There’ll be a backlash, yes, but the laws and regulations these little creeps manage to get passed will still be on the books.
That means I’m basically playing Russian Roulette in my office. With a semi automatic.
About 1 in 4 young women say
it’s always/usually SH if he asks her out for a drink.they’re super hot and can’t understand why these ugly guys keep hitting on them because like whatever that dude should realize that she’s totally out of his league, okay?Florida
ManJuvenile decides to act stupidly in an area where cops are already on hair trigger alert because of a serial killer.But does he bluster?
Jesse, was it you who mentioned Temecula wines last week? I was intrigued and tried to find them in a few stores in LA but there were nowhere to be seen. Is there a place where they are regularly on sale?
Yeah, that was me. I’m not entirely sure. I’ve mostly had them when out on tastings with an aunt who is in the industry. I don’t buy a ton of wine myself. I can ask my aunt or a former-sommelier friend next time I see one of them.
I’m also going to be down there this weekend because my BF’s family are apparently hard drinking sadists who want to drive over an hour each way in holiday traffic from where they’re staying to Temecula for a wine tasting. I can bring something back if you like.
Hard drinking sadists? Sounds like you hit the jackpot!
I don’t like other people horning in on my territory, Chip, don’t like it at all.
I’m sorry. I will go to the box now and feel shame.
Thanks, that would be nice but way too much of a hassle. I should probably visit a winery there myself on the way to San Diego.
If you’re going to SD, beer is worth a look too.
I did Karl Strauss Brewery in Carlsbad on Saturday. Honestly, the food was so good that it made the beer seem bad.
Stone in Escondido is also great.
Stone’s taproom and grounds are gorgeous. I haven’t done Karl Strauss…I don’t think I have. A friend and his wife rent party busses and do brewery tours and I may not remember most of the places we’ve been at this point.
SD has a great brewing culture.
This one is next door to Legoland, so…. grounds are not beautiful.
That works too. I’ll let you know how the winery this weekend is. If it’s still there, there’s a surprisingly good Afghan restaurant in Temecula…never mind. Just went looking for the address and it closed down in the last 6 months. That’s disappointing.
‘Get thee to a winery! Go!’
You have to take a chartered bus and act like a sorority girl to get Temecula wine.
Take it from a local, it’s not sorority girls overrunning the wineries. It’s bachelorette parties.
Temecula wineries are the new gay bars?
They can be. But no.
My brother used to go wine tasting there all the time, but the bachelorette parties are ruining it.
the bachelorette parties are ruining it.
Yes, that’s what I meant.
Yeah, that’s the mental image I was going for….
Loud groups of women in vomit soaked bridal veils.
Here in flyover country, there is the culture of the Woo girl. These are the girls (generally on the high end of their 20’s) who descend upon a bar or club, start doing shots with their friends, and scream, “WOOOO!” at the top of their lungs with every drink. They’re a step below bachelorette parties.
+1 Legen… dary
I’ll have you know I was nowhere near Tampa at the time.
(In fact I try to avoid it altogether)
You know, it’s always enormously satisfying when the Eagles bitch slap the CowGIRLS!
My second favorite NFL team is whatever team is playing Dallas.
That hamster article freaked me out. My dwarf hamster died while I was in college but I’m pretty sure she actually died. She’d been acting sick for a day or two and she died while my sister was holding her so I’m pretty sure she was warm enough. Plus it was September in California, so not exactly winter temperatures (though idk if the air conditioner would have an effect). Since I was at school, though, I wasn’t there for it, so…
Fffffffffff
E’s dead as a doornail. E’s pushin’ up daisies. THIS is an EX-hamster!
He’s not dead. He’s pining for the fjords.
Not matter what the subject, there’s a Heath Ledger article that works!
Did y’all see this?
http://reason.com/blog/2017/11/20/is-donald-trump-of-all-presidents-devolv
Is Donald Trump, of All Presidents, Devolving Power Back to the Legislative Branch?
Contrary to his reputation (and Twitter feed), the president has been selectively trimming executive power.
Matt Welch|Nov. 20, 2017 2:13 pm
I thought he said he was planning on doing that? maybe I’m wrong. I know libertarians don’t believe candidates when they say that bullshit.
Considering the general track record of politicians’ relationship to the truth, the fact that the king of bluster and bravado actually meant some of what he said on the campaign trail is justifiably blowing some minds.
If Trump keeps that up and maybe takes a standing at these scumbag public sector unions, I’ll vote for him.
In any case, I’ve been looking for an excuse to wear a MAGA hat and piss off the “progressives”.
He literally has no one to answer to but the people who voted for him. He doesn’t need fame. He doesn’t need money.
The administrative state is scared. That alone should tell you that Trump is different in that regard.
Did TOS even notice all the regulation cutting he’s been doing? Or has the TDS completely rendered them unable to notice?
Whoa whoa whoa….what the hell is Welch doing? You must freak out over everything Trump does regardless of whether he’s doing something worthwhile or not!
Reason staff meeting
Welch: “Gee, you know Trump has really been doing a lot of deregulating”
Gillespie: “That’s just the last gasp of the Baby Boomer generation. The Libertarian Moment is upon us”
Welch: “What are you saying? That was just some bizarre word salad”
KMW: *nudges Welch discretely and whispers* “Give the old guy a break”
Robby: “Donald Trump is a Nazi”
ENB: “We need to write about how we need to punch Nazis”
Welch: “You think everyone’s a Nazi”
KMW: *nudges Welch discretely and whispers* “Give the bimbo a break”
Welch: “I wonder if Libertarian Republic is hiring”
Robby: “Austen Peterson is a Nazi”
Richman: I detect the sinister influence of Israel here. Also, Iran is wonderful.
Dalmia: Does this dress make me look stupid?
Richman: I detect the sinister influence of Israel here. Also, Iran is wonderful.
Robby: “Israel is a Nazi!”
Isn’t this a good thing?
Maybe that dude can barbeque, but he looks like Ginger Dallas Keuchal. And I want my barbeque to have soul, so… no gingers.
His food looks pretty damn good.
He should have put up more pics of it instead.
I followed the link because beef and ginger, but am unimpressed.
We could crop his wife out
She’s not the problem.
You can’t even tell if he’s got the Irish Curse from those pictures.
I hadn’t even considered that. It was more the “oh look, it’s a Brit who converted to a radical form of Islam” look that I find vaguely offputting.
If you don’t sound like Foghorn Leghorn or Albert Collins, I don’t want to eat your barbeque.
I don’t know if you’ve ever been to a cock fight, but I would be terrified of a six-foot rooster.
HM, thanks for recommending Endless Space 2 a little while back (I’m pretty sure it was you). I grabbed it on a Steam sale over the weekend. Amplitude is making some good games.
Why do the bankers always want to get deals done “ASAP” on holiday weekends?
This is why Congress needs to reign in Wall Street.
*grumbles*
GTFO here commie!
You know who else wanted more control over banks?
Steelz?
Annual bonuses, that’s why.
So for the electricians. I have a porch light on a dimmer switch that dims, but won’t turn off. I changed the bulb, switch, and fixture. All the wiring I can see is intact. I was planning on changing the breaker next, but thought I might ask to see if that is a plausible fix before wasting more time and money. If it’s a gremlin, what is the most effective way to kill it?
Sunlight kills gremlins.
Well, if the dimmer circuit never completely cuts the light, you have a circuit fault of some sort (which might be the dimmer, but I doubt it). Just make sure when you’re playing with it, you really don’t have any live wires involved. If you isolate the whole thing, temporarily swap the dimmer for a 79 cent single pole, single throw switch and see if you get simple on/off. If so, it *is* the dimmer.
If not, and you haven’t been very careful in isolating the circuit, you might have accidentally found the additional live wire, after all.
Do you have a second switch connected to the light?
What kind of dimmer switch? a turn knob with a push on/off or a slider type thing, also what happens when you try and turn it off does it stay at the dimmed setting or go full on?
It’s a casetta z-wave. I know the switch is good because I moved it from another light to see if it was the switch. It’s a single pole switch in a 3 switch box. One of the switches is a three way and the other is single pole.
Oh, some new age smart phone enabled switch thing. I’d put in an old fashioned dimmer and be done with it.
new age
That Z is for zazen
I had to wiki that
I may spend too much time here, I was not expecting that last word to be “spine”.
I installed a dozen of them. They’ve all worked fine. It’s just this one light giving me trouble.
The Z-wave switches are connected to the neutral too, right?
All of my Insteon switches are…
Cassetta doesn’t use the neutral. The GE z waves come with a wire to add into the neutral bundle.
Also if you paid 50 bucks for a dimmer switch you deserve it to not work.
If I paid 3 dollars and it didn’t work do I still deserve it?
If a man says something in the woods and no woman is around to hear him, is he still wrong?
If you paid 3 dollars for a fancy high tech switch the yes but for completely different reasons than the 50 dollar reasons. Kidding aside if wired correctly (which six years of working would imply) the only thing that makes sense is glitch in the IC in the switch.
So I had a cheap single pole switch and the light was flickering. That’s why I changed it to a switch I knew worked from another light.
I’d make sure all the wires are going to the right places and there’s no exposed wire touching something it shouldn’t
I think I’m going to pull the three switches from the box and reseat them, making sure none of the wires come in contact with each other. If that doesn’t do it, time for the experts.
Wait…. You already replaced the switch?
This is very puzzling.
Electrons from two sources. Not good.
Someone crossed the streams.
No homo. NTTAWWT
The breaker is highly, highly unlikely. You have a small short somewhere. Test the voltage at the fixture and at the switch with the switch both on and off. You’re likely going to find you have a few volts in the line that is able to go to ground somewhere. Does the light still come on even with the switch completely removed?
I haven’t turned the power on with the switch removed.
Try it. The result could be…
*puts on sunglasses*
…enlightening.
Probably the dimmer if it’s of the modern solid state variety.
Reading fail, you swapped the dimmer.
Disconnect the bulb and start backtracing the circuit with a voltage meter. It’s a nuisance, but it will allow you to find the problem.
I highly doubt the breaker will have anything to do with it. If it won’t turn off it sounds like the problem is in the switch.
…or it’s a loose neutral.
Loose neutral seems plausible. The light worked fine for 6 years, then wouldn’t turn off, just dims.
Get some good gloves before you take this any further.
I’m thinking it’s time to call the experts. I don’t mind your typical DIY electrical, but diagnostics is beyond my skill set.
Bingo! at a certain level give it to a troubleshooter, fast and simple, it’s what they do
/Me TOO
Loose neutral
Florida Man puts the final touches on his new slut-class D&D character
Loose neutral is an old joke the electrician tells you when he can’t figure out why it works for him and not for you. An actual loose neutral on a bank of lights would resemble the ceiling in the Cash Cab.
See! This is why I try to fix things myself. I don’t know when I’m getting hustled.
I don’t know when I’m getting hustled.
*Adds to FM dossier*
*Adds to FM dossier*
What are you going to scam him out of, some empty beer cans and a flip-flop? You may need to do some more market research if you think a Florida man is worth hustling.
Do you not have Bait Bus in Athens, Gadfly?
Do you not have Bait Bus in Athens, Gadfly?
Don’t think so. Am I missing out?
Wait…are you the same guy who sells orphans? If so, I retract my criticism. Florida is probably a fertile ground to harvest your wares.
I would have to hands on with a multimeter to know for sure, but I think Number 6 is correct this can be fixed with a $.75 single pole or if you MUST have mood lighting, a $15 Lutron dimmer.
He needs Z-wave so he can put the moves on his wife after ramen date night.
I had a cheap single pole and a GE bulb that was flickering. I thought it was the bulb so changed it to a led and put in the casseta dimmer. I can put a new single pole, but I have a feeling it will be back to flickering.
You need a new house.
Ah, so the problem was there even before you added the new bits.
Ugh. I never want to move again.
You typically can’t dim an LED. You need an incandescent for that unless you have a specialty ballast.
All of my LEDs are dimmable. They cost about 20% more than regular LEDs, and will say so on the package.
I have several dimmer LEDs. I’m going to an incandescent or CFL tomorrow to double check.
I have LEDs in my entire house, that’s all I use. Including the dimmables, which work fine.
All of my LEDs are dimmable. They cost about 20% more than regular LEDs, and will say so on the package
Hmm. I am out of date. Time to look up if Crouse-Hines figured out how to step up/step down airfield lights.
*twiddles fingers*
1st generation Cree LEDs from Home Depot SUCK. My dinning room looked like a truck stop restroom.
Oh, and they got really hot, so I’m doubting that they saved much energy at all.
Crees are garbage and overpriced. Buy the cheap-ass Feit Electric LEDs — they come both normal and dimmable.
I actually had a dead neutral on the power pole that leads to my house. I called the per company and told them as much and they were very suspicious until I explained exactly what was happening.
They showed up within a half hour as they are liable for any equipment failures caused by power problems that originate from the pole.
I don’t know what to believe any more!
My neighbor had something similar about a year ago. The crimp on the neutral at the weatherhead corroded pretty badly and he was getting all kinds of variable voltages throughout the day. He called Edison and they replaced the lines to the pole within 4 hours.
Huh. But would’ve you have multiple lights having issues instead of just one?
In my case it was squirrels, they like aluminum wires
Oh yes, his whole house was getting weird voltages. This is not what’s going on with your porch light.
The neutral will kill you at the pole. The new guy always thinks there’s no power on the neutral, but he’s in for a shock.
This! Neutral is just as hot as hot. So is ground if you have something shorting to ground.
From the ‘Dankertarians’ (which includes former Gary Johnson staffers), which is a caucus in the ‘Libertarian’ Party.
https://twitter.com/dankertarians/status/923555689066303488
Cosmotarian moment!
I remember when they were having a weird internal conflict which resulted in a weird bunch of diametrically-opposing posts on their Twitter. Looks like the commie-symp faction won out.
Just like the Libertarian Party
What the fuck?
Is Chomsky running the LP now?
So, I read a few comments on there. Or tweets, I guess that’s what they’re called.
Has anyone figured out yet exactly what it is that separates these guys from other progs and makes them dankertarians?
They’re totally NOT Marxists. They just think Marx had some good ideas – what’s wrong with that??
Capitalism is going to fail soon? That’s nutbaggery level Marxism.
I see you missed my implied sarcasm. Yes, they are totally Marxists.
Yes, I knew that, just had to get that out.
If I truly believed that capitalism was going to fail soon, I’d be buying some property in the most remote region possible and building a bunker because the world as we know it and society as we know it, will cease to exist and hundreds of millions will die in short order, followed by billions.
To be sure, sometimes those good ideas get implemented wrong and you end up with State Capitalism.
And sometimes they’re implemented right and you end up with the Killing Fields.
With all those great choices, how can you not love communism!?
wut
This is the sort of thing that bothers me. You’ve got people running everything from the LP to Reason to Cato insisting that Token Libertarian Girl (Julie Borowski), the Mises Institute, even Ron Paul, aren’t legitimately libertarian while giving shit like this a wink and a nod. You can’t be libertarian and not support capitalism. Period. Full stop. You can’t say it’s alright to run an economy at gunpoint and insist you’re pro-liberty. Nothing I’ve seen from any of the folks these people want to purge from libertarianism have ever said anything remotely as unlibertarian as this.
I think I love you, wdalasio.
But what are you so afraid of?
It’s OK wdalasio.
It’s the Libertarian Party. Just as the Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an empire, the LP is neither Libertarian nor a political party.
It can (and should!) be safely ignored as not being relevant to anything. Just treat it as what it is, a honeypot for really dysfunctional people too incompetent to compete with people like Joe Biden or Dan Quayle and thus can’t hack it in the major political parties.
Just treat it as what it is, a honeypot for really dysfunctional people too incompetent to compete with people like Joe Biden or Dan Quayle and thus can’t hack it in the major political parties.
Ouch, that’s gonna leave a mark.
And if it were just the Libertarian Party, I’d say fine. But, it’s sort of the entire leadership of the libertarian movement. I didn’t even mention outlets like Bleeding Heart Libertarians or the Niskanen Center.
I realize I have my own blind spots. I don’t mind having them challenged. But, getting pushed warmed over progressivism and being told that every advocate of principles I’d always been led to believe define libertarian thought isn’t a pure enough libertarian doesn’t challenge my blind spots. Any more than does pissing on my leg and telling me that it’s raining.
I gave up completely on the LP after the GayJay/Weld debacle, complete with naked dancing fat guys. I still identify as a libertarian, just not as a member of the LP.
To me, there is no “party”, just an ideology, and even then it’s all over the map.
Mexicans, Ass sex and Weed, simple
Same. I need to change my voter registration, I’ve been too lazy thus far.
After we’re all forced to work for the state, we can receive nice little packets of carefully measured freedom, and be so thankful to our masters that they’ve deigned to give it to us. That’s real libertarianism, right there.
Starts off well enough, then goes full Robby.
https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/8x5jdz/jordan-peterson-is-causing-problems-at-another-university-now
Forget about it, Scruffy, it’s Vicetown. This is about as good as you can expect.
What amazes me is the characterization of Jordan Peterson as transphobic. He’s not. He says that people who are transgender exist. He isn’t afraid of them. Or interested in making their lives difficult. He does think a lot of people who claim to be transgender are not genuinely transgender but trying to cash in on the instant rise of social status they get for making these claims.
His entire issue is that he is opposed to the compelled speech that the LGBQT activists are trying to impose with the threat of incarceration for those who don’t play along because (and get ready for this boys and girls) this sort of thing has always preceeded gulags and genocide and he’s trying to nip it in the bud.
To some extent I find it funny that Vice gets the issue at hand, the restriction of speech. Yet they find it completely necessary to burnish their prog credentials by tarring Petersen, lest they get prog hammered.
He never would have been on Youtube if it wasn’t for rainbow-haired students filming his rebuttals to their protest.
and he’s never said anything ‘transphobic’. he spoke to the human rights council (or whatever they’re called) about the problems with the logic of their compelled-speech proscriptions… and the inherent contradictions of in one case insisting that gender is essential, and then in another case claiming that gender is a construct.
the only reason anyone has continued to pay attention to him is because his arguments were pretty solid.
Whereas the people this guy refers to as his sources of judgemental-authority are basically nobody-internet-scribblers who no one gives a flying fuck about.
“…has no idea what any part of the phrase “post-modern neo-Marxist” means…”
Neither does anyone else, including the post-modern neo-Marxists. That’s the whole point, isnt it?
Lois Lerner acts like an extremely guilty person.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/11/20/lois-lerner-wants-irs-testimony-sealed-fearing-death-threats.amp.html
It’s not acting.
In my 20 years of IT career, I’ve never seen as many hard drives crash as what happened with high ranking Democrats over the past several years. Weird coincidence I guess.
Must be using Seagates
Hmm. I’ve owned a lot of Seagates and also Western Digital. I think I’ve had one of each die on me in the last 30 years. Now I only buy SSDs. Both of the ones I currently have in my puter are Samsung.
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!
Sorry, involuntary reaction to the S-word.
Or claw hammers.
Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them — with nudity, groping and lewd calls
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/eight-women-say-charlie-rose-sexually-harassed-them–with-nudity-groping-and-lewd-calls/2017/11/20/9b168de8-caec-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.828755c1638c
Ewwwwww…..
Don’t forget Glenn “Hillary is a badass” Thrush!
Want to see my Oak Table?
I knew a girl (*presley? Preston? she had some waspy name like that) who was one of Charlie Rose’s Production Assistants in the late-90s/early-2000s. She told me he hadn’t once been sober in the last 10 years. And he routinely tried to get girls who worked in the building to ‘read scripts’ for him (where he’d try and molest them while pretending to ‘help’ them act out a scene).
Basically, this was a known thing 20 years ago.
I don’t think your attempts to paint him in a positive light are going to help him navigate these accusations.
(Imperious old drunk pawing at the young assistants on the set of a tv show… this sounds like an old BBC comedy production)
Shut your mouth, Benny Hill had class!
(Well, he didn’t, that was why he was awesome).
You know what this proves to me? That working in the entertainment/journalo industry isn’t all that hard. And that there are tons of people you could pluck off the street who would do just as good a job as those who are working there now.
I say that because if these slots really required skills, no way could Charlie Rose get away with this sort of shit. I bet you don’t see any IT managers walking around naked in front of their female coders. Why? Because they’d say fuck off and move to some other team very easily. Then the perv would be stuck with a bunch of bottom feeders at best.
So if Rose can do that shit, it tells me that they all know that they better dummy up and take it because anyone with two brain cells could do the job.
One more reason, I guess, to go into STEM.
And that there are tons of people you could pluck off the street who would do just as good a job as those who are working there now.
I think this is largely true. I get the impression that show business is generally a “winning the lottery” situation. They’re paid extremely well to do something that a very large number of people could easily replace them doing. In addition to all the casting couch/sexual harassment behavior, it explains the stunning amount of apparent nepotism in the business. The people in question have jobs that huge numbers of people can and would happily replace them doing. So, getting the job amounts to a huge stroke of good luck that ultimately depends on the goodwill of industry gatekeepers.
That could be part of the explanation for the leftist derpiness of most people in that industry. Since success seems to be purely on luck (or connections), they assume everything is that way, so government needs to move in and make things ‘fair’ (except for themselves, of course; THEY’RE special).
All 3 of them?
One of my clients has one female coder. She’s the only one I know of. Are you sure there are 3?
Ah, here we go, YA publishing. I missed the announcement of this but the cover reveal was today so I get to see all these derpy authors I used to respect sharing it all over the place.
oh, the ACLU is involved.
All contributors, as well as Johnson and Federle, have pledged the full advance of $50,000 to the ACLU.
I’m not sure if they’re involved or if all these woke authors are just giving them their money.
So… I take it the advance was rather small then?
$50,000. Not massively huge, but that’s still pretty big. Some of those authors might get bigger advances than that ordinarily, though (Libba Bray, Maureen Johnson, and the celeb “authors” obviously). Also, I don’t know how they would have broken it down—if it was supposed to be $50,000 for all 30 or whatever authors, it’s pretty small per person. They’re kidding themselves if they think that this thing will earn out. It’s basically Macmillan giving the ACLU a donation, because they can definitely afford to do that.
“How I Resist”…what, exactly?
TRUMP! You have to get out and help the people escape from the camps… or well, I mean set some stuff on fire and break some windows belonging to people you don’t even know… I mean, that’s equal to freeing people from death camps, right? Trump is worse than Hitler!
Oh Christ. Can’t wait for my mom to get that for my daughter to read, because I know she will.
What good libertarian books are out there for an 8 year old? She can read on a 7th grade level (not a dad brag) (ok maybe a dad brag). Age appropriate, though, despite the reading level.
Lois Lowry?
She reads Lois Lowry (her Anastasia series). Not sure how good they are, though.
There was that “Little House on the Prairie is Ayn Rand’s fever dream” kerfuffle couple years back.
Well considering that they were likely at least partially ghostwritten by proto-libertarian Rose Wilder Lane, there might be something to that. Although I (thankfully) missed the actual kerfluffle.
If you can find the old American Girl books, the whole Felicity series is good. It was my favorite at that age. It takes place right before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, with a nice heavy emphasis on the importance of liberty and lots of cool historical facts that may spark an interest in history (did for me). Here’s an ombibus of all six books.
I loved Little Women and the rest of Alcott’s stuff. Not libertarian necessarily, but girls choosing their own path despite social pressure.
How about some Nancy Drew? Girls doing interesting things, captivating plots, individuals doing what is usually under the government’s purview.
Heinlein juveniles.
Looking at my shelf and thinking about it some more, another one I recommend is this one. It has a strong theme of self-reliance, as do most of her works. I don’t think I’m throwing the author under the bus here because she’s sort of open about her politics? (But I won’t type her name just in case any SJWs Google it, I don’t want to sic them on her.) Let’s just say she’d fit in here.
Whoops, sorry about the italics—I’d originally typed the book title there but then decided against it just in case. Call me paranoid but she’s a friend and I don’t want to accidentally set the brigade after her.
Any book where an individual protagonist beats the odds through their own work and dedication is technically a libertarian story. That’s what so funny about Hollywood is that they make all of these libertarian-ish movies but probably see them as progressive/liberal ideations.
Here’s the thing I don’t get. And it creeps into a my reactions to a lot of things you put up. Who the hell is footing the bill for this? I mean these guys are donating the $50k advance to the ACLU. I read somewhere that publishers clear roughly $5 profit per hardcover book selling at $28 a piece. Do they really think they’re going to clear 10,000 copies? Who’s buying them? I live in New York and, really, I don’t see even the proglodytes I run across shelling out $30 for this.
It’s sort of the same thing with a lot of the Sci-Fi and YA you bring up. It all just seems like it’s incredibly limited in its appeal. Is there some sort of source to get some sort of sense on how well any of this stuff actually sells? Or is that something the publishing industry now thinks is beside the point?
Just got done taking a nap. Supposedly Viagra has anecdotal evidence for helping jet lag, so why not? Popped one of the ones I bought over there.
Plumbing failure?
No idea why it would work. It’s proven on mice, anecdotal on humans. Got nothing to lose.
We’ll ask again in four hours.
‘Doc, you gotta help me! I can’t… It won’t go down, I can’t even go pee, I’m peeing all over the walls and even on the ceiling!’
Very sorry Swiss, but I just don’t have time to put together a new article on the Navy situation. Too much going on (work 1 and work 2…and I still want to try and make one vid a week).
That said…a couple quick notes.
1. The Benfold incident this weekend was a nothing-story. They were doing an evolution where the tug was towing them – most likely with a line rigged over the foc’sle just to make sure our boatswains can rig stuff properly, etc. Our ship would have had engines turned on but shafts not turning. The tug lost power while they were towing and drifted back till it bumped against them. I *could* be mistaken, but that’s what I’ve gotten from all the stories. There is a drill where you tow a vessel (also normally a tug), but obviously the tug losing power in that case wouldn’t work that way.
2. Since I can’t write up anything…I will suggest – for those with the time – to take a look at the comprehensive review put out ….(damn…I really missed this release date) this month. Khaki in the unit had a sit down to discuss this over the weekend – even though we’re not a surface fleet unit. A LOT of clarifying material on this one – it is 177 pages, but you can skip around in the .pdf pretty quick and a lot of it is repetition. I will definitely concur about the mismatches in gear even between ships of the same class a couple hull numbers apart and all the crap we have to deal with in some of those cases. The example from Subs vs. Surface is a good consideration – new gear/upgrade on a sub – everyone’s qual is pulled until they’re trained on the new stuff. Surface fleet – “here’s the manual, figure it out during your next watch, we gotta get underway.”….of course subs also rotate full crews on the same hull and don’t have to be ready to get underway for special taskings on a minute’s notice most of the time
I will say that 7th fleet operations was definitely a different animal than 3rd fleet – and I’m glad I didn’t have to deal directly with that – hope we can get this stuff squared away soon but it means a LOT more folks and that means more money too.
So what you’re saying is we should submerge the entire fleet then. (I have heard that is an actual position in fleet modernization circles.)
Subs have very little utility for most of the missions we perform right now.
How are you supposed to be a global force for good when nobody can even see you?
I thought he meant to sink it.
Thanks for the top-line and links. I don’t buy the Actions in the comprehensive review. Absolutely concur that there is a gross lack of training, but I note a distinct gap regarding general leadership errors.
Jezebel comments are like a strip-club to witness the inner, naked-workings of the progressive mind
Wait, I thought that these dancers are ‘victims’ and so their job should be banned to save them?
Don’t tell ’em about independent hairdressers having to rent their chairs.
they’re utterly unable to grasp that the ability to “rent” out a place of work is a market which favors and prioritizes the rights of the freelancer
it aligns the interests of the retail-property-owner and the business proprietor, and provides a liquidity which is absolutely necessary in poorer/low-income areas.
because few people can afford to buy property and establish themselves as a commercial legal entity, the ones that can – esp. when they are seedy and dingy – keep themselves afloat by renting their facility out to independent contractors. And those contractors, if they are successful enough, can afford to eventually take their business along with them elsewhere if they decide to relocate. If a stripper thinks there’s too much competition in Club A, she go hang her shingle @ Club B. It ensures that there’s a robust supply of ‘talent’ and no barrier to entry.
of course, progressive idiots think cities should force every strip club to provide full-time-salary, benefits, health insurance, pensions, etc to every single stripper…. and would consequently put them all out of business, or drive them underground.
My barber quit his first salon to work a gig with set hours. He was paid a wage, plus tips. By the logic of that Jezebel moron, he should have been much better off than he had been scheduling chair time and renting by the hour. Of course, now he couldn’t schedule his day around the clients he’d booked in advance: they’d have to schedule with him whenever he was available. And he couldn’t duck in for a couple hours to cut the clients he’d booked back to back, then leave: he was scheduled there all day. He could only hope for walk-ins to break the monotony, and ended up wasting a lot of downtime he’d much rather have spent with his kids. So he quit that place after a couple months and went back to renting a chair from the evil capitalist who let him schedule his own clients and set his own hours.
““They chose the best looking girls they could, mostly Hispanic, white or exotic looking, and put them on a pedestal.”
The horror.
Don’t you know, the strip clubs are discriminating against poor Big Bertha and Tranny Tracy.
265 comments? At 5:45pm?
DON’T ANY OF YOU WORK?!?
Hardly.
*Speaks slowly and loudly*
I know that in your rimey, barbarian lands Thanksgiving has already passed, but for those of us south of the Great White North, it is the beginning of our season of thanks, and our labor productivity slows to a crawl.
Yea. Verily. Amen.
I’d be thankful if you could get that report to me by Wednesday afternoon.
Not much work right now, A/C can be a bitch
95 in LA on Thanksgiving day.
*puts on sunglasses*
Oh, goody. I’ll be outside putting up a barricade wall tomorrow morning in 37 degrees.
Interesting. Its only forecasted to be 89 in Phoenix.
*dons FR for Turkey Fryer*
You’re going to deep fry?
I’m on the fence. Just started the citrus brine.
I have for the past 3 years. Dangerous, but delicious.
It’s definitely an outdoor activity. Away from the overhang, for those who like to learn the hard way.
Certainly not. I’m a tenured professor and I have a reputation to maintain.
My commute was zero minutes, I was already at my desk.
I got off work at 2:30 PM ET (the real time zone).
News you can use.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631484-500-women-dont-need-to-switch-off-to-climax-orgasm-study-shows/
Need help cleansing your conscience of the original sin of inheriting your parents’ hard-earned wealth? Never fear, Resource Generation is here, to help you learn about income inequality and how you can get woke by donating to progressive causes (like them, of course). Wouldn’t be so bad if their activism didn’t also push for involuntary redistribution.
Nothing wrong with common hucksters separating fools from their money.
Oh, God. I just looked up Glenn Thrush. What is it with loathsomely ugly sex pests and that goddamn fedora?
Nothing left to cut….
Restorative discipline is the new buzz word for bilking the St. Paul school district.
Fuck, I need to get some of that grift.
CBC finally reduces itself to a level of 2002 progressive blog, asks whycome PM Zoolander no talk good like President Bartlett?
Estimated 1200 words of insipidness, resulting in no conclusion or answer to the question in the headline.
Now Franken has gone too far!!!
How dare you spoil the Great Minnesoda Get Together? (aka the State Fair).
If conservative women were smart, they’d keep on making up accusations against Franken. The sillier the better. Any time they got any questioning, they could shout “How dare you not believe the woman?”
No better way to put an end to this crap.
He violated me with a fried Snickers bar!
My mom is freaking nuts. Apparently we are all witnessing days that are just like the early days of Nazi rule in Germany. I asked her who they are rounding up first, no reply yet. At least my dad is sane I guess
Fortunately for me, my mom is a long time Republican, and dad, he’s 86, he just watches every news network all day long and gets it all mixed up. Sometimes the stuff he says is comical, but sort of sad because his mind is starting to slip. I just agree with him. No progs in my near family. Well, there is maybe one or two on my wife’s side, but they don’t talk about politics all the time, actually hardly at all. Most of my political discussion family wise is with my son-in-law who is about as libertarian as you can get and it’s easy because we agree on mostly everything.
Must be nice, my mom and step dad got banned from the family Thanksgiving. It drives me nuts. She should know better than to double down when talking to me about politics but no. Last time she laughed at me for saying Obama killed a US citizen with a drone. Even gave her a WaPo article confirming it, then crickets.
Yeah, I am lucky in that way. Even though, like I said, there’s a couple of leftist leaners on the wife’s side, in that culture it is unthinkable to put politics over family, so it’s just not going to happen. And on my side, everyone is either pretty conservative or libertarian leaning or just apolitical. There’s virtually zero chance of a Thanksgiving or Christmas blowup over politics.
One of the people I work with for one of my clients, who is very left leaning, a nice person, but very lefty, was telling me last Turkey Day that there was one one hell of a blowup and fight at their Thanksgiving. I didn’t ask and he didn’t say, but I know it was a political fight.
My family were all Archie Bunker types.
Just the way I like it. Though to be honest I just picked the name because I wanted people to hear his voice when they read my posts
I always read your posts in Edith’s voice, to be honest.
That’s cool, probably better thatvway. I always read yours like a Prince song. That is Prince in your avatar, right.
Of course!
Seriously though, who is that. Been meaning to ask
I don’t know. It’s just labeled “Portrait of a Mulatto”.
I had an acquaintance who we had to issue a edict about discussing politics. He’s one of those Lefties that has to let the world know about his views and by gosh darn it, if you don’t tow the lion, to him you’re an evil person.
There is one person who I have to work with, occasionally, who cannot STFU about politics. It’s like constant. I actually like the guy otherwise, and I’m just thinking of a nice way to tell him to knock it the fuck off. Guy already knows I don’t agree with him. I’m not sure what the point is. I don’t think he’s trying to be annoying, I think it’s that he’s obsessed and can’t help it. I’ve even hinted a couple of times that I don’t like discussing politics at work and don’t think it’s a good idea, but that seems to have had zero effect.
Just like Obama, your co-worker’s biggest failing is messaging. He just hasn’t managed to find the right words yet, but once he does, you’ll have a eureka moment and agree with him 100%.
Yeah, right, because doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results really isn’t stupid.
Jap-tackle him when he’s not looking.
Jap-tackle
Is this one of those weird butthole things?
I think he may weight 90 lbs soaking wet and I’m around 200. How many ribs can I break? He’s over 60. Maybe a broken hip as a bonus?
“Is this one of those weird butthole things?”
Someone has not been following the Glib version of Rand Paul attack.
Someone has not been following the Glib version of Rand Paul attack.
Either that or I have some new information to add to it.
Well, if you have some new information, then spill it, shitlord!
It was a weird Japanese butthole thing gone horribly
wrongright. Forget 2 Girls 1 Cup, now it’s 2 Men 1 Lawnmower.Wait a minute, the person who tackled Paul was a man? Thought his/her name was a Karen or something….
He did have a girl name, but it wasn’t Karen.
I did actually know that but I went a couple days thinking he got beat up by a chick. I think it was Rene
Most of my family is conservative/libertarian, but my brother in law’s family is more old school Democrats. I’ve become the shit-stirrer when either side start talking politics, pointing out the flaws in the politician they’re praising by referencing things they complained about politicians from the other team doing. Negative reinforcement over time has led to very few political arguments being started around me, and none in my house.
my mom last night bemoaned how awful it was that the US was evil and racist when they kicked blacks out of their homes to build highways.
so i said I was against ED and the highways.
then she defended the highways and eminent domain.
all in the span of a minute.
So i just kept pointing that fact out till she stormed out. it kept going “fair prices!” “who picks? you just said it was unfair when they did it to blacks. which is it?”
good times.
Dad sat down and watched, beer in hand and a grin on his face.
Wait, so we’re brothers?
That totally described my mom, though I don’t think she gives a shit about black people, she just likes people to think she does.
“That totally described my mom, though I don’t think she gives a shit about black people, she just likes people to think she does.”
So, typical lefist?
it was hilarious to see her defend ED when being accused of kicking blacks out of their homes.
“no if we fairly compensate them!!” “thats what you just claimed ED does. why are you in favor of a majority kicking blacks out?”
“if its a fair price!!!”
“who defines fair? if they don’t sell, it wasn’t enough money.”
“well the community!”
“so then you’re in favor of racists paying blacks $10 for their homes.”
“hidasgohdbnalhdf”
Doom, you need to have a discussion with your mom about reality vs feelz.
I do. She stormed out when I refused to concede that a price could be fair if the ‘seller’ doesn’t agree.
Dad was just enjoying the show. I had her on the ropes. I hope she had to think about it for a while after the conversation ended.
I have the feeling that my mom is more libertarian, but she generally doesn’t talk politics. She was a teacher for a long time, for the last decade or so as a substitute in some crappy school districts. I still remember when something came up about drug legalization, and I asked my dad, “What’s easier for a high school kid to get: beer, or meth?” He immediately responded, “Beer.”, and my mom went, “No. Meth.”
Yup. My little sister will end up marrying a black dude though so mom will get hers
My wife who is a liberal even thinks that the panic about Trump is idiotic. She doesn’t like him at all but she did make one poignant point. That whoever won wouldn’t make that much of a difference in her life anyway, so why bother freaking out. Most people feel that way but unfortunately you do have some who are going crazy and panicking that Trump is President.
I should despise Trump but I can’t bring myself to hate him and the biggest reasons are all the TDS stuff and knowing the alternative would have been much worse. They are going to drive me to vote for him next go around I’m ashamed to say
I told my wife that if they decided to run Warren or Harris, I’m holding my nose and voting for Trump. I’m not a fan of Trump but damn it, I don’t want those two to ever get any more power than they already have right now.
I’m finding it just about impossible to hate Trump, he’s the most libertarian president so far, of my lifetime. I know it’s not intentional, but I’ll take it anyway, it’s the best we’re getting unless we can elect Rand Paul.
The fact that he has the establishment losing their shit shows that there is some value to having Trump in office.
I loathe listening to him speak, but the hysteria he wrings out of lefties like endless sputtering hate sponges makes it impossible to hate him.
That’s kinda where I am, if I could forget Sessions exists I would almost wear a MAGA hat around.
I’m with you.
My SO is as far left as you get. Active in the Woman’s bar. An attorney who is active against all sort of causes I despise.
We make it work. Thing is, every family member she has (the Jewish country club set) is as anti-Trump as they get.
That panic is making me change my vote from last election…and I’m not alone. He’s a terrible guy, who I object to most of the time…yet the alternative is worse.
Fuckers. You bastards will make me vote for him. Grrr.
Before the election I was ending a lot of conversations with “And fuck you for making me defend Trump.”
I made that observation back in 2004 and got blocked by three people on LiveJournal. I can imagine how that would go now with Derpbook and Trump Derangement Syndrome so virulent it makes Bush Derangement Syndrome look sane.
based on recent events, BG libertarians are first to be attacked.
I’ll cover you if you’ll cover me.
Bulgarian libertarians?
We live in a secret libertarian paradise. I’d tell u where it is but we don’t want a bunch o riff raff spoiling it.
They make good AK’s drugar.
My wife who was a ‘socialist’ when we met, loves Trump. It’s only slightly annoying, I mean it’s much better than when she was a socialist. Now she’s even a libertarian a couple days a week, I mean at certain times of the day. Not sure one can wish for any better from wiminz.
I’m pretty sure I mentioned this before but my wife is a public librarian (not unionized) and when she read about the Chicago teacher’s salaries, she went on a tirade that basically ended with: fuck those assholes. It also dawned on her that as a property taxpayer, those assholes where extorting her and others who pay city/county taxes.
My wife, who is retired now, was a teacher at a state run school and a public defender after getting her law degree. I remember her telling me that her country could never make cuts to her pension from her teaching job. This was one our earlier discussions about socialism vs capitalism. I told her ‘they will when they run out of other people’s money’. And damned if I wasn’t right. I think I had to sleep on the sofa for about a week after telling her ‘remember me telling you about the part where they run out of other’s people money? This is it’.
My mom is like that as well. I keep trying to talk her off the ledge, but it’s not working.
My parents (and my dad’s wife) are all hardcore baby boomer liberals.
(my dad’s story for anyone who hasn’t heard it: In 2012 after Obama’s re-election he told me that Obama should appoint Paul Krugman as Treasury Secretary. I said it was a bad idea, because if you gave Krugman government power he’d have random cities bombed so they could benefit from the economic benefit of rebuilding. He didn’t like my joke (I wasn’t joking)).
Tbh I’m not sure you’d ever have to worry about Krugabe attempting to put any of his policies into effect. I think he’s savvy enough to know that his policy recommendations are only worth what NYT pays him so long as they’re never implemented.
So you feel my pain. It’s frustrating to be sure
Rewriting history has begun.
The left have been rewriting history since the beginning of the left. Now they own the public school system here and so most young people think that Mao and Stalin are some sort of heroes and that capitalism is the cause of all woes for humans.
I remember in school we talked about slavery and the Holocaust but never deeply touched upon the gulags and the Cultural Revolution. To my shame, I was damn near a Communist when I was 18 until a friend of mine who family came from Poland ripped me apart for having the idea that Communism is a good thing.
Yeah, it’s sort of odd that most Europeans who truly understand and so hate communism are from regions formerly under soviet control. If you look at Germany’s last election map, you can see that most voters supporting the right wing AfD, are those living in East Berlin. Funny that.
~~~you ran?~~~
‘wing’ Edit fairy?
Thanks wonderful all benevolent edit fairy!
“Oops! Kristen Stewart’s model girlfriend Stella Maxwell narrowly avoids a wardrobe malfunction as she struggles to contain her modesty at Victoria’s Secret after-party”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-5101765/Stella-Maxwell-avoids-wardrobe-malfunction.html
Y’know, the thing about a model, she’s got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll’s eyes.
Modesty.
Victoria’s Secret after-party.
Pick one.
“THIS is why Bunty got banned. Hugs. Twitter banned him for sending hugs to a some asshole who was busting his balls over nothing.”
https://twitter.com/Pr1mitivPatriot/status/932359338081050624
Who’s Bunty? I did a google search, but got a bunch of things that I presume have nothing to do with this kerfuffle.
Yeah, much as I’m skeptical of twitter bans nowadays, this one does seem to be for a legitimate reason (encouraging hug.. er, harassment).
Now, whether they do it on the other side of the political spectrum…
I don’t think he was encouraging harassment.
Whichever officer runs the Facebook page of the Leachville, Arkansas Police Department (1) is apparently really prone to accepting the truth of internet hoaxes and (b) is apparently illiterate.
tl;dr: Police department posts warning that you can OD on fentanyl from dust left on grocery cart handles from Wal-Mart. Internet laughs at them. PD responds:
Police department. I mean we’re talking about the same guys who can’t differentiate between tomato plants and cannabis. Not likely I’m looking them up for accurate scientific information.
He should have to pay restitution to the two guys who spent all day licking cart handles to try and get high. My time is worth something you know
Thicc
Nice. Yeah, thicc used to be a desirable thing, before everyone became convinced by the modern fashion industry that anorexic women with no T&A are somehow the most desirable.
That’s just the gay fashion designers.
best reply?
VICC
So I am warching two kids practice breaking boards with a spin kick. The black belt instructing them is under 12. Am I wrong to want the kid holding the board to get kicked in the face? Because that would be funny as hell.
You are a bad, bad person. But that was already assumed as you are here.
Okay. I was getting a little worried there.
So I get this email today. Not sure if it’s even real. It was an “Economics” playlist? I have folders but I don’t know if they are playlist? The only videos I would have in economics would most likely be libertarian it anti-Marxist videos. Anyway
The YouTube community has flagged one or more of your playlists as inappropriate. Once a playlist is flagged, the YouTube Team reviews it for compliance with our Community Guidelines. Upon review, we have determined that the following playlist violates these guidelines, and it has been removed:
Your account has received one Community Guidelines strike, which will expire in three months. Additional violations could prevent you from posting content to YouTube or even lead to your account getting terminated.
For more information on YouTube’s Community Guidelines and how they are enforced, please visit the Help Center. Please note that deleting this video will not resolve the strike on your account. For more information about how to appeal a strike, please visit this page in the Help Center.
Sincerely,
– The YouTube Team
So them shortly thereafter I get this even though I didn’t appeal anything. I’ve never created nor uploaded a video to utube so not sure what their problem is.
Thank you for submitting your playlist appeal to YouTube.
After further review, we have determined that your playlist doesn’t violate our Community Guidelines.
– The YouTube Team
Change your password immediately. Don’t click any links in the emails.
Hmm… Prolly not bad idea. I went to account in question. There was one deleted video in my economics folder. Have no idea what it was.
I’d add another layer to your tin foil hat. Just to be sure.
It sounds real to me. You have had wrong think, comrade! Repent from your wrong think or face more consequences!
These companies are committing suicide to placate entities which can never be satisfied, ever, by any means. Dumb shits.
wow.
You didn’t even make the videos? just gathered them in an organized way?
Still wrong think. Report to your corrections officer, wrong thinker!
Exactly. I add videos I like to folders. Videos that are on YouTube:). It’s like the cable company admonishing me for what I rec’d to my DVR. Retarded as hell. I guess other people can see them and some sjw probably had a meltdown. I’ll have to see if I can make them private. I’ve never thought about it because I really never cared.
I do the same thing. I have my trash response videos in one spot, a bunch of short stupid clips to share with friends. music in a few ones, a huge pile of unorganized liked videos. libertarian stuff. I probably shouldn’t pull a few folders out of that political one or else I’ll get the wrongthinker treatment too.
Well I was just looking at them and you can make them private. That economics video was public of course now it’s empty cause whatever was in there was deleted.
I recently recorded some Jordan Peterson videos. I know he’s been getting a lot of hate by the “gender is a social construct” crowd. Nothing they hate worse than facts. Facts are literally Hitler.
Gender is not a fucking social construct and neither is race. This is not science, it’s anti-science. When all the woke progs in academia think they aren’t going to be first up against the wall, they are wrong, again. Please find me an anthropologist or biologist who thinks that race and gender are social constructs. How in the fuck did these non-scientists take over academia? We are rapidly regressing as a species.
For your enjoyment. Skip to 10:20. About 11:40 the gender “expert” comes in.
https://youtu.be/kasiov0ytEc
There are plenty. Or do you think I’m a different species?
Race and species aren’t the same thing last time I checked.
Thus, you have proven my point.
What point?
Many people seem to believe that when someone says something is a “social construct”, they are saying it doesn’t exist. This is not true. What they are saying is that it isn’t a natural property. Let me provide another example. Color is a social construct. Now am I saying “red” isn’t real? Of course not. It is a scientific fact that the human eye can distinguish visible light from 390 nanometers to 700 nanometers. Likewise, when you take white light and view it through a prism, you will see the 7 colors of the rainbow.
Wait. Hold up. My wife says there are 8 colors. My Russian friend also says there are 8 colors. Both of them don’t understand how we can only see “blue”. Likewise, our Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese friends have no idea why we see 7, where there are clearly 6 colors. They have no idea what the hell this “green” stuff is. It’s clearly a shade of blue.
So, the wavelength of light is a natural property that is incontrovertible. You cannot argue with an oscilloscope if it tells you that it’s 530 nanometers. However, there is nothing in that information that will tell you whether or not we call the color we experience when we see that light as “green”, “yellow”, or “blue”, because color terminology is a social construct. Different languages and cultures can divide the spectrum in different ways. Now, as a native English speaker, I’m assuming that deep down in your bones that you know there are 7 colors. I do too, as I think in English. While I can generally get the difference between the two words in Thai for what we call “sky blue” and “ocean blue”, I can’t distinguish when one shade definitely becomes another like my wife can. Just as we intuitively know when blue becomes green, but native speakers of Japanese don’t.
Thus, unless you want to argue that current human ecotypes have diverged so much that their phenotypic differences warrant speciation, then there is no empirical natural property that can be used as a metric to objectively and definitively classify human ecotypes into racial categories. Similar to our spectrum of visible light, if we had the female population of Eurasia stand in a straight line, you might see a similar line of human physical difference, with Sophie Dee on one end and Asa Akira on the other. And what you will find is that different people from different cultures will divide that spectrum in different ways. Think about all the words they use for various shades of skin color in Brazil that we just don’t use here.
Does this mean Black People, White People, etc. don’t exist? Of course not. Does it mean that the physical differences between these groups are trivial? Not necessarily, particularly when it comes to a field like medicine. Does it mean that racial classifications have no utility in everyday conversation? No, just as much as I don’t refer to light by its wavelength (even if I had a cyborg computer brain which could do so.). However, what it does mean is that we can’t pretend racial classifications are based in some objective, scientific reality independent of human thought. The gravitational constant will be equal to the cube of the Planck length divided by the product of the Planck mass and the square of Planck time whether we exist or not. We cannot say the same of whether or not Tiger Woods is “black”.
For anyone interested in this topic, I recommend the following series of videos from Wireless Philosophy that discusses it in a clear and evenhanded way:
Race: Racial Ontology #1 (Introduction)
Race: Racial Ontology #2 (Naturalist Theories of Race)
Race: Racial Ontology #3a (Sociohistorical Theories of Race)
Race: Racial Ontology #3b (Sociohistorical Theories of Race)
There are genetic differences in races, this is a fact. Some of them obviously even have traces of DNA from different species. What’s next, we declare that different breeds of dogs are a social construct? Even though, like humans, they have different traits and respond differently to different things? Yes, all of us are sapiens now, yes we all are evolved from the same species that left Africa, or didn’t, 50,000 or more years ago. But environment pressures and genetic drift made us evolve into different races. Race is not a construct, it’s just science. It’s not a derogatory term, that is an invention of non-scientists. Maybe if we called ourselves breeds, that would be more PC?, I don’t know. Or we could just ignore science and embrace meaningless misguided political correctness? I myself want to appropriate some latina culture right now.
Correct, just as light can be propagated in different wavelengths.
No offense, but you don’t seem to have understood what I have written at all. Science is based in measurement of empirical phenomenon by way of fundamental physical constants. Unless you are arguing that human race is due to the very nature of the universe, much like the differences between the weak force, strong force, electromagnetic force, and gravitation, which is silly, then you cannot say the measurement of race is like the measurement of an electron. Science is objective, empirical measurement; I believe I have just shown to you why racial classification cannot be and isn’t an objective measure by the standards of science.
The phrase “social construct” isn’t derogatory either, but just because some people you don’t like/think are crazy employ it doesn’t make it meaningless. And it especially doesn’t make something “scientific”. To your point, It’s the fucking American Kennel Club that determines what constitutes a dog breed, for crying out loud, not the
HumanCanine Genome Project. It doesn’t mean that dogs aren’t different, but it does mean that how we classify those differences are, by definition, not scientific. There can be no debate that carbon sublimes at 6588 °F; there can be, however, debate as to whether or not a particular dog is representative of a particular breed. Got it?In addition to what HM is saying, the closest scientific analogue to “race” is haplotype/haplogroup. And that picture is a lot messier than what people think of as “race”.
To wit, you might call two people black based upon your observations of them, and others might agree with your classifications. But one of those people might be genetically closer to somebody you’d call white than to the other black guy.
And, of course, there’s the whole problem where two people might not agree on who is, and isn’t, a member of a particular race. Since there’s no clear genetic mapping, there’s no easy way to resolve that question “scientifically”.
Super late so probably no one will see this but just chiming in to back HM up. One of my majors (I double majored) was biological anthropology—and yes, I know, you hear anthropology and think of weirdos who live in the jungle studying the wise ways of the Amazonians or whatever, but that’s cultural anthro. Biological anthro is literally just biology but specifically focused on primates (including humans). Anyway, point is: there aren’t clear genetic markers for race. Sex (/”gender” if you want to go there) is absolutely scientifically clear and cannot be called a social construct. Race is not clear though. It is more correctly called a social construct.
All facts that progs don’t like are literally Hitlerian, therefore anybody spewing these facts need to be punched in the face. See the MSNBC reporter that I posted below who can’t hold her excitement over King Nazi Rand Paul getting punched.
Kasie Hunt is making MSNBC proud, says that Rand Paul assault resulting in 6 broken ribs is one of her favorite stories. We all can probably guess why. Oh, and of course she repeats the bullshit “lawn clipping” motive rather than mentioning that the attacker was a socialist.
More like Kasie Cunt, am I right?!?
As Moe Wanachuk says in Slap Shot, “That cunt is no good”
Christ, what an asshole.
Day 1 of Thanksgiving prep work has been completed. Two desserts have had the heavy lifting completed, a side dish has been completed, potatoes have been selected to be made into twice baked ones tomorrow, and a grazing snack has been completed. Beers on tap are all at the expected carbonation levels, wines and beers have been stashed in the appropriate cooling boxes to serve at optimal temperatures.
I have to contend with in Laws I can’t stand, what’s your address?
/Mercy!
You’ll have to make your way to the Cleveland, OH area. If all of the people asking to show up at my house do arrive, I may have to put more wine (homemade Pinot Grigio) in the fridge, and prep a keg to be swapped out in case one kicks.
Long drive, bummer, it sounds great, have a very good time,
They’re coming after Charlie Rose now.
—-Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/eight-women-say-charlie-rose-sexually-harassed-them–with-nudity-groping-and-lewd-calls/2017/11/20/9b168de8-caec-11e7-8321-481fd63f174d_story.html?utm_term=.b7729edde908
If they keep going at this rate, there aren’t going to be any liberal icons left.
If they keep going, there aren’t going to be many well known men, at all, that aren’t going to get ensnared in this shit show. I have to ask, at that point, what is it worth? When everyone is a criminal perv, what does it matter?
It will prove rape culture!
And then? Common sense human control?
We’ll all yawn and go back to what we were doing.
I certainly hope so, that would be a welcome development.
Shhhhh
Kathy Griffin complains she’s unemployable after being ‘blacklisted’ from Hollywood for Trump photo scandal
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/11/20/kathy-griffin-complains-shes-unemployable-after-being-blacklisted-from-hollywood-for-trump-photo-scandal.html
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Kathy Griffin can’t stop whining.
In a new YouTube video, the comedian complained about not being able to find work after she says she was blacklisted by Hollywood for posing with a severed, bloodied head of President Trump.
“I’m getting a lot of online hate from trolls who think I’ve lost my mind. And I am admitting I lost my mind because it’s what made me a star in the first place,” she said in the video titled “Kathy Griffin’s State of the Union.”
“I’m fully in the middle of a blacklist, a Hollywood blacklist. It is real. I’m not booked on any talk shows. I’m selling tickets worldwide which is really hard when you don’t have any kind of a television platform and kind of nobody has your back,” the 57-year-old lamented.
The former reality TV personality said that while many think she’s crazy, others think she is on to something.
“I just want you guys to know that when I get home I don’t have one single day of paid work in front of me…my legal bills are through the roof…I still say the end goal is for younger women and younger LGBT folks or disenfranchised people of any kind can watch me survive, and with a sense of humor,” Griffin said.
Griffin has been plagued by a whirlwind of negative media reports after she lampooned POTUS by posing with his decapitated head in a May shot by controversial photographer Tyler Shields. She quickly apologized but then reneged on her statements saying she was “no longer sorry.”
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[Nelson laugh]
comedians on the right are having trouble finding spots, and agencies are dropping them.
they’ve turned to direct sales and patreon/paypal/patreonsucks or whatever.
maybe she just isn’t selling anything people want to buy?
Awww, poor baby, who only wanted to behead people she doesn’t agree with politically. What is this world coming to?
shit, I thought it was Silverman, oops Griffin, wait…. JOOOOSSSS!
Uh, Ms. Griffin…? Just because you had some level of fame doesn’t mean you were ever a “star”. What, exactly, do you believe you “starred” in?
Looks like some other folks had the same idea as me of using a tank to pull a trailer:
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Despite completely overmatching its peers in firepower and armor, the B1 had major flaws. It could only achieve a maximum speed of 17 miles per hour while contemporaries typically averaged 25 miles per hour. The B1’s range of 110 miles wasn’t actually worse than that of German medium tanks, but it required tons more fuel. The French army even experimented with having the B1s tow extra fuel supplies in a trailer, then decided to rely on fuel trucks, which were vulnerable and in short supply.
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http://warisboring.com/47857-2/
I like the idea of using a trailer to carry infantry. I’m sure there are disadvantages, but I like the idea of having 1 vehicle do 2 roles.
On a side note, if you took the turret off Bradley, you’d have a decent APC. That would be easier than developing a whole new vehicle.
Didn’t you watch the video posted a few days ago? i’ll find it…
Question for all of us. What do you tell people about this website? I feel like a part of something, just not sure how to describe it. This isn’t a private Website, but we all know each other and welcome just about anyone, and it’s a great group of people to interact with. So, I call this my Home Website, we all abandoned TOS and found a Home, and thanks to all the Webmasters, what’s your take?
my brother calls it “that libertarian website.”
I’d say home site is right. it’s a news and opinion aggregate, random facts that i’d never learn anywhere else, and hilariously gross fiction. I hope it’s fiction.
HM knows best regards fiction
/DON”T CLICK
What did my links ever do to you?
See, I didn’t click, you’re a tricky one, I know
We are the ones who wouldn’t drink TOS kool-aid about this.
At this point, I’m not even sure we outnumber the progs.
Squishy Flake, a proponent of “common-sense gun reform”, is considered a libertarian conservative by NRO? LMFAO!!
I think the point is – limited govt as a concept has very limited appeal, even within the party that notionally supports it.
I’m not sure which is worse, that the Republicans really don’t give a shit about limited govt and the constitution, or that the Libertarian Party keeps nominating retread Republicans for President.
Too many people depend on the gov for food on the table at this point, hard to beat that at the polls.
I disagree, but libertarianism can only be promoted on an incremental basis rather than as a full package. Libertarianism in small doses actually has a wide audience, from what I can see. Mention stuff like entitlement reform, though, and you’re asking to be taken out of town on a rail.
Aye, there’s the rub! Loss aversion’s a bitch.
I describe it as a wretched hive of scum and villainy… where I fit in.
Sanity-keepers
Kinda like oath-keepers, but, well, I’m sure you get it. I’ve referred to it as my echo chamber to the wife before
Sometimes I mention it as “That place I always post.”
“What place is that?”
“Oh, just some site.”
Life needs firewalls.
Or maybe firebreaks is the better way to put it.
Boy, that’s a good question, Yusef. I guess I don’t have the answer you’re looking for. I don’t dare describe it to anyone, as I know very few people that would “get it.” The politics is one thing, but how do you prepare them for The Hat and The Hair or A Path To Wellness or Secret Nazi President?
What I do know is that I really like this place. Like you say, it’s my “Home Website” and, I too, feel like I am part of something. I’ve also had the pleasure to meet 3 Glibs (plus one spouse) in real life and they were even cooler in person than they seem here. I’ve also had some good one-on-one e-conversations with a few others. And I can’t go a week without learning something from someone here. And I don’t mean random trivia quiz winning stuff -although there’s also plenty of that- but real, useful stuff.
My point? I don’t know. I’m just happy the founders created this place.
today I learned
One of the scholars ISIS likes to cite is a 14th century dude named Ibn Taymiyyah. He literally wrote the book on jihad. At the time, Mongol hordes were gearing up to attack the Middle East, so there was a demand for religious rulings regarding just war. In the video where ISIS torched that Jordanian pilot, they cited a fatwa which said that unbelievers should be executed in public, hence the video. However, they misread a word:
سائغ
vs
شائع
The first word has one dot on the last letter and the second has 3 dots on the first letter. This changes the meaning completely. With the first word, the key phrase means “execution is not permitted”. With the second word, the phrase becomes “execution shall be in public”.
Like any other book, Arabic books also have typos.
Many Islamic scholars pointed out this error, but the ISIS guys basically said “who cares? you’re all crusader-zionist stooges.”
As some Christians proclaim – sure 30-something men shouldn’t be cruising jailbait, but we can’t vote for a Democrat.
Today, the mental giants of Current Affairs ponder the eternal question: IS THE STUPIDITY OF OUR AGE UNIQUE?
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/is-the-stupidity-of-our-age-unique
One very stupid belief is not mentioned on their list. See if you can guess which one.
That we are about to see the Libertarian Moment?
[enthusiastic but very polite applause]
“Everything Is Fantastic Nowadays!” and the “Everything is Garbage Nowadays!” schools of thought”
So some has discovered the cognitive dissonance of the left and finds it interesting? Everything IS fantastic nowadays compared to, say pretty much any time ever, from the dawn of human history. This guy just failed to break it down a little more to learn the truth. It goes like this:
1. Enlightened prog is president. Best times ever!
2. Rethuglican is president. Worst time ever in history!
There really is nothing else to it.
Wait you mean someone might reject The Best of All Possible Worlds?
It’s odd that a person will stand outside the eternal vices that mar humanity (our proclivities for violence and sex and substance abuse, inter alia), will in fact stand in judgment of those things and suggest that humanity would be better off without them, but fail to recognize that we’ve gotten where we are despite them. Maybe even because of them.
good metal with female vocals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu4FPeenyTU
Excelsior!
Janet Yellen to resign from Federal ReserveJanet Yellen to resign from Federal Reserve
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Monday she will resign from her spot on the board of governors when her term as chair ends in February.
I’m sure the left will shit their pants no matter who Trump picks. Looks like some guy named Jerome Powell will get it.
You can say that again.
who should he pick?
who would be the most infuriating to them?
Ron Paul?
Probably too old at this point, as much fun as that would be.
Peter Schiff? Friedman?
Just read about the appointment process. It’s very conservative. No chance to upset the apple cart.
My fantasy right now is to be Trump’s closet adviser. You want to see some real pants shitting from the left? Well, do you?
From the stripper article:
Sounds terrible.
I thought that was why they get paid…
Get woke, son.
Woke? Son? Me? sure about that Junior?
Both of you, get the fuck off my lawn!
/hides in nearby bushes
Does woke mean get a boner?
So they were ugly-shaming the other strippers?
You are ugly shaming any women you aren’t shoving cash into her undergarments.
“They chose the best looking girls they could, mostly Hispanic, white or exotic looking, and put them on a pedestal”
I’m failing to see the problem here.
My Dog is trying Tomato soup, She likes it, she also loves Grilled Cheese so…..
Stop being a prude and give her some beer! Beer is what dogs crave!
She Loves a good Stout, like seriously, IPA, meh, sniff and lick but Stouts, Let’s just say, she can get expensively drunk for a Puppy
Your dog has good taste.
My wife’s grandfather died this afternoon. He was a tough old man. 87 years old. He had a leak in large intestine about 2 months ago and went septic. He had surgery to remove his colon and put in a bag. Doctor didn’t think he would survive and recover, but he did. He was still recovering,but it looked like he would be able to get well enough to get home eventually. He was in the physical therapy ward of the nursing home where my wife works.
About 2 oclock today he had a heart attack and died. That sucks.
Sorry to hear that Lach, my condolences to you and your wife.
Sorry for your loss, bro. Death is overrated, it really sucks. I for one am against it. /echoing Peter Thiel.
This shit really hits home for me. I lost my grandmother on my mother’s side, we were very close, almost 20 years ago, then my grandfather years after. Now my own parents are in their 80s. Life really doesn’t really reward you too much for getting older. I just keep thinking, man, everyone just keeps fucking dying on me.
Sorry about that, i lost my parents the same day and it hurt,
Best Wishes
Fuck. I’m sorry Lachowsky.
My condolences. The girlfriend just got a call that her grandmother was in the hospital today. Thankfully, it wasn’t serious, and she should be discharged tomorrow.
Damn, bud, that sucks. My sympathies to you and your wife and your kids. Just because time marches on doesn’t mean we have to be happy about it.
Thanks guys. I appreciate it.
My condolences to you and yours.
A good reminder for us all to dole out plenty of hugs and kindness this Thanksgiving.
Ouch. I am very sorry to hear that. My condolences Lachowsky.
For what it’s worth, my condolences.
Sorry.