Happy Tuesday Links. I’m busier than a shredder in an EPA office. You’ll have to entertain yourselves today.
- Interesting, US GHG emissions in 2016 fell to 1992 levels while “green” Germany’s emissions were increasing. Its almost like the fewer government mandates on power generation you have (and the US still has a lot) the faster you can respond to cleaner technology coming online. Please ignore the ridiculously jingoist last sentence of the article that “Washington” is doing anything good for this.
- Remember, gender is a construct, but having a testosterone factory in your body until you’re 30 being the best way to get strong is fucking science. Transgender athlete wins women’s weightlifting competition.
- Hmm. This looks like one of those specific, actionable intelligence things. Or else the TSA is suddenly trying to look useful during budgeting time. Or it could just be rumo(u)r and innuendo.
- As if I didn’t hate the idealized Hipster Millenial enough. Real men follow the George McFly school of “bird” watching.
- Autoplay at the link, but finding the real Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLouche is worth it for me.
- More evidence that my favorite example of “settled science” isn’t. To be very clear, Relativity explains everything we could experience at the time of its formation perfectly, but the Dark Matter asterisk seems to be developing more problems. A cautionary tale to why no theory should ever be considered safe from testing.
And I’ve been listening to this today. Mostly because its off a damn good album from a completely unexpected source. Another unexpected curveball from the same source
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290 responses to “Tuesday Afternoon Links”
TrumpCare is going down in flames. Yay.
(21 defections = No more majority here)
Senator Mike Lee expresses the correct sentiment:
I hope you are right.
Maybe they’ll try again and pretend they are conservative this time.
Maybe they’ll try again and pretend they are conservative this time.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Same source, likely done in the Senate as well
So, here’s whats going to happen: The R’s are going to revolt, Trump is going to take his ball and go home as he is wont to do, Obamacare is going to come out unscathed, and the dems are going to cheer and give us the finger, as THEY are wont to do.
And Obamacare will continue its death spiral, which
will now bewas always going to be the GOP’s fault.So basically, the Hard Rs will save their own party from the stupidity of “doing something”? I’m not sure whether to like or dislike. I guess I will hope that maybe this puts off Single Payer another 8-10 years.
Except that it keeps the current monstrosity going.
What was any better about the replacement? There was nothing to deregulate anything in the replacement. It was just going to lift the Cadillac Tax and rearrange the deck chairs to make the gaping hole look like a water feature.
J.B.-
See my reply from last night.
Our favorite US attorney gets a job molding the minds of the next generation of lawyers:
Prett Bharara gets a job at NYU School of Law
No worries. In my experience the lawyers are already emotionally and intellectually broken before they enter law school.
If we weren’t, we wouldn’t have gone to law school in the first place.
This is accurate.
Can we endow a woodchipper for the school?
Seriously, a bronze woodchipper statue would be the definition of hilarity. I’ll chip in a few bucks.
Chip, chip, hooray!
my keyboard survived that, somehow.
Hillary-arity!
Maybe we could just mail him a few tons of wood chips at the school – to you know, help his lectures.
I’m in for $20
We could just send him some Fargo DVD’s from Amazon.
Remember the cops who raided the medical marijuana shop in Santa Ana, CA, tampered with security camera, and munched on edibles while on camera?
One of the cops is getting his job back. With full back pay
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
It’s not like the taxpayers are respon-
*Reads Card*
Oh, my mistake.
The War on Drugs is evil, and the people carrying it out are evil.
Preach, Ted. Preach
Ticking clocks?
Okay, EA This is not funny! I ordered a physical copy to avoid the network delay on install. What is the point of Amazon shipping me a DVD case with no DVD?
novelty?
I hear the running looks
great. My roommate says he likes it so far.Can you do a game review when you finally get your disk? I’m intrigued but I’m afraid andromeda is going to be Mass Effect: Inquisition and I’m not that interested in playing an offline single player MMO
I think I will.
I’ll see if I can remember to grab screenshots too.
Please do!
I had some trouble getting screenshots, but I’ve worked that out. I’ve been taking notes. I should have something by the end of the week.
I still haven’t finished Inquisition, it’s just so hard to get into
I like it. Still haven’t finished it, but I like it.
Did you read the fine print?
Which one? The one in the amazon page that did not indicate it was diskless at the time I put the order in, or the EULA?
The first one.
I went back, and the product page still has the two options “Buy New” and “Buy Digital” I bought new. I went through the entire product page and nowhere did it say there would be no disc in the box.
That really is outlandish.
I need sleep I completely misread diskless…
No, I did not get an EPA official in the mail.
I was thinking a Kiwi weight lifter. Or Kiwian? Kiwish? Whatever you call someone from New Zealand.
Yes it’s true, your honor, this man has no dick!
Perhaps my favorite Bill Murray quote
Vaporware.
Okay, the download is finally at “Playable” I will start the data collection for my review.
::rubs hands* together in anticipation::
*yeah, hands…totally
Huh, a bland dvd.
[narrows gaze]
I will buy this just to hear Natalie Dormer say things.
HAWT.
Physical copy? For PC? I didn’t realize there were people who still did that. You know, Origin let’s you preload the game several days before it releases. No need to worry about clogged up bandwidth from everyone downloading it at the same time.
DVD? WTF is a DVD? I’ve been thinking this afternoon if I should download this thing or not. See, if not for this ancient DVD thing you speak of, you could already be telling me if it’s worth downloading.
F-
Cultural enrichment t work in Denmark. Order a pepperoni or sausage pizza – get your ass beat.
So, I love you too, but I sure as hell cannot read whatever fucking Aramaic Sanskrit adorns that particular website.
young couple was beaten up in the street: ‘She must not fucking eat pork on his pizza!’
-chrome translate
Just hit “translate”.
Google translate of headline: ” Young couple was beaten up in the street: ‘She not fucking eat pork on his pizza!” lol
“”Suddenly a young of different ethnic origin rushing and strikes the young girl gratuitous in my head and she subsequently lost hearing in one ear. Right now.”
Chrome translate is awesome.
+1 English as she is spoke
That’s how the owners manual on my Saab read. I read that one more than any other car I’ve owned because it was fun.
Jewish girls don’t cry. They Saab.
I love how Google Translated this: awarded her male acquaintances several punches and kicks. “You my friend won yourself a free punch to the head and a bonus kick in the ass”.
I can help
There’s a link on that site that Dianne Feinstein suggested Trump would resign. And you thought TDS was bad in the States.
And a story about a footballer getting killed by a crocodile.
“Footballer” always sounds like a fetish to me.
It is, Drake, it is…
Isn’t that the subject of Jesse’s post last night?
Foreign news on the USA is absurd. All they do is watch CNN and get it wrong, which makes it even derpier than the source derp it came from.
Its almost like the fewer government mandates on power generation you have (and the US still has a lot) the faster you can respond to cleaner technology coming online.
Something something tinfoil hatted peanutz!
What are you hiding, Trump?
In his short White House tenure, President Trump has already set a record for histrionic tantrums against the media — whether attacking CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times or MSNBC for revealing his 2005 tax return, as he did last week. He’s actually pursuing a well-worn path of American presidents blaming the press for their problems.
Five decades of reporting have taught me that whenever a president starts screeching about the media, it’s a sure sign he’s in hot water and fearing revelations about some policy disaster, damaging mendacity or political villainy. Even popular presidents with reputations for charming the press occasionally stoop to blaming the press for quagmires of their own making.
That crazy Trump. He attacked the press like the Nips attacked Pearl Harbor! Totally unprovoked. All to hide the nefarious machinations of his Ruso-American Non Aggression Pact.
He’s a clever one, that Trump.
Transgender athlete wins women’s weightlifting competition.
“They call me Wartyna, cause I rapes bears”
It’s a good thing that women are so supportive and understanding.
I will NEVER understand women. WTF? They are slightly miffed, perhaps peeved – that’s it. Or is it the SJW infection?
Hipster soccer fair-weather fans are the worst.
Do they play soccer in the rain?
Walking hand in hand with the one they love?
No, but they use the sport as a proxy for cultural relativism and treat it like it’s some sort of Sesame Street episode.
It’s fucken nauseating.
From the hipster link:
ROFL!
THAT’S NOT FUNNY!
Maybe not to you.
I laughed my ass off.
It’s funny because they voted for more wind turbines!
It’s a tragicomedy, really…
The greens pretend to care about the environment. The preference revealed by their actions is they don’t give a rat’s ass about it. They just really, really hate humans.
God, I wish I had been there. I would have shit myself laughing.
This will make your day then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxFfxTZA6ao
Isn’t nature funny?
They way I read that, they basically chased it into the windmill.
You could’ve stopped at “Hipster and soccer are the worst.”
Or even “Hipster and soccer”, because the rest is readily implied to the casual observer.
Ahem. I’ve been a fan of the sport going back to the ’82 World Cup.
Watch and enjoy
Looks like the lead in to an isis propaganda film…
Don’t ask Algerians about the ’82 World Cup.
Sorry to duplicate and go OT.
Who was looking at Far Horizons Bags at the tail end of last week?
Y U lie?
RBS, I think?
no. shit. Trsh?
Whoever it was is a baby lawyer looking to be formal, but not antiquated.
Yep, that was me.
Dunno who, but as i said in an earlier thread, I ordered one, so I’ll be in a position to give an informal review of the workmanship by the end of the week.
I recall that thread… looking forward to you review. Ought to do a comparison vs. vintage attache cases in a similar price bracket.
I can do a comparison with something like a Saddleback, because I have access to one of them, but beyond that, I’d be speculating about other bags. I have a reasonable grasp of what constitutes good workmanship in leather, and what doesn’t, so there might be some useful output to be had.
Is Saddleback anywhere near remotely kinda worth what they charge for it? I like nice stuff, but I’ve had working cars that were not worth as much as some of their medium-sized stuff.
If I ever start making for real lawyer money I might just embrace the fullness of the profession and go for a Zero Halliburton as my edc. I think that will basically go with any suit.
Subway sues CBC Marketplace for $210 million saying it lied about its chicken.
https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2017/03/16/subway-says-it-plans-to-sue-cbc-for-210-million-over-chicken-findings.html
I assume the average Canadian will support the CBC with a heavy dose of anti-Americanism thrown in.
They have that idiot Neil MacDonald to do that.
Wasn’t that Jared guy a “chicken lover”?
Dang, I learned too much from reading that Pizzagate garbage.
Well, they kind of did lie about it.
You don’t use a DNA test for that sort of thing, and that’s exactly what they did.
For those of you who like freedom, wind in your face, energy prosperity, yea to command the very Earth, there is a social media site:
DriveTribe
Wouldn’t libertarians be more into antisocial media?
No, mate. You’re thinking of Objectivists. 🙂
No, Objectivists would be into swingers’ sites.
I thought Objectivists were into rape fantasies.
Good point. Swinger sites, and rape fantasies.
How is that different than our commentariat?
Less rape fantasies, more collars and cat ears?
I’m fairly certain there is intersectionality between catgirls and rape fantasies.
Wait, libertarians AREN’T into swinger sites?
damn…
*kicks pebble*
It doesn’t work without women.
Well, I guess it works for like 5% of libertarians.
Sharing economy.
And for those of you that are just knobs with sports cars… well you’ll fit in as well.
Gear Knobs?
You probably know this, but before the grand tour had a name, quite a few fans suggested this as the name for the new show.
I kind of hope Drive Tribe will become a less shit Jalopnik. I can’t stand that place anymore.
Lobot has kindly created a tribe for our ilk:
The Monocled Ungovernables
Here we can talk about cars… and other stuff.
Millennial has two “n’s” in it. This one took me awhile until I worked on a large deal for a company with the word in its name. Legal documents have to be perfect, especially when its a binding contract on a legal entity.
Nice pussy.
🙂 Thanks.
Are you really a three-legged cat?
We had a three-legged cat once she was sweet. It was sad though to watch her try and scratch her ear with the missing leg.
On The Trail Of The Skunk Ape
STEVE SMITH WISHES TO JOIN DAVE SHEALY ON DAILY HIKES AS WELL, HOPES HE BRINGS LUBE!
STEVE SMITH LIKE SKUNK APE BUT WILL NOT CLAIM TO BE FATHER.
RAPE JUST ONE OF MANY WACKY CRIMES
I guess that’s like being the Earth’s foremost xenobiologist.
Skunks in the funk sounds like a really clever title for interracial anal porn.
It’s a close relative of the chupacabra.
STEVE GO TO FLORIDA AND SKUNK RAPE THE SHIT OUT OF “JANE GOODALL OF SKUNK APES” , SEE HOW MUCH OF EXPERT SHE IS.
I thought Sam and Max chased Skunk Ape off the planet.
I’ve been listening to Chet Baker today.
I listened to Hank Garland all day yesterday. It was glorious.
The fact that I’m sitting here watching Al Franken grill a SC nominee makes me want to throw the TV out of the window.
You should. You’ve been torturing it, forcing it to display that.
Stuart Smalley is the only person who likes Stuart Smalley.
Police: Man charged after crashing car into tree repeatedly ‘to prove a point’
wait – you need a license to drive a car on your own property?
Yeah, that’s in statute 867 subsection 5309 “FYTW” clause.
We’ve covered this. Not your property!
If the point he was trying to prove was ‘I am a giant bellend’, then mission accomplished.
And amazingly, this didn’t happen in Florida.
“creating a public disturbance”
on private property!
It’s not the cops, it’s those who call the cops that are the trouble.
Simpson! Homer Simpson! He’s the greatest guy in history!
From the! Town of Springfield! He’s about to hit a Chestnut Tree!
“repeatedly driving a vehicle into a tree”
I guess he didn’t do a very good job the first time.
Speaking of youtube suggested content, there’s a new installment of Project Binky out.
I’ll be watching that later.
Yeah, i mentioned that the other day, along with a note that its been 3 years since they started and i haven’t even seen an engine yet
They’re too busy making tea.
The British Navy issued .54 caliber handguns to its sailors as early as 1756, but you do you, @Cosmopolitan
Yeah, OK.
I don’t recall the case turning on whether the pistol repeated or had powder and ball in a single cartridge.
yep, and we all know that we can’t let technology move with rights.
Wait a sec… you renewed your internet comment license, didn’t you? Everyone knows the first amendment only applies to quill and parchment!
I have an unlicensed google account as well!
I almost spit coffee when I read that. What the ACTUAL FUCK.
Shockingly, freedom of the press also includes news companies that don’t own any actual printing presses.
Reception has a printer, but it’s mostly for faxes.
Well I’m guessing the wardrobe guys at CNN probably have a press, but that’s not what the founding fathers meant.
I mean, it you’re going to push the bullshit argument that the first amendment wasn’t meant to apply to individuals, instead just to arm a militia, why not lie everything else?
My Youtube feed is recommending an audiobook for me for the first time
Mein Kampf
wtf. I’m afraid to even click on it. (i just ‘copied source link’). is it because i watched some anti-SJW video? I feel like someone’s sending me a message.
I watch some anti-SJW stuff on youtube too and sometimes get some really weird suggestions from YouTube. Considering that YouTube has some serious algorithm issues and is constantly demonetizing videos that don’t have a leftward slant, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was engineered to nudge you in weird directions to get you to change your viewing habits. Then again, I could be reading way to much into it.
I feel like someone’s sending me a message
Is it from beyond the grave? And from maybe a bunker, …or South America?
It’s coming from inside the house.
You know who else wrote a book about their struggle…
Tristam Shandy?
every current politician?
OJ Simpson?
Mick Foley?
Dan Gable?
Barack H. Obama?
Steven Callahan?
Rachel Dolezal aka Mayo Angelube?
Porsche Rakes in $17,250 on Every Car It Sells
Holy cow.
I read a great comment on some car site re Porsche:
“If you go into a Porsche dealership and come out with an SUV, you have officially failed at life.”
Range Rover and Porsche Cayenne racing off-road
Is that… supposed to be… a link?
You may have SF’d it.
Same situation at my last trip to the Stuttgart bordello.
“How did it manage that? Basically, the same way Ford wrangles its F-150.
Ford typically brings in $10-14K on every truck it sells — much more than its average passenger vehicle. Like F-Series buyers, Porsche owners are extremely loyal to the brand and are more than happy to spend more to option out their chosen model. ”
My 1994 F-150 4×4 has 67,750 miles on it and runs like a dream (very well maintained). I can’t imagine buying any other type of truck.
They are, and have been for quite some time, IIRC the most profitable worldwide marque on a per unit basis precisely because of this business practice.
Something something damsel in distress
Can you ethically suggest a woman pursue a career in tech?
There weren’t many women in my CS graduating class – but the one blonde woman who did graduate with me was immediately offered a job at a local company; one that she and I, along with a few others, worked on a project for. No one else was offered a job there, even though she wasn’t the best in the group.
And make men bitter for having to take up the slack when the women leave at the drop of a hat.
Speaking as someone who works with women in tech who actually did have to outwork the males, I highly suggest it. 3/4 of my supervisors have been female at the current job on different projects. The two that were of technical background were excellent at their job, and the one who I’m not sure came from a technical (vs. functional or project management) background asked really good questions when we got technically stuck. All of them have kids and I doubt that any of them are making less than I am as a senior but non-supervisory technical resource. The women coming up behind them are also scarily competent. Don’t be an asshole, don’t be incompetent.
^ Brett L wants women to be harassed by tech bros ^
I’ll just show them a picture of me touching tits I didn’t pay to touch and they’ll accept me as their alpha.
So…Jeff from accounting’s moobs count?
You mean Gandalf?
Watching some of the Gorsuch confirmation hearings off and on (usually when I get a Tweet from someone disturbed by what is said).
It is really ridiculous how the Democrats are using the opportunity to push their politics and grandstanding. They know he’s not going to answer any questions that would indicate how he might rule on any cases he might hear as a SCOTUS judge. They keep asking him questions that aren’t about jurisprudence, just about what his personal politics are.
The whole line of “dark money” (so ominous!) funding some campaign or other to get him confirmed. He said he doesn’t know who might be funding any campaign on his behalf. He’s asked to speculate what their motives are. He’s asked whether they should be unmasked, and he points out that it is a legislative function to do so. He’s asked to answer for other judges’ words and conduct. What the fuck?
They’ll probably spin it all as evasion because they’re completely dishonest. He’s not there to decide cases that were already decided or to invent future cases as hypotheticals to solve. He’s there to demonstrate competency at interpretation of the law as restricted by the Constitution. He’s there to answer for his own record. And he has done that steadfastly. He has incredibly patient facing a kangaroo court / soapbox for shitty politicians.
When are they gonna ask him about pubes on a coke can?
It is deeply disturbing to me that members of Congress are either willfully ignorant of the function of the SCOTUS, or are deliberately trying to cloud its function and offload their own legislative burden to it. Gorsuch has repeatedly told them that the ball is completely in the court of Congress to change the law if they don’t like how the SCOTUS ruled on cases such as Hobby Lobby. They want the public to think that judges should be legislating from the bench.
He’s also repeatedly insisted that he’d have to have an actual case in front of him to make a decision, and that it would be improper to speculate what decision he might make without one. They want a SCOTUS judge to be a fucking politician (or for the observing public to think so), to prejudge cases without knowing their facts. Fuck me, I hate everything about these assholes.
lol. They actually asked him the old Reddit question:
Next they’ll be asking him when the narwhal bacons.
Makes me sad for what Reddit used to be like and what it has become. I was a fairly early adopter. It is a shadow of its former self, I rarely even visit it anymore.
Fauxcahontas still pushing the stupid Russia narrative.
Obviously does not give a damn about his track record or the answers to the questions he’s being asked. All just stupid anti-Trump prejudice.
Good to know, I will too.
To throw another mini at you, I present this 8 port 1293cc.
I thought it would be bored to 13-something, but no!
Swiftune makes a 7, and there are a few places like minisport who sell them.
@P Brooks.
Rape Victim Keeps Getting Raped and Wants Money
Lesbian keeps inviting men back to her dorm room, where they rape her, twice in a 2 month period. sounds legit.
The victim has been writing about her victimhood since 2011
it almost seems as though “professional victim” is a conscious career-choice. They might as well make it a major at Columbia.
Professional Derp provider.
STOP QUESTIONING THE VICTIM, SHITLORD!
She said the attacker whispered, “Still a dyke?” during the second assault.
Did he grab its motherfucking leg, too?
Same perp I bet.
More details about Jackie 2.0
If only someone, ANYONE, made a portable handheld device that could deliver massive mechanical trauma via a metallic projectile and an explosive chemical reaction that could be used as an effective tool for self defense. I know I would buy one. They just need to come up with a clever name… perhaps something that rhymes with ‘fun’?
Rum wouldn’t work as a weapon.
Well, I guess you could hit someone over the head with a bottle of it.
How about weaponized language that used homophonous words that typically only differ from the intended word by the first letter?
Done?
As in, you’re Done, fucker.
Did she, like, ever report the incident to the police?
UGH UNREASONABLE EXPECTATIONS BURDENING SURVIVORS
1. Shit
2. Get off pot
Pick one.
I am a bit skeptical.
Has she tried locking her doors?
The fact that I’m sitting here watching Al Franken grill a SC nominee makes me want to throw the TV out of the window.
“Shoot it! With your gun! That’s what the bullets are for!”
It’s funny how many people look at Trump as a joke but take Al Frankin seriously as a Senator.
Well, that’s because Trump is actually funny.
you’re going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company
If the president can’t ban travel from mostly Muslim countries for security reasons than that same logic would have to apply to electronics correct? Maybe this is a move to troll the judicial system.
Congratulations, Cosmopolitan, on writing the absolute most idiotic piece on the Supreme Court in the history of American journalism
There’s derp throughout. Here’s a sample:
(read through to see the correction they had to make on that paragraph)
I didn’t see that this was linked above. Ah well. Please leave it here as evidence of my own idiocy.
okay with me – mine was just a tweet about the article, not the link to it.
only kinda.
FYI for you gearheads.
While looking for a review on a new motorcycle, I somehow slid ass backwards into a autocentric Libertarian website (I didn’t know that was a thing). I found it interesting and I hope a few of you would as well.
http://ericpetersautos.com/
this is great. what motorcycle?
Yamaha FJ09
My friend has one, he seems to like it a lot.
Thanks – bookmarked
Well I’m off to do some weightlifting
with Morgan Fairchild while I surf.Keep it real, gang!
Unhinged anti-capitalist argle-bargle from The Guardian
The fact is that the west failed Russia at a crucial time – and encouraged the fatal opening to external exploitative capitalism at a time when Russia and the other Soviet republics had no effective means of regulating incoming financiers with an eye to the main chance. Nor did the initial Russian governments have the strength to prevent the exploitation of its natural resources by its own skilful capitalists. The problems we face today with Russian politics and economics stem directly from this western failure. It is interesting that George Soros is on record as making the same analysis.
We failed them by letting them self-govern. Sorry Ruskies!
Shorter Guardian: “Thatcher’s fault”
…had the US and the EU acted in the early days of Gorbachev’s attempts to transform the Soviet Union, its dissolution might have taken place smoothly. Instead, the cataclysmic implosion destroyed Gorbachev’s standing among the electorate.
I know when I think of “groups who will willingly give up power and never try to force coup due to reforms, especially if you throw money at their country” the KGB is on the top of the list.
We think like Soros!
I swear….
So if I’m following this they are sub-human supergeniuses who are both too stupid to understand the dangers of cronyism and also smart enough to pay us back by bringing down Hillary Clinton and putting in their man Trump in charge. Its funny, they don’t look Jewish.
Sounds like our chick hockey team is going to forfeit to Canada because they aren’t paid as much as actual professional hockey players.
I might stay home tomorrow unless I’m paid the same as a professional basketball player.
If they can beat a Minnesota boy’s high school varsity team, give them the money.
Otherwise, just shut the fuck up and enjoy the opportunity.
Ok. Play the men’s national team. No mercy rule.
Let’s see if you deserve equal pay.
Goddammit, the squirrels in my computer ate my comment. Take two:
Project Binky is worth watching just for the tooling they build. That frame table does everything but fly. It goes up, it goes down, it rotates, self-levels….
It has taken them years, because they conjure up shit like power windows, and the one piece front end that opens and closes remotely, and whatever other whizbang car show trickery they can think of. Meanwhile, they indulge themselves in weird half-assery like putting the steering arms on stilts in an attempt to get better bump steer than a stadium truck.
Yeah, i know that Project Binky is just “Engineers-solving-problems-Porn”… and i explained it to someone else that way.
I still think they should be able to do better than 1 episode every 3 months. For god’s sake, the last one was just about making fenders. And that was months ago.
That’s what happens when engineers try and make porn.
I keep hearing people use the term “disingenuous”
half the time it seems like they’re using it wrong. it seems like its one of these words like “literally” that millienials have latched onto and decided to use any way they see fit.
Ben Shapiro has a bunch of his college Q&As where he will completely tear apart the concept of privilege when asked about it by a student, and then they’ll say something like “well that’s because you’re not defining it right” and when he asks them to provide a definition they refuse, usually by saying that it will take too long in some passive aggressive eyeroll about how unwoke he is.
+1 NOT MY JOB TO EDUCATE YOU
I think that’s very common as well. But i think that’s not “Disingenuousness” – saying “it will take too long” is pretending they know something but can’t be bothered to explain, when “disingenuousness” is technically false simplicity;
its pretending to not-know something when you do; pretending to be sincere and candid when you’re actually being duplicitous; pretending to be offended or upset by something that is commonplace and otherwise harmless;
I think “Sea-lioning” is a very good example of it
http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2014/11/word-of-the-week-sea-lioning.html
People tend to use it as a general synonym of ‘dishonest’, when its actually a very specific type of “false honesty”
Men in Uniforms Applaud Smiling Kim Jong Un
“WE LOVE DEAR LEADER!”(spoken out loud) “Hey fat fuck, give us some food.”(under breath)
Oh god, he’s looking! Clap harder!
As I was educating myself on aftermarket cylinder heads for Minis, I stumbled across the BMW K series motorcycle twin cam cylinder head swap. Who the fuck comes up with that?
“Oh, hey, here’s a list of the bore centers for every motor ever made, on the internet. I think I’ll scour through them to see if something matches up with the 1275 BMC A Series, because I’m sick and tired of fixing the recurring cracking in the head of my ‘big valve’ Cooper S.”
toss out that limey garbage and put in a grorious engineering marvel, the Honda B-series
NO!thats the pansy swap
R1. 1000cc, 6 speed sequential.
half the weight.
GAAHHHHH!!!!!
The worlds first centaur in 3000 years and all you can say is gahhhh?
*World’s
My first thought was, “KILL IT WITH FIRE”, but i guess i should be more sympathetic and be glad that modern science can save the child’s life. But the very idea of CENTAUR BABY weirded the shit out of me, to be honest.
Neigh, baby be not monster. *strikes Shakespearean pose
That one kind of hit me in the feelz.
toss out that limey garbage and put in a grorious engineering marvel, the Honda B-series
Mighty Car Mods (Down Under Goofballs) have you covered. Vtec Mini. Very lively.
How about an LS2?
Meanwhile, while “Rich White Lesbian Columbia Student Sues The Shit Out of College” for her repeat fake-rapes…. (and gets all sorts of media coverage from it)
…. somewhat lower down the economic strata, we have a less-covered incident of Rape – even though it was Livestreamed on Facebook
The Inner Party does not concern itself with the vulgar entertainment and gin palaces of the Proles, Brother.
For god’s sake, the last one was just about making fenders. And that was months ago.
Yeah, but they used panty hose to make the mold for the flares, or some damn thing. I had never seen it done that way before.
Cotton-lycra. Yes, it was clever. I look forward for when they contruct a steering wheel from congealed whalebone
Since it seems that the powers that be here at TSTSBN are taking their own sweet time giving us the “Check out out these logos that we thought sucked” post I went ahead and made a page of my own unworthy submissions. Click on my handle if want to see them.
Site Powers-that-be: If you’re still planning such a post and I’m stepping on toes, My bad, but art wants to be free, or some similar hippie shit.
The last one is great
I liked, “Freedom, Liberty, Autonomy, Synonyms”,
and the last one was epic. I suppose those should be the badges for our SWAT unit.
There’s our motorcycle patch!
“a lee-marvin scale pattern”.
I had to look closely.
FLAS! or …
Autonomy, Liberty, Freedom, Synonyms.
ALFS!
Sorry, buddy. We’ve got cocktail parties to get to now that we’ve got our own sweet, sweet site. Three of those were in serious contention. If the 55 gallon drum had just said “Lube” on it, we’d have a different logo.
‘Lube’ was in the alt text!
See, I told you guys, first admin only image uploads and then… cocktail parties!
I love that first one. Also the squirrel with the sword. And To Be Sure. Basically, I love them all. A+ work, Hyperbole.
I think had he not submitted so many we liked, he would have won. He took second and third.
Sorry for assuming your gender, Hyperbole.
Don’t sweat it, I assume my gender all the time.
my favorite one
Thank you.
That last one could be boss if it were a one-color rendition.
giant engine swaps
There’s a 914 in there, Brooks!
I once referred to the “Cat with Flower on Head.”
Little did i know that this was the first step in Cat Transcendence
I like that one a lot.
“A cautionary tale to why no theory should ever be considered safe from testing.”
The term ‘settled science’ is an oxymoron.