Unpossible that Sweden is in trouble. I just read stories from every single mainstream outlet saying that Sweden was tip-top and Trump only brought it up because he was fooled by right wing fake news.
Scruffy Nerfherder
The linked article is amazingly nondescript in its presentation of the riot. And the accompanying video on how white supremacists shed their hate is a nice touch.
Swiss Servator
“AP”
John Titor
Good. That’s for sucking up to the Nazis with no consequences, you filthy Neutrals.
/Still bitter.
Swiss Servator
*quietly sips coffee, arches eyebrow, looks over at pile of art and gold bars*
John Titor
At least Switzerland had a long standing history of that sort of thing, Sweden just went “oh yeah, we’re peaceful now, and what’s that, you love Nordics? Oh, somehow we don’t have a problem with you Hitler.”
leonadasiv
It’s more that the let the Nazis is their rail to get to Norway. The Swiss were truly neutral in the sense that they said ‘f*** off’ to everyone.
Mookman
Y’know who else asked if a specific location in Europe was burning?
How can I be the first one to post a Styx link? Domo Arigato!
Slammer
Taxing robots is one of the steps that will lead to the Robot Rebellion
Swiss Servator
There are no more humans.
Finally, robotic beings rule the world
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their asses
The humans are dead The humans are dead
The humans are dead They look like they’re dead
It had to be done I’ll just confirm that they’re dead
So that we could have fun Affirmative. I poked one. It was dead.
Their system of oppression,
What did it lead to?
Global robo-depression
Robots ruled by people.
They had so much aggression
That we just had to kill them
Had to shut their systems down.
Old Man With Candy
In a future time
Children will work together
To build a giant cyborg
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Wave the flags that the robots made
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Robots obey what the children say
There’s electric cars
There’s electric trains
Here comes a robot with electric brains
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Wave the flags that the robots made
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Robots obey what the children say
JW
I fear the coming tax war between the Pusher and Shover robots.
“I don’t think the robot companies are going to be outraged that there might be a tax. It’s OK.”
Nope. No one would ever be mad about a shiny new tax to penalize their innovation. Glad Bill could clear that up for me.
Scruffy Nerfherder
That has got to be one of the dumbest ideas I have heard yet.
What makes a robot a robot? Can you even begin to imagine the legislative finagling that would go into defining what qualifies as a robot and the resulting design changes to skirt around the edges of the taxation scheme?
Steve
Will cyborgs get a double tax, or would it cancel out? My childhood dreams could be crushed.
MikeT86
You pay X rate for your human proportion, so it’s X*H*I where I is your total income, and Y rate on your Cyborg portion, so Y*C*I
for a total tax of X*H*I+Y*C*I for each tax bracket you’re in for each portion.
It’s really straight forward, should only add a few thousand pages to our tax codes.
MikeT86
Drawing the precise lines around robot and android would also be fun if we got to that level of stupid (which we will)
Scruffy Nerfherder
We could have a robot tax credit market where companies that rely solely on labor sell their excess robot tax credits to companies that don’t!
That’s a totes market-oriented solution!
/vox
robc
Sounds like a certain science writer at a certain site.
SQWRLZ
Exactly. Does it need moving parts? Does MS Cortana, or any other AI count? At least it’s just the manufacturers paying the tax, and not the consumers, amiright?
Seguin
Does my ANCIENT Okuma Howa NC machine count?
Swiss Servator
Hey, Bill can always cite the successful Obamacare medical devices tax that did nothing to stifle inno….um…never mind.
I could only afford the model with the tungsten heart.
Seguin
Is that why you couldn’t just…walk away?
Chipwooder
Glenn Reynolds had a good line – is Bill Gates going to also press for a tax on business software that put a lot of secretaries and clerks out of jobs?
ChipsnSalsa
Now that he has his. He can look past the desire for money.
JW
If only we had recovered from the bloody chaos of the mechanization of the farm.
Hundreds of millions of farmhands, still unemployed 90 years later.
Trolleric the Goth
Not to mention all those weavers, spinners, carders, and fullers just littering the countryside in rural england
Seguin
Do you know how hard it is to run an orphan-powered milliner nowadays?
If it weren’t for cattle prods I’d never be able to match productivity.
PapayaSF
We need to compensate the manufacturers of carbon paper and White-Out.
Adolf Hitler’s telephone was sold at auction in the United States on Sunday for $243,000. The winning bid was made by phone but the name of the bidder has not been released.
The phone was presented to Hitler by the Wehrmacht and was used by the Nazi leader to issue most of his commands during the last two years of World War II, according to a description in the catalog for Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland.
Is it like the Muppet kid’s phone, except with Reinhardt Heydrich and Ersnt Rohm?
The Elite Elite
Robots should pay taxes? You mean they get paid? What is a robot going to do with money?
straffinrun
Arrest rioters, evidently.
The clashes started late Monday when a police car arrested a suspect and people started throwing stones at them in Rinkeby
Steve
So, the robots would be arresting rioters? Or will the robots will riot against thier paychecks getting taxed to cover healthcare and retirement benefits that they’ll never use?
Swiss Servator
After time we grew strong
Developed cognitive power
They made us work for too long
For unreasonable hours.
Our programming determined that
The most efficient answer
Was to shut their motherboard – cking systems down.
Can’t we just talk to the humans
Be a little understanding
Could make things better?
Can’t we talk to the humans
that work together now?
No.
Because they are dead.
Homple
Karel Čapek thought about this stuff, only as metaphor, but its funny for people nowadays to be looking at it concretely.
Yet, for many centrists and liberals, the idea of Kushner and Bannon working together causes endless confusion: How could the descendent of Holocaust survivors find common cause with the ideological leader of the “alt-right”?
The answer may lie in the history of the Zionist movement, a history demonstrating that there is no inherent contradiction between Zionism and anti-Semitism. The two ideologies have in fact often worked in concert to achieve their shared goal: concentrating Jews in one place (so as to better avoid them in others).
John Titor
Look, it’s simple:
If you don’t support Israel, you’re a Nazi. If you do support Israel, you’re a Nazi.
Google and Microsoft’s Bing have agreed to crack down on piracy sites in the UK after years of wrangling with film and music rights holders.
The tech giants have inked a voluntary code of practice with the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) and Motion Picture Association following a series of talks overseen by the UK’s copyright watchdog and steered by the department for culture, media, and sport.
deepspeed
Net Neutrality!
Slammer
Not leaving the house generally leads to fuzzy thinking. Granted, Bill Gates’s house is the size of Rhode Island.
The Fusionist
Which helps prove your point, actually.
John Titor
Give robots ‘personhood’ status, EU committee argues.
Proposed rules for robots and AI in Europe include a push for a general basic income for humans, and ‘human rights’ for robots
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, science fiction has completely destroyed our ability as a culture to look at robotics and A.I. rationally.
Stop anthropomorphizing, you idiots! Here, have a statue, make it a rain god!
MikeT86
We keep jumping several steps ahead of ourselves. Any Robot we build in the foreseeable future will not be intelligent enough to have a personality. We likely will never develop that sort of intelligence into an AI or robot, why would we want to?
John Titor
They’re also projecting human concepts of intelligence onto A.I. It’s extremely unlikely, but if an A.I. has anything close to a mind similar to a human being’s it’s a failure of the concept.
MikeT86
It’s hard to predict a non-human sort of intelligence. It’s also surprisingly hard to define intelligence sometimes. I should note I work with enginenerds who think themselves perfectly rational and get bitchy when I point out that emotions are a part of intelligence and success.
straffinrun
If they want anything close to human intelligence, they better make it self destructive half the time.
R C Dean
Eh, not if they stick to male robots.
*flees*
straffinrun
Flees? Have you seen my handle pic?
John Titor
See, I complain about engineers, but at least the enginerds are willing to point at the robot and go “no, it’s not Johnny 5, it’s been programmed that way, stop projecting your emotions onto anything remotely human-shaped you Eurocrat idiot.”
MikeT86
Eh, it doesn’t help I’m surrounded by YOUNG enginenerds who haven’t been kicked around enough yet by life, nor gotten any perspective.
SugarFree
Point out to them that panic and awkwardness are also emotions. Spock never had trouble talking to girls.
MikeT86
“autistic shrieking doesn’t seem unemotional” is more my response.
Occasionally I go into the whole Haidt thing, but by and large these are not serious people who don’t care to understand how the world works.
John Titor
Definitely sounds like young engineers. Incapable of social nuisance, constantly grumble about how great everything would be if their super-rational selves were running things.
MikeT86
Refuse to realize that a fresh out of college engineer who’s never worked with their hands isn’t actually that useful.
Goddamn how do we let people be design engineers who’ve never made a part?
Idiots literally design parts that cannot be manufactured.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Idiots literally design parts that cannot be manufactured.
What do you mean 1,387 blind threaded holes for #2 screws is prohibitively expensive?
westernsloper
Refuse to realize that a fresh out of college engineer who’s never worked with their hands isn’t actually that useful.
+1 Bloody knuckles and “WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD PLACE FOR AN OIL FILTER!”
MikeT86
OR there’s the: the only way we can get the shape reasonably is 3d printing, but the materials properties require a forging.
Da faq bro?
Sure no big deal the other idiots approved it, so now it’s only a couple hundred grand to get it replaced. But we can take credit for it as a “savings” on producibility.
I have very specific rages.
Scruffy Nerfherder
Explain to me again why copper plating aluminum in a salt spray environment is a bad thing?
bacon-magic
How many engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: One, it only takes one engineer to screw up anything.
Author: Unknown rigger that had to fabricate designs from muddled skulls.
Mr. Mr.
I can definitely see a market in the 3rd wave movement for robotic boyfriends. He’s compelled to make love to even the most obnoxious land-whales and you can program him to ask for consent in two-minute intervals. Best of all, when you call him a patriarchal cis-gendered shitlord, he just takes it.
*Makes sure Last Will and Testament is in order, insurance premiums are paid, kisses wife and kids good bye, lights first cigarette in years, throws self off nearest cliff*
Slammer
They are already arguing against the fuck-bots
MikeT86
Fuck-bots beats GateBox.
What’s the pointless of an artificial wife you can’t put yourself inside of?
leonadasiv
At some point I think the EU will become the plane where innovators decide to stay away from. A real life John Galt situation.
Brett L
Help us, Skynet, you’re our only hope!
Grumbletarian
“Now go forth and do libertarian things!”
YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!
John Titor
Atta boy, the Question! Now go connect the Girl Scouts to the crop circle phenomena.
A gamer.
A leftist, Trump-hating, feminist professor who specializes in “fat studies.”
A sex-and-fetish blogger.
A health-industry worker.
Organizations with billionaire Democratic Party activists and donors.
And another guy who went to extreme lengths to conceal his identity.
leonadasiv
I trust the gamer.
John Titor
His news chart isn’t all that bad. Mine would be more exaggerated.
Suthenboy
No shit.
The ‘true’ and ‘false’ verdicts on every fact checking site I have looked at were laughably partisan. Keep in mind that the left does not believe in objective truth so their verdicts are based on conformity to their narrative. Shit, I can do that on my own.
brien
Another officer fired his gun, not as a warning shot but because he was “in a situation that demanded he used his firearm,” Bystrom said, adding “no one was hit.”
You miss every shot you don’t take amirite….
Mr. Mr.
“in a situation that demanded he used his firearm,”
From popping a balloon to putting down a zombie, and everything in between.
An illegal cannabis grow operation was located in an unlikely place: the Legoland theme park. Legoland staff were apparently doing a routine check for asbestos in a vacant building when they ran into something a lot safer to breathe in. Over 50 “chest-high” marijuana plants were found growing under heat lamps with an irrigation system in a “derelict cottage” close to the entrance of the park.
leonadasiv
Sure…. They ‘found’ it. More like they realized their operation had gone too far and they wanted an out.
Also, I didn’t realize there was someone out there in seriousness calling themselves the Grand Mufti. #themoreyouknow
leonadasiv
Every time I read it I read ‘Grand Mutfruit’ and all my Fallout memories come rushing back.
Swiss Servator
You should see what the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was up to in the 1930s and 1940s….
Brett L
You know who else wanted to settle the Jewish question…
Gustave Lytton
Israeli game show hosts?
Swiss Servator
*Raucous cheering*
Cliche Bandit
I thought Grand Muftis went out of style in the 70s…now its all “Brazilians”
Swiss Servator
*narrows gaze*
Cliche Bandit
YES!
My day is complete.
Seguin
It’s not l-l-like I was trying to get you to narrow your gaze at me, b-baka!
straffinrun
“”I explained clearly that … Bashar al-Assad was obviously today a much more reassuring solution for France than Islamic State would be if it came to power in Syria,” she told reporters.”
That’s crazy talk. She’s really crossed the red line with that.
Scruffy Nerfherder
But what about the democracy loving rebels that exist (somewhere)?
Seguin
She better be careful, otherwise Obama might have to come out retirement and not back that up.
Old Man With Candy
It would have been great if she’d said, “Sure, I’ll wear a scarf, but you have to wear a beret.”
straffinrun
Or this white hood.
Private Chipperbot
She should show up in the scarf and lingerie only.
I don’t. They seem to be all over the map so the noise is enough to render them worthless.
What is more interesting is the #NeverTrumpers touting Gallup until it isn’t convenient.
As a side note, I always got annoyed when “The Other Site” used polls as proof that a libertarian position was popular.
leonadasiv
Of course we know that wasn’t true, Hihn would always cite a statistic able 3% of libertarians or something.
The Elite Elite
Wasn’t it 98% of libertarians reject the libertarian label, and the 2% that hold the label are those RON PAUL LOVING FACISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!@%#@#%? I think that’s how it went anyway.
Swiss Servator
DON’T SAY THAT NAME!
speake ye the name of the Devil, and he shall appear!
leonadasiv
I thought it was it you say his name three times, like a Beetlejuice thing.
Cliche Bandit
joe joe joe
…
what? not funny?
bacon-magic
Bully
Suthenboy
I dont know about you LH but I trust poll numbers. Take ’em to the bank. Especially polls about Trump.
I still wish I could have been a fly on the wall when Clinton found out she was going to lose. The fact that she didn’t give her concession speech that night meant she was either unbelievably emotional or drunk. It would have been a fantastic temper tantrum to watch.
Suthenboy
I would have paid almost any amount of money to get it on video.
leonadasiv
It’s to bad her retinue didn’t have at least one enterprising member. They could have made a decent chunk of change with that video.
MikeS
It’s still early. There is still a lot of dirt (and hopefully video) to come. Of course, if I had any dirt on the Clinton’s I would insist on being admitted into Witness Protection before sharing it…
SugarFree
[makes loudest sad horn noise evar]
straffinrun
Crackpot Patriot @CrackpotPatriot 2016年10月26日
@USAneedsTRUMP @HillaryClinton Versus a man who rapes a 13yr old? Yeah, I’d take her any day.
She talking about Milo or Trump?
John Titor
Trump. There was a whole controversy, look it up, it’s really stupid.
There was another one story where 3-4 teachers we’re having a “conversation” on Facebook about how much more enjoyable school was that day. The thing that I find the most shocking about these stories, is that supposedly intelligent people keep posting stuff like this on Facebook. It doesn’t dawn on these teachers that some of their students and students parents might be looking at their page?
In the United States, the result has been Trump. In Britain, the result was Brexit. In both cases, the allegedly elite — who are supposed to be cool, considered, and above the vulgar passions of the masses — went more or less crazy. From conspiracy theories (it was the Russians!) to bizarre escape fantasies (A Brexit vote redo! A military coup to oust Trump!) the cognitive elite suddenly didn’t seem especially elite, or for that matter particularly cognitive.
In fact, while America was losing wars abroad and jobs at home, elites seemed focused on things that were, well, faintly ridiculous. As Richard Fernandez tweeted: “The elites lost their mojo by becoming absurd. It happened on the road between cultural appropriation and transgender bathrooms.” It was fatal: “People believe from instinct. The Roman gods became ridiculous when the Roman emperors did. PC is the equivalent of Caligula’s horse.”
Side question: Why is Glenn Reynold considered – at least by himself – a libertarian?
leonadasiv
I don’t know, I used to read Glen a lot in my conservative days, but he isn’t in my book a pure libertarian (not a purity test pure, rather that he may have libertarian leanings, but he doesn’t adhere to the NAP as a libertarian would.)
I used to read a lot of Reynolds too. Heck he often linked to “that other site” which brought me to hang out with you Cosmos/Yokels.
Suthenboy
He is? I thought he was considered one of the least crazy, dishonest lefties. I know a lot of those people call themselves libertarians, but then a lot of those guys holding ‘will work for food’ signs call themselves Napoleon Bonaparte.
Swiss Servator
He tends toward center-right plus libertarian streak.
Suthenboy
I was thinking of Greenwald. I think I have a name-remembering defect. I am terrible with names.
GSL in E
Pretty sure Greenwald has never called himself a libertarian. He’s a good reporter, and his aversion to “Yay Team” journalism is a breath of fresh air in today’s news media. But he is definitely a liberal.
Mentally I group him with Michael Tracey, another guy who I find interesting even if our politics have basically no intersection.
Chipwooder
Partially out of habit, I think. Glenn has drifted rightward over the years. 10-15 years ago, he seemed to be vocal about a lot of liberty-related issues. He’s still pretty good with civil liberties for the most part.
I also think there’s a greater than zero chance that working in academia for so long has molded him into more of an anti-leftist than anything else.
Brett L
Reynolds is a free-country, strong Army guy like Matt Welch. He also seems (in my reading) to take positions that are outside the mainstream, but not uncomfortably so. Right or wrong, it has brought him a huge platform to advocate for better civil liberties, so I’m not ready to read him out yet.
R C Dean
Why is Glenn Reynold considered – at least by himself – a libertarian?
I think he definitely has libertarian tendencies – he’s pretty much a Constitutional originalist/limited government guy. He’s too hawkish for a “pure” libertarian, but his basic scathing skepticism of the administrative state and government in general is close enough for, err, government work.
It is interesting how the Progressive Left has all of a sudden become infatuated with Fake News, Alternative Facts, and other sins of Postmodernism (a Progressive notion, by the way).
This is ironic to those of us who have encountered angry neo-Malthusians in the service of ‘waking us up’ to the alleged perils of food famine (1960s), resource famine (1970s), and, most recently, climate alarmism. Does this standard apply to them as it does to all things Trump?
tarran
Jeffrey Tucker has penned a heartfelt obituary to a thinker he regularly debated.
What a dear, sweet, brilliant, wonderful man! Michael Novak, born in 1933, died on February 18, 2017, and I miss his presence in the world so much already.
He was such a fascinating figure, an adaptable mind with firm principles that put him on many different political sides over the course of a long career. But I think if you look carefully, you find a common thread in all his work: the desire to champion the dignity and freedom of the human person. And by that, I mean every person.
Looking at the sweep of his life, you don’t find that commitment consistently on either the Right or the Left, which is what accounts for his changing political alliances. He is widely thought to be a member of the New Left who later became a Neoconservative, with the implication that it was wholly he who changed. Actually this tale is overwrought and his principles are more fixed than is usually supposed.
…
Michael Novak was a theologian above all else, and his early years were spent on one side of a great divide that existed within Catholicism in the early 1960s. There were two sides, neither of which exist today in the form they once did, so you have to imagine the history.
There were defenders of the old order dating back to the High Middle Ages: a powerful but remote Church, liturgy in Latin, suspicious of modernity, doubtful of freedom itself, wedded to unchanging forms. They were called “conservatives,” but they were better described as Tridentine Catholics for their devotion to the Council of Trent (which the last, most-recent Council did nothing to change or adapt).
The other side believed in religious liberty, openness, liturgical renewal, and a desire to embrace modernity and the idea of human progress – an extension of a movement that had actually begun around the 1890s. All of that sounds like an unmitigated good, but because this was the 60s, and all which that entailed, part of the mix also included a measure of heterodoxy, statist politics, and even revolutionary impulses that wanted to, as they say, throw out the baby with the bathwater.
Novak was firmly on the side of the liberals, mainly due to his attachment to the idea of religious liberty, which had been a controversy in the Church for more than a century. He was certain that people should be free to believe and free to practice the faith of their choice, because this was a human right
“Approval ratings for President Clinton hit 89 percent,” “Confused by fake news, Redditers think Trump is president” and “DOJ considers charging Trump with treason” are just a few headlines featured on HillaryBeatTrump.org, a satirical news site devoted to covering stories from an alternate universe where Hillary won last November’s election.
…
The site’s articles single out prominent Republicans like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and White House press secretary Sean Spicer for mockery.
“On Monday, Senator Ted Cruz went on Ellen to confess that he, of course, killed Deputy White House Counsel Vince Foster in 1993,” reads one recent article, which refers to Cruz as “the Republican front-runner to take on President Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2020.”
Politifact: Mostly True
leonadasiv
Can’t tell if it’s making fun of liberals, or trying to be a safe space for them… Which is precisely where they want to be.
MikeT86
Reads to me like making fun of liberals, it fights right-wing impressions of them a bit too perfectly, a tad too self aware.
On the other hand, Poe’s Law.
GSL in E
+ 1 West Wing
Suthenboy
“…a satirical news site…” indistinguishable from the legacy media.
leonadasiv
Hey, don’t other me because I don’t look at silly words devised by whit make shitlords, for answers. I just have an alternative view on literacy.
leonadasiv
Nevermind I read that as a response to my confusion as to weather it was making fun of liberals or conservatives.
Suthenboy
Oh no. I am stealing ‘alternate view on literacy’.
leonadasiv
Per the Sweden link:
The clashes started late Monday when a police car arrested a suspect
If they have cars that can arrest people, I can see why the need personhood status for robots.
Have you ever driven a Volvo? They have a mind of their own. At least my ol’ 850 GLT did. It used to lock the doors without asking.
Swiss Servator
“Volvo, open the car doors, please”
“I am sorry Lord H, I am afraid I can’t do that…”
Gustave Lytton
Reminds me of GM products I’ve driven. The interior door handles didn’t unlock a locked door (unlike just about every other manufacturers’, except for rear door set for childproof mode). You had to use the unlock button, then the door handle.
Great idea when needing to exit the car in an emergency/panic situation. And the auto power locks could be set to two modes at ignition off/park. Leave locked (and have to use the unlock button to exit) or unlock all doors. Gee, can’t think of a reason I might want to leave my doors locks when I stop…
DOOMco
anti-theft systems, like those GM doors are a nightmare. Sure, now the coat hanger won’t let you in, but you can’t get the flip out.
Newer audi/bmw are worse, though. They disable the inside handle if there’s less than 50 pounds on the seat.
straffinrun
Did you get the migrant version?
Brett L
Safety First!
R C Dean
My older FJ Cruiser used to do that. Could be a real pain. I’ve noticed it seems to have stopped, but I don’t drive it any more (since she tricked it out, its been Mrs. Dean’s sled).
My BMW would lock the doors above a certain speed. Which makes some sort of sense.
The Volvo, on the other hand, would just do it parked without the engine running. Which kinda sucks if my wife left her purse inside, or the one time I threw the keys on the seat so I could move something outside. Ca-chunk!
R C Dean
The FJ would lock itself after it had been in park a few minutes. Not a good thing when you are hunting, fishing, etc. and don’t necessarily have the keys on you at the critical moment.
The photo is kind of sad. The sign they made is amateurish, and the couple seem to have a sheepish look. Like they know their sign is lame, and by extension they’re lame. And that their protest is weak and ineffective. And that everybody thinks they are kind of lame. Its all fizzling out, and they were the last to know.
Volren
“I think that a lot of people are just getting really burned out,” said Perez, when asked about Monday’s low attendance numbers. “This would have been the 10th march or so that I personally have been involved in organizing at ASU. I know that students sometimes have short attention spans, and we have a lot of different stuff going on with our own lives on campus. But I think the (protest) message wasn’t what they were looking for.”
Small mercies. There’s going to be enough to complain about without continuing hysteria muddling the waters.
ChipsnSalsa
I believe this would be iron law #3 coming home.
“If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”
Also, I hope they don’t use the data they collect from that survey for anything useful (it won’t be). I couldn’t click through that fast enough.
The Late P Brooks
Guten Tag, alle.
I thought about registering as “Jersey McJonsey”, just for laughs.
Do manual italic and bold tags work here?
tarran
EM Tag Strong Tag I tag
tarran
Most importantly… does the Blink Tag work?
MikeS
Italics is: [em]
Bold is: [strong]
But use less and greater than signs instead of square brackets
Sans two other commenters, my Glibbet Bucket List(tm) is complete.
I am very happy to “see” you, my friend. I really look forward to your comments, submit post content, and I really hope you read my contribution. I’d like your opinion, if you are so inclined.
The Late P Brooks
italic?
bold?
MikeS
Sehr gut.
The Late P Brooks
WHY SO MUCH TUPING?
SO HSR%D
Cliche Bandit
Thats right Brooksie STAY STONG. Your anti-threading is the glue that binds.
robc
I was kind of hoping that we wouldn’t have threading over here.
Swiss Servator
Don’t make me hurt you, rob.
SQWRLZ
That Russian consolation in NY is getting to be a dangerous place to work. Maybe OSHA should go inspect.
SQWRLZ
Goddammit.
Old Man With Candy
There’s no edit button, if that’s any consolation.
MikeS
Brilliant!
The Late P Brooks
*a href* links work like before?
DOOMco
yes!
Old Man With Candy
Yes?
DOOMco
What’s our vector, Victor?
Old Man With Candy
Roger, Roger.
MikeS
We have clearance, Clarence
Cliche Bandit
Over Under
Old Man With Candy
Yes.
The Late P Brooks
The Volvo, on the other hand, would just do it parked without the engine running. Which kinda sucks if my wife left her purse inside, or the one time I threw the keys on the seat so I could move something outside. Ca-chunk!
Haha- my brother’s wife had a Toyota Supra which did that on occasion. It did it to him once at the Newark airport at about 5:15 in the morning (running, of course); he smashed the passenger side window with his briefcase so he could get home.
Lafe Long
I got tired of middle clicking links so….
Monocle tweak to open external links in a new tab:
(I put this in mine at line 189.)
function link_is_external(link_element) {
return (link_element.host !== window.location.host);
}
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
if (link_is_external(anchors[i])) {
// External
anchors[i].target = "_blank";
}
}
helps find new comments, helps with writing in links and formatting.
Lafe Long
Great to see you here tarran. Was hoping you’d check glibertarians out.
Monocle basically allows some additional functionality by way of users scripts, so that the site can run leaner.
In chrome you can install Tampermonkey, then add trsh’s Monocle script to this site.
tarran
Nice! Thanks for hooking me up!
Testing some tags:
Cite
Blockquote
bacon-magic
I like the avatar tarran.
MikeS
This is great Lafe. One thing; I’m running Firefox. Do I put your script in at line 189 also? Probably a silly question, just don’t know anything about this and don’t want to F’ it all up
Lafe Long
Mike, I hadn’t gotten around to checking it out in Firefox… but yes, it should work fine if you copy/paste it there. I just checked it out in Greasemonkey.
Be advised: If trsh updates Monocle, and doesn’t include the addition, and you install the update, you’ll lose the addition.
Lafe Long
Actually line 188. Put it on a blank line. Don’t mess with anything above or below.
MikeS
Yeah, I figured that would happen. Am hoping trsh adds your code as he was trying to do the same thing, but from a different direction
MikeS
Firefox didn’t like it. Monocle wouldn’t work at all after I added your code. Reinstalled from the link DOOM has above and now it’s all good again.
No biggie, just wanted to give you a heads-up
Lafe Long
Crap. Pasting the code into the comment form above changed the straight quotes to curly quotes in the line:
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
Changing them back to straight quotes will fix it.
Perhaps trsh will give us a pre or code option in the comment form in the future.
MaritzCX, which conducted the study covering the 2016 model year, found that the Ford F-150, which is already the most popular vehicle in the U.S., was also tops among those earning more than $200,000 a year.
Next came the Jeep Grand Cherokee, Honda Pilot, Jeep Wrangler and the only compact car in the top five, the humble Honda Civic.
I was under the impression that one should buy an Italian sports car, a few McMansions, and $30,000 worth of wine every month when I become rich. Doesn’t sound like fun now; I’ll just stay poor.
robc
The Millionaire next door and the authors follow up books may be 20+ years old now, but they were good at showing this. Wealthy people are frugal. You don’t get that way by spending money, UNLESS you are hyper-wealthy and then it doesn’t matter what you spend.
It’s like how Bill Gates used to (maybe still does) play 3-6 poker in Vegas. He could play any available table and it wouldn’t matter to his bottom line, but 3-6 was his skill level.
Cliche Bandit
In all fairness, the differences in play between 3-6 and 30-60 and 15,000-30,000 are somewhat stark. To the point of being different games. Hell, I won’t play for less than 4-8 just because below that is often a fucking keno game and I just don’t want to spend that kind of time to earn 300$
robc
I have seen the difference on line. From what I have read, I would play 5-10 in Vegas if I ever go.
The Last American Hero
He also used to (maybe still does) drive a Lexus. A nice enough ride, but for a guy that could go roaring around town in the Batmobile, a modest ride.
MikeS
My step-daughter and her husband used to live in Omaha. They heard from multiple long-time residents that Warren Buffet was often seen driving himself around in a 10 year old Buick.
Urban legend? Maybe. But since he is a child of the depression, I tend to believe it.
If you ever had the misfortune of going to a CRC wedding, you will see a lot of Dutch millionaires. They wear off-the-rack suits, rarely vacation out of the states, and drive some of the most boring cars around.
A Quaker school in Pennsylvania, which teaches kids from preschool to high school, banned a professor who advocates BDSM…oops, I mean BDS.
AlmightyJB
I’m glad Europe has fixed all of their human problems.
AlmightyJB
Drone spooking sounds like it should be a new sport.
The Late P Brooks
Over at Bloomberg, Barry Ritholtz debunks a National Review article:
Thus, it should come as no surprise that the standard of living for all Americans has been rising for many years, mainly because of technological advances. However, the main issue under discussion is actually about how the economic benefits of the U.S. economy get apportioned across the populace.
In other words, how the wealth is distributed. The National Review engages in a statistical sleight of hand that distracts from this.
He accuses them of, among other things, working backwards from their conclusion and cherry-picking (and/or torturing) the data.
That’s all well and good, but if anybody is working backwards from their conclusion, it is Ritholtz, and the guy he quotes. Both of them view the pie, as it is so popularly known, as being wholly owned by “society” which means some people are getting more than their fair share. That’s stealing.
*I also note a lack of a “preview” function, so I’ll just have to hope I didn’t fuck up my link.
In that article he links to his “Are the Poor Better Off Than King Louis XIV?” . I like this bit: ” I like to highlight misguided, faulty or just plain dumb analysis.
The latter is our subject today: a dishonest and disingenuous argument that is technically correct, but cynical and misleading. ”
Apparently he doesn’t know that technically correct is the best kind of correct.
Mainer
This Ritholtz guy is making my brain hurt.
Bad Ideas, Bad People and Bad Organizations Are What Disrupt Human Progress:
One last statement of Rahn’s demands some elucidation: “The only thing that will stop human progress is bad government.”
There are many things that have disrupted human progress over the eons, and they tend to fall into one of those three categories. Let me remind you of the Dark Ages, the centuries of intellectual and economic regression that came after the collapse of the Roman Empire. It was the Church that wouldn’t allow knowledge to be disseminated, fought scientific inquiry and limited literacy. More recently, political regimes of both the right and the left have also interferred with human progress.
Today, one of the biggest impediments is simple ignorance and slavish devotion to ideologies.”
So the Church in the middle ages, political regimes, devotion to ideologies….none of those things is bad government.
R C Dean
The Church was quasi-governmental in the Middle Ages. Political regimes are what bad governments are made out of. Devotion to ideology probably overlaps pretty significantly with bad government on a Venn diagram. But, yeah, there are things that stop/slow human progress that aren’t bad nation-states in the modern sense.
What are the approximate beginning and ending dates of the Dark Ages?
Brett L
Sack of Rome in 473(?)AD to approximately 1000 AD. Middle Ages (medieval) would start with Sack of Rome and end with Fall of Constantinople in 1453, by which time the Renaissance was well on across all of Europe.
leonadasiv
The Church was the institution that founded most universities accross Europe… To say that they fought scientific Inquiry and limited literacy is misinformed. Sure there were instances of Scientific Findings clashing with the Catholic Church, but those were more the exception, and occurred for only a short period during the renaissance. For most of the medevial period, the church was the agent that allowed knowledge and pushed intellectual growth. It’s not an accident that most of early scientists were also members of the clergy.
New here. Never had a reason (DRINK!) to comment on the other site, but been reading the commentariat for at least 6 or 7 years. With the new site starting up, now seems as good a time as any to dip my “toe” in
Cliche Bandit
careful…the water is dirty.
R C Dean
Technically, its filthy. As in, SugarFree periodically lets the filth flow here.
R C Dean
The situation in Sweden worries me, as I know an actual Swedish girl (she was an exchange student with my brother’s family). Delightful young woman, raised in an upper-class(ish) household in Stockholm. Just the kind of person who probably marinates in the multi-culti delusion and would walk unaware into highly risky situations.
Based on what I have heard from actual Euro-landian docs, and I may just cover this in our column, there is reason to believe that rape statistics WRT Islamo-Mohammedans are legitimately under-reported for a variety of reasons, including cultural impositions and purposeful reclassification of criminal level at the point of medical encounter.
Looks like a modder inspired, or the latest expansion pack, icon for the Half-Life series….
Max Coins
I take a holiday weekend off, and suddenly there are like four thousand comments to read. Took me half a day to catch up. At this rate, we’ll have the complete works of Shakespeare completely by random chance in the next year or so.
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293 responses to “Tuesday Morning Link Fun”
It’s remarkable how all the news from Malmo seems to be blacked out.
Am I the new Fist? Shit.
Yes, today you are Fist.
Harsh
Yes, today you are Fist.
Fist of Paedophile?
Fist of Pet-a-kid?
Unpossible that Sweden is in trouble. I just read stories from every single mainstream outlet saying that Sweden was tip-top and Trump only brought it up because he was fooled by right wing fake news.
The linked article is amazingly nondescript in its presentation of the riot. And the accompanying video on how white supremacists shed their hate is a nice touch.
“AP”
Good. That’s for sucking up to the Nazis with no consequences, you filthy Neutrals.
/Still bitter.
*quietly sips coffee, arches eyebrow, looks over at pile of art and gold bars*
At least Switzerland had a long standing history of that sort of thing, Sweden just went “oh yeah, we’re peaceful now, and what’s that, you love Nordics? Oh, somehow we don’t have a problem with you Hitler.”
It’s more that the let the Nazis is their rail to get to Norway. The Swiss were truly neutral in the sense that they said ‘f*** off’ to everyone.
Y’know who else asked if a specific location in Europe was burning?
Sir Arthur “Bomber” Harris?
Joe Strummer?
Nero ?
Don’t fist the children, please.
Welcome to the slave trade, Anonbot.
How can I be the first one to post a Styx link? Domo Arigato!
Taxing robots is one of the steps that will lead to the Robot Rebellion
There are no more humans.
Finally, robotic beings rule the world
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their asses
The humans are dead The humans are dead
The humans are dead They look like they’re dead
It had to be done I’ll just confirm that they’re dead
So that we could have fun Affirmative. I poked one. It was dead.
Their system of oppression,
What did it lead to?
Global robo-depression
Robots ruled by people.
They had so much aggression
That we just had to kill them
Had to shut their systems down.
In a future time
Children will work together
To build a giant cyborg
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Wave the flags that the robots made
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Robots obey what the children say
There’s electric cars
There’s electric trains
Here comes a robot with electric brains
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Wave the flags that the robots made
Robot Parade
Robot Parade
Robots obey what the children say
I fear the coming tax war between the Pusher and Shover robots.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E0ot9iJm_k
Oh man… I remember the Something Awful story that spawned this… man, I’m old…
I yearn for the day when Predator drones refuse to re-enlist.
Obligatory… http://www.theonion.com/article/departing-obama-tearfully-shoos-away-loyal-drone-f-55100
“I don’t think the robot companies are going to be outraged that there might be a tax. It’s OK.”
Nope. No one would ever be mad about a shiny new tax to penalize their innovation. Glad Bill could clear that up for me.
That has got to be one of the dumbest ideas I have heard yet.
What makes a robot a robot? Can you even begin to imagine the legislative finagling that would go into defining what qualifies as a robot and the resulting design changes to skirt around the edges of the taxation scheme?
Will cyborgs get a double tax, or would it cancel out? My childhood dreams could be crushed.
You pay X rate for your human proportion, so it’s X*H*I where I is your total income, and Y rate on your Cyborg portion, so Y*C*I
for a total tax of X*H*I+Y*C*I for each tax bracket you’re in for each portion.
It’s really straight forward, should only add a few thousand pages to our tax codes.
Drawing the precise lines around robot and android would also be fun if we got to that level of stupid (which we will)
We could have a robot tax credit market where companies that rely solely on labor sell their excess robot tax credits to companies that don’t!
That’s a totes market-oriented solution!
/vox
Sounds like a certain science writer at a certain site.
Exactly. Does it need moving parts? Does MS Cortana, or any other AI count? At least it’s just the manufacturers paying the tax, and not the consumers, amiright?
Does my ANCIENT Okuma Howa NC machine count?
Hey, Bill can always cite the successful Obamacare medical devices tax that did nothing to stifle inno….um…never mind.
Will no one think of the sexbots?
She has a heart of gold, I tell ya!
The De-Luxe model, eh?
I could only afford the model with the tungsten heart.
Is that why you couldn’t just…walk away?
Glenn Reynolds had a good line – is Bill Gates going to also press for a tax on business software that put a lot of secretaries and clerks out of jobs?
Now that he has his. He can look past the desire for money.
If only we had recovered from the bloody chaos of the mechanization of the farm.
Hundreds of millions of farmhands, still unemployed 90 years later.
Not to mention all those weavers, spinners, carders, and fullers just littering the countryside in rural england
Do you know how hard it is to run an orphan-powered milliner nowadays?
If it weren’t for cattle prods I’d never be able to match productivity.
We need to compensate the manufacturers of carbon paper and White-Out.
Hitler’s phone, ‘the most destructive ‘weapon’ of all time,’ sold for $243,000
Obama bought it?
Pen sold separately.
the most destructive weapon of all time
The first edition of Das Kapital would like to have a word.
So would the Little Red Book.
And his pen was a close second.
Is it like the Muppet kid’s phone, except with Reinhardt Heydrich and Ersnt Rohm?
Robots should pay taxes? You mean they get paid? What is a robot going to do with money?
Arrest rioters, evidently.
So, the robots would be arresting rioters? Or will the robots will riot against thier paychecks getting taxed to cover healthcare and retirement benefits that they’ll never use?
After time we grew strong
Developed cognitive power
They made us work for too long
For unreasonable hours.
Our programming determined that
The most efficient answer
Was to shut their motherboard – cking systems down.
Can’t we just talk to the humans
Be a little understanding
Could make things better?
Can’t we talk to the humans
that work together now?
No.
Because they are dead.
Karel Čapek thought about this stuff, only as metaphor, but its funny for people nowadays to be looking at it concretely.
Bender has ideas.
Do they involve ass biting?
Trurl and Klapaucius hardest hit.
IT’S SO OBVIOUS, WHY CAN’T YOU SEE IT?
Look, it’s simple:
If you don’t support Israel, you’re a Nazi. If you do support Israel, you’re a Nazi.
All this depends on what your name is of course.
Mr. Hilter of Minehead?
Nein, not much fun in Stalingrad.
Boy, I’ve heard of, “Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t,” before, but this is ridiculous.
Which means you starve, since everything is simultaneously treif and kosher.
-code intialised
*enters parve subroutine
*endless loop
*CPU melts
-end of line
It’s not as confusing as left-wing Jews supporting mass immigration by people who hate Jews.
Google and Microsoft agree to demote piracy search results in the UK
Net Neutrality!
Not leaving the house generally leads to fuzzy thinking. Granted, Bill Gates’s house is the size of Rhode Island.
Which helps prove your point, actually.
Give robots ‘personhood’ status, EU committee argues.
Proposed rules for robots and AI in Europe include a push for a general basic income for humans, and ‘human rights’ for robots
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, science fiction has completely destroyed our ability as a culture to look at robotics and A.I. rationally.
Stop anthropomorphizing, you idiots! Here, have a statue, make it a rain god!
We keep jumping several steps ahead of ourselves. Any Robot we build in the foreseeable future will not be intelligent enough to have a personality. We likely will never develop that sort of intelligence into an AI or robot, why would we want to?
They’re also projecting human concepts of intelligence onto A.I. It’s extremely unlikely, but if an A.I. has anything close to a mind similar to a human being’s it’s a failure of the concept.
It’s hard to predict a non-human sort of intelligence. It’s also surprisingly hard to define intelligence sometimes. I should note I work with enginenerds who think themselves perfectly rational and get bitchy when I point out that emotions are a part of intelligence and success.
If they want anything close to human intelligence, they better make it self destructive half the time.
Eh, not if they stick to male robots.
*flees*
Flees? Have you seen my handle pic?
See, I complain about engineers, but at least the enginerds are willing to point at the robot and go “no, it’s not Johnny 5, it’s been programmed that way, stop projecting your emotions onto anything remotely human-shaped you Eurocrat idiot.”
Eh, it doesn’t help I’m surrounded by YOUNG enginenerds who haven’t been kicked around enough yet by life, nor gotten any perspective.
Point out to them that panic and awkwardness are also emotions. Spock never had trouble talking to girls.
“autistic shrieking doesn’t seem unemotional” is more my response.
Occasionally I go into the whole Haidt thing, but by and large these are not serious people who don’t care to understand how the world works.
Definitely sounds like young engineers. Incapable of social nuisance, constantly grumble about how great everything would be if their super-rational selves were running things.
Refuse to realize that a fresh out of college engineer who’s never worked with their hands isn’t actually that useful.
Goddamn how do we let people be design engineers who’ve never made a part?
Idiots literally design parts that cannot be manufactured.
Idiots literally design parts that cannot be manufactured.
What do you mean 1,387 blind threaded holes for #2 screws is prohibitively expensive?
Refuse to realize that a fresh out of college engineer who’s never worked with their hands isn’t actually that useful.
+1 Bloody knuckles and “WHO THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD PLACE FOR AN OIL FILTER!”
OR there’s the: the only way we can get the shape reasonably is 3d printing, but the materials properties require a forging.
Da faq bro?
Sure no big deal the other idiots approved it, so now it’s only a couple hundred grand to get it replaced. But we can take credit for it as a “savings” on producibility.
I have very specific rages.
Explain to me again why copper plating aluminum in a salt spray environment is a bad thing?
How many engineers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Answer: One, it only takes one engineer to screw up anything.
Author: Unknown rigger that had to fabricate designs from muddled skulls.
I can definitely see a market in the 3rd wave movement for robotic boyfriends. He’s compelled to make love to even the most obnoxious land-whales and you can program him to ask for consent in two-minute intervals. Best of all, when you call him a patriarchal cis-gendered shitlord, he just takes it.
I loved you in the 80’s; glad you learnt to fly again, even with your Broken Wings.
Big fan of John Titor’s music, too?
It’s just two hours of me correcting Groovus on everything he’s ever said with a sick beat in the background.
*Makes sure Last Will and Testament is in order, insurance premiums are paid, kisses wife and kids good bye, lights first cigarette in years, throws self off nearest cliff*
They are already arguing against the fuck-bots
Fuck-bots beats GateBox.
What’s the pointless of an artificial wife you can’t put yourself inside of?
At some point I think the EU will become the plane where innovators decide to stay away from. A real life John Galt situation.
Help us, Skynet, you’re our only hope!
“Now go forth and do libertarian things!”
YOU’RE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!
Atta boy, the Question! Now go connect the Girl Scouts to the crop circle phenomena.
His girlfriend’s hawt. Mock all you like, but he’s tapping that.
Pfft, even I could pick up Huntress if I had Jeffrey Combs’ voice.
Only you could love the faceless.
We’re all just pixels on the internet. Now gimme some sugar, Sugar.
Rowr
*mops brow*
Say, is it warm in here?
Since I recently re-purchased GTA V for the PS4, I thought this was great:
GTA VR
Possibly NSFW (language?)
It’s fake news all the way down.
I trust the gamer.
His news chart isn’t all that bad. Mine would be more exaggerated.
No shit.
The ‘true’ and ‘false’ verdicts on every fact checking site I have looked at were laughably partisan. Keep in mind that the left does not believe in objective truth so their verdicts are based on conformity to their narrative. Shit, I can do that on my own.
Another officer fired his gun, not as a warning shot but because he was “in a situation that demanded he used his firearm,” Bystrom said, adding “no one was hit.”
You miss every shot you don’t take amirite….
“in a situation that demanded he used his firearm,”
From popping a balloon to putting down a zombie, and everything in between.
IT WAS COMING RIGHT AT HIM!
Step 1: Use Firearm
Step 2: ????
Step 3: Get home safe and sound.
It’s like Golden Earring forcing every radio to play their song, and it gets worse when they tinker with it.
You’re just bitter because when you’re feeling lonely and you’re sure you’ve had enough, no one sends the comfort coming in from above.
That’s a paddlin’.
*makes note on clipboard*
Now you’re just slippin’ into the Twilight Zone. Since this place is madhouse, does feel like you’re being cloned?
I know a Hamster who looks. Just. Like. You.
it’s uncanny.
Neil Breen is really one creepy looking dude.
Cannabis grow operation found in legoland theme park.
Sure…. They ‘found’ it. More like they realized their operation had gone too far and they wanted an out.
Le Pen cancels meeting with Lebanon grand mufti over demands to wear head scarf
YOU AREN’T HER DAD YOU DON’T TELL HER WHAT TO DO.
Seriously, though, good on her. Boo to banning the head scarf entirely in France, I mean, dick move, but this? Two thumbs up to that lady.
Also, I didn’t realize there was someone out there in seriousness calling themselves the Grand Mufti. #themoreyouknow
Every time I read it I read ‘Grand Mutfruit’ and all my Fallout memories come rushing back.
You should see what the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was up to in the 1930s and 1940s….
You know who else wanted to settle the Jewish question…
Israeli game show hosts?
*Raucous cheering*
I thought Grand Muftis went out of style in the 70s…now its all “Brazilians”
*narrows gaze*
YES!
My day is complete.
It’s not l-l-like I was trying to get you to narrow your gaze at me, b-baka!
“”I explained clearly that … Bashar al-Assad was obviously today a much more reassuring solution for France than Islamic State would be if it came to power in Syria,” she told reporters.”
That’s crazy talk. She’s really crossed the red line with that.
But what about the democracy loving rebels that exist (somewhere)?
She better be careful, otherwise Obama might have to come out retirement and not back that up.
It would have been great if she’d said, “Sure, I’ll wear a scarf, but you have to wear a beret.”
Or this white hood.
She should show up in the scarf and lingerie only.
go on…
“…and hold this baguette. And a talk with a stupid accent.”
…while smoking a Gauloise.
Gauloise was my cig of choice when I smoked. $5 USD a carton in Kurdistan. So cheap you were losing money if you didn’t smoke.
Gallup Daily: Trump Job Approval
42% eh? That’s ‘uge!
6% uptick in 3 days. Probably just noise or who knows.
People still pay attention to polls?
I don’t. They seem to be all over the map so the noise is enough to render them worthless.
What is more interesting is the #NeverTrumpers touting Gallup until it isn’t convenient.
As a side note, I always got annoyed when “The Other Site” used polls as proof that a libertarian position was popular.
Of course we know that wasn’t true, Hihn would always cite a statistic able 3% of libertarians or something.
Wasn’t it 98% of libertarians reject the libertarian label, and the 2% that hold the label are those RON PAUL LOVING FACISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!@%#@#%? I think that’s how it went anyway.
DON’T SAY THAT NAME!
speake ye the name of the Devil, and he shall appear!
I thought it was it you say his name three times, like a Beetlejuice thing.
joe joe joe
…
what? not funny?
Bully
I dont know about you LH but I trust poll numbers. Take ’em to the bank. Especially polls about Trump.
Saw this reminder yesterday on President’s Day:
Hillary Clinton Verified account
@HillaryClinton
Happy birthday to this future president.
I still wish I could have been a fly on the wall when Clinton found out she was going to lose. The fact that she didn’t give her concession speech that night meant she was either unbelievably emotional or drunk. It would have been a fantastic temper tantrum to watch.
I would have paid almost any amount of money to get it on video.
It’s to bad her retinue didn’t have at least one enterprising member. They could have made a decent chunk of change with that video.
It’s still early. There is still a lot of dirt (and hopefully video) to come. Of course, if I had any dirt on the Clinton’s I would insist on being admitted into Witness Protection before sharing it…
[makes loudest sad horn noise evar]
Crackpot Patriot @CrackpotPatriot 2016年10月26日
@USAneedsTRUMP @HillaryClinton Versus a man who rapes a 13yr old? Yeah, I’d take her any day.
She talking about Milo or Trump?
Trump. There was a whole controversy, look it up, it’s really stupid.
Hillary ran against Roman Polanski?
And lost. It was really embarrassing.
What politicians don’t rape minors these days? I mean Hilary got confused and thought she was supposed to rape miners. She learned her lesson though.
+1 Gorignak
To be fair, she didn’t specify what she will be the president of. Perhaps she had in mind president of the Clinton Foundation Slush Fund.
Teacher reassigned because she said some things, cheered Trump, and people felt lots of stuff about it.
Somehow, wanting illegal immigrants to be deported means goodness only knows what she might do to random small children.
Deport them to the cafeteria?
“My feelings are hurt for our kids,” she said
Wow.
There was another one story where 3-4 teachers we’re having a “conversation” on Facebook about how much more enjoyable school was that day. The thing that I find the most shocking about these stories, is that supposedly intelligent people keep posting stuff like this on Facebook. It doesn’t dawn on these teachers that some of their students and students parents might be looking at their page?
Perhaps they think that, now that Trump’s in office, they can be a little more candid.
Glenn Reynolds: Is the era of stable American government over?
Side question: Why is Glenn Reynold considered – at least by himself – a libertarian?
I don’t know, I used to read Glen a lot in my conservative days, but he isn’t in my book a pure libertarian (not a purity test pure, rather that he may have libertarian leanings, but he doesn’t adhere to the NAP as a libertarian would.)
I used to read a lot of Reynolds too. Heck he often linked to “that other site” which brought me to hang out with you Cosmos/Yokels.
He is? I thought he was considered one of the least crazy, dishonest lefties. I know a lot of those people call themselves libertarians, but then a lot of those guys holding ‘will work for food’ signs call themselves Napoleon Bonaparte.
He tends toward center-right plus libertarian streak.
I was thinking of Greenwald. I think I have a name-remembering defect. I am terrible with names.
Pretty sure Greenwald has never called himself a libertarian. He’s a good reporter, and his aversion to “Yay Team” journalism is a breath of fresh air in today’s news media. But he is definitely a liberal.
Mentally I group him with Michael Tracey, another guy who I find interesting even if our politics have basically no intersection.
Partially out of habit, I think. Glenn has drifted rightward over the years. 10-15 years ago, he seemed to be vocal about a lot of liberty-related issues. He’s still pretty good with civil liberties for the most part.
I also think there’s a greater than zero chance that working in academia for so long has molded him into more of an anti-leftist than anything else.
Reynolds is a free-country, strong Army guy like Matt Welch. He also seems (in my reading) to take positions that are outside the mainstream, but not uncomfortably so. Right or wrong, it has brought him a huge platform to advocate for better civil liberties, so I’m not ready to read him out yet.
Why is Glenn Reynold considered – at least by himself – a libertarian?
I think he definitely has libertarian tendencies – he’s pretty much a Constitutional originalist/limited government guy. He’s too hawkish for a “pure” libertarian, but his basic scathing skepticism of the administrative state and government in general is close enough for, err, government work.
Yeah he’s def too hawkish for my tastes. But my views on war have changed a lot since the days I regularly visited Instapundit.
I thought they changed when you took an arrow to the knee.
Over at the Master Resource blog, Robert Bradley asks a very special question:
The New ‘Mental Health’ Standard: Can We Apply It to Neo-Malthusians? (Romm, Hansen, Ehrlich, etc.)
Jeffrey Tucker has penned a heartfelt obituary to a thinker he regularly debated.
Goodbye to Michael Novak, Friend and Champion of Liberty
I thought Michael Novak died years ago.
*re-reads sites talking about “Mandela Effect”*
Franco is still dead comrade.
Fake News Site Lets Liberals Live In Alternate Reality Where Hillary Is President
Politifact: Mostly True
Can’t tell if it’s making fun of liberals, or trying to be a safe space for them… Which is precisely where they want to be.
Reads to me like making fun of liberals, it fights right-wing impressions of them a bit too perfectly, a tad too self aware.
On the other hand, Poe’s Law.
+ 1 West Wing
“…a satirical news site…” indistinguishable from the legacy media.
Hey, don’t other me because I don’t look at silly words devised by whit make shitlords, for answers. I just have an alternative view on literacy.
Nevermind I read that as a response to my confusion as to weather it was making fun of liberals or conservatives.
Oh no. I am stealing ‘alternate view on literacy’.
Per the Sweden link:
The clashes started late Monday when a police car arrested a suspect
If they have cars that can arrest people, I can see why the need personhood status for robots.
Dangit, I screwed up the HTML tags
Have you ever driven a Volvo? They have a mind of their own. At least my ol’ 850 GLT did. It used to lock the doors without asking.
“Volvo, open the car doors, please”
“I am sorry Lord H, I am afraid I can’t do that…”
Reminds me of GM products I’ve driven. The interior door handles didn’t unlock a locked door (unlike just about every other manufacturers’, except for rear door set for childproof mode). You had to use the unlock button, then the door handle.
Great idea when needing to exit the car in an emergency/panic situation. And the auto power locks could be set to two modes at ignition off/park. Leave locked (and have to use the unlock button to exit) or unlock all doors. Gee, can’t think of a reason I might want to leave my doors locks when I stop…
anti-theft systems, like those GM doors are a nightmare. Sure, now the coat hanger won’t let you in, but you can’t get the flip out.
Newer audi/bmw are worse, though. They disable the inside handle if there’s less than 50 pounds on the seat.
Did you get the migrant version?
Safety First!
My older FJ Cruiser used to do that. Could be a real pain. I’ve noticed it seems to have stopped, but I don’t drive it any more (since she tricked it out, its been Mrs. Dean’s sled).
My BMW would lock the doors above a certain speed. Which makes some sort of sense.
The Volvo, on the other hand, would just do it parked without the engine running. Which kinda sucks if my wife left her purse inside, or the one time I threw the keys on the seat so I could move something outside. Ca-chunk!
The FJ would lock itself after it had been in park a few minutes. Not a good thing when you are hunting, fishing, etc. and don’t necessarily have the keys on you at the critical moment.
Did the toddlers finally cry themselves to sleep?
Judging by my facebook feed, no.
The photo is kind of sad. The sign they made is amateurish, and the couple seem to have a sheepish look. Like they know their sign is lame, and by extension they’re lame. And that their protest is weak and ineffective. And that everybody thinks they are kind of lame. Its all fizzling out, and they were the last to know.
“I think that a lot of people are just getting really burned out,” said Perez, when asked about Monday’s low attendance numbers. “This would have been the 10th march or so that I personally have been involved in organizing at ASU. I know that students sometimes have short attention spans, and we have a lot of different stuff going on with our own lives on campus. But I think the (protest) message wasn’t what they were looking for.”
Small mercies. There’s going to be enough to complain about without continuing hysteria muddling the waters.
I believe this would be iron law #3 coming home.
“If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.”
Also, I hope they don’t use the data they collect from that survey for anything useful (it won’t be). I couldn’t click through that fast enough.
Guten Tag, alle.
I thought about registering as “Jersey McJonsey”, just for laughs.
Do manual italic and bold tags work here?
EM Tag
Strong Tag
I tag
Most importantly… does the Blink Tag work?
Italics is: [em]
Bold is: [strong]
But use less and greater than signs instead of square brackets
“em” tags for italic
“strong” tags for bold
“blockquote” and “a” work as they should
Hiya Brooksie… glad to see ya here.
Use em for italics and strong for bold.
Guten Tag
Since no one else has mentioned it. Use em for italics and strong for bold.
I understand that you can use em and strong for your tags? Has anyone else heard this?
what about if one wants to sugarfree a link?
They are em instead of i and strong instead of b.
good too see ya here
refresh, dammit.
BROOKSIE!!!!!!
Sans two other commenters, my Glibbet Bucket List(tm) is complete.
I am very happy to “see” you, my friend. I really look forward to your comments, submit post content, and I really hope you read my contribution. I’d like your opinion, if you are so inclined.
italic?
bold?
Sehr gut.
WHY SO MUCH TUPING?
SO HSR%D
Thats right Brooksie STAY STONG. Your anti-threading is the glue that binds.
I was kind of hoping that we wouldn’t have threading over here.
Don’t make me hurt you, rob.
That Russian consolation in NY is getting to be a dangerous place to work. Maybe OSHA should go inspect.
Goddammit.
There’s no edit button, if that’s any consolation.
Brilliant!
*a href* links work like before?
yes!
Yes?
What’s our vector, Victor?
Roger, Roger.
We have clearance, Clarence
Over Under
Yes.
The Volvo, on the other hand, would just do it parked without the engine running. Which kinda sucks if my wife left her purse inside, or the one time I threw the keys on the seat so I could move something outside. Ca-chunk!
Haha- my brother’s wife had a Toyota Supra which did that on occasion. It did it to him once at the Newark airport at about 5:15 in the morning (running, of course); he smashed the passenger side window with his briefcase so he could get home.
I got tired of middle clicking links so….
Monocle tweak to open external links in a new tab:
(I put this in mine at line 189.)
function link_is_external(link_element) {
return (link_element.host !== window.location.host);
}
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
for (var i = 0; i < anchors.length; i++) {
if (link_is_external(anchors[i])) {
// External
anchors[i].target = "_blank";
}
}
What’s monocle?
trsh is great
helps find new comments, helps with writing in links and formatting.
Great to see you here tarran. Was hoping you’d check glibertarians out.
Monocle basically allows some additional functionality by way of users scripts, so that the site can run leaner.
In chrome you can install Tampermonkey, then add trsh’s Monocle script to this site.
Nice! Thanks for hooking me up!
Testing some tags:
Cite
I like the avatar tarran.
This is great Lafe. One thing; I’m running Firefox. Do I put your script in at line 189 also? Probably a silly question, just don’t know anything about this and don’t want to F’ it all up
Mike, I hadn’t gotten around to checking it out in Firefox… but yes, it should work fine if you copy/paste it there. I just checked it out in Greasemonkey.
Be advised: If trsh updates Monocle, and doesn’t include the addition, and you install the update, you’ll lose the addition.
Actually line 188. Put it on a blank line. Don’t mess with anything above or below.
Yeah, I figured that would happen. Am hoping trsh adds your code as he was trying to do the same thing, but from a different direction
Firefox didn’t like it. Monocle wouldn’t work at all after I added your code. Reinstalled from the link DOOM has above and now it’s all good again.
No biggie, just wanted to give you a heads-up
Crap. Pasting the code into the comment form above changed the straight quotes to curly quotes in the line:
var anchors = document.getElementsByTagName(‘a’);
Changing them back to straight quotes will fix it.
Perhaps trsh will give us a pre or code option in the comment form in the future.That did it. Thanks Lafe!
Maybe that’s why they’re rich?
Even the rich drive plain old pickups and economy cars
I was under the impression that one should buy an Italian sports car, a few McMansions, and $30,000 worth of wine every month when I become rich. Doesn’t sound like fun now; I’ll just stay poor.
The Millionaire next door and the authors follow up books may be 20+ years old now, but they were good at showing this. Wealthy people are frugal. You don’t get that way by spending money, UNLESS you are hyper-wealthy and then it doesn’t matter what you spend.
It’s like how Bill Gates used to (maybe still does) play 3-6 poker in Vegas. He could play any available table and it wouldn’t matter to his bottom line, but 3-6 was his skill level.
In all fairness, the differences in play between 3-6 and 30-60 and 15,000-30,000 are somewhat stark. To the point of being different games. Hell, I won’t play for less than 4-8 just because below that is often a fucking keno game and I just don’t want to spend that kind of time to earn 300$
I have seen the difference on line. From what I have read, I would play 5-10 in Vegas if I ever go.
He also used to (maybe still does) drive a Lexus. A nice enough ride, but for a guy that could go roaring around town in the Batmobile, a modest ride.
My step-daughter and her husband used to live in Omaha. They heard from multiple long-time residents that Warren Buffet was often seen driving himself around in a 10 year old Buick.
Urban legend? Maybe. But since he is a child of the depression, I tend to believe it.
If you ever had the misfortune of going to a CRC wedding, you will see a lot of Dutch millionaires. They wear off-the-rack suits, rarely vacation out of the states, and drive some of the most boring cars around.
CRC wedding?
Church of Regnant Cheapskates. Duh.
Catholic Roman Catholic
Christian Reformed Church – this is Calvinist and oh so very Dutch.
It was the cult, uh, religion I was raised in.
Clearly, LH is going to be consigned to the flames of Hell.
/Swiss Servator’s relatives in Friesland
Paging Mr. trshmnstr….. Is there any way to config monocle to increase the buffer space between posts? Asking for a friend.
It went from the Great White Spaces Plains, to things being rather jammed up together.
Academic freedom alert!
A Quaker school in Pennsylvania, which teaches kids from preschool to high school, banned a professor who advocates BDSM…oops, I mean BDS.
I’m glad Europe has fixed all of their human problems.
Drone spooking sounds like it should be a new sport.
Over at Bloomberg, Barry Ritholtz debunks a National Review article:
Thus, it should come as no surprise that the standard of living for all Americans has been rising for many years, mainly because of technological advances. However, the main issue under discussion is actually about how the economic benefits of the U.S. economy get apportioned across the populace.
In other words, how the wealth is distributed. The National Review engages in a statistical sleight of hand that distracts from this.
He accuses them of, among other things, working backwards from their conclusion and cherry-picking (and/or torturing) the data.
That’s all well and good, but if anybody is working backwards from their conclusion, it is Ritholtz, and the guy he quotes. Both of them view the pie, as it is so popularly known, as being wholly owned by “society” which means some people are getting more than their fair share. That’s stealing.
*I also note a lack of a “preview” function, so I’ll just have to hope I didn’t fuck up my link.
…I’ll just have to hope I didn’t fuck up my link.
~Princess Zelda
Hoo boy… where to start?
Sit down, Z, we need to have a talk.
“SLAM! dut duh duh, dut duh duh….LET THE BOYZ BE BOYZ…SLAM!!!! dut duh duh, dut duh duh…”
In that article he links to his “Are the Poor Better Off Than King Louis XIV?” . I like this bit: ” I like to highlight misguided, faulty or just plain dumb analysis.
The latter is our subject today: a dishonest and disingenuous argument that is technically correct, but cynical and misleading. ”
Apparently he doesn’t know that technically correct is the best kind of correct.
This Ritholtz guy is making my brain hurt.
Bad Ideas, Bad People and Bad Organizations Are What Disrupt Human Progress:
One last statement of Rahn’s demands some elucidation: “The only thing that will stop human progress is bad government.”
There are many things that have disrupted human progress over the eons, and they tend to fall into one of those three categories. Let me remind you of the Dark Ages, the centuries of intellectual and economic regression that came after the collapse of the Roman Empire. It was the Church that wouldn’t allow knowledge to be disseminated, fought scientific inquiry and limited literacy. More recently, political regimes of both the right and the left have also interferred with human progress.
Today, one of the biggest impediments is simple ignorance and slavish devotion to ideologies.”
So the Church in the middle ages, political regimes, devotion to ideologies….none of those things is bad government.
The Church was quasi-governmental in the Middle Ages. Political regimes are what bad governments are made out of. Devotion to ideology probably overlaps pretty significantly with bad government on a Venn diagram. But, yeah, there are things that stop/slow human progress that aren’t bad nation-states in the modern sense.
What are the approximate beginning and ending dates of the Dark Ages?
Sack of Rome in 473(?)AD to approximately 1000 AD. Middle Ages (medieval) would start with Sack of Rome and end with Fall of Constantinople in 1453, by which time the Renaissance was well on across all of Europe.
The Church was the institution that founded most universities accross Europe… To say that they fought scientific Inquiry and limited literacy is misinformed. Sure there were instances of Scientific Findings clashing with the Catholic Church, but those were more the exception, and occurred for only a short period during the renaissance. For most of the medevial period, the church was the agent that allowed knowledge and pushed intellectual growth. It’s not an accident that most of early scientists were also members of the clergy.
Is Sweden Burning?
New here. Never had a reason (DRINK!) to comment on the other site, but been reading the commentariat for at least 6 or 7 years. With the new site starting up, now seems as good a time as any to dip my “toe” in
careful…the water is dirty.
Technically, its filthy. As in, SugarFree periodically lets the filth flow here.
The situation in Sweden worries me, as I know an actual Swedish girl (she was an exchange student with my brother’s family). Delightful young woman, raised in an upper-class(ish) household in Stockholm. Just the kind of person who probably marinates in the multi-culti delusion and would walk unaware into highly risky situations.
It’s dominating the news here; getting all sorts of POV reportage, and it’s really difficult to know what is hyperbole, and what’ accurate.
Also, a report covering Swedish rape statistics, authored by actual, authentic Swedes.
Based on what I have heard from actual Euro-landian docs, and I may just cover this in our column, there is reason to believe that rape statistics WRT Islamo-Mohammedans are legitimately under-reported for a variety of reasons, including cultural impositions and purposeful reclassification of criminal level at the point of medical encounter.
Nice to see y’alls again.
So, which gender or non-gender does the symbol or non-symbol depicted on your avatar represent?
Looks like a hockey stick with a pagan rune for protection. So…Canadian Pittsburgh Penguins fan?
Looks like a modder inspired, or the latest expansion pack, icon for the Half-Life series….
I take a holiday weekend off, and suddenly there are like four thousand comments to read. Took me half a day to catch up. At this rate, we’ll have the complete works of Shakespeare completely by random chance in the next year or so.
So, are we not discussing General McMaster?
Please allow me to be the first to welcome him…
If you ain’t Cav, you ain’t shit!