Holy crap, its Wednesday already? Wow. Lookit the time fly. I’ve spent at least half of today figuring out what somebody changed to break my code. Preliminary signs point to someone else bolluxing up something I have no control over. @#*$@#$&@#$
NSA updates its core values statement to match reality. I wonder if the ISO-9001 audit dinged them.
Bill Cosby makes surprise standup appearance. “What’s funny about barbituates… is…”
Not a fan of the Patriots or Eagles? SMOD might have you covered!
Five million tons of thrust at sea level? That’s what she said.
Some heathens apparently missed a musical reference in the morning links. Let me edjumacate you.
plus, more lakes.
Given the history of the Eagles, the asteroid will actually hit us, AND the timing will be off so it hits with 2 minutes left, the Eagles up 14 and in victory formation.
it hits with 2 minutes left, the Eagles up 14 and in victory formation
It in this context usually means TB12.
Are you kidding? How will Eagles fans suffer if they’re dead?
Well, admittedly, this is a honest move on their part.
Most ridiculous thing you’ll see today: Burger King makes a YouTube video promoting…..Net Neutrality. No, I’m not kidding.
I don’t like Burger King so I can’t boycott them.
I used to eat at Burger King every morning for years. Then I decided I didn’t like being fat and stopped.
Burger King breakfast is probably about as healthy as shooting bad heroin with Haitians.
No, BK, that isn’t how it works.
I’d rather have the 3.99 whopper than the 28.99 whopper.
Well, neither, actually. Burger King sucks, and so does every single one of their advertising campaigns.
Hardee’s (Carl’s Jr) or GTFO. The 2/3 lb Monster ThickBurger gives my treasonous body what it so richly deserves:
1300 calories
90g Fat
265 mg cholesterol
3.14 GRAMS of sodium
Plus slutty chicks in commercials > Some goofy clown
If your body needs an eight ball of sodium you should be in the hospital.
Im stealing that- I see my doc Monday
“Ya know I roll through a couple 8-balls of salt a week?”
No doubt hilarity will ensue.
McDs is the clown. Burger King is far worse: a king in tights and a creepy mask.
Way to other the King, cishet shitlord.
This guy gets it.
Hey, the Wendy redhead was pretty hot.
This guy also gets it.
Sure (screams for a photo-shopping)
But not the real one
Incentivize me with some amount of free burgers? Likely would.
Fat and cholesterol in your diet are not your enemy, sugar/carbs are. Thank the sugar industry for creating the fraud years ago, and be stunned at how many people, especially nutritionists and coercive government types who just can’t let go of their “Fat bad” training that has been disproven.
Oh, and that 3 grams of sodium is about the same as you’d get out of a big bowl of soup. Don’t worry, unless you have hypertension, it’s why you have kidneys, to balance your water and salt. P.S. your body needs salt.
Preach on.
I’m 2+ years keto and very happy, healthy, and fit.
Rob Base hardest hit.
https://youtu.be/phOW-CZJWT0?t=228
It takes two.
How about when some super smart guy on the government board dictating the neutrality of the net says there can be no more Whoppers served? Where is that part of the video?
Or wants to reintroduce the fairness doctrine?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
I wonder why they did that. Is BK owned by some media company?
And the comments are solid-gold retarded. It’s like an evil African scientist cloned Tony.
I wondered the same thing. It’s just really bizarre – do they have some kind of super-specific market research that indicates that Net Neutrality hysterics are a large segment of their customer base?
They’re not advertising to people who already eat there. They’re advertising to people who might be persuaded to eat there.
That still doesn’t do much to explain it. I don’t see the connection between Burger King and progressive. Staying the fuck out of politics strikes me as one of those things that should be an absolute, total, no-brainer for a consumer products company. Nobody says “I’m going to buy their product because they agree with me.”. But, a shitload of people say “I’m not going to buy their product because they disagree with me.”.
> Nobody says “I’m going to buy their product because they agree with me.”
A quick glance at reddit threads on this prove otherwise.
> But, a shitload of people say “I’m not going to buy their product because they disagree with me.”.
But nobody is actually actively against net neutrality as part of their personal politics.
This will only increase the number of BK eaters.
But nobody is actually actively against net neutrality as part of their personal politics.
I don’t know what this means, exactly, because there’s so many vague qualifiers, but yes there are people who are opposed to net neutrality (e.g.: me).
That having been said, I don’t base my restaurant choices on irrelevant factors like this.
Simple organism are the easiest to clone.
The comments are inadvertently hilarious:
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5 hours ago
Holy crap. A large fast food company being more woke than bureaucrats and politicians. Welcome 2018 everyone!
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Joshua Pingley
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That awkward moment where Burger King is more woke than the government itself…
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What the hell does ‘woke’ mean anymore other than ‘meh…socialism’
Ugh… So unwoke
It means muh Ingles no any good.
People still use “woke” in an unironic, not-pejorative wy?
This. I thought “woke” basically meant “please ignore everything I say.”
Look at those customers, visibly upset at BK’s cute new pricing scheme. Gracious, it’s a good thing that Burger King, like all corporations, is an infinite money fountain and doesn’t need to keep customers willing to pay them money for their services. Otherwise they might suffer financial losses from customers choosing to patronize some competitor’s business or something.
Yep, good thing that never happens, which is why whackadoodle pricing schemes like that have been the norm since the internet’s inception. Yup yup…
I’d say I’m never going to Burger King again, except I think I’ve only been to one, once in my life. Hell, I don’t even know of any one around here. Also, why exactly are they doing this? Are they seeing that the Golden Arches are now unwoke cause Trump eats their food, so they think they can set themselves up as the proggy fast food?
My local Golden Arches has installed a self-serve kiosk, that they invite you to come in and try.
You can’t be any more unwoke then that!
I love the new McD’s Arcade, my highscore is 3750.
Proggies have been begging for a king since we told George to take a hike.
Why couldn’t King George have won!?
/prog professor or writer at Jezebel, Huffington; or pundit at MSNBC.
Honestly, I really don’t get the advertising business. I honestly think that, at least part of it, is that the people in advertising are better at bullshitting their clients than they are at bullshitting people on behalf of their clients. So much of the advertising world works off of its “artistic” bent that they’re able to shield themselves, at least in the short run, from customer scrutiny.
This was stupid. They alienated millions of potential customers. For what? Do they really think anyone is going to eat there because Burger King is “woke”?
I’ve spent half of today trying to agree with a client and their accountant on the correct calculations for the bullshit “pay ratio disclosure” that has to go into everyone’s SEC filings this year (tl;dr: SEC now requires companies to disclose the ratio of their CEO’s pay to the pay of their “median” employee. I’m not really sure how this informs stockholders of anything important regarding the company).
Informing stock holders was never the point.
Of course it wasn’t, even though that’s the SEC’s mission.
It was actually forced onto the SEC by Dodd-Frank (which was just a horrible piece of legislation).
I saw my firm did a write-up in that. I got a few sentences into it before my eyes glazed over from derp and I stopped reading.
Do what Apple does:
Outsource the janitorial work.
Just err slightly on the high side. Should anyone ever demand an audit, then you’ll come out roses.
What Would Wally Do?
That’s how I prioritize my work.
https://glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/rocket.jpg
Er, not every planet.
Get with the program.
Also, there’s no such thing as a Brontosaurus anymore.
Actually….It’s likely Cope and Marsh were describing different species. Since the two hated one another, Marsh argued that Cope’s Brontosaurus was really just an more complete Apatosaurus so the name fell out of favor, but an extensive paper on sauropods a few years ago restored Brontosaurus as a distinct genus.
Well, actually….
^^^ Lookit Ross Geller over there
Funny story: there is an actual paleontologist whose name is David Schwimmer.
+1 Jim Bakker without Jessica Hahn
Take a look at the pedant-saurus
/Ducks
Sauropedant.
My favorite version of this is a grump from Montana who claims that about a third of dinosaurs aren’t distinct species but just younger/older versions of each other in different stages of growth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQa11RMCeSI
Jack’s always been a lumper.
That’s turned out to be the case for plenty of other fossils, not that crazy.
On a road trip a few years ago, my wife and I listened to the audiobook of Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything.
After the chapter on Cope and Marsh, my wife was convinced they were gay lovers who had a falling out.
No he’s got all 8
I am pretty sure we have found a few thousand planets by now.
I was reading some comics from the early 90s today. One of them was a Batman story after his back was broken. He was in England to get help from a vigilante called The Hood, and this was the crime busting scene they used to introduce that character. I’m not sure if that was making fun of that point of view or praising it…
I hope they said “Fuck off Slaver” on the next page.
huh. maybe this sjw thing goes back further than we thought.
Oh it started a long time ago, and when some of us pointed out we should shame these people for being such cunts, others told people like me they were harmless twits and we should let them do their thing cause they meant well.
That’s cringe worthy.
Does he team up with Captain Planet at some point?
Yeah, pretty much as cringey as those stupid early 1990s movies where the director would insist on putting some dumb subliminal anti-gun placard signs for half a second in a couple scenes.
I’ve said it before: The whole liberal/SJW influence in comics is absolutely nothing new. It goes back to the golden age, at least with some series.
Wasn’t Superman originally New Deal propaganda?
See also WWII comics.
And see also Star Trek.
That’s the thing I liked the least when they did that next generation shit. All the SJW nonsense about the world magically solving scarcity problems as soon as everyone got together and started signing kumbaya.
That was always true, but it never seemed to take over the entire industry before.
DC was doing some really good and edgy things back then, and Marvel was just starting to have the wheels come off because of blatant greed.
Ever see any old movies with the National Recovery Act Eagle at the beginning?
In comics and radio and TV in the early 50s there were a lot of anti-racism messages. The theme of the messages was that you shouldn’t hold racist/anti-religious/anti-immigrant opinions because that’s what the Communists want – to see us divided, so we should reject all that so we can be a “shining example to our allies, who look to us for hope”.
The main message most of the time was to accept or reject people on their individual worth, not on anything else.
(Don’t think that would fly today)
The hood sounds like a villain
A villain named Hood.
Batman should take the Hood down as a criminally insane paternalist.
Is the Hood’s nemesis named Bismarck?
FTW!
Everybody pays taxes!
Not Batman!
Is there a Code Enforcement comic book hero? Seems logical.
I bet he’s a load of fun at parties.
““We have been tracking this asteroid for over 14 years and know its orbit very accurately,” NASA’s Paul Chodas said in a statement. “Our calculations indicate that asteroid 2002 AJ129 has no chance — zero — of colliding with Earth on Feb. 4 or any time over the next 100 years.””
Still better than rooting for the Eagles.
We conclude that Trump had no chance of winning the election/ yes I know the complete difference between predicting an election and a physical phenomenon.
No. What happens with this is that people say “You trust the scientists when they say the asteroid won’t hit, but you don’t trust them when they talk about the destruction that will be caused by global warming!”
True, but the science behind one is 500 years more mature than the other.
Well yes, obviously.
But that exact argument was being made all over the place regarding last year’s solar eclipse.
Tyson tried some bullshit like that. Made himself look like an asshole.
Orbital mechanics is easy. Chaotic systems are not.
Well, I never expected Mike Tyson to know much about physics/
But he is an anatomy expert.
N-body problem says hi.
He also tried it with regards to hurricanes. Despite the fact that meteorology is not about long-term predictions.
And hurricane predictions aren’t all that great either. At 5 days they’re off by an average of about 280 miles and 25 knots of wind speed.
Yes. Hurricane predictions are all about making predictions about how strong a hurricane might get and where it might go and then track it to see how strong it is in fact getting and where it will in fact go. Not at all about predicting temperatures in a few decades.
Him and Bill Nye should get a show together.
Would it involve rough gay sex?
Because they both should fuck themselves.
“The Sciencey Guys”
The Odd Science-y Couple?
Greener grass is nigh?
Guess who’s coming to the science-y conference?
The Scientitians
Degreass y Junior Nye
The Asteroid Always Rings Twice?
One of Canada’s many violations of the NAP.
“My Dad had asteroids so bad, he couldn’t sit down for a week”?
Orbital Mechanics versus Chaotic Systems which cannot be modeled by the entire existing computer infrastructure with any semblance of accuracy.
But otherwise, science is science.
refresh, refresh, refresh
His name is CHODE-as.
/sensible giggle
Except they didn’t account for that bowling ball sized meteorite which they aren’t tracking that it is going to collide with Friday afternoon altering the path by a few tenths of a degree in the direction of Earth
So Venezuela will be having an early Presidential “election” soon. Care to predict Maduro’s margin of victory and turnout? I’m sure he already has that ready.
My guess is he’ll capture 106% of the vote.
Detroit and Chicago have moved to Venezuela, or has Caracas adopted their voter roll model?
Given that the top opposition candidate is barred from running for office for 15 years on a bullshit charge and he’s likely to do the same to anyone else who tries, I’m going with him getting 85% of the vote and announced turnout about 2.5 million voters over what it actually is.
And blaming the 15% on US interference?
And the hoarders, wreckers and kulaks.
Did they not recently kill one of the opposition candidates? I recall seeing that there had been and exchange between the state police and the candidate captured on a phone, where the police told the opposition candidate, whom tried to surrender to them, that their orders were for him to be killed, not captured. And then POW they killed his ass. I bet you Obama and Clinton would say they wish they could run our country that way…
>I bet you Obama and Clinton would say they wish they could run our country that way
Hillary openly asked in a meeting why they couldn’t just murder Assange with a drone.
I’ve always wondered what kind of shit she said in the West Wing during the Waco Siege.
Hillary would be so proud.
https://twitter.com/nickgillespie/status/947163865195909120
This is the Nick Gillespie of nonsensical word salads
The Marxist view of history. I’ve got my shocked face around here somewhere…
What did you think the “Libertarian Moment” was? Nothing more than a Marxist/Whiggish theory of history with a libertarian coating.
That’s actually a cognitive point. Gillespie’s version of ‘libertarianism’ is kind of just the Whig Theory of History wrapped with nonsense. No matter what happens- everything is getting better
+1 Herbert Butterfield
Something something right side of history
I thought the word ‘modernity’ was passe? Like, 1980s passe?
You do know this is Gillespie that’s being asked about right? He’s always oh so hip with kids from 50 years ago.
People thought heroin was passe, too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kv0QxWqz4Z0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APrpB-i4d_E
I just read the chick with the MS-20 posed nude while pregnant for the web site SuicideGirls.
Can confirm. NSFW.
https://tinyurl.com/ycfk5ksj
That song is far more catchy than their biggest hit “Bohemian”
Oh, this should be good.
Damn you!
Too late.
That’s what you might call a brain shart.
A telling exchange:
Because you just made it all up, asshole!
How can he possibly answer that?
Isn’t this just sort of a stupider rehash of the proposition Postrel put forward a decade ago?
Oh man. “Yeah we changed ADFS. Did that mess you up?”
Glitter bomb them.
By glitter you mean fire?
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/956262361895198725
I don’t know what the House memo says, but if Democrats are frantically rushing to produce a counter memo that means that the Republican memo must look bad for the Russia fever dream crowd. I think people are rightly being cautious, but if Democrats are this worried this might be big
“Counter memo”? Is that slang for made up bullshit?
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. Also, Fuck You That’s Why. That is all.”
Whatever the counter memo says, I will instinctively imagine it being read in the voice of Barney Fife conducting a criminal investigation. “Now, the boys at the lab have concluded there is no anti-Trump conspiracy.”
+1 Citizen’s Arrest
Hey, he made an illegal U-turn, he deserved it.
Nip. It. In. The. Bud.
” This Is Not Hyperbole: Democrats Now Refuse To Oppose Infanticide
For all the cries of ‘extremism’ at any attempt to limit abortion, the Democratic Party is now defending practices that amount to infanticide.
Democrats are not willing to protect some babies born alive. A bill put to a vote on Friday, named the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, proposes exactly what the name suggests. And nearly all Democrats in the House voted against it.
To quote the bill, it requires “any health care practitioner who is present when a child is born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion to: (1) exercise the same degree of care as reasonably provided to any other child born alive at the same gestational age, and (2) ensure that such child is immediately admitted to a hospital.””
http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/23/not-hyperbole-democrats-now-refuse-oppose-infanticide/
I saw that. There are extremists in the abortion debate, but it is overwhelmingly coming from the ostensibly ‘pro-choice’ side these days. The pro-life side isn’t even advocating to outlaw the procedure. But, rather, to restrict it to twenty weeks, which would still make it one of the more liberal abortion laws in the world
I didn’t really understand the pro-life stances, but then someone suggested to look at the abortion issue with the lens of guns rights.
The gun grabbers say “we don’t want to ban firearms, let’s just add some reasonable restrictions”. Us 2nd A supporters know that means they want to ban firearms but aren’t able to do it in one step, incremental restrictions are the key to the game and all restrictions of any sort must be rightfully opposed.
Rightly or wrongly, I think pro-choice looks at the pro-life camp through the same lens. I think many/most pro-choice would be fine with 20 weeks, but they don’t believe it would stop with that. From reading the WSJ comments, a crowd that trends pro-life, I don’t know that the pro-choicers are mistaken in the assumption.
^I didn’t really understand the extreme pro-choice stances ,…
Yeah, I don’t disagree with what you said here. The US should have the most liberal interpretations on guns, speech, abortion, and all individual liberty. But, abortion is the only individual right that has no restrictions (by Supreme Court rulings you can have an abortion up until quickening, regardless of state law) and it is a conflicted individual right, because another life is involved. But, overall, I agree with your sentiments
I like Ben Shapiro’s argument on why he is pro-life. See his recent appearance on Dave Rubin’s show (Rubin Report) if you’d like to dig deeper.
This is a bald faced lie.
Abortion opponents are not limiting themselves to restricting it to 20 weeks. They are pushing for laws limiting it to 20 weeks because they know that will pass the courts constitutional challenge. Meanwhile they are pushing in hundreds of other ways to enact stealth bans via such means as not outlawing abortions merely not having any licensed abortion providers or making the process of getting an abortion as difficult and painful and most importantly punitive as possibly can for the woman so they are effectively restricted that way.
As Semi Spartan Dad says, there is a parallel between the tactics of the pro life crowd and the anti gun crowd, the only difference is the pro lifers are better at hiding their true intentions behind a mask of normality and the pro choice crowd is nowhere near as strong as the pro 2A side
“pro choice crowd is nowhere near as strong as the pro 2A side”
Ummmm…they literally got an entire political party to vote against medical care for a child born alive. I don’t think the NRA could ever convince its supporters to vote against a bill requiring medical care for a gunshot victim.
Spartan Dad had a rationale response. You just provided a hyperbolic Cecil Richards response
Oh no, they made murder harder.
+1 Non Agression Principle
the pro choice crowd is nowhere near as strong as the pro 2A side
The pro-choice side has got everything it wanted; there are no restrictions on abortions in this country. The only countries with fewer restrictions on abortions than the US are the places where abortions are mandatory. It makes sense to be less agitated about the issue when you can already enjoy the status quo.
“‘TERF’ isn’t just a slur, it’s hate speech
The term “TERF” is not just used to smear and deride, but to incite violence.
Adolf Hitler addressing Nazi rally
Last week, a 60-year-old woman was beaten up at Speaker’s Corner by several men. She was there with a group of women, who had chosen the historic corner of Hyde Park as a meeting place, before heading off to a talk called, “What is Gender.” The men who punched and kicked Maria MacLachlan had come to protest the women on account of their interest in feminism and in discussing the way new conversations and legislation around “gender identity” could impact the women’s movement and women’s rights. The protestors did not frame their anger and inflammatory rhetoric in this way, though. Instead, they labelled the women “TERFs” (trans exclusionary radical feminists) — a word that has come to signify a modern witch: to be silenced, threatened, harassed, punched, and — yes — killed.
The idea that feminists who question the notion of “gender identity” should be beaten and murdered has very rapidly become accepted by self-described leftists. We’re not just talking about Twitter eggs, here. Men with large platforms who are publicly associated with Antifa and groups like the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have amplified the “punch TERFs” and “TERFs get the guillotine” message proudly, with the support of their comrades. In reference to The Handmaid’s Tale, many have taken to saying “TERFs get the wall.””
http://www.feministcurrent.com/2017/09/21/terf-isnt-slur-hate-speech/
TERF? Damn, I’m never going to be able to keep up.
“TERFs are apparently rebranding themselves to PERFs (penis exclusionary) to dodge the “transphobia” thing. good news for them is i always knew their trans hate was rooted in man hate. & i wont stop dunking on them.”
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/956170821176844291
I enjoy my TERF alongside SERF
Ba-dum-tiss
I’ve read your post twice and I still don’t understand wtf it’s talking about.
Well if you are a woman that thinks that woman should have equal rights as a man — you are some version of a feminist. But if you also believe that a man who thinks he is a woman is not actually a woman — then a woke person has the right to murder you.
You engineers and you’re mansplaining!
/sarc
“your”
Radical feminists (generally, ones who hate men) don’t want dress-wearing men in their space.
Maybe because they can wear it better than obese radical feminists? Teddy Quinlivan was a runway model for years, and no one knew.