Goal of the year entrant…on day one!
I’m so out of sorts I had to look at the calendar to see what day of the week it was. I swear, I thought it was Friday. Thank God it’s Thursday though. Because Liverpool play Sheffield United today. The Reds’ crosstown rival played yesterday and went down to Man City, although their points total from the last few matches is exactly where I thought it would be and they’re trending up. ManUre went down to Arsenal in a game of underachievers. And Chelsea were stunned with an amazing goal in any language. Villa and Leicester won. Southampton shocked woeful Spuds.Watford beat Wolves. Palace and Norwich drew. And West Ham beat Bournemouth. The bottom of the table all picked up points yesterday and the table is tighter than ever from the middle to the bottom. The second half of the season should be a delight of teams looking up toward Europe and down at relegation at the same time.
And let’s hear it for the Golden Rodents! They kept rowing and rowing and rowing and it paid off with a big win over Auburn. TTUN lost to Bama, and their seniors on the team will have never won a game after thanksgiving in their college careers. Georgia won. And Wisconsin lost to Oregon in an exciting game where they turned the ball over too many times.
Nice burns, dude.
Barry Goldwater was born on this day. As were SciFi legend Isaac Asimov, fraudster Dan Rostenkowski, underrated actor Dabney Coleman, country legend Roger Miller, animal man Jack Hanna, (the worst) 90210 actress Gabrielle Carteris, tedious sportscaster Craig James, “Sweet Pea” Pernell Whitaker, the lovely Tia Carrera, actor Cuba Gooding, Jr., actor/”boxer” Tommy Morrison, and hockey goaltender Brian Boucher.
Alrighty then. Let’s get down to business with…the links!
Just in case you were wondering what the dumbest take of 2020 is gonna be, entrants are already coming in and this one will definitely make the list. Sorry your narrative was blown to bits, dickhead. It almost seems like you’d have rather seen a lot of bodies piled up for you to climb on.
They’re everywhere!
What a bunch of dicks. There’s simply no other way to put it.
Chicagoans finally have something to live for. LOL, just kidding. The high taxes and lack of choice will have the black market operating without so much as a hiccup.
Nothing to see here folks. Move along. I mean, I’m sure judges in cases abruptly recuse themselves all the time after seven months on a case and after dismissing calls to hold one of the parties in contempt for refusing to turn over evidence.
This booking photo alone is an insanity defense.
White nationalist who drank blood and ran for the Senate arrested in…Florida (of course). Sometimes the headlines write themselves!
This was not a very good decision. Doesn’t he know they’ve opened their bathrooms to riff-raff and he was as likely to see a bum sleeping as he was some hottie taking a dump?
This is what I like to call I-ruuuuuuuuh-neeeeeeee. Lol, what a stupid bastard.
I’m starting the year off with this. Not because I think the year will go this way, just because it jumped into my head. And because it’s so damn good.
Now go out there and get the year off to a wonderful start, friends!
So it’s Groundhog Day?
So it’s Groundhog Day?
Watch out for the first step. It’s a doozy!
But have we really reached a point when each of us need to carry a firearm anywhere we go? Gun advocates certainly think so.
Let’s take a poll. Who here “certainly” thinks so?
I carry almost everywhere I go anymore. I don’t necessarily think I have to. But because I’d rather wish I’d had it than not if something goes sideways.
I wear a seatbelt all the time, too, even when I don’t expect to get in an accident…
Sure, it’s not cause you don’t want to be called stupid.
She’s saying “we” as in every American. I wouldn’t want every American to carry. The point of being free is that you have the choice.
I agree, but here premise seems to be “why aren’t there any ‘Safe spaces’ where people feel comfortable not carying guns” and her answer is ” Because everyone is carrying guns”. If everyone is allowed to carry guns then places become less safe. Despite the blatant evidence of the exact situation that triggered this discussion, and the fact that the argument she is making is begging the question.
Texas has passed actual gun safety laws. Because their gun laws have made people demonstrably safer.
And I have no problem with that take down of her position. What I don’t like is the idea that the gun grabbers will portray gun rights advocates as trying to arm unwilling citizens. People who want to carry should carry.
Anything not verboten ist verpflichtend.
You fall short when you assume their objective is to have a logical argument in which they make a case for their point. There will be none of that. Their intention is to disarm the people they see as a threat to their marxist/fascist agenda at any and all costs. Everything, and I do mean everything – like we see with the AGW cultists – is a reason for why guns must be banned and only be available for the the LEOS that they pick & choose to enforce their agenda.
Well, since New York has decided to start just releasing criminals back onto the street even when there’s more than enough evidence that they should be remanded to custody pending trial…
But just try to get a legal carry permit in NYC.
UCS is “smart” enough to live upstate somewhere.
I don’t really carry all that much anymore. Probably a naive decision, but it is what it is.
I never do.
I don’t carry, figure there’s not much glory in taking down a geezer, so I feel pretty safe.
Would you agree that it is less necessary to carry in place where guns are allowed than where they are banned? Because if so, her entire argument falls apart.
I rarely carry because of work. I am not excited about leaving a gun in my car at work, as we do have breaking in our parking lots from time to time.
Ditto. Not that anybody would notice, but I don’t want to get canned because my shirt rode up in front of the wrong person.
Me too. I do keep a well-stocked sling bag in my truck, though.
Carrying when I’m not at work has demonstrated to me that cerakote isn’t very durable.
It’s a mystery.
The biggest mystery in all this is why he murdered people when murder is certainly illegal.
But have we really reached a point when each of us need to carry a firearm anywhere we go? Gun advocates certainly think so.
Now do Health Insurance.
And bicycle helmets. And seat belts. And sun tan lotion. And fire extinguishers. And…
Unfortunately, that kind of split-second heroism has been turned into a PR tool by gun advocates.
“That stuff we have been telling you, all this time? It’s demonstrably true. Better rub some cream on that butt. It looks really really sore.”
I’d rarther someone be using heroism for their PR homerun than a pile of dead bodies. Gun Control Advocates constantly talk about how “The Good guy with a gun is a myth”, and “You’re more likely to kill yourself”, while ignoring the FBI’s own statistics on guns preventing gun violence.
split-second means more than five seconds now?
When your base unit of measure is police response times then yes.
The “special training” narrative also BS.
https://youtu.be/zBLEEKVNZS4
I think the author is trying to say, standing on a pile of saved bodies is exploiting an averted tragedy or something.
There are at least two people who might argue the averted tragedy part.
The tragedy they feel happened is that this event undermined their campaign to disarm the rubes based on a barrage of lie and falsehoods.
No need to worry….. the press has already buried that aspect of the story.
“This is what I like to call I-ruuuuuuuuh-neeeeeeee. Lol, what a stupid bastard.”
I would say that this is why they’re the stupid party, but dems get caught doing worse all the time.
*chances of republicans taking over the nys Senate continue to dwindle*
Guy who wants his position selflessly demands him to step down ?
Yeah, I’ve lost count of how many of Cuomo’s foot-soldiers are still locked up.
“I would say that this is why they’re the stupid party, but dems get caught doing worse all the time.”
Not that I am claiming team red is not the stupid party, but when you have an active dnc operative cadre with bylines always presenting what team red does in the most negative way possible, and more often than not outright lying about what happened, while at the same time covering up any and all stories about team blue’s stupidity, people might think that team blue is smarter. The fact is they are not. Our political class is composed of a bunch of credentialed idiots with very little practical skill in doing anything other than ripping off the people and lying at them. The American people are basically being fucked over by the worst and most inept crop of political hacks in the history of this country. That’s the fucking travesty in all of this shit.
It almost seems like you’d have rather seen a lot of bodies piled up for you to climb on.
Ayup. It’s the tone deaf whinging of a political narcissist.
“It almost seems like you’d have rather seen a lot of bodies piled up for you to climb on.”
Almost? After Sandy Hook the gun grabbers were absolutely ecstatic.
That line is so brazen in its projection that I’m surprised it didn’t come from R2.
OK, this just made me realize I have an issue with Star Wars I didn’t have before.
Since every R2 unit was designated with a letter and single-digit number, that means there were only ever 234 (26*9) R2 units built. And there were at least that many X-wing fighters used at the first assault on the Death Star in “Star Wars” (I don’t do that New Hope re-naming shit). And many of those were shot down, including that of the beloved Porkins.
If they were one of the most important droid series ever built, how come you never see one with a longer designation? Are we meant to believe there were thousands or millions of them but we just happened to see some of the first 234 put together? That’s highly unlikely.
Fucking George Lucas.
Well, you’re assuming those fighters were using old R2 units. Any droid of the correct form factor would work.
But unless you’re dropping a dozen or so digits of the serial number, you’re not getting a four character designation from a galactic scale production run.
You never once come across one with a longer designation though. Not once. As for them using an R4 or other droid with that general body configuration with the X-Wing, I suppose that could have happened. But still…Lucas fucked that up.
Not to mention, C3-PO introduces him as R2-D2 on Jabba’s ship and again when he’s regaling the story of the first Death Star raid to those stupid Ewoks. And the Huts were all about formality, so it should be assumed that was his full designation.
Since we know that the Latin alphabet/Roman scripts wasn’t used in the Star Wars universe, “R” and “D” must just be approximations for something else. And we have no idea what base numbering system they used.
Porkins had an R5.
Also, what’s this mean?
R5-D4 was also an astromech droid. And why are you excluding zero from your possible digits?
My Calculations is 26*10*26*10 = 67600
Not for that droid type. An R2 unit was very different than a C3 unit. And different enough from an R4 unit that the physical differences were notable.
Also, how different would that story have been if that R5 unit Uncle Owen bought wouldn’t have conveniently had a bad motivator? Luke would still be hunting womp rats in His T5, lol.
Unless, of course, Obi-Wan used the force to effectively “kill” the R5. Which wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
My ovaries shrank reading this thread.
“My ovaries shrank reading this thread.”
Ya’ll are still using those? I thought you had completed the Libertarian Breeding Program.
*waves hand*
These are not the eggs you are looking for.
A million embryos cried out in terror but were suddenly silenced.
Ok, I’ll grant that it’s possible they could have used “0” in the designation. Still doesn’t leave many R2 units in an entire galactic empire.
Y’all have moved me from the “Star Wars was ok but I don’t get all the fuss” to “Star Wars was bad and you are bad for liking it”
Considering the only good Star Wars movies are Episodes 4, 5, and 6 (the latter being debatable), you’re probably not wrong.
The success of the first movies was a fluke and the entire first project was saved by a great editing team. Otherwise it would have been forgettable, meandering schlock.
All of the prequels are trash, don’t add anything, don’t say anything worth saying and are not fun to sit through.
All of the new movies are at least kind of fun to sit through but don’t say anything worth saying and everything from the plot to the characters were a big bundle of missed opportunities.
The entire franchise is a massive disappointment. Anyone who bases their identity on Star Wars would do better as a nihilist.
After reading these comments, I’m glad JJ ruined the series. 😉
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This is all I hear – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVzc20Bm8Xo
That’s some funny stuff.
^
I think R2 D2 is the only R series droid who’s full designation we hear. The rest are just referred to as ‘R2 unit’ or ‘R4’ and so on. So the designations could indeed be longer.
So you propose that they add more digits as they run out, and the main characters are simply early run units?
Also, it’s never said there is only one R2-D2 unit. Just like there are lots of people named John Smith.
But they’re units built and designated on a line, not named by sentient people. It would be like Peterbilt giving the same designation to several 379s. That would make record-keeping and recalls a logistical nightmare.
It’s a model number, not a serial number. Like a Roomba.
R2D2 could be the model, and there is a separate production serial number.
Dammit.
No, an R2 unit is a distinct unit. The “serial number” is the R2’s designation.
The featured character is an R2 unit with the designation (name) D2.
Although
LukeLucas fucks all of that up when he says “Uncle Owen, this R2 unit has a bad motivator” when he’s clearly talking about an R5 unit.Luke is just a dipshit who doesn’t know about robotics. Of course he calls every similar looking droid an R2 unit.
When is that stated?
Now consider that they came up with a unique, sensible appropriate name for each of the eleventy billion Star Destroyers.
This is where we see the issues with the non-Latin alphabet.
“Artoo” had already gotten transliterated as “R2.” In the scene you’re talking about, Luke was referring to an “Artue” unit, and since there wasn’t a convenient way of designating that for American audiences the scriptjockeys substituted “R5” instead.
Just like “artu” got translaterated as “throatwarbler mangrove.”
I dont know where this fits in the argument, but thought I would throw it in:
https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/R2-series_astromech_droid
When is that stated?
Probably nowhere. I’m making up this entire line of argumentation as I go. I figured that would have been apparent by now.
The biggest issue I honestly have is why did R2 only use his little rockets to fly only once when he regularly encountered situations where it would have come in extremely handy.
I’m not really that deep into Star Wars trivia. I’m just stirring shit.
Clearly the rockets broke after Revenge of the Sith.
*Watches own fan-edit of star wars movies* Huh, I never saw any rockets.
https://youtu.be/jXTGzKkTTLk
Next thing you’ll be saying Darth Vader built 3CPO.
The rockets used solid fuel. You only get to use them once.
I was having lunch with a client I met here some time ago. The conversation turned to Star Wars because of the recent movie and we both have kids in grade school. He told me about – and showed me pictures of – the R2-D2 which he has fabricated out of aluminum. A full-sized, functioning (no idea how far but much more than just motorized drive) R2-D2.
Lol, what a nerd.
I always assumed it was a shorthand approximating a first name, not a first-last-SSN unique identifier. The limited total options make more sense then as well as the introductions to “first names” only.
White nationalist who drank blood and ran for the Senate arrested in…Florida (of course). Sometimes the headlines write themselves – damn libertarians man bunch of psychos
“One person has been wreaking havoc all across Tempe, with some unique and unsanctioned tagging. The moniker is “Penis Man.””
He should team up with Florida Man.
STEVE SMITH ALSO WREAK HAVOC WITH PENIS!!
some unique and unsanctioned tagging
I guess there is “Sanctioned” tagging?
I hate to say “well, ackshually, but…well, ackshually.
INCOMING!!!!
ahhh, I was expected an image.
It’s not real tagging if you’re allowed to do it.
On that note, if i Had Banksy tag my wall, i think i’d be half a mind to paint over it.
Didn’t one of these ‘tagger’ slime sue a building owner to prevent that and win?
Didn’t prevent it, but got a big pay day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Pointz#Reactions
He’s gonna get too cocky one of these days and get caught.
And then he’ll face some stiff penalties.
Wood he go to prison though?
Only if he gets shafted.
He’d hope for a hung jury or an acquittal.
He’ll be doing hard time.
Of course he will. The screws are pricks.
Nah, the authorities will be soft on him.
Just because they get military gear like helmets doesn’t mean they are all hard.
Well, that would be a let down.
I think he was just off a bit. I think he was trying to wrangle up sales for Pen Island (unfortunately, the old joke website appears to be d-e-d).
*Shrugs* “Penis woman” would’ve been more brave.
*Golf Tug*
Dabney Coleman is a poor man’s Gene Hackman.
Everton is still the same distance from relegation as they are from Europe. You may end up right, but I remain pessimistic. It is freaking clear just how bad of a coach Silva was though, isnt it?
Speaking of Hackman (and I think this applies to Coleman too), has either of them ever said “No” to a movie offer? Or read a script in advance? They are both too good to be in some of the crap they have done.
Hey, a pay day is a pay day.
I thought it was Christopher Walken who takes every role he gets offered (if it’ll fit in his schedule).
Michael Caine. As he said about “James: The Revenge”, “I have not seen the movie, but it is by all accounts terrible. I have, however, seen the house it paid for, and that is magnificent.”
There was a sequel to “James and the Giant Peach”?
I always looked at it differently when it comes to actors taking roles in shitty films: you take the role to showcase your own abilities, not just take roles in well-written films. And getting paid at the same time.
By your logic, nobody with a name would ever appear in a M. Night Shamalyn (sp?) film. Or play for a New York City-based professional sports team.
Yeah, what was Cole thinking, going to the Yankees?
“Holy shot, that’s a lot of money”?
I think your situation would make sense **IF** the crappy films paid better. But I don’t think that is the case.
Just like athletes will sometimes take the extra money to play for a crappy team, because they want the big contract. That I get.
Also, if I was a name actor, I would stay away from crappy M Night films.
Some people work, because they enjoy working.
This. The experience on-set, working with other actors and/or crew that you like. A lot of times it can be hard to tell if the movie is crap while making it.
I take perverse pleasure in really good actors doing cameos in bad movies. Like when Robert Duvall shows up in the middle of a cheesy Tom Cruise movie and steals a few scenes. The other night I was channel surfing and came across a Transformers movie – with Anthony Hopkins! He was hamming it up and embracing the incoherent story line for his paycheck.
Ancelotti couldn’t save Napoli. Sometimes the rot is more than just a coach….
He cannot save these sinking bums, but at least we are getting fun sound bytes.
Don’t worry, it’s clean money. Like, fresh off the clothesline clean.
Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign shrugged off a health scare and took in more than $34.5 million in the fourth quarter, a massive haul in the final stretch before nominating contests start.
The independent senator from Vermont and 2020 Democratic hopeful raised more than $18 million in December, his best month of the election cycle, his campaign said Thursday.
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Sanders’ campaign has seen a torrent of fundraising dollars from an army of individual donors. On Wednesday, it said it had received contributions from 5 million people during the election cycle.
The fundraising haul at the end of the year follows a $25.3 million intake from individual donors in the third quarter.
For the final three months of the year, Sanders donors most often listed their occupation as “teacher.” The five most common employers of people who contributed to the campaign were Amazon, Starbucks, Walmart, the U.S. Postal Service and Target.
The senator routinely criticizes Amazon and Walmart for the pay and benefits they give workers.
“Teachers”- right. And when I donate to
McAfeeMike Rowe’s campaign, I’m going to put myself down as an “entrepreneur”.If those people think they get paid badly now, just wait ’til President Sanders gets done re-making the economy.
Bernie could quit now, while he’s ahead and walk away with a bundle
He is gambling that he can steal a lot more when in power. And at the same time, he can make everyone else poor, which makes him even richer or something…
The University/educated elite crowd go heavy for Bernie – they are politically active, have money, and would be savvy enough to state “teacher” as occupation.
“During the failed campaign, he claimed he slaughtered a goat and drank its blood as part of a pagan ritual.”
Between getting buggered by muslims, sacrificed by pagans, and curried by rastafarians, goats must really hate religion.
If you’re a goat lover, don’t watch Jurassic Park.
Oh, for fuck’s sake.
*rings bell for edit faerie*
“While there, a breath test indicated Kolb’s blood-alcohol content was over 0.08%, authorities said. The legal limit for driving in New York is 0.08%.”
How much over?
*insert article about how those tests are never accurate*
But yeah, not trying to defend a politician, but if rights aren’t defended for the most horrible elements of society, eventually everyone loses their rights.
Doesn’t help that he crashed his car. Should have fled the scene…
I had a buddy who crashed his car while drinking, and fled the scene to a bar down the road. They got him for leaving the scene of an accident, but not for DUI since they couldn’t prove that he didn’t just get shit-faced at the bar after the crash, so they couldn’t prove DUI.
I’m surprised that worked. Otherwise, you could just guzzle a bottle right after the cops pull you over.
Open container laws would get you in that case.
Keep it sealed until you get pulled over, then open it in front of the cop.
If you’re in the car, they still get you for DUI somehow, I guess based on time/proximity, because guzzling in the car at accident time would not hit your blood stream for a while. But after you’ve had a while in the bar/at home drinking before they find you, and you have a decent lawyer, the judge will still actually make the prosecutor prove his case.
It’s the standard advice from every lawyer I’ve talked to (family friends, not for a DUI).
#1) Never ever agree to the breathalyzer, make them draw blood and then fight that as long as possible. Your blood-alcohol content could dip under by then.
#2) Unless you were actually pulled over, try to create a scenario where you could have been drinking after getting out of the car.
A neighbor’s daughter crashed her car and then admitted to the arriving cops she had been drinking before getting in. Her lawyer was livid. He told the mom it would have been a cakewalk to get her off just by saying she walked around having drinks after the crash. Now she’s fucked because she opened her mouth*.
*not condoning drinking and driving, just saying keep your mouth shut.
Way back in the 80s, one of my co-workers explained how he got in a fender bender after having a few beers. The accident happened right in front of a Pizza Hut. So he pulled in the driveway, walked in, used the phone to call the police (no cell phones then), then bought a pitcher of beer and settled in until the police arrived.
Plead down to reckless driving.
At least he didn’t leave a young women to drown in his car after he drove it off a bridge.
So not Senate material is what you’re saying.
Thanks, Edit Faerie!
“(the worst) 90210 actress Gabrielle Carteris”
She wasn’t even hot.
So you have a time machine and one would, Jennie Garth or Shannen Doherty?
Kathleen Robertson or GTFO
She wasn’t in the original cast. That show was on forever, with Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, Rebecca Gayheart, Dina Meyer, etc.
In that case, Crusty will be along shortly to vote for Carol Potter and/or Tori Spelling.
Dina Meyer does nothing for me ever since I saw those pancake titties in Starship Troopers.
They were small, but not that badly shaped.
NSFW
https://www.adultgifworld.com/gifs/celebs/images/Dina-Meyer-nude-shower-Starship-Troopers.gif
NSFW
Yeah, wait till she lowers her arms, then it’s flapjack city.
“Fried eggs hanging on nails”
I’d go Gayheart, then Garth (we have the same exact birthday).
Shannen
Would marry?
Now that would be balls out crazy.
For teenage me, 100% Shannen Doherty.
Augustus Sol Invictus, Pure Florida Man and the man that destroyed the Florida LP, arrested on multiple charges, is still a douchebag.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/01/white-nationalist-augustus-sol-invictus-arrested-in-florida/
I thought Gabrielle Carteris was good looking.
One would? Fuck that. Go for a foursome.
I really don’t get the dudes who get off on watching women crap.
I can’t believe you are shaming women for a beautiful and completely natural part of their life. If i had my way, women wouldn’t be afraid talking about their experience on the shitter. They would sing about their affair with the John. They would Dance their duties on the stage. Its only because of Moral Prudes like you that women for millennia have hid their beauty in shame. Well i say Shame on YOU!
The dude with the cameras at Starbucks was a talent scout…
American Idol; San Francisco Edition.
That left a mark…
somewhat related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMCK0u61xws
Not clicking cause i assume it is 2 girls one cup. Was it one of you guys who told me they had a friend who would leave that on peoples unlocked computers?
No it is a Patrice O’neil clip
Not clicking because I assume it is a Patrice O’Neil clip.
As seen on twitter: (It was on my phone so i don’t have a link)
“The thing that keeps Games from being a respected art-form is the people who play them”
The thing that struck me about that tweet was the sheer hatred of people because they disagree with you. with gaming it was especially egregious because you had a bunch of people saying “Hey i don’t really like you pushing your political garbage into my pasttime” as soon as that happened, bullying became open game against gamers. They were just basement dwelling incels who weren’t endowed with the skillset needed to be heeded for what makes good games.
Im guessing they have a subscription to the new Yorker and the barista at the local Coffee shop has their order ready for them before they walk in the door.
In a sense, they’re correct. All art from about 1900 and on is expressly political. In order for games to be “art” under this definition, they must have political statements throughout.
This is also why modern/postmodern art sucks.
Geez, it’s like you don’t even appreciate the value of a banana taped to a wall.
When it was put there – about $0.15
Now, $0, since the banana rotted.
Well, so much for subjective value theory.
There was no value-add by taping it to the wall.
It covered up a nail hole from the last artwork that was hung there.
To whom? Under what conditions?
Value isn’t “out there,” it’s in the relationship between person and thing (in the broadest possible sense of ‘thing’).
“I don’t value it” says nothing about how others might or might not value “it,” whatever it is.
I can’t stretch suspension of disbelief enough to believe that they weren’t just laundering $125,000.
And there’s value in that.
I went to the national gallery last week, and I was struck by something. Almost to an item, the art exhibited impeccable craftsmanship, but no beauty. For example, there was a marble sculpture of a pillow that looked almost real. But it was a sculpture of a pillow. It was utterly pointless. There was no beauty to it. I felt nothing but awe at the craftsmanship.
But it was ironic, a marble pillow.
We make better puns on this board.
Just to pad the comment count.
Leaves cushion between important stuff.
Though the rules aren’t set in stone.
We make better
punsusage of a word or phrase tangential related to a subject in one of it’s conventional senses on this board.Come to the MIA up here in Minneapolis. Somehow, someway, there is actually beautiful art to come see. All sorts of shit too. They have chronologically arranged Chinese pottery, European and American realism, colonial woodworking, etc.
That sounds really cool!
Oh, and as a correction, I was at the Renwick, not the national gallery.
“All”? Hardly.
*gamers collectively heave a sigh of relief*
The worst thing that could happen to gamers is if games became serious art. Could you imagine how horrible the games funded by arts foundations and fed gov would be?
We already have Life is Strange, thanks.
Depression Quest 2-20. I’ll grab my razor and see myself out now.
+113 mandatory gender options for character build.
All the bad guys are white males?
Apparently the Bidens are more lenient than the Clintons. If you recuse yourself you won’t end up with a two shots to the back of the head suicide.
You know who did have a shot in the back of the head…
…yet.
The Australian climate change fires have wiped out an area the size of Belgium, killing 480 million mammals, reptiles, and birds.
There are now real concerns entire species of animals and plants have been made extinct or put on the brink of extinction.
https://twitter.com/cjwerleman/status/1212424224322646016
Because fires never happened before.
“This never happened when the Glaciers were here!”
Really? That’s how snails went extinct.
^^^THIS^^^
That there are so many uninformed idiots that actually think nature doing nature means that we are heading for Armageddon is why I now am expecting that a big rock will be hitting this planet and causing another extinction level event sooner than later..
A few million in government grants will cover the cost of a thorough study. Career opportunities. Those grievance study majors are gonna be in demand, you’ll see.
Australian climate change fires
I’ve seen this blamed on climate change elswhere, so clearly the speaking points are getting out.
Oh yeah? Name them.
Bob, Bill, James, Annie, little Annie…
I betcha the real number is closer to zero than it is to 480 million.
Not to mention the rabid pro-vertebrate bias in their framing.
The entomophobia will not stand!
I’ve had sex with 10,000 women. *If you include masturbating to their pictures
“The fires wiped out millions of the Australian Eye-biting deathspider.”
“YAY! Burn, baby, burn!”
“Wait, you’re supposed to be horrified.”
“- Of the Spiders, maybe. Have you seen what they do to someone’s face?”
Hey now, I’m not afraid of Treebeard, I just don’t care for his culture.
*does some math*
That’s about 40,500 mammals, reptiles, and birds per square mile. Color me skeptical.
Hmm. There are @ 3.1mm square yards per square mile. That would be one dead critter for every 76 square yards, or around three dead critters per typical city lot (very approximately). Seems high.
Birds I would expect to mostly just fly clear.
Reptiles typically can’t move fast for any distance, so I would expect near-total depopulation – no idea how many of those there were, but I usually associate reptiles with desert and arid climates. Tucson is covered up with small lizards; with the right kind of fire you might get a heckuva body count. But, small lizards, who cares.
Animals are a mixed bag, but I would expect a lot of them to be unable to outrun a fire like that as well. You’d also get a helluva body count of packrats around here, but, again, who cares.
Reptiles are cold blooded, and get slower in cold weather. In a forest fire, they can run at trans-sonic speeds.
#sicencebitch #ifls
That’s one hell of a fucking BBQ…
Inconvenient Truth
Warren is so good on labor policy.
Sectoral unions, co-determination, banning abusive labor practices. Make jobs good again.
https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1212465827657601024
Noah Smith
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Verified account @Noahpinion
17h17 hours ago
Warren should be the hard-hat labor-left candidate and Bernie should be the utopian hippie socialist Birkenstock candidate, yet their voter bases are weirdly switched.
Maybe. Maybe it’s because the hard-hat labor-left know she’s full of shit. Everything, and i mean everything, she says is calculated to get the socialist base to vote for her, but she has no intention of fulfilling any of it because she knows she can’t without congress. She knows she has an out.
On a sliding scale of shill to moron, I am not sure where to place Noah. He is either very stupid or quite intelligent enough to spout stupid shit that the average moron – his followers like.
The Middle Class Risks Consuming Itself
Health care and education employ a lot of people and sell services they increasingly can’t afford.
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-12-30/health-care-education-employ-and-hobble-u-s-middle-class
Funny how there’s a major, common entity that is heavily involved in those two industries that have experienced inexplicable surges in pricing.
Inexplicable resistance to hobo jungles
“There’s a dangerous and disturbing movement in California to address homelessness not by expanding access to safe, affordable and permanent housing … but by jailing people,” she said. “It’s a terrifying prospect of a world in which we segregate, incarcerate and restrict the civil liberties of people just because they have disabilities and they are too poor to afford a home in our skyrocketing private rental market.”
Fears and unfounded stereotypes about people experiencing homelessness seem to be driving these policy pushes to jail those in need, she said.
The Trump administration has created further anxiety by repeatedly suggesting he might pursue some kind of police crackdown in California to clear the streets of encampments.
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“It’s a huge concern – are they just going to take people to jail?” said Kat Doherty, an LA woman who became homeless this year and is living at a shelter at Skid Row. Trump’s talk has terrified her and others, she said. “It’s horrendous. It sounds like a death camp situation.”
Whycome gummint no wave magic wand, make things all better?
Maybe if we use even more inflammatory rhetoric and accuse the normies of being evil, things will get better.
expanding access to safe, affordable and permanent housing – but not by building more, perish the thought. certainly not in my neighborhood.
Safe, affordable and permanent housing cures schizophrenia and other mental illnesses?
To combat urban sprawl, Elon Musk proposes cities should build tall narrow “space towers” 50+ stories high. Each space tower could house thousands of people. “I mean it’s just obvious,” he says.
https://twitter.com/realdanlyons/status/1211649509236838405
I’m actually not opposed to that. The more people that cram themselves into urban centers, the more room for me.
People hate living in hives.
The constant buzz is unbearable.
A honey of an apartment though and the neighbors are all like sisters
Well Taleb will tell you the opposite. People like small dwellings near each other.
You don’t find Mega City One or Necromunda to be aspirational? How very dare you, sir?
For that your rations of soylens viridians will be halved.
Fourscore hardest hit?
I seem to recall he lives a number of yards away from the hive.
I thought it was some of the Irony in Niven’s “Oath of Fealty”. And Niven and Pournelle saw it too. The anti-arcology people accused it of being a hive, but in many ways they lived freer than the people in the city did. But, yeah, it was kind of true too. And lots of people wouldn’t want to live that way.
The story is interesting from lots of angles, which is probably what makes it good. They missed out on just how ubiquitous wi-fi would be though.
Yeah, look at all those empty skyscrapers in NYC.
You mean the office buildings?
Or maybe buildings like this.
He should focus on one thing at a time and get Tesla right.
He’s more Calvin and Hobbes imagination than practical urban thinker and planner.
The only way he can keep attention off the trail of failed projects and broken promises is to wave new distractions.
Space x is a hell of a distraction
Each floor of Space Tower ™ would contain 4 dwellings, or Space Pods ™, each large enough for a family. With kitchen, bathroom, living and sleeping space. Entire outer structure of building is photovoltaic. Interior structure & walls contain several billion batteries.
Doesn’t sound extremely flammable at all.
Why not put the batteries in vacuum to mitigate the fire risk? Or do electrical/battery fires not work that way?
‘They’ve turned their backs on us’
They don’t realize how lucky they are,. Wait ’til the government shows up to help.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7844727/Demi-Rose-flaunts-famous-derriere-thong-bikini-holidays-Mexico.html
Who’s Demi Rose?
Count Potato.
She looks like she’s going to be absorbed by her own ass.
“Jeffrey Epstein’s socialite ‘madam’ Ghislaine Maxwell ‘is being hidden from the FBI in a series of safe houses because of the information she has on powerful people’
An explosive new report has asserted that deceased sex criminal Jeffery Epstein and his alleged ‘madame’ Ghislaine Maxwell were foreign intelligence ‘assets’, and that she is currently hiding in a safehouse in Israel.
‘Ghislaine is protected. She and Jeffrey were assets of sorts for multiple foreign governments. They would trade information about the powerful people caught in his net — caught at Epstein’s house,’ a unnamed source told Page Six.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7843659/Ghislaine-Maxwell-reportedly-foreign-spy-hiding-Israel.html
unnamed source
But they’re the most reliable sources.
St. Paul police chief is so, so, so, brave.
The chief has a case of the vapors because the state constitution says “There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the state otherwise than as punishment for a crime of which the party has been convicted”.
The chief thinks that the inclusion of the word “slavery” is so horrible that we need to make sure it is removed. My secret desire is that the change to the constitution would require it to be put on the ballot. Why? Because I can’t even imagine the fun if Trump wins Minnesoda in 2020 AND we vote to keep slavery in the constitution.
Erase slavery from history by making it legal? Bold strategy.
was this covered?
Kentucky woman used her dog’s urine in drug test, police say
https://twitter.com/myfox8/status/1212502718448836609
Headlines: Dog loses license over failed drug test
The dog’s probation officer will definitely have to keep him on shorter leash now
I can already tell this pun thread is going to be ruff.
Gettin’ past this is gonna be a bitch.
No doubt Kentucky woman will try to flea prosecution.
That wasn’t very nice using the picture of the dog.
*clicks*
Now where did I put the eye-stabby thingy?
She’s been shooting up with it is my guess.
“New York subway ‘kidnapper’ claims he was rescuing woman from her ‘abusive boyfriend’ and demands a rematch with Good Samaritans who beat him up after video went viral
He explained he was jumped in the street and then taken to the precinct but claimed he was cleared and is now free.
Alloway was arrested for unlawful imprisonment and later released when Bronx district attorneys deferred prosecution to allow for more time to investigate the case.
Alloway said he was attacked three separate times after the subway video went up viral before he was arrested by police hours later.
He was treated at St Barnabas Hospital for bruises inflicted in the attacks, including one that became a viral video itself, showing him being punched and kicked in the head.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7844657/Man-shocking-video-trying-kidnap-girl-subway-wants-match-beat-him.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-bronx-subway-20200101-mcedisnxpvfw3pe2fwmg3e4h64-story.html
“Cursed by Lolita: Sue Lyon, who died last week, was plucked from obscurity aged 14 to play the child temptress, but it sparked a car crash life with drug problems and five marriages… one to a convicted murderer”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-7843491/Cursed-Lolita.html
Is it really a curse if its the median outcome for a child actress?
Modal, not median. No thinky brain yet
It’s a common curse, but she might have had a less destructive existance if not picked for the role.
Safe, affordable and permanent housing cures schizophrenia and other mental illnesses?
Just don’t call it Bedlam.
Look at this nice place. It has a great view of a bell.
Now The Imperial War Museum.
…Stroll around the grounds until you feel at home…
Fourscore, now I know how you feel.
Watching the Gophs go out and dominate another good team is now a memory for all of us youngsters as well. I have to admit that I was doubtful that I’d ever see such a spectacle. The only thing that marred the experience was the announcers going on and on about how great Auburn was. Granted my glasses are maroon tinted, but the Gophs looked like the better team from early on, so why couldn’t the announcers entertain the idea that they might win?
Two years in a row they did that.
Yeah, the commentary was sad. The boys in the booth sounded like the B squad. I don’t watch a lot of football, no college ball, maybe the pros work the NFL but these guys were like the announcers for an away high school game.
Life science jobs at Berkeley give precedence to candidates’ diversity and inclusion statements
https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/life-science-jobs-at-berkeley-with-hiring-giving-precedence-to-diversity-and-inclusion-statements/
Writing their own epitaphs.
Why can’t there be at least one university that only considers merit?
Because the most capable people can get more money with less bullshit by fleeing academia.
Exactly right. We keep talking about the quality (or lack there of)of public school teachers for the same reason.
Because any time there is a monopoly (or cartel), the monopolists are in a position to discriminate on non-work related factors because there is no outside disruption.
Good.
What Trooper had the balls to pull over a car with the state legislator license on it? How terrible was this guy driving?
Oh. Yea that will be hard to use your TOP.MAN power to magic away
remember when the cops were called on a car just stalled out in the middle of the road, and they found an off duty cop passed out and then nothing happened.
He did get an early retirement, for lying to his boss.
That dude was actually on duty.
What Trooper had the balls to pull over a car with the state legislator license on it? How terrible was this guy driving?
Ran the plates, saw it was a Republican, and knew there would be kudos, not blowback, in NYS.
Gotta get some fall guys.
Carlos Ghosn in Beirut : seven arrests in Turkey, including 4 MNG Jet pilots.
One of the greatest joys you can have in life is knowing that orphaned baby orangutans go to jungle school every day (where they learn how to be orangutans) in a wheelbarrow school bus.
https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1212598327432204288
One of the greatest joys you can have in life
Really?
They have a blue check on twitter. They are a very sad person with no concept of joy.
look if you wanna get retweets you do what you have to do
Call me crazy, but “hope” is not the message I get from Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren invokes hope in New Year’s Eve speech commemorating 2020 launch
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“People tell me what’s broken, but the fear always comes lit by a hope for change,” she told an audience of more than 600 people in the historic Old South Meeting House in Boston. “Hope for change because they believe in America, and in each other. And I believe too.”
Hope.
And change.
That sounds vaguely familiar, for some reason.
People tell me what’s broken, but the fear always comes lit by a hope for change – no change needed in themselves though, right? just more government.
I get more of an “Abandon All Hope” vibe from the Indian Nanny.
Good morning, Sloop!
Great football game yesterday. Your advice to chill after the Gophers started so poorly was spot-on. Lots of fun and good for PJ and his galley slaves.
From the vandal article:
The penis has such power that even the word ‘penis’ can trigger a breakdown. Good to know!
Nice to start the day with a little LZ! This one rambled on next.
Have a great day!
Having lived in SEC country, I can only begin to imagine how grating it must have been the Auburn fans to hear those chants of “Row, row, row” from Minnesodans.
And I’m assuming that when you said “PJ” you meant Fleck and not me?
No, I meant you. Fleck will bail for another school asap.
What am I going to do with galley slaves in winter?
Lease them out for monocle mining?
Clear snow?
Drill fishing holes?
If Peter Strzok gets arrested, image how crazy his booking photo will be.
Why would Strzok get arrested?
Yeah, it’s not like he was involved in any kind of a conspiracy to falsify evidence or anything….
So what if he was. He’s a cop. When was the last time a cop got arrested for making false evidence?
I’ll concede that point.
When was the last time a connected Democrat was arrested for a crime?
I almost made the Strzok joke after seeing that booking pic. Dude’s a dead ringer for him.
Augustus Sol Invictus, pure Florida Man and the man who destroyed the Florida LP arrested on multiple charges, is still a douchebag.
https://nypost.com/2020/01/01/white-nationalist-augustus-sol-invictus-arrested-in-florida/
no way
Best interpretation of the Biden judge’s action would be “Fuck this shitshow!”
IANAL but I can’t see how these people are involved in the paternity case. They may have claims on Hunter’s money but that is different. Also, love the bit about Hunter being unemployed for months like that means something.
I’m about 75% on the PIs actually being on Biden’s payroll to blow the whole thing up.
Get somebody like this to be very disruptive, and mix a bunch of incriminating truth with ridiculous falsehood so that they can cast doubt on all the actually-problematic parts.
Hillary Clinton Slams Trump For Not Taking A More ‘Hands-Off’ Approach To Embassy Attack
After Trump quickly sent Marines to defend Americans trapped at the embassy, Clinton immediately blasted him for taking such “rash, uncalled-for” action when he could have just “waited around a while to see what happens.”
“If I were president, I definitely would have let things play out,” she said. “Sending American troops to protect American lives seems a little hasty. What if you need to get a little shut-eye or recharge in your lizard person spawning chamber for a few hours?”
“I would have slept on it first.”
That easily could have been a real headline.
Yeah, the “invade Syria before it gets taken over by Iran” contingent has been busting his chops for his “immoderate and inflammatory” response.
Good news, everyone!
Twenty-one states are raising their minimum wage. Florida is raising the state minimum wage $0.10 an hour, while Washington State’s minimum wage increased $1.50 to $13.50 an hour.
In California, gig workers, including rideshare and delivery drivers, are now considered employees, making them eligible for paid sick leave and other benefits.
Pink slips to follow.
Just think of the extra leasure time they’ll get to enjoy
/Iforgetwhichcluelesspolitico.
Pretty sure that was krugnutz
Funemployment! There were a bunch of people saying that circa 2010. “Cool, I can finally learn to play guitar!”
For their new career in busking?
In California, gig workers, including rideshare and delivery drivers, are now considered employees, making them eligible for paid sick leave and other benefits.
The unemployment line gives you paid sick leave and other benefits?
Haven’t heard how Uber and Lyft are going to respond to/manage this.
It seems completely contrary to their business model. If they decide they can’t leave the CA market, how do they keep this from metastasizing across their entire US operation?
For now, they’re claiming the law doesn’t apply to them. Some of these companies (Doordash among them) have filed a lawsuit.
If none of that works they’ll have to leave California.
The law was written by a representative named Lorena Gonzalez as a gift to the unions.
This even though Kamala Harris’s BIL is an Uber exec.
Willie Brown isn’t governor anymore. She hasn’t *ahem* traded favors with anyone currently controlling the state.
I heard they were going to file a suit. But didn’t get specifics.
https://reason.com/2019/12/30/uber-and-postmates-argue-that-californias-new-gig-law-violates-the-9th-and-14th-amendments-the-contracts-clause-and-californias-baby-ninth-amendment/
But wait–Uber and Postmates argue that strict scrutiny applies! Why? Because the law would “burden, the fundamental rights of network companies and workers to pursue their chosen profession and determine when and how they earn a living.” I’m not sure there is a single vote on the Supreme Court for this position. I don’t think even Justice Gorsuch would review economic regulations with strict scrutiny.
Hmmm…. I tend to be swayed by the opinion that all laws should be subject to strict constitutional scrutiny. I don’t see why economic rights are less advantaged than others, except “well that’s how it was ruled by the SCOTUS back in 1919”. I get the need for stability and the building of precedent…
Which brings me to the conflict. I don’t trust the legislators to keep to the constitution, so all their laws should be held to strict scrutiny by the courts. But i also don’t trust the courts to do that so the states should be allowed to say FOAD and nullify any law that is unconstitutional.
Bringing a claim under the 9th amendment is weird though.
I can’t believe they are going to win. The law was specifically written to target them. Unless it was incompetently drafted . . . alright, they probably have a fair shot at winning.
They’ll need to get a temporary injunction at the outset, or I suspect they will have to shut down CA anyway pending the outcome of the case.
The law was specifically written to target them.
Could it be considered a Bill of attainder if Cali argues it that way?
“It’s not a Bill of Attainder, it’s a Lettre de Cachet!”
In a different case, the injunction has been granted.
Not sure if it suspends the law across the board, or only for truckers. Not sure how it couldn’t be across the board, but can’t be arsed to run down and read the order or opinion.
Florida’s voting on a $15 minimum wage in November. I’ll be surprised if it doesn’t pass.
sigh…
People are making videos while driving?
Gotta get those likes, they’re crack.
Yes, its a youtube subgenere. Getting coffee with comedians. Singing in cars with people with great teeth.
I can’t say I’m surprised. “Robots Reading Reddit” is also a youtube subgenre.
While this is probably good, I’m guessing there’s a high chance that police at least attempt to use this against somebody who records bad police behavior from their phone/dashcam and posts it.
I think that’s pretty much guaranteed.
From what I have seen from a pass through dashcams as a possible Christmas present, they don’t stream. They loop over internal memory, mostly, with the ability to transfer to a phone or other bluetooth/wifi device. Once you transfer to your phone, it may automatically get uploaded to your cloud storage, but I don’t know if that really counts as “streaming”.
As ever, I am curious as to what problem this is supposed to solve.
Potentially helpful if you get into an accident that you decide is not your fault. Easy to “accidentally” let it get erased if you are worried it might be your fault.
Useless if your threat model includes interactions with the police.
So the cop model of video evidence management is now unavailable to
civiliansserfs?Sadly, that makes sense.
But playing downloaded videos is totes OK?
I’ve been known to listen to episodes of Forensic Files played on Hulu in my car. It’s basically a podcast. When I do it the phone’s face down on the passenger side though.
Does that mean streaming download, or streaming upload?
I can think of a stupid argument for the former, but not even a stupid argument for the latter.
Also-
In California, natural hairstyles, like afros, braids, and dreadlocks are now legally protected. This follows recent incidents, nationwide, of African Americans being unfairly targeted because of their hair.
Starting Wednesday, all new houses built in California must have solar panels, a significant energy savings, but it also will add almost $10,000 to the cost of construction.
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Also in Illinois, it is now illegal to stream video while driving, proving that some laws are designed to protect us from ourselves.
Just a few more laws, and our Utopian dreams will have been realized!
Just… wow.
Eh, not like there is any housing being built in CA anyway.
“Starting Wednesday, all new houses built in California must have solar panels, a significant energy savings, but it also will add almost $10,000 to the cost of construction.”
Why does California hate poor people?
CA loves poor people.
It hates middle-class people.
I should have clarified — working poor people. There is no middle class in California.
I should have clarified — working poor people.
I might refine that to “working poor Americans”. Possibly also legal residents.
And maintenance costs down the road. Enjoy reroofing.
Thought of another one- will there be periodic inspections to make sure they haven’t been disconnected or removed? Or that they’re being cleaned? I smell a jobs opportunity.
Also coming soon:
Mandatory replacement of solar panels at end-of-life.
Mandatory installation of solar panels at roof repair replacement or rewiring.
As with gun carry above, for these people all that is not prohibited is mandatory.
I smell a
jobscitation opportunity.all new houses built in California must have solar panels
Further evidence of this being zealous religious fervor. Some houses just do not make sense to have solar. Mine for example is shaded on the south side by several large cottonwoods. It wouldn’t pay for itself, and would be a net negative to the environment to manufacture it for a bad use.
Just wait till California starts forcing people to cut trees so they can put solar panels in.
How soon before a news story comes up with a new home built that has a poor view of the sun (trees, other buildings, etc) but still must install solar panels?
Amish be like da’fuq?
Parts of CA get good insolation. Parts do not.
Legislature doesn’t care.
Those pictures are awfully misleading. Take a careful look at how they graduate in the legend. The areas on the map are colored by a graduation within the bigger graduation of values. So take a look at New England. It looks like it’s an awful place. But when you pull up the map there looks like there is a lot of good places. That is because they have adjusted each map so it is localized.
I get why that would make sense to do, the ranges inside each region are so small that if they stuck with the bigger scale you wouldn’t see any difference, but Why bother with the bigger scale? why not just adjust the scale in each region? The way the do it makes it look like there are more places that have better sun light than there really are.
I can’t imagine they took local conditions into effect, like trees, neighboring buildings, etc. When I was staying in a residential neighborhood in San Diego, there were big trees everywhere. It would be a terrible neighborhood for solar, but on the map it looks not bad.
Yeah, I’m not surprised because the resoultion on their maps are several miles. I’m more complaining about the scales they use. In the legend they have 2 scales. one is a callout of the other, but hey use the same gradient colors. So while in new England all the values are within .5 units it looks like on the map it has the same range of values as California. and if you were quickly looking at it you might think that because it has BOTH scales on the legend.
Random OT, does anyone know the the demographic distribution of vocal ranges. ie, % of tenors, baritones, etc.
Below is from a quick google search which led to a reddit thread on this very topic:
Roughly:
Men 20% Bass / 45% Baritone / 35% Tenor
Women 15% Contralto / 35% Mezzo / 50% Soprano
I couldn’t manage to phrase my search in a way that produced results.
Thank you.
distribution of singing voices
You may not realize how close you got to getting a lmgtfy link in response
downside of “multitasking” (constantly getting interrupted)
Then UCS could respond with this, and a full bore link convo would be underway
Well, now that you mention it… The train of thought that led to the question came from trying to figure out the appropriate singing voice for one of my characters and I began to wonder how common it was.
Now I’ve got to look at the methodology.
That doesn’t match what I observed when I was in school, but obviously singers in a music school are going to be non-representative of the greater population.
Also, those terms are subject to fashion — both how cool it is to be in that range, and more fundamentally what those terms actually mean varies across decades.
Some freedoms of association are freer than others.
Come February the Phoenix-based moving company, U-Haul, won’t interview or hire nicotine users. U-Haul told our news partner KTAR that the change starts February 1 and excludes people hired before that date.
“We’re hoping to build a workforce that’s free from nicotine addiction as a whole”, says U-Haul Chief of Staff Jessica Lopez. In Arizona, it is legal not to hire people who use nicotine. Employers also have the right to test for nicotine.
U-Haul’s wellness program started four years ago. It’s been formally recognized by Arizona for its health and wellness initiatives. On top of the new policy, the company is also building a brand new conference and fitness center on its midtown campus.
We all need somebody to spit on.
Gotta keep those insurance rates down.
Meth is fine though, helps you work long hours.
So you can buy more meth?
Think about how much money companies could save if they didn’t hire coffee drinkers too. I mean, the last company i worked at spend a shit ton on some 22nd Century Coffee Machine that never worked, not to mention all the coffee beans.
Because they have so many applicants they are looking for new ways to weed people out? It was just a little to easy to find people who will show up for work and perform some basic functions.
Really? Discrimination based on medical disability in a way that doesn’t impact job performance is legal in AZ?
Speaking of Asimov, missed that his second wife Janet died earlier last year. RIP.
The Greatest Beer Run Ever. Guys I’d like to have a beer with.
You lied! That wasn’t a link to Smokey and The Bandit!
Eastbound and down!
These guys’ stories would have made a great prequel.
Hope they didn’t make that video in Illinois.
Pro Chefs Make Their Favorite Sandwiches | Test Kitchen Talks | Bon Appétit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lF2sKFnuALw
I just had bacon, egg, mayo, cheese on a roasted seseme bagel. Yum.
sesame? *shakes head*
I prefer Everything but my wife likes the sesame
I like sesame as well but would rather have everything
something something abstract euphemisms.
Scrambled eggs on buttered multigrain toast this morning for me. Hard to argue with it.
I miss bagels – especially bagel sandwiches. I don’t miss my 25 lb gut.
I just had a bacon, cheese, and ham omelette.
Head of the Taiwanese armed forced dead in a helicopter crash. Time to don a tin foiled lined helmet
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_New_Taipei_helicopter_crash
Military helicopters are the world’s safest form of transportation, it is known.
Anybody use a pizza steel? Trying to decide between a cast iron pan and the steel. Leaning towards the steel. Seems like both are preferable to a stone.
I use a stone and a cast iron pan. The stone v. steel discussion depends a lot on what oven you have and what tools you’re working with. My stone takes forever to heat up, but when it does, it puts out unrivaled pizza. I’m hesitant to switch to a steel because I have a good thing going.
If it’s not clear, the cast iron pan and the stone are used separately.
If that means you have both, next time put the stone on the bottom rack and the pan on top rack. Let them both heat up forever, and cook your pizza in between. The giant radiating plate of metal close to your pizza will cook it even hotter, faster, and direct-ier. You are basically making an old-school salamander.
Brilliant! I’ll have to try it out.
On the rare occasions when the Keto-ish Deans make a pizza, we use a stone. You’ve got to let it heat up (which for the thick stone you want takes awhile), and you’ve got to run your oven really hot. I believe Mrs. Dean sometimes gives it a bump from the broiler at the end to give the top a little color/caramelization.
Thanks, yea, I would hit at least 500 in the oven.
I read hit as fit at first and started to wonder if you were a Democrat.
Thanks, just have an electric oven (no NG available out here). Starting new with no pizza-specific tools. You prefer the stone over the cast iron pan?
Pan is good for pan pizza, stone is good for hand tossed. I make both, depending on the audience’s preferences.
Basic barebones equipment are a peel, steel or stone, large proofing bowl/container, and a Pizza screen
Also, http://www.pizzamaking.com is where I go when I want to learn more about pizza than I could possibly ever retain.
Awesome, will be sure to bookmark.
Sounds good, thanks.
If’n you are handy with an angle grinder and sand-paper, I recommend buying some 300 series (316 is great) stainless steel in the thickest plate your oven or grill can support. Round the edges off, grind it flat if its not (use a flat tile to back sandpaper and a brick to add weight), polish it to 1,000 grit, and season it yourself. If you have access to a router that can cut steel, you can use a bull nose bit to put in a grove around the top to capture grease when you use it like a griddle and a chamfer on the bottom so you can actually pick it up. Then you need to season it yourself which is really easy for stainless.
I helped make one of these for the shop grill in college. Worked out great. But honestly, for home baking I just use a thinner baking stone. If I had unlimited time and space like in college I’d make another one.
Thanks, I would just buy the steel ready to go if I go that route. They aren’t that much more than stones, but seems like the stones are in favor here.
I’d say a stone is 98% as good as steel. Like everything, you can dedicate your life to eaking out the last 2% of performance by spending 10x or 100x the time and money.
Like everything, you can dedicate your life to eaking out the last 2% of performance by spending 10x or 100x the time and money.
I am sadly prone to this when buying capital equipment. I tell myself it means a longer useful life.
Fair point. 2% gain isn’t worth chasing after.
The mysterious case of the ornamented coot chicks has a surprising explanation
The bright colors of the chicks of American coots help their parents choose favorites, according to a new study
https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/uoc–tmc122419.php
How soon before a news story comes up with a new home built that has a poor view of the sun (trees, other buildings, etc) but still must install solar panels?
Are you attempting to poison the People’s Omelette, Comrade?
Why Robert Reich Is Never Worth Listening To On Anything. Ever.
https://www.continentaltelegraph.com/economy/why-robert-reich-is-never-worth-listening-to-on-anything-ever/
the answers to the tweet are some top shelf derp
He’s probably worth listening to about where to get alterations on suits done.
If you’re buying a suit for your kid, maybe.
Body found in Idaho cave more than 40 years ago identified as outlaw who escaped jail in 1916
Complete with a composite sketch that looks like an illustration from a Stephen King novel.
Good Lord!
Sure enough, several days later, investigators believe Loveless cut through the bars of his jail using a saw hidden in his shoe. Once again, he was on the run.
Now you have to get people to pretend you hung yourself to escape prison.
What did Loveless know about the Clintons?
“Suicide!”
/NYCME
Military helicopters are the world’s safest form of transportation, it is known.
I know a guy (ex- Air Force) who says he will never get in one of those things again unless people are actually shooting at him.
Ten thousand spare parts flying in formation.
Don’t forget the pilots ranging from extremely skilled, to kid 5 minutes out of flight school, mechanics ditto.
“Where’s the button that makes it go up?”
Flying in loose formation.
A Marine Gunny helicopter mechanic told me to never get on any chopper that wasn’t leaking hydraulic fluid. Because if it wasn’t leaking any fluid it meant it had run dry and none was left.
Castro finally ousted!
Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro, the only Latino in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race
I hate the modern racist left.
If you prefer the classic racist left, Gropey Joe is still in the race.
Um excuse me I believe that Beto identifies as both latino *and* a viable national politician.
Does xhe identify as Latino or latinx?
brb, convening a focus group. will get you an answer shortly.
It took three years after Fidel died to be rid of him…
Oh, wait, that’s not what you meant.
Nice. I’m excited for an updated Dem Death Watch
Former Obama housing secretary Julián Castro, the only Latino in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race
Ahem. He was the only one left. Didn’t they have that Beto guy running for a while, he spoke better Spanish than Castro.
I seem to recall Hillary running as the abuela candidate. When she enters to reclaim her crown from the usurpers, I think she will be the new Latinx candidate, no?
If her husband could be the first black president, I don’t see why not.
We should have done a dead pool, predicting the date each would leave the race.
We had a bunch of friends over for a potluck dinner on New Years Eve. I made Philly Italian roast pork sandwiches. I cheated on the roasting by just browning and sticking it in a crock pot (with wine, a lot of garlic, onions, rosemary, Italian seasoning, etc.). Add in provolone cheese, broccoli rabe, and sundried peppers (I didn’t have the time for red hots).
They went over well.
Happy New Year, everybody! I hope 2020 is good for you all.
I did the same sandwiches for New Years minus the broccoli rabe.
What?
American Girl is ringing in the new year by unveiling its first doll with hearing loss. The doll is the American Girl of the Year.
The popular doll line, owned by Mattel, introduced Joss Kendrick, with the help of Olympic surfing hopeful Caroline Marks.
So, when you pull the string, it says, “Speak up!”?
Most dolls are deaf and dumb. The first exception to come to mind was creepy as hell.
What’s not to love about Teddy Ruxpin and his adventures in the uncanny valley?
Yeah, this seems to imply that the other American Dolls can hear you.
Which poses the question: Do they also have a blind one?
“math is hard”
Olympic surfing hopeful
Wait, what?
Oh, yeah. Skateboarding, too.
Apparently there’s a big controversy (relatively speaking) as to whether olympic surfing should be done in the ocean or in a standardized surf wave pool.
Anything judged does not belong in the Olympics.
Except ladies figure skating, of course.
I’m pretty meh about the Olympics in general. But if anything can, figure skating can make me Kerrigan.
What a Witt.
Well, I’m as much an Olympic ice skating “hopeful” as he is an Olympic surfing hopeful.
So is the surfing venue in the Med, where it is at least not a hypothermia risk, but there are no waves, the Breton coast for some excitement, or the Channel to freeze the competitors?
An indoor wave pond to make standardized waves.
/notsureiftrue
*Alternate Joke*
On a pond that identifies as a wavy ocean.
it’s true, they make perfect barrels, YT will help,
Prediction: Women’s Olympic surfing will be swept by transexuals, in the least watched segment in all of Olympic history.
not beach volleyball?
If the trannies take over beach volleyball, there’s nothing good left in women’s sports.
There’s always women’s gymnastics, at least if you’re a pedophile.
Sure, why not?
“Olympic surfing hopeful ”
and with a hearing loss? I coulda been a contenda.
Surfs up!
https://youtu.be/3eCmfaxIjjc
https://www.spiked-online.com/2019/12/27/the-peoples-decade/
Kind of late, but this is a good read for anyone still around.
I hope people are still around, “Ink and Infantuation, Part 2” goes up in about fifteen minutes.
Great
Good article, thanks!
Can someone explain what he means by ‘individuation’ in this context?
The degradation of traditional social structures, communities, and human nature in favor of the new
SovietLabourManperson – free of the chains of class, family, tradition, biology, and expectation.Or, for you fucking boomers:
Imagine there’s no heaven
It’s easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today… Aha-ah…
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion, too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world… You…
You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will live as one
Creepy Borg lyrics.
Like the Borg started eating lotus…
Man, that’s cool, Leap.
Nothing to kill or die for
To me, this means “nothing to live for”.
Gotcha.
Thanks, Leap.
Just in case you were wondering what the dumbest take of 2020 is gonna be, entrants are already coming in and this one will definitely make the list. Sorry your narrative was blown to bits, dickhead. It almost seems like you’d have rather seen a lot of bodies piled up for you to climb on.
My first thought was that this was the hot take on the abortive invasion of the US Embassy in Baghdad. I mean, how stupid does a DemOp have to be to wave the Benghazi flag?
Especially since Trump sent the Marines and the radicals retreated.
Add another strike to the list.
https://hotair.com/archives/allahpundit/2020/01/02/julian-castro-im/
Dabney Coleman. I don’t even recall just how many times I’ve watched “9 to 5” but it’d > 10