Howdy, my Glibertarian friends. Happy Tuesday that feels like it should be Thursday. But it must be Tuesday because the news keeps telling me that New Hampshire is holding a primary. Trans-Am Joe is pretty sure that it is not his scene, and has already moved on to South Carolina. Let me just be the first to tell you all how this ends: Hillary will step in, reluctantly, to save the party and the nation.
Michael Bloomberg, I assume will get a pass for this: “95% of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit one M.O. You can just take the description and Xerox it and pass it out to all the cops. They are male minorities 15 to 25.” Although he was careful to include victims, but butchered the latin. Modus operandi does not mean description.
If it keeps on raining…
This should surprise absolutely no-one, but is still fascinating. The CIA owned one of the world’s top crypto manufacturers from the 1950s until 2018.
Aww yiss, Florida gets the first Space Force base. Suck it, lesser states.
This person is obviously a secret Nazi. No really, the Nazis were the last government to use a guillotine.
I was thinking it feels like Thursday.
Sounds like someone has a case of the Tuesdays!
I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.
Damn you.
To be fair, my internet is dragging.
They upgraded some security settings this week and everything moves like molasses.
I believe you get your ass kicked for sayin’ something like that, man.
You know that McDonalds down in Vascolitos?
Putting up some drywall?
I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.
Man, you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that I believe.
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
Excellent musical choice, as are 89.63% of what you post.
Great song, horrible musical.
Maybe it’s related to the weather? I’ve heard people agree that it feels like some other day of the week often enough that it must have some explanation.
Mine mostly has to do with working 8pm – 3am Sunday, doing a regular shift Monday, and being waaay too tired for it to be only the 3rd shift of the week. So it must be Thursday.
I had some plumbing issues and decided to pickup 12 hours this coming Saturday. The closer it gets the more I think I could have just trimmed my whiskey budget.
Would that fix your plumbing?
The plumbing is already fixed. I just need to recoup the cost.
*triggered*
It it’s Tuesday, this must be Belgium.
If it’s Tuesday, these must be Belgians
I’m hiding my feelings, it’s Friday,
Fifteenth!
Although most murders do fit one M.O. They are disputes over drug business.
Obviously we need moar, harsher drug laws. Amirite?
How else are you gonna kill all the drug users?
Fenatyl.
I mean isn’t the CIA the biggest supplier anyway?
Drugs, money, girls, or just crazy, but usually some combination of these four.
Yes, he could have avoided any race-gotchas by just saying men that age involved in gangs. People could still figure it out for themselves, but couldn’t call him a racist for stating facts that way.
I’m shocked the Bloomberg link is NPR and not some conservative rag. This might actually have legs.
Oh, so this is a DNC hit job?
It’s got to be. Somebody leaked this and someone gave NOR permission to report.
This is the week of the long knives. They need to winnow the field so that Warren or Buttgieg can start winning primaries. And they don’t like Buttgieg but may see him as more malleable than Bernie.
No really, the Nazis were the last government to use a guillotine.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Unless you think the Fifth Republic are Nazis.
Fifth Republic means Republican. Republican means right wing. Right wing means nazi.
The French aren’t National Socialists?
Huh. I had information that said the Nazis were the last to construct guillotines, so I assumed…
It’s probably Florida Information.
That could still be true – maybe the French guillotines were older.
That could still be true, the French could have been using an antique.
What’s also true is that I should refresh more.
He was wrong 3 times?
Who, Brett, or the murderer who got his head lopped off?
There were at least three people guillotined by France in the 1970s, so technically, yes he was wrong at least three times.
One of these days, Ted S. One of these days…
Florida gets the first Space Force base.
Obligatory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyNiXPA47M
“Michael Bloomberg, I assume will get a pass for this”
I’m not so sure. I think the DNC still wants Biden to get the nomination and since Bloomy is his primary “moderate” challenger, they might amplify this to torpedo him.
I have to wonder if the DNC still thinks Gropey Joe has a chance. At the nom, much less the general. Whipped in Iowa and NH, and his support evaporating in his “firewall” state of NC. He’s done.
Who’s going to get the black voters to pull the lever for them?
LBJ?
+200 years
But it would have been so much fun watching the feminists ignore the groping and progsplain how we all had to fall in line to defeat Bad Orange Man.
Feminists should be proud to give a serial rapist blowjobs because of his work protecting abortion!
Mouth-rape isn’t rape-rape?
Biden is gone. The impeachment farce is over. I don’t think many people expect him to recover.
After the recent State of the Union, I think the Dem’s are getting nervous that Trump is going to win over enough of the black vote to make the difference. They are probably imagining the commercial Trump will run with Bloomberg’s audio condemning blacks juxtaposed with Trump’s embrace of school choice for black children and honoring the Tuskegee airman.
Meh … Trump is on record supporting Stop and frisk.
Still want to see the campaign vid with the Tuskegee airman, lady out of jail et al — when did politicians NOT lie.
Get in the Dems face … screw it
If it keeps on raining…
Lots of destruction but it’s important to put “one cop hurt” in the headline. Some animals something something.
Hillary will step in,
Still not seeing her coming out of a brokered convention as the candidate.
Perhaps a small wager?
Can I prop bet Michelle Obama coming out of the convention as the candidate?
^^^This.
She has better odds than Hillary.
She is the one I would be most afraid of, if I was Trump.
I think she would clobber Trump, plus she won’t have gone through the Thunderdome that is the primary. This is the Dem’s best play IMO.
The big question mark is how does she do in a debate against Trump. Although she probably could get beat like a drum in 3 debates and still win.
Because the economy was so much better under Obama?
Because the guy had the most effective propaganda machine in history. He is still fondly remembered even though he left everything he touched worse. His wife will win based on nostalgia, the same way the new Star Wars films are making money.
So you are saying she is like Chewbacca?
Because the media is so 100% in the tank for the Dems, and esp. the Obamas, that they will stop at nothing to pull off the win.
Bussing illegals, bussing legals from place to place with a “neighbor” to vouch for them, finding ballots in car trunks, etc.
And all the debate questions will be leaked to Mooch.
I think she would clobber Trump,
I don’t. She’s never run for a single office in her life. She might be their best shot, especially with the DemOp Media covering up her nasty personality. She’d get the black vote back on-side, but unless she miraculously turns out to be a natural-born politician and campaigner, with oodles of charisma she has hidden her entire life, I’m not seeing her as a shoo-in.
She’d lose a lot of the young vote just on what she had done to school lunches.
I’m don’t know why people think she even wants the job, unless the idea is to let Barack run things behind the scenes.
She wanted to run the lunch room, why not the whole country.
I get the impression she has as much of an authoritarian bent as her husband, and being Ms. Pen and Phone would have an appeal.
She is obviously a narcissist, being an EGOT chaser despite having no talent.
You misspelled Valerie Jarrett.
oh dear god, no….
That’s my gut feeling, but my guts are usually full of shit. I’m completely baffled as to how all of this will turn out. I feel like Hillary wants to insert herself. Whether she still has enough pull, I’m not sure.
“Hillary wants to insert herself”
It’s not Wednesday, yet.
Oh, Huma…
+1 pseudo-penis.
“first Space Force base”
Hope those guys get really nice uniforms that we can recognize as Space Force. Wonder is they get different rank names? Would a Space Force captain be closer to a navy captain or Army/AF captain?
“Group Captain”
The highest rank will be Brigadier.
I think you meant to say the highest rank will be Brigadoon.
“It’s Lieutenant Major.”
No, wait, that’s ATOM.
There are no Captains in ATOM.
Space uniforms require an extra large flap on the jacket, this is known.
You mean grey metallic jump suits.
Silver Lamé. Sheesh, you str8pipo.
Seriously.
Hope those guys get really nice uniforms that we can recognize as Space Force.
I’m hoping they go full camp (since most of them won’t serve anywhere they need camouflage) and do something silly, like Jedi robes.
I think they are already being a bit cheeky.
https://deadline.com/2020/01/trump-space-force-logo-ripoff-star-trek-rip-off-1202840692/
Excellent!
Someone needs to turn in their geek cred. It’s more clearly the Terran Federation logo of Blake’s 7 turned sideways.
Re: Bloomberg.
It’s only 93%. Verdict: False.
And I expect him to catch more flak for the first sentence than the grotesque collectivization of the 2nd sentence.
Aww yiss, Florida gets the first Space Force base. Suck it, lesser states.
It makes sense. FL has always been the tip of the space-spear. We’re coming for dat ass, Mars!
Dicks fuck pussies, but they also fuck assholes. Otherwise the assholes will shit all over everyone!
We’re dicks! We’re reckless, arrogant, stupid dicks. And the Film Actors Guild are pussies. And Kim Jong-il is an asshole. Pussies don’t like dicks, because pussies get fucked by dicks. But dicks also fuck assholes – assholes who just want to shit on everything. Pussies may think they can deal with assholes their way, but the only thing that can fuck an asshole is a dick, with some balls. The problem with dicks is that sometimes they fuck too much, or fuck when it isn’t appropriate – and it takes a pussy to show ’em that. But sometimes pussies get so full of shit that they become assholes themselves, because pussies are only an inch-and-a-half away from assholes. I don’t know much in this crazy, crazy world, but I do know that if you don’t let us fuck this asshole, we are going to have our dicks and our pussies all covered in shit.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
That’s a Hinkle Unit.
I have a disappoint. This after your Rob Lowe take?
/giggles
I like to switch things up here and there.
Also, I didn’t come up with the Rob Lowe one. *hangs head in shame*
Aw. But you shared it with us, so you get credit for that. 😉
We’re coming for dat ass,
MarsUranus !We’re coming for dat ass, Mars!
This is the type of attitude the space force needs. Now I’m hoping it resembles something out of Starship Troopers.
What in the fuck is this space brigade supposed to be and do? How will they defend us from aliens sufficiently advanced to travel vast distances in space ships? White gloves and shiny hats won’t stop them.
I think its more of an “establish an outpost on the high ground and let potential energy be your friend” sort of space force.
Ah, Geo-Orbital Defense rods.
MMMMMM, Crowbars…
I thought that was banned? Not that we should listen to anyone else, but you know.
I believe we decided to ignore that part some years ago, preTrump, X37 for example….
I assume its like nuclear weapons. The best deterrent is to have your stuff in place. “These aren’t weapons, they’re tungsten construction rods, we’re just storing them at this convenient polar orbit. Of course, they have to have small rocket motors on them to get them to the orbit where we’d actually use them. Sorry they pass within range of your cities three times a day.”
What about the space colonies on the moon?
The televised moon landing was hoaxed but that was so people wouldn’t see that instead of magnificent desolation that the moon was already a major base.
Iif they set up space colonies on the moon, and start recruiting Amazon women, I’ll be all for it.
My guess is that most of their work is going to focus on satellite management and defense and finding ways to disable the satellites of our potential adversaries. That’s why I’m of mixed emotions about this. I’m not sure that creating a separate branch of the military is the most efficient allocation of resources, but I can also see where it could (but almost certainly won’t) relieve a lot of duplication of effort. Managing space as a theater is something that is going to be absolutely necessary for any plausibly significant adversary. It’s something that needs to be done, regardless of whether this is the best way. And the people dismissing it out of hand mostly show they haven’t thought about it.
How will they defend us from aliens sufficiently advanced to travel vast distances in space ships?
Fighting aliens is silly sci-fi fluff. The real purpose of the space force is to conquer the solar system. It’s all terra nullius, so the US can pioneer ethical imperialism by uniting the extraterrestrial planets under a single banner.
I think it’s more intended to defend against Russia’s satellites that are up to no good against their rival satellites.
I expect Space Force to be more unmanned satellite kind of stuff than anything.
Lol I think their mission has more to do with blocking the Chicoms from claiming ownership of space assets
Silly, it so we can go to Uranus!
” The company, Crypto AG, got its first break with a contract to build code-making machines for U.S. troops during World War II. Flush with cash, it became a dominant maker of encryption devices for decades, navigating waves of technology from mechanical gears to electronic circuits and, finally, silicon chips and software.
The Swiss firm made millions of dollars selling equipment to more than 120 countries well into the 21st century. Its clients included Iran, military juntas in Latin America, nuclear rivals India and Pakistan, and even the Vatican.
But what none of its customers ever knew was that Crypto AG was secretly owned by the CIA in a highly classified partnership with West German intelligence. These spy agencies rigged the company’s devices so they could easily break the codes that countries used to send encrypted messages.”
Seems like a bad idea for a country to get their spy tech from another country.
“DemSoc median income mainer running to represent Maine in US Senate. 1st nonbinary senate candidate. no PACs, no bullshit. M4A & GND. pronouns: they/them”
OFFS!
*swoon*
1st nonbinary senate candidate.
What was Obama?
Pangender.
Mulatto
I’m so relieved that I know their correct pronouns now.
Speaking of, this ad annoys me.
https://www.ispot.tv/ad/Zuz8/descovy-prep-up
“PreP has not been studied in people assigned female at birth.”
Because that double copy of the X chromosome was assigned by the patriarchy.
Because that double copy of the X chromosome was assigned by the patriarchy.
Since it was assigned by mother nature, one could say it was assigned by the matriarchy.
“PreP has not been studied in people assigned female at birth.”
Whenever I hear that terminology I always imagine a bureaucrat with a clipboard in the labor and delivery suite assigning each new baby its gender.
“The random gender assigner generator has determined your child has been given the assignment of male. Yes, male. Congratulations, you may now hold your assigned male.”
How not to prove you’re not a brownshirt
The hashtag #FireChuckTodd was trending on Twitter overnight as the MSNBC anchor faced a social media backlash for quoting a column that described Bernie Sanders supporters as a “digital brownshirt brigade.”
During a Monday segment on the New Hampshire primary taking place today, Todd complained about being on the “receiving end of the Bernie online brigade” before quoting an article by Jonathan Last in The Bulwark that likened supporters of the Jewish candidate to Nazi paramilitaries.
His decision to quote the conservative outlet outraged supporters of the Vermont senator, who took up the #FireChuckTodd hashtag and described the segment as “indefensible.”
Hosting a panel discussion on MSNBC yesterday, Todd said: “I want to bring up something that Jonathan Last put in the Bulwark today, and it was about how—and Ruth we’ve all been on the receiving end of the Bernie online brigade.
“Here’s what he says: ‘No other candidate has anything like this sort of digital brownshirt brigade. I mean, except for Donald Trump. The question no one is asking is this: What if you can’t win the presidency without an online mob?’
“‘What if we now live in a world where having a bullying, agro social media army running around popping anyone who sticks their head up is either an important ingredient for, or a critical marker of, success?'”
After he finished quoting Last’s column for the Bulwark, his fellow MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell simply said “wow,” and Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus later said the passage he read was “really depressing.”
They’re just really really concerned. About democracy.
Why would he be described as “the Jewish candidate”?
The (((candidate))).
That’s really weird. Bernie acknowledges being born into a Jewish family but doesn’t practice the faith.
I assume this is just to stir up some controversy since brown shirts were referenced.
He was assigned Jewish at birth?
“The Bulwark” is right wing now, is it?
I put this up late last thread,
Hey AZ! Razorfist…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uezDB-FLb7s
That was a good one but I think he might be just a little overconfident. Virginia was a bastion of pro gun law (relative to many states anyway) until they weren’t.
Freedom of speech and association is awesome as long as it applies to my hobby horses!
https://spectator.us/cant-cancel-truth-canceled-meghan-murphy/
“I offended this sensibility by insisting . . . . that most women in prostitution are not your friend Kayla who lives in her parents’ million-dollar loft and shares nudes with her Tinder matches but only in exchange for the good blow.”
Is there a single person on earth that thinks this describes a typical prostitute?
Yeah… the one described is much more expensive than average.
No one honest. And the socialist believes there will be pimps if prostitution is legalized. She seems incapable of understanding in a legal market they would be unnecessary.
What about Dennis Hof? Arguably he was a legal pimp.
More like the landlord who lets vendors rent space in their disused downtown storefront.
She seems incapable of understanding in a legal market they would be unnecessary.
I disagree. Most workers are not freelancers or independent contractors, most people have bosses and work as part of a system. I don’t see why prostitution would be any different. Sure, there would be a contingent of freelancers (UberHo?), but pimps would still be a thing.
Considering that pimps are unused by most prostitutes now, why would they become more popular under decrim?
So that they could form a union? Can’t unionize if there’s no boss.
Seriously though, if the state of things is as you describe I don’t think they would become more popular, but I don’t think they would necessarily disappear, either.
It depends on what you mean by “pimp.”
If you mean a booking agent, those have died along with escort agencies, but in a legal regime they could very well make a comeback especially if they did things like IRS witholding and the like.
But “protection” in the violence sense become less necessary under decriminalization.
To unify the shared cost of filing the required business paperwork. No one prostitute wants to do it themself, even if it takes an hour a week. Get 40 together, hire a guy, by the laws of bureaucracy he becomes boss. Et voila ;-\
Another honorable industry ruined by legalization rather than decriminalization.
I doubt that many accountants have strong pimp hands.
They don’t need them. They just need to be able to ask “how much do you want it to be?” and execute on it. “You mean I can deduct the expensive glitter sticks and makeup remover?” It’ll sell.
Plus, they all already knows know sleazy lawyers. The tax and regulation paperwork is, after all, a jobs program.
Good heavens. Every single penny of what you could spend as a prostitute could conceivably be deductible.
It’s not the trans people driving this. It’s their “allies”.
Pretty good line, there.
Who ordered the swerf & terf?
So, it looks like the DOJ is backtracking on their sentencing recommendation after Trump tweeted his opposition. My guess is that the DOJ is either trying to dodge Trump pardoning him or there’s a war between the Trump people and the holdovers.
I’d bet on the latter.
Agree. But I’m an optimist thinking that Trump has any people in the DOJ.
Isn’t Bill Barr in charge of the DOJ?
And how many coup plotters has he already indicted? Bill Barr who was Bush sr’s AG and was confirmed by Senate Republicans, that Bill Barr?
Vengeance wanted
The Washington Post quoted a “senior justice department official” as saying: “The department finds the recommendation extreme and excessive and disproportionate to Stone’s offences. The department will clarify its position later today.”
The Post characterised the move as “a stunning rebuke of career prosecutors that will surely raise questions about political meddling in the case”.
In November, Stone was found guilty of lying to Congress, thereby obstructing the investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, and tampering with a witness in his efforts to learn about emails hacked from Democratic sources.
On Monday, federal prosecutors said a seven- to nine-year sentence would “accurately reflect the seriousness of his crimes and promote respect for the law”.
Trump disagreed, writing: “This is a horrible and very unfair situation. The real crimes were on the other side, as nothing happens to them. Cannot allow this miscarriage of justice!”
WaPo wants Roger Stone locked up forever. For “lying to Congress”. When will they call for those bastards to be locked up for lying to us?
I assume someone pointed out how many of their former colleagues are at risk of facing the same sentence.
Did anyone ask CNN contributor Clapper if he thought it was a fair sentence?
So congress can lie to me, but I can’t lie to congress?
Just like cops,yes.
This guy gets it.
https://nypost.com/2020/02/11/lawrence-ray-charged-with-running-sex-cult-using-daughters-sarah-lawrence-classmates/
“her into more than four years of prostitution, raking in $500,000 from the trafficking, prosecutors said.”
I find that very hard to believe. Mostly because Sarah Lawrence.
*snort*
I’ve always thought that Sarah Lawrence was the model college used for the road trip destination in Animal House, where Otter pretends a dead girl was his girlfriend to get a date with her roommate (‘and can you get dates for my four friends?”)
Now, if we were talking about Arizona State….
I knew a smoking hot woman who went to Sarah Lawrence…
…for a year before she ran off with a drummer. She used to dance at the Yellow Rose.
Now that’s a crazy story.
Something is missing. How did the kids get hundreds of thousands of dollars from their parents? How was one set of parents duped out of $200k? Why didn’t the male students band together to beat the shit out of this guy? Why didn’t anyone contact the cops? I’m getting the sense you can go to Sarah Lawrence if you can fog a mirror.
Throw Them Against The Wall
Bloomer is a tyrant. Of course he has no issue putting people against a wall.
Titty Tuesday tantalizes with top-heavy tempting treats.
http://archive.is/chykk
#16 FTW!
Holocaust averted (for now)
South Dakota’s trans health bill is effectively dead, opponents say
The bill sought to block physicians from providing puberty blockers and gender confirmation surgery to transgender children under 16.
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“It’s gone,” Quinncy Parke, 17, who is transgender and testified against the bill, told The Associated Press. “I don’t have to worry about it until next year.”
The ACLU of South Dakota, which had led the fight against the bill, cheered its apparent demise.
“Though supporters claimed House Bill 1057 was aimed at protecting vulnerable youth, it was clearly fueled by a fear and misunderstanding of transgender South Dakotans,” said Libby Skarin, policy director for the group. “It’s time we stop these attacks and the very real harm they cause to transgender youth across our state. Let this be a signal to the South Dakota Legislature that discrimination against a marginalized group is a distraction from the needs of the state and hurts us all.”
Let freedom ring.
“Gender confirmation surgery”. Sounds legit.
Can I go there to get my large penis confirmation surgery?
I’m sorry, Mr. TOK. There was a mix up in the patient charts.
No, no, no, what did we tell you.
“There were complications with the surgery.”
Admitting error means increased liability.
There has been a movement in medical malpractice defense toward meeting with the families and apologizing when we fuck up. I was opposed at first, but it gets good results on the back end with quicker/cheaper settlements or even suits not filed. There is some scripting around not saying anything that would be fatal to our defense, but not all that much, really.
Its not a secret that the outcome was bad, and any obvious mistakes are going to come out in discovery anyway. The apology meetings seem to give the patients/families a real sense of being heard, and humanizes the docs and the hospital (no, I do not attend, thanks for asking).
In either Freakanomics or Outliers or some other book, they had examples of medical malpractice suits. Doctors that were friendly and caring but incompetent were sued less than doctors who were assholes but utterly competent.
Its writ in my business that it takes two things to make a malpractice suit:
(1) A bad outcome.
(2) An angry patient/family.
I’ve been amazed at the lawsuits we haven’t caught.
And by the families who had bad outcomes who still come here.
Yup.
I understand why attorneys were reluctant at first to admit fault in a variety of industries, but I think it works better.
I can tell you this as somebody who has spent way more time and money than it was worth just to piss off the stonewalling company who should have settled.
Plus on a major fuckup you can quickly be outside your SIR so while you may participate in excess layers you may as well get it over with.
We have had one excess claim at my hospital, 12 years ago.
None on my watch. One that could maybe possibly go excess, worst case scenario.
I have found that malpractice cases nearly always look worse early on than they do after they develop. I won’t reserve a case until all the expert depos are done.
How do your accountants like that?
My accountants do what they’re told.
Seriously, reserving a case hits our books just like writing a check. Finance doesn’t mind that I do full reserving toward the end of discovery. We open claims with a token reserve, which is actually a code – $1,000, – nothing to worry about, up to $50,000 – holy shit, we’re screwed.
What the actuaries and excess carriers don’t like is “step” reserving – bumping the reserve up over time. Do it once, and get it right. And its hard to get it right when you don’t have the crucial info – in my field, the expert testimony.
That makes sense.
Definitely concur on the step reserving. Although sometimes you have no choice with either favorable or unfavorable development.
I understand why attorneys were reluctant at first to admit fault in a variety of industries, but I think it works better.
We have an analogous issue in patent prosecution. We live in fear of the hated Prosecution history estoppel. Basically, you can’t say something to the patent office and say the opposite in court.
Since we don’t know whether the patent will ever see the courtroom, and if it does, what product it will be pitted against, the standard inclination is to say as little as possible and leave the patent as wide open as the patent office will let us. It may be a can opener, it may be a gender confirmation surgery apparatus, we just don’t know.
The problem, of course, is that the patent is worthless. It relies heavily on the patent office’s interpretation of certain technical terms (which are often made up), and the first thing a court does is have a contested term definition hearing (Markman) before starting the trial. More often than not, these broad patents are hosed by the end of Markman, and the suit is settled out of court.
Alternatively, we’ve found that strategic prosecution gives us a better result. If we go in saying “up is up, down is down” and attempt to cover our products with a reasonable buffer around them, the patents are paradoxically cheaper and more valuable.
It pays to be forthright from the start.
Trashy, you may find this amusing:
We just spent a whole pile of money and 18+ months moving from a datacenter in Dallas to a larger one in Plano, TX.
We’re not even done with the move but we’ve apparently decided – “fuck the Eastern District of Texas, and their friendliness to patent-trolls – we can’t risk having them claim our datacenter is a reason to have the Eastern District as the venue for patent litigation”, so we are setting that pile of money on fire and moving again – a couple miles to Richardson, TX – in the Northern District of TX. Us, along with Google, Apple, and a bunch of other companies.
As a ‘doc’ I don’t really care what the lawyers, insurers, or administrators say. If I make a mistake that causes harm (once in 30 years by someone I was ‘supervising’) we meet with the family and tell them what happened because it is the right fucking thing to do. I don’t give a shit about the financial consequences. Good that the numbers work, I guess, but doing the right thing is more important. And the right thing has nothing to do with $$. Assholes.
Did he get a penis from “Abby Normal”?
Well… a part… from an Abby…
“It’s time we stop these attacks and the very real harm they cause to transgender youth across our state”
Unlike indefinitely postponing biological puberty and/or surgically permanently altering genitalia, which is totes harmless.
The logic here: “If I’m the only one cutting off my dick, then I’m probably crazy, but if a bunch of people do it, then I’m normal!”
Thank God, I was concerned that impressionable young people wouldn’t be allowed to get themselves castrated.
Because heaven knows something like this this could have nothing to do with it.
I’ve told you before, my son wants to be a pirate. Who am I to deny his true nature by not giving him a peg leg?
Yo ho ho.
A guillotine t-shirt reminds others about it in hopes that we’ll all be motivated to address the very serious problems with our government before a similarly violent uprising becomes inevitable.
We have to commit violence to prevent violence?
Burn that village, save that village…
Don’t you even ‘Nam?
Under the water, carry the water…
Speaking of Roger Stone
The lead prosecutor in Roger Stone’s criminal case abruptly resigned from the case on Tuesday after the Justice Department said it planned to reduce the recommended sentence for the longtime Trump associate.
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After the reports of the imminent softer sentencing recommendation, lead prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky withdrew as a prosecutor in the case. A footnote in his court filing noted that “the undersigned attorney has resigned effective immediately.”
Zelinsky, who was a part of former special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russian election interference, is not resigning from the Justice Department but is leaving the Washington, D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office and returning to his old job with the U.S. Attorney in Maryland.
Another one of the prosecutors, Jonathan Kravis, also resigned— both from the case and his job as an assistant U.S. attorney. Kravis on Tuesday filed a notice with the judge saying he “no longer represents the government in this matter.”
Time served Set him loose.
I, for one, never pull out. ///thuglife
ROCHESTER, New Hampshire — Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Tuesday morning, in the midst of voting in the New Hampshire primary, that he is leaving the state, skipping his “victory” party.
Instead, Biden said, he would go on to campaign in South Carolina, where he hopes to win the state.
Biden once led the polls in New Hampshire, but lost his lead several months ago. He now trails Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT); former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) in the latest polls. He is battling Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for fourth place, and could even finish sixth if one of the second-tier campaigns takes advantage of his weakness to turn out their voters.
They are male minorities 15 to 25
That’s sexist.
Sounds like someone has never had the pleasure of watching two chola chicas going at it over some dude named Chuco.
“Jussie Smollett is ‘indicted by special prosecutor in Chicago’ – nearly a year after having charges dropped over ‘hoax’ attack”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7993001/Jussie-Smollett-indicted-special-prosecutor-Chicago.html
Is it double jeopardy if you’re never tried? Also, I hope he gets jail time so people will stop doing these faux outrage hoaxes.
Nope. If you don’t get a judgement from the court, you can still be brought in for trial.
Dismissed without prejudice means it can be brought back up.
Is jail time normal for filing a false police report?
I toyed with the idea of this being a “victimless crime” but something of this magnitude leads to real harm. Retaliatory violence, new hate crimes law, etc. maybe I’m off base and it’s no big deal.
I toyed with the idea of this being a “victimless crime”
I view false police reports as something like assault (but not battery). With a named perp, the false reporter is absolutely trying to have violence done to a specific person wrongfully. Without a named perp, the false reporter is engaged in something like reckless disregard, as they intend for the cops to go after someone, even if they don’t know who.
Naturally, the justification for prosecuting false reports is that they waste the cops’ time. Can’t have that.
We had a cop commit suicide in ny town, but he staged it as being shot by a perp at his home after completion of his shift. This was done to try and get the widow the $500k cops spouses get in the event “they don’t make it home.” They had a “person of interest” that they held and beat for several days until they came to the obvious conclusion it was a suicide. Very little was said in the media about that. I wonder how many of those incidents occurred after the Smollett incident.
It’s the subjectivity that gives me pause. I’m not comfortable with punishing people for what could have happened, worst case scenario etc, etc… And I admit it’s a sticky wicket, like with drunk drivers/reckless operation, sure they mayb not have caused any harm, but do we really want people driving 80MPH blindfolded down a residential road so long as they don’t hurt anyone?
Imagine a couple of idiots were out that night wearing MAGA hats. Smollett would have gladly ruined their lives.
Again ‘would have’, punish people for what they did do. We don’t know what Jussie would have done if a couple of feral MAGA hatters had been swept up in his farce, perhaps he comes clean, perhaps he doubles down, we’ll never know and any punishment you want him to face for what you think he might have done is not based on anything more than your feelings, and feelings are no way to run a justice system.
So, you’re cool with fraud, as long as nobody actually falls for the scam?
Scams like those copper bracelets that keep golfers from falling over? or maybe Fortune tellers? Yeah I’m cool with that, even when some people fall for the scam, caveat emptor and what not.
It was only 65mph and I was on my motorcycle and being blind drunk isn’t blindfolded.
You’re the intended victim, Mister Maya bitter clinger.
Jeopardy doesn’t attach until the jury is empaneled. The exact moment I’d have to go look up to be certain, but it’s been litigated. So, no – no double jeopardy problem here.
This could get interesting.
Any individual, corporation, or nation that relies on a US based company for encryption and data privacy is a freaking idiot.
*Sent from my iPhone
what about the other 42 genders?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Monday the U.S. still needs an Equal Rights Amendment, days before the House is set to decide whether to remove the deadline to ratify the amendment.
Ginsburg spoke at a Georgetown Law School event Monday almost 100 years after women voted in their first presidential election. The justice mentioned how the National Women’s Party viewed the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote as “the beginning” after courts interpreted the amendment to only apply to voting rights.
“Their idea was the 19th Amendment was the beginning, but women should have equality in all fields of human endeavor, so we needed an Equal Rights Amendment,” she said. “And I think, at least in my view, we still do.”
She said the U.S. would be “more perfect” if “our fundamental instrument of government” included a statement designating men and women of equal citizenship statures.
“My notion was I would like to show my granddaughters that the equal citizenship stature of men and women is a fundamental human right,” she said. “It should be right up there with free speech freedom of religion and discrimination based on race, national origin.”
She’d better watch her back, saying stuff like that.
RBG is a better person than 99.98% of the people who stan for her.
Here I thought the 14th Amendment took care of all that.
/shitlord Nazi
Or what Q said.
Meaningless virtue signaling. Perhaps if Ruthie regularly ruled in favor of everyone as an individual instead of as a member of a collective…
“in favor of treating everyone”
Says a woman sitting on the most powerful court in the country. Actually I think the 14th amendment provide equal protections of the law to all citizens. I could be wrong.
They don’t need a 2/3 majority in both houses to change the text of a proposed amendment that’s been a dead letter for close to 40 years?
There is some debate over if it needs 2/3 or just majority to extend deadline or if some an extension can be passed in the first place left alone ex-post facto.
It’s dead. They need to start over.
Unless SCOTUS says FUTW.
Yup. Expired is expired. You can extend a deadline before it runs, but once it runs, its game over.
Ruth, you realize the 14th Amendment refers neither to race or national origin, right? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that she is apparently unacquainted with the text of the Constitution.
If they are going to revive the ERA, are they going to recognize the withdrawal of approval by some states?
Article I of the ERA:
So problematic and outdated. They really would have to start over by redrafting it to read “on account of gender identity”.
Plus, what’s this “equality of rights under the law” nonsense, anyway? We all know that’s not what this is about.
Didn’t she say that the ERA expired in 1982?
Pfffttttt….. that doesn’t matter any more than the other laws she regularly ignores.
I’m with Ainsley Hayes on the ERA:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-domaindev-st_emea&hsimp=yhs-st_emea&hspart=domaindev&p=ainsley+hayes+west+wing+second+amendment#id=4&vid=8045d6c8850018c0fcab0969ea2df730&action=view
That’s all nice but to its supporters, this isn’t about “equality in all fields of human endeavor” – whatever that means – it’s about equal outcomes (i.e. massive government control of the economy), men in women’s sports, and all kinds of other “social justice” nonsense.
Pimpin’ ain’t easy.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/polygamists-may-not-face-jail-time-under-utah-bill
Didn’t the Republicans who passed the 14th Amendment oppose Mormon polygamy?
Yes. One of the earliest Republican platforms denounced the twin relics of barbarism, slavery and polygamy. But then when Utah became a state, they sent Republicans to the Senate, so there wasn’t much lasting animosity. Although when Utah sent a church leader as their senator, the Senate debated for two years on whether to expel him.
I don’t mind if polygamists wanna marry multiples, as long as I don’t have to pay for each wife’s welfare or his social security benefits in perpetuity.
“The law is a failure. It hasn’t stopped polygamy at all and it’s actually enabled abuse to occur and remain unchecked,” said Sen. Deidre Henderson, a Republican.
Cool, Deidre. Now do drugs.
It’s too bad Bill Paxton couldn’t live long enough to see this day.
Today in qualified immunity:
Sure, the correctional officer (otherwise known as people too incompetent to be mall cops) pepper sprayed the inmate for no reason, and sure it was against policy, and sure he got suspended for it. But he only emptied SOME of the pepper spray bottle and not all of it, and it’s not settled that emptying SOME of the pepper spray bottle in the inmate’s face without provocation is a violation of the 4th amendment, so poof, magic qualified immunity!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1w_t4EDskQ0_hCdAg1IePxd-LRHPl_EbC/view
That doesn’t even make sense.
Qualified immunity rarely does.
Here’s one you may never have seen before.
A fun car from the other Swedish company.
Neat.
I’d still rather have an 1800E from the same year (although a 70-71 would be better).
Nice! I’d not seen this car before. Slams most of my buttons 😉
Pretty nice buy for the guy. My ex BIL had one. It was really cool.
How was the handling? How was the ride?
I’m guessing good and bad respectively ;-\
Sports car. Both were excellent! 🙂
It was a really solid little car. Fiberglass body, which was unusual back then. I sure wish companies could make cars like that again.
Had that as either a Matchbox or Hot Wheel in metallic green.
It’s much safer to just smoke ’em if you got ’em.
https://www.fox5ny.com/news/grosse-pointe-teen-with-double-lung-transplant-from-vaping-warning-his-peers
That’s how you propaganda, folks.
Of course they don’t mention what he was vaping.
Well, there was this:
So probably the same sketchy poison that was identified some time back.
Curious how the story has been largely ignored since then.
Gotta be Bootleg THC pods, I only buy from reputable stores, and I don’t vape THC, just nicotine,
65/35 VG/PG
Not breathing shit other than air into your lungs is safer than smoking or vaping.
Yeap.
@Jarflax from the other thread regarding sugar/food/diet:
Says nothing about quality of life. How long can a diabetic live before it kills them?
Decades, given dialysis 3x a week, feet cut off, wounds that won’t heal, blindness, and a crap ton of medication to regulate insulin.
Life expectancy being up says absolutely nothing of worth.
Obligatory
Irv Zimmerman?
Depends on how well you control it. Wilfred Brimley’s had it since 1978.
Wilfred Brimley is the big ginger cat, isn’t it?
And there’s the inconvenient fact that life expectancy in the US was down 3 years running and finally ticked back up ever so slightly this year.
Is a 3-4 year window at all meaningful? The over all trend has been steadily upward despite periodic down ticks, and I believe (though I am happy to defer to any statisticians) that the trendline is still upward.
Life expectancy being up says absolutely nothing of worth.
OK, fair enough. It is possible, if extremely unlikely, that the steady rise in life expectancy is made up entirely of people being kept alive due to heroic measures and those people are all suffering. So show me one iota of evidence that quality of life overall is down?
Diabetes has increased. The causes of this increase include both detection effects (we are looking for it more and with better diagnostics leading to cases that were always there, but undetected previously being diagnosed), and actual increases in incidence. The increases in incidence are due to both the aging of the populace (other things that previously killed us before we developed diabetes have been eliminated or reduced so now we live long enough to get diabetes) and actual increases in the disease.
The increases in the disease are tied very closely to obesity, less closely to any specific obesity cause. There have also been significant improvements in treatments. It is perfectly fair to argue that we would all be better off thinner and more active. I don’t dispute that, but when someone claims:
The tsunami of death that is coming will not be pretty. It won’t matter what kind of healthcare system we have: Obamacare, Medicare, whatever. There is no public health solution for what’s coming.
I am going to push back by pointing out the flaw in that argument, which is that even as the population gets fatter and eats more crap, it also lives longer. So yes, you are correct that life expectancy does not prove quality of life, now if someone wants to define quality of life we can maybe discuss whether it is rising or falling.
I do not believe we are fat and unhealthy because:
1. the gubbmint lied about fats
2. the kkkorporations lied about HFCS
3. the illuminati/(((Jewss)))/Christians/Satan/Demons/Monsanto tricked us
I believe we are fat and unhealthy because food is plentiful and tasty, we evolved to feast when there was food because famine was surely coming, and because it is more fun to type stuff like this on a computer than to exercise. With a side helping of the fact that we are not evolved to BE happy, we are evolved to CHASE happiness. So we are bad at satiety. If we ate an occasional ice cream cone when we wanted one, and left the rest of the ice cream alone because we had sated the desire we would not be fat.
Well, that means I would have to exert effort!
I agree and we are not evolved to BE happy, we are evolved to CHASE happiness is striking a chord for me right now.
These can ALSO be contributing factors, though.
At the lacrosse team’s parent dinner last weekend, I was talking to a couple who told me they are ‘very liberal’ and somehow we got on the low-fat vs low-carb discussion. They absolutely refused to believe anything but low fat is how you have to eat, because why would the government not have always told us the truth? And besides, ‘fat’ is its name, of course it makes you fat. And we haven’t seen anything on the evening news about the long-term low-carb studies you say have been published as superior to low-fat.
And they walked away, shaking their heads at how stupid and tinfoil-hat about nutrition I was. I think I overheard her say “I don’t think he’s really a physician.” Luckily lacrosse son is a senior and this should be the last-ever team dinner.
Cali Woman:
https://nypost.com/2020/02/11/california-lawyer-busted-by-feds-for-selling-illegal-guns-meth/
Hubba hubba…
Sidebar link: the “hottest mom in the world”
Not sure I’d go that far, but she looks fantastic for 43.
That’s actually impressive.
Whoa…
And they say there are no libertarian women…
KK porn, very tricky landings, they name storms in Europe now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JARNXVXJ1Dk
Dammit Florida, get off your asses and approve me already!
With the Mexicans and Ass-Sex you will be a full-fledged libertarian!
We mostly have Puerto Rican’s and Cubans here.
My Daughter brought me a preroll from her job Yesterday, still have half, yum!
I…I can’t read any of this today. I’m too riled up as is. Not sure how many more times life can kick me in the dick over the next couple of weeks before I do something crazy and regrettable for everyone involved.
I think I may be losing it.
Dude, what’s up?
You’re in good company,
What’s up Hip?
For people who think I post lousy music
89.72%
Laura sure is purty,
This is supposed to change my mind?
Kids…..
He’s upset I didn’t give him 101.35% on music choices.
118 thumbs up and 1 thumb down is about as close as you’ll get to 100% on Youtube.
Anybody who downvotes a video I like is stupid and wrong and ignorant and deserves to be kept awake every night by howler monkeys.
People downvote the most innocuous things.
Although from a monetization standpoint it counts as engagement so most folks don’t care.
I am grading you on the quality of the music you link. You are currently at a B+ flirting with an A-.
Long before the Marcels
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/10/everyday-arts-low-carbon-creativity-climate-crisis
And they live happily ever after.
Iraq’s capital of Baghdad has awoken to a sight not seen in over a decade – their city covered in snow.
It was a rare moment of respite during which residents took selfies and children played in parks, lobbing snowballs before the fluffy flakes disappeared and the white cover dissolved into grey puddles. …
“The atmosphere is beautiful … the people are very happy because this is the first time snow falls in Iraq.”
Annual snowfall is common in the mountainous northern region of Iraq but very rare in Baghdad.
South park did it!
Virginia House advances slightly watered down but still very unconstitutional bill.
The Virginia House of Delegates approved HB961 Tuesday afternoon, sending the gun, magazine, suppressor, and trigger activator ban to the state Senate on a narrow 51-48 vote. There was bipartisan opposition to the bill, with several Democrats voting against the proposal, but only Democrats supported the gun ban measure.
The bill was modified on the House floor in order to bring more Democrats on board. The original provision making it a felony to possess a magazine that can accept more than 12-rounds of ammunition was amended to make possession a misdemeanor offense. This doesn’t make sense if you truly believe that possessing this magazines is tantamount to possessing a weapon of war, but if you’re a Democrat who’s looking at this from a political angle, not public safety, it’s just another bargaining chip that can be used to deliver a few more votes.
In fact, I’m growing increasingly concerned that Virginia state senators will modify the bill even further, introducing a grandfather clause for owners of existing magazines but putting a ban in place on the future purchase or sale of magazines over 12-rounds. The language we’ve seen from Democrats like Sen. Lynwood Lewis is that they can’t support any bill that would take guns or magazines from Virginians. Would a grandfather clause give them the political cover to vote for the bill? I don’t know, but it worries me, and I hope every Virginia gun owner is contacting their state senator and telling them to oppose HB961 in any form.
It is still bad and we know what they really want. That is what was in the first two ban bills.
Virginia circling the bowl….
I thought Virginia had some Magic Dirt that would make people tear down Confederate statutes but not Mount Vernon or Monticello and reject Jim Crow and Socons and also reject high taxes, bigger government and gun control?
Even UVA is shitting on Thomas Jefferson these days.
The malignant spread of DC southward ruins everything in its path.
Smart libertarians told me this would cease with the Confederate Battle Flag.
Those people were either lying their asses off or they’re extremely stupid. Neither is a flattering look, but…..you’re not a racist, are you? Only racists would oppose taking down statues!
Considering how some of them are now attacking the 1619 Project I think I’ll go with extremely stupid. They do realize that the only real argument they have “USA won, CSA lost ergo slave-owners aren’t completely terrible” which isn’t going to convince the woke commies.
Not to mention John Locke invested in the slave-trade and helped found South Carolina complete with slavery.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2020/02/05/david-hogg-sincerely-apologizes-for-tweeting-that-abraham-lincoln-was-a-really-good-president/
Judging by this Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, etc don’t have much time before the wokesters go after them.
Opposing Lincoln because he was a warmonger and shat all over the Constitution on both individual rights and states’ powers (not states’ rights dammit)?
Owning a standard capacity magazine is only going to be a misdemeanor now? Well that’s OK then.
The funny part is that they think people who commit massacres will be stymied by a prohibition on higher capacity magazines.
a)Mass shooters are perfectly willing to violate the law
b)Any halfway competent shooter can successfully change magazines in a split second.
Any halfway competent shooter can successfully change magazines in a split second.-
I don’t like mentioning this because it will be a reason to ban all detachable magazines.
They’re going to eventually get to that anyway. I’ve seen gun grabber assholes say that everything other than bolt action rifles with internal magazines and revolvers should be banned.
That’s only a temporary measure until they can ban all firearms. And then move onto the kitchen knives.
I’ve seen old guy cram a fresh clip into a Garand in a second flat.
Mass shooters are perfectly willing to violate the law
This is the main thing. Even constitutional question notwithstanding, there are simply too many of the firearms and mags they want to ban already in circulation. As a practical matter it is impossible to regulate*. And someone intent on murder is not going to be stopped by a law regulating arms/ammo/mags/etc.
*It would also be bad policy to try.
SHUT THE FUCK UP, GUNTARD!
Am I doing it right?
You fascists might think you’re funny but gun violence is no laughing matter. No one needs more than seven clips in a magazine other than the police.
Seven magazines in a clip? or bulleits in a rye? What difference does it make, right now?
*uck Schumer was apparently whining about so-called “ghost guns” today.
Boo!
I already downloaded and printed one and it sucks. I can do much better at the hardware store. And probably on the street corner. What a dumbass.
After VA gets all of everyone’s guns, then here’s their next target.
You’ll shoot your eye out
I wish I were joking, but of course I’m not. The left are going to go after pellet guns now or anything else that could even be conceivably be used as self defense, pellet guns, bows, swords. Get ready for it.
Common sense slingshot
controlsafety NOW!They’ll go after the black assault slingshots that shoot two stones at a time, first.
I remember a number of young ladies that had those
Random question – is Lua (programming language) pretty simple/easy to pick up if you don’t have a lot of previous programming experience? It looks somewhat familiar to something I’ve seen before – and I think the situation in which I would [potentially] be using it involves a graphical interface in a separate window and using the code to move objects around in a grid, etc.
There’s probably an online tutorial – give it a try.
Udemy is a good site to learn programming
Cheap courses so little risk. I’m learning python through it and it’s a good course.
Yes. It is a simple scripting language without a lot of bells and whistles. Thr syntax can be hard to grok if you’re unfamiliar, but that can be said about any C style language, which is pretty much all of them.
You can’t do as much with it as you could with the other popular scripting languages, (python, javascript, ruby) at least not directly, since it has far fewer libraries, but that makes it easier to pick up since there is less over head. If you need to extend it the standard practice is to call a C library, since Lua is run as an extension of C. That will be harder to do than using a native library like you would in python or javascript, but at this point there is a C library for everything so you can definitely get the job done.
I’ll see if I can find some good resources for it.
” it has far fewer libraries, but that makes it easier to pick up since there is less over head”
Yeah, that’s one of the nice things about it, for its typical use case. The focus is on the API it’s being used with, not the language.
Thanks for the tips. In this case, I’d be working on an established program and needing to run tweaks/mods (probably not on the fly) more likely updating on a daily basis. I’ll have more info tomorrow.
I’ve dabbled with it a bit, and I didn’t find it difficult, but I can’t tell you how easy/hard it would be for a non-programmer. I suspect it’s not *insanely* difficult, because a lot of games use it as a scripting/mod language, and while gamers are often technically savvy, I’m not sure the overlap with hardcore programmers is *that* great.
The proportion of hard core gamers that are programmers may not be that big, but the proportion of programmers that are hard core gamers is massive.
It’s pretty easy compared to most languages. Super easy if you have any experience. I learned it to create a game mod, and there was almost no learning curve for my own code. There’s more of a curve if you’re working with somebody else’s code, because there are a fair amount of syntax shortcuts, and everybody seems to have a different style, probably brought over from whatever they’re more used to working with.
Another random question. Based on my discussion about milling lowers last weekend. If I want a 7.62×39 AR – do I look at 80% lowers labeled as AR-10/.308 or is there a different search option?
Standard “multi cal” AR15 lower for that.
Ok. So I’m on the AR-15 pages and just looking for the term “multi-caliber” like https://www.classicfirearms.com/ati-omni-max-receiver-multi-caliber-glow200p/ ?
You do you, but I would not get a polymer lower personally.
I’m a fan of Spikes – https://spikestactical.com/collections/stripped-lowers/
But there are plenty of quality alternatives.
Biggest issue with 7.62 X 39 is most people want to use AK magazines (ubiquitous) and so modifying the magazine well and catch are where you run into issues.
Palmetto State Armory sells a pretty good AR platform for that round. I’ve been thinking about getting one, but not sure they sell the 80%.
Ok, I guess that makes sense. The multi-cal lowers I looked at (see above) seem pretty barebones compared the KS-47 ones – but going that route, I also don’t have to worry about triggers, etc – and if they come ready for AK mags, might be a better option.
Just get the PSA, unless you just want to build a gun for fun. If your trying to hide your rifle from the government, it’s probably time to take it out anyways.
you might be getting barebones if you are interested in just the lowers/stripped lowers as opposed to “complete lowers” like such: https://www.classicfirearms.com/anderson-ar-lower-ar15-complete/
I’d advocate to get a standard AR lower and use ar mags made for 7.62. That way you can slap a 5.56 upper on it anytime you want and have more versatility from the same lower.
Interesting. Didn’t know that was possible. That sounds a lot more compatible/useful for mag release, etc.
Thanks for the tips. I’ll check again.
Katy Tur dropping some more knowledge:
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@BecketAdams
Katy Tur: “When I ask people if they’re voting for [POTUS], I hear about their 401(k)s a lot … but there are those out that who don’t have a 401(k) [and] this economy is not really working for them.”
“They can get a car, but it’s a loan that will take 30 years.”
Thirty years?
0:34
3:30 PM · Feb 11, 2020
She make Joy Reid look like a genius in comparison.
Katy Dur strikes again!
“Katy Dur”
Wow, her last name is fitting, no?
I’ve seen cars that people posted on this web site that would take me at a minimum of 30 years to pay off. Certainly worth more than my house.
What’s the problem, I’ve been living in my Lamborghini Diablo since 1994 and I’m damn close to paying it off. The key is to be smart about it and pay a little bit extra every month.
They can get a car, but it’s a loan that will take 30 years.
Thank Obama, for ripping the guts out of the used car market.
I’m surprised that doesn’t get more press.
She’s almost cute when she’s trying to come up with something smart to say. You can almost see a flicker of activity behind her eyes.
Katy lies. You can see it in her eyes.
I have complained a lot about my son here. Jarflax has noted it before and he’s right. So…
XY knows what he wants to be/do/achieve in life occupationally. I admire that and am envious because I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up (or what I even want). I watch XX struggle to find some career path–any career path. She has no idea where her interests lie that she can also make a living at.
XY is a hard worker and he is single-minded in purposes when it is in his best interest. He is a shitlord.
XY will listen to reason and agree IF you can get his brain to stop spinning long enough to get your words to sink in. He will even admit you’re right when he’s slowed down and spoken to rationally.
XY is, underneath his anger, a very sweet kid.
He comes home from school and yells, “HI I’M HOME!” and then most days comes down to my office to give me a hug.
He comes home from school and yells, “HI I’M HOME!”
Establishing his alibi. Smart kid.
I’m 43 and never figured out what I wanted to do in life besides be the starting catcher for the Yankees. A dream which, sadly, never came to fruition.
I joined the Marines after college thinking I’d figure it out in the interim…..didn’t happen. I took a few sales jobs after that though I knew I was particularly ill-suited to working in sales…..that didn’t work out. I sort of stumbled into this job and have stayed here for nearly eight years despite the relatively low pay because I’m comfortable here and I have excellent job security.
If your son truly knows what he wants, I envy him.
I believe you may be be overthinking on this one, leave him alone, quit trying “help” him be better, let him fall on his ass, make him get his own truck, or do a deal with him and get him one, I love you Mom, but back off!
just my 2cents, you do you,
And mo, I’ve been following your travails with some interest, for I too have/had a “troubled” son, he’s 28 now and still a mess, I wish you the best,
My kids are in their 50s and I still worry about them. Most important is that they don’t hurt anyone else. That part seems to be working out.
I mentioned one time that I got drafted in the army and stayed 20 years. I had friends, money, fun, travel, adventure. I’m not recommending this, only saying that not knowing what to do is OK and lurching from place to place is OK.
Chip and Yusef get it right.
After I left the army I bumped a few jobs, then found a minimum pay job that allowed me to use my initiative. A few years later I had worked my way into being indispensable and making my boss happy.
He’s 14. He can’t get his own truck.
I’m trying to help him learn how to run a business.
Lead him to water; show him some resources that explain IRAs, self-employment SS taxes, a good illustration of compound interest and how it applies both to investments and to debt.
But don’t try to hold his hand.
Apprenticeship with a small business owner. Barely matters what the business is. Best education an aggressive kid could get.
Takes both a special boss and a special kid. My nephew, high school dropout, got a job in a plating company, a few years later he was offered being the foreman but didn’t want the responsibility. I saw him a couple weeks ago, 17 years with the plating company, has a BBQ catering service on the weekends. He’s now about mid 40s, I’d guess.
Good for you, seriously. I try to ignore most culture war shit (and maybe this isn’t exactly culture war shit) but the infantilization of the youths annoys the piss out of me. Let your kid try, let him fail, help him as best you can. The belief that a 14 year old (or twenty year old for that matter) is incapable of taking a stab at self reliance is asinine and all to prevalent today.
He’s working through some spending impulsivity, not leaving enough for expenses. Example (and this is not me ragging on him; the conversation was a productive one).
I have said before that he breaks stuff. Yes. He broke our lawnmower and well, that’s his primary tool. He had to do something with the blade and, knowing that you don’t start out screwing a bolt in with an impact drill, he started out screwing a bolt in with an impact drill. He stripped the bolt. Then I had to squeeze it out of him if the inside threads were stripped. It took him a while for him to admit that. All the while, as he does, he’s using passive voice. “It broke.” “It stripped.” “The drill went too fast.” I say, “Language” and make him start taking responsibility for it. “I broke it.” “I stripped it.” “I knew I wasn’t supposed to do it.”
He got me all the parts and pricing information, so okay. It’s not horrible.
I told him I was going to take it to the hardware store and have THEM fix it. That was when he started to throw the fit. DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH THEY’RE GOING TO CHARGE?!
Well, yeah, I have a pretty good idea.
WHY DON’T YOU TRUST ME TO FIX IT?
*goggle eyes*
Anyway, we were very calm while he was weeping and wailing and gnashing his teeth. I said, “These are your options: Pay for the repair and you get to use the mower when summer comes. Don’t pay for the repair and you don’t get to use the mower this summer.”
BUT THERE’S A THIRD OPTION WHICH IS THAT I PAY FOR THE PARTS AND INSTALL IT!
Nope. That is not on the table.
FINE I JUST WON’T PAY FOR IT!
Orly. “Why don’t you sit there and think about that for a minute.”
He struggled. I let him struggle and he caved.
And then that led to a very technical explanation about why he was doing what he was doing. I asked a couple of questions and he got excited that I would listen to him and then he lectured me for probably 1/2 hour about … a lawnmower blade and this particular model and why X thing doesn’t work, but Y thing does, and why and and and and
Okay, kid. You do you.
He went away not upset, so I count that as a win.
What the hell!
What is my son doing over at your house?!?!?
Oh thank heavens I don’t have the only one!
Did you mean it that way?
LOL. Kid sounds all right. Reminds me of my youngest, who is also 14.
He’s 14. You should be thrilled with his development so far.
With that part, I am, very much so, yes. I want to keep him focused on that and build a firmer foundation under his feet.
Understood. That’s what a good parent does. Given that he’s only 14, I think you can let yourself relax a bit, and take some of the stress off. He’s well on his way.
“Only 14” He should have left home a year ago, apprenticed at his distant uncles print shop, married his cousin and started three failed businesses by now. Slacker!
Right?!
The word “emancipation” has been thrown around the house a lot lately by both him and me. He wants out. He can’t be until he’s 16. I calmly told him we could create a plan and use the next 2 years to work toward it, to make sure he didn’t fall down in the gutter the second he gets out the door.
His 1,000-yard stare was just priceless. He has not said one word about it since.
My oldest was like that. He spent a few months living out of his car and sleeping behind a fence before he finally came clean and asked for some help. I hope your son will have a little more sense when push comes to shove.
It will come when it comes, Mo. For each of you.
I wandered lost until my late 30s. Got extremely lucky in that a few of my interests collided at the beginning of something big, and I rode it (not without dings, abrasions and crashes) for a good career. My next younger brother ‘interned’ in his career field starting at 15. The youngest of us fell closer to my path.
But for all of us, it came when it came, and it was good. It may be more important to know, and pass on, how to be patient, what to do in the meantime, and how to recognize it when it appears. Btw, I’m 68+ and ‘what to do in the meantime’ is a good knowing to have now, even as it was then.
He’s 14? As long as he isn’t dirtying his sister’s socks, I’d call it a win.
Good afternoon, wokesters.
Long time no see. Off your marathon work stint?
Not really. But I took a break tonight.
Anyway, congratulations to the Chiefs.
“I was gonna wait until tomorrow to show off these beauties, but Trump got acquitted and I feel like folks could use something to look forward to. So.”
I have to tell you, I got to this point:
And I suddenly became scared that I was going to scroll down and see her tits. So I closed the browser in horror.
Artie Lange has a new podcast/YouTube channel and it’s actually pretty good with good guests:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCejSpn_F5eXMhVfbTXgC4JQ
Who would’ve thought he’d be the last funny fat guy from the ‘90s left standing?
How does someone have both a coke problem and a weight problem?
I don’t know, maybe the heroin use made him too lazy to exercise.
How that guy is still alive is a damned miracle.
https://www.aier.org/article/shakiras-philosophical-elucidation-of-uncertainty-creativity-and-entrepreneurship/
I found this type of thinking interesting. It strikes me as one of the key contradictions of liberalism: things will constantly evolve and change, creative destruction will occur, hidebound ideas of the past will be overthrown, new ideas will spring up but the basic liberal values will remain forever. We should “try everything” but not reject Hayek. TOP MEN can’t decide for us and tell us what “the future” will be but left to our own devices we will create a society that has values liked by Jeff Tucker and Hayek.
If you follow ypur thinking too far ( I think it is legit a little) you end as Tony on TOS saying that libertarians are using force to make everyone free.
We watched a film on Amazon a couple nights ago named something something revolution 2045 and the ending was very interesting in a similar sort of way. Except it was a gang of hero wokesters who wanted to forcefully ‘free’ people of something they didn’t want to be free of. I recommend it, good flick because of the way it ended.
Problem is quite a few classical liberals did indeed use force “to make everyone free.” Public School was supposed to save us from reactionary Catholicism. The Kulturkampf and the Reign of Terror were needed to suppress illiberal Catholic reactionaries. Imperialism was supposed to bring freedom to India, Ireland, Africa, Australia and the Americas.
Public schools were not based in classical liberalism. It is a product of bismarckianism.
The German liberals supported Bismark’s kulturkampf. It in fact was a liberal who coined the term.
Also English and French liberals supported public schools totally separate from Bismarck
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Ferry_laws
Ascribing the kulturkampf to classical liberalism is a stretch. Ascribing the Reign of Terror to it is buying the lie that socialism is liberal. Stick with the imperialism argument it has some merit, and even succeeded to some extent.
Um it’s a fact that the German liberals supported the kulturkampf.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalbert_Falk
Classical liberalism is not the same thing as any particular liberal party and you know it, nor does a person espousing a belief and also supporting a separate policy mean that the belief goes along with the policy. You seem obsessed with the fact that individuals who are/claim to be/ or simply can be associated with classical liberalism did things, or said things you do not consider liberal. People are flawed. We make mistakes.
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I am pointing out that the classical liberals supported public schools in the 19th century. This is a fact. In Canada, US, France, Germany, Spain, UK, etc. they were in favor in order to reduce the power of the Catholic Church which they felt was reactionary and illiberal. I think this was one of their worst ideas and was disastrous in the long run. Mercifully it seems modern libertarians have realized this error.
No one who supported public schools is a classical liberal. True Scotsman, FTW!
More seriously, it is like saying that classical liberals support slavery because Jefferson owned slaves.
Abolitionist and supporter of Black civil rights Tom Nast on the public Schools:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Nast#/media/File:The_American_River_Ganges_(Thomas_Nast_cartoon).jpg
If anything the opposition to public schools in Protestant countries was due fears of High Church influence and not public schools per se.
So who were these classical liberals then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_Education_Act_1870
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary_Education_Act_1880
Who passed these? Liberals.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Act_1902
Liberals opposed this but only because it gave money to Anglican and Catholic schools
I don’t know what percentage of classical liberals supported public education, I also don’t know each individuals thoughts as to what that education should look like, how it fit in with the rest of their beliefs etc. Nor do I care. I am arguing with you because you keep presenting this stuff as some sort of gotcha about classical liberalism and I consider that silly. The reasons it is silly include, but are not limited to:
1. People are imperfect. They espouse inconsistent ideas, do not necessarily understand all implications of ideas they espouse, have biases and assumptions about who or what is causing problems, and even identify things as problems that may well be nothing more than differences in taste.
2. People pushed public education because literacy seemed like an essential for the new skills required in the industrial world, and because an literate electorate seemed more capable of voting wisely, and for various other reasons, including a desire to break the power of the Jesuits. There were absolutely people who wanted the schools to do some indoctrination, including indoctrination into ‘liberal’ ideas. All education includes some basic axioms and selecting those axioms can drive the outcome for good or ill.
3. The takeover of Public Education by the Fabians, Dewey progressives, and various groups in Europe was not intended by the classical liberals. Any structure you create to protect liberty can be coopted by opponents. This does not make your creation of it wrong. It means you lost a battle.
4. The Kulturkampf is not precisely the same thing as the creation of public schools in the Anglosphere. Prussia and Prussian liberalism are odd places to look for critiques of classical liberalism which I take to refer to the Locke-Mill-Jefferson form. Many groups in many places pushed against the power of Monarchs and aristocrats. That does not make them examples of the same philosophical movement. As I said above I deny that the Reign of Terror has anything to do with classical liberalism. Jefferson was mistaken about France.
I think you are letting them off too easy there. An ideology opposed to big government and jobbery creating a huge batch of government jobs to teach people to not like government jobs?
Not to mention this deals with my actual critique: the assumption that these public school teachers will always be liberals…for reasons apparently.
Bullshit that imperialism was ever about bringing freedom to the subject/subjugated lands. Where the hell did you pick that up?
Well JS Mill is one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Colonialism
Or Palmerston who was imperialist and repealed the Corn Laws
There were definitely anti-colonialist English Liberals like Bright and Spencer. Though the former was a Liberal Unionist who called Irish Home Rule “Rome Rule”.
Why not cite Kipling too?
At best you can argue this was a side benefit of imperialism, but you have to take an extremely sunny view of English motivations otherwise.
Well I didn’t bring up Kipling because he was not a Liberal.
By “basic liberal values” I mean stuff like free speech, freedom of association, laissez faire economics, individualism, etc. Everybody will realize the goodness of these values and how modern society can not work without them so everyone will accept them forever.
Or that “human flourishing” will be seen as good by everybody and only those basic liberal values allow for “human flourishing” so therefore everybody will accept those liberal values forever.
“Think for yourself!”
“Don’t tell me what to do!”
Well that has always been a problem. Do we need education to be free? Because that implies that freedom is not the natural state of man and that man can be taught to be unfree. And who will these teachers be and why will they teach man to be free? Why not teach his students to be his slaves?
You conflating the idea of needing an educated and responsible electorate in a republic with the idea of liberty. They are related concepts but not identical. And yes, you are correct there is no perfect solution, no system is immune from corruption by those meaning ill.
Care to elaborate? And by “education” I wasn’t strictly speaking referring to public schools or to universities. Do we naturally “think for ourselves” or do we need to taught that in some fashion?
Well. Those are certainly important questions. I think they can be answered, but, well, ultimately the answer is “think for yourself or somebody else will think for you. You decide. Or not, and they will.” Freedom is, I think, the natural state of man, but it is not the natural state of culture, of society.
No, I don’t think so.
I think most people want rules and boundaries and to be directed. I’m not even saying that contemptuously or with ill intent or that it’s a bad thing.
I read in a book once, “The only thing more powerful than fear is routine” and I think it applies here tangentially. People want structure and if they can’t do it themselves (I don’t think most people can), they need an external force, e.g., getting to work on time.
I see what you’re saying. It’s not that I disagree, but I put those things in culture/society rather than at the foundations.
Stephen Donaldson, “The killing Stroke” in Reeve the Just. Or pm me on the book of faces.
Is that a book recommendation?
The book I got the quote from is Rot & Ruin.
I’m trying to help him learn how to run a business.
Not really applicable, now the dead tree newspapers have all been murdered by kkkapitalism and Rupert Murdoch, but I saw a survey, a long time ago, wherein a bunch of high powered CEOs were asked, among other things, what their first job was. A very large percentage of them said “paperboy”.
As far as learning the ins and outs of working for money, his landscaping/mowing business is about as good a place as any to learn about estimating time and cost for jobs, dealing with slow/no pay clients, overhead and equipment maintenance…
Next time he wants you to deliver him to a job, make him put five or ten bucks of gas in your truck (if you don’t already).
I make him pay for gas, but I do NOT make him pay a lease on the mower (I didn’t think of it till late in the season) or pay me for my time ferrying him around. He knows this. He understands that I’m subsidizing his business for the moment. It’s my way of giving him seed money without discouraging him/breaking him on a paltry net.
He also spends his money as fast as he makes it, and I have lectured him ad nauseam about it and now (see my above novella about last night’s conversation) that he needs to fix his mistake, he doesn’t have the money.
You made a mistake. You have to pay for it. You do that, go on, and don’t make that mistake again and it’s all good.
This was true of me and practically every kid I knew back then.
Good for you, seriously. I try to ignore most culture war shit (and maybe this isn’t exactly culture war shit) but the infantilization of the youths annoys the piss out of me. Let your kid try, let him fail, help him as best you can. The belief that a 14 year old (or twenty year old for that matter) is incapable of taking a stab at self reliance is asinine and all to prevalent today.
Right on.
“but the infantilization of the youths”
Forget about that, we’ve already passed up that at warp speed and are busy infantilizing 40 year olds.
Regarding the CIA crypto article. I fucking hate articles that contain a tad of text followed by a long list of twitter hot takes. Since when is it journalism to merely report the opinions of a bunch of nobodies?
Oh. Right. Sorry about that.
“Since when is it journalism to merely report the opinions of a bunch of nobodies?”
Be fair, we don’t report those opinions unless the source are woke. /journalism
And then they repeat the text of each Twitter in the article, verbatim.
Squished into the morning rush hour train and looking down the barrel at 3 days of working 9am to 9pm. Again, Why do we do this?
For the women?
He’s already got one. He does it for the soapland cash.
For the fame?
Don’t act like Sting and whine about it. Quit, or embrace it.
He also spends his money as fast as he makes it, and I have lectured him ad nauseam about it and now (see my above novella about last night’s conversation) that he needs to fix his mistake, he doesn’t have the money.
You made a mistake. You have to pay for it. You do that, go on, and don’t make that mistake again and it’s all good.
I read the novella. It’s good to see he finally came around.
That “spend it all” mindset is completely foreign to me, and always has been. I’m just a miser, I guess.
I have a theory about spending it all. I will transcribe some of my scribbles and hope it makes sense.
*************
Saving. Saving for what? A rainy day? What’s that? What’s there? When I have cash, I can SEE it. Feel it. I don’t spend it. OR I can look in my fridge. Yeah, I eat it and it gets depleted, but it’s THERE.
It’s not about saving for a rainy day. It’s about not believing things will ever get any better. Spend it on something that gives us good feelz. For a while, okay, but there ISN’T anything in the future for us. Why suffer in the NOW for something that will NEVER materialize. Hope for a better future?
NONE.
What does “a better future” look like? What does it feel like? How do you get that hope? The hope that if you sacrifice NOW, it will pay off in the future? If there is already so LITTLE to sacrifice–what, sacrifice a $5 drink? Why sacrifice it?
Hope is why people save. Faith in the future, faith in themselves, that they can make a future that’s worth the sacrifice.
We do not save because we have no faith that what is in the future is worth the sacrifice.
So we fill our lives with pretty things and hobbies, TV, music, fast food (convenience) because we have no faith that we will have the ability to do so in the future and so is not worth the sacrifice of NOW.
*************
And this is where thinking you’re going to die before you’re 50 and not knowing what you want to be when you grow up comes into play.
These are just some thoughts I had I wrote in my journal.
My life, written, I regret things, then go Fuck that, I had a blast! the things and Adventures Wendy and I have done are worth all the savings in the World…
It’s hardly an original thought, but one of the primary markers for “success” is “delayed gratification”. I have to believe it can be taught, as no child understands the concept.
Hell, _I_ thought I’d die before 50 and I still delayed gratification. It’s paying off now that I almost _am_ 50 and I’m feeling pretty happy about it.
If you get hit by a car before you get to enjoy that early deferment you’ll be beyond caring anyway.
University of Montana has an essay contest to honor MLK.
Six people enter. All of them are white. The four women chosen as winners are announced on social media by the University
The shitstorm begins.
Ritual abasements are made.
The struggle sessions continue.
BTW UM student body is <1% black. Montana is about 0.4% black.
Like Brooksie says about Bozeman (the other big MT college town) – in Missoula you're only ten minutes away from Montana.
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/montana/articles/2020-01-24/university-of-montana-responding-to-criticism-of-mlk-post
“ The University of Montana is working to learn from criticism after four white students won an essay contest about Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, the school said.”
What are they going to do, force black students to enter? Go fuck yourselves UM, you don’t need to learn shit.
The outrage mongers need to learn statistics though.
I’m sure MLK would be THRILLED to know that in 2020 we are judging essays not by their quality but by the color of their authors’ skin.
SMDH.
This is the country these fucks helped create.
“At Oscars wearing Pomellato jewelry because it only uses responsible, ethically harvested gold and sustainable diamonds. #Oscars”
https://twitter.com/Janefonda/status/1226736313841352704
I can only imagine such sacrifice.
I insist that any diamonds used in my jewelry are organic.
Point of order- crystalline carbon is inorganic.
Florida Man Disagrees,
/Meeeeetthhhh!!!!
ICE!
NATTY!
Her hair’s cute.
She ethically harvested that gold from the mouths of jews, so it’s all good.
Recycling!
They came with a free vagina scented candle.
https://shop.goop.com/shop/products/this-smells-like-my-vagina-candle?country=USA&variant_id=74552
WHY DON’T YOU TRUST ME TO FIX IT?
Let him buy a yard sale mower to practice on. I fucked mine up, one time, so I snagged (another) cheapo mower and robbed the motor off it and stuck it on mine because the deck on my mower was a little bit wider.
He has wanted to do that, but when he sent me links, I felt that the ones on Craigslist and being sold by the district (auction style) were overpriced. I would be happy to if I thought the price was right or the seller could be haggled with.
I read up about the stripped shaft for the mower. I also was told “never start a bolt with an air tool”. Well, once when I replaced the clutch on my 77 Olds, I went to put the transmission back in. The Borg-Warner T-5 tranny went on with 4 bolts, 1 in each corner, on a kind of dias. The input shaft hadnt mated up, and young Tres puts the impact on it, and WHAM! Snaps the aluminum off. I had to take the whole mess apart, and get it welded before I could (properly) put it back in.
Never, ever, made that mistake since.
We do not save because we have no faith that what is in the future is worth the sacrifice.
Ouch.
So I bared my soul there.
I’m trying to get my son not to think that way. I feel that his having bona fide business expenses he has to cover will teach that better than anything else.
He knows what he wants. That is the first and the hardest step.
Look up Mo^
Again, Why do we do this?
Comedy relief.
“ The University of Montana is working to learn from criticism after four white students won an essay contest about Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, the school said.”
The regents should working on a major review of admissions policy, instead of apologizing to a bunch of mewling malcontents.
Their marketing, rather.
IIRC, no black students submitted an essay.
And yes, you are correct there is no perfect solution, no system is immune from corruption by those meaning ill.
I have come to believe most systems suffer more harm from people who “mean well” than from those who “mean ill”.
Lysander and CS nod in agreement.
“Report: White nationalists turn focus to college campuses, with trial run at K-State”
https://twitter.com/judylthomas/status/1227308221104361472
https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article240185832.html
“What great journalism role model @kcstar is: attempting to ruin life of 20-year-old KSU sophomore by publishing hit piece tarring him as “white nationalist” in headline smear that’ll be repeated 1000s of times as part of Google social credit system w/no chance to defend himself.”
https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1227346223616577538
This about sums up Iowa.
https://mobile.twitter.com/IAStartingLine/status/1226977302711611392
https://twitter.com/TheVoiceOfJB/status/1226908790047563776
WTF??
I believe the deaf community is one that is generally rabid about its identity and keeping it “pure” and not sullied by desires to hear.
This is my experience too. They even shun formerly deaf people for getting the implants that allow them to hear.
And keep their kids from getting them.
Yes. The thinking/logic/feelz is very rabid anti-vaxxer.
I know a deeply hearing-impaired women (from a high fever as an infant, I believe). She HATES actual deaf people.
And evidently the deaf community feels the same to hearing-impaired.
Its a weird kind of….racism ?
It does have to do with the victimhood points scoring.
The dead community is odd to say the least. To some extent I get it, it’s a mark of identity and community. But if you offered me the opportunity to see radiation in the infrared or the ultraviolet, I would jump at the opportunity to expand my physical capabilities.
“Deaf”
Nice typo there
I have a nephew that has a 90% hearing loss from a childhood fever. He really doesn’t care if you’re impaired, or actually deaf.
At least anti-vaxxers, as ill-informed as they may be, don’t vaccinate their kids as a way of protecting them from alleged complications.
Not letting your child hear if it could is evil and born of jealousy.
It’s selfish.
They want children that can identify with them.
My son has perfect pitch. I do not. Why would I take that from him just so he could supposedly understand me better?
Mine also.
Favorite story — group of gay deaf guys get on the plane in SF X flying back east. Balloons all go in the overheads, everything’s copacetic. Until the plan reaches the lower pressure at cruising altitude, at which point all the balloons burst. Deaf guys, of course, are clueless as everyone else has a coronary. It took a while, but they wound up gating told off.
LOL.
Example #67,948 how identity politics is stupid.
“As a member of the deaf community I’m safe to say that we don’t want this surgery to cure deafness. It’s not a pity to have this. We’ve a big deaf history, community and culture that gets ruined by hearing people. First make the world accessible for people with a handicap, Which is not right now. We aren’t less than the abled people. We can do anything we want. Being deaf/blind/whatever handicap you have doesn’t mean you can do less. It sucks people feel like we need to “fix” this.”
Well, is it a handicap or isn’t it? You can’t have it both ways.
What a miserable existence.
So far in NH….
SANDERS 27.7%
BUTTIGIEG 22.3%
KLOBUCHAR 21.4%
This i did not expect.
I was expecting them to feel the Bern tonight.
The least socialist one is Klobuchar, and even she wants nationalized health care and student loan forgiveness.
Now that the media is giving up on Sheriff Joe, they’re starting to rally behind Klobuchar.
She is terrible to her staff, and they are talking openly about it.
Where my homegirl be @ ?
LETS GO FLYERS!
Fuck
The
Flyers
I love Polka,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeklDFFg6p8
No really I do,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCqZQUhBBHw
Number 1 son just got offered admission to the UNC School of the Arts for his senior year of high school studying pipe organ.
I think it’s a great idea. He, however, is panicking as most kids with a taste of Asperger’s are wont to do when confronted with rapidly changing expectations.
Should be an interesting week or two while we’re figuring this out
Wow! Those people impress the hell out of me.
Being able to play three melodies simultaneously is so far beyond me that I can only marvel at people who can.
At least he’s got a couple of weeks to work the possibility into his routine.
How cool is that?
Congrats, Scruf!
Actually, congrats to the boy! You are just along for the ride!
Congrats to him and his mother. She made it happen, I just paid for it.
But we won’t tell him that.
Oh my goodness! Congratulations!!!
That’s interesting – how does a youngster get into playing a pipe organ?
We hosted a German exchange student when I was in 10th grade and he also played the organ. No idea how he got into it but he was an oddball. I suspect it runs in the community of organists 🙂
My piano teacher got her BA in organ, but her real passion was tuning pianos.
Yes. There are a lot of Asperger’s cases.
I believe Cameron Carpenter is mildly autistic, and he’s considered to be at the top of the game in the business.
I think the experience varies a lot, but in his case his piano playing was noticed by an organist who encouraged him. It probably didn’t hurt that my mother was also an organist.
My wife was a Russian-trained ballerina, so she brought the whip-cracking to the effort.
My wife was a Russian-trained ballerina…
I hate myself for this, but…
pics?
Oooooooo…. she’d probably kill me for that. Italians get a little stabby when upset.
I’ll have to look around.
Like … this one?
Nothing quite so prestigious.
Pennsylvania Ballet, back in the 80’s.
Did somebody say POLKA?
That better be Weird Al!
I’m teh dissapoint