Wesson not committing a foul for a change.
Ohio State topped Illinois last night in a hell of an interesting game of runs. Michigan righted their ship after a shaky few games. Houston lost, surprisingly. And San Diego State keeps racking wins against their woeful conference. ManUre rounded out the FA Cup round of 16 winners. Thankfully we can get back to league play now. And on the ice, your winners werePittsburgh, Tampa, Boston, NYR, Philly, Ottawa, Nashville, Chicago, LA, and the MINNESOOOODA WIIIIIILD!!!!!!! I’ll do a playoff update on Monday since we’re coming down to the wire. If I remember, that is.
Meathead
The artist Michelangelo was born on this day. The artistic genius shares it with some old German banker named Jacob Fugger, Polish military genius Casimir Pulaski, early bluesman Furry Lewis, hurler Lefty Grove, comedic actor Lou Costello, economist Alan Greenspan, novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, first woman in space Valentina Tereshkova, singer David Gilmour, meathead actor Rob Reiner, cocaine aficionado Tom Arnold, Shaq (Diesel) O’Neal, and rapper Tyler The Creator.
OK, let’s get to…the links!
Careful, she’s loaded!
I wonder if someone smuggled it in their snizz. You know who I’m talking about.
The coronavirus is now in 80 countries. Officially, that is. Now, if we could just figure out what the actual number of people who were infected is…which is impossible, since a shitload of people never reported it and simply got better.
Let’s check in on Afghanistan…yeah, the peace deal is working out about as I expected. Still doesn’t matter, get our troops back home. We’re wasting blood and treasure there.
Please get those guys OUT OF THAT SHITHOLE!
When it comes to unions paying for Chicago political campaigns, where there’s a will, there’s a way. I wonder if the same dipshits who constantly decry Citizens United see a problem here? I don’t. But I’m not a hypocrite.
Good. I hope they make him stand trial and his remaining days are miserable. Your opinion may differ, but I still believe in justice, even if it comes six decades later than it should.
Look at these big, tough guys. What a bunch of pricks. Pricks whose union will make sure they all get awards for bravery.
Raises? These people want raises? They should be more worried about lawyering up as the feds descend on the entire corrupt enterprise.
Here you go. And another. And a third one! Hope you enjoy. I know I will.
Now have a solid Friday and an even better weekend. And wash your filthy hands.
What’s a raise?
Whatever Bernie says it is.
How do you not have a pre-defined mandatory career path with pre-set raises and promotions based on seniority and pencil-whippable “accomplishments?”
Even Texas state employees have that.
This may come as a shock to you, but politicians don’t want their pet project money going to pay for implementation. Only agencies with independant funding sources get to play up to the stereotypes. And the union wants to be friends with people who hate them.
See, TX used the guarantee as a way of keeping employees from bolting out the door.
There was a published schedule for title advancement — I started as an Analytical Chemist I and got a bump in pay from $19k to $22k after 6 mo, and advancement to Analytical Chemist II after 18 months with an additional raise assuming I had qualified in one additional wet and one instrumental technique by then.
NY just waves Bye.
What year were you working those titles?
1996?
Yes, the pay was abysmal. That’s why they used psychology to retain people. Also lots of “you are super-elite AOAC chemists” with our own secure laboratories and ability to basically order whatever we needed without approval.
In 1997 that was a grade 8-10 transition for NY employees.
Grade 6 is a clerk. Grade 8 is a clerk supervisor.
“…qualified in one additional wet..”
Not Adahn does wet work. Noted. {backs away slowly}
I have two Wet Labs, one on either side of the site. I can dissolve anything.
Look at Heisenberg, here.
You’re damn right.
I can dissolve anything.
*swoons*
I’m much less scared of pissing off assassins than chemists. Shot to death beats the hell out of some of the more exotic ways poisons kill you.
That’s what happens when you go fishing with your Uncle and he asks “Have you ever seen a turkey peep over a log?” and then he pinches the short and curlies at the back of your neck.
The only raises i’ve gotten in my professional career are because i switched jobs.
The only person I know who’s
gottentold me about a raise is my mother, who got a 17% increase, without change in post or title.The biggest raises have come from switching jobs, but I’ve been fortunate enough to get merit increases of various amounts everywhere in the private sector.
Here, the corporate financials-based bonus is much larger than any merit increase is, so I would up making less in 2019 than 2018. We will see next month is 202 will be better.
That’s how it was for me as an engineer and in my legal job before I graduated law school. Now, there’s an expectation of an annual raise and bonus with my annual review.
Legal compensation at the big firms is very regimented. Depending on the firm, a first year starts at $180-190k, and then there’s a pre-defined salary ladder for the next 7-9 years. Bonuses are usually defined as a range, and are the primary way of rewarding merit. A shitty employee may get $0 or $5k bonus. A superstar may get a $50k bonus or more.
That model highly impacts the legal industry as a whole, but especially in-house counsel jobs for big companies. They can’t match the big firms (nor do they have to… They offer quality of life benefits), but they have to stay within a certain gap from biglaw, or else all the best talent leaves to go make double in a law firm.
All that to say that they’re basically required by the market to give annual raises. You can’t offer $100k for a 50 hour/week job when the law firm down the street is offering $325k $50k bonus for 70-80 hours/week.
Those of us who can’t fit in the firm/corporate culture make significantly less. 🙂
That’s how it was for me as an engineer
Yeah, i don’t think annual raises are that common anywhere. It is sad though cause for me i always feel like it is easier to get a new Job than to ask for a raise, (and so far much more effective) but i really like my current Job right now.
2% every year, whether I want it or not.
Life as an engineer in a mega-corp.
When the government increases the beer ration from 2 quarts to 3 pints a day
Yeah, if we waited until there was no violence in Afghanistan to leave we might as well start building vacation condos.
Why aren’t we building vacation condos?
“Because Trump hasn’t figured out a way to profit his family yet.”
-MSNBC
That is a good question. Everyone likes tours about how their favorite hobby stuff is made.
Bring on the opium tours!
“It’s called a smorgaswein, and it’s really classy, Stan.”
we might as well start building vacation condos
The Air Force could use some more targets. //jk
‘…some old German banker named Jacob Fugger’
Possibly the richest man to ever live. In today’s money, he was worth north of $400 billion.
“Wait, so he had so much money he could give every American a million dollars and not even notice?”
–
CNNMSNBC panelist and hostI Fucking Love Economics!
…and math…
Also NYT Editorial Board member.
She probably wished that was behind their paywall.
Glen Beck was laughing at this this morning, I missed the actual comments and tweets, but OMFG, how can you actually say the words 500 million and not immediately realize that that does not equal 340 million million?
Oh come on, how rich could he have been? He didn’t even have enough money to buy a TV or airplane ticket.
He bought the Hapsburgs. So, yeah, he had some mad fetti.
Inbreds are cheap.
Heh. Half an once of meth and a case of Schlitz and you’re king of the trailer park.
Don’t give her all of that at once or she’ll start flashing back to her first sexual experience: “Daddy, get off me, you’re crushing my Marlboro Lights!”
Focusing on the important issue, of course.
Did he commit a crime?
So, no.
resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration and marijuana possession.
In that order?
Who knows.
But if “Obstructing governmental administration” were really a crime, >75% of bureaucrats would be guilty.
Look at you already planning your climb up the bureaucrat ladder!
Well, I did start being a supervisor yesterday.
It is pretty important. A plainclothes cop pulling a gun on a guy who was in a park five minutes after it closed and a dozen boys in blue literally dog piling him should be important to everyone.
I meant the headline writer immediately making it into a race issue instead of a police being fuck faces issue.
I think it’s an honest assessment seeing as this much more commonly happens in NY with black men. Hell, look at the stop-frisk numbers.
No sense in rehashing the tired arguments about policing and race. But nothing will ever be done about police brutality as long as the only grounds for opposing it is the race of the victims, IMO. I also wish like fuck I lived in the world some of you do where white people’s interactions with police are like an episode of Sesame Street.
I agree. It’s like COPS never showed the attitude of cops to trailer trash and FloridaMan
Those people don’t matter.
I’m not saying cops don’t also treat white, brown and yellow (I assume this is problematic, but I don’t know what else to say. “Honorary white”?) people poorly. But there’s a distinct pattern that’s well-documented in New York where cops treat black men differently than every other demographic in UOF situations.
To be clear, I’m not speaking about the over-arching issue of police abuse. I’m speaking specifically about the NYPD.
Yes, the race focus is a problem and the issue won’t be meaningfully addressed until that’s dropped as the main focus. Police abuse of power and lack of accountability is what’s important.
Yep. Probably 90% of the crime in my city is caused by 10% of the population. It’s math and cops are notoriously unable to see nuance.
The media don’t want the actual problem to be addressed.
^^^THIS
Literally, they were not dog-piling him. That would require dogs.
They were pig-piling him. Literally.
And then half of them probably went home and smacked someone around in their house.
What, the other half stopped for a beer first?
The other half have spouses who finally had enough and left. They’re choking a prostitute out so they know their place.
The other half haven’t found a new hostage to take since the last one came to their senses and escaped.
Statistically, two of them are taking it out on each other. And then, um, taking it out on each other.
But if they were schweinhunden, then they could do both at the same time.
That take down didn’t look that unusual for the cops. I’ve seen them do that crap a half dozen or so times in the States.
I bet sometimes it’s even called-for.
Federal investigators found a loaded gun Thursday that had been smuggled into the jail where Jeffrey Epstein did not kill
edhimself last summer, following a weeklong lockdown that turned up other contraband and led to a criminal probe into guard misconduct, the federal Bureau of Prisons told The Associated Press.Fixed.
“marked a massive breach of protocol and raised serious questions about the security practices in place at the Bureau of Prisons”
Next suicide will go ballistic
If a bullet leaves the barrel and immediately encounters the target, is that still ‘ballistic’?
When Gayle asked a lone plainclothes officer why he was being stopped, the officer did not appear to answer before uniformed backup rushed in.
If you are not in uniform I am going to go about my business and not acknowledge your existence.
That might work where you’re from but in New York City it will result in
a bullet in your backfour bystanders being shot and you still being arrested, but now charged with four counts of manslaughter.The former concentration camp guard, who moved to the US in 1959, is still collecting a pension from Germany
Nice.
Wouldn’t it be terribly ironic if he brought coronavirus with him to Germany?
If my math is correct, he was 19 in 1945. Was he really an SS killer or just some kid they drafted and handed a gun? Seems like they ran out of actual Nazi war criminals and are just chasing down old men who wore the uniform.
I predict the next one to make the news will have been a 16-yo volkssturm conscript in 1945.
Yeah at this point, the actual architects of the Shoah are dead. Some got what they deserved, others managed to escape justice. At this point, the governments of the world are just virtue signaling by locking up some guy who was 17 or 18 in 1945 and didn’t have any real choice in the matter.
Probably talking twice daily formations and a locked up barracks, I highly doubt he was issued more than 40 rounds for a shitty war production 98, hell I doubt he even got leave so I’m not sure he could have escaped at any time. He was a prisoner, like all people in a totalitarian regime are. Yeah sure he could have shot Herr Oberst, shot another guard, and then died.
If the standard for moral behavior is suicidal bravery and sacrifice, then how many of us are moral? When the Japanese-Americans were interned, how many protested? How many marched on the internment camps with signs? How many Americans wrote their Congressmen? Not many, as far as I know, and that was in America. FDR wouldn’t have had protesters shot out of hand if they had camped outside of Manzanar or Gila River.
But an 18 year old German kid raised from birth in a Nazi state is supposed to buck against every bit of indoctrination and training hes received since birth and perform a suicidal act of defiance that won’t actually change anything?
I agree with you, but I understand the hate the others feel and why they feel as they do. It is unreasonable to put people on trial for failing to be a heroic martyr. It is also unreasonable to expect people whose families were exterminated like lice for the ‘crime’ of having the wrong ancestry to be just in their attitudes toward those who did the exterminating.
I’ve been listening to the Jocko podcast tarran linked yesterday with the Auschwitz survivor. I am quickly moving to sympathy for those who want to exact justice even at this late date.
I think that, at this late date, you’re not getting any actual kind of justice. WWII ended 75 years ago. The most hard charging, bright young SS officer with actual drive, dedication, and authority to murder Jews would be 100 years old. Even 20 years ago, you could find plenty of men who were mid level officers and bureaucrats who knew what they were doing and had both the means and the intellectual capacity to sabotage the regime, or to flee.
This shit is just being done because Nazis are bad and hey we found a Nazi. They’re not rigorously digging through Vietnamese immigrants looking for war criminals. They’re not rigorously looking through Russian immigrants looking for former Gulag guards. Hell, we could probably find some guys in the US who were 27, 28, 29 year old in the former Yugoslavia who knew damn well what a multiethnic society was, who don’t even have the excuse of being brainwashed from birth.
Wasn’t George Soros in that category?
I think he was older than that.
Were people actually drafted into the SS or was that a volunteer position once they’d been drafted into the Wehrmacht?
If he was just a guard, he wasn’t a criminal.
I disagree. If all you did was make sure people stayed in cages until they could be exterminated, you’re participating in the extermination process. You’re a war criminal.
So why did we bother taking prisoners in 1944-45? We should have killed everyone who was ever a “guard”?
Times like this make your avatar choice interesting.
I’m sure that’s not intentional.
Where did sloopy make the claim that we should’ve killed all the guards?
Harrumph! There were a few times that the liberating soldiers let the inmates lynch the guards. Fuckit, he’s a doddering old man that probably doesn’t remember. Just let him die.
The golf course?
Goddamn. I loved those old crazy stoner flicks from by-gone days but Caddyshack left me cold. We had just taken up golf as a hobby at the time.
They were taken in battle. You don’t summarily execute people captured during battle.
They should have been tried and convicted of war crimes.
They were taken in battle. You don’t summarily execute people captured during battle.
Maybe you don’t, but i’m pretty sure the Waffen SS does.
The Canadians were infamous for that. We’re so nice… Letterkenny and Trailer Park Boys are a thing.
The behavior of the Waffen SS towards natives and prisoners varied wildly by unit.
The vast majority of the Waffen SS were just soldiers.
The behavior of the Waffen SS towards natives and prisoners varied wildly by unit.
Hey, look guys. I know what you think. But I was in one of the good Death’s Head units.
“Are we the Baddies?’
Many soldiers did that, and were indeed put on trial when they were caught.
There’s a reason that there’s no moral equivalence here.
Was that participation voluntary?
Since he was guarding the folks that were busy turning my family into bars of soap, my view on his culpability might be a touch more harsh than yours.
I can understand that point of view. Likely some of my distant relatives contributed to the Nazi’s gold hoard. Quite involuntarily.
Dude, if you worked at a concentration camp, you’re a war criminal. And you deserve to rot in a cage.
Dude, he was 19. He needed a safe space.
My grandfather died in Treblinka. He fell out of a guard tower.
What will actually happen is that he will go to “Youth Court” because he was under 21 at the time – then they’ll decide if they should go through with the farce of trying a 94-year-old as a juvenile.
I don’t care. Perhaps the strain of the process will kill him. Either way, he doesn’t belong in America enjoying our free society. Fuck him.
Okay. I say we apply the same standards to anyone whoever helped communists or jihadists. The commies racked up a much higher body-count.
I have no problem with this.
I’d rather take out my revenge by stopping SJW assholes who literally support the same policies as Nazis. YMMV.
He was an armed guard at a camp where almost 43,000 were slaughtered. Seems pretty evil to me. And it’s not like he couldn’t have defected and surrendered himself to the approaching Allied forces if he truly believed he was in the wrong.
He was probably just following orders, eh?
At 19, I was an E-3 in the Army, and if I was told to forcemarch people to death, I would have deserted.
“Yes, the Nazis did bad things. Nobody is debating that. But the pension system they left Germany with can’t be overlooked.”
-Bernie Sanders
Bern is the founding member of Jews For Hitler.
I thought that was Soros? – Who arguably could be tried as a juvenile war criminal.
But the 19 yoa SS guard…?
Both if you are going after every “cog in the wheel”.
And the trains ran on time.
If my memory serves correctly, i think Germany still pays some money to collaborators in the Netherlands.
The Waffen SS was the first stab at an EU Army.
The Grande Armée
One of my Rhineland ancestors marched into Russia with the Grande Armee and managed to make it back home and lived to a ripe old age in the Vaterland.
Think we got off track here. It’s easier to extradite a Former Nazi concentration camp guard than it is to take away his pension.
If HM was amazed by that Trump voice synthesis video linked yesterday, this will be his new fetish.
REALLY? No one here reacts to a voice synthesizer trained to speak like Trump doing the Navy Seal Copypasta? For shame! I that you were sphisticated!
These people want raises?
I have a raise for “teachers” unions but they aren’t going to like it.
Spike Lee, you ignorant pos.
Spike Lee, the Hollywood film director also known for his stupid political opinions, got on Instagram to mock Donald Trump’s meeting with black leaders. Comparing these Republican black Americans to slaves, Lee wrote, “Massa, we love you Massa. We gonna pray fo’ you Massa. Singing- ‘swing low sweet chariot.'”
How much of Weinstein’s money did Spike beg for in the past?
I get a whiff of racism from Spike Lee. I don’t watch his films but if I ever thought of doing so, shit like this closed that book in a jiffy.
Trump should deschedule MJ and push for its legalization. Obviously, because it is the right thing to do, but the heads that would explode would be a nice touch too.
It’s the smart play but he’s a tee-totaller so I don’t see that happening unless it was was a really strategic thing to do.
If it does happen it will be a second-term move. And probably only if the Dems start making MJ a national issue.
Do the Right Thing was basically a rejection of this type of thinking. Spike Lee must really hate his younger self.
Spike Lee hates everyone not named Spike Lee.
FIFY
Or maybe Spike has has always been completely full of shit.
Do the Right Thing was a good flick. *Shrugs*
John Turturro makes everything he’s in good, even Barton Fink.
Same with Danny Vowel or whatever his name is.
Trejo?
Danny Aeioullo.
*snort*
Yeah, Danny Aiello was great.
I thought Hudson Hawk was funny.
Good God I wanted to like that movie but it was really the terrible-awful. I’m a big fan of JJL but it was just bad.
It appealed to my inner pretentious prick even though I’m still not sure what it was about to be honest.
It was. And he’s been riding it ever since.
An artist doesn’t have to be a good person to make great art. You can both be right.
Mother fucker! I thought we were rid of the gnome.
He’s so small that a women in the background still looms large over him.
It’s like she is photoshoped in the background by a 2nd grader with no understanding of perspective.
Wait, that’s his wife?
I am adrift in a world of confusion.
He just crawls inside and does the hokey-pokey. It’s a seemingly happy union.
He may be a gnome, but he must be tripodean.
Yep, somehow that garden gnome looking motherfucker ended up marrying a much younger, statuesque redhead.
It is why I have always been a fan of his. I wouldn’t vote for him or anything.
I thought he was dead,
What? He’s still younger then Biden!
Now we know what happened to Mr. Lizard.
Just burrowed into mud to wait for SMOD. He’ll emerge as the master race. I miss that guy and all of the hot rock jokes.
… oh @#$% I knew I forgot something.
*looks for extension cord*
Just read one of the most infuriating articles (because of the content, not the article) from TOS. Red Flag laws are an abomination to freedom and due process. In this case, Cops bought a story hook line and sinker from an estranged wife, did no extra investigation, brought her story as evidence to the court and got an RPO issued.
from an estranged wife
Speaking of red flags…
*shudders*
It doesn’t have to be firearms, it can be any old damn thing. Judicial creep.
Why your internet habits are not as clean as you think
This is why I pay bills by check in the snail mail.
I want more plant food in the air.
All that they need to do is harness the untold energy of Fapping and we’d be well on our way to Utopia.
Do they realize that the backup batteries are filled with toxic chemicals, and the backup generators most likely run on diesel or propane?
You’re assuming they’re logically consistant.
I already do my part and watch all my porn in 144p.
It’s the 21st century, you can get a new monitor.
They even make them in color these days.
I watch my porn on cave walls and with tiny figurines.
So you got the projector working again?
PlatoHub?
Polite applause
^^^ yep
I believe…
PlatoHub is why no matter how many philosophers tell people about the wonders outside the cave, most people stay put.
I blame HM.
Aw, c’mon! Vulfpeck is a solid band and – OMIGOD what did I just see? DELETE DELETE DELETE
For some, the realisation that their online activity is harming the planet has spurred them into taking action.
Action, like jumping off a bridge? Hopefully?
For some, the realisation that their online activity is harming the planet has spurred them into taking action.
Good. I’m glad that the people who fall for this won’t be taking up space online.
Friday Funbags is looking forward to a soft, squishy weekend.
http://archive.li/GHvLo
#14 and #48
Charles Darwin strikes again?
Ireland experienced its first venomous snake bite in history in the lead-up to Saint Patrick’s Day, The Irish Post reported. Saint Patrick, the man credited with bringing Christianity to Ireland, also expelled all snakes from the island, according to legend. But he seems unable to prevent the importation of snakes — even venomous ones — if the Irish fail to honor his legendary legacy.
So Connolly Hospital must have been surprised to receive a 22-year-old Dublin man who had been bitten by a venomous snake late last month. The Dubliner reportedly owns a venomous puff adder, one of the most aggressive and dangerous snakes. The breed is commonly found in Morocco and Western Arabia and is responsible for more snake bite deaths than any other African snake.
James Hennessy, director of the National Reptile Zoo, said this was the first time a medical professional requested anti-venom from his establishment.
Poor St Paddy
And it was in the quote.
I need to slow down.
Zzzzz….
I remember learning about St Patrick chasing the snakes out of Ireland in public school. I wonder if they can still tell that story these days?
Um…. they talked about a Saint in public schools?
ZOMG my “wall of separation!”
And don’t even get me started about McAffee’s “McAffee 2020: Dear God, Please Wake UP”
People who own poisonous snakes as pets deserve what they get and sooner or later they all get it.
“You knew was a viper when you took me in.”
^^^^ THE SNAKE AND THE LITTLE INDIAN BOY!!!
I TOLD YOU FOLKS IT WAS REAL!
Nope. It will always be the frog and the scorpion. Funnily enough, I remember “Just So Stories” and the tale of “How the Rhinoceros Got Its Hide”. Reminds me of sleeping in a sandy bed when I was much older. Worth it? At the time, I suppose.
Isn’t it interesting that the more power the multi cultis get the less we are actually exposed to other cultures? Just So stories and Uncle Rhemus have been declared racist and banished to outer darkness, because…? How dare these people who lived in societies with actual white supremacy see the value in the stories of the subject race and collect them!
Waterbed. Topped with sand. Totally worth it.
Me: “This is really uncomfortable.” She: “Keep going!” Me: “I’m gonna cum!” She: “I just did!” Not one of my finer moments.
I’m sure that you won’t mind hearing about the size, color and frequency of my bowel movements.
Actress @BusyPhilipps said she owes all of her success to having an abortion at 15, continues: “I will never stop talking about my abortion or my periods or my experiences in childbirth, my episiotomies, my yeast infections, or my ovulation that lines up w/ the moon!”
People who celebrate abortions are horrific monsters.
This is the natural result of the left taking the stance that abortion is not in any way up for discussion either morally or legally.
It’s fundamentally sick, and I say that as someone who thinks that abortion should be safe, legal, and very rare.
Looks like Ashley Judd has passed the crazy torch.
Pulling out all the stops trying to relieve the guilty conscience that won’t go away.
I’ve hated her since Freaks and Geeks. She’s like every person I’ve ever found annoying wadded up in big ugly clump of braying shitflakes.
I feel like a lost tourist in callcuta when comparing my prose with SugarFree’s way with word.s
Oh, right. I thought she was in Wilson Phillips or something.
She was great in that show. And then… nothing happened, apparently.
Her or Lena Dunham?
Oddly, I find Dunham a little less annoying. She at least exhibits some awareness that people find her annoying; Phillips thinks she’s gorgeous and fabulous.
Phillips didn’t molest her sister as far as I know.
Looks just like my best friend from high school. She was not a cunt but I see where you are going with this.
Darlin’, you’re not THAT hot.
And apparently she’s a shitstain of a person.
She lost me at ovulation.
I have no idea who she is, but holy sheepshit does she ever come across as a deranged lunatic in that clip.
That time that Mom made me clean up all those balled-up socks when I was 13? It made me a better man. What a cunte.
Also, is it possible she would have been more successful with her child? She’s not exactly an A-lister.
Sofia Vergara had a kid when she was a teenager and her career seems to have gone rather well.
I wish her name was Quiet Phillips.
Twitch suspends gamer Carl Reimer after shooting gun
He’s a dipshit.
And apparently a prime candidate for FBI recruitment.
I mean, if you’re a trained professional, nothing could go wrong while holding a Glock.
Wasn’t that guy DEA?
The “I’m the only one in this room qualified” guy, or the “dance moves” guy?
“I’m the only one in this room qualified”
I don’t know the dance moves guy?
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/13/619526810/fbi-agent-charged-after-dance-move-resulted-in-accidental-shooting
Isn’t that nice.
He picked the gun up by the trigger. How the hell do you… I guess you have to be a trained law enforcement officer to hit that level of stupid.
I don’t have sympathy.
Further, i’m sure this will further the idea that Guns are just “super dangerous” and “Liable to go off” in the minds of the uneducated masses.
Two of my wife’s aunts got drunk and were playing around with a unloaded rifle. For some unknown reason, one aunt looked directly down the barrel. Two seconds later, after moving her head out of the line of fire, an accidental discharge put a bullet through the floor.
Paul Krugman✔
@paulkrugman
About Warren: deeply sad. She was the candidate of ideas, the best hope we had of getting a strongly progressive agenda actually enacted. Plus enormous energy and personal charm. What happened? Well, sexism was a big deal, probably the most important thing 1/
Sure, like a manic, overbearing and controlling aunt.
1. Paul Krugman keeps casting his lot with the wrong horse in these things. HRC seemed like such a sure bet too.
2. the best hope we had of getting a strongly progressive agenda actually enacted.
Warren has done pretty well at creating this mythology that she was somehow the only progressive that could be effective. Sanders is just so ineffective.
3. Well, sexism was a big deal, probably the most important thing
Stop. You are making sexism look like a good thing.
Do they think if they keep saying Elizabeth Warren is charming, she will somehow become charming? Are they really just attempting to cast a spell?
Ultimately, spell.
But in a sense they are trying to gaslight us by telling us to deny the evidence of our own eyes and ears, the peevish schoolmarm lectures.
I often wonder if they aren’t trying harder to convince themselves.
It’s kinda like an incantation that has to be muttered in order to maintain it’s energy.
She’s the Beldam.
Krugnuts: “Elizabeth Warren is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I’ve ever known in my life.”
That speaks much more loudly to the qualities of his friendship circle than it does to the asserted qualities of Warren.
What a sad life if true.
His circle
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Why not? They have half of the population convinced that racism is a major issue today and that women are oppressed in the most female privileged culture in human history. The spell works.
Of course Krugabe would find her charming. Her personality is quite similar to his, condescending and schoolmarmish.
I don’t believe it for a second. None of these control freaks actually “like” each other. They are all back-stabbing vultures with no conscience.
Ah, Rhywun. A man after my own heart! #nohomo
I am getting a kick out of all these articles blaming sexism and misogyny for Warren’s failure. Democrats are largely the ones voting in these primaries. Why are Democratic voters so damn sexist and misogynistic?
This is the feminazis trying to guilt everyone else in the party to cede to their demands.
But what they’ll say is that Trump has corrupted the national discourse.
Guilt tripping. That is exactly what the feminists are masters of.
Yeah, the blaming and guilt-tripping actually works on other Democrats.
Heh. I see we’ve encountered some of the same wamens.
My ex was the Mistress of Pain. Majored in Sociology, minored in gelding. Oh what fun!
At least she’s you could get a divorce. I can’t divorce my sister. I’m not Ilhan Omar.
Seriously. I mean she is a slightly less destructive Bernie Sanders, so she has that going for her. Check with your own party dumbass.
You know what will help you Paul?
– Find a leather belt
– Wrap the belt around your neck
– tie he other end of the belt on a bathroom door
– start rubbing one out
“NYC subway rider sprays Asian man with Febreze and tells him to ‘move’ in a ‘coronovirus hate crime’ as mounting cases that have put 2,700 in quarantine leave city on edge”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8081623/NYC-subway-rider-sprays-Asian-man-Febreze-yells-move.html
Is retarded contagious?
There is nothing in the evidence presented that indicates the person spraying febreeze said anything about Wuhan.
Postulate – was this instead a complaint about the other passenger’s body odor and had nothing to do with disease or race?
No kidding. Run of the mill subway disagreement. But it’s “alarming”.
Wait… You have Asian men on your subways too?
I don’t see race. Except for that time I told a Japanese guy who didn’t speak a word of English to go ask my African American lady co worker, “Where the white women at?” I heard her howling all the way down the hall.
白人の女性は、どこに?
Pretty sure he would’ve understood that.
^This
And this is what you get when your staff spends all day trawling Youtube and Instagram for “news”.
True. But kind of like Crown Heights, the perennial tension between Blacks and Asians in US urban areas is under-reported. Google “Korean nail salons in the ghetto” for a taste.
Yeah, the MSM have no interest in touching that third rail.
That having been said, in my personal take, it seems like a non-trivial amount of people are taking advantage of the pandemic to act on long held racial/ethnic grievances, be it “You people are taking my jobs!” to “You people are opening too many businesses in my neighborhood!”.
That was to be expected. Hatred and distrust of the outgroup always goes up in a crisis.
People harboring grievances will reach for any stick that comes to hand.
In that case things in NYC should get real interesting as the Coronavirus is now making its way into the Orthodox Jewish community.
(Different areas for the moment, however.)
Watch C-SPAN for a few minutes, and you’ll see the answer is clearly “yes.”
Brett says that he’s definitely dumber for hanging you with you clowns.
Was this one of them inbread hicks that had made their way into the city?
*shrugs*
Plenty of black folk from the country.
And by the way, black dudes in the rural south is the actual answer to yesterday’s best BBQ debate. Hands down, no argument. If you are driving through any Confederate State, or even Kentucky, and you see a big fat old black man standing next to a beat up and scorched smoker with a crowd around him and a hand painted sign. Stop and eat.
Concur.
No argument from me.
Geeze HM. It was a joke, Don’t bust my balls.
I know it was a joke.
Still going to bust balls though. It’s what you pay me for.
You know how i Like it.
Still going to bust balls though. It’s what you pay me for.
I’d bet you’d do it for free. Leon is getting ripped off.
Nope. Contingent.
Now, if we could just figure out what the actual number of people who were infected is…which is impossible, since a shitload of people never reported it and simply got better.
I felt a little woozy yesterday, then I got better. #survivor
I was 10 towns over from a guy who got the coronovirus #Survivor #JustLIkeDavidHogg
[golf clap]
I have a theory that if you keep your bac high enough you won’t catch any virus. IOW fight Coronavirus with Corona.
You’ll die of water poisoning first.
Beer, like Brawndo, has electrolytes.
It’s rude to talk about people behind their backs like that.
Do you not have beer-like electrolytes?
Word is, plants crave you.
We were discussing that this morning. The risk to my business is if someone gets diagnosed, they’re going to shut us down for a couple of weeks. We simply couldn’t operate it from home.
Trying to draw up a contingency plan of sorts this weekend.
All my govt jobs are cancelled for the month. My private work is booming. Glad I’ve got so many pokers in the fire. #Resist
You do private interogations?
You’re still able to get a lot of poking done with the little one home from school?
The euphemisms are getting creepier.
shoot, shovel, shut up.
Who could have seen this coming? Warren Blames ‘Sexism’ For Her Failed Campaign…
My sister-in-law was sending my wife sad texts yesterday about Warren dropping out. My wife had no idea how to reply to the crazy.
So she’s not going to ruin her lefty cred by endorsing Biden but she’s going to attack Sanders while maintaining plausible deniability. The woman is a walking farce.
Biden is the easier one to manipulate.
“Sorry you’re so sad.”
As I’ve seen several people ask elsewhere…..Klobuchar dropped out only a few days before Lieawatha – why aren’t there overwrought articles being written about how misogynistic voters were for rejecting her, too?
She had very few supporters outside of pragmatists and party insiders. Warren had her army of True Believers.
Yep. The young women who believed in Clinton moved over to Warren. Every homely feminist on every college campus included.
Oh, sure. I just enjoyed someone pointing out the logical inconsistency.
Betty Bras.
if it were “Bettie Page” bras then she might have gone places.
The Nonconsent of the Governed
The urban-rural problem waxes; it is like a bad marriage and the only solution is a divorce. But while the rural “man” would happily leave the marriage on reasonable terms and peaceably, the urban “woman” will never allow the “man” to leave.
It begs the question about consent of the governed – the supposed basis for legitimate government (assuming for the sake of discussion such a thing exists).
The answer to this question pretty much establishes the illegitimacy of the government.
In my home state of Virginia, for example, the rural (and geographic) majority of the state does not consent to being disarmed and criminalized by the government in Richmond – which represents Richmond and Northern Virginia.
90-plus percent of the state’s counties oppose the slew of gun confiscation/criminalization measures proposed and likely to be imposed upon them. The people of these rural counties did not consent to any of this. And they have no say in any of this – because the state government is controlled by the urban population centers, whose concentrated numbers give them a virtual lock on the state’s governing apparatus. The 90-plus percent geographic majority outside the urban hives of Richmond and Northern Virginia can vote but it’s becoming as meaningless a gesture as voting in the old Soviet Union, where there was one candidate on the ballot – and no option to say no.
It begs the question about consent of the governed
RAISES! IT RAISES THE QUESTION! GAH!
For all intensive purposes, we understood him.
intents and porpoises.
I thought it was in tents porpoises.
Or was it tense?
🙂
It’s just one of my pet peeves. It dilutes the logical fallacy that you see all the time.
Irregardless…
Look the tenants of the belief are cut and dry!
Most of the time people use “to beg the question” incorrectly. This battle has been lost.
✋ Guilty
Pol Pot for Governor!
Oh dear, you’ve gone and lit the HM signal.
RIP SETI@home
In other words, they’ve mined enough bitcoins to retire on.
Dangit!
I’d like all the environmentalists to understand exactly how much electricity this project consumed during its lifetime.
(Not that I personally have an issue with this.)
They had enough data 10 years ago, but have been secretly Mining bitcoin since 2012
back-end analysis
Q links?
That’s more HM territory.
Depends if you mean topology or taste.
Williams College suspended male student for not dating girl after kissing her: lawsuit
Sounds like she withdrew consent after the fact. Guilty!
the unnamed Hispanic student “John Doe”
Is it culturally insensitive to call the college a lawsuit pinata?
Racist! Why not Juan Ciervo?
I read thru it.
They’ve legally weaponized hurt feelings and are encouraging young women to use it.
The backlash against the feminists is going to be ugly when it finally comes.
I’d have been a dead duck at 13.
They would have gotten me freshman year, just because I was stupid when it came to women.
I kissed a girl names Amy behind her parents shed at 5 years old. She told all her friends. I was embarrassed and never talked to her again (they moved a couple years later). Does this mean I can never be on the supreme court?
How old were you? Early 30’s at the latest, I hope.
I was 5 then too . . . .I didn’t get a full sized van until high school.
No shame. I was always smooching girls. T’was fun!
“Sally initiated the relationship with John in November 2016, telling “a number of her friends” before their first dinner that she was interested in him. She told him on a walk after dinner that she had “never kissed a boy” owing to the “restrictive cultural norms in her home country.”
John asked for Sally’s permission to kiss her in his dorm room, and she agreed. The kissing escalated to “consensual touching” while fully clothed.
Two days later she sent him a message saying “I’ve liked you quite a lot” and calling their amorous encounter “amazing.” She apologized for “being so weird and awkward the entire time.””
Well, if that’s not rape, I don’t know what is.
Additionally, they assigned John Doe an attorney who buys into the legal rationale that the college is using and probably helped set it up. He was fucked from the getgo.
This all reads like a parody. It reads so bad that i don’t know why the College even bothers fighting it.
The lesson learned: Be a racist in action but not in word.
Why does the College Fix have a problem with that? Sounds like old fashioned ’50s Christian morality. You drink the milk, you buy the cow.
Oh, the female is a foreigner.
Slut.
Sounds like old fashioned ’50s Christian morality.
I’ve heard enough stories from my parents, who were (a) raised in typical-to-conservative households and (b) dating, etc. during the ’50s, that I’m pretty sure one or two dates with kissing and maybe a little grabby-grabby were pretty much the norm, and did not carry an expectation of going steady or getting married. Its true that their families didn’t frequent snake-handling, speaking-in-tongues churches, though.
I think the current feminists have left the uptight bougie ’50s in the dust when it comes to sexual prudery.
No doubt. There is a bit of Baptists and bootleggers in all of this, you have to admit. I can definitely see this same story happening in a Liberty University-type place with their “honor code”. But, I doubt you’d see it reported in the College Fix.
There is a bit of Baptists and bootleggers in all of this, you have to admit.
“You got your wokeness in my fundamentalism!
“You got your fundamentalism in my wokeness!”
Two great tastes, etc.
Oh, the female is a foreigner.
In fairness, the male is a foreigner too, so if there’s any biased reasoning going on here it’s misogyny. But I doubt that’s the case, I’d imagine the real reason the Fix has a problem with it is that the decision was based not on some pre-established code of conduct (which a private school should have every right to have, no matter how ridiculous) but on Title IX.
I don’t get it. The girl is obviously a whore.
https://twitter.com/TRHLofficial/status/1235649299406401537
LOLOLOL
ENB is not amused.
LOL.
Damnit.
This was in the thread: https://babylonbee.com/news/coronavirus-passes-over-houses-with-cfa-sauce
Related
Some of you have inspired me. I had two story ideas in my head and realize they combine nicely into one. So I am trying to write it. I realized two things — I don’t have 70k words inside me, so I couldn’t write a novel even if I wanted to. But, since I have no interest in publishing anyway, I don’t need to follow any kind of convention. I have completed “chapter” 1, I am still heavily editing it. I may release it into the wild (here) once I have a few more chapters in place and am sure it isnt going to die on the vine. It is 823 words, so short for a chapter for anyone not named Dan Brown.
But I just not wordy enough. I think I am a short story at best kind of guy, but some of my ideas dont fit that either. So, this one is more novella of many small chapters.
Anyway, if I do release it, I will see if it is something people here like and will release more bits.
Don’t worry about length. With any sort of electronic self-publishing (assuming you want to pursue it) length has sort of fallen by the wayside. Novellas and novelettes sell just as well as doorstops.
I really have no interest in reaching a target audience beyond glibertopia.
Hire a ghostwriter. 😛
Me: “Here’s your manuscript”
robc: “This is just a three hundred thousand word rant against land taxes.”
Me: “I guess someone might notice you didn’t write it.”
I’ll do it for robc. Softcore porn vibe.
“Why are all of these words pixelated?”
And honestly, most of my best ideas are hated here.
That’s what she said!
You sonofabitch…..
Oh, if only that had been what she said…..
Don’t worry about length.
I’m a little above average so I don’t worry.
True; girth is more important.
Why not both?
*cervix winces in pain*
Double your pleasure, double your fun…
Make it a poem.
*Ahem*
If
You feel it’s obligatory
To make the supererogatory mandatory
You’re a prog
Hmmm….a series of sonnets on the single land tax?
Or Ogden Nash style, which is more my length.
The single land tax is boss
because it has no deadweight loss.
I told you it was way easier.
TFW you realize you set yourself up.
https://mobile.twitter.com/KANTBOT20K/status/1235769119070437378
My neice has a classmate who was studying in Milan. She came home a few days ago and basically self-quarantined. Her family reached out to the Maine Department of Health to get tested and ask about how long to quarantine. The answer was “we don’t have any tests and it’s up to you”.
So that’s the problem, we don’t have enough tests? That’s not good optics or in real life either.
I don’t even know what the news meant by “tests”. Quest Diagnostics and now LabCorp just launched lab tests for the virus this week. Requires a swap sample to be sent to their lab.
https://www.labcorp.com/information-labcorp-about-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19
The testing in this country is way behind due to a number of missteps, both technical and administrative.
If you don’t test, you can’t have [confirmed] cases!
/Japan and USA
That’s an enormous mistake and a stupid thing to do, just moronic really.
CWAA
It looks like people in that thread are bitching that people aren’t being tested even though they aren’t sick. How much money do they think we have?
8 billion by the bill they were trying to pass.
Not sure the details of the tests, but that actually might be enough to lab test everyone in the country. What we would do with that information, I have no idea, particularly if we are still allowing international travel.
These are people that need to be forced to do what’s right. It’s the only moral stance.
https://babylonbee.com/news/warren-returns-to-tribe-in-shame-after-failing-to-retake-land-from-the-white-man
Warren Returns To Tribe In Shame After Failing To Take Land Back From The Pale Faces
Lying, dog-faced pony soldier. Loved comment yesterday that Warren was a member of the Gimmegimme Tribe.
I will scold no more forever.
So I’m contesting a $3K bill from a dealer service shop. I had my mechanic go thru their work and it appears they didn’t do half of what they said they did.
I detailed the information in an email and sent it to the general manager, the service manager, and the service director.
That was two days ago. I’ve heard nothing from them.
I hate car dealerships.
Wow.
Was this a work vehicle / light duty commercial or one something heavier duty?
I had a dealer claim they serviced my rear differential and they didn’t. They gave me a bunch of crap and I said no worries I’ll change the fluid myself, document the process and send the oil out for analysis. And after that I’d have my lawyer reach out to them.
They revised the bill after that.
Dodge Ram 3500 delivery truck
Typically, I would let one item out of several on a service ticket slide as a simple mistake, but this was way beyond the pale. Had I not caught it, the transmission could have failed.
At that point I went and checked everything else they claimed they did and it was enlightening to say the least. Fluid changes not performed, filters not replaced, etc…
Lazy mechanic and/or slammed service. My guess is the owner and GM wouldn’t want this, but they don’t know it is happening.
I’ve often wanted to see what happens if you pitch a fit in the middle of showroom.
You get your money back, and pronto. Ask me how I know.
Oh, I know alright. Believe you me. I have had some wonderful experiences at the local dealership with my Fucked Over Rebuilt Dodges. My “fit pitcher” goes nuclear in a heartbeat.
Last bill was over $2k of defective electronics. They said my ESP was expired because the contract was improperly written. I told them my wife was seething in the my other car. ”Shall I invite her in?”
“I hate car dealerships.”
They don’t call them stealership for no reason.
Lol. I had been using the same independent mechanic for years when I got taken twice in a row by them. Started using the dealership and have ended up spending less and not getting the laundry list every time I go in there. the fact that i’ve bought three cars from them doesn’t hurt either.
Like every industry, there are good and bad.
I’m lucky we have always had a family friend as a mechanic. I can’t count the number of times he told me how much it was to fix something only to follow with “but I wouldn’t do it. The car just isn’t worth it. It’s safe to drive for now and if it gets worse, you’ll know”
That’s a good mechanic.
Also, he’s helped me out of a number of jams when I’m working on the car myself and don’t know what to do . . .all for free.
My Guy will also just flat refuse to work on my cars when he considers them too far gone. He also does not offer to “take it off my hands.”
Yeah, find a good mechanic. If your car isn’t still under warranty, stay away from the stealership.
I’m putting a two post lift in our shop to taker over our own truck service. I’ve had as much as I can tolerate at this point.
I recently had a year where I spent $50K on vehicle repair services.
BTW – take your email – print it out and send it certified mail to the dealership. Spend the money for a regular stamp and send it to Chrysler corporate as well. Note that you copied corporate in the letter to the dealership.
I predict you’ll get a response within 48 hours. The issue is what do you do after that. I’m willing to bet they will adjust the bill and offer you discounted service. Problem is do you actually want the discounted future service.
Unless they offer a good explanation of what happened, why it’s a one off, and what they’ve done to prevent it in the future, there’s always going to be a question about their honesty.
Small claims court.
I took HP to court and it was one of the most satisfying moments of my life.
I’m shocked. This is my shocked face.
I, too, hate dealerships and anybody who’s not My Guy. Everybody should have A Guy.
My guy is me. Anything short of tearing the engine apart, and I’ll do it. I’ve had too many shitty experiences to bother finding ‘a guy’ again.
How long are you going to be able to do that as the repairs become increasingly more computerized and you need special equipment to do it?
That’s one of my fears. However, I’m hoping hooking up your own laptop becomes a reality in the future. Although, I’m not betting on it.
“I’m sorry, but your $190Million license fee has not been paid, this car will not give you the diagnostic data.”
So far, very little of the repairs require anything more than an OBD reader ($20, Amazon).
If there’s an ecu issue, I’ll just replace the whole damned thing. If there’s an ancillary electronics issue (backup cam, cabin electronics), most is modular and you just swap the bad part for the good part.
Out of the 10 years I’ve been working on my own cars, I’ve had only one electronic issue. It’s a flaky backup cam on one of my cars. I haven’t fixed it yet because it’s not that big of an issue, and because I don’t want to pay $400 for a replacement camera.
Today, just like in the past, cars break because their parts wear out (or have manufacturer defects).
Be interesting to see how long this keeps up.
CAN bus is essentially weak/unsecured Ethernet. Now that everyone likes to start looking for attack vectors on networked intelligent controllers the OEMs have started securing communication across controllers.
So you buy a new ABS controller, but it doesn’t have the security to talk with ECU if you don’t have the manufacturer software and a current subscription to allow you to code it to access the secured network within your car.
I used to have a Mazda 3. the relay that runs the headlights was going bad. Literally a $2 relay. Except. It was integrated into the ECU which was 3 circuit boards that had about 150 solder points holding them together. The ECU cost $700 and about $300 to program, for a $2 relay. Luckily, the internet came to the rescue and told me how to bypass the relay and add it in line elsewhere.
I did most of my own work, but as I got older it got physically tougher to do. I still will do it, however.
I was ecstatic when I found an honest independent mechanic. Totally worth paying his reasonable rates.
Happy Friday, Sloopy!
My hands are washed and the Wild shockingly moved into a playoff spot. I still don’t think they will be there at the end, but who the hell knows. Amazing what decent goaltending gets you.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Tomorrow is going to be interesting, they changed the early morning Saturday spin class I usually go to. The standard is a Performance class for 45 minutes, tomorrow they’ve added 15 minutes onto the class. My conditioning is much more to the marathons then the sprints, so I’ll need to think harder about when I want to push for a new maximum wattage (current is 850 based on the dashboard).
Just keep sweating, Fat-Boy! Lay off the beer and you’ll be a hunka-hunka jerky just like me and Yusef. That’s great, man. I miss sports. When I was younger everything was a competition. Nowadays I only compete against myself.
Down ~40 pounds from the start. Got within 5 pounds of the goal this week so far. It was almost nice enough to take the real bike out for a ride yesterday, and today it’s snowing. With DST changing the clocks, I’m hoping that I’ll be able to get the real bike out for some rides before April. And I’m planning on suspending my spin membership for 6-months at the end of this month ($15 charge, but keeps me locked in at the cheap rates).
The next two weeks will push me away from that though, travel for work for a week, and then St. Patrick’s Day.
DST? Hahaha! Stay Warm, mein froind!
Great work, Neph!
Your weather will get better in a couple days. Supposed to be in the 60s here this weekend!
Yeah, checking the forecast, I may be able to get a ride in on Sunday. I fly out Monday for work though. Work travel seems to help me pack on pounds more then vacation.
After the Rangers’ wild performance against the Caps last night… no, I’m not getting my hopes up either.
Zibby keeps scoring 5 a game and no one will stop us!!!!
And Shesty returns tomorrow and stops every shot for the next 15 games!!
/”it’s happening!”
Shesty never seems to lose.
Would love to get that spot from the Islanders after all the shit i heard from their fans in December.
I think it was 8 wins in his first 9 games? Unreal.
https://twitter.com/TheRealOJ32/status/1235918997247442944
I guess he couldn’t find gloves that fit.
One response: “It’s kill rate is lower than yours so I’m going to tough it out.”
Why would he be shitting that much if he didn’t buy food?
Trump Redesigns Wall So Slats Are Close Enough Together To Keep Out Coronavirus
Warren grabs her dog’s ear and prepares to punch it in the face
Looking at that “Granny Fist” I am both amused and a little aroused…
Lolololol
Uh, see post 29 above.
Drugs, Ass, you know…..
I call this “Gullibility Trolling”. it’s where the Left (and right, but often it is the left) pretend to not get a joke so that they can act like the author is spreading fake news/hate/ etc.
“thinking face” must be the most passive-aggressive comment on the inter-tubes. What a cunte.
The Candidate for REAL Change!
Probably the longest running career politician alive today who can barely remember his own name, is the candidate for change.
NYT is outdoing themselves these days.
If you want to oust President Donald Trump this fall and then achieve far-reaching changes such as universal health care, who should you vote for?
So is Biden the centrist moderate you are posturing him as or is he just a Radical leftist who the establishment will control?
President Winfrey.
Biden has zero principles and morals. He will sign anything that Congress puts before him. If it’s a bill to send all [fill in blank] to the gas chambers, he’ll sign it.
He has been a POS for decades. Fuck Biden.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkn4sWgEJSo
Depends. What day is it?
Depends.
Hopefully Biden’s stocked up.
Whoohoo virus cleared the shelves.
Woe is me, I’m addicted to my phone, ch 6,912
Will these discontents push people toward revolutionary backlash? Perhaps not. But that’s almost beside the point. The capitalism that is taking shape in this century—predatory, manipulative, extremely effective at short-circuiting our rationality—is a different beast from the classical version taught in university classrooms. It cannot be regarded as beneficent and should not be given the benefit of the doubt. Profit motive and the means to create dependency is too dangerous a combination.
American society has long treated habit-forming products differently from non-habit-forming ones. The government restricts the age at which people can buy cigarettes and alcohol, and dictates places where they can be consumed. Until recently, gambling was illegal in most places, and closely regulated. But Big Tech has largely been left alone to insinuate addictive, potentially harmful products into the daily lives of millions of Americans, including children, by giving them away for free and even posturing as if they are a social good. The most addictive new devices and apps may need to be put behind the counter, as it were—packaged with a stern warning about the dangers inherent in their use, and sold only to customers of age.
Perhaps the most immediate and important change we can make is to introduce transparency—and thus, trust—to exchanges in the technological realm. At present, many of the products and services with the greatest power to manipulate us are “free,” in the sense that we don’t pay to use them. But we are paying, in the form of giving up private data that we have not learned to properly value and that will be used in ways we don’t fully understand. We should start paying for platforms like Facebook with our dollars, not our data.
Blah blah blah, these tech platforms have refined personalized service and the pursuit of an ongoing business relationship to the point of an addiction. Those bastards at youtube keep showing you more of what you have exhibited an interest in or fondness for. If you buy a purse from Amazon, they will start showing you ads for purses. That’s not fair.
That business about, pay in cash or pay in data sounds nice, but without the data, the whole system collapses.
predatory, manipulative, extremely effective at short-circuiting our rationality
But enough about socialism.
I broke down last year and finally bought a smart phone. I use it to make calls and texts that are important. I also use it to watch YouTube when I’m on the shitter. I’ve taken a total of maybe 30 pictures so far, some work related but mostly cat adjacent.
That’s gross, just get a tablet, and leave it the the shitter,
You know Liz would be all over this.
/dodged a bullet
Seriously, like, quit being addicted to the conveniences of refrigeration and laundry machines.
Things have been so good she doesn’t even have to shoplift anymore.
Ryder told Variety at the show’s red carpet premiere in New York on Wednesday that she signed on to the project because the story is “so incredibly timely.”
Based on the acclaimed Philip Roth novel, The Plot Against America imagines an alternative history of the United States where aviator Charles Lindbergh won the presidential election of 1940 and ushered in a fascist “America first” regime in which Jews are persecuted. …
Ryder said working on the series made her want to “speak out” and “do whatever I can” against the Trump administration.
“Obviously a lot has been weighing on all of our minds. The whole fear of ‘the other’ in the eyes of fascism, what’s happening at the border, all of that is so outrageous and I think the last few years has been such a mind boggling like nightmare in so many ways,” Ryder told Variety.
“When I think about this project, it makes me want to speak out and do whatever I can and the way to do that right now is to vote.”
Lindbergh hated (((them)))?
Trump is persecuting (((them)))?
He wasn’t nearly as virulent in his antisemitism as, say, his friends in Berlin, but still…..
The fact that these assholes are still equating trying to enforce border security with sending Jews to the death camps is really all you have to know about what disingenuous assholes they are.
Ok, but fair enough, that’s exactly what FDR did!
Shhhh!
Interesting. In her story did Charles do things like Suspend the Gold Standard? Did he dispose of the right to strike? Does he bully the courts into going on with his economic plans? Does he force the jews into concentration camps, and steal their property? I bet he even sent German’s who were found fighting for the allies to Germany so that they could be imprisoned in slave camps and executed.
You forgot stealing gold from its rightful owners. That’s a bit more than just suspending the standard.
Yup. Real History is interesting enough and full of the situations that they try to pretend that “could have happened” but thankfully we “dodged”. Just as a thought experiment, if the US (for some reason) had joined the Nazis rather than the Allies, I’m pretty sure the UK would have caved, and history would be much different. In such a world the current crop of authoritarians would talk about how awful the communists were, and “sure the Nazis did bad things” but that they faught against the commies, etc.
Dude, I think the newest DLC for Hearts of Iron IV has a bunch of game breaking bugs too, but chill….
Lol. I played as Republican Spain the other weekend, and i’ll tell you that that is all bullshit. Get wiped across the floor by the Nationalists. I seem to recall the War being more hard fought in reality.
It’s the Paradox way. Introduce imbalance through a DLC that will be fixed in the next DLC that introduces another imbalance, wash, and repeat.
Except for the DLC that just breaks the game and causes it to crash.
They’ve always had a problem balancing the Spanish Civil War. Originally the Nationalists would always win, then they re-balanced it and the Republicans would always win, so I guess now the pendulum has swung back the other way.
It’s OK to round up the deplorables and send them to detention centers/forced labor camps where they will stay until they die naturally, but our betters draw the line at proactively killing them.
Forgetting of course that their idea was literally Hitler’s idea until the economic reality of such a scheme makes you realize how much it costs to not proactively kill them. It’s not a huge leap of immoral faith to proactively kill them, it’s literally the economically logical next step. The immoral evil began with naming them deplorables. Once you’ve taken that leap of faith, the progressively more evil steps require no extra effort.
Reading is FUNdamental.
Lockstep, Lockjaw.
Someone the other night asked me to consider how the history of the world would have been different if George Washington was killed with Gen. Braddock or during the Rev War and the British had won. Sounds like a good alternate history novel. Does Kaiser Bill dare take on a Britain backed from Day One by the British Commonwealth of North America? No WWI equals no WWII, etc.
What’s one more agricultural backwater colony in supporting the british empire?
Powerhouse status was not predestined. Under the bootheel of the king after a failed rebellion, I’m not so sure there would even have been westward expansion even anything close to what we had.
The entire Louisiana Purchase either doesn’t happen or sparks a war with France when the Colonies want to push west.
Would the nature of the French revolution change? Or the entire course of events there?
Britain might have used our natural resource base as war materiel to invade during The Terror. Especially since it wouldn’t have had the losses from the Revolution to deal with. And extra 12 years of conscripting from America and all the shipbuilding we could have geared up for…
Unless, of course, the American Revolution was, in a sense, historically inevitable and Washington would have been replaced with an equally competent General.
Revolutionaries were a minority of the colonists. It was hardly inevitable that the American Revolution would take place or succeed.
France was going to have some sort of severe unrest, simply because of the number of problems. Whether or not the head-chopping stage was inevitable is up for debate.
There are very few alt-history novels that involve the American Revolution and some quick googling doesn’t turn up one with the exact premise of an early death for Washington.
Turtledove cranked one out, of course:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Georges
The one alternate history some historians right about is if Britain had not gone whup-ass on Boston after the Tea Party. If parliament had worked out some kind of deal, then it’s plausible that the US would have gone along similar lines to Canada and Australia, i.e. federation status then a gradual move to virtual independence.
Sheesh, “write” not “right.”
I’m more inclined to believe that history is a series of inevitabilities and accidents/dumb luck rather than a series of successes by TOP. MEN. People probably need to comfort themselves into thinking Nazi Germany would never have happened without Hitler because it’s too discomforting to think it was either inevitable or a horrible set of not-so-strange coincidences. The present-day American Left needs to believe that Trump is an evil monster because the actual reality that they’ve created their own backlash is too scary to their collective ego to admit.
This article from 16 years ago made me reflect on a lot of history beyond just the piece of history it covers.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2004/12/among-the-hostage-takers/303596/
I think the mismanagement of the colonies is the most interesting counterfactual to think about. It’s easier to envision the colonies never really gathering enough ire to revolt and then just kind of being southern Canada. Simon Schama makes the point in A History of Britain that the American Revolution could’ve easily been avoided if the British hadn’t repeatedly screwed up the politics. Shit, a lot of the revolutionaries probably would’ve been perfectly content if the British had offered to accept the colonies as polities entitled to representation in Parliament.
if the British had offered to accept the colonies as polities entitled to representation in Parliament.
That is what they were initially after. And a certain level of autonomy.
Firstly, Britain was spread thin. They were fighting about 12 different wars while they were fighting us.
Even so, we were losing until the French got involved–and badly.
There was the Caribbean hurricane of 1780 (worst one ever recorded–Hi Greta!) that destroyed Sint Eustatius, which was our major port for black market goods.
British Admiral Rodney was as much hindrance to the British as help, since he used his fleet basically as pirates and would choose to plunder rather than fight. He sent 2 men o’ war back to England to carry his greed and was unable to assist in the Battle of Chesapeake. Those 2 ships would have made all the difference.
I would assume that there were enough radicals in Boston that Britain was fed up with them and the Boston Tea Party was the last straw, not some one-off moment of chaos that sparked an emotional reaction. If you were a New England moderate at the time, the numeric reality is that there were thousands of self-righteous Puritans in your midst and only dozens of loyal British subjects. At some point you’re just going to pick the devil that seems like it will be the lesser hassle.
Also, Admiral Rodney thought Washington could “certainly be bought – honours will do it”. That was around 1779, 1780.
Rodney’s behavior may or may not have been a huge unwitting ally to the Americans, but he was as monkey wrench as he was well-oiled cog.
All that research for 1 throwaway sentence.
Speaking of the Battle of the Chesapeake, there’s an area nearby called Parole that is so named because it was used during the Revolution as a location to exchange prisoners.
I’m more inclined to believe that history is a series of inevitabilities and accidents/dumb luck rather than a series of successes by TOP. MEN.
While there are definitely tides the move history, I do think what you term “TOP MEN” in fact steer the ship. I don’t think France tries to conquer Europe without Napoleon, or Mongolia conquers much of the world without Genghis, etc. Which is not to say that top men create these events ex nihilo (and I rather think that’s impossible), but rather that an organic grass-roots movement often needs the right top man to order things for success. I know that theory might not be popular here, but it does seem to me to be the one best supported by history. And for your specific example, I do think the Nazis or something like them were probably inevitable but I also think things would have gone very, very differently had Rohm stabbed Hitler in the back instead of vice versa.
I think there are a few stolen bases in the premise, but with that stipulation I’m not sure that the British would have benefited from the colonies remaining British. The 13 colonies in particular were an economic drain, and the population was restive by nature. Even in a failed revolution they’d still have to sink resources and men into maintaining security; unlike the Caribbean colonies, the American colonies south of Canada didn’t really provide much in terms of economic benefit. That’s why taxation was such a big deal; they were getting furs from Canada and sugar from the islands, but basically just tax revenue from the states. As gratifying as it is to think of plucky proto-Americans taking on the British Empire and defeating it head-to-head on the field of battle, the revolution was won mainly because the British decided it wasn’t worth dealing with us.
“the American colonies south of Canada didn’t really provide much in terms of economic benefit. ”
Basically correct. However, rice coming out of South Carolina was important. And the British wanted to keep Charleston as a base for defending sailing routes from the Caribbean. This was the main reason they essentially abandoned New England after Saratoga and adopted a “southern strategy.”
That’s true, I glossed over the strategic value of the southern colonies WRT to trade and shipping.
Oh, and one more thing I should toss in there, although it’s not as big a deal. The British were also getting a lot of naval stores from the south.
One of the biggest knock-on effect would have been no Civil War, or at worst an attempted revolution in the South when the Brits outlawed slavery.
Its an interesting counterfactual, no question.
No one told her a fascist won in 1932 already?
Imagine we had a president in 1940 who would go on to put people in camps based on their race! Shocking!
That too.
Just watched the trailer. Good lord…
“We have to get out.”
“He closed the borders.”
Hates Jews but wants to keep them in?
“It’s the America Firsters”.
Fuck off, film.
’90s Winona Ryder was aesthetic perfection. But for the love of christ she should never, ever talk.
So a booze store near me, part of a small chain, is under new management and decided to get rid of some old stock. Pie got a pretty damn good discount on some wine. Coronovirus supplies !
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1UI0OHlL3rLuZ6rL_lpYD6U2Citmk2C4V
Not a bad haul for 500 Romanian currency
Not a wino, but they look nice!
500 Romanian currency
Monopoly money appears to be relatively valuable in Romania.
“Elites”. I believe that’s what these sorts refer to themselves as, no?
Sometimes you go looking for the hotel bible to steal for the merch booth and find a different need.
https://twitter.com/DougStanhope/status/1235449677857710080
Beretta Px-4? Nice.
Tempting to keep but I would probably ask the hotel who stayed there last and see if I could keep the cops out of it.
I am amazed you can recognize the type just by that picture
oohhh looking closer it is written on it
My neighbor / shootin’ buddy has one.
The PX-4’s got some unique ergonomics that make it stand out, even when partially obscured.
I had one until the boating accident.
Wait, it’s not a complementary hotel self-defense gun?
apparently not
“Hillary Clinton took more cash from Harvey Weinstein than any other Democrat ”
https://nypost.com/2020/02/26/hillary-clinton-took-more-cash-from-harvey-weinstein-than-any-other-democrat/
Trailer trash whores always be making accusations, yo.
Jumping between glibs and FB (gotta check it for work) and came across this:
To all the women on my Friends list. Happy Women’s History Month
Forgot that I wasn’t on glibs and almost posted something regrettable.
Something about Hinamatsuri all month long?
Well done! It’s OMWC’s favorite Japanese holiday.
I’m going to have to link the Chisato Moritaka song made for OMWC.
https://youtu.be/GewWg-T29Js
An English translation of the lyrics for everyone
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/私がオバサンになっても-even-when-im-old-lady.html
I know the song well!
We combine Setsubun and Hinamatsuri. Throw beans at the dolls.
Could be worse. You could be throwing the dolls.
The proper response that satisfies that works both ways is “Every month is Women’s History month.”
How’s the job search going?
Do it. That way all your derpbook ‘frenz’ give you a downvote and you get off there for good.
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48 hours in Bucharest: explore the eclectic Romanian city that’s alive with creative power
https://www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/11650/48-hours-in-bucharest-romania-things-to-do
Thanks! It’s on my list.
Did you decide on London, yet?
nope, I have till the 21st
We are trying to assess the risk of sites being closed. The CR only has a handful of cases at this point – and all via northern Italy.
I’m not terribly concerned about the virus, but it would suck to have the cool stuff closed while we are there.
I am not concerned about myself but about passing on to family. My aunt who lives next to my mom is 71 and has (or had she is now on blood thinners ) a form of lung thrombophilia… i do not worry about myself
That’s a pretty impressive brewery, going by the pic!
it is loud and crowded and the food is average but overall it is in impressive place and nothing is bad…
From another site:
Watching Uncle Joe give a speech, is like watching a chain-smoker filling up his gas tank.
“Paige Spiranac relives the hell of ‘horrible’ nude photo scandal ”
https://www.instagram.com/_paige.renee/
https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/paige-spiranac-relives-the-hell-of-horrible-nude-photo-scandal/
She posed nude in Sports Illustrated.
Trying to up her victim cred for internet points.
If you don’t want your nude photos to be seen by the world, then don’t take any.
She might be playing it up, but she sent a boyfriend some nudes and he passed them on to all and sundry. It was unwise, but she’s the wronged party here. I don’t blame her for trying to make some lemonade out of those lemons.
And yes, that euphemism was 100% intentional. Because those are some fantastic lemons.
I agree he’s an asshole, but this definitely falls into the “unwise actions” category
For sure. As the father of a young daughter who already is way more familiar with smartphones than I’d like, I’m gearing up for the “Listen, honey, whatever you’re doing, never take any pictures you wouldn’t want your kids to see on television in ten years.”
There’s a difference between posing nude in a magazine and having an ex send your nudes to his friends. She sent him nudes for his private enjoyment, not to be shared with the public.
True, but it rings much more hollow when the offense is “the public seeing additional nude pictures that were not earmarked for public consumption” versus “person who otherwise doesn’t get naked for public consumption has their nudes leaked.”
The level of outrage seems like it should be orders of magnitude lower for the first one.
She posed for the magazine nudes AFTER he released the private ones as a gesture to take control of the situation. It isn’t a case of person with public nudes has a private one released at all.
Ah, I missed the timing on that one… Yeah, that’s shitty.
Suddenly golf is interesting.
I would think that studying her swing in slo-mo would be . . . educational.
So brave
Jimmy Dore with a little compilation of Biden’s plagiarism:
https://youtu.be/lSUPfnYdXFU
If you can look past the calculated lefty rants it’s pretty funny.
Gawd. He’s been pulling the “Wanna compare IQs?” trick for that long?
IQ tests mostly measure the ability to take IQ tests.
‘specially if ya keep doin’ em over and over!
Well, someone just lost their based, uncucked, red-pilled, “I read Quillette because it’s like the New Yorker but for incels!” card.
*stares blankly for a moment*
I have no idea what you just said.
I read it three times and gave up.
HM swims in different waters, my friend.
I can decode that, I think. You are no longer a member in good standing of the edgy, race realist crowd that doesn’t let other guys fuck their wife and spend their free time watching Matrix or reading lite right nationalist blogs.
…. I don’t let other guys fuck my wife
“let”
“Let” “want” “prefer”. Don’t blame me. I used google translate.
^The stupidest Glib agrees.
SO some glibs and Taleb do have some things in common on IQ
That and general intelligence. But sure.
Saw that last night.
Trump should just run campaign commercials of those commentators calling him unfit for office back in the 80’s
What’s crazy is that you can fully see how senile he actually is now by comparing his speaking style then with now.
A note to YouTube: Stop trying to ram Fox News and Jordan Peterson videos down my throat.
What the hell is going on with their algorithm?
Too many organic trending results blacklisted by humans. It’s compensating from an increasingly short list of not-yet-banned unleft content.
I watch Styx Hexenhammer and I get Fox, Jimmy Dore and I get the Hoover Institute, and a damn ASMR video and it tries to to play Peterson. It’s ridiculous.
I turn off autoplay, so I don’t get bothered by what unrelated claptrap it thinks should go next.
Mind you, 80% of the time, I’ve turned scripts back off and closed the tab before the video hits the end anyway.
*whispers in Stinky’s ear*
Yeah, well, I’m home sick and I’m indulging myself a little bit.
“self care”
Stop sucking black cock, Lizzie and your problems will soon waft away.
you think thats tough I get Antena 3 recommendations
What the hell is going on with their algorithm?
Say what you want about YouTube’s algorithm. It’s better than Facebook’s. They think I’m gay conservative.
Maybe they know you better than you know yourself?!?!?!
Maybe.
Maybe it has more to do with my right clicking the Mike Bloomberg ads and reporting it to them as “sexually explicit content’. It did get rid of his ads.
First presumptive case of COVID-19 in Alberta reported this morning (in Calgary — their international airport’s a lot more international than Edmonton’s).
WOO-HOO!!! We’re finally part of the cool kids’ club!
No, that’s “Woo-Haan”
Wu Hu and Yi Ha.
In my head, they are chicks. So,
Go on…
Sum Ting Wong?
Uh, congrats?
Nobody is freaking out here but Wifey works at the airport and I work in a huge postal facility. If any one is gonna get it unless they work in customs and immigration it would be us.
Think that I might scoop a box of toilet tissue from work, just to be sure.
Watch for cameras. They locked up all the N95’s at work.
We had to move them all to the charge nurse’s station.
If you want one, you better be willing to risk a limb to get it.
Put them in the drug cart and make them audit them with the opiates every single shift change.
Has anyone named their dog ‘Coronavirus’ yet?
Just wondering, the left are in full on hysteria mode hoping for a pandemic to get rid of Trump. They basically went right from impeachment to pandemic without missing a beat.
The admin does need to step up their game though. It’s overblown and is going to go pandemic regardless of what’s done but they need to at least appear to be working their asses off. Perception is reality to a certain extent.
I saw somebody on the interwebs call it “Covington – 19”. I doubt it will catch on.
I’m not going to stop calling it Wuhan.
*raises fist in solidarity*
Kung Flu
Flu Manchu
Something something money in politics.
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has decided to form an independent expenditure campaign that will absorb hundreds of his presidential campaign staffers in six swing states to work to elect the Democratic nominee this fall.
The group, with a name that is still undisclosed because its trademark application is in process, would also be a vehicle for Bloomberg to spend money on advertising to attack President Trump and support the Democratic nominee, according to a person familiar with the discussions, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. …
The new group, operating with the same potentially limitless bankroll that funded Bloomberg’s campaign, could play a major role in shaping the race this fall. Bloomberg, who is worth more than $50 billion, also has not ruled out using the group to spend money to support former vice president Joe Biden during his primary fight against Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). Bloomberg dropped out of the race Wednesday.
Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has decided to form an independent expenditure campaign that will absorb hundreds of his presidential campaign staffers in six swing states to work to elect the Democratic nominee this fall.
And only two or three years after the election, the FEC will conclude that there was, in fact, illegal coordination amounting to tens of millions of dollars of illegal campaign contributions to the Democrat.*
And nothing else will happen.
*SLD on campaign finance laws, with ROL disclaimer.
“I CAN STILL BUY THIS ELECTION!!!!111!!1”
*Licks fingers*
Thanks for the reminder – Launder and and all Bloomberg money asap, and wash your hands if you accidentally touch it ungloved.
If Bloomberg spent tons of money to destroy sanders, it would just do that much more to ensure Bernie Supporters say “Fuck You” to the DNC and don’t vote in November.
They called the new focus group “It’s okay when we do it”.
At some point being inundated with annoying ads has to have the opposite effect for spite if nothing else.
Hmm. But that counters the standard Political Science View that “People are really stupid and will vote for whomever they heard a lot about in ads”.
Ah, the old “last sign the dumb rubes see on the way into the polling place” gambit.
I had to laugh… the girlfriend got a Bloomberg 2020 mailer yesterday.
By mysterious undocumentable means and the working of God’s ways, I happen to know there was a case of coronavirus in St. Louis last night.
Was? Is it dealt with?
“Shoot, shovel, and shut up.”
It was BEING dealt with at the time I learned of it.
Interesting. It’s not on Johns Hopkins dashboard. You sure it was confirmed?
I don’t know what CONFIRMED means in database-updating-speak, but I am confident in my source.
I assume it means a positive test and formal report.
The single case Beam mentioned shows up for Calgary. I’ll watch for St. Louis.
Probably on positive retest by the CDC. I believe they’re still double checking positive test results, due to the initial problems with fielding the test kits.
CONFIRMED == the test reagents panel came back positive for COVID-19.
Nice. Our closest ones are still in Hongcouver. We’re all gonna diiiiiieeeeeee!
Meh, that shit is loose now. It’s going to run its course.
I told my 81 year old father with interstitial lung disease to go to the mountain house and to not come back for a while.
Jesus. Sorry for the jokes, Friend.
Oh, fer fuck sake, Mitt. Just switch parties already.
But being John McCain gets him so much airtime? Tough call, really.
Thank God he lost to Obama, he would have been a disaster.
It’s amazing that there are still people who believe the two parties aren’t basically the same side.
I’ve been in court before and the way that the prosecutors and defenders act would turn your hair either curly or straight. Making deals with peoples’ lives with nary a thought. Bestest buddies.
My uncle-in-law is a judge and I used to work at the circuit court in town a while back. I’ve sat in a few sessions, and the amount of power a judge has over your life is absolutely terrifying. It’s even scarier knowing the guy, and I say that as someone who actually likes him. I mean, really, if the judge is having a shitty day and maybe doesn’t like the cut of your jib–you look like someone he/she didn’t like in school, or he/she finds your accent annoying–your ass is going to prison for an arbitrary length of time.
This is known, Khaleessi. It was disgusting the way that they played with the defendents like so many Magic The Gathering cards. Hearty chortling abounded.
I think about that when people get justifiably riled up about police brutality. Yeah, a guy with a gun can pretty much jump you out of the blue with no consequences, but there’s also a person who can essentially decide to do anything at all to you for any period of time with virtually no oversight or repercussions on a whim. The cop can kick your ass, sure, but the judge can take your children away and put you in a box for the rest of your life because somebody cut him/her off on the way into work that morning.
I don’t get it. Isn’t he a Mormon? Hasn’t he forgiven Trump his trespasses yet? Pipe in Mojo.
But if he did that, then he for sure would be done for in Utah, He’s not a Matheson, he’s a Romney.
Bluidy Splitter!
How woke. Honoring Casimir Pulaski. The Pole without a pole.
It is tiresome how hard people try in order to “claim” other individuals as their own.
If they have genetic material it shouldn’t be a controversy. Y chromosome, yes or no?
Chromosomes don’t tell you what Xe identified as!
/end snark
DNA from two hundred years ago tends to be* of the mitochondrial variety, because it survives better. It’s used to establish connection to a known lineage and thus “identify” a sekelton. So they wouldn’t hav ehte XY makeup.
*They can sometimes get nuclear DNA, depending on storage condition of the corpse.
He seems sufficiently masculine to me.
Yet you found a rather busty picture.
^ heh
This seems like an appropriate place to link Kasimir S. Pulaski Day.
Veronica seems to be having a squirt.
Old news. Something fell out your ass or some such. Also, ‘There is no difference between men and women, but by these bones we can tell this man was a woman…”
Aren’t we all Just humans who have chosen to identify as one thing or another? What does it mater what he was? He identified as a man and that is all that matters.
Mulan Rogue Mother Fucker!
Is Mulan Woke or Broke?
Harmonica pussy.
Both?
“A Mannish Woman” Lizzie?
Trump signed that money for
nothingCORONA! bill, at least we got a guest appearance from Windbreaker One, been a while since we’ve seen that character.“An unforeseen problem. Not a problem.” Who the fuck is this guy?
What’s $8.2 billion among friends?
That’s what, $10 million for every American? /msnbc math
Another day, another Intel vulnerability
potentially disastrous implications for technologies built on top of it.
You mean everything in the world?