Shaq and friend
I guess this passes for sports news nowadays. Hope that helps clear that up.
France’s King Henry II was born on this day. He shares it with philosophizer René Descartes, composer Johann Sebastian Bach, another composer Franz Joseph Haydn,
That’s Mister Hockey to you, Bub!
London Underground designer Benjamin Baker, 2-stroke motorcycle engine inventor Dugald Clerk, boxing great (and Texan) Jack Johnson, actor Henry Morgan, labor organizer Cesar Chavez, hockey GOD Gordie Howe, fashion designed Liz Claiborne, James Bond stuntman Bob Simmons, acting…legend…Christopher…Walken, inventor of the internet and climate scientist with a beach house Al Gore, AC/DC guitarist Angus Young, Scottish actor Ewan McGregor, Russian hockey superstar Pavel Bure, and (youngest ever female) Indian chess grandmaster Humpy Koneru.
That list was all over the place. But solid nonetheless. Anyhow, it’s time for…the links!
Problematic, apparently
Guy retools factories to make medical masks for free. Media talking heads lose their shit when he invokes God.
Maybe you dickheads should have thought of this possibility when you started jailing people for petty, often victimless, crimes. But I’m sure they’ll point the finger at someone else other than look at why they put so many of these people at risk by confining them in close-quarters cages for stupid shit.
This would be freaking awesome. Unless, you know, they have the wrong political leanings. Or, heaven forbid, want to be compensated for what they are doing. Then it would be problematic, obviously.
These parents have bigger fish to fry than a son/daughter who wants to hang out with friends. And so does the reporter who is reporting on him putting people at risk by going to his house and interviewing strangers with her crew…which puts more people at risk.
Oh well.
Hell of a time for a rash of the blue flu to break out. But hey, at least they aren’t out there splitting heads open without consequence.
Not to be outdone by the jackboots in Virginia, the DC Mayor goes full-on authoritarian. Somehow I bet this will be selectively enforced.
I’m sure this will never be abused. Nope, not a chance.What’s next, Alexa ratting people out to the cops when it hears more than one distinct voice at a time?
Not everybody is going completely insane. Also, “allows”? Fuck off, slavers.
Some musical magic for y’all. Enjoy it.
Now go out there and have a great day, friends!
COVID-19 are small.
First!
Therapeutics are the solution. Vaccines were always a pipe dream and a stupid thing to hold out hope for.
I think you can get a vaccine….eventually.
Inject me with tiger blood. Guaranteed to work.
Adonis DNA?
Only if it’s mixed with meth. At least that’s what TV taught me.
I thought that’s how you get someone to start going around asking for another hit and offering to “suck yo dick” for it?….
But will it work for the mutations that are inevitable? That’s the rub on vaccines, to the best of my limited knowledge.
Unknown. Depends on the mutation.
^^^ Corona mutates like the Flu. Vaccines are like playing Whack-a Mole.
This
The SARs vaccine failed miserably and was abandoned because other measures got the outbreak under control.
I think I read recently about another vaccine that failed miserably, but the government kept using, because reasons…
Yeah. It’s probably called “the flu vaccine.” Since its a crapshoot if it’ll work in any given year.
People still swear by it. I have not taken one in close to 10 years, because when I did it before indubitably, 2 weeks after the shot, I had the flu. Have had the flu in the last decade only once, and that was the first year I stopped. Not since then.
Good morning Vagabonds.
https://youtu.be/KNIZofPB8ZM
https://youtu.be/EAmIuTI4wRg The bass-line is outstanding.
Excellent tune. LZ probably in my top 5.
Just so long as it doesn’t involve chloroquine.
Hey Buddy! We have fish tanks! My Body, My Choice!
It’s sure starting to look like that lady murdered her husband.
But still, somehow, obviously Trump’s fault.
Listen, if he hadn’t mentioned a drug compound on tv that others have been bandying as a potential treatment, there’s no way that lady would have rooted around in her cabinets to find something to poison her husband with. And that’s a scientific fact!
-CNN
Orange Man Bad was enough reason for Nevada’s fuckstain of a governor to ban it from being prescribed within the state. I’m not even sure how that’s possibly legal since it was an FDA approved drug for half a century, and has now gotten special dispensation for use in coronavirus cases. But I’ll bet no physician here would be interested in wagering their license to find out.
And then there’s Twitter…
It’s a states rights issue. Assuming a narrow reading of the ICC, what Article, Section, Subsection or Paragraph, and Clause gives the FDA the authority to say which food, drugs, and cosmetics may be sold or prescribed in a state?
The “Lamppost, I Have One” clause.
Recently, thought leaders have also posited a “Woodchipper” clause.
You can get OTC insulin in every state except Indiana.
I’m more interested in what part of the NV state constitution gives the governor the authority to tell physicians they can’t prescribe state-and-federally legal drugs. It’s not even an off-label use anymore since the FDA granted emergency approval on the 29th. I’d be interested in seeing what would happen if the governor of a religious flyover state decided to do the same with, say, puberty blockers for transgender children.
It’s a fact!
Haven’t seen that in ages. Thanks P.C.
*eyes castor beans in the pantry*
Yeah, and tried to pin it on Trump. TDS may have struck again.
https://www.anti-empire.com/german-infectologist-decimates-covid-doomsday-cult-in-open-letter-to-merkel/
German Infectologist Decimates COVID Doomsday Cult in Open Letter to Merkel
Pending good results – [if] we see the drug is safe and helpful means we could start releasing it for compassionate use in September.
Hopefully HCQ makes their good work unnecessary.
I’d go ahead and get FDA testing ramped up for both. But we all know that won’t happen quickly.
So which alphabet agency has the greatest shoe size to potentially step on a dick? FDA and CDC seem to be roaring up in the ratings lately.
IRS
^^^THIS^^^
Even the fucking CIA & the NSA are less feared than the IRS…
Hey, maybe they’ll “allow” local newspapers to keep publishing, too… with conditions.
I still kinda hope Trump decides to enforce the DPA and tells the newspapers with the greatest circulation (USAToday, NYT, and WaPo) to cease printing immediately and switch over to producing toilet paper. Just for the lulz.
That would be delightful!
“All the news that’s fit to print”
Gotta be softer than the Sears Catalogue…
“Dingleberries Die In Darkness”
*uptwinkles*
All the news that’s fit for shit
At least it’s got more structural integrety and absorbtion than Scott.
“People need us now!”
Why can’t they keep printing what they do and we use it as toilet paper? It’s not that what they print these days amounts to anything more than toilet paper decorations. Then again, some people might not want their nether regions to get all covered in ink (black or colored), while others might get a kick out of showing the world their color enhanced butthole. Maybe Swiss can get that cowbutt he gives us to be all colored and hit this post with it or something…
The shrieks of outrage would be awesome.
Trying to decide which Cleveland I’d rather be trapped in right now. I’m thinking TX, because at least I could drive through the Whataburger every day.
Wise choice…
*drools on keyboard*
+1 bacon cheeseburger for breakfast
Guy retools factories to make medical masks for free. Media talking heads lose their shit when he invokes God.
To be fair, it offends their rival god, government, to speak well of another God on national television.
People can’t see beyond their prejudices. That appears to be the lesson in all of this.
With the media a lot of their insanity is the uncontrollable angst & anger bad orange man causes them because he keeps running circles around them. The fact that the guy isn’t supposed to be too bright really paints these morons trying to show the world how much smarter they are than him every time he takes them to the shed and clubs their stupid shit like baby seals.
I think their hatred of bad orange man is just a lensing effect. They hate the traditional “silent majority” types for myriad reasons, and all it took was a flim flam man from Manhattan to focus that hatred into something plainly observable by the masses.
monotheists *eyeroll*
This whole thing is giving the left a huge boner. Notice the gleeful reporting on the denialists, always characterized by religious beliefs, who are sick or dead. Pay attention to the joy they are taking in the possible outbreak at Liberty University. Observe their trousers tent up when governors and mayors talk about closing churches.
They’re a bunch of disgusting ghouls.
That article was enraging.
And I say that as a nonbeliever. This guy fixed his life, became productive and is giving back.
But he told us to pray! plainly a monster. (To be fair, IDK how he phrased it.)
Doesn’t matter. Like Chic-Fil-A his company is scorned not for the product or the service but for the audacity to market with different standards and a pretty vanilla messaging campaign and I say this as an an atheist. It’s just stupidity all the way down to the turtle level. Sksksksksk! And I Oop!
The idiots on twitter are shrieking about My Pillows not being needed for coronavirus, completely ignoring the fact that he is going to be making 50,000 masks a day, for free. And some other idiot carrying on about refrigerator trucks lining up outside the hospitals because the morgues are overflowing – I guess the media somehow missed that.
The left really is deranged to the point of being batshit insane, lock them in a rubber room.
Insanity is everywhere. The only problem is that some Insanity :cough:RUSSIA:cough:Millions DEAD in USA:cough: is peddled as truth.
No great loss for ESPN. They stopped covering sports nearly four years ago.
Longer than that.
I interviewed for a job there back in the early naughts hen I was working as a consultant and I immediately realized the place was a left leaning shithole that paid a ton of credit to what later would be recognized and labeled woke credentials but then worked their contractors like slave labor, and told them they simply couldn’t pay me enough to work for that den of douches. A couple of friends that did take the job left the place a couple of months into the project when they just had enough of the butt rape. Sports has been a side business for them since forever.
God, why? and how? I wouldn’t think there’d be any overlap between sports fans and the PC sort. Hunter Thompson used to write for them FGS.
Why?
Evangelism
how?
The same way the left coopts everything else. Start in primary and secondary schooling, continue in post-secondary schooling until you grab a foothold in an industry,
This is reasonable. As opposed to the Florida fuckhead who told his congregants that God will keep them healthy and encouraged them to all gather in a building.
Now I’m imagining a Catholic drive through confessional.
Already exists. Saw an article on one the other day.
I figured, of course it’s been… over 25 years since my last confession?
“Okay Padre, I’ve got an itemized list here. It’s a bit long, so I’ll understand if you need a break. Do you want them chronologically, or by commandment?”
The sins of
FreckNeph.I went to an all boys’ catholic high school. Confession used to last about three hours even with all of the priests in boxes.
My high school changed from all girls to co-ed. My class there was the fourth year of full co-ed classes. The seniors would tell us tales of when there was only 50 guys in the whole school, and how the girls bitched for the first couple of years about needing to put on makeup and daily shaving.
I had already lost the faith by that point.
My kids still can’t comprehend single sex school. I could go in, work out, stink all day, and not worry about it. We had three all girls schools in the area. There were no smart phones then so you could date a girl from each school and no one would know about it. It was glorious.
Private Chipperbot – similar situation. Plus the school uniforms…
“I went to an all boys’ catholic high school. Confession used to last about three hours even with all of the priests in boxes.”
Especially around how many single crusty socks ended up not making it into laundry?
Only the good die young….
That’s six thousand hail mary’s while kneeling on these pencils.
Boom.
So we can exercise our rights…”reasonably”. OK.
It’s a gray area. If you want to gather and get infected, knock yourself out. The issue of negligence comes into play when you then go out afterwards and infect others without regard. At what point in that decision tree do you cross the NAP line?
I’m not offering an answer here, just raising the question.
So I am barred from taking Communion, because…risk.
Violators of the order could be forced to pay a fine up to $1,000 or 180 days in the county jail, Poston said..
With your Trump bucks, you could still come out $6K ahead and you saved on groceries.
Did I say that?
I am just raising a question.
I’m actually trying to flesh out the principles involved and haven’t decided where the line is. I don’t think it’s that easy of an issue.
If the government has the legal authority to quarantine a person at all under any circumstance, then we’ve already crossed into an argument over degrees of enforcement. Where does it begin, where does it stop? I know what ancaps would say, but what’s the line for a minarchist?
I honestly don’t know what I think yet, so I’m gonna go all Napolitano on it.
Quarantine – restricts an individual who poses some identifiable risk/threat to others.
Shutdown/shelter in place – restricts individuals who pose no identifiable risk/threat to others.
For *spit* “their own good”.
IMO, you draw the line somewhere between issuing guidelines/explaining best practices and throwing people in cages for exercising a fundamental human right.
Banning free movement, free association, or religious practices even in the short term is unconstitutional and evil. Anyone who supports these kinds of forcible bans is supporting state control of their life in the most basic way.
That’s a fair enough distinction I think insofar as “identifiable” is a weasel word.
Remember Swiss you don’t need to be at church to take Communion. It can be done anywhere by any believer. Though I would encourage to get together with at least a small group and participate together.
“you don’t need to be at church to take Communion”
A State determination?
No, I’m just saying don’t let the state box you in on how you practice your faith. Communion is not about a building.
I am not saying it is OK for the state to prevent people from gathering together either.
I am not letting the State dictate anything… but if I want to have my Pastor give me Communion, I want to have my Pastor give me Communion. State be damned.
agreed.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
“…unless a mayor, county or State official says so.”
They are not in congress, so that’s totes cool unless they are fans of bad orange man..
/progtard
His State Constitution guarantees it as well:
SECTION 3. RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
The free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession
and worship, without discrimination, shall forever be
guaranteed, and no person shall be denied any civil or
political right, privilege or capacity, on account of his
religious opinions; but the liberty of conscience hereby
secured shall not be construed to dispense with oaths or
affirmations, excuse acts of licentiousness, or justify
practices inconsistent with the peace or safety of the State.
No person shall be required to attend or support any ministry
or place of worship against his consent, nor shall any
preference be given by law to any religious denomination or
mode of worship.
Most do.
I haven’t read the whole thread so forgive me if this has been covered.
Are churches exempt from building/fire codes, noise ordinances, occupancy limits? Outside of scale how is requiring churches to enforce leper length fundamentally different than those things?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
We just need common-sense
gungod laws!Something something suicide pact.
“The founding fathers could not possibly have predicted bat soup.”
Nice one, Rhy! *high five with nitrile glove*
Yeah, they had no experience at all with deadly pandemics back in the days of rampant Smallpox, Cholera, etc. etc.
????
Bat soup? Nah, nah. The Founding Fathers actively tried to keep us safe from the coronavirus by making sure the US Army had to be reauthorized every 2 years.
OK, so let’s say you’re infected. Does the government have the power to quarantine you and prevent you from assembling with others? Are you guilty of reckless endangerment if you do go out in public?
The question I’m getting at is whether or not quarantine is acceptable at all. The federal government has been using quarantine powers for at least 140 years now. States have probably been using them for even longer as they have more police powers than the feds.
If the answer is that a quarantine is not justifiable under any circumstance, it’s a position I hadn’t honestly considered before, probably simply because we don’t have much modern experience with it, certainly not on this scale.
Quarantine is a pretty minor intervention, anyway. At least we never have to worry about the feds forcibly sterilizing people.
Strict Constitutionally, it seems quarantine would be allowed if a grand jury specifically says that a specific person should be quarantined.
Be around at 11 for this exact subject.
Thanks Ozy. I’m looking forward to it.
Issuing “guidelines” is reasonable. Using men with guns to enforce restrictions on a clearly-established right isn’t.
^THIS^
I am not going to be stupid about it, but if you tell me I am forbidden….
Yup. This is the single most obnoxious stolen base by the branch covidians… It’s not like the only options are holing up inside and having snot-swapping orgies in the streets.
Exactly.
My rights are mine; they are inherent. By definition that means that only I get to decide when and how I will exercise them. The moment you concede the power to determine what risks are too great to permit me to exercise my rights, you have declared those rights void and announced yourself as my Master. Only your Master can give you permission to act.
If by “reasonable” you mean “blatantly unconstitutional”, then yes, I agree with you.
Still no change in the end of the lockdown here in Ohio. So theoretically, some places may be able to start opening back up next week. On the other hand, Ohio schools have been suspended through May. Don’t worry though, Ohio Lottery sales have been deemed essential.
Someone needs to be the Omega Man! Why not you, Citizen?
I had a news story pop up in my news feed with more details about the lottery sales. Including the note that they had closed the locations where you could cash in your big winners. Because giving out prizes is not essential.
They did the same here. I guess you just stuff that golden ticket under your pillow and pray that the yellow peril doesn’t carry you off.
Posting this because of the timing: the painter’s birthday
‘A painting by Vincent van Gogh with an estimated value of up to £5m has been stolen from a Dutch museum currently closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The thieves took Van Gogh’s Parsonage Garden at Neunen in Spring after smashing through the front glass door of the Singer Laren museum, in Laren, at around 3.15am on Sunday morning. No other art is believed to be missing.
The burglar alarm had been triggered by the break-in but the thieves had fled by the time police officers arrived.’
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/mar/30/van-gogh-painting-stolen-from-dutch-museum
At least no law enforcement officers were hurt.
I’ve always been perplexed by art thefts. How do you move something like that? Sell it to some Russian oligarch?
It’d have to be sold someone who can intimidate others into silence, that’s for sure.
If you don’t have a buyer lined up before the theft, you are an idiot.
Not if you sell it back to who you stole it from before the theft goes public.
Not applicable in this case.
Ransoming is a risky strategy.
Ferengi Rule of Acquisiton 62: ‘The riskier the road, the greater the profit’
According to CNN, is more frequent than stealing for collectors.
cnn.com/2008/CRIME/02/14/art.theft/
I never said it didn’t happen, I just said it was risky. By definition you have to deal with a hostile party liable to engage the authorities.
Incentive to provide illusion that security works. The idea is that to the outside world, the theft never happened.
Would be a mistake, because the criminals would know you just pay up, so it’s like putting a “Rob me again” sign on your door.
Not saying you are wrong. According to CNN, ransoming art is more frequent than stealing for collectors.
Allegedly, theft going public puts a crimp on borrowing art, getting traveling exhibitions …
More often than not I bet that these “thefts” amount to insurance fraud attempts.
I’m curious as to whether the thieves targeted that painting because (presumably) that museum was easy to break into, or whether someone who really, really wanted that painting approached the art thieves and asked if theft was possible.
So where do these end up? In the Middle East?
Obviously, in a private collection, but even then, how many people can you show it to without getting busted?
Collecting is not always about showing off the collection.
Too some: “Look at painting. Neener neener.’
To others: ‘Oh, you like the forgery? Always liked that painting.’
One suspects that the people you would show that to would be the sort who also have stolen art, etc.
And then drugs fell out of the ass of Van Gogh’s corpse?
“Starry, starry niiiight…”
I think they fell out of the ear in this case.
Wake up!
https://youtu.be/r2xBKoKyD_s
I actually feel bad for the pillow guy who’s doing more to fight this thing than all of his idiot critics combined. If there is a God I’m sure he’s giving this guy a check mark in the this guy’s alright column for what he’s doing.
But he is an icky Bleever, Sky Daddy worshipping Xtian Godbag Christfag…so it doesn’t count that he wants to help.
Well, at least he can’t go to church any more.
Finally, people have to worship in underground churches, just like in China.
I had a talk with my wife about that.
We hold up the underground churches in China and muslim countries with high regard in the states. At what time will we (believers in the US) start to come together in defiance of laws that forbid us from gathering together? Whether at the actual church buildings or just as a group of believers in a home.
I heard a pastor (in Florida?) was recently arrested for holding church services…anyone else heard this? (I’m sure it’s been linked here and I missed it)
Styxhexenhammer was talking about that this morning, he might have a link in his video description.
Florida pastor arrested
https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/490241-pastor-arrested-for-holding-church-services
Louisiana services continue without arrest
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-ban-1200-people-attend-louisiana-church-service-defying-governor/
If my church held mass, I would attend in person. But between the bishop bending over for the governor and commie pope in the pro-quarantine camp, there aren’t going to be any rebel priests holding mass in the catacombs anytime soon.
Dude went from being an addict to a successful bitnessman and they just want to mock him. The media once again proves it’s evilness. Also, My Pillow guy once partied with Prince so he’s cooler than them. (edit fairies post a Prince gif pleeeeeaaaase)
*hugs edit fairies
I alone am the One Glib that actively dislikes Prince.
That is uncorrect
*fist bumps Festus*
You just hate him because he was from Minnesota.
The last guy who said that had to play b-ball with him and lost. #blousesFTW
+1 plate of pancakes
I suspect there are many of us. Never understood the attraction.
I can’t even…
Well, I’m odd…
You walk in through the out door?
I’m not a big fan. He impressed me on a PBS salute to a musician (can’t remember who exactly…might have been George Harrison). His solo and John Mayer’s were both amazing.
I grew up listening to him. The Minneapolis sound was a thing and it was a fun time.
I understand why people might not like him, but he will always be a go-to for me.
The good stuff.
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
He was a fucking amazing guitarist. However, he chose to almost* never showcase that talent, which was a shame.
*I said almost. So don’t throw out a few examples “proving me wrong”
I will say he is a musical genius. His music I have listened too…after that tribute solo I listen a bit more now.
From the 80s Minneapolis wave I always preferred The Replacements but I never had anything against Prince. His quasi funk/R&B focus wasn’t really my bag but he was obviously an amazing talent.
That’s what was fun about ’80s Minneapolis. We had an incredible explosion of amazing music. ‘Mats, Husker Du, Prince, The Time, Suburbs, Babes in Toyland, Soul Asylum, Flyte Time, Trip Shakespeare…
Good stuff.
It’s not that I hate his music, but he probably wouldn’t make a top 50 artist list were I to assemble one.
It’s not that I hate his music, it’s that I can’t name anything he’s done.
He wrote a mashup tune for a Batman movie that was on the radio in 1989.
You are not alone. But my opinion of Prince is that he was an awesome guitar player and a decent song writer, but he should never have been allowed anywhere near a mixing board. I’ve heard enough concert sound board bootleg recordings of his to be absolutely blown away, And the sole difference is that he wasn’t at the board.
Add me to the list. Bland 80s pop and forgettable R&B. Good showman, I’ll give him that.
There are dozens of us! DOZENS!
WE ARE LEGION!
I got that reference.
At the bottom of the antibody article:
“The CDC also says facemasks should only be used by people who show symptoms of the virus. If you’re not sick, you do not have to wear a facemask.”
They keep saying this. How would I know if I’m asymptomatic? It just seems like stupid advice.
They’re telling a white lie in order to address the mask shortages in the medical community. Their advice is bullshit for people who know what kind of mask to wear, how to check the fit, etc. Even the surgeons masks likely help with preventing transmission from people with the virus to those who don’t have it.
Probably, but it’s an obviously absurd white lie. You can make masks out of a myriad of things. Just go to YT. What they are doing is most likely causing the virus to spread more quickly.
Yes.
Look at what the Internet found….
https://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2007/r070503.htm
And the FDA approved respirator masks without a fit test for just that very scenario…
Also, the conflation by the anti barrier folks of a respirator and a surgical style face mask.
Who needs any fancy masks?
The most comfortable masks you’ll ever wear!
I giggled.
If Trump came out with a bunch of MAGA ventilators and respirators….
With a little picture of The Hat on each one.
They probably are!
I made a little PSA for the CDC.
Haha.
That is awesome. Nice work!
I often hear shooting from my neighbors and when I don’t I become concerned. Lately though I haven’t heard any. What has happened? Are they out of ammo? Money to buy ammo? Hunkering down and waiting, waiting, saving their ammo, just in case?
I could check but that wouldn’t be neighborly, they’d be suspicious.
Conserving ammo, I’d imagine.
Bored. My oldest messed around with his reloading for awhile, shot some, and you could hear neighbors shooting more than usual. Then (IMO) everybody got bored with it and moved on to other stuff.
Bored. My oldest messed around with his reloading for awhile, shot some, and you could hear neighbors shooting more than usual. Then (IMO) everybody got bored with it and moved on to other stuff.
Squirrels aren’t bored, though.
LOL
Wondering if all of these new plexi-glass screens that the retailers are installing will become the “new normal” going forward…
They will stay up until they break, then not be replaced.
Prob’ly
I don’t want to think about how much of this is going to become the new normal. Are we going to have COVID-19 season going forward where everyone shelters in place for a couple of weeks? Will working from home become the new normal? Will the lack of pants sales finally kill even business casual?
I don’t know about you people, but I choose to wear pants on a daily basis.
Do pajama bottoms count as pants?
What do you mean “you people”?
Honestly, if I’m at home all day, I’ll just throw on a pair of shorts.
But wouldn’t these people already own business suitable shirts? Why would there be an increase in sales rather than a decrease in the unneeded category?
It’s a CNN puff piece, so my guess is that more people are buying comfortable tops to wear working from home. I know I’m not putting on a polo shirt to sit in my house all day.
I’ve always found button-down shirts to be more comfortable than what people call comfortable. Which makes it easy since I only need one set of clothes.
UCS is always tucking his shirt in too isn’t he
Sweat pants + pockets = swants
Yes, my UA joggers even have a fake fly.
Quite smart, actually. I may work them into a normal weekly rotation.
The future normal that scares me the most is the shutting down of society by executive fiat. No way that would ever be abused.
Of course. I was just grazing about on the pasture. All of this pants shitting is unprecedented in my lifetime and I was born not long after the Cuba Crisis.
As long as you weren’t gamboling across the fields and plains…
Am I not free to?
Casinos are closed and if you set up a private game you need to stay a Leper Length apart. Makes it hard to read the pips.
Hell, the fact there’s people calling 911 to report “non-compliant businesses” is where I give up on my fellow person. I knew places that allowed smoking after the bans, places that violate several liquor laws, places that would be blatantly running (illegal in the state) gambling games and the like. No one called in complaints at these places.
I’m willing to bet that at least one of my locals is probably still selling drinks for on premise consumption. Most likely while the person waits for their take out order to be ready (and if it takes a couple hours…).
The fact that there’s people who would call in a complaint on that is the heartbreaking thing.
The fact that there’s people who would call in a complaint on that is the heartbreaking thing.
This is the kind of behavior that bullying used to beat out of people. There used to be a fear of pissing off the wrong guy and waking up to a horse head in your bed that made busybodies have to pick their battles.
“We’re helping to make the new normal more… normal.”
/tone-deaf State Farm commercial that makes me want to drive a fist through the TV screen
I just use a baseball cap. You know that little button on top can be quite destructive when you throw the hat full-force at the TV screen.
” …that little button on top…”
AKA a “squatchee”
/thanks SugarFree
Salad bar sneeze guards remain with us.
We don’t have them in Ohio.
‘Liberty County allows churches, gun shops to stay open with conditions in amended order’
Is it a fair interpretation of the article that the PTBs wanted to close them, but the attorneys told them no, so the order was amended?
Have they checked the name of the county?
A necessary wartime lie, maybe? Maybe a supply demand thing for the general public
That was to straff above
Have you gone Brooks on us?
Fill in the blank:
Once you go Brooks, you never go _________.
5 spaces in?
Say what you will about P.Brooks, at least he has an ethos.
Well, that’s disappointing.
I thought my response was pretty clever, Smart girl…
Coronavirus: I’m in lockdown with my abuser
If it saves just one life…
I think me and about a thousand other people called this about three weeks ago. What a fucking disaster. Lock people up that already loathe each other and limit the amount of services, entertainment and goods that they might avail themselves of and it becomes a fucking powder-keg. Wifey is getting on my nerves and our relationship is healthy. I can’t imagine what it would be like if the girls were still at home.
MTA – This is akin to prison.
180 (?) million war rooms in the US alone.
At least in prison some people have sex….
Tool says so
“just a finger”
As do Bob and Tom NSFW
So the solution is?
Final.
In Romania for example,a feminist group held a flash mob in front of parliament on 1st of March against violence. So that sorted it out round these parts. I am not sure of other countries.
..
I always knew raves were the work of the Nazis
Kill/Jail All Men.
that could be a bestseller. Get writing.
It’s been done. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas
And in reverse.
Yep. All the closet-Bellas are coming out of the woodwork. Shoulda used cedar.
THE PENIS IS EVIL!
ZARDOZ SPEAKS TO YOU, HIS CHOSEN ONE. CORRECT! YOU HAVE LEARNED WELL. ZARDOZ IS PLEASED. ZARDOZ HAS SPOKEN.
Hmm . . I was reading about the upcoming presidential election. I had forgotten that I’m running for president. Seriously, completely forgot. I guess that puts me on the same level as Biden.
/Vote BLC1 for president.
/Veto Party 2020
“I’m Joe Biden and I forgot this message.”
Anyone else notice Leftstream media posting pieces about postponing Biden v. Trump because of the Wuhan flu?
And they will blame orange man for trying to hold on to the WH as soon as he complies telling all of us they knew he was a fascist dictator, right?
And you remind us when I just got the Kmele 2020 yard sign shipment.
Guy retools factories to make medical masks for free. Media talking heads lose their shit when he invokes God.
Everyone knows that Christianity does not resonate with any Americans.
Dad tells son to become a hobo.
What kind of person contacts a newspaper to feed them this story?
The same kind of neurotic prick who disowns family members because they aren’t as panic-stricken and fearful as he is.
Everybody does what they want, and takes the consequences.
This, apparently, is news.
If the son has any brains, he’ll avoid NY for now anyway.
There’s that, but if NY is any indication, this problem is entirely self-caused.
I’m getting killed in the comments of the local online paper for not sucking off the popo.
They’re still escalating bullshit, piling on the bogus charges, filling up the jail with marginal cases, and Memphians are getting huge law-and-order boners over it.
Another mistake I made was refusing to call it racism: self-important cops couldn’t care less what color head they’re kicking.
Accusations of racism is the main driver behind New York’s shrinking jails, and the recent bail reform (remember when that was a big story?).
This is a very bad hard time to be expressing a principled position. The panic stricken lemmings get outraged when you don’t go along with their panic. Of course that means it is also a time when it is important to express those positions. Maybe no one will agree, but maybe hearing pushback will have some incremental effect. Or maybe I just can’t keep my stupid mouth shut…
Lol, look at these Limey bootlickers in the replies.
https://twitter.com/policewarr/status/1244163251799195649?s=21
Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
Dickheads are worse at photoshop than I am.
Immigration controls = “OMFG! Papers please! HITLER!!!!!!”. Literally being arrested for leaving your house during what’s amounting to a sub-average flu season *crickets*.
So, the latest proggie bullshit circulating is that you’re not supposed to buy the last on-the-shelf grocery item if it has a “WIC” (“Women Infants Children”, ie eligible for purchase with food stamps) tag, because POOR PEOPLE HAVE NO OTHER CHOICES. This is, of course, complete bullshit. Let’s say you buy the last box of Kellog’s Corn Flakes because they’re on sale, or whatevs. That doesn’t prevent WIC shoppers from buying store brand, or generic brand corn flakes, which are also WIC. Nor does it stop them from making alternate cereal selections, because there are many, many which qualify for WIC.
This has recently been rebranded with particular urgency at the beginning of the month, because that’s when the WIC “benefits” arrive. Like it’s totally impossible for WIC shoppers to shop at other times of the month.
My mom’s church used to have food pantry deliveries to poor people. Many times the recipients complained of generic instead of brand name cereal
Oh the things I’ve seen purchased with food stamps…
When I was checking out at my grocery on Saturday, the young man ahead of me ( 6feet- I swear!) went to pay with his benefits card, and it got declined. He pulled out of his pocket a wad of cash, with quite a few 100s in there.
Not saying it wasnt legit, but certainly was curious.
One image that has been etched into my mind was the time I loaded steak and lobster bought with food stamps (or at least bought in the same transaction) into a late model Escalade and was tipped from a Gucci purse.
Stereotypes don’t invent themselves, after all.
They tipped though…
Apparently beggars can be choosers.
Only in America.
Wow, that old chestnut is up there with “it’s a free country” in the list of things you don’t hear anymore.
My boss said her step kid would stay over on the weekend and complain about the generic cereal. She bought name brand one week, and then filled the bag with generic every weekend when the kid would stop by. The dumbass never knew the difference.
That passes the Snopes and Step-Dad test. 100% verifiable.
I did have questions, like a few times seems plausible. But is the kid that stupid that he never noticed the box was always the same?
Considering some of these woke kids these days that I have had to interact with that feel they are the ultimate authority on shit they have no fucking clue about, I would bet money they are even more stupid than that.
Darlene Conner during Roseanne’s home-ec supermarket tour: “You mean I’ve been eating generic Frankenberries?”
There is sometimes a slight taste difference between generic/store-brand and national-brand products. All cereals are vitamin fortified and the cheaper cereals use cheaper additives, ie their B-vitamins give the cereal a slightly fishy taste particularly when in a bowl of milk. National brands make sure their vitamin additives are as taste-free as possible. But I suspect that’s not what those people are actually complaining about.
In the case of canned, roasted nuts the store brand nuts sometimes have an off taste because the oil they use for the roasting (frying) process is cheap or has been previously used for other things. National brand nuts use higher quality oil that has not been previously used.
http://i.bnet.com/blogs/generic-beer1.jpg
Let’s do crime!
God says they can go fuck themselves.
Maybe missing out on name brand and having to eat generic will motivate some of those women to demand that their baby daddies cough up some dough so they can eat right?
This assumes that they know who and where the baby daddy is.
Or that they actually care if they have to be the one doing the work in any way other than to just bitch about it and expect others to do the heavy lifting to get the better shit.
Obituary: Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, son of ‘Monty’, who befriended the son of Edwin Rommel
https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/18343834.obituary-viscount-montgomery-alamein-son-monty-befriended-son-edwin-rommel/?ref=twtrec
NY State Attorney General now investigating Zoom for privacy practices.
Over the previous couple of weeks, web trolls have exploited a Zoom screen-sharing characteristic to hijack conferences and do issues like interrupt academic periods or put up white supremacist messages to a webinar on anti-Semitism — a phenomenon referred to as “Zoombombing.”
https://newsspot.net/2020/03/31/new-york-attorney-general-appears-into-zooms-privateness-practices-apps-recognition-rising-throughout-coronavirus-outbreak/
Everyone should preemptively put their own white supremacist messages in their zoom
Let me guess, the links were public, and people who were not intended just showed up
There are some ways to lock down who joins (as well as who can screen share and the like). But that would require people taking responsibility to read how the system works before hosting (or just not caring).
Hey, I’m looking forward to your teleconference thingy this Friday.
“While Zoom has remediated particular reported safety vulnerabilities, we wish to perceive whether or not Zoom has undertaken a broader evaluate of its safety practices.”
Wut?
“Bend the knee, Zoom”
Thanks. My gibberish is kind of rusty.
The whole thing reads like it took a couple trips back and forth through Google Translate.
Oh, that explains it.
Why do people use idiotic formulations like remediated? Remedied is a perfectly cromulent word.
It’s also silly.
Remediation is where it’s at.
Why do people
useutilize idiotic formulationsI don’t think there is any time when “use” can’t substitute for “utlize”.
And speaking of Zoom. Virtual happy hour Friday night 19:00 Eastern. Drinks and food will not be provided, but you are encouraged to provide your own.
hrmm… *squints suspiciously*
I can fly with that. Should be sober-ish.
Will you give us a link?
I’ll schedule it through the app and have it generate a link later this week. I don’t need to get my work account and personal account crossed. 🙂
Sweet… Looking forward to doing some of that…
I will plan to be there, and I should be able to make myself audible, though I won’t promise to be visible.
If I am there, I will not be visible. (No camera, no interest in being seen).
#metoo I’m hideous! Look away!
Ill have to remember to iron my best pastel, fish-net, tank-top
GT already knows what I look like, anyhow
*unplugs monitor*
https://ktla.com/morning-news/technology/new-to-zoom-here-are-the-tips-and-tricks-to-make-you-a-pro/
This looks… complimicated.
Given some of the people in my office who manage to join zoom meetings, if you cannot figure it out I will mock you endlessly.
Good morning all!
WTF?!?! :https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/coronavirus-trump-s-failures-have-presidentcuomo-trending-s-fantasy-ncna1172541
Yes, Trump should have listened to the media and Democrats and not shut down travel with China and then the UK.
Funny how we have had the plethora of articles from the dnc operatives with bylines calling bad orange man a racist evil fuck for putting in place travel bans and telling people to quarantine from early January/February of this year memory holed, huh? It is even funnier to watch the same cuntes that called him a racist asshat for his bans back when now with authority say he didn’t do enough and it is his fault that for example the people in places like New Orleans or NYC, which ignored the warnings and actually encouraged people to go out and spread the love, now are getting ass raped.
Ironically, most of Cuomo has accomplished were actions he requested/demanded from Trump and the Federal Government.
If he’s been so effective, why does NY make up like half of the the coronavirus cases in the entire country?
Because it’s a sardine can of people stacked densely enough to be ideal for microbial transmission.
So why not other sardine cans then?
https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/
have a look at the normalized trend by state: dense states at top, wide open spaces at bottom
if it’s not a factor, it’s covariant to one
That’s a useful site for both the log scale and the per capita weighting. Thanks!
The positions of Japan and Taiwan at the bottom of the by nation graph indicate that density is not automatically determinative.
Tokyo’s Sudden Rise in Coronavirus Infections After Olympic Delay Sparks Questions
This has been my personal tin foil hat theory. Too soon to see how the data emerges to see how badly they were fudging the data.
The interesting this is, though, that the outer boroughs and even Westchester County are seeing rates of infection just as high as Manhattan’s
It’s the MTA. That’s where they’re stacked up in close proximity and no surfaces are sanitized.
Same reason the plague has come here to NJ.
Metro North doesn’t have bar cars anymore but I bet they’re still cramped at times, and they’re always dirty.
When I was dating NYC gal and working in Buchannon, Id ride that train into the city.
It was pretty nasty.
Oof. The arrogance.
Like the Cowboys being ‘America’s Team’.
I’m sure Texans appreciate New Yorkers dictating one of their own as a ‘natural’ leader for them.
Canadians and Muppet-Canadians are enjoying this too. What’s the old saw about America and Canada?
“we dont have a monarch on our money” ?
Fuck. You. #Notmygovernor We have our own shit heel tyvm.
He’s not even New York’s Governer. He’s New York City’s Governer.
So Trump should have urged people to go to parades and movies after the virus had gotten here? Because that’s what Cuomo and DeBlasio both did.
Set your VCRs.
https://www.10tv.com/article/nina-west-host-kids-show-online-called-homeschooled-nina-2020-mar
You want me to try to find that old thing and set it up?
Wait, I think I got rid of it.
Yikes! Cause kids might not be getting their daily dosage of drag queens at home?
My Heart Belongs To Daddy!
Dr. Jacob Glanville’s team took antibodies used to neutralize SARS and used technology in their lab to adapt them to recognize COVID-19.
Trump: “This Dr. Glansville. Great guy, tremendous doctor. The best. He says he may have a cure for the Chinese virus. We’re looking into it and are hopeful that works. We think it will, but we’ll see.”
NPCNN/MSDNC: “Trump is touting yet another Coronavirus drug without having any medical knowledge and is seriously putting American and other lives at risk as a result. I can’t believe anyone still broadcasts his press-conferences live with all this misinformation.”
Continuing my multi-thread convo with Not Adahn:
I know the pistol models I mentioned are different types (full-size versus compact). Local gun range and PSA both have only a limited number of models in-stock. My priority is a decent pistol now. I could always buy additional pistols once stock returns.
Gotcha.
If you can comfortably carry the SP-01, then it’s better in every way. I know two guys that compete with them (one lightly modified, one heavily).
I was planning on picking one up for IDPA, but the more I dry-fire my regripped M9, the more I’m rethinking that. I’ll have to wait for the ranges to open to see if I’ve corrected the offset in my shooting with it.
Thanks for all the advice and encouragement. Gun store appears (from their website) to still be open.
Isn’t the SP-01 just a 75 with a rail?
Not exactly.
The P-01 is a PCR with rail.
The SP-01 is a steel framed gun (like a 75B) but the frame is a different shape — it’s undercut a bit more.
If you’re looking for a FULL-size pistol, a SP-01 is great. Don’t bet on carrying it inside-the-waistband.
The P-01 is far, far, far easier to conceal. You can find IWB holsters for it. It is about the size of a Glock 19.
In person, make sure you can rack the slide easily. The CZ 75 based pistols have less surface area to get a grip on.
Unless you’re shooting a lot right now, you’re not going to shoot either better than the other.
Thanks again, everyone. I just got back from the gun store. Despite their website showing them as having the SP-01 in-stock (versus many other models listed as out of stock), they did not actually have one in-stock. “Weeks,” they said. But they were nice enough to suggest online purchase with shipping to them. I thanked them, and promised them to buy my accessories from them. Plus range time once they are able to open that back up.
Next stop: PSA (thanks to whoever here recommended that).
Inside Sweden’s Radically Different Approach to the Coronavirus
No lockdown, no quarantines, just voluntary advice and a big dose of hope
https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-swedens-radically-different-approach-to-the-coronavirus-11585598175
So apparently there is a way to safely navigate Covid without obliterating the economy and imposing martial law on the peasants. And it came from Sweden of all places.
It’s the herd immunity strategy that Great Britain abandoned. Hopefully this will actually be a Swedish model that’s constructive for us to follow in the future.
Unlike these Swedish models?
The 7 Most Famous Swedish Models of All Times
https://livescandinavia.com/famous-swedish-models/
or these …
Swedish models, including models born in Sweden and female fashion models of Swedish descent.
ranker.com/list/swedish-fashion-models/no-rupaulogies
Dammit!
I’d follow this Swedish model….
I’d put marshmallow in her cocoa.
Talking about a woman’s cloaca is kind of SF’s thing
I do what I want. – Cartman voice
MOMMY, KITTY IS BEING A DILDO…..
Let’s talk about Kyle’s mom.
They have Zlatan. COVID-19 saw him and fled in the opposite direction.
But some people might make the wrong choice and infect other people. We can’t have risk!!! And no one listens to the facts because they know all we say is bullshit with a spin / gov, media
Sweden
Deaths:
169 30 March
Confirmed cases:
4,178 30 March
Sweden has a helluva lot more problems than coronavirus
Sweden Democrats is the populist party that all right-thinking Swedes loath. They are like Trump, Le Pen or AfD. The party has the third largest number of seats in the parliament. So, Sweden Democrats are for strict restrictions during the pandemic–the government favors a different approach.
PSA
https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1244949853693718528
https://twitter.com/PulpLibrarian/status/1244948471548973061
*triggered*
https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=chilean+cuba
Chilean socialist activist actress is stuck in Cuba and begging for capitalism to rescue her (sorry for the shitty link)
Espouse degenerate ideologies known to be failures and anti-human, then suffer by its hand.
Hard to be sympathetic.
But I doubt she gets it.
Ain’t it funny how these rich douches that pay homage to evil marxism and marxist systems always show their true colors when they are the ones forced to deal with the evils themselves? It’s almost like they are for defending and supporting this horrible system that has killed over 120 million and imprisoned billions as long as other people have to suffer. The moment they have to deal with the consequences, then the shit hits the fan.
Mayor Muriel Bowser is threatening residents of Washington, DC, with 90 days in jail and a $5,000 fine if they leave their homes during the coronavirus outbreak.
Better to corral people into jails during a pandemic. I am sure that will not be a problem. Also, the Constitution does not cease to exist because there is a disease.
Henry Morgan was a particular favorite of SP’s and mine. Sarcastic, intelligent, irreverent, funny as hell.
Our Governor Douchebag very reluctantly ordered SIP yesterday, to begin this afternoon. Boss gave us all letters to keep in our cars declaring us essential. This is all the doings of Gallego and Sinema so we could tank our economy as fast as California’s (of which they are openly envious and to which they would like to turn our state).
I guess if a letter is all that is separating me from jail or prison time, I should print off a few to keep in the car JIC.
” Get’em! Trade ’em! Collect the whole set!”
Jail or a fine*
Good morning, Sloopy!
Fun birthdays today!
The NHL did a nice tribute to Mr. Hockey. What an amazing dude!
And I miss the Hartford Whalers logo.
I hope all of you have a great day. Sunny and beautiful here in the Wasteland!
We’ve said this before, hockey players are made of humble stock. It’s what’s makes them unique.
But be careful on the ice. Watch out. They become another species altogether. A mild mannered person suddenly gets high on making it a point to ram your face into the goal post.
*drops gloves*
And then there’s curling…
The latest Spittin’ Chiclets podcast featured a great interview with Cam Neely, who is a perfect example of that. He discusses how Milbury talked him into not fighting so much and he went from 34 goals to 50! Turns out you can score more on the ice than watching from the box.
I miss all those old, dead teams. The Cleveland Barons, the KC Scouts, the California Golden Seals…
Mostly because that’s what my hockey cards turned out to be. Never a Guy Lafleur or Bobby, always some car salesman that made it to the show for a shit and a sandwich.
From Pat’s link above…
“Twitter has forced Fox News host Laura Ingraham to take down a tweet reporting on news that the malaria drug Hydroxychloroquine has been used to successfully treat sufferers of the Chinese virus in New York City hospitals.
In a now-deleted tweet, the Fox host reported that “Lenox Hill in New York among many hospitals using Hydroxychloroquine with promising results. One patient was described as “Lazarus” who was seriously ill from COVID-19, already released. #IngrahamAngle”
Twitter told left-wing reporters that Ingraham had been locked out of her account and forced to delete the tweet before regaining access. Twitter cited its new rules around “misleading information around COVID-19,” even though it appears that Chinese propagandists on the platform are being given a pass on virus-related misinformation.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/03/30/twitter-forces-laura-ingraham-to-remove-tweet-about-chinese-virus-treatment/
Twitter should just get rid of all its rules, and replace them with one rule, “Only porn and funny cat pictures allowed.”
They have a strange definition of misleading. Twitter is the shithole of social media.
“Hope”.
Hunker down, citizen.
“Fuck your Hope! Flip on over and let me show you some Change, Baby!”
“Something something here’s my coin purse”
Indubitably.
It amazes me how much the news cycle revolves around that particular shit hole of a site.
At least 70% of its userbase is just journalists circle jerking each other.
Anyone who thinks Twitter is not a mouthpiece of the Left is helplessly fooling themselves.
so, WFH is wonderful. However, I’ve had Pandora playing music for days now. Can they rotate songs more often? Seriously, they have played George Harrison’s My Sweet Lord at least 3 times, but nothing else from that album. I guess this is why I should just pull up my own library and put it on random.
Back when I used Pandora I found the algorithm worked much better when I only thumbed down stuff I didn’t like and refrained from thumbing up anything.
Hit the deep tracks button. That might help. Also, this is about me:
https://www.theonion.com/desperate-pandora-employees-scrambling-to-find-song-are-1819571692
“deep tracks” meaning songs that were only played to death on radio back in the day but aren’t continually played to death 20 years later.
Isn’t it a pity? Isn’t it a shame?
Wah wah (wah)
It amazes me that the worst music streaming site is the most popular.
I’ve been enjoying Spotify.
I don’t care for their algorithm either. I guess I just like control.
You could always just play records.
Spotify is better. Pandora sucks ass because hyperpromotion. Oh, and don’t thumb up a jazz song or you get 4200 renditions of the same.fucking.song because it can’t figure out if you like the song, the artist, or that song.
Amazon Music is a little better in this regard.
In 1681, London was terrorised by an unknown attacker called “The Whipping Tom”. Whipping Tom assaulted women by pulling up their skirts & spanking them on the bottom before fleeing – sometimes he used a rod. He attacked women in the areas of Fleet Street and Holborn.
A thread
https://twitter.com/WhoresofYore/status/1244352669000577025
This Tom attacked lone women with “a Great Rodd of Birch”.
*snicker*
Ur-Glib.
Spare the rod, spoil the ho.
lol
Nods
A pimp’s love is different than that of a square Sloop.
Today’s WSJ. Shocking news… China manipulated its CCP Virus stats. (paywall)
China’s Coronavirus Count Excluded Infected People With No Symptoms
Top Chinese health official says country will start reporting the number of asymptomatic carriers
Tell a Lakers fan that Magic Johnson has AIDS and they’ll go all CCP on you: “No he doesn’t, he’s only HIV-positive.”
I think their “manipulating” goes way beyond that.
^^^THIS^^^
I have been using https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/, and looking at the state breakdown, specifically the yesterday tab (the today tab is not up to date yet). I have been looking for states that have new cases that are less than 10% of total cases. Most days there are 2-4 states, but not the same ones consistently. Two days ago there were a few more than that. Yesterday, there are a bunch, including NY. 11. That is by far the best result I have seen. I think the exponential curve is beginning to bend down a bit. If some states can do this 3-4 days in a row, they will be in good shape.
As I mentioned last night, I think a large part of the exponential curve was just an increase in testing. positive percent rates has stayed flat, it is amount of testing that was increasing exponentially. I think this has been in the US longer and is more widespread than originally thought. Nothing unique to that, just the way the evidence is pointing.
Still mostly useless without the count of the number of people tested.
If I have to say “the count is meaningless, it’s the rate that matters” one more time . . . .
And NY still comprises 42% of the deaths. Perhaps severe measures are necessary there, but certainly not everywhere.
Someone yesterday made the excellent point that NY has been sucking up resources for two decades because of 9/11 and it being a prime target for a bioweapons attack. And they’ve demonstrated failure.
It’s true.
People less cynical than us might wonder what they’ve been doing with all the federal anti-terrorism grant money they’ve been sucking up for the last 20 years.
Diversity studies. I bet once this is over that other people give them huge loads of money to study how these pandemics impact genders other than male or female…
Saw a story come across my news feed earlier today that Franklin County (Ohio) is going to stop reporting positive tests.
Huh? Why would they do that?
If I had to guess, so they can extend the lockdown longer. As it currently stands, it’s supposed to end Monday. Supposed to.
Hospitalizations appear to be falling as well. Who knows.
For the best of the birthday boys, one of the greats.
There’s talk of kicking Hungary out of the EU and NATO because of Orbán seizing power.
That’s like a shortcut solution to Brexit, I guess. Instead of holding votes and referendums that take years, just get thrown out
Oh please, Brer Fox, don’t throw me into the briar patch!
Sure but no one will kick us out of NATO for Trump. I wonder why.
I dunno.
The EU is Dead Man Walking. That’s why they were so adamant about trying to short circuit Brexit; once one of them blazed a trail, the rest were going to quickly follow.
I don’t think Hungary, Poland or the Czech Republic give a fuck. They’re gone and soon.
Actually the EU needs more solidarity than ever !!!!!
I am sure the EU politicians in Brussels afraid of losing the lucrative racket they got going are behind that call…
What Orban did was pretty outrageous but at least the Hungarians can have a single local dictator rather than a thousand dictators headquartered in Brussels.
That’s a hell of a choice but if I’m choosing a dictator, I would want the one who cares for the country and it’s people rather than the one a thousand miles away who despises us.
It’ll be interesting to see whether or not he cedes these powers back when this is all over. The other European nations are taking similar steps as Hungary, only with cover of various parliaments to give their proclamations a veil of legitimacy, so they shouldn’t get their undies in too much of a twist over this.
If he uses the crisis to get out of the EU, it’s hard to see a downside either way.
I saw somewhere, The Guardian I think, yesterday where they were saying Brexit needs to be abandoned to fight the Coronavirus.
something horse something barn door something something
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/mar/30/extend-brexit-transition-by-years-over-coronavirus-uk-told
By years! Because the EU MEPs don’t know how to teleconference, apparently.
Betting action for the day:
If it turns out that a shot really will cure/immunize a person against the Wuhan Flu, how long will it take before some lefty group tries to invoke the Endangered Species Act to “save” the virus?
Is the covid virus really any less deserving of life than a snail darter? Sure it might kill a few people, but wolves are also dangerous and we protect them don’t we?
Probably more a matter of “when” than “if”. Vaccination will be pursued to the near exclusion of other useful therapies because the global philanthropy cabal – the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in particular – wants to use it as a pretext for their ID2020 digital tagging.
The frogs have turned so gay they are turning it into a musical.
Pretty good indication that chloroquine can treat the virus in early stages and prevent it – NY healthcare workers are taking it as a preventative. The left and some of their media mouthpieces are banning or downplaying it hard.
It really is bizarre how it’s only Tucker that I see pushing that (Maybe others on Fox, but I dunno and don’t care). You’d think hope would be a big seller of clicks. Guess I don’t know people so well.
I’ve seen other people on Fox talking about it on their morning show. Breitbart and other conservative news sites are covering it. I don’t really care who it benefits politically, I just want this shit over with.
If Trump hadn’t mentioned it they’d be falling over themselves to report it. Hate trumps hope…
Trump should have threatened a ban on the treatment. They’d be moving mountains now to get everyone in America a couple doses of it.
The best part is that Trump could have said “I’m going to ban all treatments that use chloroquine” and given a huge stage wink to the camera and the media still would have come out against it. They couldn’t take the chance that he was being serious and that they might end up on the same side of an argument as Trump.
“Trump changes his mind so often that CNN can’t keep up with how to be on the other side of his arguments”.
– Scott Adams
The line was drawn early as a potentially useful tool against Trump. They can’t walk it back any more than they can walk back all the Russian conspiracy theories.
Which is why they can’t walk back the SIP model and embrace the Swedish model.
Oh look, LA sheriff reversed gun-store closings.
Titty Tuesday will not be denied!
http://archive.li/lvfsU
A lot of really good ones in this batch Q.
You do realize he doesn’t actually take the pics or curate the collection, right?
I’m going a bit stir crazy without my gym. This douche-bag has the proper “shelter-in-place” home.
It’s not hard to understand why people want to steal other peoples stuff.
Srsly just shut up and enjoy your stuff Dave.
Everyone in that article needs to STFU. Envy is just as ugly.
400? This one puts it at 590.
‘Billionaire David Geffen deleted his Instagram after being slammed for a post about how he’s self-isolating on his $590 million superyacht’
https://www.businessinsider.com/david-geffen-deletes-instagram-after-self-isolating-yacht-post-2020-3
The stock market decline probably knocked down the resale value. See how he’s suffering just like us?
With little else to do all day other than watch the kids and a bit of homework, between a couple kettlebells and my pull-up bar this 60-something year old is gonna have a solid beach body come Summer.
Homework – housework, …whateves
Blue Collar Logic: Should We Be Wearing Masks?
https://youtu.be/0tIuPBUqoZg
Looks like that’s a big yes…
What I don’t get is masks are basically single-use. And that specific mask is needed for this. Where are we buying these masks? They’re not easily available.
If there’s already a shortage, what’s the point of stressing over it?
I’m just gonna let this ride out.
Socialism would never a shortage like this to happen.
It also sounds like we need to get into the mask making business.
And that specific mask is needed for this – no. A simple cotton mask helps. Yes specific masks help more but any mask is better than none.
Probably a plastic visor over your whole face is better…
It’s more an issue of the various public health agencies blatantly lying to the public for their own good for me but, yeah, people shouldn’t stress too much if they don’t have any.
Pepperidge Farm remembers…
https://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/2007/r070503.htm
Yes. Masks make things better. And the argument that wearing a mask gives false sense of security is kinda dumb.
So, the cases of trumpdeathvirus at my company have increase by 700% in the last three days!
…still none at my site. Two in East Fishkill, one in Essex Junction, and FIVE in Dresden! That’s an infinity percent increase! At that rate, everyone in Germany is going to be infected by *does math* yesterday.
Well we are 40+ cases in my town alone with one recovered and one death in the town next door.
So happy times here. Meanwhile these statistics probably exceed some entire locked down counties in the other parts of the country.
I only know of one within my company, and that was because he was on a respirator and in serious condition. He is recovering now. He was manager of a group that was essential and not able to shift to WFH. So I assume there are more positives, just with no serious response.
My EHS department assures me that none of these cases were from transmission at work. Also, there are none reported at our Singapore fabs.
RE: Trashing My Pillow guy for making masks.
You can see how destructive of a force hate is. These people have defiled and corrupted their own souls with nonstop hate for 3.5 years. Hate is a poison that’s always more damaging to the vessel than the target, and they have been so damaged that they can’t even tell right from wrong anymore.
It’s a little like watching an addict spiral to rock bottom live and in slow-mo.
Spot on Q.
This really struck me as true when i saw the article titled “Pence is actually doing a good job” and it was subheaded “Despite his anti-science background….”. It really struck me as how bigoted the media “science” worshipers are. They really think that Pence hates science, probably because he is a christian. They can’t think anything but Galileo and the Pope.
Look, you don’t know what an unmitigated asshole Galileo was! You would have given him to the inquisition way faster than I did. Dude just needed to learn to shut the fuck up!
” They can’t think anything but Galileo and the Pope.”
Yeah and of course the great irony of them referencing that is that:
“He was sentenced to formal imprisonment at the pleasure of the Inquisition.[55] On the following day this was commuted to house arrest, which he remained under for the rest of his life.”
Galileo was just being ordered to shelter in place, for his own good, at the direction of his betters. How could any reasonable person object to that?
And from what I understand, it wasn’t just the church opposing him – it was other scientists at the time who staunchly believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth, e.g. “the science is settled“.
You’d think George Lemaitre would have made up for the whole Galileo thing.
They went after THE SALVATION ARMY.
They’re dead souls walking for sure.
Salvation Army gets more from me now. Fuck the media.
Preach.
Someone here undoubtedly knows the term for it, but the philosophy of “righteousness through hatred” has made great strides in openness an popularity.
1. Hatred alone is sufficient to be a good person, as long as you hate bad people.
2. The more you hate bade people, the more moral you are.
3. The worse the people you hate are, the better you are.
Hate is a strong word….
Related:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/30/an_epidemic_of_media_partisanship_142804.html
Enemy of the people.
There will be a reckoning when this is over. Even my proggies are grumbling about the obvious bullshit being spewed by the media.
Even my proggies are grumbling
You really owned the libs huh?
The minute one of my orphans starts talking prog, he gets euthanized.
*imagines proggies being herded to the hotdish serving lines
““With such great freedom comes even greater responsibility” is the way that professor wisely put it.”
I knew he was photo journalist, but I didn’t know Spider-Man taught college.
Uncle Ben, not Spider-Man. But you get some points for including the hyphen in Spider-Man.
Facebook deletes Brazil President’s coronavirus misinfo post
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/30/facebook-removes-bolsonaro-video/
Remember when tech writing on the Internet had at least a little bit of a libertarian bent? Ah, those were the days.
Anyhow, how do Facebook and Twitter get to decide what is and isn’t the policy of the Brazilian government? They say they’re removing this info because it could lead to harm. But Bolsonaro is the President of Brazil, and while Brazil has a federal system somewhat like ours, he is still the head of the nation’s government. If he says the country can deal with the problem the way he’s chosen, who are Facebook and Twitter to say they know better?
They’re now playing the game of our government politicians and experts are better than your government politicians and experts. Apparently respect for democracy and other cultures gets suspended in a self-defined “emergency”.
Coronavirus: Iceland’s mass testing finds half of carriers show no symptom
https://twitter.com/PWallenberg/status/1244935725906366466
This is why we need the power to shut everything down. I mean if you went around walking with a knife swinging machine, how would that not violate the NAP?
That is kind of scary.
I take it as good news – half they people who catch this thing are completely unharmed by it.
It’s actually quite good. It would suggest that less people are affected by it and we’re further along to herd immunity than we thought.
Yeah, it’s great news really imo.
I’m halfway though my second pot of coffee.
Things I have learned:
-Tea with lemon and gin is way too easy to drink.
-Warner Oland is best Chan. 1930s movies are delightful, and everything old is new again “I think I have a cold. Do you have some quinine I could borrow?”
-The recap at the front of Altered Carbon season 2 shows a series I do not remember watching. Rewatching S1ep1 shows that it is much better on rewatching. Or possibly watching while drunk.
-There is a movie costarring Jackie Chan and a graybearded Pierce Brosnan. Why did nobody tell me this?
What movie?
“The Foreigner.” Which I am assuming is not a production of the Larry Shue play, which is a shame.
Fun Fact, the original book was called “The Chinaman”. Published in 1992.
The Foreigner (2017)
define a pot of coffee
8 cups. But not real cups, barely more than 40 oz total.
My coffee mugs are a ‘3’ on my lil Mr. Coffee.
Mrs. Dean and I rewatched the last episode of Season 2 of WestWorld to prep for Season 3. Made more sense the second time through, that’s for damn sure. Still think they crawled up their own assholes in Season 2 with the scrambled timelines making the actual story (you know, the reason for the whole thing) way too hard to follow. Still, pumped for Season 3. Ruthless cyborg psychopath bent on world domination, opposed by bumbling cyborg genius – what’s not to like?
Also, enjoying the heck out of Better Call Saul. Looks like [SPOILER REDACTED]. About damn time.
NewWifes still watching WW. They continue (we’re current: S3E4?) with the randomness that left me falling asleep in late S2; the excitement from S1 up through E4 has never returned for me. I just nap beside her at this point.
We can hope.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2020/03/30/the-coronavirus-is-becoming-a-public-relations-disaster-for-china/#4b0fd27943f2
Despite the best efforts of their slavish whores in the media.
It at least makes sense from WaPo. Bezos owns it and Amazon stands to lose a fortune if the world starts isolating China. Naturally he’s using his vanity publisher as a ChiCom propaganda mouthpiece. The rest of the “journalists” are responding out of white-hot, unmitigated hatred for Trump and the US.
That’s part of it, but I suspect their response would be similar regardless of the occupant of the white house. Not only are most of them genuine useful idiots in the mold of Duranty, but the multinational media conglomerates that pay their salaries are utterly dependent on the Chinese market, which is why you also can’t catch a movie, read a book or magazine, listen to a podcast, or stream an online video that doesn’t sanitize China.
The annoying part of it all is that there is a difference between the Chinese government and the Chinese people. Showing a movie with the Taiwanese flag, or that talks about the Chinese government in less than glowing terms, or that shows Hong Kong positively, is not the same thing as shitting all over the Chinese people. But the Chinese government will censor it, and so the media company won’t make much money off of it in China without kowtowing (funny enough, that’s a word of Chinese origin). Rather than own up to their complicity and cowardice, they instead throw around accusations of racism and cultural insensitivity.
Fuck you, Taiwan is China too, Hong Kong is better than the Mainland, and the PRC is bunch of murderers, anti-religious zealots, Han supremacist bigots, and crooks.
I have heard this argument all of my life about lots of places with dysfunctional governments. There is some truth to it but not so much in a general sense as an individual one. There are many good individuals stuck in shitholes. Now that I am writing this I think the moral dilemma is addressed in the Bible by the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Still, keep in mind that every government is an outgrowth of the culture in its respective country. Often that means one of the cultures in the country trying to dominate the others…this seems to give the worst results and I think it is the case for China but I dont know the country well enough to be sure.
They must have learned that from us.
We learned it from the original international marxists (they called it the evils of white man’s colonialism back when).
They’ve all got some connection to China one way or the other. Bezos is more open about it, but behind most if not all of the media conglomerates is at least a little renminbi, whether from consumers or investors.
Pat said it better.
I wouldn’t underestimate the amount of Chinese money that is flowing to journalists and media corp.s in general. They aren’t just useful idiots. They are bought and paid for useful idiots.
A lot of these people would be shilling for these evil fucks even of if there was no money. China in a sense has the type of authoritarian rulership they wish they had here (as long as it was the progressives calling the shot).
If people start preferring to buy their iPhones and various cheap crap from India or anywhere other than China I’ll have no problem with that.
Its almost like a single source also means you have a single point of failure. Who could have seen that coming?
Today’s product you didn’t know you needed. Or was this posted here?
https://www.amazon.com/Amazeng-Charcoal-briquettes-Handmade-Campfire/dp/B07YJ1R46J
Handmaid Campfire!??! Now they are talking about burning women for fuel? When will this stop?
Obviously someone underestimated the market demand for skull-shaped charcoal briquettes.
Clearly.
I don’t even have anywhere to set up a grill, and I want a box.
Why would you pay for those instead of just making your own from the shrunken heads of last year’s orphans?
Skulls don’t really burn very well, the mineral content is too high.
Saw those somewhere else, but they were really expensive.
Still want, though.
Yeah, if they are carved, that’s a silly way to make them. Molding is the way to go.
brickettes are all molded, it’s no great stretch to use a differnt mold with the same process (charcoal dust fused into a solid mass)
Carving is non-viable for even one load.
Ok, here is a thought experiment.
What if one the results of all this money and effort being thrown into fighting the Wuhan flu results in a way to fight virus in general that is super effective. Akin to coming up with penicillin to fight bacteria. Not only is the Wuhan flu eradicated but the treatment also works on HIV, Herpes and other flu bugs.
And to add insult to injury, let’s say that the treatment is based on research that had been effectively quashed by the FDA and other bureaucrats. And the researchers credit Trump’s relaxation of the rules for the big breakthrough.
If you are the MSM, how the fuck are you going to spin that news so Trump doesn’t get any credit?
Just make some shit up. It doesn’t have to be even tangentially connected to the truth. We found that out with the Red Menace.
Francis Boyle is making the rounds on underground media arguing that SARS-CoV-2 was bioengineered with gain of function properties at UNC and sold to China based on some medical journals going back to around 2016.
^^^This.
They have no conscience, no shame and are thoroughly morally corrupt. They will try out many different lies until they find one that has even just a tiny bit of traction, then repeat it over and over and over and OVER until it becomes the truth.
It’s worked before and it will work again.
We also found that out with the ludicrous “Drumpf killed mah husband!” fish tank cleaner poisoning story. It was utterly absurd yet very seriously reported.
“If you are the MSM, how the fuck are you going to spin that news so Trump doesn’t get any credit?”
They are doing it right now. They are trying to discredit the treatment Trump touted, pretty clearly now an effective treatment, in order to make him look buffoonish for recommending it. This despite the treatment being used all over the country and having good results. They would rather people die than see him get good press.
Yes, the leftists here are just like the ones everywhere else and always. They would pile bodies to the sky if they get the chance.
They are the most despicable, vile people on the planet.
See e.j. dionne columns. It isn’t that Trump thoughtfully changed his mind about the Easter review. No, he is too susceptible to having his mind changed and we can’t afford that kind of ditzy leadership that we can’t rely on!
I still think the treatment doesn’t do anything, although I would love to be wrong.
Early studies show a lot of promise. We’re using it on ours (all of them), and have already pulled some off the ventilators. Our docs are also looking at some of the cocktails – they are cheap and should be harmless, so why the hell not? Even if all they do is trigger a placebo effect, that is still people getting better because we dosed them.
Without a true double blind, you can’t definitely say it helps, of course. But if the psychological impact of having a treatment that appears effective gets people off the fucking ledge and brings the panic to an end, I would say its easily worth it.
Do they though?
I’m not just talking lack of control groups. Some of these studies look mighty weak with their selection of patients being healthier than average.
Also, don’t they pretty much show the same mortality rates any way?
..
But I totally agree we should allow people to take it and the risks are low since it’s already in the realm of prescribed medicine.
(rips at hair) – “Look at all the economic wreakage Trump’s plan wrought! How could you monsters suggest doing this in a non-election year???!!!???”
With only 95 Cases and 0 deaths, New Yorkers are trying to figure out where wyoming is.
“It’s in northern Canada. Hit the road.”
More like “Whereoming”, ammirite?
I have said this before but I see a lot of you critiquing some of the government actions as nonsensical.
Poverty, high crime, broken families, lack of social and economic mobility, and a lack of means of self defense are all important tools of the tyrant. They disempower you, make you dependent and destroy your options. Those are the boots stomping on a human face forever.
The things we see tyrants doing are not nonsensical from the tyrant’s point of view.
When you see watermelons demanding an end to cheap energy and single family home the complaint is that we will be impoverished and miserable. That’s the goal. they are trying to destroy the means of wealth creation. They dont give a fuck about minnows. It’s aimed at you.
When you see leftists screaming for more taxes and inheritance taxes the complaint is that accumulated family wealth will be lost, the economy will be damaged and many thrown into poverty. Well, that’s the point. They dont want you accumulating wealth.
When you see the tranny bathroom argument the complaint is that it will endanger children and damage families. Yeah? What do you think their goal is? Families are societies foundation and they want it destroyed. Without someone having your back you can more easily be disappeared if they decide.
the list goes on and on. Every single leftist, authoritarian or collectivist cause is aimed at making you weaker because unlike the economy, power is a zero sum game and power to them is an end in itself.
I have thought this from the beginning. Their actions are only nonsensical if you assume their goals align with the best interests of the populace. Everything they do is designed to accumulate more power to themselves, directly or indirectly. It doesn’t matter how many eggs you have to break, gotta make that omelet.
This implies a level of coordination and self-control that does not seem evident. These people aren’t the nth generation of stonemasons constructing a medieval cathedral who will never see it complete but endeavor anyway. They are petulant children, always annoyed that utopia has not yet been achieved and never faulting themselves for the failure to achieve it.
I have had numerous discussions about that. No, it is not coordination in the sense of the masons. It is coordination in the sense of flock behavior. Birds of a feather behave the same. Same mentality, same result.
I share most of your philosophy, but I’m not sure what to do about it. I might be much more AnCap than most, and I’m left with a big fat: so what can be done? Transactionally, I’ve got no outlets: I’m not going to shoot anybody, I’m not leading an insurrection, I can’t think of a way to secede (my clans have had very bad luck that way), and I’m out-voted on almost everything.
Meanwhile, it must be admitted, a lot of the traffic here boils down to
* Guy X: team Y sux! muh roadz!
* Team X: does evil stuff
* Guy X: still votes TeamX and whatabouts TeamY all day
What moves the needle ?
I hear from a few corners that Glibs has become a Pachyderm/Trumpista hangout, but I don’t see it. I see a group reluctantly admitting that Team Red is *slightly* (ever so slightly) less likely to support explicitly liberty-killing policies. By absolutely no stretch of the imagination does that mean they’re perfect, or even any good, just less bad.
I don’t begrudge people voting strategically or pragmatically, just as I don’t begrudge people voting third party or not at all. However, to say that most of the discussion here is strictly partisan I think is disingenuous.
So because We want to Kill all the Commies, we’re Republicans?
That logic fucking never made sense to me Yusef, but it is a standard lefty defense. Kind of like accusing anyone that feel the government jackboot on their throat ain’t work the illusion of security (advocating for small government) implies you want anarchy and no government. To these people there is their way, and then nothing else but horrible/evil/bad. It’s all or nothing – on purpose, because it allows them to dismiss us – with these people.
You are either with us or against us. What’s it gonna be? <— That is what is behind that.
It wouldn't matter if we railed against the R's all day, as long as we aren't explicitly leftist we are right wing fanatics.
I think Don was talking about his Local politics. But i could be wrong.
It’s not that i have any hope for Team Red, just that few people on team red have better sensibility. I had a bit of this convo last night with my Wife while watching Jimmey Dore. He’s pretty pissed because every democrat voted for that monstrosity of a bailout bill. He’s upset that not a single progressive stood against it, but that Thomas Massie was the only one brave enough to stand up to it.
My thought last night was that the Democratic Party has a weakness in having been the media darlings for so long. This has made their politicians afraid to do what they believe because they know they will get flack. You know Bernie voted for the bill because he doesn’t want people to be able to say “Bernie Sanders voted against giving you money when you needed it”. It is fundamentally a position of cowardice. Thomas Massie and Rand know that they will always be vilified, and so are more willing to stand by principle.
Team Blue – we go over the cliff in 5 – 10 years.
Team Red – we go over the cliff in 20 – 30 years.
^^^THIS^^^
Only if the current incarnation of team blue gets their way, it is something like 3-5 years.
Or:
Team Blue: Totalitarian.
Team Red: Authoritarian.
I’m mostly yanking chain when I call you guys faux-libertarian Gopers, but It’s hard to deny that the Democrat and proggies catch about 90% of the scorn around here. Maybe it’s assumed that the right catches enough shit from the ‘Main Stream Media’ so there’s no need to point it out.
Careful Hyp, you might lose your title of Head Devil’s Advocate.
‘Pedant Extraordinaire’
I’ll be the first to Admit that i’m a right libertarian, and fairly conservative in my private life. So yeah i know i might have a bit of a bias, and i do try to keep it in check.
Ditto. Conservatarian is probably the least bad label for me. There are numerous blind spots and flaws in the worldview and execution of conservatism that make sure I’ll never join that movement again, but there’s no question in my mind that conservatives are, on the whole, more libertarian friendly than progressives by miles.
Easy example: I’m a Federalist Society member. FedSoc is explicitly open and friendly to libertarian members. Sure, it leans conservative, but they were willing to have the hard conversations about where conservatives are different from libertarians in a fair manner. Maybe there’s such a progressive group, but I’ve never heard of it.
Conservatarian is probably the least bad label for me.
#MeToo
The funny thing is i’m really Radical Politically.
That’s the wonderful thing about small l libertarianism; I don’t have to give a fuck how you live your life as long as it stays within the confines of your private existence. I couldn’t give two shits if someone wants to go full Commie, as long as they don’t try to use the power of the State to force me into it. I start with “don’t hurt people or steal their stuff” and beyond that it’s just details.
Given how incredibly despicable they are it is hard not to throw shit at them.
On the other hand if I could go to DC and kick ten people’s asses all of them would be R’s.
“if I could go to DC and kick ten people’s asses all of them would be R’s”
#metoo. I know what to expect from the Jackasses and they’re open about it. Some part of me actually respects that, evil as their solutions may be. Pachyderms lie and lie and lie and lie and pretend to give a shit about limited government, then they end up fucking everyone over anyway.
most of the discussion
That wasn’t written, sir; I wrote: a lot
That’s fair and not remotely disingenuous. You take that back.
Fair enough. To what extent there is purely partisan rabble-rousing around here though, I think it gets shot down pretty quickly.
The root of the problem Don is that getting rid of institutions does not get rid of the people that run them. We are stuck with them and they will simply seek another avenue for power. The founders understood that and took the right approach: create a system where power is widely distributed and also sets those kinds of people against each other.
If we get rid of government altogether we still have Pelosi, Schumer and company. We have to have some kind of system and those types are gonna slime their way into it one wya or another.
I am sorry I didnt say that very well.
“…I am not sure what to do about it.”
I should have been more explicit. The founders approach is the only one that works. Create a system where no one person can accumulate power. You are gonna have to live with the shitheads but lets do it without them having enough power to kill us.
I am mulling over the idea that economy determines culture and that we are currently in a transitional period between a non-industrial culture (savagery) and an industrial one (civilized). We still have a lot of vestiges of pre-industrial culture because cultural changes lag far behind technology and industrialization.
the idea that economy determines culture
Classical Marxism.
I think its more iterative, more of a feedback loop. The two coexist and form each other. Its easy to focus on how one influences the other, but I think there’s plenty going the other way, also.
I mention the culture thoughts because in a non-industrial culture the only way you can prosper it to take from others and that is what government does. It is one of those vestiges of uncivilized culture. As I mentioned the other day it is parallel to criminal culture….andother culture that only takes and doesn’t produce anything.
I still believe most progs are fellow travelers who genuinely think they are displaying compassion. I’ve met too many committed Christians who feel this way. It is cognitive dissonance, not evil,that motivates many of them. They would recoil in horror at your description (again, cognitive dissonance).
Cue up the CS Lewis quote.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
And the Jewish ethic of compassion (can someone remind me of the term? I can’t find it but I’d know it if I heard it) that seems to make no distinction between individuals and law/govt.
-1 bushel of grain
Tikkun?
Yeah, that must be it.
Yeah it is. It’s basically the “good intentions” get-out-of-jail-free-card that (((we))) use to justify supporting policies that end up having the exact opposite impact. The Tikkun Olam tenet has been so twisted and taken such an oversized importance in Reform Judaism that it has pretty much supplanted everything else about the faith. It’s been a trojan horse to replace Judaism with Progressivism as the actual religion. I’ve said it many times, most Reform Jews are JINOs at this point who put politics before the faith every time.
Thanks. The more you know! ?
I think a goodly portion of it is means-ends confusion. Or perhaps a certain naivety in not noticing the swap between means and ends. So many people can get on board with ‘house the homeless, feed the hungry, teach the children’ and there’s nothing wrong with those goals.
The immorality lies in A stealing from B to find a program nominally tasked with meeting those ends For C, D, …Z. It even looks like simple obvious problem-solving.
I do as well.
Poverty, high crime, broken families, lack of social and economic mobility, and a lack of means of self defense are all important tools of the tyrant. They disempower you, make you dependent and destroy your options. Those are the boots stomping on a human face forever.
Quoted for emphasis.
https://twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1244987690988318723
Hey you might be “Non-essential” but that doesn’t mean you can freak out.
You know who else deemed certain people non-essential…
HAL 2000?
Should be fixed in the 9000 model…
…what do you mean that patch was excluded from the production fork?
A little 2001 Space Odyssey trivia – does anybody know the significance of “HAL”?
One letter off from IBM?
Oh, it was the 2001? I was trying to get my answer in too quickly and couldn’t remember for sure.
The move was 2001, the computer was the 9000.
Well there ya go. I must be getting Bidened.
Letters adjacent to “IBM” in the alphabet.
Correct. I had heard this decades ago, from a guy named Hal who worked at IBM, but always wondered if it was known outside the pool of IBM employees.
IBM
Must have wisely declined to allow their trademark to be used.
Their logo appears multiple times in the film, and they were major consultants on the work.
But not for the killer Master Computer. Bad look. Probably hit it about right allowing their logo to be used for relatively benign purposes.
Clarke vehemently denied this.
I think Kubrick did as well
https://twitter.com/jayEhhGee/status/1244840769883701248
Yes. Yes it will
Scroll down a bit. I like the “What women think they will do when the economy collapses vs. whaat they will actually do.”
I had to click that one off before wife saw it.
Throw me some suggestions for purchasing a handgun this week. Zero to limited experience. The gun store is open, but the ranges are closed. I was going to go to a range and try several then make a decision. But if I didn’t want to wait and had a bunch of Trumpbucks, and just walked in and bought one, what should I look at. Does anyone own a S&W Shield?
I have a Shield. Great little gun. Easy to shoot and readily available accessories.
Cosigned
-fellow shield owner
I’ve carried one daily for 5 years or so. The baby Glock wasn’t out when I bought it, but I shot the others (didn’t like). The Springfield was nice. Ruger was OK.
I just liked the way the Shield felt/shot/carried. And they are a screaming deal. Never any issue, even with shitty ammo. Easy to maintain, etc.
My bro has the SIG 365. I shot it and liked it, but not enough to switch.
I have carried a P365 for a few months now. Like it. Switched to it from an old J-frame .38Sp, so total change.
If you are willing and able to put in the right amount of time a semi-auto is a good idea. I would say to get a number of snap-caps (dummy rounds that can be used to cycle the action as if it was loaded with real ammo) and practice manipulating the pistol every day until you are comfortable with how it functions. Make sure you get to the range and shoot it at least once a week until you are really comfortable with how it recoils, manipulating it, and getting good results in hitting your target.
If you cannot commit that amount of time then start with a revolver, some snap caps, and at least one speed loader and get accustomed to how it works, how to load and reload as much as possible. Get to the range at least once a month until you are comfortable and hitting your target consistently. I would recommend a 357 Mag – which you can load with 38 Special until you have mastered it.
Other than a sub-machine-pistol, the handgun is the most challenging small arm to master – and you don’t want to be depending on a small arm to save your life until you have mastered it.
I am not disputing the importance of the manual of arms. It is important to be able to operate your weapon proficiently. But, statistically speaking, the vast majority of defensive gun uses, if a shot is even fired, have the bad guy running away as soon as he realizes the victim is armed. I think that, on average, a DGU has less than three rounds fired.
Realistically speaking, a modern semi-auto in a self defense situation, with good quality ammo, is on par with a revolver for reliability, and far ahead of it in terms of ease of use in a gunfight. Revolvers are hard to shoot well, hold fewer rounds, and are slower to reload. A MP Shield in a pocket holster is about as rock solid reliable, in real terms, as a revolver, and its much easier for a novice to shoot.
For a carry gun, to me, the thing that matters most is that you can hit with the first three shots at a typical DGU range. Take all the guns you own that are small enough to carry, and figure out which one you can put 3 into the chest at 7 yards the fastest. If that’s really a DA snubnosed .38, if you’re a Revolver Jedi, that’s awesome. I wish I could shoot a revolver that well. If you’re someone for who the draw, present and thumb the safety off a cocked and locked 1911 is instinctive, then awesome. If you’re someone who can handle that first long pull on the opening shot on a DA/SA gun, great.
But for the vast majority of novices, I would submit a modern striker fired handgun in 9mm is the ideal carry gun because its the best combination of portability, power (for a handgun), and ease of operation in all aspects.
I’m not arguing against a semi-auto or for a revolver. I’m just saying that the choice depends on how much time the novice owner will put into the commitment. Before you can depend on a gun for protection you should be comfortable with how it functions. You should know by feel what state it is in (slide locked back? cylinder closed properly? magazine up fully? slide fully forward?) If the novice cannot commit – due to work, family situation, other life parameters – to training and getting accustomed to how his/her firearm functions it will take longer to get to the state of mastery. Revolvers are more simple mechanisms than semi autos – fewer parts to manipulate.
If the novice has time and intent to master the handgun as quickly as possible then by all means I would recommend the semi-auto.
On my first trip to the range with my Glock 20 I had it fail to chamber a round. Because I had decades of experience with semi-autos, and it was only on the range, I recognized and rectified the problem quickly. But if it had happened to a novice at zero-dark-thirty facing an armed thug it could have been catastrophic.
Personally, I most enjoy shooting a CZ-75. IMO the best ergonomics of any semiauto pistol, and you can get a virtual clone of it rather inexpensively in the EAA/Tanfoglio Witness, which is available in a wide variety of barrel lengths and calibers – .22, 9mm, .38 Super, 10mm, .40 S&W, .45
If I had to pick just one handgun out of the dozens I own as the only gun I could have it would be a choice between one of the hi-cap 1911’s I built and one of the 10mm EAA Witness models I have. The EAA Witness in 10mm is just a shade less than the Bren Ten which is arguably the holy grail of fighting pistols.
I’ve got a buddy who loves his Shield. I don’t recall shooting one, but I understand it has a long trigger pull. The safety is nice; be sure you feel you can thumb it off during your draw.
But my general advice has never changed: get something that fits because you won’t enjoy it if it doesn’t fit and you won’t practice if you don’t enjoy it. Also: you learn bad habits and posture from ill-fitted equipment.
My son’s EDC is a G26: that’s 10+1 9mm. Shield 9mm is 8+1 max, but that probably doesn’t matter.
I agree with the snap-caps below for working on mechanics, but, if you’re a flincher, it’s not a panacea.
One big question to ask is how you intend to be using this gun. Will this be purely a bed-stand, home defense gun? Do you plan to get a carry permit and be carrying this?
The state I live in doesn’t have permits for carry. I’d like something for the range and the home
Does the state where you live limit magazine capacity? That could inform your decision to some extent.
I meant to say in the state I live in carry permits are not required
I’d get a 9mm. Easy to shoot, ammo typically widely available (barring occasional panic-driven shortages) and also relatively cheap.
The next question: Carry, or bedsiide? Carry – you want as small and light as you can stand, which also means smaller mags and harder to shoot. Bedside – you can get a full-size gun with more capacity and will be easier to shoot. I think going full-size for your first gun is a wise move; you can always get the carry gun later after you have settled in with the full-size.
I have decided 50-60 grams of dry pasta is an optimal serving for one person.
Based upon what?
personal preference? More is to much, less is not enough.
“Dry pasta” being an obvious euphemism for cocaine.
powder or crack?
For a primo, maybe.
Agreed. If it’s a main course, 85g (about 300 calories “naked”) is the sweet spot for most adults. I’d actually say half that for a primo.
I just weighed out what I usually cook (a tall odd shaped mug worth) and it came to 80g on the nose.
Close enough for jazz.
As many cooking skills as I’ve developed over the years, I still can’t accurately estimate how much dry pasta to cook. I always finished the meal either wanting more or having to put away some awkward amount of leftover cooked pasta.
But I recently got into making fresh pasta (which tastes absolutely amazing and is quite easy) and I’ve figured out that 1 cup of flour, one egg, and enough water to make a cohesive dough-ball is enough for one serving for me (which is probably equivalent to two servings for a normal person).
Limping away. Winter is back up here pretty much full force. It’s gonna be a long week. Take care and keep Leper length!
Coronavirus Shows Our Reliance On The ‘Precautionary Principle’ Has Ruined Our Ability To Manage Risk
Last year I worried the only way to solve Europe’s “precautionary” policy disaster is for bodies to “start piling up”. It’s not too late to prevent that from happening.
https://science20.org/david-zaruk/20200320/coronavirus-shows-our-reliance-precautionary-principle-has-ruined-our-ability
Taleb is going to burst an artery over this one.
Good.
Generally, I think that risk perceptions have been heavily distorted by politicians and media harping on things that are not actual risks (climate change, inequality, etc…)
When your major concerns include whether or not every dude that identifies as a woman can get into the bathroom of their choice, you tend to miss the real risks; economic depression, pandemics, war, etc…
I am surprised by the rapid response here. Already we have better tests, vaccine and therapeutics. The Flu Manchu plague hasn’t even gotten into second gear yet.
We do live in the greatest time in history.
Gym Idiots – Quarantine Home Workout Fails
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSgwUJo35yc
I miss the times elgin uploaded these more often
and the tweet before this one he was being nice to Pelosi
Are you surprised?
Because I’m not.
We live in the Best of Times……….
/the End Times…………….
Ok. I’m convinced. Trump is actually a Gold Bug, he’s placed millions into gold and is now actively trying to destroy the Dollar and the Fiat system for his own gain. Think about it. That’s why he won’t release his Tax Returns.
Mostly in decor.
He really did. You wouldn’t think a WASP from Kew Gardens would like that kind of thing.
(Why am I so talkative this morning? I got stuff to do! Asked and answered, I think.)
That reminds me. I have some trades to make today.
Maybe, but the world still wants US dollars.
I’m sure they can all agree on the bill being BIG, they love that.
Oh good, more monopoly money! The last infrastructure push gave us the street car that goes nowhere and has no riders, and which screws up traffic and parking downtown, but which we can’t stop running (even though it loses millions) because if we give up on it we owe the Feds $200,000,000. What wonderful new toy will our betters get this time around?
Has the government overreacted to the Coronavirus Crisis?
Toby Young questions whether the drastic measures put in place now will harm us more in the future
https://thecritic.co.uk/has-the-government-over-reacted-to-the-coronavirus-crisis/
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-obama-era-vehicle-mileage-standards
I thought he did that already?
Ya got me. Thought it sounded familiar myself.
https://twitter.com/LilithLovett/status/1244823810810843136
LOL
Although technically isn’t (((Sanders))) less white?
I think I posted this last week on close to a dead thread. Jeffrey Tucker at FEE back in 2014 during the ebola scare on government quarantines:
https://fee.org/articles/should-government-have-the-power-to-quarantine/
We get to stat at home starting a 5pm until April 30, Yipppeee!
Golf Courses are essential services, no Shit!
Question for the more responsible, civic minded Glibs: I stupidly held off on applying for my FOID until last week. I realize this was dumb and that I should have done it years ago. My state of residence is Illinois. What do you think the odds are that the applications are still even being processed right now?
0%
But, you just know the people who are supposed to be processing them are “essential” and will cash paychecks even though they aren’t doing their jobs.
I dunno. I have 2 friends that are paper-pushers for the EPA, one at the state level and the other local.
Both of their asses have been deemed ‘essential’.
What is a FOID?
On a similar note. My License expires in two months… and i think the DMV is still closed. And they won’t let me make a request online…
Federal Opioid ID?
It certifies that you really, really have some horrible pain and need opioids to treat it. You aren’t some filthy druggie just having fun.
Is that a thing?
By processed, do you include being used as toilet paper by a spiteful bureaucrat?
I don’t know what FOID is but I can tell you this: I am having trouble getting my medications because the insurance companies are at half-staff or less and swamped with claims. They are lagging a week or more behind on even the most important ones because they are triaging the claims. I imagine most bureaucratic bodies are having the same problem.
My guess is you would be wasting your time.
Can you afford them without insurance?
My pharmacist filled a 2nd 90-day prescription for me without going through insurance. Cost me $25 instead of $2. But, I know that particular medication is cheap.
No. One shot = 3500 bucks. One shot per week.
Damn. Sorry.
Yeah, not much to be done. Perfect storm…doc out of the country, yearly reauthorization from insurance and the coronapocalypse. Not really anyone’s fault just had all that shit line up at a bad time. I am stoic about it, wife on the other hand is very pissed.
doc out of the country
He should have somebody covering his practice for exactly these situations. If he doesn’t, fire him and get another one.
My son can’t get insurance approval for an ACL brace. On top of that, once we get approval, he can’t get measured because the dr. office is only seeing emergency cases. This whole thing is asinine.
FOID = firearm owner identification. Also, I’m sorry to hear about your trouble getting your medication. I’m probably being naive and overly optimistic, but I hope the delays are at least partly due to many organizations and their people still working out the kinks in a work-from-home environment and that you’ll be able to get what you need soon.
I don’t see any evidence of them shutting down.
Your governor even came out deeming guns stores as essential.
Cuomo ramping-up efforts to take over the private hospital system – “that distinction needs to go out the window”
His brother Fredo has the virus
Oh, he’s now playing that up at his press conference.
My BROTHER is not disposable? Even if he is a Fredo.
He’s now ~3 min in on Chris is sweet and wonderful stories (plus some Mario quotes for good measure).
And he segued seamlessly right into their plan to deny people ventilators if they are deemed inappropriate, right?
*swoon*
What the hell is the point of that? Rights issues aside, do they actually think they can improve the situation by doing so?
Weak/ Poor Leaders console themselves during a crisis by instituting absolute control. They don’t want things to go wrong and be blamed for it so they institute harsher and stricter control to give themselves comfort in knowing what is going on. It is an illusion that often ends up hurting lots of people.
Under the auspices of moving infected patients to hospitals that can “handle” the load. Completely the wrong way to set-up an integrated system in this case.
Hospitals are self-levelling. When they can’t handle it, they transfer to one that can. No Benevolent Overlord required.
Which one you was this?
U.S. man teaching dog how to drive arrested after high-speed chase
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWAK0J8Uhzk
RC Dean:
“the idea that economy determines culture
Classical Marxism.
I think its more iterative, more of a feedback loop. The two coexist and form each other. Its easy to focus on how one influences the other, but I think there’s plenty going the other way, also.”
I dont think the idea that culture is determined by the economy comes from Marxism or is necessarily Marxist. Marx simply made and observation, took hammer and tong to it to make it fit his narrative.
In a world without tractors or electric motors all you have are your two hands. You cant produce much with that. You spend all of your time and effort acquiring the most basic of needs like….water, food, etc. That is definitely going to determine how your culture functions because whether it works or not is going to determine if you live or die. This is why in nearly every pre-industrial culture in history the traditional roles of men, women and children were nearly the same. It works. Women’s suffrage didnt happen until well after the steam engine came along and we no longer had to scratch around in the dirt all day with our hands.
Go for it, Suthen. Its a timeless/bottomless topic. Kind of a chicken-and-egg thing, IMO.
Are low-trust cultures the reason why fully developed capitalism hasn’t emerged in many places? How to explain why so many cultures haven’t adopted the economic system that obviously delivers the most prosperity? Is a high-trust culture a feature of capitalism, or vice-versa? Or do they build on each other because one is necessary for the other?
That is a good point.
I think the crux of my argument is that , in your example, low trust cultures develop in an environment where there are severely limited resources and normal behavior is what we now call ‘crime’. Higher trust cultures develop in environments where shortages are not so severe or there is plenty.
Why low hasn’t developed into high or why they haven’t adopted a system that does produce plenty is because changing culture, as I mentioned above, lags far behind technological development. Yes, a low trust culture does inhibit technological development and even when technology does develop in spite of the culture, such as China, the culture often remains in a state of barbarism. How long will it take to change? Hundreds of years probably.
Was it Sowell that went into a deep discussion of low trust vs high trust cultures? I remember reading that somewhere along the way.
So, I finished up the first part of my hospital job yesterday and then went over to the restaurant of a long time customer. He is likely going to go bankrupt in another few weeks. I helped him with a problem he had on his front door. This was next to it.
https://imgur.com/gallery/iKkua2x
That’s awful. SF, right? I feel for a lot of the residents there.
Although it is a bit tough as it seems to me from the outside looking in that most of them think if everyone just “progs harder” the problems will all be magically fixed.
Yes, SF. I would say there are about a third here (in SF proper, not necessarily the Bay Area) that are full on progressive, another third somewhat mushy middle that think the progs go way too far but are not very political anyway and then a third that are absolutely aware of what progressivism leads to and aghast at the prospects.
I never got the (((leftists))) any more than I got the leftist blacks.
Who do they think tried to wipe them out on both counts and will again given the chance?
I helped him with a problem he had on his front door.
I hope your solution involved claymore mines.
Heh, he was close to that himself yesterday.
Our mayor still hasn’t shut down the subway. At this point I can confidently say this is insanity:
https://twitter.com/SethMckonly/status/1244699148290531328
I see some people in that thread are pointing out the lack of social distancing. Even if there were few enough riders that they could practice social distancing, would it make any difference in an enclosed space like that?
Okie dokie. XX TD got accepted to the trade school and I have just enrolled her.
I’m not going to lie that I totally miss her going to college and all the attendant costs and effort because I don’t. I don’t think she’s suited for college because her mind doesn’t work that way.
But I am utterly pleased with the fact there is a trade school, that she has a good job that she enjoys, and that she has a firm grasp on her financial future at 16.5. I didn’t have that, and that is what I wanted to provide her before she flies the coop.
What trade?
Please say ‘cleaner’…
Cleaner?
Disposes of people who are suddenly no longer . . . a problem.
But then you end up on the ‘to be cleaned’ list. It’s just a mess.
Oh. She doesn’t feel like taking up her mother’s trade.
IT
Probably doesn’t matter so much – but what flavor?
The billing is “IT Professionals.” What that actually means, I do not know and I do not care. The program came highly recommended by someone I trust.
Huh, professionals in IT. That would be a new one. We’re a very unprofessional lot.
Bear in mind, IT is riddled with folks like me, and worse.
Nearing the endpoint of a career (kickstarted with an enlistment in the Marines) based on a STEM undergrad and a business-type masters degree, with a glaze of languages and international experience in professional positions across a number of industries I find it difficult to recommend a similar path over a few years in a good trade school. Granted, not all trades are the same, but – for instance – a good machinist who knows how to weld could have a really good career. Plumbers and electricians will always have work and get paid well for it. I know some really niche “trade” fields that are truly begging for anybody to show up with the skills and equipment – they could almost name their price and get it.
I would train for one if I had the physical strength. ☹️
I REALLY wanted her to go into electricity, plumbing, or welding, but she wasn’t having it.
With her job at Walmart and a possible willingness to relocate to Bentonville, I’m hoping for some serendipitous convergence of the two.
That is only to say, I WANTED her to do the BNSF-Johnson County Community College railroad program, but she didn’t want that, either, and I realized I had become one of Those Women Who Push Their Regrets Onto Their Kids To Correct The Past, so I dropped it.
Sounds as if you met your goal. Good on both of ya!
Excellent!
Talking to my father the other day…he has lately been reading about psychology. I mentioned this place to him and wondered why we all seem to get along so well. He said the current voodoo book he is reading classifies people in three categories.
1. People who like talking about themselves
2 People who like talking about others
3. People who like talking about ideas
I suppose that is as good a way as any and explains it. Most people are a blend of the first two catagories but I find most people are uncomfortable talking about ideas as they fear having their own views challenged. I welcome it but most people start squirming and try to change the subject to weather, other people or themselves.
*Raises glass toasting Glibs and takes a swig of vodka*
I have run into people afraid to have their views challenged that I haven’t seen for a long time, decades even, and was horrified to find that their views had not changed one whit. By that I mean they haven’t learned anything.
Fear truly is the mind killer.
Everything they need to know they learned in kindergarten?
I’m not sure it’s fear (or at least, not fear alone). Can’t find it at the nonce, but there was a study using fMRI of people’s brains that showed that, when people were given a problem to solve or introduced to a new concept (like a new mathematical algorithm they were learning for the first time), the same areas of their brain lit up as when their arms were plunged all the way up to their shoulders in ice water. Thinking new stuff is hard and unpleasant for most people, and they avoid it the same way they avoid anything else they find unpleasant. This study also suggests an explanation for why we’ve invented so many rules-of-thumb and thinking shortcuts as humans, because it “outsources” the hard part to people who lived long before us. We gain from their pain, so to speak . . .
Thanks for all the handgun tips, guys. Too bad I can’t run a live chat video conference with y’all when I go to buy