I love utilities. Love love FLOVE me some utilities. I have utilities for every single damned thing I ever did and do, and some are already built into Windows. I even have a utility to make whatever latest Windows OS look like XP. Yes, really. You will find that some of these are quite primitive and/or aren’t developed anymore. I. Do. Not. Care. They do what I want and when what I want to do is something I can’t do, I go looking for more utilities. No, I don’t want one program with all the bells and whistles. I want one program that does one task well.
Writhe in misery, fools!
A list (not even close to exhaustive):
There are also programs that are either pay-as-you-can, subscription, or that I’ve paid a pretty penny for and that have paid for themselves many times over, mostly related to my work:
And lastly there’s Pinterest, where, as I have said before, girls collect pretty pictures and crafts we will never do* and guys collect prepper ideas and “fuck yeah, ‘Murka” memes. It has monetized America’s hoarding proclivities. There is a utility to help organize and back up all that business, but it uses SeaMonkey and SeaMonkey is hot garbage.
Pssst. Dirty little secret: Buying, collecting, and reorganizing one’s craft supplies IS the hobby.
Everything always comes back to Nikki Sixx.
Scared money never wins.
Wow… My eyes hurt looking at that desktop.
Also, Mojeaux, I am behind on them, but I dig the Monsters and Mormons stories! Very clever and enjoyable from one of [[[them]]].
(I think that’s the right bracket).
Need more Monsters and Mormons.
Do you mean to say you want a sequel or that the world does not have enough monsters or Mormons?
Sequel. Although the wizard part of me is intrigued by your other interpretation.
I just emailed my publishing partner to find out his thoughts.
DO IT!!!!
Et tu, Swissy?
Heavens, I never thought that would be such a hit with [[[nons]]].
I was really grooving on the premise and the story.
Hey, I actually bought it.
I’d read more.
And pay for it!
Yay!!!! I’m glad you’re liking them. It was originally meant as a serious in-joke but the more the merrier!
Yes, that is the right bracket for [[[us]]].
My background is usually just a plain old #000000.
I prefer battleship gray, like I’ve got on my blog.
With light gray text, right?
Yellow.
lemon?
Black text with green links.
#metoo
I get those guys all mixed up. Was Nikki Sixx the heroin addict, the cocaine addict, the booze addict, or the guy with the nine inch schlong that was schtupping Pam Anderson back when she was schtuppable?
*Would still schtupp
#metoo
Nikki Sixx = heroin addict
Vince Neil = coke and booze
Tommy Lee = schlong, coke, and booze
Mick Mars = ankylosing spondylolisthesis
Mick Mars was the guy who needed a hip replacement. Tommy Lee was Pam’s mister. Vince was the singer.
/my actual knowledge thereof
Ah yes Macrium Reflect.
The program that on one version (since corrected) that didn’t properly uninstall itself and prevented Windows 10 from upgrading itself to a new addition. Fortunately it was on my gaming PC which has far few applications installed. I wasted a good 10 hours of research and a month or so of time figuring out the problem. I was about a week a way from wiping the drive and do a clean install.
Not my favorite program by a long shot…
Huh. Macrium Reflect‘s been nothing but a life-saver for me. I’ve only ever used the free version (which was more than enough).
One of the utilities I brought over to Win10 is a little thing called Agent Ransack, which is a blindingly-fast (to me, anyways) file search utility. Another was SyncBack Pro, a very decent backup utility.
Wow that desktop… lol. That’s the desktop of a serial killer right there.
A short sentence for what each does would be cool. I guess I could click the links but… *meh* 🙂
You are so right! I’m sorry. #MojoFail
Slate-think
The reason I’m not saying this is an A-plus effort is because it’s still not clear if the many lower-income workers who don’t file their taxes are going to get this money in the end, or how soon they will get it. There is a large population of people who just do not file income taxes. If you’re a single worker who makes $10,000 in a year below the standard deduction, you don’t have to file. These are very vulnerable people, a lot of whom have probably been laid off. And it’s not clear if our tax authorities have the information to track them down. On top of that, if they do have addresses, the government is going to send these people a check. If they don’t have direct deposit, that could take weeks.
Then once those lower-income people get a check, they’ll probably end up taking it to ACE cash checking or something to actually cash it. And that means a part of that money is going to get taken off the top and given to an intermediary. That sucks.
———-
What a lot of people wanted to do initially was replace people’s salaries or wages at a 100 percent rate, just give them what they were making before so they can still afford their basics and pay rent. The issue is that state unemployment systems are so technologically backward that that was impossible. There was no way to do that sort of calculation quickly for that many people and roll it out within less than a few months. The administrative constraints made that a nonstarter. So what states said they could do is tack on an extra few hundred bucks to everyone’s check. Even Mitch McConnell, when there was this very short-lived Republican rebellion, said this is the best way we can figure out to give money to people.
——-
Nothing works. The fact that we couldn’t do the unemployment policy that we really wanted because our systems were so bad was a preview of what was to come. You had more than 16 million unemployment claims in several weeks. These state systems were totally overwhelmed. Websites started crashing. Phone lines were jammed. Nobody could get through. People were spending a week trying to apply.
Also, the United States loves to run programs on a local level. The unemployment system is entirely run through states, and state offices are very much budget-constrained. So they’re not going to put fixing their unemployment insurance interface or their back-end systems for administering it anywhere near the top of their priority list. They’re just not going to unless there’s a disaster like this that forces their hand and they get some federal money to help them. I think we’re also seeing some of the perils of governing localism and also this balkanized administrative welfare state.
Central planning at the national level would fix all of our problems, and federalism is the last refuge of scoundrels and slavery apologists.
Now, let’s get everybody into the Ministry of Plenty database and start saving the ntion from decay and despair.
Federalism is awful and racist unless it can be used to score a point against Trump when Trump says in a press conference he has absolute authority.
Yes, the only issue with that proposal is that it’s too tough to calculate how much money to give people.
This is easy. A living wage.
Not for or against a government-run Ministry of Plenty doing redistribution of wealth. But the money redistributed has to be voluntary. Donation not taxation.
My favorite part of this fantasy is the idea of gov’t agents tracking down people so they can give them free money. So people are so helpless they can’t take action on their part to do what it takes to get a $.
raGE RISING!
MADISON (WLUK)
Through the end of May then…that’s bullshit.
My own dickbag governor declared yesterday that he would be happy to take his boot off of the economy by May 4th on 2 conditions:
That:
1. The number of infected must be on the decline. Currently WA is fairly level as far as new infections daily; there is no decline.
2. The testing must be more widespread, higher numbers of tested, and faster testing/results.
So basically whenever he wants. He used bullshit numbers to get us into this, and goshdarnit he’ll use bullshit numbers to set us free!
So governors are now issuing their hostage release demands. Things were much easier back when the hostage takers were only asking for a bag of money and a flight to Cuba.
“hostage release demands”
Ima steal that.
The testing must be more widespread, higher numbers of tested
So useful when they keep coming back 80+% negative (outside of NY/NJ). Just like fucking zombies with MOAR TESTZ!
Well, we can just fake more positives, assume more false negatives, and fake more attributable deaths. We can fill in the numerators:denominators however we want! Also, we’re collaborating with the patriotic freedom-loving governors in Oregon and California to be sure we stay on the same message. No mention of our good neighbors in Idaho though.
Like a good neighbor,
Statist Ream are there!
Why not? They let China get away with the same thing!
Something something rope.
Something something lamppost.
You called for my new favorite song?
Now I need to find a way to work catin into everyday conversations.
That’s some straight up bullshit right there.
Uffda. Your governor is gonna egg ours into extending the lock down here too. Don’t want to have to listen to you Packer Backers taunting us with your bigger lockdown boners.
I’m hoping Walz knows that fucking with the fishing opener (5/9) would be a bridge too far. Especially since fishing out doors has to be one of the less dangerous activities you can engage in.
Have you not heard the latest from WHO?
Hey Holiness,
My kid just got home with some nice crappies from your lake. Get your ass out there!
Actually, get your boat ready so we can get out there!
Cool and awesome utils, MJ.
As far as I can remember, the only thing I’ve ever used Pinterest for was to collect pics of various shades of red hair so I could show one to my stylist and say, “There – that one. Make my hair that color.”
::whimpers:: I miss my stylist! : (
I just keep trying to get my spousal unit to get her stylist to colour her hair Pale Copper Blonde. She won’t even do it for my birthday! /pouty face
I’ve come across that bug, er, “feature”, a zillion times.
That’ll show ’em
Amazon will suspend all distribution operations in its six warehouses in France until at least April 20, according to an internal document sent to French labor unions. The decision came after a French court ruled on Tuesday that the company must limit deliveries to essential goods while it conducts a thorough assessment of the coronavirus contagion risk at its warehouses.
The court gave the French subsidiary of the U.S. online retail giant 24 hours to restrict shipments to essential goods such as food or medical supplies, or face a fine of $1.1 million for each day of non-compliance. The company decided to temporarily halt operations.
What about the people placing nonessential orders? Will they be hunted down and punished? Or is keeping them from getting their orders filled sufficient (for now)?
Carrying over from the expired thread:
To disagree with Don, a single-action trigger is one in which the trigger does only one thing — release the hammer. If pulling the trigger does anything else, it’s not single action. For most DA guns, the second action is cocking the hammer or compressing the striker spring, though obviously in revolvers it also rotates the cylinder and there are a few oddities you can find on the Forgotten Weapons channel.
oh, all that’s correct; no arguing it
I just think that 88% of folks think in terms of the demonstrated utility, not the buried kinematics. I default to cowboy logic here (not a hill I would die on, mind ye) just because I doubt “double action” was dreampt by the house gear fiend at Colt (who scribbled it furiously in his sketchbook) but by the necessity of its invention.
The strategic marketing probably led. * an office in New Haven * Fellows, what we need is a double action revolver, viz: one that can shoot whether the trigger is cocked or not; THAT, gentlemen, is what I can sell at top dollar! * several fists pounds agreement and approval * *end scene *
* somewhere in Kansas * Cowboy 1: I wisht I had me one of them pistols that would shoot even when I ain’t a got times to cock duh trigger! Cowboy 2: You mean, the trigger actuates two functions, both cocking the hammer and releasing it as well!!!??!! Cowboy 1: wut?
full disclosure: I’m totes into burying kinematics.
Language is descriptive!!!! * hides behind HM’s skirts *
Just to weigh in on this discussion to add some perspective – I don’t think there was such a massive demand for the double action revolver at the time when single-actions revolvers were the norm for a couple reasons –
1) I doubt many people can fully grasp the revolutionary difference Colt’s revolver made in the American west. Just review the history of the Texas Rangers and the Comanche to understand the tremendous change in the dynamic between the tenacious Rangers and the Comanche (arguably the most fearsome mounted warriors ever known). The impact of the revolver in this contest that Captain Walker of the Rangers sought out and collaborated with Sam Colt to not only bring Colt back from destitute obscurity and revive his failed venture but put him on the path to fame and fortune.
The form and function of this revolver was so transformative that I believe it would take more than a generation to even appreciate the relatively slight improvement of double-action.
2) Metallurgy of the time was so poor that it was an engineering challenge to bring a robust, functional double-action mechanism to market (I’m looking at you Colt Lightning/Thunderer). Triggers tended to be heavy – some early pistols had longer triggers to be pulled simultaneously by both index and middle finger – which did not enhance accuracy. So the single-action continued to be the better option.
That’s my take on it worth every penny you paid for it.
‘Some Ford Workers Are Wearing Vibrating Social-Distancing Bracelets
by Shane McGlaun
April 16, 2020, 2:50 am’
https://fordauthority.com/2020/04/some-ford-workers-are-wearing-vibrating-social-distancing-bracelets/
That’s not why they’re wearing a vibrating device….
Factory workers wear vibrators.
/CNN
Factory workers wildly cum when closer than 6 feet to each other. /Pornhub
Trump forces factory workers into sex trade
/CNN
Where they are wearing them is the question.
I saw This is Not What I Expected, I know how those proximity alarms end.
I’m betting the pictures don’t show bracelets on wrists.
SugarFree to the white courtesy phone…
For imagining workday at plant: bracelets vibrate when get less than six feet, because six feet is magic
If you don’t add icons to your desktop how do you tell when it is getting to be time for the next computer? I thought you started conidering a new rig when the icons reached the midpoint of the screen and got serious about a new rig when you realize that it takes you longer to find the icon than to search the drive for the game?
I…
I… don’t…
That…
Sense makes no…
/wanders off to get another beer.
Reopen Virginia protest shut down by Gov Coonman who doesn’t like his authoritay challenged.
I read that and I get that you will be closed until September. Good luck with that. If it ever warms up in Michigan, there will be riots in Lansing if Whitmer tries to extend this past May 1.
Yeah, it sounds like he’s positioning himself to extend it until September if he thinks he can get away with it.
I hope the protests continue. The optics of these are even better than the 2A protest earlier this year — no rednecks with big, scary guns; just ordinary people sitting on the capitol lawn with no masks.
Virginia is already warm and people in Richmond already starting to get pissed about closures of park system parking lots popular for accessing the James River.
Also, the green-vested “park monitors” hassling people for not distancing, etc.
Naturally. Protesting is non-essential. All educated people agree on that.
Oh, the prog bile and spleen about this protest was sickening. Total (deliberate) misunderstanding of the protesters’ motivations, complete disregard that there might be rights issues here, etc.
I swear, it’s like they’re trying to use this to wreck the economy and blame Trump for it.
Personal: Ordered CZ pistol shown as “in-stock” (vs the many other items shown “out of stock”) from Classic Firearms on 3/31 and it still hasn’t shipped yet. They charged my CC, though.
It’s a proxy culture war at this point. Who doesn’t want another one of those.
“I swear, it’s like they’re trying to use this to wreck the economy and blame Trump for it.”
Yep. It’s almost like that.
I’m old enough to remember when dissent was patriotic.
April 2003?
‘I’m sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and disagree with this administration, somehow you’re not patriotic. We need to stand up and say we’re Americans, and we have the right to debate and disagree with any administration.’
― Hillary Rodham Clinton
I’m old enough to remember when it wasn’t.
Heh, one of the dumbass cops posting that notice is wearing his mask under his nose. They do realize people breathe through the nose, right?
When you work with a much of mouth breathers, it’s easy to forget.
Germany’s reopening plan – no antibody passports or surveillance required:
https://www.dw.com/en/a-nitty-gritty-look-at-germanys-loosened-coronavirus-lockdown-rules/a-53149361
Germans are even more even keeled than the nutjobs parasites sitting in governor’s mansions over here
Chancellor Merkel said that face masks would not be required but that she “strongly recommended” wearing them while shopping or on public transportation.
Imagine that. The assholes here can’t get over their “if it’s not forbidden, it must be mandatory” thinking.
We (the US) are really showing ourselves to be the worst in so many ways. Incompetence, authoritarianism, panic, and on and on.
There are advantages in living in a high-trust society that’s not going through a cold civil war when it comes to dealing with a pandemic.
“There are advantages in living in a high-trust society ….”
Your words remind me of the introduction to a song.
“Living in Eden has its advantages.
As a marginalized member of a spectator democracy, you choose your own dependencies: Lust, hate, blood, love.
Don’t think of it as manufactured consent, think of it as the candy everybody wants.”
*sigh*
I was supposed to be in Germany in July.
I feel your pain – we were planning a trip to Germany/Austria in early August.
who the hell goes to the Fatherland after Easter? they’re right about a lot of things, but, if you see windows open: most volk stink at least every other day
Because it was going to be Iceland to Belgium to northern Germany to Amsterdam back to Iceland.
The flights to Iceland (only thing that we had locked in so far) got cancelled earlier this week. As it stands, I’m out ~$30 on deposits, which I can live with. The traveling on the other hand, I can’t get back.
As it stands, the current planning is a New England road trip for several weeks in Autumn. If the lockdown goes on much longer, I may press for separate vacations for my own sanity.
oh I’m sure that makes sense
I was just being silly and never want to miss a chance to bag on brilliant German types who can’t figure out how not to stink (I’ve paid my dues on this one)
‘Facebook will begin alerting users who react to or like coronavirus stories fact-checkers have marked as false
Previously, Facebook alerted users to fake coronavirus stories only if they tried sharing posts containing false information
Facebook has offered financial support to various fact-checking companies’
https://www.ibtimes.com/facebook-will-alert-users-who-react-or-fake-coronavirus-stories-2960011
The one thing I have noticed is the prevaalence of fact check warning on facebook where the item being fact checked does not actually make the claim which is being marked as false. I have seen that over a dozen times in recent days. Perfectly reasonable position taken opposing some aspect of this, marked as false and when you click through the ‘fact check’ is a rebuttal of some outlandish claim like “Covid 19 is entirely made up” or “Michigan is welding people in their homes”. It is very dirty pool IMHO.
Facebook’s mask is slipping even more?
They have a mask?
‘But they’re missing the point entirely. Facebook’s problem is not that its “curators” are biased. Facebook’s problem is that it refuses to admit that they’re biased’
This right-wing complaint from slate.com/technology/2016/05/yes-facebook-is-biased-now-it-should-admit-it.html
That was before the Zuck went to Congress, claiming Facebook was above the political Left-Right fray.
Facebook now is defining ‘fact’, ‘fake news’, and ‘truth’ as defined by the worldwide Ministry of Truth and going after the other side.
‘Sales at Arizona marijuana dispensaries skyrocketed in March as coronavirus shutdown started’
https://www.azcentral.com/story/money/business/consumers/2020/04/16/arizona-medical-marijuana-sales-record-march-2020-coronavirus/5145997002/
Well Duh, I can’t go to NV or Needles,
‘Months after President Donald Trump promised to open FBI files to help families of the 9/11 victims in a civil lawsuit against the Saudi government, the Justice Department has doubled down on its claim that the information is a state secret. In a series of filings just before a midnight court deadline on Monday, the attorney general, William Barr; the acting director of national intelligence, Richard Grenell; and other senior officials insisted to a federal judge in the civil case that further disclosures about Saudi connections to the 9/11 plot would imperil national security. But the administration insisted in court filings that even its justification for that secrecy needed to remain secret.’
https://www.salon.com/2020/04/16/attorney-general-bill-barr-refuses-to-release-911-documents-to-families-of-the-victims_partner/
Your problems, they will all be solved
Grocery stores have become stalwarts for Americans during the coronavirus pandemic — when almost everything else is closed, you can rely on supermarkets to be open. Food stores have been deemed an essential service and their employees, essential workers. Now, two industry organizations want these employees, who risk exposure to the coronavirus by going to work, to be considered akin to first responders.
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW), which represents about 1.3 million workers, and The Kroger Co. supermarket chain, are calling on federal and state government officials to designate grocery store associates as “extended first responders” or “emergency personnel.”
“Since the onset of this pandemic, Kroger family of companies associates, who are also members of the UFCW, have been working tirelessly to make sure that millions of American families have the fresh food and products they need,” a statement from Kroger chairman and CEO Rodney McMullen and UFCW International President Marc Perrone reads. “As all Americans are now witnessing — grocery workers play a critical role in our communities and they must be protected.”
*waves magic wand*
They’re just angling for that Glock special pricing for first responders.
Kroger is doing this because they know the union will have to be paid off one way or the other, and would prefer that the taxpayers rather than shareholders fund that.
Absolutely nobody to like here.
I wonder how the FOP is going to spin this-
Former Beavercreek, D.A.R.E officer arrested on child pornography charges
“It was research! Yeah, that’s it! So he could warn the kids about how not to get exploited!”
+1 Pete Townshend
Exactly what I thought,
Sup Tres!
HEY YUFUS!
One more time….
Projectile pooper pleads guilty for not staying home
that doesnt belong here…
*Remembers cop investigating kid for kiddy porn because he took pictures of himself. Cop insisted the kid get a boner so he could take a photo and compare to the kiddy porn in question.*
Shockingly that cop was arrested himself for kiddy porn a few months later.
43 minutes ago
‘Flak-Bait made history on April 17, 1945, when it became the only American bomber to fly 200 missions.’
‘Seventy-five years after a memorable mission, the B26 bomber ‘Flak-Bait’ undergoes preservation at the National Air and Space Museum’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/world-war-ii-bomber-took-more-enemy-fire-most-others-and-always-came-home-180974690/
Kekistanis of the Greatest Generation.
OT: I turned off the dynamic page refresh in Monocle to try to deal with the 504 problems, and now there’s no way to turn it back on. (I don’t have the three-line options above the navigation tools). In fact I don’t have Monocle at all anymore, apparently, since I’ve got the normal comments scheme with numbers, and no options to mute people or preview comments.
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and closing Firefox and reopening it, but I can’t get Monocle to work any more. Any ideas what to do?
Check the thermostat.
Turning it off and on again.
Nuke it from orbit, it’s the only way to be sure.
Distancing and face masks?
But, what do I know? I feel like my kid. Every time I make a comment, I get a time out.
Everybody else gets a time-out, too. 😉
After clicking ‘Post Comment’ wait five seconds then F5
Didn’t seem to help. I get the 504 and then hit the back button. Bigger issue for me is I lose the new comment count. I have to try and read through them all and hit post with perfect timing
Okay, so I get the 504 error. I hit the back button and then refresh. Keeps the “unread” count if you’re using monocle/eyepiece/whatever it’s called.
I lose the LH toolbar or parts of it get covered over sometimes. I arrow down to the bottom and it clears up and all buttons are then revealed.
But I’ve also gone three days without sight, and neither did eat nor drink fighting the damned thing YMMV
when I wrote that I clearly heard Left Hand in my head
when I now read it it clearly says Lord Hummongous
Left Hand you say?
https://xkcd.com/2033/
I found our squirrels
+1 another XKCD fan
-1 not sure how diagram applies. Monocle software, not hardware
Switch to Eyepiece.
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
Assuming this is the link, it won’t open for me.
According to TamperMonkey this is the homepage. I don’t remember exactly how the install worked. Seems like Eyepiece is a branch of Monocle.
Either trsh can come to your aid or maybe check the resources page here – I think it’s there too.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro Fires Health Minister for Pushing Total Confinement, Something Bolsonaro Rejects
So jealous right now.
How would total confinement and closing all businesses supposed to work? The guy is nuts. People have to eat. Someone has to keep the water system running, the electrical system running…..what’s this guy’s name? Joseph Stalin? In three days he would be gibbetted.
First place to check is menu-> add-ons – > tampermonkey options – > installed userscripts
See if the Monocle one is enabled.
I’ve got Greasemonkey. I tried uninstalling it and reinstalling it, and eventually found what looks like an old version (2.01) with all the options at the bottom of the page, but that’s not what I had before. But the pages of Monocle and Eyepiece won’t open for me.
Click here to hopefully fix it. Sounds like you were on Eyepiece and now are on legacy Monocle? Anyway, this is the latest and greatest, and should automagically install.
It’s a testament to your trustworthiness that I just clicked a link that promised to install software automatically. And I clicked it!
I’m the anti-HM… for now?
Had no idea you guys had such a nifty addon. This is pretty nice. Thanks!
Wait, do we need tampermonkey or greasemonkey? Now I am confused. I clicked your link and got something that was way different.
Either. I use tampermonkey personally because I can make little tweaks for myself without pushing the buggy code to production.
Aaaah, you changed it a lot and added a mute option. No wonder nobody replies to my super witty posts.
LG, Monocle is a wonderful thing. I haven’t been able to figure out how to get Eyepiece on my allegedly-“smart” phone, and I miss the features when I don’t have access to my laptop.
In non tyranny news, I smoked a batch of ribs today and the pork butt is still on there. I am usually a rub only sort of guy but I felt like a bit of sauce in these trying times. I mixed a couple T of candied Jalepenos with about a 1/2C of ketchup and about a 1/4C of acv. Sweet baby jesus that is a fine sauce for ribs. I fully plan a meat coma later. I only tasted them because I am not done being angry today.
Dammit. Not supposed to land there.
*clears throat, taps on water glass*
You people are awesome. Top to bottom, end to end. Without this little bastion of sanity and rationality, I might either be at the top of a bell tower or the bottom of a tequila bottle.
Hey, now. Let’s not bag on tequila just yet.
/tosses P Brooks a flask
I kind of like how I feel when I get to the bottom of a tequila bottle. Most times. I mean, those times I have another tequila bottle. Which is always in these trying times.
Oh fuck off!
I concur. And you know, there ARE some single Glibbroads here. (I am not one of them.) Just sayin’…
Montana sez “Hold muh beer.”
According to the flier produced by the Valley County Health Department, out-of-towners who lack the government-issued armbands will be prohibited from stores and residents are notified to call law enforcement if they do not comply.
Just give them yellow stars instead.
The linked newspaper has the usual response about wasn’t their intent and has been rescinded. Bullshit. Heads need to be mounted on pikes. Oops, my bad isn’t good enough anymore.
Man the Bee….oh wait, this….this isn’t satire?
Another glass of wine for me
Is that county small enough that everyone knows everyone else because that’s the only way that’d work.
We’re going to need a lot more lampposts.
Since I feel it would be a wasted opportunity
You know who else…
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2020/04/15/echoing-trump-more-gop-state-legislators-call-for-easing-closures
““I imagine that those who are most critical of aggressive state action [are] people who tend to be very supportive of whatever position President Trump is taking,” said John Weingart, associate director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Weingart noted that some GOP legislators may be motivated by their animus toward big government, but added, “I don’t see a consistent political philosophy as much as responding to the party that controls the White House.””
Got that, Trumptards? All you reckless cranks and terrorists prattling on about your precious rights and liberties are just parroting Orange Hitler’s bullshit.
That anyone can say horseshit like that in public and not immediately get a broken nose disheartens me.
Meh, there is probably some truth to that, most people don’t work from first principles. Where’d the anti-war left go once the D’s were guiding the missiles? Where’d the fiscal-responsibility right go once the R’s had the purse strings? Just because I agree with some protesters message gives me little comfort that we are working from the same set of ideals.
Studies suggest that less than 15% of people work from an ideological point of view. Methinks youre right.
I was listening to a Dave Smith/Michael Malice podcast while I was out walking. Boaz and his ‘flexible’ principles didn’t make it out alive.
wow, I wish I had that remove empty directories tool 5 months ago when I spent a solid weekend re-organzing my media and transferring it all to the NAS I built
oh well, now I know for next time!
I generally don’t share how primitive I am (because I know I am and get off my fucking lawn already), but I figure y’all know by now I’m a cranky old lady and I’ll do what I damn well please.
However, “desktop of a serial killer” was totally worth whatever ridicule came my way. That’s totally awesome.
trust me this would have saved me a lot of time. I ended up having to learn how to use powershell to do it, and all along I was like “there has to be another way but nothing comes up on google?”
Just bought a Ruger 10/22. What else do I need for it? What kind of cleaning kit? What kind if ammo? I’m very much a newbie. Any and all suggestions welcome
27 million rounds of cheap assed ammo.
search back a day or two here to get the full complement of sighting options
.22 bore snake & some FP-10
Any ammo you can find and extra magazines.
Congrats.
You just bought one of the best guns you can buy. Get you a hoppes or similar cleaning kit. You will need a shoulder strap and a scope. Don’t use the scope for a while. Practice with the iron sights for at least a few months.
“Practice with the iron sights for at least a few months.”
^^^THIS
As a new shooter, you want to become proficient with iron sites.
My first .22 was a marlin semi. Great gun for the price. Later in life I bought a Ruger 10/22 and never looked back. Great gun for all kinds of situations plus cheap and fun to shoot.
Ruger 10-22 was my first gun. Had it for decades. Had some feed issues with it a year or so ago. Bought a new mag and extractor. Seems to be fine now.
I learned to shoot with a .22 like this one.
I loved that gun and still do. With the large port and a handful of loose .22 rounds, it was surprisingly fast to fire multiple rounds. I left it at my parent’s house so I would have something to shoot when visiting. A few years ago, my brother in-law was using it. Since it doesn’t have a manual safety, he thought it would be safer to carry with the bolt removed. Unfortunately, it has a two part bolt and he lost the front piece. I might have to buy another so I can make a new piece for the bolt.
Gotta love a bolt action!
iron sites? So like Jerry Pournelle’s website, Robert Conquest’s site etc.?
If it didn’t come with sights, you’ll need some sort of optic and mounting for it.
Any cleaning kit with a .22 brush will work as long as the cleaning rod is long enough to pass through the barrel.
Borepatches. If you’re really cheap, instead of buying the .22 ones, you can buy .45s and cut htem into quarters.
Lead/copper solvent I don’t know that there’s really any difference between brands, but most everyone loves Hoppe’s No. 9
Lubricant. This can be combined as a clean/lubricate/protect mixture (CLP) and there are dozens of brands out there. Some people swear by Ballistol, I’ve been using Eez-ox, since that’s what the LGS threw into my bag as a first time customer and it works just fine AFAICT
If you’re not using a CLP, you’ll need to buy separate cleaning solution and protecting solutions in addition to lubricant, though that “protectant” isn’t necessary if you shoot all the time.
As far as ammo, CCI has an excellent reputation when it comes to .22LR. I haven’t had much/any problem even running Remmington “golden bullet,” which was the cheapest thing at my Wal-Mart through my 10/22. UCS might have has some issues with a particular brand.
Oh yeah, if you bought it new, there’s probably a coupon in the box for 20% off of stuff at shopruger.com up to a certain amount. Max that out on magazines.
If you’re in a 10-round mag-limited state, the “trimag” device lets you bolt together 3 10 rounders, and I quite like it.
BX-25 is junk anyways. Might check out that tri-mag myself.
Can’t go wrong with CCI. I personally would start out with box of 50 max of a few brands to make sure YOUR rifle is going to feed it reliably. You probably want to get an extra 10 round mag from Rugar. Sling and swivels are nice. Something cheap with a pad will do you. You’ll want a case for it as well. Just long enough to fit the rifle. Leave room width wise for a scope.
https://www.brownells.com/ammunition/rimfire-ammo/standard-velocity-ammo-22-long-rifle-40gr-lead-round-nose-prod82463.aspx
I know it’s “just a .22”, but get some nice earmuffs.
My Dad shot a turkey in his yard with a .22 and came to the conclusion that a .22 is a lot louder than you expect when shooting it in a residential neighborhood.
Best suggestion: find an organization near you that shoots USPSA Steel Challenge and enter in RFRI (rimfire rifle iron sights — if you have iron sights, RFRO otherwise). You will have riciculous amounts of fun. Bring five magazines.
‘ I’m very much a newbie.’
Avatar checks out.
Solid, DNT. I laughed.
A generic gun cleaning kit from Wal-Mart will be more than sufficient. Separately buy a couple of extra brass brushes for .22 that screw on the end of the rod in. the gun cleaning kit.
Top notch ammo, in my opinion – CCI 40 grain standard velocity – it’s not cheap.
Browse here. Note the options for searches on the left side. Familiarize yourself with prices/velocities/brands
The only one I dont recommend are the cheap Remington Thunderbolts. They are not loaded consistently and are dirty as hell to shoot.
https://www.midwayusa.com/rimfire-ammunition/br?cid=7547&targetLocation=%2F_%2FN-7547%2B4294967257%3FNp%3D2%26Nr%3DAND%2528p_visible%253A1%252Ccustomertypeid%253A1%2529%26Nrpp%3D24%26Ns%3Dp_metric_sales_velocity%257C1%26Ntpc%3D1%26Ntpr%3D1&customerSelectedSort=False
Try not to get anything really hot like CCI mini-mags as they slam the bolt back too hard on autos and can cause damage after too much shooting. Those are best in non-autos. I like the heavier 40 gr bullets and at 22 ranges the standard velocity works very well. Copper coated bullets are cleaner than uncoated lead.
That is a very fun rifle to shoot. Shoot it a lot. Try different bullets. You will have a ton of fun figuring out what works best.
Get extra magazines
https://palmettostatearmory.com/champion-25rd-magazine-with-metal-head-and-magazine-loader-combo-40428.html?avad=243993_e1a478885&utm_source=Avantlink&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=ale
Aside from this bunch I recommend the Ruger brand mags. You want them to feed properly.
Bang! Pop! Pow! Spfffft! BLAM! Pop!
*Me shooting Remington Thunderbolts in my K-22
Thanks everybody! I knew I’d get solid advice here
Others have already given you great advice.
I will just add love that gun. The 10/22 is a great gun.
According to the flier produced by the Valley County Health Department, out-of-towners who lack the government-issued armbands will be prohibited from stores and residents are notified to call law enforcement if they do not comply.
Montanans hate freedom at least as much as the next guy.
I actually did a quickie google news search for “helena protest”. Zilch.
But- on the news, the other night, they showed a guy (an electrical contractor, I think) in a Gallatin County meeting begging the health Nazis to shut down all construction sites. Because scary.
Just trying to hide the data, folks…
I’m off to get a new sewing machine for the missus.
She can make a new cotton sack shift dress with just a scissors, you know.
But sewing machines are fun…..
And cheap, too!
Wouldn’t she also need a cotton sack?
‘The Trumbull County Sheriff’s Office and the county health department investigated the report of a possible wedding celebration involving 300 people, according to a sheriff’s report.’
‘Chief Deputy Joe Dragovich said he drove by the outdoor location of the wedding ceremony just after noon Thursday, and he said he saw only four people there at one time.’
https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2020/04/amish-wedding-investigated-for-breaking-crowd-rule/
‘Health inspectors went out and reported finding more than 30 people at a reception following the wedding. Kris Wilster, with the health district, said they can’t enforce the 10-person maximum rule at religious ceremonies but they could do so for the reception.’
https://www.wkbn.com/news/coronavirus/health-inspectors-report-social-distancing-violations-at-amish-wedding-reception-in-mesopotamia/
Trumbull County, Ohio, ‘Mericah
Drugs would have fallen out, but they’re Amish…..
How do you know if one of the Amish in on coke?
They’re passing cars in their buggy.
Q: What goes “clop, clop, clop, BANG! BANG! BANG! clop, clop, clop”?
A: An Amish drive-by shooting.
I bet there are a whole passel of people in Gallatin and Park County wishing they had thought of that armband thing. The next best thing to roadblocks.
one program with all the bells and whistles
#!/bin/bash
/jk – nice list of useful tools there
grep
‘nix does have the best utilities:
https://everything2.com/title/Command+Line+Porn
-1 less 🙁
Thanks!
If it saves just one life…
Wait, that sounds familiar…
[reenters bubble to lurk in peace]
emacs
Yup.
M-x Do-Whatever-The-Hell-You-Want
Spaghetti for lunch. Sweet Italian sausage, Newman’s Sockarooni sauce with extra mushrooms and black olives dumped in, over angel hair pasta.
Deeelish.
Yeah, Sockarooni sauce is my go to base for spaghetti. Good stuff. He also contributes proceeds to charity from the sales. One being Flying Horse Farms, a local fav of ours so win-win.
Here’s my new favourite starter base for spaghetti sauce (and it’s stupid cheap too!).
we do exactly the same
I have shared some pics here through pinterest (which I actually like). One time Playa asked me if I was going to share a pic of my wedding dress. *mumble mumble kicks rock*
I’m sorry to inform you, but that made me LOL.
Oh it did me too. The last time I used pinterest was to swipe ideas for bars. There is some great stuff there. After looking at what I found I realized I had better ideas in my head.
Out of curiosity I searched for the psychological effects of quarantine. Turns out they did some studies of people quarantined for Ebola and SARS. Short term they found anxiety, depression, irritability, insomnia, and long term PTSD. I’m definitely seeing those symptoms in myself and people I know. Besides an economic crisis we’re also creating a pretty big mental health crisis.
Yeah… I’ve been having trouble sleeping more then 5 hours a night the past couple of weeks.
5 hours! No one likes a braggart Neph.
Damn you, Pornhub premium.
ditto
Also with the anxiety.
I am more of a curmudgeon. Stay home? Stay away from people? Oh, please dont throw me in the briar patch!
“I am more of a curmudgeon. Stay home? Stay away from people?”
I recently had a conversation with a buddy of mine which seemingly echoes your comments, Suthen.
Her point: We rarely see you and you don’t answer when we call/text. On top of this you don’t respond for days.”
My point: “I am not needy.”
In truth I did not reply “I am not needy.”, although at some level I was cognizant of the reaction. Instead I asked how their day was going, how their family was doing, et cetera.
This is fucked.
If you wanted to create a widespread mental health crisis, this is perfect.
I’m bored with the extrovert/introvert bullshit. If you weren’t already a hermit, you are suffering.
What? There’s a quarantine on? Why didn’t someone tell me? I’d a stayed home.
7 Midwest governors, well not exactly Midwest but anyway, are planning on opening and are coordinating with each other. Something like this:
“I’m thinking about opening up some stuff”
In chorus, “Me too, me too”
“You go first”
“No, you go first”
“OK, I’ll open if you will”
“OK, on three and we all open together”
“Ah one, ah two, ah three, go”
All look at each and point ’cause no one opened.
The fear is great, elections are coming, no one wants to be the first , just in case. Better wait…
>.>;
a free evening today and a busy tomorrow
here’s a few neat tidbits I recently found:
world’s simplest electric train
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9b0J29OzAU
Neato.
/pours another beer
/watches more Psychostick
I thought that was a band, not a show.
They’re a sandwich not a song. During the lockdown, they’re doing live streams every Thursday.
easy to understand intro to quantum computing and its use in breaking encryption
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvTqbM5Dq4Q
the 3 gods riddle – world’s hardest logic problem
I tried and got partway through the first step.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKvjIsyYng8
I used to think the media was a wing of Team Blue and now I think Team Blue is a wing of the media.
17 minutes of Biden’s Malfunctioning Mind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADDrSvNyqEY
One of the comments:
“ Joe Biden could hide his own Easter eggs.”
I couldn’t bring myself to watch it because I actually feel sorry for the guy but that was pretty good.
Yeah, I have had mixed feelings about mocking a guy clearly suffering from mental decline. My position now is that making fun of Joe is a fair way to shame the idiots who pressured him into this.
You’d think they would learned there lesson in the last election when her royal highness was heaved into the life support van like a sack of potatoes.
This is a guy who wants to have power over your life. Mocking him is encouraged.
their lesson, that is
I can feel a little sorry for him because he lost a wife and child in a car accident and worked hard to overcome a stutter. However, he has said and done many stupid things in the past 50 years on top of all the other crooked stuff.
Good gravy, he even screws up softball interviews:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lz7mEqruXY
Hi Mo!
I love your lynx ‘o randomness!
For years I was a time/scorekeeper for my kids’ lacrosse teams. I loved multitimer as you had to simultaneously keep track of game time as well as multiple penalties.
Awesome product.
Its inclusion suggests I should comb your list more thoroughly!
Yay!!! Thank you!
Anyone looking for reusable masks?
https://buxcustoms.com/collections/face-mask
I ordered two of the scorpions today. I have no prior experience will this company.
With not will
I’m tempted… NSFW.
Neat – something to consider.
I like the “Im Michael Jackson” one
Thot Thursday is built for speed and comfort.
http://archive.li/U7RXw
Is #11 Mrs. Tom Brady? I didn’t think she was quite so juggy.
WTFINSANITY
Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman (D) on Wednesday called for Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) to reopen nonessential businesses shuttered during the coronavirus pandemic, saying the sweeping closures have become “total insanity.”
“This shutdown has become one of total insanity in my opinion, for there is no backup of data as to why we are shut down from the start. No plan in place how to move through the shutdown or how even to come out of it,” Goodman said during a city council meeting.
Goodman cited experts she has spoken with, saying that the the coronavirus or a derivative will simply “be part of what we work through going forward,” arguing it was time to reopen the city.
“We cannot keep our heads in the sand and think it’s going to go away,” she said. “We’re adults with brains who can know what to do to wash our hands, to take all precautions not to spread this disease.”
The mayor pointed to the Sin City’s typically thriving convention and tourism industry, saying the mandated closures are “killing us already.”
“The longer we wait to do this the more impossible it will become to recover and return to the home we all know and love,” she said.
Trumptard confirmed.
I remember thinking that as soon as they started talking about shitting on so called non-essential businesses. “What about Las Vegas? Shreveport?”
they are killing the country and I cant help but think a lot of them think it is a good thing.
We ventured out today on our first full scale joint foraging expedition.
Semi-craziness.
First we went to Walmart. There was a line outside the door. But it didn’t take long to get in. Lots of stuff coming over the intercoms about social distancing, and lines on the floors everyone.
How any people paid attention? Very few. some people, maybe half had masks, but most of those were just bandannas. Very few people wearing real masks that could actually stop the virus. More than 50% of people completely ignoring any social distancing rules.
We had 2 full carts of stuff when we left there. The little lady working the checkout we were in, bless her heart, was as slow as fucking Christmas.
Next we were off to Home Depot to see if they had any garden plants, because Walmart had none. Home Depot did, they don’t take very good care of them, but I managed to get some decent ones. I also bought seeds. If I’m going to be stuck inside, I need to do something and I like gardening. Social distancing at Home Depot seemed to be nearly non-existent.
Went the the liquor mega store and social distancing seemed to be non-existent.
My take is that people are already tired of this and they aren’t worried about being sick, probably because most people don’t know anyone who is sick and are starting to think some bullshit has been pulled on them. As am I.
The whole purpose behind masks and bandannas is not to protect you, it’s to protect others. Somewhere along the line, someone figured out that the droplet size that matters most is the droplet size that can be handled by a basic cloth mask, or bandanna.
Shut the fuck up, concerntard!
Dinner, courtesy of the 2 year old
Needs hot dogs.
chicken nuggets
My wife suggested that, but it was a bridge too far.
Slice thin like pepperoni
Have you seen Sloopy’s birthday cakes?
My dad has told the story of the first time my mom cooked dinner for him. She made a “pizza”, with American cheese…
Mama Tres would bake hot-dogs, essentially turning them into jerky. Tres Sr would say “salty dogs for supper!”.
Where’s the pineapple?
Oh no here it comes.
That must be one bright two-year-old. Are you sure it wasn’t a Ukrainian midget?
Tonight’s wheel-o-food says….
zucchini bolognese over spaghetti squash!
(I miss going out to eat)
I believe the current plans are to order takeout from another German restaurant near me (Das Schnitzel Haus)
I’m making pulled pork in the crock pot.
/tries to hide Tulip from the smoker purists
[shrugs] sometimes you just do what ya gotta do.
I had leftovers tonight from doing that last week.
My neighbor (ammo guy) got a new smoker. He had told me about a place that had chickens. I bought one and let him know. Him: want me to throw it on the smoker? I got a pork butt. Him: want me to throw it in the smoker?
16 year old me and my brother went camping. On the boat trip across the lake we lost our ice chest full of food in a tragic accident. The second ice chest was salvaged…all it had in it for food was zucchini. Undeterred we stayed the weekend planning to replace our food with fish we caught.
The fishing was terrible. We survived on zucchini.
While zucchini is not in the class of non-human foods like avocado and turnips I still wont eat it.
Windows blows.
There, I said it.
Is this 504 error the new normal?
Yes.
Not always. I’ve gotten my share of 503 errors too.
I don’t wait for it.
Hit “Post Comment”
Wait a few seconds.
Stop browser.
Refresh.
Easy peasy!
I just let the tab I posted a new comment in die, and reopen the thread from the home page.
You have to upgrade to premium Glibs to avoid it.
Yes, it’s our own private version of quarantine hell for our bat eating sins.
No one knows what’s causing it, only that it came from China and it’s bad orange man’s fault.
In these trying times, it is. But we haven’t had that gray screen with the tiny text for a while so *thumbs up emoji*
Yes, just leave 6 feet between comments and wear protection.
I followed those instructions and she still got pregnant
I hope you made Damone pay for half, or did he promise and then flake?
“You just don’t know Damone.”
I want one program that does one task well.
–so unix command line tools
GUI’s can make some things much easier though.
alt F4 or GTFO!
My wife wanted to buy a LOT of groceries because she doesn’t want to go out again for a while.
We don’t have a garage and our parking spot is about 400 ft from the front door, down the hill. So from down there, it’s 400 ft up a hill and then 3 flights of stairs up to the kitchen. I carried all of it up there, while my wife was doing something…
The dining room table is covered with bags of stuff, all the kitchen counters, half the kitchen floor, and then I ran out of room and there are bags all the way down the foyer to the front door. she’s putting stuff away now and I went in the kitchen and she’s just looking at all this stuff like WTF? and I started laughing, lol. I said ‘you wanted stuff, you got stuff!’.
I hope it isn’t perishable, or you have lots of freezer space.
Some of it is definitely perishable, but we have plenty of space for it. A great deal of it is canned or ready for the freezer though. We both hate throwing out food and so rarely do it anymore.
That case of Heineken looks very perishable though. And I’m sure it’s going to perish over the weekend.
The freeezer we bought yesterday was a steal. I went on a massive meat-buying spree today, and I didn’t even fill up half of it. Moar meat tomorrow.
Our freezer is about half full, we just have one of the little ones, the fridge was looking almost full to me, pantry looking almost full, most of the cupboards getting full. I ask her if we have enough room and she said yeah. She’s a master organizer so I’m sure we’re good. My job was over when the last bag came through the front door. I mean not that I don’t want to help, but that’s her space, she’ll get really mad if I mess up her organizing. It’s all good.
XY actually did the organizing. Practically took charge, which of course, XX resented like hell because I allowed him to direct her labor.
The Patriarchy!!!
Those guys are everywhere!
It has monetized America’s hoarding proclivities.
I wonder if there are enough hoarders outside of the Great Depression era generation for them to be worth targeting?
I called it
The 170-bed alternate care site at Nashua High School South has yet to be used, but will remain on standby for as long as necessary, said Justin Kates, the city’s emergency management director.
It will likely stay in place until there is a plan to vaccinate the public for the coronavirus, or until detailed, comprehensive testing is possible, Kates said Thursday.
“And right now we don’t have any of those things,” he said.
While the situation is stable right now in southern New Hampshire, Kates said one outbreak at a nursing home could quickly change that situation.
The temporary hospital was set up on March 24 in case there is a surge in COVID-19 patients in southern New Hampshire. According to Kates, the two major hospitals in Nashua have already increased their internal surge capacity, though neither are using those areas yet.
Sununu will keep schools closed the rest of the school year, plus later in the article is a blurb about reopening the state
Gov. Chris Sununu announced the 2019-20 school year will end with remote learning because there was “no model” to reopen public schools that ensured safety for students, educators and staff from COVID-19.
“We looked at several and there was no model that allowed any of the physical distancing and the mitigation of the virus so transmission in an asymptomatic way could be prevented,” Sununu said during a briefing Thursday.
“You could have an entire classroom of kids passing COVID back and forth without a single symptom, a single sniffle.”
The two-term Republican governor said students will likely return to an environment this fall that is different than what took place before all public schools were closed last March due to the coronavirus.
“Our hope is to get to a new model in the classroom in September,” Sununu said.
More New Hampshire hospitals announce furloughs
Plans to furlough 650 employees and cut the pay or hours of another 750 will affect nearly 20 percent of the workforce of SolutionHealth, which includes Elliot Hospital System and Southern New Hampshire Health.
The company estimates it will lose more than $24 million a month after canceling elective surgeries and services to prepare for an anticipated surge in severely ill COVID-19 patients, according to a statement issued Wednesday. That includes purchasing ventilators and personal protective equipment, training staff for redeployment and adding more than 100 acute-care beds.
PA House and Senate OK bills to reopen certain businesses
I found another article which says Wolf intends to veto, which doesn’t surprise me.
The state Senate on Wednesday approved a proposal put forward by House Republicans Tuesday aimed at reopening businesses they claim can safely operate in the midst of the as-yet unabated COVID-19 pandemic.
“Protecting lives and livelihoods are inextricably linked and that’s why I voted for Senate Bill 613,” said state Sen. Tom Killion, R-9 of Middletown. “Businesses open during the shutdown have demonstrated the ability to operate safely. The Walmarts and big-box stores have effectively protected the health and welfare of their employees and customers. It’s time to plan to let other Pennsylvania businesses do the same using the scientifically based guidelines from the (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and (U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) as 45 other states are doing.”
“We all want to return to our normal lives, but we’re not there yet,” said state Sen. Tim Kearney, D-26 of Swarthmore. “Republican legislators have rushed to reopen businesses ahead of the recommendation of medical experts. This is a dangerous action that would put everyone’s lives at risk. That is why I voted against this bill.”
Anti-shutdown protest in PA scheduled for the 20th.
Trigger Warning: Auto-play video
On Monday, April, 20th at noon thousands of citizens, led by ReOpen PA, End The Lockdown PA and Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine, will come together to peacefully protest against lockdown restrictions continuing beyond May 1.
Here is the statement made by the organizers:
“Government mandating sick people to stay home is called quarantine. However, the government mandating healthy citizens to stay home, forcing businesses and churches to close is called tyranny.,” says Pennsylvanians Against Excessive Quarantine. “Business owners are being
forced to layoff employees while the unemployment system is failing those laid off as the economy free falls.
This is a recipe for disaster with many in our society helpless. We cannot stand by and watch our neighbors suffer while the government considers
prolonging these painful conditions. The economy should be reopened on May 1 for healthy citizens continuing enhanced sanitation habits to prevent any virus from spreading. Those with compromised immune systems should not have to re-enter the economy or workforce
if they do not feel comfortable.”
On this note, Rally to ReOpen NH.
And I’m done posting links.
We need more of this.
Finally, the deplorables are mostly available to protest since their jobs have been labeled nonessential by assclown Wolf.
I expect a big turnout.
Let us know how it goes. I plan to head to the NH rally.
I’m still working. My boss decided to keep me employed even though King douchebag shut our company down.
Good that you’re still working. Fuck Wolf.
There have to some PA Glibs going.
“Finally, the deplorables are mostly available to protest since their jobs have been labeled nonessential by assclown Wolf.”
I was thinking about that today. Most of the time, the deporables, unlike professional activists, are not going to be protesting because they’re working. Now, that’s all changing. I doubt the woketards thought of that and I sincerely hope it bites them hard in the ass.
I think (hope) it to be true. These statist prices have gone too far now. The bear is gonna start poking back.
This is starting to look less like an effort to avoid the plague and more like arresting people for trying to make a living, worship as their conscience dictates or associate with others in various ways…i.e. a war on liberty.
The economic effects are going to be disastrous. I pointed out before that the main reason we have very little in the way of civil unrest is because too much to lose. If that changes our so called ruling class is in for a very rude awakening.
And so are the enforcers. That thin blue line is even thinner than they think and fucking with the chunk of population that usually supports them unconditionally will not end well.
For Rhywun and the other Carpenter Brut fans, the OST for the crowdfunded indie flick “Blood Machines” (waiting on my blu-ray, but should be on Shudder channel next month) is available for free on Band Camp and other sites – presumably Itunes, etc soon.
https://carpenterbrut.bandcamp.com/album/blood-machines-ost
Yeah I got an email saying it would be available tomorrow. Hopefully for download too.
Listening to “Theme” – chills! So good.
I was nearly raided by Hooligans a few days ago at home, totally defenseless, then I called Ozy, he asked “hand or home?”
I’m not afraid anymore,
https://photos.app.goo.gl/68PYQbEyXgRTo4n28
Mossburg 590 M, 10 shot, Magazine fed 12 Gauge, Terminator style!
Is that a special magazine? I think I have a 590…but presumably not an M series. Does that offer magazine or tube options?
WTF is up with commenting? I get errors on every single one and then have to reload the page….really slowly too.
The Squirrels mutinied and are attacking with the burning hatred of a thousand suns
So I gather this is your first time being here in a few days, eh? Welcome to our world.
(I refuse to use the “n-words” – “new normal.”)
Mag only, but comes in 5,10, 15, or 20 round, it’s pretty much on CoG, so it’s balanced, and kicks flat, you can run the entire operation one handed,
and it looks fucking scary, I love it!
Yep. Just make sure you discharge the first shot into the air if possible.
The rest of the rounds can head toward the miscreants if they don’t get the message.
Good on ya, Ozy. If we tried that in Canada we’d get arrested.
#2 buckshot first, then these spooky ass Home defense rounds he loaded up for me, I learned it already, at some point I’ll take it down and reassemble it, but it can wait,
and yes, Ozy is the MAN!
/also, he could break me in two, he’s a machine…..
/looks at 500M
/WHY CANT YOU HAVE A MAGAZINE!
590M, and a plasma laser rifle in the 40watt range,
/I’ll be Bach,
Beautiful.
Food shopping fun:
My nearest market finally went limited occupancy – long line around the block. I said “fuck that” and went to my favorite convenience store about 1/2 block farther where I found everything I wanted anyway except for an onion that wasn’t rotten.
For wearing or eating?
I don’t wear a belt.
This shit’s weird, I went to Walmart today and it was normal, no lines, lots of masks and a full stock of most foods, plenty of alcohol and dairy, eggs 1.28 a dozen,
Why the regional disparity?
Here, there seems to be no shortage of anything, except toilet paper and there is none that is name brand.
WTF is wrong with people? I’ll take food over brand name toilet paper any day and you can buy all the food you want, whatever you want. This leads me to believe most people are retarded. they’re sitting at home hoarding massive amounts of toilet paper and don’t have any food.
My wife is even seeing people on Facebook proudly holding up packs of Charmin like it’s some sort of new status symbol. People fucking are retarded, it’s official.
For now.
This is a surprise to you? I was half proud the first time I saw that generic flour was sold out here.
What is a surprise? That people are retarded?
I have enough flower and cornmeal to last years.
I thought I had enough flour to last. Since then I’ve been tasked with baking more. We’ve already burned through over 5 lbs of flour in the past two weeks.
I’m down to only around 20 lbs left.
We don’t bake that much. At least not right now.
I’m thinking about, besides getting heavily once again into gardening, starting into canning and pickling.
I have ~15 lbs AP flour, ~ 3 lbs bread flour and ~1 lb whole wheat. Still need yeast.
So bought a growler of this the other day. Drinking tonight. Will get you messed up. I liked the sample I had but not psyched about the growler. Orange forward with back taste of tootsie roll. It’s not bad but won’t buy again. Pretty atypical Stout. It’s not bad, just not what I expect from a Stout. 11% I’d nice though:)
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hmmm, I always kinda liked the stuff,
Yummy
Damn…. you found a growler of that?
Good for you, not something I’d want a full growler of.
hmmm, I always kinda liked the stuff,
Spot the not- Euphemisms in this thread
1.you wanted stuff, you got stuff!
2.I should comb your list more thoroughly!
3.making pulled pork in the crock pot.
4.I spent a solid weekend re-organzing my media.
5.off to get a new sewing machine for the missus.
6. Moar meat tomorrow.
7. I am usually a rub only sort of guy
6, we eat meat every day around here….
More like every meal.
pedant, of course every meal,
3 Who would do that?
#lazycook
My gf will do that sometimes. Roast pork is better.
Wot course, but this is easier and still delicious.
me
7 is the not.
1. Hyperion
2. Tundra
3. Tulip
4. Trolleric the Goth
5. Gustave Lytton
6. me
7 is me.
Sure but which one isn’t a euphemism?
ALL of them are not euphemisms.
Hype- well done, sir, well done.
She’s Liquored Up and Lacquered Down
I’m not exactly sure why, but I always like this SCOTS video.
That’s a good one.
Knee is no longer swollen, but is still sore. Hopefully, it’s better soon.
I missed that – what happened?
That’s good news.
I slipped on wet grass walking the dog yesterday morning and tweaked it. Biggest problem is that it is interfering with my Ozy squats program. I was on day 32.
We’re all in this together.
Kitchens are schools.
War is Peace……..
Closed?
The sauce is something I will do again. Damn it is good stuff.
It sounds good. I made marinated chicken skewers and “pita” bread last night, based on my girlfriends internet recipes. Holy crap they were good. If I had been thinking ahead I would have made some tzatziki sauce to go with them. Leftovers tonight!
Hmmm, I clicked on Trashys avoid page refresh on monocle and I didn’t get a 504 error with the next two comments. The page did not refresh and I did not see my comment and then when I hit reload page on firefox there it was. What is this sorcery?
“What is this sorcery?”
Bad Orange Man tricknology. Trashy is a known Trumptard.
Don’t believe the delusion, we’re all doomed! There’s no going back to normal!