Went with my wife to an ultrasound today. New baby is half-baked. Like his brothers he was not shy about showing all his boy parts on the scan. Definitely a boy. Both my wife and the ultrasound tech asked me if it made me feel more “connected”… I don’t know. In the next 17-20 weeks there’s going to be something to hold and then I’ll feel connected. What I mostly feel is the strong desire to not have a hormonal ragey woman I have to sleep next to angry with me, so I try to give her whatever she wants. I am a simple creature who responds to the stimulus of the world around me.
I’m gonna guess that nobody’s gonna rub Bubba Wallace coming out of turn 4 on the last lap this week. Although, it is 2020 so horrible wreck is also feasible — not wishing for it, just watching the garbage fire world.
I’m sure nobody is surprised by this ending.
Cry more, pussy. Nobody believes you when you testify? Gee, I wonder why.
The UK has deigned to allow people to have sex with people they don’t live with again.
??
To question Brett is to question America.
You questioning America, boy?
I… have some queries.
1. Why are the great fictional detectives (Holmes, Wolfe, Poirot) all bachelor’s?
2. Why does pork stewed in red chili’s sound so darn good?
3. When is tarran’s article going to drop?
4. Why are superfluous apostrophe’s so much fun?
Why are the great fictional detectives (Holmes, Wolfe, Poirot) all bachelor’s?
Great observational powers -> attention to detail -> I’ll let your work out the rest
Why does pork stewed in red chili’s sound so darn good?
They’ Ar’en’t excep’t that the’y let ‘you drive Ted’s mad.
Not because they’re gay.
Well see, that’s why i’m letting ya’ll work out the rest. Cause i don’t know.
Poirot is the Agatha Christie guy right? And i don’t know who Wolfe is.
Oh, I thought you were getting at where they sit on the autism spectrum.
Nero. Solves crimes with the help of his young male
companionassistant.Oh, I thought you were getting at where they sit on the autism spectrum.
No. I was just making a joke down the confirmed bachelor route.
Nero Wolfe. When I was a teenager, I read dozens of Agatha Christie’s and Rex Stout’s books. I think most of Christie’s novels. It was a big challenge to figure out in a book store whether I had already read this novel or not.
Nero’s assistant Archie isn’t his companion though, he’s a consummate poonhound and is always out with clients/enemies/randos, at least in the various radio series
You don’t know Nero Wolfe? I will freaking buy you one. Rex Stout is the author. Best Detective novels in the english language by far. The characters are a delight.
And then there’s Ellery Queen.
2. Why does pork stewed in red chili’s sound so darn good?
Because it actually is so darn good, that’s why.
Cartesian dualism. Great feats of the mind mean they are above the rutting, mindless animal of sex. Sexless, like angels and Disney teen shows.
Counter-point: Mike Hammer. Great detective and laid pipe.
Although he wasn’t exactly a cerebral detective.
My thought exactly. Mike Hammer was a private detective, but he wasn’t a detective in the ‘great feats of the mind’ sense. More in the ‘find some scumbag and beat a confession out of them’ vein.
I’m more of a Marlowe and Spade fan.
The Continental Op as well. Red Harvest is a dark forest of evil chuckles.
Marlowe, Spade, Johnny Dollar all on the prowl for sure.
the Shadow, possibly confirmed bachelor? I don’t know if he and Margot were more than friends
Rick Diamond had a girlfriend
The Continental Op as well.
Absolutely. I just walked over to the bookshelf and grabbed a collection of those. It includes a favorite of mine, The Gutting of Couffignal.
Hammett was a train wreck, but man could he write a character.
Y’all just cost me like $70 on the Kindle.
If a baby duck is a duckling and a baby goose is a gosling, what do you call a baby turkey?
Poult.
Northern Cyprus?
A model of a machine that eats a continuous input and excretes a continuous output after processing?
Holmes is on the spectrum, Poirot is gay and Wolfe eats everything in sight. Mmmm… Chilli dogs.
Wolfe was far more discerning than that.
I actually have a copy of The Nero Wolfe Cookbook. It’s fun and has some decent recipes.
1. Why are the great fictional detectives (Holmes, Wolfe, Poirot) all bachelor’s?
Because they are using all of the mental capacity, time, and energy that most people devote to sex/pursuing sex/dealing with the consequences of sex to deal with their detective craft.
More seriously, because the first detective in the classical detective genre was, thus establishing a trope.
Oh, and as far as great fictional detectives, Dudley Smith or GTFO
My article will drop midday on Tueday.
Thank you.
Fuck off. You’re a low-level bureaucrat. If people treat you with disdain, it’s probably deserved.
what halcyon era of respectful children is he talking about? the 1950s?
Those who would get respect should learn to give it.
Who the fuck is this guy? I’ve never seen a more complacent and compliant generation of pussies in my fucking life. The scene where the cop car gets it’s axle ripped out in American graffiti drew a huge loud applause when I saw it at the drive in in the seventies. Cop hating is an all American pastime. It’s because most cops are little Hitlers. People nowadays can be cowed into doing almost anything by the man. This guy’s on drugs.
Yep, we were a country that loved our outlaws. In Round Rock TX, we have a street named after bank robber Sam Bass – his claim to fame, he killed Williamson County deputy A.W. Grimes in a shootout. During one of his robberies, he left a gold coin and a note for the TX Rangers pursuing him and signed it “Sam Bass – kiss my ass”. Now I shake my head when I see “outlaw” motorcyclists with thin blue line stickers on their helmet.
Respect is earned.
You want respect? Do something to earn it.
Men and women of all races all with the same mission, to make the community safer.
Maybe you shuold give making the community safer a try.
I made it a couple of paragraphs in and between the OT milking and chasing after evil weed “runners” and “nobody messing with us” it just made even more disgusted with cops. And this was supppsed to make me feel sympathetic?
What I mostly feel is the strong desire to not have a hormonal ragey woman I have to sleep next to angry with me
You know what you have to do, snip snip.
Oh dear… What floridaman adventures could come from such vague advice.
The links will let us know in a few weeks.
so I try to give her whatever she wants
This may not make you a good husband, but it does make you a smart one.
WHYCOME NO ONE TEACH RESPECT NO MORE!?!
People teach respect, they just lost it for your “profession” about 25 murders ago.
True, but – as he points out – why hasn’t the public lost respect for the medical profession? Most of us interact with doctors, etc. far more often than we do with police. And a doctor’s misdiagnosis is far more likely than one of us getting shot for having a tail light out.
I’ve never had a doctor slam me into a wall and threaten to brain me with a giant metal flashlight. But maybe I just have a good HMO.
Another fan of Hat and Hair or the Hillary Horror Show?
I was 19, when the Hat & Hair was naught but a tiny tumor in my mind.
Is this some odd version of Derpy’s Spot the Not game?
I’ve never had a cop or a doctor do that either. But my brother’s doctor said he had a sore throat and two weeks later an esophageal cancer tumor suffocated him.
Ditto, in 1989 at 18 years of age, I had my ribs broken by a Mag light and head slammed (watch your head!) into the roof of a cop car. This was for the crime of calling the cop an asshole. I had been stopped, outside of his jurisdiction, for the high crime of a loud muffler.
I didn’t know you were black ?
/sarc
That 250,000 annual deaths from “medical mistakes” is so over-quoted and comes from one ridiculous extrapolation study. If it were even remotely true… it’s likely far, far less than that, perhaps only in the hundreds annually… you’d be crazy to ever see a physician.
It’s not 250,000, but its more than hundreds. Part of the difficulty is in identifying a “medical mistake” – a lot of bad outcomes are just not anyone’s fault. Some definitely are, but my eyeball on bad/unexpected outcomes at our facility is that maybe one in five (on the high side) is due to something I would call a medical mistake – care that fell below the (legal) standard of care.
I guess I’m thinking along the lines of an actual mistake as the cause of death, such as giving 80 units of insulin rather than 8. If you include missed diagnoses that might have saved a life had the disease been caught earlier, i would agree that raises the number much higher. But there wasn’t an actual mistake that caused the death, those instances that did should always lead to Root Cause Analysis proceedings.
There’s a lot of “fuzz” around bad/unexpected outcomes. There’s often a very long and complex history of interaction with the patient, especially hospital patients, and some of those interactions may have been “mistakes” of some degree of significance. Did they contribute to the outcome? Eh, who knows.
And then there’s the patients where there’s an unequivocal error that you can draw line to the bad outcome, but the patient probably wasn’t going to make it anyway.
Antifa is the Red Army Faction reincarnated.
Discuss
Antifa doesn’t exist.
purge larpers
Not only don’t they exist, but we are glad they exist as we need them to counteract all the nazis trump has embolded.
Yes, or at least wannabees.
I’m more familiar with them as the Baader-Meinhof gang.
They are Revolutionary LARPers – which is fine, they are really harmless and silly as opposed to fanatical and dangerous.
Harmless and not dangerous? Maybe in podunk land.
They fold like cheap lawnchairs if not reinforced by a mob of cohorts. Anyone like that is not dangerous.
They seem pretty backed up by the biggest mob of all.
I keep hearing rumors that big federal indictments of Antifa are forthcoming. Would be nice, but may be just wishful thinking. I also understand waiting until they can take down as much of the organization as possible at one time. I’d love to see a governor or city mayor revealed as having coordinated with those people.
I’ll believe it when I see it. There is nothing new in the last few weeks with Antifa. Whatever basis the feds have now for indicting antifa, they have had for years; the current rioting is just more of the same that antifa has been delivering for several years now. I suspect that whatever reason the feds haven’t indicted antifa yet hasn’t changed, either.
I feel the same way every time evidence comes out that half of the Obama Admin colluded to “coup” Trump. Wake me up when someone is actually indicted. (Whatever happened to all of that anyway)
They distracted you with lockdowns and riots, that’s what happened to that.
Jowly Bulldog Man is still on the case!
There are a lot of structural differences – RAF was a small, tightly controlled cell structure whereas antifa is much bigger and less structured – but the goals are the same.
They also lack a state sponsor as far as is known. That makes a huge difference.
What about the State of Deep?
I don’t think that the lack of a state sponsor makes as much difference as you might think. AFA has plenty of financial backing in the form of left-wing foundation money, and that can get them pretty much anything the KGB could have offered the RAF back in the day.
The RAF was small. They weren’t as tightly controlled as they would have liked everyone to believe. Quite frankly, none of the 60’s and 70’s European hard-left terror groups had an abundance of professional competence.
The malevolent narcissism found among the membership has certain similarities to the modern Antifa movement.
Back in the 1980’s in West Germany I was part of an exercise for an assisted evasion network. One of the pilots never turned up and we just continued with the exercise. After the exercise was over we went back and reviewed the exercise with observers, police, military etc. During that process we found out the story about that pilot.
He got cold, wet and miserable because he wasn’t being met. (He screwed up the notification procedure.) So one wet night he approached some German Polizei with his hands up and yelling “RAF! RAF!” He then met the expected result of German police in the middle of an extended terror campaign. Some time over a day later he convinced them he really meant Royal Air Force and not Rot Armee Faction. Apparently his bruises were quite the sight to see.
Agreed.
Look, I don’t like it either but come on: The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’
“Paw Patrol” is a children’s cartoon about a squad of canine helpers. It is basically a pretense for placing household pets in a variety of cool trucks. The team includes Marshall, a firefighting Dalmatian; Rubble, a bulldog construction worker; and Chase, a German shepherd who is also a cop. In the world of “Paw Patrol,” Chase is drawn to be a very good boy who barks stuff like “Chase is on the case!” and “All in a police pup’s day!” as he rescues kittens in his tricked-out S.U.V.
But last week, when the show’s official Twitter account put out a bland call for “Black voices to be heard,” commenters came after Chase. “Euthanize the police dog,” they said. “Defund the paw patrol.” “All dogs go to heaven, except the class traitors in the Paw Patrol.”
Like the death of the COPS TV show, ending Paw Patrol would be more proof that good comes out of even the darkest deeds and derpiest protests.
^ Brett knows whats up.
I think very lowly of all the public programing that teaches kids to be very reverent towards those selfless public servants.
Twitter Is Cancer Vol. MMCCCLXXVI
If they kill him off it should be realistic. Stripper Cat ODs then Chase shows up and hits her with some narcan before Marshall and the rest of them get there. Chase isn’t prepared for the narcan to do its thing and Stripper Cat freaks out and stabs him to death.
I told you to stop rifling through my fanfic portfolio!
Relevant
Fucking cartoons. This is what you get when an entire generation bases it’s whole life philosophy on Harry Potter books.
https://twitter.com/JackMacCFB/status/1270812125238374401
But seriously, Paw Patrol makes a billion dollars a year, it’s not getting canceled.
Black people love NASCAR. It is known.
I’ve known rabid fans of all races and sexual orientations.
So many ways to be parsed…
. . . and all of them hilarious.
All races? Even Phoenix?
Great, now even NASCAR is going to pander-signal support for a Marxist front group.
I’ve known rabid fans of all races and sexual orientations.
Obviously, it was joke.
pander-signal support for a Marxist front group
“Know your audience.” is something nobody seems to be practicing today.
The races this weekend were packed with pandering. I was disappoint.
https://mobile.twitter.com/michaelmalice/status/1270731846503063555
Malice asking the hard questions:
Related:
https://www.lawofficer.com/america-we-are-leaving/
IN THE LINKS!!
Boo!
Whacka,whacka, whacka…. beeeuwup!
probably teachers still.
The fact that they are trying to convince everyone that they are working even harder during lockdown proves it for me.
My teacher friend discovered just how many parents DGAF when she had to go through them to get lessons to her 1st grade students
Their parents and grandparents are products of public education. They have been told their whole lives that education is the State’s function, that they don’t have to do anything. There’s a constant drumbeat that teaching is the HARDEST PROFESSION EVAR.
It’s like Social Security. How do you get rid of it? People have had their retirement money stolen out of their paychecks their whole lives. You have to fuck them over to stop the program.
The only remotely plausible and sane way to end it is to taper it off.
Yes, that’s an approach that can be gamed. So is a hard cutoff.
It’s always teachers, and it always will be. Fucking politicians are less self aggrandizing than teachers. Teachers fucking suck.
Teachers fucking suck.
*thinks back to 8th grade Spanish teacher*
I wish.
#metoo
7th grade German teacher for me. I still remember her explaining why the Kugelschreiber is masculine.
Both could be greatly improved by prohibiting their unions
Woody Allen’s all time best joke.
Tweet reply down a bit referenced SugarFree
Where is this? Am I going to have to smack a Twitbitch?
Good.
President Trump on Wednesday came out strongly against the idea of renaming U.S. military bases that are named after Confederate generals — an issue that has come to the forefront amid the nationwide protests over police brutality and racial injustice.
In a series of tweets on Wednesday afternoon, Trump called the bases named after Confederate soldiers “Hallowed Grounds” that helped train soldiers to win two world wars. He said his administration “will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations.”
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany also began her briefing with the press Wednesday by reading the president’s statement on the topic.
“These Monumental and very Powerful Bases have become part of a Great American Heritage, and a history of Winning, Victory, and Freedom,” Trump tweeted. “Therefore, my Administration will not even consider the renaming of these Magnificent and Fabled Military Installations. Our history as the Greatest Nation in the World will not be tampered with. Respect our Military!”
Check with the perfumed princes of the pentagon. I’m sure they’re already working on the renaming shortlists.
“My first act as president will be the renaming of these hateful grounds.”
/next Dem
It’s just as likely that Trump will reverse himself. I mean, this is only his first crack at the issue.
He’s just gotta see how it polls first, and then he’ll act like it was the Hat that sent that tweet.
Allegedly Trump was close to firing Esper last week. When the time comes to actually fire him, there probably will be the renaming plans to add to the list of firing offenses.
Amazing.
Credit Hackworth.
On Glibs Discord, it was mooted that troops should rename all the bases, and I think they can come up with sufficient amount of unique variations on Fort Penis.
Basey McBaseface.
Troophole #69
I like that. A binding referendum of the troops. No officers, though.
Fort GoFuckYourselfLT
Eh, I always thought it was weird to name a base after a miserable failure of a general like Braxton Bragg.
Well, it’s a miserable failure of a Fort so….
“Fort Custerfuck”
I commented in the previous thread (late, though), that my bet had gone from landslide-Trump to plain loss in the past week just because of the service chiefs’ showing their wokeness by taking digs at Confederate history.
I’ll consider a revision.
He should rename them all Fort Trump. Maybe a Fort Ivanka, and a Fort Melania too. They’ll be yuge. Really classy. The best military bases ever. People will be demanding to get in the Army. That’s what people have been telling me.
Fort Pinochet, Fort Franco, Fort Pahlavi.
“Boris Johnson confirms singletons can have sex with people they don’t live with from Saturday”
Will the sexual partners be provided by the State?
What the hell is a singleton, other than a design pattern for a derpy language like C#
I think of Bridge.
Single malt scotch
https://www.thesingleton.com/
Boyz in the Hood haz disappoint.
Really good DH RFer for the Orioles in the 70s
Only the best of Cockney slags, a’ye guvner?
I read that as simpletons.
From the sidebar of horny Brits article:
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/woman-enjoys-plenty-explosive-sex-22167055
Wasn’t she breaking the law unless she lived with both of these married dudes?
Brett, it occurs to me this means 3 separate males have spent 9 months with their dicks inside your wife.
It’s totally different when they’re trying to get out of it.
9 months getting out and the rest of their lives trying to get back in.
Why are you judging our relationship?
Technically, he’s an Eskimo brother to all his sons.
Let it be recorded in the EBDB.
What I mostly feel is the strong desire to not have a hormonal ragey woman I have to sleep next to angry with me, so I try to give her whatever she wants.
That just makes ’em angrier.
Congrats on the baby, kids are way better than people.
What I mostly feel is the strong desire to not have a hormonal ragey woman I have to sleep next to angry with me, so I try to give her whatever she wants.
Smart move.
Speaking at the No.10 Downing Street press conference today (Wednesday, June 10), Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed a new “bubble system” is to be introduced on Saturday that will allow English people living alone to meet up with members of another household indoors.
Saturday is a magic day! It drives Lil Rona away!
I want to believe this is true. Short version: the Capital Hill Autonomous Zone is out of food already and you’ll never guess why….
https://mobile.twitter.com/The_Petrichory/status/1270712965566615557/photo/1
I cannot tell if it’s satire.
The original tweet was from “Lauracouc” who looks to have a long history of tweeting anarchist’s stuff. I mean, I can’t tell either, but if its satire it’s a long con.
As someone pointed out, the account is now protected, which would suggest it’s genuine. A troll account wants as much attention as it can get.
That clinches it for me, not satire.
Inevitable with socialism, but it usually takes a little longer.
Socialism lasts until you run out of other peoples money. When you start your commune with a bunch of broke ass communists, that goes by fast.
Yeah, I’d love to hear that organizational meeting.
Commie 1: Wait?! I thought you said you were a Trust fund baby!!!!
Commie 2:Comrade Chair, point of personal privilege!, I don’t like comrade Bitch-over-there’s tone
Commie 3(Bernie): You want me to do what? Fuck that noise! I’ll go into politics before I work a day in my life!
Tell her there’s plenty of non vegan snacks out at Malheur, I hear.
Anybody know where I can buy kale by the dump truck load?
I can get you a Chicken Dumptruck.
Oh poop.
https://i.imgur.com/QvMvGBp.png
They can make their own soy products. Starting out begging is not a good start to your own country. All they need is some soybean seeds, some land, and some knowledge of agriculture and a way to process it into actual edible products and how to store it.
Oh, and better get started soon, winter will be here in a few months, the clock is ticking… oh, and water, you’re going to need that too. You paying your water bill? What about sanitation? What about refrigeration? Paying your electric bill? Can’t let those soy products spoil. I bet there are a few things you’ve overlooked on your way to utopia.
Come on, brothers and sisters! A fifty-gallon drum of Wet Original Gel personal lubricant is only $4500 plus shipping! I’m in for a C-note; who’s with me?
Does anyone still think this is about race and not international communism?
Sri Lankan Socialists Arrested for George Floyd Protest Violating Quarantine
It is literally on the other side of globe, and their population of black African people is effectively zero. But the commies still rioted.
I doubt the cops and military will put up with their bullshit. The long civil war against the communist Tamil Tigers is still pretty fresh.
I don’t know…Alexa has just assured me that “experts” have determined right-wing extremists are infiltrating George Floyd protests.
We can thank the Tigers for a lot of Al-Qaeda’s tactics, including widespread use of suicide bombing; they innovated that one.
” they innovated that one.”
The 1940s Japanese haz a sad.
They were very good at using kids as soldiers too.
“Does anyone still think this is about race and not international communism?”
In the USA, it’s about the Dems getting into power and staying there. Which is another step towards global socialism.
International communism, global socialism. Same-same.
A Police-Reform Agenda as Old as Policing Itself
I liked this part:
“Peel insisted that civil police were to be understood as a more liberal alternative to (attn: Senator Cotton) using military forces to quell disorder and relying on excessive punishment to terrorize the citizenry into submission, which had been the previous model.”
And this part:
“Peel advised that the confidence and consent of the public were to be gained “not by pandering to public opinion, but by constantly demonstrating absolutely impartial service to law, in complete independence of policy . . . by ready offering of individual service and friendship to all members of the public without regard to their wealth or social standing, by ready exercise of courtesy and friendly good humour, and by ready offering of individual sacrifice in protecting and preserving life.” The word “courtesy” stands out in those sentences. You can have courtesy, or you can have a state of “war” — it is difficult to have both at the same time.”
I read that Bubba Wallace story and I can’t find a Black guy. I see a guy with curly hair that is paler than Danny Tejo.
He identifies as Black.
BURN! NPR destroys Trump and his claim that antifa was behind the riots!
So get the facts straight you rubes. There is no such thing as voter fraud or antifa rioters.
Antifa doesn’t exist, so how could they find links to antifa.
Yeah, except maybe the indictments haven’t come out yet, or are sealed by court order. Just because NPR doesn’t yet see them doesn’t mean they don’t or won’t exist.
It would be super fun if an NPR journo was linked to them.
Or there are US Attorneys in these cities that don’t want to charge Antifa (and mayors who don’t want the police to arrest them).
Or it’s like the mafia in which organized “Antifa” groups are very careful to avoid any explicit, traceable connections to their foot soldiers.
What’s the first rule of Antifa?
Tell everyone you are antifa. And vegan. And polyamorous. And that you are comfortable with your weight and Western beauty standards are racist.
When US Attorneys charge, generally it’s FBI that arrests. Unless it’s a multi-jurisdictional task-force. But even the states and locals like it when the feds take the first whack at the piñata. Let the feds pay for the initial discovery and prosecution, and there is no longer parole (for people convicted post-Reagan) in the federal system. The states, being also sovereigns, can take a whack at them later if the federal charges don’t stick or they want consecutive (vice concurrent) time served.
Antifa has been training it’s larpers to be anonymous…they are too stupid to understand the Deep State monitors everything much more than anyone realizes. All they have to do now is run your name in the database. It frightens me as much as these stupid larpers do.
So the kid in Pittsburgh wearing the anarchy doo-rag on his face who turned himself in with mommy and daddy is….?
That is too precious.
https://www.theblaze.com/news/antifa-kid-escorted-mom-dad
Would have been better if his dad was pulling him by his ear.
OFFS
None of them are alleged to have links to AFA, but all of them do.
IMO the Wars on Drugs, and even more so the War in Iraq and Afghanistan have destroyed this nation. Because of the wars, we are 20T in debt. Because of the Wars cops are uber militarized. Because of the fear used to drive the wars, Cops treat people like they are terrorists at every turn.
The country wasn’t in a good place, but as i see it, it was the wars that did us in.
For my money, it was specifically the War in Iraq. Bush nuked whatever unity he might have been able to leverage domestically post-9/11 and it set the Kulturkampf on overdrive; the wedge created then still hasn’t been bridged. Electing King Zero was the electorate’s attempt to put it back together and he (predictably) leveraged his big chance to ram a bunch of Leftist bullshit down everyone’s throat and create even more rot in the permanent bureaucracy. Trump was the opposite; he was a “fuck you!” to the establishment and drove the Left completely around the bend. I trace it back to Bush Jr.’s pointless war.
Eh, maybe, but probably not. I’ll remind you of the 2001 & 2002 AUMF’s, the latter of which passed with almost 40% support from Democrats. And I’ll further remind you of how anti-war activity on the left almost entirely disappeared once their own guy was in charge.
it set the Kulturkampf on overdrive
Not seeing that. The Kulturkampf is concerned very little, as far as I can tell, with war or foreign policy.
I would go further back to the “War on Poverty”.
Because of the wars, we are 20T in debt.
I’d say that the 60% of spending on social programs probably contributed more to that than the 30% of spending on the military.
On the bright side… at least this timeline isn’t boring, right?
Lubertarians love Ass Wednesday.
http://archive.li/10zba
Damn. I’d been kinda looking forward to that NASCAR race tonight, and I’ve always liked Bubba, but…maybe there’ll be reruns of Forged in Fire we can watch instead. Unless they’re showing that Oprah struggle session again. ::makes plans to read a book::
| Despite the most violent society we have ever seen, less than 1,000 suspects are killed a year…
That was one whiny ass cop screed there. He apparently doesn’t see one single bit of fault on the side of the cops, which is fairly unsurprising. According to FBI crime stats we are living through one of the most peaceful times since Leave it to Beaver was primetime tv. I’d bet that it is one of the least violent times to be alive in our millions of years as naked apes.
Well, it wasn’t violent until that first Farmer (CAIN!!!!) invented property. Then Violence was unleashed on the world.
It’s all the typical BS. It’s a calling, not a job (no, it’s a fucking job.) It’s dangerous (not even in the top 10 most dangerous jobs.) Crime is so much worse today (exactly the opposite is true.)
Despite the most violent society we have ever seen
Well, that’s bullshit. More likely, this is the least violent the US has ever been.
Wait till she hits menopause.
Happened to the spousal unit several years ago. It’s been fine, but then again, she’s always been wayyyyyyyy more rational/analytical than any of the women I dated before I met her, so it isn’t really that surprising.
I got all my plumbing yanked. My doctor tried to sell me on estrogen. I didn’t want to (my mom warned me: If you go on estrogen, you will never be able to go off), but he insisted. It was a patch. The adhesive tore my skin to shreds, so I took it off and said, “Whatever. I’ll live with the hot flashes.”
Anyway, so menopause hasn’t been too bad, symptom-wise, for me. I’m on a whole host of mental illness meds, though, so who knows how they’re dealing with the added stress. I know my anti-anxiety med has been a sanity saver, but it’s also made me eat myself out of house and home. Right now I’d rather be sane than thin(ner). I need my wits about me with the mess around here.
The Reason Starbucks Is Closing 400 Stores
https://slate.com/business/2020/06/starbucks-plans-to-close-400-stores-in-north-america.html
Because they are homeless body fluid Superfund sites?
You write purty.
You can sometimes dig down 30 feet and still find soil that is 20% hobo urine. And that’s even with the tile flooring.
It’s well know that hobo urine is even more corrosive than Alien blood.
I see these places selling shitty coffee for $5 a swill, and a line of cars through the drivethru, and they’re somehow losing money?
Allow me to explain in finance terms: they’re not making the metric fucktons of money that they used to, so it’s off with their heads.
Dang, I used my 50-50 lifeline and the two remaining answers were:
A: Structural Racism
D: Climate Change
Which one do I choose?
BZZZZZZT! WRONG!
The answer is:
E: I can’t answer this question because I’m white and my opinion is null and void. Now please allow me to flagellate myself while my children drink the blood.
The only way to win is not to play.
I’m a member of a social media reopening group that claims to support constitutional rights, but all I see is people asserting a “right” to enter private businesses maskless. The number of low-information comments is off the charts, particularly compared to here (group hug!).
I saw that same thing on Nextdoor. Then, I started to try and “inform” them. Accidentally informed them that advocating for armed men to enforce the mask dictates was fascist. They immediately kicked me off. Because they are anti-fascists, of course!
What did you name the dog?
What you suggested. Thanks.
Indiana.
And what if the government requires private businesses not to serve customers without masks? Then what? I’m glad to hear that there are many people around you who are not willing to be obedient and submit to the pressure of the low-IQ mob that wants to impose a duty to wear masks for the foreseeable future. Good for them.
Did you know that the restaurant industry is built on white supremacy?
“The restaurant industry is built on white supremacy … off the backs of blacks and immigrants. With the tipping system built in, restaurant workers are some of the poorest people in the country,” said chef Kurt Evans, who is about to kick off a series of fundraisers to open Down North, a pizza restaurant that will employ formerly incarcerated people — ready access to start-up capital being yet another barrier for black restaurateurs. “I think a lot of people are overcompensating and not actually doing the work. Blacking out your Instagram or doing certain things, you’re really not actually doing the work to address the structure of white supremacy.”
White Supremacy: There’s Nothing it Can’t Do!!
Herpity derpity doo
“With the tipping system built in, restaurant workers are some of the poorest people in the country”
That’s just a straight up lie. The restaurant industry, outside of NYC LA SF is probably one of, if not the best way for unskilled workers to acquire skills and make an honest living. If you’re personable and able to follow directions, you can wait tables in any one of hundreds of cities around the country and pull down a comfortable wage. Yeah, you’ll never be someone who uses “summer” as a verb, but that’s ok.
NASCAR died a long time ago, didn’t it? What was the final blow? The death of Dale Sr.?
Expansion to some really boring tracks to race the really boring cars on.
And the mutilation of a bunch of decent tracks (Phoenix comes to mind) so that they could pack race.
You might as well be talking to the wall here, I bet we have less than 10% race fans in here.
I think I’m an F1 fan now. Just in time for the Wu Flu.
Oy, speaking of auto racing that is a pale woke shadow of its former self.
F1 is always about the technology, not the personalities. (Though there are a bunch of them.)
Standardizing the cars.
What recession? What economic crisis?
Nasdaq hits 10,000 for the first time ever, closes at record high as Apple and Amazon soar
To steal a line from the CV-Karens…
Wait two weeks
A home defense lever gun?
https://www.marlinfirearms.com/lever-action/model-1895-big-bore/model-1895-dark-series
Not as crazy as you might think.
I had the 1895G model until the canoe tipped over. It packed an awesome punch. 45-70 is fun to shoot (for a little while only) but pretty spendy. If I ever get into reloading that will be my first round to make.
Leverguns are badassed! You can top them up as you go.
I doubt most .45-70 rounds are stopping before going through a bunch of walls. Somebody should ask Paul Harrell.
If your home invader is a moose or a grizzly bear you’ll be set.
Heh, indeed. It can also cover stampeding elephant situations.
It’s not completely insane, but there are much better choices out there. Maybe if you were legally proscribed from owning an AR, AK, semi- or pump-action shotgun, or high-capacity pistol…
Well, bye!
Cocaine Mitch?
https://freebeacon.com/media/beastmode-mcconnell-mocks-ny-times-after-it-begged-for-mercy-from-woke-mob/
Apparently Trump’s “not-being-a-cuckitis” is contagious.
Heh
Nahh. It’s actually a side-effect of all the badass names he has been given by the left. He now feels like he can’t let them down.
Coverage of the spat between Gauleiter Wolf and the PA legislature
It was not immediately clear when the Wolf administration would file legal action or how long it would take the courts to resolve the question.
Democrats and some legal scholars have pointed to a section of the Pennsylvania Constitution that gives Wolf the power to approve or disapprove “every order, resolution, or vote,” except on the question of adjournment, before it goes into effect.
But Republicans say a single word in state law — “shall” — doesn’t give Wolf a say in the matter.
“The General Assembly by concurrent resolution may terminate a state of disaster emergency at any time,” the statute reads. “Thereupon, the governor shall issue an executive order or proclamation ending the state of disaster emergency.”
“The governor will be statutorily required to issue an order terminating the declaration,” Senate lawyer Crystal Clark said Tuesday. “He has no discretion in this matter.”
Republicans had themselves threatened legal action if Wolf did not terminate his declaration.
It was not immediately clear when the Wolf administration would file legal action or how long it would take the courts to resolve the question.
If you’re in Oregon, you can get heard by the Supreme Court within 24 hours
But Republicans say a single word in state law — “shall” — doesn’t give Wolf a say in the matter
I’ll admit i judged wrong from ignorance of the actual law, but having read it, It seems pretty cut and dry. The only time i’ve know shall to be wishy washy is in things like “Shall make no law”
The Pennsylvania supreme court has never had a problem finding a hidden qualifier to “shall” when our appears in the constitution, I wouldn’t bet on them not finding one in regular laws.
Yes, this is the same state supreme court that claimed to have the power to redistrict the state’s congressional districts. So dont hold your breathe for any sort of logic coming from the PA nazgul.
It sounds like the legislature is pretty close to being able to override a veto.
The PA Supreme Court is elected, they will find a way to ignore the “shall”.
RE: the comments from Caput and PBRstreetgang about the PA Supreme Court: If I remember correctly, they’ve already said when they slapped down earlier suits about Gauleiter Wolf’s orders that the legislature can end this at any time with a concurrent resolution.
Sure… they could ignore what they’ve already said, but I think given they are elected and how sentiment is running, that they won’t ignore what they already said.
And Caput… how have you been? Haven’t seen you in a while.
Shitty, but nothing worth complaining about publicly. If Generalissimo Lobo ever lets me go into a bar again I’ll fill you in on the sordid details over pints. Was exceptionally busy for a while and couldn’t keep up with life let alone Glibs, but things have mostly settled, and hopefully keep that way.
Sorry. I happy things have settled.
I want to come down to PA sometime after everything reopens. I’ll let you know when it happens. We should have another Philly meet-up.
Aye, it’ll be good to survey the wreckage, looking forward to it.
Same.
America, We are leaving
Remember that scene where Batman is getting a bunch of guff and so he decides to say “Screw you guys!” and leaves them? Cops are amazing selfless heros like that.
Selfless heroes whose main objective is to get home safely. Just like Batman.
Not just heroes, but “super heroes.”
Well, bye.
Written word just doesn’t do the line justice
https://youtu.be/i0BTdo6qGwo
I can hardly wait for the first time one of these yahoos who rage quits because people no longer call them a hero gets pulled over by one of the new People’s Equity Officers.
I’m sure the ex-LEO will treat the new replacements with nothing but courtesy. And will probably thank them for their service as they drive away with a climate change ticket.
Judge me not by the content of my character but by the color of my skin.
The Change.org petition page includes what is said to be the email that Klein sent as a response to the postponement request. He did not challenge its veracity.
“Thanks for your suggestion in your email below that I give black students special treatment, given the tragedy in Minnesota,” the posted email says.
“Remember that MLK famously said that people should not be evaluated based on the ‘color of their skin,'” the email reads. “Do you think that your request would run afoul of MLK’s admonition?”
His bringing up MLK comes from a place of privilege. What, not buying it? OK, he’s a racist then.
A white-man uttering the words of MLK, especially using it to oppress other people, is quite racist.
Update: Yesterday’s struggle session went pretty much as expected. Lots of tearful sharing and no changes. I listened and decided against sharing, being the chickenshit that I am. Everyone laughed when a friend of mine mentioned that I might feel some kind of way about all this, so I just decided to forgo anything. Thank you all for the feedback anyways, and thanks to SP and Brett for running my piece on short notice.
Sorry you had to go through that struggle session.
I struggled through it.
Heh.
Struggle’s a funny word if you keep repeating it.
*struggles off chair to get more coffee*
So much performative emoting, so little time
Got my invite for the struggle session at my company today. Thank all the powers that it’s “totally optional” because I’m not saying shit, and from the few other non-leftists I know at the company, we’ve all resolved to do the same. Head down, mouth shut, keep collecting a paycheck. I don’t think they’re serious anyway, it’s just a performative exercise to show how much they care. They don’t fucking care, they just want the naive to think they do.
I may say my piece in a more private meeting. I know that individuals are willing to listen, but even small groups of people have a tendency to mob when emotions are high.
There are a few folks higher in the ranks that I trust I can speak frankly to, but they already know my thinking on these subjects, so it’d be repeating myself. There are far more people at my company who would say I ‘made them feel unsafe’ simply by presenting a different opinion, and I have zero desire to deal with them on any level any more. I miss the days when we taught stupid sing-songy shit like ‘sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me.’ It was cheesy, but I liked it way better than this ‘white silence is violence’ bullshit.
Don’t do it.
Oh.. I forgot. My company had an “all team meeting” which sounded like a struggle session for the CEO and other high ranking officers.
I ignored it.
Mine is going on right now. Consequently, I’m on Glibs.
Things I learned about today: void galaxies.
I understood some of those words.
Sounds problematic.
The purity of their essence shows they have escaped Marxist galactic dialectics.
“New baby is half-baked.”
It’s n ot a baby. It’s a clump of cells.
Technically we all are a clump of cells. Some just have more than others.
Somebody call the burn unit.
https://twitter.com/methuselaschild/status/1270775658285641729
Not funny. Just Sad.
And a truly pathetic level of (((willfull))) ignorance.
My family, unfortunately, discovered the magic of French’s caramelized fried onions. So what was my secret topper for baked potato is now out and I can’t keep them in the cabinet anymore.
Switch to the fried shallots you can get at the Asian grocery store and keep them guessing.
I can’t find that in stores so I made it myself a few times. It’s almost worth the PITA.
Pro tip: you can get the same thing (probably better, actually) at any ethnic food store that sells Indian ingredients. Cheaper, too, here’s just one example:
https://www.realcanadiansuperstore.ca/Food/Pantry/Herbs%2C-Spices-%26-Sauces/Spices/Crisp-Fried-Onion/p/20101586_EA
Mandolin slicer and a deep fryer. One of the first restaurants I worked at (14 year old dishwasher/salad maker), an upscale marina/resort on the Florida Gulf Coast, called them onion straws and used them as the bedding for a swordfish steak with teriyaki glaze. Your own spicing is always better. I use flour, corn starch, salt, pepper, paprika, and a pinch of ancho but YMMV. You’ll never go back to store bought.
Try refilling an empty container with these? Maybe that’ll larn ’em.
JAY-zuz! — those actually don’t sound half bad.
Did you know that by tying [Thing you are trying to promote] as essential in the role of defeating white supremacy, you can increase your sales by X factor?
“I’m gonna guess that nobody’s gonna rub Bubba Wallace coming out of turn 4 on the last lap this week. ”
It’s kind of funny that the car has “Cup Series” written above the windshield, given that George Floyd was killed in front of the Cup grocery store.
Ummm… never happened?
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/11830706/sex-daughters-boyfriend-kitchen-sink/
I sometimes like to play “What could be the actual headline” with these slugs
sex-daughters-boyfriend-kitchen-sink
My guess:
Is it okay to turn the disposal on if i catch my daughters boyfriend having sex with the kitchen sink?
I was wrong.
By the way the answer to the above is “Only if you didn’t give him consent in the first place”
Meh. A 20-year-old will fuck warm mud and she has a long history of questionable life choices. Sounds like a match made in derp.
I resent that! A 20-year-old me would gladly have fucked cold mud!
Not saying it couldn’t happen, but wouldn’t you just go get a pregnancy test before writing to “Deidre”?
Also, love the cat-butt picture they ran with the story. Very glibpropriate.
It happened. I saw the video.
If I learned anything from pornhub, it is that the kitchen sink is key to stories like this.
I am so sorry for the long post, but I think it’s important.
I was in hospital on Sunday. We think it was food poisoning, and it went away after 24 hours, but I was very afraid. I thought that I was having another seizure or something related to my brain injuries.
I felt x (brain damage) was causing y (weakness, dizziness, loss of control), but I think y was being caused by food poisoning. I just thought brain issues were causing those feelings. So those things that WEREN’T auditory hallucinations became them, because I thought my brain was causing everything. My hearing issues also affect this conception. Anxiety increased these sensations and I couldn’t rest or feel safe. I thought about this being the End of Me much more than I want to type. I have lived an odd life. Sooner or later this is going to happen, and to me it seems that sooner is the better bet. So the fear of that made everything more powerful.
I went to the ER to make sure. That was a safe bet. Best to make sure. Turned out to be nothing. I’m back to normal. It was just a normal stomach thing.
No COVID test was even attempted. They threw it back at me, saying that it wasn’t necessary and that I had no symptoms. It was all about making sure that what I was feeling wasn’t about my brain injury.
I had an EEG test yesterday. That’s fun. I’ve had a few. I’m safe to say that it will show that I’ve recovered remarkably well, like the last one revealed.
Lady got a new job today. Signed contract and everything. For a school I’ve long known and has a great reputation. I’m going to try to get a gig there as well. So looking upwards.
I hate how my family is pushing me south. They are trying their best and I am grateful, but the environment largely takes me away from actual humanity. Indianapolis downtown is full of Useful Idiots and everything has been boarded up. I can only get delivery food.
But it’s good to be well. Bored. But well. Don’t complain–adjust. That’s the best that can be done and I’m happy that it’s where I currently am.
Thanks for listening. And thank everyone for their GoFundMe help. You have no idea how important that is.
I’m glad you are back to normal.
Glad you’re feeling better.
You’re probably not in a position to travel, but even if you can get someone to drive you out to somewhere outside of a big city just for the day it will do wonders for you.
Being out in Vegas for a few days was wonderful just for the simple things like getting a haircut ir sitting in a bar or getting some clean air and not be surrounded by boarded up buildings and Protesting BS.
Meanwhile in totally unforeseen and unexpected news
I mean… I can think of one.
The human experience in a microcosm. There are lessons to be learned. They probably won’t be.
That was quick. At this rate they’ll have another revolution in three days and discussing how to reintegrate with the US in four. Damn millenials can’t even stay focused long enough to pull off a decent revolution.
Ha ha ha ha haha ha. Heard he sells mix tapes too.
What did I teach you?
You are the Duke of Seattle, you are A-#1!
Just what I was thinking.
Excellent, now they can begin going after the saboteurs and the wreckers.
Odds on how long before people start getting put up against the wall?
Lord of the Commies.
We need to be scared of someone who can unify these idiots. As Hoffer would have put it, we have moved past the men of words and now we have the fanatics. The men of action come next and that’s when things get ugly.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of shitheads.
Seattle needs to cut off their water and power.
“Sorry, these utilities are only provided to properties which are in the City of Seattle. You aren’t any more, so no more utilities for you.”
If they can figure out whether/how to cut off wifi and cell service within the insurrectionist zone, that would also be smart. But, without power, it may be a non issue.
The gym opened today. I went about 1:00 and there were a surprising number of people there. Most of the regulars were there, but an amazing number of youngsters, too.
In most places, it seems that they are the mask wearing freakouts, so I was surprised to see them in the gym.
I chatted with the manager for a bit and she said they had planned on a 6/1 opening until governor shithead issued yet another edict. At least among day 1 peeps, he’s a very unpopular dude. I hope it costs him his job.
Damn, it felt good to move some weights again. And yes, the hotties were well represented.
Gyms are still only open for small classes and personal training here in the Live Free or Die state.
My gym has decided that the restriction is too onerous, and their NH location is closed. “Mostly” you ask? Yes, they have decided at their NH location to have some free group classes outside as weather permits.
It’s good that you got back to the gym and got to turn your perverted gaze on some hotties.
Mines been open for three weeks. I still haven’t pushed past the sore stage.
I tried my best to not be a hero. It would have been humiliating if it weren’t for so many of my friends in the same boat.
I’m not looking forward to Friday morning when I go back. It will absolutely be humiliating.
The Protests Come for ‘Paw Patrol’
At some point someone has to tell them to fuck off.
No. Wait until they get Veggie Tales off the air. I’m pretty sure Celery is a tranny.
And it has icky Judeo-christian values. I mean…haven’t you heard how racist the cucumber is?
https://youtu.be/13DvXLdr_H4
Paw patrol isn’t the hill I’m going to die on.
Don’t get me wrong I won’t be devastated but the more stupid shit they go after the more emboldened they are. I believe Paw Patrol is a Canadian show, so I expect a sorey followed by cancelation.
i was being somewhat sarcastic.
If they can get Caillou of the air, RACISM ENDS FOREVER!!!
My wife has a presentation from Michael Porter on in the other room – pretty interesting, I’ll have to read their paper:
https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/research/Pages/research-details.aspx?rid=84
Why Competition in the Politics Industry is Failing America (pdf)
By: Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter
Talk is non-partisan (at least so far).
From the executive summary:
That seems like a fair analysis.
our major political parties and their industry allies
“Industry” allies is a little misleading. Some of the major “allies” of the political parties aren’t businesses at all – the administrative state, unions, and misc. NGOs who work hand in glove with the political parties and each for both mutual enrichment and the advancement of agendas.
They may not be businesses in the sense that they provide a service that enriches the lives of their customers in exchange for voluntary payments, but they are industries in that they are comprised of people toiling toward a common purpose.
They aren’t an industry like people working in a smithy, but they are an industry in the sense of viking raiders sacking the smithy, enslaving the craftsman and seizing what goods they can carry off back to their long-ships.
Some might feel, correctly, that this is an insult to the vikings; the vikings bore significant risk of death or injury in their endeavors. The NGO shmucks don’t.
*returns axe to weapons rack, resumes feasting and wenching.*
What is the “public interest”? I am uneducated enough to be under the delusion our government, which the political system evolved out of, was instituted with the sole purpose of protecting individual natural rights.
“…no longer designed to serve the public interest…”
It never was. Royal decrees dictating winners and losers, regulatory capture…this has always been the case and the bulk of people in every system are seen and treated as cattle since the beginning of time.
Do they suggest a solution?
Do they suggest a solution?
I didn’t watch the whole presentation & haven’t read the paper yet.
I suspect
A) yes and
B) that’s where they’ll lose me
Some fisking
Actually agree here. I think it’s one of the sticky points of libertarian ideology. What do you do when it’s very very difficult to commit people with severe mental illnesses?
Important point: you cannot use the State to create a moral population. A population which follows natural law, which practices good manners, that has a sense of community and looks out for each other doesn’t really need a police force, and a police force cannot create that kind of community no matter what tools or training he has.
The issue, officer, is that your supervisors have backed you all up, all the time, for so long that they have lost the trust of the citizens. Your union rep or lawyer is supposed to be your junkyard dog, your supervisor is supposed to be looking out for the good of the people who pay his salary.
See above.
I’m not sure what media he’s been following. The media has hated cops as long as I can remember.
I think even the most ardent police critic has no issues with an honest gunfight. What we have issues with is no knock raids, and poor marksmanship, and egregiously asinine decision making. You wanna be a gunfighter, you have to be a good one.
In other NASCAR news…
I’m honestly puzzled why a sports organization would piss off their fan base to appease a group that doesn’t consume their product (and will never be appeased anyway). Everybody seems to be doing it, though.
Because the normals will still go and it might keep the mob away.
And the staff is filled with wokesters in key positions.
Florida Man – if you’re up for it, we can meet at Fiddler’s Green this weekend. You can email me at my handle (with a 1 after it) at gee, mail.com
Also, any other Central Florida Glibs.
I sent you an email. Let me know if you do t get it
I’m assuming to keep their advertisers.
Good news, I got to come home early from work. Bad news, it was because I fucked my back. Good news, tequila helps.
It follows that if a little tequila helps a little, a lot of tequila will help a lot.
^ This man is a Scientist!
He’s also mad, so YMMV.
Will the ‘free’ zone in Seattle end up like Christiania in Denmark?
I went there when I was 18. Had a blast mind you
I suspect it might end up being a lot more “shooty” and “stabby.”
Hippies are less malevolent that antifa, so I would say no?
Didn’t we already see this movie 12 years ago?
Like NJ
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1270807267776925696?s=19
$500 is 150 rnds of .50 BMG
We could start a trade pact with them….food? $1000/pound. Ammo? $500/round.
Who would they tax to raise the money?
We should go in and kill every last one of them.
Others covered it, but I would providey own protection and eliminate the competition.
Come see the violence inherent in the system!
https://twitter.com/TheWholeStory6/status/1270659706709610496?s=19
Raz, fastest to a blue check mark?
Starting to get picked up in the media
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/502129-seattle-protesters-take-city-hall-declare-police-free
Still being ignored by the major networks.
The demands
https://twitter.com/TweetsByBritt/status/1270850437235666944?s=19
All I hear is “I wanna helicopter ride”
Everybody likes helicopters.
Limited time: 50% off round trip prices!
As per usual, some decent ideas mixed in with a metric crapload of batshit crazy.
“We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability.”
That one sounds vaguely mafia-like.
Naaaaa, trash collection was not mentioned.
LOL. Worked for NYC.
It is going to end up like Cuba if allowed to exist. Same ideology, same methods, same result.
I have always wondered why no one rioted over Tamir Rice’s murder by cop, so I looked up the date. November 22, 2014. It would have been about three weeks too late to be used in the 2014 mid-terms and essentially two full years before the 2016 presidential election. Unlike Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and George Floyd who were killed just a few months or so before the 2012, 2014 and 2020 electons respectively.
?
Ouch.
This
The whole year has one big lie. It’s all about TDS. It’s very strong.
Not from the Bee
https://www.wweek.com/news/2020/06/09/when-a-pandemic-met-a-protest-public-health-fought-the-law-and-the-law-won/
I have a hard time believing after so many rounds of layoffs we’ve seen over the last couple years, that there is a bunch of fat waiting to cull. The WFH situation may highlight some performance issues but who knows.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/jeffrey-gundlach-sees-unemployment-wave-hitting-white-collar-jobs-224443437.html
Workers-from-home should think a bit about whether their job could be done cheaper by Hrundi V. Bakshi in Mumbai. Someone in the workers’ management chain is thinking about it and, if not management, vulture capitalists with loads of low-interest cash looking for bargains are running the numbers.
I’ve heard locality adjustments are on the table. If you’re in Sioux Falls, maybe they don’t need to pay Bay Area salary.
That is what happened to my previous job. This one has some protection, as we deal with data that cant leave the country.
My job was replaced by Cheapy McNoexperience in Ohio. I wonder how that’s working out for them.
“Workers-from-home should think a bit about whether their job could be done cheaper by Hrundi V. Bakshi in Mumbai.”
Yeah, if you’re a call center person with no skills and your company doesn’t give a fuck about customer service. Otherwise, no, I wouldn’t worry about that.
HR, Directors of Diversity and Inclusion, all sorts of people who were promoted for the wrong reasons…
Uhm, evidently VPs at my company get bonuses for promoting minorities into management. Further solidifying my “milk em for all they’re worth and then bail” strategy.
We are so screwed
Employment lawyers are smacking their lips at this latest round no doubt.
you really dont realize anti discrimination laws don’t apply to whites and men do you?
You being a trashcan dwelling muppet are a shoe in!
He needs to check his Green Privilege.
Click my handle link to check out my Green Privilege. ?
Went 10 hrs on the pork butt. 2/3rds of it was perfect, 1/3 could have used another hour. But I was hungry and the good part was very, very good. And the other part was good.
I will be eating pulled pork for at least two weeks.
I will be pulling my pork for at least two weeks while Seattle devolves into chaos.
What did use for the rub?
I bet in the morning you find that other third is just fine. I did one a couple weeks ago. Love pork butt.
Damn tick bite itches like son of a bitch. I’ve always had bad reactions to them but this one is ridiculous and it was a tiny little bastard that got me. Small enough to go thru my sock.
Today feels like Friday.
Yesterday felt like Friday.
Monday felt like Friday.
Tomorrow will feel like Friday.
Then it will be Friday.
I feel ya. I took the week of Memorial Day off and I’m not sure it was worth it. Last week and this week are killing me.