Once again I draw inspiration from you—yes you sociopaths, autists, and people that are otherwise an asshole in some way.
The illustrious Count Potato reminded me of a really stupid article I read…
*checks date*
…12 years ago. Whoa.
This is my review of Dogfish Head Slightly Mighty Low Cal IPA.
This is a long winded feminist rant which I will link here but I will only quote bits and pieces of it because most of the arguments are ridiculous, and nobody here has that kind of time.
So in the very second scene of the very first episode, an episode written and directed by the great feminist Joss, a white man tells a black woman to ‘shut up’ for no apparent reason. And she does shut up. And she continues to call him sir. And takes his orders, even when they are dumb orders, for the rest of the series.
The next scene we meet Kaylee, the ship’s mechanic. <- Lookee, lookee, feminist empowerment. In this scene Mal and Jayne are stowing away the cargo they just stole. Kaylee is chatting to them, happily. Jayne asks Mal to get Kaylee to stop being so cheerful. Mal replies, “Sometimes you just wanna duct tape her mouth and dump her in the hold for a month.” Yes, that is an exact quote, “Sometimes you just wanna DUCT TAPE HER MOUTH and DUMP HER IN THE HOLD FOR A MONTH.” Kaylee responds by grinning and giving Mal a kiss on the cheek and saying, “I love my Captain.”
Mal has a different relationship with each character on the ship. Zoe and Mal go back a long time when they were fighting in a war. He was her superior officer then and her military professionalism is a dominant part of Zoe’s character. You might notice she was also the toughest character in the show if you weren’t so concerned about being offended.
Mal and Jayne is a different animal. Jayne is enough of a dick that Mal’s only option in maintaining order is to be a bigger dick to Jayne. If you ever been around a pack of dogs, it is sort of like that.
I never got how Kaylee wound up on that ship. I thought it was a running joke I missed.
So, Joss Whedon refers to rapist/fuckers who buy women as sex, as ‘eager, inexperienced but pleasingly shaped’ who ‘make love’ to women in prostitution. Obviously, ‘love’ to men like Joss Whedon, requires female powerlessness, force and coercion. Women in prostitution enjoy the experience of being bought for sex. They feel ‘motherly’ towards the men who have just treated them as property and bought them as sex.
In Joss Whedon’s future world prostituted women are powerful and respectable. They go to an Academy, to train in the arts of being a ‘Companion’. They belong to a Guild which regulates prostitution, forces women to endure yearly health tests and comes up with rules to make prostitution sound empowering for women. For example, one Guild rule is that the ‘Companion’ chooses her rapist, not the other way around.
If both parties consent, by definition it isn’t rape. The fact she was paid further enforces consent because it implies a contract was involved.
At any rate, Inara’s apparent ‘power’ is merely a figment of Joss Whedon’s very sick imagination. In a later episode, Inara is shown to have set down three very specific rules in relation to her arrangement to hiring one of Mal’s shuttles as her base of operations. 1) No crew member, including the Captain would be allowed entrance to the shuttle without Inara’s express invitation. 2) Inara refuses to service the Captain nor anyone under his employ. And 3) the Captain cannot refer to Inara as a whore.
Mal agrees to all of these rules but he breaks every single one of them. Blatantly and deliberately. The third thing that Mal says in the first interaction between Inara and Mal is, “She’s a whore…” Does Inara stop him from calling her a whore? Nope. She just goes on smiling and being gracious. So he calls her a whore again. Lovely man this Mal is, dontcha think?
Given humans are an multi-planetary species at this point, I could argue Mal might have a strict definition for “whore” as “one who has sex in exchange for money”. I instead will point out the obvious sexual tension between the two characters and if Inara were truly offended by that she can very well take care of herself.
There is also an entire episode where the crew of the Serenity actually defend a brothel from from by most people define as a Warlord. He fathered a child with one of the girls there and the Madame asked Inara for help. If Mal looked down on whores he has an odd way of showing it.
Beyond a shadow of a doubt, Joss uses his own wife in this way. Expects her to clean up his emotional messes. Expects her to be there, eternally supportive, eternally subservient and grateful to him in all his manly glory. I hope the money is worth it, Mrs. Whedon. But somehow I doubt that it is. No amount of money can buy back wasted emotional resources.
[…]
Zoe, of course, is meant to be our empowered, ass-kicking sidechick. Like all sidechicks she is objectified from the get go. Her husband, Wash, talking about how he likes to watch her bathe. Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour. I have known a black woman whose white husband would strangle and bash her while her young children watched. My white grandfather liked black women because they were ‘exotic’, and he did not, could not treat women, especially women of colour, like human beings. I grew up watching my great aunts, my aunty and my mother all treated like shit by their white husbands, the men theyloved. So you will forgive me for believing that the character, Wash, is a rapist and an abuser, particularly considering that he treats Zoe like an object and possession.
No, Wash is clearly a leaf in the wind. I’m sorry these things happened to people close to you, the tangential experience suggests you may need to seek the assistance of a mental health professional.
This is an appropriate beer for discussion of an intellectual lightweight because by any measure it is a lightweight. People like light beer for some reason but a light IPA? It wasn’t watered down or anything but something about this didn’t feel right to me. I don’t think it will feel right to anyone else here. Dogfish Head Slightly Mighty Low Cal IPA: 1.5/5
Kaylee?
HAWT
Indeed.
She was the hottest on the show, all other opinions are wrong.
Concur. She was Mary Ann to the others’ Gingers.
Seconded.
I liked Inara.
Zoe was my favorite.
Did we do something to piss you off MS? That was a whole load of un-necessary derp dumped into the middle of an otherwise fine Saturday.
Perhaps we can discuss the merits of a certain fruit topping of a certain dish that may or may not be an improper method of preparation?
Sure, but lock up the gunz first.
I clicked on the link to original article. I’m on suicide watch now, so thanks.
Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour.
And that’s that.
I just don’t understand the instinct to WANT things to be bad. Isn’t there enough bad floating around that we want no part of but are stuck with, to not stand around a start rooting for more of it?
The _only_ healthy marriage/relationship among my friends also happens to be (as best as I can tell) the only mixed one. Now the genders are swapped from the above, but still. You damned well better be allowed to love whomever the fuck you want without some know it all asshole trying to shame you into obeying their diseased worldview.
Being happy can be really fucking hard sometimes, stop trying to short-circuit whatever happiness folks do occasionally find.
If your job depends on you seeing hobgoblins everywhere, guess what you’ll see everywhere.
It should be a huge red flag, the number of diagnosed and un-diagnosed personality disorders that show up among the social justice set.
Stable, well-adjusted adults do not act like this.
David Thompson has an entire “Psychodrama” tag for stuff like this, and routinely points out how the SJWs are nasty little people who use “social justice” as an excuse to argue that their nastiness is actually a virtue.
The counterpoint they would say is that we’re just hiding our crippling issues. Somehow we’re able to get by while doing that, so I’m guessing we’re doing it pretty well.
It should be a huge red flag, the number of diagnosed and un-diagnosed personality disorders that show up among the social justice set.
Stable, well-adjusted adults do not act like this.
Bill deBlasio agrees.
“and people that are otherwise an asshole in some way”
It would have been easier to say ‘everyone here’.
yes you sociopaths, autists, and people that are otherwise an asshole in some way.
I’d rather hang out with you folks than the finest people in the world.
I never got how Kaylee wound up on that ship. I thought it was a running joke I missed.
She was a better mechanic than the previous mechanic Mal hired. It was in “Out of Gas”, which I think was an episode that aired.
I do recall. Maybe a better way of putting it is why the girl next door stayed on a ship full of renegades, fugitives, and space confederates?
Hmm… good point.
Until the Doc shows up, I don’t see much point in her sticking around. I have a vague memory of her talking about wanting to get out off the planet she grew up on, but there are other ways to do that.
Girls next door can like them some bad boys, you know.
Dude, what?
Disclaimer: Never saw Firefly. I was TV-free during that period.
Girls next door many times crave adventure with those who are not afraid to seek it. If they take the opportunity to make the jump in spite of their fear, they may do it.
why the girl next door stayed
Because it’s her ship. She has an inherent affinity for all things mechanical, and she loves the ship like a living thing. Maintaining it and operating it is a joy to her, enough so to put up with the occasionally callous Mal and the consistently boorish Jayne. When Doctor Eye Candy comes along, that’s icing on the cake.
There does seem to be a little inconsistency in the character. Her introduction to Mal arises from her screwing the incompetent (or dishonest) mechanic she eventually replaces. My first reaction is that, she’s screwing this punk in an engine room, she must get around some. But then, she doesn’t seem to have any sexual interest in the males on the crew, aside from the deeply repressed crush on the Doctor. So she’s not a fun time kind of lady? But, maybe the only reason she was screwing the punk is because he can get her into an engine room. It’s all about the ship for her, the personal relationships are secondary.
talking about wanting to get out off the planet she grew up on
Well, I can completely relate to that.
She was a damned good mechanic, and this was the job she wanted.
Oh, and the article left out how Kaylee won the job by being more competent than a white male, who Mal fired.
She was hooking up with the mechanic, and he told Mal that the engine couldn’t be fixed, and she corrected him and explained how it could be fixed, so Mal fired him and hired her on the spot.
Yeah, she was banging the mechanic in the engine room and saw the problem.
But later she gets the hots for the doc, who was a virgin. They don’t get it on until the movie Serenity, if I remember correctly.
“If both parties consent, by definition it isn’t rape.”
It’s rape if they say it is 40 years later! Why do you hate women!?
This sort of reminds me of the Netflix series on Epstein. I tried to watch that, thinking it would be an interesting story. And it would be, without the 10 minute victim whining spotlights inserted into it every 10 minutes.
So, apparently, if someone met Epstein when they were 20 years old and decided to profit greatly by being an Epstein pimp and climbing up in Epstein’s underage girls pyramid scheme, they’re now a victim and we have to cry about that every fucking 10 minutes. Fuck that shit, that’s not what a victim is. But we are to believe that not only where willing of age participants in all that were not only victims, but survivors and heroes. I can’t wait for Maxwell’s tearful
testimonyplay acting, and then she gets off with maybe a shot probation. We could only hope she names a lot of names during that, but I imagine she won’t even need to do that, because she’s just another victim *barf*. I hate everyone.One my main issues with the whole thing is that we have decided, as a society, that teenage girls are sexual beings. Teenage girls can get birth control and abortion without parental consent. Parents who place strong restrictions on their teenagers dating are seen as uptight weirdos in the popular culture. When I was in public school, the school did absolutely nothing about the dozens of adult men who would openly pursue relationships with teenage girls in front of teachers and principals. Teen Vogue is full of anal sex tips.
Then all of a sudden it’s “How did our girls get preyed upon by this dastardly fiend?!!!!??!”
That’s not why Epstein was prosecuted. He was prosecuted because there are powerful men who fear what he might reveal. I mean until the Clintoncide. They were going to shut the guy up, one way or another. The guy was videotaping all his ‘guests’ all of the time. And we can only guess that a lot of that had come Clintons in it, not to mention a lot of other well known politicians and well known wealthy people.
Yeah but I’m saying like, broader view, this idea that a 50 year old putting a 16 year old on his private jet and whisking her off to an island is somehow this evil monstrosity, but the 27 year old who has a car and his own apartment picking up 16 year olds is like…..moderately skeezy.
I mean, like high school, there was a dude that worked his way through about half dozen of the girls my late junior and senior year. He was late 20s early 30s, had a sick motorcyle, tattoos, etc. He’d openly pick them up from high school, in the carpool lane. None of the teachers did anything or said anything. He did it for a full calendar year.
My mom was 16 when she married my 19 year old dad. No one thought anything of that, back then it was completely normal. Declaring that 16 year olds are children is a modern day Western thing, as far as I know.
Well, that’s the thing. They message isn’t
“You might meet a kind, hardworking young man who wants to pledge his life to you very early on, and you should be open to that.”
The message is that casual sex of all kinds is a positive good, and that people who don’t agree are hateful bigots, and you have BC and abortion to fix any problems that result, and you’re too young to be tied down right now.
A plethora of contractions is a feature of the modern left. There is no wrong or right, no morality, except that which is defined by the Twitter mob at the moment.
Do not forget the clothing for little girls that is expressly sexual.
That would be bad, unless you can also have transqueer story hour while they’re wearing that, read by 50 year old ugly fat dudes pretending to be women. Then it’s all good.
Yeah and the thing is, if you say something, then you become the pervert. They’re not perverts for putting 12 year olds in short shorts that have writing on the butt, you’re the pervert for saying “Uh that’s kind of fucked up.”
There is a slippery slope, because girls always try to reach up a couple years. Middle school girls want to go on proper dates, not group dates or mixed family outings. Freshman and sophomores want the junior and senior boys to ask them to prom. The juniors and seniors want to date college boys. They head off to college, now they want upperclassmen who have their own apartments. As they get to be upperclassmen now they’re dating young professionals.
When you push explicit sexuality for girls down throughout high school, you will inevitably get middle school aged girls trying to emulate that behavior. It’s on the TV shows they watch, the music they listen to, the social media they consume. It’s a constant bombardment. When you tell 15 and 16 year old girls in Teen Vogue the beauties and wonders of anal sex, you will get 13 and 14 year olds stealing big sisters magazines and getting those same thoughts
I’m talking toddlers and single-digit little girls.
I worked with kids for years, summer camps, after school programs, sports leagues, etc. Mostly middle school aged, so that’s where my experiences come from. Even just over the years I worked those jobs, I noticed the trend increasing, and it’s deeply worrisome to me, and I’m an atheist, I’m not coming at it from a religious POV.
The entire child beauty pageant thing may touch on that.
“The juniors and seniors want to date college boys. They head off to college, now they want upperclassmen who have their own apartments.”
They don’t really want any of that, they’re just forced to pretend to like that, by the patriarchy. And no woman wants a man who can support her financially while she plays on Facebook and watches soap operas all day. The patriarchy wants you to think that.
I have a friend that did college, got a STEM degree, hit triple digit income before she turned 25, in a low COL place. She’s maybe on the plainer side of cute, but she’s really smart, really nice, and she’s the rock climbing/road bike type so she’s fit. So overall, very much a catch. But she’s single, and the problem, frankly, is her standards.
She doesn’t want to support a man. OK, fine. I don’t think men particularly want to support a woman. But she’s in the 95th percentile of income.
She’s fit, so she wants a guy who’s fit. Again, I don’t blame her. She doesn’t want a couch potato, because she’s active as hell.
She doesn’t want to date a dumb bunny. Again, fine. She’s really smart, being married to a moron would wear on anyone.
So she wants smart, fit, and rich. Well, so does every woman in the world, right? I had a talk with her once, and I think I got through a bit, but her idea of compromise is more “well his face isn’t that important.” or “I don’t care what he does for a living” (as long as he makes 100k.)
If she’d bend just a little, like there’s plenty of fit, smart guys who work for nonprofits or teach school. Or there’s plenty of schlubby smart guys working high paying jobs.
But if you’re a 31 year old looking for a 95th percentile income, 80th+ percentile fitness, 70th percentile IQ guy…..well, so is everyone else, right?
Viking, you ever hear the man store joke? Because that’s what I’m reminded of. Lots of ladies my wife is acquainted with in Brazil, are always asking her if her hubby knows one of these perfect guys for them. She tells them, no I got the only one.
Some years ago a single friend of ours who, like me at that time, was in her early fifties, complained to me that “…at our age, all the good guys are either married or gay.”
I replied, “Well, I’m married, so I’m taking that as a compliment.”
Animal, when I found myself single and living in a high population area, for the first time in a long time, I started experimenting with the online dating thing, and I found it just amazing how many available and desirable women there were around my age. I just couldn’t quite get my mind around it. I’m thinking, why are none of these women married or taken? Then I met some of them and my questions were answered in large part. Just saying…
I wouldn’t want to be single at my age for anything. Granted Mrs. Animal and I have a marriage in a million and we’re very happy together, but trying to get back into the swing now?
Mrs. A and I have talked about it as we’ve gotten older. If something happened to either of us right now, the other would just go on alone.
This is my last time, ever. I got lucky and met someone my age, an old fashioned girl who still likes the idea of men being men and women being women, and we’ll celebrate our 10th anniversary this year. No regrets, but never again, not in this world.
There’s an old joke where a woman tells a male friend her long list of superlative criteria she’s looking for in a man, to which her male friend replies, “you find a guy like that, and I’ll fuck him!”
Do not forget the clothing for little girls that is expressly sexual.
I’m not a prude, but I’ve seen that shit and it is disturbing.
Also, it’s intentional. If the left can openly sexualize teen girls and make that all cool and stuff, while at the same time making everyone who touches one of them a potential rapist and criminal, they can just target any of those people, any time they want just by getting the girl to play the victim card. It’s a huge political weapon.
something something brave new world
Zoe, of course, is meant to be our empowered, ass-kicking sidechick. Like all sidechicks she is objectified from the get go. Her husband, Wash, talking about how he likes to watch her bathe. Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour. I have known a black woman whose white husband would strangle and bash her while her young children watched. My white grandfather liked black women because they were ‘exotic’, and he did not, could not treat women, especially women of colour, like human beings. I grew up watching my great aunts, my aunty and my mother all treated like shit by their white husbands, the men theyloved. So you will forgive me for believing that the character, Wash, is a rapist and an abuser, particularly considering that he treats Zoe like an object and possession.
The author of the piece Mexican Sharpshooter is writing about needs help.
I will not forgive for her thinking Wash is a rapist. That just ain’t so. I think it was pretty clear from the show that Zoe could have killed Wash had she wanted to.
“The author of the piece Mexican Sharpshooter is writing about needs help.
That person does not want help. They want to keep playing this victim, brave hero card for as long as it’s profitable. And in this society today, you cannot climb any higher than survivor victim hero.
We’re going to be conquered by either Russia or China sooner than later. Maybe they’ll just team up and divide the spoils.
That person does not want help.
Hmm…. sounds like a relative of mine.
Well what’s a poor woman to do when she lives in a world where “All men are probable rapists.”
See my reply to Viking, upthread.
I’m not understanding. Speak slowly.
Sorry, I can’t reach your scroll bar.
I don’t know the strikethrough happened. It was unintentional.
I don’t know how the strikethrough happened
Wait, yes I do. Is it too early to start drinking? Sheesh.
“Is it too early to start drinking”
It is? Oh shit.
Meh. Its 2 pm. I just pretend its 5 and open a double-deuce
I’ve been pretending it’s 5, since around 1pm. My wife said ‘Mr. Hyperion, are you taking your beer aleady?’ I said ‘Yeah, but don’t worry, if I run out, I’ll order more’.
I had some booze in my coffee this morning.
Coffee Corretto!
An old family favorite.
You’re a truly bad person. There’s no redemption for you, sinner!
I went with a Kolsch with brunch, from a local sports bar that contract brews. They tried to start their own brewery, but signed the lease on the space before hiring a brewer. The want ad for the brewer was mildly entertaining. The brewer they were looking for was the type who would be looking to start their own brewery (or already had), and would probably be less then likely to take a job under someone else.
Kölsch is good.
DEG: This one wasn’t bad, a little under attenuated, but a nice beer to go with brunch (country fried steak, sausage gravy, eggs, toast, and potatoes).
From xer blog:
I only know of one pro-radical feminist man and he is my brother. So they aren’t exactly thick on the ground. I just know that they can and do exist. Other than my brother, I have pretty much zero contact with men. It isn’t solely about trust, I just find men pretty boring in general.
I don’t try to trust men. I don’t have any particular need for men in my life. I don’t work with men. I am only politically active on women’s issues at the moment. I socialise with lesbians. So men just don’t figure in my life at all. The only males I have to deal with are children. And that is the way I like it. I doubt that will change in the future.
by allecto July 12, 2008 at 11:50 pm
Not person I’d want around children.
I mean, that’s pretty standard schoolteacher in my experience. One of the great unspoken horrible things about our society is just how many women like this there in the school system. They’re not a majority of course, but especially as you get into MS and HS you realize that a healthy chunk of your teachers just plain do not like boys, because boys turn into men.
At my High School there was a teacher who would speak out in class (American Literature, honors) about how the world would be better once the men could all be removed.
Yes, she taught us Brave New World…
Hence why I’ve made certain my son always had some male teachers.
“I just find men pretty boring in general.”
Well, I mean they ain’t got tits, so…
“I only know of one pro-radical feminist man and he is my brother.”
Ugh, I couldn’t tolerate a brother of mine being like that. I’d be saying ‘You better get ready to kick my ass if you can do it, because I’m going to restore some toxic masculinity to you, right now, one way or other’.
I’m dead serious.
pro-radical feminist man
aka, low-key rapist
I’ve never heard of a man letting his sister keep his balls in her purse.
A line from Brother Dave Gardner floated through my head: “Let them that don’t want none know the pleasure of knowin’ they never got any. Let it not be their punishment but their reward.”
I only know of one pro-radical feminist man and he is my brother.
I hope, for his sake, that he is just making you think that to keep your nagging ass of his back.
So men just don’t figure in my life at all.
Then you are discriminatory, lack a well-rounded world view, and should be expected to not comment on men’s issues.
“So men just don’t figure in my life at all.”
She said, typing on a computer, powered by electricity, produced by petroleum.
Euthenizing bees.
Yeah, I don’t know.
Didn’t we already kill all the bees with the 4Gs?
I just don’t understand the instinct to WANT things to be bad. Isn’t there enough bad floating around that we want no part of but are stuck with, to not stand around a start rooting for more of it?
Doomsday Cult-ism meets Munchausen by Proxy syndrome.
A more accurate, succinct summation cannot be found.
Wanting everything to be bad for everyone else, somehow makes things better for you. /woketards
We’re going to be conquered by either Russia or China sooner than later. Maybe they’ll just team up and divide the spoils.
Just as long as there’s a Neutral Zone for us to hide out in.
Talk to Space hat.
Those two countries couldn’t conquer a Burger King kids meal. I doubt they would even succeed in getting any troops across the ocean.
That will change when Biden is POTUS. Right after they confiscate all of our guns, Biden will send them the equipment to get the troops across with a US escort.
Also, our military personnel will all be replaced with woke pink haired trannies with negative testosterone count.
I’d like to think the sub commanders would push them out the airlock once reports of the first transport landing got in.
Neither have the force projection capability. China has a yuge army, but can’t get it here. And we’d massacre them if they tried.
Seriously, on our current path, they won’t have to fire a single shot, we’re committing national suicide.
Nikita Khrushchev – We will take America without firing a shot.
Even after their own demise, that’s a self fulfilling prophecy. Marx and Lenin are having a cocktail party in their graves.
OT: More Michigan police departments won’t enforce Gauleiterin Whitmer’s orders
Two thumb-area police departments announced they won’t be taking complaints about Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order.
Bad Axe and Sandusky police departments said they are asking residents to direct any complaints about executive orders to the attorney general’s office.
“they won’t be taking complaints about Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order.”
The No Karen Call rule?
OT: Maine doctors suspect Lil Rona was running wild in Maine in December
Maine doctors reported a jump in patients with a fever and cough or sore throat this flu season, with a sharp rise in cases starting in December, opening the door to the possibility that COVID-19 was here months before the state’s first positive test on March 12.
Last year, the percentage of patients reporting symptoms of an influenza-like illness generally hovered around 1% or 2% and peaked at about 3%. This season, it began rising in December and climbed steadily to reach about 4% in January and about 5% in February. It peaked at 6.7% the week of March 15-21, just as the state was shutting down due to the pandemic.
Thats been my position all along. I was sick af with something similar mid-december, and Jugsy had it in January. Her doc examined her and said “I dunno- its some virus. Its going around.”
She traveled for work this past week, and spent time in 4 diff. airports. Since there’s a slight chance she’s unknowingly carrying around the Chink Croup, its a handy excuse for me to skip church tomorrow, and avoid Tres Sr. for a week.
And out former dir. of Pubic Health, Reichsführer Dr. Amy Acton admitted (before she stepped down) it was likely in Ohio at least in February.
Thats been my position all along.
#metoo
I think I had in January. I had a cold but no congestion. I always have congestion when I have a cold.
Reichsführer Dr. Amy Acton admitted (before she stepped down) it was likely in Ohio at least in February.
January
I knew it was sometime earlier this year.
Broken man-picker detected.
“Why does he hit me?”
“Because hes a two time felon full patch outlaw biker who drinks too much?”
It’s not OK to hit girls, unless you’re a BLM acivist hitting girls who are praying.
A more accurate, succinct summation cannot be found.
*blushes, scuffs toe in dirt*
If I had said that in the presence of any living breathing human (you people are all figments of my imagination, or I am a figment of yours- I can never keep that part straight) I know, the best response I could have hoped for would have been a baffled, dismissive eyeroll.
I knew there would be multiple somebodies here who would know exactly what that meant.
I have all of the ingredients for fried rice, but I don’t want to stand by the stove.
Wifey is frying bananas right now. It’s 90 F outside with 65% humidity. I’ll have to turn the AC soon and haul a few more watering cans of water outside to water the maters and peppers.
You don’t run your AC full-time?
Nope. Almost all the time at night in the summer, but in the day, not until it gets up to about 80 in the house and it’s humid, which is fast approaching here.
I can’t get my house below 80 in the daylight.
With central air? Is it your insulation or the AC unit? I’ll typically set mine to 78 in the day when it gets hot and it takes about 20 minutes for it to get there. We keep it at 69 at night all year round. Yeah, I know, 69…
No central air.
“No central air.”
That explains it.
Jugsy’s crib is poorly insulated and has little shade. Daily, Ra the Sungod and his buddy Horus tea-bag the SW exposure.
No central air.
I don’t understand.
“No central air.
I don’t understand.”
Around here? It’s not only that it gets in the 90s here in the summer on a regular basis, but it’s also humid. I don’t think I could survive summer here without AC. If I did survive, it would be pure misery.
The house was built before the first world war, the lot is no bigger than the house. There’s nowhere to put the compressor unless I find someone who’ll mount it on the roof.
There’s nowhere to put the compressor unless I find someone who’ll mount it on the roof.
If you have an attic, you can put the compressor outside with an air handler and ducts in the attic. That’s what I did for the upstairs of my house.
The downstairs a ductless minisplit courtesy of a previous owner.
The downstairs a ductless minisplit courtesy of a previous owner.
PROOFRAD!
The downstairs has a ductless minisplit.
“he house was built before the first world war, the lot is no bigger than the house. There’s nowhere to put the compressor unless I find someone who’ll mount it on the roof.”
I owned a house that was built in 1865. Took me 10 years to completely renovate it, doing most of the work myself. I had half an acre, so there was plenty of room for the AC unit. The new furnace was a bit more difficult. The half basement was basically a hole in the ground with no floor except dirt. There was an ancient coal burning stove down that must have weighed a ton. I got someone to cut it up with a torch and take it out piece by piece. I then got some friends and we dug out about a foot of the dirt floor and poured a concrete floor and then got the furnace guys to come in and put the furnace in and run the duct work for that and the AC. Old houses are a money pit, but I managed to make 50k or so on the house when I sold it.
Take out.
I’ve been doing too much of that of late.
Try the grill ?
The grill would still be my stovetop in the kitchen (no lawn)
Successful little morning at the lake. Ternager is still alive and he caught 3. Bluegills, so an easy catch but he was stoked and really worked on technique. Today we did catch and release, next time its dinner
Congrats.
Pan fishies, yummy!
Good.
Good times, and much more manly than my outing today. I took my son to my
barbershopwife’s hairdresser. She insists. I’ll turn in my man card now.So next time you’re not catching any fish?
Heh. Probably.
Bluegills are actually tasty if you can get ones with any size to them.
Don’t knock bluegills. They are fighters. If they grew to 5lb, you’d have to catch them with shark tackle.
Successful little morning at the lake. Ternager is still alive
Going to lull him into a false sense of security, eh? Good thinking.
Thats the plan. Once we hit the back country he will be so comfortable to not notice the extra shovel and tarp packed
Successful project almost in the tank.
XY taken to therapy; good talk, good talk (?) (I don’t know if it was or not.)
Lost thing still not found.
Keep looking, it will show up in the last place you check.
I should certainly hope so.
I try to defy expectations. After I find things I keep looking.
“everything you find is always in the last place you looked” -Mitch Hedberg
You’re never going to find your virginity again.
Ex-wife didn’t have her virginity when we met, but I happy she kept the box it came in.
/Hey-Ohhh
*looks at children*
I hope not.
Lost thing still not found.
Well good luck, seriously. Hurry up, so we can make fun of you.
I long for the day.
/dead serious
good talk, good talk (?) (I don’t know if it was or not.)
Hopefully it was good.
$10K in $20s isn’t that small. I have faith. Unless can one of your spawn found it first.
I looked it up, and if you put 500 $20 bills together and banded them, it should come out to about 2.5 inches thick if you can pack them tightly, more if they’re not crisp and new.
6-1/8 x 3 x 3 isn’t particularly big; I’m guessing you could fit the money in a box of business-sized envelopes.
It was in 100s. It could be mailed with one stamp and no one the wiser. Maybe two.
Four; apparently a US banknote weighs about a gram, so 100 of them would be between three and four ounces.
Thanks (no sarcasm) for getting me to look of the dimensions of US currency.
You’re welcome?
I once had to google what a million dollars looks like in 100s. There were pictures.
But in $100s it is.
Behind some books on a bookshelf?
All my books have been boxed up and put in storage, but that was before the last time I saw it.
107 at 11 am, headed up to 120, I’m running and errand with a friend, then hide under a rock, its blazing !
Stopped by the liquor store after brunch, and restocked. I found a beer that I picked up for name (and knowing the brewer does a good job on most things): Frogarita Turbo Shandy Citrus Ale.
That sounds delicious right now… It’s probably because I’m still at work.
Scruffy- was it you who said ATF and acetone(?) is a good soak for rusted parts?
I have a set of Porsche brake calipers which have been on the shelf for decades, and it’s time to make use of them.
Yep 50/50 mix.
We use it to get siezed bearings out of hubs all the time.
Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour.
I just sent this to a buddy of mine who married a black chick about 19 years ago. I’ll report back.
I’ve tried that beer, as well. I’d rather just have a glass of water.
I probably would have married the Mexican girl I dated in high school had I met her after college. She was a wonderful person.
Sigh. It is like I don’t even exist. Or does my wife not count because Asians aren’t the right colour (maybe the extra ‘u’ means she is just taking Brits to task?)
Lol. See what I get for making assumptions about whom the idiot author was referring to.
You don’t exist. You’re just a figment in Tulpa’s imagination.
95 degrees with above 80% humidity
It’s a good day for some Corsendonk.
Supposed to be mid 90s here for the next week. Not sure about the humidity, but it’s around 65% at the moment, which is the only thing that has kept me from turning on the AC, yet. It’s 91 right now. Humidity about 75% and above 85 F, no way I will survive that shit without the AC.
Abbey Pale I assume, not the brown or Christmas?
/walks out to get a pils.
Working a delightful slightly sour Farmhouse Ale from Sentinel Peak at their brewpub right now.
I’ve got a Boulevard Saison-Brett in the fridge from (wanders off to check the vintage) 2012. That’s going to be one to open over the sink. I’m trying to make it a point to start working through some of the cellar, otherwise, it’s just going to keep growing.
I just ordered some more of this.
DAB Nostalgic Edition 1959
Shit! Edit Fairy! Help!
BEER!
Sweet. Thx.
You can probably cut the acetone percentage back some. We’re just too lazy to test it out.
Neighbor stopped by with his 914 a couple days ago. What fun little buggies.
Good luck with the brakes!
I thought 914 was a joke in your town.
What fun little buggies.
Indeed.
Let me just say now that I have never personally known of a healthy relationship between a white man and a woman of colour.
Your fucked up life experience is the exception, not the rule.
Good lord that is a steaming pile. I guess s/he really hates the show because it does strong, female characters the correct way instead of “muh-gurl pwer, she’s the best evar!”.
TikTok Users Are Posting Secret Codes to Address Mental Health Issues
The chair is against the wall.
I see three-and-a-half lights.
Yes, but are you are not supposed to admit to it.
Tangentially related: We watched Logan on Hulu last night. I hate
HollywoodLouisiana. Somebody tell me what is so great about this movie. You may not use the words ‘poignant’, ‘gritty’, or ‘iconic’.Started watching it on a flight. Shut it off.
I like Louisiana, though.
I watched The Battle of Algiers instead in honor of Ennio Morricone.
In light of all the craziness going on today, it’s still relevant in that it makes the viewer ask the question “What about the people who don’t want the form of ‘independence’ the revolutionaries are trying to impose?”
Sex addict claims hot female gamers caused him to injure his penis
Light that candle, friend. Godspeed.
Using the wrong joystick, eh?
‘Look what you made me do!’
*holds out limp, mangled penis*
1114 heat index here right now. Heading to pool shortly.
Typo, but feels like that.
Same here, 114,but it feels like at least 1119
Got to pool, set stuff down, thunder, guard blows whistle. Back home after minor 4 yr old meltdown.
Poured on way home.
1114 heat index here right now.
Are you communicating to us from the planet Mercury?
No one ever walked into a Subway carrying a gun again and everyone lived happily ever after. The end.
The Newtown Action Alliance is among several groups applauding the Subway restaurant chain for changing its policy to ban open carry inside its restaurants, even in states where open carry is permitted.
Subway’s action follows multiple requests made to its CEO, John Chidsey, by gun control advocates in the wake of armed anti-lockdown protesters visiting a North Carolina Subway shop in May.
On May 18, Newtown Action Alliance, Guns Down America, and Daily Kos sent a letter signed by 153 families and survivors impacted by gun violence to Chidsey. This petition was signed by 43,167 Americans, according to the NAA, and Moms Rising also submitted a petition with 10,000 signatures. Last week, Connecticut Senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy followed up with this letter to Chidsey. …
Newtown Action Alliance is a Newtown-based, national grassroots organization formed after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.
“Too often, we see businesses behaving without regard for the safety of their customers. It’s another reason Subway is a standout. I’m so proud of Subway for doing the right thing and working to keep their customers safe from the dangers of unnecessary guns in their restaurants,” said Alyssa Milano, the cofounder of #NoRA and board advisor of Newtown Action Alliance, in a news release.
Signs and rules stop wannabe murderers. It is known.
What if BLM protestors open-carry in a Subway?
What the fuck does open carry have to do with the Newtown shooting?
Who open carries in Subway? Has Subway had a mass shooting? Granted the last time I bought a sandwich in a subway they nearly did, but really…wtf?
Gun grabbers lie. It’s what they do. No matter what they say it is calculated to deceive. You can bet your last dollar on it.
Maybe they should ban pedophiles first.
The Wild Ride of America’s Most Dangerous Theme Park
Back when we weren’t soft pussies like these kids nowadays, afraid to go outside or smoke a ciggie or meet a sexually voracious woman by entering a discreet room located inside of a truck stop and sticking their dingle through a hole in the wall.
A hole like this?
This always makes me laugh
“I gotta go fill her dick hole, bro.”
LOL
Unhinged TDS.
Rob Reiner
@robreiner
You can free Stone, Flynn, fire prosecutors. It won’t help. You’re going down. You’re a Sociopath, a Criminal and a Moron. You’re gonna lose in a landslide then go to jail.
Where is Archie to slap some sense into this ignorant shitstain?
HABFoundation
@ABFalecbaldwin
I have no doubt that there are other crimes Roger Stone may have committed.
And might be tried for.
After November 3rd.
Check your tackle, we have a fishing expedition to continue.
Considering that everybody commits three felonies a day, Baldwin might be right.
Now when I see a big Hollywood guy screaming “kill the witch” I think he’s really just anxious about the photos on Ghislaine Maxwell’s hard drive.
If you can’t recognize that Flynn was railroaded and Stone was show trialed, then you’re beyond saving.
A slab of St. Louis cut ribs rubbed with Alton Brown’s recipe for tomorrow, and 2 strip steaks coated in salt (sweating like me church) that are headed to the grill in a couple hours.
And cold beer. Life is good.
I’ve been using a variation of that recipe for years. Isn’t that an oven braised thing? It’s my winter time rib recipe. It makes the whole house smell so nice. *Drool*
I love grabbing the bone, and it just pulls right out of the meat. You have to use a fork to eat it. White wine FTW. Also, the reduction is like crack.
My method (since the last thing I want to do in Ohio in July is run the oven) is to sear them, then plop them in the pressure cooker. Then I finish them on the grill
Do you sear them with reduction on them?
No, just olive oil
Try it sometime. It’s very rich, but I love it. 4 or 5 ribs and I’m done. Searing 3 hours of flavor onto the ribs is worth it.
Sup Tres! Beer is good,
Enjoy the Grilling, I’m eating Stouffers Lasagna,
Good stuff……………….
Hey YUFUS!
Subway’s action follows multiple requests made to its CEO, John Chidsey, by gun control advocates in the wake of armed anti-lockdown protesters visiting a North Carolina Subway shop in May.
Tyranny of the hysterical.
Fuck Subway. Hey, Subway, didn’t you employ a pedo for many years? Let’s have a conversation about that.
Their new commercials are so fcuking annoying I have to change the channel. Plus their sandwiches are crap.
I was described their sandwiches as “Distilled Disappointment”
I just describe their food as “you get what you pay for”.
But you don’t get what you pay for, they overcharge for what you do get.
I’m glad I saw this. I really needed a laugh.
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Letter dismissing ‘cancel culture’ concerns mocked for anonymous signers apparently ‘fearful of retaliation’
Journalists from The New York Times, NBC News, and NPR are among those who chose to remain unnamed
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https://www.foxnews.com/media/counter-letter-dismissing-cancel-culture-anonymous-signers-fearful-of-retaliation
Life continues to imitate the Babylon Bee…
Man, I miss Red Eye.
Letter dismissing ‘cancel culture’ concerns mocked for anonymous signers apparently ‘fearful of retaliation’
That made me dizzy.
There is no cannibalism in the Royal Navy!
And at least one signer of the original letter changed xer mind and signed the second letter. ?
Golf course in Australia has ponds with sharks in them
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njmmjVTwFzI
Now *that’s* what I call a water hazard.
How about an Elk hazard? on our Mountain course…..
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JZCP1Ha9wAwY2Zge9
There’s an Elk Mountain in Oklahoma, but I didn’t see any elk there. I at an elk burger at a Cabela’s near Dallas. It was good. I like bison, ostrich, and reindeer burgers too. They can be a tad hard to find though.
Game in Louisville. They are an exotic meat burger restaurant.
Thanks for the suggestion. I hope to get a road trip in this year.
There’s a safari hunter museum in Kansas. The hunter’s wife wrote a cook book called “I Cooked Adventure”.
https://safarimuseum.com/food-in-the-field-exhibition-i-cooked-adventure-recipe-book/
We had a place called Gamekeepers that closed a couple years back. They opened in 1976, and had a focus on wild game.
Do they have frickin’ laser beams tho’ ?
An electric eel is pretty close to a shark with a laser beam. And of course, there is this:
https://thecooleststuffever.com/shark-frickin-laser-pointer
It’s a laser pointer mounted on a toy shark.
Meet Mr. Bigglesworth, the world’s first living shark armed with a friggen’ laser.
Species of shark is Lemon Shark (Negaprion brevirostris).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v7k6-eEBrk
https://mobile.twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1281989015428833284
That can’t be real, can it?
Well, its seems he’s struggling. Shame.
“Adams Morgan businesses are struggling. The Covid-19 pandemic has hit everyone hard, but the food & beverage industry is having a worse time than most. Below are some ways you can help, but the situation is constantly changing, so please double-check with businesses to be sure the following information is still correct, and please send any corrections/additions/etc. to bbarrie@admodc.org“
I think it says more about the writer’s echo chamber (and possibly sexist) choice of friends that she knows no white men in a healthy relationship with black women. I’ve got one with my wife, as did both her sisters.
The writer just doesn’t get Firefly, arguably greatest single year TV series ever.
At. All.
I bet she isn’t the type of person who takes kindly to having the concept of a valid sample size pointed out to her. My sample size of close friends in those relationships is 2 – and bosh seem health to me.
I picked that up in a used DVD store a while ago. I should watch it some day.
Try watching the first episode today. If you aren’t hooked in the first 20 minutes, skip the rest. I’ve watched it 4 or 5 times.
I will consider it.
The episode titled “Serenity” was the intended pilot. Network dickery bumped it to the end of the season, which many feel was a major factor in “Firefly” failing to gain sufficient traction – “The Train Job”, which aired as the actual pilot, is a perfectly nice episode, but it wasn’t up to the task of starting the series.
Also, the central mystery in “Serenity” is completely fucking spoiled if it isn’t the first episode you see. Nice job, Fox.
Huh. My set begins with “Serenity (Parts 1 & 2)” so there’s that.
Spiffy. This is definitely a series to watch in “planned” order rather than “aired” order.
Am not grasping the business model here, but good for them: https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/local/san-diego-comedy-club-rebrands-shows-to-protests-and-comedians-to-protesters-to-stay-open/509-3a0eb1ad-bfd7-4e71-bdf4-e918aeef773a
A bunch of restaurants have gone out of business near me. Saw big furniture store having a going out of business sale today.
Every business should just have added “and restaurant” to its name.
Now that’s funny
Saw a description of “anti-racist” training which includes among those traits of “white culture” that needs to be eliminated is “individualism”.
Not good news for libertarians, or snowflakes either.
Always remember that you r are unique…just like everyone else.
But in all seriousness, I think this proves the marxist overtones of “muh anti-racism”. Divide and conquer and all that.
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99Ozav9wyFc
Ah, some of you guys might want to skip this one. It’s seriously awful.
Kendi makes Coates look sane.
NPR loves him.
Phew. Thats some weapons-grade marxist indoctrination, right there.
Like this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX0dDyP5HOc
Know your enemy.
primary source: http://www.seattle.gov/Documents/Departments/RSJI/GRE/whiteculturehandout.pdf
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White culture privileges a focus on individuals (not groups).Independence and autonomy are valued and rewarded. An individual is in control of their environment –“You get what you deserve.”
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[anguished Zoidberg groan]
I will get myself fired if this shit come to my place of employment.
You see, that’s your whiteness triggering your sense of entitlement.
It participates in the anti-racism workshop or else it gets the hose again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kd9bKjwRks
To be more specific, that’s his white fragility.
Behold the eldritch abomination that birthed white fragility: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjHg65JORi8
I commend her for her con artist skills but I still wouldn’t mind if she got hit by a bus.
I am dumber for watching that. I guess that just proves that I’m a complete racist. I also think she is a complete racist and is projecting her issues on everyone else.
Damn Right!
It’s already at mine. Not fired yet, but we did have a “Leadership Session” by this indivdual a little while ago. Fortunately, it was optional; hope I didn’t miss anything important. In other news, am in the process of wrapping up the task of completely eliminating offensive terms (such as “white” “black” and “master”) from our source code. Because software code can be racist too, don’t you know?
An individual bears responsibility for their actions and cannot blame others for them.
That’s their real objection as it creates a moral barrier to collective action, particularly those actions which involve killing and stealing.
Not according to this video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdFCRHhygHo
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“Most white Americans don’t realize our culture protects us from having to truly confront racial inequality, which gives us a major blind spot when it comes to understanding what the reality of systemic racism is for people of color or how complicit we may be in their oppression. We think of racism as something “bad people” engage in, instead of something we’re conditioned into from childhood. As a result, when indirect, unconscious, or less obvious forms of racism and discrimination are exposed for what they are, it challenges our beliefs about ourselves and our world, provoking our own blind spots when it comes to race. And more often than not…well, let’s just say we don’t handle it well.”
This video provides a crash course in how to identify and overcome white fragility in order to a) improve our racial literacy, b) become better allies, and c) amplify black and brown voices in the interest of achieving equality and justice for people of color.
Source material: Diangelo, Robin. “White Fragility,” The International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 2011.
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Not ever mentioned is if I can judge whites based on a supposed character defect definitely by their skin, why can’t I judge blacks on the same?
QUIET, YOU!
I get that a lot.
I no more understand her appeal to other humans than I do Joel Osteen’s. But I do recognize that Osteen is far better at that shtick than she is.
You are not an individual, you are an interchangeable and indistinguishable member of your group.
I’m beginning to understand the appeal of fluidity in gender, race, ethnicity, etc.
NPR goes off the deep end again.
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/11/889935936/opinion-what-lobsters-and-ants-can-teach-us-about-social-distancing
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A 2017 study of mandrills in Gabon found that they altered their grooming habits when they sensed — which is to say smelled — one of their group was infected. They didn’t shun or abandon that family member. But they adjusted their grooming to be safer.
So why do so many humans decline to keep a safe distance from others under the threat of an infection when lobsters, ants and mandrills are so vigilant? Why do some people adamantly refuse to wear a face mask or keep six feet away from people?
Lobsters, ants and mandrills don’t watch cable news. They can’t scour the Internet and social media sites for gobbets of misinformation to fool themselves into thinking this virus which has sickened and killed so many is somehow unreal or hyperbolized. Animals have a sniff test.
I’m told a lot of lobsters listen to and support their local public radio stations. And all those tote bags clutter the ocean floor.
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Every study of cell phone data I’ve seen (problematic though that might be) suggests they did so before any mandates or anything came down.
Also looking at this map from early days, sure doesn’t seem like there was much of a relationship between travel and which places got hit with the worst outbreaks:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/02/us/coronavirus-social-distancing.html
Ants have Cellphones?
/The More You Know………………
“the deep end ” that thing you performed was observed………………………….
So we should organize ourselves like the lobsters?
*chuckle*
Lobsters establish dominance hierarchies by pissing in each other’s faces, which isn’t too different from what people do if you ask me.
I touched my arm on something hot today. I trusted my senses and moved my arm. I didn’t wait for the media to tell me that I was touching something hot and to tell me to move my arm.
Saw a description of “anti-racist” training which includes among those traits of “white culture” that needs to be eliminated is “individualism”.
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Lobsters, ants and mandrills don’t watch cable news. They can’t scour the Internet and social media sites for gobbets of misinformation to fool themselves into thinking this virus which has sickened and killed so many is somehow unreal or hyperbolized.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
How dare those infidels reject the teachings of the True Faith?
The best place for breakfact in town (besides mikie’s place) just closed for good. Unemployment may be way up, but help was hard to find and the restrictrions were limiting what they could do.
Don’t know their financials – maybe the Vid Over Reaction pushed them over the edge or maybe they would have gone under anyway. But they’ve been in town for over 30 years. I’ll count them as a Chi Com flu fatality.
Scarytale
“I think I made a mistake. I thought this was a hoax, but it’s not.”
Those were the final words of a 30-year-old patient who died at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, this week after attending a so-called “COVID party,” according to the hospital’s chief medical officer.
Dr. Jane Appleby, chief medical officer for Methodist Hospital and Methodist Children’s Hospital, said in a recorded statement that the unidentified patient told nurses about the party, which she said is hosted by someone diagnosed with coronavirus.
“The thought is people get together to see if the virus is real and if anyone gets infected,” Appleby said.
Appleby said she shared the story not to scare people, but to make sure they understand that the virus can affect anyone.
——-
Appleby said her hospital is seeing more cases in people in their 20s and 30s.
She said while some can be treated and discharged, others become seriously ill.
Appleby warned that the virus “doesn’t discriminate” and encouraged the public to wear a mask and stay home as much as possible.
“I’m not trying to scare you, but if you don’t do exactly as i say, you’re gonna DIE.”
What else might have been wrong with that guy?
I got the stinkeye from the lady ahead me in line at the burrito place today. She was wearing a mask, but others weren’t and I was one of them.
Again I ask: if wearing masks prevents the spread, why do we bother with flu shots? A bandana is way cheaper.
You know the answer.
As much as I think the masks are theater, aren’t you kinda flirting with a strawman here. Is anyone saying masks alone will stop the virus? My understanding is they are one of many precautions we can take, washing hands, social distancing et cetera. Would you argue “If seat belts work, why have speed limits”
I don’t care if masks work, I’m not going to be told to wear one.
Agreed. And you can’t lose the argument from a liberty point of view, the “masks haven’t been proven to be 100 percent efective” bit reminds me of the silly “Ackshully, seatbelts are bad if you’re in this one extremely unlikely situation where being thrown through the windshield is the best option” that some anti-searbelt law people made. “My safety isn’t your business” should be enough of an argument.
That is not their argument though. Their argument is if you are not wearing a mask you are infecting everybody around you. With no proof you are spreading it. That does not matter because you might be. You can’t win that argument. I was on board with the mask thing at first but the more this goes on with no proof any random piece of cloth stops any sort of transmission of viruses I think now it is more about control than stopping spreading a virus. And the way most everybody does it, taking it off and then back on when close to somebody, it is probably more dangerous than just staying at least six feet away from others which is my preferred personal space anyways. And ya, I wear a mask when I have to at work.
Where are the studies showing wearing a bandana slows the spread? Where are the studies showing any correlation to homemade cloth mask wearing to anything?
What about the argument that masks are to prevent (!) you from passing the cooties to others?
Just the Facebook and Twitter den mothers.
Both flu and corona are spread the same way, right? Well, if masks work against corona, why have they not been recommended during flu season? It’d be a hell of a lot cheaper for everyone to mask up than vaccinate millions of people every year. A flu shot costs about $50. A bandana costs about $1.
As for the seat belt analogy, there’s pretty solid evidence that they reduce deaths and injuries. There’s also plenty of evidence that high speed accidents are more dangerous than low-speed ones.
The maskanistas would bother me a lot less if not for the fact that they also support this insane open-ended lockdown.
Sure if you want a cheap Chinese snotrag. A quality bandana costs $2.49
Hey, I resemble that! “Snotrag” was actually my nickname in grammar school (bad allergies…)
Some. That 30,000 person protest in Philadelphia was deemed “okay” because everyone was wearing masks. They were packed like sardines.
Last time they pulled out an under 40 almost died COVID scare story, it was a land whale that looked like she ate cake for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack time.
If you are under 60 with no comorbidities, the chances of getting serious Kung Flu are astronomical.
But not unheard of, which is what the fearmongers count on.
A Youtuber I follow, Bald and Bankrupt, travels all over the place and constantly meets new people, and after several years of doing this, finally managed to get COVID:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ABy_sSKzwE
As others have pointed out, though, the link I’ve given above is not to his actual channel (where I saw this video yesterday), but to a different channel. He has apparently deleted this video from his channel, and some people are calling him out as a faker. Dunno.
A guy at work (29, fit, no co-minorities) spent 10 days on a ventilator. But, a friend from high school died of the flu at 26. She wasn’t fat etc. Sometimes i bad things happen. I hate the rhetoric around this. It seems like the left wants to blame the sick because they didn’t cower at home. This site wants to blame them for being fat or out of shape. It’s gross on both sides.
I’m not blaming anyone other than the media for misportraying the risks involved.
There are no guarantees in life, but there are Bell curves.
We’ve got an issue with understanding risk tolerance that I think the media exacerbates for its own utility. This obviously _can_ be a serious illness to many people. I don’t think we should have been dismissing it to any extent. But just doing things without any evidence they’ll help, and then screaming at people for complaining about it…
But a lot of things have happened that need to be evaluated independently of the virus. Because if every governor in the country can pass whatever laws they want via executive order during an “emergency” (determined entirely by the governor), that’s not good. If a huge swath of the country views their fellow humans as little more than potential disease vectors, that’s really not good. Giving up on “first principles” because it’s “no big deal” and the “virus is serious,” the consequences stay with us long after the virus is gone.
Race traitor
That Unanue would compliment Trump angered many people, especially because the President is unpopular among Hispanic Americans.
Unpopular with “authentic” Hispanic Americans, anyway.
That guy probably doesn’t even have a low rider.
But not with White Hispanics, amirite?
Tío Tomás.
Silicone Saturday is narcissistic and proud.
http://archive.li/6zhMq
Not bad.
Let’s ask a real Hispanics what he thinks.
Goya, based in Secaucus, New Jersey, is the nation’s largest Hispanic owned company. It’s well known for the slogan, “If It’s Goya. It Has To Be Good.” The company site said it offers 2,500 food products from the Caribbean, Mexico, Spain, Central and South America.
“Goya became the predominant brand in all supermarkets, primarily for Latinos,” said John Stanton, a professor of food marketing at St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.
“They had a certain level of authenticity and before you knew it, they had a lot of crossover. A lot of Anglos wanted to make halfway decent Hispanic food and saw this as the choice, the product to buy.”
But Trump has repeatedly come under fire for attacking immigrants from Mexico and Central America as criminals and what critics have called his indifference to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria in 2017.
“It’s hard to believe that someone who’s primary market is going to be exactly the community that Trump has been abusing, that that company would ingratiate themselves to him,” Stanton said.
“The question is what won out? Unanue’s financial strength or his Hispanic background. It looks like to me it was his financial background. He’s an entrepreneur and a businessman and, in my opinion, a very good businessman. But he looks like he sold out.”
He sold his soul for a few pieces of silver. When I need nuanced insight, the first person I ask is a marketing professor.
Wife and I buy a lot of their products. I love their black bean soup. And we’re both deplorables (my apologies if anyone else has to run off to a safe space with puppies and coloring books because of that).
I’m super jealous of the wide variety of Goya products available all over the U.S. We can only get a tiny selection here, and they’re mostly overpriced.
FARG!
Marketing=/= Ethics
Is that the mathematical formula depicting the interaction of anti-matter and matter?
It seems he did exactly the opposite.
CWAA
Not explained: why it is in Unanoe’s financial interest to support Trump.
My thoughts as well.
Trump Hispanic Business initiative, i.e. Free shit
“you sociopaths, autists, and people that are otherwise an asshole in some way”
That’s a kindness.
That LJ post is from 2007, so I don’t know if it was inspired by the 4chan copypasta, inspired the 4chan copypasta, or the result of parallel retards.
A 1.5/5? Has MS rated a beer that low? And what the fuck show you talking about? That sound was all of that going right over my head.
It really isn’t very good.
Except for The Perfect Disguise (a Double IPA with some interesting Kolsch-like qualities), I’ve been pretty disappointed in what’s been coming out of Dogfish Head lately.
Yes. Earthquake.
https://thepostmillennial.com/cdc-says-covid-19-on-the-cusp-of-non-epidemic-status
?
Expect the rhetoric to double.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/must-read-body-cam-transcript-tells-different-story-death-george-floyd/
That’s problematic.
Hey, @kinnath, about that bow. My email is moriah at moriahjovan dot com. I would like it to go to a nice home.