!Miercoles! I decided to go for a run last night, and lets just say three miles used to be easier on my knees. I’m not here to complain, at least not here. Now for the links!
I would like all the religious types to pray for Jair Bolsonaro. Why? 
Not just because of the field day the media is having that his failure to panic over the virus for months lead to some sort of poetic justice. Not because in order to announce his testing positive he made the baller move of removing his mask. No.
I want him to beat this and then tell everyone they are being a bitch for being afraid of it.
The remains of 43 students identified in Mexico. This is actually pretty sad.
British judge denies Maduro access to Venezuelan gold holdings in the UK. The reason? The British government recognizes Guaidó.
Bolivian health minister has the COVID.
AMLO to visit the US in a mostly symbolic celebration of the new trade deal. Otherwise this entire article is speculating why he would do such a thing.
Yeah, i’m going to give you this one for tunes.
Poor Maduro, he can’t have anything nice…………….
Well, look at what he’s done with Venezuela! He could have turned the Chavez mistakes around, but noooo….
Says the Racist Yankee Imperialist!
Bow before your God-Emperor!
First?
Judging by the company that Yu keep, I’d like to hang out with you and your circle of friends (barring the crippling social anxiety).
I left my credit card at the Bar, again, Duuuuuh
Yesterday was a Blur……
I’d love to have some Glibs visitors
America don’t like me. I haven’t visited since 1996.
!Miercoles!
Sounds like what you’d say when you hit your thumb with the hammer.
Indeed. I think it is a replacement for mierda.
‘mierdoles’ has to be a word, right? ‘shitballs’ unless I’m mistaken.
Surrender Dorothy
Free Press, a media activist group and one of the organizers of the #StopHateForProfit campaign to halt ad spending on the social network, said Facebook still has not taken the boycott’s calls to action seriously.
“Instead of committing to a timeline to root out hate and disinformation on Facebook, the company’s leaders delivered the same old talking points to try to placate us without meeting our demands,” said Free Press Co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez. “Facebook approached our meeting today like it was nothing more than a PR exercise.”
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The campaign had called on participating brands to ask for 10 changes that touch on seemingly every aspect of how Facebook operates, from the ads it allows to run on the platform to the makeup of its leadership team and its content moderation policies.
The list includes demanding that Facebook hire a C-Suite executive with “deep” civil rights experience to assess products and policies for discrimination, bias and hate. The organizers are also calling for Facebook to pledge to do regular, independent audits of hate and misinformation; remove public and private groups focused on hate or violent conspiracies and stop the recommendation and reach of such groups; and give all moderators anti-bias and hate-related training in the next 90 days.
The group also wants Facebook to ban political ads with blatant lies, which the company has faced criticism for allowing in the past. Facebook has previously defended the policy, saying it does not want to censor political speech.
He should hire Farrakhan.
Start your own goddam “social network”, you grifters. Why do they insist on making me like/defend Zuckerberg?
And there it is. We were all expecting camps when really it’s “training”.
Training….camps.
Who is going to teach these anti-bias and hate-related classes?
They are – for a modest fee.
City of Seattle paid 2500 dollars an hour for their diversity training.
Leftism in 2020 is just a grift. It’s all about funneling tax dollars to their useless asses.
Shoulda stayed in school. Knowing myself, I would have been first in line for these nonsense degrees and positions. Chicks and beers! Who-hoo!
Every “ism” is a grift. That’s the point of isms. It’s just a question of who pays and who receives.
Zuck already partially caved but he should have known it wouldn’t do him any good. He’ll fold the rest of the way (except for the absolutely outlandish stuff that’s flat out unworkable) within a week. As a good cyborg, he was programmed to give in when the humans apply pressure.
Rules for Robots. Fuck Zuck.
Free Press Co-CEO Jessica Gonzalez
How very Orwellian.
All chiefs, no indians.
Indeed. An organization called “Free Press” that’s entire goal seems to be censorship is on the same level as the Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Love.
I dunno, I could go along with less ad spending. Or just better ad spending. YouTube has been incredibly effective lately at introducing me to things I actually want.
-Grip6 belt, highly recommended
-contour guides, shoulda bought the brand name
-silly vacuum attachment for parts-trays’n’shit
The other billions in ad spending on politicians and other shit I’d never buy, meh.
Whattabout senior singles in your area? Ever thought about that, Smart Guy? Seriously keeps popping up in my feeds. If I really wanted to ply those waters it wouldn’t take a fucking Facebook ad to nudge me over the line. It’s insulting.
With titty plunging like that I’m sure you just gotta open a window.
Demands? Fuck off.
I concur.
“The remains of 43 students identified in Mexico. This is actually pretty sad.”
Sorry. I’m not clicking that. Nothing good could come of it.
Students were captured by police and handed over to the gangs. Totally not a shithole country.
I loved that record when I was 14. Reminds me of furtive groping on the dance floor in a darkened gymnasium.
When I first saw this I got a little verklempt.
@metoo
Although that song got over played on the radio. I always thought Man in the Wilderness was the best song on the album.
It’s the only album of theirs that I really dug. Just happenstance. I heard it at a specific time and place.
White privilege? If you had been black and making furtive motions toward your dance partner’s waistband, the school cop would have plugged you.
!Miercoles! I decided to go for a run last night, and lets just say three miles used to be easier on my knees.
I hear you, I have started up again after 4 months of no lifting. Martial law lockdown and recovery from surgery… this is really danged hard!
How’s the neck?
I can’t believe how light I’m lifting. I’m trying to ignore my logs from 6 months ago, but it’s challenging.
Ha! I just started back doing pull-ups today. Five sets of one rep each. At least the pain is gone. Six weeks ago I was doing five sets of nine reps every day – just about to jump to five sets of ten reps. I haven’t even been to my gym since February. This is going to be a tough re-start at my age.
I hear ya.
This is going to be a tough non-start at my age.
5 days I get my rehab assignment. I feel like an NHL player… “He has upper body injury – week to week.” I started back on legs and core…this is going to be a bit of a road back. Being 54 is not a help.
When I was 56 I torn a hamstring which somehow got infected leading to a surgery and month in the hospital. Two weeks of re-hab after that I could finally straighten my right leg completely.
Two years later I ran my post-50 personal best 2 mile on an Army PFT. So I know how to get back, but it doesn’t get easier as I get older.
You looked younger in person.
I mean, I got through it. It was mostly the dry air and the heat radiating off the concrete.
I know you are, but what am I?
Belcher, the Democratic pollster, says Trump built a political career on racial resentment and the politics of grievance, which he’s using again now to appeal to his base.
Trump “basically is saying that America is coming apart and you should be afraid of other Americans coming to get you,” Belcher said. “Nevermind the fact that he’s already president, so he’s supposed to be already in charge of that. Juxtapose that election kickoff to Ronald Reagan’s morning in America.”
It is most definitely not morning in America, says Belcher, and “it doesn’t match up with the mood of the electorate at all.”
The Democrats, party of hate and fear, accuse President Cartoon Villain of sowing discord and resentment among the electorate.
“He’s trying to play people off against each other. That’s our gig!”
Trump “basically is saying that America is coming apart and you should be afraid of other Americans coming to get you,”
*looks at NYC video
well, he’s not wrong.
At least bystanders stood up to it. That’s an encouraging sign.
Nevermind the fact that he’s already president, so he’s supposed to be already in charge of that.
I’m guessing NPR didn’t point out that the places where these things are happening have all been run by Democrats for half a century.
I wonder what those “activists” would say if Facebook yanked their ads claiming Trump is the worst American President since Hitler.
Well that doesn’t qualify as hate speech, because reasons.
JFC what a shitshow.
WTF?
“The bus companies and the authorities mostly tolerated it.”
Obvious Marxist bullshit is obvious.
I’m guessing they “mostly tolerate” it because “rule of law” is an entirely foreign concept there.
I’m sure the bus companies tolerate it just like Americans tolerate looting.
Also note they were “borrowing” the busses to go to some Lefty protest march.
None of that remotely means that they deserved to die, but imagine NYT’s tone if they had been on the way to a right wing march.
“Mexican police bravely defend Mexico’s democracy by fighting militant Nazi ‘students’!”
Yeah the story really seems to be
“Gang of commie students hijack buses, police track them down, arrest them, and then murder them.”
When we were kids the school district used to charter a bus for the debauched grad parties so that we didn’t kill ourselves trying to drive home from the lake. Hmm. Nope. Makes too much sense. Let’s try “Dry-Grad” instead. The kids went to the one party and promptly left to attend the wet one. Kids died, dry grad lied…
More from Natsoc Propaganda Radio:
The question is whether through presidential rhetoric, ad spending and messaging from the press secretary, Team Trump can build a broad based fear where it doesn’t currently exist.
“The problem with the Trump campaign is they want to create a situation where there’s no nuance,” said Matthews. “But everyone sees the nuance. There’s a few people who are vandalizing. There’s a few people who are taking it too far. But overwhelmingly suburban women are on the side of black lives matter and this movement.”
All that stuff about “President Cartoon Villain’s racism and criminality is literally killing Americans by the millions!” and “Capitalism has destroyed the American dream!” are examples of nuanced, sophisticated political discourse.
Got it.
They’re preaching to an echo chamber choir even more than Fox at this point. The only thing that pisses me off is that it’s partially taxpayer funded.
I guess we’ll find out in November whether your attempts to distort what the group is actually all about will fool “suburban women”.
“There’s a few people who are vandalizing”
When it comes right down to it, there were only a few people in the Nazi party doing the murdering. It’s all about nuance.
“Some people did some things…”
They also left out the nuance that there’s a “few” people who are stealing, murdering and assaulting at the “protests”.
I’m pretty sure the overt Democrat support for the rioting, looting, and burning is what has built a broad based fear.
What makes them ‘overwhelmingly suburban’? Yoga pants?
*in need of a good whelming*
Yet distinguishing the sentiment that black lives mater from the organization, Black Lives Matter, somehow is a nuance that the media is incapable of understanding.
The scum who run the universities aren’t even waiting until the students get there to starts enforcing conformity of thought.
Marquette University threatened to rescind student’s admission over pro-Trump TikTok video
Transfer to Hillsdale right now.
“these transphobic, racist, and xenophobic comments should not be tolerated”
I agree. She should pound sand and get a non-shitty education; leave that for the “tolerance” crew.
Comparing these admins and bureaucrats to the Trojan Horse couldn’t be anymore accurate. Remember, the purpose of the Trojan Horse was not to smuggle in the army; it was to smuggle in a few commandos to kill the guards are open the city for the army. It’s a subtle distinction. All this shit starts with just a few “diversity coordinators” and the like, then they go about killing off the protections for free speech and let in the army to run rampant.
and open the gates*
It’s like Iowahawk described. The Left killed and skinned the institution. Now they are wearing the dead skin mask and demanding respect.
It’s a hard thing to accept. My dad went to Yale – graduated with an Econ Degree same year as Art Laffer and finished ahead of him. We grew up revering the universities, particularly the Ivies. They are just an empty shell now. STEM majors can still do the appropriate calculations, but they are no longer well-educated, open-minded thinkers. They are the product of deep indoctrination and are dangerous.
If they’re going to start screening applicants based on political views, they should immediately lose any and all federal loan guarantees.
Lets just pull all federal funds from universities regardless.
Funding it’s own enemies is not a function of government.
Dude. Do you even CIA?
The Culinary Institute of America doesn’t need Federal Funds either.
– a gazillion dollars in foreign aid to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, of course.
I see any federal involvement with state universities as illgitimate and outside the powers in the constitution. But I guess that ship has sailed and is not likely to return.
Wrong-think will not be tolerated, comrade.
In seriousness though, this is entirely fucked up. It is kinda concerning that their masks are this far off. They (leftists) are very emboldened these days.
As a private university, Marquette should be allowed to choose who it allows into its school based on any criteria it chooses. Libertarian out front should have told you.
Sad in a way, but true. But if they do receive federal monies, that should be up for review.
Good morning, Señor Sharpshooter!
Thanks for the southern lynx. I love Mexico, but that story about the missing kids is brutal!
Sorry about the knees. As an old guy, my only advice to to never, under any circumstances, stop. You may never start again!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go hobble around the lake.
My contribution to your ’70s flashback.
I hope all of You People have a fantastic day!
They were a pretty solid band. Shame what the 80’s did to them.
It wasn’t the song I wanted but I didn’t think a Styx rabbit hole on youtube would be appropriate.
I like this version.
Pieces of Eight.
Good album. Wore that eight track (remember those?) out.
Two big juicy cheers for Ass Wednesday!
http://archive.li/NSI41
I think pi hole is sinking archive.li
How did you end up on the .li site?
It keeps asking me for a captcha.
Try the one below.
Still getting captcha.
He has a Liechtensteinian fetish.
It randomly assigns a parent domain when you archive the site. What browser are you using?
It’s not the browser. As I said I’m running my home DNS through pi hole, archive.li is on one of the blocklists and gets a 0.0.0.0 IP. I’m not trying to do a technical troubleshoot, as I can whitelist it.
Thing is, you’ve only gotten .li for the past few days, so it doesn’t seem random.
Just change the domain:
http://archive.is/NSI41
Should still work.
Some music for that.
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1280839471542546433
Gotta tell you, don’t skip this. NSFW (It is McAfee after all)
We NEED Mcaffee on the Saturday Zoom Chat.
Drop a message to him hinting to check out the Friday Afternoon Links post and he’ll find his way.
#4. Some mighty tiny booties for Ass Wednesday. Not their best work.
“Mary Kay Letourneau dies at 58 after battle with cancer while being cared for by her former husband who she was convicted of raping when he was 12 and she was his 34-year-old teacher”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8500619/Mary-Kay-Letourneau-died-age-58.html
That’s some headline.
They just couldn’t let her die in peace and dignity. They ended up together. Move on assholes. Sheesh.
Let her die in peace and dignity? She diddled a 14yo and when she got off light for it, did it as soon as she was out on parole. Then, after she was done and he wasn’t a minor anymore, she got the life she wanted. Meanwhile, the husband’s off in Alaska (presumably with their kids) putting himself back together again.
She deserved what she got.
She violated a taboo and went to prison for it, but it is pretty apparent that it is a case where the perception created by the taboo did not match the reality of the relationship since after 7 years of her in jail and him growing up he married her.
So 80s.
I’ve seen pictures that were more 80’s.
I just don’t have them at hand to share.
*imagines Mojeaux with a Magic The Gathering style deck of 80s pictures optimized for particular responses*
Magic The Gathering
So 90s.
Now Bloomberg is running some ad from the CDC (I think) featuring a woman going to the grocery store and engaging in nonstop weird obsessive-compulsive behavior; washing her hands ten times, and meticulously wiping down the shopping cart with a cootie killing wipe.
A year ago, it would have been an ad for some sort of anti-psychotic drug. Now it’s just what good Americans do.
I’m still curious to see what happens when normal flu/cold season hits again. This can’t be good for immune systems.
Following leftard advice leading to death will be Trump’s fault.
Oh it will be wonderful…
News outlets stammering about the rapid rate of flu transmissions, with some saying we don’t know what effect the flu will have on those who are in recovery from covid 19, or worse, those that currently have the coof. The holiest of holy institutions, the CDC, will use their contact police to force all people stay inside and wear a mask. If you don’t wear a mask, they will watch you breathe through your camera-phone. making sure you are properly bending at the waist, as deep as possible, and fully expanding your diaphragm to consume every bit of your recent fart. For you must recycle your putrid air. ‘Tis the only way to progress.
My thinking is that this madness goes away in November, whatever the outcome. Even if Trump wins, the dems will have to shift gears to destroying whatever their perceived threat is for 2024.
However, IF Trump unleashes the DOJ on the Obama/Clinton deep state in his 2nd term, who knows what they’ll do.
I don’t know where this is going but I don’t like the destination.
Interesting that by this time of the year the seasonal flu has typically killed tens of thousands of people, but the official count this year for seasonal flu is somewhere between 6,000 to 7,000. Wonder where all those seasonal flu deaths went.
Didn’t the flu disappear when Commie-Cough appeared?
Magically
Good Americans take anti-psychotic drugs.
Only good Americans with wrongthink. You must be “cured”.
Nah. Good Americans drink heavily.
Adrian Monk was ahead of his time.
Have a misleading headline from the NY Post:
SUV driver runs over bicycles, through NYC Black Lives Matter protest
Why weren’t the protesters arrested for obstructing a public way?
Yeah, I was looking for any mention of cops blocking the road. Didn’t see it.
So you get surrounded by these yahoos, they slash your tires….lie back and think of DeBlasio? Screw that, I’m hitting the gas too.
Yep. I can live with the ambling down the thoroughfare but as soon as shit gets real I’m treating them like pylons in a driving test. Try to avoid but budda budda budda.
“Since-deleted video of the incident posted on social media shows at least three protesters step in front of the vehicle near one of the intersection’s crosswalks as others to the side of the vehicle threaten to pop the car’s tires.”
Why was it deleted?
Popping the tires implies they have sharp and pointy objects they can, you know, stab you with. Nailing the gas is the smart move.
Because they were afraid it wouldn’t support the Narrative, but damned if the Post isn’t gonna try to carry it across the line anyway.
Well, I see no reason to ever go to a metropolitan city center ever again. And if work requests that I go, I’m demanding hazard pay.
Hazard pay and some shoe polish.
heh
Related.
“News” media…
“Kanye West sets out his 2020 election platform: Rapper reveals he no longer supports Trump, will run for the ‘Birthday Party’ using the ‘Wakanda management model’ – and claims vaccines are ‘the mark of the beast'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8501091/Kanye-West-breaks-ranks-Trump-vows-win-U-S-presidential-race-Forbes.html
Well, that sounds perfectly normal.
Are we being trolled, or did he go off the deep end?
¿Porque no los dos?
¿Porque no los dos?
¿Porque no los dos?
Pork no lost DOS
Parque de Los Dos
perky nipples, dos
Probably bipolar so mostly lucid with periods of extreme emotional and cognitive lability so off the deep end might be a good bet.
$
Was he ever not in the deep end?
Kanye’s nuts but what’ll be telling is whether or not he actually attacks Trump rather than simply disavowing him. I’d say his campaign is completely contrived for coverage because of the Wakanda thing but who knows because crazy.
2020 just keeps getting more… interesting.
Why only a nomination debate? Throwing Biden in can only make things better.
Because presidential nominees are like Highlanders.
Didn’t stop the Whigs in 1836
We don’t mention Highlander 2.
There can be only one.
Endorsed.
I would clear my calendar for that.
So you are against the Birthday Party?
Birthday parties have cake.
They all want cake.
Why do you hate America?
Because I keep getting heart-wrenching emails from my grad students over the latest USCIS fuckery.
Serves you right for being so proficient in distance instruction, you booky-learntards!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That’s basically true.
“If students don’t comply with public health guidelines and infections spike”
IF? We are already planning based on the assumption that students are not going to comply. Whether it causes a spike in infections remains to be seen. I personally am advocating throwing them all together in a big stadium NOW and getting it over with.
“When foreigners attend our great colleges & want to stay in the U.S., they should not be thrown out of our country.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/633695559900073984
What great colleges?
Of course the point is that if all classes are remote, they have no need to be in the country, since they are not physically attending.
Isn’t it a long-standing USCIS policy that foreign students cannot get a visa to come to the US if all their classes are online? It was suspended temporarily for a few months. Now it’s back to normal. Blame the universities not the Trump administration. Elderly cashiers keep working in grocery stores. Elderly professors could keep giving lectures, too–perhaps behind the plexiglas or whatever. Unfortunate foreign students should blame their panicked professors and university administrators, who think they are all entitled to the luxury of cowering at home forever while cashing their paychecks.
As long as I can get a few tabs of acid to drop before watching.
This seems like the best idea yet.
I laughed and read this to Mr. Mojeaux. He just gave me the “This Is Very Serious Business” look.
Well, okay, then.
At least there are some adults around here.
That is almost Bee worthy
This should be a fun election season.
He is bipolar and there is a follow-up story about him having an episode. The music is still so good, though. Even Jesus is King has some amazing moments.
Bonus link from the Post. Today’s list of Karen Korner features starts with this one:
Woman fired after yelling ‘white lives are better’ at Black Lives Matter rally
I don’t even read these. I just marvel at what passes for front-page “news” these days.
Lol.
BLM is provoking an unhealthy reaction from people. That’s how Marxists roll. Of course, the media will interpret this as ‘See? White people ARE racist!’ when in fact any group would lash out if they feel a perceived threat.
It’s human nature.
I’m already a racist so may as well defend myself, no?
I have to admit, Rufus, the ‘yeah, but look at how she was dressed’ defense is a bold move in this situation.
Wait…if you are a gay homosexual….are you now straight?!
No, you are just happy and in a good mood.
Setting: interior. Manor house library, Edwardian England
“I don’t understand how the two of you became friends. He’s so queer, and you’re so gay.”
I too am confused
My favorite thing is that she said “piece of crap” instead of “piece of shit”
Obviously, she was raised right.
Heh.
It’s gonna flush out all the crack pots.
2020: Year of the mob, sheep and….
Here’s what I don’t understand. If I’m walking down the street and a chained dog starts barking and growling at me, I don’t stop and have an argument with the dog. I just continue on my way. Why is that so hard for some people to grasp?
I’m obviously doing it wrong.
Because of Social Media would be my guess. People are translating their online behavior to the meat space and this is the result. Can’t let a post go by without engaging, can’t just whistle on by without engaging.
*lets comment go by without engaging*
Not to advocate yelling back at idiots, but after the past 4 months I am a seething ball of rage and I can understand snapping and lashing out at people yelling evil nonsense.
“Wearing a mask is not about fear, and it certainly should not reflect one’s politics,” Hodge wrote in the letter. “Wearing a mask is about respecting others and preventing the spread of a deadly disease. This should no longer be up for debate.”
The science is settle. A president of a retail association has said so because 97% consensus. How is it NOT about fear fool?
Eat a bag-a-dicks Dodge.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/07/07/mask-mandates-retailers-ask-governors-require-masks-immediately/5391045002/
We bought new masks for the whole family. Really. These people want masks, we’ll wear fucking masks.
Malicious compliance is the best kind of compliance.
Da heck happened to those students?
They apparently were what passes for activists in rural Mexico, their college had a history of resisting the drug cartels. The Federales, in the cartel’s pocket, decided to get rid of them.
And Mexico is not a failed narco-state because….?
Because then everyone would have to admit the war on drugs is wrong?
Did you try clicking the link?
clicking… links?
Does Not Compute.
I’m probably the only Glibs who clicks through all the links. I think the fact I copy/paste quotes from them on a consistent basis proves that.
I sped-read the article and didn’t get the gist is all.
Since we don’t have a Sloopy Inca to give us baseball birthdays, I checked it out. The best for today is Terry Puhl.
Ugh. We wouldn’t have gotten any from Sloopy either.
Satchel Paige was yesterday.
I’ve never bothered to find out, how certain are we about ol’ Satch’s birthday? I know that he always used to lie about the year but I have no idea if the rest of it is reliable.
And was covered in yesterday’s links.
“these transphobic, racist, and xenophobic comments should not be tolerated”
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE
Man, that’s a fugly gun.
It’s a good fugly.
Yeah, the normal Scorpion looks pretty badass. The bullpen looks like a prop from one of the Alien movies.
“bullpup”
The front grip is wrong.
I can immediately tell someone who doesn’t shoot much, when they start talking about how awesome bullpups are.
The SA80 went bang every time I pulled the trigger (including auto which I ended up pushing for), better sling, and better ergonomics for patrolling (I don’t think we switched over to the M4 yet). I would have bought a civie version of that POS.
They seem sub-optimal for any match that requires reloading.
Never was a bullpup fan. I dont see the point. If you want a short gun, get a pistol. Having a short rifle in pistol caliber seems….pointless. If you are going to carry a rifle, then carry a rifle in rifle caliber.
I don’t like the look of bullpups either but they have a place: in a backpack.
Lever rifles in pistol calibers are great though.
For some years now I’ve been toying with the idea of buying an old Winchester 100 to see if I could convert it to a hunting bullpup with a decent black walnut stock, mostly just to see if I can make it work. I probably would have done it by now if I could figure out how to set up the forward trigger with a decent, clean pull.
Ian McColum has a demo about how carbines > pistols
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSOUmHito4M
Yeah, pretty much any shoulder weapon beats a pistol. Unless you need to conceal it, which isn’t exactly a rare use case.
No real value in a 9mm carbine holding a 32-round magazine loaded with hollow points. It will have even less value when I get a suppressor for it.
Funny thing is, a lot of subsonic short rifle cartridges don’t really perform all that much better than a heavy 9mm JHP. Looking in your direction, 300 Blackout…
I still have a suppressed 11.5″ 5.56mm carbine, because fuck you, that’s why.
Da heck Australia? Exaggerate much for 147 cases? Anyone else want to punch Russo in the face?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azu_fc3MO0U
Scary as this is, I expect new rounds of lockdowns here. They’re married to this strategy. It was never about flattening the curves.
It’s depressing beyond belief how we let this happen.
“They’re married to this strategy. It was never about flattening the curves.”
This. I think it’s obvious why the government loves it, even though it is completely unuseful.
Anyone who couldn’t see this from the beginning is a hopeless sheep.
I think these people were happy Winston was finally broken and accepted his fate.
The death curve keeps trailing off even as cases have risen. Inconvenient facts will not change the narrative.
“We learned it from YOU, China!”
Holy fuck, they’ve lost their minds. Even NYC never imposed anything like this.
Looking at the commonwealth, makes you glad that we dropped the political ties with mother England outright.
Canada had less been less draconian than several U.S. states. I look in horror at NY/NJ/MI/MINN.
We’ve been a hybrid of the Commonwealth and USA.
/Sign of the cross. Knocks on wood. Crosses fingers.
But we haven’t been any different despite high praise from the WHO. We still adhere to specious science like masks and lockdowns.
“Even NYC never imposed anything like this.”
Except at nursing homes.
It’s even more depressing that I have no idea what the play is from here and that I also strongly suspect that we’re past the point where we needed to run that play anyway.
Loss aversion is a hell of a cognitive bias.
You’re not wrong at all HM. I’m strangely optimistic that I’m going to figure it out soon though.
does that account for non ergodicity ?
The brain has enough trouble with ergodic stochasticity already.
how exactly does one measure cognitive bias?
to suit oneself !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It depends on the particular bias. The bias could be one of memory, one of motivation, one of judgment of the best option, etc., but the standing-on-one-leg answer is that you develop a test in which there is a situation a perfectly rational being would have no problem in answering correctly, and then measure in what ways real humans err.
An example is the Stroop test. There is no rational reason we should have a difference in processing speed between naming the color of a word that is a different color name, but we do. With brain imaging, we can measure “event-related potentials” (ERPs) and determine the differences.
Now the previous example is pretty “hard”, but we can measure “softer” examples empirically too. Behavioral economists and marketing researchers do this all the time with pricing biases.
Behavioral economics is a load of horseshit.
Like Implicit Bias!
There is no rational reason we should have a difference in processing speed between naming the color of a word that is a different color name, but we do.
Sure there is. You are a literate person and have trained your brain to recognize written words as a category of thing qualitatively different from their shape and color. When you see the word RED, even if it is colored green, and someone is asking you to say the color, your brain is programmed to ‘read’ it not to look at the font, and moving the font color to the forefront of your attention over the word takes a conscious effort.
The problem with
extrapolating from studies of this sort of effect to other ‘biases’soft sciences is the impossibility of isolating variables and creating control groups.takes a conscious effort
FWIW: Everything takes conscious effort for me; I process very few things automatically as left-brain or right-. “Red” written in a green font would stun me for several seconds, and I’d need to check and re-check to satisfy myself that I had read and processed it correctly.
I also read very slowly in B&W: pictures and timelines and risk and dollars swim in my head as I try to make sure I understand. Other than pleasantries and logistics, I might read something three times as I process a paragraph into my notions of it.
/ ambidextrous, agnostic, libertarian klutz
I’m still curious to see what happens when normal flu/cold season hits again. This can’t be good for immune systems.
Needz moar dirt-eating.
Well, here’s what will happen. As people start dying from things related to stress, lack of exercise, etc, caused by these lockdowns, the head lines will read ‘something, something, because of the pandemic’.
I hate the media, it’s official.
I think the death rate has actually fallen below pandemic levels at this point, and is barely even at epidemic levels.
Too late.
“The stars of the ’80s hit are speaking out in defense of their show and its iconic car the General Lee, which famously had a Confederate flag emblazoned on its roof, as Black Lives Matter activists call for Confederate flags and statues to be removed nationwide.
“I have never had an African-American come up to me and have any problem with it whatsoever,” John Schneider, who played Bo Duke on the CBS series, tells The Hollywood Reporter. “The whole politically correct generation has gotten way out of hand.”
Schneider’s co-star Tom Wopat, who played Bo’s cousin Luke Duke, acknowledges that “the situation in the country has obviously changed in the last 40 years,” adding that “I feel fortunate to be living in a time when we can address some of the injustices of the past.” But he stresses that “the car is innocent.”
“’Dukes of Hazzard’ was a unifying force,” Schneider adds. “Mom, grandma, everyone wanted to watch it together. But who benefits from division?… ‘The Dukes of Hazzard’ has been shot down, I believe unfairly.””
https://nypost.com/2020/07/08/dukes-of-hazzard-stars-defend-innocent-series-amid-confederate-flag-controversy/
I thought they took it off the air four years ago.
Also, this shit happens every four years.
I can never forgive them for advocating ethanol as a vehicle fuel.
Every four years we have to remember who the racists are and who wants to put you back in chains.
I remember watching 50 Cent on MTV or some shit riding around in The General Lee back when the Dukes of Hazzard movie came out and having a hell of a time and not being the least bit offended. This is a bunch of hyped up bullshit that only an EXTREMELY vocal few find that objectionable.
Yup – and wasn’t there are Asian parody with a different “General Lee”?
Genera Ree?
A Mitsubishi Gallant?
Faake – those doors probably open.
Worse than I remember it.
The Gooks of Hazard
That’s. Awesome.
I should probably feel bad for laughing at that.
But I don’t.
Looks like everyone is in on the joke.
Did you ever watch Thank You For Smoking? There was a bit in it about censoring old films by digitally altering cigarettes into wholesome things. How long until the General Lee is bright orange with a BLM flag on top?
“Orange”
Do you even Never Trump dude?
Robert Redford sez vote for Biden.
That’s all I need to know.
Isn’t he dead?
I wonder who Burgess Meredith is going to endorse.
Screw Mickey. I want to know who Lou Reed is voting for.
No. Deep throat is Deep sixed.
No, he’s just as senile as the guy who he said vote for… that guy… you know, the thing.
No he’s running for president.
“I decided to go for a run last night, and lets just say three miles used to be easier on my knees.”
That’s why I walk and just then run in short bursts, quarter mile maybe, most of the time. If I do 2-3 miles without a break running, I sometimes wind up with a sore knee and can’t run at all for a few days.
Walks, hikes, and the elliptical machine. Running, particularly on pavement, would do more harm than good.
Now THIS is some first rate trolling.
“he also argued that owning slaves was a “positive good” because slaveowners could provide better for slaves than they could themselves.”
Hey, that sounds exactly like democrats of today, although they’re too dishonest to admit this is what they believe, it’s obvious.
Why not just Harvard II? They’re practically the same thing anyway.
The HORROR
We expect colleges to start by closing or consolidating low-enrollment programs to conserve resources. We could see closures, mergers and consolidations among private colleges and universities, especially smaller, less prestigious ones. Public universities may have some insulation as public institutions, but even they will not escape. Dramatically tightening budgets and long-term declines in the college-age population could motivate states to close or consolidate public universities.
While these moves may make fiscal sense, they could significantly reduce opportunity for students to seek a higher education. They could also accelerate the shift toward online education as the closures are most likely to be concentrated at colleges that have not developed strong online programs that allow them to enroll students from a wider area.
This could result in a “race to the bottom,” as online providers of all types compete with each other to offer the cheapest price for college credits, employing adjunct or contingent faculty and low-paid online graders to lower costs and prices, and serve students through large online courses.
Face-to-face learning and residential education can provide a rich experience that helps students and faculty form supportive networks and learn valuable social and behavioral skills. Online delivery can provide valuable access to higher education if it is delivered well. But much depends on whether each college designs and implements high-quality online courses.
The long-term shifts sparked by Covid-19 have threatened the traditional business models of public and private colleges and universities. As a result, the remaining institutions capable of face-to-face education and a true campus living experience will become the province of students with high family incomes or outstanding academic ability. The rest will likely do without those experiences, instead opting for an online education that, in some cases, will deprive them of the leg up they need to get ahead.
The plague is killing higher education?
Good.
SJWednesday: I Can Haz All The Genders
There is an infinite diversity of genders in the world.
Each person has a totally unique interpretation and relationship with any gender they inhabit, and there are at least as many genders as there have been humans who have lived. – the number of humans who have lived or will live is not infinite. Anyhoo we have another word for that it is called personality.
Dude, your sexual proclivities define your identity. Don’t you get it?
*resumes jacking off into a used mayonnaise jar*
Mayosexuals FTW!
“It’s time we advanced the mainstream discussion of multigenderism”
Or Everyone could just mind their own fucking business.
as long as you understand sucking dick is not gay id the dick identifies as vagina.
“Now eat my pussy!”
There is an infinite diversity of genders in the world.
No, there are not.
So… each person is an individual with individual thoughts, feelings, and neuroses. But! We must find a label for each individual irrespective of the label their parents gave them at birth.
Oh, wait. That’s called a SKU.
When do we get chipped?
Since we’re talking gender, I assume you meant “chopped”.
Change gender to god, and multigender to polytheistic, etc. Xe’s just defining a religion. It can be whatever xe wants it to be.
There is an infinite diversity of genders in the world.
Aaaannnd I’m out.
Subsitute “personality” for “gender” and it makes more sense. Of course, they are still describing a form of insanity.
even switching in personality for gender makes for a dull thesis. “everybody has their own unique personality” may be technically correct, but it intentionally ignores the fact that people cluster around personality types based on various factors, associated with upbringing and innate characteristics (*cough* gender) .
Not under consideration: thinning the administrative/bureaucratic herd.
Competition will occur and drive down the price?! Oh my god, that’s terrible!!
Alice Keeler
@alicekeeler
Walk into my son’s room.. taking his summer school online final. He hides his phone. No kidding he is googling the test answers. As we move remote we can’t assess the same ways. They WILL Google it!!!
Yeah sure, lady. He was googling his “test answers”.
https://twitter.com/alicekeeler/status/1280311580371058694
If only there was something we could do to adapt to a new teaching environment.
But I mean we couldn’t expect teachers to work.
They get paid and brainwash < they still get paid, but don't brainwash. Best would be: they don't get paid.
It’s say true, except I think they are still achieving indoctrination.
The youngest Altar Boy finished up his freshman year at The U of M last spring and said that anyone who didn’t get a 4.0 that semester was an absolute moron. According to him, there was no effective proctoring of tests.
I told him that the tests I hated most were those that the prof said were open book. Bring whatever you wanted, the test was going to be about how well you understood the principles of the class material and how to apply it. It wasn’t to test how much you could memorize.
Why even test something you can google in ten seconds? Suppose it could come in handy once SMOD comes.
Or when I can implant a petabyte of flash in my skull and keep copies of multiple reference sources a few CPU cycles away…
16 petabytes of marxist criticism and 64 k of hard facts comes preinstalled.
Yep. My reactor physics tests were open book, open note, open asnswer sets from every test the prof had given in the past (he gave us the previous tests with answer sets). He would often leave us alone and go back to his office.
If we had questions, we would discuss and someone would get elected to go to his office and present the question for the class.
They were brutal exams. My “favorite” was the time the prof said “I was going to give one of you some partial credit on this question, but then decided he didnt deserve it. So everyone got a zero on that question.”
I remember a few signals and systems exams like that. if you made a decent attempt to solve all of the questions (and subpart) , you were guaranteed a B or higher. The likelihood of you accomplishing that was extremely low given the time constraints.
Plenty of exams in that class with 3 questions and i only finished 1.5 and still got a B+ or A-
I was at a distinct advantage in law school because of that experience. there were people weeping after our first semester of exams because they didn’t get to some of the questions. me? I had an answer for everything, and the level of detail was dictated by the time constraints.
I still remember the prof who had just gotten divorced (after being found by his wife in a gay bar, so the rumors go), and decided to take it out on us. the exam was twice as long as it should have been, and he switched it from open book to closed book a week before. I forget if I got the furthest or the second furthest into the exam, but there were a couple essays I didnt even get to. People were legit panicking, especially the ones who didn’t get halfway through.
*chuckles*
I remember those days.
I had a image processing prof introduce the final as “Some of this stuff we’ve never covered. I just want to see if you can figure it out.”
Then there was the open book collaborative EM Field Theory exam with an integral that defied all approaches. Turns out it was some math professor’s PhD thesis that was only going to be solved by me if I had the correct reference book.
“Some of this stuff we’ve never covered. I just want to see if you can figure it out.”
My prof’s response was something like, “No reason you can’t learn new material during the exam.”
My finance exams in my MBA program were like that, thank Crom. You were allowed to put whatever you wanted on a one page ssheet, so you didn’t have to memorize the formulas for free cash flows, stock valuation, etc. Same principal – what was being tested was your ability to understand how to use those formulas. And they were still hard as hell.
Walk into my son’s room
Learn to knock.
Had to teach my wife that. Knock…they are 15. There is a reason we make them do their own laundry and it is partially not attributed to being self-sufficient in life.
Not under consideration: taking his phone when he is supposed to be attending class.
There are sites that offer this kind of services. https://www.chegg.com
“Demonstrators storm Serbian parliament in protest over lockdown”
https://twitter.com/Jake_Hanrahan/status/1280712399037890561
https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1280759920682467328
Good.
“In early March, Serbia introduced a lockdown to halt the spread of the coronavirus.
But in late May, the Balkan country was among the first to open up and set elections for June 21. During the campaign, Vucic’s ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) organised rallies at which people did not wear masks.
Top party officials, including the president’s adviser, were infected after celebrating their election victory in a small room while not wearing masks.
Opposition parties, many of which boycotted the election, criticise Vucic for using the lockdowns to strengthen what they call his autocratic rule.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-serbia-protests/demonstrators-storm-serbian-parliament-in-protest-over-lockdown-idUSKBN24835R
If you want an example of brutal cops, Serbia is a good one.
I’m beginning to envy the Slavs. Sure they drink too much and die at 65 but this is one of the positive side effects of their I don’t give a shit attitude.
65 is pretty good for “indulgent living”. I’m skeptical of this definition of “drink too much”…
SJWednesday: She Turned Me Into A Newt!
Can I turn her into Newt Gingrich?
Jesus dude, I hope you’re encased in the same gear as an astronaut on a space walk when you delve into those realms.
“if you have an altar”
I have an “alter”, it’s called a wood burning stove but it also burns paper. Perfect for altering all the horseshit I see in hard copy. Even the news/shoppers are full of SJW things but man, they make great fire starter.
Who was the intended recipient of Moldova’s ‘fake’ helicopters?\
https://emerging-europe.com/news/who-was-the-intended-recipient-of-moldovas-fake-helicopters/
Fake handbags, fake watches and – increasingly – fake electronics are a common sight at flea markets across the world. The goods, often of dubious quality, are usually made in the Far East and sold for prices far below the real market value of the original products.
Criminals in Moldova however have recently taken counterfeiting to new levels of sophistication: last week, authorities in the country discovered a makeshift factory manufacturing fake helicopters.
Jay-Z.
I like Moldovan vodka (Exclusiv, cheap but good enough). Maybe I need to find another brand before I find myself unwittingly drinking rubbing alcohol.
They look like real helicopters to me. Can the quality be any worse the the original Soviet factory?
They might even be superior.
Helicopters that can’t actually take off would save countless celebrity’s lives. celebrities’ lives?
WHARS TEDS WHEN YOU NEEDS HIM?~!!1one
I think my comment got swallowed by the ether. A friend who knows some Venezuelan expats said that Guaidó is just who the CIA is pushing, actual Venezuelans who aren’t fans of Maduro want some other guy (can’t remember his name).
Big if true.
Wouldn’t surprise me at all.
Seems likely.
Suck it! You guys think you live in Woke Paradise (btw, if Somalia is the libertarian spirit country, what is the spirit country of the Truly Woke)? Minnesoda laughs derisively at your puny efforts. We have stories of queer interracial couples getting married during the riots to show you.
White supremacy made these two delightful women give up their planned two year engagement!
Can “fake” helicopters fly, or are they just cardboard cutouts?
Working helicopters made from untraceable parts with extremely dubious construction techniques and quality control i.e. deathtraps.
Yes but he was asking about the fake helicopters
“Now you support emissions testing and vehicle inspections, right?”
Poor Diets Are Costing Businesses as Much as $850 Billion a Year
Read more at: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/poor-diets-cost-big-business-billions-as-virus-risks-more-losses
Copyright © BloombergQuint
https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/poor-diets-cost-big-business-billions-as-virus-risks-more-losses
Bloomers really really really has a hard on for telling you how to eat.
“Obesity has been on the rise in poorer countries“
That’s actually a positive indicator. Talk about not seeing the forest for the trees.
“FEWER OF THEM ARE DYING, CANT YOU SE…oh, whoops, wasn’t spose to say that part….”
Uffda. Trouble in paradise?
BLM may have to open a re-education camp pronto to get some of these so-called community leaders thinking right.
Luckily for the community, they don’t have to rely on the community organizers because they have crack city council members
Yes, Jeremiah is the son of Brother Keith Ellison, current AG of Minnesoda.
“I can’t see how a rational person will correlate the two,” said Ellison
He is probably telling the truth.
If every city has this problem after a police killing
Well, they don’t. Conclusions drawn from false premises are false.
The Congressional Black Caucus was one of the biggest proponents of the 90’s tough on crime legislation.
Funny that “Abolish the police” is more politically viable as a slogan than “privatize the police”
Also, Al Flowers may be a pesky gadfly of a local activist, but I respect him for playing it pretty straight. He has called them like he sees them for a long time. For instance, instead of towing the BLM lion, he is piping up about how the city actually does need police. I don’t agree with some of his solutions, but I respect him for his convictions.
Given his own personal history with the cops I’d say that is a remarkable show of support.
Probably drugs falling out of my ass (gotta lotta work these days), but this headline is mind numbing.
easy to say in Japan.
Constitutionally protected right here. :p
“At the same time, however, a lower death count is no justification for states to reopen their economies incautiously or to suggest, as the White House appears to be doing, that Americans should just get used to living with Covid-19. ”
They shouldn’t? We should live under constant government control until… forever?
Now you are getting it.
At some point that statement is just silly. What if a less dangerous strain emerges that infects everyone but only kills one out of every 10K? We’re not anywhere near that point now but the deaths are certainly dropping which is an unalloyed good. We absolutely need to get used to CV because it’s not going anywhere.
Thank you again for the article yesterday.
Whatever you spend your time doing, do less of it. Write more.
Thanks! i fear if i up my production, quality will slide.
Americans should just get used to
OBEY.
Too bad they’re so pricey, otherwise I would probably have to order one of these.
I broke down and got a neck gaiter to obey the ban.
I found a neck gaiter yesterday that was the Alien facehugger.
Saw the one you linked, but noticed it wasn’t going to be delivered until September. This is just a plain black one. Made in China. I guess I may use it when riding some of the crushed limestone trails when it’s dry (there’s a lot of dust that gets kicked up then).
Of course it’s nothing to celebrate, because that won’t damage ORANGEMANBAD!
In the comparable average deaths per million graphs of different states, a quick look would give you the impression that New York is doing so much better than the other states. But that’s because they’re on different scales. The peak in New York was around 50 deaths/1M/day, while the Texas peak was 1.256, which is still lower than the most recent number on the New York graph (1.6). But it’s totally a surge.
That’s straight up propaganda right there.
July 4th: Texas at 1.079, New York at 1.6, but the line makes Texas look much much worse worse.
Enemy of the people.
Good call. Thats not dishonest…at…all.
The narrative is more important than the truth.
“We decided that we should probably go ahead and get married now because the police were arresting and tear-gassing [people]. The protests were very scary so we thought it would be best to protect ourselves in that way,” Lex said.
Just like WWII, when GIs would get married to their high school sweethearts before hitting the Beach at Normandy, or shipping off to Iwo Jima. Because you might never come back.
From the grocery store.
Tribute to Lovecraft’s Innsmouth, ft. Sophie.
https://twitter.com/chadmichaelward/status/1280646186240802825
Working helicopters made from untraceable parts with extremely dubious construction techniques and quality control i.e. deathtraps.
Just like “real” helicopters, then.
“Hey, at least it’s not an Osprey.”
Good music choice, MS. Styx is one of my faves.
DDY was on Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast on May 25. Very funny goofy dude and can still belt it out. Voice has aged well.
Yeah, though that particular song always ends up rendered in Cartman’s voice for me now.
JK is not backing down. Beginning to dig this lady.
J.K. Rowling
@jk_rowling
You’re still following me, Jennifer. Be sure to publicly repent of your association with Goody Rowling before unfollowing and volunteer to operate the ducking stool next time, as penance.
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1280834668552769536
The replies are… well, they are so disappointed in her.
I’m hopeful that this will stymie the Harry Potter references in political discourse.
I see failed MD Eugene Gu is not missing his opportunity to grab some clicks.
That poor woman is so abused and discriminated because of her sex. So she is wealthy and can afford to be the one true feminist leader. Has she gone all in and call trans people mentally ill yet?
The recent spike in U.S. Covid-19 infections has mercifully been accompanied by a declining death count. There were days in the spring when the country had half the number of cases but twice as many deaths. Now, at least, the U.S. is testing more widely.
Don’t mention the sampling bias.
And how rude of me. Morning, Mexican Sharpshooter.
Don’t play in the street.
I’m starting to hate white people.
I hate white people. I hate black people. I hate yellow people. I hate….well, people. I am an equal opportunity hater.
The operative term is “Misanthrope.” And, yeah, I’m hip.
Being a misanthrope is our one universal trait, isn’t it? I should have been more clear. I’m starting to hate white people more than everyone else.
^
And today lab rat has to do something that he has no understanding of….I have an appointment with a speech therapist. I DID have a profound problem for a while with speaking and making sense after The Incident, but I’ve beaten that. Well. I ain’t paying and I’m doing it to be polite and to make mom feel better. Haven’t complained and don’t even really care, I just think it’s odd.
BUT! Here’s an announcement!
I did a few laps on a bike yesterday. This is the first time I’ve ridden a bike since Sept. 22. of last year. The last time I rode a bike was profoundly unpleasant! I was curious if my brain would get afraid like when I kayaked a week ago. That was strange and my brain absolutely had a negative reaction to that. Mostly concerned with my phone. But the shakes came back. Those aren’t fun.
Just did it to show that one, indeed, doesn’t forget how to do it. No worries, as it was boringly smooth and simple. But that’s a bit of a victory. I win. Actually a pretty big conquest! I ain’t shook. Nor will I be.
keep up the fight
BOOM.
Thanks man! I do my best. I detest people telling me that I have to be afraid of COVID and need to wear masks or behave differently. That’s the opposite of healing and isn’t what I need. It’s incredibly shitty for people to impose their will on me, and I refuse to do it, unless it’s private property or my family and I have to play by house rules. That’s fine. It’s like wearing a scarf in a mosque. Whatever. My quiet ridicule still reigns even then.
Go dude go!
Hell yeah! Strong work, brother.
Obligatory “Killin’ It” track.
Go you!
good job to keep challenging yourself Evan!
To quote from above
“As an old guy, my only advice to to never, under any circumstances, stop. You may never start again!”
Even at an Evan’s age old, don’t stop.
Evan, you are one mentally tough mofo. Much respect.
My gym just went bankrupt. Who’s the quitter now?
https://twitter.com/raagagrawal/status/1278498758225952768
MSNBC business channel
Desperate to keep their workers safe and their lights on, retailers reached out to the National Governors Association urging policymakers for their help in sending a strong and uniform message about social distancing and wearing a mask.
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“Despite compliance from the majority of Americans, retailers are alarmed with the instances of hostility and violence front-line employees are experiencing by a vocal minority of customers who are under the misguided impression that wearing a mask is a violation of their civil liberties,” the retail group, whose members include Best Buy, Dollar General and Home Depot, wrote, in the letter, which was made public Tuesday. “Wearing a mask is not about fear, and it certainly should not reflect one’s politics.”
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Many public health and infectious disease experts agree that masks have proven effective at preventing the spread of Covid-19. A statewide mandate is better than a local version because places where masks are required are controlling their outbreaks, and a statewide mandate unifies the messaging about their effectiveness, said Dr. Luis Ostrosky, a professor of infectious diseases at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in Houston.
“I’m completely baffled as to why masking became such a political issue and such an ideological issue,” Ostrosky said. “We’ve never had a problem with no shoes, no shirt, no service. We’ve never had a problem with no smoking indoors.”
Consumer preference be damned. We want to offload responsibility for this, just as we do everything else. Tell those stupid anti-SCIENCE hicks to tow the lion and give us their money.
Eh, it’s their business. If they want to enforce a mask requirement for entry, they can.
I object to the government mandates being put on them.
I object to asking for government mandates to be placed on everyone else too. If you want a store policy, implement it. But don’t run to government to get it put in place.
They’re lobbying govt to require what they don’t want to do which is strict enforcement of mask rules. Businesses that lobby for a government crackdown can suck it even though it’s their right to do so.
Businesses that lobby for a government crackdown can suck it even though it’s their right to do so.
Is it? If strict enforcement of mask rules is a violation of the constitution and the NAP, I’m not so sure businesses have a right to “lobby” for it (versus just communicating their thoughts on the matter).
A person has a right to say I think all left-handed people should be put to death by the government. It crosses the “rights” line when said person actually starts lobbying for the government to begin putting left-handed people to death. That’s a solid NAP violation that should invite an appropriate level of pushback.
The problem is that a considerable proportion of the populace, and even some here, do not consider mask enforcement to be a violation of civil liberties.
Some here?
On private property mandated by owner of said property…I dont really have a problem with that. You are not forced to go there and to deprive the owner of the ability to make certain rules on their property starts to sound a bit like public accommodation law to me.
A government mandate ? That is a completely different story and clearly not constitutional.
Perhaps I’ve misunderstood, but the impression I’ve gotten is a few on here are all aboard the mask train.
We’re in agreement, Suthen. Stores should be free to require or not require masks, just like firearms. Government mandate is a different story and actively lobbying for a gov mandate is different than just requiring it in your store.
That’s a good point that I’ll have to think about. Is it their right to ask for oppression by proxy? Maybe not.
This is something that’s bothered me with Dick’s Sporting Goods. They make announcements about the evils of guns and remove the products from their store. Fine, knock yourselves out. Then they went further by spending $$$ on hiring DC lobbyists to end private ownership of firearms and close down gunshops.
It’s kind of like paying the mafia to whack your competitors or destroy everyone belonging to a group you don’t like.
They pay lobbyists with their revenues. While I think a shareholder can argue that it is a misuse of funds, apparently Dick’s actual shareholders don’t agree (granted, they’re mostly leftist-run pension funds). Consumers however can still chose not to provide Dick’s with revenue. And while those paid lobbyists go on to lobby politicians (and take expensive lunches), the politicians answer to the voters not to the lobbyists. And yes, that is naive, but at the end of the day votes win elections not lobbyists’ voices. As long as the voters remain complacent and re-elect politicians who care more about what lobbyists say than what the voters want, they get what they voted for.
Stick to first principles.
They can believe what they want for as far as they want to.
So can I: I can believe in not patronizing their stores.
That’s it.
I’ve heard some discussion here about the right to earn a living, and I like that there are good guys here, but every decision is a power play: if we all buy Ford, we condemn the guys on the Chevy line; the Chevy losers must obey our election and change or starve. The markets of thought, goods, and services are fights, maybe not to the death, but decisions have consequences. I’ve generally considered the well-meaning line-drawing about what’s cool and what ain’t as nice but arbitrary.
Speaking of first principles, a lot of this stuff is about whether X is a bad guy for asking the government to Y even though Y is none of the government’s damned business anyway.
I’m not talking about lobbying in general or simply stating your beliefs. I’m talking about paying or inciting a third party to execute a NAP violation on another person or group of people. Much of lobbying would fall outside of this.
It’s a simple question. Does it matter if the entity you’ve hired or incited to destroy a third-party’s life is a an organized crime ring or the government?
Stick to first principles.
They can believe what they want for as far as they want to.
We are not talking about beliefs. If it was only that, I would agree with you (per below)
Well, absent BuSab, I don’t see anyone who is going to stop the government from being the government. I think the three branches of government should do their part to keep the overall instrument constrained, but if they collude to expand each other’s power in a back-scratching agreement, who is going to stop them apart from the voters?
The government will rationalize its force-for-hire approach by all sorts of convolutions and it is the acceptability of those convolutions that is the real issue.
Stick to first principles
The thing is that the first principle here is not the NAP, or the golden rule, or however you want to formulate external morality. The first principle is survival of me and mine. I think I may be agreeing with you here when you say :
I’ve generally considered the well-meaning line-drawing about what’s cool and what ain’t as nice but arbitrary.
It is all about judging the situation. Someone spouting nonsense on twitter doesn’t immediately endanger my people. Too many someones calling for the destruction of my values and my kind eventually does endanger my people. At some point you go to war, and at that point you fight to win, and the ROE can’t be the NAP. We have played the don’t fire unless fired upon/proportional response game too often. Decency requires that you try to avoid unnecessary harm to innocents consistent with your own survival and the ‘mission.’
If philosophical purity requires that I wait until the mob is storming my house to respond then maybe I cannot afford purity.
I might have missed the greater scope of this thread, but I wasn’t criticizing so much as just sharing how I organize my own thoughts.
We have played the don’t fire unless fired upon/proportional response game too often
We don’t disagree much. But I am saying that every dollar is a vote, so we’re always at war. That’s a market; it’s a good thing; there is no too-little or too-much of it. As long as I don’t incite, request, underwrite, or condone violence, there rest is just circle of life economics (utility curves?) for me.
Eating Jif = why you hate Peter Pan
How do you differentiate lobbying from other forms of speech?
Let’s start even more basic. Is it okay to pay the mafia to shutdown or kill your competitors? If not, how is that different than paying the government to do so?
If it’s not different, then we could figure out the differentiation for lobbying. That’s a tough one, but I think could be done.
*I do not say kill to be hyperbolic, but that is always the possible outcome of government enforcement.
When the mafia does it, the government and most people say it’s wrong. When the government does it, the government and most people say it’s right. That is and will remain the problem.
Regulatory capture has two basic solutions: reduce the power of regulators or try to make the regulators incorruptible. The latter has proven to never work in the entire history of mankind. Yet the people remain convinced of, or at least complacent with, the notion that the latter is doable and preferable to the alternative.
All of the laws that are currently being (ab)used to declare these emergencies and enact these edicts were passed with little notice decades ago. Even though people should have been more concerned, they weren’t, because they either didn’t care or thought the right people will always be in charge. They didn’t get revisited because there’s always some shiny new “priority” or “crisis” that is more important.
I’m amenable to the notion that we should make changes to the structure and procedures of government to prevent or at least reduce the accretion of bad ideas, but that too would a change in people’s minds and actions.
I agree with all of this. It’s a problem in the scope of government that we’ve given them the power to do this.
The way I see it is, Americans, in general, don’t want to be afraid of the Kung-Flu and would rather not wear a mask. Retail lobbying for the government to impose the restrictions is a tell that they know this. They know if individual stores imposed the rules they run the risk of a Bake the Gay Cake(TM) type lawsuit or people you know, using their feet to shop where the masks aren’t required.
So solution is to get the government to take the hit on the mask requirement. They can all fuck off rightly.
or people you know, using their feet to shop where the masks aren’t required
“BUSINESSES CATERING TO THEIR CUSTOMERS IS NOT FAIR!1112arglebarglefooferahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”
I made it a point to avoid places that were requiring masks for entering. They’re business, they’re rules.
Starting tonight, there’s a county wide mandate.
What? And be responsible for dealing with negative feedback? Hell no – they want that blame to go on the politicians!
“Wearing a mask is not about fear, and it certainly should not reflect one’s politics.”
To quote a clever person on twitter whose name I can’t remember, “That ship has sailed, caught fire, and sank.”
Thanks to the clowns that be, who panicmongered the shit out of the pandemic to try and pee-pee schwack the OrangeMan, everything in this goddamn hysteria-stricken pre-apocalyptic nightmare of a social scenario is being made about politics.
The widespread trust is gone (if it ever was there), and it has been eroded by many things, among which is the need to inject “politics” (read: certain political opinions) into people’s everyday lives. Well, just as “the personal is political” so too can one say “public health is political”. Consensus is formed from the bottom up not from the top down. The fact is enough people doubt the efficacy of masks that debate remains, not among the credentialed elite perhaps but among the common people, and it is the common people who rule in a democracy. It does not matter that Dr. Such and Such MD PhD has decreed it be so, it matters that the people are or aren’t convinced. As it stands, it seems the majority are convinced, but there remain dissenters. Calling their beliefs “misguided” is not going to change their minds.
“public health is political”
Its definitional, at least so far as public health done by the government is political.
Everything the government does is political. Every. Single. Thing. Don’t want to make it political? Don’t get the government involved. Its not complicated.
shut up, logictard !!!
Michael Malice refers to the people who hold the levers of power and form the elitist clique as “the Cathedral”. It is quite an apt metaphor. They claim to govern on the basis of rationalism, empiricism, and consent of the governed (i.e., the virtues and values of the Enlightenment). But the reality is they are irrational, they will discard empiricism when it is inconvenient, and they believe it is their job to “guide” the governed rather than listen to them. All of the structures and traditions of the past were discarded in the name of these better ideas, but the people who have eventually come to power in the wake of this disruption owe allegiance neither to the better ideas nor to the traditions they supplanted, leaving us with a pointless system upheld by lies.
The fact is enough people doubt the efficacy of masks that debate remains, not among the credentialed elite perhaps but among the common people,
This was published on May 21, 2020 in the New England Journal of Medicine:
Credentialed elite my ass.
The same pussies already reversed themselves:
Burn universities to the ground. Pol Pot was right.
In truth, the intent of our article was to push for more masking, not less.
How to square that with this:
We know that wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from infection. . . . In many cases, the desire for widespread masking is a reflexive reaction to anxiety over the pandemic.
is an exercise for the reader.
“You rubes are too stupid to
read our ever-changing mindsknow how to interpret our findings”In the .pdf I posted below, the head of CIDRAP talks about the barrage of calls to have him fired/defunded/canceled for his position that there’s little scientific evidence to support the widespread use of cloth masks in the community.
He’s held firm, but it’s easy to see that others might not be able to withstand that sort of concerted pressure to conform to the “science.” This is all bad stuff and the long term consequences are not at all good.
Trofim Lysenko looms large
Given that Pol Pot was educated in those very universities, and his actions were more about taking the university’s limousine liberal activism, making it real, and carrying it out to its (il)logical conclusion than about tearing down the universities per se, I’m not entirely sure I’d call him “right”.
And me calling them “credentialed elite” was not a compliment. They are self-anointed and self-credentialed. How seriously other people take them and their puffery is something I have no control over.
It’s more about me despising people of the same socioeconomic status and education level.
wearing a mask is a violation of their civil liberties
The implied threat of state violence when it is mandated is.
“Many public health and infectious disease experts agree that masks have proven effective at preventing the spread of Covid-19.”
This infectious disease expert does not:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/sites/default/files/public/downloads/special_episode_masks_6.2.20_0.pdf
I will no longer be visiting the american southwest this year.
It just won’t work.
Maybe memorial day timeframe next year.
You’re not permitted to leave your state, are you, CAUSE STOP TRYING TO KILL MA GRANPARENTS!
CWAA.
#NoOnNY, #HeyyyyNonnyNonny
*loads rifle*
Look, there’s no bag limit on the elderly.
Just because Cuomo says it doesn’t make it true.
Well, if nobody enforces the limit, does it actually exist?
Just saw the blond that does Trump’s presser say that the media needs to focus more on the deaths of blacks in Chicago and NY. “We need to realize that ALL black lives matter.” That is how you reframe the slogan. “All lives matter” obviously was just reactionary, but “All Black Lives Matter” doesn’t give BLM advocates any wriggle room. Gotta give props when deserved.
She should cite some abortion statistics too.
I like to watch one of the conservative black guys who rides around in their car talking, Jericho Green, and he calls it CLBM: Certain Black Lives Matter. I don’t usually agree with him because he’s so conservative (he’s funny though which is why I watch) but he’s right on this one.
Who is in Indiana these days? I’d have to go back and check but yesterday I saw a bunch of folk talking about being here.
I’m in Carmel and doing what I do. Therapy today but mostly editing–it would be lovely to sit and chat! If you’re a young cute nurse I will flirt with you…I can’t help it…but for most of us I would love to talk and joke and learn. Just curious!
Stop by the zoom chat this weekend, EFE.
do those still go on? I stopped looking a month ago
Every Friday and Saturday night.
I’m in Indiana, in the Northwest corner, but thankfully no longer in Lake County (aka East Illinois).
banginglc1 ?
Rutgers students protest tuition, fees for fall remote instruction
The schools are screwed. A lot of their costs are fixed, but the students just figured out that they have no need to pay those exorbitant fees.
Yep. One argument for going away to school was for the “experience”, but now that’s gone.
Thank You, Higher Education, for popping the Higher Education Bubble.
It couldn’t have happened by/to anyone Smarter.
I’ve talked to more than one parent who’s kid is taking a skip year because they think full freight for online instruction is bullshit.
They’re this close *holds finger and thumb a millimeter apart* to realizing that they are getting massively overcharged even for the on-campus “education”.
A lot of their costs are fixed
They do have a massive physical plant, but I bet the majority of their expenses are payroll. Which can be cut.
They have already told us they are going to do the Washington Monument play, though – cut classes and instructors, not bureaucrats.
Eh, it’s their business. If they want to enforce a mask requirement for entry, they can.
I object to the government mandates being put on them.
That’s the point. This association of retailers explicitly wants a government mandate “so everybody is on the same page”.
And also so they can say they were just following orders when they “had” to call the police on the refuseniks and have them given a well deserved beatdown.
There is a reason I like Costco. I may have not liked their mask requirement, but they did it on their own without a mandate.
Same. Their choice. I refused to go there because of it and now that the government has provided them cover, I broke down and went cause I needed some meats.
Shit, the last meat I saw there was priced out of my tolerance. So I was forced to explore some local options – with great success.
Yeah we source about 3 different markets and this last time, some great deals on brisket and chickens were to be had. Can’t beat $.88/lb for a whole fryer
Yep. Businesses should have the freedom to choose whether or not they want to require them. Though I dislike masks and believe them to be of minimal effectiveness, I don’t have a problem with ownership deciding otherwise, as I am free to go somewhere else.
Just wait for the 2020 BIG BANG, a black person being killed by cops because he wasn’t wearing a mask. I mean, the private sector reverse already happened, so this can’t be far behind
For any and all Japan Glibs, Mrs. Animal and I will be in the Tokyo area (Shirokanedai) from 02-10 November. Maybe we can stage a meetup?
Sounds good. You and Tejicano would probably enjoy talking guns.
I’ll post something again as we get closer, I’d love to organize something, hopefully we can do it over dinner and beers.
Wait Japan is allowing Americans in? To bring the evil plague? Very strange.
Not at this time.
I do hope it happens for Animal and the Mrs, but unless the year after that date is 2021, I wouldn’t expect it unless Zombie Commodore Perry shows up between now and then.
I should asterisk that with there are some very limited exceptions such as US personnel under SOFA.
We’re hoping it clear up by November; if not, we’ll reschedule.
Sounds very good. I will try to keep the gun talk to a minimum so as not to bore everybody else too much.
You won’t bore Mrs. Animal or me.
Via The @GOP
they’re AFRAID of sexual economy of passing has called me escape from certain “regulation” of us probably know, to Iowa where I watched you imagine social organization
https://twitter.com/realJudaldButt/status/1280683319328247813
Wut?
those are words, but in that order they don’t mean anything?
Did he have a stroke?
That has to be a bot translating some Mandarin…
From the description
Bot. tweets based on J. Butler & D. Trump, two gr8 sources of nonsense
Pretty sure I could make a bot that does the same thing with just a dictionary and no internet sourcing.
Unimpressed.
Is that Hank Phillips?
Alright so we have been binge watching the extreme camping show Alone. There is a season where its a pair and my son asks me “Dad, we should do this!” He is 15, so obviously not going to go on the show, but I started to set in motion to start his camping experience. We will first do a weekend at a maintained camping site so he can see part of it. After a couple of those trips and he gets good at rigging his own fishing line, we will begin some backcountry trips, 1 day in, 3 day stay, 1 day out and increase from there.
But holy hell looking at all the damn regulations depending on what forest we go to, its near impossible to just enjoy some time out in the forest.
I think the regulations against campfires are retarded. You mean I can’t something we did for thousands of years?
I get not too close to a water source, but yeah, “only use existing fire rings” uh, I doubt they just magically appear in the forest…so we will probably just do that and be like, we found it so we assumed it was meant to be used. Im not hauling in extra weight of a propane stove once we get to that point.
Found some good locations up near us about 3-4 hours drive and the forestry service is the regulation body (not a national park) so the restrictions are a bit less.
Backpack campers rarely carry something as heavy as a propane stove. Regardless, if the argument is that it prevents forest fires, the tiniest little alcohol stove can still start a fire.
Ayo. Google the Cat Can stove. Mine has boiled a lot of ramen…
You can make them out of soda cans too.
I don’t drink…soda. Will beer cans work?
Yes.
Beer cans? No. Has to be soda. Preferably Diet Pepsi.
Excellent! Backpacking is awesome fun. I have many fond memories of tramping all over Appalachia with my old man, back in my teenage years.
Female Seth Rogan’s kid sister is still a dishonest piece of shit.
After further discussing the situation in the United States, Hayes recounted George Orwell’s line about World War II that “Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist.” Hayes then stated that it fits the current situation, and “The battle against the virus is not a choice. We cannot opt out of it. So, if you take the steps that Donald Trump is taking, not just refusing to combat the virus, you’re actively taking steps that will make people sick. You are objectively pro-virus.”
The WHO has proven to be useless and you can go to hell you mendacious twerp.
False choices rule the day.
Hayes recounted George Orwell’s line about World War II that “Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist.”
Orwell, of course, actually volunteered to go to Spain and fight in a real war against fascism. So you know, kind of putting money where mouth is.
Being on the side of the WHO is objectively being on the side of the CCP, because the WHO aided them in covering up and falsifying information about the virus. So being pro WHO is objectively pro-virus, you mendacious twat.
Kanye is all over the map.
“Planned Parenthoods have been placed inside cities by white supremacists to do the Devil’s work,” Kanye West said. Putting aside who placed them there, 2010 Census Bureau data shows that a majority of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities were located within walking distance, or two miles, of neighborhoods with high black populations. A Life Issues Institute analysis found “that 102 out of 165, or 62% of the Planned Parenthood abortion facilities are located in areas with relatively high African American populations, or in ‘targeted neighborhoods.’”
I thought they were all located on the same street.
MLK Blvd?
You know, the leftist eugenic argument for abortion is that aborting poor people’s pregnancies will help the community as a whole, like pruning a rose bush.
Well, then logically, after decades of…..let’s say vigorous use of this principle on the black community, then shouldn’t we be seeing the supposed positive eugenic affects?
They have effectively destroyed the black family. It only makes sense to kill off as many in those dysfunctional communities as possible.
It’s for the greater good.
Putting aside who placed them there, 2010 Census Bureau data shows that a majority of Planned Parenthood’s surgical abortion facilities
Why put that aside? Who else could have put Planned Parenthood facilities anywhere?
We already knew that.
“This is about power,” Abrams said, saying the election is about “the power to shape your moral vision and make it real.”
She added that Republicans are intent on discouraging voters from casting ballots because, after the 2018 election cycle, they know young voters “are winning.”
Abrams said she is urging as many people as possible to vote by mail to make it safer and easier for others who do not have a choice but to vote in-person on Election Day to cast their ballots at the polls. These voters include displaced or disabled people along with those who do not trust the system or have various language barriers.
The trouble is that you have an immoral vision.
It’s too bad Sanders’ young voters didn’t get the memo.
“BREAKING: The Supreme Court has carved out a giant exception to the nation’s fair employment laws — ruling 7-2 that federal employment discrimination laws do not apply to teachers whose duties include instruction in religion at schools run by religious institutions.”
https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1280866482663145472
If NPR has a sad, this is a good ruling for liberty?
Shockingly, it is a good ruling.
So, a church can require that their religion teacher be a believer and teach the faith per the church?
Seems reasonable. Imams wouldn’t want a Catholic priest teaching Islam.
Real diversity – how does it fucking work?
I don’t see how one could object to this. For instance, Catholic school is for Catholics. Why would you even want to work there if you are not Catholic?
Because you have a better chance of changing it from the inside…its pure infiltration. Though I suspect there are some teachers that just want to teach at a good school. Even then, their school, their rules – so we keep being told regarding masks and refusal of service; which is a thing again I guess.
I’d be fine with teaching at a Catholic School if that was my profession and I’m not Catholic. It’s not like I’m hostile to them or anything.
You are an obvious wrong-thinker; all forms of white, patriarchal religion must be destroyed!
Because they might teach non-conformist political thought.
There are a lot of totalitarians in the USA these days.
There were non-Catholics teaching at my High School/Grade School. My understanding (at least in my diocese) was they’d prefer a Catholic over a non-Catholic, and you couldn’t teach certain subjects (health class had to say that NFP was the only moral and effective birth control).
I don’t see how one could object to this.
Everything for the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.
Interesting that Sotomayor and Ginsberg were the only dissenters.
RBG has lost any shred of credibility that she can be impartial in rulings.
Sotomayor is still a puzzler. Just when I think I have her figured out, the Wise Latina proves me wrong.
RB is pure evil. I dislike all the leftist justices, but RBG and Kagan are the worst two. Sotomayor and Breyer have moments of old liberalism on stuff like criminal justice and free speech. RBG and Kagan are straight up commies.
There are a handful of decisions where Kagan is better than Sotomayor, so even that rule is not consistent. I sometimes wonder if we’d be better served by random votes, a la Buckley’s first few names in the phone book vs. the sort of people who actually get elected.
I didn’t even have to look.
The Catholic hate in the replies is like a repeat of the late 19th century.
It’s different when WE do it!!!!!
There was some group associated with the Democrats a while back who also hated Catholics. I think they were in favor of masks as well.
Not even.
This is just the progressive movement coming full circle to its roots.
KKK will rise again?
<em.You are objectively pro-virus.
At this point, I am. I want the virus to win.
I just had a phone call from Apple Munich if I went to interview for a job there ion the CAD department. I probably don’t… but it does not hurt to find pout whats out there
Was it actually someone in Germany calling or was it München by proxy?
By proxy. It was an English chick based in London I think with an accent that took a few minutes of getting used to.
Snort. 🙂
*rimshot* Gonna guess Pie missed that one.
I did, in fact, miss that one.
Thanks for applying, we’ll let you know…
The problem with HR people is they don;’t always get a CV. Many don’t; get that I don;t really know Verilog and SystemVerilog, despite the fact that there is 0 mention of either in my CV
Do you know Verilog?
As a matter of fact, surprisingly, I do not.
So, you’re saying I should just send you the netlist and you’ll figure out why it’s not converting to Verilog correctly?
I did at a point make a Skill tool that extracted some basic VHDL-AMS from a schematic
Ha, knew it! Quick, chain him to the workstation!
She finally said something intelligent. Yes the world will change, but you won’t like it!
/Eddie Izzard voice.
Sorry, that voice popped into my head. It’s still one of my favorite stand-up bits.
Now that I think of it, if Trump wins, the world may seriously change too.
Not to sound cliche, but it will always change. Problem is we are seeing wider and wider swings between those changes. Either way, we are getting an ugly response come the first week of November from some group or another.
If people think the system is broken or systemically racist, then there will no longer be a peaceful transfer of power.
I want him to beat this and then tell everyone they are being a bitch for being afraid of it.
Considering heads of state usually get the best medical care, his odds are good. Heck, Boris Johnson got COVID and survived in the British healthcare system, so Bolsonaro can probably beat it as well.
What would be even more ironic is if it later comes out that Trump has already had a mild case of it, no problem. Considering how the news has been constantly talking about all the people around him who’ve tested positive, it’s possible.
if it later comes out that Trump has already had a mild case of it
If he has I am surprised he hasn’t mouthed off about it yet.
“Don’t understand big deal about the Kung Flu! I had it, was nothing!
Of course, “positive test” means all sorts of things, many of which don’t actually detect the virus.
What would be even more ironic is if it later comes out that Trump has already had a mild case of it, no problem.
Considering all the fapping over the 25th Amendment, he’d be crazy to admit it until he’s safely out of office.
Your sign as a smell
https://twitter.com/HitCockBottom/status/1280717929034600449?s=09
Peaches and Pears
A New Land Contract
https://medium.com/@AlastairParvin/a-new-land-contract-684c3ba1f1b3
But there was one form of housing cost that the government couldn’t pause: rent. The whole economy was going into lockdown, but the rent was still due.
So we found ourselves confronted by this weird situation where as taxpayers we’re pouring billions of pounds of life support into the economy, but a huge chunk of it is just being paid straight on to private landlords. If you think of the economy as a bucket, it’s like having a huge hole in the bottom of it. Or rather, the top.
So inevitably, millions of young people started asking the question that had been under our noses all along, which is, ‘wait, what work exactly is it that we’re paying Landlords to do?’
And basically the answer is: nothing. We’re paying them to… not evict us.
And that’s an extraordinary realisation isn’t it? That in a country that believes so strongly in fairness, and hard work, and enterprise, and innovation, and meritocracy, the single biggest cost burden on most households and most businesses is a kind of fee, paid by poor people to rich people, for no work. Just for having money in the first place.
This is probably the dumbest thing I read today.
Appartments just exist in a state of nature.
They come from the wall, like power, right?
And they maintain themselves.
If I was this stupid, I would give serious consideration to having my tongue removed.
We’re paying them to…pay the property taxes, for repairs, the debts incurred to purchase the property and in some cases for the utility costs. Yep, landlords are just greedy slouches.
Ok, ok, but what if, like, they just paid off all those costs and wouldn’t have to pay rent after that?
*snicker splurt* BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
sorry, couldn’t keep in character.
“You can’t OWN property, Ma-ann!”
“No, I can, because I’m not a smelly hippy.”
It is still morning here. Give it some time.
This is probably the dumbest thing I read today.
Buckle up, it’s still early.
It is 18:36. Just 4 hours to bed time
Oh damn, lucky you. Got another 12 hours before I feel the black embrace of oblivion.
So we found ourselves confronted by this weird situation where as taxpayers we’re pouring billions of pounds of life support into the economy, but a huge chunk of it is just being paid straight on to
private landlordsthe government. If you think of the economy as a bucket, it’s like having a huge hole in the bottom of it. Or rather, the top.So inevitably, millions of young people started asking the question that had been under our noses all along, which is, ‘wait, what work exactly is it that we’re paying
Landlordsthe government to do?’And basically the answer is: nothing. We’re paying them to… not evict jail us.
And that’s an extraordinary realisation isn’t it? That in a country that believes so strongly in fairness, and hard work, and enterprise, and innovation, and meritocracy, the single biggest cost burden on most households and most businesses is a kind of fee, paid by
poorpeople torich peoplebureaucrats, for no work. Just for having money in the first place.Indeed. The government propped up asset prices so that it could keep collecting tax revenues.
Oh, Sydney.
1) Would
2) I am going to miss you when you are banned from the YouTube for “hate”-speech.
Thanks, RS. I hate white people slightly less now.
So inevitably, millions of young people started asking the question that had been under our noses all along, which is, ‘wait, what work exactly is it that we’re paying Landlords to do?’
And basically the answer is: nothing. We’re paying them to… not evict us.
Wheeeeeeeee!
record covid cases today in Romania, 550. Goddamnit i hope another stupid quarantine is not coming. I just got back in the gym groove.
We call that the ‘front butt’ here I think.
It’s not that chick from a recent Q link with the pork tenderloins running along either side of her spine?
I am fairly certain they are already married to the idea here. I expect another house arrest any minute.
Look, we can’t get back to normal until we ban personal transportation. And gender-specific bathrooms.
If I was this stupid, I would give serious consideration to having my tongue removed.
“It is better to sit silently, and be thought an idiot, than to speak up and remove all doubt.”
Ghislane Maxwell was the first person on reddit to hit 1 million karma LMAO! She’s the #8 karma to this day. Her posts to /r/worldnews constituted roughly 30% of the posts there. This connection was made after she was arrested and that account stopped posting there after 14 years
https://twitter.com/maelfyn/status/1280842996171358208
This is just downright bizarre.
Nice
https://twitter.com/maelfyn/status/1280875485350723584
It was in the news at that point.
Coincidences are after all science.
Next week on “Incredibly specific ways to die”
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1280718284011319296
Did something like that ever happen or did some one think it up?
Every warning label is the result of someone having done something that got them hurt.
Tom & Jerry’s Bizarre Adventure.
This time with subtitles.
https://twitter.com/klara_sjo/status/1280685595984093184
Did you never watch Spike TV?
More good news: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-okays-trump-plan-limit-contraceptive-coverage-n1232339
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to give the nation’s employers more leeway in refusing to provide free birth control for their workers under the Affordable Care Act.
The ruling is a victory for the administration’s plan to greatly expand the kinds of employers who can cite religious or moral objections in declining to include contraceptives in their health care plans.
There is no such thing as ‘free’ when discussing goods and services.
Fuck you, pay for it yourself.
This is purely about compulsion of the employers.
I find this whole issue puzzling. Health insurance doesn’t pay for condoms, why should it pay for birth control pills?
Because the Wrong People object to being required to buy birth control pills for their employees, and must be brought to heel.
Anybody who can afford a cell phone can afford birth control pills.
Men?
It is stealth single payer. Employers dont pay that, their customers do.
It is stealth single payer.
This is, in essence, most of what’s wrong with health insurance in the U.S.
It’s not insurance, it’s a transfer payment program with lots of the usual bureaucratic graft. The “profit” and administrative overhead that health insurance companies have is just a more visible form of the usual deadweight loss in government programs.
Agreed.
The biggest fuck-up in American healthcare is trying to make insurance into something it’s not – the primary way to pay for every type of expense. Insurance by it’s nature is suited for low probability, high cost events.
If you proposed “fixing” any other industry the way they “fixed” healthcare, you’d be rightly laughed out of the room.
If I had to see this….
https://twitter.com/HitCockBottom/status/1278525117039915008
Instead you made all of us see it.
Somebody left a white girl(?) parked in the hood. Got all vandalized and tagged.
I dunno man, I think she’s had a fair bit spent on her. Custom paint, hydraulics for the the tits, etc. When she farts I bet it sounds like that oompah blasting out of the subwoofer in the trunk.
Why do We not like Californians in BhC? this is why…..
they blocked off our course as well, Fuckers…..
http://www.mohavedailynews.com/covid-19/mayor-orders-city-beaches-boat-launches-closed-on-weekends-to-slow-virus-spread/article_f001209c-c0e0-11ea-94e0-07857d49024f.html
Mayor “Most of you are back at work and jumping through hoops to remain at work and we thank you for that. In return, on your time off, we will ensure you cannot have any fun and remain safe and healthy. You’re welcome Arizona/California”
What’s going to happen when they show and no beach?
That sucks, I wonder how strict the actual enforcement will be.
I find this whole issue puzzling. Health insurance doesn’t pay for condoms, why should it pay for birth control pills?
Health insurance should pay for everything, including soap and toothpaste. Justice demands it.
Food too, you can’t be healthy without food…vacations as well for mental health.
But not ‘whitening strips’, that’s fucking racist!