They’re always sad.
My slow-ass hotel wifi is gonna keep this short and sweet today. Which is probably a good thing, to be honest. The “Wall o’ Morning Links” lately has been depressing. As for sports, Chelsea lost to West Ham, Everton (that hapless crosstown rival to my Reds) won a huge game. And some investors (read: under media pressure, no doubt) are asking sponsors to cut ties with the Redskins until they change their name. Lastly, I’ll hit you with a mind-boggling bit of trivia that I learned last night: Ken Griffey Jr has the second most hits (2781) of any MLB player…that was born on November 21st in Donora, PA.
I’m jelly.
Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall was born on this day. He shares it with civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, tennis player Rene Lacoste, my favorite despot of sorts Imelda Marcos, “The King” Richard Petty, comedian Larry David, wrestler Brett “The Hitman” Hart, slugger Jose Canseco, and hockey great Joe Thornton.
OK, now…the links!
“By order of the court” my ass.
This is terrifying. For reals.
Good! For reals.
LOL! For reals.
Totally expected. For reals.
Read your employment agreement. This shouldn’t have been unexpected.
Fucking creepy fuck.
Chicago Public Schools…only the best and brightest are qualified to work for them. What a fucking creep.
Cisco’s got some splainin to do. Wow.
This should not have been unexpected. The bailouts should be starting soon, I’d imagine.
An underrated song. Well, I like it anyway. Hope you do too.
That’s it. Go have a great day, friends!
But… but… she only threatened wrongthinkers!
Looks like she’ll be forever relegated to government jobs.
Instead of auditing them.
#AllJobsMatter!
I wonder if it is like weenie girl?”
I like how she blames conservatives for her threatening to be all stabby. Suck it you dumb cunte. (does adding an e to that word tone it down or turn it up?)
Turns it up for this crowde.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMUDVMiITOU
I can’t decide whether I feel sorry for her because she’s hot or I feel sorry for her because I cancel culture is ridiculous. On the other hand fuck that bitch who would have no problem firing anyone for having even moderate views.
There’s literally nothing to feel sorry for.
Don’t lie. If she were unattractive you would give her no benefit of the doubt. Imagine 200 lb pink-hair charging at you across the savannah.
Strangely, Im aroused.
Do go on…..
She’s got a nose piercing that’s an honest-to-god rhino horn.
Absolutely this. I had situation like this in the Air Force. The “hottest” chick in the squadron stole the number to our phone card and used it to call her parents and old boyfriend. (Yes, we lived in cushy dorm with a private bathroom/phone/cable.) When we got the long distance charges the three of us were accusing each other. We easily figured out who it was by calling the two numbers. My roommates wanted to let her slide. The bill wasn’t in my name so I said do what you want, I’m not paying. Stupid men thinking with their little heads.
It’s beauty privilege.
That’s a nice way to put it.?
Feel sorry for her? You joking? There are so many people suffering from things not their fault that I have no sympathy left over for some privileged, self entitled cupid stunt who wrecked her own cushy life before it even got started.
“wrecked her own cushy life”
WTF? She got fired from a private sector job. She’ll have a cushier life in the public sector.
Hey at least they aren’t getting both Colombus and Juneteenth as paid time off.
I read about this in the morning, and when my wife told me last night that she had been fired, I did feel bad. It isn’t that I feel sorry for her, but that a lot of people who otherwise dislike cancel culture are going to give this a pass.
The appropriate response for a kid like her mouthing off is for some- any- adult in her life to tell her to stop being such a bitch. If she keeps it up, then there should eventually consequences. (And I foresee her taking exactly the opposite lesson from this as well, btw).
At the end of the day, Cancel Culture needs to stop. Not because it is targeting people I agree with (which it inordinately does do), but because it is a gawdawful practice from which nothing good will come. The ACLU defended Nazi protestors not because they agreed with the Nazis, but because they felt the denial of first amendment rights was wrong, regardless of who it targeted.
At the end of the day, Cancel Culture needs to stop.
Pragmatically, how does it stop? There’s no adult in the room to put their foot down and make the shit go away, so the choices are
1) boycott any company that participates in cancel culture (which seems a bit ironic)
2) keep waging an asymmetrical war where one’s politics is a factor weighed when deciding to cancel
3)wage a symmetrical war where those who cancel have to live in fear of being cancelled.
4) You could start speaking up against cancel culture. When people gloat about a favored target being canceled, you could make a statement similar to the one I just made. If you have social media, you could respond to people calling for canceling and make similar arguments.
If you think what happened to this girl is any sort of “victory” in a political war, you are wrong. A teenager just had her life ruined. NONE of her allies will see this as a learning lesson. They will see it as yet more reason to hate Trump. Indeed, she may even come out of this as some sort of martyr.
Nothing was gained for “our” side by canceling this girl, other than a cheap thrill that will be forgotten in a week or two.
I don’t see her as a victim of cancel culture. I see her as a victim of her own stupid mouth.
Cancelling someone for having the wrong political opinions is not the same as refusing to hire someone who makes public rants about stabbing people.
A teenager just had her life ruined.
Well, she brought it entirely on herself, so I don’t think the passive tense is appropriate.
And her life isn’t ruined. She lost a cushy job, her first one, which she probably wouldn’t have had for more than a few years. New grad turnover at shops like Deloitte is sky high.
She’ll get another job. She won’t miss a meal, spend a night without a roof over her head, or go barefoot in handmedown clothes. Her life isn’t ruined. Rather, she has been offered a life lesson ,which, if she will learn it, will benefit her in the long run.
Established mid and late career professionals who get cancelled, OTOH, take a much bigger hit. They had more to lose, and it was taken from them.
Cancelling someone for having the wrong political opinions is not the same as refusing to hire someone who makes public rants about stabbing people for having the wrong political opinions.
Just a public spanking in the front yard. We need those life’s lessons from time to time. It’s a learning process,
One can have a little empathy for her without feeling bad but tomorrow brings another new day.
You could start speaking up against cancel culture.
Again, pragmatically, how does it stop?
I could scream until I’m blue in the face, and nothing will change. The people who would listen already agree with me. Everybody else will either ignore me or weaponize their cancel culture against me. These people are not rational thinkers . They are emoters who have never been spanked, never been inconvenienced even. They’re utterly unaware of the consequences that come with their actions and of the blowback that comes when you start trying to fuck up otherwise peaceful people’s lives.
I applaud this blowing up in her face because maybe somewhere, somebody will see this and realize that it isn’t all a game. That real consequences will impact them personally if they keep doing this anti-social bullshit, and then there’s one less agitator/activist/social media goon in the world. Nothing I can say or do will change even one mind, but this girl’s “misfortune” can.
Also, I don’t buy into the sad sorry sob story of the idiot teenager needing to be coddled and allowed to make mistakes. Fuck that. She would have shown no mercy if you were at the pointy end of the stick, but somehow when she’s at the pointy end, it’s time to reevaluate the situation. No, she does adult things, she reaps adult consequences. Too bad, so sad if her parents fucked her up to the point where she was ignorant of the real world. You have to learn at some point.
Most have already made my argument, but I’ll put a finer point on it. This isn’t cancel culture IMO. This is a company realizing that an employee is obviously unhinged and making a business decision. I don’t doubt there is some thought to optics and whatever, but anyone who owns a business, sees that video and doesn’t immediately say, “That is not the kind of person we want working here.”, is likely not in a “real” business, I.e., they are focused on SJW stuff, not actually making money or providing a product or service.
Some poser company will soon offer her an even better and higher paying job, with much ballyhoo, to show how woke they are. Won’t take more than a day, just watch.
It’s just a tinge of sympathy. A smidgen if you will. I also chuckled while watching the video.
You know she supports background checks on damn near everything, which is why she said “stab” instead of ‘shoot”.
Invisible Finger: good one.
I feel like knives would be #2 on the list of background checks for damn near everything.
One of the few slots that Harvard allows Asians to have, and she wastes it. SMDH.
“Boron” I seen that.
It’s an elemental part of the links.
That pun was rarified.
This is a noble thread.
Will it Pb to a narrow gaze?
Na
Don’t be salty bacon.
I periodically keep salt on the table.
Am I the only person who is irritated by the redefinition of “salty” from “coarse and tough” to “whiny?”
ALL OF YOU…
*Narrows gaze*
Ah the rarest element of all…Squintium.
The little known seventh noble gas?
Health officials are investigating a new cluster of eight or more COVID-19 cases in Rockland County tied to a large party earlier this month, but they’re running into trouble with contact tracing because people refuse to cooperate.
I’m pleased to see that some people still exhibit the spirit of resistance*.
*Resistance to actual tyranny, not “muh Drumpftard bad orange man fascist #resist”.
I’m guessing they might be (((people))) and good for them.
That is a good guess. I can’t imagine a lot of non-them in Rockland County partying. Too bad they will be dragged through Process though.
“New York has been the nation’s most-impacted COVID state by far, with nearly 400,000 confirmed cases and almost 25,000 confirmed virus fatalities, though officials acknowledge both tolls are likely much higher.”
Or much lower…
Wow. You mean 20% of the deaths are from one state? And that state’s governor is having his balls licked daily by the media while the governor of Texas whose death rate is
::checks notes::
1/20th that of New York is being pilloried for how he handled it?
Gee, you’d almost think that doesn’t make any fucking sense whatsoever.
I might be inclined to be unconcerned with the deaths of so many Democrats.
That’s a bit harsh.
Plus, they killed a shitload of retirees. They were probably some of the last holdout non-Dems in the state.
It can’t be harsh if I used a weasel-word like “might”. Journalism has taught me well.
Sources familiar with IF’s thinking confirm that he’s a shitlord.
Here in Ohio, we’ve got breathless articles talking about at least SEVEN people were infected at Put-In-Bay over 4 days!
Obviously, we need to shut it all down, and cower in place until the world ends in fire.
Where we are there have been zero new cases for over a week and zero deaths. The cases will climb, naturally, as everyone gets out and about but we didn’t kill our senior population for political ends. I still think this shut down drama was bullshit. Pretty sure Wifey had it back in Feb. I was sniffly for a day or two.
That incompetent clown Tam hasn’t shut the fuck up now using ‘resurgence’ as her new word. A week ago it was ‘explode’. And before that ‘second waves’.
If you’re still toeing and listening to the government line on this, you’re a bigger dumbass than I thought.
People here are disregarding. That Tam thing is the worst.
I mean I’m as suspicious of messages from the media as anyone but I keep hearing and reading about politicians up here enjoying increased popularity for their handling of this crisis. Wouldn’t surprise me much if it were true.
That’s a Canadian thing where you drink coffee through a knockoff Kit-Kat, right?
AT LEAST!!!
That has absolutely nothing to do with his brother being the news anchor of a major media outlet. Absolutely nothing. Really. Absolutely nothing.
Golf shirt boy handing his ass to Fredo was pretty sweet.
I think it’s more likely that Fredo has his job because Vito was a governor with a (D) after it.
The fact that the vast majority opinion on Twitter is that the subpoenas are a good and necessary idea pretty much kills any hope I had for any sort of organized pushback by the populace. People apparently want to be ruled this way.
Meanwhile the ACLU has spent the last week hammering away on transgender issues. it’s all a very unfunny joke…
Twitter is not even representative of the majority of Democrat voters.
Boron: Its not funny when you do it on purpose.
I swear on the lives of my children that wasn’t on purpose. Blame Apple.
There are lies, good lies and damn dirty lies, Sloop.
Yeah, but this time I’m telling the truth!
It’s not like my links aren’t full of daily typos.
Is there anything apple can’t screw up?
I don’t know about Apple, but the Devil himself couldn’t make the Android “spell checker” any worse than it is.
robc – trust me, it never is on purpose.
Thank you!
Jeez, after this long you’d think everyone would realize I’m not clever enough to do that and that I type like absolute shit.
Fuck. I just discovered html links. I’ll be like Grandma when she learns about Facebook!
I figured two days in a row, the 2nd one had to be on purpose.
“Historic numbers of background checks to purchase or possess a firearm were done in June, a trend in a year marked by uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, a subsequent economic recession, protests over racial injustice and calls to reduce police funding.”
Also, weren’t gun stores closed in some areas?
Yes.
I’m pretty sure I can’t buy a gun right now.
Can’t you go to a neighboring state and purchase a long gun? Or does NY forbid that too?
NY wouldn’t know about it, since they don’t require registration for long guns that aren’t “assault weapons(R)(TM)(UL)(K)”
It would depend on whether the seller would sell to a non-resident.
Doesn’t federal law prohibit an FFL from selling to a resident of another state?
Only if the state prohibits it. Otherwise, you can purchase a long gun in an adjacent state.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/qa/may-licensee-sell-firearm-nonlicensee-who-resident-another-state
Well that clears that up.
Or am I just fucking retarded for not being able to parse that without a dry erase board?
Needs to be legal in the state where you live AND the state where you buy the gun.
This is why you should get a kitchen table FFL on speed dial. Gunbroker never closes.
Still closed.
I don’t know anyone that has an FFL, so even if I were to order a cheap chromed Tokarev off the internet, there’d be no way for me to take possession of it.
And I have no idea if the Sheriff’s office is processing amendments.
Gunbroker maintains lists of FFLs willing to do transfers. I bet there’s one in your area.
Funny how they left out rioting, insurrection, and crime waves.
Nah, read again: “…protests over racial injustice…”.
“peaceful” is what they left out.
While you hit the only one of note, the other baseball birthday for today is one of the all-time great names: Angel Pagan.
Simultaneously a boriqueño ballplayer, and someone running a Wiccan listserv and geocities page.
Even better than Miroslav Satan!
Zeus Agnostipopolus hardest hit.
FBI numbers released Wednesday show that 3.9 million background checks were conducted last month, the most since the system was created in November 1998 to ensure felons and other prohibited people could not buy or possess a firearm. The previous monthly record came in March, when 3.7 million checks were done. Each week in June is now in the top 10 weeks for background checks.
Piers Morgan has a sad.
Piers Morgan
@piersmorgan
BREAKING: Just when you thought the news couldn’t more depressing…8.3 million guns have been sold in the United States since March, meaning 2020 is on course to be the biggest year for gun sales in American history.
George III shares your sentiment.
Fuck you, Limey.
Well, it is depressing! I wanted to buy some more 5.7 and it is marked up at least 50% over its normal price.
And the selection of available guns is pretty fuckin’ sad, too!
Their instinctive animus disposition about guns is irrational.
And on queue, this story popped up in my news feed:
Who would have thought that
riotspeaceful protests would inspire people to arm up?on cue.
Stop waiting in lines for propaganda.
I realized my error right after clicking post. I blame it on dealing with the support queues all day.
“The suspect climbed out of the car and up the cliff, where deputies took him into custody. No injuries were reported, the sheriff’s office said.”
Wow.
Whelp. The cat got out the front door again…”
“Civil unrest, rioting, looting and calls to defund police are unquestionably motivating factors of why this trend is increasing. Americans are right to be concerned for their personal safety,” said Mark Oliva, director of public affairs for the group.
Oliva said gun purchases are a reasonable reaction to the political climate.
Sounds like fake news from the White Supremacy News Media Monopoly.
Indians bring their baggage with them and it is Cisco’s fault?
Cisco is supposed to beat it out of them. Or something.
I knew an Indian in college who blamed a bad grade from an Indian prof on the caste system.
Considering he also punched out the glass from the office of a Turkish prof (who was the chillest prof I ever met, I can’t imagine any conversation with him escalating to get that bad, yet I saw it happen — the punch, not the conversation leading up to it), I am siding with the prof in the former issue too.
It’s their faultThey’re liable when they allow it to occur in violation with the law and their employment agreements, yes.That article has been popping up in my newsfeed since yesterday. I’m staying way the fuck away from it.
Right?
We can argue if hostile workplace laws should exist, but given that they do Cisco is obligated not to allow a hostile workplace.
I would say even without the laws, IF you want to run a sucessful company AND you hire a significant number of Indians, you have to have a policy in place to prevent this from happening. I worked with a lot of great Indian coworkers, but I also have seen some crap happen.
^This
you have to have a policy in place to prevent this from happening
I mean, they most certainly have a policy that says “doing this shit is cause for termination”, but good luck not getting sued…oh wait.
If Cisco loses, a lot of big companies that use the hordes of H1-B programmers are going to lose their minds.
I’ve worked with countless groups of Indian developers and that shit goes on all the time. I don’t know what the rules are, but they sure do. And it often results in the really smart guy having to do the scut work like taking notes and shit, while the dummies from rich families blather on and on.
Also, do sexism too. Indian guys are complete shit to the Indian women they work with.
Yep. I work on a team that’s about 50/50 white/Indian and it’s obvious there are so many unwritten rules I’ll never understand.
??
My experience with Indian engineers was sub-optimal. It was particularly bad in our UK division.
I got lucky (at Cisco) and was on a team (of Indians) that was pretty well americanized, at least in the caste sense. They all had proper disdain for the team in Bangalore, but that was more to do with them being job hopping hacks than anything else.
You wanna talk about discrimination at Cisco? The Chinese teams are where to look. A guy in the same hiring class as me ended up on a Chinese team, and they’d speak in Mandarin during team meetings, despite him not speaking a word of it, and despite them all being fluent in English. It took him about a year and a half to be accepted on the team, after he taught himself enough Mandarin to show an interest in their culture.
When I was later temporarily put under a Chinese manager, it was clear that he saw me as lazy/unmotivated (I presumed because I was the white guy on the team). He constantly bitched about the fact I was going to law school at night, even though it had been approved and the other managers said that my work product and work ethic were excellent.
“LOOK AT THIS LAZY FUCK OVER HERE GOING TO LAW SCHOOL AFTER HIS DAY JOB”
“Beg pardon?”
“I went to law school after my SECOND DAY JOB, roundeye!”
“Why do you still work here?”
“WHITE SUPREMACY”
It’s more like “If you have the time and energy to do that, you should instead devote it to My projects. Unpaid.”
This. There were a lot of ways he found to say “I don’t think that work is your #1 priority, and I don’t like it”. Of course, I hadn’t received a raise in the 3 years I had worked there, and my next manager was surprised that I hadn’t left the company given how little I was being paid compared to my contributions to the team, but yeah, still had my dedication called into question by this guy, repeatedly. After a couple months, I asked to be transferred to a different team.
Gee, you’d almost think that doesn’t make any fucking sense whatsoever.
You’re wearing the wrong glasses.
My county just sent an amber alert out for spiking Covid cases in the county and state, which they previously have not done. Hoo boy, welcome to Operation Enduring Charlie Foxtrot 2020 (stolen from a “tactical” morale patch site). Wonder how long till shutdown part 2.
Lockdowns will continue until morale stops improving.
Colorado says don’t hold my beer.
I guess Polis is trying his best to make sure Lauren Boebert is elected.
An amber alert?
Kidnapped Kovid Karens?
The push alert to your cell phone. I’m assuming that is the same tech that got forced on wireless carriers to enable amber alerts.
As we were leaving Houston yesterday for the picturesque town of Alice (ha!), we saw a “CLEAR ALERT” on the highway signs.
I had no idea that was even a thing. And now that I do, I think they could have come up with something better for it.
The highway signs up here in Cleveland are telling us to socially distance and wash our hands.
They say something along those lines when I enter Harris County. When I get back in Montgomery County, they tell you what traffic is like up ahead.
Glad I moved from one to the other.
Our state highway signs always told us to stay home. I laughed as I drove by them each day solely for non-essential personal errands. Now they are touting how our new “hands free” law took effect July 1. I’m so glad Indiana has a super-majority of conservative republicans. Fucking assholes pass more laws than the democrats.
“Don’t hold your phone while in the car. It’ll take your attention from the cars in front of you!”
-sign above the roadway that takes your attention from the cars in front of you
To further that, Now, when I’m doing something on my phone in the car it will be in my lap, so no one can see it. Before I would hold it up near the wheel, so at least my peripheral vision could still see things.
Don’t get me wrong, we should all probably put our phones away while driving. But we don’t and human nature isn’t going to allow that to change.
I used to think they probably wouldn’t go after other distracted driving causes like car radios or drive thru food. After the last couple of months, I’m not so sure.
I know the state troopers have in GA. Not sure if it was a specific law or the FYTW clause of a more general distracted driving law.
“But we don’t“
I do. The only time I look at my phone while in the driver’s seat is if I am using the map to navigate. I have a phone mount for that purpose on the dash.
I have a GPS on a stand on the dash in front of the steering wheel, so I don’t use the inferior maps made for phones.
I bought it because I couldn’t stand the phone maps.
I’m not saying there aren’t exceptions to my comment. But I still continue to see people on phones in other states that have already banned it. If it causes an accident, it’s already covered with different reckless driving statutes. The law is just further authoritarianism.
Wow.
We seriously have to be shaken out of this craziness.
“Shaking Adult Syndrome cases spike. Trump largely to blame.”
-NYT, October 14, 2020
An armed electorate is an insolent electorate.
Citizens are armed. Subjects are not.
“Beecher School District 200U” is not “Chicago Public Schools”.
Beecher is not even in Cook County.
PHAKE NEWZ!!!!!
In my defense, I only read so far into the story. Plus, CPS probably offered him a job after he was fired from the other one.
He moonlights at Beecher Tool & Die.
Beecher Meats – “You can’t beat our meat!”
/How I first heard of the Village of Beecher
Slogan of a Minneapolis kosher delicatessen, 50+ years ago: “You can’t beat Abram’s meat”.
Bloomberg is hammering a “statistic” from Florida about the rapid fall of the median age of plague victims. “It’s not just an old people’s disease, anymore!”
What is the severity of symptoms? have any of those youngsters croaked?
Not pertinent. Cleave to the narrative.
I’m sure there was no mention of the protests, the type of tests (anti-body v. active), or why they were tested.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/07/01/marc-siegel-coronavirus-texas-hospital-surge/
As they’re sent home with mostly cold-like symptoms.
I truly hope someone is culling all these hyperbolic stories and lies and putting them neatly into a book so people can see how it wasn’t science that’s driving this but naked fear and superstition.
It would be a page turner of putting a spotlight on shame.
Same thing here in Sodom on the Salish Sea. Seattle newspaper, mystified about covid cases rising among younger cohorts, reports that research shows no connection with huge crowded masses of people paying homage to St. George deFloyd.
Or to Chop
Frankly, a few hundred protesters doesn’t compare to tens or hundreds of thousands of people going to restaurants, etc.
You’re probably right. But the need to rationalize and dismiss the protest from legacy media is the alarming part. Even if they aren’t causing it, the media is going out of their way to defend them.
“…’the nerve, the sheer entitled caucasity to say ‘All Lives Matter.’”
Apparently Harvard never taught Ms. Janover that outfits like Deloitte make pretty much all their money from People of Caucasality.
Next up: @Hotspur. Only 2 pts behind them, but they have a game today.
Hmmm…Tottenham @ Sheffield U,…I guess I want a draw?
That would be the best outcome for you guys. But no doubt that yesterday’s result was huge.
Man, there’s a logjam from 7 to 13 in the table. The run in is gonna be fun.
Arsenal is going to win the FA Cup and screw everything up, arent they?
I mean, I’m not taking Arsenal over City.
No. City need some hardware. They’re set for top four, the UCL won’t get going again until after the FA Cup (I think), and the Gooners are still a rudderless ship.
Except Europa league is even more of a curse this year. If you can’t get 5th, you want to be 8th.
I also think we already have our relegation teams.
Watford is only 1 pt clear, I don’t think the relegation abattle is over. I think it will be Villa and Bournemouth going down, but a freak win and Watford goes down instead.
Pretty sure Villa has all three of the other bottom four teams left on their schedule. They have more control of their own destiny than anybody else.
So, that just guarantees Villa goes down?
I think you are thinking of West Ham. Villa does not have an easy schedule left.
And West Ham vs Villa is last game of the season.
Everyone from Southampton up is safe.
Back in Montana. Stayed in whatever they call that place across the river from Chamberlain, South Dakota, Tuesday night. Walked in, got a room, no big deal.
The campground across the road was PACKED.
“Workers are left to clean up huge piles of trash and tents left behind by protesters at Seattle’s CHOP after it was finally cleared following two deadly shootings and a 525% spike in crime”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8480689/CHOP-clean-Bulldozers-crush-camp-Seattles-cop-free-zone.html
So what’s Chicago’s excuse?
So CHOP anarchists don’t believe in leaving it as you found it? Or packing out more than you pack in?
It’s only private property, it doesn’t have value. It’s not like it’s personal property, or government property.
Hmmm… seems weird they’d leave tents behind. Tents aren’t exactly cheap, and I didn’t get the impression that the occupiers had to leave in a hurry. Maybe they were donated?
Maybe they were donated?
From their parents.
“Tents aren’t exactly cheap”
Some of them are. You can buy them at Walmart for $20 – 30.
Do you mean to tell me they bought tents at Walmart and not artisanal tents crafted by hand from artists at boutique shops?
The only artisanal tents crafted by naked hippies was Stephenson.
They are Warmlite now. No idea if they are still “naturists”
“warmlite” is a terrible way to market that you’re “Walmart lite”…or maybe I have no Idea what you’re talking about.
Definitely Thicc.
Their equipment was fantastic for the time. I used one of their sleeping bags on Denali and I stayed warm the entire time.
Yikes. But yeah, my perspective is that of a backpacker (now SUP camper – bad knees) who doesn’t take chances with bad gear.
If by “donated” you mean “left behind when the guy who brought it found larger smellier people occupying it,” then yes.
Ah, so, they’re living like bottom feeding scavengers a la hermit crabs.
Guessing the tents were ruined by excessive partying and/or bodily fluids. They probably looted them from a Target anyway.
So what’s Chicago’s excuse? – republican leadership
A name! A name! What’s in a name?!
WBZ | CBS Boston News
@wbz
Boston University May Change Mascot Rhett’s Name Due To ‘Gone With The Wind’ Reference
This is just retarded. Also, we should cancel Shakespeare. I will report to the local thoughtcrime division for processing due to my obviously hateful and insensitive reference.
That link is good for my diabetes.
Sweet!
https://twitter.com/wbz/status/1278392751701348360
Are you kidding me? The great figures of that period are next. Watch.
“This shouldn’t have been unexpected.”
Apparently, it’s Trump’s fault.
“Harvard grad blames Trump supporters for being fired from her ‘dream job’ at Deloitte after posting a TikTok saying she’d STAB anyone who said ‘All Lives Matter'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8481777/Harvard-grad-shared-TikTok-video-against-Lives-Matter-fired-job.html
Probably the first time in her life that she has had serious consequences for one of her actions.
??
“Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee.” – Epictetus
Have some meandering blather about what a pit Facebook is and how that poopyhead Zuck should be ashamed of himself or something.
No solutions offered either.
I was subjected, via speaker phone, to a conversation between my brother and his wife, and their hipster techboi son who lives in Seattle, about the CHOP: “Oh, it’s cool. It’s like a big farmers’ market. We haven’t actually been there, but people say…”
Also got to hear about how good and conscientious Seattlites are about being good little boys and girls and wearing their masks.
I tried not to laugh audibly.
I tried not to laugh audibly.
Why? These people need mocked. I’m getting to the point that I could cut family ties over this. It’s all just too ridiculous.
Same here.
They try to shame you with their anti-science, faux-virtuous signalling and for not being ‘courteous’ and ‘following orders’.
Turn that right back on them.
I’m a discourteous racist. So be it.
Fuck them. That’s how I approach it now.
I’m almost reduced to a two sentence vocabulary: “I don’t care” and “go fuck yourself.” Since no one wants to listen to facts, reason or data, I’ve given up on trying.
“I tried not to laugh audibly.”
Instead you just started a new conversation?
“Twitter escalates their feud with Donald Trump by removing a meme saying ‘they’re not after me, they’re after you’ after the New York Times said the photo breached copyright”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8481949/Twitter-removes-photo-Trump-tweet-copyright-violation-complaint-New-York-Times.html
This shit is getting way out of hand.
Expect more of this as Trump uses copyrighted videos of Biden stepping on his own dick.
Fair use for parody is just dead. But never fear…it’ll return once badorangeman is gone.
Dood, just go to Gab already. You can simulpost on Twatter, but everyone’ll go to Gab to see the uncensored version.
Of course, the meme is 100% correct.
Via @NYTimes
:
“Throughout human history, three caste systems have stood out.”
India, Nazi Germany, United States
https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1278400259887153152
And you people want me to visit this country…
Twitter’s caste system seems to stand out.
Also Journalisms.
To be fair, it sometimes provides good comedy. EG, #MaxwellDidntKillHerself is currently trending.
What a laughably retarded article.
South Africa says, “Hi”.
The complete and utter fall of the New York Times the last two weeks has been spectacular. These people have been exposed as total and utter morons to everyone. Never again do I want to hear about how smart our intellectual class is in comparison to anyone.
Two weeks? More like two decades.
Well yes. But the last two weeks have been the steepest part of the decline.
I’m surprised they picked India instead of Israel. Though I’m sure the Indian caste system is all Britain’s fault. What a laughably parochial view of history. The Ottoman Empire existed for a lot longer than Nazi Germany and had a massive slave economy and special taxes for certain groups of people. They also had special positions for castrated men. Then there’s China, and Egypt, and Greece, and Rome, and well just about every long-lasting empire throughout history.
Wow.
Ironically, if there’s indeed a USA caste system, who do you fricken think is in it?
Ivy leagues, NYT, etc. All left-wing progressive jerk offs.
What do you hear when two Englishmen first meet?
A: Silence. Each one tries to get the other to speak first.
If the US is a caste system, i guess India and Nazi Germany were not so bad then… / Be careful when you try to twist reality, reality will bite back.
“‘Whoever gets COVID first gets the pot’: Alabama students ‘intentionally’ throw coronavirus parties to see who can get infected first – with the ‘winner’ taking home money, official says”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8482399/Alabama-students-intentionally-throw-coronavirus-parties-infected-first.html
“City councilor Sonya McKinstry said people were putting money in a pot and taking it home if they became ill first”
Am I a nazi, or does she look like an Oompa Loompa?
Both cant be true?
Embrace the “and”.
Lol.
They know this thing is in line with the flu/pneumonia/cold only with a spicier coriander kick.
coronavirus parties – make it orgies while your at it
condoms would increase the level of PPE involved, which would be counterproductive to the stated purpose.
I fully support this, knowing they won’t get really sick.
If I knew they’d get sick, on the other hand, I’d support it more.
I wonder how hard they would freak out over the Robin Hanson suggestion regarding variolation and “Hero Hotels”.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/03/variolation-may-cut-covid19-deaths-3-30x.html
So like a college version of a pox party?
Or a rainbow party.
Good. Obviously these people are getting ready for Crimson Tide Football.
ISTR some jail where inmates were passing around cups trying to get the ‘vid as a get out of jail free card.
Good for them. Those who do get it will be immune and pass the point of being contagious by the time school starts. If most of them got it, herd immunity would help out the whole school.
“Mayor Durkan said there has been a 525% spike in violent crimes, including rape and assault, in the area”
WHICH SHE LET HAPPEN.
She’s gonna get impeached right?
Right?
including rape – some women don’t know they should take one for the revolution
Lie back and think of Antifa.
Happy belated Canada Day Rufus.
http://archive.li/iaXou/cc3764e6dde7e4536bbe43942e65f2774939bd6b.jpg
Wait I thought canada was to cold for swimwear
Well, they are inside. Indoor pool?
I don’t accept belated anythings.
*removes Rufus’ belated Canada Day check from the mail*
She didnt let anything happen. She facilitated it.
Impeached? She is an avowed commie. She should be hanged.
Like I said before, some politician is going to catch a bullet before this is over.
Thot Thursday asks the question.
http://archive.li/C5Iyy
2 11 15
European Parliament members’ offices burgled during lockdown
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/01/europe/eu-brussels-coronavirus-offices-intl/index.html
*giggles*
“1979 horoscope i am fucking begging you to read this”
https://twitter.com/friends3000/status/1277807921594851333
That is not a horoscope.
Fucking dilettantes.
Horrorscope?
The UK has seriously violated intl law and basic norms by offering HK BNO holders the right of abode. HK affairs are China’s internal affairs and no country has the right to interfere. China reserves the right to respond & the UK will bear all consequences: FM spokesperson
https://twitter.com/PDChina/status/1278612134067236864
That doesn’t make any sense. PRC propaganda is nothing if not tiresome.
Who the UK will offer residency/citizenship to is its internal affairs, so wouldn’t retaliation bvy China “seriously violate intl law and basic norms”?
Shut up,
MegChris.Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes
Just remembered when I was little kid I was strictly forbidden from watching the Dukes of Hazzard by my mom because of the flag on the car. Good work, mom!
I find leftist idol-worship* and censorship disturbing. (Never mind the fact that the Hazzard boys stood against corruption in the local government…)
*I assume this is their problem with statues. For some reason they think 1) Every person who has a statue has to meet their definition of perfection and 2) The think people who have statues are to be worshiped.
Bullshit
This is a lie.
It’s the perfect kind of lie. It’s vapid and can’t be proven or disproven.
It’s not only a lie it takes one gigantic cucked asshole to say the publicly.
Think of where we are. Passing judgment on a stupid show from the 80s is fair game and seen as some kind of virtuous act.
Again. Irrational.
My parents were the opposite. No governing of what we watched of any kind.
i remember one time we rented ‘Fritz the cat’ (I was maybe 13) and my future brother in law and sister (eight years senior) casually walked by asking if ‘ma regulates anything we watch’.
My brother was 10. Oh how we enjoyed it.
My buddy and I rented the godawful sequel “The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat” when we were about the same age. Definitely before high school. Thanks mom.
My response to such people is along the lines of, “Is your faith in [name it] so weak that mere words and images can shake it?”
I like it, I sometimes use a similar angle when arguing about campaign spending (“How much would person-you-hate have to spend on a commercial before you’d vote for them?”)
For those who think the suburbs will be safe. Biden and Dems Are Set to Abolish the Suburbs. He’s pushing the Cory Booker plan to strip suburban towns of all zoning authority.
what about burbclave?\
Anyhoo suburbs suck or so I am told.
Suburbs suck for the right reason: they’re boring. They tend to have low crime rates and middle class people living behind white picket fences with kids playing in the yard or on their Playstations or whatever the hell it is kids do now.
I don’t know if my mom’s place counts as a suburb. I think not. I consider it a village that is adjacent to the city.
“Exurb”
I consider it a village that is adjacent to the city.
We call that a “bedroom community” around here — as in, people work in the city during the day and go back to their houses/bedrooms in the surrounding towns/villages at night.
Well the suburbs are where the real money’s at; gotta find a way to loot them and prop up your decaying urban zones.
Can we strip all towns of all sizes of all zoning authority?
Zoning is 1) a violation of property rights and 2) a 5th amendment takings
Also, and I have a related article idea brewing in my head, but I would limit deed restrictions to 25 years.
I knew somebody would react that way.
*Buys robc’s neighbor’s house and starts building a warehouse*
That would be an improvement over the current neighbors and their dogs.
I am okay with it.
Seriously. If I don’t want a warehouse next door, I will buy the property.
I had this issue once, there was an empty lot next to my house that I didnt want built on. The owner wanted too much for the empty lot or I would have bought it. 15 years later, and 3 houses later for me, it still hasnt been built on.
I didn’t have the money to buy the apartment building next door when it was last foreclosed upon. I thought about it to reduce the number of neighbors, but it would probably be both cheaper and easier to just get a house further from the city.
I actually did have the money to buy some land that the town was getting rid of — but of course, that’s only because they had lowballed the price to give their connected buyer a break. And since they would only agree to sell the land to you once they had approved your usage plans post-sale, there was no chance of anyone overbidding the intended recipient.
Either robc has an ownership stake in that property or he doesn’t. Now where zoning might have a defense is not of zoning itself, but that before it can be abandoned, the myriad of other bad things that have been done that have caused zoning to be necessary must also be unwound. I’m not sure I buy that argument, but it is one.
skimming through the article though it seems like it is a bunch of social engineering plans to urbanize everywhere. Everywhere needs to be Urban downtowns. Except when white people move into the urban area and make it nice, that’s wrong. That is evil gentrification.
“we” “need” more mixed use. Its the way people build when you don’t have restrictions. We also need lots of privatization of government services so that costs are born more properly. Lots of suburbs should realistically be on septic tanks and well water instead of sewers and city water. Or have a much higher water bill.
There’s nothing to suggest people would build more mixed use without restrictions. You might get some mixture of retail + apartments, but even then I think the demand is lower than urban fetishists want to believe.
I think within urban areas, there would be more of it, because that is what people have always done. It creates the highest value model.
Outside of urban areas, people have tended to separate historically, for a number of reasons, and mixed use would be less common.
In most urban areas, the older mixed use areas are the most productive. Usually, any pattern of high productivity gets repeated, but those high productivity areas are excluded by modern zoning.
Look how common it is for houses in “old” suburbs to get turned into offices or retail businesses. Of course people would do it without restrictions. Its part of the standard cycle of a neighborhood.
And, of course, if it didnt happen, who cares? The point is to create the freedom to allow it to happen. This is where I differ from the urban fetishists. I think they would get a lot of what they want in a zero zoning environment, but it would be chaotic (and smart).
I agree with the freedom to allow it, but part of the reason the freedom doesn’t exist is because the failed projects get abandoned. I just looked at a failed mixed use project a few weeks ago. Residents are fleeing because the commercial element is not filling as expected and residents have to make up the difference. Mixed use is just town politics on a reduced scale – which actually increases the risk.
Nobody needs more “projects.” Just allow mixed use, and let it happen.
My point was that the Democrat plan isn’t to meerly “Let the free market abide and abolish zoning”, it is to institute their own set of social engineering, that i see no point in applauding.
Zoning is 1) a violation of property rights and 2) a 5th amendment takings
Wait don’t you advocate the Georgist Land Rent, no ownership in land SLT position?
Can we strip all towns of all sizes of all zoning authority?
No, but on the bright side, you’re now permitted to marry your house.
Okay, THAT was funny.
“Horrifying moment a white woman pulls a handgun on a black family in a Michigan parking lot ‘after she bumped into them outside a Chipotle restaurant'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8482775/White-woman-filmed-pulling-gun-black-family-horrifying-confrontation.html
I’m thinking there is more to this story.
Idk dude people are fucking scared and fucking insane right now.
Maybe, maybe not. If I’ve learned anything over the last three months it’s that there are crazy people everywhere.
If incident in question is at the beginning of the video and not the middle then I don’t trust any conclusions drawn from it.
There usually is.
She looks like she felt threatened, was backing away and telling whoever is behind the camera to back off. Good trigger discipline (and fairly attractive, kinda milfy*). Will wait for more information to cast ultimate judgement.
*I suppose that makes me a bit biased.
Of course there’s far more – she’s being flanked in the video. She’s smart enough to see it.
And then she let out a loud fart.
The first video starts in the middle. The “extended video” shows her absolutely being crowded and flanked, and still doesn’t include how this all got started.
Whoever is filming her isn’t backing off even with a gun pointed at them. That tells me this was a provocation, a setup.
You can tell she’s had training, too. Good indexing, good grip, head on a swivel, no shrieking.
(Crying in a ball on the couch): “Trump supporters took my job away!”
I’m torn. I hate the online mobs who rush to take people’s livelihoods away, even hers, but that made me laugh. I’m a bad person.
Goose, gander, etc.
I’m not. I’m done giving any of those cuntes who are willing to attack, ban, or censor anything the benefit of the doubt.
They created this atmosphere….swim.
She made an explicit threat of violence. They didn’t fire her for some 15 year old tweet that used “gay” as a pejorative, they fired her for threatening to stab people for saying something she disagrees with.
This
You’d have to be insane to hire her. First time she acts out against another employee, that employee will be filing suit and rightly so.
true. But she’s hot.
But, it was obviously a joke, and I don’t think joking about violence = threat of violence. If so, I’d be fucked if twitter was around when I was younger because I’m sure I would have posted some shit like, “I’ll shoot the next motherfucker who I see put ketchup on a hotdog” or something equally lame and not really that funny, but meant as a joke.
It was probably some juvenile bluster, but obviously not the type of thing that Deloitte wants to be advertising to the their clients. They’re already at risk of having consulting contracts cancelled because of recession. Having her as the well-known face of Deloitte would just make it worse.
That said, I wouldn’t hire her because of the employment lawsuit risk.
I’d fire anyone for using Twitter.
But, it was obviously a joke,
I disagree. Sure, she is completely incapable of actually stabbing someone, but I don’t think she was joking.
Anybody would be a fool to hire her. She is a toxic person. But there are plenty of fools out there, so she’ll be fine.
Heck with it. Calling it a day. Have a good one, Glibs. Hopes and prayers to those of you in the minefield. Good night!
“after it was finally cleared following two deadly shootings and a 525% spike in crime”
Correction: after protesters went to the mayors house. I’d they’re fucking up things for the average citizen/business owner it’s just the Summer of Love, if they make the mayor feel a bit uncomfortable though the party’s over.
That’s the thing that’s the most horrifying about this. IF they hadn’t done that it would still be going on. Fuck that disgusting animal.
It was a strategic mistake on their part. I’d say they’ll learn from it but they, in their frenzy, can’t seem to help themselves right now.
They won’t learn until they get an actual leader who can think. Right now they’re a hydra. No direction or order, just chaos and (unearned) rage.
Maybe they can do a Voodoo ritual and reanimate Mao.
How true. I remember the first local Tea Party rally where it was no order and no leadership. Out of hundreds of signs, one Dad and his son had a sign saying “If you mention Obama’s name, I will knock you down.” Guess which sign made the newspaper? Guess what incident the eventual Tea Party leadership had to answer for every time thereafter? Same thing elsewhere with that one old lady who had a “Hands Off My Medicare” sign.
Imagine if a self proclaimed rightwing movement caused this amount of destruction and death. Oh wait we have Charlottesville and the media blamed Donald Trump himself apologize for the murder.
That’s the media though. They got to leftwing rallies, and walk past all the profane signs, walk past all the explicitly commie signs, until they find the most pleasant looking person with the “Love Wins!!!” sign, and that’s the front page picture.
“A movement is pioneered by men of words, materialized by fanatics, and consolidated by men of action.”
Currently we are in the fanatic stage.
It was a strategic mistake on their part.
I dunno, seems like, maybe, the mayors house is where it should have been the whole time.
If you’re still toeing and listening to the government line on this, you’re a bigger dumbass than I thought.
But Rufus, they are SCIENTISTS; Public Health Experts. You might think every single prediction they have made since the beginning has been completely wrong, but you’re not an expert. Humanity would be extinct if not for them.
Here’s my new hands-free phone invention. A phone holder on your anti-cootie face shield, so it’s right there in front of you. No looking away from the road.
We’ll be rich!
Augmented-reality windshield. Checks can be sent to…
Accurate England political compass
https://twitter.com/K_Niemietz/status/1278430989241462785
The MPs of both parties are the closest (but not very close at all) to the libertarian point. The conservative MPs are slightly closer than the Labour MPs.
I’m torn. I hate the online mobs who rush to take people’s livelihoods away, even hers, but that made me laugh. I’m a bad person.
Live by the lynch mob, die hanging from a lamppost.
Not at all surprising from WaPo, but I may have thrown-up in my mouth a lil bit.
George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people. Let’s start with their names.
George and Martha Washington enslaved 300 people.
And?
Austin
Moll
Giles
Ona Judge
Paris
Hercules
Joe
Richmond
Christopher Sheels
William Lee
So many problematic names.
Hercules ?
See, I have no problem with this kind of piece. It shows the fallibility of all men and how people we revere went about their daily lives.
We can still honor Washington’s great deeds and show that he wasn’t perfect.
No man is without sin. In fact, I’d love to see the same type of story written about the failings of every single prominent political figure throughout our nation’s history. It might have the unintended effect of more people distrusting authority and giving so much power to such a small number of people.
Lookit Mr Dreamer over there.
NPR had a story about an econ prof demanding that his employer Washington and Lee, drop the Lee.
The prof did not say he would resign rather than work for such a racist institution.
The prof did not demand that the university be dissolved and the proceeds donated to #BLM
When asked why he was OK with keeping the name of the slaveowner Washington, he said that there was an obvious difference, because Washington was a Founding Father and Lee was a traitor to his country. I swear I am not making that part up.
If treason prospers, none dare call it treason.
I have a big problem with it.
Because the WaPo is assuming their readership has the knowledge of a 7-year old. And while that may be true, it illustrates why circulation and web hits for WaPo and all newspapers in general keep trending downward. It was bad enough when newspapers assumed their readers had the knowledge of a 12-year old, but they keep dumbing the content down while wondering why readership drops. At this point, I don’t think MSM news outlets are capable of hiring anyone with a college-level knowledge of world civilizations, national history, science, or mathematics (especially the latter, as their revenues keep dropping).
I think it goes deeper than that. They’re not writing for their readers. They’re writing for themselves. And journalists are getting dumber every generation because J-schools are stressing actual journalism less and social signaling more. Expect them to be printing shit written in crayon by the 2030s.
True story: My first job was when I was 14 at a jews for jesus daycare. I wrote my letter of resignation in crayon the day before school started back up.
The place was a shitshow. The staff let me and the other 14 year old girl take care of entire rooms of children. To the point that former teachers launched an investigation that shut the place down.
Two 14 yr olds in charge of a room of kids doesn’t strike me as a problem.
I never went, but I’ve heard of this thing called summer camp…
You think people will be taught how to write with their hands in 2030???
That’s actually not true. Roughly half of those slaves were not “his” which seems nitpicky, but the reality was he couldn’t free them even if he wanted to (which he probably did). All of the slaves he could free, he did upon his death (with the exception of the very elderly and infirm whom he ordered to be cared for by the estate until their passing).
This doesn’t excuse him, by any means, but I can guarantee you that replacing the entirety of the circumstances with the Cuomo brothers, they’d have been far, far worse.
So today my XX tax deduction is 17. Soon I will not be able to deduct her. ?
Anyway, we have a bday tradition that we get donuts for bfast. Well, I have been low-carbing for the last couple of weeks and feeling pretty good. Lost about 3 pounds (shut up—I’m postmenopausal). I had 1 donut and half an Old Fashioned glass of milk. I am now blurgh.
I’m due at the cardiologist’s in half an hour for my annual checkup.
After my heart cath, the doc walked in and said “Mr Cool, I was expecting to put some stents in you, but your coronary arteries are all clear.”
I said, “I essentially live off greasy, fast-food. Can ya have another look?”
And good luck.
Thanks! I don’t expect anything other than a gentle barely there lecture.
So today my XX tax deduction is 17 – hmmmmm intriguing
She ran smack dab into heartbreak about 3 years ago. She’s not eager to do that again.
as I said before, I am only in it for the green card. No romance, sex, or other complications.
After how many years can one divorce and keep the green card?
After 5 years with a green card, I think you can apply for citizenship (it is not as easy as that sentence makes it sound).
3 years if married to a citizen!
Sorry, one or both of these excludes you:
Be able to read, write, and speak English and have knowledge and an understanding of U.S. history [NBA doesn’t count] and government (also known as civics)
Be a person of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the United States during all relevant periods under the law
compared to the average US born, I am sure I ace both those
Citizens born in America don’t even have an understanding of U.S. history.
“Citizens born in America don’t even have an understanding of U.S. history.”
Examiner : All right, here’s your last question. What was the cause of the Civil War?
Apu : Actually, there were numerous causes. Aside from the obvious schism between the abolitionists and the anti-abolitionists, there were economic factors, both domestic and inter…
Examiner : Wait, wait… just say slavery.
Apu : Slavery it is, sir.
From The Simpson’s DVD commentary, that was based on a true story. The writer’s wife was a history professor and foreign born, so when she got that question, it happened pretty much like with Apu.
Considering how this year is going, you could just wait a few months and fight the alien bug invasion.
Get screens for her windows and a chastity belt for the veins in her neck, ASAP.
I am okay with all that as long as I get an invitation to come
You just said you weren’t interested in sex??
No personal exemption deductions anymore anyway, but you will lose the child tax credit.
Yeup. I order our financial life around my Schedule C but I haven’t itemized personal deductions for years.
XY was due Dec 31 or something ridiculous and I demanded to be induced before then. “I have carried this child all year. I’ll be damned if I can’t deduct him for this year.” They thought I was nuts or cold-hearted or both.
Mojeaux — for what it’s worth, even though you lose the child tax credit, you still get the credit for other dependents for some amount of time (depending on the trajectory of your child). It’s only about a quarter of the CTC, but at least it’s something.
Uffda. So glad we opened our state to refugees fleeing oppression, so they could block traffic for two hours on an interstate to protest a shooting in Ethiopia!
No arrests made? That is bullshit. Sorry, but I’d have arrested them all and then let ICE know about their arrests. Fuck you assholes.
/face palm.
The traffic blockers are the worst.
If you’re blocking a public roadway, it should be within the rights of the drivers to use whatever force is necessary to clear the road.
What exactly was the goal, besides pissing off the residents who welcomed them?
The local Palis were blocking the streets outside my house for a couple hours yesterday. Probably instigated by that charming person Linda Sarsour (she lives around here). This is a regular occurrence but in the Before Times it never spread into the streets, just the sidewalk. You go, girl!
Newsom is asshole.
Hopefully people ignore this dictatorial charlatan.
Cisco kid was a friend of mine
Dalit drank aam panna, Punjab drank the wine
And they’re totes cool with large protests. Violence, or the threat thereof, certainly gets results it seems.
Good morning, Sloopy!
I hope your travels are going well.
That is indeed an underrated song. That man had style enough for a dozen dudes.
Pretty tragic to drop at 54, though.
He had a pretty successful collaboration with a couple of Kristen’s favorite heartthrobs, too.
I hope you and the rest of the miscreants have a fantastic day!
Posters carrying the slogan “it’s okay to be white” have been found in a Somerset town, sparking a police probe.
They were torn down on Sunday by Nailsea resident Shane Jones, who said he was “disgusted” and “shocked”.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-53246478
Rape? sorry no time. we investigating these here pieces of paper
One is to conclude that being white is therefore not okay in the UK, apparently.
you have to understand whiteness is not about skin as you may think but about about systemic structures of power permeating our society due to historic imbalances which are being weaponized in the current metanarrative of the 21st century to perpetuate oppression of bodies of other color
*hands Pie a diploma and some elbow stripes for his gown*
Now can I get a grant from a US university writing this shit? I am willing to wear blackface to be more diverse but not to cut my dick off
I would think that’s good enough for an H-1B visa to be an associate professor at any number of our fine higher education institutions in the US.
I tell ya, for a Romanian, you speak American academic gibberish like a native!
Self-loathing is A-OK
who said he was “disgusted” and “shocked”
So it is not ok to be white?
The Brits are a broken people.
We appear to be trying to emulate them.
I’m beginning to think the French have more sense than any of us.
Say what you will about the French, but they don’t fuck around when it comes to their culture and language.
Tell me again how to translate “cloud computing” into the French language?
Les American Follie
la folie americaine
Re corona porn. You have to figure at some point people will just tire of being scared, no?
I mean, I can see a ‘fuck this shit’ moment at some point.
You can’t be sending Amber alerts for five cases. At some point the little hamster Lemonwinks in people’s head is gonna say, ‘FFS will you snap out of it already?!’
There’s a large subset of the population that’s getting off on this so no, there won’t be a moment of clarity. If it didn’t happen with the progression of spring into summer it won’t happen at all.
“You have to figure at some point people will just tire of being scared, no?”
15% of the population is on anti-depressants. And that’s just people that actually sought help.
That’s depressing.
*hands Sensei a Zoloft prescription*
“Hrmm… we can’t fill this, it’s for some guy named Tulpa.”
They won’t because they aren’t really scared, it’s another weapon to bludgeon the people they hate. The middle class business owner and people who don’t feel the need to listen to them. These people are like the antismokers on steroids with politics interjected because it’s an election year.
You described my friend.
MUH MASKS! Now he’s vacationing in the Laurentians posting pics on the water.
Time travelling to a previous continental arrangement is pretty Baller.
I use the term “disaster LARP-ers” for them.
Nothing’s actually hurting them. They’re a mishmash of the TDS-ers, rule-followers, the over-socialized, and the bored/boring people who don’t have any actual meaning in their lives, and for whom this is finally a “disaster” for which they can have the feelz.
I certainly thought that would happen. But with even Texas and Florida (who are both doing fine!) re-closing bars now, I’ve lost all hope that enough people will snap out of it to make a difference. I hope I’m wrong again.
Interesting Maps
@lnterestingMaps
Electricity consumption in Europe in 1507
https://twitter.com/lnterestingMaps/status/1276200116739665920
The scale is probably the best part
I blame global warming
What a bunch of dumb-asses. I never want to hear about how smart and sophisticated Europeans are ever again.
New Gun Control Laws Take Effect In VA As Sales Soar Nationwide
The first pieces of Gov. Ralph Northam’s anti-gun agenda are now officially law in Virginia, though several of them are already subject to litigation in state court. As of July 1st, Virginians are subject to things like one-gun-a-month rations on handgun sales (not much of an issue at the moment given the run on firearms taking place across the country), new restrictions on concealed carry licensing, a “Red Flag” firearms seizure law, and so-called universal background checks.
On today’s Bearing Arms’ Cam & Co we dig into the constitutionality and enforceability of these new laws coming into effect, and how the surge in gun sales and new gun owners might impact Northam’s ability to enact the rest of his anti-gun agenda in the next session of the state legislature. Northam, remember, failed to pass the centerpiece of his gun control package this past session; a sweeping ban on the possession of modern sporting rifles, magazines that can accept more than ten rounds of ammunition, and lawfully owned and acquired suppressors. The governor has vowed to push the ban in the coming months, but with tens of thousands of Virginians estimated to have become a gun owner for the first time in their lives over the past few months, could Northam’s agenda be dead on arrival?
The governor has vowed to push the ban in the coming months, but with tens of thousands of Virginians estimated to have become a gun owner for the first time in their lives over the past few months, could Northam’s agenda be dead on arrival?
It doesn’t matter. The Dems don’t care. They will drive their agenda every opportunity possible, even knowing it will cost them in the next election. And it won’t in VA… the state’s a lost cause.
VCDL sent an email about how their speakers were mocked by council members in one NOVA county during a recent meeting to speak out against a local gun control bill that pass unanimously.
Yup. Unless they lose a majority in one of the houses of the legislature, they will pass it all.
The science is way ahead of the government at this point. But the sheep think the government is ahead of the science.
/cuts kiwi in half.
What do you have against small, flightless birds?
I thought New Zealand frowned on cannibalism now? Aren’t you afraid of starting a war between Canada and New Zealand for murdering one of their countrymen?
That would be a funny war, neither side has guns, and I don’t think they’ve trained with older weapons.
I remember watching a documentary in the ’80s where they carried big noives.
That wasn’t a Kiwi.
Now, THIS is a kiwi!
https://news.stanford.edu/2020/06/29/snapshot-new-working-home-economy/
“We see an incredible 42 percent of the U.S. labor force now working from home full-time. About another 33 percent are not working – a testament to the savage impact of the lockdown recession. And the remaining 26 percent – mostly essential service workers – are working on their business premises. So, by sheer numbers, the U.S. is a working-from-home economy. Almost twice as many employees are working from home as at work.”
This is actually insane to me. It’s an incredible that we are wealthy and technologically advanced enough that 40% of our workforce is comprised of people that can successfully work from home.
Goes to show you how few people are actually physically involved in producing goods these days.
That concerns me.
It concerns me but it’s also amazing to think about both in the breathe of people whose human potential is wasted on dumb regulatory compliance and bullshit paperpushing and just how much technological innovation is occurring to allow for this. Also just how important tech is as in industry in general. This would have been unimaginable just 15 years ago.
Yep. As a society we carry an immense amount of overhead. It cannot last.
40% of our workforce is comprised of people
that can successfully work from homewho have jobs that their employer now knows can easily be outsourced.Yeup. Exactly that.
Whelp, it looks like we are on the countdown to Walz instituting a statewide mask mandate here. I can hardly wait.
Too many other govs are instituting a mask mandate and Walz doesn’t want to look like some sissy gov who isn’t willing to kick his constituents around.
It’s Kafkaesque that the right is being accused of making masks a political issue.
Yeh it’s coming here to Quebec. I can just feel it.
Copy cat virus.
Dayton, Ohio has instituted a mask requirement as well.
C’mon Rufus, do you want to be the guy at the next Guv’s conference who is mocked for not abusing your citizenry? You know Cuomo would give you a wedgie for being such a sissy.
So I went to the supplement store to get some whey and shit and I assume due to corona they gave me on the house a bunch of cans of fizzy bcaa drink. What should I do?
Bulk up?
*Fizzibubbulah
Is good, you’ll get used to it.
Mayor Phony is asshole.
I’ve given this order for two reasons. First, it’s a matter of public safety. Failing to remove the statues now poses a severe, immediate and growing threat to public safety.
For the last 33 consecutive days, people have been gathering in large numbers in our city and as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to surge and protesters attempt to take down the statues themselves, or confront others who are also doing so, the risk grows for serious illness, injury, or death. …[W]e have an urgent need to protect the public.
That’s some bullshit excuse if I’ve ever seen one.
So I assume it’ll go back up upon the resolution of this crisis then. That’s good to know.
Stoney is fully intent on killing the Richmond Renaissance.
Apparently the Richmond Renaissance had the side effect of drawing large numbers of millennial wokesters to town, so its death is ambiguous at best.
Kinda sad though. I live in Manchester, where they are renovating old factories into apartments along with building new apartments, for a bit. It was all I could afford at the time when I first moved out of my parents house. The area seemed to be up and coming/revitalizing. Got out a few years ago and got a house in the burbs. Good timing it seems.
Hey, I get that. I grew up in the area back when much of the city was legitimately frightening. The section of Broad St between, say, Boulevard and Belvedere that’s now all shiny VCU buildings and restaurants was mostly decaying, boarded up buildings when I was a kid. The city was top ten nationally in per-capita murder rate in the early ’90s, peaking at #2 in 1993 (I think).
There sure as shit weren’t mobs of anarchists and Marxists running around back then, though.
Baaahahahahahaha…..the city deserves everything it gets. From day one he has done absolutely nothing but try to appease the mob, and this is just a continuation of that. Ol’ Levar is just getting panicky about his viability in running for gov or lt gov.
For any of you on the East coast, let alone in the Enlightened People’s Republic of NewYorkistan- I know someone that will be traveling from SW Ohio to CT, via LaGuardia.
What sort of draconian measures do they have in place over CoVID ?
They have some Orwellian signs up on the freeways. Other than that, nothing.
Most of the airlines will require masks during the flight, and several stopped serving alcohol on flights.
Why alcohol? Doesn’t that kill viruses?
So you can keep your mask on science denier!
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/alcohol-ban-airlines-covid-19/index.html
Less interactions with passengers.
Less self control and loud talking are associated with drinking, but they’re not thinking that far ahead.
I don’t know if Ohio is on the list of quarantine states.
Your friend might want to research whether he has to cower for two weeks after arriving.
https://twitter.com/i/events/1278682196140675073
FBI Arrests Madame Maxwell. Expect Suicide in 10 days.
Ghislaine Maxwell did not kill herself.
I’m going to pre-order some t-shirts so I can be first to market.
Go ahead and start selling them now and profit from being a prophet.
…. Actually, could be a good idea. If she survives the ordeal, the shirts will still be factually correct.
The hashtag is already trending on Twitter.
She could have lived out her days on the French Riviera but she stayed in the US where this was inevitable. She must not have inherited her father’s brains.
+1 Roman Polanski
Speaking in broad generalities, the French don’t view that kind of thing as that big of a deal.
Woopi Goldberg is French?
More the age part, to a certain limit anyway.
One of the twats said she was living in Massachusetts. Stupid if true.
The arrest was made in Bedford, NH. No word on if she was living there or just passing through.
Wait a minute. That story says Bradford. Another story says Bedford. I think the arrest was actually in Bedford which makes more sense than Bradford. Bedford is a well-to-do community. Bradford is out in the sticks.
Pedestrians and bicycle commuters can easily coexist:
https://twitter.com/cctvidiots/status/1278644632549654529
Wirework comes to tiktok.
Am I reading right?
St. Louis AG is taking that St. Louis couple to court?
If the protesters were on private property, that’s going to be a hell of a counter-suit for malicious prosecution.
Absolute Immunity for the win.
^This, she can do damn near anything she pleases (maybe get rid of the damn near) and there’ll be no meaningful consequences whatsoever.
Who cares. Grand standing prosecutor is likely to face few, if any, negative repercussions.
St. Louis AG is a raging retard.
I found Yusef’s work van.
https://i.imgur.com/217D5OA.gifv
*slow clap*
And love the “Ranked #1 in the industry by the owner and his mother”
I’m beginning to think the French have more sense than any of us.
Scary but true.
Letter to the cognitive dissonance editor
CD is a hell of a drug.
Textbook doublethink…doubleplusgood.
I can’t help but think that this is a well done backhanded parody.
“I’ma stab you,” the Connecticut native said in the video, zooming in tight on her face.”
This, folks, is what Harvard is turning out these days. How much did her parents pay for that degree?
I dunno, but she’s going to make a killing selling all of the drugs falling out of her ass.
Poor little snowflake is crying, so sad, lol.
She’s obviously mentally unstable and Harvard has probably encouraged her to indulge her feelings.
Social media is a blight upon society. It absolutely encourages the worst impulses of our nature, particularly since Stoicism is out of fashion.
I am coming to believe that indulging one’s feelings leads to mental instability.
Also, too much time on her hands and having nothing productive to do.
It does. Emotional overreaction is an addictive behavior.
There’s a reason why people who are bipolar hate taking their drugs. They don’t get those big highs and lows anymore.
When I’m not writing books, I journal a lot. I use it to declutter my jumbled mind with free-association writing. Sometimes it gets repetitive and narcissistic (shocker!), but that much self-examination is as bad as no self-examination.
To be fair, I’ve been trying to dig out the root causes of some things that I’ve never been able to and recent life events have helped to bring them to the surface so now I actually have something to concrete to work on.
Because I’m on an Epictetus binge lately:
Or more succinctly, “Shit Happens”
I’ve been working my way through the daily stoic. I’m getting better about “It is what it is” and “Well, that happened. And nothing else.”
Occasional trips to the therapist help.
“You don’t have problems. You have situations to manage.”
and
“Happiness isn’t the goal. Contentment is.”
So I would say “contentment” == Epictetus’s “complete education.”
Scruff, is that from the Discourses or the Enchiridion? I’m partway through the latter and am thinking about getting the former.
Pretty sure that’s from the Enchiridion.
I’ve been into Stoicism for a few years too. I started with Meditations by Aurelius, and now I’m about halfway through Letters on Ethics by Seneca.
As coincidence would have it, I ordered an Epictetus book on Amazon the other day.
I have to agree. I once declared that the internet was the greatest invention since the personal PC. And it was for a while, and then I started to realize that what we had actually done is to give the most unstable, insane, and retarded people on earth, a huge megaphone. And now the Czars of the internet are trying to banish everyone except those people. It will be just one huge echo chamber of stupid, totally void of any value. It will basically be CHOP online.
There’s been some mention about cancel culture, but I don’t see how that remotely applies here. This person is unstable and laughing about making death threats on camera. Seems like a huge liability for an employer to keep on staff after that.
I don’t know how any sensible employer could trust her enough to not get shanked when their back was turned. That being said, in today’s climate she’ll be able to parlay this incident into a pretty good job if she has any drive.
She’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.
That she is. She’s also a photogenic minority female who got canned due to a conservative backlash because she was standing up for BLM. There are plenty of explicitly left-wing orgs who will view her as a martyr and will hire accordingly.
antifa will hire her, then she gets to do some stabbin fo realz. Not sure how well she’ll do in prison though.
She also doubled down and said she’s going to keep doing it, because she’s stronger than everyone, while crying like a little toddler who just got spanked.
She said she dindunuthin, it was Trump that took away her job.
What do you think her position would be on someone who lost their job because they said they didn’t morally approve of homosexuality?
I think I can guess.
The USA could accommodate about 230 billion people if the entire country was the same population density as Manhattan Island (the main part of New York City).
If you dedicated 50% of the country entirely to wildlife reserves you could still accommodate > 100 billion.
https://twitter.com/RokoMijicUK/status/1278241527328911361
Where does he expect this megacity to get its food?
The x-CHOP citizens will grow the food, they’ll realize that when they throw down that cardboard and throw some dirt on top of it, that they must water it with Brawndo!
From grocery stores where it is made.
Who will grow the food and where will they grow it?
I’m just going to go ahead and pass on this nonsense.
Good thing we aren’t using any of that land for food or anything.
Oh, I think I figured it out.
!00% cannibalism and fungus cultures.
It’d be a hellscape that’d make Bladerunner look downright cheerful.
Bladerunner is cheerful, what are you talking about?
I can haz Daryl Hannah Fembot?
Not Sean Young?
I’d rather have the Sean Young fembot. Never stick it in the crazy fembots.
Have you read 2000AD?
Too unrealistic – Dredd arrested a judge for excessive force when he hit a suspect who’d surrendered.
I was thinking more of Judge Dredd and Megacity One…
“The USA could accommodate about 230 billion people if the entire country was the same population density as Manhattan Island (the main part of New York City)”
Sounds like hell on earth to me.
I don’t know the purpose of the twitterer, but that is usually done to show the Earth isn’t overpopulated.
The carrying capacity of the Earth is a hell of a lot larger than 7B.
Think of how much higher it can be if we got Siberia warm enough to grow wheat!
While I don’t disagree that the earth isn’t overpopulated, the carrying capacity isn’t measured by how many people can be crammed into hive cities, you still have to account for the logistics of keeping them alive (food, waste, nonfood consumables, etc)
The number of people you cam cram into US is stupid. But the idea that you could have, say, a Manhattan the size of New York State with the rest of the US emptish, shows how many people can be handled.
I think that is a bad example, but it isn’t outrageously bad.
350 million people into Texas’s 270,000 square miles (I rounded up both population and mileage) gives you 1300 people per square mile. That’s about 8 times less dense than Miami or Philadelphia.
The carrying capacity of the earth includes all the flora and fauna, not just humans.
“The USA could accommodate about 230 billion people if the entire country was the same population density as Manhattan ”
One would think the climate would inevitably change.
Sleepy Joe wants to disarm you, raise your taxes and prevent freedom of speech.
It looks like Uncle Joe is pulling out all the stops to prevent President Donald Trump from defeating him in November. Recently, it was revealed that the former vice president’s campaign sent a letter to Facebook imploring them to censor posts from the Trump campaign.
The letter, which was addressed to Nick Clegg, Facebook’s Vice President for Global Affairs, argued that President Trump’s Facebook posts should be suppressed because of his claims about the risk of voter fraud related to mail-in voting and his supposed tendency to post “hateful content.”
Biden campaign manager Jen O’ Malley Dillon, who penned the letter, urged the social media company to take a more active role in suppressing content posted by the Trump team. “As I am sure you will agree, it is absolutely vital that the American public clearly understand what it is that Facebook has so far committed — or declined — to do in order to protect against abuse of its platform to suppress the vote or incite violence,” she wrote.
“Incite violence” = “Disagree with leftists on any particular thing”
B(iggest) I(diot the) D(emocrats have) E(ver) N(ominated)
It would be an easy win if the Dems were running a normal 80s / 90s campaign and candidate. Bob Kerry or Jim Webb with Bill Clinton’s or even 2008 Obama’s platform would be a landslide. Instead they seem to have refined their policies to be on the opposite side of everything I believe in. I don’t think I agree with them on a single issue.
So I’m left hoping a blow-hard showman can pull off another upset and buy us another shitty 4 years before the civil war starts.
If they lose this time maybe, just maybe, they’ll moderate and cast off the crazies. I’d like to see a viable noncrazy alternative to the Republicans.
I’d like to see a viable alternative to the crazy leftists. A for-real conservative / constitution party that believes in what they say.
I fear the Democrats have been fully subsumed by international socialism and are beyond moderation or redemption.
There’s no going back from where they are now, it’s too late, they jumped the shark, there’s no way back.
The issue is that the Democrat Party’s brand is PROGRESS and CHANGE, and we have an enormous social welfare system, with publicly funded healthcare, publically funded education from kindergarten to postgrad, enormous federal bureaucracies, far reaching worker protections and civil rights, and every other thing that a supposed “moderate social democracy” entails.
Liberals used to be about good schools for factory workers, about making sure coal miners didn’t die destitute of black lung, about making sure every poor Appalachian town had electricity. There were real, tangible, concrete goals to achieve. Even their social goals were objective and tangible. Things like actual workplace sexual harassment, things like disparate treatment by state agents against black people.
But they have changed. Changed from “good schools” to “well paid education bureaucrats.” From “health regulations for coal miners” to “put coal miners out of work.” From “electrify Appalachia” to “Cancel Appalachia.” From “Secretaries are not the bosses fucktoy” to “Off color jokes are rape.” From “Lynching black people is murder” to “Questioning black people is murder.”
There’s really no issue I can think of where the Left is not currently embracing some idea that they would have written off as a ridiculous right-wing strawman just a short time ago.
“Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare” => “The very essence of womanhood is the ability to kill your baby at taxpayer expense”
“Gay people should be allowed to marry and do whatever they want in their private lives” => “There will be legal penalties for anyone who doesn’t celebrate and participate in LGBTQAIXYZ culture”
“If they lose this time maybe, just maybe, they’ll moderate and cast off the crazies.”
No, they won’t. All of the old timeys will be too old to run by then. Biden, Bernie, all of them. They will go farther left and the candidate will probably be Gulag Barbie and her VP will be one of the woke ones from Minnesoda.
When he loses the election it will be because of the Russians.
They need some new material.
Oh man I want very much to move to somewhere in perhaps east TX or AZ. RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN RAIN AND MORE RUTTIN’ RAIN is all I get and I’m not kindly disposed to it.
However, since the West will never be able to recover from Covid-1984 + Cultural Revolution 2.0, I may as well stay where I am. Rain or no rain. It’s all a pipe dream anyway. I’m too old, don’t have any skills, etc, can’t afford it, etc. Bad life choices, all my fault, but fuck rain. Fuck rain in it’s watery, monotonous, drizzling (lack of a) face.
Move here anyway.
You could move to Seattle!
He’d get CHOPped.
Don’t do that to him.
It was a rain joke.
I intentionally Dropped the theme.
The joke precipitated laughter at this end.
You do NOT want to move to East TX.
Louisianans look down on them as ignorant inbred mutants.
You do not want to move to East Texas – BECAUSE IT IS HUMID AND HOTTER THAN HELL.
I dunno. Maybe I’d fit right in!
The HK influx, assuming it happens, will be interesting. You could stay long enough to observe some of that.
I doubt you’re too old at all. Have you looked into transatlantic Serious Dating web sites?
PS. You draw very well!
Yeah I’m very interested in how the HK people will adjust. I’m hoping they can bring some much needed perspective about what’s real and worth protesting. I’m very glad to welcome them here, but also sad that they will have had to leave their home and probably family and friends behind.
I’m super-reticent/reluctant about online dating. A few years ago after my previous relationship ended and I eventually picked myself up off the floor, I did go on a few dates from Tinder which were all perfectly pleasant but I just don’t like putting myself out there as a profile. Feels weird. I had deleted my facebook shortly after that and therefore wasn’t on it anymore but from what I was told, it had just descended into men sending dick pics at that point, and as I recall, 90% of girls profiles I saw began with a starkly political ultimatum such as “LEFTY AND FEMINIST IF U HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT SWIPE LEFT”. After that I never so much as dipped my toe in social media again aside from trying to make a throwaway instagram account to see things my friends would share with me. Anyway, cool story, bro, and all that, I suppose I could give it a go. My friend has a ‘murican wife. They got married there but decided to settle here in the UK instead.
RE – drawing, thanks *blushes*
Well, I like you, but am 1) too old for you and b) in the same boat.
Mutual Zoom whinge sometime maybe?
FWIW: I met my wife through e-harmony. We lived in the same country but in different states.
I filled out their questionnaire, they promptly said “we can’t help you, goodbye” and locked me out of the site, no option to even revise the initial answers.
Seriously? That seems…bizarre.
It happens to a reasonably large number of people, I want to say like 6 or 7%.
I used it way back in the day, had 1 semi-serious relationship that resulted from it, but it was mostly a waste of time, IMO.
I met my husband in a Mormon singles chat room, then through a series of bizarre un/fortunate events, after about 6 months of never speaking to one another, we had a reason to speak and we haven’t gone a day without speaking ever since, almost 18 years ago.
Just 18 years? I literally have underwear older than that.
we haven’t gone a day without speaking ever since
“THAT’S BECAUSE YOU WON’T SHUT UP.” — Mr Mojo, I am guessing (but that may be projection on my part)
My understanding is the opposite is the case at Casa Mojo.
About 60% of the time, yes. I do my share of blathering.
Are you really in any position to be making threats?
GAH!
What the fuck is that!?
Ooops, you have to scroll down a little…
What’s Leon’s year in review have to do with anything?
EVERYTHING! Don’t you see the connections! They’re sending us messages through the timeline!
You scroll down and click that link now, or I’m posting pics of Lena Dunham nekked again! You’ve been warned! When you least expect it, expect it!
What makes you think images are enabled in my browser?
WTF? What is this, 1990?
Violation of the Geneva Convention detected…
I thought Keith from The Prodigy had killed himself.
I can’t help but notice the Great Facebook Hate Speech Menace seems to exclusively be targeting “white supremacist” and other, more mundane strains of capitalist and libertarian-ish thought crimes and speech. I guess left wing agitation and promotion of violent dispossession of white people’s wealth and property is definitionally love speech.
!00% cannibalism and fungus cultures.
You forgot bugs and rats. Those will be delicacies.
I’m going to work on a “Year in Review” Post for the end of the year: But here’s a Sneak Peak
My how things can quickly change…
No mention of how many times Brochettaward was first? Way to bury the biggest story of the year, you hack.
^^ Fake news
Last links, you got beaten out by the Tater, and you weren’t even in the top 5! Washed up!
SAD!
Ticker is right and tight. 128/74. Gently reminded to walk every day. I ❤ my cardiologist.
Good to hear.
Me: I thought I’d die by the time I was 50. I never made any plans.
Doc: Well, you better start making some.
My new primary care doctor whom I visited yesterday is an old-timey dude. Apparently the machines that take your BP aren’t very accurate because he did it himself later with the manual device we all remember from our youths and my BP was normal.
Also, the laser thermometer said my temp was 95.5 when I arrived. That was wrong too.
They don’t use the machines at either the cardiologist or my GP.
Right on!
Weirdly, needles don’t bother me at all, but that BP cuff hurts like a mofo.
I hate any type of cuff, gaaah! I get hypertensive just in anticipation.
The orthostatic hypotension I had in my youth sucked.
Goldman Sachs is now pushing a “report” stating that a National Mask Mandate “could” substitute for lock-downs and GDP impact. Really, so why aren’t NY and NJ fully open?
GS is desperate not to have lockdowns anymore. They’re at risk of financial implosion.
See my above comment, they were not expecting a recession at all.
Same with politicians mostly. I think, despite any public statements, they’re equally desperate not to go back. The reopenings in most places weren’t because of any objective criteria, it was to get in front of the parade that was already leaving.
Great, more “Trumphitler is ignoring the plague!!1!” pr0n.
Odd that GS is joining the pro-Dem mob by demanding that he do something pointless and unpopular with his base.
From the link about the student filmed while changing:
He said the district has since tripled the number of security cameras on campus
This may not be the response parents were looking for.
Government solutions. Like thinking “Lets keep our soldiers in the warzone” is the best way to keep them safe from Afghans getting bounties on their head.
So that minivid of the elk statue in flames…
How does a statue burn?
Was is a statue of an ungulate, or some statue dedicated by or to the Elks benevolent association?
Generally, wtf and why should I care that there’s been another arson in a place where I don’t live?
Very sad news about how even though the June jobs report showed that the country added 4.8 million jobs in June, that state governments shed 25k employees. I would have hoped for much more losses.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/07/jobs-surge-in-june.php
hmmmm….. Remember when all those state employees were getting paid for not working and were reprimanding all the out of work mothers and fathers complaining about the shutdowns that “we’re all in this together”. Yeah Fuck you. And the same goes for the next federal shutdown. The Fed Gov can Shutdown for 18 months for all i care, since that is what the folks there said the private sector would have to manage.
In my dream world we would pass laws that would dictate that any future shutdowns would be accompanied by all elected officials of the shutdown areas to stop receiving their normal salary and instead get the equivalent of unemployment for as long as the shutdown lasted. We are all in this together.
stop receiving their normal salary and instead get the equivalent of unemployment
“If the poors are getting 300% what they normally make by not working, my unemployment check ought to come out to something like seven grand a week.”
One of the most infuriating things for me about the whole covid thing is watching my academic friends and acquaintances who work at state institututions posting on social media relentless criticisms of anyone advocating ending lockdowns or out in public without a mask – all while doing their jobs from home and pulling their monthly paychecks.
Maybe the We Are All in This Together Act should include all public employees just to be fair. Think of the solidarity that they will feel with all of the private sector unemployed. I’m sure your friends would support this.
state governments shed 25k employees
That’s not even a rounding error.
The Bee insider is getting lazy.
https://babylonbee.com/news/frenzied-crowds-rush-stores-to-pick-up-copy-of-blazing-saddles-before-it-goes-down-memory-hole
I remember hearing someone on the radio talking about how ‘Blazing Saddles’ couldn’t be made today and I thought, “Hell, ‘Knocked Up’ couldn’t be made today.” And this was four or five years ago. There are probably a few movies made in 2018 that couldn’t be made in 2020.
Not to mention that Obama’s campaign positions from 2008 would get you labelled as a hardcore neo-Nazi.
“Low levels of alcohol good for the brain, study shows”
https://twitter.com/DanaPerino/status/1278644681702858752
“While a couple of glasses of wine can help clear the mind after a busy day, new research shows that it may actually help clean the mind as well. The new study shows that low levels of alcohol consumption tamp down inflammation and helps the brain clear away toxins, including those associated with Alzheimer’s disease.”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180202085241.htm
Wow! Just imagine how clean my brain could get with HIGH levels of alcohol.
Scientific modeling in a nutshell.
Yeah, it’s amazing. We gave these 3 rats the THC equivalent of 10 kilos of marijuana and all of them got brain damage! Drugs are bad, mmkay?
They’ll be another study tomorrow saying that any amount of alcohol will kill you.
Mark Stein last night on the Carlson show: “With the Republicans around who needs Antifa?”
Has Stein been drinking the fish tank cleaner again?
Because Republicans push the Antifa agenda, just at more palatable levels for the general pulbic? I agree. Fuck them.
Yeah, he was talking about two specific senators toeing the BLM line of bullshit.
Saw that. He was on fire.
I have been kind of surprised at the degree to which the allegedly conservative parties of the UK and US don’t seem all that interested in being conservative.
He was addressing two GOP senators who want to replace Columbus Day federal holiday with a Juneteenth holiday. I agree Juneteenth deserves a lot more attention, as it redressed the serious slavery flaw in the Constitution. Uffda, Columbus never laid eyes on the U.S. either. Carlson was all put out that Juneteenth would replace July 4th celebrations coming as it does so close on the calendar. Well, Veterans Day is close to Thanksgiving, and they do o.k. as separate holidays.
In my dream world we would pass laws that would dictate that any future shutdowns would be accompanied by all elected officials of the shutdown areas to stop receiving their normal salary and instead get the equivalent of unemployment for as long as the shutdown lasted. We are all in this together.
*uptwinkles*
all elected officials of the shutdown areas to stop receiving their normal salary and instead get the equivalent of unemployment for as long as the shutdown lasted
And-
Not deferred. Unpaid. Lost forever.
But of course, and I’d like to see the savings between the salaries and unemployment to repay government debt. Equity now!
Historic numbers of background checks to purchase or possess a firearm were done in June, a trend in a year marked by uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, a subsequent economic recession, protests over racial injustice and calls to reduce police funding.
I’m doing my part. I’m picking up a CZ-75 (compact with decocker) later this afternoon. I have also started looking around for a Ruger 57.
“I’m sorry, Deloitte, that you can’t see that,” she said. “That you were cowardice [sic] enough to fight somebody who’s going to make an indelible change in the world and is going to have an impact.”
She can go fuck herself.
The Civil Rights Act bans employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex and national origin. The lawsuit notes the employee is Dalit Indian, and that he is darker-complexioned than non-Dalit Indians.
I remember some former coworkers, all Indian (dot not feather), who definitely had some bias against Indians (dot not feather) with darker skin.
The American Hotel and Lodging Association predicts the industry is facing “massive foreclosures of thousands of hotel properties” across the nation, according to a press release sent out Wednesday.
Who could possibly have foreseen this?
I’d love a Ruger 57, but 5.7×28 ammo ain’t cheap.
“You may have heard that China is sterilizing Uyghur women.
It’s not just that. Ethnic and religious minorities all over China are, by hook or by crook, seeing their family aspirations thwarted, even as the government presses for more Han babies.”
https://twitter.com/lymanstoneky/status/1278621660199829505
Actual ethnic cleansing that is going largely unreported by US media because dead white people didn’t conform to today’s moral standards.
Also because basketball.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/07/appeals-court-frees-molotov-cocktail-lawyers-on-bail-and-home-confinement/
I would say it’s unbelievable, but I’m pretty sure I predicted this a couple weeks back.
Their released on Bail, it’s not like charges were dropped.
If one of the gun rights protesters in Richmond a few years back had torched a cop car with a molotov, do you think he would be out on bail? Hell, I bet he wouldn’t have even made it alive into custody.
WTF
This is in Indiana. I’m assuming he at least gets a firearm for all his trouble.
First emissions test today
Shockingly – NJ does not require any testing or inspection of electric vehicles.
Only the two counties up near chicago have emissions testing or inspections. In the rest of the state you can register a car no matter the condition or the output.
Wrong. Madison county still does emissions.
ok. But that’s basically Kentucky.
It’s near St. Louis Missouri sucka. All us Southern Illinoisian’s must be close to Deliverance huh?