We don’t know whether to be worried or not. No communication from him this time. I’m assuming the worst, because he is, after all, a Florida Man.
So, you’ll have to provide your own links for entertainment/ignoring.
Well, OK, here’s one to get you started:
I haven’t RTFA to know if she’s single.
Have a great afternoon, kids! We’ll let you know if there is a Brett sighting, so you can all quit your thoughts and prayers.
Never rely on a guy named Brett.
I had to refresh the page for 18 minutes to get this First. Greatness is earned.
That’s actually kinda sad.
Would you prefer it if the First was determined by mere chance, by someone simply getting lucky and clicking on the site at some random time and stumbling upon the PM links?
Sure, why not?
Just ’cause he’s got a sad and empty life is no reason to feel pity for him.
Wouldn’t it be easier to just identify as first?
*cough*eyepiece
facking phone!
anyway, Eyepiece refreshes every 45 seconds automagically so you dont have to jam the F5 button like a whore on a pay per minute plan
And yet you can’t spell Brochettaward without Brett.
I’m assuming the worst, because he is, after all, a Florida Man.
Hopefully he has not been to Wisconsin recently.
I used to grocery shop in Kenosha every week when we lived back there. There are definitely some less-than-nice neighborhoods, but we really liked the place.
I was invited to a wedding there, but the invite was last-minute so I didn’t go.
Plus, the reception was dry and vegan.
the reception was dry and vegan.
I read that as “please don’t come to our wedding”.
That’s the other reason one would put that info in the invitation.
What slum said.
“Buy us gifts and fuck off”
Nah, just freakishly hippy and “health conscious.”
The bride threw a fit at Sprouts because they sold supplements in gelatin-based capsules. She would go into a spittle-flecked rant if someone mentioned the Roman Empire. Still, I was very fond of her.
You can’t help whom you love, you can only help what you do about it.
Words of wisdom.
We used to have quite a few friends in Denver’s little neo-Pagan community. Fun folks who really knew how to throw a shindig. Most of them weren’t vegan, in fact they would line up to cadge venison whenever I brought a deer or elk in.
Most of them were nice enough people that I would never have told them what I really thought of some of the weird shit they believed in.
Lol.
She’s never set foot on a farm, huh?
The Roman Empire?
Still very upset about the whole Constantinople thing.
It’s RoWoman, shitlord!
You mean Istanbul?
https://youtu.be/fcI5rNR5TGM
“Dry” here referring to the bride’s vagina?
Twenty years ago, absolutely not.
Ouch.
SP, OT: Did you get my email about the girlie craft stuff?
Sorry, crazy busy this week…and then I have to fill in last minute for Brett!
Yes, I agree to your terms. Reply with an email with deets to remunerate you, please. 🙂
I’m still single, is what matters around here!!
Hope BrettL (which rhymes with “Gretl”, BTW) is OK.
Hellllooo Bretl!
I’m pretty sure he’s taken. Perhaps by the authorities.
Since you’re single, you may need this (poorly shot) porn to get you by.
I’ll be in my bunk
Did you hear the screaming in that video? Damn, she’s loud!
“Oohhhhhhhhhh, baby!”
I wish I had recorded the tail numbers of the ones which were in my squadron back in the day.
Is it really a links if there’s only one?
Oh, I get it, it’s madlinks, we have to add more.
Links!
After some contemplation, I realized I don’t like This model as delivered. Don’t let that paint job fool you, you see that white ‘text’ on the right greave? That’s crammed into less than a quarter inch of physical space. The professional painters are freakish, and no human can produce such a result.
I particularly thought the skeleton on his shield was a stupid touch, so during a meeting, I kitbashed the guy, having to swap out the whole arm upto and including the shoulderpad with parts from three different arms so that he’s holding a heavy bolt pistol gangsta style, with a different shield propped up like a pavise on a couple of sandbags. And I used the closed-visor helmet, because screw trying to paint those eyes.
Is it all plastic, sorry, RESIN, now?
Plastic.
GW dropped most of the resin for two reasons – the customers hated it and didn’t buy it, and it wore out the molds faster than plastic.
It’s actually an interesting topic from an economics and planning perspective.
It is cheaper to make a mold for a resin mini, but the process of casting wears them out faster.
It is more expensive to cut a mold for a plastic mini, but they are durable and can make a great multitude of positives.
So to invest in making the mold for plastic, you have to be confident you’ll move enough units to cover that overhead. But if you make a resin model, you’re almost creating a self-fullfilling profesey because of the community dislike of the material and it’s bad reputation because of the defects caused by deteriorating molds.
The main upside for resin is that they could be cast in the same molds as the old metal models as well. (At lower expense than pewter)
Though they are now to a point where the CG design techniques allow for a higher level of detail than ever before in the plastic models.
Ah, FineCast. Not GW’s cleverest moment.
No links is good links this week.
^^^This.
She’s apparently queen of someplace called “Thorold.”
It’s near Niagara Falls. Maybe she can snag a wealthy tourist at one of the casinos.
*”wanna-be” wealthy
An Ontario woman who scored a lottery jackpot worth more than $750,000 told officials her winning numbers came to her in a dream.
Slightly crazy eyes and a mask. Pass.
It’s not even real money.
Tell you what — I’d be happy to unburden you of it should any of that “fake money” fall into your hands.
And the jackpot is small.
It’s just Canada. I imagine more people play the lottery of a U.S. state.
She’s choosing to spend her winnings visiting Bulgaria.
Looking at her travel wish list, it sounds like she’s probably a descendant of Alexander the Great’s psychopath mom. Yikes!
The NBA shot Jacob Blake?
So does that count as a forfeit?
Curious how the woke NBA responds. In general, these people are all about pretending their brave while avoiding any actual consequences for their protesting.
I’d say so.
It’s a meaningless boycott otherwise right?
No-no, in light of their wokeness and courageous willingness to put their feelings first, the NBA will go ahead and award the championship to them.
Apparently the Magic will not accept a forfeit and the game will be rescheduled.
I am not sure what this accomplishes.
Virtue was signaled. Backs were patted. Superiority of self was assured.
That’s a bold strategy, Cotton. Let’s see how it works out for them.
They really dodged a bullet there.
Ba-dum-tsss!
I have zero interest in the NBA (down from minimal interest in the recent past). Unfortunately I can’t convince the wife to drop her viewership of the NBA. Maybe I need to adjust some router settings to block anything related.
How are ratings?
HAHAHAHAHA
Another nail in the NBA coffin. May it die sooner than Blake.
Maybe they’ll get new mascots dressed as rioters and looters who actually go out and loot and burn down everything near the stadium before games and that will save their season and fire up the fan base? Just a thought.
Somebody has not been paying attention.
Because the tweet is unavailable?
I don’t think Brett’s really MIA since we know exactly which underpass to go looking for him.
Social distancing restrictions mean we can’t form a large enough party to safely go check on him though.
You first!
We can get a Viking search party together.
A search party of Norse extraction.
Found one!
Maybe he took the boys to Disney World to watch a game.
I’m sure this little stunt will do much to help the NBA’s sagging ratings.
“I really want to visit Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria,” Rose said.
Those are certainly places.
I’ve been to each of them. But too briefly in Greece and Turkey. There’s much more to see there.
I don’t know if she is married but I know she is stupid. Posing with her face and the check?
I hope she doesn’t have any children or grandchildren.
1)Do not sign the ticket
2)Visit a financial planner and hash out a plan that doesn’t involve you ever being connectable to that money.
3) visit a lawyer to enact the plan
actually, the “don’t connect me to my money” part is more on the lawyer to figure out, but it should be part of the conversation in step 2.
You misspelled fiduciary
yes, as a matter of fact, I did. granted, id never hire a financial planner who wasn’t required to act as fiduciary.
Your plan is good. But the jackpot is too small.
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. That’s certainly enough to help for retirement, but not enough to start planning for lifestyles of the rich and famous.
Isn’t this already posted under the FAQs?
The Glib FAQs, I mean.
How to manage your orphans and windfall profits?
One usually doesn’t get a choice. It’s in the documents one signs before they give one the money. Winners have to agree to “publicity” efforts.
I know it depends on the state, but I have heard that some start a corporation as soon as they win and have the corporation win the prize. That would be a very wise move where permitted.
Indeed, I would definitely be doing that.
Yes. see Trashy’s step 2 above
Mass allows it, leading to some amusing photos of the “winners:
https://legacy.masslottery.com/winners/
March 10, 2020
Eyvenia Lottery Trust of Lynn has claimed a $1 million prize in the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “200X” instant game.
The trust, represented by trustee Brendan Ward…
You get to see a nice picture of Brendan Ward, Esq.
NH allows lottery winners to sign the ticket on behalf of a trust. The trust is made public as part of any list of winners or publicity materials.
I wonder if that would just be the trust name getting listed or any of its beneficiaries?
Just the trust.
I’m surprised we haven’t seen more winners be like this guy.
His name is on the check.
*facepalm*
Well, she’s wearing a mask.
They already gave out her name, and where she lives.
Benefits of the panicdemic so far:
1. downfall of public schools
2. easier lottery winning
Sheriff’s office here is doing renewals for concealed carry by mail now.
SLD applies.
SOP for Canadian lottery winners, and (IIRC) impossible to get out of. The provincial lottery corporations insist on the photo op, or no mon, hon.
We quit doing that years ago after a couple of unfortunate incidences. I think Texas and Mississippi did as well.
Thankfully, the kind of “unfortunate incidences” of which you speak have been blessedly rare up here. Unlike the standard “he/she partied for a year and then woke up one morning dead-ass broke” stories about too many of the winners.
So Brett was either a 17 year old from Akron, or some Antifa guy?
Hi SP!
Thanks for pinch-hitting again!
Hi, Tundra!
You’re welcome!
So it looks like Kanye made ballot access in Minnesota. He is also in Virginia and Colorado which should likely put those three in the Trump column. I was thinking before Trump would win with a slightly higher vote than last time. He is going to win by a substantial margin more (despite the Dem shennnanegans).
The other states are already almost certainly Trump wins anyway.
https://mobile.twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1296844189926211584
Despite? You mean ‘because of’
I meant the voting by mail and found ballot type of Dem shenanigans, not the tacitly supporting rioting and looting ones.
Since I live in one of those states, it gives me the option out-smug my neighbors. “Why didn’t you vote for the black man like I did, racist?”
#MeToo
I’m still predicting that he wins by slightly more than be beat Hillary by. He’ll legitimately win, but the dems are definitely going to cheat with vote by mail, which will keep it closer.
Although sometimes I have to wonder, with the way dems are winning hearts and minds by encouraging rioting and looting, then saying the want to defund the cops AND take away people’s guns. Brilliant plan.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8665925/Demi-Rose-showcases-killer-curves-strapless-white-bralet-black-thong.html
High ‘vid risk.
Nope. Bombshell.
She certainly resembles one.
Saw that one from a mile away and I still larfed.
Winning hearts and minds.
Chanting “silence is violence,” the mobs in D.C. demanded that random people they came across do as they were told: raise a fist or else. In one video, a seated woman is surrounded by angry BLM activists, nearly all of them white, fists raised, haranguing her to do the same.
The woman, showing good American instincts, reportedly said she agreed with them but refused to be bullied by a mob.
The optics are not good for BLM.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8664345/Aggressive-crowd-BLM-protesters-accost-white-diners-outside-DC-restaurants.html
I don’t see one black person either.
The last time I saw a group of black people at a BLM protest it was black residents of Englewood Chicago kicking out BLM protesters.
All the other BLM protests have been a game of “where’s Waldo”
I’m supposed to believe BLM and antifa are two different things, and imaginary. It’s hard to keep straight in my mind.
There was actually an organizer calling for the white people to go up front to harass the woman.
The woman, showing good American instincts, reportedly said she agreed with them but refused to be bullied by a mob.
She should have stabbed one of them in the eye with her fork.
“Gunman, 17, is charged with first degree intentional homicide after shooting dead two BLM protesters in Kenosha as one victim is identified and video emerges of cops giving rifle-toting vigilantes water before the shooting”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8667265/Gunman-17-charged-Kenosha-fatal-shootings.html
Lots of pics, not much info.
Well, since they’re six hours ahead they had to publish the article without as much information as we have now in the present.
This will be a weird case as he wasn’t a resident of Wisconsin. But does the cops giving him water legitimize his case for being there? I assume you’re allowed to peaceably assemble in any state in the country, and so long as he wasn’t breaking any local laws, particularly with regard to the local gun laws, I hope he will be found not guilty. The videos clearly show he only fired when being either chased, kicked, pushed, punched, or attached. After each shot, he called 911 to report the shooting. He turned himself in. Unfortunately, he will likely be made an example of by the DA’s office. They don’t want people protecting property that isn’t their own, and in reality, they don’t want people protecting property period.
I saw someone on a twitter thread claim that since the shooter is 17, he was carrying illegally.
I did a little digging into Wisconsin’s gun laws. I think the government has him on that. My understanding of what I found is that open carry is legal in Wisconsin if you are 18 or older.
Where he’s from is not all that far from Kenosha either. He’s from a town in Illinois on the border of Wisconsin about twenty miles west of Kenosha. It’s certainly no longer of a drive than a lot of people commute in the morning.
It sounds like he made some very poor decisions, but murder in the first degree is an absurd overcharge and he will not ever be convicted of that.
Shouldn’t be…
I have decreasing faith in mobs, including juries.
Agreed. As the poster said above he was illegally carrying. Thus, he was breaking the law and therefore looking for trouble. If he wasn’t looking for trouble, why did he break the law? That’s probably why they are charging him with 1st degree. He knew he was breaking the law; he showed up with an intent to kill those that tried to burn and loot property that was not his own; he is the textbook definition of vigilante. First degree will be hard to convict, but certainly not impossible. Especially if his public defender isn’t worth the shirt on his back.
The purpose of the first degree murder charge is to bankrupt the family and force a plea agreement.
Shit, that kid’s gofundme is going to be yuge and lawyers will be lining up to defend him and get some of that sweet sweet backlash money.
It was mentioned on this forum previously but… won’t gofundme just yank his gofundme page?
Masterpiece Cakeshop still has a page up.
https://nationalfile.com/gofundme-nukes-kyle-rittenhouse-fundraiser-allows-blm-rioters-to-receive-over-1-3m-in-bail-donations/
NoFundMe for Rittenhouse. BLM rioters and child rapists can get funds though.
This guy does a good job on the timeline &multi-angle frames of the ordeal
So bottom line he shoots three people.
1 guy is chasing him, throwing something at him, he turns and puts one right through his skull.
2nd and 3rd guys are chasing him, he trips, falls, he shoots both of them from the seated position. 2nd guy is wielding a skateboard like a club, and is shot while in contact.
3rd guy is holding a pistol in his right hand, comes up close, grabs the rifle with his left hand, and takes a round to his right upper arm. He’s still holding the pistol in his hand at the end of the encounter.
There’s no way in hell that’s 1st degree murder, not even a little bit. But he was an idiot to go down and there and get involved in this shit.
I agree he was stupid to get involved but he was completely justified in all of those shootings in my view. Legally maybe not, we’ll find out I guess, but morally, absolutely as far as I’m concerned.
What is the first one throwing at him? If he believes he is in serious danger for bodily harm he can use lethal force. My understanding at least.
Can’t tell…the vid is from a ways away and I’m watching on a phone.
I heard it was a brick in a ziploc bag.
It’s some consolation, at least, that the brick was fresh.
I don’t know if you’re serious or joking (why put it in a bag?) but if that’s the case I’m fine with the first shoot too.
I’m serious, but the source I heard it from wasn’t somebody I know well enough to accept it as truth.
The twitter chatter mentions a Molotov cocktail, based on the flash of bright light that could be flame, but who knows.
That seems like too sophisticated a device for one of these guys. Brick in a bag. Now that sounds believable.
The issue with molotov is that the guy who throws it runs right over it seconds later. They’re stupid, but not “run right past a dud molotov” stupid.
They’re grab a loaded rifle (that you just observed firing) by the barrel stupid. Is that less stupid than “run right past a dud Molotov” stupid?
Meh.
A molotov is just a bottle filled with gas, or kerosene with a rag stuffed in the top. Light on fire and toss.
A “dud” is just one that went out. It is a puddle of flammable liquid at that point.
A “dud” is just one that went out.
or didn’t break. A flaming rag at the end of an intact bottle of kerosene isn’t something I would run towards.
There’s a pic from earlier where he’s holding the bag, and it looked to me like it had an insulated water bottle in it.
They freeze water in various bottles I’ve heard. May as well be a brick.
Possible, or it could be empty. No way to know.
I postulated above that the vigilante aspect is why they sought 1st degree.
There’s video of him from earlier in the night talking about how he was just there to protect private property, that he supported BLM and peaceful protests, etc. He was also running away from all the people he shot. Kind of hard to paint him as some wannabe psycho killer when hes literally running away. It also helps that all three guys he shot were white.
See I didn’t know that. I don’t want to watch the video. Nobody mentioned it, though, so I should have assumed.
The video is pretty graphic. The first guy he shot has a good sized hole in his head, and some very helpful bystander is yelling “PUT PRESSURE ON IT!” while his eyes stare up lifelessly. He was dead before he hit the ground.
Second guy takes one in the upper stomach/lower chest, and it look like it was angled up into his lungs and heart. Hits the ground lays on his stomach and never moves again.
Third guy puts his hands up, they freeze for a second, then he takes another step forward and tries to control the rifle barrel with his left hand, but then the rifleman fires again and blows his upper arm to shit. Interesting he never fires the Glock hes holding, but he doesn’t drop it either.
I think the kid is fucked honestly. He came in from IL with a rifle and some other tactical gear. Early in the night he was standing in front of some building. Unless thats a parent or other relative’s store that he can say he was defending, I think they can stack up a jury that will convict him.
The first guy is chasing him like a crazy person, the kid is clearly trying to get away, at some point it looks like he’s trapped and he turns around and shoots the guy who is almost on top of him. Then he apparently calls 911 almost immediately.
“Interesting he never fires the Glock hes holding, but he doesn’t drop it either.”
I wonder how much muscle control a person has when suddenly losing an entire bicep.
Grasping. At. Straws.
“JON PONDER’S story is inspirational,” Vogel tweeted from his verified Twitter account. “But should he be endorsing a candidate for president while being identified as the founder & CEO of Hope for Prisoners, which — as a 501(c)(3) non-partisan non-profit group — is barred from participating in partisan politics?”
Vogel, who identifies as a journalist and political money expert, undoubtedly knows the answer to the question. The only 501(c)(3) entity barred from engaging in partisan activity is the organization itself: Hope for Prisoners. As a private citizen, as an American, as a man, and as long as he is not speaking on behalf of Hope for Prisoners, Ponder can do whatever he likes, including endorse a candidate.
Stay mad, Fuckstik.
Realize this however, that the media/left isn’t just content with disagreeing with you. Every person who supports trump, they are looking at how they can criminally prosecute them.
“Vogel, who identifies as a journalist”
“Journalist” is just a gender now.
Its science…
MAGA, bitches.
https://thehill.com/changing-america/respect/equality/513781-dc-mayor-bowser-condemns-protesters-seen-in-viral-video
Friendly fire. ?
The guillotine comes for all…
Marat escaped it.
Heh Heh.
They read Darkness at Noon and still think they will be the ones outside.
They were one sudden move away from lynching her. I found that video more disturbing than the shooting vid.
This. Im going to be availing myself of my concealed carry permit more consistently when I go out. This is getting nutter butter crazy.
#metoo
Heads we win, tails you lose
Trump, though, does not appear concerned about seeming out of touch with struggling Americans. He is rebranding the recession as a Trump success. And it just might work. For whatever reason, Trump, especially among Republicans, gets high marks for his stewardship of the economy, even in a pandemic.
This New York Times’ polling tells the story. Eight in 10 Republicans who lost a job during the recession and are still out of work approve of how Trump has handled the pandemic.
Maybe those people can discern the difference between their idiot governors (and what they did to torpedo the economy) and Trump.
It was Trump what dunnit. Just keep saying it.
You can’t expect a CNN writer to understand the complex workings of the American governmental system.
Biden is ahead in Michigan. Then again, polls are bullshit.
I really dislike the language used to describe weather. I know it will be a large impact storm but come on. Make necessary preps and evacuate the areas expected to have the worst impacts. Hurricanes (and tornadoes/blizzards/etc.) are a fact of life.
Hurricane Laura is quickly gaining speed as she moves across the Gulf Coast, the Weather Channel reports, opening up the possibility that Laura could become a category 4 — or even a category 5 — hurricane before she makes her projected landfall somewhere between New Orleans, Louisiana, and Houston, Texas.
The Weather Channel has labeled Laura’s inevitable strike, “potentially catastrophic” and Fox News reports that the storm could bring with it a record-breaking, potentially “unsurvivable” storm surge to much of the Gulf Coast before it even touches land.
“Hurricane Laura has strengthened into a Category 4 as it heads for a destructive landfall near the Texas and Louisiana border Wednesday night into early Thursday morning. A catastrophic storm surge and damaging winds will batter the region and a threat of flooding rain and strong winds will extend well inland,” the Weather Channel notes. “Residents along the upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts should finish preparations now for a major hurricane strike. Follow any evacuation orders issued by local or state officials.”
My biggest pet peeve with weather reportage is anthropomorphization. It’s just fuckin atoms & molecules, people.
Meteorologist bemoans lack of diversity in storm naming.
Do we have any glibs in SE TX/SW Louisiana? Hope y’all are TF out of there
I am central west Louisiana and I am battening down. Already stocked up on supplies. Only one worry….my power supply runs east/west and there is a large red oak a few feet south of the line. Oaks have shallow roots and the wind will come from the south. In case I lose power I have alternate supplies to charge phones and to cook with. There is nothing that can hit the house.
If I were in Lake Charles/Cameron area I would get the fuck out of there but I think we are far enough north that we can hunker down and ride it out. I have done that at least a dozen tiimes….but much further south…If it is a 4…time to go.
Yes Rebel, they are sensationalizing and should be just giving straight info, but I assure you this is nothing to balk at. I was guessing a 3 at landfall but this bitch got an attitude in a surprisingly short period of time. It’s a sucker punch just like Katrina, Rita, and Gustave pulled.
Wife has been trying to get me to put in one of these: https://www.mrosupply.com/generators/electrical-generators/standby-generators/5792832_7043_generac/
But the price turned me off. I may cave after this is over.
*Most importantly the hot tub is full. That is my reserve water for toilet flushing. If you want a cranky, unhappy wife then let the toilets be unable to flush. Fortunately I can haul in buckets so she can flush if the water goes out.
My brother-in-law’s got the next model up for running his house and greenhouse operation, and he loves it. Already saved his op a couple of times.
I recently bought the house I grew up in just north of Suthenboy, (I think) so the storm surge is not an issue. For now it’s just a vacation home, I’m not currently there. But I’m a bit concerned about the wind and rain, I’ve already had 2 trees fall down, fortunately not on anything important. My neighbor is keeping me posted.
I am in the Monroe area, pretty sure we will be alright this far north but I am battening down the hatches, ensuring my patio umbrella doesn’t turn into a ballista bolt. Mrs. Frankelson said the neighborhood Walmart she stopped by was bananas. The really bad news is that the kiddo was supposed to start school tomorrow, she’s had a friggin five-month spring break already FFS!
“‘Didn’t she used to sell that WAP?’: Cardi B posts naked photo of First Lady Melania Trump following RNC speech”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8665207/Cardi-B-comes-Lady-Melania-Trump-following-RNC-speech-rapper-slammed-song-WAP.html
Stay classy.
“Yasss! New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cleverly recoined the title ‘Women Against Patriarchy’ as it’s remarkable for two women to reach success in the typically misogynistic medium of hip-hop ”
Yeah, OK, sure.
I had never heard of a “Cardi B” before this election cycle, nor seen an image of one until the Biden interview. Not sure if that’s what she looks like all the time, but what I saw looked like something that writhed in the depths of the uncanny valley where no human aught to live.
“I approve this message.”
/Joe
I want SugarFree to answer this poll https://twitter.com/VoluntaryNation/status/1298728072468983810
My local place had .40 and lots of .308 in stock today.
I haven’t found 40 in a while. I’m down to a mag and a half of it.
?
I don’t like shooting that gun, so I don’t prioritize keeping it in stock beyond a box or two.
Why do you keep it if you don’t like it?
Ive been meaning to get an overgrip to see if it solves the issue. It’s a Glock 23 gen2, and the little half circle thing at the bottom of the front of the grip irritates my finger.
How about full size mags with xGrip adapters?
Nevermind. That’s not gonna solve it.
I posted last week about about the… anemic response to our company’s woke matching gift program[1].
I spoke too soon – there has been a double-digit percentage jump in the number of donations in the last week!
There have now been 64 donations. Out of ~ 8,800 employees.
It’s a good thing we’re spending a bunch of time and hiring dedicated employees to address these important issues! It’s clear that as many as 0.73% of our employees feel strongly about it.
[1]
Our options:
Amnesty International
Black LGBTQIA Migran
Black Lives Matter
Black Mental Health Alliance
Center for Racial Justice in Education
Equal Justice Initiative
Health Justice Commons
Innocence Project
Know Your Rights Camp
National Black Child Development Institute
National Urban League
The Loveland Foundation
Off the top of my head, the ‘Innocence Project’ is the only one I’d even consider giving a dime to, though I’m not familiar with all of them.
A lot of those sound like bait and switch nonprofits.
I already give monthly to the Innocence Project, which is one of the only ones I’ve heard of. Sounds like a lot of grift on that list.
Why don’t you suggest the IJ?
The charities were selected by our woke betters.
Of course. Stupid of me…
Innocence Project would be on my short list for charities to give to in case I win the lottery.
Veterans Community Project
a couple of soup kitchens in town
Habitat for Humanity
Institute for Justice
Innocence Project
Then some fine arts programs.
IJ and FIRE are my two go-to charities.
Yes! I totally forgot about FIRE.
With the way my husband wins stuff, I probably need to make a list.
FIRE (or, ‘The FIRE’, as they like to use) has loomed in importance in my mind in recent years; I used to be in the “that nonsense on campus doesn’t really matter – wait until they meet the real world” camp, but now it’s clear that they’ve hit critical mass and brought that nonsense _from_ campus to the real world.
I wonder if there are a couple of doddering old critical theorist/Marxist retired professors somewhere who have had a conversation along the lines of: “Can you believe the bullshit we used to drone on to each other about at the university now controls the national dialogue in the United States?!”
That’s pretty close to my list.
The Human Fund – “Money for People” – seems to be missing.
We’ve got RSUs for that.
Hopefully they are compiling the list of donators for the next round of layoffs.
I was originally concerned they’d be keeping a list of who _didn’t_ donate.
I have been cheered by the near universal indifference shown by my co-workers.
relevant to my co-worker’s indifference:
Gen Xers Decide To Split Off From Rest Of Society And Form A Utopia That’s All Relaxed And Cool And, You Know, Whatever
‘There will be no more screaming about daily outrages, as everyone is just going to be chill and maybe listen to some Nirvana while they “do their jobs or whatever.” As for the ideology of the new country, they say any politics are fine as long as “no one gets all worked up about it.”
This relaxed utopia is already said to be a million times better than the constant shrieking of regular society, the inhabitants themselves describing it as, “Eh, it’s okay.”‘
Sounds like heaven right about now.
I’ve given in the past to the Innocence Project, but they’re completely woke and pushing the system is inherently racist bullshit. Fuck them, not another cent.
Oof.
I have been “all in” on the innocence project for a long time. I’ve been out of touch the last couple of years – my time has been devoted elsewhere. I guess it isn’t surprising that they’d head off in that direction.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I’m a Shriner, as is my father in law, as was my old man.
When my mom was a kid (circa 1940), she contracted a serious orthopaedic disease, and spent over a year here, at no cost to my grandparents — who were working five jobs between the two of them to pay the hospital bills before Mom was admitted to the Shriner’s Hospital.
I’ve already had the trust drawn up. When the missus passes (assuming I go first), the majority of the estate is going to the Shriner’s Hospitals.
Nothing against the IJ, FIRE, or The Innocence Project.
There’s all the room in the world for more charity. Good on you.
Know Your Rights Camp is obviously a summer camp where police learn how to harass and or brutalize minorities.
“Washington Football Team is facing a new wave of sexual harassment claims after ‘owner Dan Snyder asked a cheerleader to meet his friend at a hotel in 2004 and an exec ordered a video of lewd calendar shoot outtakes'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8666767/Redskins-cheerleaders-make-slew-new-sexual-harassment-claims-against-NFL-teams-executives.html
Pick a stupid name, win stupid prizes.
So… 16 years ago? Why didn’t you complain about it then?
Gravity had yet to work its magic on her and coin was still to be had?
Because blood wasn’t in the water then.
Cherry pickers of the world, unite!
In boasting about the big job gains in May, June and July, Trump conveniently omits the historic job losses in March and April. So far, the U.S. has recovered less than half of the jobs that disappeared this spring.
Right. Now tell us, once again, how the rich have only gotten richer (on the backs of the oppressed poors) since mid March. You remember that story, don’t you?
What happened in March and April? I forget.
“that disappeared”
POOF!
Hmm
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/08/25/why-veterans-are-quitting-federal-jobs-higher-rates-non-vets.html
Other than pay, I can concur.
I can concur with this as well, and note the irony I was working for the Veteran’s Health Administration.
“What’s going on is the memory of the economy before the pandemic,” says Republican pollster Whit Ayres.
He believes many Americans are still judging Trump by the economy as it was six months ago, before the coronavirus took hold here.
“It was rolling,” Ayres recalls. “Unemployment was at historic lows. The economy was in great shape before the pandemic killed it.”
Presidential approval ratings in general don’t swing up and down as much as they used to. Americans have increasingly sorted themselves into highly polarized camps, reluctant to abandon their own standard-bearer or show even grudging approval for the other side.
Trump may also be getting a pass on the economy because Americans are more concerned with other problems, including race relations and especially the pandemic itself.
“People see COVID as the problem and the economy as a symptom,” says Lydia Saad, director of U.S. social research for Gallup. “They’re viewing [the economic downturn] sort of like a hurricane. Something that’s happened. It’s come in. It’s created all sorts of havoc. But it’s going to go away and things are going to get back to normal.”
Right. The economy just stopped, all on its own, like a fine pocket watch when an anvil fell on it.
No governors. No public health experts. No criminally wrong models. No pandemic-gaming LARPers.
Precisely this.
“Don’t those rubes realize we did our best to tank the economy? We’ll relent if they just get rid of the orange man.”
Yeah that was always my thing with the economy being terrible. It’s terrible because of the pandemic and the government response to it. Which by definition, you can’t blame on Trump. It’s the China Virus (check the polls on % of Americans who blame China for this shit), and the lockdowns and social distancing were always painted as THE WAY TO SAVE LIVES.
So now, in August, the Dems are trying to argue they had some super secret elite COVID plan that would have saved more lives and kept the economy going strong. But they can’t tell you what it is.
The secret plan thing only works if you have a plan to fix things.
This is true.
But they AREN’T blaming Trump, either.
They were quite clear – “the pandemic killed it”. Apparently, solely for the sake of brevity, they decided to use “pandemic” as shorthand for “governors and local officials, overwhelmingly Democratic”.
“KENOSHA: a man wearing torso knight armor, a home stitched skirt, & a military canteen
Sweeps up trash with a broom that is on fire right in front of riot police
I can genuinely say I have no idea what’s going on here though
Even the police were confused and left him alone”
https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1298157565268893698
I’m with the cops on this one.
That’s it! That’s what the guy in Hyperboles comic strip is doing!
Some kind of weird political commentary, maybe?
Rule 41
Tweet response:
“Don’t mind me folks. Time Janitor. Got some very volatile pieces of causality-affecting debris here. See how they’re igniting my Chrono-broom? If I didn’t intervene who knows what implications might have for the future.
‘It was gutting’: Family says home’s appraised value soared after they removed all traces of ‘Blackness’ from their home
Calling bullshit on this. Even if the appraisal difference is true, there is 0 evidence that the difference was because of racism.
I JUST saw that on FB and almost linked it, then got distracted.
No before and after shots?
I’m calling bullshit as well – if the appraisal went up, it’s just as likely because they cleaned up the place and it showed better.
Thanks for saving me from a click.
A $135k difference is insane. If true I’d bet it’s a result of error rather than a racist appraiser who is willing to throw away his career over one house.
Yeah, pull the other one.
LOL. Appraisers don’t give a shit about how the house is decorated.
To be fair – when my sister in law was selling her condo, my wife and I convinced her to remove almost all signs that a black family lived there. She kept a few things that a white liberal might have used to show how post-racial they were.
Not sure that is why is sold quickly and for over the asking price, or if this was just a subcategory of the realtor’s mantra to remove all family pictures so the prospective buyers can more easily envision it being their home.
In a weird instance of sibling rivalry, the sisters were briefly mad at each other because, at my wife’s suggestion, I cleaned a really dirty set of blinds in the place.
Sales are different than appraisals. When you’re selling a house/condo, you want it as vanilla as possible so people can imagine themselves living in it. Appraisers don’t care about that.
They always say to remove personal photos. You want perspective buyers to feel at home, not like they’re in someone else’s home. Also, bake cookies.
Sprinkle cinnamon on a tray and put it in the oven. Old realtors trick.
At what temperature for how long?
Just like if you were baking cookies. 350F for 20-30 minutes.
I’ve heard to also do coffee or vanilla.
Outbreak of COVID from Sturgis: over 100 confirmed cases across 8 states. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-south-dakota-over-100-cases-8-states/
I think those guys are going to be okay.
Sounds like it’s well under the national average (1.77% according to google).
FILTHY BIKERS CLEANER THAN DIRTY HIPPIES
When you put it that way…thats as sad as it is awesome.
So one out of 4,000. Not a big deal really.
Really proud of my home team Mavs for starting this NBA trend of not showing up for games as early as last night.
I’m not saying Brett was involved….
Don’t you have some news reports to forge, asshole?
DRIASRWTMITE
10 internet subpoints to the person who can decipher the acronym.
Damn right I am saying really wildly the media is the enemy?
Dan Rather Is A… Sorry Termite?
I may not be doing this right.
What’s the frequency, kinnath?
It’s funny how, when unburdened from the need to pretend to be unbiased journalists, they all bend one way.
Noticed the DNC was watchable straight from Amazon and the RNC? Nope. Maybe it was a contract thing but as ol’ Joe would say….come on man!
Let me fix that…search DNC you get all 4 nights, seaech RNC you get CNN and other shows. Search Republican National and you finally get day 1 and that is it
Dan Rather Is A Significant Reason Why The Media Is The Enemy
Not great, but my best guess. The adjective starting with S is where I’d first guess I got it wrong.
As to the matter at hand, 122k likes for boosting a conspiracy theory and spreading election-related misinformation. Oh right, Dan Rather is one of the Good People (TM) who can do that.
winner winner, chicken dinner!
Dan Rather Is A Shit-Raking Wanker; The Media Is The Enemy
Still with the Russia hoax? Unbelievable.
Damn Right I’m A Syphilidic Retarded Whore The Media Is The Enemy?
This is why reading the comments from bottom up is so much fun! 🙂
It helps that I habitually fuck up the threading.
Ha, another upside down reader.
Brett has surfaced. Mad Scientist gets the credit for going and rousting Brett from the encampment in his favorite underpass.
You may all stop having thoughts and prayers. Wait. You know what I mean.
And he just kept saying, “Dave’s not here, man!”
I thought that alligator that he had been doing ‘shrooms with finally hallucinated Brett as a giant turkey leg.
If I were to start a charity I would name it Liquor For The Destitute. Slogan: If you’re down on your luck, have a drink on us.
There are many acronyms I have come across here that I didn’t know. So, I make a guess and go with it for months until they are spelled out for me here. Here are some of my favorite wrong guesses.
QFT quit fucking talking
YMMV you make me vomit
CWAA can’t win against authority
How long before you figured out that CWAA really means Chicago Whitesox Are Assholes?
+0 hits
-Pittsburgh Pirates
QFT for me now means “Quit fucking talking”
Well done.
Back in the day when I frequented video game forums I thought for the longest time that QFT stood for Quit Fucking Trolling, which made no sense since I only ever saw it in response to imminently reasonable posts.
I have no clue what the poster intends, so they just look insane.
“Trump’s Scare Tactics Aren’t Working on Women in the Suburbs
North of Charlotte, N.C., voters of both parties can see through the GOP’s strategy of frightening them about an urban crime wave.”
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/08/25/trump-republican-convention-suburban-women-401449
Go ahead and deny the crime spree that actually is occurring in medium to large urban areas and is easily verifiable, it’s surely a winning strategy.
“Who ya gonna believe, us or your lying eyes?” – media
Now do the Democratic Party’s strategy of frightening non-white voters about getting killed by police.
Now do black voters in the city. You know, where the urban crime wave is happening.
New family moved in across diagonally across from us about 2 months ago. He works 2 weeks a month in DC for the gubmint.
DEMOCRATS FOR TRUMP sign just went up in the front yard.
Former city cop who I would guess had been reliably blue living directly across from me put up a Trump/Pence sign.
??♂️
Awesome.
But they AREN’T blaming Trump, either.
That’s what pisses the folks at NPR off.
How many people who went to Sturgis got syphilis?
Roughly 200,000 would be my guess.
Fewer than acquired ringworm.
VD fights the ‘VID
Let’s not dilute the sample pool
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says asymptomatic people no longer need to get tested for the novel coronavirus, a quiet change the federal agency recently made to its online guidelines regarding COVID-19.
“You do not necessarily need a test unless you are a vulnerable individual or your health care provider or state or local public health officials recommend you take one,” the CDC now recommends.
The revised guidelines, posted on Monday, say individuals who have been in close contact with an infected person, typically meaning within six feet and for at least 15 minutes, “do not necessarily need a test” if they do not have symptoms. However, the CDC did state that there are exceptions, including “vulnerable” individuals or healthcare professionals where state or local public health officials may advise testing for the virus.
Don’t want a bunch of negative tests muddying the waters when we have the Most Contagious Plague Ever narrative to push.
Trump got to them.
Anyone else notice that if the squirrels eat your comment you cant remember all of it and retyping seems so Sisyphean that you just say ‘fuck it’ and move on?
Only after I’ve written (and lost) “The Most Insightful Comment Ever”™.
Sometimes I say “fuck it” and don’t bother. But if I do bother to rewrite, it usually turns out better than the original.
I think the reason it got caught in the spam filter was the phrase “hot tub.”
Dr. Fred Davis, associate chair of emergency medicine at Northwell /Long Island Jewish, in New York, told Fox News: “While the CDC has recommended that those that might have been exposed to someone who tested [positive] for COVID but they themselves are asymptomatic might not need to be tested, there are delicate concerns.
“We know that someone can be infected and transmitting the virus and it can take 3-5 days after initial infection before they develop symptoms. It is suspected that upwards of 50 percent of transmissions occur during this time,” Davis continued.
/em>
Right. It’s either that, or witches.
Meanwhile, Kullar cautioned that “it is important to get tested if you’ve been exposed to someone, even if asymptomatic, for contact tracing.”
“I am not sure if these recommendations were based on the labs being overwhelmed or a desire to make the case numbers look better; regardless, I am stunned by these recommendations,” she added.
The news comes after a World Health Organization (WHO) official in June walked back her statement that spread from asymptomatic patients appeared to be “very rare.” The comments were renounced following criticism from the scientific community, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert, who called the remarks “not correct.”
Muh NARRATIVE!
“the country’s top infectious disease expert”
Make sure you get his caste position in there so you have cover for your lazy reporting.
“Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease expert”
OK, that made me laugh
WHITE courtesy phone?
So. Much. Hate.
OMG, the emails that come across my desk. “We are moving away from historically offensive technical terminology effective immediately.”
“Master – slave” is now “conductor – member”
“blacklist – whitelist” is now “denylist – allow list”
‘black hat – white hat ” is now “unethical – ethical”
RACISM SOLVED. Go home, everyone! Great job.
Ribbons for everyone!
“Master – slave” is now “conductor – member”
GTFO.
They will remain the “master DNS servers” and “internal slave servers”.
“blacklist” is now “cancelled”
Nothing like grepping through all the automation scripts looking for things that trigger off commits to master hoping you didn’t miss anything. It’s like dealing with non-technical folks who use the term “unit test” to mean individual component level functional tests (standalone units of the system).
It makes them look even more racist by pretending they understand what offends people of a race other than their own.
Allowlist/denylist are no less ambiguous than whitelist/blacklist and if anything, are less ambiguous, so I don’t care much about this one.
Master/slave is often a misnomer where leader/follower or primary/secondary would be more appropriate. Though, master alone is usually pretty clear and inoffensive. This one rubs me a bit, more for having to get rid of “master” rather than “slave”. Lots of words can stand opposite to master besides slave; I’ve seen agent and minion in practice, and of course git “master” branch needs no opposite word. Conductor is a stupid choice because there is no natural opposite word; “member” is too broad.
Black hat/white hat is a very specific piece of jargon that unethical/ethical doesn’t line up with. Not to mention, where does gray hat fit? The color of hat has nothing to do with race.
All of this, when not driven by technical needs or reducing confusion, is just infantilizing black people in the name of “inclusivity” (remember, exclusivity is inclusivity).
master/slave is one ive been avoiding for a while. I have to write with juries in mind, and I don’t want that choice of language prejudicing or confusing them. Leader/follower, controller/??, orchestrator/?? are all constructs I’ve used. usually, I’m describing the election/configuration process for the leader, so the “slaves” are implicitly defined and I don’t actually need to use a term for them.
Dom/Sub
First thing we do is…
overseer / minority
I’ve been working on a diesel engine speed control unit so I’ve been saying advance and retard a lot lately.
I’m not going to stop listening to Powerslave
I don’t understand the Dems’ strategy of staying silent on the riots until now. Did they think people would look favorably on the riots? Did they think the media would just keep it covered up (which maybe they could have if they stayed in Portland)? Now it just looks like they are ok with rioting as long unless it hurts Trump, and they’ve painted themselves into a corner. An interesting combination of evil and stupid.
The Republicans are famous for not seizing the day when they have the opportunity, the Dems are known for vastly overplaying their hand. This is just more of the same and part of the overplaying of that hand is thinking they could ride the Antigua tiger without being eaten.
And the Antifa tiger too but I don’t blame my iPad for the spell correct on an organization that doesn’t exist.
And the fact is that arsonists should be held accountable. People carrying guns shooting should be held accountable. People who engage in criminal activity should and must be held accountable and taken to trial.
You should never let what’s done in a march for equal rights overcome what the reason for the march is. And that’s what these folks are doing. And they should be arrested, found, arrested, and tried.
Joe Biden 7/28/2020
Was that something he actually said, or a statement issued by his campaign?
I’d also note that’s dated a month ago, and it doesn’t seem to be a statement he’s returned to very much.
Transcript from an interview.
“they were silent til now” , “that clips is a month old” You guys need to get your stories straight.
You’re being disingenuously pedantic and you know it.
Pedantic sure, disingenuous? not so much.
A friend from school now works at a lab that is doing research on the commie cooties. I called her up and asked. her why I couldn’t get any solid answers about anything.
“I cant tell you.”
“Can you tell me why they are lying about everything to do with this?”
“I cant tell you”
OK fine, we chit chatted and caught up a bit. I was raised on a farm so I know what it looks like when someone is shoveling horseshit.
My guess: The NIH funded the lab in Wuhan. Since research on biological weapons is illegal in the US, NIH, which is Fauci, simply outsourced it to China. In other words we are more responsible than China. I just wonder how much of an accident it was.
I also wonder who would be stupid and evil enough to develop a virus as a biological weapon. That it would spread worldwide and come back on you is something a retarded ten year old could figure out.
Replace “stupid” with “arrogant” and it explains a lot.
It took a giant pile of stupidity laced with evil to get us to where we are right now.
I doubt we’d be going after the Chinese so aggressively if that was the case. Just because we partially funded some of that research doesn’t mean we were funding weapons research.
Yeah, and this is a particularly shitty bio-weapon.
You want it to incapacitate (but not kill) military age folk.
The Soviets had the best one I ever heard of. A bacterium engineered to produce myelin. It caused an infection, but not really much in the way of a disease…. but the myelin it produced created an immune response. And then the infected person’s body attacked the myelin sheath of the nerves, causing Multiple Sclerosis.
So it disables all of your military on the front lines with MS. Then you have to deal with a bunch of severely disabled military forces. You’ll be too busy to wage war.
Really nasty stuff.
You’re right, as a bioweapon this one sucks. I never heard of that Soviet one but modifying ebola or anthrax would be where it’s at nowadays.
All WMD have down sides to use. Biological weapons? Time to take effect; accidental too broadcast; accidental infection of own troops/population; bad public perception by third parties.
Chemical weapons? Relatively narrow range of acceptable temperatures, restrictions on your movement from contamination issues, poor impacts on trained troops with wide impacts on civilians; bad public perception on third parties.
Nukes? Difficult to use for tactical purposes due to blast effects impacting maneuver, accidental radiation poisoning of own troops attempting to exploit the blast zone, self-EMP of equipment, bad public perceptions by home front or third parties.
Radiological? See Nukes less EMP and blast effects.
There is a reason chem weapons since WWI have primarily been used on civilians away from TV cameras. (e.g. Italy in Libya and Ethiopia, Eqypy on Sudan, Iraq on Kurds, Syrian Civil War) NATO was hoping that despite the Soviet doctrine of energetic and widespread chemical weapons use that the 2d order of effects from maiming and killing 100,000s of West Germans with mustard and nerve agents would limit (not eliminate) Soviet use.
Nukes are even a bigger Pandora’s box. Combine the maiming and killing 2d and 3rd order impacts from chemicals, with destroying your own mobility corridors, and worldwide condemnation might have slowed down Soviet use- especially since the US doctrine was (and remains) we will nuke in return. Accidental killing your own draftee troops by radiation was not a Soviet concern. That is why their “radiation poisoning” pills were amphetamines.
Bio? That is bad juju all the way around in most cases. If you have a city under a tight siege you might be able to use traditional diseases from ancient times. But if the word gets out you are pretty well toast in world opinion. There are two exceptions which apply to China and Russia. You are too big to care since you have the world’s balls in your pocket because of your place in the economic pecking order (China), and/or you control the internal media enough and you use bio away from the spotlight on a population most of the world doesn’t care about (China and Russia).
But I think the current panicdemic may increase the chance of bioweapons use. The massive overresponse for the Kung Flu I am sure is being closely examined by the PRC and RF. I can envision Chinese and Russian planners looking and going “If we time the spread of a disease correctly and propagandize it properly we can cause the West to remove themselves from a conflict and have a de facto victory. “
It seems doubtful that they could prevent people from leaking information about that.
Dan Rather Is A Sleazy Retarded Whore?
No, he’s Burt Lahr.
I’m not allowed to call that thing on the bell housing that operates the clutch a “slave cylinder”?
Okay, then.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/da-homicide-in-allentown-justified-on-basis-of-self-defense/article_337950d4-e7d7-11ea-94af-4b7482a7784e.html
Someone got very lucky.
“Guardian takes legal action to shut down parody headline generator”
https://www.pressgazette.co.uk/guardian-takes-legal-action-to-shut-down-parody-headline-generator/
Remember when Salon did the same thing?
The British courts are not friendly to satire .
“The UK’s first fully-decorated Pride train will be making its inaugural journey on Tuesday, staffed by an LGBT+ crew”
https://twitter.com/PA/status/1298151514154897409
OFFS!!
Trains and tunnels is awfully cis-hetero of them.
Depends on the tunnel.
I’m sure they can lick that problem in record time.
cue offensive or derisive nicknames….
?Take the Gay Train?
The head is purple. ?
Arsonist sentenced to probation in Portland. Oh wait, turns out he was already on probation for a previous robbery conviction
https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2020/08/portland-protester-convicted-of-arson-in-police-precinct-fire-gets-probation-community-service.html
Wood chippers.
So now he’s on double secret probation?
Considering all of the prohibitions against fun and now this, I think Dean Wormer has an outside chance as Time’s Man of the Year.
My Ma’s friend who made an attempt to get with my Pa when he became a widower, and who likes to discuss…feelings…with me just sent me a DM. I made a bet with myself whether the entirety of the note would be about my Pa with a cursory “how are you?” thrown in. It wasn’t much of a bet, tbh.
Get the fuck over it, already! Jeezus.
Fuck the NBA and it’s players. Overpaid little primadonnas.
https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2020/8/26/21403189/nba-boycott-player-strike-milwaukee-bucks-lakers-george-hill
You fuckers are lucky to have a job at all right now.
Watching them alienate half their audience is interesting but maybe they can replace them with Han Chinese which is where I believe they think their future lies anyway.
那个请
I guess the NBA hasn’t watched what happens to everyone else’s IP in China.
+1 non-licensed Lakers Jersey
The Brewers and Reds have canceled their game this evening as well. The Brewers’ statement:
https://twitter.com/KennyGreer/status/1298770710807146497/photo/1
Unfuckingbelievable
Just looked and Bulletproofme is not accepting orders for the rest of the week. And that was on top of previous demand.
Random musing. Buridan’s ass caught between food and drink, equally hungry and thirsty.
I’ve been hungry. I’ve been thirsty. I would rather starve to death than die of thirst.
Four minutes without air, four days without water, four weeks without food – average survival times, Or somesuch numbers to that effect. Drink first, then eat.
I’ve always heard it as “The Rule of Threes”: three minutes without air, three days without water, three weeks without food – any one of these will kill you.
It’s somewhere on those orders of magnitude, varying by person.
I had a surgery after which I couldn’t drink anything without puking it back up immediately. I was so thirsty it was surreal. I got hospitalized for that and pumped full of saline and potassium.
D5W. Kept my Mom alive for many weeks after she wanted to die (liver cancer). I learned to hate that stuff, simply because it prolonged her torture.
I suppose this is just more evidence of what an outlier I am: I’m apparently in the sizable minority who thinks sports is far more important to my life (and frankly the lives of most everyone) than politics. Or at least I’m one of the few to have asked the question and come to that conclusion.
I guess I can just shrug and try and make the best of things.
I told Mr. Mojeaux last night that the NFL was uniquely positioned to say, “WuFlu? GTFO. The show must go on.” NOBODY would have shut them down if they’d gone ahead and acted like everything was normal, with the full support of three quarters of the country.
They could have stopped it.
I have been a sports fanatic my entire life, all the way to my earliest memories. I’ve grown apathetic very quickly with all of this bullshit. Sports was always my escape. It is no longer an escape, and the people who run these leagues now have made it a vehicle for propaganda. Not interested in being on the receiving end of that.
For National Dog Day, I gave the 17-year-old his last dose of amoxicillin for his wheezy & sneezy. He is still wheezy, though not as bad. I think it’s allergies, not an infection.
https://pasteboard.co/Joegx9c.jpg
Looking at the Weather Channel right now live from Lake Charles, and the “red sky at night” thing doesn’t seem to be holding up