Cannot confirm, or deny that this is a depiction of OMWC.
My excuse? I was drunk and listening to stellar music.
But, we’re back at it with…the links!
I mean, what could possibly go wrong?
Our version could be an outhouse surrounded by Karens.
So close. So very close.
California is burning. It’s also known as “summer”.
Hmm. What for tuneage. You got TOOL this morning. A little King Crimson influence was noticed, so let’s go with that.
Hellyeah
*waves at Brochettaward*
is that a finger twiddling, thumb to nose wave?
Sry I’m late, dinner and unpacking my shipment of used Mexican dude tshirts.
Of course, the Democrats would never cast doubt on the results of an election.
Who was the last Democratic Presidential candidate who lost and accepted the results? Dukakis?
Hillary?
Imma say no.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-russia-links-us-presidential-campaign-2016-a7942871.html
Meh, doing a postmortem doesn’t mean one isn’t accepting the results. Did she file suits or try to muster an army to take her rightful place? When conservatives lose and blame it on “The Media”, low-information voters, or the Liberal indoctrination of the yutes, is that “not accepting the loss”? By that standard nobody accepts the results, everyone can (and usually does) find some reason why they “should have won” but didn’t.
What the fuck do you call the whole Russia hoax if not “not accepting the results”?
Being contrarian is one thing, but this is almost as bad as Don not accepting the existence of cancel culture.
I believe in cancel culture, STEVE SMITH, and the moral superiority of Donald John Trump.
Just enjoy winning/losing the humidity wars up there!
We must have different definitions of “Accepting”. I ask again did Hill send in the lawyers. I seem to recall a concession speech. Finding reasons why you lost is not the same as not accepting the loss.
Moral superiority over whom? His opponents in the two elections? I can buy that, but that bar is too low for limbo.
Well, someone paid for Jill Stein’s recounts. I can’t say it was Hillary, but I don’t think all that money came from people who actually voted for Jill Stein.
And what about the effort to get electoral college electors to change their votes? No other losing candidate ever did that in my lifetime. Also, they promised to find a way to impeach Trump the day after the election, and they finally did, on the flimsiest of reasons.
Hillary has been trying to overturn the election results for four years. Even Gore finally gave up and moved on, but not Hillary.
Yes crazy Dems have done those things, show me where Hillary did. I see a lot of “they” did this and “they” did that, but very little about what Hillary did. The question wasn’t about whether the loonies in one party didn’t accept the results of an election but about whether the candidate did.
The outgoing administration was abusing the surveillance state to spy on the incoming administration and launching bullshit investigations, but they totally accepted that L. It was the most peaceful transition of power in US history, right, Hyperbole?
You are that guy who won’t stop doing that thing he always does that is obviously transparent and moronic.
Who was the last Democratic Presidential candidate…
The outgoing administration was abusing the surveillance state…
Yes lets move those goalposts.
Hillary was clearly not a gracious loser. She did not accept the result in the sense of tranquil acceptance, but she also did not file lawsuits challenging the result and claiming actual victory in the way that Gore did. To some extent you guys are talking past each other, but to another extent there is an emotional argument going on in which Hillary is so hated that any claim that she did not commit a particular evil act is taken as a claim that she is virtuous.
I am a bit concerned that I see a phenomenon unfolding here that I saw unfold at TOS (and which in some sense ended up creating this site) just in reverse. I voted for Trump, I probably will again, and I am decidedly toward the right end of the spectrum, but lets not pile on those who are more hostile to Trump for daring to express that opposition. This place has plenty of right leaning voices and very few left leaning ones, and when Hyperbole (or even someone like Don) says anything challenging memes from the right there is a hostility to the response that is not a great thing. I agree that the left is the big threat today. I don’t agree that therefore Trump is wonderful or that no threat from the right can exist and our defense against most evil is the ability to look at a position fairly and with fact based critiques not tribal ones.
The entire thread of comments started with someone calling out Democrats for not accepting the results of the last election. Hillary herself was, lest anyone has forgotten, Secretary of State under Obama. Her tentacles are spread throughout the entirety of the Democratic party. Her people are the ones who initially started pushing the Trump-Russia conspiracy even before she lost. Her campaign financed the Steele Dossier.
But, sure, I’m moving the goalposts on you…
Hyperbole has been saying exactly the same thing through out which is : Hillary did not challenge the results of the election.
Challenging a result has a meaning, and that meaning does not reasonably stretch to encompass whining, bitching, or other sour grapes.
He has not said she was gracious, or that she is admirable, or even tolerable. He has simply said she did not do this specific thing that was claimed above.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-russia-links-us-presidential-campaign-2016-a7942871.html
sigh, the link belongs with Chipping’s second post, not sure how I seperated it.
I don’t have any issue with Don writing an article skeptical of cancel culture as a thing because Don is being genuine and putting forth a good faith argument.
Hyperbole routinely plays the same game where he attempts to engage in pedantry to play the contrarian. I don’t agree that he is serving some vital role in calling us out on our biases. He is just mendacious and petty. Not that I have any say or that anyone who runs this place cares what I think, but it isn’t like I’d call for him to be banned or something (I’m sure plenty of people would like to see me gone). But I see a guy putting on an act and its one I just find tiresome. So I’m going to call him out on it when he does it.
Hillary didn’t just blame Russia postmortem. Her people were part of cooking up the entire Russia conspiracy as a means to delegitimize Trump even before the election.
How would you define “accepted”? Is it necessarily the same as “did not challenge”? Does “challenge” mean only a formal, procedural challenge?
“Her People”
But Hyperbole did not deny any of that. He did not address it at all. He denied a specific claim and has not expanded beyond that at all here. I used to respond to his points assuming bad faith, but I find that most of the time what he is saying is a very specific point that we should not play fast and loose with factual claims even if doing so advances our overall point.
And THAT response right there is why I will ridicule The Hyperbole. This is not someone engaging in a good faith argument. It’s not even someone playing devil’s advocate or even a constructive troll. It’s just retarded.
Her campaign funded the Steele Dossier. Does he want to address that fact? Challenge it in any meaningful way? No. He wants to try and dodge it through pedantry.
That doesn’t sound like sumpin a TRUE Firster would say Brochettaward.
I addressed this:
Hyperbole also addressed it:
All I am saying here is that we as a commentariate extend some posters a charitable presumption of good faith and reasonable argument and others get presumed to be trolling even when they make careful statements and have historically apologized and clarified when they over state something. It bothers me sometimes so I pop in to defend Hyperbole who has grown on me.
Jarflax – he responded to a specific post on the Russian conspiracy talk by claiming that ”
Meh, doing a postmortem doesn’t mean one isn’t accepting the results.” His argument is flat out wrong. She didn’t just blame Russia for the loss as he claimed.
His last post, his flippant “Her people” response then seems to imply that I can’t prove she personally did something. That I’m blaming some nebulous cabal and not, you know, her own god damn campaign that financed the Steele Dossier that served as the basis for actual god damn investigations before she even lost.
So he is not engaging in good faith argument because he is not arguing the position you want him to engage? He simply challenged what he saw as a false claim.
“The question wasn’t about whether the loonies in one party didn’t accept the results of an election but about whether the candidate did.”
Well, she herself didn’t. Just this week she went on about how she won the popular vote.
It was also not “loonies”. The results of the election were rejected unanimously by the mainstream Democratic establishment.
“Accepting” is agreeing she lost fair and square. She’s done the exact opposite for almost four years.
I’ve already quoted the argument he made. You yourself quoted it. He claimed that Hillary simply blamed Russia postmortem.
When confronted with the fact that her campaign funded the Steele Dossier, he chose to focus on the fact that I phrased it as “her people” and hasn’t since responded. I am, as far as I can tell, replying to his actual argument – not some strawman version of it or what I wish he was arguing so I could work myself up into a frenzy.
See I did not read that as him being flippant, I read that as him accusing you of shifting a term between the major premise that She did not just blame Russia postmorem, and Her people having set the whole nonsense in motion during the campaign. I agree with you that her involvement was implicit in the whole series of events and I agree with you that his comment was not a refutation but rather a weak attempt at a technical point, but even so I don’t know that he was arguing in bad faith there because it is quite possible to believe that dirty tricks were carried out by staffers without the candidate knowing. Witness Watergate. But I will grant you that I find it hard to believe that Hillary’s Russian collusion claims were anything but knowing malicious slander.
Third? –
I just could never get into King Crimson. Too cerebral.
They are further proof of my theory that no song need be over 8min55sec long.
You are incorrect.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=snIV_-IECsM
He could a cut that in half (or quartered it) and we still would have gotten the gist of what he was at. I mean it’s Jazz for christ sake, they distill the idea of every song down to a one page Fake book entry the rest is just fluff.
Some tunes are prefect at 2 minutes, some at 5 and some at 15. Afrobeat and jazz tend to lend themselves more to longer forms while pop is generally the opposite.
You could also say the Mona Lisa didn’t need that many brushstrokes, but you’d be wrong as well.
This is the same.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UbkqE4fpvdI&list=PLaGIpG2SLMARUPSWnMhu8CxY_y6oq6cr1&index=2&t=0s
Wrong on at least two counts:
2112
The Decline
2112 doesn’t count because it’s like 5 songs, they just list them as part of one long song. I have no idea what the Decline is and I’m not going to listen to it in case your right and I will not accept that outcome.
Wrong
11:54
A mere 9:12
Play Free Bird!
Do you
Once again (without the fuck up)
Do You Feel Like We Do?
One of my favorites from youth
I heard it through the grapevine
Traffic
sparks
Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien normally clocks in somewhere between 15 and 16 minutes.
Ditto Ravel’s Bolero.
Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture is another one around 15 minutes.
Richard Strauss’ Don Juan clocks in between 18-19 minutes.
Let’s add some Respighi to the just under 20 minute songs.
Orchestral and symphonic works are not songs.
Then I’m sorry so have such execrable taste in music.
I didn’t say they aren’t any good I just said they don’t count as “songs”
I should also point out that I picked one-movement works.
Johann Strauss’ “Blue Danube” waltz is definitely a song, and runs about 10 minutes.
Johann Strauss’ “Blue Danube” waltz is definitely a song, and runs about 10 minutes.
Yes.
And it is a good song too.
Hyperbole is even more wrong than usual. It could possibly be because he doesn’t have much depth of knowledge of music.
There are five songs on Kind of Blue longer than nine minutes (6 if you count the alternate take of Flamenco Sketches). Every second is needed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylXk1LBvIqU&list=PLrhkpF1bKMG_D2sxTpxG63WGmIxYGB-Jt&index=1
“The Count of Tuscany” says hello.
The Crimson King is always a good choice. I have Fracture in steady rotation.
24 hour shopping in fracture
Debra!
Mystery Of ‘Glowing Pearl Necklace’ In The Night Sky Solved, Says NASA
tldr: caused by the sun spurting plasma all over the Earth’s magnetic field.
The euphemisms.
So the sun just gave us a facial?
Well, you heard the suit. Shut it all down until space is safe for everyone.
Those satellites need to put a damn mask on!
And the astronauts. None of that comfortable spacehelmet garbage either.
Never change, Japan. Though in all honesty I could maybe dig this if I was a few beers deep.
https://twitter.com/AlecMacGillis/status/1297254567252561920
That snitch better have a bodyguard.
I hate everyone in this story. Pollster is asshoe for turning over names. Northeastern is asshoe for asking in the first place. Respondents are asshoe for thinking this wouldn’ t happen. In these trying times, honesty is NOT the best policy. Fucking jackbooted thugs masquerading as educators are out to get you, kids.
I’ve always been astonished at the surveys stupid people will answer. “We asked 5,000 high school students about their drug use…” WTF?
The the sex surveys are even better.
Which raises the question, how many of those that answered no were lying?
Does the pollster work at Reason.com?
I used to wonder how a country like North Korea could exist. Now I know. A lot of people are horrible, power-hungry, vermin. That’s probably why the 1st and 2nd amendments exist.
The 2nd amendment made all the other ones possible.
The question is never how an authoritarian despotism can exist. The question is how a free country can ever come into existence, and how long it can stay there.
So true. So very, very true.
“A republic, if you can keep it.”
– Some fucking white male
***
But none of the founders had the day Benjamin Franklin had. As the story was told and retold on the House floor, Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin supposedly responded, with a rejoinder at once witty and ominous: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
***
***
The quote doesn’t appear in any of Franklin’s writings, nor in the transcripts of the convention debate, nor in any contemporaneous newspaper accounts.
According to quote trackers Bartleby and the Yale Book of Quotations, it first appeared in 1906 in the American Historical Review. But that doesn’t mean it comes from the 20th century; the Review was publishing for the first time the notes of James McHenry, a Maryland delegate to the Constitutional Convention.
***
They always cut off the last part of the Franklin quote, where he tells the woman,”a republic, if you can keep it. Now suck my dick!”
and parents
our nation is doomed
asking classmates whether they planned to attend parties. 115 yes, 640 no.
Curious how closely that ratio agrees with the graduation rate. (the no’s being the ones smart enough to graduate)
I don’t know about that one. In my experience, people that are part of the student life are more prone to work until they get their degrees than people that value money or family life more.
The ”protesters” and perpetual grievers on the other hand….
Sorry, I wasn’t clear. My guess is 90% of those no’s (noes? nos just doesn’t look right) are lies. Lying to polls that could clearly be used against you is the smart choice. (“The US Mint Is Just Curious: Have you ever cut a dollar bill in half, Yes or No? Make sure to enter your Soc, Name and Home Address accurately.”)
So I’m reading the yes responses as people too dumb to lie in their best interest, and therefore less likely to graduate.
I wasn’t trying to make any connection to whether the respondents were avoiding parties because they’re actually affeered of the plague.
Facebook may be in an especially difficult position because Mr. Zuckerberg has said the social network stands for free speech.
HAH!
Just be careful about posting anything about using HCQ to treat Lil Rona on facebook. A Reopen group I’m a member of received a notice from Facebook which said the group might be banned if people keep posting articles about HCQ and Lil Rona.
I’d have a little respect for Zuckerberg if he was honest about Facebook: “It’s a private platform. We’ll allow the speech that we want to allow.”
According to the European Space Agency’s latest count, there are more than 29,000 objects larger than 10 cm in diameter, including thousands of active and dead satellites, orbiting at various heights around Earth.
I think Space Smith has a little work to do.
Lots of events have been cancelled because of the coronavirus, and I was looking for a way to get rid of my stress,” said Kazushiro Hashiguchi, 36, said after lying through the 800-yen ($7.60) show.
“I feel relaxed now.”
OK…. moving on.
He didn’t realize his conversations were being monitored by the DEA, which had wiretapped Guzmán’s phones. As Alan Feuer writes in “El Jefe: The Stalking of Chapo Guzmán” (Flatiron Books), out Aug. 25, “it was undeniably mental that the NSA — the NSA — had used its secret hardware to eavesdrop on the world’s most wanted criminal vetting Sean Penn’s Hollywood career.”
/scratches head
Of the course the NSA would want to tap the phones of a guy like that. Is this guy clueless?
Crews from neighboring states, including Oregon, Idaho and Arizona, arrived to help control the spread, according to Daniel Berlant, assistant deputy director for Cal Fire.
Careful…. they might spread Lil Rona around.
I couldn’t make it past the 2nd paragraph – I laughed myself out of my chair and hurt something.
D00d, you’re a recent surgical victi . .. er, surviv. . . . um, person who got cut open. You gotta be more careful!
We prefer “beneficiary”.
Of the course the NSA would want to tap the phones of a guy like that. Is this guy clueless?
OF ALL PLACES. i mean, PHONES.
Crews from neighboring states, including Oregon, Idaho and Arizona, arrived to help control the spread, according to Daniel Berlant, assistant deputy director for Cal Fire.
NOW TAX THOSE GULIBLE MUTHAFUCKAS, MUWAHAHAHAHAHA!!11!111!!11
another pic of a guy in a dunce cap with “I will not be bad” demerits on a blackboard, music included
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQToS9_D9g
suggested music: They’re Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha
Billie Ellish speaks at the DNC conventiion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elkdOX3lNFM
I try not to judge books by their covers. It’s hard for me to take someone seriously when it looks like someone dropped a bucket of neon paint on their head.
Meh. I’ve dyed my hair and had stupid haircuts. I would rather see more people comment on the tedious content.
Surf AND turf.
Well, for me, after 3.5 years of hurr durr orange bad man, dumb hair!, it was strange to see them trot out someone like that.
Tucker Carlson dissects the DNC convention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ai5KStAuEc
Personally I don’t like him. He acts blue collar but wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out with them. He makes good points though.
Never heard of the dead eyed little shit. A popstar, I take it?
One of those hippie rock and rollers high on dope.
Somebody stop her before she eats a California Cheeseburger!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJ_ANHmIN4s
Unless it’s a tofu baby…
(look Ma, no links!)
some elaboration. I only know her from the spicywings (w/e) show, and she’s one of the fauxwings dipshits.
(i have to brag about not clicking the link, in the event I got the reference-i-assume-i-know wrong and ended up making absolutely no sense.)
She’s very young, and hair is fixable. But yeah, not likely to become an apostate soon or ever.
Nor is she particularly bright. I heard her talk for a couple of minutes. Unenthusiastic talking points don’t persuade people.
I know what I’m voting for this November.
Until then, I’ll kick off a Virtual Happy Hour at 20:00 Eastern tonight.
Thanks for setting these up. I’m about ready to head out for the night. If I’m not that tired when I get home, I’ll join if folks are still going.
I need to procrastinate, so I will be there!
I will be entertaining friends in spite of the L’il ‘Rona freakout, and enjoying my spousal unit’s company, ’cause she’d gone to the coast for a week to see her Mom. But you’ll be in my thoughts and prayers, I promise.
We’re hoping to have a small dinner party next weekend, but none of my invitees have replied to me. Hurtful.
(We haven’t actually *stopped* having dinner parties during the insanity.)
You’ll be there twice, in fact!
And SP uses her edit power to get rid of one of the posts….
Thx dood!
“Its diameter is 0.002 km, or about 6.5 feet, according to NASA’s data.”
Sweet Pebble of Death? I am disappoint.
It all depends on where it lands…
I’m in an RV park and my wifi is so crappy that I can’t keep up with zoom. I’ll try it next time.
Trudeau ‘wants to go big,’ plans sweeping social welfare reform for Canada: sources
Apologies if this has been posted before, but this has been troubling me since I read it a few days ago. The wife and I had a discussion about an escape plan today. And she has voted for the NDP while while we’ve been together.
OFFS.
Sorry, Canada 🙁
He’s Canada’s Cuomo.
Good luck! That shit stain is a trailing indicator I think, unfortunately.
The wife and I had a discussion about an escape plan today. And she has voted for the NDP while while we’ve been together.
“I go this way, you go *points other way*”?
Fuck Sean Penn. Acting like anyone who isn’t a Prog are Nazis but shaking hands with someone who is directly/indirectly responsible for thousands of deaths. Self-righteous douche.
It really is possible to be a parody of yourself.
It helps when you’re functionally retarded like Sean.
Buried lede in the Japanese horror story
Almost time to order calendars and some other stuff, papa needs a weaker yen/stronger dollar.
USDX has lost 3% this year
money printer go brrrrrrr
I think we need to change that, much as Ilove the money printer go brrrrr meme I think it is working at a much higher rpm now, so it probably makes more of a high pitched whine or whistel, or maybe a RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.
I’ve been told by progs that inflation is inevitable, and is in no way connected to money supply.
Take it away, Milton Friedman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94jGTWNWsA
longer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ4TTNeSUdQ
Heads: By whatever means progs wish to attribute, USD is down: a world that is not sure where their dinner is coming from and is selling negative yield bonds still thinks we’re fucking up.
Tails: recently, SP500 appreciation is just currency correction.
If you owe the bank $10k, you have a problem.
If you owe the bank $100 million, the bank has a problem.
If you owe the bank $5 trillion, the country has a problem.
If you owe the bank $30 trillion, the world has a problem.
[Mortal Kombat voice]
Excellent.
Looks at Tesla with a market cap of $382 billion. Nope, no connection between share prices and reality is detected.
People appreciate me??? Awesome!
We do appreciate you! But don’t worry, only OMWC is depending on you for his retirement, the rest of us will be relying on the lottery.
only at 500. SP1902, eh, is alright.
Only an absolute retard would willingly get involved with El Chapo. So I guess it was the perfect project for Penn.
Ah, I should have kept scrolling down. I basically repeated your statement.
Introducing Cardi B, possibly the only person on the planet who could make Biden seem intelligent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlX_dsQS6d8
https://twitter.com/hunter_penn_h/status/1296944611814969344
Ben Shapiro: As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved — who apparently require a “bucket and a mop” — get the medical care they require. My doctor wife’s differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis.
https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1292927011724304384
Shapiro is also a better musician: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK8mbA083hE
She makes Rosie Perez sound like Maggie Smith.
ugh: carryover from last thread
here’s a psychometric chart for “today”
and the winner is……………………………. Rhywun at 39 BTU / lb of air !!!!!! * insert Kermit going yay gif * It is hot as bawls in the Big Apple
These are the temps and humidity as reported here or some bad hour I found at the airport
2/ Wylie is a close second (wherever he is)
3/ TUS
4/ MEM (I played golf!)
5/ SFO is having a bad day
6/ SAN is having a bad day
and the real winner is……………………………………………………….PDX around 27 BTU/lb (most of us would be thrilled to have our house at 25BTU/lb)
Today was only moderately uncomfortable, assuming that’s what this measures. I didn’t have to turn on the AC at all… but I did. A couple hours ago.
Oh and my neighborhood got a nasty little storm an hour ago. One of those that was like a mile wide at most. I walked into my kitchen to find a big puddle on the floor because who the fuck knew THAT was coming.
I was wowed that most of us plotted in a similar range.
From CVG to CLE, I found most of Ohio in a tiny, tiny range (the plots cover each other up).
What’s hard to model is breeze; most of my work is indoors, so I only worry about infiltration/exfiltration. But as for walking around comfort: a little breeze goes a long way . . . if it’s drier than you are.
I was wowed that most of us plotted in a similar range.
So what you’re sayin is, Glibs influence the weather.
No, we turn the frogs gay, or is it the Mexicans? I can’t keep my memes straight anymore. Whatever it is we’re doing, it’s gay.
Turn the weather gay? Hey! Watch it, Fresh Breeze.
(that was definitely a caress)
I just checked my local stats – 81 F with 90% humidity – so about 45 BTU/lb. And this is one of the nicer days we’ve had recently.
Yesterday was 99 F and 75% humidity – seems to be off the chart
Meanwhile in Florida….
https://twitter.com/4TheCulture____/status/1296672281456979968
The sensitive content warning was… interesting. I wonder if the idiotic antics of Bubba and Chester Roll Tide Tew IV would get a similar warning?
Twitter throws that at almost anything.
California is burning. It’s also known as “summer”.
You know what else was burning today? My smoker. Pork belly burnt ends and Bourbon peach cobbler makes a day well spent.
I would like some Bourbon peach cobbler, please. Do you have an app? Do you deliver?
* starts driving uphill *
Well, I thought I was gonna toss that slightly old bag of peaches…now I’m glad I didn’t cause somebody is making some slighlyoldpeach cobbler tonight.
There were not enough comments to make it to the end of the damn song.
Just got back from having dinner. At a restaurant. Like a normal person, before the apocalypse.
Well…mostly normal. We had to mask up for like 3 minutes.
Otherwise, it was pleasant. Saw some *really* old peeps not giving a fuck there too. Good for them.
Shout out to : https://primestkhouse.com
Good to hear. This shit is depressing me. Drove to the store yesterday, and a dumb ass stepped off the sidewalk onto the road to avoid proximity to a woman walking in the opposite direction from him. Idiot! 300 yards further down the road, two couples on the sidewalk were standing within groping distance of each with no masks. It’s always extremes.
I am now in the 5 percent that does not wear a mask in the streets here. I feel like Moses parting the Red Sea when I walk down the street. Everyday people move to the far edge of the sidewalk, cross the street or go into the street to avoid me now. At this point I mostly just enjoy it. I’ve had three attempted mask shamings (there is not much shame in my game).
1980 – Close down the bath houses?! What is this, Nazi Germany?
2020 – If you don’t wear a mask, YOU WANT PEOPLE TO DIE!
Don’t Question Authority
I saw an old sticker from the 60s or 70s. It was Hitler saluting from a Dusenberg. The caption was:
No good citizen always trusts the government.
Around your neighborhood?
I’d give you a sympathetic half-smile.
(ugh; meant re KS.)
Yup, the entire city. It’s now me and my fam, a few other rebel types (mostly 65 plus or late teens) and deranged bums and druggies not wearing them outside. I feel like the kid in another version of The Emperor’s New Clothes.
Crazy. It is nothing like that here in my part of NYC. I was shamed once by some crazy old guy a couple months ago after I walked to my doc’s office and was sitting on a sidewalk bench before my appointment. Otherwise, nobody gives the outdoor maskless – about 50% of us now – a second glance. I think it’s because there are very few Karens around here. Bay Ridge is most untrendy – despite being very convenient to the subway, lots of shops (in the before times), etc.
My neighborhood did not used to be hip at all, but that has quickly changed over the last years. Really two of those three times were inside, once in Montana of all places in a bar and grill where some millennial idiot (not staff) wanted me to wear one between the bathroom and our table. The other I mentioned last week was in a grocery store where my neck gaiter had slipped just under my nose when I was loading groceries onto the belt. That dude got told by me that he should wear his mask at all times as he likely looked better with it on. The first one was at the beginning of the shitshow by two middle aged women who were wielding pool noodles (I shit you not) like talisman swords to keep me and my unmasked kids at a distance as we rode by on bikes.
Oh I don’t count indoors. It’s like 100% compliance because it’s THE LAW. (No, it isn’t.) Outdoors the requirement is a mask if you’re not “social distancing”. I’m not social so I have no need for a damn mask until I cross a threshold.
Did see my first maskless store operator the other day, though.
I might like to visit your nabe someday, Rhywun. ???. Seriously, it sounds sensible and am glad you are safe.
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Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 is the first application that really noticeably strained my gaming PC.
I found 16GB plenty, but some are saying 32GB helps. But what you need for sure at higher resolutions is a current generation top end GPU. My 1080GTX runs at about 45FPS at high quality. This isn’t like a FPS so anything above 35FPS is perfectly playable.
And a 2080ti right now seems to cost $1,500… only way for ultra quality and 4K to work and just barely.
I’m annoyed with myself. I waited too long to upgrade my CPU…again. The best CPU I can put on my current MB is only available used for about $400. I have an RTX 2070 GPU so that’s not an issue, but I know FS is always CPU dependent. The CPU my son upgraded to last year is still available new for $295. It would give me a boost of 6 to 14%. No thanks.
Test I saw was that FS is CPU bound at 1080. Higher than that and you’d be ok.
Also it was maxing out something like 4 cores and overall utilization was like 20%. So even top current CPUs aren’t going to feed your 2070 well at least right now in FS.
Are you saying the best resolution for the CPU is 1080p?
Essentially at 1080p frame rate with any of the top cards is the mostly the same. So my 1080 and your 2070 are the same with most any modern 8 core 16 thread or better CPU. The GPU is idle waiting for data. Once it gets it the higher end ones can process it quicker, but this only helps a little bit. Problem is right now FS seems to only use 4 cores to feed the GPU. So overall utilization is fine.
When you you push higher resolution the GPU will start to make difference.
So if your monitor is only 1080p you may be just fine with your CPU.
It is 1080. so we’ll see. I’m more interested in getting VR stuff anyway.
I just upgraded my tower and picked up a deal on the i5 10600k and Maximus Hero XII motherboard. I threw in my 1080 TI to for now and FS still pushes the limits of the system. Holding out for next gen GPUs. Rumor is the 3090 offers a 40% increase over the 2080 TI however it’s also rumored to be $1400. Hopefully the new Intel or AMD cards can compete at a lower price.
I have an AMD CPU, so I’m not anti by any means, but their last GPU launch was not good. High power usage and crappy drivers. We could live with the power issue, but I hate crappy drivers.
Intel hasn’t had credible discrete video in decades, I’m not holding much hope. Plus they are screwed on their fabs so I can’t see management focusing here. Hope I’m wrong though.
The last AMD card I had was probably early 2000s. I remember having constant issues with it then.
My old HTPC used AMD. They had much better audio over hdmi support than team green.
However, my latest HTPC uses built in Intel. They work almost as well as AMD did and much lower power. Has built in codec support for Blu-ray.
Mind you my HTPC is now like 8 years old. My Nvidia Shield runs Kodi and has pretty much taken its place.
Dear god….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQm2tgGjBHQ
[Kif sigh]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omMpqbuyDdc
[Krusty the Klown voice]
What the hell was that?!
My excuse? I was drunk and listening to stellar music.
This excuse never works for me.
John McAfee shares his first water conservation PSA.
Very NSFW
https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1297112276869222401
HAWT
We live in a world where a man that crazy made a billion dollars. And some people say there is no opportunity for those outside the ‘dominant’ group. Who is more marginalized than the insane?
Pornstars Want Your Contact Info
Oh, Riley…
Some old-school dating tips for you single ladies out there
My first wife snagged me with 127!
Men’s magazines from the 1950s are epic.
Hell yes I want to marry a virgin and beat crabs to death with a club!
If you have to beat crabs to death with a club, she wasn’t a virgin.
So close. So very close.
Great actor. Lousy philosopher. Supposedly he does actual charity in Hati or something (according to one of Bourdain’s shows that I watched once).
My apologies to the zoomers, even though my laptop was plugged in it shutoff from low battery. I’m too tired to trouble shoot it.
Our little county has fewer than 4 Wuflu cases , so our benificent govenor allows us to go maskless. Mayber 10% wear the things anyway. The town market has a huge sign on the door requiring masks. Nobody (inluding the empoyees and the owner, Bob) pays any attention. Well, there’s that 10%. I used to “go into town” regularly once a week. Now, I just make do with what Bob’s Pretty Good Market has in stock.
The best mask sign I have seen was on a Mexican restaurant that we stopped at in Elko, NV. It said in Spanish and English “Governor Sisolak has decreed that patrons entering our premises must have a mask or face covering on until they remain seated at a table. If you are not wearing a mask we will assume that you are doing so as part of the medical exemptions listed in that order. We will not invade your privacy by asking you about this and will just assume that it is the case. Thank you.”
Nice.
If anyone asks just tell them you have CV-19 and the mask restricts your breathing. That will get them away from you fast.
Yeah, I’m thinking that is really the best response. “Medical exemption” If they say anything else after other than “sorry” it will get “six feet is that way” with a pointed finger away.
Slurm From Futurama | How to Drink
I’m such a dork I still get excited at gritty Batmans
The sparkly vampire as Batman leaves me nonplussed.
I would agree but Pattinson is legit. “Good Time” and “The Lighthouse” are shining examples of his chops.
Looks like a modernized and darker Tim Burton version of Batman. I’d watch based on that trailer.
The sparkly vampire as Batman
Dud is actually not a bad actor, just a shame he did the Twilight thing.
Something in the Way in a movie trailer. I’m already Fuck-I’m-Old old and I’m not even forty yet.
Really excited that they’re using the definite article “the” before Batman this time. It should truly help me differentiate this film from the other two dozen Batmans out there.
Next up the Bat Man, followed by It’s the Bat, Man in which Alfred is rebooted as a stoner who contributes that phrase to the origin of the hero by telling Bruce who is struggling to find his spirit animal and has asked what animal symbolizes terror in the night.
Featuring the recently reunited Cheech & Chong as Alfred.
Massachusetts native, former Bruins coach Mike Milbury steps away from broadcasting after ‘regrettable’ remark
“Mike Milbury is stepping away from broadcasting the rest of the NHL playoffs after his on-air comment that there were no women in the league’s quarantined bubble to disrupt concentration drew widespread criticism”
SMOD can’t get here soon enough.
Men are sexless automatons; you are imagining any evidence to the contrary.
We’ve become so stupid as a society that anything racial, or anything referring to the sexes is taken as bigotry. Young men are distracted by women is about as tame a joke one can make about the sexes. Canning someone for it is the equivalent of rejecting objective reality.
The idea that male athletes might find women attractive is sexist and misogynistic, this is known.
CANNING?! Like “cans”, referring to women’s body parts?!
*RUBBERSTAMP* CANNCELED
WARNING! HATEFUL PICTURE!
Woo hoo! Finally done. Grocery shopping for the week, fixed the wheelbarrow, and did smashed burgers on the Weber. Wheelbarrow kept catching on uneven ground so remounted the axle closer to end. Went a little too far with greasing the axle. Hopefully the seals aren’t blown. If they are, just have to replace it I guess.
Grocery stores are still having trouble keeping stuff in stock. Antiseptic wipes are cleaned again out for the last several weeks after finally starting to stay on the shelf. Peanut butter is back at least.
Congrats!
Have some Wagakiband.
Currently popped up on my random playlist.
https://youtu.be/mljjd4ge448
What did I just watch??
Things I learned this week. The keyboardist for Casiopea
https://youtu.be/S0Xm1PWb07o
did a bunch of the station melodies
https://youtu.be/nSG5IkRA9BE
go far enough with that wheelbarrow euphemism, sheesh. Bet the wife doesn’t appreciate that “replace it” bit.
Antifa has invaded the Hamptons!
My God we need a safer space.
https://youtu.be/zD59zJso5jU
Be a real Glib and have a range right across the street.
Reopen News: Restaurant owners report aggressive enforcement by NY liquor authorities
I think it’s about time we revolt so and start maskless smoking in bars once again.
Here in NJ Murphy is unhappy because only 50% of the serfs are responding to calls from contact tracers.
How many of those 50% are telling them to FO in their response?
inspectors come into their establishments several times per week and sometimes two or three times per day
If you dreamed up a method to maximize spread of a contagious virus, it would looks something like that.
Good to know anybody can just barge into a restaurant and demand compliance without showing credentials, and get it. I mean, uh, good to know, for a friend, yeah.
I remember three months ago plans for staged reopenings. But now it just seems like all that’s been forgotten, and in CA we can just expect to be locked down indefinitely, there’s no talk about any plans to change anything. And the justification is all about positive tests now, which is meaningless because so many asymptomatic people are required to get tested over and over for schools and jobs.
If 100,000 asymptomatic people get tested every day and the number of false positives is an unheard-of low (for medical testing) of just 1%, that means your region has 1,000 new cases today, it’s too dangerous to reopen!
Our county of 1.5 million people has a total of seven covid patients hospitalized and zero deaths today. But there’s a bunch of new positive cases, so it’s much too dangerous to open nail salons, why do you want people to die?
But the total number of positive tests keep going up! [of course, due privacy rules, we can’t tell you if any of those positive tests came from the same people being tested multiple times]
Why do you hate SCIENCE!!! C. Anacreon?
“Shit like this for starters?”
Why does this remind me of that scene from GoT where the king’s men take over a tavern?
You mean the one followed by The Hound and Arya killing them all? That’s certainly not why, no sir.
Oh, it that how that ended. Been a while since I watched it again.
I just did a rewatch like 2wks back, so apparently I was prepared for just this eventuality, thank god.
Yup- that’s the one
It’s just that tone with them – “We’re the King’s men…” – every authoritarian power-freak ever
If we’re talking about the same scene. Baldish king’sman, young, unwilling tavern wench on his knee, other nerdowheling in the background.
The baldish guy is the one who stole Arya’s Needle.
Cuomo seems determined to screw over every open restaurant.
Just got an emergency alert on my phone that I should pack up my livestock and evacuate. Since I don’t have any livestock I think I’ll stay put. Also because the fire is miles away and downwind.
Sounds like you should travel a few miles and attend an impromptu wildfire driven BBQ.
I like the way you think.
You are just going to leave your livestock to DIE?
FUCK YOU! THIS MAN IS A MONSTER!
So a true Glib?
Or played way too much Oregon Trail as a kid.
You drank from the well. You now have dysentary.
Pack up your orphans, then.
Unless it’s cheaper to just buy new orphans later.
buy?
Finally, I found a place with higher compliance with a face mask mandate than my town. It’s Provincetown. Commercial St has been turned into a wear-mask-at-all-times zone. There are official signs to this effect on every corner. Everyone enthusiastically complies. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone’s face on the street unless they were eating an ice cream. If course, the police don’t give any warnings, let alone tickets: I walked by a couple of cops. What happened to the guys who begged me to fuck them without a condom 15 years ago? Got fat and are wearing a mask?
Bareback references always remind me of this.
New Hampshire is getting worse about masks.
And on Provincetown: I’ve been there before. I guess it must be obvious that I’m not gay as no one begged me to fuck them without a condom. In fact, no one begged me to fuck them at all.
I have a hard time keeping track of which ursine poster is gay. Makes their posts more fun.
Was Andrew Sullivan wearing one?
Would it be funnier if he was or wasn’t wearing a condom. But it’s definitely a condom we’re talking about, not a mask.
One more reason I love shopping at Walmart. Just spotted a guy, 60ish, thin, using a motorized scooter, with his mask pulled down below his chin so an unlit cigarette could dangle out of his mouth. ?
I mean, emphysema could make it hard to walk. Maybe he’s got a podiatric problem.
Are there actual rules for who can use those scooters? I’m going to Walmart tomorrow….
It looks you get one just for asking.
I don’t think I have the balls.
1920’s in Portland
https://youtu.be/FjYuyr0wNBs
Besides the very sad and predictable downward spiral, it’s funny to watch the antifa supporting “press” catch a baton or get their outstretched streaming smartphone yanked. Hey jackasses, these aren’t the police and they have the same ROE as you do, ie none.
Wheeler must be proud of himself.
? someone never watched the opening scene of Way of the Gun
https://youtu.be/szO9JWrz3f8?t=485s
It’s funny to me that the whitest city in America has had the longest rioting.
Little Beirut
“right wingers” I’d say ‘slightly less left wingers’, but I suppose breaking Overton’s Window has made bank for the glass man.
Every time an Overton window breaks, Bastiat cries.
Also
“More Overton, please!”
“Be Sure To Drink Your
OvaltineOverton.” Annie is a bitch.Breaking Overton windows provides gainful employment to cultural philosophoglaziers who are an important national resourse which must be preserved against cheap foreign culturglass imports. It isn’t about stimulus it is about strategic war materials and national defenestration.
*golf clap*
LIRT (laugh in real time) @ “national defenestration”.
Instant pot banana bread is an excellent way to use mushy bananas without heating the house. Yum!
https://www.shugarysweets.com/instant-pot-banana-bread/
Aight, documentary time. One luv ma Glibs.
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Covfefe.
I assume he’s off to watch a documentary, and then spellcheck mangled “Ah luv mah Glibs.”
Er something.
One luv, One hart, Let’s gut togetha and Peel all night.
Thomas Massie was on Ron Paul’s show yesterday talking covid, bailouts, monetary supply. And inflation.
Good show. Too bad the likes of Rand and Massie will never be backed by their party lifers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tHLFMn46UM
That would require some principle and a lack of grifting.
Slightlyoldpeaches Cobbler is go. ETA 45mins.
The sweet smell of success. Same link.
Peaches.
https://youtu.be/wvAnQqVJ3XQ
The ones I used weren’t quite that old.
Had me worried with that reply about what the link might be. But was just the Presidents.
I’m not Q.
Better Peaches https://youtu.be/EpDmklLFXVc
Bingo!
Was crestfallen to learn that that weirdly hot girl is not the singer. The actual one requires some eye-bleach and a friendly intervention. Tasty tune, though.
Hence my worry above.
You really love those peaches and want to shake her tree?
Looks Tasty! Vanilla ice cream as a topper!
I was complaining to Wifey about my weight and she said “Shut the fuck up! You have the body of a 40 year-old!” *preens in mirror, kisses biceps*
I did threaten to grow out that weird island of hair that remains from my MPB and shellac it. Unicorn style.
She’s a good woman.
She is that.
Ok, now this is just parody, right?
https://twitter.com/bgonthescene/status/1297414058996453376?s=21
Some people don’t want to live on this planet, anymore…
Oh! I forgot to add that Antifa is a myth!
Fiction? Guillotines?
“It was the derpiest of times, it was the…nope…still the derpiest of times.”
They are obviously an armed, politically motivated street gang. Where are the Feds?
Those twerps clearly failed history.
Me first, You next.
Is that a big teddy bear they put in it?
Xi Jinping?
Now that’s some wishful thinking, Ted.
Holy o-fuck did I ever post the wrong goram link. Here’s what I meant to say; “wishful thinking“.
I have the sunuvabitch copy-paste skills of a non-computer literate public school teacher from 1996.
You still posted the wrong link. It should have been this.
Perhaps a little late to still be on topic, but I could piss myself for Tony Levin.
Mornin’
right back @ ya
☕
Mornin’, Glibboys.
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sup home-slice
It’s a lovely morning here at Tranquility Base. I have my mug of iced coffee, and I’ll chat with y’all and listen to the nature noises until Old Man’s AM Lynx Old Man Music, then tune into my Sunday morning SiriusXM choral music show. Life is good. ‘Sup witchoo?
I did another overnight, so its 5 o’clock here.
Beer while watching church streaming on my neighbor’s porch!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1297281961262751746
Stupid people ✅
Stupid places ✅
Stupid things ✅
This time, set to music…
https://mobile.twitter.com/livesmattershow/status/1297341236613914630
Just a bunch of idiot larpers making trouble for the people that have to live in those neighborhoods. The right wingers better be careful, I doubt the DA will release them without charges like they’re doing with the other side.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/live-air-to-air-missile-found-at-central-florida-airport/article_d188d6e0-00d5-5b9b-9df6-61850df4bc6c.html
“Found?”
It’s OK; the missile is on the ground.
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Oh, they got that second cunte in that 7 year old kid Trump hat assault thing. You know, the thing.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Pismo_B/status/1297370610805293059
https://mobile.twitter.com/abigailmarone/status/1297375722235977733
MAGA, bitches.
This just in from the Big-Weight-On-The-Blanket local weather prognostificators:
I suppose it beats impending impossible.