Can’t get excited…
I can’t get excited about the NBA playoffs, the NHL playoffs, or whatever issuing on with baseball. Sorry. Feel free to discuss as you want.
Seems legit.
But I will talk about today being Emperor Franz Josef I’s birthday. And that he shares it with explorer Meriwether Lewis, cosmetics magnate Max Factor, hurler Max Lanier, actress Shelley Winters, racist baseball owner Marge Schott, legendary outfielder Roberto Clemente, pederast filmmaker Roman Polanski, overrated actor Robert Redford, comedian Martin Mull, actor Patrick Swayze, comedian Denis Leary, musician Everlast, actor Edward Norton, and college football coach Luke Fickell.
Well, that list was average at best. Oh well, Clemente pulls it up a notch or two on his own. Anyway, on to…the links!
California going old-school. Also, that headline just seems off. Did the same resident test positive over five years ago?
Not coming to California…yet.
Speaking of California. Looks like they’ll be able to keep the lights on after all. Well, for a while, anyway.
Is anybody laying odds on who this will be? I hope like hell it is Julian Assange. But I bet it’s some dips hit like Manafort. Either way, he’s being accused of doing this just to take the spotlight off of the DNC convention. Oh, and in case any of you were unaware, the DNC convention started yesterday. Seriously. they even have musical numbers. (Note: that is not a parody.)
Weird as fuck.
Richmond is devolving into chaos. Weird they’re not protesting up in Chimborazo or certain parts of Church Hill. I guess those places are too far from VCU (or there’s too any black people there) for these “protesters” to travel to. Huh, maybe it’s not really about black lives mattering but about sport-rioting for bored white kids.
“I said we’re going to Sizzler, dammit!” Come on, Utah Man. Some battles you just gotta let go.
I’m actually surprised there hasn’t been more backlash about stuff like this. This isn’t the first story like this I’ve seen, and with Corona numbers going back down, I’m not shocked there haven’t been more calls to lock people back up.
You hate to see it. Well, kinda. Not really. I don’t know. I just hope they don’t drag their voting patterns with them across the country.
LOL. This makes me smile. Also, I thought that was Neil Young in the pic for a minute.
Not sure if I’ve ever played this here. Either way, enjoy. I’m afraid I’ve got to hit the road for a few days. But I’ll still be here in spirit.
Now get out there and have a great day, friends!
““I said we’re going to Sizzler, dammit!” Come on, Utah Man. Some battles you just gotta let go.”
My guess is there is something more going on there than just if they should hit Sizzlers or Applebees…
Of course there is. There was also the option of going to Chili’s.
Yeah, now I am sure I get why he threw that bitchez’s ass in the water..
Pick a damned place already!
no love for TGI Fridays ?
Applebee’s is always off the table.
Just because you got yourself banned from all of them…
Let’s get thrown out of an Applebees!
Crapplebees is usually good for a decent bite on the cheap.
Don’t look at me, I avoid going to Provo
Not even to visit Marvin and Velma?
Nice demolition of everything you will read in the MSM about this.
TL;DR – it’s entirely self-inflicted.
Where did I put that shocked face I had?
Oh, the people that caused this know damned well that it was what they did that done it, but they are certain their marxist allies in the propaganda arm of the dnc will keep the fucking unwashed serfs in the dark. Many of them have made piles of money by robbed the tax payers blind with this green energy shit, and the last thing they need is people realizing how bad they were had by these cuntes that make sure they themselves are insulated from the consequences of what they foist on us.
the propaganda arm of the dnc will keep the fucking unwashed serfs in the dark
I think it is the progressive green energy policies that are actually literally keeping the serfs in the dark
Of course it’s self-inflicted. You won’t see shit like that happen here in Texas, where there’s a robust and competitive utility marketplace.
It’s even sadder (for them) knowing that their utility bills are generally 2-3x as high as ours. But Gaia is more important that poor and middle class people having efficient, cheap electricity.
If even. The lie is that this is about saving Gaia. Gaia needs no saving. It doesn’t give a fuck about these people and their idiocy (or any people for that matter). The truth is that it has provided a few grifters with a real neat government sanctioned racket to rob the productive and give the stupid masses the equivalent of energy snakeoil.
Why on Earth would you need electricity at night?
Air conditioning, CPAP machines, running appliances off peak (dishes, laundry, night owl computing.
If we kill 2/3 of the population (and they mean people other than themselves), you won’t need so much electricity!
/progtards
That’s literally what some of them say.
These tend to be the urbanites that live in crowded cities, BTW…
Wonder where they get that idea there are too many people…
Stubbed toes are the leading cause of death according KCNA.
The Republican Party of California should run ads that are literally nothing but a promise to restore reliable power generation to California. Refuse to talk about anything else.
“We will bring the electricity back. Nothing else matters to us besides making the electricity work again. Vote Republican, so your lights will go back on.”
I’d open with “Here’s why we’re having electricity shortages…”
And finish with your line.
In baseball news, the big story here in Cleveland was two starting pitchers broke quarantine protocol while they were in Chicago. Some reports are saying that people close to the team said there were players who were going to opt out the season if they had to play with the pitchers:
I’m shocked they’re still going through the motions. I figured the whole thing would be canceled by now.
Has anyone in MLB actually been hospitalized, much less died?
That organization is making stupid decision after stupid decision. They had a great team the last few years and the front office has done a shit job of selling tickets – they used to pack the house game after game in the 90’s. They made the WS in 2016 and they could not repeat the sellouts despite a first-place team. A couple years ago they made the dopey decision to start weeknight games at 6pm. Do they really think it’s that easy for people to leave work early?
They also got rid of paper tickets, forcing everyone to the smart phone app (this may have been pushed by MLB) which made picking up a block of tickets, and meeting up with friends harder.
In general, the ticket prices went up (with the exception of the District seats, which would usually sell out). This year was really going to be the last grasp before the inevitable rebuilding years… and then we get the asterisk year. A common joke among the fans up on the island was that this would be the most Cleveland way to win a World Series, during a year when no one can go see the games, and you can’t do any celebrations for it.
I was thinking with the 60 game season, this might be the year someone flukes into something special, like hitting .400.
Or maybe the A’s winning a playoff series.
“They had a great team the last few years and the front office has done a shit job of selling tickets”
Cleveland is NOT a baseball town. Even after the 2016 WS, they didn’t fill the seats. It has never been a baseball town and never will be.
It’s not solely the owners’ fault. The fans in Cleveland kind of suck, too.
Also, you have to be a lying sack of shit to believe that players aren’t bringing women into their hotel rooms. In the case of Plesac “It’s OK to associate with your family in Cleveland, but it’s dangerous to associate with your family in your hometown that you were in five weeks ago even though the whole team is there now.”
The whole team has to kiss Carol Carrasco’s selfish ass? I know he was/is going through cancer treatments, but if he’s that worried he should opt out, not force everyone else to sacrifice. Or are they tacitly admitting that the covid testing is complete garbage?
Last I remember reading about Cookie, he was in remission as of last fall. I’m not sure if he’s still getting any treatments or not.
As to Swiss’s point. I’m not aware of any MLB player getting hospitalized for the COVID. Even as tests keep showing teams getting it (Marlins, Cardinals, Phillies – off the top of my head).
Cincinnati Reds are presently shutdown because of COVID.
That video is a great analogy of what the Dems are. Rich, aloof people playacting at fighting oppression.
I like sloop’s phrase “sport rioting”.
LARPing, cosplay, you name it – anything to stave off middle-class boredom.
Same here. I’m going to start using it.
That’s like the shittiest version of the Emmys ever made.
mornin’
“Huh, maybe it’s not really about black lives mattering but about sport-rioting for bored white kids.”
So much this….
First, they’re not kids. Second, there’s something much worse than boredom behind this behavior.
This is a direct consequence of a few decades of people being told they matter regardless of accomplishments or maturity, leaving perpetually stuck kids (mindset, not age) bored and looking for more meaning, as they never try to accomplish anything of meaning/value..
Breaking shit and always being negative is a lot easier than actually creating something of value and/or being held accountable…
“Second, there’s something much worse than boredom behind this behavior.”
12 years of public schools.
Blame the parents before blaming the schools.
Empty homes in San Fransisco? City Council just solved the homeless problem.
Nah, they’ve already stuck a lot of them in hotels. And are punishing the poor workers for talking about it.
Actually, I 100% would not be surprised if that’s not being discussed in earnest.
In NYC they’re not even denying that they’re opening the prisons “due to Covid” – they’re bragging about it. Oh, and there’s also the new no-bail law at the state level. The real goal of all this is to “close Rikers” – i.e. flood the neighborhoods with new prisons.
For those who don’t know, Rikers is an island off the coast of Queens. Deblasio has been letting prisoners loose for years in a madcap attempt to close the thing because it’s “not fair” that prisoners can’t stay in “their” neighborhoods.
It seems incredible a Mayor has this kind of power. There has to be some way to remove him.
If that would happen, I’d have his family walk the streets NAKED in shame.
To be fair, in this case “Deblasio” is really shorthand for “Deblasio and his entire administration and the political machine behind them”.
They all want this.
Tar and feathers really did give pause to gross stupidity in office back in the old days.
Dems are pushing a prison release through the VA legislature this week – according to local news.
Yep
They released a rape suspect a couple of weeks ago and he promptly killed the only witness in his case.
And by only witness, you mean “his victim”. The last thing that woman saw was her rapist coming back to murder her.
Man, sure is a mystery why all the gun stores are stripped bare.
When a sloppily tried criminal case is retried and it’s found the evidence was questionable or there really was a reasonable doubt, it’s a noble thing to overturn the conviction.
And if prisons must be thinned out, start with nonviolent drug offenders.
But letting people out of prison indiscriminately is deliberately fanning flames in the population at large.
Absolutely
They’re sabotaging any real attempts at actual criminal justice reform by releasing violent offenders willy-nilly.
“They’re sabotaging any real attempts at actual criminal justice reform by releasing violent offenders willy-nilly.”
Which is deliberate. They don’t want empty prisons to increase justice, they want empty prisons to fill them up with the deplorables. Look at history. Commies always empty the prisons so they can fill them up again with kulaks, wreckers, saboteurs, and counter revolutionaries.
Of course it’s deliberate, they’ve been doing this forever. first, they make it about race, now they’re just escalating it for extra insurance that nothing ever happens.
“And if prisons must be thinned out, start with nonviolent drug offenders.”
I don’t see it happening, those are the people they’ll keep.
Nothing about justice for transgender athletes?
What happened?
Well, most of the Cleveland team has revealed itself to be pussies, if that counts.
LOL.
What? Just because OBJ was pushing to cancel the NFL season, the Cavs didn’t make it into the NBA “bubble” (meaning I can ignore basketball even more this year), and the Indians had some players… complaining…
Fuck it.
It’s a fair cop.
It is also Burleigh Grimes birthday. Two HOFers for today, although Clemente was far superior.
Also Buck Weaver, 3rd baseman for the Black Sox.
“Black Sox”
That’s racist!
Damn, I retiring to Texas. If they fix the weather first.
I heard from some friend’s in Louisville that the rioting and stuff is getting much worse than anything covered in the media. Shootings in more suburban areas. One was covered because it couldnt be avoided, but other stuff isn’t hitting the news.
Like in Seattle, the BLM Mafia is tyring to extort from businesses in the NuLu area. None are paying but were boarding up windows and etc because today or yesterday or sometime was the deadline. The friend’s family owns a business in the area, it was there 100 years before the stupid NuLu neighborhood designation, and most of their workers carry, so aren’t concerned and continuing on, but are still boarding up.
They need to shoot some of these blackmailers dead to dissuade the others…
That was what I thought in Seattle.
I have met some of the workers at that business. They will.
if hastled.
The riots here in Cleveland stopped after the damage the first one caused. After that, local business owners were showing up open carrying pistols and were armed with baseball bats to protect their property. There were no further riots, and very few protests after that.
There were even some arrests made (I believe it’s up to 10 local, at least 1 federal).
Yeah, just you want until Antifa gets done with their firearm training.
https://twitter.com/cleflore23/status/1295353960736403459
I suddenly feel a lot safer.
Just wait until Beta gets all the guns and they somehow disappear and wind up in antifa’s hands.
That can’t be real, can it?
It hits to many “I’m a dumb fuck” buttons to make me think it’s real.
But then people have to remind me that there are a lot of dumb fucks out there.
There’s something happening here
But WTF that is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a man with a cunt over there
A-telling me, there’s a landslide near
STOP, bitchez, hear my rhyme!
Everybody get to fucking now…
I learned today that that song was not written as an anti-war protest song. Apparently it was written about the hippies protesting (read: tearing shit up) after the Sunset Strip curfew was imposed due to overcrowding of bars.
I find that all these stories about the noble struggle really turn to dust when you actually get the facts and it always comes down to some asshats being pissed they ain’t getting free shit. People then rewrite the story to make the whole thing look noble.
The entire intellectual frameworks modern liberalism (progressivism) rests on the need to justify bad behaviour.
I’m in Harrisonburg, VA this morning. Nice little city. Trump definetly won the lawn sign battle on the way here. I never did see a Biden sign although his name was on a few Dem signs along with local candidates. Went down one street where every house had a Trump sign.
Damn shame that it probably won’t matter thanks to the cancerous tumor that is DC spreading into northern VA.
College town though. All those woke commie’s will vote dem if they can remember to set their alarms.
Always had fun partying their though.
I had an apartment there for about six months. Corner of Maryland and Lee Hwy.
Looks like the place is torn down now. Probably for the best.
Well, duh it was for the best. The Lee Highway? Building was tainted with the sin of racism.
I lived in Harrisonburg for a couple years. Nice place. They had a pretty good dive called Dave’s Taverna Express where drunken college kids lined up for early morning cheesesteaks. Probably still there.
Poor and underbanked hardest hit
As America continues to suffer an economic crash spurred by the pandemic, one of the unexpected economic side effects is a shortage in coin circulation. While a coin shortage might seem inconsequential, economists say that those most affected are likely to be the poorest Americans.
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The Federal Reserve has implemented several measures to counteract the coin shortage, including announcing a Strategic Allocation of Coin Inventories in June and creating a temporary U.S. Coin Task Force in July that aims to identify the variables from the pandemic that have affected coin circulation and attempt to remedy them. In a statement last month, the task force argued that “many have referred to this as a shortage; however it is not. There is approximately $48 billion in coin already in circulation, most of which is sitting dormant inside America’s 128 million households.”
In other words, there are plenty of coins to go around — they’re just stuck in jars and on dressers. The task force said as much: “As people have changed their spending habits, and coin-intensive businesses and financial institution lobbies have been less accessible, the nation’s coin is pooling in change jars, in car cup holders and in shuttered businesses, making it difficult for the businesses of this country to get the coin that they need to support cash transactions.” Hence, the coin shortage is a result of poor coin circulation, not production.
The U.S. Coin Task Force’s proposals included encouraging consumers to spend coins that they have at home, deposit their coins at appropriate financial institutions, use retail coin kiosks and promote the hashtag “#getcoinmoving.”
Maybe they could tell the banks to stop making it a giant pain in the ass to cash in those penny jars.
*I have converted a couple hundred bucks recently
Because coins are fucking worthless except in massive quantities.
Like a sock full of nickels?
See, and who said fiat money has no intrinsic value?
:TRIGGERED in subjective theory of value:
Find a Coinstar and choose Amazon gift card — they don’t take the fees for gift cards.
I took my daughter to a baseball game last night. It was nice to watch some in person sports. They all kneeled at the end of the game, but it was church league softball, so they were just praying.
I was just reading yesterday that’s how Pee Wee Reese was discovered – someone saw him playing in an adult church league.
He was palying in the minors at age 19, but I guess he could have been discovered playing in a church league instead of high school ball.
wikipedia backs you up:
when his family moved to Louisville. In high school, Reese was so small that he did not play baseball until his senior year, at which time he weighed only 120 pounds and played just six games as a second baseman.[2] He graduated from duPont Manual High School in 1935. He worked as a cable splicer for the Louisville phone company, only playing amateur baseball in a church league. When Reese’s team reached the league championship, the minor league Louisville Colonels allowed them to play the championship game on their field. Reese impressed Colonels owner Cap Neal, who signed him to a contract for a $200 bonus.
He played 2 years in Louisville before moving up to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
SACRILEGE!
I ordered a Dillon Precision XL750 reloading setup for 5.56mm and .45 ACP. Rifle primers are not to be found (cci #41). Only allowed 1 lb of powder, got 500 prepped new brass, and 500 Sierra Matchking bthp 69 grain for the scoped AR.
Finally pulled the trigger on a suppressor for the Springfield Saint Victor pistol, but I am building a new upper for it. Wife even approved. Just have to wait for the ATF approval and issuance of the tax stamp…
Just a tip, please take with a grain of salt. I believe magnum pistol primers are identical to rifle primers.
They’re not identical, but you might be able to touch off a small rifle cartridge with a magnum pistol primer. Or maybe not. It won’t hurt anything to experiment a bit, as long as you keep the powder charges reasonable.
ARs? Maybe it’s just me….
https://www.uberti-usa.com/1885-courteney-stalking-rifle
Fortunately I stocked up on rifle and magnum rifle primers a couple of years ago
What happens if you are attacked by 2 deer at the same time? Could happen.
We can party hunt here so it’s been known on occasion that a second shot is required, to help out the boys(girls)
Nice! Yeah, ARs. Ease of training the family and such…
New brass primed or un-primed?
You done good, PBB. Enjoy, hit the gun shows, find some other likely candidates in the dies you may need some day. Can always reload for others when SHTF. 7.62, 308 and 30-06 come to mind
Got my son a Winchester Model 70 in .30-06 for Christmas, he is getting the quick change for that and 9mm. I will probably get one for 7.62
4+20, unprimed, also looking at Remington 7 1/2 primers, reloading components are more scarce than loaded ammo.
Got an Aero upper, 10.5″ barrel, adjustable gas block carbine length gas system, and Midwest Industries 10.5″ handguard.
Check out a VLTOR A5H3 buffer system, if you haven’t already. They’re like magic, especially on short guns.
The pistol has a wonderful buffer system, got a bcg made for use with the can. It’s an ACC M4-2000 system, and yeah, the wait is going to suck.
That’s the same 556 can I have. Very solid.
Excellent.
It’s like Christmas in August! What can did you get for the AR?
Assange would be good, but Ross would be better.
I thought the rumor was it would be Snowden. Short of throwing Brennan/Clapper into the same prison cell, I can’t imagine a better payback to them.
I saw somewhere Snowden was ruled out. Then again, what news isn’t fake anymore?
Trump specifically said it was not Snowden or Flynn.
Welp, guess it’s Lee Harvey Booth then.
It’s Trump, so don’t be surprised if he pardons Obama for his role in setting the Russia hoax in motion.
That would be quality trolling. In fact, he should pardon Biden too. The media would absolutely lose their shit.
I could actually see Trump announcing that in order to insure a fair election and let the people decide in November he is pardoning Joe Biden for his role in the Ukraine and China corruption uncovered by the DOJ.
The media meltdown would be epic.
**snort**
That would be so funny. Even better would be to see Biden’s reaction when he heard. He’d probably blurt out “So I don’t have to worry about those bribes my son took?”
Yes, announce it at a debate, so we can capture Biden’s response on a hot mic.
Could backfire. Joe might be so irate that he challenges Trump to a pushup contest and then wows the nation by doing 100 more pushups that Bad Orange Man.
Trump will do 3 and claim he did the full 100. Joe will do 3, get distracted by a shiny penny and jump up. “Look what I found!”
I’d pay money for that.
I’m of the opinion that Ross shouldn’t be pardoned, but his sentence should be commuted. He did facilitate some shady shit, but fines and probation would have been more appropriate.
I don’t believe Assange actually committed a crime, so he shouldn’t actually need a pardon.
I would vote for Snowden first. He specifically metered the release of info to minimize damage and to react to lies by Clapper.
But it appears Trump has pardoned Susan B. Anthony.
Anthony should not have been pardoned.
I cannot condone voting by ineligable individuals.
Maybe commuting her sentence.
Do they really believe black lives matter?
If they really did, would the coomies use them as pawns?
Dayum! Nice.
Sweet. Go get ’em Kim! Then I saw this:
“Donald J. Trump
Somebody please explain to
@MichelleObama
that Donald J. Trump would not be here, in the beautiful White House, if it weren’t for the job done by your husband, Barack Obama. Biden was merely an afterthought, a good reason for that very late & unenthusiastic endorsement…..”
What did Jawbreaker say? I can just imagine the swamp of empty platitudes she spewed.
Um… Michelle? You do know that your husband did the same fucking thing, right?
?♂️
Her phrasing is disingenuous, but technically the numbers under Obama were much smaller. Trump introduced the policy of “zero tolerance” for immigrants accused of crimes, and it is the interaction of that policy with the extant policy of not jailing children of immigrants that led to the “crisis” of family separation. Of course, the government at Trump’s order has also redressed that policy interaction, though whatever harm was done cannot be fully undone, but that is true of everything the government (and any other organization that wields power over others) does.
That was possibly the best political ad I’ve ever seen.
I can only hope that this kind of political add catches fire and becomes the norm.
You want to see Trump walking in heels? What kind of perv are you?
You want to see Trump walking in heels?
Now that you mention it, I kind of do.
Garbage in, garbage out
A federal judge says transgender women and girls in Idaho cannot be banned from sports teams corresponding to their gender, blocking an Idaho law that attempted to do so.
“This is a victory for all women and girls in Idaho. Trans people belong in sports,” wrote the American Civil Liberties Union, which provided legal representation in the case.
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Nye said Idaho did not provide sufficient reasons for the law to exist.
“The State has not identified a legitimate interest served by the Act that the preexisting rules in Idaho did not already address, other than an invalid interest of excluding transgender women and girls from women’s sports entirely, regardless of their physiological characteristics,” Nye wrote.
“If I can’t have cake, nobody can have cake.”
Sounds like social justice to me there… If I don’t get it, then nobody can get it!
Here’s sufficient reason: “transgender girls” are actually boys, and therefore are not eligible to play girl’s sports.
Um. No, it actually isn’t.
It is in Newspeak. War is peace, freedom is slavery, it’s a victory for women when they have to compete against men.
As long as it’s the balance beam or uneven bars, I’m fine with this.
lmbo
Trump judge? What?
Oh wait, Obama nominated him, and the ABA said he was “well qualified”. But he didn’t make it then.
I guess she didn’t watch to the end to catch that wacky BLM video.
I have FB friends who are commenting on it with “Chills” etc. Dear Lord.
For those interested in the InfoWars reporter who was arrested, more local news about it:
InfoWars’ Millie Weaver, boyfriend and brother threw mother to the ground and took her cellphone, police report says
InfoWars correspondent Millie Weaver pleads not guilty to felony charges stemming from altercation with mother in Portage County
UNC bunch of scammers.
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1295464475458494466
In my mind this means they never really intended to have in person and lied to kids/parents in order to hold onto their money. Beyond fucking stupid treating each one of these positives as a cancer patient. In all honesty colleges are awesome tools to fight this thing all these kids get together and spread it amongst themselves sequestered in their dorms and we reach herd immunitiy faster.
Hope they signed up for istallment payments so the parents can cancel the future transfers.
The only way to herd immunity is through vaccination (about 50-60% effective – per Fauci), not the 99+% survival rate of the plague. /herpa-derpa-do
I expect this story will be repeated across America.
This was the year to take a gap year.
I saw at least one article talking about kids who would be Juniors/Seniors taking the gap year this year, then getting hired on at startups. If true, and in significant numbers, we may be seeing college bailouts be added to the Democrats agenda.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
This is the primary story I believe.
College bailouts are definitely going to be coming.
The biggest reason is that excluding foreign kids is a huge hit to colleges’ bottom lines. Those foreigners (especially Chinese) paid full tuition. Without that cash, local kids are going to have to start paying for all those fancy dorm amenities.
Outside of medicine. law, and engineering, employers are going to quickly find out that they don’t need degreed knuckleheads anymore and that they can get the work done with anyone with a brain and willingness to work. And they will be cheaper.
And 18-year olds are going to figure this out almost as quickly and will not bother taking out college loans.
Step-kid wanted to study overseas this year. Filled out all the applications and everything, got accepted. Now it’s a no-go. Sort of. She actually takes all her overseas courses on-line (in German) overnight because of the seven-hour difference. And since she is still home she can still do her part-time daytime job she got in the summer,
Coding has already moved toward that direction. When I was doing hiring, more and more candidates were coming from coding boot camps, or specialized AA degrees from community colleges.
And those candidates were better (IMO) than the CompSci guys coming out of traditional 4 year programs. They were willing to learn how to actually code for the real world and not get caught up in “clever” or “elegant” solutions.
One of my son’s friends went to a coding camp and I introduced him to some people and now he’s 22 and already making $75K/year with no student loans. My daughter also went to a coding camp and she is 26 and making $80K/year.
If you like coding, it is a decent way to get a good paying job. I wish something like that had been around when I graduated from high school
My only problem with that is that it seems to draw a much thicker line (and career path) between analysis/design and the programming. So the coders get assignments from people with 4-year degrees that couldn’t code anything well. But if the coders are trusted to move into analysis/design as their experience grows (without the degree) then it’s a good thing.
And those candidates were better (IMO) than the CompSci guys coming out of traditional 4 year programs.
Things have changed substantially since I was last in a position to hire for coding jobs, then.
My experience was that the coding boot camp types were fine for the code monkey positions, but really lacked any understanding of how the system worked, which made them wholly worthless in an embedded or middleware environment.
Granted, I found that there were a lot of 4 year degree candidates who had the same failings.
I’m kinda in the middle. I didn’t get a CompSci degree, but i learned programming as part of work i did at school. I’ve seen good and bad from both sides. I’ve talked with CompSci guys who don’t understand some simple web concepts, and on the flip side i’ve talked with Coding Camp guys who have very little ability to expand past javascript.
It generally comes down to the motivation of the applicant. I see some people going to coding camps looking for a quick way to success, and others who are looking for a way to get the most basic credentials to get a job in something they really love doing, without paying for a four year degree.
They knew what would happen if they canceled in person, so they lied to people about their intent. Fucking scam artists.
But a kid might die of covid rather than alcohol poisoning
One of the things that gives me a tiny bit of hope is that I think I’m seeing signals that the college kids are DONE with believing that the plandemic is anything other than a deliberate scheme. Backlash is real, and though I’m sure the proggie tendencies are still there aplenty in that population, they’re also largely natural rebels. And now the shutdown culture is what a lot of them are rebelling against.
And to think they used to be able to commit seppuku.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EftGbL9VAAQBfsF?format=jpg&name=small
plastic bag over head is a form of seppuku right?
Speaking of face diapers….I saw this modelling version of defending masks. I’m not smart enough to spot any potential flaws behind those fancy equations.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7186508/
“Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat flour from peascods, so pages of formulæ will not get a definite result out of loose data.”
…Thomas Henry Huxley
And the data behind all those references is pretty loose.
The question is whether any downturn in cases/deaths would have happened anyway.
If only we had some control groups to compare . . . .
Plus, “model”. LOL. Why is anyone looking at models from April when we have so much actual data?
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/08/16/syracuse-u-will-punish-bystanders-to-racial-incidents/
Syracuse’s Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Keith A. Alford
I think I see the problem.
They’re gonna have to strictly define what constitutes a bias incident. Because their policies can’t override the 1A rights students have. Not at a state school, anyway.
Sir, we have evidence that you heard an Anti-Choice person speaking in the campus library courtyard. However there is no record of you making a complaint. Please report to the deans office for sensitivity training.
I guess they have a telepath on staff now.
How about the hundreds of bystanders that did nothing while they watched that guy and girl get the shit beat out of them the other day in Portland?
Not “bias-motivated”
A man got beat near to death in portland by protesters/rioters and most of our chattering class is talking about how Trump is talking about mail boxes.
Seriously. Mobs beating people into comas is just another day in Portland now. It’s as unsurprising as the sun coming up in the morning.
ONly certain forms of violence become international news.
Apparently the House is calling for a struggle session over this.
Yes, they are that stupid.
(I mean, the mail boxes.)
Fed crime. Needs government insurance
Stupid or desperate to get people worked up over some new thing?
“bystanders” and “accomplices” will be punished.
For having preconceived notions based on life experience?
I’m laughing pretty hard this morning because of Trump’s visit to Minnesoda yesterday. The proggie news roundup I scan every morning is full of fun unslanted journalism:
Trump is such a liar! They have not defunded the police department. Sure they have said they would, but when have they ever done what they said they were going to do before?
What a monster. Holding back money, who does that? The entire reason for the FedGov is to bail out local gov’s from the consequences of their mismanagement.
Where does that giant liar even come up with such a crazy accusation that Biden’s brain is turning to mush? C’mon man!
The media likes to do this where they go from “unproven” to “disproven”. I imagine they will attempt this here as well.
Unproven to disproven. You mean like Russian Collusion?
As in “HCQ is an unproven treatment” to “it is Disproven because FDA won’t allow it”
I really shouldn’t be surprised anymore, but it still pisses me off that the press almost reflexively insists that leftists don’t really mean what they say. “Oh, sure, they said abolish the police, but that doesn’t really mean they’re getting rid of the police.” At least have some fucking integrity.
A South Lake Tahoe resident has been diagnosed with the plague, marking the first human case in California since 2015.
Which plague? Is there another novel pathogen that I need to fear?
Super gonorrhea
Super AIDS
No. Just good ole Y. pestis.
ie; The Black Death
I suppose that it’s racist to use the historic term.
Have they developed an antibiotic resistant black death yet?
I suppose the San Francisco exodus is not shocking, but I am shocked that the Seattle and LA graphs are not going in the same direction.
I think San Francisco is an outlier due to its extremes in cost of living and stupid politics. In most cities you can find something affordable if you look – not there.
Seattle probably will be, especially since so many companies are going to WFH. LA is a different dynamic, so I would be surprised to see it hit there. The suburbs are all nearly as expensive as LA is and the commute simply isn’t worth it. If something hits that area, it’ll be a mass exodus from the whole LA basin, not what’s happening in SF.
Just wait for Joe Rogan to leave, everyone will follow
He brings it up on the podcast every day now, but on the one with Joey Diaz he also announced he is leaving CA…for NJ.
It was a joke I assume. He is leaving for Austin.
Rogan is, Diaz is moving to New Jersey.
Take THAT, Cartoon Villain!
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) and major automakers on Monday confirmed they had finalized binding agreements to cut vehicle emissions in the state, defying the Trump administration’s push for weaker curbs on tailpipe pollution.
The agreements with carmakers including Ford Motor Co, Volkswagen AG, Honda Motor Co and BMW AG , were first announced in July 2019 as voluntary measures prompting anger from U.S. President Donald Trump.
A month later, the Justice Department opened an antitrust probe into the agreements. The government ended the investigation without action.
The Trump administration in March finalized a rollback of U.S. vehicle emissions standards to require 1.5% annual increases in efficiency through 2026. That is far weaker than the 5% annual increases in the discarded rules adopted under President Barack Obama.
The 50-page California agreements, which extend through 2026, are less onerous than the standards finalized by the Obama administration but tougher than the Trump administration standards. The automakers have also agreed to electric vehicle commitments.
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Ford said the “final agreement will reduce emissions in our vehicles at a more stringent rate, support and incentivize the production of electrified products, and create regulatory certainty.”
Yay. The earth, she is saved.
Ford is angling for government subsidies any way they can get them, primarily electric. They’re functionally bankrupt.
Our big regional power utility is happy to oblige them. Excel Energy announces plans to get more electric cars on the road.
I’m sure they are also working on the Phase 2 plan of building heated tunnels to drive electric cars through once all those e-car drivers start bitching about how their range on cold days is 50 miles.
If you can live with a home to work round trip commute of 150 miles or less you can make it work. Mind you this with a car with an EPA rated range of 310 miles.
‘Ford said the “final agreement will reduce emissions in our vehicles at a more stringent rate, support and incentivize the production of electrified products, and create regulatory certainty.”’
Thus raising demand for electricity that California is already short of.
Excellent point. Shame nobody will ask Newsome how people are supposed to drive electric cars during one of his blackouts.
With the headlines on, Hard Work, my middle name
create regulatory certainty
This is what it’s all about. Ford, the company that doesn’t make fuel efficient vehicles anymore, is participating in this agreement because they know there’s a carve-out for “light trucks”. CAFE is a two-tier regulatory system and the tightened rules don’t change that. But most people are too stupid to read into what the regulations actually say and figure out for themselves whether they’re actually a good idea or not. Rules are good, stricter rules are better, gamed rules are too complicated to pay attention to.
*investigates investment opportunities in aftermarket ECUs*
It’s entirely possible that when the engines in the FJs crap out, we will replace them rather than get new cars.
The California Independent System Operator said no power blackouts were expected Monday night, but outages could still happen over the next two days.
Q: What did communists use before candles?
A: Electricity.
USADA announced today that Barbara Gicquel, of Salinas, Calif., an athlete in the sport of cycling, has accepted a one-year suspension for an anti-doping rule violation.
Gicquel, 80, was tested upon request by USA Cycling to validate a world record that she set on August 29, 2019. Anti-doping testing is required by USA Cycling Rules to certify national and international records.
https://www.lawinsport.com/topics/news/item/u-s-cycling-athlete-barbara-gicquel-accepts-sanction-for-anti-doping-rule-violation
I want an All-Doping Cycling League. Let’s see how crazy they can get.
Ford is angling for government subsidies any way they can get them, primarily electric. They’re functionally bankrupt.
I read “regulatory certainty” as “Save us from the costs of trying to keep up with innovative competitors.”
I am rooting for the anti-Elon to come along and build a decent cheap car based on reliable low tech stuff. And sell to the other 49 states.
If you could put out a decent sedan for under $15K you would sell millions.
Yup. Think about how many people simply can’t afford almost any new car anymore? When I was looking for a truck recently, I checked out new trucks just out of curiosity. The absolute cheapest new trucks you can get, bare-bones midsizes with a standard cab and RWD, run around $25K. It’s nuts.
What you’re talking about is basically what the K cars were in 1980. Basic, no-frills, transportation. They were ugly as hell and duller than paint drying, but they got you where you needed to go for a rather low cost.
They don’t meet all of the regulatory requirements.
I personally agree, but I don’t think the market actually is there.
People want CUV – high seating position and gadgets. Android Auto, Apple CarPlay, automatic crap that will break 6 days out of warranty, etc.
I really don’t get the fascination with all the “connected car” crap. Outside of bluetooth capability that lets me make calls hands-free and listen to my Amazon Music app rather than the radio, I don’t need any of that shit.
I do not want one, nor do I want anything else that can go wrong and is expensive to fix, calls home, or totally computer programming.
My bluetooth music consists of a broadcaster/charger. Plug into the cigarette hole, connect to it, and it broadcasts to an empty FM channel. The only downside is static when you’re in sensitive areas.
This is the one I have. https://www.amazon.com/SmartCharge-Bluetooth-Transmitter-Receiver-Dedicated/dp/B07GJ7DHMP
Me neither. More to pay for, more to break.
My last job was with a company that built lots of components for large auto companies. I was on a few groups that were trying to imagine the future of car entertainment.
I wasn’t popular because I said that the car makers should save their money and simply provide a port for people to plug their phone into. Why try to build in technology into a high priced long lasting car that will be obsolete 3 years after buying it? Why not simply make it easy for a person to run their phone apps and use the car’s speakers and/or screens? People will update their phones every 2 years and the car will stay relevant.
I wasn’t popular.
That’s exactly what I use in the FJ for music/books on tape (when I’m not listening to the satellite radio). Keeps the phone charged, too.
The other thing about the current trend toward ginormous computer screens on the dash is that they are a distraction from the actual, you know, road. I have a phone mount toward the top of my dash just to the right of the steering wheel. Works just fine for navigation.
Your mistake was thinking of what people actually want rather than what makes the company money by telling them what they want. I know, it’s an easy one to make.
Obsolete in 3 years? Given the lead times to develop and produce a car, it’s probably obsolete as soon as it hits the market.
Regulations make that impossible.
Not impossible, just infeasible in prevailing market conditions. The price differences are small relative to the overall price due to regulations, and those price differences become negligible for the consumer in a market dominated by easy credit.
I think they should do it with a retro vibe. Hand crank windows, mechanical key locks, no-frills as far as possible but throw in some retro-esque styling. Kinda like the PT Cruiser was but more towards the 1960’s.
Are you jonesing for a Nissan Figaro?
I’m Jonesing for a ’67 Chevelle Super Sport (like I used to drive) but I’d take a 3/4 scale version of something inspired by it.
Jeep needs to go back to being Jeep.
KIM Jong-un has ordered pet dogs to be confiscated so their meat can be sent to restaurants, according to reports.
The move by the North Korean leader is thought to be a aimed at dealing with food shortages and also because he believes pooches represent Western “decadence”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12429917/kim-jong-un-orders-dogs-confiscated/
In economic news:
Carnival Cruise Lines is offering yet another round of bonds for $900M (I think this is the 4th in as many months). Except this time they’re having to put the yields at 10%. You’d have to be a fool to buy that crap.
Global stock market capitalization now equals global GDP (at least GDP pre-COVID). That’s generally considered a bad sign for markets.
13,000 apartments are now vacant in NYC. The coming real estate crash is going to be epic.
I feel like I’m watching a jenga tower swaying in the breeze. sure, there’s a pile of blocks on the ground, but the rest will be joining them shortly.
The false sense of security is created by the Fed funding the stock market boom. The Dow is now completely disconnected from economic reality.
When the crash comes, it’s going to include a massive decrease in economic sentiment unlike anything we’ve ever seen.
I don’t see a huge stock market crash yet, I think that’s already happened what’s going to happen is a fiscal Armageddon at the local level from 0 receipts and many commercial real estate people unable to pay property taxes in full or on time for a couple of years.
I just hope Trump wins so he can tell the blue states and muni’s to go piss up a rope. Although in all reality he probably will bail them out.
I think the coming municipal Armageddon is going to be a sight to behold. Most of these fuckers don’t even see it coming. I wonder how many comptrollers and revenuers are just shaking their head and mumbling to themselves? 90% of the continued blue state hold out is them refusing to want to accept this reality and delaying it as long as possible.
^^^ See also the congressional deadlock over aid. The dems need to give the blue states a bail out. If the GOP relents on that…. Well i already have no rspect for them so i don’t know what much more it could do for my view of them.
The 21st century government is characterized by elected politicians who might have a somewhat diverse set of backgrounds, philosophies, and education picking from three options supplied by “experts” who share the same background, philosophy, and education.
Kristi Noem is the only politician in the country who thinks outside the box created by the academics and their media mouthpieces.
Does Noem have a political future or is she another Sarah Palin?
Sarah Palin and the GOP politicians and voters circa 2008 was still operating under the assumption that the media was liberal but fair minded. So it wasn’t that they hated rural Christian gun owners, it’s that they didn’t know any, and if they could just explain their POV the media would give them a fair hearing. That was sort of the general media bias belief ten years ago. That journalism was not a deliberately coordinated propaganda machine, but a bunch of people who all shared the same assumptions and principles, who then of course tended to see the world the same way.
The GOP of 2020 knows for a sure and certain fact that the media is 100% on the other side, they aren’t “liberal but independent” they are 100% an arm of the Democratic Party. The media murder of Sarah Palin based on straight up lies is one of the seeds of the rise of Trump. The only time McCain led in the polls was after Palin was nominated. She was incredibly popular with the base in a way McCain was not, and McCain let his Very Good Friends in the media drag her through the mud because of his worthless ego.
Cancer didn’t deserve John McCain.
That whole saga was so bizarre and led me to believe that McCain actually had no interest in winning the election. Who the hell tries to sandbag their own VP selection?
John McCain’s whole political career was built around being The Media’s Favorite Republican. He thought that he could carry that into a Presidential campaign. Which was always stupid, but it became especially stupid when Obama was nominated.
He listened to his Very Good Media Friends that Sarah Palin was going to cost him the election by pissing off all the people who ended up voting for Obama anyway. I went to a Sarah Palin rally in 2008. She was incredibly popular with the Republican base, and elections are really about getting your base to turn out. You cannot win without them, and when your base is excited to vote for your ticket, they talk your ticket up.
The Republican Party of 2008 listened to the media. The Republican Party of 2020 is far more likely to have the attitude of “when you’re taking flak, you’re over the target.”
I used to follow Andrew Sullivan but he became obsessed with Sarah Palin in a very unhealthy way. Instead of this turning him into a media pariah, however, it got him attention. It was just bizarre shit and I don’t know if he’s ever reflected back on it, but it presaged the modern media landscape. It is ended up at the point where, if you oppose a candidate, you not only can but should examine every iota of their lives, down to the most intimate details, and play gotcha games against anything they’ve ever said. However, if you like a candidate, then not only shouldn’t you examine anything they do or say very closely, but you should call out anyone who does pay attention to the details, no matter how relevant those details might be.
That depends on what you think of the voters across the country (and take into account who they elect now). That is more important than the media (unless you are going the Chomsky route and arguing that the masses are always deluded by one faction in power, only to be replaced by another faction operating over a different delusion).
I think Noem would be the first republican I’d proudly vote for president since voting for ron paul in the last primary he ran in.
The city councils certainly don’t see it coming.
It’s going to be an economic disaster of epic proportions.
New show for Bravo: “Million Dollar Eviction: New York”
I was just looking at a vanguard junk bond index fund the other day. Not seriously considering investing in it, but it was interesting. It, of course, wasn’t called a junk bond fund, it was something else.
Carnival lowed to BBB- in June. 90% of VWEHX (the fund I was looking at) is lower than that.
Hillsboro has the furthest-south Braum’s that I’ve found. The highlight of the commute to work Scarbie was stopping there.
We’ve got Braum’s here.
Oh shit, I just looked and I guess we don’t.
I guess I’ve been on the road so much lately I forgot what ice cream places are where. That’s sad.
The problem with being a vertically integrated operation is it limits how much you’re able to expand.
*misses Braum’s*
President Trump says he will issue a pardon today for someone ‘very, very important’ – but claims it will NOT be Michael Flynn or Edward Snowdon
“I’m pardoning myself for any and all malfeasance. You losers can eat it. I can do what I want. This is the best pardon, maybe ever.”
Susan B., Anthony. I’m shocked that no previous president – looking at you, Michelle’s husband – ever did it. Of course, this is a cynical ploy by Trump that would be the greatest pardon ever if done by someone with a D.
It’s shameless pandering unlike the eleventy billion powerful and brave apologies for slavery done by every state and municipal government.
In a release Monday morning, Richmond authorities said the group was walking in the travel lanes of West Grace and did not “comply with officers to disperse.” Authorities also said the individuals in the group were observed damaging property.
I’m not exactly thrilled that my sister is attending VCU right now.
Yeah, I go back to school at VCU this week, and I’m definitely not terribly enthused about parking down there at night for class.
Susan B. Anthony?! Fucking Trump.
C’mon, man.
https://twitter.com/PaulaReidCBS/status/1295713441374756864
Ugh.
https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1295716432156786698
Feels like a stupid move to get people excited about it.
No kidding. Just think how disappointed Dahmer is right now.
You Sconnies stick together don’t you?
Stupid.
I don’t get it. But I feel like I’m being trolled.
I think this week marks 100 years since the ratification of the Womens Vote Amendment.
I’ve even seen a woke grrl-power commercial about it.
Shouldn’t this be somber memorial then?
The modern idea of government is that you take the best and brightest people and give them power and watch in amazement as all the problems of the world melt away. The modern reality of government is that you take the stupidest most sociopathic monkeys you can find flinging poo, give them a lot of power and watch in dismay as they break everything good in the world.
Tard Tuesday: Learning To Love Kamala
“Because what she DIDN’T DO”
Because that’s how qualifications work?
Yay for me, I’ve never murdered anyone!!! Someone give me a cookie.
A Utah man was arrested Monday for allegedly tossing his wife into a river at a waterside resort in a fit of rage over dinner arrangements, a report said.
I mean, we’ve all been there. If she would just make up her damned mind or agree to your suggestion when she ask where you want to go.
I’m sure it went something like this.
Or like this even:
“Where do you want to go?”
“Anywhere is fine.”
“Ok how about Chili’s?”
“No I don’t like Chili’s.”
“Then where do you want to go?”
“Really anywhere is fine.”
“How about Taco Bell?”
“Taco Bell? Ew!”
“Then you name a place.”
“I don’t care, really anywhere is fine.”
Justifiable homicide.
I’ve had that conversation many times.
“I don’t care, really anywhere is fine.”
Sonic it is, then.
At least he didn’t dump her in the Jordan River. If so, she was bound to come out with some dead body.
When mine does this, I just walk her out to the car and drive to a place. The only time she complains about that is if I drove to a place where the AC is turned up high and she didn’t bring a jacket.
I was bummed to find out reading the story that he did not really throw her in the river but dragged her in.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8638581/Demi-Rose-channels-inner-cowgirl-plunging-bra-top.html
I guess she was on a Kessel run when her husband was doing this.
Michelle Obama:
“They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown in cages.”
And nobody in the mainstream media will call her out in this.
Adjacent:
There have been two news stories on the teevee the last two days where they reported something and I had to ask “Why?” Now, I went to J-school. The first question THEY should have asked was “Why?” and then dug that up and reported it. But it was like it didn’t even occur to them to be curious.
Narrative killed curiosity. All to fulfill the narrative, nothing to oppose it.
“My husband was much more merciful. He chose the sweet release of death delivered by missile. Truly, a great man.”
Speaking of NBA I lost 5 US dollars betting on Dallas yesterday. What a ludicrous display.
The officiating makes the NBA tough to watch for me
I just hope Trump wins so he can tell the blue states and muni’s to go piss up a rope. Although in all reality he probably will bail them out.
“To be sure, this may be a suboptimal course of action, but all the economic Deep Thinkers tell us it’s the responsible thing to do.”
Well what do you know? A juicy bit of hypocrisy in today’s Minnesoda Rona Roundup
Turns out that Walz outlawed hydroxychloroquine in March (quietly enough that no one seems to have known about it) and just rescinded that last week (again very quietly). The hypocrisy is this:
So Special K’s hubby got saved from the Rona from a medication that her fellow traveler Walz wouldn’t allow for us normies.
Remember sanctions get removed so Governors Daughters can have the Big wedding they wanted. But the peasants must bear it. The strong do what they will, and the weak bear what they must.
Gavin Newsome’s winery kept hosting tastings after his EOs closed all the other wineries. He relented, but only after it became public knowledge.
*cringe*
Trump has turned the Democrats into Republicans a la 2008.
2008 Team Red had a war-boner the size of Montana and no clear idea what they hell was going on in foreign policy. 2020 has drawn down Afghanistan to a skeleton crew and shrunk it’s footprint elsewhere (although not nearly enough).
What did the Republicans do in 2008?
They ran a senile white guy for POTUS
When you hate whiteness so much you have to purge it from the US flag…
I didn’t catch that.
That had to be intentional.
I’m shocked they didn’t also remove the blue.
Ignoring the subsidies which is hard to do, I find following SpaceX incredibly interesting.
Similar to Tesla, SpaceX is allowed to go fast and “break things”. Something regular aerospace and automotive can’t or won’t do.
Pushing boundary of reuse, SpaceX tries to fly the same Falcon 9 a sixth time
It’s the reason they had a Crew Dragon (with no crew) capsule blow up unexpectedly. Meanwhile Boeing’s Starliner was almost lost due to software issues. The traditional companies know hardware, but suck at software. SpaceX seems to be the reverse although it also tries to innovate on hardware of course.
Justifiable homicide.
It was a mercy killing.
Can’t wait for the dems to unearth the Access Hollywood tape where he’s talking about Susan B.
“When you have the pardon power, they just let you grab them by the pussy”
I like Edward Norton. Fantastic actor.
[insert Cartman’s assessment of Tom Cruise here]
The question is does he like you back?
I started watching the Marvel movies because, well, I need something to do. I don’t get why the Incredible Hulk is so hated, it was fine, not the best movie ever but it didn’t seem that outlandish for super hero movies. Norton was alright.
The second Thor movie was awful and needs more hate.
Incredible Hulk isn’t hated so much as forgotten. The issue with it when it came out was trying to thread the needle of including the Ang Lee Hulk movie, while leaving huge portions of it out (and recasting everyone). That was also the only MCU movie not distributed by Marvel (Universal owns the rights to solo Hulk films), which is why the Hulk isn’t getting any solo movies any time soon. From reports, Ed Norton was also a pain to work with on the movie, and kept doing rewrites (I understand he’s a Hulk fan), which is why he became the second MCU character that was recast.
I really wish they would have used the lead in for the Leader though.
overrated actor Robert Redford
[insert Cartman’s assessment of Tom Cruise here]
Wut?
KLOBUCHAR: “We need a president who, in George Floyd’s memory, instead of using the Bible as a prop, will heed its words: to act justly.”
Was that written by some NPC bot? I’m not sure why these words were put together.
You have to feel it in your heart.
Does not compute.
Clearly there needs to be a patch rolled out to the bots.
Wasn’t Special K the prosecutor who kept Derek Chauvain on the force, despite repeated complaints of brutality?
Shush! We’ll have none of that around here.
That’s a paddling with a salad comb
Pretty sure at every time chronicled in the Bible resisting arrest got you stabbed to death.
to act justly.
Mass arrests of rioters it is, then.
It’s morning in America?
Time for Breakfast?
I knew it.
Is this the back of the line for the Food Shelf?
Hold my beer while we play football with a bowling ball.
https://twitter.com/holdmyale/status/1295041225557409793
The mental images were funnier before I realized the poster was Pie and he’s probably talking about soccer.
It’s worth watching to the end.
The post office hysteria is even more ludicrous when you think about how few people use those blue drop boxes anyway. Anyone can send mail from their own mailbox for crissakes.
Look at you and your external mailbox privilege. I just have a mail slot, and there’s no outboing basket.
And when I was in an apartment, the mailboxes had no option for outgoing mail there either.
In fact, I don’t think I’ve lived … no, wait, there was one year I rented a room in a house with a mailbox that had an outgoing flag.
Huh….it’s been a while since I lived in an apartment or townhouse, but when I did, next to the big wall of mailboxes was a big slot for outgoing mail. I’ve never had a mail slot.
We had a blue box in front of the rental office for outgoing mail.
Mail slot here as well. The girlfriend kept trying to use it for outbound mail. After the third or fourth time I pulled her mail out of one the bushes in the front yard, I pointed out that was going to keep happening, and if a bill didn’t land in the bush, she was going to get a late charge.
I wouldn’t put my ballot in my mailbox. I’d take it to the post office or drop it in a blue box. That said, I’m voting in person.
I need to make sure I’m not getting a ballot mailed to me. I’m assuming I can opt out of whatever list, because I think its opt out, not opt in, here.
That to me sounds like voter suppression. If I plan to vote in person but find out that I can’t because a ballot was mailed to me by default, then I’m screwed. I suppose they would offer me a provisional ballot, but I doubt it would be counted.
Well, they have to make sure your vote is counted for the right candidate, and not just whoever you decided to put on the ballot.
Now @JarvisDupont
has been suspended.
Twitter is purging satirical accounts that mock identity politics.
Those in power can never tolerate being ridiculed
https://twitter.com/andrewdoyle_com/status/1295502499324067840
He was no Tits McGrath… Who is not suspended but seems restricted
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/18/cuomo-book-covid-october-397566
Fucking shameless.
Awfully roundabout way of confessing to negligent homicide to avoid depraved indifference charges.
How OfQual failed the algorithm test
The embarrassing truth is that their mathematical model was a prejudice machine
https://unherd.com/2020/08/how-ofqual-failed-the-algorithm-test/
Exams are a blunt instrument. They assess performance on the day, not ability. But when they were cancelled, they left a gaping hole in an education system that depends on the grades they spit out. If only we had an oracle that could see into the mind of each student and judge them: a statistical model, objective, fair, and well-fed on data from every student in the country. So that’s what OfQual built.
Wait they made an algorith to award grades to students instead of exams? Or did I misunderstand?
And I read this somwhere else
Major policy U-turns mean that pupils throughout the UK will now have their grades awarded based on the recommendations of their teachers.
This is just as stupid.
Tests are racist. Duh.
https://twitter.com/realannapaulina/status/1295689378266849285
Now that’s a campaign pic.
Wow
My chad ain’t hanging for that candidate.
“A Portage County grand jury handed up the sealed indictment on July 20, and a warrant was issued for the trio’s arrest the same day, according to court records unsealed Monday.
The incident occurred on April 25, according to the indictment. ”
Then they waited for the day her documentary dropped?
“‘I now know I was groomed’: Rose McGowan accuses Oscar-winning director Alexander Payne of raping her when she was 15 in a second ‘bomb of truth’ Instagram post – one day after claiming he showed her a soft-core porn movie as a teen”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8638547/Rose-McGowan-accuses-Alexander-Payne-grooming-her.html
Admittedly, young Rose McGowan was a temptation worthy of Lucifer himself.
*thinks back to Jawbreaker* Oh, yeah.
Older Rose McGowan is a punishment worse than Lucifer could imagine.
I’m not saying it didn’t happen, I’ll bet anything it did, but she JUST accused Bill Maher of inappropriate behavior like two months ago. Why would she save an even worse story for later?
Today, in the self-destruction of civilization
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a bill into law that requires students at the California State University system, the nation’s largest four-year public university system, to complete an ethnic studies course in order to graduate.
The Democratic governor signed AB 1460, which was proposed by Assemblymember Shirley Weber, D-San Diego, his office said in a statement.
The law “reflects 50 years of student, faculty, and community advocacy for curriculum reflective of and responsive to our diverse state,” Weber tweeted.
In July, the California State University Board of Trustees, which oversees the system comprising 23 campuses across the state, voted to include a course addressing ethnic studies and social justice as a requirement.
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Starting in the 2021-22 academic year the system shall provide for ethnic studies and starting with the 2024–25 academic year undergraduates will be required to complete one three-unit course in ethnic studies as a graduation requirement, the law states.
It defines ethnic studies as focusing on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latina and Latino Americans.
Let’s make our universities even more worthless than they already are.
Keep on digging.
“It defines ethnic studies as focusing on Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Latina and Latino Americans.”
So that’s straight up unconstitutional right? Equal protection?
Well, even if they included whiteness studies, the curriculum would be the same “whitey is evil and the cause of all the problems”
“whitey is evil and the cause of all the problems”
Well, you have to give Newsom credit for trying to prove that is actually true.
I’ve said this a million times, but invariably what happens is all the Native Americans go to Native American Studies, All African Americans do African American studies, All Asians … etc.
I don’t blame them, i would be interested in my heritage and such too. I just wouldn’t want to argue that that gives me a “Diversity” credit.
I think you may be confused about the content of those courses.
Oh, there is history and culture in there. It just serves as a pretext to build up an oppression narrative, which is then used as the justification for advocacy of Marxism.
I use a stricter definition of History and Culture. In my version at least some attempt at accurate description of events is necessary for history and at least some of the rituals and habits must have existed prior to the course for Anthropology. If, for example, you claim that Hannibal, Cleopatra, or Ramses were black, or that Zimbabwe was built by the local tribes you are engaged in something other than History and Anthropology.
Now, are we talking about the tribes that were local to the Great Zimbabwe when it was built? Or the modern tribes local to its ruins?
I always *snort* at the [insert language] majors who grew up speaking [insert language] at home.
I’ve known two English majors. They ended up in insurance and banking.
Link, maybe
OFFS!!
That was a requirement at the school I went to, I ended up taking Chicano History (there was a list of gender/ethnic studies classes you could choose from). No one in the class took it seriously, including the professor, the lectures were rambling and disorganized. The exams were poorly created multiple choice with obvious correct answers that didn’t require any preparation for.
As far as I know, the requirement was to justify the existence of the department, otherwise it would only consist of maybe one professor, there was no demand otherwise.
What year was that, and how many true-believer race-baiting communists are there in the California schools system who will take this shit seriously?
Oh, I would imagine many would. This was back around 2005/2006, and was in Washington state, so who knows what it’s like now.
I will say, I’m sure it’s much different at the sort of activist schools, but at the state schools I was at the vast majority of students just wanted to get out the door with their degree and get a good job, they didn’t care about this kind of thing. It was the very vocal minority of students who wanted to play activist – with the caveat that this was WA/AZ.
Grad school, on the other hand, I noticed a lot more politics among my peers – stuff like protesting that requiring TAs to be able to pass an English speaking test to be discriminatory, etc.
I only remember one protest during my time on campus. The navy was working with the school to develop ways to recycle at lot of the toxic shit on old warships rather than just dumping it in the sea, but the sctivists decided to protest because military.
I was headed in the opposute direct of the march and ended up causing them to stall because the people at the front carrying their banner couldn’t figure out how to get past one guy just standing there.
That sounds about right.
At my school there was a crazy sort of preacher guy that would hand out pamphlets and condemn homosexuality, that kind of thing. Almost everyday at lunch there’d be a group of 10-15 students arguing with him, mostly the same ones, which always led to discussions with my friends as to who was crazier, the crazy guy or the people trying to debate the crazy guy
Without a doubt the people arguing with him.
in ’72 I took African-American History and Black History at Monmouth U. Same class, different course numbers. Woke before I even knew it.
An actual history of precolonial subsaharan africa course might be interesting.
Grievence studies ‘histories’, not so much.
A little of one, a lot of the other
In case anyone hasn’t linked it here yet, here is how the DNC chose to conclude yesterday’s proceedings: with a hilariously terrible version of For What It’s Worth.
There is no memory from my childhood that the Dems aren’t capable of destroying.
You might want to pick up those drugs at your heels.
Too local: neighbors across the street (who are nice people and whom we get on with really well): have put up election signs. They have one for the R House incumbent, one for the R incumbent US senator, and one for Biden.
Now, I get not liking Trump or wanting to vote for him (she’s told me before that Trump is the worst president of all time). But this is a pretty conservative state and the two R incumbents they’re supporting are pretty conservative Rs. So how do you convert that to support for Biden?
*shrug*
I don’t get the appeal of a senile old segregationist molester.
Hey, hold on here! Oh, you were talking about Biden. Sorry
Hey, hold on here! Oh, you were talking about Biden. Sorry
I just learned something, do not leave the cursor over the Post Comment, it’ll keep on a-postin’ Post once and get off. Feel more stupid
I just learned something, do not leave the cursor over the Post Comment, it’ll keep on a-postin’ Post once and get off. Feel more stupid
It made for a funny gag in the initial reply.
Evidence indicates that you have not learned your lesson though.
Not surprised at all. There’s establishment Republicans who support every Republican except Trump.
Yep and there’s Trump voters who won’t vote for other Republicans. My uncle is a card carrying union man who always votes Democrat, despite being a pretty fiscally conservative big time gun owner. Then came Trump.
Trump voters who won’t vote for other Republicans
After watching the Republican House shut down any attempt at passing what won them control of the federal government, the Republicans shouldn’t be surprised.
people are strange. Although there is a cogent argument there, in that biden will restore “normalcy” in the way coverage occurs and the focus will be off the presidency for 4 years and with a republican congress there will be some fiscal restlolololololol.
Joe Biden circa 2008, maybe. Nobody who thinks this way seems to be paying attention to what Joe Biden is saying today though. Every time he opens his mouth, it’s either to lament that he doesn’t know where he is or to campaign for president* of the Junior Marxist League.
* = Obligatory reference to Monty Python and the executive structure of an anarcho-syndicalist commune
Guitar Man
More guitar man
Tard Tuesday: Because Sustenance And Wealth Exist Without Effort
“raging plague”
Uh…sure.
We’ve had an infinity percent increase in plague cases from 2019. The Black Death is Rampant. Rampant!
Oh dear god, I’ve actually come across this mental midget before!
the only other option they are giving you is homelessness + starvation.
they in this sentence refers to “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”
no PPE, no distancing guidelines,
Umm, can’t you do that for yourself?
You mean, I’m supposed to?
You don’t say
The man who recorded a sickening assault on a truck driver on Sunday night in Portland has said the Oregon city feels like a ‘third world country.’
Drew Hernandez captured the incident, near a federal courthouse, which saw the driver kicked unconscious after he was chased by a mob, causing him to crash.
Speaking to Fox News, Hernandez said the man was possibly defending a transgender woman being beaten and robbed by the protesters, when the group turned their attention to the driver and his female companion.
Drew Hernandez, who filmed the incident on his cell phone, has spoken of his experience of being in Portland on Sunday night, saying ‘sometimes it feels like you’re walking in a Third World country’
The unnamed man then got into his truck and drove away as he and the woman became a target, but crashed in the pursuit, Hernandez said.
‘I think he just felt extremely threatened,’ Hernandez said in an interview. ‘They chased him… until he finally crashed. When they finally caught up to him, they went nuts.
‘This was violent, extremely violent,’ he said. ‘Sometimes I forget I’m walking the streets of an American city in the Northwest. Sometimes it feels like you’re walking in a Third World county.’
It can’t happen here.
It’s happening.
It can’t happen here.
A fallacy that is, unfortunately, almost universally believed in the US.
For our Virginia glibs, please contact your state rep and put pressure on them to support this during the special session.
Mine is Rodney Willett so there’s no point in contacting that sack of shit – no one worships state power more fervently than ol’ Rod.
I’ve sent a million emails.
I can safely say that I’ve sent millions of emails.
/ran a listserv
Oh, you mean to your state rep.
Why would the Dems hamstring the Governor.
Oh for the days when assemblies guarded their powers more jealously than their party.
“You hate to see it. Well, kinda. Not really. I don’t know. I just hope they don’t drag their voting patterns with them across the country.”
It’s not just going to be SanFran, it’s going to be every major city in the country, and yes, they will take their voting with them.
How does no one here appreciate her brilliance?
“Can’t we just do DMs or email?”
The problem is that not everyone is good at drawing all the emoticons.
Oh, let me see, I could get on chat and talk to my friends, but wouldn’t it be more exciting if we can do this:
*writes down ‘hey, what’s up?’
puts in envelope, goes to post office and puts letter in box. Waits 2 weeks, gets return mail that says ‘uhh, not much, what’s up with you’?
Yes, it’s a real winner, going to sell millions of stamps. /derp
This will also revitalize polaroid sales due to the 300,000,000 dick pics that will be mailed.
Buy a buggy whip while you’re at it.
Mail each other buggy whips? How many stamps will that take?
Just use a flat rate box.
Whatever happened to Creosote Achilles, anyway?
Eh, shes’ urging people to spend their own money on stamps and give the USPS business. I wish more progs would urge their supporters to actually put their own money in support of their causes.
Tard Tuesday: Stupid Shit My Facebook Friends Say
Someone’s been watching too much MSNBC.
Ah, those “treasured institutions” that nobody treasured until 5 minutes ago.
Feeding frenzy
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez lashed out at Republican John Kasich in an email to supporters prior to his speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention.
Kasich, who was governor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019, and other Republicans were invited to speak in favor of Joe Biden at the convention on Monday. Ocasio-Cortez will also be addressing the largely virtual conference, but the liberal firebrand’s speech has been limited to just one minute. In the Monday evening email, her team said Kasich doesn’t represent Democrats.
The email began with an olive branch that said she was “glad that John Kasich has recognized the importance of supporting a Biden-Harris Ticket.”
“We hope that he can convince more people of the reality that Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and nation at large,” the email said. “But let’s be extremely clear about something: An anti-choice, anti-worker Republican does not get to decide who represents the Democratic Party. Period. And he absolutely does not get to compare Alexandria to ‘far-right’ figures that define the Republican Party.”
The New York Democrat’s swipe came after Kasich said she doesn’t represent the party as a whole and is “just a part, just some member of it.”
More dissension and backbiting, please. It’s entertaining.
When does Mittens speak?
I hate this. If this is going to become a thing, then Pro-life people should refer to abortionists as anti-life.
The strategy of the Democrats in the convention has been to hide their craziest progs except Sanders. They are definitely making the electoral calculation that the progs will show up anyway because Orange Man Bad, and that would matters is getting those Kasich Republican types to vote for Biden.
If AOC and the Squad want to actually send a message, they will urge their followers to vote Green for POTUS, and straight ticket Dem down the line, hand Trump a Dem Congress and stake out the position that from now on, the progs are the kingmakers.
“The NYT on Susan B. Anthony’s legacy:
“Ms. Anthony was tried for illegally voting, & protested the fine that she was charged …
“She is also an increasingly divisive figure, adopted by anti-abortion forces & criticized for relegating Black suffragists to the sidelines.””
https://twitter.com/FarahnMorgan/status/1295723538670931970
Trump got her cancelled.
Stop making me appreciate his trolling genius!
Of course they would. Its like a race to see who can out stupid the other. If somoene could convince one team to shut the fuck up, they would have it in the bag.
That’s magnificent & exactly what I expected from them.
My elementary school was named after her; too bad it was converted to condos.
https://twitter.com/iamjustingreene/status/1295410095396970501
Dr. Cardi B, OBGYN
If only she had gone into that rant during her interview with Biden.
I laughed harder listening to this than I have in a long, long time
I’m not looking at mustard the same anymore.
“In a bid to revitalize the USPS, @aoc
proposes a “national progressive penpal program” to boost stamp sales.”
https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1295423528519585801
Mail each other some ass-drugs while you’re at it.
Bringing forward the thread on free windows: the short answer is jobs are a cost, not a benefit. The point of labor is to enable consumption, not production in and of itself.
Sunshine is free, which is a good thing.
That being said, if charity results in a sense of grievance and entitlement – the recipients feel you must provide for them, or else – then it becomes destructive.
“Free shit” provided by a government isn’t charity, it is theft at virtual bayonet point, with the thieves spending some of their ill-gained loot buying off some of the victims for PR purposes.