IT A SEA SMITH HOUSE PARTY!
[Editorial Note: Today has been proclaimed “Day of the Cryptids”. Because, why not?]
SEA SMITH GLAD HE FIRST ON “DAY OF THE CRYPTIDSES”. HE REMEMBER WHEN MAD SCIENTIST DISCOVER SEA SMITH. SEA SMITH WONDER IF OK. COUSIN STEVE SMITH SAY “IT GOOD. COME SEE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN PEOPLES!” HE RIGHT, SEA SMITH LIKE HERE. THINK GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS VERY FUNNY. SPEAK OF FUNNY, HERE JOKES!
*APPLAUSE*
Why fish get bad grades?
Because was below sea level.
What you call fish with two leg?
Two-knee fish.
What you call fish with no leg?
A fish.
SEE, EVEN SHARK LAUGH!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! SEA SMITH TELL BEST JOKES. NOW HERE BEST LINKS!
- SEA SMITH ASK, YOU KNOW WHO ELSE THREATEN CRACKDOWN ON NEIGHBORHOODS? MAYOR NOT NICE HOOMAN.
- INDIA GO AHEAD, NO NEED MAIL. REPORTER GET IN SPIN, EVEN IN SHORT ARTICLE!
- HOW MANY THESE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS?
HEAR FROM COUSIN STEVE SMITH NEXT. FRIEND ZARDOZ LAST IN DAY.
COME ON IN, WATER IS FINE!
IT A GREAT DAY! DAY OF CRYPTIDSES!!!!
All day?
THAT WHAT “DAY” MEAN!
So we’re safe once the sun goes down, right?
HAHAHAHA!
…
NO.
Stay away from the toilet, the sink, the stream in the back, the shore,….
Am I missing any other angles of attack for this Cryptid?
THE CRYPTID COMING INSIDE THE HOUSE!
He’d better clean up after himself.
Am I missing any other angles of attack for this Cryptid?
“There’s a canal.”
“Or an inlet.”
“Or a fjord.”
“Quiet! I will not hear another word against the Water Crypitds.”
*Wolf pulls granny’s bonnet tighter*
Yes, of course you are.
“My Granny, what a long penis you have.”
I am told it is not length but girth that counts. The wolf has an unfair advantage.
Like my deceased ex-brother in law used to tell the ladies…
He may not get in there deep, but he sure as hell was gonna scrape the shit out of the sides…
Who doesn’t like a nice can of Campbells on a rainy day?
Damn. I got up too early. My best comments of the day are in the revived thread from the article last night.
It happens. Wait an hour and I’ll be either surly or incoherent.
I am both already.
Damned cat plucks at the door seal when she wants food. I have had to replace the door seal a dozen times over the years. I just put a new one in and she is working on shredding it already. I feed her and the neighbor’s dog steals it…she scratches again….
Damned critters…you just can’t win.
Yeah and they leave too soon which adds insult to injury.
+1
Or both.
Ow.
That one sea monster from the image (right center) is about to get busy with a lobster. I can see the lust in his eyes.
Oh, so we got ourselves a regular cryptid whisperer over here, eh?
It ain’t a blessing, it’s a curse!
Good morning Mr. Smith!
SPEAK OF FUNNY, HERE JOKES!
Color me impressed!
Have a great Day of the Cryptids, people! No raping, though, ok?
NO PROMISE! BUT TRY NOT TO…
I thought the whole point of Cryptid day was to spread the love.
By love, mean…
I doubt there’s much real love going on there. But I don’t doubt the “spreading” part.
A cryptid’s love is much different then the love of a square.
missed it bythat much.
A cryptid’s love is different than a square’s.
Today’s baseball birthday is also a music link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11MzbEcHlw
Happy birthday Scooter.
Great song.
From the comments:
My dad showed me this video instead of giving me the “birds and the bees” speech. I have 7 kids.
The other baseball birthday of note is Johnny Sain of “Spahn and Sain and pray for rain” fame.
Here’s a fun trivia question that relates to Spahn and Sain… which MLB player wore his hometown on the back of his jersey?
The answer is Bill Voiselle, #96 was the pride of Ninety-Six, SC and one of the “days of rain” in the Braves rotation.
Similar one, what player wore his birthday on the back of his jersey>
Answer: Carlos May, who was born on May 17 and wore #17. So his jersey read May 17.
Wasn’t Carlos May also missing a thumb?
The chick in that video is not the one one that sang on the album. ACKUALLY the chick from the record was hotter and she was the lawyer replaced by Markie Post after the first season of “Night Court” ACKTUALLY! But Markie was about the heat of a thousand suns hotter.
Agreed about Ellen Foley. On the useless trivia front, Markie Post was AKSHUALLY the producer’s first choice for the role on Night Court, but by the time the show finally was greenlighted Markie Post got a job on the game show Double Dare and didn’t want to leave a steady job.
Rumor was that Markie was Hillary’s girlfriend at one time…
Now how hot do you think she is?
Don’t care. Still hot.
*blanking memories of SF stories*
Linked in that NY Post article about the crackdown on the Jews:
It’s not fucking required to wear masks outside, asshole.
Why do you want the Jews to die?
You know who else… enh, too easy.
Mo?
To clarify, the 6th century warlord, not a commenter on this board.
*wipes flop-sweat from UnCiv’s brow*
Ice cube?
https://youtu.be/Q4PC8Luqiws
Christine Eckard? She just wants us to be stress free
issuing fines to those refusing to wear a mask when offered
WTF does that mean?
It means revenue generation because our polity is bankrupt and OBEY.
OBEY! indeed, but that isn’t exactly “offering” something.
That’s probably referring to an expectation which nobody seems to be aware of that businesses are supposed to hand out masks?? I dunno, I’ve never seen it happen. But this wouldn’t be the first time that whatever thoughts are swirling amongst the cobwebs in Bill’s head haven’t made their way to his pen and phone yet.
OBEY!
SEA SMITH ONE FIN TOO SLOW!
SEA SMITH SWIM ON BOTTOM. NO NEED BE FAST.
Good morning everyone. It is a beautiful 68° here on Rockaway Beach and I’ve made breakfast, sent the kids upstairs to get dressed, and am printing out their schoolwork for the end of their first week of school. I have to say this place and you people are the only thing keeping me sane and grounded. The cancellation of Halloween has turned me into a wee ball of white hot rage. At this point, I think I might want a civil war.
Also, Suthenboy, your saving of the snake made me very happy. When I was wee, I found a corn snake in the yard and was trying to catch it when my grandmother saw and freaked out. She made grandpa come outside and kill it with a rake while I cried and cried. To this day, I love snakes and will always opt for catch and release elsewhere if I can.
If wife doesn’t see it (and it’s not dangerous) ill relocate. Once wife sees it, it must die.
It’s been saidhological/evolutionary fear women have of the snake entering them. Kind of like why they fear my finger.
Do you mean your “finger” finger, or does your tools have a mobster name like that?
It’s actually a rusty rotorooter.
how many “tools” does straff have? Is he some sort of hydra?
At least eight. He lives in Nippon.
Right out of a SugarFree Post/HM Youtube link.
As punishment for botching the joke, I’ll put my finger somewhere else.
WOAH!
I don’t think UCS and Trashy swing that way, brah!
THIS AM SMITH POST. WHAT WAY TRASHY AND UCS SWING DON’T MATTER.
RIP UCS & Trashy,
They died too soon and too ugly at the hands (well, maybe the 11th finger) of a cryptid…
If I harmed a snake, I’d be the one to die at the wife’s hands.
We have a number that live around our house, and thankfully none of the danger noodle variety. Have a couple large black racers that probably help in that regard. Now if they were just a little more effective in keeping the squirrels and birds away from our orchard, I’d be very grateful.
Once they know how to get into the house, they must die.
I saw Far Rockaway mentioned in the Jew crackdown link – is that your area?
The other areas are near me but not specifically Bay Ridge. They better leave us the fuck alone.
Far Rock is few neighborhoods to the West of us but, yeah… this was the talk of the town amongst the merchants I shopped with yesterday. At least the general attitude was leaning towards non-compliance – there are too many out here who have already lost their restaurants and bars; I don’t think any order to shut down again will be well received.
This will probably go about as well as the last (((crackdown))) over the measles. IOW it will be a gigantic shitshow and Deblasio will crawl back under his rock in embarrassment.
Nassau County is about 2 miles from me. Here in Queens, I can only eat on the sidewalk or get food to-go. Over in Long Beach, I can sit inside a bar or restaurant and eat and drink. This virus is so smart it knows where the county line is.
It’s not far, not hard to reach
I miss those guys.
Cord snakes are beautiful. I love their orangey red coloring & stripes and then the surprising underbelly of black and white “tile”.
I don’t own a snake nor do I wish to do so, but I am favorably inclined toward their existence on my property.
I have to watch my feet around rattlesnake-friendly parts of the yard, but they are just as incentivized to avoid contact with me as I am with them.
Thank you. Harmless and even helpful snakes, like the garters, racers, kings etc. will always get a pass with me. I stopped traffic recently so I could shoo a Louisiana Pine snake out of the road before it got run over. Harmless snakes eat a lot of pests and dont hurt anyone.
The rarest snake in NA. https://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/species/detail/louisiana-pinesnake
Also a constrictor that loves to eat poisonous snakes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speckled_kingsnake
Rattlers, copperheads, cottonmouths, corals….not so much. I have grandchildren 5 and younger who come here. I cant have those around. Imagine what would happen if my 4 year old grandson saw a 6 foot copperhead lying in the sun. They are incredibly beautiful, a living jewel, but like many things in nature they are beautiful but deadly.
When I was 13 or 14, I was in the woods near the house building a tree fort. My chum and I went to descend but noticed a very large rattlesnake had taken up a position right at the pine tree’s base. several minutes of screaming brought my dad out of the house with a shotgun. He put a rather large hole through the snake and about a dozen tiny baby rattlesnakes poured out of the wound. He ended up showing me how to skin a snake and preserve the skin; he still wears that snakeskin as a hatband.
Now that’s a fucking Trophy story!
The week before the campers show up, the camp staff arrive to repair everything and get the camp ready. That also happens to be about the time that copperheads give birth (this would be in northeast Oklahoma, near Talequah). We would carry an axe with us everywhere to repair the trials, but also to eliminate any copperheads we found. With just a little practice, you can behead one and bury the head in the ground in one motion.
We decided to try and preserve on intact, so we decided to drown one by putting it in a gallon jar, punch a couple of holes in the lid, and run a hose into one of the holes. An hour later that snake was still thrashing around pissed off. I had no idea they could breathe water.
They can’t breathe water, but when working out the properties of air, the guy who was suffocating animals in sealed glass canisters could not manage to kill the snake. They are good at holding their breath.
Yep, CO2 suffocation is a recognized as a humane form of euthanasia for small mammals but not for reptiles. Need to use pithing, which is sharp blow through the brain.
Sounds like 10th grade Bio. One girl when confronted with the task actually pithed herself. Had another dude that puked across the table when we did flat worms. Sure it was disgusting but I was stoned all of the time. Poor frogs, live in a glass prison for their entire lives and then get brain jabbed by pimply smelly teenagers.
Reptiles…low oxygen needs and no brain to speak of.
I once shot a very large eastern diamondback, dressed it out and put it in a Tupperware container to save for cooking the next day.
I lay in bed all night listening to the dressed out skeleton/muscle flopping around in the Tupperware container in the refrigerator.
Nightmare fuel
When I was a teen I caught a huge garden spider for some reason or another. I think I wanted a spider terrarium but instead the mason jar just sat there for months and I completely forgot about it. Comes to be a few months later when I was looking for a stash the jar catches my eye. “Ah Fuck I sez. Poor thing!” I unscrew the lid to take a look inside and that fucker had been playing possum the entire time! If you’ve ever seen a spider move fast you will forgive my squeals and palpitations. No, Mrs. Spider did not get returned to the wild.
When I took the family to Australia last year I was tempted to make time in the schedule for us to take a hike in some of the nice, green hills that we were driving through. But the thought that Oz has 8 of the top 10 most poisonous snakes in the world, a few of which are actually aggressive towards people, made it too easy to figure out other things to do.
We rarely see snakes here in Japan – and none on the mainland are poisonous – so my kids have no experience with having them around and I can’t guess what they might do if one had popped out on the trail with us.
MUST WATCH FOR DROP BEAR TOO!
AND SEA SMITH WATCH OUT FOR SALTIES.
I saw a snake while hiking in Australia.
I was on a path through some woods down to a beach cove. I heard some rustling in the bushes off to the side of the trail. I slowed my pace and looked around. I saw a snake poke its head out of the bush not far from the path. It looked right at me.
I stopped for a moment, then continued along the path giving the snake a wide berth.
It did nothing to me.
That’s probably the one pass it gave you for acting like a Sheila….
“Mrs. Krabapple and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and then one of the babies looked at me!”
So…definitely not SNAKE SMITH.
Ha Ha. I’ll never forget the time when my big brother was about five or so and we were at the lake having a cook-out. The garter snakes were breeding and he managed to catch one and wound up chasing my then 6 months pregnant Aunt across a hay field and ultimately forcing her to jump over a barbed-wire fence.
Snakes are cool. King snakes are especially cool. Good on you for releasing it.
And yeah, many snakes will vibrate their tails to try and warn off predators. King snakes, racers, and even garter snakes will do this – garter snakes like to smear you with musk in the process, which smells great.
Rubber boas do that too.
Bullsnakes do that pretty good around here.
See them in the backyard a lot.
I, too, like snakes. They are good folks. Sunday last, Honey Harvest, someone found a baby (like 6 inches long) Hognose (snake, not a Glib) in the driveway. I’d never seen one that small. All gathered around to “Ewww” and “Ahhhh”, it was a cute little feller and nearly invisible because of size and coloration.
When I was doing some Army training on Hawaii one of the locals caught a Hawaiian snake (actually a species that was inadvertently brought from the Philippines in potting soil 80 years ago). If it wasn’t somebody who seemed to know what he was talking about I would have thought it was just a black worm.
Hognose snakes are the best. Did it do the whole thrash-around-and-pretend-to-die defensive display?
Too small, maybe, it enjoyed the adoring eyes of the ladies who were pretending to be scared and saved by the admiring male gaze but instead there were only boy glibs in the entourage.
A couple of months ago I opened the garage door, and as soon as I did I saw a snake about 3 feet long dash inside and slither under a shelving unit. No rattle on the tail, though, so I just let it be – figured it would either leave eventually or keep the mice away.
HOW MANY THESE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS?
Some of those folks seem just a smidge too proud of themselves.
We’re not funny.
stop laughing.
Funny looking?
OK, which Glib is this? (Paywalled -but this link may work).
‘A Million Random Digits’ Was a Number-Cruncher’s Bible. Now One Has Exposed Flaws in the Disorder.
Hypothesis is that some punch cards may have been shuffled. Almost as funny was the top comment.
Sure as shit not me. I could barely make it through that tribute to aspie-ness.
Soul crushing?
Well he’s “functional”. Married, employed (Air Force) and driving his wife nuts. Could easily be a Glib!
Oh, he absolutely could be One of Us.
It’s a fun article, though. Thanks for the link!
On the punch card front, there was a story I remember reading back in the day (I think it was originally from the Jargon File, but I’m not rereading the whole thing to find it) about a program that kept being written in the US, working here, then failing when it arrived in France. They figured something got shuffled in shipping, so they wrote it, punched it, and sent it again. Again it failed, and the customer was getting pissed. They eventually sent a courier with the punch cards, and found what the problem was when it got to customs. The law allowed customs agents to take a small sample of any uniform product (such as grain) for testing later. So the customs agent sees a box filled with (nearly) identical cards and randomly pulls a couple out.
Reminds me of a story an old coworker of mine used to tell. There was a server in another state that kept going offline every Friday night at around the same time. He never could figure it out, so they made the trip and sat there on a Friday night to watch it. At about the right time for it to go down, one of the housecleaning staff comes in to vacuum. At some point, to get behind something, she yanks the power cord out of the wall, vacuums a little area and plugs it back in.
LOL I love all the old-timey computer stories.
Well, since you just started a new job, let me try to tank your productivity:
On-Call stories – These are all support nightmare stories, some of which involve really idiotic decisions.
Who Me stories – These are all stories of people who botched up big time, and are telling their shame years later.
Yeah, no time. Just taking a quick break between meetings here.
My ex-father in law used to work for IBM. He was part of the team that was working on the computer setup for one of those NASA moon projects back in the day. They were working on the final prep for the thing and doing some testing right around the area where tours took people to look at banks of discs. The tour guide was used to telling people those discs controlled the US nuclear missile launch arsenal and if they ever started spinning the world was gonna end. As it happens, he was just in the process of telling that joke when the testing my ex-fil was part of triggered the discs. Some old lady died from a heart attack, and NASA took that particular location off the tour…
He was also part of the engineering team to build the first home computers for IBM (my ex had a test 8080 when I met her in school, because he got to bring all the test computers they put together home, and I lugged that 50 pound behemoth with 64k of RAM and both a 5 1/4 and the 8 inch drives around for her like a dunce while I was doing my EE degree in grad school) and told them they had made a YUGE mistake letting Gates do the software, because that’s where the money was…. He was later proved right, I guess…
The man had hundreds of awesome stories..
I couldn’t top that one even if I were granted another lifetime.
Him and I were laughing when he talked about that experience because the computer they built for NASA was the size of a football field, and by the mid 1980s, only some 2 decades later, calculators had more processing power than that monster that they built to help get men to the moon…
He probably knew my grandfather. Grandpa was a big shot at IBM in the sixties. When he left he was ceo of Royal typewriters. Presided over the demise of mechanical typewriting machines. He knew all the big names in L.A. from it’s heyday. Crazy stories about Howard Huges and the like.
Reminds me of the movie “Hot Millions”.
Years ago, we started getting tickets on the graveyard for a circuit going down. Tech would get dispatched, but wouldn’t find anything. Circuit had self restored. UPS tested out fine. Etc.
Finally set up a dispatch overnight. Turns out the supplied outlets were either switched or on a timer, and when the last person went home in the evening, it would get turned off (sometimes, not always), UPS would run down, and then the circuit would dump.
Thank you for this, Sensei.
Random punchcard facts:
In 2019 I looked extensively online for a keypunch machine; none can be found. Manual punch machine available but it will only put the holes in the right places, you have to manually encode characters.
You can still get your punch cards read by this guy. I love his TOS, must be an uncontacted Glib.
To prevent and detect cards getting out of order people used to take a pen or marker and put a diagonal line on the edge of the deck so that out-of-order cards would be easily detectable with a quick glance by the operator. (h/t to Punchcard Reader guy back when he was was still accepting physical cards)
I have a whole box of unused punchards. At one point I thought a fun project would be to make an optical punchcard reader.
But then I got distracted.
I once wrote a program that was all zeros….
Early in my career we had an obstreperous customer who was threatening to cancel a contract and demanded the code. We considered sending it to him with the bits sorted numerically.
https://news.yahoo.com/bank-manager-finds-9-07-203836700.html
Sure they did.
Definitely didn’t grab it out of a box.
BabyDoom is so damn cute. How’s she doing?
She’s great! Four teeth. Lots of laughs. She’s on the verge of walking. She can do it in her crib, and when shes holding the bookshelf of the edge of the couch.
Really turning into a person every day.
This week she’s been very affectionate. She likes to kiss my face, but it’s just her with her mouth wide open and her tongue out. I’ve had a good deal of drool on my mouth and beard. Wouldn’t change it for anything.
Good times, dude. I’m glad you are enjoying it. Keep that phone handy for the first steps!
Sharing the story about your daughter REALLY brightened my day. Thank you. Enjoy these days, they are some of the best.
Today was the first day she waved goodbye when I was leaving for work. She did it to mom a few days ago when she left.
*Festus dissolves into a weeping mound of goo*
You should know how hard it is to clean up a pile of person goo.
*sigh*
I’ll fetch the bucket.
That “black-out drunk” link was pretty funny! My worst ones were drinking everclear and waking up in a different city 24 hours later (they must have carted me around Weekend At Bernie’s style) or the time at my bud’s house when I was 17 and managed to break the top of the the toilet tank and wandered toward the second story of the house and ended up pissing on the stairs. I still cringe to think of it.
Pro tip – when telling blackout drunk stories in court ordered AA meetings, lower your head and take the jovaial tone out of your voice.
A buddy of mine, Captain in the Army, was ordered to “accompany” several members of his unit to their Alcohol Abuse Treatment sessions as part of their punishment for a drunken party that got out of hand. Things took a bad turn when one of his NCO’s was caught at one of those meetings surreptitiously handing our “refreshments” from his backpack.
Mirth!
https://twitter.com/JMurray247/status/1309458688516726787
Be safe out there folks.
WHY THE FUCK DID THE DRIVER END UP IN CUFFS?
I saw an update that the driver was just detained while they tried to make sure they weren’t just running people down.
I can’t stand that anyone can call the mob “pedestrians”
Thanks. *blood pressure starts to lower*
I mean, it’s still infuriating that the people on film hitting the car didn’t even get detained.
Or the ones chasing the driver down afterwards.
FIFY
The police were watching from the helicopter. They turned the spotlight on the scene.
And then they followed the white car instead of the black pickup or the motorcycles.
Brooks is right… .this will end with bodies in the streets. Which is the plan.
More on that later.
Submit it for a stand-alone post!
It’s the only way it makes sense
Wow.
Just wow.
Wow.
I learned quite a lot from getting really drunk.
Like that a lot of one’s physical limitations are really mental. A group of us were walking back to the house after the bars closed, and got to a point where a 7′ wooden fence blocked our route. One of the guys in our group was an athlete, so he just vaulted the fence. I was… not an athlete, but seeing how easy it was to do, I likewise casually vaulted the fence. The rest of the group was puzzled by that until the bodybuilder in our group punched a hole in the fence and walked through.
Synergy!
The reopening rollbacks could hit nine “cluster” sites where virus cases have ticked up, including a large swath of southern Brooklyn and Williamsburg — as well as Kew Gardens and Edgemere-Far Rockaway in Queens.
The Health Department will ramp up inspections in the areas to assure mask compliance and social distancing practices, the department said in a press release.
The measures could come as early as Tuesday. If cases continue to rise, the city will consider banning all gatherings of more than 10 people; issuing fines to those refusing to wear a mask when offered; closing private schools and care centers; and shutting down non-essential businesses.
NEEDZ MOAR TASERS AND HANDCUFFS
I am not an expert but it sounds like they are claiming the virus is working backwards. Going from community outbreaks to neighborhood clusters.
Seems like that would be cause for celebration rather than fear, but I realize it’s all just marketing strategy.
Interview: Katrina Karkazis and Michele Krech on Gender Binaries in Sport
I feel some hope and some despair. I’ve already talked a lot about my despair points so I won’t revisit the highlights of the despair. But I will say that…You know, you had asked much earlier in the conversation, Brenda, about why is this happening, and in my mind it’s patriarchy. The reason that we have these regulations is about long-standing…Through myriad venues, right? Whether it’s reproductive rights or anything else, really, that involves women’s bodies, a desire to control women’s bodies and to police women. I don’t view this as being separate and it’s part and parcel with policing the category. One of the most interesting things is if you look back historically what we know is that the sex binary in part was deeply tied to white supremacy, and there’s more work that people could read about this, but the idea was that actually white people were the most sexually differentiated. So that was like the highest evolution, if you will, of the binary. Black women weren’t been considered in that binary. So we see some of this replicated here, these really old standing kind of paradigms.
This morning I learned there is a feminist sports podcast, and it is as bad as you think it is.
I value my freaking brain cells and am not gonna expose them to that sort of stupid.
I don’t give a shit about your despair and how “tired” you are.
I’m too tired to change the flat on your Subaru. We must change the dichotomy in the system so that you can enact your own labor. Only then will we be approaching equality.
“the sex binary in part was deeply tied to white supremacy”
OFFS!!
“Let me show you exactly how stupid I am.”
“Is America suffering protest fatigue? Support for BLM demonstrations falls to 39% from 54% in three months amid fresh unrest over Breonna Taylor ruling”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8771935/Support-BLM-demonstrations-falls-39-54-three-months.html
Gosh, I wonder why.
Woops! Gilmored.
What you call fish with two leg?
Abe Vigoda
HAHAHAHAHA!
YOU FUNNY LAND HOOMAN.
You gotta fight for your right to party, says DeSantis?!?
I agree with him 100%, though.
Wow is De Sanctis of sound mind or what?
Maybe DeSantis is serious about never doing lockdowns again. I see he has been lifting restrictions on restaurants and bars, and also has talked about intervening against local officials that shut down bars and restaurants.
Sean’s 7:40 link:
Where did that happen?
There are going to be dead bodies in the street, soon, if shit like that continues.
Los Angeles
That’s what they hope happens… These morons want a war.
They’re arresting more protestors armed with firearms.
They absolutely want it and are ready for it.
Yes, it is going to come to blows.
Hollywood is sadly still a hole after about five decades.
Thx
Apparently, fish are better educated than you would think.
Pen-and-Phone Orange Man
President Donald Trump will sign a series of executive orders aimed at protecting people with preexisting conditions and look for a way to prevent surprise medical bills, senior administration officials said Thursday.
Trump discussed the executive orders, which are part of his “America First” health-care plan, during his visit to Charlotte, North Carolina later in the day.
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters on a conference call that one of the orders would declare it the policy of the United States to “provide protections to ensure that Americans with preexisting conditions are protected regardless of whether the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional and its protections for preexisting conditions invalidated.”
“The president is also taking action to protect surprise billing, a source of financial insecurity for all Americans who do have insurance that has gone unaddressed for two years now,” he said.
Sounds legit. What could go wrong?
Government is going to keep ‘fixing’ healthcare until it is completely dead.
Their goal is it to fix it so good that private insurance becomes unviable, and then the “real fixing” will begin when government takes it all over…
Funny, all of the people that want to employ Sandmen are over 30.
Remember, it’s “fixing” in the veterinarian sense, not the auto mechanic sense.
All I can say is this: I cut my finger pretty bad a month or so ago. I went to the emergency room for stitches. The cost of three stitches, some numbing medication, and a tetnus shot to me was just shy of $1000. That is ridiculous.
The progressives are winning. Next time, I won’t go to the hospital and just stitch the damn thing myself. I’m sure there was an urgent care type place that could have done it cheaper, but I wasn’t in the situation where I could shop around at 8pm on a Sunday night.
And that’s why we can’t have a ‘free market’ in healthcare, it’s cruel to make the sick and injured worry about things like ‘cost’ or ‘benefits’ or ‘thinking’ /prog
That is ridiculous.
Yes it is. That’s why the market evolved urgent care centers, too. Mrs. Dean made the same mistake, going to an ED for something an urgent care center can take care of. I was kinda pissed off, but she was freaked out over a pretty bad cut, so . . . .
Sunday at 8 pm? Most or all UCs are probably closed by then.
I stitched my foot up at home on a Sunday. It’s not that difficult.
WUT?
He tripped over a sewing machine.
Most or all UCs are probably closed by then.
It varies. The ones near us are open until 10 or midnight during the week, but close at 8 or 10 on weekends, I think one outfit closes at 6 on weekends. You managed to hit a time slot that the market found uneconomic to cover.
Fuck. I was just telling people that Trump manages to piss me off around once a weeK, and here it is.
I’m going to take the contrary position, which has nothing to do with Trump. We don’t have a free market health care system. Health insurance isn’t insurance in the sense of car or homeowners… it’s access to the health care system.
Surprise billing should be illegal. The hospital operates under a government enforced monopoly, and I have no other choices for treatment because competition is not allowed. The anesthesiologists take advantage of this in way that enables them to hide their rates. It’s not price fixing, it’s reigning in a monopolistic guild that uses the government to destroy competitors and keep prices artificially high.
Same with preexisting conditions. Unless if you are very poor or very, very rich, you need health insurance to receive health care. You can’t buy your drugs without a prescription. You can’t choose to receive health care from a non-guild member at a fraction of the cost. It’s wrong to create an artificial market system where you must have “insurance” to receive a necessary product and then deny the “insurance”. Imagine if they did that with buying food at the grocery store, along being it being illegal to buy groceries from non-licensed vendors or to grow your own. That’s what they’ve done with health care.
Break the health care guilds, allow anyone to offer health care services, allow any patient to purchase whatever they want without guild approval, and allow insurance to return to true the meaning of the word… where it’s used for emergencies and not for routine services.
“Surprise billing should be illegal. The hospital operates under a government enforced monopoly, and I have no other choices for treatment because competition is not allowed.“
I’ve never worked in a market where the hospitals weren’t brutally competitive.
Surprise billing is when independent docs aren’t taking the same plans as the hospital. Which the hospital has very little power over, because they are independent.
Surprise billing is when independent docs aren’t taking the same plans as the hospital. Which the hospital has very little power over, because they are independent.
The hospital doesn’t get to choose who it does business with?
Like when you take your car to the shop and the mechanic that did the work there had “lift privileges” and the job was twice the quoted cost?
I’ve never worked in a market where the hospitals weren’t brutally competitive.
Certificate of Need laws for one. Consolidation of hospitals within a single system for another. Banning of midwife services.
I assume your hospital would object if I opened my own hospital next door that didn’t employ guild members, offered services at a fraction of the cost, and sold drugs without a prescription. Bullshit that any hospital in this country is competitive with the exception of a few cash only clinics.
I’m familiar with surprise billing. It means that I choose a surgeon that it’s in-network and make sure the hospital is in-network. Then a scumbag out of network anesthesiologist bills $1600 for a five minutes to place an epidural without disclosing they are the sole discipline within the entire hospital that is out of network.
If you aren’t posting your rates like Surgery Center of Oklahoma, you are uncompetitive.
For those unfamiliar: https://surgerycenterok.com/about/
As we prep for TrashBaby #2, I’m well aware that we’ll be bending over and taking it from four or five different people.
Already, the billing has been stupidly annoying. Lab bills for tests done 6 months ago, billing departments that can’t figure out how much we actually owe them after we get two bills with different amounts on them, etc.
Whether or not it’s a “competitive” system, it’s a fucked up system that I hate dealing with, because I never know what I’m going to be paying and it’s unclear whether I’m done or not, even months later.
I don’t have to pay a separate bill to the barber shop and the barber, even though the barber is an independent contractor…
Been there, done that.
It was all I could do to not curse out some hospital billing reps.
The last time I went to a hospital hospital, over the course of several bills that proceeded to $0 without my intervention (because it was all covered by insurance and I’d paid my copays on arrival) they ended up sending me someone else’s bill stuffed into the same envelope as mine. And it’s not as if it was one wrong page. My bill was two pages, and there were thirty or so of this other person’s.
I was more distressed that they didn’t seem to care when I called and informed them of this lead of health data to an unotherized party.
On a related note, every time I get an EOB from my health insurance it’s 20 fucking pages long. They kill a tree every time I go to the doctor. And it’s all worthless legal disclaimers and other bullshit. I still speak English since the last time you sent me an EOB, I didn’t learn Japanese or Mongolian or whatever other obscure language requires its own 5-line paragraph telling me how to contact the insurance company. Every single EOB is like this. First of all, I don’t even need to get the EOB by mail. But if I do, it doesn’t need to be any more than one page: here is who billed us, here is what they charged, here is what we cover, and here’s a perfunctory reference to the relevant parts of your policy.
Okay, now do “230”.
There are two ways in which health insurance is actually insurance. The first is for you, to cover emergency and unplanned expenses. We now live in such a perverse world that finding a plan which covers those expenses fully and without hassle is difficult, but that was the core selling point of health insurance originally and it is still there today. The other form of insurance is not for you, it is for the health care provider, to cover expenses that may arise during diagnosis and treatment. This is especially relevant for emergency and urgent care, but only the former has a backstop in the form of EMTALA. So you can get turned away from urgent care for lack of insurance right now in many places, because urgent care won’t get reimbursed by the government if you don’t pay, and because having cash on hand is not a guarantee you’ll actually pay the full bill, and it’s easier to check that you have insurance by a recognized insurer than other ways of ensuring payment. In this regard, I’d say that having health insurance is very much like having car insurance. The primary reason to have car insurance, and this is why it’s legally mandated in most if not all states, is to cover other people not yourself per se. It’s their expenses that you pay the premium for. Sure, you can file a claim against your own insurance if you have comprehensive coverage, and most if not all auto loans require that level of coverage (for the lender’s benefit more than your own), but you’ll also take a hit to your premium unless you were hit by an uninsured motorist or it was a hit-and-run.
While I agree wholeheartedly that we do not have now, nor have had for a long time, a free market in health care, I don’t see what relevance that has to e.g. insurance and prescriptions. You don’t need insurance to get a script written nor to get it filled. Yes, you have to go through various guilds and legal mandates, but the insurance system is beside that point.
A person could self-manage a chronic condition in a free market health care system. They could order the needing drugs themselves without having prescriptions.
This isn’t possible now. You can only treat your condition under the direction of a guild member. Who will charge obscene amount for office visits. And tests. Lots of ridiculously expensive tests for chronic conditions over your lifetime. The cost of these services do not reflect the actual free market rate. The cost of these services reflect a system in which everyone has insurance and uses it for routine health care services.
Well, using insurance to hide the complication and cartelization is what we’ve been doing for 50+ years and it’s the problem not just part of the problem. Doubling down on it won’t make anything better.
I see your problem…
You think the political class wants to actually make anything better….
Health insurance originally emerged as a hospital chain offering up a way to gain market share from competitors by securing clientele. I actually don’t have a problem with that.
When employers started offering it because of wage controls and the IRS, it all went to shit. Everything since then has only made it worse.
Of course it won’t make the system better. But you’re not preventing people seeking out health care on their own while simultaneously preventing their participation in the only allowable health care in town.
The issue is that people are forbidden from seeking health care outside of the system. If that is the case, banning access to the system is wrong. It’s destroying lives and actively infringing on negative rights.
I think you are conflating having insurance with having access to the system. Insurance is a sufficient but not necessary condition to get access to the system. You can see a doctor and get a prescription without insurance. You can get that prescription filled without insurance. I’m not saying you’ll get cost parity, and I’m not saying the billing will be transparent, and those are in and of themselves big problems, but you won’t get turned away if you’ve got the cash from most parts of the healthcare system (and those that will turn you away have alternatives).
Yes, you are legally forbidden from seeking healthcare outside the system. But insurance is not the system. Insurance is the mechanism by which the system’s faults are largely hidden.
Insurance is necessary for most to participate in the health care system with any sort of regularity. Forcing people to choose between health care and selling their home is exactly like when gun grabbers want to implement a $1,000 tax on each bullet and then claim it’s not a de facto ban on firearms because you have a choice to pay that tax.
Insurance is an instrumental part of the pricing system for health care in the United States. It’s used to offset subsidizing the costs of Medicaid and Medicare patients.
I don’t see where this force is coming into play. I get hungry, I need food to survive, I either have the cash to buy the food or I have to beg someone’s charity or else I starve. You need a certain medication to live, so you buy it outright, you play the insurance game, you seek charity, or you die. You choose insurance, you aren’t forced. It is often the most fiscally sensible choice, on that I agree, but “right decision in the circumstances” != “forced to do it”.
I get hungry, I need food to survive, I either have the cash to buy the food or I have to beg someone’s charity or else I starve.
Yes, this is a great example. Certainly, you can grow your own food, go to a discount grocer for cheaper prices, perhaps barter your labor for your neighbor’s food. This is the free market at work.
If food was regulated like health care, you would not be able to do any of these things. If you want food, you MUST purchase it from a government regulated grocery store staffed by guild members. You cannot grow your own, seek out cheaper food sources, or barter for it from unlicensed grocery stores.
Health insurance would be like a membership card that you need for every transaction at the grocery store. You can still technically purchase food at the grocery store without your membership card, but the prices will increase by 15x to 50x. Again you have no other options other than purchasing your food at this store because the government will throw you in jail for trying to do so.
There is no true access to food without that membership card (your insurance) unless if you are extremely wealthy. In this analogy, the government has removed all other paths you can take to get food other than through them.
Well, you can grow your own food until you run afoul of whatever agricultural program the government is running, and then you can’t grow it anymore (see Wickard v. Filburn). And I wouldn’t bet on being able to open a grocery store willy-nilly. You have to get zoning and permits for that.
On a different note, when accounting the cost of medication through insurance, you need to include the premium and any cost-sharing involved. All told, your insurance company is paying less than you if you don’t or can’t negotiate the price, but it’s not 10-50 times less.
has insurance and uses it for routine health care services
Which is why health insurance is not really insurance in any meaningful sense. Same as tying it to employment, which your home, life and auto insurance products are not.
IMO, tying it to employment is the reason* it’s not really insurance.
Look at it in terms of who the consumer is and what the product is.
If I buy my own insurance, I’m the consumer and the product is insurance.
With an employer-provided plan, the consumer is my employer, and the product is a benefit that they can offer to their employees.
*well, that and government regulations forcing certain coverage, but I believe that came along later, after it was firmly established in everyone’s mind that it’s the duty of employers to provide health insurance.
That comes off as unsympathetic but what I’m trying to get at is that we have many problems and we are mostly using insurance to paper over them. It’s a big part of why health care is so expensive and insurance bears the brunt of the blame. Forcing insurance to cover “preexisting conditions” which is just a fancy term for “predictable, known medical expenses” is entirely about hiding the system’s faults under a thin veneer of uniformity. You’re right that there should be no reason to see a doctor every 30-90 days to get medication for a condition you’ve had for years and will have for the rest of your life. That’s just a pointless exercise in padding pockets. But why does it happen? It doesn’t happen because insurance companies want it to (though they may), it happens because state insurance regulators, the DEA, and the FDA demand it happens. Those aren’t guilds (though they may be captured to some extent by guilds), those are government agencies. This is a policy question and one entirely within the purview of the selfsame government that goes around issuing mandates that private actors have to step up to fulfill.
I should say, insurance appears to bear the brunt of the blame. They are part of the system and so not innocent but at the same time they’re basically political pawns and scapegoats.
Yes
The hospital chains, the AMA, and their embedded cronies in the government are far more to blame.
But if we didn’t have all those rules, somebody might get addicted to painkillers.
they’re basically political pawns and scapegoats.
They’re also pulling the government’s strings.
I dabble a bit in the regulatory aspects of my profession, and what happens is a bunch of big wigs from a bunch of companies you’ve heard of get in a room together and hammer out a mutually agreeable deal to send up as a proposal from the respective trade group. The other trade groups either get in line or repeat the process and send up their own proposal. Then, tweaks are made to incorporate other bigwigs’ suggestions and it’s eventually implemented as a regulation, rule, or law.
Yes, this is how regulatory capture works. But the government is always going to get captured (iron law: money and power will always find each other). Sometimes the locally pragmatic choice is globally destructive. The health insurance industry doesn’t have to be innocent for the government to be guilty.
All of this is true of autobody repair also. Auto insurance has only been mandatory in my state since the mid nineties. After a short while of this scheme, autobody shops started using insurance oriented pricing and estimate guidelines. Where previously one could go to a body shop and get a repair done in a variety of ways, it all became standardized. The price of everything went up. Options disappeared. It seems like the only way to get this service anymore is based on the idea that everyone is insured. People (and shops) all want to screw the insurance company. There’s a dramatically lessened secondary market, but good luck finding a mom and pop body shop that doesn’t play the insurance game. It’s close to a black market. If a shop want’s to be legit, it has to play the game. If an individual wants to use a legit shop, that’s the game he’s gonna have to play. Many, if not most, shops just plain don’t want anything to do with work that isn’t paid for by insurance companies. It’s perfect microcosm of how health insurance has affected medicine.
We’re not in disagreement about this. I never implied it would make the system better. My thoughts on actual system improvement was:
I think we do agree on what should be done ideally. Where I diverge is on what we should do in the non-ideal political landscape we have. The more that gets tacked on to insurance as necessary since (long list of suboptimal realities), the sooner we get to nationalizing insurance aka single payer. At every juncture where we make a decision it should be to decouple insurance and the health care system not to dig deeper.
I’m not going to deny that our healthcare system is highly dysfunctional, not for one instant. But I need to clear up some misconceptions about the hospital end of it.
Yes, hospitals (outside of rural areas that can’t support more than one hospital per market) are competitive. The same antitrust laws apply to us as apply to anyone. The FTC routinely denies hospital acquisitions under the same standards as they do anyone else. CON laws may limit new entrants to the market, but for established players they are just another arena for competition. Hospital margins run in the low single digits (with a handful of exceptions that are in the very low double digits) – does that sound like monopoly rents to you? In 2008-2009. hundreds of hospitals became insolvent. Some closed, but most were taken over in the equivalent of liquidation sales.
We are already required to post or disclose our prices. Its a meaningless exercise, for the most part. Setting aside the large percentage (call it 40%) that its completely irrelevant to because they are Medicare or Medicaid, your price depends on your benefit plan.
As for surprise billing, we don’t have a practical way to know what plans the independent docs are taking. For docs who contract with the hospital in some way (most don’t, it may surprise you to learn), we have a little leverage if they go out of network. For docs who are just medical staff members without some kind of coverage or medical director contract, we have no leverage. The best way, you might be interested to learn, for a hospital to go out of business is to start kicking physicians off of its medical staff. And, of course, some 8 figure fines have been levied on hospitals that engage in “economic credentialing”, which is what you call it when your medical staff membership is driven by economic factors rather than clinical quality, etc.
The health care market is highly dysfunctional. But if you want to know who benefits from that, its mainly insurers. Who are insulated from the antitrust laws because they are regulated by state insurance commissioners, but have done an impressive job of capturing those agencies.
As for surprise billing, we don’t have a practical way to know what plans the independent docs are taking.
Couldnt you, I dont know, ask them? Then like enter it into a database?
We could. And when they decline to answer or provide updated info, then what?
Example: Our ED group is obligated to tell us if they go out of network. They did, with Blue Cross, during contract negotiations. Lasted about two months.
So what do we do?
Close our ED? Under our licensing laws, we would have to close the whole hospital.
Spend millions of dollars to bring in temporary substitute physicians and nurse practitioners? Yes, that what’s it would cost to staff our ED with locums for two months.
The best we could do was lean on them not to charge patients more than they would if they had insurance. Which costs them a ton of money, and works entirely to benefit the insurer.
I could think of a number of things, which probably wouldn’t work.
But Keith Smith seems to have that problem figured out.
And, that indirectly, is I think the ultimate result. Insurance should be between the insuree and the company, the docs and hospitals shouldnt be involved.
When I had storm damage to my house, the insurance company didn’t care what the contractor was going to charge to fix it, they assessed the damage and offered me a check. What I did with it was up to me (when my car had significant hail damage, I cashed the check and drove around for a few years with hail damage — that might not be exactly possible with health problems, but the idea is similar). My insurance could pay me a set amount, say $5000, for a hernia operation. I could then shop around, and if I only spend $3600 in Oklahoma (I looked up the price today), then I pocket $1400. If it costs me $9k, then I pay $4k out of pocket.
Hospitals and doctors can then bill everyone their list amount, and compete, if they choose, on price. And my policy determines how much insurance pays toward the bill, but I would just pass the bill on to them, hospitals wouldnt ever need to know* or talk to the insurance company.
*other than verifying I have it, so I will be able to pay the bill.
OT: Looks like more Cryptid news…
Since we’re doing sea
storiesjokes and old time computer stories, dust this off from the tunefs man page:In a statement following the announcement, the Center for American Progress, a liberal Washington think tank, called Trump’s executive orders “a last-ditch effort to conceal his record on health-care arson.”
“The president’s announcement is straight out of the Twilight Zone,” said Maura Calsyn, managing director of health policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. “For years, he has promised to end the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the law that guarantees that 135 million people with preexisting conditions cannot be denied coverage or charged more based on their health history.”
“An executive order is no substitute for the ACA’s protections, which are especially critical for people of color, women, and people with disabilities,” Calsyn added.
And, of course, people of color.
There is no way, other than Obamacare (PBUH), to administer health care. Anything else is a lie and a swindle.
But Obamacare was just a warmed over Republican proposal from Massachussetts? Whycomenoone like it?
Yeah, and forcing everyone to buy insurance was a libertarian idea, just like UBI!
It seems unfair that SEA SMITH is the most popular of STEVE SMITH’S relatives.
What about SNOW SMITH? He’s just as cool. He is always ignored by the rest of the SMITH clan, yeti never complains.
Too busy raping those mountain climbers?
He’s got blue balls, Yeti is as cool as his kin.
You are abominable for even bringing that up.
THERE NO SNOW SMITH. YOU NO READ STORIES ON FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN SITE? COUSIN YETI IS IN FEUD WITH SMITHS! HIM NOT GOOD CRYPTID.
DON’T EVEN GET STARTED ON WENDIGO…
Just because the cyptids are running rampant doesn’t mean I am not watching…
*narrows gaze*
https://www.statesman.com/news/20200924/gregg-county-official-arrested-charged-with-election-fraud
Voting fraud is a myth.
Trump keeps making accusations about voter fraud despite “no immediate allegations of any malfeasance”.
WHO ARE YOU GONNA BELIEVE? US OR YOUR OWN EYES????
Keep fear alive
A new COVID-19 mutation appears to be even more contagious, according to a study — and experts say it could be a response by the virus to defeat masks and other social-distancing efforts.
Scientists in a paper published Wednesday identified a new strain of the virus, which accounted for 99.9 percent of cases during the second wave in the Houston, Texas, area, the Washington Post reported.
The paper, which has not been peer-reviewed, said people with the strain, known as the D614G mutation, had higher loads of virus — suggesting it is more contagious.
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David Morens, a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the findings suggest that the virus may become more contagious and that this “may have implications for our ability to control it.”
He said it’s possible that the virus had evolved to resist efforts such as hand-washing and social distancing.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS ADavid Morens, a virologist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said the findings suggest that the virus may become more contagious and that this “may have implications for our ability to control it.”
He said it’s possible that the virus had evolved to resist efforts such as hand-washing and social distancing.
“Wearing masks, washing our hands, all those things are barriers to transmissibility, or contagion, but as the virus becomes more contagious, it statistically is better at getting around those barriers,” Morens told the newspaperPP
“Wearing masks, washing our hands, all those things are barriers to transmissibility, or contagion, but as the virus becomes more contagious, it statistically is better at getting around those barriers,” Morens told the newspaper
Whatever you do, don’t take your knee off our necks. Stoke the fires of the panicdemic.
Jebus Christ. Pathogens do not evolve to be more deadly to their hosts.
More ‘up is down’ horseshit.
MRSA says “hi!”.
(The “evolved” to do X still grates me from my biology teacher hammering in that evolution isn’t about explicitly developing an attribute to do something.)
Next it’s going to figure out door handles
Then car doors…
The virus internationally evolved an opposable thumb!
It’s really, truly horrible how easily frightened people are.
People are stupid is simpler…
Here’s the original paper.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.22.20199125v1
WE’RE ALL GONNA DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Well yes. Same as it ever was.
The death rate remains one per person.
experts say it could be a response by the virus to defeat masks and other social-distancing efforts.
I guarantee they said nothing of the sort. Either the journodolt was too stupid to understand their point, or the journodolt isn’t talking to an expert.
I mean I could easily see some of the people they consider “experts” saying something this stupid. Many of these public health officials don’t even have medical degrees.
Anthropomorphism for the win.
In other news, rocks are becoming heavier in order to overcome our attempts to move them.
“More contagious” =/= “more virulent/deadly”.
I’m no virologist, but its my understanding that viruses generally mutate in a more benign direction. Dead hosts are no use to a virus, after all.
Won’t anyone think of the
kidspost office workers?You know it is bad when 50K workers – people known for their hard work and diligence – can’t make it in to work.
Take a number, and we’ll get to you when our lunch break is over.
The post office I used when I lived in Memphis was the worst for that. From the counter you could see the employee break room, so when you were in there over your lunch break desperately trying to get help, you could look back and see 80% of the people goofing off.
Whenever I go to my town post office there is one person up front and about 6 in the back playing cards.
I keep my mouth shut cause I want to make sure I get all my junk mail, and as is they keep sending me that of other people at least 3 times a week.
Wow, 8% of the staff has taken time off? Over the past 7 months? Amazing.
I guess my staff are much, much worse – all of them have taken time off over the past 7 months because of those reasons…
Did you know in the regular five day office, over 40% of days off are taken on Mondays and Fridays!
Even on shift work it’s whatever day gives them a 3 day weekend when people seem to call in the most.
The joke in that is that 2 days out of 5 is 40%. So random distribution would have it at 40%.
Don’t think about retirement, no days off, no vacation, same ol’ grind every day
I’m amazed that “straight” news stories still keep saying that Trump’s concerns about mail vote fraud are “unsubstantiated” despite dozens of examples. They really do seem to take their communications styles on direct orders from the DNC. Funny how none of Pelosi’s wild statements ever get tagged as unsubstantiated.
Why do the names Pearl, Opal, and Ruby belong on sweet little old ladies at church, but Diamond and Sapphire are stripper names?
syllables
Ok, really not being pedantic here, but merely curious – just wondering if people pronounce them differently elsewhere. But of the five names listed above, four of them are two syllables to me, with Pearl being the only single syllable word.
I can see pronouncing diamond as 3 syllables, but I’m a lazy drawler who says it in 2.
“Pearl” can definitely be two syllables when some of us say it…
Maybe, although many pronounce Diamond as a 2 syllable word.
Lots of gemstone names are just not pretty. Garnet isn’t terrible but I’ve never heard it as a woman’s first name. Emerald is a bit awkward, and green eye color is a prerequisite. Onyx is a good black cat name.
But Topaz, Carbuncle, Agate? No thanks.
I knew a woman who named her daughter Galena. I felt a bit sorry for the child do I gave her a nice looking Galena ore.
“Okay little lead-silver.”
And Garnet is a 19th century name for the most part.
*late 19th, early 20th
Interesting. In the examples of Garnet as a first name, there were several men.
Article also comments that “gemstone names” came into fashion in the Late Victorian period, so that’s why it sounds like “old lady” names.
Speaking of how people get named…
A native American kid was asking his father how they got their names…
The father pondered for a bit how to respond, then told him they named their kids based on some important event that happened during conception or birth. He then provides as example how his older brother is name Running Deer, because when he was born, they saw deer running in the pastures and his sister is Shining moon, because she was conceived on a night the moon was shining brightly. The kid seems to ponder a bit then nods, at which point his dad asks him if he truly understands the concept, Broken Rubber…
I thought the punchline was “Why do you ask, Two Dogs Fucking?”
That works as well..
I knew a man named garnet
The only person I’ve heard of whose first name is Garnet is a guy – Garnet Rogers, Canadian folksinger/songwriter, brother of the late folkie Stan.
Gallena is chickin in spanish…
Galena is a Russian name if I recall.. The Spanish snicker at that chick..
I know an Amythest. She goes by Amy.
Hest to her friends?
In high school we had a girl named Opal with the surname Stone. She was dating my friend with the surname Rock. We made great fun of the idea of her married name being Opal Stone-Rock.
*insert mind blown gif here*
Good point. Too bad cuz Pearl Diving would be a great strip club name.
Featured performer: Betty White.
I’ll admit it. Years ago when I bought my wife a pearl necklace, I spent months making “pear necklace” jokes. It was extra funny because she wasn’t aware of the dirty meaning. Eventually she figured it out and hit me.
Don’t forget “Jade” for all your Asian stripper needs.
Which kind of jade? Nephrite or Jadeite?
They both are too needy and bossy..
I actually briefly dated a girl who went by “Ruby” while on the pole.
My great aunt’s name was Ruby. My grandmother’s name was Ruth. They were both gems. /s
The drummer’s wife had to change names when she went to a different club, because they already had two Jades.
Ruby is a gateway name.
I’ve seen Ruby dance.
Related.
Maybe just a sliver of sunlight, a ray of hope.
In literal, meteorological terms, it has been raining hard all day and won’t let up.
Gotta ave the rain to make the green things grow.
Aside: doesn’t global warming promote plant / tree growth? There’s a reason for the term Greenhouse Gas.
If we’re supposed to be fretting about the need to plant more trees and vegetation, and about feeding billions of people, shouldn’t Globsl Warming be a good thing?
No, it can never green currently frozen lands, only dry out and burn currently verdant lands.
Just a few centuries ago, England had vineyards, as did Newfoundland or wherever it was that the Vikings tried to plant a colony.
The Medieval Warm Period was a good thing.
There are vineyards dotted around, most concentrated in the southeast, I believe.
From what I can tell, England has a climate not too different from New York, or possibly a little warmer. There are Vineyards in New York. So we have to ask more detailed questions such as the type of grape and their cold tolerance.
Vinland or Wineland.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinland_sagas
I’ve read a number of articles with just that hypothesis. More arable land, longer growing seasons, etc.
I can’t answer that, so have a Dilbert instead.
Having a several years-long drought will teach one to love rain.
I usually ask someone when they start a greenie rant how many trees they have planted. Two years ago my brother and I surpassed planting 1M trees.
I love the rain when my lawn is lush and fence to fence. No mud. In bad lawn years, rain = mud, and managing my two big dogs’ potty trips becomes the focus of my life (assuming I don’t want mud all over the house).
I don’t know what that article means.
HOW MANY THESE FUNNY GLIBERTARIAN LAND HOOMANS?
None were me. My life isn’t that interesting.
The city Health Department said Thursday it will shut non-essential businesses and limit gatherings in the city’s coronavirus hot spots if cases continue to rise in the areas.
The reopening rollbacks could hit nine “cluster” sites where virus cases have ticked up, including a large swath of southern Brooklyn and Williamsburg — as well as Kew Gardens and Edgemere-Far Rockaway in Queens.
The Health Department will ramp up inspections in the areas to assure mask compliance and social distancing practices, the department said in a press release.
Go fuck yourselves.
Not sure if anyone beat me to this, but…
My shocked face
I have to say, when the Bing home page has this link, you know it’s bad.
This shit is going to cause a real civil war, as if the dems aren’t trying hard enough already.
Also, before it happens, which it will in at least some places, if anyone cannot case a vote at the polls because the dems have their antia and blm goons blocking the places, there should be a fucking lawsuit to end all lawsuits.
Blocking access to a polling place should be handled with force, not lawsuits. Same with blocking access to rights of way, and blocking access to homes and businesses.
I’ve said this before: if the liberal state will not enforce the common law in a professional and constitutional fashion, then at some point illiberal actors will move to the forefront.
How many blue cities do you see enforcing that? I see none.
Also, I see this as maybe the most important reason we need a new justice confirmed now, besides the ensuing election clusterfuck, as the possibility to get real election reform in the sense of voter ID and closing up all the easy ways to cheat. I have to show an ID to get on a plane, but I can vote without one, as many times as I want? Fuck that shit.
Some people may disagree with me on that, but they way the democrats are these days, I think we have to do something to curtail cheating.
They already did that here. They cut the number of polling places to a third and made it possible to vote at any of the open places ( instead of your specific one) End result, crazy lines where most people gave up and didn’t bother. Of course the harvested ballots all made it in and the results were exactly what the dems wanted. That was trial run for this Nov. It’s crazy, because it’s not like there’s any real chance of L.A. voting red.
Drugs, ass, falling out thereof.
You know the drill.
How would someone know these are Trump ballots from the outside? If they were opened, why are they being opened a month and a half before Election Day?
I assume because they were fond in the trash? And I have to, because Occam’s razor, believe that a public union worker, you know which type, is the reason these got in the trash.
No, i mean if they were opened prior to being thrown away (unless the tossers are psychic),
under what circumstances was that happening? This isn’t just some lowly poll worker on their own. At the very least, it’s ineffective oversight and control by the people running the clerk’s office.
According to one source, they steam open the envelopes, take them out, seal back up the ones they like, and discard the ones they don’t like.
Cannot confirm, but what would stop them from doing this? And no, it’s not one person on their own, it’s an organized effort.
They replace the ones they don’t like with once they do too…
And that’s the key…
This is why I’m tempted to respond to the text I received from the Biden campaign about poll monitoring. There’s a less than zero chance that I could infiltrate their “voter suppression” organization and eventually whistleblow.
I’m not a spy, though, and I care more about keeping my family out of the cross hairs of the violent left than exposing vote fraud.
They count on the fact most of us just want to be left alone and know how evil they are if you cross them…
“they steam open the envelopes”
I have to be honest and say I find this hard to believe. Not that it can’t be done but the logistics of steaming open and reviewing enough ballots to swing an elections seems insurmountable, regardless of how many people were involved.
Alone, sure. But you never rely on one avenue of attack.
“Zero emission” does not include bullshit
Responding to Newsom’s executive order this week, White House spokesman Judd Deere called the move another example of “how extreme the left has become,” concluding that “the lengths to which they will go to destroy jobs and raise costs on the consumer is alarming.”
In an interview with All Things Considered, Newsom bats down the Trump administration’s argument as “stale” and inaccurate.
“This is where the automobile manufacturers are going,” Newsom says. “We want to accelerate a trend you’re seeing all around the rest of the world.”
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On the Trump administration’s criticism for the plan.
It’s gobbledygook. It’s nonsense. It’s not factual. It’s not even an interesting argument. It’s rather stale. Already, California has five times more green job than we do fossil fuel jobs. Fossil fuels are really the alternative energy. They want to go back to a 19th-century mindset where the American manufacturers are not even going to be competitive internationally in terms of where the rest of the world is going with electric vehicles and zero-emission vehicles. I’m almost, honestly, a bit embarrassed by those arguments because they fly in the face not only of the facts, but also where the car companies themselves want to go. I don’t know who the Trump administration is doing bidding for, but they’re really, really, almost troglodytes in terms of their approach to climate and to the economy and where we’re going as a nation.
All we, as the government, need to do is make a wish, and the car manufacturers will pull pull Cinderella’s pumpkin stagecoach out of their magic hat.
Man, talk about gobbledygook, that guy’s got a gift. He “bats down” reality like a champ.
Leaving aside the inaccuracy, how many vehicles are exported from the US domestic market by the Big 3 for overseas sale?
A metric fuckton or three.
This is what they really want to do, that’s why we have to force them to do it, because it’s what they want to do.
“Hey, Rocky!”
https://twitter.com/jessicarayerog1/status/1309347382308401153?s=21
More fuel to the rioters’ delusions that they’re being targeted for attacks by vehicles.
That clip is the one I write about below. NBC used it as proof that Trump supporters are intentionally mowing down peaceful protesters in the street.
I am pretty sure you can hear the sound of people hitting the truck as he tries to pass by – probably the reason he sped up before striking the protester who jumps in front with a sign.
https://twitter.com/tr00p3rr/status/1309456109950955520?s=21
Strike that… after a couple of times through, they definitely are attacking the truck as he moves slowly past. Just before he speeds up, several guys start running over to join the attack.
But NBC (and presumably all other media outlets) are presenting it as some racist anti-BLM Trump supporter running people down because they don’t like black people.
As they are yelling “No Justice, No peace!” and yet the media will not honor their dying wish and still call them “Peaceful protesters”.
Simple solution. Everyone get a mob catcher on the front of their vehicle. Makes sense, because like dumb cows, these idiots do not know any better than to wander onto the tracks.
Instead, they’re using vehicles to block off streets as well.
https://twitter.com/jendowlingkoin6/status/1309364181485850625?s=21
Those vehicles with their flashers on are there to aid the criminals. They were doing the same thing weeks ago when taking over freeways. Clear cut preplanning and coordination for what was getting misreported as spontaneous events. And none of the drivers were getting arrested and towed.
I think there may be a law against blocking traffic and pretending that you are the authorities. These assholes are intentionally not enforcing existing laws, aiding and abetting illegal activities and endangering the public. It’s sort of like organized terrorism by the governors and mayors of these cities. They should all be arrested. We’re going to get real anarchy or a civil war, or both, if this shit does not stop.
It’s funny how quickly the cops shut down deplorable hicks setting up illegal checkpoints in wildfire evacuation areas. Or how a county chair decried it and demanded an investigation into a deputy possibly not immediately throwing them to the ground slapping cuffs on them.
They want to have it both ways. They are a peaceful protest with a right to walk down the street, because there are ~200 of them and only 1-6 people in a car. They surround the car as a group, and they chant and sing as a group, but then when the mob to the side starts banging on the windows and the driver steps on the gas, at that exact moment the ones in front of the car holding their hands up in a “stop” gesture become peaceful individuals who have done nothing to justify being run over, its the violent ones banging on the car.
It’s not a good wager to stand in front of a truck like that and hope you don’t get flattened. But they don’t call them useful idiots for no reason.
So what people are asking is, why? Why are they doing this? Why do they run into the interstate? Why do they come into a restaurant and harass people having a dinner with friends? Why do they go to people’s homes and threaten them where they sleep?
Well, to answer this, you need some context. Nancy Rommelmann provides that context with some excellent reporting over at Reason.com.
She is reporting “from the streets” in Portland, something that is sorely missing in the national coverage of these events. And Nancy knows why. Her article is about the organized effort of the “peaceful protesters” to control the narrative. Only approved journalists are allowed to cover their activities.
They surround them and block them, telling them they are not allowed to film. They have an approved journalist list:
This is where the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc is getting their reporting. This is where they buy their footage.
But to what effect? So what if they won’t let independent people film?
Well, that is what explains stuff like this. People coming up in a mob and harassing folks who are trying to have a meal. Why would they come up and sit down at their table, being as rude as they wanna be? Why pick on a nice old white couple?
To provoke a response.
They know that if they are only being filmed by people who are on their team, they will be able to control the story. So go up and harass 30 families. Yell all kinds of racist stuff in their face. When one guy inevitably argues back, post his angry face screaming at “peaceful protesters”. Mission accomplished. This is American Racism! You don’t see video of a mob of BLM protesters attacking a couple of nice people just sitting and enjoying their pasta dinner. You don’t see the story of the threat that 40 people carrying bats, mace, and clubs presents to a family of 4 enjoying a slice of pizza. That’s not in the narrative.
So, you ask why? That is why.
This morning NBC featured a clip of a pickup “ramming into a peaceful protester”. The very short clip (careful not to show context of what the peaceful protesters were actually doing) showed someone jump in front of a pickup truck and try to stop it with his hands. Physics doesn’t work that way, and he got knocked down. But don’t worry. NBC assures me that the driver is a horrifying person who is running down innocent people. And they have a great shot from the perfect angle… shot by an approved reporter who knew exactly what to film, and where to stand to get a good angle.
Which leads you to this: A mob trying to block a car, and then chasing him down when he refused to be the victim of whatever they had planned. If you look at the helicopter footage, you can see the “approved” cameramen at each juncture. They are filming the mob surrounding the car. Then, the mob has a prepared response. They have multiple chase vehicles at the ready, filled with people who jump out and attack his car after blocking it. And notice what else they have…. they are coordinated. They have someone with a bull horn, presumably shouting instructions.
And what happens? The police have a helicopter watching the whole thing. Do they move in to arrest the people who were illegally blocking the street? Do the arrest the people who were hitting his car? Do they even bother to follow the guys in the pickup who commit multiple felonies chasing him down and assaulting him? No… they stay on the Prius and make sure he’s taken into custody.
This completes the circle. This is the “how” to go with the “why”.
The “why” is to provoke a response. If the old man at the dinner table defends his wife by touching the people who are invading their dinner in any way… he is the face of racism in america. If he shouts anything at them that can even remotely be spun as racist… he is the face of racism in America.
But how can they keep doing this?
Because the government in these cities has invited them to do so. By ordering the police to stand down and let them do what they want, they have given permission. By having prosecutors promise not to bring charges and to quickly release anyone arrested for even violent acts, they not only give permission for those violent acts, but they invite criminal minded people in. They offer a free shot to all comers. As long as you affiliate with our side, we’ll let you break things, burn buildings and even assault people! Fun for any sociopath in the area!
And by controlling the coverage completely, they ensure that only the reaction gets published. 500 people get accosted and are assaulted while having dinner? Not a story. One guy responds to the threat – national outrage!
This is why.
This is why they surround cars – particularly pickup trucks and SUVs. They want someone to react in fear, making themselves a poster child… providing a clip that CNN can run on a loop – MAGA white supremacist runs down peaceful BLM protester! Film at 11!
This is going to end badly. I know this because that is the intention. When it ends badly (again), it won’t be an accident. It won’t be because white supremacists are terrified of allowing black people to have a voice. It will be by design. They intend for people to get shot in the streets. They intend to smoke out some white guy who will meet violence with violence, so that they can have their “white supremacists are hunting black people in the streets” story, like they tried to do with the Kenosha shootings. And they are going to get it. I know good, level-headed and decent people who are fed up. They watch footage of these families getting harassed at the local restaurant and they offer thoughts on how they might handle things a little more forcefully. I’ve heard good, salt of the earth, give you the shirt off their back guys say “you come dump my dinner in my lap like that, and somebody is getting knocked out”.
Which is exactly what they want. They are desperate for someone to respond exactly the way you’d expect a normal human being to respond to that sort of provocation. So they can sell you a fake story about how racist Americans just go around attacking peaceful protesters for no reason at all.
And notice what else they have…. they are coordinated. They have someone with a bull horn, presumably shouting instructions.
And radios with earpiece headsets, so the bullhorns are just to whip up the mob.
To your larger point, once how far the support for criminality goes becomes obvious, the targets for retribution become more than just asshole threatening your wife and kids. And then we’re into El Salvador or Northern Ireland. Fucking assholes. These idiots at the local and state level think they can control the mob right up until it’s their head meeting Madame Guillotine.
“This is where the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, etc is getting their reporting. This is where they buy their footage. ”
That’s fucked.
You want to befuddle those little shits.
Accept the presence of the black person at your table, but the moment one of the white “allies” tries to horn in – drive them off. “You aren’t black! You aren’t welcome at my table – get your white fucking ass out of here.” Let them video that. Go off 700% on the fucking bored children but be totally cool to the titular subject of the protest.
It would be really nice if someone could come up with a legal, ethical way of short-circuiting these kind of attacks. All the ideas I’m coming up with, pretty much boil down to premeditated assault at a minimum.
The appropriate solution.
Mobbing a car is assault with intent to kill. Lethal force is ethical.
There is a way. Its called arresting people who are committing crimes.
Now, self-help is also available. Self-defense is not pre-meditated assault.
But this all assumes that the local government isn’t in favor of the rioters.
My god, the comments. They have gotten worse. I didn’t think it was possible.
CNBC just intereviewed on the founders of “The Real Facebook Oversight Board” – a Guardian writer who immediately called-out Facebook for “allowing” people with guns to use Facebook as a tool and “assemble at protests” then “murder”
The “Why” behind all this is not difficult.
I’m going to take the contrary position, which has nothing to do with Trump. We don’t have a free market health care system. Health insurance isn’t insurance in the sense of car or homeowners… it’s access to the health care system.
I agree with everything you said. An executive order (no matter whose name is on it) won’t fix the problem. The answer to price fixing is not more price fixing.
This is exactly the problem.
50 different price-fixing cabals with an over-arching federal financing scheme that removes normal market incentives is a badly designed system, and certainly not anything I would describe as a free market.
Price-fixing was poorly chosen and incorrect. Price disclosure would have been more accurate. Price disclosure would occur in almost any free market system. Surprise billing only occurs because anesthesiologists do not need to disclose their rates due to government interference.
See my rant above. Hospitals are already required to disclose prices. Its irrelevant to people with Medicare/Medicaid, and to people with insurance, because their price depends entirely on their plan.
I get what you’re saying above. As far as disclosure goes though, I’ve always been able to get my costs ahead of time for procedures at the hospital or surgical centers. For our second kid, it was $800 for an ultrasound at the hospital (after insurance) vs. paying 200 cash without insurance at a private cash only ultrasound place.
Surprise billing isn’t an indictment of hospitals as a whole but rather certain doctors, namely anesthesiologists, who deliberately obscure their rates and network status in order to jack their rates through the roof. Their bills are unforeseeable and vastly out of proportion to other providers charges because of this.
Aside: doesn’t global warming promote plant / tree growth? There’s a reason for the term Greenhouse Gas.
If we’re supposed to be fretting about the need to plant more trees and vegetation, and about feeding billions of people, shouldn’t Globsl Warming be a good thing?
Change is bad, mmmkay?
The SCIENCE-loving naturists fetishize stasis. Today should be exactly like yesterday. Tomorrow should be exactly like today. Life cycles are a myth.
Along with all once invasive species that have been someplace long enough are no longer invasive, and must be preserved. BUT DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE INTRODUCE AN INVASIVE SPECIES! IT WILL KILL GAIA!!!1!!11
Thank doG that those wily Chinee introduced the pheasant to our continent. No idea what I’d shoot if they weren’t around.
Hungarian peasants?
More fuel to the rioters’ delusions that they’re being targeted for attacks by vehicles.
Somebody should have paid closer attention in physics class.
Beware of ’58 Plymouth Furies. #Christine
How would someone know these are Trump ballots from the outside?
They emit a weird, ethereal light, and reek of brimstone.
Seriously, I read an article last week where a guy, who has done this for many years, telling about how they steamed open the envelopes, took out the ballots, and discarded the ones they didn’t like.
Whether it’s true of not, I dunno. But since we know there are organized ways to cheat ongoing, I have to guess that it is true.
This seems like a very labor-intensive way to try to sway an election.
But it’s not very difficult, so you can get a lot of nonconfrontational people to do it while the confrontational people intimidate voters at the polling places, etc.
These people get paid to do this by democrat friendly orgs like the many shadow ones Sorros finances…
The absentee ballots they send to my aunt have the voting done on the back side. It is not a secret ballot in the least. The voter information and who they voted for is right in the open, as far as I remember anyway. (I’ve signed as her witness the last few elections)
There’s one reason I remain independent.
WTF is wrong with this country? You need a witness?
Ballot goes into inner envelope. Inner envelope goes into outer envelope. Outer envelope is sealed and signed.
Outer envelope is verified against signature on file when received. Ballots are stored under seal.
Day of, inner envelopes are removed from outer envelopes and placed on tray and taken to where bulk ballots are taken out of the inner envelopes and placed in scanner for tabulation. All with elections observers from two or more parties.
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8772761/Demi-Rose-barely-contains-ample-assets-gold-chain-bra.html
Nope. Sizzling hour glass curves.
For the cunning linguists in our midst: The untranslatable emotions you never knew you had.
Well, the headline’s a bit misleading. You know you have the emotions. English just doesn’t have precise enough words for them.
That’s why God invented internet memes.
The devil did cat videos…
For example
https://old.reddit.com/r/reactiongifs/comments/iy4z09/mrw_i_get_my_prostrate_exam_and_i_actually_find/
Erm…
Not me…
You mean having butterflies in your stomach?
But that’s more than oen word
/whiny listicle writer.
Gastrolepidopteria?/high school Etymology class
Correction: gastrolepidopterosis
https://www.boredpanda.com/untranslatable-words-found-in-translation-anjana-iyer/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic
The illustrations are fun.
English has a word for that: Butterface.
Best part is that it is loan word.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3
Ha guessed it (almost) correctly! I guessed “shine,” which is close enough.
Sturm und Drang?
The Wabi sabi one takes about 120 million people to explain it to you, and despite getting 120 million different answers, you’ll understand.
It will become more clear when contemplating it under the komorebi.
OMG LOL “shlimazl” and “schlemiel” are actual words! I always thought it was Yiddish nonsense like “lorem ipsum”.
Are you the spiller or the spillee?
I think my favorite Yiddish word is “farkakte” (or one of the various spellings thereof.) I’m also fond of “zaftig.”
One of the things I like about The Umbrella Academy is when Number five starts busting out the Yiddish — but the they actually explain it in context.
Also, tuchus.
Schnorrer means a lazy bum, a boor. In these modern times, it’s used colloquially for pothead.
Yiddish is very expressive for character / human nature.
The word “saudade” suddenly makes sense with regard to one of my favorite albums ever.
Can’t wait to get out of this state.
Even Paper Bags Will Be Banned From N.J. Supermarkets
The bill, which would make the state the first to ban single-use paper bags at supermarkets, would also ban single-use plastic bags in stores and restaurants.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/25/nyregion/nj-paper-plastic-bag-ban.html
My People’s Republic of Connecticut banned both plastic and paper bags in January of this year. We were all forced to pay big money to by reusable shopping bags that were a real bio hazard when they got dirty, but the environmentalist lobby didn’t give a shit..
Then came COVID….
Now when I go to the store I am told I can’t use my bags and HAVE to get plastic ones for safety…
Go fucking figure…
Trader Joe’s won’t permit one’s own bags, but apparently my Costco boxes are OK. ? I don’t want to buy a bag, don’t even want any more free ones. I’m drowning in them. Just put the groceries back naked in the cart if you have to and I’ll sort it out in the parking lot.
Vons (Safeway) is cool about bringing one’s own bags.
Unless you do self-check out, reusable bags are currently banned in NJ. So are they just going to throw my groceries back into the cart loose?
The details are not our betters’ problem.
So are they just going to throw my groceries back into the cart loose?
The Aldi approach.
at least at Aldi, the stuff is dirt cheap to compensate.
Banned in our county in NY….Yes that’s exactly what they do.
Same as the rona rules, the anger can’t be placed on the minimum wage kid scanning the groceries. So if you can’t find a county “representative” may as well just go back and throw a loose 6 pack in the cart to take the blood pressure back down.
Idiots worried about using 3 more plastic bags despite the fact that everything you buy at the store comes in it’s own bag or carton (or gets put in one like produce). That 1.3% “savings” isn’t going to do goddamn thing for the environment.
It allows them to virtue signal and show how much they care compared to us fucking undeserving serfs, and that’s what they want to do the most..
How the fuck do they know how many times I’m going to use a paper bag?
Less often than I use plastic bags. Plastic bags are the perfect trash bag size for many of my rooms.
This guy gets it and the bags are consumed by fire afterwards, thus rendering them inert.
English just doesn’t have precise enough words for them.
Is this one of those, “Esquimeaux have 100 words for snow!” stories?
No, the opposite. It’s an “English takes 16 words to describe this emotion” story.
Try Finnish
Literally takes three times as long to say anything, unless it’s about drinking or the cold.
I had a Finnish roommate. Her phone calls home were epic.
As opposed to Hungarian, which only takes one word to describe the contents of a business meeting, but it’s 2500 letters long.
Finnish and Hungarian are related. They’re in a different language class from Indo-European.
https://9gag.com/gag/a2qAMje
LOL
we should kick the lot of em out of Europe. Also the basques while we’re at it.
Pie hates Indigenous Peoples!!!11!1
Give us back transylvania and we’ll leave you alone.
back? you were a bunch of nomads from god knows where.
She’s not wearing a mask. NSFW.
Only in De Blasio’s @NYCMayor
NYC!! – he is saying it as if it’s a bad thing.
It’s the rarest of occurances – a naked woman in public who you actually want to see naked.
Another Australia story: On my last trip to Australia I took a walk from Bondi Beach to Coogee Beach along the trail between the two beaches.
I saw only a few women sunbathing topless. All of them were women we’d want to see naked.
Barton Springs in Austin is another good place for that.
If only I had known that when I visited Austin.
And no shoes, she’ll get no service anywhere, other than the drive thru window.
Oh I think she’ll get serviced…
Yeah, her feet are going to get awful dirty.
COVID-19 mutation may be evolving to bypass mask-wearing, hand-washing
Or maybe clmasks never worked, never will work and are nothing but a feel good measure pushed by politicians to make people think they’re doing something to stop the rona.
GEICO Ad Response.
Texas politics…
The Republicans will be responsible with taxpayer dollars! As Crenshaw and friends dump millions into a tacky political ad.
Shit, fiscal responsibility is a not happening thing man.. But the choice is between people driving the car off the cliff at the speed limit and the ones that strapped a Saturn rocket on the roof of their Volvo stationwagon and want to set a new spending record going over the cliff.
Not making excuses for the douchebags: just pointing out you can take it in the ass with a reach around or get it from one of the SMITH cryptids good and hard…
I’ve reluctantly made my peace with the fact that we are never going to get elected officials who are fiscally responsible.
Hurt when I finally got there too Chipwooder, but that’s the reality of the times…
We are outnumbered both by the people that think robbing someone else to give themselves “free shit” is fine and those that see that mechanism as a means to power and getting rich.
Live on Argentina TV
As other legislators debated a bill, deputy Juan Emilio Ameri of the ruling Peronist party pulled down his wife’s shirt & kissed one of her breasts.
He later claimed his internet connection was poor & he had been caught unaware. The lawmaker was suspended
https://twitter.com/Random_Uncle_UK/status/1309408191814316032
Why? What a married couple does in their own home is their business!
From the video it looks like everyone started paying attention when that happened…
Good enough looking…we’ll allow it.
SCIENCE!
For the first time in nearly 70 years, the United States will execute a man for a crime he committed as a teenager.
Christopher Vialva, 40, is set to receive the death penalty on Thursday at a federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana. He was convicted 20 years ago for the 1999 murders of two youth ministers in Fort Hood, Texas. At the time of the crime, he was 19 years old.
The crime was egregious, his attorney and other advocates agree.
But given decades of research since then on adolescent brain development, the announcement from the Justice Department raises a key question: Should a person be given the ultimate punishment for a crime they committed in their youth?
“Despite the very, very heinous nature of the crime that Christopher has been convicted for, it’s my position that based on the science, his brain was not the brain of a fully fledged adult,” Jason Chein, a professor of psychology at Temple University and author of a recent op-ed on Vialva’s sentence, told CNN. “And that leads me to the conclusion that the punishment of taking one’s life is too severe.”
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The crime Vialva was convicted of was “vile” and there’s no question that he should be held accountable, Chein said. But research that has emerged since his trial has shown that the brain of someone in their late teens and early twenties is not yet fully mature.
“The evidence tells us that an individual at this age has the potential for change,” Chein said. “Their personality and their behaviors are not fixed the way we might think they ultimately become in a more fully matured adult.”
Studies show that teenagers are more likely to take serious risks, especially when they are with their peers. They’re also less able to control their impulses in stressful or heated situations.
First- twenty years later?
I don’t even believe in the death penalty (except for government officials), but that whole “undeveloped brain” thing reeks of bullshit. Did he know right from wrong? What would the caring and compassionate CNNers suggest we do? Learn him to code, and send him on his way?
“the brain of someone in their late teens and early twenties is not yet fully mature.”
Then they shouldn’t be voting.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve used that line.
Always gets a stunned look and change of subject.
Yup, if you want 12 year olds to vote you can’t demand adults be treated like fucking infants when convenient.
They can join the Armed Forces at 18. 17 if the parents ok it.
Now do Kyle Rittenhouse.
I don’t lean that way.
Not quite Bee material, but pretty good.
https://porcupinereport.com/2020/09/24/libertarian-body-building-cancelled/
LOL
Uhh, Ring just announced a security drone for INSIDE your home. Yes, it flies around your house recording things. IN. YOUR. HOME.
https://twitter.com/JoannaStern/status/1309183107967393794
like all cameras
What COULD go wrong?…
P’WND.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eiup7L-WsAIkMXr?format=jpg&name=medium
Is this really being used?
If so it’s typically clueless about anything related to “guns”.
I’m sure it’s fake.
That has to be fake, right?
What the hell is that?
I’m going with mockery of the ignorance of gun controllers.
City Inspectors, working through Soho, looking for illegal speakeasies open after the 10pm cutoff.
Not saying that they should be beaten by a mob, but it wouldn’t make me sad.
This shit reeks of the days of prohibition…
Two Florida women
”This fight started out over a parking space but quickly escalated into a brutal beating and strong-arm robbery,’ police wrote on Facebook.’
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/violent-attack-over-parking-spot-at-florida-walmart-caught-on-video
Virus update …
”We had no need for mechanical ventilation and the patients all survived the discharge regardless of age and regardless of past medical history,’ Norwood-Williams said.
Since April, they have seen a 96.4 percent survival rate for COVID-19 patients admitted at AdventHealth Ocala.’
https://www.fox35orlando.com/news/covid-19-treatment-underway-in-florida-has-near-perfect-success-rate
And those are the people sick enough to get hospitalized.
‘And those are the people sick enough to get hospitalized.’ — UnCivilServant
Yes.
More virus news;
https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/09/21/scitranslmed.abd5487.full
Romania’s Palace of the Parliament.
“Kentucky lawmaker who proposed ‘Breonna’s law’ to stop ‘no-knock’ warrants is arrested along with 24 others for rioting as Louisville is rocked by a second night of unrest and BLM mob occupies a church for sanctuary after curfew
A Kentucky Democrat who proposed the ‘Breonna’s law’ legislation that would ban the use of no-knock warrants across the state was arrested while protesting in Louisville on Thursday night and charged with rioting.
Attica Scott was arrested alongside daughter Ashanti and at least 24 others in the parking lot of the First Unitarian Church, where police and demonstrators got locked in a two-hour standoff after a 9pm curfew elapsed.
Scott and her daughter are facing charges of first-degree rioting as well as failure to disperse and unlawful assembly after police said the group of protesters smashed the windows of a nearby library and a flare was thrown into the building.
Around 1,000 Black Lives Matter activists had taken to the streets of Louisville during the day Thursday to protest after only one of the three officers involved in Breonna Taylor’s killing while mistakenly raiding her home on a no-knock warrant was indicted over the shooting, though not for firing the shots that killed her.
The news reignited demonstrations across the country, many of which have been ongoing since the killing of George Floyd in May, including in LA where one protester was run down by a truck in an unprovoked attack.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8771029/BLM-mob-Louisville-smash-library-windows-throw-flare-cops-declare-unlawful-assembly.html
“Protesters targeted the Louisville Public Library, smashing its windows and throwing projectiles inside during the chaos”
So Democrats are against public libraries now?
Those books are full of wrongthink.
I think you jest, but we are already there….
“They’re learning for free! Get ’em!”
His parents named him Attica?
“We were going for ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ but got ‘Dog Day Afternoon’ instead.”
I was on a commercial shoot when Lee’s new book dropped. The head of the ad agency, an otherwise wonderful woman, was inconsolable over the retconned racialism of Atticus Finch. You see, she had, just 5 years earlier, named her firstborn Atticus. Oh how the crew laughed and laughed.
‘Breonna’s law’ – so based on the current law and what happened was the decision correct in the officers’ case?
‘So the $249 autonomous Always Home Cam announcement wasn’t a joke. It’s an upcoming product expected in 2021. And, as much as it scares me and is likely to scare my wife (and it’s probably going to scare the dog), I think I have to have one. ‘
https://www.zdnet.com/article/always-home-cam-amazons-robot-drone-flying-inside-our-homes-seems-like-a-bad-idea/
Seems like? Yeah it ‘seems like’ a bad idea.
National Bolsheviks protest the opening of the first McDonald’s in St. Petersburg, 1996.
https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1309269891363504128
Much different from the First McDonald’s in the Soviet Union.
‘Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made history one final time Friday as she became the first woman and Jewish person to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.’
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/09/25/ruth-bader-ginsburg-first-woman-lie-state-us-capitol/3520198001/
‘The body of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks was flown to Washingon [sic] DC Sunday night to lie in honor in the Capitol Rotunda. She is the first woman and second African American to lie in state.’
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/10/31/civil_rights_pioneer_rosa_parks_lies
She wasn’t the first jewish SCOTUS though.
I’m pretty sure Hilary lied in State every day.
“Laying in state” is a violation of Jewish religious law. She may be the first formerly Jewish atheist to do so.
What does the JournoList style guide dictate for the triple parentheses on that one?
Apparently only government officials can “lie in state” and the rest just “lie in honor”. So Rosa Parks was the first woman to “lie in honor” in the Capitol while Ginsburg is the first to “lie in state”. The latter includes a military honor guard.
Thank god we cast off the aristocracy and made a land of the free.
I was reading something the other day and it captioned a picture “President Bush touring in 1998” and I was like, I’m pretty sure in 1998 the President was a Clinton, not a Bush.
Well what I wrote was “President Bush touring <something> in 1998” but forgot that to WordPress that looks like HTML.
“Portland rejects permit for a Proud Boys alt-right rally citing coronavirus concerns as expected crowd of 10,000 is too large for social distancing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8766093/Portland-denies-permit-right-wing-rally-cites-COVID-19.html
CLOWN WORLD
honk honk.
The PSL is “Tankie,” btw. One of their members published a pro-Ceausescu article last December, for starters. I guess that makes them “low status.”
https://twitter.com/MagyarSzabadsg1/status/1309229898163159042
I did not know there were pro Nick tankies
Lol, I put in a ticket to our HR team, and the chat agent is Costanza, G.
The people that wrote that bot are funny fuckers…
Madness!
Switzerland is landlocked, why do they have any ships in waters the Russians can drunkenly sail into? Or did the Ruskies manage to sail up the alps?
You should have to have a port to have ships under your flag.
Swiss Merchant Marine.
Home port is Basel.
Switzerland also has a small navy.
But do they have their very own knives??
Love that Meatloaf vid up thread….I remember seeing it for the first time when my gf and me went to a midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture show back in ’78. The theatre played 2 Meatloaf music videos – Bat out of Hell and PBTTDBL before the flick started. I remember how cool I thought both songs were and was curious who the fat singer was. Having never seen the RHPS before I was a bit confused – were those videos part of the movie? I had never seen music videos played before the feature started at a theatre before. When Meatloaf makes his appearance in the movie I was like hey, isn’t that the guy who was singing those songs? Who is that guy? I got quite a chuckle when the credits rolled and saw his mug displayed with the moniker of Meatloaf. I was like WTF? Meatloaf? Hahahaha. It was weeks later before both songs were being played on the local FM rock stations.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1309005254130831360
That thing is huge.
Kraft introduces pumpkin spice macaroni and cheese…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/weird/pumpkin-spice-macaroni-and-cheese/73-3a2e6f0b-e3dd-471c-b7f9-abb564e2d153
“Virginia governor Ralph Northam, wife, test positive for coronavirus”
https://twitter.com/ABC7NY/status/1309502977607118848
Hook him up to a ventilator, Stat!
Bingo.
Now that we have a better idea of how not-deadly C19 is, what’s the over-under on people lying about their positive tests, as their entry in the victimhood Olympics?
“#Durham BREAKING: The primary sub-source for the Steele dossier was deemed a possible “national security threat” + the subject of 2009 FBI counter-intel probe. According to new records, those facts were known to Crossfire Hurricane team in December 2016. @LindseyGrahamSC”
https://twitter.com/CBS_Herridge/status/1309266622104862721
“FBI employees suspected that senior White House officials or intel officials who worked on the presidential daily briefing leaked the Flynn-Kislyak phone call story to WaPo ”
https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1309326473753489408
Good thread here:
“1) BREAKING, per @CBS_Herridge
and extraordinary.
So Christopher Steele’s main source for the dossier? He was the subject of a nearly two-year long FBI counter-intel investigation (2009-2011), under suspicion of being a Russian spy and a “threat to national security.””
https://twitter.com/KimStrassel/status/1309272844661002241
Of course his source was a Russian Spy, because so was Drumpf!
The contact they still claim, after the Muller fiasco and then Durham report completely debunked their lies, is why they know Trump was a Russian asset, a Ukrainian, was a regular friend of the Obama WH. You should see the assploding heads when you point out if just the association with this guy makes Trump a Russian spy, the fact that Obama regularly entertained this asshat and the Obama admin regularly did things that helped the Russian efforts that hurt the US (for a lot of money in both his case and that of Clinton, I add) makes Obama a Manchurian candidate then. These people can’t do logic.
Meh, Obama Cowtowed to the Russians, to be sure. But He also supported an unconstitutional anti-Russia coupe in Ukraine, which unsurprisingly lead to Russia invading. #Genius!