…at least around here you would.
Monday just got better! OK, maybe not. But it will now have Swiss Links in the Afternoon. Ah, the future looks bright! Of course, any given day, we can call for relief from the bullpen – the cryptid bullpen. Trust me, you don’t want to be down there, warming them up…
*shudder*
So, Links. Yes, here they are:
- This is getting worse. I knew it would. *sigh*
- Imagine a ruler swatting you in the back of the head, forever.
- They just need to hire STEVE SMITH as the Riot Dispersal Squad.
Stop playing “Riiiiiicola!”
Comments await!
Second place is first loser.
I am mulling over very strict rules on commenting…
…
oh, who the heck am I kidding.
Sorry, my comment wouldn’t have been as funny if I had posted it as a reply – it needed the 2. next to it.
Check out this guy (Swiss). He’s got a case of the Cuomos.
“You have to have at least 15
pieces of flairdiktats, rules, and regulations.”First Loser!
Imagine a ruler swatting you in the back of the head, forever.
Maybe you should have gotten an essential job, Swiss.
I haven’t been laid off or furloughed. Nor have our half-assed school schedules changed much.
I was referring to this remarkably tone-deaf comment from our piece of shit governor.
The more reported “get an essential job” part was the least offensive thing he said during that too. He said “economic hardship” doesn’t equal death. I am sure the large majority of the world has a word for him.
Oh, I remember that. I was just pointing out that I wouldn’t have to follow his sneering advice.
I imagine this.
https://gab.com/system/media_attachments/files/058/704/674/original/5b1e2999b13dc28d.png?1601924904
“Seattle police arrested 16 people Saturday night for property destruction, assault, failure to disperse, and rendering criminal assistance after a protest.”
Then let them back out again?
It’s not like the DA was going to actually follow up and charge anyone.
I wonder if someone attacked a ADA, would the cop respond?
I don’t know, but I’m surprised there haven’t been more antifa killed by police.
I wouldn’t, anti-dentite that I am.
Were they noble rioters for racial equity, or evil white supremacists?
STEVE SMITH DISPERSE RIOT! STEVE SMITH LIKE RIOTS, BECAUSE IT MORE ROMANTIC BY FIRELIGHT!
I had to log in just to “like” this.
Schools in Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods experiencing COVID-19 outbreaks will again be closed for in-person classes starting Tuesday — but businesses will remain open for now, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Monday.
His majesty is most gracious and generous.
“We’ll just shut down all those Jewish schools…the businesses, later.”
“The emphasis on the Orthodox communities rankled many of their members, even as civic and religious leaders acknowledged the dangers posed by the new outbreak and urged compliance with guidelines.
‘People are very turned off and very burned out,’ said Yosef Hershkop, a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn who works for a chain of urgent-care centers. ‘It’s not like we’re the only people in New York getting COVID.’
The announcement of de Blasio’s plan was made on Sunday – the second day of Judaism’s Sukkot holiday when Orthodox Jews would not be using telephones or computers and thus wouldn’t have heard the news until sundown.
‘Announcing this in the middle of a Jewish holiday shows City Hall’s incompetence and lack of sensitivity towards the Jewish Community,’ tweeted Daniel Rosenthal, a state Assembly member from Queens.
Many say they are already straining to balance rituals and traditions centered on communal gatherings with health rules.
Rabbis and civic groups are trying to curtail the new outbreak.
Last week, Agudath Israel of America, an Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, worked with the Boro Park Jewish Community Council to distribute 400,000 masks.
The Jewish Voice newspaper is urging compliance with health guidelines such as mask wearing and social distancing. However, its publisher, David Ben Hooren, said many Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn and Queens believe they have been unfairly targeted with stringent restrictions that aren’t being enforced elsewhere.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8807391/Cuomo-orders-schools-New-York-City-hotspot-zipcodes-close.html
If they wouldn’t take their silly religion so seriously that they don’t realize the state is actually God, we wouldn’t have to single them out. The beating are going to start and continue until moral improves.
morale. I keep doing that for some reason..
Because we’re beset by immorality.
Maybe stop having large families and talking at each other all the time, huh guys?
/Bill
Yosef Hershkop, also known by his stage name, “the Hasidic Yakov Smirnoff”.
Disproportionate effect, yo.
“Disparate Impact!!!!!!”
Do (((they))) send their kids to the government schools? And if not, does Fredo have any say in what the private schools do?
When you rule by decree, of course you can shut down private….anything.
Yes, he said he is closing private schools, too.
LOL. You funny.
I thought Fredo is Chris Cuomo?
He was. Is. I first heard it used in reference to Chris, but Andy got so wound up about it that people started using it on him. Of course, his daddy claimed that the mafia did not exist and was a racist myth used to keep the Italian people down. And IIRC, Andy claims he’s never watched any of the Godfather movies.
Andy is Cuomomafioso.
They’re both vying for the coveted title.
(((They))) are largely privately educated, at least among the orthodox communities. If the private schools are closed, many will just go to school elsewhere, notably Philadelphia. My girlfriend is a teacher at a private orthodox (((school))), and maybe half of the girls are from the Philly area, with maybe a third from NYC.
Yep. SiL’s kids all got shipped off to (((boarding schools))) in CT because the Brooklyn (and later Miami Beach) yeshivas they were attending disregard the study of mathematics and the natural sciences to focus instead on Torah memorization.
I’m right outside Philadelphia in an Orthodox-heavy community and I thought it was my imagination that there were e a lot more Orthodox kids than even a year ago, but now I’m thinking maybe there are actually a bunch more. It does seem like every house that sells is being bought by an Orthodox family.
Definitely not your imagination, enrollment is up in all of the (((schools))). You’re in Bala Cynwyd if I remember correctly, so you’re going to see a lot more orthodox kids around the neighborhood.
Good memory, I am in Bala Cynwyd. You’re right, I am seeing more and more Orthodox kids and it sounds like that number is only going to go up.
That’s not a bad thing.
But it will now have Swiss Links in the Afternoon.
So Brett’s meth habit finally got the best of him?
He has some really big marketing opportunities for MethGator.
MethGator
I’m stealing that.
You’d best not. Brett has a suspiciously successful record of defending his trademarks.
Infringers tend to not come back from helicopter rides or desert visits…
I thought it was air boat ride in Florida?
So now that you have first hand experience of how it ain’t that bad we can stop all the Covid theater, right? RIGHT?
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam acknowledged Monday that he felt “mild cold-like symptoms” and lost his sense of smell over the weekend as he continues to work in isolation at the Executive Mansion after contracting COVID-19.
Gov. Northam and first lady Pamela Northam tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Sept. 24, according to the governor’s office. Alongside his dog, Pearl, the governor gave another update Monday on their condition and what he’s working on.
“Pam and I continue to make good progress. Over the weekend, I developed some mild cold-like symptoms. Lost my sense of smell,” Northam said in a video shared on social media. “But, otherwise we are doing well and staying in good spirits.”
Weird that he got the Rona – we all know how much Northam LOVES masks…
It’s all those people that don’t listen to their betters.
So he was at a Trump rally? Weird.
Nope. Now that our gracious leaders are getting it they will lockdown harder so you don’t have to have the sniffles and a headache.
Also, how dare he remain in the governor’s mansion with a deadly and communicable disease…right Jennifer Rubin?
I know of a particular 74 y/o that got out right as rain after a few days. Granted he had particularlly good health care and was able to, allegedly, get some experimental protocols not available to us plebs.
Of course the next queston is, provided this is what actually happened and not some sort of fake news circular reporting loop, why is this treatment/protcol available to the general population?
Hint: It starts with a F and ends with a DA.
At least the Soviets were able to knock Azerbaijan’s and Armania’s collective heads together and get them to stop offing each other (occasionaly).
“We will repress you harder than you could each other!”
Omlet… Egss ect.
Erdoğan kicks a pebble and dejectedly says, “We were the ones who were suppose to kill Armenians.”
I know Imgur doesn’t work for everyone but here is a pic of our new retired racing greyhound, Aggie
alernative link
She had over 120 races, 20-something first place finishes and a whole bunch of second place runs.
Isn’t she a cutie!
Cutie!
We picked up a pair of sheltie puppies this weekend.
d’awww!
Oooooh! Babs has competition!
Such a pretty girl.
Beautiful!
Cute pooch.
Also, welcome back. I missed your return.
Some people’s imgur links (but not everybody’s) don’t work for me on Firefox or Opera (on Linux Mint), but do on Chrome. Anyone have any idea what’s going on?
Pretty dog, by the way.
Cute dog.
Wow. Skinny ripped, and apparently a good ‘place’ bet.
Adorbs!
And I too missed your return – I’m pleased you’re back.
What a sweetie? Is she roaching yet?
If you mean legs up like a dead spider, then yes!
Good! That means she feels comfortable with you.
It amazes me how fast those dogs can run, and yet they much prefer to spend their time lounging on the couch.
Glad to see you back, Ayatollah of Rock-N-Rolla.
She is lazy – only interested in walks, food, pooping. and mostly napping. An occasional roughhouse play but then she it tuckered out. And she loves meeting people. Not a good guard dog though.
No. She might inadvertently trip a burglar, but she won’t bark or anything.
Lovely! Our dog is, of course, as slow as a school bus.
And thank Yahweh I have someone back who knows the difference between a 6BG6 and a 12B4.
One’s got twice the filament voltage of the other. Right? Eh? Am I right? ;-)
I thought they were base-17 memory addresses.
One is for shooting, one is for fun.
I expect Didier Cuche and Fabian Cancellara pics aplenty.
*EDITOR NOTE*
You mean like these?
Sneaky editor!
More Didier Cuche being awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIhYhWY3SNQ
Is that pronounced “Did yer coochie”?
I wish!
(did I write that out loud)
…Radio Shack?
Radio Shack is still a thing?
Yes. Mostly as a licenced name.
Mostly online. There are some stores that still carry some of their products, notably HobbyTown stores.
Forget about it, Tonio.
It’s HobbyTown.
Yes, if you ever feel the need to give your phone number out for the privilege of paying $30 for a 6 inch USB cable, they are there for you.
I laughed because it’s true
My Radio Shack scientific calculator that I bought in the early 90s is not only still a thing, but works as well as the day I bought.
“works as well as the day I bought.”
Can’t get it fixed?
That sounds naughty.
*woof*
Thanks to Brett for all the links he’s put together. His last set of links was a long dead thread when I saw it.
The United States, Russia and France jointly chair a group under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to mediate in the crisis. The three powers condemned the escalation of violence in and around Nagorno-Karabakh and called for a ceasefire, the OSCE said.
I hope the USA’s involvement does not go beyond talk.
“I would not send my child to a school in a hot-spot cluster,” Cuomo continued with respect to the school closures. “I am not going to recommend or allow any New York City family to send their child to a school that I wouldn’t send my child.”
Now do public schools in general.
The crowd shattered windows and threw explosives into a coffee shop in the 1600 block of East Olive Way, SPD reports.
See? Mostly peaceful.
Thats fine, recommend away.
Asshole.
“I’m not going to allow any New York City family to make informed decisions about their own health and that of their children. What is this, the 1980s?”
Clown show
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revised its coronavirus guidance Monday, acknowledging that it can sometimes spread through airborne particles that can “linger in the air for minutes to hours” and among people who are more than six feet apart.
The CDC cited published reports that demonstrated “limited, uncommon circumstances where people with COVID-19 infected others who were more than 6 feet away or shortly after the COVID-19-positive person left an area.”
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The updated guidance comes after the agency mistakenly posted a revision last month that said the virus could spread through aerosols, small droplets that can linger in the air. The guidance was quickly removed from the CDC’s website because it was just “a draft version of proposed changes,” the agency said.
To what degree the coronavirus can spread through airborne particles has been a contentious debate among scientists for months. Some epidemiologists have charged that the World Health Organization as well as federal regulatory agencies in many countries have been slow to accept that the virus can spread by air. It’s a debate that could have implications for the importance of air filtration in reopening businesses and schools.
Spend millions to re-open your doors? Seems fair.
After all, this is a disease impervious to gravity which can turn you into a newt.
I got better!
These people just can’t help themselves. No matter what facts emerge, they all support more bigger government mandates.
And it was probably that mask you’re wearing that aerosolized your droplets into lasting aloft in the air. Without a mask, any droplets you’d emitted would have remained large and heavy, and fallen safely to the ground.
To give you an idea about the relationship between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, Robert Kocharyan was President of Nagorno-Karabakh before he was appointed Prime Minister of Armenia and later elected President of Armenia. But officially Armenia has not annexed Nagorno-Karabakh.
Like we already have?
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden has dropped a “national mask mandate” from his platform but instead proposed a “guidance” on Saturday.
Speaking to the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), Biden went through a litany of changes he would implement, including ordering his Department of Transportation to create a “nationwide mask guidance”:
“We have to make sure you get all the PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) you need. You need it for job safety and for our safety to be able to continue to transport people,” Biden said.
“We need a nationwide mask guidance so that no one gets on a public transportation unit without a mask,” he said.
Biden did not distinguish the difference between a “mandate” and “guidance.”
No, by guidance, he means like Cuomo means by “Recommendation”. They won’t allow you to not follow the guidance.
Hey, you can’t be allowed to think for yourself. Joe Biden doesn’t, so why should you be able to?
It’s a tax.
A penalmask.
“The crowd shattered windows and threw explosives into a coffee shop in the 1600 block of East Olive Way, SPD reports.”
I’m assuming explosives is not more than a bottle rocket or Chinese fire cracker. Because if someone is stupid enough to throw actual explosives like M80’s or larger in a place of business they need to be stopped and arrested . The hearing loss alone inside a building would be substantial.
Peaceful protesting. Makes all the difference.
I feel safer already….Thanks
Wasn’t the Boston bombing pressure cooker just filled with fireworks stuff?
They have been known to use those mortar launched jobs that are only a step or two below the commercial jobs that you see at full blown 4th of July shows. An M80 being toss around wouldn’t suprise me at at all with these psychopaths.
I’m assuming its more than a firecracker or bottle rocket, because I’ve seen liberal use of “fireworks”at these riots that were way beyond what you can get at a roadside stand.
Random question after reading Animal’s great post today (will probably look at one of those C&Rs in the future) – and finishing re-reading REAMDE last week.
The book mentions a tactical holster for the Makarov that releases the pistol downwards and chambers a round at the same time as you push it through the holster. Don’t suppose those would be legal in the US and whether they’re available online or for any non-Makarov pistols?
That holster sounds like a great way to develop Glock leg.
They are legal, as far as I can tell. No one else uses a system like that though. Everyone else is content to chamber a round before holstering.
Hard pass.
Carry a gun with a round chambered. Pick the safety system you’re most comfortable with.
I keep all six rounds chambered and don’t use any safety.
if you want to see it demonstrated, InRange TV just did a video about it recently.
seems like it was to get around a dumb Soviet law and that was it.
They are perfectly legal, and some EFA-2K holsters (or knock-offs) tend to float around the secondary gun market. Keep an eye on eBay and Gunbroker.
Don’t actually carry one. They’re a stupid idea poorly executed.
So, perfect for 2020?
Thanks for the notes. The character in the book does make similar comments – but it’s his personal preference.
I was thinking more about the downwards drawing motion too for a thigh holster (but I think it gives both options) – never tried that – in the navy on watchstanding we just used locking thigh holsters.
As you may have seen via EF, I quit my job of the past 19 years. Now I wish I had done it a whole lot sooner!
Long story short – our entire windows network was taken out by a virus. We’re working 12+ hours a day just trying to get everything operational. Lots of stress, lots of short tempers. I had an raging headache after a week of that.
My boss – who has been on the job for less than two years – says: “No one can leave today until these tasks are completed.” With my name all over the place even though I was bringing up everything that I could as fast as possible.
And then he decides that I have to report to someone else – the most incompetent and least technical member our department. Saying to me: “This is not a demotion.”
LH: “Sounds like one to me. I’m going home.”
Living off the sugar momma now? That’ my dream.
More seriously, my condolences on the crappy work situation and unexpected departure. Glad you seem happier because of it.
I’m glad you’re no longer carrying that stress.
So you know what you’ll be doing now?
Nothing! EF said to take some time to detox and no rush to getting a new job.
She’s doing quite well financially now.
Good to hear.
Congrats and welcome back to the both of youse.
Having an FOF (Fuck Off Fund) is a very useful thing. The spousal unit and I agreed many years ago to build one, and any time either of us in the intervening years was having a struggle with work, the other would just say “You have the FOF, don’t be scared to use it.” Simply knowing that it was available really reduced stress levels for us — we had a sense of control that helped us keep level heads.
The power of being in the position to tell them to fuck off is really nice.
Sounds like a shit situation, and I’m glad you got out of it. Best wishes finding the next job! Sounds like you’ll be in high demand given your area of work and experience level.
^This.
Hard to put into words the hows and whys of this walkout- I was planning to leave in March but then the COVID hit, killing the job market. And then I was going to quit for my 50th birthday but heyyyy I really want to buy that new Bronco so I put it off again.
But when this Russian virus hit the servers and the way we were being treated by the IT director, EF gave me her blessing that I could leave whenever I wanted.
Bonus: today the VP of operations calls me, begging to come back. I said yes, provided it’s contract only and I report to him instead of the IT director. We shall see how that goes in the world of office politics. Now I just have to figure out what kind of $$$ to ask for my hourly rate.
OOH nice to be wanted, that’s for sure. Make ’em pay!
Now I just have to figure out what kind of $$$ to ask for my hourly rate.
What’s the rule of thumb with consultants engaging a desperate company? Something like “think of a really big number and then double it”?
I honestly don’t know! Lawyer rate? I’ll have to ask my retired consultant friend.
I thought the trick with lawyers wasn’t to have a high hourly rate, but to have a ridiculous number of billable hours. You’re doing it wrong if you have fewer than 24 billable hours a day.
I thought the trick was to have both?
^^ they billed me out at $250/hour when I walked in the door (no law degree, no relevant experience). They also got pissy when I tried to bill like an ethical person. Y’know, not billing the 6 minute increments when I was getting coffee.
Glad to see you back! You can enjoy the fall splendor without a mask now that Whitmer got slapped down. Maybe we can do a podcast on the Lions’ success. It should only take about 30 seconds a year.
So, Whitmer’s diktats are no longer legal, but the court gave a 21-day grace period for them. What, legally, does that actually mean?
It means “Fuck you, that’s what”.
She’s also said that even after the 21 days runs, they will remain in force.
Baseline is double what your salary works out to as an hourly rate. Add $25/hour (or more) that a contracting/consulting company would be skimming as their take.
Then it goes up from there, depending on a variety of factors, not least of which is how badly you want it to hurt. Also a factor is how you feel about continuing the contract once you get things settled down.
Consider the flinch factor — in a sense, you’ve hit the mark if they flinch but agree, although that’s more useful for salary negotiations.
But they’ve already proved that they are not your friend, will not hesitate to treat by you poorly, and want you quite badly.
Make it hurt.
LH: Sorry to hear about the job stresses, but sounds as though you are in a good place. Take care, and happy to see you and EF posting!
Good to see you in the comments, buddy. Moron boss, does he have pointy hair? Because that’s a total Dilbert move.
If only Trump had listened to the science about COVID-19!
Welcome back. Hope the job stuff works out and you give them a good SMITHING.
I was gonna say “Roger ’em hard,” but, eh, close enough, I guess.
Good to see you back.
Sorry you went through that. I think leaving is a good idea.
If you decide to go back under contract, make sure you get lots and lots of money.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qIqeXSYc8nE
I enjoyed EF’s office tales as a lurker.
Tox, is your handle new(ish)? If so, what was it before?
I’m newish, within the last year anyway. But OTT, no.
Oh, Ok. (Belated) Something something, Tulpa then!
noogies = caring
Good news! Always great to move on from a toxic situation. Unfortunately it is often hard to tell when you are in that position. Only after you quit do you realize how bad things had become.
One of the most toxic situations I was in was with a company that was in a giant death spiral. For a lot of reasons I won’t bore you with, management wanted me gone, but didn’t have cause and didn’t want to fire me to avoid paying a bonus. So just before a meeting they pulled me aside and told me that they were going to demote me from managing a team of 5 people to being on the team and having a guy with waaaay less experience run the team. Their idea was that I would be so humiliated that I would quit. Since there was no pay cut, being demoted was the best thing ever. I no longer had to do all the management paperwork or go to the management meetings. It was a classic case of “not the briar patch!”
Congratulations on getting out of that! You showed ’em.
“‘We’re not out of the woods – but he is BACK!’ Trump’s doctor says he IS well enough to return to COVID-infested White House TONIGHT despite being on a cocktail of experimental drugs – and grins as he refuses to answer key questions
President Trump will leave hospital at 6.30pm on Monday night despite his doctors saying he is ‘not out of the woods’ after being given a cocktail of drugs to treat COVID-19.
Trump, 74, was admitted to Walter Reed on Friday amid reports he had trouble breathing and had a fever. He has since received care from the best doctors in the country, and has been driven around in an SUV to wave at fans who lined up outside to greet him, a move that outraged critics who said he put Secret Service agents’ lives at risk for a political stunt.
On Monday, just four days after he tested positive with the deadly virus, he tweeted: ‘I will be leaving the great Walter Reed Medical Center today at 6:30 P.M. Feeling really good! Don’t be afraid of Covid. Don’t let it dominate your life. We have developed, under the Trump Administration, some really great drugs & knowledge. I feel better than I did 20 years ago!'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8807715/Trump-says-leave-hospital-6-30pm-tonight-three-day-stay.html
I guess if you never drank or did drugs you could catch a buzz from everything he is taking.
Kayleigh McEnany’s legs in those pics look like those of a 75 year old.
Here’s to swimmin with bow-legged women.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8807715/Trump-says-leave-hospital-6-30pm-tonight-three-day-stay.html
“Trump’s 2020 campaign press secretary opens up about preventative double mastectomy at age 30 after testing positive for the ‘Jolie gene'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6980825/Trumps-2020-campaign-press-secretary-Kayleigh-McEnany-talks-double-mastectomy-aged-30.html
Huh.
Uffda. Imagine the horror in the press rooms around the country if she had gotten breast cancer. It would have been a disaster if she could use the most politically correct kind of cancer to garner sympathy and support.
Luckily, though, she got the double mastectomy so we won’t have to endure such a tragedy. Also how long before someone in the press snaps and calls her a “titless asshole”?
She has at least one kid is all I know about her besides age. Sounds like an early achiever.
early
achieverreceiver“…a move that outraged critics who said he put Secret Service agents’ lives at risk for a political stunt.”
These are the agents that signed on to a job to use their bodies to shield the president from gunfire. “Critics” sure are good at risk assessment.
Nagorno-Karabakh…
That area broke off from Azerbaijan within a couple of years of the collapse of the Soviet Union and was probably only part of Az because the Soviets drew the line there.
The Armenians, like the Serbs, were Soviet warfighters and had the equipment after the collapse.
The Azeris didn’t have any way to contest the NK autonomous region, even though they have continued to claim it for the 25 years that it has basically belonged to the Armenians.
And Az saying they want the Turks involved with peace talks with Armenians is a huge fuck-you to those people.
Posted in the wrong thread:
Hmm . . . I wonder why the left thinks that people who oppose nationalized healthcare will reduce freedom and liberty, especially because of cost concerns?
Something, something…cold dead hands!
Not so fun fact: you cannot take your motorcycle on a highway in South Korea, regardless of its power.
Most gruesome accident I ever drove by was in Team Spirit 88 taking some equipment down to the port in Pohang. A cement truck had splattered a guy on a motorcycle. As we drove past, the police were picking up body parts. What stuck with me was a cop picking up a fancy racing boot, that I realized too late still had a leg in it.
I don’t think you could pay me enough to drive a motorcycle in Korea. Those bastards drive like idiots.
It is full of Asian drivers.
Korean drivers. They are Asian drivers with a chip on their shoulders.
When you’d drive around in Japan/Okinawa everyone is very passive. The worst situation you can get in is stuck behind 4 old ladies at a 4-way stop. You spend 20 minutes watching them all try to defer to each other.
Then you go to Korea and people drive like absolute maniacs. The horn aka “Korean Brake Pedal” is used as a get out of jail free card. “Sure I ran that red light, but I honked my horn to let everyone know I was going to do it, so things are cool”
I got fired from driving a passenger van on one of our family trips because I chickened out at merging onto the left side of a 4 lane freeway. I pulled onto what looked like a normal entrance ramp, but when I got to the top, I realized that I was pointed toward oncoming traffic. The top had a small area where you were supposed to turn 180 degrees and then jam out into traffic. I froze. I had driven quite a bit in Korea, but that was too much for me. So my brother in law took over and I went and sat in the back with the kids and women.
I spent three days driving in London. Then, I had to drive to Wales. Apparently, roundabouts require totally different tactics outside of London. I got honked at and flipped off over and over. In the city, you just jump in, but the country requires you to allow others to go first. I never figured out how many you should let go, but it was more than I wanted to, that’s for sure. Ireland was the best place to drive. Wide open, except for tractors and sheep. All of my passengers screamed and freaked out the whole time. That was worse than the stress of figuring out the local customs.
BTW, Miami is the worst/scariest place I’ve ever driven. Multiple times I saw people backing up on the freeway because they missed their exit.
Never want to go there again.
I’ll just hang out with Brett in St. Pete/Tampa.
Drove in London (stick shift–goes without saying?). That was a riot.
Did the same. I managed to stay on the correct side of the road. At least the clutch isn’t reversed.
Driving in Paris and Rome is pretty exciting too. Don’t bother looking when merging. Just go. The traffic circle around the Arc d’Triomphe is like bumper cars.
I never had a problem in London or riding all around the UK… The thing about traffic circles and roundabouts (two different things) is that the traffic in the circle has the right of way, not the “main” road.
I had rented a motorcycle in South London, rode through Wimbledon, and thought “this wasn’t too bad”.. so I went over the river, Hyde Park Cnr, Oxford ST, Trafalgar, Piccadilly etc.
Two problems, I wasn’t used the the Green, yellow, red, yellow, green zebra crossing lights. I just did what the local couriers did… nail it when it goes back to yellow.
The other was that I had a pedestrian map of London, not a vehicle map, so it didn’t have the one way traffic… Took a number of tries to get from Piccadilly back to Hyde Park.
2000 miles in two weeks, up to Scotland, south via Wales to Cornwall.
I learned to hate roundabouts when I was stationed in the Azores. Unfortunately they are becoming popular around these parts.
There’s a gas station in the middle o’ nowhere with a roundabout in front of it. Usually I have the satisfaction of cutting thru on the left.
OMG a motorcycle trip through England and Europe.
Dream vacation. One of them anyway.
Drove in London (stick shift–goes without saying?).
Me, too. Aside from the dense traffic and wrong-side-of-the-road thing, punching the door every time I wanted to shift was my favorite part.
Japan is also the wrong side of the road driving. I always thought that they really should have reversed the pedals as well. Gas/Brake/Clutch would be logical if you are reversing everything.
I like roundabouts, if the local custom and design actually follows the rules, all feeders yield to traffic in the circle.
What doesn’t work is when the circle favors the “main” road.. so you yield to the main traffic and get stuck in a bad place for the crossing and turning traffic. That is all on the designers that didn’t understand how they should work. If you want the main roads\ to bypass it, then make a flyover/under.
I got to drive on a work trip to central England (Birmingham, Tipton, etc.). Stick shift, which is the only way I drive. Once I got used to the shifter being on the left side, it was all good. Roundabouts took some getting used to though, being inverted.
They made me get my license when I was there, but I managed to stay off the road for the 15 months I was stationed there. I was TC when our LMTV ran a red light on the way to the range (good thing it was 4 in the morning). The freaking stop lane line was ridiculously placed.
There’s a reason you will see [small] tow trucks at literally every on ramp and intersection throughout Seoul every rush hour.
Osaka.
There’s a reason the Osakan’s have the reputation they do. Mind you the non-assholes there I’ve always enjoyed. Very different from Tokyo.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2020/10/a02051216692-man-gets-suspended-term-over-road-rage-captured-by-dashboard-cam.html
In this case I should add this asshole owned a real estate company in Osaka. He raged elsewhere.
My Japanese in-laws are in Kobe, right across from Osaka. They are nice people, but not the best drivers.
Their inattention combined with poor direction following and impulsiveness probably make them seem like asshole drivers to any sentient beings who are stuck driving near them.
When I was in college, I used to park on this hill next to an apartment complex. It was free on street parking there so I never paid university fees that I loathed to pay.
During a snowy day, I see this little blue car piloted by an Asian gal. She tore out of the parking lot, hit a pickup parked on the street and didn’t stop. She continued down the hill, tagging a car to the left and then a car to right, ping-ponging all the way down without stopping. She ran the stoplight on the the bottom of the hill and kept on going. After that I made sure to park up away from the apartments.
And last, but not least, I want to apologize if I ticked anyone off the way I left. Needless to say it was a time of high anxiety/pressure for me.
And what better way to enjoy the shitshow of 2020 but with old (and new) friends.
I was mostly miffed and surprised since it happened while I wasn’t around.
We can all relate to some degree, I don’t think anyone is going to hold (much of) a grudge.
I am absolute shit at being able to hold a grudge. My mother on the other hand can hold them for (literally) a lifetime. I’m assuming it’s the Prussian bloodline.
I hold grudges inconsistantly, but it seems to depend upon the pre-existing goodwill and the behaviour after the inciting incident.
I still have a grudge against Chucky Schumer for not answering my question back in middle school. He’s done nothing to generate goodwill since.
I’m more forgiving to people who are otherwise decent. (of course it scales with severity of the offense)
Yeah! I was MIA too.
It is only fair if you storm off again so UCS and I get the full effect.
But yeah, glad to see you back here. Light is always on.
If it doesn’t happen in the AM links, I generally miss it.
You were gone?
Gone daddy gone
Every once in a while I lose my way and actually let my job get in the way of commenting on here. I know I shouldn’t, but a deadline will creep up and I’ll tell myself I’ll just skip morning linx. Then I’m missing the noon and pm linx.
Usually my coworkers will stage an intervention at that point and demand that I stop writing code and go back to fucking off. (they say long term maintenance is easier with less of my code in there)
I’m just messing with ya.
But a work/glib balance is very important. A couple of days away, I get itchy all over, joints hurt. More than that, vomiting and delirium.
I got the glibertarian monkey on my back.
Work is the curse of the glibbing classes.
Another song I didn’t realize had a video. MTV, you failed me.
The door is always open.
I thought it seemed out of character, but where you spend your online time is your business, not mine.
Good to have you (and the Missus) back.
A house in my neighborhood has a faux campaign sign out front. That says:
Jesus
2020
I told the wife I am inclined to change it to:
Jesus!
2020.
Water under the bridge. Hobo bodies in shallow ditches. Pretty sure everyone has done it by this point of 2020.
I didn’t think anyone was ticked, just surprised.
Welcome back Sir!
And Madame!
Welcome back! Stressful times get to us all. The mitten is the new glibs hotspot, Yusuf joined us here.
You didn’t tick me off. I was just sad. There were many of us who were just sad.
Welcome back dude!
I am still enjoying the Wharfedale speakers you recommend.
Good to hear! I’ve still got my Wharfedales, now in garage service. I upgraded to a pair of KEF tower speakers that work quite well with only 25Ws (and my small-ish listening area).
KEF R500 speakers
Includes bonus shots of my Thorens turntable and the vinyl collection.
Just glad you’re here (and EF). It is good to see you again.
Just another Trump supporting shitlord running for Minnesoda legislature. Why won’t these bastards just go die?
His views are so horrible he must be one of those sneaky crackers pretending to be black
That dude is no joke making me a little ashamed of my life.
In particular, if you gave me a choice between spending two years in a refugee camp in the Ivory Coast, or two years in VDC Wallens Ridge, sign me up for the Supermax…
When I was furloughed earlier this year, I brought back a very old hobby – making synth music. A different direction with more John Carpenter and Tangerine Dream (or so I hope) than before.
I made this all using an Ipad, Korg Gadget 2, and a few other software synths connected via MIDI. Then recorded to PC via Ableton with effects (reverb, compression, etc) added there.
Project Communique – free as usual.
And yes I’m a complete amateur hack.
bit of a Kraftwerk-y vibe there
I am enjoying it.
gotta get the headphones out, I’ll be back
How was the first day?
?
I sometimes wake up with synth melodies in my head and desperately want to write them down or something until I shake the cobwebs out and remember I don’t actually know how to do any of that.
PS. Yeah, I get a very Carpenter vibe. I just watched Christine the other day so his style is fresh in my head.
Great movie
It’s grown on me over the years.
So tedious…
https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-negative-race-ability-score-modifiers/
But what bathroom will the halfling barbarian be able to use?
Fuck that is stupid.
“Shoot, I rolled a 3 for intelligence. I guess I’ll play a half-elf Diversity and Equity Officer”
Chaotic evil?
Lawful Evil. That goes for the whole of any given HR department
I knew I was right to never leave 2nd Edition’s warm, scaly bosom.
At last, orc bodies and kobold bodies can rejoice in the not being invisible anymore!
Normally invisibility wears off when you kill them.
This was in the sidebar of the stories from the riot story (I sort of read the linx).
I’m shocked that a pol would become petty when things didn’t go his way. I’m sure Gov Walz would take the high road if 3M finally moved its HQ out of Minnesoda.
Inslee is a fucking moron.
If he was a fucking moron, his sex tapes would at least provide some amusement.
Unfortunately he’s just a moron.
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1312539142522368002
They had some drugs back in the 70’s.
They had all the drugs.
I saw that movie when I was a kid.
“Harper Valley will not be seen tonight…”
LOL & Casey Kasem too
I think I saw that movie “live”, as it were, too
🙁 I should have double-checked. The butchers left in the connective tissue running down the middle of the flatiron steak. The steak kept changing shape while cooking because that gristle kept contracting.
On the other hand, the pan sauce worked well with the sauteed mushrooms and lima beans.
Yard signs:
I live in a fairly upscale neighborhood. I don’t remember much about 2016 for comparison but it seems like there are a lot of Biden/Harris signs out. I must have seen well over a hundred of them, along with Black Lives Matter, plus “Science is Real, etc”. So the “professional” Upper Middle Class (and on up) seems to be pretty much in the tank for Democrats. I wonder why? Guilt?
And there is nothing better running past a $600-$700k house with a sign extorting how Social Security must be saved!
Ironically (?) the one black family down the street doesn’t have any yard signs.
On the other hand I’ve seen two Trump signs – while other houses will just have the Republican senator or congressman yard sign.
My neighbor, who we play cards with, is a big Democrat supporter and had to tell us – proudly! – how he just sent in his mail-in vote.
Me: That’s nice.
They’re pretending that they’re for the little guy, that they care, that they will be treated as someone with the best of intentions
It’s social signaling at its worst. Results don’t matter, only the signaled intentions
To wit, our white proggie neighbor (teachers union) has had a bedsheet with BLACK LIVES MATTER painted on it in her front yard for months. The black family who lives next door doesn’t have anything.
It’s also suspected that the teenage daughter of teacher twat is defacing other signs in the neighborhood that don’t align with their political views.
I’ve seen more Biden signs in our neighborhood than I ever saw Hillary signs. But…. I also am seeing more Trump signs than I did in 2016.
Someone has a I may be a Republican, but I’m not a fool” Biden sign on one of our favorite walking routes.
Fool confirmed.
I went through the local county seat/college town today. Nothing but Biden signs everywhere. And until 2 years ago, it was represented in the State House by a libertarian-conservative.
We have a lot of “Republican for Biden” or other Dem candidates here – it is university employee prog central and those same people have lawns littered with Dem candidate signs every election cycle.
Weird, There almost none around here and this place is famously deep blue. There was “I’m with her” signs and stickers everywhere in 16. It’s about even for Trump vs Harris signs, well maybe slightly tilted toward the prosecutor, but only barely. The notable thing is the scarcity of either.
related, a FB post I made recently. Oddly enough some of the most political zealots I know were giving it a like:
Political zealots: He’s talking about Trump, obvs.
Or maybe I’m just a cynical old punk who doesn’t trust anyone with too much power.
The saddest part of all this is seeing how many of the guys from the punk scene BITD are completely willing to dump their old anti-authority ethos in order to virtue signal.
It is depressing – and one I see often with the old punk scene that I still keep in (light) contact with. There are still some anarchists and (a few) libertarians there but we’re outnumbered by the born-again-lefties.
There is only one party I belong to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6otjCKg594
Same here. I’d have a lot more respect if the folks from my old punk days were of a more, “Fuck it, who cares” bent rather than constantly spouting the most up-to-date leftist talking points. Nothing says “skeptical of authority” like reading off of a pre-approved script.
Look what happened to the hippies. It’s the same thing. They want the aura of respectability and “forward-thinking” cred.
“I wonder why? Guilt?”
Yes.
I live in the bluest-of-blue neighborhood of a bluest-of-blue city. All of those signs and more are present. One defiant gay couple is flying a Trump 2020 flag atop a very tall flagpole, with the rainbow flag underneath. I’m sure it’s very confusing to all of the robots.
Nice
Good for them. Trump was pro-gay marriage way back in the ’90s. Why the gay hustlers (I assume that is the equivalent term of Al Sharpton race hustlers) are against Trump is a complete mystery to me.
Trump didn’t have to “evolve” like Obama or Biden. And Richard Grenell might be the best person in the Trump administration.
It’s no mystery. The gay lobby leadership is beholden to the Democrats. They’re effectively victims for hire at this point.
The leadership tells the troops how and what to think.
They’ll flip sides pretty soon once people realize they are the King Kong of gentrifiers. Ain’t no room in the Democratic tent for gentrifiers.
This. It’s the same thing that happens to every movement. Someone starts out with a principled idea, then the left moves in and pretends to care about that in order to bring the movement into their tent, where the principle is thereafter ignored.
I know several blacks and gays who are secret trump supporters. They feel safe telling me if it comes up. But most think it best to stay in the closet.
Yes, it’s harder to come out now as a Trump supporter than it was to come out as gay back in the 70s.
it’s harder to come out now as a Trump supporter
Super easy. I just walk outside without a mask.
“Loving my new custom-built Barbie pink AR-15”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1312811402969731077
At least it’s not Hello Kitty.
There’s at least one Hello Kitty wine varietal now, chardonnay and I forget what else. About $20 and from central CA. Who knows? Might not be too bad.
You’ll have to ask OMWC about its effectiveness.
I must have deleted the photo or else I would repost it. It did look fairly cromulent: deep punt, eye level, all that.
OH GOD NO. I tried the Hello Kitty white thinking “how bad can it be?” lol
Look, I’m not a very picky white wine drinking chick, and that stuff is garbage.
Later, after I tried it, I found out from the department manager at the store that they get paid to put it up high with the good stuff, so people get fooled into thinking the same thing I did.
To be fair the same company that gave us Hello Kitty also gave us Aggrestsuko.
Sanrio
I think an Aggretsuko AK would be a hoot.
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/57/21/ab/5721ab21e23eba6e216bdce754f9a645.jpg
Driving around Indianapolis this afternoon, I saw a “Boycott White Castle” sign.
Do they want it changed to Black Castle?
The original White Castle
https://www.facebook.com/BoycottWhiteCastle/
I don’t care enough to dig further, but why are they turning what appears to be a property or regulatory dispute into a racial issue?
Same reason everyone historically accused their enemies of heresy.
Yes, and then they want it banned for being racist.
Team Castle?
Castle of Color?
BIPOC Castle.
White Hizzy?
“EXCLUSIVE: Babylon Bee CEO’s Christian alma mater disinvites him from speaking in chapel
Seth Dillon, CEO of Christian satire site The Babylon Bee, was disinvited from speaking at the chapel of his alma mater — a Christian school — because of its “sacredness.”
Instead, the school offered Dillon a chance to speak in the university’s library.
According to Dillon, students “inundated the school with emails” due to his public disapproval of Black Lives Matter and his Christian understanding of sexuality.”
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15849
I guess the non-Christian understanding of sexuality is required at the Christian School.
Missionary only?
The really good christian girls do anal, so’s they can save themselves for marriage.
I had a roommate in college whose girlfriend was exactly that girl.
White hunter make baby.
I…uh. Wow.
A lesson in how to alienate friends and would-be Christians,
*applause*
This is exactly how you do it. Tell them to shove it up their ass and then turn off the money spigot.
Why won’t he just roll over and make it easy for them?
Weird – Lord Humungus switched to another handle, one that I setup today before reverting to the original.
And now Lord Humungus is talking about himself in the third person.
https://twitter.com/someblackg/status/1312509164405440512
What?
“Hello faggot lovers everywhere”
?
Well they are useful for building fires.
Back atcha faggot brains
lol, where else can I get the type of news I get here?
I saw an especially amusing meme recently, when asked how your day is going:
Same eagles, different liver.
That was kinda painful to watch.
I was reading a local community “Facebook-like” page.
One lady kvetched about her awful roommate, how she was a slob and her boyfriend hung around, and ate all the food.
It was much funnier when I thought she was complaining about her cat.
Our two felines are now comfortable enough in the new house we moved into to start fighting over territory. Yesterday I stepped in a nice big fresh fur ball right between my toes. It was more vomit than fur. I really like cats… but god do I hate cats.
I am ready for some football. T minus 64 minutes.
Liking the name-change (more like “augmentation,” amirite?).
Thank you! I was going to go with Mojeaux the Maleficent, but that was too obvious. Then Mojeaux the Malicious, but that didn’t have enough syllables to make it sing. Then Mojeaux the Malevolent, but I’m really not that intimidating. So Magnificent it was, because I am that.
Hmmmm. Could’ve also done “munificent,” simply ’cause it’s less-often-used.
False advertising.
Mojeaux the Merry X-Mas from Julian Edelman?
Mojeaux the Meretricious?
Thank you for reminding me that the Packers are on. 🙂
The Trump campaign is in tatters…
https://kdvr.com/news/nationalworld-news/one-month-out-battered-trump-campaign-faces-big-challenges/
Tax returns! White supremacy! Bad-mouthing servicemembers! COVID! Bitchy First Lady!
The campaign may be in the dump, for all I know, but I’m not taking the quoted Nevertrumpers’ word for it. The AP’s credibility has really faded.
If only he had cherished his campaign and kept it safely stored in his basement like a responsible adult.
Yeah, all those scandals and he’s catching up to Biden in all the polls except that one weird one that says Biden has a 14pt lead. The media keeps hammering the point that the race is over so you deplorables might as well stay home.
I fully expect the MSM to have tractor pulls on every channel on Election Day because they are convinced that that will distract likely Trump voters. Maybe mix in Birth of a Nation and Gone with the Wind (the saucy version with no intro to warn you about the problematic story).
Packed rallies! Great fundraising! Polls moving his way!
Yeah. Tatters.
The 2016 electoral map is rapidly slipping away from Donald Trump
Good to reflect on the past, hope it works out again this year.
Read the exact same story from a different outlet a few days ago. That one must be making the journolist rounds.
They can rag on Trump all they want. I don’t think that they understand people aren’t going to be scrambling to the polls to vote for Trump, They’re going to scramble to the polls to vote against the party of Burn, Loot, Murder & seize the means of production.
“They’re going to scramble to the polls to vote against the party of Burn, Loot, Murder & seize the means of production.”
I don’t think that many people got that message. The social media crackdown since Trump won has been huge.
Tens turn out for NH Biden rally hosted by Bernie Sanders
“Joe Biden: “The reason I was able to stay home during the pandemic is because Black women were able to keep the grocery shelves stocked.””
https://twitter.com/robsmithonline/status/1313198125402722305
Not the exact quote, but still.
If the Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben’s rice ain’t stacked by a black woman it is totes cultural appropriation? Or something?
But white people could stock shelves just just as well as poor people.
*crickets*
He keeps stepping right in it, yet nobody cares or draws conclusions from it other than alt-media.
And the alt-media is way less than it was in 2016.
Like Joe Biden has gone grocery shopping at all in the last 47 years.
TMITE, part infinity:
Local TV news was plugging a study about coronavirus in adolescents. The only takeaway from the report is that the rate among adolescents is twice… the rate in kids aged 5-11.
No mention of what the actual rate is, how it compares the the rate among adults, and certainly nothing about how often adolescents need to be hospitalized because of coronavirus. Nope, they kept harping on “twice” because that makes it sound like a Scary Big Number.
Basically everyone in college had had it.
Adolescents was, I think, referring to 12-17 year olds.
A ray of sunshine in your news feed today
I guess the fact that the elderly lady’s car was wrecked puts a bit of tarnish on the story, but otherwise it is pretty upbeat.
I may take a page out of Gustav’s book and start emailing reporters and asking them the obvious questions in their stories that they clearly didn’t.
The way that story is written, it’s not clear that the teenagers were the hijackers. On second and third read, I’m still not sure.
“car they were riding in”
“riding in a vehicle that had been stolen by force”
That is some impressive dancing.
“riding in a vehicle that had been
stolen by forcepeacefully borrowed without asking”I guess the vehicle just carjacked itself.
Stupid self-hijacking vehicles! Sue the manufacturer!
They get tired of using “alleged.”
I do love a happy ending.
When do the riots start?
Ran into one of my cop friends at the gym today. He said the weekend was uneventful (shockingly) until some yutes beat up an old lady and took her car. Then proceeded to wrap it around a tree.
There have been a shot-ton of these, particularly in nice neighborhoods. Go figure.
By product of shutdowns or Antifa related?
By-products of cops standing down.
I am on my way back home and have been fighting with my gps which wants to route me through Minneapolis and Chicago. Sorry, but I will take the extra hour of drive time to avoid the traffic, tolls, and potential peaceful carjacking.
“Mostly” peaceful carjacking
Other than the pistol whipping, which only lasted .5 seconds, the car jacking was conducted peacefully, and the car was turned over after a verbal exchange reached consensus between the driver who preferred the loss of the car to being shot in the face and the
carjackersprotesters who agreed that they were willing to forgo the shooting in exchange for the car and pistol whipping.Meh. You’ll never hit the bad neighborhoods here. Just cruise through and you’ll be golden.
How was your trip?
The trip was great, heading home always kind of sucks though, driving east in the mornings is annoying and it feels like much more of a chore than the same drive the other way. The real reason I take the longer route south through Iowa is to avoid Chicago, they have made that such a nightmare with traffic and tolls extending for miles that I’d rather take an hour longer to avoid it. I am already in Iowa spending the night, and getting annoyed at Covid theater, I can’t have room service because having someone deliver food to me would put me at risk, but somehow, making me walk through the casino to the coffee shop then sit and wait for my food then take it back through the casino and up to my room is safer?
Yeah, it’s fucked. I’m glad you had a great trip. though!
Safe travels.
Burisma admits It bribed Joe Biden in Court Docs
https://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/politics/burisma-admits-it-bribed-joe-biden-in-court-docs/92234068/
Crickets from U.S. media.
Lots of bold red text! little information, going to go with “Meh” here.
There is something to it, who knows to what extent, but the mainstream is treating anyone that mentions it like they are saying the water is turning the frickin’ frogs gay.
https://ua.korrespondent.net/business/companies/4276557-Burisma-prohrala-sud-nardepu-i-zmi-u-spravi-baidena
(Translated)
So, they’ve been going after this Derchek guy, and painting him as a Russian agent who is trying to interfere in the 2020 US election. Is he? Who knows. But given the Russian fever dreams and past actions from our intelligence services, I’m skeptical about their motivations.
I’ve been enjoying the low-key Minnesota humor of Vice Grip Garage. Imagine the Red Green show for gearheads??? Or something like that.
Red Green is Steve Smith. That duct tape really comes in handy for hikers. And by handy, mean…
Imagine something funny, not the Red Green Show.
Well yes. RG show was the “I’ve got nothing to do tonight and I’ve got no cable” show.
I used to watch it when I had insomnia during grad school. I like the man’s prayer.
“We’re all in this together!” Closet prog?
Dude!
Welcome back! I hope all is well with you and the family.
And yeah, VGG is solid.
So, I was faced with an interesting situation at the doctor’s office today, there was a black family in the waiting room who seemed to be trying to run up a high score on all of the impolite things you can do in a waiting room (e.g. having a speakerphone call or two, letting the toddler have the run of the room and playing games and videos on his tablet with no headphone, loud non-speakerphone calls. It was annoying but I am exceptionally good at not letting that sort of thing get my goat, But I did a bit of a thought experiment what if I were to ask them to stop and be considerate of the rest of the folks in the waiting room? I would be risking a portrait mode video of me titled, ‘White Dude Perpetuating White Supremacy’ going viral and ruining my employment prospects, etc. Granted the probability of that happening would be exceptionally low but there would be a chance that it would happen. That made me wonder if the mother has never been told/taught what is appropriate behavior because people do the cost-benefit analysis and decide that it is not worth the risk.
“I would be risking a portrait mode video of me titled, ‘White Dude Perpetuating White Supremacy’ going viral and ruining my employment prospects, etc. Granted the probability of that happening would be exceptionally low but there would be a chance that it would happen.”
Getting crosswise with Sacred Beings is never a good idea.
That cost/benefit analysis you mention is so scary that people let their cities be looted and burned for fear of making the wrong decision.
Inside a forest fire from ODOT remote camera.
https://youtu.be/VBlpcCmFNRs
I don’t see any arsonists in the video. Proof that they were not set on purpose.
Duh, ideas can’t start fires.
Now, making heads explode…
That and this is one of two or more that was started by downed power lines during a windstorm during a red flag warning.
https://www.charlesdaly.com/product.php?id=525
What would I do with a .410 upper?
Why do I want one?
Make a semi-auto .410 shotgun?
Because you’re one of us?
I picked up my new to me 12g O/U on my way home tonight. Blued steel and wood fix for the day.
How’s it shoot?
Dunno. There has been some discussion about going to shoot sporting clays this upcoming weekend prior to the impulse bidding.
Sporting Clays is more fun than a barrel of puppies.
This place: https://www.lvsclays.com
I got to fire a Saiga-12 converted to full auto at Knob Creek a few years ago. That was an over/under: overpowered and undercapacity. What fun!
and, sorry, didn’t mean to step on your post.
What’s your mission with it?
No worries.
*shrug*
I didn’t have one and I managed to win with a low bid.
The beauty of a fine firearm is its own reward.
What would I do with a .410 upper?
Mount it on an AR, buy you some .410 ammo?
Why do I want one?
Because it would make a vicious home defense weapon? Low recoil, many shots on target? 00 .410 ammo isn’t easy to find (what is?), but I want to say it puts 4 or 5 pellets downrange at plenty of speed.
I see they even have some high capacity mags for it.
That’s the kind of enabling I was looking for! ?
Home defense weapon. Yeah, I can work with that.
Chiefs got ground game!
I suspect the Pats are just happy to be playing in front of ANY crowd.
You know who else has ground game?
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cal-cunningham-text-messages-senate-north-carolina
Dude’s a playa.
Moar progjection.
So, I didn’t hear about Trump’s brain surgery while he was in there. I’m surprised our esteemed media didn’t catch that.
I’m surprised they let him out, with all the esteemed psychiatrists of the internet diagnosing him as insane. It would have been the perfect opportunity to have him committed.
Meh, lemme know when he’s had a week long speed run and then took some acid. At that point I’ll start to worry. A little bit of steroids?, not really concerned.
In all truth, dexamethasone is a powerful steroid. I get that there’s an argument his judgement could be off as I’ve experienced roid rage myself. It’s difficult to describe other than you really hate the world.
I imagine he’s on a week taper so it should be minimized. I know I didn’t develop into full asshole until the second week of prednisone.