I imagine it will be something like this
Have I mentioned that the holidays are coming up? Make sure you have something on the menu for all your family.
Gosh, some of those ingredients might get a little pricey. You might need to earn a little extra cash.
Everyone knows that tomorrow is a holiday (and kind of a special one, too) …
…But did you know that today is, too? That’s right, every day: a celebration.
Something short and a little spooky, in the spirit of the season.
As First of Firsters, I find myself as The Other in a world filled with seconders and Firsters who do not compare.
This Halloween Is About to Be Even Spookier Than Usual Thanks to a Rare Blue Moon
It’s not rare. I frequently imbibe Blue Moon.
*narrows gaze*
Hipster confirmed.
But with lemon or orange?
Orange. Don’t be a philistine..
Orange if it is regular belgian white. But I have the Lightsky brew more often and I think it has a hint of lime.
Grapefruit Moon.
One star shining.
Shi-ning down on me.
Better that than Blue Nun.
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
Douglas Adams
+ Zaphod Beeblebrox
Why does Douglas Adams keep popping up in my life this week?
42
The interesting thing about the law of five is that the more you look for it, the more you see it everywhere.
Plate o’ shrimp?
To be honest, Cincinnatus wasn’t someone we would want leading us as well either.
Sure, but the idea of someone swiftly and voluntarily giving up absolute power is mighty appealing in the age of rule by fiat under the justification of public health. Cincinnatus was dictator for only two weeks, which is how long we were told it would take seven months ago.
Is there anything worth burning down left in Detroit?
The suburbs.
Are not in Detroit.
Fine, pedant. Ill change my reply to “Chrysler”. But they’re not in Detroit proper, either.
Mercury is a real good car.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCJZij74-J0
Little Caesar’s Arena?
RESPECK
Continually mispronouncing someone’s name is lazy at best and malicious at worst, as many people have been quick to point out. And too often, the names that are regarded as “too difficult” to learn belong to people of color.
To paraphrase what actress Uzo Aduba said her mother told her growing up, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky,” people can learn to say Sundar Pichai and Kamala Harris.
Ultimately, expert say, the issue boils down to power and respect.
No one can survive a stern “Tut-tut-ing” by CNN.
This is why I’ve had to slap so many Asians. My last name starts with an L not an R!!!!1!!111!!1
You know who else couldn’t survive a Tut ?
Anaksunamoon?
Fuck you, I’m not looking up how to spell it.
Ankhesenamun survived Tut and married Ay.
Akhenaten?
Winnie the Pooh?
Huh.
Bow before me! I AM NOW A PERSON OF COLOR!
At least based on the number of people who can’t pronounce my last name.
My family name is precisely four letters long.
I am constantly astounded at how many people either mis-pronounce or mis-spell it. Buncha slack-jawed yokels.
#MeToo. I’ve had people correct my name to a more common name, because clearly I don’t know how to spell my own name. The numbers of mispronunciation is ludicrous.
Mine is 6 letters, but people reliably change either the first vowel or second consonant. Never both, but regularly one or the other.
There are eight letters in my last name, 2 of them are vowels. People either start dropping consonants or adding vowels until it matches expectations.
I’ll see your 4 letters and raise you (or lower you?) 3 letters. Only 1 vowel. How can it be that difficult to spell or pronounce?
I’ll see your 4 letters and raise you (or lower you?) 3 letters. Only 1 vowel. How can it be that difficult to spell or pronounce?
Twice?
Twice?
Echo?
Echo?
Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon…. Manny Mota
Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon…. Manny Mota
Mota
Mota
We got ourselves a real fuck off Tulpa here.
Technically I’ve been fucking off Tulpa style for a year, maybe two.
Technically I’ve been fucking off Tulpa style for a year, maybe two.
GET THE ROPE
How am I to pronounce your name correctly when you also expect me to remember everyone’s unique and constantly changing gender?
“Today we have with us Ka-MAH-la Harris”
“It’s pronounced KAMMA-la Harris.”
“Oh, sorry, Senator Bitchyface. Is that better?”
“Oh, Pamma-la. Got it.”
“It’s KAMMA-la, peon!”
“Got it. Tammy-la.”
“IT’S NOT …”
“Spam-a-lot? Look, lady, I can do this all day.”
Susan?
He-lllooooooooo Nurse!
I hear Tchaikovsky and especially Dostoyevsky mispronounced a lot. And thanks to the Ninja Turtles, hardly anybody can pronounce Michelangelo.
I would move.
Can’t beat the cost of living.
We went through this bullshit a year and a half ago
I think the operative phrase is “the first time”.
If someone says, “Nice to meet you, Theodore,” and you reply with “Please, call me Ted.” If he or she continues to refer to you as Theodore, then that person is an asshole.
^ Yup ^
In e-mails, I stick to what they go by in their signature block. Otherwise I go by the name in the e-mail.
This^^
And fuck people who go by a diminutive but can’t be bothered to put that in their signature or put their preferred name in the HR system.
A coworker goes by the diminutive within the department and by his full name outside the department. Confusing as hell.
I go by one name at work, one name with my college friends, one name on glibs, and default to my legal name when in doubt.
I think the reason there’s no confusion is the lack of overlap in populations. as in not two names at work, etc.
I prefer the diminutive (by quite a bit) have it in my sig block, but can’t change the corporate e-mail system. I’ve also learned that there’s a cultural element to it, where some of my coworkers prefer to use the full name over the diminutive.
I’ll say that I have a lot of trouble remembering nicknames and pronunciations. It’s hard to remember if the 5th different Dave I met 3 months ago prefers to go by David or Dave.
I also often work with international clients from Asia and just can’t get the pronunciations right. I’ll practice saying a name 20 times right before a meeting and still fuck it up. I don’t have an ear for it.
I just call everyone chief or sweet heart. I don’t care enough to learn names.
I never ask someone to call me something. I have a long form and a short form for my first name and I couldn’t care less which one you use.
A guy I knew in grade school was named “David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye.”
Ended up becoming a history professor at Brock University in Ontario:
https://brocku.ca/humanities/history/faculty-staff/david-schimmelpenninck/
He introduced a whole swack of us to The Smurfs (who were little plastic figurines [and nothing else] you could get from Royal Dutch Shell gas stations in the Netherlands, circa late 1960s/early 1970s).
Okay, as somebody who is constantly having their name mispronounced….
Correct them once. If you act as somebody worthy of other people’s respect they will most likely refer to you however you want. If you’re a pain in the ass, they’ll respond by calling you whatever they want.
…or they’re fucking idiots and it doesn’t matter at all.
My girlfriend, who is of mixed Indian and Afro-Carribean decent much like Kamala, pronounces her name wrong.
According to her, “I know like twenty Kamalas, they all pronounce it like cam-ah-la, not comma-la. She’s probably just putting on airs.”
I’m whiter than the wind driven snow, so I just shrug my shoulders and agree with my girlfriend.
As a fellow dougla, I can add that this is just the black girls’ version of “Demi” Moore. That having been said, why subject yourself to this tar baby? The only winning move is not to play.
Thus my shoulder shrugging policy.
Quite frankly after (to say the least) the “sexual preferences is offensive” debacle, i wouldn’t put it past anyone on the left to manufacture something like this to score “Trumps an Asshole” points.
It’s whatever rhymes most closely with “commie”.
Kamala mispronounces her own name.
We can’t always speak with a proper Brahman accent.
This. I heard the tape, and unless someone messed with it, she pronounced her own name exactly the same way that CNN tells us we are racist for doing.
I wouldn’t expect anybody to pronounce my last name correctly the first five or ten times we meet. I work with a lot of Indians and allow myself the same courtesy.
For most of the overseas contacts, I expect to be called by my last name for some reason. And if by the first, incorrectly — (let’s just say I didn’t escape Texas and my name isn’t Dan either). Water off a duck’s back — I’ll correct them if I feel like it, but who gets bent out of shape over little crap like that (well, besides corrupt narcissists apparently…)
There is a difference between that and someone mispronouncing your name as a calculated insult.
I’m sure I mispronounce names all the time, but not on purpose.
As long as “Block Insane Yo Mama” never ever comes back, I’m good.
At least he was self-advertising what a jackass he was.
Remember how we would rip that guy a new asshole on the daily during the days of HnR?
If you told me 2020 was the year we all became Mike M., I would have rawdogged that stripper in RI and risked the Super-HIV.
Lol. Are we up to like aids-F or G now?
I listened to Kamala’s Too Nice too many times as a teen to read that name any other way. Sorry CNN.
Now that being said, if I had to speak to Ms. Harris I wouldn’t intentionally mispronounce it and I could probably manage not to accidentally do it. But every time I read it I still hear it the way that Ben Weasel and Vince McMahon said it.
My own wife doesn’t even pronounce my name correctly because of her accent.
Then again, maybe CNN does have a point about it being about power and respect.
Does your name have th in it?
Only if you have a lisp. The problem is with the ‘i’ in my name.
And your wife is Charro, if I’m imagining the correct vocalization?
Ultimately, expert say, the issue boils down to power and respect.
And here I thought it boiled down to where you grew up and what your native language is. I can pronounce Western names pretty well because I fucking grew up with them. Names from other cultures I’ll give it my best shot, and do my best, but a lot of time proper pronunciation requires having an accent/familiarity with the language. There are lots of names I will never pronounce the way native speakers do. It has nothing to do with power and respect.
I don’t expect people from other countries to say American names with perfect American pronunciation. And I won’t care if somebody gets their panties in a bunch because I don’t speak foreign names with perfect foreign pronunciation.
To summarize: Fuck off. I know who is trying to exert power and show disrespect, and its not me.
I have a coworker that I met via email named (according to the company) “Uzo Oko.” I figured he was Japanese. It turns out that was a company-approved abbreviation of his two African names which were (I shit you not) 22 and 23 letters long respectively.
Considering that the Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshis don’t have their names by the company, I wasn’t expecting that.
She clearly forgets she is in a nationwide interview to become our employee. As one of hir prospective bosses I will refer to her as any name I wish. If she doesn’t like it she can join the private sector.
How did I not know that this was a thing?
That is a really well done parody of Hitchcock.
Not enough suspense.
…But did you know that today is, too? That’s right, every day: a celebration.
Sounds like oldschool Brooklyn Halloween before Rudy became mayor and ruined all the fun.
Killed the fourth of July too–both holidays were a free-for-all back in the day.
You might recall how many Americans tripped up over the name of former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg (it’s pronounced “BOOT-edge-edge”), prompting his husband to tweet several phonetic pronunciations.
You want to be an American President? Get an American name.
Its pronounced “throatwarbler mangrove”
Booty Judge is a great American name if I ever heard one
“Giant empowahment bonah”
If your empowerment lasts longer than 4 years…
There is Jackson
standing like a stone wallfelled by the woke mob.The Virginia Military Institute’s board voted Thursday to remove a statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson that currently stands in front of the barracks on campus. That’s according to school spokesman William “Bill” Wyatt, who confirmed the decision in a brief email to The Associated Press.
The board says they want to move the statue to somewhere more “appropriate” such as the Battlefield at New Market.
The meeting of the Board of Visitors was still underway mid-afternoon Thursday. Wyatt said he would have a statement about the decision when it concludes. The statue and other associations with the Confederacy recently have generated discussion at the nation’s oldest state-supported military college, which is facing an outside investigation into what Virginia officials have characterized as a culture of “structural racism.”
The college also decided to appoint a diversity officer, establish a diversity and inclusion committee and create a diversity office. They will also adopt a diversity hiring plan. In addition to this changes there will also be diversity initiatives started to include a focus on gender.
In the eyes of the diversity office you are the woke brigade. In the social justice warrior mob you are the woke brigade. In the affections of your gender studies professor you are the woke brigade.
I just got some Bullshit text from the government “Hospitals are almost overwhelemed”. I quite frankly want to see the data, because i have a hard time believing that. Herbert and Cox can go fuck themselves.
The central florida division has plenty of space. Green status, which means we can do as many elective cases as we want. Probably because florida is locked down super hard. Welp, off to the gym then the bar fellas.
Cleveland Clinic changed their COVID ward back to a training area a couple months back. And it’s in Cuyahoga county, which was on the verge of turning PURPLE! PURPLE MAN!
To give you an idea, my county, has in this entire ordeal had 4 deaths. 4! and we are coded as Red.
The entire state has had only 600 deaths.
To be fair, the last time I went thru Utah there were these electronic highway signs saying, “The only acceptable number of highway deaths is zero.” It was in summertime, so I’m pretty sure the number of highway deaths so far that year was a non-zero number. Also, what were they hoping to get people to do? “Oh, wait, I was gonna drive recklessly and kill myself and others in a car accident, but that sign convinced me to pull over to the side of the road, permanently abandon my car, and walk everywhere the rest of my life!”
Data…pictures…I heard some bs like that earlier as well and my first inclination and response was to yell “bullshit” at the radio.
My provider in San Diego sent out a txt bomb to its text-enrolled members letting us know that the clinics are open for treating various conditions. There are still covid tents and all that, but they are worried about not having ANY OTHER PATIENTS right now.
Everyone knows that tomorrow is a holiday (and kind of a special one, too)
Correct! Where I will be doing some kind of fortnight thing involving a plague doctor mask, an ‘I Voted’ sticker, an evil black rifle, and a cape.
Possibly an ascot, but that depends on the weather.
Gf got me drawn into a hiking trip with my parents this weekend. I am not thrilled about it.
Hiking trip on Halloween? Are you bringing a video camera, Blair Witch style?
I expect pics.
You always do
And you always oblige. 😉 Definitely one of the good ones
I’m planning on sitting on my front porch with full sized candy bars (for the kids) and a large pump thermos full of spiked cider (for the adults) with no mask on (but it’ll be cold enough to wear pants) handing things out.
I would hand out candy but in this little community there’s a big golf course parking lot where parents take kids to “trunk or treat”. Participating residents pop open their trunks, decorate them, and kids make the rounds.
Boring. No reason to decorate the yard.
That is uber lame. They do it here.
Harris, too, has insisted that people get her name right, tying her experiences to what so many others go through.
“That the highest elected leaders should conduct themselves like they did when they were children on the playground, it speaks poorly of their appreciation for the responsibility of the role that they have,” she said on The Daily Show. “And I think it’s a reflection of their values and their maturity.”
“tut-tut!’ she cried, from the stage of that august bastion of serious intellectualism, The Daily Show.
You know she has a point. See i was thinking using the power of your office to keep an innocent man on death row spoke porely of someones character and whatnot, but she’s convinced me.
I suspect that Kammy would prefer if you called her, “Your Grace,” if you must use your name with your plebian mouth.
Inmate 67413 is the correct pronunciation
Harris, too, has insisted that people get her name right
I’m curious: who has been mispronouncing “Harris”, anyway?
I cannot beleive there is an issue on how to pronounce Kamala.
You do it left coast style:
Hoe
Top story on DM:
“Read the piece The Intercept refused to run: GLENN GREENWALD’S blistering attack on the US media’s conspiracy of silence over Hunter Biden’s laptops and the serious questions Joe still has to answer over son’s sketchy Chinese and Ukrainian business deals”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8898085/GLENN-GREENWALDS-attack-medias-conspiracy-silence-Hunter-Bidens-laptops.html
Still, most people probably haven’t heard about the Hunter Biden thing.
I mentioned Hunter’s laptop to my wife the other day. She gets most of her news from the local channels, the network morning shows and whatever happens to show up on her Facebook feed. She had no clue what I was referring to.
Unreal.
I figured you were more interested in Demi Rose’s thoughts on the article.
Nope. They absolutely succeeded in burying it.
People were talking “Streisand Effect”, but I don’t see that happening.
“Cop SUES Breonna Taylor’s boyfriend for assault, battery and emotional distress he suffered when he shot him in the leg during botched raid”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8896373/Louisville-police-officer-sues-Breonna-Taylors-boyfriend-assualt.html
I didn’t even know cops could do that.
Why sure. And the Boyfriend doesn’t get to have the benefit of Qulaified immunity, and i bet he doesn’t get to have the benefit of Castle Doctrine and being in his own fucking home because fucking cops think they can fucking kill your girlfriend and charge you for it.
“Just some bad apples”
Fuck Cops and their thin blue line.
I admit that I have no idea how to pronounce Kamala’s name.
“Hair-riss”
[standing applause]
Is it not KA-mala?
Comma-la, according to her.
As opposed to Ka-MAH-la that most people assume.
What a cunte.
“I had to get rid of a lot of people in my life because sometimes you just have to let them go,” Lemon told colleague Chris Cuomo as the two introduced “CNN Tonight.” “I think that they have to hit rock bottom, like an addict, right? And they have to want to get help.”
“They have to want to know the truth,” Lemon continued. “They have to want to live in reality. They have to want to be responsible, not only for other people’s lives, but for their lives.” Lemon acknowledged how “sad” it was that he might never be able to “be friends with those people” because they could be “too far gone.”
However, the CNN host said he would be willing to “welcome them with open arms” if they admit the error of their ways in supporting Trump and “live in reality.” But for the moment, Lemon said, he “can’t do it anymore.”
Lemon and Cuomo had been discussing the urgency of wearing masks and social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic — something they say Trump and his supporters are reluctant to do even after Lemon is willing to “show them the science.”
“They are so nonsensical when it comes to this issue. They have every single talking point that they hear on state TV and that they hear from this president: they repeat it and they are blinded by it.”
Such progjection.
“…They have to want to be responsible, not only for other people’s lives, but for their lives.”
Why in the world would I want to be responsible for other people’s lives?
‘I am not my brother’s keeper.’
–the first libertarian
Um…
Murdering Paleo diet nuts isn’t against the NAP.
I like this take.
Or Don Lemon could just be making shit up.
Gay men are yuge Trump supporters; it is known.
Lemon just might be into race-play and humiliation.
Jus’ sayin’.
But don’t think about it too much if you wish to not vomit.
Not thinking…. Not thinking….
Shit
*barf*
See I am picturing him with some super feminist woman and her cuck hubby.
Wife: Slave you will serve me and my Nubian Lover!
Don and Cuck disappear to bedroom
Wife: Ummm, what about me
Muffled noises from bedroom
Cuck reappears: No I won’t do that! That is the sickest thing I have ever heard and I just won’t do it!
Don reappears: Please, you don’t have to pour bleach, but just wear the MAGA Hat, please!
HM throws down on SF.
sour Lemon
Are there any other kind?
Don Lemon, sour?
He’s doing them a favor.
“Donald Trump hints that ‘25,000 people’ will turn up for rally in Minnesota which was limited to 250 by state authorities because of COVID rules saying ‘we’ll see what happens’ – as Joe Biden campaigns in state too”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8897233/Donald-Trump-Joe-Biden-head-head-second-day-row-Minnesota-Wisconsin-stops.html
Can Biden even get 250 people?
“Keith Ellison Restricts Freedom of Assembly of Political Opponents https://breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/29/keith-ellison-wields-power-to-restrict-freedom-of-assembly-of-political-opponents-at-minnesota-trump-rally/ via @BreitbartNews We were planning for as many as 25,000 people in Minnesota. Now the Governor, at the last moment, will only allow the first 250 people to attend. Riots plus Omar = WIN!”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1322059055741997056
Seven months into flattening the curve, the Zoom/Happy Hour/whatever else you want to call it are still going on. I’ll kick it off at ~20:00 Eastern. Tomorrow the plan is for a very special attempt at sharing Zardoz. I’m thinking muted with subtitles unless there are enough people who really want to hear the audio.
Today is the next-to-last day of early voting where I live. I got there just after eleven am and the line was ridiculously long out the door and of an unknown length inside and didn’t seem to be moving. I hadn’t dressed for the weather so left to try again another day. Early voting only occurs at two places in the county whereas the regular polling places are more numerous. Going to try again earlier tomorrow, and hoping lines will be short on Tuesday if it comes to that.
Fingers crossed for you!
Thanks. My plan is to force myself up early tomorrow. But that rarely works out. I will bring more better gear, though.
Looks like Rhywun might have to eat his hat.
?
I’m glad someone remembers my words better than I do.
I didn’t find out until last night that almost all of the usual voting places would be closed here. Everyone in the county is expected to vote at one of only three locations, two of which are on Indian reservations. Wife and I went to an early-vote place and there was no line. Walked up, got the ballot and stuck it in the machine when finished. I was surprisingly impressed with the security of the process.
The college also decided to appoint a diversity officer, establish a diversity and inclusion committee and create a diversity office. They will also adopt a diversity hiring plan. In addition to this changes there will also be diversity initiatives started to include a focus on gender.
Talk about beating your swords into plowshares.
I pronounce it “kuh MAUL uh”
“Fascist commie windbag”
^
“They have to want to know the truth,” Lemon continued. “They have to want to live in reality. They have to want to be responsible, not only for other people’s lives, but for their lives.” Lemon acknowledged how “sad” it was that he might never be able to “be friends with those people” because they could be “too far gone.”
However, the CNN host said he would be willing to “welcome them with open arms” if they admit the error of their ways in supporting Trump and “live in reality.” But for the moment, Lemon said, he “can’t do it anymore.
Well Lah Dee Fucking Daaah.
If anyone asks me what the word ‘smarmy’ means I will just say “Don Lemon”.
Woops! I accidentally a comment with three links, and can’t seem to approve it myself.
Thanks 🙂
thicc?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-8898177/Demi-Rose-puts-busty-display-plunging-neon-green-bikini.html
Tudor Thick.
Nope. Ample cleavage.
https://twitter.com/EddieZipperer/status/1322218253247303681
I have no idea what he is trying to say?
Neither does he.
I don’t even have a guess, and I used to work as a bartender.
True international pressure?
Like using bars instead of PSI.
damn euros with their PED requirements
That could be it.
That would be my guess, but it doesn’t really make sense in context with the rest of the sentence.
Well, at least it’s words in a known language. Making sense might be asking a bit too much.
Everyone knows that tomorrow is a holiday
Oh yeah, but not like Sunday. Sunday is the 141st opening day for Rose Tree Foxhunting Association. The wife will be riding with them; I usually arrive for the refreshments [now there is an understatement] but sadly, this is a covid-conscious event this year, so no bountiful tables of food or free-flowing beverages.
Are you married to James Delingpole?
[sneaks a quick peak into pants]
No.
That should of course be peek, because neither Mr. nor Mrs. Delingpole would inspire a peak.
The only other person I’ve ever heard talk about going foxhunting is Delingpole.
Backpedallers
Walmart on Friday reversed its decision to take guns and ammunition from store displays in response to concerns about “isolated civil unrest.”
The country’s largest retailer had asked all of its stores to move firearms and ammunition to a secure backroom area of the store out of “an abundance of caution” on Thursday, Walmart spokesperson Kory Lundberg told NBC News in an email.
But, “as the current incidents have remained geographically isolated, we have made the decision to begin returning these products to the sales floor today,” he said Friday.
The move comes four days before the presidential election, which Presidential Donald Trump has suggested he will contest in the event of a win by former Vice President Joe Biden.
After a summer of heated protests related to police violence, and anti-lockdown protesters armed with assault rifles demonstrating in Michigan and Minnesota in the spring, storefront businesses are worried about what may come next week. Across the country, stores have begun boarding up windows and hiring additional security to prepare for any potential property damage.
Those mostly peaceful protestors will be too busy looting high end merchandisers to hit Walmart.
I have a lot of sympathy for someone who’s annoyed that people can’t get their name right, or, worse, refuse to. I changed my name when I was 13, and 37 years later some members of my family still can’t “remember” to use it. It’s disrespectful. You can think Kamala Harris is an evil bitch but still pronounce it that way she prefers.
I have more sympathy for the family members who are uncomfortable calling you Shitlord Thundercock
That’s LORD Shitlord Thundercock, thank you very much!
I would hope that someone with that name would be OK with people just calling them “Thunder”.
The proper short for of that name just drops the middle 3 syllables.
“Moreover, I posted the email and helpful hints so that anybody can reproduce the validation. Don’t believe me? Good — see for yourself!”
https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1322217819749126150
“This project validates that the “smoking gun” email from that NYPost story actually was a valid email sent 6 years ago. We know this because GMail cryptographically signed it with “DKIM”.”
https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/hunter-dkim/blob/main/README.md
Yeah, DKIM sigs will prove the e-mails haven’t been changed. Same deal with the Podesta e-mails from last time around.
(I helped setup DKIM on our outgoing servers – it’s a slick system)
If the media doesnt mention it-what difference does it make?
Underwear is putting trans lives at risk:
I’m not kidding, read the replies!
I’m sure it’s because a bunch of people decided that JK Rowling is transphobic.
Well you’re no fun.
SCIENCE!
The United States reported a record 88,521 new coronavirus cases on Thursday as the pandemic seeps into every area of the country and scientists warn of exponential growth ahead of the holidays.
Exponential growth!!!!!!
And every one of those cases will result in death, apparently.
It’s not like the low hanging fruit has already been knocked down. What a mob of incompetent buffoons. Has it never occurred to them the variables in this phenomenon will not remain constant?
Probably should read “It’s not like the low hanging fruit has NOT already been knocked down.”
I tried going to Costco and it was a zoo. I saw nobody with paper products coming out (which was what I was going for mostly) and so instead of fighting the zombie horde for a space, I turned around and went home. Don’t know if it’s election panic, lockdown panic, or just a lot of people intending to party on Halloween, but that was crazy.
Everybody must’ve been there because there was zero line to vote when I dropped off my ballot.
I was thinking when I was in there how much I miss the old machines. I remember there was a practice/toy one the kids could use while my parents voted; that thing was cool. We need more whimsy in our elections. Less “this is the Most Important Election of ALL TIME” and more “here’s a toy voting machine for your kid while you do the vote thing”.
We’re starting to find ourselves on a steep slope of the epidemic curve, so I think you’re going to see cases accelerate,” Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the Food and Drug Administration, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Friday. The positivity rate, or the percentage of total tests that are positive, is greater than 10% in roughly 15 states, a sign that “there’s more infection out there that we’re not turning over,” he said.
There is a high positivity rate? Maybe because you’d have to be nuts to get tested if you’re asymptomatic.
If the preponderance of people being tested are symptomatic (as I suspect), or have been “exposed”, 10% seems low.
Today’s “Great Moments in Circular Reasoning” is brought to us by California elections and Gavin Newsom.
Instead of saying “qualified citizens” or even “registered voters”, the official wording on all the State elections paperwork (ballot, voters guide on propositions, etc) says “All California voters will receive a vote-by-mail ballot for the November 3, 2020, General Election.”
“How do we know they can vote?”
“Easy. Only voters receive ballots.”
“But that automatically makes anyone who lives in California a voter, even if not a citizen.”
“Don’t be silly; they don’t get a ballot unless they are a voter…”
Etc etc.
So tiresome. They’re relentless.
One free case of Brawndo for everyone who votes by mail.
I saw a Biden ad that talked about how Americans gambled 4 years ago and lost. Now we need a “steady hand” to steer the ship. That’s what I think of when I think Joe Biden. Steady hands.
He is pretty handsy. Close enough.
Biden being spoon fed in the White House bunker while Commiela strangles American prosperity with steady hands.
/kiddingnotkidding
I guess these days when he caresses the shoulders of young girls to take a whiff of their hair it may help steady the shakes.
Friday Fun Fact Finale
Well, I did it. I think I have found everything on Wikipedia worth reading, and most of it is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Unusual_articles
I decided that since I had found most of those articles from other searches, I have conquered Wikipedia. That and during a random article binge, I saw that there are a great many articles about moths and athletes. But no moth athletes.
Some of my favorites from there and elsewhere:
Arrakis is the name of the desert planet in Dune. It is also the name of a real star. The name is garbled Arabic for: the dancing [camel] (Ar-Raqis)
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Betelgeuse is derived from either the Arabic إبط الجوزاء Ibṭ al-Jauzā’, meaning “the armpit of Orion”
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PZL M-15 Belphegor A Soviet attempt at a turbofan-powered crop duster. It is the slowest jet aircraft to enter production as well as the only jet biplane or jet crop duster to exist.
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Adactylidium is a genus of mites known for its unusual life cycle.[1] The pregnant female mite feeds upon a single egg of a thrips, growing five to eight female offspring and one male in her body. The single male mite mates with all the daughters when they are still in the mother. The females, now impregnated, eat their way out of their mother’s body so that they can emerge to find new thrips eggs.[2] The male emerges as well, but does not look for food or new mates, and dies after a few hours. The females die at the age of 4 days, when their own offspring eat them alive from the inside.[3]
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The Miracle of 1511 (Dutch: De sneeuwpoppen van 1511) was a festival in Brussels in which the locals built approximately 110 satirical snowmen. It is estimated that more than half of the snowmen portrayed pornographic or sexual characters.[1] Examples of snowmen built included a snownun that was seducing a man, a snowman and a snowwoman having sex in front of the town fountain and a naked snowboy urinating into the mouth of a drunken snowman. There were also snow unicorns, snow mermaids, a snow dentist, and snow prostitutes enticing people into the city’s red light district.
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United States v. Article Consisting of 50,000 Cardboard Boxes More or Less, Each Containing One Pair of Clacker Balls, 413 F. Supp. 1281 (D. Wisc. 1976), is a 1976 United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin decision regarding a requested order from the United States government to seize and destroy a shipment of approximately 50,000 sets of clacker balls under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act because children could hit themselves with the balls.[1][2]
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Depopulation of cockroaches in post-Soviet states refers observations that there has been a quick disappearance of various types of cockroaches since the beginning of the 21st century in Russia and other countries of the former USSR. Various factors have been suggested as causes of the depopulation.
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Wow, how bad does communism suck if even the roaches are emigrating?
The only statue on moon besides that big black rectangle:
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Fallen Astronaut is a 3.5-inch (8.9 cm) aluminum sculpture[1] created by Paul Van Hoeydonck. It is a small stylized figure, meant to depict an astronaut in a spacesuit, intended to commemorate the astronauts and cosmonauts who have died in the advancement of space exploration. It was commissioned and placed on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 15 at Hadley Rille on August 1, 1971, next to a plaque listing the 14 men known who died.[2]
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And lastly, the motto for Derpskatonic University, Flea Market, and Petting Zoo
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A Pompeian graffito quotes a line of iambic verse:[31]
senī supīnō cōleī cūlum tegunt
(“When an old man lies down, his testicles cover his butthole.”)
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It’s been a blast. I think I’ll stick to real books from now on.
That’s a strange CYOA.
So in regard to name pronunciation, is it pretentious, culturally sensitive or patronizing to pronounce someone’s name with the accent of their ethnicity.
Example: a latina named Claudia. As a white person should I pronounce it with the American accent or like Cloud-e-ah?
“Sweet cheeks” you covered this up thread, how quickly one forgets.
I’m asking about civil society, I know how I conduct myself.
I pronounce it how he or she pronounces it. Assuming I can.
Fortunately my Chinese co-workers use Western first names, but I give it a shot for their lower names.
Fortunately my Chinese co-workers use Western first names
When I worked at a school with international students, I was thankful that the Thai kids used western nicknames. Besides being difficult to pronounce, Thai names tend to get so long as to be difficult to even remember.
I had a friend in HS from Thailand named Fluke. That god for us small town rednecks it was something we knew how to pronounce properly.
You can’t pronounce “Achavanuntakul”?
I don’t know, is that what Fluke is short for?
Thai nicknames have no connection (usually) to their formal names.
Interesting. Like a fat guy with the nick name “slim”?
They will do things like that actually. My ex was a teeny-tiny woman, but her family nicknamed her “Yai”, which means “big”.
“…Fortunately my Chinese co-workers use Western first names…”
My Chinese co-workers choose silly ones though, like Ace or Tiger or Spinach
Very real laughing out loud.
If I ever move to a new town, I’m introducing myself as spinach. That’s awesome
/thinks of a coworker who uses the first name Princess
Ask them what they prefer. No biggie. I had a student from the Netherlands. Her name was “Laura”. So, I called her “Law-ra”…eventually she mentioned that her name is pronounced “Laow-ra” in Dutch, hence her nickname “Lau”. It blew my mind as I had no idea there were multiple pronunciations. So, I asked what she would prefer and she said either but appreciates when people try the Dutch pronunciation. So “Lau-ra” it was.
In Japanese I’ve never had an instructor ever pronounce my name in anything but the Japanese way.
To be fair, isn’t “Sensei” easy for Japanese to pronounce?
That’s what I say.
Ask Claudia.
Pbbbbt. That’s just foolish /s
You guys are no fun. The real life answer is it depends on who she is talking to, in my experience. Latin friends is “cloud-e-ah” and americanos are Claudia.
Lets be real, you were going to call her Sugar-tits.
*kicks rock bashfully*
Yeahhhh.
Clavdivs, of course.
“Just the Lieutenant Governor of Idaho, driving around with a gun and a Bible protesting #COVID19 restrictions ”
https://twitter.com/PoliticsReid/status/1321820053424074752
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article246753741.html
Maybe I was feeling extra tin-foil hatty when I read this, but is is possible that California passed AB5 (the bill that kneecapped Uber and Lyft in the state) to help clear the way for Tesla?
Frankly, I don’t think your standard Sacramento lawmaker has the brains or the foresight for something like that.
BTW, I rather like the way that ARK thinks. If you have a few shekels rattling around and a high enough risk tolerance, you might consider investing in one of their ETFs. They’ve had a couple with yuuge returns the last few years.
I wouldn’t put anything past California legislators.
I think they are just stupid, and they don’t realize that AB5 will only expedite the development of autonomous vehicles. But then, they will probably write a law to ban those too.
They don’t have to think, they have to be bought.
No. If you know anything about Lorena Gonzales who wrote that bill – she did it because she’s a commie union handmaiden.
And also you are correct: no one in Sacramento has any brains or foresight whatsoever.
Lorena Gonzales also stars in commercials in support of Prop 16 which would all discrimination. She’s truly awful.
Forgot about this Hallowe’en gem
Since it’s Devil’s Night, I think I’ll rewatch The Crow
Fascinating how it and The Matrix are both considered Goth.
FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP! FIRE IT UP!
Actual Goths would not have liked today’s goths. Goths were a fierce warrior people who later became fiercely Christian.
Actual Vandals might have liked today’s vandals.
Today’s Vandals?
What is “real”? If it is that which you can taste and touch “real” is simply the electrical signals interpreted by your brain.
And it is a tool of the conformists.
It’s fashion.
“A tape might exist of Trump doing something in an elevator, though exactly where that somewhere is and what that something might be, no one in media can say. That’s because no one in media seems to have seen the tape — or is even confident it exists.
8:24 PM · Jul 14, 2018”
https://twitter.com/HuffPost/status/1018290098503340033
Actual tapes of Hunter Biden smoking crack naked with his underage cousin are of no interest, though.
Shouldn’t Twatter ban that tweet?
I’m sure there are a lot of such tapes around, since many elevators have security cameras. The vast majority of the “doing something in an elevator” will be “standing.”
Hey buddy. Stop doing that.
“Not the Bee”
“doing something in an elevator”
Lighting up the buttons like a Christmas tree? Impeach the bastard.
About done with The Fellowship of the Ring. I have to say the plot of the series is awfully similar to the movie The Gods Must Be Crazy (both are about a perilous journey to a distant land to destroy an evil thing).
I’m surprised at how minimal that battle scenes have been so far. The duel with the balrog doesn’t even fill up a whole page. There’s an whole lot of world-building though with songs and descriptions of scenery.
Still, I like it so far, except for the the orcs being disposable bad guys who are ugly and mean because they are ugly and mean. Good vs. evil happens in a real life about as often as lengthy sword duels.
Tolkien isn’t noted for his depth and complexity of characters. It’s an allegory.
IIRC, Tolkien asserted that he “cordially detested allegories” so he might find that take problematic. Not to say you’re wrong, but I think Tolkien would have thought you were wrong.
There’s not much subtle about Tolkien. Complex, yes, subtle, no.
^this^
Tolkien was specifically trying to write an English mythology.
I would have loved to hear the arguments he had with CS Lewis.
That’s true. Both lands of peace and harmony until outsiders were allowed in…
One Coke bottle to decorate snake skins…one to play music…one to throw up in the air…and then bonk people on the head.
Sadly, I don’t know how to say in “my precious” !Kung.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e-IMCcWdcM
in !Kung, that is
typos- I make them
Tolkien agreed. He wrote that if he could write the series over, he would have made the orcs more nuanced.
Wow, I didn’t know that. Thanks!
Incidentally, the series of tubes says nuance comes from the word for cloud, then picked meanings related to shading.
I was thinking the other day how sombrero sort of sounds like umbrella, and sure enough, both come from the Latin word for shade.
It’s for me to imagine a timeline where umbrella means “characteristic” and nuance means “shadow”.
There is another quote that I can’t find where he says he would have written some orcs on the “good” side.
That’s the kind of stuff that should be in the intro of the trilogy I have, instead of whining about inconsistencies in the spelling of made-up words in the various editions.
That’s what happens when you put the nerds in charge.
Deep, rich, but not particularly subtle
Still, I like it so far, except for the the orcs being disposable bad guys who are ugly and mean because they are ugly and mean. Good vs. evil happens in a real life about as often as lengthy sword duels.
But since he wrote much of it during World War II, which was about as close to a good vs evil war of any war that has ever happened, I think he can get a pass on that.
Hypothetically, If LOTR is an allegory for WW2, who are the Soviets? There’s some friction among the hobbits, elves, dwarfs, and men, but they all hate the orcs and vice versa.
It would be more interesting if there had been another faction of orcs who allied with the other races out of necessity. Some Soviet writer did a LOTR spin off from the orc perspective.
I don’t think he ever intended a direct metaphor to WW2, but just using his experiences in WW1 and what he was seeing in WW2 as inspiration for his story to express everything he hated about war and bigotry.
IIRC there’s a comment that in the War of the Last Alliance “Every race fought on both sides, save the Elves”. So while this is usually taken as a slam on Dwarves for some fighting for Sauron, it could imply there were Orcs on the side of Men and Elves against Sauron.
But no, generally speaking, the Evil of Sauron is supernatural, not mortal, so there’s no nuance.
Good vs evil is only apparent in the rear view mirror.
China today is equal to Nazi Germany easily, yet just like pre-war Nazi Germany many people are in bed with and supporting Chi-coms.
Of course in the near future they will all deny it.
An interesting conversation between Gad Saad and Noor bin Ladin, Usama’s niece:
https://youtu.be/fgVJr3Aub_g
~55 min
Gad certainly wins the Battle of the Hair with the Quaker Oats powdered wig.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElldfXRVgAQAuv7.jpg
The only problem with that is Fitty heard the message and got in line. He’s a got shot seven times and lived wussy.
“Ellen Page and Paris Berelc have been cast in the gaming comedy ‘1UP’ for BuzzFeed Studios.
The film is described as being in the vein of ‘Pitch Perfect’ but set in the world of esports with a Gamergate backdrop.”
https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1322284722819637248
No.
That’s going to flop. What’s their target audience and does it exceed 500 Twitter SJW trolls?
I read that as “the world of escorts”. I would rather watch escorts.
Oooh! Next, let’s make a movie about Ernie Els with Williams sisters backdrop!
I found the one person who will pay to see that.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3gz9m/dark-souls-is-a-game-about-living-under-capitalism-in-2020
Because it’s so rewarding and rich?
Apparently you have to fail an IQ test to write for Vice these days.
They’re working hard to achieve most intellectually challenged site on the internet.
“Do you have any peanut butter cheese crackers? I can only have peanut butter cheese crackers.”
Not Vice, but.
If Rasmussen polls are to be taken at face valie…Biden is toast.
31% black vote
46ish% hispanic vote
Those aren’t anything to sneeze at. Alas they are polls and we all know what polls accomplish.
Do partisan pollsters treat their polls as an attempt at positive visualization of their desired outcome, to drive up confidence in the votership?
All the nevertrumper and democrat leaning pollsters see clear sailing for Biden, for instance.
Who the hell knows?
I cannot empathize with the type of personality that does that sort of thing.
No clue. Trump is criss-crossing the nation, Biden is scrambling to ‘blue’ states. 2020 is going to destroy everything we know about anything.
Trump is trolling with a Scranton rally on the eve of the election.
It is actually amazing to watch all this.
Everybody loves a winner and convincing the public one candidate or the other has it in the bag or even just has hope can be worth a percentage point or two. Nobody wants to be on the losing side.
That strategy worked well in 2016.
Probably subject to the last minute falloff that LP candidates suffer. It would be shocking, in the end, if Trump got even 15% of the black vote and 25% of the hispanic vote.
From my experience with black women, that would mean about 60% of black male voters are voting for Trump. I’m doubting that.
Joe seems so angry.
Someone is heckling him with a horn in MN. ?
On the subject of pronouncing foreign names, my last name is unpronounceable in Swahili, so they called me by my first name or sometimes Mr T for short. I neglected to tell them about the more famous Mr T.
So black people who never heard of Mr. T?
You pity the fools?
How to get a costume.
@Toxteth, intel about the Bronkaid? You’re welcome. Also they reformulated the ephedrine so it’s ephedrine sulfate instead of HCl (I think), so now we don’t have a buy limit and don’t have to show DL. That said, I haven’t used it since my doc gave me an ADHD med to keep me awake. It works lovelyly.
@Ted’S, Laura Ingalls Wilder is the proto-Rose. Without Laura, Rose would not have reached the libertarian motherlode. Now, it took her a moment of Marxist belief, then a stint in Bosnia before she came to her enlightenment, but LIW has made far more libertarians than Rose did. I suppose you could argue that the way she edited the LH books made LIW the ur-libertarian, but Laura’s writings in the Mansfield paper and farm journals are equally libertarian in attitude. She and Almanzo weren’t the original “Fuck off, slaver”s of the 20th Century, but they were pretty close to it. Lastly, Rose was widely read in her time, but her legacy is the editing of the LH books, and other than fans, casual readers would be totally ignorant of Rose, who is not read at all and hasn’t been for 80 years. My heroine is very well aware of the history and contributions of Rose, but ackshually no, technically, Rose is not the one my heroine looks to as the original libertarian.
I was trying to crack a literate joke on the fact that some people believe Rose did far more than edit her mother’s work.
Right, well, that’s the argument, but even heavy editing is still just editing, especially if her name’s not on the copyright page.
My heroine did make all these points in the book though so it’s not like she’s unaware of Lane, Paterson, and Rand.
Oh and Laura’s work in the farm journals and local newspapers are not without literary merit. She had a wry sensibility.
I was trying to crack a literate joke
With these idiots? may as well push rope. I made a hilarious Damon Runyon/Rudyard Kipling joke the other day and got crickets, philistines.
complaint dept
Today I got a lecture on the importance of risk assessment forms from a guy who broke his foot while running during PT. As in, he literally had a cast on his foot while he was talking to me. I asked him if there had been a risk assessment for the run. He said yes, and that form protected the PT leader from possible punishment. I said: but you got hurt anyway so what good was it? And in any case, the injury was not from negligence on the PT leader’s part. The injury was caused when the runner stepped off the path to pass someone.
Earlier, same guy had asked me to do a PT calendar and risk assessment for self-PT, as in just me doing pt by myself. With great reluctance, I filled out the forms and awaited the inevitable scolding for not writing enough. Seemed silly to me to write a risk assessment for using an exercise bike or make a calendar that just says the same 3 things over and over. But I did it anyway, because befehl ist befehl, shut up and color.
And so the scolding came and my new punishment is to make a 30 minute PowerPoint presentation on the importance of counseling. 2 months ago, I was sarcastically ordered to write 5,000 words about counseling. That was my punishment for asking: how many words do you want me to put on the form? So I wrote the 5,000 words, and that nearly got me in trouble. But at least I had fun ranting. 2 months ago, I got called in at 4 AM on a Saturday to do dumb online classes, classes which I’ve done multiple times already.
I have a little over a year to go and plenty saved up. I found a Subaru Outback for a good price. Think I might just skip ahead to the nomad in Wyoming part of my life. I thought I could hang on for another 14 years and get the pension, but if it’s just going to be paperwork, PowerPoint, and dumb online classes forever and ever amen, I’m not sure if it’s worth it. I also don’t want to be a ward of the state my whole life. It’s a shame. This is the longest stretch I’ve had the same job and I liked it most of the time.
Thoughts?
Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat. Doesn’t matter what the ‘mission’ of the organization is to begin with, bureaucrats will make it a matter of checking boxes and filing reports, and eventually the reports and checkmarks will be the actual mission.
It seems like there’s a vicious cycle where those who blindly obey and shuffle paper stay in and move up, which leads to more paper shuffling. And everyone opposed to paper shuffling leaves until you have peak paper shuffling and then you need a damn cave to hold all the paper:
the fedgov paperwork cave – a real place
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587305/Crazy-Cave-one-examples-government-bureaucracy-laying-waste-taxpayer-dollars.html
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Six hundred workers are processing government pension papers in an underground bunker entirely by hand in a staggering example of state inefficiency that is costing taxpayers millions.
Staff at what has been dubbed the ‘Crazy Cave’ take up to 61 days just to deal with one single case because of the archaic process that is the same speed as 37 years ago.
Each file is sent in on paper, entered into a computer, printed out on paper – and then put back into a computer again.
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[head desk]
If you’re still enjoying it, despite the downsides, stick with it if you think there’s a likelihood of advancement. On the other hand, I’m told lots of companies go out of their way to hire veterans.
Also, Biden may get elected, in which case there will be wars to fight.
. . . Biden may get elected, in which case there will be wars to fight.
The Worldwide Libertarian Movement™ will need you to kill a commie for Mommy.
Yeah. The re-enlistment rate for my MOS is lower than whale shit and they keep giving me reasons to follow the herd. If I get promoted again and they let me be an instructor, I’ll stay in. That’s about it though.
I don’t expect bold moves from a Biden admin. I’m more worried about PC creep if he wins.
On a side note, I’ve known active military who don’t vote because the military is supposed to be politically neutral, and anyway, the president is C-in-C whether you like him or not. My own position is that with an all volunteer military, by joining, you implicitly agree with being called to any war, so the voting part is irrelevant.
Still, I plan on voting in person on Election Day. If the madness can’t be stopped, perhaps it can be slowed to a crawl.
I’m guessing there are some sweet civilian gigs that pay more for your MOS.
More seriously, what B.P. says.
Seems like being in the Armed Forces is scratching your particular itch, even though it’s not 100%.
Pro tip: NOTHING is 100%.
If it’s just annoying, you can deal. When it becomes intolerable, go postal and take out as many bureaucrats and technocrats as possible before they finally put you down. You owe it to us. ;-)
You’re getting a lesbianmobile?
Voted one of the best small cars to sleep in!
What exactly do you do again?
Fight with Sloopy when tOSU loses.
I laughed when they gave me writing assignments as punishments. I could crank out a 5,000 words in 30 minutes and it would be more coherent than if the other idiots had spent a week on the same task. NCO’s would pay me to do their counselings and powerpoints for them (to include my own write-ups a few times).
I say just suck it up. As you get rank there is less bullshit to deal with and you are already in a cake MOS. You aren’t going out to a motorpool 5 days a week in the Texas sun to do stupid busy work until 5PM or being sent out into the field for weeks at a time for more of the same. Shuffle the papers and be grateful it isn’t worse. Do your time and get out with a pension and be set for life.
Truth. It’s like trying to sleep in a room with a mosquito sometimes though.
Did you do 20 and retire? If not, why? If so, how did you make it?
I did not do 20. I did three years. I let the dumb shit get to me after deployment – so something similar to your situation, only I was in a combat MOS (tanker) and most of my day consisted of living at the motor pool which did not suit me. PT and then motor pool. That’s when they weren’t taking us into the field. I hated garrison life and I had issues with alcohol which did not make my life easier. I wish I had joined when I was little older as you did, but I wanted to deploy.
I wish I had picked a different MOS as I never really fell in love with tanks like some do (I qualified for literally anything, based on test scores). You seem to enjoy yours, outside the typical bureaucratic bullshit that you put up with.
Main issue I had was the drinking. It caught up with me and I went from being primed to go the promotion board to getting an article 15 after a bad night. Hence why I probably would have had a better experience if I was a little older, as you are.
Seriously advice. If you enjoy the game but hate the BS rules look at Special Operations. SF, CA and PSYOP all have a lot less bullshit and more time doing your actual job. Having language skills are a huge plus.
The people doing short deployments not involving war zones? SOF
The people working with various US embassies and living large overseas? SOF
The people with SSG’s and SFC’s will real responsibilities? SOF
I am trained and served in all three disciplines. Get a second voice. Hint hint Swiss.
Also all three are in the reserve component so if you later decide to move to the northern Rockies there are units out there to make $500 a month for a weekend of work.
You’re this frustrated and you’re still looking at 14 years? And wondering if you should stick it out? d00d, that’s some level of masochism. I’d say, if you want the pension, you’re going to have to grab yourself some serious Zen about the job.
I’m not fed up yet. I spent 6 months walking 15 miles every day on a treadmill just to lose enough weight to get into the Army, so I am familiar with the Fabian strategy.
So the question left is: what is the best way to shut up and color?
When you find out, let me know.
So you’re 6 years in thinking about 20? GTFO
IMO, the 1937 French Army was less of a paper tiger than our military will be in another 10 years.
Yeah, that too. It was the same way before the Korean War in 1950. The Army took a beating at first, because the guys at the tip of the spear had been on occupation duty in Japan where marksmanship and PT took a back seat to brothels and sake.
It’s hard to leave something that I had to strive so much for and which has been mostly good.
My experience was way better than this poor guy:
https://www.wired.com/2011/08/lost-in-translation-how-the-army-wastes-linguists-like-me/
Scary tales
Murphy Bannerman first noticed the posts this summer in a Facebook group called Being Black in Arizona.
Someone started posting memes full of false claims that seemed designed to discourage people from voting.
The memes were “trying to push this narrative of, ‘The system is a mess and there’s no point in you participating,’ ” Bannerman said. She recalled statements such as, ” ‘Democrats and Republicans are the same. There’s no point in voting.’ ‘Obama didn’t do anything for you during his term, why should you vote for a Democrat this time around?’ ”
Bannerman was alarmed. She had already been on high alert for these kinds of messages, because of her job as deputy director of Election Protection Arizona, a nonpartisan group that helps people vote.
Black and Latino voters are being flooded with similar messages in the final days of the election, according to voting rights activists and experts who track disinformation.
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What makes these hoaxes so powerful is not where they come from, but how successfully they tap into voters’ worries.
“When you think about the 2016 Russian influence, especially among Black voters, it was basically bringing up internal discussions that Black people have been having for decades,” said Dwight Bullard, political director for the New Florida Majority, a progressive voting rights group.
Doubts about whether anyone’s vote really matters, or whether politicians truly have Black people’s best interests at heart are “a discussion at the barbershop,” he said. “That’s a discussion that happens around kitchen tables every weekend.”
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Not all of the online disinformation campaigns targeting Black and Latino Americans are trying to suppress their vote. Twitter this month suspended accounts that were pretending to be Black supporters of Trump — some of which had gained thousands of followers.
The darkies are helpless children. They are incapable of defending themselves from this ruthless tricknology. We have to protect them, and show them how to vote. It’s bad enough that they might stay home, but we absolutely cannot allow them to vote for the wrong candidate.
‘The system is a mess and there’s no point in you participating,’
‘Democrats and Republicans are the same. There’s no point in voting.’
‘Obama didn’t do anything for you during his term, why should you vote for a Democrat this time around?’
I think the shit-poster has valid points.
“Twitter this month suspended accounts that were pretending to be Black supporters of Trump — some of which had gained thousands of followers.”
Because they couldn’t be?
Obviously fake.
Just got the mail.
Fifteen effing politcal fliers! All for just two races the Senate and US House.
All the principals are outdoors in their hunting togs, with dog and shot gun.
The clothes look like they were just taken out of the Carhartt box. I’m sure the dog and gun are rented.
I’m sure the dog and gun are rented.
CGI pheasants.
They could have rented Dick Cheney for the hunting pics.
He’s always good about including other hunters in his shots.
Noem/Paul 2024
McCain/Kristol 2024
The Elephants love them some dynasties.
*screams at the sky*
I’d like Noem on top.
I think the shit-poster has valid points.
Like Hillary’s emails, the problem is not that what is being said is false, it’s that it’s being talked about by the wrong people.
Yeah, it’s bizarre that MSM news consumers have never even heard of the Hunter Biden laptop and accompanying scandal.
Living in different worlds that are intertwined with parallel worlds with alternate truths.
I don’t care for this relativism thing.
The re-enlistment rate for my MOS is lower than whale shit and they keep giving me reasons to follow the herd.
Can you leave and be reincarnated as a civilian consultant/contractor?
https://twitter.com/OwenBrennan/status/1322253351610769413
LOLOLOL
Had a GA go down yesterday in the Valley. Being automation, I get the fun stuff of pulling the data, which isn’t fun, because I know what I am pulling is people dying. This one was a fatal crash. Lost engine power after requesting a re-route to the nearest airport. Listening to the audio, the pilot thought he could make it to the other GA airport rather than request McCarran which was at his due east at the time.
The words from ATC “November blah blah, we lost your track, is everything okay?” and no response from that aircraft just sucks.
I’m sorry. I did a medical report last night where a motorcyclist hit a deer at 60 mph. Patient died.
Its just one of those things. Local news is always idiotic to the situation rather than ask the questions they need to. Instead they ask why didn’t the pilot respond?
He didn’t respond because his job is to aviate, navigate, then communicate.
My ex told me a story about driving home from Austin after a night out with her boyfriend and their friends.
Ex: Dear.
Ex: Dear!
Ex: DEAR!
Boyfriend: WHAT?!
They hit the deer.
Same ex, we were driving back to visit her home in San Antonio. It was pushing two and I was feeling pretty drowsy until we hit deer country and nearly hit a stupid motherfucking deer. Wasn’t feeling too drowsy after that.
I have never gotten too sleepy to drive because to me, driving is a competitive sport and I’m all concentration all the time, especially cross country. Of course,after too many hours, the Moutain Dew and Jet Alert are engaged.
My cousin’s husband went out for cigs early one icy Sunday after working a graveyard shift. He fell asleep and spun out on a patch of ice. He’s now paralyzed from the waist down.
My sister’s working as a nurse and was taken on to care for a woman who was paralyzed earlier this year. She passed out on her bicycle during a Triathlon and woke up quadriplegic. Sis says the first day she asked her to close the door and then sobbed telling her about it.
I’ve been in a “Man, life sucks” funk today (more than usual), like, not just for me, but for everybody. Med report earlier this week, youngish dude went in for an ulcer. They found pancreatic cancer as an incidental finding.
Any chance you could switch to legal transcription, which might be maddening but less depressing? : (
Neh, this is my comfort zone. It’s not usually like this. ER work is very rarely exciting and operations always go as planned.
It’s not all bad. Some asshole’s about to be elected president, and then we have something to bitch about endlessly for four or eight or a hundred years.
To put the capper on today, I had orange chicken from Panda Express (because they have a drive-thru and I was not dressed well enough to get out of my car). I can’t believe people spend money on this.
Orange Chicken Bad?
LOL
It’s edible, unlike Cheeto Jesus.
Compartmentalization is key. It doesn’t work completely but it’s good enough to get by.
Is that the one VAS Aviation has been YouTubing about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMLCzbqUo9o
Yes.
Very sad…I’m sorry you had to deal with the aftermath
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” in classical Latin
Yeah, I don’t know either.
Shouldn’t Nirvana be in Sanskrit?
I missed the what are we reading thread, but…
I picked up Dune a couple of weeks ago, as sort of a pallet cleanser from the deep dive into Northern Ireland. Which was depressing as fuck.
But, Dune… didn’t really rise to the occasion. I still think it is one of the best SF novels ever written (and this wasn’t my first time reading it) but I dunno. After NI and real political machinations, underhanded violence, and whatnot, Dune was very one dimensional.
But, I just picked up Under the Volcano, by Malcome Lowery. Set on two sequential Dio de los Muertes, it is the tale of an utter drunk weaving through a hell on earth of his own making. Very good, although the pre-war prose can be a little bit difficult.
Okay, I’m calling it.
The Canuckistani says: Trump wins the Electoral College (handily) and does not win the popular vote, but comes much closer than he did in 2016. I hope I’m not jinxing it.
If the huddled masses actually vote Biden in, I’m all about asking the Canadian government to invade the U.S. For their own good, of course . . .
That would last all of a couple hours and not in Canada’s favor.
We’d only go to the Democrat strongholds. We’re not stupid, after all.
My sister’s bf smashed my Switch so I smashed his gf.
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Hunter, is that you?
Wait
Mississippi Weabo?
So tonight I bought a beer for several reasons: I generally like the brewery; I like the message they sent with this beer; it’s my favorite style:
Endless Bummer
https://districtherald.com/hunter-bidens-ex-wife-kathleen-tells-him-he-is-a-better-father-than-joe-biden-was/
God god, you people have no shame.
For posting tawdry links?
You should have sympathy for the pedophile.
Yes. Sugarfree fan fiction is one thing the rather personal emails of others not so much, I forget, where were you on the Hulk Hogan sex tape thing?
I was not engaged on that topic and as such, have zero opinion.
If you ever find yourself in the greater Philly area, let’s do drinks.
Sincere offer.
I don’t travel much but I appreciate the offer, if for some reason I’m ever there I’ll let you know. If you ever get caught between Cleveland and Columbus Ohio let me know.
“The entire neighborhood surrounding the White House is preparing for mass unrest: boards, chains, fences, and barriers. This is insane.”
https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1322160331670642690
How many of these expected “peaceful protesters” will have actually voted?
Same in the parts of Manhattan that attract both trendy boutiques and brain-dead Marxists.
I don’t know what to make of the plywood apparently leaned up against the storefront with 2x supports? Has the plywood been adhered to the mullions and the 2x are to hold it in place while they cure or do they think the 2x won’t be kicked down?