Welcome to life, buddy.
PSA: SP NEEDS THANKSGIVING RECIPES, ASAP! SHE IS SHARPENING CAN LIDS AND OMWC IS LOOKING NERVOUS.
Cold, blustery and wet, I guess fall finally decided to skedaddle.
To be honest, I really checked out of current events a couple of weeks ago. My guess is I’m going to be horrified/triggered.
Could be an interesting four years.
Alito speaks truth, and don’t expect them to stop.
There is some pretty cool shit thought.
Don’t count on Biden, or you’ll be just as disappointed as the Democrats will be.
After the link SP posted on Thursday, I did a little dive and found this gem.
Brochetta …
…is…
…my…
…bitch…
Damn your sober fingers, Hobbit!
…biatch…
… cumdumpster…
…who…
…bites…
We did this game in 10th grade English. I sat in the first row because, even with glasses, I could barely see the chalkboard. I got to read the final edition. It ended with Ms. XXXX bouncing up and down on Santa’s lap in a very sexual way. I read it aloud in front of the entire class and Ms. XXXX. I had a boner the whole rest of the day, because Ms. XXXX was hot and smoked cigarettes.
And even though she gave me an A-, I would like to have bounced her on my lap.
Ms. XXXX preferred 10th grade PON boner over old Santa boner.
It was found out later that Ms, XXXX liked women.
For a simple country boy like pistoffnick, this was POW!!!!!!, mind blown. I mean he had seen the big bull on the farm dominate the younger bulls by trying to impenetrate them. It did not diminish teenage pistoffnick’s lust for Ms. XXXX. OK maybe a little. pistoffnick’s lust was also shared with Ms. “tittyman” Tiedeman who had exceptional high beams.
Got it bad
Got it bad
Got it bad
I’m hot for teacher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6M4_Ommfvv0
You hate me cause you aint on my level.
True. No one is as low as you are.
Fine. I just sent in a recipe to keep OMWC whole (for a given value of whole).
The sealed wooden coffins, unveiled on site amid fanfare, belonged to top officials of the Late Period and the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt.
They were found in three burial shafts at depths of 12 metres (40 feet) in the sweeping Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo.
Archaeologists opened one coffin to reveal a mummy wrapped in a burial shroud adorned with brightly coloured hieroglyphic pictorials.
Cool.
Mexico is one of just three countries – along with the United States and Guatemala – with the constitutional right to bear arms. But citizens must travel from far and wide to this one place, face seemingly endless red tape and waiting periods, and pay exorbitant prices and fees.
Fuck.
Music choice for tonight is excellent.
Wow, three whole constitutional guarantees in the world, and ours is barely better than the other two.
Egypt spends thoudands of years and who knows how much effort trying to keep people from finding these people, and we just keep on digging them up.
This keeps running through my noggin and will not stop – https://youtu.be/r9jwGansp1E (not stepping on your music link which is excellent).
Re-watched. Not just excellent. Delightful. Made me feel like I was tiny and smelling Mom’s perfume and Dad’s aftershave on their way out the door.
Very nice.
I watched it thrice but I’ve had a years-old boner for Hayley. Should probably consult my Physician.
She’s cute.
She’s got Moxy!
It should’ve been different.
It should’ve been easy.
I like that.
Thanks, Festus (and your mustache and tits too)
As long as his pick has a vagina, who cares that she’s a MIC hack?
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/biden-likely-break-barriers-pick-woman-lead-pentagon-n1247842
Bring on the train wreck!
Don’t. Care.
At least, not in the way They want me to.
But the Marlins hired a female GM!
I got a half dozen notifications from news and apps about it.
Whew, glad I don’t like baseball. Dodged that bullet.
I may be dropping baseball next year, while I love watching it and following it, if the Indians change their name to anything other then the Tribe (or not changing it at all), I’m done.
I’m assuming they can’t go back to “Naps” because someone found an old letter revealing that the Lajoies had a maid of colour whom they paid less than $15 an hour.
Right now the scuttlebutt is the Spiders are the favorite for the name change. Of course, there’s also rumors about the team leaving Cleveland in a couple of years… which if they change their name, I’d be willing to bet will happen.
I still say they should go with The Firewaters
In fairness, if they go with the Cleveland Colonizers from Brockmire, I’d buy the gear and cheer them on.
Scalpers. Might get confused with the shady ticket sellers in the parking lot, but…
I say they should go more modern. Cleveland Protesters or BLM or Antifa
Missile farms. We all burn in the end. Fucking monsters making life a living hell will need their assholes wiped someday.
No train wreck. Much, much more of the MIC status-quo. More money for the machine, more stupidity around the world.
The train wreck of a Biden administration.
Flournoy is a true swamp creature and will be moderately competent/incompetent as we bumble towards another war or two or ramp up our oldies again.
So this means there will be less maiming and mutilation of the menfolk right? Fewer men missing arms and legs and dicks, right? Sure.
Did I get the less/fewer thing right?
STAY SCARED part 79827309738716987395
South Dakota welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors to a massive motorcycle rally this summer, declined to cancel the state fair and still doesn’t require masks. Now its hospitals are filling up and the state’s current COVID-19 death rate is among the worst in the world.
The situation is similarly dire in North Dakota, with the state’s governor recently moving to allow health care workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to continue working if they don’t show symptoms. It’s a controversial policy recommended by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a crisis situation where hospitals are short-staffed.
And now — after months of resisting a statewide mask mandate — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum changed course late Friday, ordering masks to be worn statewide and imposing several business restrictions.
“Our situation has changed, and we must change with it,” Burgum said in a video message posted at 10 p.m. Friday. Doctors and nurses “need our help, and they need it now,” he said.
Both North and South Dakota now face a predictably tragic reality that health experts tell USA TODAY could have been largely prevented with earlier public health actions.
And nobody is going to press for details which might debunk some or all of that because, well, it’s just North and South Dakota.
I’m lazy. What’s their excuse?
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
I taught my stepsons how to react to graphs in the news. Question the source. What’s on the axis? What is it being compared to, and is that valid? What’s the sample size? Does the data scientist have a vested interest in the outcome?
It made me proud to see them dissect USA Today papers from vacations years later.
USA Today is the gold standard for chart junk.
Big one I run into in the AI industry… What is the baseline?
“we get 94% accuracy of finding cat pictures with the ML model”
“what’s accuracy if I just answer ‘no’ to every picture?”
“um, erm, uh…. 91%”
Lazy, stupid, evil.
Maybe a combination of all three.
Wikisez :
Totals in South Dakota
Total cases 64,182
New since yesterday +1,611
Recovered –
Deaths 621 total
+1 death up from yesterday.
So same mortality rate as every other state (>1%).
Population of South Dakota 884,000.
Don’t know how many SD “cases” are unique individuals or even live in SD, but worst case is that 13% of the state has tested positive at some point for COVID-19.
No numbers on how many people were symptomatic.
Same up here. We’ve had less than 300 deaths in a population of nearly 5 million. Provincial Health Officer is freaking out and eyeing some kicky boots for her new autumn look.
to allow health care workers who have tested positive for COVID-19 to continue working if they don’t show symptoms
They can treat the COVID-19-positive patients.
And the ones who test positive in only one nostril can treat the patients who only tested positive in one nostril.
It’s twenty twenty, they have to be segregated into right and left, or there will be violence.
https://twitter.com/dockaurG/status/1327566146736939010
I know this is just anecdotal, but when I was watching the bike races in France and Spain it appeared that nearly 100% of the spectators were wearing masks, yet those countries are experiencing massive increases in cases. Maybe masks aren’t all that effective.
There is no study showing masks stop or slow the spread of a virus.
From the Fail:
“More than 93 percent of Washington DC’s voters chose Biden in last week’s election, suggesting that many of the participants had traveled to the capital for the event”
that’s some might fine reporting Lou
I doubt all the votes are in. Surely they can get that above 95%.
Likely they could achieve 120%, if only it was a swing state.
The mummies are really cool. I just came across 704 Hauser, the final All In The Family spinoff, and it is surprisingly funny; dated in many ways and the live audience really takes me out of the moment, but it holds up and even features language and concepts that would not see air today. Mexico… Where to begin? I would probably be onboard with an occupation/annexation before any more deployments to other hemispheres.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/704_Hauser
I remember all the other spin-offs, but not that one. Wiki says six whole episodes?
I was completely unaware of this. But yeah, 1994 – that’s why. Not even sure if I had a television that year.
It’s amazing that there are still some intact tombs after millennia of grave robberies.
I loved reading all things Egyptology as a kid. That National Geographic cover with King Tut’s coffin up close—a childhood memory!
Forgive the earworm, but I gotta: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FYbavuReVF4
Ha! I figured that would be the link. 🙂
?
I remember a field trip to NYC to see “King Tut’s Treasures” or however they styled it.
March 1977.
Speaking of childhood memories: my childhood best friend’s dad turned a spare room into his library, and lined a section of the walls with every Nat Geo since he was a boy. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. So when my old man got me a lifetime membership to the National Geographic Society, I decided I would do the same thing.
My home office has a bookcase dedicated to over forty years’ worth of National Geographics. My wife thinks I’m a lunatic for saving the things.
That is really cool! Tell your wife to bite a lemon.
+2 floppy, indigenous titties!
I once could fap to that!
I just wanted them for the maps. ?♂️
I forget the recipe submission address, so I’ll put this year’s turkey recipe here:
https://www.weber.com/US/en/blog/grilling-inspiration/how-to-grill-a-turkey-breast/weber-30294.html
SP @ the site will get to her. That’s where I sent mine.
Thanks! I’ll pass it on.
I’d offer up the wife’s family recipe for corn pudding, but I might be disclosing information I am not authorized to give up.
We don’t really use recipes – we just sort of wing it every time we make the dishes. About all we can tell is what ingredients go into our dishes, but not quantities, cook times, etc. It’s always turned out perfectly though…
This is it. Its how 2020 ends. The Mummy kills us all or it reawakens the alien overlords, who then kill or enslave us all.
Finally.
Thank God
It’s a Saturday, and lockdowns continue, so the Zoom/Happy Hour/whatever I started back in April during our two weeks to flatten the curve continues. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Thank you
Thanks!
I probably won’t join tonight. I bailed on some evening plans as I was a bit wiped out after working in the yard all day. I’ll probably head to bed early.
I’ve got another four click change I have to do tonight, but I may try to drop off earlier then usual so the girlfriend and I can head out to brunch tomorrow morning to support a local business. Before going to watch the Browns play, at a different local business.
I’m supposed to be keeping an eye on bugs at work. I haven’t today. I’ll take a quick look tomorrow morning.
I’m supposed to be learning some shit they seem to think I already know. Oh well, there’s always tomorrow.
We FINALLY got reservations at our favorite restaurant, so we’re AWOL tonight. Behave yourse… wait, what am I saying???
Have fun dipping your toes in the pool of freedom. We’re nowhere near anything that human in my fucked up state. We either eat in the middle of the street or take that shit home.
Oh, they stupidified it for sure. Only outdoor tables, talismasks required for seating and if you get up to go to the bathroom.
We’re going back to one of our favorite Thai places this week – wonderful little family run place. I am so fucking sick of the stupidity.
‘Long as the sun’s down, amirite?
The wing suit thing…………very cool.
Indeed. I’ve wanted one since I was wee.
Nice.
Totally a James Bond gadget.
Definitely. Reminds me of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VPvKl6ezyc
Which, I believe, I first saw in the comments section at TOS.
Speaking of the interesting next four years of MAGA crowd activities, I’m still laughing at Derpy’s Klantifa merger. Sort of the opposite of MAGA.
RE recipes. Crab bisque has became a Thanksgiving tradition with my fam. It is a Chef John recipe. This year I might add a stuffed/rolled pasta wheel to the bowls. I will see if I can scrape something up to submit. I could have done that today but I was busy taking a nap.
So Free Ohio Now has gone fully pro-Trump instead of fighting the lockdowns. From an e-mail today:
Well in a couple of weeks when it’s over for Trump they can switch back.
Makes sense. Biden is all in on tyrannizing the public under the guise of ” listening to the experts.” If your sole mission is to stop being treated like cattle, this is a smart move.
Except Ohio went for Trump. As they’re an Ohio based organization, that part is done. DeWine’s shutdown of Damocles is coming in an announcement next week and will have an immediate impact.
Oh, yeah, OH and FLA are mandatory, if you want to win the white house. I forgot.
I think Ohio and other GOP states have joined the ongoing lawsuits. Free Ohio Now might be supplying support for those suits, as well as logistical support for the recounts. They need as many reliable monitors as they can get.
The only reason I can see them going for Trump is Biden will lock the country down.
Otherwise, not a smart move.
He will try. States that don’t want to will simply ignore him.
So I upgraded my video card’s fan control and overclocking software. Everything seemed to be working fine and suddenly the the dual fans on the card shoot to 100%.
Stupid software completely turned off the fans. There must be an “oh shit” value in the video card BIOS that caused the fans to come on at 100%. So thanks the hysteresis the temperature drops below the “oh shit” value and 30 seconds later the fan comes on again at 100%. Rinse and repeat.
Problem was initially figuring out why the noise and which fan was the problem as my gaming system has something like 6 fans and separate piece of software that controls the case fans while the motherboard BIOS controls the CPU fans.
Wut?
Afterburner? IIRC, I had a similar panic as the “silent running” feature was enabled by default.
EVGA X1
It turned it full off. The normal is temp controlled with no fan at low use. I just had to tick the auto box back on.
I’m not a big fan of EVGA’s software, it got very confused with my graphics card; it’s liquid cooled, so it uses the fan controllers to set the pump speed and the radiator fan. It kept shutting off the pump thinking it was a fan, I had to go and override all the normal settings to get it working correctly.
But how am I supposed to control the 600 multi color LEDs on the video card that nobody will see in my closed case?
That’s why my case is tempered glass, you can see everything, so I can always admire my absolutely terrible cable management. Fortunately the graphics card is pretty much the only thing that doesn’t have lights.
cable management
mmm sexy.
*sigh*
I used to use spark plug wire separators on the old round cables. Chrome, of course.
Took the wife to the CERN open day weekend a while back. We were able to go down into the collider at one of the experiment locations. One of the things that stuck with me from that trip was the cable management – thousands upon thousands of network cables, neatly laid out. I’m sure a technician would be able to locate a specific cable in a matter of seconds if needed.
Everyone else on the tour was looking at the collider. I was looking at cables.
One day I hope to lace cable a tiny fraction as well as the old timers did. They created works of art.
If you ever get a chance to do a navy ship tour – check out the cable runs – if some of them took a hit, i’m not sure God himself could replace them all – esp if it just had a shipyard upgrade (haven’t been on any new constructions though)
“Re-splice”
Best song from afterburner.
Eliminator was a better 80’s album.
Don’t know what your specific problem is, but for some fans 30% or lower intensity is equivalent to off. The motor can’t overcome the static friction or something like that.
In this case the software disabled the fans completely when I upgraded. I just turned it back on and all is well.
I’ve always tried to build the quietest rigs I can for decades. Fans have a starting voltage and a running voltage. High quality fans can usually start at around 18 to 20 and run down to about 5 or so.
Smart fan software will have a starting and a minimum value, but most just put a floor.
Did you get a 3080?
I have a tall monkey puzzle tree, a Cook pine, that needs to be removed before it tips over and wrecks a house.
I feared it would cost thousands to do it, but the guy quoted $750 for tree removal, including stump, plus another stump, haul away, and clean up. He even asked if we wanted the wood, and we said no (it’s resinous).
I must’ve paid more than twice that in Minnesota to get a cottonwood out!
Weird what is more expensive and what is cheaper in various parts of the country.
Make sure he’s insured. ?
Yes, that is a strict requirement! It’s potentially dangerous and damaging.
I’ve paid a lot more than that for tree removal which included haul away and clean up, but no stump removal.
Funny that. Value of labor correlated with number of serfs. Who the fuck woulda thunk it?
There was one of those in my mom’s neighborhood that got cut down two years ago. It had to be one of the northern most climatized monkey puzzle tree. They cut it down to move their driveway. It was planted when I was a kid, probably a houseplant that some other neighborhood kid planted. It was in Lewiston Idaho at 1350’.
Leaning toward the equator, as all Cook Pines do, even in the Southern Hemisphere.
The price discrepancy doesn’t surprise me. Most pines are about as easy as it comes when removing trees. They are easy to take down and clean up, and the wood is light.
Cottonwoods, on the other hand, have a lot of mass. Even the secondary and tertiary limbs are thick and heavy. They are also “twiggy”, with limbs going in every direction, which is a pain in the ass. This requires a lot more cuts and harder work dragging the brush. Also lots of cleanup because the limbs are brittle and break into lots of small debris to clean up. The bigger limbs also require more wood to haul away instead of chipping up.
**Used to work for a tree service**
? ?!
I went to Walmart today and took some pics along the way, here’s one, my camera rocks!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/AZd71wwmUk3tgX9P6
Nice barn.
there is much more, coming soon, having a real camera is inspiring
Excellent!
I much prefer taking pictures with my camera over my phone. It’s rare that my phone pictures come out looking decent.
Indeed, your camera and your eye both rock! I wish that I had a real camera that’s less than 12 years old… Because I don’t, I will settle for enjoying your compositions. That said, even the best pics straight from the camera will benefit from some post-processing… For example, here’s your barn pic quickly run through Photoshop Elements: https://imgur.com/a/ws75lVQ
Disclaimer: This Tulpa is a photography amateur (barely).
Missed you all. It’s Ok Go time. Tbh it’s always Ok Go time.
Welcome back. How are you doing?
Great, great
Good.
Glad to see you’re back.
There’s just this thing about ya
There’s just this thing about ya
I actually had to cut our lawn one more (last?) time today. Dual purpose, since I also mulched a bunch of leaves.
Dinner was steak with mushrooms accompanied by steamed cauliflower and roasted zucchini (seasoned and topped with a little peccorino romano).
So jelly! I spent my morning chasing snow off the property.
Low-carbing?
Yep, not zero, but very definitely reduced. Pasta no more than once a week (had tortellini last week with my first attempt at Marcella Hazan’s classic marinara – which was amazing).
I had Chicken Adobo https://www.recipetineats.com/filipino-chicken-adobo-flavour-kapow/ at the recommendation of one of my deer camp friends. It was quite tasty.
Watching that wingsuit video made my butthole clench like a fist. Was that wrong? Should have I not done that? Welcome back CS.
Oh man I’d love to do that wingsuit thing someday. I adore JC3 almost purely for the wingsuit. It makes no sense physically, but slingshotting yourself up a mound and then bursting into wingsuit is just magical.
I like JC3 for the same reason. And having played it you could not get me to wingsuit in real life under any circumstances imaginable. In real life all those @#$%^&*() I clipped a tree/rock/powerline/buiilding moments do not flash up a retry/exit button.
If I had an infinitely redeployable parachute I might consider.
Put some coal up there and see if you can make diamonds.
Powerline has a theme this week. Was there a “selection” recently?
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/11/the-week-in-pictures-recount-edition.php
Alec Baldwin refusing to leave SNL, goddamn funny! Way funnier than SNL, btw.
My Ex and I used to make that part of our date night every Saturday. Order in, get a little high and watch SNL, KITH and maybe something else a little later. I’m old.
Yup. If you remember laughing at SNL, you must be old. We used to watch it and then the Midnight Special.
Martin Short / No Doubt rerun tonight from ’96.
Didn’t SNL replace Midnight Special? I recall several MS concerts on AFRTS in the early-mid 70’s and saw the first season of SNL in 76(?) at the same time slot.
I think that was SCTV.
I never heard of Midnight Special so maybe.
It was on after SNL
at least where I lived. I distinctly remember seeing the Cars and thinking they were way too weird to be a hit.
Wiki says it was on Friday night, but where we lived it was on after SNL, obviously on Saturday. Might have been a repeat of Friday’s episode.
Here’s some from1976. Quality TV program!
That weird assed band that’ll never amount to nothin’
Fathers who only have sons.
Fathers who only have daughters.
No wonder they’re cutting people’s heads off. That music sucks balls! I’d opt for death with 40 something virgins too.
All I can feature from that is “Kill The White Man”.
Yeah, the question is, are they 40 something virgins, or are there 40 something virgins? It matters.
72 virgins, only they’re all 72.
Just watched episode 1 of the Truth Seekers
Definately has potential.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7907922/
On Amazon.
Oh yeah, the fat guy from the Simon Pegg movies I’ll watch that…although he was also in that horrible Netflix’s “badlands” thing, meh, worth a flyer.
Badlands never appealed to me and I didn’t watch it. This has potential.
Just finished it last night. It was pretty good, although not as much of a comedy as I was expecting.
Republicans – This could be you, but you playin’.
Ha! Genius Sam said, “Red are Reagan; that’s why we chose red“.
The DC rally must have the Dems scared. They sent their shock troops in to assault old people and families in DC.
Scumbags.
It’s only a problem if they crack down on brown people.
DC appears to be interesting tonight.
DC hasn’t been interesting since The Dark Knight.
DC is only interesting when paired with AC
^^^ This guy gets it.
Now for some weather.
Her instagram page
Her webpage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/lyon-g-tyler-jr-grandson-of-president-john-tyler-dies-at-95/2020/10/10/6c5825c8-0a60-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html
Good lord.
He’s eligible to vote now.
Eligible to vote democrat, anyway.
Naturally.
I wonder how far forward from president #10 you have to go to find another living grandson.
No more than 10 or 12:
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/grover-clevelands-grandson-is-still-alive-and-he-introduced-jeb-bush
Nice research job. George Cleveland is only in his late 60’s so if he lives into his nineties that will still not eclipse the Tyler guy.
Grover was born in 1835, forty years after John Tyler.
There were people still alive here in the 70’s whose parents fought in the civil war. Lots of old veteran geezers got young brides.
The last Civil War pension recipient just died this year. Back in June or July I think.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8948879/Bill-Maher-urges-Democrats-reevaluate-hypersensitive-woke-BS.html
Bill Maher says the Democrats’ ‘hypersensitive, woke BS’ pushed many voters to the Republicans and tears into the party for ‘writing off half the country as irredeemable’
Problem is, when you read the article, it’s about changing appearances only, not changing the substance of what the left really is all about.
Bill Maher likes to flirt with the truth, but he sure as fuck ain’t gonna actually buy her a drink.
The left suffers from the exact same schisms as the right, but has a hegemonic grasp on the cultural institutions like the right hasn’t had since the 1950s.
They each have the establishment grifters. They each have the religious social meddlers. They each have the doctrinaire base.
The problem the left has is that their mirror copy of the Moral Majority (woke social justice) is coming at a time when they have so much control. As such, their excesses are scaring the normies. The progressive base may be able to stomach the wokegressives going nuts because they’re fellow travelers on so many issues and, frankly, they’re doing things the prog base wishes they had the balls to do.
The establishment grifters are the ones panicking because they see how the normies are reacting, and they know it doesn’t bode well for retaining power in any meaningful way.
So they plan to change their appearance without changing their mission. Nice.
I don’t agree with Maher often, but he seems to be genuinely anti-woke.
Only because it interferes with his goals, but because it’s a morally bankrupt philosophy.
Argh, but should be not
TH, I’ll shoot you a call tomorrow.
Silicone Saturday sez 4 tits are better than 2.
https://archive.li/c5v6S
Too many of them picked the wrong camera angles.
1st world problem.
Kick the confederate out of Arlington!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler
*checks notes* …later served in both Cuba and the PI, (re)commissioned as a brigadier general in the regular Army. Why didn’t they just hang him at the war’s end?
Maybe the earlier generations in this country were smarter or I could see how the everyone was tired of the killing. I don’t think the people stirring up the pot now really understand the disaster they can trigger for all of us.
The list of things they don’t understand is extensive
The things that pass for knowledge
I can’t understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaH25Sghoqc
Dedicated to MikeS.
These guys get it
Lol
Why is my governor gaslighting me? DeWine saying this surge is more dangerous … per million death tolls still waaaay under April’s 4.5 — more like 1.2. Fucker.
Associated Press via the local news channel
https://www.kcrg.com/2020/11/14/surging-virus-cases-get-a-shrug-in-many-midwestern-towns/
ELMWOOD, Neb. (AP) — The biggest reason coronavirus infections are soaring in the Midwest isn’t because residents don’t understand the dangers of the virus or how to protect themselves.
It’s because many of them aren’t that concerned.
In much of the region, as in other pockets of the country, some look at statistics showing that most people quickly recover from the virus and ask, why should I stop living my life the way I want to avoid catching an illness that probably won’t hurt me much anyway? The perception, coupled with a lack of government mandates requiring masks and other safety precautions, is a huge concern for local public health officials.
They worry that soaring caseloads will soon overwhelm their hospitals.
God forbid people should look at the risks and act accordingly.
As Faucii says “Do as you are told!”
People who are terrible at risk assessment, are naturally going to believe that everybody else is as bad at risk assessment as they are.
Good lord. That’s as close an admission that they’re scare-mongering as I’ve ever seen.
Christ, what a bunch of assholes.
Meanwhile in Minnesnowda:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Em1NKJBXEAAf2ms?format=jpg&name=900×900
Happy belated bday! Your avatar makes me laugh.
Thanks, I had carbs in the form of pizza, which I rarely do. Then I got drunk, which I usually do.
Not sure if anyone is interested, but if you need background music, I’ll be spinning all night. Going to do a dive into a Kansas album, and ramble about how my “Kansas Scale” of music is the best rating scale. (See, Kansas is in an incredible state of “not bad” but not that good either. You don’t turn off a Kansas song, but you don’t love it or hate it. You can judge all other bands against them.)
Aaaand….I forgot the link.
https://mixlr.com/wyntr
Just tuned in and digging it.
Awesome! It’s been too quiet tonight!
Sorry for any insane long ramblings about Kansas. I’ll be mixing it up, eventually.
Carry on, my wayward glib.
Why in the world wouldn’t you?
Because of it’s perfect mediocrity. It’s a pain to pick which album to put on the player. Kansas is nuetral.
I think you’re on to something here.
I’ve adored their ‘Best Of’ album since the mid-80s… mainly for nostalgic reasons at this point. But I’ve never been motivated to dive into an album.
Jeff Goldbloom is a nut. In a good way. I’d love to hang out with him for a night…I think.
Haley is a smokeshow, and has great pipes, but I prefer Morgan
You know who else wanted to spend the night with Jeff Golblum?
Your Mom.
…and your dad.
Your Dad lets other men sleep with his wife while he jerks off from the closet in a Superman costume.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.
You inherited your father’s micro-penis and your mother’s saggy flapjack breasts.
You inherited your father’s 68 IQ and your mother’s coprophagia.
Your father gave you the Super AIDS like Tom Hanks’ character in Philadelphia.
Your mother’s beauty is bested only by her intelligence and charm, and your father is an extraordinary gentleman.
Conan (I think) said he is very sensuous, likes to pet things.
What sort of things?
Soft fabrics, smooth surfaces, and such.
See possibly Conan O’B Needs a Friend from 2/24/19.
So he drops a lot of ecstasy? Or that’s just the way he lives normally.
Mmmmm this carpet is so good *rolls around, rubbing himself*
mmmMorgan. I’d pay money just to fold her laundry.
This must be said: The Car (1977), starring James Brolin and his mustache who plays James Brolin playing a Sherriff of some kind that is a terrible shot and yells a lot, is gloriously bad. Like, Steven Seagal bad.
The one bright spot, Geraldine Keams (also known for her role in The Outlaw Jose Wales), did not get enough screen time, dammit.
The Car is a cinema classic that fueled nightmare dreams for young Scruffy.
Cutty Sark fueled thoughts: I’m now older than my dad was when I was a kid. I feel like I’m still learning to tie my shoes in life but he always it figured out back then.
I remember catching dad smoking pot in the back yard. Later he’d tell me he was pretty much high all the time till he started his business. But he was in his late twenties, five years younger than I am now. And he’d had a little punk kid harshing his buzz at that age!
My dad had to deal with a punk ass kid, too.
Martin Freeman plays a Minnesotan? That’s great.
Yeah that first season was pretty good. Very similar plot to the movie, which I guess was the point.
Comment thread #43 just to say wowzers that girl is a smoke storm with a voice to match. Music choice par excellence.
Mornin’, Limey (just). Your previous avatar is on a PBS special right now.
Mornin’ Tox. AJ or JD? I’d watch either so I’ll keep an eye out for that.
AJ. But now I am watching Aerial Britain on mute (Smithsonian channel). Sure hope I get to visit your charming country again someday.
Ah yes, patchwork fields and meadows, charming villages with empty churches dating back to goodness knows when, closed pubs boarded up and sold on to developers to make a second home for city folk, village halls locked and unused, with parishes rapidly going bankrupt save for those getting massive grants of other people’s money via DeFRA, “county lines” drugs gangs branching out from every city keeping a steady flow of heroin and crack to the desperation of isolated communities destroyed by the promise of a globalized utopia, and a populace that overwhelmingly* thinks that national lockdowns and mask mandates “don’t go far enough”.
*if such polling is to be trusted ???
Oh, I know; I glance at Lockdown Sceptics most days. BoJo is no Trump, is he.
My old left/moderate dad said “he spent so long lying that he doesn’t know what the truth is anymore,”, referring to his polemical style of writing opinion pieces in favor of Brexit years ago, and that he’s surrounded himself with useless people.
I definitely agree with the second one, but probably for different reasons. As long as they are useless people that don’t translate that uselessness into tyranny, I’m fine with it. As for the second one, the lefty “journalists” who called him out on what were more or less fairly accurate straw man arguments, that was nothing short of acute hypocrisy given their own output. Anyway, Boris is a mess, a big, fat mess.
Trump on the other hand makes some really excellent appointments, especially Pai and DeVos. The gaslighting over them was absurd.
Just occurred to me that Trump is rather like Tom Hanks in Big. “Hey, now I can totally do this!” except without trampolines or Pepsi machines.
PS. Your mini-screed is reminiscent of “Howl”.
Well we’ve already returned to obscenity trials, although now it’s wrongthink and “hate speech”. Ginsberg is spinning and yelling to a syncopated rhythm in his smokey grave.
Perhaps it’s a little early on a Sunday for politics but is it not a bonehead move on Lin Wood’s part to ask Loeffler to resign right now? Would that also mean she withdraws as a candidate from the Senate race? What’s his endgame with that? Obviously he’s just yelling at clouds on that front but it seemed weird to me. What responsibility would she have for any election fraud in GA?
Morning, Glibs.
While I wrote a mere 474 words yesterday, that’s 474 more than I’ve gotten on the page for “On Unknown Shores” than I have in a long time. I want to finish either it or “Prince of the North Tower” on this vacation. But today, I also agreed to go shoot at steel targets.
Imagine being such an insignificant prince that your principality (?) extended only as far as the exterior walls of one building.
Mornin’, UCS.
Have you ever heard of the term “Synecdoche“?
Yeah, it’s a town in upstate NY.
*slaps thigh and laughs raucously*
Heh, I think he knows from that Synecdoche too.
Isnt that an album by The Police ?
I preferred their earlier work such as ‘Don’t Stand So Close to Me (I haven’t received my mRNA “vaccine”)’. That had an infectious hook, really catching.
A little too new wave for my tastes.
Id have to pick “Every little thing she does”. Copeland’s rhythm (and syncopation), and Stank’s upright bass work for me.
Walking on the Moon
Have a cover.
I think their undisputed masterpiece is “De do do do de da da da”, a song so catchy, most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself.
The first concert I went to in my senior year of high school was the Police. Great show. My
datecrush insisted on smoking even though she wasn’t really a smoker. She accidentally burned a hole in my just purchased concert t-shirt. Ah, memories.Synchronicity II. I can live without the rest of their output, TBH.
And a quick look at my iTunes library says I do exactly that.
Have fun at the match.
Pew pew pew.
Do you gun nutz have a good luck phrase akin to “break a leg”, maybe “don’t shoot your eye out” or something?
“good luck”
That’s lame and stupid, you gun nutz are boring.
I have to admit to a grave oversight.
While I was checking the rifle to make sure things were in order, that the red dot didn’t need a new battery, etc, I noticed that it had been stored with the safety off. Nevermind the fact that it was unloaded and the chamber flagged…
Howdy Hi! Glibbish ones, wet and warm, headed for snow later, wacky world!
Hello, Yusephine. Weather is gay. It is known.
Howdy!
“72° and snow!”
Hey YUFUS!
Breakfast beers! (although in my head it’s akshually 5 pm)
TALL CANS
Coffee cups in the Air!
Sup Tres! and T O’G! and of course all you other miscreants, Weather is awesome, at least in America,
Uk weather? Grey and pissing rain, Forever………
It’s less variable than most places in the US, and the rain is usually mild and keeps it green.
The grey, OTOH… Bill Bryson described it as looking like a sky full of wet towels or some such.
49 degrees now in Cali, with a high of 79 in the forecast. Tomorrow’s high is predicted to be 84 degrees.
The gardener in me has a confuze.
Sunset Mag climate zone 21?
Climate zone 10. My neighbor across the street is climate zone 9. It’s weird—all due to elevation and sunlight.
USDA?
Sunset is more granular. Do you have the Sunset Western Gardening Book?
sunny today by the lake… to bad it was not so yesterday
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iDMFJRt7R9YqFi0hET5ouW21RhuJMwIk/view?usp=drivesdk
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1iGIIh1G-YoaDWPbKrdFAhtupfrBReYdF/view?usp=drivesdk
Nice
Someone needs a remote control boat.
Purty. It was a beautiful fall day yesterday here.
Mornin Yusef and the rest of y’all
Good morning,
Another morning on which Joe Biden isn’t the president (yet) and I don’t have a mask stapled onto my face by executive order (yet).
?
I evicted two more pepper plants yesterday. Just down to the jalapeno. That one will go too after 1 more pepper harvest.
I read a brain dead AP article on COVID 19 in which the author makes an assertion that begins with “despite the rising death toll…”
What the hell else do you expect a cumulative total to do? Fall?
(Funny bit was that the article admitted that the survival rate is getting better, way better than at the beginning in Spring, and the author is perplexed that people are relaxing and not masking up and staying home.)
Of course it can go down, I mean people routinely get back up again and go to the polls.