This is my brain today, cold and foggy.
Howdy, Glibs. Well, here we are at the end of another week, and it appears 2021 hasn’t gotten the message. But hey 2021, you do you. As for headlines, monotonous and redundant, but let’s see what we can do.
“Sir, Elon Musk is on line two.”
A state level, useless gesture.
This one is for YOU Glibbies! Crank it!
I am very concerned that some of my neighbors may have unloaded guns secured where they are difficult to use when needed.
I’d prefer if my neighbors kept them at the ready.
I heard a guy yesterday postulating how we can already sue. The big tech firms are acting as arms of government, vis-a-vis they have a special exemption and , further, they face consequences if they do not censor people who the government doesn’t like.
Btw, I’m a Billy Squire fan, thanks.
I now have ‘The Stroke’ stuck in my head.
You can do whatever you want, when you’re in the dark.
I can’t do anything I want, dark or daylight
STEVE SMITH SAY STROKE ME.
Exemption GRANTED by the government and now, they are being pressured to act at the government’s behest.
If that can be proven, it’ll be a really big deal.
There is LOADS of case law concerning this.
I figured “Stroke” would be more up the alley of people here.
There’s more than that one song. Life isn’t easy from the singular side!
I prefer the Rock Me Tonight video but only for the awesome dancing.
An entire career flushed by a music video.
Well, it looks like a cross between Mick Jagger and Richard Simmons, both of whom are famous and successful. I guess it’s like pineapple and pizza, they’re both good, just not mixed.
So true. He never recovered from that debacle.
Okay listen Lockheed Martin. There is only one spaceship project Orion, and what you are buolding aint it.
Number one reason for the Gulf Republic is because they would let Elon make an Orion ship out of a hollowed out asteroid.
This.
If you aren’t riding nuclear blast waves, you don’t get to call yourself “Orion”.
A state level, useless gesture.
For certain values of “useless.”
“as long as it is not “obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable.””
It’s the last three words that render the whole thing moot.
So, as long as it’s not anyone I personally know?
Stupid = evil for large values of stupid.
I used to wonder why so many people can’t think in ways that are simple, direct, practical, and efficient.
Then I realized that most people don’t go to engineering school.
something something assume a can opener
something something reduce it to a problem that has already been solved
But it’s OK. In the end, good wins because evil is dumb.
From the gun article “A disproportionate number (of new gun owners) were Asian Americans, reflecting reports of widespread anti-Asian racism and xenophobia throughout the pandemic.”
They also have more experience with civil unrest and oppressive governments in their home countries, but I guess that doesn’t fit the narrative. Apparently there was a large turnout of Asians at the Capitol “siege” too.
The conclusions at the end are a forehead slap.
Sure.
Perhaps Asian-Americans are also higher earners on average and live in affluent neighborhoods and didn’t feel the need to own a firearm until the last year?
They also tend to keep a lot of cash at home making them prime targets for home invasions.
No, the article says a “disproportionate” number of the 7%, of the 2870 people ( chosen by Dog knows what means) have experienced “unfair” treatment and believed it was because of the panicdemic. The whole study is bullshit and just another tool for our newly elected Nazi party to further oppress us.
But enough about big-city mayors and educrats.
It’s funny because it’s true. I keep reading about what DeBlasio has done and is doing to NYC public education. I have to believe a large part of the local Asian population is looking for a new political home.
It is literal racism and it’s practiced to a much, much greater extent by assholes like Deblasio than the kind of not-really-racism they are obviously implying in the quote. And you’re right, lots of rumblings esp. from families with children.
So were Asians disproportionately affected by the government ordered lockdowns, or by BLM burning shit down?
Also, Rooftop Koreans FTW.
Only 1.2 percent have their guns unlucked? Yeah, that’s bullshit.
good grief
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/16/957389036/with-a-leap-across-gender-norms-a-rising-ballet-star-looks-to-rewrite-rules-of-d
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The way that ballet dancer Ashton Edwards leaps through the air is pure art. The fact that he does it in pointe shoes is a rare feat.
Ballet traditionally has very divided roles for men and women. Men need power to lift their female partners. Women are prized for their delicate precision and the ability to seemingly defy gravity.
But ideas about ballet are changing.
Ashton Edwards is an 18-year-old ballet student with the Pacific Northwest Ballet’s elite Professional Division in Seattle. He has been studying classical ballet since he was 4 — but always in male roles.
It was beginning to feel too limiting, says Edwards. What he really wanted to do was to dance en pointe, the technique where you dance on the tips of your toes using special ballet shoes.
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[anguished Zoidberg groan]
Eh. To each his own.
You must celebrate him overcoming the limit of being a man!
Very few men dance En Pointe, and so the shoes are very hard to find. But they do exist, and men have danced point for as long as there has been ballet. Dancing point is intensely hard to do and most men who dance ballet do so in support positions, not unlike the women who do cheer and are always on the bottom of the pyramid formations. You are looking at the basics of physiology here.
And no, I never danced as I have zero rhythm, but I dated a dancer and a good friend of mines little sister danced for the NYMet and now teaches.
An ex-girlfriend of mine danced ballet for a long time.
She basically explained the roles the same way.
One more reason to skip the ballet.
Pffftttt… I married a ballerina.
Besides meeting at least one odd man that really, really desired to dance en pointe (and weighed over 220lb), the Ballet Trockadero de Monte Carlo, an all-male drag ballet troupe, has been around since 1974.
If you ever get the chance to see the Trockadero troupe, it’s well worth it. It’s the funniest ballet you’ll ever see, particularly the dance of the interminably dying swan.
Based on the title of this post, I was expecting this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SCzVEUlqqA
One of the best one hit wonder songs of all time.
I like that song. Especially when I want to do a little driving on a Saturday night, come what may.
This one hit wonder always makes me want to go on a road trip
Fuck.
I love that song. I haven’t heard it for years.
Check your email.
Will do.
Like that tune. Dig that drum set. Simple. Cool. Driving beat.
You’re not wrong.
One hit wonder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTL_hNgQv1g
Wanna be Florida Man.
And drugs fell out.
The researchers estimate that about 110,000 Californians bought firearms directly in response to the pandemic, 47,000 for the first time.
It was about time they dropped that hammer.
At least it’s a gesture.
presented without comment
https://www.foxnews.com/media/lincoln-project-john-weaver-inappropriate-messages-axios
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One of the founders of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project has admitted to “inappropriate” behavior after several men accused him of sending them “unsolicited and sexually suggestive messages,” according to Axios.
The alleged missives from John Weaver, a veteran GOP operative and former aide to prominent Republicans like former Ohio Gov. John Kasich and the late Sen. John McCain, were “sometimes coupled with offers of employment or political advancement,” Axios reported Friday.
“To the men I made uncomfortable through my messages that I viewed as consensual mutual conversations at the time: I am truly sorry,” Weaver said in a statement published by the outlet. “They were inappropriate and it was because of my failings that this discomfort was brought on you.
“The truth is that I’m gay,” Weaver added. “And that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place.”
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What say our gay glibs on this?
He’s a scumbag piece of warmongering garbage and if it takes this to bring those douchebags down then so be it Fuck those pricks.
Yes, he’s that. But, who cares if he sent dick pics to adults? If I got one, I’d probably ridicule him for it, but I sure as fuck wouldn’t want to see him lose his gig and be kicked out of polite society for being, well, impolite. So sick of the outrage mentality taking everything over. I hate most of these people, if i used that to justify boycotting all of them, I’d never see another movie, concert, TV show or have any entertainment whatsoever. I probably would have the barest of options for goods and services. I don’t care if you’re an asshole, do your fucking job and earn my money and it’s all good.
Well put.
Ehhh, on principle I just don’t like relying on using personal shit or such pathetic transgressions as a political weapon. I said something similar the other day in response to the digging up of dirt on Cynthia McCain, that being a period of addiction to pain killers thirty years ago. I’ll take a lot of vitriol for this but I really don’t think that’s a good road to go down. I’m confident that my (our?!) objections to the ideological positions, and the political conduct of the McCains, or the Weavers are what is important. Of course, I’m really hoping that someone here is smart enough to realize that I am not “defending” Weaver or McCain, as in, if I don’t get on the FUCK WEAVER train, I must support him. Gee, that sounds a lot like every conversation about Trump with a TDS-afflicted moron, where if you don’t utter immediate and sufficiently strong admonishments and shibboleths, you must be a horrible Trump-loving racist. Well, I’ve said my piece. I’ve no sympathy for Weaver or the rest of the Lincoln Project grifters, but I’m not going to root my objections to their political agenda by attacking their personal lives.
I agree with your stance but this appears to fall into a different category. Those dick pics accompanied job offers or political advancement. There is a strongly implied offer of a quid pro quo. This is sexual harassment.
I believe in legalizing prostitution. Don’t see a problem with this, unless we’re haggling over price?
That stance assumes all these men held themselves out as prostitutes. I assume they didn’t. Weaver is a bully who attempted to use his position to get sexual favors. It was wrong when Clinton did it. It’s wrong when he did it.
If someone says, ” if you blow me I’ll make you rich,” that’s prostitution. If someone says, ” I’ll give you a job, if you blow me,” That’s prostitution. The person being offered the proposition can say no, or yes. If he/she chooses, or they can restrict their job search to those who don’t include cheap sex in the deal. Eventually, I would think that those who focus on merit will overtake those who insist on getting blown instead. Ain’t no fucking different. I never had a problem with Clinton’s blowjob, btw, it was the perjury by the highest ranking lEO in the land that pissed me off.
Need to see his dick pics to form an opinion.
Agreed but if it helps to discredit his group and is cynically used for such then I’m , well, not OK with it per se but those are the breaks.
Meant for blackjack, I definitely don’t want to see his member.
lol
…is the only objectionable part of any of this.
But yes, all parties seem to be using this to score points. Fuck ’em.
Technically, didn’t some of the parties want to be fucked?
Well, if your morals allow sleeping your way up, fine. I don’t have a problem with that if you don’t. I might ridicule you (Hi, Kammie!) but otherwise *shrug*.
Without looking at the article, I’m going to guess that the guy is a troll preying on younger, more attractive lads.
“The truth is that I’m gay,” Weaver added. “And that I have a wife and two kids who I love. My inability to reconcile those two truths has led to this agonizing place.”
That’s nice, paint yourself as a person struggling with their identity as an excuse for shitty behavior.
I’m reminded of all the asshole celebrities that immediately deflect from their asshole behavior by going into rehab as an attempt to elicit sympathy.
Gavin Newsom waves hello.
*initiates target acquisition system*
Not gay, but this won’t stop until it’s not useful. And it will be useful until enough people a cross the board feel the pain.
SPUD!
Happy Saturday!
My son told me last night that Idaho is on his short list of places to live. Keep it cool until he gets there, would you?
Good God, that lmt article. I can’t even.
Oh wait, I can: fuck off.
I love Billy Squier. I have for about 40 years. One really bad video doesn’t make a career (although it can apparently torpedo one).
Your son and a good chunk of the I-5 corridor. 🙁 I had picked a spot in northern Idaho to move to but this summer/fall it has become inundated and real estate prices skyrocketed.
Something… something… Saturday. Something… Something… Zoom/Happy Hour/Meet and Greet. Same link as always when I host. I’ll kick it off at 20:00 Eastern.
Thank you for doing this all these months
Not a problem, if I can help some others maintain some sanity, it’s well worth it.
Sanity is overrated.
9 out 5 schizophrenics agree!
Hehe.
Can confirm.
reality is for people who can’t handle drugs/booze/toads
Thank you
Thanks Neph.
Gonna make some red sauerkraut tomorrow. Got my weights and airlocks. Ready to roll!
I’ve got a half gallon batch (with green cabbage) that’s 11 days in. I’m currently waiting for it to finish releasing all the sulfur before tasting it. First time the sulfur was coming off, I thought there was a plumbing issue in the basement. It’s thankfully gone down to a milder, more localized stank now.
Ayanna Pressley
@AyannaPressley
The people deserve, demand and require $2,000 recurring monthly survival checks.
Then maybe allow them to get back to work and don’t destroy the economy with leftist fantasy economics.
Rashida Tlaib
@RashidaTlaib
$1400 < $2000
Math teachers know this. That $600 is already in the clutches of landlords and bill collectors. Stop compromising the working class, and our most vulnerable neighbors.
Paying your debts is white-supremacy.
In the clutches of landlords. Ooh those evil landlords.
Those evil landlords who aren’t able to evict people for not paying rent. Because housing is a human right or some such.
You mean with shit like taxes & minimum wage?
The most dangerous people in a revolution are not the perpetually poor, but the recently deprived. The government seems intent on creating a lot of recently deprived. That’s not good.
Idk what he was planning on doing with 500 rds and a pistol.
U.S. Capitol Police reportedly arrested a Virginia man at a checkpoint Friday evening who was allegedly carrying fake inauguration credentials, an unauthorized handgun, and more than 500 rounds of ammunition.
Wesley Allen Beeler of Front Royal, Virginia, was stopped by police at around 6:30 p.m. when he attempted to penetrate a security checkpoint at North Capitol Street and E Street NE, just a few blocks north of the U.S. Capitol, according to a police report and law enforcement source who spoke to CNN.
We joke about the camps, but…
“We have held many hearings on the growing white supremacist threat and the domestic terror threat in the United States. Over the last two years we’ve been holding hearings on this,” she said, and referenced how former neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini testified to them in September 2019 about various deradicalization techniques by which he was convinced to leave that subculture.
“We had a program addressing white [supremacists], we had federal programs that went toward funding organizations like these that deradicalize people and President Trump pulled the plug on federal funding for some of these programs. And so one thing that we know is that we need to get that funding right back up and we probably need to double, triple, quadruple, or increase funding for these deradicalizing programs en masse.” …
“There is no deradicalizing in one conversation,” she said. “It did not take one conversation to convince people of the conspiracy theory that the election was stolen. It took echoes, it took people hammering this, it took the president saying over and over and over again, it took his echo chamber saying it over and over and over again, it took this completely unaccountable misinformation bubble around him, hammering it over and over and over again. And that is how people get radicalized. And it takes a lot of that repeated effort to get people back out.”
The only people that are going to get the deradicalization treatment are high school and college kids that just want to get an education and otherwise be left alone. Oh, and may be coming to HR near you.
They’re going to create more white supremacists than not. But that will be self-justifying and provide plenty of dollars to grievance studies grads that couldn’t find any other use in society.
when the onion was funny:
https://www.theonion.com/anti-racism-laws-mutate-racism-into-newer-stronger-for-1819567689
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WASHINGTON, DC—According to a report released Monday by the Center For The Study Of Human-Morality-Legislation Attempts, the passage of anti-racism laws in recent decades may have caused racism to mutate into newer, stronger forms, undermining federal efforts to control the spread of the disease by spawning new strains of “super-racism” impervious to traditional treatment methods.
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Dafuq does “unauthorized” mean? And how do you walk around with 50 boxes of ammo? Bulky and very heavy, yet not very useful. At least, for anything he might want to do at an inauguration, unless he wants to trade it for a house in flyover country.
To be fair, he doesn’t sound all that bright.
10 boxes of 50 rds each. Still a load though. OTOH a Muslin militant could shoot that many rounds into the sky at a single wedding.
Right. I used the wrong fingers.
That earned him a description of “Heavily Armed Man” in the headline that I saw about it ?♂️
Emphasis on “heavy”
Silicone Sunday is an easy lover.
https://archive.li/C3ym3
It’ll steal your heart and you won’t feel it.
Nice gallery.
#2 looks crazy.
#5 has a decent iChive gallery.
I like #7.
#16 has a good iChive gallery.
#23 looks like a woman that was at the brewpub tonight. She was on a date, not with me.
I like #25.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/01/why-arent-we-wearing-better-masks/617656/
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Tragically, America is swamped with fraudulent medical-grade masks, some of which are only 1 percent effective. Many masks do not have labels clearly indicating their manufacturer. Some official mask-testing methods are inappropriate, including the use of far higher pressure than normal breathing exerts. No reasonable certification is available for the most useful masks generally available to the public. All of this means that everyone has to somehow figure out for themselves which masks are effective.
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“It’s all bullshit and it’s bad for ya.”
– the lat great George Carlin
JFC. Now do the effectiveness of masks in gyms.
You. Don’t. Fucking. Say.
It’s a bluebird day in Hokkaido! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgAp2vnD_V0
Man do I want to be there right now. If Straff isn’t a skier, what’s his problem?
Right?
Hokkaido!
I love watching snow removal videos.
I like her style
Be Like the Bluebird
At least, just sit there, mesmerized by the depth of her eyes.
Good one; I was not familiar with that song.
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Hokkaido (北海道) means “North Sea Road” or “North Sea Circuit”. The island has gone by the names of Ezo, Yezo, Yeso or Yesso in the past.
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Hai is sea in Chinese, like Shanghai means “on the sea”. Japanese garbles the Chinese h (which is more like the Spanish h than the English one) into k.
Tao means way, both literally and figuratively, same as English, in Chinese. The Japanese garbled Tao into do, like dojo. Dojo means way place and is used to refer to karate schools.
Is that the origin of the name of Taos NM?
Series of tubes sez:
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Taos is the county seat of Taos County. The English name Taos derives from the native Taos language meaning “place of red willows”.
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Tahoe is Shoshone for “water in a high place”.
Other tribes called the Shoshone “diggers” because they used sharp sticks to poke for edible roots in the ground. In the words of the cement-mixing pelican from the Flintstones “eh, it’s a living”.
Funny, when I was there I didn’t see any commie willows. A few were weeping, though.
also
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James Krippendorf : [as the Utabaji] You-ah bitch.
Veronica Micelli : He says it’s a very large and frightening country, filled with many things he thought existed only in myth.
Larry Swift : And he said all of that in three syllables?
Veronica Micelli : It’s a very concise language, Larry.
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Ah, Krippendorf’s Tribe. The greatest comedy of the 1990s.
That comment caused Warty to declare that I am “truly a monster”.
It’s the impression that I got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIGMUAMevH0
Havasu means “skywater” in Turkish
interesting
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Havasu (literally “blue-green water”, from ha “water” & vasu “blue”) may refer to the following: Havasupai, a Native American tribe located in the northwestern part of Arizona.
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As an agglutinative language, Turkish allows the construction of words by adding many suffixes to a word stem. The longest word in the Turkish language used in a text is “muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine” which has 70 letters. It is derived from the noun “muvaffakiyet” (success) and means As though you are from those whom we may not be able to easily make into a maker of unsuccessful ones. It was used in a contrived story designed to use this word.
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Muwaffaqah means agreement in Arabic. If something agrees with the will of Allah, it is bound to succeed.
Allah yuwaffaq means may god grant you success.
Qapla!
Technically, the correct construction in Turkish would be Hava suyu (su=water, suffix “u” pretty much means “of the”. So, “water of the sky”)
“Japanese garbles the Chinese h (which is more like the Spanish h than the English one) into k.”
It’s also possible that the original pronunciation of the character in classical Chinese was closer to “Kai” back when Japanese borrowed the writing system. That happened several centuries ago.
I just want to say that, while I have a hard time believing in the honesty, sincerity, wholesomeness and sincerity of any politician, Thomas Massie makes a really good case for being a decent human being. Thanks for the previous post and the Massie video.
When I become an RV nomad, maybe I’ll spend some time & $$ in his district
Once you get on the road, head up this way and we’ll take a flight and do some sightseeing if you care to.
Shit yes!
Also got on the road
Back on the road?
That’s one of the greatest bar bet songs, btw. Nobody will ever guess that it’s REO.
Absolutely. I liked everything I heard from the guy before, but it was nice to see that there is at least one decent human being in the House. Imagine if we could get a few dozen more types like him in that body, we might stand a chance to keep some of that old liberty stuff.
He sure does.
Hear ! Hear !
A state level, useless gesture.
Censorship. Fear.
Facebook Inc said on Saturday it will ban advertisements for weapon accessories and protective equipment in the United States with immediate effect until at least two days after U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20.
Following the attack by supporters of President Donald Trump against the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, the social media company said it will now prohibit ads for accessories such as gun safes, vests and gun holsters in the United States.
“We already prohibit ads for weapons, ammunition and weapon enhancements like silencers. But we will now also prohibit ads for accessories,” Facebook said in a blog post.
Three U.S. senators sent a letter to Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Friday asking him to permanently block advertisements of products that are clearly designed to be used in armed combat.
The senators, all Democrats, said the company must take this and other actions to “hold itself accountable for how domestic enemies of the United States have used the company’s products and platform to further their own illicit aims.”
Facebook on Friday blocked the creation of any new Facebook events in close proximity to places such as the White House and U.S. Capitol in Washington, as well as state capitol buildings, through Jan. 20.
Everyone takes a gun safe into combat.
So concern for gun safety was just a lie? Where’s my shocked face at?
Stuff like food, shoes and socks, clothing, jackets. All that other stuff those deadly soldierbots use.
This is textbook “state actor” territory.
Facebook should hang for this.
About meth man’s picture, I just assume if you have a neck tattoo that you have used, are using, or will you meth.
*places hand over neck tattoo of crack pipe and goes to put on turtle neck*
Go Bill!!
I need some ammo, badly. My guns are all at the bottom of the lake, but the ammo gives some emotional support and fond memories
Go Bills!
Poor Packer haters.
Do you ever tire of poking your “friends” with sticks?
I have friends here?
Hence the use of the quotes, I assume.
No. You have friend’s here.
If the cards break right the Super Bowl can be a repeat of the 1965 NFL championship with GB beating Cleveland.
CLE vs. the WORLD!
Would you prefer the pack to play against the Saints or the Buccaneers in the NFC championship?
The Faroe Islands, but that’s not happening.
I’m thinking Rogers vs Brady would be the most entertaining.
All the Packer Backers here are frontrunners…never lived in WI, couldn’t point out Green Bay on a map…
Not sure how to put a funny spin on this:
You’d think knowledge of the grim, inescapable fate that awaits us all would get people to think long and hard about what’s important in life so they don’t waste their time on nonsense, but…
see what I mean?
SWEET METEOR OF DEATH SPEED US TOWARD ETERNITY
^promote this man!
hayflick limit, red giant, heat death, proton decay, be-dee-dee-deh-deep that’s all folks!
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The Hayflick limit, or Hayflick phenomenon, is the number of times a normal human cell population will divide before cell division stops.
The concept of the Hayflick limit was advanced by American anatomist Leonard Hayflick in 1961,[1] at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Hayflick demonstrated that a normal human fetal cell population will divide between 40 and 60 times in cell culture before entering a senescence phase. This finding refuted the contention by French Nobel laureate Alexis Carrel that normal cells are immortal.
Each time a cell undergoes mitosis, the telomeres on the ends of each chromosome shorten slightly. Cell division will cease once telomeres shorten to a critical length. Hayflick interpreted his discovery to be aging at the cellular level. The aging of cell populations appears to correlate with the overall physical aging of an organism.[1][2]
Australian Nobel laureate Sir Macfarlane Burnet coined the name “Hayflick limit” in his book Intrinsic Mutagenesis: A Genetic Approach to Ageing, published in 1974.[3]
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Fried rice – yum. My kitchen looks like a tornado swept through.
Several mistakes were made but won’t be made next time.
Explosive cooking?
Nah. The main problem is I cut way too many vegetables and cooked too much chicken to fit it all in my largest pan so I was busy transferring ingredients from the pan to bowls and containers to save for later.
And I stupidly sauteed my onions and carrots together for the same amount of time. I knew not to do that but I did it anyway. Sigh.
Some mistakes have to be learned multiple times.
How much fish sauce did you put in it?
I added some oyster sauce. Could probably stand more next time.
One of the best tips I got for doing it was to use cold rice. If not possible make the rice with less water (and rinse before to get rid of some starch) to make it as dry as possible. I do the veggies and protein until almost totally cooked, add in the rice at the end and cook just to heat it up and combine it and then add vinegar/fish sauce/soy/lime juice at the very end with just a couple stirs to coat everything.
I love fried rice.
That’s almost exactly what I did. I cooked the rice last night.
I did overcook the chicken and the onions.
But yeah, I love it too. It came out as good or nearly so as any restaurant.
Random thought Don’t like the term Social Credit. I think given everything, our new yoke should be called the Woketient (patent pending).
lovely ladies do extra dramatic cover of hit 80s song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD6VAZFHWLY
Heh! I once had a chick sit me down and make me listen closely to this song, just looking at her tape deck. After it finished, she said that this was exactly her right then. I nodded, fucked her and then never called her again. Crazy bitch. She was VERY serious!
The old version, BTW. The one with the raspy assed voice.
Did you take the tape on your way out?
Turn around, Cried Eyes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysUjYAi0WcQ
That’s a lot of hair gel.
If you’re gonna cover an eighties song…
I love that song.
And the whole Meatloaf genre.
I saw Meatloaf in concert. One of the singers I’ve ever seen.
So back around 1999 I was working at this ISP that did DSL and T1 lines, mostly for businesses, and also had a handful of legacy ISDN lines.
Anyways, the only ISDN call I remember getting was from some guy named Mike Aday whose ISDN was having issues. Helped him as best I could and got a ticket open with the telco. I had no idea it was Meatloaf until later when my Manager said “oh yeah, that’s Meatloaf”.
So, was he any good?
Heh I was wondering that too.
Was expecting Tomioka Dance Club.
An hour later, I would like to thank you for the ear worm that is plaguing me.
I’d join your zoom meeting, but I’m tired of mentally dressing you all with my eyes.
The program has come under increasing scrutiny as costs pile up. A NASA inspector general report last year flagged continued delays in Boeing’s Space Launch System. As delays continue, NASA’s associate administrator for human spaceflight said in August that development costs for the rocket would reach $9.1 billion, or 30% more than previous estimates.
I think they need another 9.1 billion, then everything will be hunky-dory.
A North Dakota man on probation for narcotics possession was wearing a “Don’t Do Drugs” t-shirt when he was arrested yesterday for methamphetamine possession.
It’s like calling a big, huge, fat guy “Tiny”.
A disproportionate number were Asian Americans, reflecting reports of widespread anti-Asian racism and xenophobia throughout the pandemic.
“Disproportionate”? WTF?!?!?! We need more Rooftop Koreans!
The North Dakota state representative believes his bill is in compliance with Section 230, adding: “If Big Tech doesn’t follow their terms of service and they are banning one particular political party … and they censor outside the scope of Section 230, then there’s this civil liability.”
More government is always the solution.
Lester Maddox had the same complaint.
Best comment heard today:. “If you need 25,000 troops to protect you from the people, then the people didn’t vote for you.”
I larfed.
Yeah, I pissed that I didn’t think that one up. That’s great!
Word.
Nice – NBC just gave us a shot of the Towne restaurant in Allentown, Buffalo… loved that place at 4:30AM on a Saturday night. Greek food is wonderful drunk food.
How far is that from Orchard Park?
~15 miles? Allentown is downtown. Orchard Park is a sort of suburb/satellite town.
I just find it interesting when a team plays well out of town and the broadcast crew shows stuff from downtown.
Heh, yup. More interesting than a sea of parking lots and the occasional subdivision, I guess.
I always found it ridiculous that they say Orchard Park when they could just say Buffalo. It’s not like it’s cowtown like say Foxborough.
I love the shots of downtown Boston during Pats games – Foxborough is about 30 miles from Boston.
During Giants and Jets games they show NYC.
*shrug* It’s like 5 miles away from Manhattan.
Is Gillette the stadium furthest from the city they always show b-roll from?
Might be.
San Fran? Santa Clara is pretty far away.
Arlington is 20 some miles away from Dallas.
RFK is a little bit away from DC.
San Fran may be the winner – Santa Clara is 45 miles away.
Um, los angeles city stretches about 50 miles, north to south. If you include the county, it’s about a hundred.
We talking SoFi Stadium? Inglewood is closer to downtown LA than Santa Clara is to SF.
But I’m not sure what b-roll they use for Chargers/Rams games.
sorry, missed the stadium part. L.A. starts at San Pedro (across the bridge from Long Beach) and goes north all the way to Sylmar, about 50 miles. Not sure which stadium would use footage from where, however.
Since the Giants are out (no surprise there), I’m rooting for the Bills.
After Tucker missed that kick, NBC went to commercial playing Depeche Mode.
Took me a minute to realize the track was “It’s No Good”.
The broadcast crew is quick.
I’m hoping the SB is Bills Bucs and NY beats Brady again.
That would be pretty sweet.
Yes, it would. I’d rather not see Brady in another fucking SB, though.
But what if he loses?
Yeah, but of the potential opponents the Bills could potentially lose to I’d rather it was anyone besides him.
I’m onboard, other than that last part.
Va. man stopped with unregistered gun, 500+ rounds of ammunition in D.C., police say
Capitol Police documented. 509 9MM rounds of hollow point and ball ammunition and twenty-one 12-gauge shotgun shells were also found in plain sight in the rear of the vehicle, police added, along with a handgun “designed to be fired with a single hand and capable of expelling a projectile by means of an explosion.”
Sounds like he’s describing a penis.
They need to define a handgun?
Wait until it comes out he just had a flare gun.
Or a potato gun. That would fit that bizarre definition too.
Say what?
twenty-one 12-gauge shotgun shells
Going to give someone a salute?
It wasn’t me. I’m not stupid enough to leave my ammo in plain sight.
Pie, we hope you’re okay
What happened to Pie?
Civil war.
Those Balkans? Just got Balkanized, baby.
To be fair, i have no idea whether Romania is part of the Balkans. Actually I don’t know what the Balkans are.
Pie, I hope you’re safe from the Balkans, it sounds dangerous. Don’t get Balkanized, we’d be upset.
Balkans
Some European shithole would have sufficed.
Actually maybe not, that’s basically all of Europe.
Wait… what?
If I weren’t talking ignorant I wouldn’t ever talk.
He hasn’t been around in a while.
He got a la moded.
Some asshole put shaving creme on him.
Barbarsol, I bet.
Shaving cream
Be nice and clean
Shave every day and you’ll always look keen.
…Burma-Shave
Empty beer cans
Along the road
Are ugly, many say
But at night
Reflecting light
They safely guide the way!
Burma Shave
You are the Ellie Sattler to my Dr. Grant.
I haven’t seen posts for a long time
I am having a helluva lot of trouble keeping my SpO2 where it should be.
For the past week, my spouse has been very ill with what is possibly Covid: aches, fever with chills, violent shaking with chills, etc. He’s broken a fever, sweating, every night but it comes back again. But he’s on the mend now and the symptoms are lessening.
I have had no fever, no chills, no aches, so I thought I do not have it. But over the past week, my minimum lung flowmeter has dropped a little every day, all the way to 200 l/min. I can get it back to 400 with a nebulizer treatment. Unfortunately, now my SpO2 isn’t going back to 97 or higher with treatment—more like 94. And a few hours later it’s down to 90.
A few minutes ago I felt really tired, checked the meter, and it was at 86%. Got it to 93 with the neb.
I am probably destined to visit an urgent care tomorrow. Asthma is such a stupid positive feedback loop: lung capacity is diminished, so lungs secrete extra mucus. This bothers the lungs so they constrict the airways. This causes more gunk to be made in the lungs. And so forth.
Gonna lie down for a nap now. Peace out.
get a covid test.
Here in North Texas mountain cedar is off the charts right now. horrendous.
Is that what’s causing my allergies to flare up? Heck even the baby is all congested.
Hey, get better.
You may be a mythical being that exists only in our fevered imaginations, but we value your presence nonetheless.
No kidding. Female. Libertarian. Engineer. Seriously, who programmed this simulation?
Oh yeah: main point was: are there any Glibbies who are fellow asthma sufferers and for the Rona? Any advice or experience to share?
Well, I take a medicine called Trelegy. It’s a powder inhaler. It can cause thrush. It did. Thrush causes loss of sense of taste and smell. It did. At work we have a daily questionaire which asks if you have a loss of taste and smell. I fail every day. I have to call risk management and tell them the story. Tested negative so far. Close as I get.
I have asthma and I had the Covid. I huff the albuterol almost every day now.
Sorry 🙁
I should probably ask for anew box of duoneb ampules.
My “I have plenty” stash is taking a hit this week…
Though a fellow asthmatic, I’ve not had the ‘vid, so I can’t help you there, but do make sure you’re taking your zinc and Vit D!
Sorry. Get well soon.
I have no idea what any of that means but sorry 🙁
Hope you feel better soon.
Make sure you are slamming the vitamin D and zinc. Vitamin C would also be advisable. Large doses of vitamin D – spaced through the day (this is key – not all at once!) will help your immune system fight it off.
I gave zinc and vit D in the house. I will take some.
In the meantime, I’ll keep watching the numbers snd see how it goes.
If I message my doc, she’ll probably order a Covid test.
Thanks for the advice and experience, y’all.
Here are a couple protocols.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1i7C_6H1Yq0u8lrzmnzt5N1JHg-b5Hb0E3nLixedgwpQ/edit
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TaRDwXMhQHSMsgrs9TFBclHjPHerXMuB87DUXmcAvwg/edit
Be well.
The Fight for the Soul of Seattle
An uplifting report on Seattle. /s
Wow. When you lose KOMO you are losing the narrative.
Have some Six-String Samurai
WOAH!
YEEEEEAH!
Your head just exploded didn’t it?!?
In a manner of speaking.
We’re back to doing euphemisms! Yay!
That was exciting. 14 point shift.
Amazing shift in this game.
When I was a kid, I thought I would die in my 20s on a far off battlefield. So from my perspective, I have already entered Valhalla. If there is a Valhalla, surely this song is playing there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5yYMjU8xDg
Human nature is like a complex number – there is a real/rational component and an imaginary/emotional component.
The Scoutmaster of my old troop was good organizer and passionate. By his late 40s, he was pear-shaped, nonetheless, in the summer of his youth, he surely did not lack for female attention. His overbearing nature began to grate after a few years. It was decided to have a nice farewell banquet for him whereby he would be given a nice plaque with smiles and handshakes all around, to thank him for a job well done and make clear there were no hard feelings of any sort.
Unfortunately…
The guy couldn’t take a hint and insisted on staying on until he was basically forced out, whereupon he became quite bitter and never participated in the troop again, though his son did until his dad moved him to a different troop.
Time out for what?
TV timeout
The advertiser is the real customer
oh god, those are excruciating when you’re there in person. We went to a NCAA Final Four match, and I swear between the regular time outs and tv timeouts, it felt like there was hardly any basketball. I felt for the kids, because you can’t get anything going – there’s no rhythm to the game anymore, it’s just dribble dribble TIME OUT ON THE FLOOR
Worse for something like basketball – NFL at least has stoppages all the time anyway.
Rewatching Terminator 2, it’s so weird that John Doggett is a terminator.
I knew a girl who lived next door to him.
…was she hot?
Not my type, but yes.
Good Bye and good fortune my friends,
I trust you mean goodbye just for the evening…
+1
+2
Haven’t read the comments yet, just checking on the new handle.
Huh. That didn’t work.
Have you apologized hard enough?
Done with that nonsense.
Thank you. It is nonsense.
Festus Hope all is well
I’m good. Just was broadsided by a backlash. Now I feel the Kramer and go sit in box. I hope everything is shiny side up for you, OBE!
I read…I saw….you good. I am known to make the most unfortunate jokes without checking the filter in my head before they exit.
Right now watching John Williams cause its damn amazing.
Thanks, Friend! I’m gonna devour some take-out and sleep for 14 hours. Sunday is Monday with PMS.
Watching Terminator 3 now. I don’t think I’ve seen this since I was a teenager, lo these many years ago. But I remember really liking the movie. And Claire Danes was a hot piece of ass back in 2005 or whenever.
2003. I mean I bet she was hot in 2005, but Terminator 3 was 2003. Fun fact, the chick terminator? Not at all hot to me. Which I guess makes her a believable villain. She does nothing for me. I’m kidding, she’s absurdly, ridiculously hot. Look at her, She’s obnoxiously sexy. But even as a teenager Claire Danes was my lady.
Better in Romeo and Juliet…but yeah she was a good looking gal
So far? Chick terminator holds up.
I take back everything I said, she’s hotter than hot, she’s HOT HOT HOT.
How does a person like her exist in the world, being so insufferably pretty?
Alright, she is exceptionally hot. I’m blanking on my own last name looking at her. She makes me angry that I even have a penis. I would love her except it means I still have a penis and it isn’t in the Terminator 3 chick.
My favorite Claire Danes story is that Hugh Dancy claims that he had a crush on her and had her poster on his wall as a teenager. And now they’re married and have two kids, so you never know, lads. Sometimes dreams come true.
Can you imagine? Putting your penis inside the same lady for years? Come on, be real.
Counterpoint: I think Katie Holmes said similar about Tom Cruise once upon a time.
Alright, how does this stupid, stupid hot terminator control the mechanical actuation on vehicles.
Just a slow Sunday afternoon here. My wife took the youngest to an ice skating rink – just a temporary thing outside a local shopping mall. They went last year and had a blast. I’m staying home with our oldest who is taking a study break on his Switch. We need to drill some more on his vocabulary in prep for a big English proficiency exam next week… so I guess I’m not drinking.
Don’t you speak English at home with your kids?
Yes, I only speak English with them. But they still need to learn to read and write as well as learning the finer points of grammar.
Speaking to your kids in one language is no guarantee they’ll speak that language.
My wife speaks exclusively Portuguese to our kids. And while they can understand Portuguese just like any native Brazilian, neither can read a lick, nor can they speak it.
From what I’ve seen this is quite common in bi-lingual homes. In my experience, the language where you live is what they’ll generally speak almost exclusively.
Yup. I grew up on the Texas-Mexican border and well over 90% of the people in my neighborhood were Mexican-American or Mexican. Even though they grew up immersed in the Spanish language – not just at home but just about everywhere – without lessons in the grammar most of them couldn’t really write in Spanish.
I am pushing my kids to be fully bi-lingual. It is a huge plus that the Japanese education system pushes all kids to learn English and they get points towards acceptance to schools for passing English proficiency exams. If I can get them to the top level of these exams they will be able to speak/read/write at a high school graduate level.
Getting my ass handed to me at chess online….maybe one too many Jamesons
‘sup fam
Sabbath breakfast beers !
*waves cup of coffee in Tres direction*
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/harvard-students-demand-school-revoke-degrees-trump-supporters-work-government/
These fucking people…
Way to devalue your own credentials, morons.
they are commies
exactly the kind of shit I would expect
I fully intend to keep my couch from floating away today. And grilling some meat.
I’m gonna float away on my meat and grill my couch because that’s just the way 2021 is goin’.
Mornin’ Sean.
Mornin
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/pennsylvania/gov-wolf-doubles-pennsylvania-guard-sent-to-help-washington/article_061e5352-5783-11eb-8703-27b3bb3d0213.html
Why?
The more the merrier!
why?
to help Washington. why wouldn’t you want to help Washington? are you some kind of deplorablele?
https://mobile.twitter.com/CueNom/status/1350691662297772032/photo/1
Perhaps a little too on the nose?
Nope, that seems about right.
Students and alumni at Harvard are demanding that the school revoke the degrees of graduates who worked in the Trump administration and other parts of government.
The fleas demand control of the circus.