In fifth grade I was given an assignment by my teacher to do a book report on a local Indian tribe. We were allowed to call them Indians in those days, and I picked the Aztecs because everyone else picked the Anasazi. The book explained the last five days of the calendar are “empty days” and were considered unlucky. Markets were shut down, there were no games, people fasted, people abstained from contact with one another, and huddled with their immediate families in their homes. Fire was not even allowed. All in anticipation of the priest class finding signs the gods allowed the world to continue for another year around the sun through lighting a fire from the top of the temple after dusk on the fifth day. Yes, it was probably burning bodies.
This was particularly egregious for a New Fire Ceremony every 52 years, where the sacrificial victim had to have their heart removed and then have the empty chest cavity lit on fire…some believe while the sacrificial victim was still conscious.
This is my review of Rogue Dead Guy Ale:
This year probably sucked for a lot of people. Some lost their jobs and their livelihoods. Some got so bored with the death of live sports that there was speculation sports bettors invested in really stupid companies to get their degenerate gambling fix. Some got into fruitless crusades against the state. Others got into fruitless crusades against society. Others still, got into fruitless crusades against everyone.
Some of us adapted to the new circumstances and took advantage of the monetary savings of not having to drive to work towards something useful like a new septic tank. The suckiness was all of our choosing. Whatever happened yesterday or happens tomorrow, we did it all to ourselves.
2020 wasn’t all bad when we compare it to other years where it was significantly worse. Years like:
536: Where a volcano erupted in Iceland and covered Europe in fog for years resulting in a terrible cold spell. Some scholars believe this is the origin of the term Dark Ages because the skies literally grew dark.
Consequently, global temperatures plummeted which resulted in the coldest decade in over 2,000 years. Famine was rampant and crops failed all across Europe, Africa and Asia. Unfortunately, 536 AD seemed to only be a prelude to further misery. This period of extreme cold and starvation caused economic disaster in Europe and in 541 A.D. an outbreak of bubonic plague further led to the death of nearly 100 million people and almost half of the Byzantine Empire.
Despite ridicule from his unit, Franz was convinced masks did nothing to stop the spread of mustard gas
1816: Sometimes referred to as “The Year Without a Summer”:
What caused this calamitous “Year Without a Summer?” At the time, many people believed the chaos was some form of divine retribution, but most scientists now place the lion’s share of the blame on an Indonesian volcano called Mount Tambora. In early 1815, Tambora roared to life with one of the most devastating volcanic eruptions on record—an explosion 10 times more powerful than Krakatoa. Along with killing thousands of locals, the blast also spewed sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. The ash cloud drifted across the globe in the months that followed, blotting out the sun and creating a volcanic winter. When combined with the lingering effects of the Little Ice Age—a period of global cooling that lasted from the 14th to 19th centuries—the sun-sapping pall was enough to lower the planet’s average temperature and send weather patterns into a tailspin.
1918: Not only was there a war, there was a major flu pandemic exasperated because of mobilization and mass movements as a result of the war.
1945: It was terrible for pretty much everyone, regardless if they were participating in the war, but it was particularly bad if you happened to live in Japan.
1968: Millennials think they are living through a rehash of the 60’s, but have yet to see a witness a single political assassination. Epstein and Hassem Solemani do not count.
1989: The world was introduced to a Florida man by the name of Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice.
While I recognize frame of reference can influence how one determines if their life does, or does not suck, 2020 pales in comparison to all of the years above. Particularly because the people complaining the most are doing so in a climate controlled dwelling on a piece of technology, like the one this was written on, that retails for thousands of dollars. Dollars the government just printed out of thin air to placate them.
How does this beer relate? Turns out they put Mictlāntēcutli, the Aztec God of Death, on the bottle. The fun cartoon is an obvious play on a famous artifact depicting the god. In case anybody draws my name for next year’s winter solstice related gift exchange: I would LOVE this little guy as a door stop.
This is an American-style Pale Ale that is a go-to for many. Rogue’s flagship brew is on the balanced to slightly hoppy side of things, but otherwise unthreatening. I might be hypercritical on this one, because of how many times I’ve had it, but…Rogue Dead Guy Ale: 3.8/5
Meh, it’s still just beer.
First, I hope.
3.8/5. Cool bottle. Cool name, still same IPA hipster juice.
It isnt, but you be you.
/disclaimer. Hyperion still being like Hyperion. Still doesn’t like bitter IPA swill. Joking most of the time…
Its not an IPA. But thanks for reading.
I feel your pain MS.
It’s IPA all the way down. Even though some people think it’s turtles.
Rogue used to claim Dead Guy was a maibock, despite being an ale.
Dont know if they still do. Its okay. I am not sure I have had one in 15 years or so.
Yep, still labeled as a Maibock on their website. Rogue annoys me by releasing some of their beers with a half dozen different names/labels. It doesn’t help that they use that same damned yeast in everything they release.
People are overdramatic and whiny. News at 11.
Seriously though, 2020 did suck for many macro reasons, but the worst thing about 2020 is it gave a ton of people excuses to be ungrateful for the blessings that continued in their lives.
“2020 was so awful!”
– every suburban white woman I know who is carrying around an iPhone 12, driving a late model SUV and eating out at restaurants 4x a week
https://babylonbee.com/news/2020-rated-worst-year-ever-provided-you-never-lived-at-any-other-time-in-history
I think 2021 might actually turn out to be a pretty shitty year. But, I’ve been wrong before and so far, the printing presses seem to be working.
How’s the baby?
Yeah, the economic malfeasance has to catch up eventually. One thing that isn’t very well preserved when looking back at history is the period of time where there seemingly isn’t a problem, and everybody is walking on eggshells hoping that the crisis will pass. This feels like one of those times.
Baby is going well! She’ll be 2 months on Tuesday. Time flies, but I don’t mind it at this age. Tummy troubles are on a decline, which means we don’t feel as helpless anymore. We’re getting smiles and coos, which is probably a survival mechanism because all of the frustration melts away when she’s grinning from ear to ear. ?
How’s your little one doing? He’s 8-ish months?
Just over 5 months. He’s doing AWESOME. Just a bit of teething lately keeping everyone up late at night. He’s on the edge of crawling. Right now he scoots around when he wants something. He also grabs anything in reach and shoves it into his mouth. We’ve got to keep a sharp eye on what the toddler brings him.
Just a bit of teething lately keeping everyone up late at night.
You don’t have a root cellar?
It will be, shittier than 2020. Which will only be surpassed by 2022, which will then take the crown as shittiest year.
“eating out at restaurants 4x a week”
I miss read that
“– every suburban white woman I know who is carrying around an iPhone 12, driving a late model SUV and eating out at restaurants 4x a week”
Perched on the high stools at the front, like cackling hens, sipping their fruity drinks.
All of that is fair, but
I still feel plagued in my air conditioned, air bag splendor by the stampede of stupidity. I’m running out of places to hide from popular ignorance and the will to power. There’s no frontier to provide anonymity or space, no way to escape the prying eyes of constabulary, no dent to be made in fascist alliances.
I’ll stipulate that, like Revelation, my notions are both new and ancient . . and that Eccesiastes is correct: no new thing under the sun, including my whining. Maybe every man has felt trapped always.
But I’ll still assert that the monolith of central American power since the Civil War is slowly hurtling us to doom, a doom chosen by the madding crowd for me
even though I love my neighbor enough to never want power over him. It seems unfair to die by that sword since I never would consider picking it up myself.
Don escapes no more.
Absolutely
I’ve always been running: that’s the circular mockery of my many nommedeplume; I’ve always known I was doomed, that this is a strugglfest running into its sixth decade as hopeless as toddler me running from Mom’s strop.
The difference is: I deserved Mom’s. Strop.
It’s a balancing act. On the one hand it’s been important for me to continually remind myself how fortunate I am and how many people in the world in the past and still now have it far worse than me.
By the same token once you value how lucky you really are, it does sort of highlight why it can be so infuriating when pols come along and casually set to destroy the things that created this fortunate situation in the first place. What if I don’t want a “great reset?” What if minor adjustments to address certain issues is all that should really happen? What are people seeing that suggests that everything needs to be burned to the ground?
Been there, felt that, got the mask. You’re not wrong. It feels like we’re in an evershrinking fish bowl.
That said, even these days there are escapes to be found. I go to the local park, and besides a few lunatics in masks and gloves, it’s like the before times. Went camping at a state park a couple weeks back and there wasn’t a mask in sight. None of this fixes the problem, but at least the problem isn’t all-consuming quite yet. I’ve embraced my helplessness. I’m not important, and I can’t change the world. I can only keep living my life as best possible amid all this insanity. Finding unfettered joy is a thumbing of the nose at the griefers.
“Finding unfettered joy is a thumbing of the nose at the griefers.”
Living well something something revenge.
Here is the one silver lining or at least pewter lining in the last year of nonsense. It has been raining red pills regarding the government and how little of a flyin. f*@$ politicians, writ large, care about their constituents. Some of the deluge of scarlet apothecary is bound to have stuck with at least with some of people that wouldn’t have been cognizant that the govenment was anything other than munificent.
Is it enough to tip the scales? I’d guess no, but I am prone to cynicism. But it is something and something is better than nothing.
2020: the epitome of the victim olympics
Medical Glibs,
How long would it be possible to remain conscious with your blood pressure abruptly dropping to 0/0?
I am immensely glad that none of the Western Hemisphere cultures developed the wheel or iron tools.
Shared a Rogue Chocolate Mint Stout over Christmas with my aunt – definitely a dessert beer.
Samuel Smith has a “Welcome Back Ale” which is pretty solid IMO.
Pale? Brown? Something else?
May be the same brew as this one (https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/113/577/) – a few years since I last had one – but a distinctly different label.
Jan 2… and my (local) tax bill arrives in my mailbox. Boy they didn’t waste any time getting that out now did they?
Funny how that is.
This is just one of the things I hate about property taxes. You can get a mortgage and lock in a rate for the lifetime of that loan. But there’s no way you can keep the payment the same because of taxes. What happens when a bunch of commiefornians move into your county and vote in the same policies that they just fled from? Then you suddenly have a tax bill that is bigger than your mortgage. OK, you can then sell your home for 3x what i’s worth and flee to another place. But eventually the swarm of commie locusts will arrive there and then there’s no place left to flee too. Except Canada. Give me not living in Canada or give me death. OK, you can flee to Mexico. But because all the Mexicans will now hate us because of making the USA too expensive and you can’t work, they just shoot us on site, which they will fully be justified in doing.
Still predicting, the dems will build a wall to keep the immigrants in.
It’s interesting.
The way they have the bill itemized, it’s:
General County (tiny amount)
General Town (10x county, but still small.) then in increasing amount of bill it’s:
Ambulance
Sewer
Fire
And then there’s a line “NYS MANDATES” which is bigger than all of the above put together.
A second page is included which explains that portion of the bill is for NYS unfunded mandates, and on the back of the page is the contact info for the gov and NY and federal congresscritters.
In Minnesota, f you live in your home you get a homestead deduction, which lowers your property taxes. As your home value appreciates, your homestead deduction decreases. Guess who determines the value of your home for property tax purposes?
Property taxes in Commiefornia are surprisingly low. You’ll need to come up with a different way to blame everything on us.
Well, NJ is the highest. Cali is surprisingly low. But what’s the avg 3 bedroom home sell for there? 750K? They don’t need high rates, just extreme real estate prices.
Also, I don’t blame CA for everything. I also blame the other deep blue states and cities. But I think it will be mostly the exodus from CA that turns the entire country deep blue.
They don’t need high rates, just extreme real estate prices.
CA leftists, bureaucrats, and politicians: “We need high rates too! Prop 113 ruined the state and left it bankrupt. Oh hey, how about another couple billion to study high speed rail that’s obsoleted by regular air service.”
What’s that extra 1 doing in there?
As a native Californian I will rise to the defense of my cradle thus – it was a great state until everyone from Ohio, New Jersey and several other states came looking for the fucking dream. We who were born there didn’t kill it, all the imports did.
I remember talking to a CA friend about this years ago. I live in a red state in flyover country and the property taxes here were higher than CA. He said the high house prices were primarily due (at that time) to people moving to CA coupled with a huge regulatory state (including but not limited to zoning rules and building requirements) that kept house availability artificially low.
“(including but not limited to zoning rules and building requirements) that kept house availability artificially low.”
I believe a fact check on that will turn out ‘mostly true’.
But that is it, your taxes may be higher in flyover, (not in SC, AL, or some other states) but your house will be 1/4 of the price, so effectively, cost of living still much lower.
Nah, they’d fact check it false as “[regulations] also increase the actual costs, not just restrict availability” or such without any shame.
And your sales tax and income taxes will be much higher.
(in CA, natch)
They don’t care which tax goes up. Just so taxes go up.
I’ve thought about the county as the vector and how the Libertarian Moment will come when minimalist begin to prevail in elections for county boards and sheriffs
but of course I don’t expect to live to see any such.
The ratchet will just keep cranking up towards totalitarianism until the collapse. Which most of us will not live through. After that and a millennia, there may be another free republic, if they can keep it. Hopefully we will have learned from the last failure. In a decade it will be hard to tell our system of governance from that of China. You won’t be able to vote anyone out even if there are still elections because it’s all rigged now. The people who voted for all that because they thought they were going to get free stuff, are going to be very disappointed. The only thing they will get is to be allowed to work if they remain loyal to the party. If they don’t, well then it’s a nice re-education camp for them. And they won’t be smoking any weed because that will make them lazy and not useful to the state.
Some counties are different than others.
Happy counties are all alike; every unhappy county is unhappy in its own way.
*golf clap*
They’ve got to keep that ‘work from home’ cash coming.
I miss the days when Rogue brewed Kell’s lager for them. And their Orange Honey Wheat under the Track Town Ales sublabel.
Anyone thinking about getting vaccinated?
No.
None on the horizon, of any kind
We will all be forced though. Like has been said, they’re not going to come and hold you down. You just will not be allowed on public transit, or out into public in any way. And eventually you will also not be allowed to buy or sell anything unless you comply.
It bothers me how any time I want to put my kid into a new school I have to give them her shot records. I see the COVID shot eventually being on there someday. Given the hysteria, I’m pretty sure it’ll be the 2022 or 2023 school year.
This. I expect I’ll have no choice and will wait it out a bit, but be vaccinated in the 3rd quarter or later this year.
I expect it also. Just the tone already that those choosing not to get the shot when it’s available are “refusing”. Not declining, not opting out, but refusing. These retards can’t see that making it mandatory just engenders opposition in itself. Nope, it’s good in their eyes so everyone must do it, and the fastest way to do so is by threat of force. Just like seatbelts or motorcycle helmets.
I told my boss that he and his bosses need to make it clear than mandatory is unacceptable. I doubt it will make any difference once the government steps in, or even it’s just mandatory by company policy.
I see a business opportunity, hauling stuff for non-compliance folks. Get a homeless card and start a delivery service.
Who’s John Galt Moving Company?
For what?
Dreading it, sure. Running from it, maybe.
I am not planning to get vaccinated.
I am thinking about vaccination though; specifically thinking about how to avoid it and whether I will be required by my job to get it.
Me too, but thankfully I’m in a job where we’ll be at the end of the vaccination queue
Property taxes in Commiefornia are surprisingly low. You’ll need to come up with a different way to blame everything on us.
It’s a question of services demanded, not necessarily the funding mechanism.
Taxes are crazy high in Balmer and you ain’t getting jackshit for it. What you’ll get is undrivable roads full of wheel breaking potholes, increasingly failing infrastructure, like daily watermain breaks that get patched up with duct tape. And the power will go out every time it rains.
Seriously, there is a stretch of road just south of us that only runs for a total of about 2 miles. They worked on that for 5 years and managed to make it worse than it was before they started. I remember when I live in Ohio, they would fix miles and miles of road in a single night and do a great job. What the fuck are they doing here? I think they have no idea.
Retiring at 45 with a six-figure income. See also: NY.
Sounds legit. For real. The corruption here is 3rd world level.
I would imagine much of your state highway funds are going to pay for scores of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” personnel to ensure the roads are equally bad for you regardless of race, creed or gender identity.
I want to major in Critical Asphalt Studies.
I don’t see the issue. The asphalt is already all black. Now if they start making asphalt while, that’s a problem.
I’m being a lazy boy. Time to stretch and go for a run.
It looks like rain is going to get heavier over the next couple of hours. Perfect.
Welcome to Seattle!!!!!
In fifth grade I was given an assignment by my teacher to do a book report on a local Indian tribe.
I was under the impression that the Aztecs never made it as far north to what is now the united states. Interesting stuff none the less and I would drink that. I am still working on my Christmas sampler 12 pack. I am day drinking this at the moment.
*disclaimer* I could be confusing Mayans with Aztecs I am often confused.
I thought it was the Toltecs that was the link between Central American Indians and those further north.
Olmecs or GTFO.
An even earlier Civ. I don’t think any of those made it to what is now the USA. Maybe in myths made up by treasure hunters, but probably only that.
Aztecs, who called themselves Mexica (the Spanish invented the term Aztec), were in Central Mexico, in the same location as Mexico City. I’ve never heard of them making their way to to what is the USA now.
The Mayans were around the Yucatan Peninsula, and I believe as far South as Guatemala. I’m not sure that the two ever met since the Maya were a much earlier civilization and they may have been gone before the Aztecs.
Toltecs are also before the Aztecs.
Which ones had the big stone heads? I thought they found some similarities of artifacts from the stone head guys to artifacts from Southwest USA indians.
Maybe it was just a theory.
Olmecs.
Enormous stone heads are Olmecs.
and sometimes given as gifts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV_oM1LBgqg
Not even gonna click but I will assume it’s Xtapolapocetl.
Yes.
I thought that was the Zardoz’s. (it had to be done)
Olmec.
My favorite vacation I have had in my life was a trip to Tulum. It was awesome.
Been there and to most of the popular Mayan ruins.
I forget where it was now, but I went to one ruin there, in the jungle, and my God it was so fucking hot and humid. It would rain, like right out of a mostly clear sky and then steam would roll up off the trails. I had to leave it was just miserable.
Ya, we did all the ruins within driving distance and took private tours. Hot and humid for sure but worth it. I actually like hot and humid.
I like hot and humid, but not like that. That one was deeper in the jungle than most.
They taught in school the Pueblo Indians got corn from the Mexican Indians.
I have seen a few documentaries where they speculated they got as far north to come in contact with some of the Pueblo Indians. They assumed as much due to cuts and striations in remains suggesting they were indeed butchering the Pueblo Indians but I’m not about to search for links to that. The rabbit hole for that tends to get…nutty.
“They taught in school the Pueblo Indians got corn from the Mexican Indians.”
Sounds legit since they were in close proximity to each other.
Anasazi and Hohokam grave goods both have parrot feathers and other items that could only come from the Aztec/Maya regions. Corn is another tell. The question seems to be “how many times were those items were traded to get to their burial spot?”
Trade was going on because some Maya/Maya jewelry has turquoise that chemical analysis shows it coming from Anasazi and Mogollon sources.
Read that as Mongolian, and was impressed.
I can see trade ties via an intermediary between the Aztecs and Pueblos, but I don’t buy direct contact.
Or maybe I’m wrong on direct contact. I’m looking at wiki’s map of historic Pueblo lands/settlements. They stretched farther south than I thought.
The Mongollons were even further south to pretty much right next to Mesoamerica.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogollon_culture
That mountain lion effigy picture looks like a dildo.
No, not a dilDO. Thats a dil-DONT.
Aaaah, yes. You just brought flashbacks of child hood trips to Mesa Verde. Cool stuff.
“I was under the impression that the Aztecs never made it as far north to what is now the united states.”
That would be correct.
This reminds me of this eccentric old guy I knew back in flyover who owned an antique shop. He actually had some amazing stuff he came in possession of. He was also the biggest bull shitter I’ve ever met.
One time he told me he had an Aztec artifact and I said ‘where’d you get it’? He asked me if I’d come and look at it. I said OK, I’ll stop by. So I stopped by and he pulls out this clay thing and he says ‘don’t you think this is Aztec?’. The lady who worked in the shop was also fascinated by this thing. I looked at it said ‘No, that is not Aztec. Where’d you get it?’. So then he tells me he got if off some guy who found it by the river. I said ‘Dude, no one found any Aztec objects by the River in the Midwest USA’. So he started making up all this crazy shit he dreams up about how maybe it got there and how maybe it was Aztec. So I said ‘First of all, that is not Aztec anything. Stop watching the History Channel’. So then he says ‘I could take it to the museum or to that university, maybe they will know if it’s Aztec’. So I said ‘Look, man, it isn’t any kind of Indian artefact, OK? My guess is that it’s a 5tjh grade art project and not a good one.’. But if you take is somewhere, can I go along so I can enjoy them laughing at you?, cause man you are stubborn’. He says ‘Are you an archeologist!?’ I said ‘No, but I ain’t dumb either’. He was a little upset with me for a while over that.
1989: The world was introduced to a Florida man by the name of Robert Van Winkle, better known as Vanilla Ice.
Ouch.
…who incidentally makes an appearance in that nutty documentary Operation Odessa I keep harping about!
Was there aliens?
Nope. Not extraterrestrial ones anyway.
No. But there was anal probing.
There just has to be some connection between those guys and Joe Exotic.
Its absolutely terrifying.
I have sympathy for Native American / indigenous tribes in the US. They definitely got the short end of the Manifest Destiny stick, and the Reservation strategy still condemns many to a dead-end life. (I had a side gig in High school tutoring “at risk” members of the Chickasaw Nation. They talked about how they felt and dressed like other teens, but if they showed an interest in doing “American” things like going to college or becoming a doctor, they were guilt-tripped by elders to abandon those “white man” plans and society. Very sad.)
So I do get that they want to preserve old languages, arts, and some customs. But it is super frustrating to see scientists come try to get DNA samples from tribal members. A few of the younger ones are enthusiastic and want to know more about how and when their ancestors migrated from Asia and how they spread and mixed (or not) with other tribes over millennia.
But the chiefs and elders don’t want anyone to participate, because if we learn details of the migrations, that would prove that the “Native Americans” didn’t originate on this continent.
I don’t know that it makes any practical difference, but it is a big deal to them.
My family still has ties with a Chief’s family of a PNW tribe. It’s painful to talk to intelligent people who are under the impression that they’d all do so much better if they only had more land to farm. Meanwhile, they’re raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from roughly 15 acres of casino properties….
Yep. And there are plenty of grievance mongers around to help stoke that discontent and sense of unfairness, just so the grievance mongers stay influential and preferably rich.
And although I’m sympathetic about the past wrongs done to the Native tribes, I’m not at all sympathetic towards the ones who want to keep the youth stuck on the reservation too.
It’s too late to redo the colonization of the Americas using today’s sense of ethics. But it’s also too late to keep wallowing in it. You aren’t getting the plains back to hunt buffalo. That ship has sailed.
Join modernity now. Any tribal “leaders” who don’t want you to succeed in the White Man’s world do NOT have your interests at heart.
I watched a documentary where some anthropologist made contact with a tribe in the Amazon in order to ‘study them’ of course. One of the guys was a language scholar and had figured out how to communicate in their language. One thing that caught my attention right away is that these ‘brown fold’ where whiter than most Brazilians with mixed Native American and European blood and they also looked more Asian than Amerindian.
After they guy talked to them for a while, what came out was that they had originally lived on the Peruvian side of this region, but the Peruvians had been hunting and killing them, so they fled into Brazil.
Then after that, they got bold and started making incursions into Brazilian villages and towns across the river. when they saw what these Brazilians lived like, they started doing raids to steal stuff.
Now the Brazilian government tried to force them to go back to the forest. Not because they were stealing stuff, but because they were so much better off in their forest paradise and they would immediately die from white man diseases if they didn’t go back.
Well, since they could communicate with the anthropology team, they said ‘We don’t want to go back to the forest, we want to be Brazilian, because we can’t even sleep. We are always being hunted by Peruvians, other tribes, wild animals, and being bitten by insects’. The Brazilians have dry safe spaces to sleep and they have clothing, that’s what we want.
Of course the Brazilian government knew better than them and wanted them to go back, but they refused. They didn’t all die from white people disease and they refused to go back to the forest. So much for the Noble Savage paradise theory.
There is a similar story with recently contacted Australian Aborigines. Except that the Australians were happy to give the man a mobile home and a cooler full of beer.
“Except that the Australians were happy to give the man a mobile home and a cooler full of beer.”
LOL. Once a human gets a cooler of beer and a nice shelter, they ain’t ever going back. Getting a cell phone and the internet will seal the deal.
One of the children from the tribe in Brazil, I’m guessing he was maybe 10, took a fascination with one of the team’s cameras, and a few weeks later he had his own camera and was really into photography. I thought that was really cool seeing how quickly he picked it up despite having never seen modern tech.
And named them all “Bruce”.
/couldn’t find Python link since it seems YT sanitized it
Dude, it’s Brazil. They named them all Joao, Miguel, or Flavio .
All the Brazilian names I see are English or some oddball variation of English – they are all soccer players and all around the same age so I guess that was a fad at the time. Weverton, Ederson, Everton, Richarlison, etc. etc.
“All the Brazilian names I see are English or some oddball variation of English ”
Some, like Joao (John). Juan in Spanish.
That was WRT the aussie abos.
The worst thing that was done was to rerecognize tribes as racist pseudo governments rather than private social clubs with no special status. Thanks Dick Nixon for another shitty legacy.
I have only one friend who is a significant fraction Native (1/2 in her case) and lives in the “white mans world.” She also happens to be a small business owner (in Minnesota) and is active in all kinds of anti-socialist, anti-lockdown, pro-business efforts.
I used to think it was interesting that she is a free market enthusiast “despite” her Native heritage. Then it occurred to me that if anyone should be culturally biased to mistrust politicians and powerful governments, it would be Native Americans, or at least those who know history.
There was a Native American who used to write over at townhall (can’t remember his name) who made this argument fairly often. His point was either break up the reservations OR make them completely autonomous and remove federal oversight and funding.
Not just reservations, but exemption from the 14th amendment and giving them other government powers such as policing.
If you feel sorry about what happened to the Amerindians here because of the white devils, just read about what the Aztecs did to all the surrounding lesser tribes.
You mean they didn’t all solve their differences by gathering in a drum circle and discussing their feelings?
It didn’t quite work that way.
Huh. I wonder where I’ve heard that before.
wut
There are people who think otherwise?!
I had no idea.
“that would prove that the “Native Americans” didn’t originate on this continent”
Not unless you watch the History channel. Otherwise, the human critters they call Native American came from Asia. But if you watch the History Channel, they came from space and then mined copper in Minnesoda using advanced alien technology.
The Dakota lived in Minnesota for only 200 years prior to the arrival of Europeans, but for some reason they get a say in everything.
I respect them for learning now to best the politicians who fuck around with all our lives. Being a minority and claiming ‘I’ve always been here, this is mine’ is a sure fire win in today’s woke political climate.
I’m not well read on this, but I remember watching a documentary on South Africa in which the they want to force Dutch farmers off their land because they’re not African. But if I remember it correctly, no one was living on the land they’re farming, they didn’t force anyone out.
So it’s like, OK, we were always here, so it belongs to us. The whole continent. But if I’m European, I can’t say ‘Hey Europe is mine’ because my people were always here. Sounds like a double standard to me, but what do I know. Today’s wokeness makes zero sense to me.
Sounds like a double standard to me, but what do I know.
Of course. It’s not nearly so perplexing when you think of their real intentions… do any say everything they can to destroy western civilization.
I thought the History Channel taught us the Native Americans all came from Hitler.
The Canadian abos are generally really resistant to the idea that they weren’t the first people here. There are some exceptions — the spousal unit and I met a very nice First Nations interpretive guide at the Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump museum/exhibit in southern Alberta, who talked freely about the theory that her people came here from Asia over the Bering land bridge around 20,000 years ago.
Mind you, there wasn’t anyone else around at that moment when we were talking to her, so who knows how she approaches the subject when other natives were within earshot.
“The Canadian abos are generally really resistant to the idea that they weren’t the first people here.”
They may have been. They just probably didn’t originate here. There was a tribe in MT that insisted that they were ‘always’ here. Fortunately for them, they were able to contact the kooks from the History channel who confirmed for them that they indeed had always been here by doing what they typically do, pulling some bullshit out of their asses.
Yeah, that’s what I was getting at. I thought it was common knowledge.
It was the top theory, but then people went to public school and watched The History Channel.
I’m sure she does the eggshell walk when interfacing with other Native Americans so she can gauge the level of history denial her audience practices.
The First Nations are the groups that ethnically cleansed the Zeroth Nations to points further south.
Yeah, that whole thing about Native Americans and holy sites – you fuckers all just wandered over here from Asia. I find it doubly amusing that anti-religion liberals double down on NA “spirituality”.
Them’s good brown people. And they were living totally at peace in utopia when the white devil showed up.
OT – I’m now hooked on using TSP (trisodium phosphate) as a laundry additive; 1/4 cup per load produced very noticeable results.
Thats my recipe, too (or perhaps a bit less). I noticed it especially helped on grease/oil on work clothes. But in fairness, for years Ive pre-treated them with Dawn detergent, so I’m not really evaluating the effectiveness of the TSP alone. Then again, I dont care cause I dont want grease-stained clothes. Mad foam in the sink when I use it for dishes, just like the good old days before teh EPA banned it.
Didn’t it say on the bottle to not drink it? That’s how you get addicted.
I made a similar suggestion here for brick or shingles recently.
Several years ago, the NCAA decreed that all “offensive” mascots be dropped if the schools want to stay in the NCAA. They didn’t decree a ban on the use of Indian in the names but they were encouraged to do a “self examination” about their names.
Many changed from Indians or Braves to Warrior or to something totally different.
Best part is that the NCAA is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Indiana has tons of places named with words used by local tribes when the white devils first arrived. I guess they’ll be busy for a while renaming all those things.
Not just Indiana. The whole country.
And for the win: Big Assawoman Bay. No one ain’t topping that.
Worse than 2020 The man was keeping us down.
That was fantastic. I had no idea there was such a conflict. Also, with the accents, it all sounds like a Degrassi Junior High episode. And some of old boards were HUGE!
I read that as “huge, old, broads” and was briefly aroused.
There was great conflict. I took up the sport in 84 and there was one ski area in CO that would allow the devil boards on the lifts. Berthoud Pass. One lift and a T-bar back then. Breckenridge was the next to open up, then it was on. As soon as one big one caved, the rest had to follow because the sport exploded and they are not going to say no to money. I saw two boards in that vid that I owned. A Burton Elite 150 and a wooden Burton I don’t remember the name of. They were horrid compared to the boards of today.
When I was in school, the skiers were the asshole kids with money. The snowboarders were the druggy skateboarders with money.
That brings back memories.
Anyone thinking about getting vaccinated?
Sure, after 5 or 6 hundred million other people in the Western world beta-test all of the major offerings for me.
Prolly next week for me. I done been voluntold.
Can you request a spoiled one?
Join a religion right now. Become Amish, they’ll have to let you out of it.
I’m certain I will need to get one for work in the next few months.
It is true that we are more prosperous than any age in history, but here we are: The Great American Experiment is over.
“It is true that we are more prosperous than any age in history”
For now, anyway.
My point precisely.
We are definitely more preposterous than at any other time in history.
You people are like a bar in that I shouldn’t be here in daylight hours, but:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-9106553/Mitch-McConnells-Kentucky-home-vandalized-WERES-MONEY-spray-painted-door.html
Do these illiterates realize they agree with Trump?
“WERES MY MONEY”
This has nothing to do with a public dumbed down to the point of idiocy by public schools.
I’ve been in bars in daylight hours. There’s nothing wrong with that.
I suppose. And the false flag possibility occurs to me.
Girls to fuel your alone time vaginal intercourse fantasies.
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It’s like you can see into my soul.
/checks gallery
/see lack of face diapers
/smiles
I’m guessing sports projections are as wildly inaccurate as election polls. Earlier, ESPN was already hyping ‘Bama of tOSU.
Either that, someone felt screwed on an auction and they’re trying to drive Sloopy to a premature aneurysm.
*over THE Ohio State Buckeyes
sooperdooperspredder!
The coronavirus variant that was first spotted last month in the U.K. has now spread to dozens of countries, likely passed on by infected people who traveled around the world and unknowingly brought the microscopic invaders with them.
Researchers say the new variant — dubbed B.1.1.7 — probably originated in the South East region of England in September, before being detected there in November. According to a new report from Imperial College London, Britain’s November lockdown did little to curb its spread, which was most prevalent in young people under 20 years old. The World Health Organization says the new variant is responsible for more than half of new infections in the U.K.
The variant is now in dozens of countries, including the United States, where it has infected people in Colorado, California and Florida. Europe is riddled with the variant, which has been reported in Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. It has also been detected in Asia, Australia, the Middle East and South America.
12 monkeys style!
What are the odds this incredibly sneaky and pernicious bug mutated in a similar manner independently in a variety of countries?
What are the odds it mutated into another, more deadly strain which never went anywhere because the hosts died before passing it on?
I don’t know what the odds are. What would you like them to be?
——eager clipboard-wielding “scientist”
Predicted response: Lock down harder. Not, “Hunh, this didn’t work at all. Let’s stop doing that.”
GTFO!
The good news is that the new variant doesn’t appear to be more deadly. But it is much more contagious — researchers are still trying to determine exactly how much more, but many have estimated it could be 50% more transmissible than the original strain. That may be because it leads to an increased viral load inside a person’s nose or respiratory tract — and so it gets dispersed more easily when people talk or cough. Another theory is that the new variant binds to human cells more easily.
Or maybe they’re looking for a facile explanation of the virus’ rapid spread despite their incoherent ranting about masks
I thought they were going with “blame Trump and his rabid followers for not obeying their betters.”
Seriously though, I’ve wondered if one did random nasal swabs or blood tests on large sample of people (as was done for Covid-19) would one find an unknown virus that had permeated the population without causing mass symptomatic cases.
I don’t know what the odds are. What would you like them to be?
We can adjust them right here, in this part of the model, see?
You’re ready for some lucrative grant writing.
What causes it? Global warming and Covid. And Donald Trump.
How do we fix it? Make them obey!
How long before it’s too late? 12 years!
Tyr Anasazi was maybe the worst ever character in sci fi apart from all of the characters in Far Scape and possibly Jar Jar Binks, although personally I think Jar Jar was the best character from the Star Wars prequels.
ME SUH JAH JAH BINK SUH!1112
You’re just jealous that the Aussies put out a better scifi show than Dr. Who.
If you mean Danger 5 vs. current ‘woke’ Dr Who ? I may concur.
Is Danger 5 any good?
Just like a Craigslist hookup- so bad it’s awesome.
When you find her 3XL panties wedged between your couch cushions but you don’t text her about it because you already burned them in shame?
That sounds like the voice of experience
LOL. I knew a guy in Indiana who apparently got really drunk once and slept with this huge 400 lb or so lady he met at a bar. His younger brother accidentally walked in on them. And then he couldn’t keep quiet about it, he told everyone.
The guy was so embarrassed, but that was not the worst of it. I was driving down the street with his younger brother in the car, who was a friend, and we saw the older brother walking down the street. There were quite a few people out walking because it was a very nice day out. So the dude rolls down the window and is yelling his brother’s name ‘Fucks fat girls, over and over’. I was trying to stop him, and then he’s laughing like a hyena.
Later on we were outside another friend’s house in his front yard and I looked down the street and saw the older brother coming. And he’s a big dude and strong as an ox, not someone you’d fuck with. So I saw that he sees his brother and I’m thinking ‘oh shit’ and he starts yelling ‘I’m going to kill you!’ and the younger brother starts running and yelling ‘Fat girl fucker, fat girl fucker!’ and laughing, because he knew he could outrun the older brother.
We were all laughing, but later on I told him ‘dude you need to stop that shit, he’s going to catch you one day and beat you senseless’.
Lol
I finally caught some episodes with the new Doctor yesterday. I like her, in theory. But yeah, it’s woke AF. And I mean the entire production.
While waiting for football to start yesterday, I stopped on an episode. Jugsy called me a “Who-vian” and I quickly corrected her with “thats not MY doctor!”
something has changed. What could it be?
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler on Friday promised a tougher response to people who commit violence and vandalism, in a press conference organized after two successive days of people damaging property and clashing with police downtown.
“We need more accountability and we need to hold people responsible for their criminal conduct,” the mayor said, hours after police said demonstrators launched commercial grade fireworks at a federal courthouse and Portland Justice Center and hurled projectiles at police. Video and photos of the night’s events also showed extensive damage to downtown store fronts with scores of smashed windows and fresh graffiti.
Wheeler said he will organize a meeting with local and state law enforcement as soon as next week to determine how best to respond to “anarchist violence” in the city, and he called for the state Legislature to pass a law in its upcoming regular session to increase penalties for people who repeatedly vandalize property.
Here’s an idea. Don’t let the “anarchists” take over the city for months while you blame the Bad Orange Instigator for circumstances which are completely local.
There usefulness as useful idiots expired. Who ever saw that coming?
Wake me when there’s a conviction.
Unless someone tries to go to church, it’s not happening.
The antifa rioting is just the tip of the iceberg.
A) hang the commie DA
B) arrest the outright commie outfit NLG
C) put the antifa propagandists masquerading as journalists in the hospital
D) roll up the funding network and arrest the payment processors and enablers as coconspirators
E) arrest pro Antifa judges
The larger problem is the 9th Circus which enable the bums to take over by prohibiting cities from enforcing no camping ordinances while mandating they have a duty to provide housing
F) raze and clear all homeless encampments immediately, no warning, no 30 days to vacate
G) arrest bums loitering or breaking any laws
H) shut down the city and county government funding the homeless and fire all employees with permanent bars to rehire in any public position
I) shut off funding to “private” organizations growing the homeless
J) respond to minor level crimes and punish harshly. Target known criminals and make their lives so miserable they either knock it off or move away.
K) cut off the hand of grafiti vandals on the first offense. Second offense, hang them from nearest lamppost with a rattle can shoved down their gullet
L) Along with general cut spending, cut employees, end public union negotiations and recognition, cut spending, cut wages and benefits, and cut spending.
antifa are no different from all the other useful idiots. When their usefulness runs out, they’ll bet a comeuppance.
Retry link for The Bee telling us exactly what is in store in 2021. It is both better and worse than you can imagine.
It was all believable until I got to this one:
November 17 – Development complete on Cyberpunk 2077
I guess it was thoughtful and justifiable political activism until the election. Now it’s anarchy.
We were allowed to call them Indians in those days
Here in Minnesota Indian is our Native Americans’ preferred nomenclature. It’s a fucked up nation.
Which reminds me that I got to thinking that woke/cancel culture could rightly be called the Lynching of America.
1930: He has to be guilty because he’s black. Kill him!
2021: He has to be guilty because he’s white. Kill him!
Native American is the latinx of Indians.
American Americans?
Is, “primitives that didn’t have the wherewithal to bother to have an iron age and paid the price” too wordy? Or would, “people that were too busy warring with, genociding and enslaving each other to fight again a civilzation that was infinitely better at said activities than they were,” better?
Eff Rousseau and his “noble savage” horse crap.
But why white man have more cargo? We could explore the 3rd world in quest of such important revelations. Because the obvious is no longer even considered.
Glad to see you are able to log in again!
Up here, the yutes get a lump sum from the tribe when they turn 18. As you can imagine, the money doesn’t last long.
Also tribal politics is just as corrupt as normal politics. Something, something, power corrupts,
I do envy the tribe’s ability to print their own license plates.
Wow. A mayor has managed to out-asshole Bill Deblasio.
Sounds like he’s been watching the NFL with DeAssholio.
They need to go Romanian on Khan.
Good Lord, I have agree.
For reference, here is what Deblasio did last night.
How do they expect these people to not be like that when they know no matter what they do, they will get reelected?
Missed that.
Not sure if I should be thankful for you pointing that out or not. It does show just how clueless the political class is, however.
Hypothetically, if I were to suggest that I would not feel particularly upset if he was kidnapped and dumped in the worst part of wartorn Raqqa with nothing but his cunning to protect him, I would be arrested, and immediately convicted of threatening an elected official, or whatever, and “hate speech”, so I will not suggest something so unwoke and terrible.
Can I suggest it for you?
I see it as the final, impotent raging of a man who lost big-time and can’t quite let it go yet. If I was Boris, I’d be sitting in the den at #10 Downing with a fabulous snifter of single-malt and a shit-eating grin on my face. ”Suck it, Sadiq!”
If only there was anything left of Boris to do that. He was always just a “one horse pony”, as we say now, on getting Brexit done somehow. That one horse was used up entirely and now there is nothing but the empty shell of a pony, while Khan sits on his throne in his fiefdom surrounded by praise and adulation from his supporters. London is his caliphate and he is the most narcissistic, self-righteous, smug little prig. Remember when he flew out to SXSW on the taxpayer’s £££££s to read out mean tweets he received that were definitely from real people, and smirk about it?
A glitch in the matrix
U.S. health care workers are first in line to receive the COVID-19 vaccine — but an alarming number across the country are refusing to do so.
Earlier this week, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine disclosed that about 60 percent of the nursing home workers in his state have so far chosen not to get vaccinated.
More than half of New York City’s EMS workers have shown skepticism, The Post reported last month.
And now California and Texas are experiencing a high rate of health care worker refusals, according to reports.
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A high percentage of vaccine refusal among not just health care workers, but the general population, could be problematic, Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch told the newspaper.
“Our ability as a society to get back to a higher level of functioning depends on having as many people protected as possible,” said Marc Lipsitch.
The people who are likely to have a legitimate practical understanding of vaccines and what they can and cannot do are reluctant to take it.
Don’t listen to them, America. Just get the shot. You owe it to Society. You want Society to function properly, don’t you?
Don’t you?
Gee, people don’t want to take an experimental vaccine that is not even through clinical trials? I can’t imagine why.
I’m going to join a religion, at least that’ll save me for a while. I’ll become Muslim since that will protect me longer since they don’t want to get beheaded or blown up. *starts learning Arabic*
I told co-workers that this will be an issue. If anyone thinks that only deplorables are antivaxxers, they would be wrong. They’ll have to force people by making commerce illegal for people who won’t take it. Just part of the plan anyway. Cashless society here we come.
The woman cutting my hair Wednesday said she was glad Biden was going to be President, and that she and her son would not be taking the vaccine yet “because I’m afraid of anything Trump had his hand in.”
??♂️
Well, she can be glad that Biden will soon make her take it, or else.
Fuck, half of Hollywood is anti-vaxxers. It will be quite interesting to see how many of them do a sudden 180.
Well, they are natural born hypocrites, so it’s possible that some of them will.
It must be miserable to be that desperate for attention all the time
I hope you shove that vaccine so far up your ass that your tonsils become immune.
We just need to make the vaccination better. We can start by putting in an implant that will periodically release more vaccine. Then of course we give you a special number that identifies you, along with your DNA, and GPS tracking. Then we can make sure everyone is safe, with no effort on your part at all! We can add other features over time, like a code that allows you to buy and sell with total security! All for your own safety and convenience of course.
Hyperion’s getting all biblical now
It wasn’t me who got all biblical, it was the assholes they call leaders. Their words, not mine.
He’s not wrong, IMO
My wife has decided to embrace the whitewashing of history. Her reasoning, since we’re tearing down any monuments and everything else, is there’s no proof slavery ever existed nor racism in any form, reap the whirlwind assholes.
That has occurred to me before. And she’s not wrong. In one generation, there will be slavery deniers but, unlike Auschwitz, no evidence left to refute them.
With the recent defacing of an statue of Lincoln, I am with her. We as a society no longer are allowed to have nice things. We must tear down every statue we can find. Including but not limited to:
Jefferson Memorial? Yup
FDR Memorial. Hell yes.
Wild Bill Hickock kn Deadwood? Yes.
Pat Tillman in front of
University of PhoenixState Farm Stadium? Yes.Ghandi? Tear them all down.
I don’t care who it is, they all get to either be torn down or decapitated like the statue of Lenin in front of Red Square at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
Do I sound like a dad that was previously enjoying the silence but had to settle an argument between whining children so I drank a bit of Irish Whiskey and created a solution nobody likes to teach them the lesson that if you don’t settle it yourselves “the authorities” will make everyone’s life miserable?
…Yeah.
FWIW I think you would make a great dad, KK.
Either you’re trying to flatter me or you want me to go Angela’s Ashes on everyone.
But thank you.
? I was so sure it was Kristen what posted that sir I was. I was trying to make a funny I suppose. As it happens, yes, please go Angela’s Ashes cum King Solomon on everyone’s asses.
I will need a LOT more Bushmills….
The statues and history were just a start. Then it’s on to destroying the family unit, religion, every last trace of capitalism and Western society as a whole. Then we get to math and science and other racist stuff. We can only reach utopia when we are back to a few warring tribes of club wielding uneducated root grubbers.
All the immigration records should be destroyed. The very idea that some families have an older and longer history in the US than some others those who climbed over the wall yesterday. Traversing the oceans is no different from walking the AZ desert. That way there will be true equality.
There will be true equality when everyone except the ruling class are equally impoverished.
In the future there will not be slavery because we’ll all be hunter gatherers scraping every day for bare survival. Civilized society with higher tech cannot continue against this full on assault against everything logical or reasonable.
Science is gone. In less than two more generations, history will be completely erased, no one will be able to do math, let alone engineering. We will lose the ability to even maintain our current technology and then it will all just rust and decay away until we are back to the stone age.
I see absolutely no hope of preventing that. Wokeness has won.
Went out shopping today. I had to step over three corpses just to get to my car.
I hear those .2% of covid deaths cannot even be buried fast enough. So of course you have to step over them. In 2011 40% of the population died from no healthcare insurance and now the rest are dying because you won’t wear your mask and obey.
I thought everybody was already killed by the repeal of Net Neutrality.
Those who don’t know that that means, hardest hit.
That’s why I use a bulldozer
+1 Soylent Green,
Both great ideas. Shovel ready jobs and free food!
Sol?
I’m just gonna vent here. It snowed a few days ago. About two-three inches, which is really nothing. No snow emergency called because as I said, it’s really nothing. So people went about their business driving their cars and everything was just fine. Well yesterday, the fucking city plowed the center of the street. You wanna know what that does? It pikes up all of the snow next to our parked cars. it took a while to pull out from the curb. You know, back and forth and back and forth… God damned, moronic government motherfuckers.
Thanks for listening.
Sorry, private plow service, we don’t get stuck, I hate digging out…..
Baltimore always liked to do that when it was slushy with an overnight hard freeze on the way.
Nothing like your wheels completed encased in ice in the morning
This why elections are bad
Elections are bad, Mmkay? They’re bad for our democracy, we must end them. And capitalism, and guns, and free speech, and freedom period, and democracy ,especially that. We have to save democracy by ending it.
Hope and Change!
If you like your husband and daughter, you can keep your husband and daughter, for now, you just can’t call them that.
That’s Nancy trying to buy off the lunatic wing ahead of the election for speaker.
That said, she can fuck right off. I’ll refer to my family in the way I prefer, it’s not her or anyone else’s call to make.
Any Zoom Tonight? I need to make an ass of myself again,