While they’re not octopuses*, I still make room in my heart for their weird cousins. (h/t: Mexican Sharpshooter)
Meanwhile, the Internet continues to be strange and wonderful.
Wait, did I say strange and wonderful? Maybe it’s still just weird and off-putting.
“10/10, would get bitten by a shark again.”
If someone wants to make this and get back to me about how tasty it is, I’d be much obliged.
Same shit, different day, news at 2:00 PM MDT.
Time for a preview of my weekend but in musical form.
*And you can GTFOutta here with “octopodes” or “octopi” because I don’t want to hear it.
Octopots.
Octodogs.
It’s like you don’t even know people… Octoroks.
Ok, I like this one.
Octoplurals?
This is not how you First out with your cock out.
Scungilli.
OctoMom
Well Octodad came out almost 7 years ago.
That’s….something.
Octopieinthesky
Octopussy.
The best octo.
OctoPussy Galore!
Octonauts assemble.
I have a friend that really, really likes Octomore.
Octonomicon
This one is also pretty good.
Octopinx
I mean, it attracts apex predators, but the cleavage POPS!
This is a shark bite? Really?
It was a very small shark.
This tax hike “adds a significant burden to gig economy and small business workers at the worst possible time,” according to TechNet spokesman Steve Kidera. One tax expert warned Roll Call that many struggling gig economy workers won’t be able to pay the higher taxes, and that IRS penalties “can destroy a person’s life.”
That job sucks. We’d rather see you starve. Join a union.
GPA: 0.13
Attendance: 272 tardies and absences over 3 years
Classes Passed: 3
Classes Failed: 22
Class rank: 62/120.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/baltimore-student-fails-classes-top-half
So, almost the median student?
That’s mean.
That’s an expected value from him.
Something to shoot for!
That’s how he moved up in class standings.
So, I think I’m seeing the problem here when the mother is so detached from what’s actually going on with her son that she expected him to graduate despite him failing nearly every class he took over 4 years.
And hey, I’m sure the school sucks, but so does she as a parent.
There is enough blame for everyone involved in this story.
Yup. And the teachers unions depend on the parents not giving a shit. Nice racket, eh?
So… the solution is to increase spending on the schools, right?
Obviously.
when you fail at doodling, you fail at… well pretty much everything.
We have to pay people who fail. Everyone gets a trophy.
It’s mind boggling to think that after a year of depriving workers of their incomes and strangling the economy with government lockdowns, politicians would really shoulder billions more in taxes onto working Americans’ backs.
No it isn’t.
We’ll kill all small businesses and ruin the independent contractors yet!
Corporatism today, corporatism tomorrow, corporatism forever!
The creation of the state in the service of the state.
All for the state, by the state!
You’re in good hands.
It’s way easier to get a few mega businesses to do your bidding that to get a bunch of free radical types to do your bidding.
In the future, there should only be one business – Amazalmart! Your one stop for everything!
No one needs more than one type of business /Bernie.
I am apparently above the age cut-off where any of that article makes sense.
I thought it was just me. I was also lost.
I recognized Space Ghost.
I didn’t understand anything in the first sentence. But according to the second sentence, it might be expected.
She’s Max Headroom, but a chick, and on an internet streaming channel.
Under current tax law, earnings data for gig economy workers only needs to be reported to the IRS once it reaches $20,000. This means that small earners pursuing gig work to supplement their income aren’t hit by crushing federal taxes. However, the Democrats’ provision would nearly eliminate this benchmark, and instead require all income above $600 to be reported to the IRS.
Not exactly. They always owed taxes on the money they earned. The old rule just made it easy to evade their taxes.
An amendment to put the horrible minimum wage back in the prokupus bill got voted down 58-42 with seven dems and a dem-caucuser voting No.
Bad Luck Biden
I don’t they actually care about the billion tax bucks. They just hate gig workers that much.
They’re finally getting revenge on people competing against licensed cabs.
The medallion – another creation of the state. It’s almost like there is a theme here.
Cannon fodder
Among those who said their financial situation has gotten worse, 44% said it will take three years or more to get back to where they were 12 months ago — and 1 in 10 said their finances will never entirely be the same.
“There are certain groups that have not only experienced job loss in their household, but they are having to take on debt — those are things that have consequences for their future,” said Juliana Horowitz, one of the authors of the report.
Inequality has been a hallmark of the pandemic recovery, marked by job loss for those at the bottom and soaring wealth for those at the top.
This so-called K-shaped recovery has split the nation nearly in half, with the wealthiest Americans faring even better than before, while millions more have faced setbacks.
Lower-income adults, as well as Black and Hispanic Americans and those under age 30, were the most likely to say they or someone in their household lost a job or suffered a pay cut since the coronavirus outbreak began, Pew found.
As a result, they’ve had to put off paying certain bills and take on debt in the face of pressing financial concerns, including food insecurity.
If only they had been smart enough to work for the government and belong to a union.
It’s almost like this was part of a sinister plot to make more people dependent upon government largesse, and tax the well-off (not the actual rich) to the point where they are forced to join the dependent classes.
What they don’t want is upward social mobility. The well off can stay well off but they’re not supposed to join the ranks of the rich or especially the powerful, and the poor should stay put, cash their handout checks, and turn in their votes like they’re supposed to.
That is an excellent observation. I’m using it.
Because if even one person manages to escape the world of housing projects and welfare dependency then the other plebs might get ideas.
Much of their governance can be summed up as appearing to care for the plebs while making sure that power stays fully out of plebian hands. The best solution is one which appears to the pleb to be for his benefit but appears to the other patricians to be anything but.
Do I even need to put in a blurb anymore? The link for the Friday/Saturday Zoom/Happy Hour/Wondering why our governors aren’t like the ones in Texas will be kicked off at 20:00 Eastern.
There might be some noob who just wandered in off the streets and who wishes to
bathe in the fountain of eruditionjoin the nerdfest that is GlibZoom happy hour and adult daycare.So I should start handling out claim tickets?
Will there be a…show…tonight?
Only if you make it rain, Daddy…
*checks wallet for dollar bills*
on Trampoline…..
Thanks. I might join for a bit tonight. Tomorrow night I’m out.
I’ll try to pop in for a bit tonight. Tomorrow night we’ll be on a red-eye flight to Denver.
The next few weeks are going to be nuts.
Our PEO’s payroll processor woes made national news! Woo hoo! https://www.wsj.com/articles/prismhr-security-incident-downs-software-forcing-payroll-companies-to-get-creative-11614965504
And the direct deposit of our guesstimated pay JUST now showed up. Whew!
Fun fun fun.
In other cybersecurity news – the MLS system was not allowing Realtor logins today. Don’t know if it’s yet been resolved but real estate lives and dies by MLS. And weekends, particularly spring weekends, are the prime business time.
That reminds me, I need to see if the guy who stuck to his overvalued asking price ever managed to move his house. (It was more than the property was worth, and he was trying to skimp on needing to pay realtors on both ends.)
Holy crap, he found someone to buy it at above that garbage price? Sure he had to hold the property for another six months, but still. I feel sorry for the sucker.
Why would realtors log in to Major League Soccer?
Why would anyone log in to Major League Soccer?
::runs::
“The $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package being pushed by President Biden puts more than $1 billion toward ‘socially disadvantaged’ farmers and related groups — including an equity commission, agricultural training and other assistance to advance racial justice in farming,”
OFFS!!!!
Not enough black sharecroppers?
40 acres and a mule
So, like, $10 million for Bill Gates, then.
From the shark bite swimsuit review:
The woman said she was swimming off the North Carolina Coast when she “had an unexpected visitor take a swipe at my lower back”.
Later in the article:
“I was swimming off the coast of South Carolina when I had an unexpected visitor take a swipe at my lower back — a shark. Despite leaving a huge bruise and red teeth marks on my skin, the bathing suit escaped unscathed. 10/10 would recommend.”
Hmm…..
She’s a very fast swimmer.
That’s a long swim.
She could have been near the NC/SC border.
They do have a common border, you know.
I wouldn’t recommend swimming it, though.
Ah, she was on a boat.
If you want to get bitten by a shark you can’t increase your chances better than swim in the mouth of a bay or river when the tide is going out.
I literally just vacationed there last year, at Calabash. It was actually really nice.
I know. I wanted a chance to poke fun at a Brit journalist.
Or any journalist.
I remember reading an article about Pence flying in to Doloot during the Presidential campaign. They wrote that Pence gave a speech at the airport on the shores of Lake Superior. While there is a very small airport on a peninsula, Pence gave his speech at the big airport, which is 15 miles away from the lake shore.
By all means, carry on…
They are still confused over York and New York.
gold from Tucker
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Liberals despise people like this, of course, and on some level, they know they’re hated right back. They worry that someday there will be a backlash against the people in charge, which, of course, is them. That’s their biggest fear, a peasant revolt.
They’re terrified that someday an army of tattooed high-school dropouts in Confederate flag tank tops is going to rise up from the trailer parks of West Virginia and take over the country — storming the cities with their .75 caliber, AR-15 assault weapon machine guns with flash suppressors, each one of which can fire over a million bullets per minute when mounted on the back of an F-150 pickup truck plastered with racist bumper stickers.
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Adventures in Military Intelligence
Was on road guard for a while. Our mission: to keep cars off certain roads in the morning so they don’t hit runners. One day it was raining hard, thus no runners and no reason for road guard. Alas, Befehl ist Befehl, we had to be there. Our common sense solution was to set up the barriers and wait in our cars. Not perfect, but better than standing in the rain and wind for 2 hours. One soldier however, was determined to stand watch. I felt bad for him so I went out to keep him company. I said I admired his devotion and let him know he would not be getting a medal for it. He was worried that his First Sergeant was going to drive through and yell at him later if he was not at his post. I replied that the basic contradiction in the military is how to deal with stupid orders. His response to that was the depressing string of words I’ve ever heard a soldier say.
He said: I think *all* orders are stupid.
I was taken aback, but kept talking and told him my tale of woe about stupid orders. Finally managed to get him to see the light, so he only ended up spending about 15 minutes standing in the rain instead of 2 hours.
Hell, the morons were terrified of a half-naked wook in a buffalo hat with a bullhorn.
That was a scary super right wing terrorist!
“Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.”
— Heraclitus
Courage is a rare quality, because going with the flow is the safe bet about 99% of time.
Operation Rolling Thunderp
“They’re terrified that someday an army of tattooed high-school dropouts in Confederate flag tank tops is going to rise up from the trailer parks of West Virginia and take over the country — storming the cities with their .75 caliber, AR-15 assault weapon machine guns with flash suppressors, each one of which can fire over a million bullets per minute when mounted on the back of an F-150 pickup truck plastered with racist bumper stickers.”
I’d pay a lot to see that.
I’ve never even *driven* a pickup truck, but compared to a typical prog, I’m Davy Crockett.
I’ve driven plenty of them. Now I drive an SUV. You know, an uppity hipster version of the pickup truck. Compared to progs, I’m a redneck shitlord extremist, for sure. I make Europeans faint with my rhetoric.
What happened when the First Sergeant did drive by?
He didn’t. I suspect it was an empty threat from a squad leader or a platoon sergeant. They often make them when upset, at least in my experience.
“Joe Biden tells NASA engineers that Indian-Americans are ‘taking over the country’ as he thanks Perseverance team for their inspiring Mars landing”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9330411/Joe-Biden-tells-NASA-engineer-Indian-Americans-taking-country.html
Imagine if Trump said that.
Relevant
“you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwqkpwV8j_A
I think he thinks he’s complimenting them. As you said, imagine if Trump had ever said anything like this.
I heard that Biden personally landed that thing at the same time he made world peace.
Its folksie, a stutter, he is just being Joe! All excuses I heard.
“U.S. job growth was better than expected in February with restaurants and bars making up 75 per cent of the new hires – but black Americans saw job losses”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9331125/Job-growth-better-expected-February-COVID-cases-decreased-restaurants-hired-up.html
“If you don’t want to lose your job you ain’t black!”
Job growth better than expected, women and minorities hardest hit.
“TCM will examine 18 classic movies, including Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Psycho, Gone With the Wind and My Fair Lady for ‘sexist and racist content’ in new series”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9330825/TCM-examine-18-problematic-classic-movies-new-series.html
Elon needs to hurry up with that Mars thing.
How dare you think about these movies in the wrong way!
Time to buy up DVD/Blu-Ray copies of anything you might want to watch for the rest of your life.
Yes, just what I was thinking.
March 1 vs March 4
Deep Dish is not pizza it’s casserole damn it!
“Double-masking is only slightly better at stopping the spread of coronavirus than wearing one face covering, a study has suggested.
Japanese researchers said wearing one surgical mask that is fitted correctly could stop up to 85 per cent of viral particles from passing through.
Doubling up on surgical masks offers no benefit because air resistance builds up and causes leakage around the edges of the mask, they claimed.
The study found there was some benefit in wearing a tight-fitting reusable mask on top of a surgical one, but it was marginal, offering up to 89 per cent protection.
The experts, who used a super-computer simulation to test different face covering combinations, said ‘the performance of double masking simply does not add up’.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9328747/Japan-supercomputer-shows-doubling-masks-offers-little-help-preventing-viral-spread.html
The 85% is itself bogus, but hey they were “experts, who used a super-computer simulation”. Not just a computer this time, but a super-computer!
Start with a brazen lie, continue with a super-computer. A little propaganda piece is almost ready.
While it’s certainly possible they used an actual supercomputer, and there are a couple such in Japan, I find it funny to mention because it’s just over-egging the pudding. The use of a supercomputer doesn’t make anything more or less accurate, though it can certainly allow a higher degree of precision.
“We ran it on a cell phone with ‘Cray 1’ written on the back”
I thought “supercomputer” just meant over 1 GHz. So every computer now.
Why exactly do you need a computer to test the effectiveness of masks? How is this considered credible research?
Cause if they do actual research they will research themselves out of a grant
*snort*
You need a super-computer to ignore the actual evidence of mask effectiveness (or lack of it).
I think the bear mace test is more promising than a computer simulation.
As long as it saves one life, you selfish asshole!
Every bit of that is horseshit.
What about the masks that aren’t fitted correctly that people actually wear in the real world?
Oh, they suck.
Cosmic.
Ass.
So, has Biden’s approval numbers topped the 300% mark yet?
Sure, if you add each week’s numbers together.
That could happen if they stop using the old racist math.
No, but he is approaching 100 million votes in 100 days as the 2020 vote counts keep trickling in.
I was sure those ballots were still trickling in. They may have discovered the bonanza cache in Broward County.
help me write my next satire
Pope Divides World Between Google, Facebook
Activists Slam “Survival of the Fittest” for Fat-Shaming
Microsoft Outsources Windows Update to Hell
Federal Reserve Makes Monopoly Money Legal Tender
Chuck E Cheese Re-brands as Charter School
Chuck E Charter.
Can we get an applause gif here?
I tried, but couldn’t get it to work.
It was like that when I got here.
The check is in the mail.
I’ll respect you in the morning.
I promise not to come in your mouth.
You promise to come in my mouth.
Just the tip.
“The check is in the mail” has been replaced by “Two weeks to flatten the curve”. Nobody mails checks anymore and the reference to such an archaic act confused the kiddos.
Seconded
Pope divides world is too obscure for people educated in this country. Present company excepted.
Mircosoft article would be like the old Word News. This would be my vote.
The others are too close to reality to be satire.
I really like your satire, Derpy. All of those look like good topics.
2. 4 is going to happen in real life.
Activists Demand Next “Superman” Movie be Titled “Physically Advantaged Undocumented Immigrant of No Assigned Gender”
Fun fact: Vampire Squid were originally classified as Octopodes when first discovered and now classified on their own with extinct species. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_squid
Right. Octopi.
The Greek word for octopus is chtapodi (eight feet).
Octo- is a Latin prefix, pous means foot in Greek (like Oedipus, Swole-Foot).
Long story short, we should scrub English of all un-Anglo-Saxon words.
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In fact, Anglish can trace its roots back even further to the mid-16th and -17th century inkhorn controversy, which saw foreign Latinate words embraced by some writers and sharply rejected by others like Cambridge professor John Cheke, who viewed them as useless, unnecessarily identical to perfectly good non-borrowed counterparts: “I am of this opinion that our own tung shold be written cleane and pure, unmixt and unmangeled with borowing of other tunges, wherein if we take not heed by tiim, ever borowing and never paying, she shall be fain to keep her house as bankrupt.”
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Now who can argue with that? I think we’re all indebted to John Cheke for clearly stating what needed to be said. I’m particulary glad that these lovely children were here today to hear that speech. Not only was it authentic Early Modern gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age.
Ich viele brouwjen eine broun couw…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeC1yAaWG34
fun fact: the sentence “my pen is in my hand” is spelled exactly the same in English and Afrikaans and has the same meaning.
Kang: Greetings Earthlings, I am Kang. Do not be frightened. We mean you no harm.
Marge: You… you speak English.
Kang: I am actually speaking Rigelian. By an astonishing coincidence, both of our languages are exactly the same.
“like Oedipus, Swole-Foot”
If I remember the story correctly, his foot wasn’t his only appendage that was swollen!
Yes. I wrote an article about it.
Whatever. I can’t find it.
STEVE SMITH SUDDENLY REMEMBER HIM GREEK NAME, OEDIPENE.
Rape-a-cles?
Fun fact. 97 of the 100 most used words in English are of Anglo-Saxon origin.
The words everyone uses all the time. Stuff like mother, father, etc, as well as modifiers are all based in Anglo-Saxon.
Meh. There are plenty of species and genuses (genii, for you nerds) within Class Cephalopoda – squid, cuttlefish, octopus, nautilus, ammonites (extinct). Being classified into a distinct species is no big thing; now having your own phylum, that’s a thing.
A new Kingdom, now that’s the big deal.
Arguably the Burgess Shale fossil record documents many phyla that existed only in a specific mileu, then went extinct.
You want real prestige? Archaea have their own Domain, and they make your farts flammable.
Genera. Genii is the plural of genie.
Look, not everyone can put your level of research and thoughtfulness into their grueling once weekly posts!
That is actual footage of me working. How did you get it?
“Actual video of Senator Sinema voting no to the minimum wage amendment”
https://twitter.com/TheNYSocialist/status/1367907295364005898
challenging but not impossible
You hate to see it.
Man, the cattiness in that thread.
She remains a “would”.
It was like that when I got here.
The check is in the mail.
I’ll respect you in the morning.
They all do that.
It’s my first day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpMLIUzE9h8
I have said the first two with complete honesty before.
Admittedly, it was also an obviously humorous application.
Oh noes! Another spike is coming says the Head Witch Doctor.
Seriously, at what point do the majority of Americans get that this guy is a fraud?
https://nypost.com/2021/03/05/dr-fauci-warns-of-covid-19-spike-despite-more-vaccine-doses/
Some already do, some never will – the rest, in due time.
T bones on the grill.
⬅
Ribeye salted hours ago, ready for the grill. Along with some shishitos.
Nice euphemism.
Can Maple Sugar be subbed in for brown sugar at a 1:1 ratio?
Also, does maple pair well with raisins?
I bought some maple products from l0b0t’s maple farming friends and am thinking about how to use it.
I’ve used maple sugar with raisins on oatmeal – works for me.
I guess at this point all that’s left is to try a test batch of cookies.
If you find the maple overpowering, cut it half-and-half with regular white sugar (for instance).
Make your own rules, man!
The snipe are out there, honest
QAnon has been built on moving the goal posts from the start, experts say.
“QAnon followers are primarily involved with the community because the sense of meaning or community it provides them, not necessarily because they believe it gives them an accurate understanding of future events,” Travis View, co-host of the QAnon Anonymous podcast, told The Hill in an email.
March 4 emerged as a key date in the community after Biden’s inauguration. Some adherents had latched on to a theory from the fringe sovereign-citizen movement which believes that all laws passed after the 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 are illegitimate.
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On forums and in chats Friday morning, some QAnon followers quickly began claiming that March 20 was the actual date that Biden would be arrested while others applauded the community for not falling for the March 4 false flag.
It’s possible the Qanon scholars are going to find out the Qanonners are all snug at home in their basements eating Cheetos and playing video games.
And laughing their asses off.
We should refer to those scholars as BlueAnon.
QAnon has been built on moving the goal posts from the start, experts say.
My that’s some projection.
Bunch of maroons. Everyone knows the “real” date for the uprising is April 13th, which is Guy Fawkes’ birthday. If that fails, then it is June 3rd, Jefferson Davis’ birthday. Sources that can’t be named have alerted the FBI and Capitol Police to the secret presence of 25,000 heavily armed white supremacist nazis camped out in Rock Creek Park just waiting for the Rune signal.
Akshually, the uprising is going to take place on May 9, anniversary of the ending of the US Civil War. Or June 23, when the last Confederate general surrendered.
Bad link is the Hill. If anybody really cares.
I got it! By the way, how was/is Strikers?
… Difficult! It’s not really my play style. I lost to the first “Jail” (Palace) mini-boss three times in a row, and it asked me if I wanted to bump the difficulty down to easy.
And I said yes. ._.”
But it’s a lot of fun now. Lol.
Alright, sounds like it’s worth it. I’ll probably still wait for a sale… cuz I’m cheap.
News you can use
Axios reporter Alexi McCammond will become editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue, effective March 24, according to a Friday announcement by the magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast.
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Anna Wintour, global editorial director of Vogue and chief content officer of Condé Nast said in a statement that McCammond has “powerful curiosity and confidence that embodies the best of our next generation of leaders.”
“Her interest in fashion, wellness and important issues in the lives of the Teen Vogue audience and broad knowledge of business leaders, elected officials, influencers, photographers and filmmakers is unrivaled, and I’m so very pleased that she will be bringing her expertise and talents to our team,” Wintour added.
McCammond joined Axios in 2017 and covered the 2020 presidential election, the Democratic Party and former President Trump.
She was reassigned from covering President Biden’s campaign in November after disclosing her relationship with TJ Ducklo, a spokesperson for the campaign who later became deputy White House press secretary.
“Remember, kids, if you’re going to suck cock, you might as well suck a useful cock. One that can help you advance your career. Ask Kamala, she knows.”
You should be a guidance counselor.
Fun fact: Axios means “I am worthy” in Greek.
I don’t know how to say “I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like me” in Greek. I was unable to find a similar phrase in either the Iliad or the Odyssey.
***
King Demaratus, being pestered by someone with a question concerning who the most exemplary Spartan was, answered “He that is least like you.”
***
Είμαι αρκετά καλός, είμαι αρκετά έξυπνος και το καταλαβαίνω, άνθρωποι σαν κι εμένα!
What are you looking at?
Teen Vogue, Teen Vogue
Look around, everywhere you turn is heartache….
” bringing her expertise and talents ”
Probably would have been a better trollop at Valley Forge than Nancy and Kamala.
POS Brennan has the nerve to accuse Republicans of being liars, and of gaslighting the country.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/southeastern-pa/firefighters-save-brides-wedding-from-going-up-in-flames/article_0253618c-7dd9-11eb-bf50-67bacabec54d.html
Is that good luck or bad luck?
They are already married. This was a Gauleiter Wolf over-reach chicomvirus “do over” and reception.
presented without comment – a sitcom about a childless, unmarried 38 year old woman who runs a cafe full of cats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x_gVBxZNMo
actual tag line: disappointing her mother since 1982
I think that may be about my ex. I’m not going to click based on that horrifying possibility.
It’s a crazy woman pretending to be a crazy woman. Safe for you to click.
You could have left off the word ‘crazy’.
[ducks]
Oh right, it’s her from the crappy nerd sitcom. I don’t know much about her so nothing personal but those sitcoms aren’t my bag.
Pass.
That was painful because she reminded me of a woman I dated for too long.
Saw the first episode when the Spousal Unit and I were stupidly bored one night and had it recorded.
It sucks cosmic ass.
Although I don’t have any problems with the actress/actor/whatever per se.
It follows Hell’s Kitchen so I’m always leaping for the remote to make sure it doesn’t start. The commercials look terrible.
Is this a “Drugs fell out of their ass” story?
https://www.thecentersquare.com/oregon/bill-in-the-oregon-legislature-would-ban-diesel-fuel-sales-by-end-of-decade/article_d3d8cd5e-7d4e-11eb-8a9e-8f3bc9997275.html
I can’t believe (well, I can, but you get the point) these idiots would be so ignorant.
Headline from 2031: “Oregon famine continues due to inability of trucks to deliver food”
Elon’s rocket drones can deliver precisely to any location. Huge costs and environmental issues be damned.
I would say that is a good thing except once the population of Oregon reaches zero it means all of those pinko idiots will have moved to states like mine. I say we get a constitutional amendment that citizens can only vote in their states of birth. Or maybe we could just get a divorce.
FTA:
I smell BS. Anything that truly produced savings and better performance without requiring equipment upgrades would not need to be mandated.
^This^
Or subsidies and I guarantee those are going to come up sooner rather than later. It’s a scam.
Cheaper and better means companies would already be doing it, unless you’re the kind of idiot who believes that companies are purposefully out to destroy Gaia.
They are talking about Oregon politicians you know.
welding update
My first go at overhead welding resulted in a modern art masterpiece. Also a glob of molten metal fell down my collar and burned a hole in my shirt. Meh, gives it character.
Second time around was better. I like to say it never gets easier; you get better. 10 weeks down, 8 to go, assuming I don’t have to do any remedial work at welding “graduate school”.
Last class I got to use an acetylene torch to cut metal, which was kind of like using a light saber. It was really funny going hog wild with a grinder. Me like sparky sparky time!
My metal working theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1NNlqCjGcQ
Molten Metal, burns through two layers of shirts and falls into my waist band and sticks, interesting scar,
I have a permanent scar on my neck from hot slag getting down my collar. I really dislike MMA, which is what has stopped me going the certified welder route. Or maybe I just had shitty instructors. The first instructor left, then there was a couple of temps, one of whom was really good, then the replacement finally showed up and I didn’t take kindly to him because he was full of shit, had zero experience and just got the job because they were desperate to fill the vacancy and he knew someone there, and failed all the demos. When he kept fucking up in front of us all that kind of knocked the wind out of his swagger a little, but he’s still an arrogant prick with dilettante hobbiest level skill. Maybe I’m a prick but I’m very quick to sour on those types. The first guy wasn’t a brilliant instructor but at least he was an excellent, lifelong welder who could run an overhead fillet with his eyes closed. Walts get my back up.
By which I mean, I’m glad that you’re enjoying it. Getter done!
Ps – Thorr’s Hammer
We call it stick welding here in ‘murica.
My instructors all have 30+ years experience and are quick to point out that they have fired many of the instructors at the community colleges.
This what you get when you pay $10k in cash for a welding course.
From what I can tell, vocational education in the US is lightyears ahead of what we have in the UK.
Ps we also call it stick here but I’m trying to sound perfessional
Just curious – did you finish with the Army (and I missed something) or is this evening training on your own time?
evening training
Very cool. Definitely a good setup.
Yep molten metal is hot. I have one of those scars on the top of my foot. The halyard shackle on the catamaran broke. We sailed it in under the jib alone. I ran up to the shop in dripping shorts and wet moccasins. I welded the shackle, but not before I burned my foot.
The wind was nukin’, man!
I had a very good acetylene torch and tanks accompanied by all kinds of clamps, magnets, tools…a very good welding set up. It cost a damned fortune but no matter my efforts my welding was shit. I gave the whole lot to my brother. He welds very well, as does my son but my brother has actually used the things whereas my son would not.
I envy you Derp. I wish I could do that.
The math works out. For just a $12,000 initial investment, you can save $600 per year!
For, what, 15 useful years?
I DRIVE ON SUNSHINE, HURRRRRRRRRRRR!
I hope she dies in a Bolt fire.
“And then the car dies, and I walk on sunshine!
I just felt like linking that ‘cuz it’s Friday evening, I just got paid (after wondering all week if I would,) and I’m drinking wine. WOH-OH!!!
Sam Fucken Cooke, over here.
We need a fleet of woodchippers.
Armada *taps stack of index cards on podium* the correct term is an Armada of Woodchippers. We also would have accepted ‘flotilla’.
Those are nautical terms. Woodchippers go on land, so how about “a blitzkreig of woodchippers?”
A preet of woodchippers?
Heh.
So let it be written, so let it be enshrined as the collective term for woodchippers.
Kudos!
Agreed. Winner.
NO.
Down comments: A reckoning of woodchippers.
You just know Clint would use that term.
Thanks, Beam. I like the implied and totally justified threat implied in the word “reckoning”.
Absolutely!
You rock, lass.
That is just one exceptionally vociferous and cantakerous chipper.
Blitzkrieg is a tactic. It would be more proper to say a “squad”, “battalion”, “division”, or “army” of woodchippers, depending on the number being mustered into use.
Or regiment if you are on of those weirdos from the Marine Corps. (Or a Ranger or Cavalreymen… Also weirdos)
The nautical origins trace back to practice of timber rafting.
I think the right term should be a “reduction” of woodchippers.
No, wait “maceration” of woodchippers!
This gets my vote. That’s great!
“…room in my heart for their weird cousins.”
Uh…no. Octopusii are very smart, social and amusing critters. Squid, also known as calamari, not so much.
Octopusii are very smart, social and amusing critters.
And tasty fried.
I ate live octopus once in Mihara, Japan. I felt bad about it. It was also creepy because the tentacle kept moving around in my mouth and it suckered onto the inside of one of my teeth and I had to kind of kill it by chewing and pry it loose with my tongue while keeping up polite conversation.
If it makes you feel any better, if it wasn’t killed directly before your eyes right before you ate it, it was probably not still alive. I’ve heard that fresh octopus can be “reanimated” using sauces that stimulate the nerve systems in the flesh, making the dead octopus twitch and contract it’s muscles, simulating life.
Not really, but thanks.
Korean eats a live octopus.
I can’t eat an octopus after interacting with them and learning about them.
I know, I know; pigs are smart and loyal too. But bacon…
Yeah i will never eat octopus again after learning how smart they are.
Same here. Pigs are kind of assholes (not to mention domesticated, if that matters) but octopi are off the EvilSheldon menu.
They’re smart for invertebrates but let’s not overdo it. They had to talk calculus twice.
They also live about two years.
Eat away.
Eat away.
The vast majority of living creatures will become food. It’s nature’s way. I’ve heard that up to 90% of living creatures die by being eaten alive, so killing your food before you start eating it (as humans generally do) is actually a rare courtesy.
So humans and buzzards eh?
I tell myself that the delicious ones at Japanese restaurants must be a stupid species. Otherwise, they wouldn’t get caught.
Octopi aren’t smart, they just have very sophisticated motor systems.
Tesla’s driving assists VS self-driving car.
Done skiing for the day, beer time (OK, had a beer at lunch too, but now it’s serious beer time).
db.. i still can’t talk to the realism but I have logged 20 hours (working from home and doing ‘research’) flying a Cessna 152.
I am sure I can go and fly for real now.
One thing i have noticed with flight sims is they generally don’t do a good job of replicating the takeoff experienc (you need lots of right rudder at max power and high AOA) and landing flare.
I don’t know. When I tried to help my flight training along using X-plane the thing I noticed the most is how much right rudder the thing made me put in even to get the plane moving on the ground, way more than in real life. I’d have my foot to the floor on the rudder pedal, thinking “this isn’t anything like the 172”. With some adjustment it was a little less ridiculous, but still I needed way more input than I did when I flew the real plane. That plus the controls just didn’t respond realistically.
It also did a terrible job with the sound of the engine. Supposedly there are a couple of mod packages that get the sounds right and make the controls more lifelike, but I gave up pretty quick and haven’t touched the thing for ages.
Haven’t tried the new Microsoft product. I’d love to be able to do some chair flying at home but unless I can get it pretty realistic I don’t think it’d be too helpful. I’m sure the scenery is nice.
You need lots of right rudder..its hard to get a feel obvisouly without good input controls and the xbox controller works?
Neither the xbox or dualshock are big enough for my feet.
I thought it was A Murder of Woodchippers.
For pfw.
A comeuppance of woodchippers.
A reckoning of woodchippers.
A justice of woodchippers.
A Solomon of woodchippers?
A fargo of woodchippers consumes one Preet.
Do you fuel your car with passengers too?
40 rods to the hogshead
A reckoning of woodchippers.
Yes. Yeeeessssssssss! I can feel the karma!
QAnon has been built on moving the goal posts from the start, experts say.
If by goalposts you mean laser pointer.
Get it! Get it!
Even my cat knows better.
Its QAnon moving the goal posts. Talk about self reflection in need of a mirror.
My metal working theme song:
Not THIS?
A crescendo of woodchippers.
Scanning over the comments I have to say…
My son explained to me what Qanon is. When he finished I asked a question
“Do you know who the character Q is in the Star Trek series is? He is an all powerful, all knowing guy who is also all bored so he amuses himself by fucking with dumb people. Has it occurred to anyone that the geeks on 4-chan, most of whom appear to be about 100x smarter than the average bear might choose the name ‘Q’ for an anonymous fictional character to fuck with idiots? They have only done this about 100 times and every time idiots take the bait.
There is no such thing as Qanon. The whole thing, the character, the conspiracy theories, it is all fictional and somewhere several hundred pimply faced boys are laughing themselves to death.
In the days of yore, a Q clearance (nuclear weapons design) was the highest one you could get. That was the explanation I read.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_clearance
Every word I have heard about the so called ‘insurrection’ have been absurd lies. In fact, everything I have heard since Trump won the nomination have been so over-the-top ridiculous, obvious bullshit that it stuns my mind. At this point I assume everything I hear are lies.
If I cant see it or touch it, it doesnt exist.
It still is and cleared nukers aren’t privy to the info Q supposedly knows. It’s patent bullshit.
Like, I’m going to do like a deep dive here, so like, sorry if it gets like kind of intense, you know, and also, like, there’s a trigger warning because this article mentions he who must not be named, but like, I need to speak this truth.
If you look at Q’s name, which is Q, it’s like the 17th letter of the white supremacist english alphabet. Like, think about that for a second. One. Seven. If you like, put the alphabet in order of like how you used to do it in school so not like on a keyboard, and then you number the letters from like one to twenty-six, that number, seventeen, is the one and the seven which is the initials of the worst white supremacist nazi ever apart from Trump. That’s right. Adolf Gitler.
Boom! Journalism!
*figurative mic drop*
I thought it formed the shape of the soap dish in Hitler’s (and of course Trump’s) shower. I’m so confused.
There’s something smelly by my china cabinet. At first I thought the doge might have taken a dump over there, but there was no dump to be found. Now I think maybe a dead mouse, but the doge has shown no interest in sniffing around there or otherwise any curiosity about the area, which he normally would if a dead animal were involved.
Bottom line: I think tomorrow I might have to once more into the breech and look under there with for whatever horrors await me.
Dead mouse or squirrel in the wall?
Poltergeist, turn off your TV and get the fuck out of there.
Is there a subgenre of poltergeist that just shits in hard-to-reach places?
Cuz hey, smells only get better with time.
I fixin to be way too drunk to do it tonight. Or maybe I need to be drunk to do it?
See, that’s how I’d go about it. I’d say fuck it, tomorrow, then have a few and start getting really angry about that smell…the china probably won’t survive, but neither will the smell.
These guys might come in handy.
Ive got their pepper grinder, first result on amazon that wasn’t co-axial-grind design, and it sure does the trick. Easy on the wrist and actually adjusts from actually coarse to actually fine.
Those do look like some highly functional clips…but what about my super cute ladybug clips that aren’t so great at the clipping job?
They just need to clip your nose shut.
So, not for posting whatever I find as the source of the smell to the front of the china cabinet?
I snuck some surstromming into your drywall.
BAHAHAHAHAAAA!
I was wondering what happened to that piece of fried chicken.
Also, dead mice.
i still can’t talk to the realism but I have logged 20 hours (working from home and doing ‘research’) flying a Cessna 152.
I am sure I can go and fly for real now.
Like this?
What a crock of shit. Trump didn’t deprive Biden a goddamn thing. It was Trump’s right as a sitting president to nominate a justice, and the Senate’s right to confirm her. What a goddamn dishonest fucking hack.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-barrett-idINKBN2AW2AP
Thank god they rammed her through too, the Supremes are a bunch of mostly feckless pretend nonpoliticos but it’s nice to know there’s a bulwark in case one of the right wing oldsters kicks off.
They’re still mad about Merrick Garland, which I still don’t understand. It was obvious that the Republican Senate majority really didn’t like Garland and he was a nonstarter, no matter what he said in a hearing. Rather than going back to the drawing board and nominating someone more palatable to the opposite party, the Obama administration decided to try to use him as a political tool to portray the Republicans as unreasonable obstructionists who obviously hated Obama’s appointee because he was selected by a black president and for no other possible reason, like they had with every other objection to any of his policy ideas.
Trump had every right to nominate someone of his choosing and the Senate had every right to confirm. They also had every right to tell Trump, like they did with Garland, “no, this nominee isn’t any good as far as we’re concerned, come back with someone else”. Barrett was obviously highly qualified and made a fool out of those who tried to torpedo her nomination during the hearing.
The thing that will deprive Biden of an opportunity to replace any justice is it becoming increasingly clear that he isn’t fit for this job, at which point the democrats will “reluctantly” pressure him to resign or eventually strongarm him out. I’ll still be very surprised if he’s still the CoC in time to think about running again.
Don’t be evil.
Don’t do evil.
If you’re wondering what either of these two statements mean, you’re evil.
Define evil.
If you want it defined, you’re evil.
CHECKMATE!
Craziest shit some lefty nutjob proclaims – This is what they really believe!
Craziest shit some righty nutjob proclaims – LOL, they’re just trolling.
When is the last time a policy proposal was straight out of QAnon circles? Even Alex Jones doesn’t take them seriously.
Nonsense like critical race theory and defund the police have not only been legitimized, they have been enacted.
There is a qualative difference.
Sure, but that doesn’t mean that the nutjobs on one side are any less sincere than the nutjobs on the other side, which was my (apparently) poorly expressed point.
Can Maple Sugar be subbed in for brown sugar at a 1:1 ratio?
Also, does maple pair well with raisins?
I bought some maple products from l0b0t’s maple farming friends and am thinking about how to use it.
I got a bag of maple sugar last week, to try replicating dunkin’s maplepepper bacon. I found it insufficiently maple-y to the task, though it was much easier to apply than syrup as I suspected. Remainder of the dish I spilled out for my misenplace ended up in my coffee…if anything it may not be ‘brown’ ENOUGH for your purposes. Just a nice, very-fine Light Brown sugar.
Have you considered, you know, just tasting your ingredients?
Nothing pairs well with raisins. Throw them out.
I’m not concerned about the hue of cookies generated. And I have liquid maple syrup if I need more.
I ask people in case someone has tried it. And your wrongness about raisins makes me not fully trust your opinion there.
I’m just being mean to raisins due to a foul mood. But keep them out of my fucking salad.
Hue? I mentioned “Light Brown” sugar as, like, the density. For 1:1 ratio purposes, I’d treat it like that product in recipes. “Dark Brown”, eh…
Or use a recipe that measures by weight and don’t worry about it.
I’m baking cookies, man, the raisins won’t get in your salad.
And I’m starting from my existing recipes, which are volumetric because scales are more of a pain than they’re worth.
Scales for baking, though.
Yeah, but he’s baking cookies, so…oh, wait.
And I’m starting from my existing recipes, which are volumetric because I DONT CARE ABOUT CONSISTENT RESULTS.
^^THIS.
Weighing my baking ingredients changed my life.
For the better. (Just thought I’d make that clear.)
Keep telling yourself that.
The results are consistant.
like your spelling? 😛
I never claimed to spel gud.
I thought “supercomputer” just meant over 1 GHz. So every computer now.
the measure you’re thinking of, used in the Mac G4 marketing campaign, was the gigaflop or billions of floating point operations per second.
Which is probably an even more complete share of every computer now. (some shit runs at clock speeds under 1gHz, but cranks out way more than 1gFLOP, gfx chips for example).
Or was it a TFLOP on the G4? I refuse to look up a 20yr old Mac.
The UNIVAC could only perform about 2 KOPS, so just about everything is a supercomputer now.