The Black
(memory access 2552)The plans Gwen and I had, vacations on Earth, she was fond of the Beach in SoCal, but after the Wars, they had to create a resort with artificial beaches and waves, but she didn’t care. I prefer Big trees, and we still have them, some things can’t be killed.
(close memory access)
Out of nowhere, we lost Gee, we were still moving under our own power, but lost the velocity the Black gave us, that has become the common name for the thing we chase, good enough…
“Helm, can we please avoid the neighborhood? This isn’t how we cure unemployment”
Sure Cap, should we land? Coords are set for T City now, we can ther in..”STFU Helm, I know about your Girl, we’ll get there On. My. Time, Zip it!” Sir!
Tycho City
We know Yusef, we’ve been watching it, and you, for a long while
“What the Fuck does that mean? Why are you watching me?”
You know the Consortium watches noobs and well…. He let that sink in for a moment,
“Well what about the Black?” The Black?, oh you mean the object, we decided on that name because of..”Yeah I know, 20000 klicks in space, I remember, not the point, what is it?”
We honestly don’t know, we hoped since you followed it for the last 2 months we could get some insight, “I’m a private Citizen jack, I have rights You don’t even have, one call and You’re Fucked, I’ll contact you tomorrow” Gol, now I can get a Beer.
(memory access 2552)
Growing up in Tycho, let’s see, Earthers, ‘Tians, Belters, we see it all,the stubs and the longs, before long we will become different species, if we haven’t already, but we didn’t care, boys on a Station with nothing to do, we broke systems to see what would happen, opened airlocks just because, and otherwise behaved as boys do…(close memory access)
That thing is out there, we have made some contact before, sentient races, some more advanced than others, but none that took to the stars like we did, until now, maybe it serves us right, we left those races in the dark and took the planetary resources, Locusts we are,and now here it is, Nemesis. I have decided to break the Governor’s Decree and go exploring, my crew is in the mood for fun, and I aim to misbehave, let’s go see what’s in that Black,
To be continued,
“I aim to misbehave”
I like it. Keep up the good work Yusef drives a Spaceship!
Chasing the Black.
White privilege.
Once you go Black…
I. too, wanted to chase the black. Her name was Bernadette, she was a year older than me, and she was built like a … brick howwwwse. I used to play ping pong for hours with her brother at the Y. She would sometimes watch. She was amused when I would make a fancy return and then do a pirouette.
But she was a city girl and I was a dumb country boy with no courage.
She could speak French and Portuguese. Her dad drove a Peugeot.
I could barely mumble English.
My wife can speak French and Portuguese (and English and Spanish and Greek), but her dad drove a Fiat.
I want to buy a Fiat and get a custom license plate that says, “CURRNCY”.
I like it
People are searching for the kind of love that you possessed
That was perfect!
Bernadette!
I like a lady stacked and that’s a fact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m5J3LE4oOQ
Stacked lady
Hot unicycle action
I watched a few seconds, but then I noticed my hair turning white as I muttered about “kids today and their music” – so I stopped watching, in hopes I could slow the aging process.
Not Agile, but Agile-adjacent. Very interesting.
Thank you, I am related,
You know the Consortium watches noobs
Fuck off Tulpa in space!
Fuck Yourself, go read some Louis L’amour, Old Man,
/JK, Howdy
You totally misunderstood my comment. Dude gave the other dude, the noob in the story, a fuck off tulpa (we are watching you). I have a problem with communicating. That is what my boss said.
I was kidding Bro, you read it, I thank you,
Having spent a few dozen hours with you on the Glibzoom over the last couple months, I concur.
“Whaaat tha fuck?”
‘sloper’s catch phrase.
Alternately: Fuck off… *as he turns away*
Lol
Sloper is at least as high as number 2 on the top 10 list of reasons I Glibzoom.
cool story Muzzled
Precisely.
Then tell it, muzzled? Pussy,
It’s a nod to the “Cool Story, Sloper” sign that Hype has for when Sloper inevitably rambles for 5 minutes without going anywhere.
Ahh, the reason I don’t Zoom, gotcha
You kidding me?
Sloper rambling is the best reason to zoom!
I enjoyed watching you tend your garden, Yusef.
That was fun ,PON,
He weeded out the tears and grew a good crop
Don’t listen to them, Agent ‘sloper. I think you’re all right.
I have decided to break the Governor’s Decree and go exploring, my crew is in the mood for fun, and I aim to misbehave, let’s go see what’s in that Black,
Nice
The fun part of the story, I have no idea how it ends either, I stay ahead, but it’s still a work in progress, Yippee!
I think this story is headed to ………
Space Cowboys?
Bet you weren’t ready for that,
…a climax.
There better be some fucking space sex!
You ask, I will deliver, good side story, thanks!
I just got a great idea, thanks!
Space(SE)X
Chick part of the story, sounds fun,
Fuck this shit.
https://www.axios.com/eu-vaccine-passports-covid-95eb3de1-bc1a-4909-883e-a0e9725173ed.html
Move to Europe?
/Fuck Europe
So fucking stupid. “Europe is desperate for travelers so let’s erect a shitshow roadblock in the way making that happen.”
This.
My wife notes that Iceland has re-opened to tourism if you can prove vaccination status.
But they still have a mask mandate, so Iceland can fuck off.
Want tourists? Get rid of the fucking theater.
I dunno. It might be cool to have a whale-fur mask.
Here’s my guess: The vaccine will not be mandated by government for citizens in their own country. At least not in the form of law.
But it will be mandated by every government run entity, and virtually every sort of private enterprise under the guise of “we just want to make sure our workers are safe”. It’ll be mandated to travel by any means other than your own car. Virtually every country will mandate that all inbound travelers must have a vaccine in order to enter. All concert venues and movie theaters/entertainment complexes will require it. All school systems and most private schools and all universities will require it (once it’s approved for kids under 16).
We haven’t seen that because not enough people have them vaccine yet. As soon as we hit that threshold, expect vaccine requirements unless being a hermit is what you do.
A brave new world is coming. I’m glad I’m sort of a hermit already. I can live without most of that shit that younger me thrived on. Young people are kind of fucked, though. At least, those who are freethinkers. I see masked-up kids in strollers who will never know a different world.
I am sick of seeing the Sheep, masked up like its normal, we are fucked, compliant Pussies,
Now do clothing.
/naturists
It’s not just the Euros. I enjoy sailing around on Crystal Cruises (which is about as different from your standard Carnival / Royal Caribbean as picking up a gun from Holland & Holland is from getting one at Bass Pro), but even they’re going whole hog on coof safteyness.
They want:
— two jabs
— a negative test
— a temperature check whenever boarding the vessel
— a “nimble” (whatever that means) mask policy
— social distancing
— reduced capacity, i.e., higher pricing to make up for empty cabins
Now I realize that Crystal, especially, serves a wealthier (read: older) demographic who are spooked about the WuFlu. But they won’t get another red cent from me until they get their minds right.
Of course, as is mentioned upthread, they’re doing it for everyone’s own good. “While we value each of our loyal guests, Crystal is responsible for the collective safety and wellbeing of all who sail aboard our vessels.”
That raises a terrifying question.
“Responsible” for what?
The lawyers are going to be circling around every business like buzzards, aren’t they.
Lawyers circling was the Old Normal, too.
Take the cruise and mutiny.
How could they resist a competent mutiny of passengers?
The ship of state was hijacked by a guy in a buffalo hat.
Goddamn Anarchists!
A more innocent time.
‘Our insurance liability premiums had nothing to do with it at all….’
Speaking of stuff that’s out of this world, here’s a report from the street festival of the autonomous zone, or whatever it’s called, in Minneapolis.
https://www.startribune.com/near-george-floyd-square-revolution-by-day-devolution-by-night/600034699
I read that.
Incredibly sad.
I’d say pathetic. They voted for this response and they got it. I don’t hear anything thoughts that things ought to be handled differently.
My first job out of college was (still is) located about 6 block west of there on 38th Street.
Our usual Satdee shopping was at the Target and Cub Foods a couple blocks north.
I’m kind of glad we moved out of the city when we did.
Who the fuck gave Zach Snyder $70 million more dollars to produce a 4 hour version of the Justice League? Who makes these decisions?
They’re not first, that’s for motherfucking certain…
They most certainly fucking aren’t.
you are 1th, OK with that?
They can take the Firsting out of Glibertarians.com, but they can never take the First out of The Bro.
Idiots with other peoples money Bro,
how’s it goin’?
Now, I’m not saying this is true, just that it’s what some social “scientists” think. Someone recently cited this study from a few years back, and I thought it might be a good totally-not-a-troll move to link to the summary.
“American Political-Party Affiliation as a Predictor of Usage of an Adultery Website
“…we found that Democrats were least likely to use Ashley Madison, Libertarians were most likely, and Republicans, Greens, and unaffiliated voters were in between. Our results provide support for theories arguing that people with stricter sexual attitudes are paradoxically more likely to engage in deviant sexual behavior.”
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-018-1244-1
They’re measuring the fact that white males are more likely than average americans to be Republicans and much more likely than average americans to be Libertarian.
10 bucks say control for gender and income and the correlation entirely vanishes.
Also I think it’s hilarious that libertarians are supposed to have “stricter” attitudes towards sex. Says who?
I’ll fuck anything not nailed down, Standards? WTF|
/Not really, it just sounded funny…
What part of “weed and butt seks” do they not understand?
There’s several jokes I could make about Ashley Madison and its demographics, but they could be construed as racist so I’ll refrain. I mean, most of the hood rats I know frequent sites like POF or, hell, even Craigslist.
“POF”
Pieces of Flair?
People on fire?
Piece of feces?
Pedophile Of Firsters?
I forgot that this place is filled with old men. POF is just a small step above Tinder. It’s Plenty of Fish.
Michigan does great Beer and Great Disc Golf!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/69d7E4WmNUjViFLe6
Btw, i’m the one who reported what Disneyworld was like during covid yesterday.
Here’s what Legoland was like today: a breath of fresh air. I don’t even like Legoland usually but no masks required outdoors and they weren’t mentioned every 5 seconds. The park was like 25% capacity. My kids went on roller coasters 15 times in a two hour span.
a+
I liked Legoland. The structures are amazing and the roller coasters are mild and easy. I’m glad they are not Nazis about the face diapers.
the best beer
janquis are handy
“the best Beer” Sorry , Cali is Calling, they make Killer Beer, MI, is in competition, and right now Winning, Saturday is a new Disc shop opening, Golf and a new Brewery for “lunch” another Epic Day,
I did not mean to reply to this thread but I am an idiot.
Never had a bad beer from a Michigan microbrewery. Griffin Claw’s distribution reach hasn’t made it to my part of Florida yet, but Founder’s, New Holland, and Bell’s are all top-notch.
Ideally, one summer I’d like to hit Virtue Cidery and Saugatuck Brewery (both right off I-196), then continue up the coast to Ludington. From there take the ferry across the lake, go south on 43, make a right at Sheboygan, and drive Road America for a weekend track day.
Probably not this year, but hopefully by 2024.
New Holland Rocks! they make a wicked Dragons milk Stout. I love my Stouts,
Great capture of the entropy I’ve been feeling lately, Yusef. At first, my brain is all ?, but after reading a few paragraphs, muh brain is all ?.
Cool! Glad it helps escape, it does for me, it’s getting good, I’m ahead by 4 parts, but the ending is still vague, serials FTW!
Drop and give me 10.
https://mobile.twitter.com/alec_sears/status/1371947517655547912
The first reply is comedy gold:
“Listen, and understand. That terminator is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.”
https://ibb.co/x5ZDBtj
*Punt*
Looks like a nice drinkin’ parking lot.
“no smoking”?
GTFO
The enforcement mechanism is lacking teeth.
同調圧力 kaiju?
Japanese escape hole?
Maybe. Midget or pedophile glory hole? ?♂️
The guy that caught me drilling it said that it was awfully low…
You did mention “lacking teeth” above.
I want it noted that the night I spent watching the Snyder Cut was the low point of my life. It’s my rock bottom.
One of the Batman movies and Darkman were the only comic book movies I’ve liked.
If that is the worst you have lived through, then you are truely blessed.
Be thankful.
I’m glad to be alive, thanks to the Glibs, and my own will to live,
What UCS said.
Your life ain’t over yet.
A typical example of Tesla service, especially outside the state of CA.
Currently Trapped at a Supercharger
I’d be calling an Uber and picking up a big pair of bolt cutters at Home Depot. Problem is that with no pilot signal there is “supposed” to be no high voltage, but you could be in for a 400V DC surprise.
There is only a small latching pin and a manual release for it as well. My guess is a second person and some wiggling would free the cable. Poor guy.
I recently drove to Santa Rosa from L.A., there were supercharger stations on the I-5. There were hipsters just looking at their Teslas as they charged. One lady got in the drive through behind us, but she was walking through it. I felt bad. They had an hour or two to wait and I just gassed up in three minutes. They kinda looked like zombies, unable to control their circumstances. I can’t even imagine volunteering for that. If I had a Tesla and wanted to drive upstate, I’d rent a gasoline car.
As you gas up and laugh? I would..
I really like my Tesla, but wouldn’t go all electric. We take my wife’s Explorer on trips.
In most places outside CA charging isn’t as much of an issue, but actually having places to charge is. So you have to carefully plan your route and stops. We’ve only take one extended trip in mine and we did it for the experience more than anything else. No major issues. Finding some of the superchargers in unknown places was a little tricky sometimes. It did, however, probably add an extra hour to the trip compared to using the Explorer. You generally charge up during breaks or food so most of the time it wasn’t bad.
Wait until Microsoft Car.
“Your car will reboot in five minutes. Press ‘Sleep’ to postp—”
*reboots anyway*
Currently my wife’s company laptop endpoint installation is pegging her CPU at 100% overheating the laptop and causing it to BSOD.
Naturally it has actually installed the application that it was trying to put on her machine. It does this like once a week.
I get it at least once a week and it’s not obvious what was installed. Probably security updates but it would be nice if I could come back after lunch or the next morning and not find all my carefully positioned work gone.
Work says you should shut down at the end of the day, every day. LOL right. Like I have time for that.
Precisely. My laptop with all the corporate security crap on it takes 4 minutes from power on to desktop. Add another 1 to 3 minutes to open my initial applications.
More like “THIS IS A POLICE CONTROL. PLEASE PULL OVER AND PLACE YOUR HANDS IN THE YELLOW CIRCLES.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.”
+1 Microsoft Multipass
She *knows* it’s a Multipass
I am generally not an early adopter of anything so it will be a long time before I buy an electric car.
My boss makes a hug deal out if his Tesla. He loves to tell everyone how he wrote a $117,000 check for his car. Then he takes you on a drive and you feel obligated to tell him how he nearly broke your spine or dislocate your shoulder with the acceleration package he paid $7,000 extra for, so pretty much fuck that shit.
No offense, but your boss sounds like an asshole.
YUUUUUUUP
Pretty much anyone who shouts to the world how much he paid for something generally rubs me the wrong way.
He’s actually 2 levels above me but he’s way above me on the asshole spectrum and that’s saying something.
The nice part is he lives paycheck to paycheck–his wife is independently wealthy but he can’t control his own spending urges.
This is a guy who takes home over $300k a year after taxes and still has no retirement savings.
I have half a mind to buy a case of 18650 batteries and scatter them in a trail leading up to his car and film his reaction when he walks out at the end of the day.
My problem is modern cars now are needlessly complex.
A combination of emissions systems that will throw a code for the smallest thing as well as their generally complexity and all the crap that consumers want – infotaiment, massaging seats, etc.
They are all also built for ease of assembly and cost and not service.
Cutting the carpet of a Mercedes to access or replace the battery for the first time is the shining example of that thinking.
Yup.
OT: I really enjoy watching Sally.
[50の質問][Idol Q&A] 声優アイドルの知られざる一面(！？)
She retained her American sense of sarcasm which is something I’ve never been able to explain to any of my Japanese friends. I also love that she recognizes how her voice pitches up so much in Japanese. Fairly common for young women in Japan, but even my voice pitches higher speaking Japanese. My friends have also commented they speak in a lower pitch speaking English.
That’s interesting; I note the same thing among my Japanese colleagues. My Chinese colleagues seem to speak equally deeply in Mandarin and English.
Interesting as a non-speaker you’ve noticed!
I think I agree with you on native Chinese speakers, but the tonality there makes that more difficult to determine.
I spend a lot of time listening to people talk in their native languages and trying to make sense of their tones. I want to learn Japanese but haven’t really devoted the time necessary. Lots of mycolleagues seem to think the long interludes in Japanese are meant for relaxation but I try to pay attention to the degree I can.
I was completely lost trying to figure out Japanese simply by listening.
Verbs generally (but in conversation not always) come at the end. Subjects are frequently omitted and you can have mostly complete conversations using just verbs and a certain class of adjectives.
So add that to your listening skills.
TY, adding another subscription.
This was the only thing I disliked about my last two Mercedes-Benzes. Great interiors, impressive MPG (both were diesels), but after 60k miles they both became money pits. Some of that was M-B having to cobble together a system to combat the non-problem of NOx, but c’mon, guys!
I really wish our betters in the FedGov hadn’t declared war on diesel passenger vehicles. Toyota makes diesel equivalents of the Tacoma or Sequoia that would probably get 25 MPG while towing 5000 lbs, and would last for 300k miles. They’ll never reach these shores, though.
Yep. And the ones that are here take a simple engine system and add complexity to it.
My wife’s current car is a TDI. I love the concept but so many minor issues, i hope she doesn’t get another diesel. She swears she’s sworn off VW (again), but tonight she’s back looking at Audis. *sigh*
I love extra strong acceleration and the instant torque is really cool. It’s the range issues that get me. That and having to rewire your house to charge it. And waiting all that time to refill it. And the fact that it’s really bad for the environment. Otherwise, they seem kinda cool. You know there’s guys who run them at the dragstrip and destroy a bunch of gasoline cars with the acceleration. That part is totally cool.
I had a 60A sub-panel in the garage right next to where I park it. $100 worth of parts and I was done. But for lots of people PITA!
If you can commute to and from work and home and charge at home it really isn’t problematic. It’s trips and folks that can’t charge at home have all the issues with. For example, I’d never live in an apartment (and many condos) and own an electric vehicle.
Get used to full EV.
The restrictions being implemented in the EU are forcing Audi to stop all internal combustion engine development. By 2025 they will stop making new engines and just work on EV.
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/audi-new-engines-emissions/
Our betters really want to make it so us plebs can’t drive. They want to take us back to the dark ages. It’s scary that this isn’t even an exaggeration when you read what the green cultists say even publicly.
…let’s go see what’s in that Black,…
Fuck yeah. Well done, Yusef.
Thank You! there is more, because of people like you,
Tundra, I’d meant to give you (and anyone else who might want it) the link to Yeon-Mi Park’s channel. She does a video almost every day, and if you can get over the sadness, it’s pretty interesting.
And naturally from some of the comments I’m reading our fearless “Do No Evil” Google has demonetized some of her videos.
Well, Google didn’t want to be seen as negative, so they took the “no” out of their slogan.
EEEEEVIILLLLL!
Hey Yusef – I’m going with short over long cans tonight, but the good thing is, neither is evil, unless you let it be a part of you.
Good story.
Thanks, BP.
I’m not sure I can get over the sadness, but I think that it’s really important to face it.
Oh, and statists? I hope you burn in hell.
I probably make too many lame jokes here (yeah, I know, almost certainly).
But I also do some deep dives into the history of collectivism. And sometimes, it’s just the history I don’t want to look at for a while. So I understand your point. But, as you alluded to, we can never look away for any length of time. Lest those who would repeat it shall do so. They may still – I have no easy answer, our government has no easy answer, and I’ve heard none anywhere else.
At the very least, we can remember the victims and the victimizers, because we refused to look away.
Spousal unit cooked some pork chops with fennel tonight, and braised some kale from the garden.
I looked at the leftover braising liquid, and remembered a cocktail recipe from some time ago.
Making it now. Wish me luck!
…
I have to say Cisco made some reliable hardware. I’ve had this router for so long I didn’t realize its top throughput was only 100Mb/s
I guess that’s why I can’t get gigabit speeds.
Cisco!
/CCNI
And CC ain’t MS, you have to test up,
Looking at the throughput I have been getting, apparently, even my internet traffic is getting limited by the router’s top speed. Because my steam download speeds cap out at the same speed I’m getting on network copies. I wonder how long the router has been the bottleneck. Used to be the external pipe was never big enough to make the router an issue.
From the service provider side, that’s been problem for a while with consumer 1G. Not going to get it out of your modem with WiFi in the real world, and even wired, lots of difficulty getting close to it (minus overhead). The biggest use still seems to be speed tests just to see how fast it is. Or brag about it.
Wife and I both have the day off. I’m getting the silent treatment for that thing that I did that I don’t remember. The punishment is rough, but I’ll survive I think.
Tell her you want to eat a taco for lunch.
What you did there is seen.
+1 takoraisu
I had to look that up but that’s a quality shit-lord comment right there.
That’s bullshit in any Culture,
Is this a variation of the “if I screw this up good and well she’ll never ask me to do it again” tactic?
You break enough dishes, they stop asking you to wash them.
I Live alone, no broken dishes,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY
Apologize a lot. Then apologize some more when she tells you what you did even though you didn’t do it.
In the AM kids, Out!
‘Night, Yusef, thanks for the story. Keep it up
CNN.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Tamzilla_52/status/1372586535133003781
https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/03/fact-check-joe-biden-did-not-have-a-green-screen-fail-and-was-seen-live-at-the-white-house-speaking-to-reporters.html
It’s all real! Not a green screen!
Yet despite something like a half dozen or more boom mics, it’s only two videos. Both of which are clipped and show only a limited period of time. Oh, there’s photographs, which all are conveniently cropped without Joe’s lower body and are just while he’s standing there. None of him walking up or walking away. Nothing to see here folks!
That video looked weird. But if it’s a green screen what is it covering up? The whole thing was inconsequential.
I thought the “implied claim” was that he’s a senile old dementia patient who can’t hack 2 minutes of actual questioning, but I’m not a professional debunker so wtf do I know.
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1371175043292532736?s=21
They’re just carrying on the proud legacy of their WWII era collaborationist predecessors.
Got in my very first car accident as a driver: the car behind me bumped into my rental car at a red light. The damage is minimal, not my car, the credit card should offer the protection. I had no idea what to do. But the other driver who rammed my car called the police, shortly a cop arrived and facilitated the exchange of information. We still made it to the beach we were going to. Florida!
Congratulations on losing your cherry? Hope you remembered to say “Sorry, it’s all my fault”.
It’s annoying you even have to involve the cops for something so minor, but the insurance company will (probably) want a police report. My accident cherry was bust a couple years ago in Hawaii, when someone had clearly backed into our rental while we slept.
Sadly, no video from the hotel, but the insurance company needed a police report – there were chickens sitting on the cop cars when we went to the station. In and out in 10 minutes. Points for the aloha spirit!
I’m very disappointed in all of you for being responsible. My first real accident was in college leaving a Lou Reed (PBUH) concert.
I totaled my dad’s car approximately 2 hours after passing the test and getting my license.
Kauai, by any chance?
I was driving a rental car when a lady crashed into me.
We pulled over, but inexplicably she pulled to the left side, further obstructing the road. I thought we could just exchange info and let the insurance company sort it out, so I didn’t think it was necessary to call a cop.
I should have called a cop. The lady was nuts and worked herself into hysterics. She thought I was trying to con her with my rental car story. Having a cop there would have made it very clear who was nuts.
It worked out ok in the end because I was able to testify truthfully that I had written out all my information for her because she’d forgotten her glasses and couldn’t see to read without them.
Sure, calling the cops can make some things worse. But there are some real nutters driving around out there too.
Glad you made it!
I hope Florida has a banner year for tourism this year.
So, the shady fucking shyster lawyer representing the masseuse going after Watson now claims to have 9 women in total. The guy likes a happy ending with his massage, apparently. Not a single one of them ever saw fit to go the police about his behavior. The report from one was that she gave him a blowjob. There was never any threat of violence or intimidation. But she claims she didn’t consent. To a blowjob.
The lawyer released some texts where Watson asks if the masseuse is comfortable massaging the glute area, and later apologize if she became uncomfortable over something while asking if she’s willing to work with him again.
I’m sure she said yes.
I don’t even care for the guy, but here he is being dragged through the mud and being investigated by the NFL based off some bullshit accusations that would never hold up in criminal court. It’s the Ben Roethlisberger situation all over again.
None of the leagues are interested in the legal system. They just want to virtue signal.
I am concerned about this extrajudicial activity pursued by universities and sports leagues.
If it’s against the law, use the regular legal system and law enforcement for gathering evidence and affidavits. If the suspect is proven guilty of an actual crime, then the league or Uni can lower the ban hammer on the guy.
If the behavior is not against the law, but is relevant to the sport and is against sporting rules (blood doping, spying on an opponent’s practice), then the league should investigate mete out justice.
If the behavior is not illegal and not against league rules, why is this even a conversation?
The Second Amendment just got some new supporters.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/18/asian-americans-hate-crime-self-defense-gun-sales-spikes/
This article starts out pointing out the obvious then devolves into “equitable grading”.
https://www.8newsnow.com/news/local-news/ccsd-seeks-parent-feedback-as-more-students-post-failing-grades/
I have two B/C students, with A’s sprinkled in and they are in the C/D range with F’s sprinkled in since last March. But yeah, its the inequitable grading system. Fucking retards.
The survey asks:
The primary purpose of grades is to communicate only academic progress. *
Agree
Disagree
I feel like my child’s grades accurately reflect how much skill of the content my child has learned. *
Agree
Disagree
Non-academic factors like participation, behavior, and attendance should be reported separately from your child’s academic grade. *
Agree
Disagree
My child should be able to retake an assessment to show new learning and understanding. *
Agree
Disagree
Practicing new skills, such as doing homework that reinforces the lesson learned in class, should not impact my child’s overall grade. *
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The weighting of grades between different types of assignments should be consistent across the Clark County School District. For example, projects/tests could have a higher value because students are showing whether or not they have learned the skill and perhaps classwork has a lower or no value because students are practicing new skills. *
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The CCSD grading scale should reflect equity (e.g., 10 points between an A and B, a B and C, a C and D and finally a D and F). *
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WTF?
Of course distance learning/COVID crap is lowering student engagement and thus grades. Duh.
I sort of see where they’re coming from in asking whether students could have an alternative means of demonstrating learning, but then they go right back into grades and essentially doling them out “equitably”.
I have news for the parents and others who are advocating against doing homework or being ready for an exam on the appointed date: employers aren’t going to grant leeway for missed deadlines and “alternative” means of demonstrating technical understanding. Either the product works on the appointed date, or it doesn’t.
Leeway in employment? That’s a good one, the Fucks out here never worked in a cutthroat area where the job market is tight, in Cali, it was be the best, or get run over, no time out, no extra time for prep, either you Do, or you GTFO,
Welcome to Life Kiddos,
Literally run over. The hombres from the guild of whatever would take the walts, pretenders, unvetted schmos out onto some cracked up third world blacktop outside of town, dump them hogtied in the middle of the road, and take turns rolling their vans over him, watching his blood trickle into the crazing in the neglected asphalt. That’ll learn ’em to try something without the proper trade school certification.
Morning, Yufus.
Very good stuff here, Yusef!
May the explorers find what they’re looking for, even if they don’t know what that is.
Maybe they will, maybe they will find something else….
So Yesterday I met a kid (mid twenties) who was just starting out playing disc, and I ended up cancelling my second round and spending the afternoon teaching the Zen of disc, turns out I can teach, once he had a clue, his distance went Boom! good times,
/Ambassador to the Sport.
I’m so glad for my Mother and Dear Wife, they taught me to dress well, and how to dress, now I’m the best dressed Electrician in the County, low bar ’round here, but the Ladies don’t seem to mind,
/Swollen Ego
https://vimeo.com/250809349
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Commodius made the statement “smoking is fun” Bullshit, coughing your brains out for your first waking hour is no fun at all,
/Quit Now!
Morning, Glibs.
Who schedules meetings at 4:30pm on a friday? Why would you do that?
Because Asshole, Mornin’ U,
Morning, Yu.
Morning, UCS.
Good grief! That’s going to make a long day for you. And I think you said you’re salaried, so no overtime. 🙁
Way back when I worked at an automotive engineering center, it was not uncommon to have a Friday Afternoon Crisis. I became convinced it was instigated by workaholics who didn’t want to go home for the weekend.
I’ve never had such an inclination.
Since wednesday I’ve been going over time at work.
Were you salaried before they made you a supervisor? I think that’s one criterion for making an employee “exempt” from DOL overtime rules, but there are others, and I have a limited understanding of the requirements.
All state employees of my grade level are salaried. In the IT field it’s due to the “Computer Professional” exception. They classified us alongside doctors and lawyers, even if we didn’t have direct reports.
That’s just wrong.
I assume it’s a virtual meeting though. (Pants optional.)
There are very few occassions for which I am not wearing pants.
I don’t get you people. It’s more comfortable to have them on.
I do not zoom or virtual meeting. Also, I’m a pants wearing kind of guy.
It just seems to be a popular thing…
Listen to Mr. Nard-less privilege talking here!
You might want to invest in pants that fit.
Wearing them as we speak!
“How the US military subverted the Afghan peace agreement to prolong an unpopular war”
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/16/trump-us-military-peace-agreement-war-afghanistan/
A pretty good article, if only Trump had brought on Macgregor a year earlier it would have been a feather in his cap but instead it looked like he was flailing (which he was actually).
I can’t believe that we have as the leader of the free world someone who is just as confused about where the teaspoons go as where the nuclear codes are. My beloved Grandma died from what he’s having right now. She was sweet and lovely until the end but someone as cantankerous as Joe is a dangerous and frightening thing. Dr. Jill and his enablers need to be roasted on spits.
The people making the decisions aren’t addled, Biden’s dementia is a boon to them: He’s easily controlled, that’s why he’s in power.
Cool story so far, Bob! Sloper and Hype are my friends.