Carrying a large tray of food yesterday, I walk to the car and see a dollar bill folded neatly in the middle of the street. I put my food in the car and return back to investigate figuring someone dropped $1 and I got lucky.
No…someone dropped $100 and the next thing that came to mind is this is bait.
I grabbed it and got the hell out of dodge.
Now for some links!
Mexicans are no longer allowed to cross into the US to sell plasma. (TW: TOS)
Mexican Supreme Court strikes down marijuana prohibition….again. Lawmakers couldn’t out together a graft structure in time when they declared legalization constitutional under their current constitution. Which believe it not not outs them in the same ideological quadrant as Clarence FUCKING Thomas.
Meanwhile, in the U.S., conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Monday denounced the federal government’s inconsistent approach to marijuana policy and suggested that it may necessitate a reevaluation of an earlier ruling that upheld prohibition.
I expect “fingering” jokes to go viral
President Harris finally showed up. She wants to “end the finger pointing” while pointing fingers at the Orange Man.
Will someone please think of the CHILDREN?
“Not even the mothers because they would take their kids away and they would arrive one after another and one knew what was happening. Why couldn’t the kids be there?”
Whether or not prison time is warranted is certainly debatable, once there you can’t take your kids into prison with you. Why is this a difficult concept for people?
There’s $4 billion we’ll never see again.
What can an armed population possibly do to intimidate the government?
I almost forgot the music link. Sounds like a country song.
Afternoon, sharpshooter.
Which believe it not not outs them in the same ideological quadrant as Clarence FUCKING Thomas.
The Bee has it covered.
He’s right, sometimes you want nacho cheese…other times, you want cool ranch.
I don’t think I’ve ever had either.
Wha…
Ain’t natural.
Cool ranch all the way. I don’t think I’ve had nacho cheese since the 80s.
Nacho cheese is the best cheese.
Why? ‘Cause it’s my cheese.
Not necessarily, it could be neither of yo cheeses.
Nacho Cheese is fake enough, but Cool Ranch is chemicals on cardboard.
There could be worse things.
You cant beat the Bee with a stick. They are really nailing it.
You cannot make someone understand what they do not want to understand.
You’ve got three options.
(1) Detain the “parents” because they are here illegally, at least until their asylum application is approved. Putting children into detention with adults is a terrible, terrible idea.
(2) Turn everybody loose. This would be the Biden plan. The results of this approach are playing out now, and very few people like it unless they are (a) squishy-headed lefties or (b) cashing sweet NGO checks.
(3) Send everybody right back where they came from. This is kind of what Trump did when he set up the system of having them wait in Mexico while their asylum applications are processed.
I prefer option 3.
Walking in uninvited is terribly rude.
James Carville is after you.
Brains! BRAINS!
Harris — a lifetime of cleaning up Willie Brown’s messes.
Nice callback.
thanks
Mexicans are no longer allowed to cross into the US to sell plasma.
“We only wanted the drugs and the violence.” – Team Joe
I thought you were joking. It’s the first paragraph of the story.
“NFL declares that ‘football is gay’ in new video for Pride Day embracing Carl Nassib after the Las Vegas Raiders defensive end came out”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9737097/NFL-declares-football-gay-new-video-Pride-Day-embracing-Carl-Nassib.html
Marketing genius.
Well, with all the ass-smacking…
Didn’t Robin Williams have a bit many years ago about the “GFL,” which he insisted was the “Gentlemen’s Football League”?
Probably memory-holed and purged from the entire Internet.
As a soccer fan I feel vindication.
Futbol has always been ghey.
And not in the good way.
What a timeline.
“Football is lesbian.”
That’s how you keep everyone tuning in.
LOL. “Football is lesbian”? At least “football is gay” is defensible as a statement, as once could postulate that there is something homoerotic about a bunch of men all over and on top of each other, but it’s stretching beyond the imagination to call it lesbian.
One of the funniest things I can recall seeing on TV was the “In Living Color” skit about the NFL – “Men on Football”, I believe. I believe it played during a Super Bowl halftime before Fox got an NFL contract and quit busting the NFL’s balls.
Headline from link above:
“Drop politics to fix immigration, Harris says at U.S.-Mexico border”
The militarized border is because of politics. You know, laws passed by politicians saying who can or can’t immigrate, laws funding the INS, the border barriers, etc. Unless she is proposing to eliminate all that and let the people who own private property directly on the border decide who is allowed on their land, and what fences if any they choose to build at that edge of their property … it’ll still be politics.
I don’t see what the big deal is about whether KH has gone to the border or not. Fix the problem, sure. But going to the border is just a photo op and not likely very helpful.
I remember a lot of Rs defending Bush for not going to NO after Katrina saying his security detail, the press, etc. would just get in the way.
Partisanship makes people stupid. The Team Redders wouldn’t shut up about how Kamala hasn’t gone to the border. So, easy peasy, she did, thus answering their main objection, as near as anyone can tell, to how the administration is handling the border crisis.
Cheap partisan talking point answered with cheap partisan photo op. Actual substance addressed? Zero.
Actual tax dollars spent? Many.
They aint called The. Stupid Party for no reason.
Speaking of NO, I forgot about this shit.
No, they will never come for your guns or kidnap your grandmother.
Weird. I saw that today, too.
So you took that $100?!
Now some poor kid can’t get any rib(s)!
“They were asking me questions: ‘How do you become the first woman vice-president?'” Ms Harris said.
“You spend some time on your knees to get a cushy prosecutor job, get elected to the senate based on your skin pigment and gender, run for president and fail to garner a single delegate. Then you get picked to be VP because of your skin pigment and gender and right a white man’s coattails to office. I believe it is known as ‘failing upward’.”
I was going to say “sucking cock” but what you wrote is fine too.
Succinct and to the point.
I think we’re being unfair to Willie Brown here.
No way did Kamala just suck his dick. I have to believe he would insist on a, err, season pass.
“Jill gets the Vogue cover Melania always wanted: First Lady discusses making the White House like their Delaware beach house, her predecessor’s Rose Garden and THOSE ‘stockings’ in fawning 6,000-word profile”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9737087/Jill-Biden-gets-Vogue-cover-treatment.html
“‘I’m a fluid person’: Cara Delevingne leaves little to the imagination as she goes TOPLESS for magazine cover and discusses her new sex toy range”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9737359/Cara-Delevigne-goes-TOPLESS-magazine-cover-discusses-new-sex-toy-range.html
Fashion magazines are so upstanding.
Need more information on this “sex toy range” — our gun club is running out of ideas for interesting USPSA stages.
“Next up, the 50 foot, 2 battery dildo targeting…”
Yes he’s a woke douche but still can draw the funny
Jill gets the Vogue cover
I think you mean Dr. Jill.
That’s Frau Doktor Professor Jill to you, peasant!
/a horse whinnies in the distance
*lightning and thunder crash
Frau Doktor Academician Jill
Fashion arm of the DNC
Only explanation how Melania — an actual model — never got a cover.
Shitty comedian describes how Jill got the Vogue gig:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wN42OjeRHCA
All that talk of a Delaware beach house solidifies my image of Joe as a regular guy from Scranton.
the Vogue cover Melania always wanted
Is this more of that proggie mind-reading, or did Melania actually say she wanted a Vogue cover?
someone dropped $100 and the next thing that came to mind is this is bait.
Was Kurt Russell across the street trying to reel you in?
Proving yet again that men really are better at everything up to and including being women.
Apparently, in order to be sufficiently woke, one must believe that men are better at being women than real women.
That’s certainly the message being sent by the Miss Nevada USA pageant after 27-year-old Kataluna Enriquez was crowned Miss Nevada USA, and thus will compete for the Miss USA title later this year. Enriquez is a man who identifies as a woman. He competed against 21 women to win the title.
Idk why I thought plastic surgery was verboten in such competitions. Learn something new…
Well, she is extraordinarily beautiful, so one could argue the award was based on merit.
Fair enough.
I don’t see that as being the message. Teddy Quinlivan was a successful fashion model before anyone knew she was transgender.
Modeling is the opposite of sports in that being biologically male is a disadvantage. If she transitioned well enough to look that good, then good for her.
I’ll buy that argument iif she won fair and square and not because woke.
Since beauty is subjective, unless we have a transcript where the judges say, “Hey, let’s be super woke and award this to a trans woman!”, don’t know how you would determine what’s fair and square. She really is good looking, in my subjective opinion, so not leaning towards woke in the absence of evidence of that bullshite.
I’m not saying woke had nothing to do with it. I’m just saying, that unlike power lifting, a contest based mostly on looks shouldn’t be one of those things that excludes transgender participants.
Then make it “Mx. Nevada”.
Why?
Because the subtext of these things has always been providing a little stroke material for lonely men. It’s the same reason putting trannies in the SI swimsuit issue is ridiculous.
Mx. Nevadx, thank you.
It’s impossible to tell. Beauty is subjective, and beauty pageants don’t always pick the person that the majority would think should get the nod anyway. That person transitioned reasonably believably into having the appearance of a moderately attractive woman, so both the woke and fair explanations are conceivable.
Beauty is subjective, and beauty pageants don’t always pick the person that the majority would think should get the nod anyway.
For example, I don’t find Gisele or Angelina to be attractive.
True enough, but I seriously doubt that wokeness didn’t have its thumb on the scale.
If you can show me pictures of five or ten of the other contestants that you subjectively think are considerably better looking than the winner, and I agreed with your assessment, I’d consider the thumb on the scale hypothesis.
I can’t seem to find pictures of the other contestants online, though …
Lemme help you out with that.
On a quick scan of the “Miss” contestants, I would say the winnxr is probably in the top 5. Not my personal pick, based solely on these pics.
Loading super slow, but from what I can see so far, I’d say at least Emily Hernandez, Tiana Kemp, Noelani Mendoza, Rica Charleston, and Alondra Lopez are all better looking by my standard of beauty.
Some surprisingly unattractive women in that collection, IMO.
They’re all wearing so much makeup, it’s going to be crapshoot any which way you go.
in my expert opinion as a straight guy, neither of the people in that particular picture are as good looking as your typical Vegas bar girl.
^^This.
I think this supports the theory that fashion designers hate women’s bodies and prefer that of prepubescent boys.
The important part of the article is this:
“Another pageant, the Miss United States of America (USOA) pageant, won a lawsuit earlier this year, allowing them to continue admitting only biological females into their competition.”
I’m actually kind of surprised.
Could this be the gender version of blackface? A man portraying the stereotypical attributes of a woman.
Yep, that has always bothered me. You don’t see a lot of trannies aiming for the bulldyke look, do you.
Not aiming for it, as near as I can tell, no. I can’t say I’ve met dozens of trannies, but there has been a real range of “success” in emulating women’s gender tropes. But since I think emulating those tropes is what “identifying as a woman” is all about, there does seem a certain tension between the (claimed?) nonconformity of being trans, and the reality of trying to pass.
A new square on the bingo card?
This has been my question for years. A number of years ago, a female acquaintance of mine had a co-worker who was transitioning and he took her to lunch to ask her how to be a woman and do things womanly. She’s not a very girly girl and was confused as to why he was asking for her advice, as he wanted to know about heeled shoes and makeup and stuff she never wears. I asked whether she thought it was odd that he was assuming she knew these things. It seemed to make her uncomfortable that this individual had a very stereotypical picture of what it was “to be a woman.”
I know I’d be uncomfortable if a woman asked me “how to be a man.” It’s something I am, not something I think about trying *to be*.
if a woman asked me “how to be a man.”
Take a woman, and add reason and accountability?
/ducks, runs
I laughed.
/adds ability to open jars
Ooh! Could you get into these pickles for me, pretty please?? ::bats eyes::
Don’t forget spider killing.
“There’s $4 billion we’ll never see again.”
Biden and friends will see some of it again, and curiously it will smell like Woolite and Clorox.
Who knew Hunter Biden was Puerto-Rican?
“California BANS state-funded travel to five more ‘bigoted’ states – Florida, Arkansas, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia – in protest at ‘anti-LGBT’ laws: Ban now stretches to 17 states
Florida, Montana, Arkansas, and West Virginia passed laws that prevent transgender women and girls from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity.”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9734617/California-bans-state-travel-Florida-4-states.html
OFFS!!
In breaking news, on hearing of the California ban, spokesmen of all 17 states responded “Phew!”
And in other news, the legislators of 28 additional states have proposed laws preventing transgender women and girls from participating in school sports consistent with their gender identity.
From another angle, those 5 states managed to ban Californians from entering without lifting a finger. Sounds like a win to me.
I, for one, do not want to live in a world where biological men are not allowed to completely destroy biological women in women’s sports.
Is there anything I can do to get them to add Alaska to the list?
Join the ladies’ bobsled team?
I don’t have any dresses. Will a kilt do?
I think bobsleddettes wear goretex and lycra.
Ugh. No. Ain’t enough corn starch in the world to make that shit comfortable.
Mr Denis, 75, was seized by members of the Marxist Paraguayan People’s Army (EPP) rebel group in September.
Marxists. Blech.
No emissaries from California? Bummer.
I barely had enough money in my pocket to ransom myself out of the grocery store a little while ago. I could use a free Franklin.
This is Joe Biden’s America. Thanks, Top Men!
“BREAKING: Andy Ngo’s podcast permanently banned from SoundCloud
SoundCloud has de-platformed journalist Andy Ngo’s podcast “on the grounds of being dedicated to violating” the site’s rules. However, the latest episode of the podcast was uploaded more than one year ago and there was no option in the notification email for Ngo to appeal or even seek further information.
Ngo’s podcast, “Things You Should Ngo,” hosted heterodox ideas and stories. Ngo interviewed academics and thinkers from “the Intellectual Dark Web.”
Over the weekend, SoundCloud’s Trust & Safety Team informed Ngo via email of the permanent ban for “violating” the site’s Terms of Use and Community Guidelines, which state that users must not use the platform to create content “that is abusive, libellous, defamatory, pornographic or obscene, that promotes or incites violence, terrorism, illegal acts, or hatred on the grounds of race, ethnicity, cultural identity, religious belief, disability, gender, identity or sexual orientation, or is otherwise objectionable in SoundCloud’s reasonable discretion.”
SoundCloud’s explanation was vague and did not specify an exact reason. When an account is removed for violating SoundCloud’s terms, the user’s account, tracks, followers, and stats are removed from the platform and cannot be returned.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-andy-ngos-podcast-permanently-banned-from-soundcloud
Yet another dubious politically motivated banning or are they just racist awards Asians and bigoted towards homosexuals?
But he is the Nazi.
84 Degrees.
*sigh*
Pumping heat out of the house is a pain. Maybe I should have left the AC on while I was gone. Well, not the portable AC, the drip bucket would have overflowed, but I got the window unit working.
65 and sunny in the Great Land. We don’t have an AC.
It’s 90 outside, that is my indoor temp.
It’s still cooling down after my return from ohio.
If you were outside, your AC would coold the house faster. You’re probably contributing around 350 Btu/hr to the cooling load just by sitting inside. Go get an ice cream cone at a nice cool shop in town.
It’s 93 here. I came home yesterday to the wife sleeping under blankets and the air at 68.
The geo-thermal system really pays for itself quick when you’re rollin’ coal.
::feels a little guilty that your trip out here caused this…but not at all sorry you visited::
Even with central air, we’ve been running the kitchen ceiling fan and the bathroom vent fan nonstop, and last night we needed a box fan in the bedroom to sleep comfortably.
My wife runs the ceiling fan in the bedroom every night all year long.
Thanks for taking some of the heat from us. June has been very pleasant so far. I’m guessing about 5 to 7 degrees cooler than normal.
Fans work in tandem with AC. Besides, mooving air will always feel cooler than still air.
We do like to burrow under the blankets/comforter in the winter with just the cold air on our faces.
What was weird about this house was it only had one ceiling fan. The bedrooms had no fans. This is GA, what is wrong with you people?
My portable is set to 74 and I can guarantee you it ain’t 74 degrees in here. Maybe 84.
It’s continuing to cool off, so I’ve not hit the capacity of my setup just yet.
Well, it’s 97 outside. I should count my blessings and not gripe.
It’s body temperature on my back deck right now (37° C, 98.6° F), and the new A/C’s keeping up juuuuuust fine, thank God. Tomorrow and Thursday will be the true tests, though . . .
*flaunts central air privilege*
GF is using a blanket right now on the couch.
Signal booster
The bank’s latest move, for deal terms that couldn’t be determined, will help JPMorgan’s financial advisors customize clients’ investments in ESG, the broad category that includes environmental, social and governance factors. ESG funds have attracted record inflows this year, pushing global assets under management to almost $2 trillion.
“Clients are increasingly focused on understanding the environmental, social, and governance impact of their portfolios and using that information to make investment decisions that better align with their goals,” Mary Callahan Erdoes, CEO of JPMorgan’s asset and wealth management division, said in a statement.
OpenInvest was co-founded in 2015 by Conor Murray, Joshua Levin and Phillip Wei to help financial advisors, big asset managers and retail users create portfolios that more accurately reflect investors’ values.
Rather than just plowing money into ESG investment funds or excluding certain companies from a stock portfolio, clients can use OpenInvest to create highly personalized, dynamic, values-based portfolios. The company pulls data from more than 35 sources to feed decision engines embedded in its tools.
“Through technology, it’s now possible, for example, to give people granular control over how their values are implemented,” Murray said last week in an interview. “It’s not just whether or not you care about gender equality, but whether you want to tilt more towards maternity leave or gender pay gap or board compensation, any of the things that matter to the client.”
FEELZ-based investing on a granular level? Sure, why not?
I want to make money. If these guys can help me make money, good. If not, they can fuck off.
They will make money with no risk. Not sure about you.
This sounds like a company fulfilling their moral obligation to take advantage of suckers.
???
The odds that Jamie Dimon believes any of this shit are effectively nil.
If it’s what your customers want or are required to invest in you give it to them.
“It’s not just whether or not you care about gender equality, but whether you want to tilt more towards maternity leave or gender pay gap or board compensation, any of the things that matter to the client.”
Are there options in the software for “leave me the f**k alone” and “don’t try to piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining when I’m deciding whether to invest in your business”?
Not an option: The client should be the one doing the things that matter to the client.
“Here’s the deal. We make you money, which becomes your money, and you spend your money on whatever you want.”
I agree with you to the extent that it is the manager making the ESG choices. That said, a client may want to restrict his investing activities to businesses he believes in. Whether that’s a good decision or not is a different discussion. But, I could see someone saying they don’t want to put their money into companies that censor people or have crony relationships with the Chicoms. As long as they understand that their returns will tautologically be less than if they didn’t place those restrictions, that should very well be their prerogative.
+1 CalPERS shareholder “request”.
I’d say that’s a little different, though. CalPERS is acting as the manager and making that decision on behalf of the clients regardless of whether they agree or not. In a way, it’s sort of stealing. CalPERS is taking the clients’ marginal return from greater investment flexibility and essentially coopting it for the State of California’s political agenda.
Yup! I agree Californians pay for that.
“Do you believe your company exists to make money for its owners, or to fund and otherwise support random fashionable social causes?”
Are there options in the software for “leave me the f**k alone” and “don’t try to piss on my leg and tell me it’s raining when I’m deciding whether to invest in your business”?
I’d settle for “Do you sell your product for more than what it costs to get it to market?”
Last Christmas i got an old golf cart for my two daughters to tool around the neighborhood with. A few days ago one of their friends fell off the thing and got seriously injured. Long term prognosis looks okay but im just absolutely devastated that this happened to a sweet little teenager on my watch. Really questioning myself as a parent and sick with guilt.
Sorry.
Damn that sucks. It’s gonna be impossible not to blame yourself, but kids need to learn responsibility somehow. I worked at a golf course as a teenager and it is a miracle I didn’t injure myself on one of those things. We used to take it full speed downhill and hit the brakes to do donuts. We flew out of those carts more than a few times doing so.
I never imagined anyone getting hospitalized from one of these, thing goes 12 mph.
Really questioning myself as a parent right now.
You really owe it to the injured party to get them high.
Don’t be too hard on yourself. The only way to guarantee teenagers won’t get hurt is to constantly supervise and greatly limit their activities. A golf cart seems well within the acceptable risk for a teenager. Trying to eliminate all risk from their lives would be a great disservice.
Sometimes, shit just happens.
Yup.
Jerms – sorry to read, however.
Thanks man, i think i needed to hear that. You people really are great.
Sorry to hear that. As others have said, stuff happens, be kind to yourself. I could go on at length about poor parenting, starting with the dad I never knew. Doesn’t sound like you.
That sucks. Sounds like you got lucky though–a co-worker of mine’s daughter was paralyzed and her boyfriend killed when the side-by-side he was driving slammed off the side of a road into a tree during a hard turn.
I cant imagine how it would feel if she had any permanent damage. Sick just thinking about it.
The rulers are curious if the sheeple will enthusiastically comply again.
Los Angeles County Recommends Masks Regardless of Vaccination Status as Delta Variant Spreads
I think they’re just terrified. Even if it were cynical at first, they’re all scaring each other so much that they’re believing their own bullshit now.
And nobody wants to be the first who says “maybe we should just stop.”
But but but THE DELTA VARIANT! As an aside, apparently Britain is starting to shit its pants over the Lambda Variant now.
Please tell me “Lambda variant” isn’t an actual thing.
https://twnews.co.uk/gb-news/new-lambda-covid-variant-discovered-in-uk-with-six-cases-under-investigation
I thought that was the “forbidden variant.”
?
I thought that was from Revenge of the Nerds.
Yup, that’s the black fraternity that grants the nerds a chapter after Booger gets them high at a party and the jocks try to fuck up the party by releasing pigs in it.
Clap your hands everybody, and everybody clap your hands. We’re Lambda Lambda Lambda and Omega Mu.
That’s because COVID Alpha and COVID Beta didn’t give them a bid.
I think I saw “Delta Variant” with Bruce Willis in ’96.
Excellent movie, first they stopped the asteroid and then Harrison Ford said get off my plane and don’t even get me started on the part Will Smith played.
And then they stopped the plague (Oh crap, SPOILER!)
I’m imagining a big old fashioned knife switch with labels:
“PLAGUE ON”
“PLAGUE OFF”
and Biden/Fauci with their hands on the handle.
Or The Clapper?
But the twist was mankind is the plague!
“Mexicans are no longer allowed to cross into the US to sell plasma.“
They’re not sending us their best plasma.
Get your Hep vaccine right here.
Working on a document in OpenOffice Writer and wishing I could insert section breaks a la MS Word, but as far as I can tell, “sections” in OOW are something completely different from sections in Word. Mainly want to divide the document up so I can more easily keep track of how many pages are in each chapter. Anyone know if maybe OpenOffice uses a different term for Word-like sections? (It’s also possible I desperately need to update my version of OpenOffice.)
I thought OpenOffice wasn’t even a thing anymore; replaced by LibreOffice.
That may give you an idea how old my version is.
Yeah, it was discontinued apparently. Maybe try LibreOffice–in my version it has an Insert–>Section menu that may have similar functionality to what you’re seeking https://help.libreoffice.org/6.2/en-US/text/swriter/guide/sections.html?DbPAR=WRITER
Thanks! I may upgrade anyway, but their description of sections sounds rather like OpenOffice’s. (I think I found another means of accomplishing what I want for the moment, as described below.)
I don’t know how much you fiddle with the settings to get the program to behave the way you want to, but it takes me a couple of hours to find everything that I switched from defaults when it invariably fails to pick up my settings.
For my own personal purposes, I fiddle with default settings seldom, if ever, other than line spacing, other minor paragraph formatting, and font.
For the below-mentioned policy manuals, I fiddled with line-spacing, tabs, outline settings, etc. ad nauseum, and stubbornly tweaked them each time Word failed to remember how I’d been doing it FOR THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT.
I don’t miss fussing with those manuals even a tiny bit.
I mean things like word replacements (ie autocorrect), suggested words, automatic formatting (stop second guessing me) disabling some key shortcuts that are more detrimental than useful to me, etc
I also change the buttons on the toolbars to those I actually use and ditch the useless (to me) ones.
And I’m not fond of MS Word’s formatting setup. It thinks it’s smarter than it is and smarter than the user in knowing what they meant when it’s almost always wrong. At work I spend more time fighting the programs’ attempts to be ‘helpful’ than composing the documentation.
I find I use Excel much more often than I use Word anymore. My boss has me proofread and correct his monthly reports to the Board (since after 20+ years, he trusts my judgment re: minor, non-substantive tweaks,) but other than that, I don’t have occasion to work with Word at the day job very much these days.
Our VP of Compliance still works with policies (better her than me,) and still calls me to ask, “How do I [fill in the format or function] in Word?” With each new “upgrade” of Word, I find it takes me longer to stumble onto what she’s trying to accomplish. My trial & error involves an ever-increasing amount of error.
Try WPS Office.
It’s working quite well for me.
What are the differences in functionality? I’ve never used sections in any document, so I don’t know what they’re supposed to do.
I don’t use them in Word that often myself, but from my limited use, I think it would be easier to navigate from the start of one section to the start of another and keep track of how many pages in each. That way I could keep track of chapter length without having to just hit “Pg Dn” over and over or using “Find ‘Chapter.'”.
I think I found something in my current version of OOW that might accomplish the same thing. If I change the format of each “Chapter (??)” from Default to Heading, I can use OOW’s “Navigator” to jump between each one.
I think I used section breaks in Word for my pre-merger credit union employer’s Policy Manuals. Happily, since the merger, I’m no longer involved in revising/updating the policy manual because there isn’t a single manual – just a lot of policies that aren’t terribly well organized. #NotMyProblem
I’ve made an epub of silver lotus and will send it your way.
Thank you! I was having trouble locating all the e-mails with passages from SL, as they rarely mentioned the title in the subject line nor, of course, in the body of the text. Eager to reread what you have to date in its entirety.
You should have it by now.
Got it! Many thanks!
The odds that Jamie Dimon believes any of this shit are effectively nil.
*thinks back to story about Proud Boys selling Black Lives Matter shirts for beer money*
Interesting, if technical legal article, on Section 230 of the CDA. TW: TOS.
Bottom line: the only problem is what is meant by “otherwise objectionable”. Interpreting it to mean “whatever anyone says is objectionable to them” is not the way statutes are generally interpreted/applied. Better approach: if the type of content isn’t mentioned elsewhere in the CDA, its not “otherwise objectionable” for purposes of this section.
Possible spoiler:
BBC has a pic of the tackle that resulted in the Swedish red card on their match blog. Ugly, ugly.
I thought it looked unavoidable but it was so ugly I couldn’t watch it again.
Relevant
Or perhaps this will cheer you up.
?
“ Ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith given probation after guilty plea in John Durham probe”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-lawyer-kevin-clinesmith-sentenced-john-durham-probe
Plus a one year suspension of his law license retroactive to 2020. Knowingly falsified documents in the context of an investigation, no jail time, and no disbarment: must be nice…
Compare with Rudy Giuliani.
No doubt.
JHTFC
That guy should be rotting in a cell.
If only judges regarded all criminals with such tender concern while sentencing them.
TW: old article. Not seeing anything about his law license, BTW.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/northampton-county-felon-caught-with-3-d-printers-officials-say-to-make-homemade-guns/article_53eb75c0-d8fb-11eb-aa58-5bee1a28fc9c.html
They’re going to have to do something those 3-D printers. There ought to be a law.
Yup a printer anyone can buy on Amazon right now for under $300.
And if you used it to make any major component of a firearm it would almost certainly blow up in your face.
Did you see this the other day?
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2021/06/23/diy-mega-pistol/
Worth watching the video. ?
I’m sad because I can’t try out the pistol for plinking.
The printer or the firearm?
I’m gonna make a ton of money by purchasing one and then printing out a bunch more 3d printers.
Don’t know why no one’s thought of this.
Isn’t that the plot to Mutiplicity?
Soon, she’ll need a man.
A great band that didn’t get anywhere the success they deserved to get:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpHIvDewnQX5yTDa8ImxRjh1vzGbY2bID
Totally agree.
You had a chance at Neil and you blew it with Urge Overkill (which is still a good version)
I knew exactly what I was doing.
Just as I prefer this over the other Neil.
Remember The Jazz Singer died for your sins.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zrmp7j5dcl4
Good stuff. ?
Really good stuff!
And it looks like that club is about 3 miles from my new place!
Nice.
love it.
That has me hoping that Messer Chups will be able to tour in the US again soon.
Looks like the cops can break an iPhone’s encryption.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7835w/how-to-brute-force-iphones-graykey
Let’s hope apple keep up with countering them.
Sounds like they need to encrypt the encryption with an encrypted encryption key. This has been around for a while though and the older the processor in your phone is the easier it is to crack the encryption.
Then they’ll just need to encrypt the encryption encryption key. Where does it all end?
Don’t be silly.
Write the encryption key on paper, physically shred the temporary drive used to do the encryption.
You didn’t want to use that data very often, right?
unmmmmm
maybe?
Just get the master key tattooed on your ass and keep some sandpaper in your pocket if things go south. There, problem solved.
Ominous clouds, rumbles of thunder, and green over us on the radar, but so far not a drop of rain. 🙁
You’ll get it soon. I’m on the northeastern side of that line of storms that’s extending from southwest of Cincinatti all the way to the Allegheny National Forest.
grr. “Cincinnati”
I see the line whereof you speak. So far, we just have an isolated blob over Dayton. Our neighborhood is right on the edge of the green radar stuff, but there’s some bright red radar action just to the east of us in the heart of town.
Here in Troy, it just poured rain with the sun still shining. Didn’t cool it down any; just made it more humid.
ah, for some reason I thought you were northeast of cincy
It figures you live in Dayton.
All the good things come from Dayton.
You could never be strong, you can only be free And I’ll never ask for the truth, but you owe that to me
Rabbit hole, here I come!
For EDG.
Pop perfection.
Both my kids knew the words to this one.
Teenage FBI
I’ll never forget them singing the backing vocals along with the band.
OT: Another insight from the “Understanding Literature” course that I started listening to: Every single elongated or cylindrical object symbolizes a dick, and every thrusting, forcing, entering, breaking through, etc. represents sex. No exceptions ever. Those objects/actions are never indicative of something else or simply themselves. It’s all dicks and pussies and fucking, all the time.
… Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating a tiny bit, but the guy seriously makes it out like every one of those things must have at least some sexual element to it.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Or a band, named Steely Dan.
Ceci n’est pas un dick.
Haha!
I had a college English professor insist that this was all about sex. https://poets.org/poem/creation
Well… yeah… sure… that’s obvious…
*pulls out Poetry for Dummies*
I mean it does pretty closely match how I do foreplay.
Wow. I usually don’t do this, but I just spent the last thirty minutes wandering through the comments on a couple of Townhall and PJMedia stories.
Boy, are there a lot of bone-stupid people commenting there, on both sides of any given issue.
Y’all are great. I hope everyone here realizes what an exceptional group of people makes up the Glibertarians.
Yeah. It’s a wasteland.
Same with another site that begins with an R and ends with an n and is pronounced Reason that I shall not name. There are still some good commenters over there, mostly ones who used to be over here curiously enough, but it’s mostly a commentary shitshow.
Glibs have built something special here.
*waves hello to the FBI, and whichever parts of the DHS alphabet soup are lurking*
I do. Before I found this lot at TOS I tried PJ Media. Some of the writers and articles were good but the commenters were idiots. It was frustrating.
Then I found TOS and found the commenters to be far better than the Reason writers. I stuck around for the commenters. Leaving there when this site formed was a no-brainer for me. I never hesitated or looked back.
Fuck off Tulpa.
Althouse had a good comments section until she became a coward and got rid of them.
Welly welly well. A guy and his girlfriend just came and bought my screen printing stuff. Less than I hoped for, but significantly more cash in my pocket than I had this morning.
Frees up a bunch of space in the here and now, and less to move.
#WINNING
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
And sometimes a big black rubber cock is a murder weapon, says ‘atchet ‘arry
Possibly one of the finest films ever made.
I hope everyone here realizes what an exceptional group of people makes up the Glibertarians.
*salutes in a nonthreatening apolitical manner*