WASHINGTON DC- “We have multiple lines of evidence converging on the same conclusion” said Joanna Gambolputty, a senior defense analyst at the RANT Corporation. “We have satellite photos of soldiers wearing Chinese army uniforms entering tanks with Chinese markings on Chinese army bases. These tanks were then tracked as they traveled across Chinese territory to the Chinese city of Beijing, which is located in China. Clearly, these tanks could be Chinese” added Gambolputty.
Gambolputty first gained prominence with her landmark zoology paper entitled “The Geography of Ursine Defecation: A Shocking Conclusion” first published in The American Journal of Hyporhinotology. “I was really going out on a limb with that one, but it paid off. I was even bold enough to suggest that further research was NOT needed” said Gambolputty.
Meanwhile, Defense Department officials have struggled to determine what the tanks might do next once they reach Beijing. “Regardless of what happens next, this is a wake-up call for Congress to appropriate enough funds for us to close the tank gap with China” said General Haywood Jablome of the 1st Armored Division. “If they send out tanks to act as riot police, they must have many more than we do.”
I’d like to laugh but that pic puts the reality into the satire.
Especially since we are apparently approaching our own “Tank Guy” time.
How’s things, Glibs?
I’m settling into my new life as a Kansan, Tundra. And the free agent market in the NHL just went nuts!
What new for thee? How’s the move going?
The movers came two weeks ago today. We’ve been living with my amazingly patient SIL and are headed out early Saturday morning.
It sounds like you dig Kansas. I’m happy for you!
I haven’t seen any of the NHL stuff. Did the Wild shoot themselves in the dick again?
Chinese tanks are nothing but a conspiracy theory. Those supposed “tanks” came from a flea market in the outskirts of Kunming. China lives in peace and harmony with the whole wide world.
This Tibetan wholeheartedly agrees.
“If they send out tanks to act as riot police, they must have many more than we do.”
Perhaps. But same goes here as there. They will only send the tanks for wrong think. Depends on who decides the think.
Welcome back Derp!
To reply to Stink Wizzleteats in the now-dead thread:
Stinky Wizzleteats on July 28, 2021 at 6:39 pm
Wouldn’t that manifest as the vaccinated showing more severe symptoms than the unvaccinated? I’m not aware of that being seen.
Ask your doctor if BEAM is right for you on July 28, 2021 at 7:12 pm:
Elevated titres amongst the infected vaxxed is one indication. Dr. Robert Malone weighs in:
https://twitter.com/RWMaloneMD/status/1420390188988223488
I’m most worried for the Spousal Unit, who’s been double-vaxxed.
What’s a titres, precious?
In American we use titer. Not sure about you people ruled by the Queen.
Blood Test for antibodies.
I would wait for further development, particularly from a more neutral party, before panicking, seeing as its impossible to unring the bell.
Several months old, but the lack of ADE in animal studies and human trials is still the same. https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2021/02/12/antibody-dependent-enhancement-and-the-coronavirus-vaccines
Would like to see a follow up of further animal studies with current variants and see if it still shows the same.
If .3 of one percent of the vaxxed suffer real consequences, then it wasn’t worth it. Because .2 of one percent of them (even assuming all of them got the ‘vid) would have if left alone.
Especially when you consider that the vaxxed suffering adverse events are often young and healthy, whereas the ones most at risk from Corona are elderly and infirm. It’s an insane trade, especially when being forced by the State.
ADE won’t kick in until mutations and variants show up… The Delta is only the first of many. Once they start booster shots it’ll be like a dog chasing it’s tail.
It’s not the tanks you gotta worry about. It’s the tankies.
Hyperion in the pole position tonight.
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How is your arm blister situation, Derp?
I drained it a few days ago. Still a little red, but no pain. Should heal up completely in a few days. In other news, I broke a cut off disc today because I thought it was a grinding disk. Good thing I was wearing a face shield.
It would be great if the maskinistas could spend a day working in a metal fabrication shop. It’d give them some perspective on danger.
Exploding wheels are not fun, be it a disc or a stone, Yikes!
I’ve had bench grinder wheels blow apart and many carborundum cutoff wheels fly apart. I’ve never been hurt by them. I do have a bunch of burn scars from cutting/grinding with bare arms, and I’ve set fire to a few shirts that way. The main danger is getting particles in your eyes. Which I’ve done, but never that way.
Yeah, you should try working on trash trucks. Million ways to die. It’s like having a roller coaster in the body of a truck and you’re not allowed in the car. Plus high pressure hydraulics, filthy dirty cutting edges everywhere and super hot components. Scary.
What is, in the woods, Alex?
What is Into the Woods, Alex?
NSFW
The Reading Rainbow version. NFSW
https://i.iheart.com/v3/re/new_assets/60ed678f0e02aec763b29959?ops=gravity(%22north%22),fit(740,416),quality(65)
hypo = under
rhino = nose
hyporhinotology = the study of that which is under your nose
Hypo= not enough, low
Hyper=too much, high
Hypo also means physically under/below
Hypo= heroin
Glass dick= crack
both=high
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocaust
shockingly funny
“The Geography of Ursine Defecation: A Shocking Conclusion”
So Bears Do Shit in the woods,
/The More You Know,
What about the Pope?
Pope Divides World Between Google, Facebook
…
It’s part of the Treaty of Quesadillas.
Okay, I’m still laughing at that one.
I assume Gambolputty’s follow-up work will be “The Theology of Pontifex Maximus: Answering the Question of Denominational Alignment”.
Bears shit on the Pope?
*pours out bottle for what was before the ChiComs took over*
https://youtu.be/3llxy2Ocb78
Hong Kong in 2007 was still a cool place. The Chinese hadn’t fucked it up yet. It was my favorite city (and I say that as a country yokel).
I doubt I will ever be back.
I was in China in summer of 2007. I went on a grand tour of China and Tibet as a college graduation present to myself. Saw the sights of Beijing, Xian, Chengdu, Lhasa, and Shanghai.
The Potala Palace of Tibet was my favorite. Terracotta Warriors were awesome too. A few months later, I was in Africa learning Swahili.
[Indiana Jones Travel Music]
Saw ’em in 2001.
Wild horses couldn’t drag me back to China today. They were freer back then.
Don’t sweat it, China coming to you.
next week sneak peak – Black Lives Matter Splits Over Zebra Question
I’m open to suggestions – can be a headline or just a topic
If you put a red/blue flashing light on top of one, I’d ask it if I’m being detained.
I’d come up with a SCOTUS one for you, but the reality is so much funnier at this point.
Biden Vows To Pack Supreme Court With Ice Before Letting It Play in Superbowl
No idea, but I’m sure entirely fictional biracial person “Bronco Bama” will have to weigh in with his opinion.
for those missing the allusion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI86QO7hWsM
2024 Olympics Opt To Make Protesting an Official Event
[scribbles in notebook]
Taks fer nuttin! https://youtu.be/Q8nbBBbLF4U
taks is indeed thanks . . . in Norge (sez dude with incredibly tall wife)
So California outlaws gaming computers, while simultaneously shutting off our power whenever the wind picks up and mandating plug in electric cars. The governor is facing a recall and TMITE says his chances are about 50/50. That’s the setup for another mail-in only election with a heaping side of harvested ballots, if I’ve ever heard one.
This chick is really smart: https://twitter.com/Living4Winter/status/1420527611504205832
Article I read said Google uses something like 17,000 times the power in California as all “gamers” put together.
Talk about targeting low-hanging fruit.
Assholes.
Of course, in the interest of TRUE REFORM, California, the seventh largest of the crude oil producing states, should shut in all its very evil wells down this instant. That produce, the income, and the taxes are all EVIL and MUST BE STOPPED!
Newsom is on it.
Yeah, but for all their idiocy it seems that the powers that be in California are not quite stupid enough to slaughter the geese that lay the golden eggs. Yet. Their GDP is still the highest in the nation, by a large margin, and I imagine that is in no small part to them turning a (relative) blind eye toward their tech sector.
Don’t forget all the cronyism with the motion picture industry, too.
Coming up on 2 weeks working in the metal shop. I like it. It’s 50 hours a week, but there’s no timeclock and I get paid for lunch and breaks. It’s nice to have a job that makes you physically tired at the end of the day. And I get to use a nice variety of tools and machines every day.
One day, I made a few too many crummy welds, so the boss told me to go mow the lawn. When I came back, I got an hour of welding ‘study hall’.
It’s honest work and there’s plenty of it. Plus a bunch of guys there speak Spanish and will speak it to me because I know some and want to learn more.
I’m happy for you, Derp.
Your boss sounds pretty solid, too.
He is. I hope they’re getting a tax break for hiring me, because I’m the least useful guy there. For now, at least.
The nice thing about Army towns is that it’s pretty easy to get a job if you’re a vet. Nobody wants to see an ex-soldier begging for money.
“boss”
has Trashy survived or is he doing penance at work for his wrongthink?
Haha, evidently I wasn’t the only person who has had a negative experience with this woke person. She hasn’t seen my criticisms yet, and I edited the critique to be more forceful today. If it turns into a firestorm, I know that there’s at least one guy on my side of things. That said, I’m ready to ride this ship down to the bottom if need be. No fucking reason to be talking about disparate impact in relation to domestic violence in a paper on patenting software.
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No fucking reason to be talking about disparate impact in relation to domestic violence in a paper on patenting software.
Wow. That belongs in a satire, not real life. I don’t see how there would be any rational way to justify going that off topic in a professional paper.
From what I recall in past comments, trshy’s workplace is supernaturally woke.
This is an industry group, so law firms are virtue signaling in overdrive to try to get us to hire them. If it wouldn’t dox the hell out of me, I’d post up an article with a montage of the full court press I get from the DEI zombies both within my company and in nearly every professional relationship I maintain. As somebody who is skeptical of this bullshit, I feel rather isolated in my profession. 90%+ of my colleagues are unthinking, reflexive euro-socialist worshipping leftists.
That’s not really the dynamic here though. This one is an evangelist who found a somewhat willing audience. The tangential relationship is that we’re writing a section on ethical considerations when patenting AI, and she dragged in some leftist activist’s life work to use as “examples of AI ethics issues”. The examples were all AI related, but were wholly inappropriate given the goal of writing a paper on patenting software.
muy bien
It sounds like you’re in a good place to recuperate your soul.
I had a data entry job one after a couple of very bad years. It was really brainless work. I sat in a room with 20 other people all entering data. We each had earbuds. There was very little talking. You could listen to whatever you wanted. You minded your own business and your own work. No quota. No pressure. It was exactly what I needed to have for my soul to heal.
Oofa I could use something like that some days. It’s the opposite of what I’m doing now. Some days I literally have to shake the fog out of my head at 5 o’clock it’s so jammed up with fifty thousand things swirling around at once.
Is any of that stuff you could scribble down on a piece of paper?
Oh no, it’s all work-stuff. Of no interest to anybody.
I meant stuff you can get out of your head and look at later, so it’s not all stuck up there in your head. Like a to-do list.
I already have a long list of stuff like that. These are just reflections of all the craziness that happened that day. A quick power-nap and a couple cocktails clear it up nicely.
Meme of the day
https://twitter.com/SallyMayweather/status/1420557014019813378
“Another name for a brassiere would be ‘Tanks for the Mammaries'” — Playboy joke from 50 years ago.
‘Tanks for the Mammaries’
*Thinks back to when I was 16, and a particularly large breasted** girl fancied me in the outdoors of northern Minnesota.*
** She has since had them reduced.
I knew a gal who did that. She was a great acid buddy.
Something I’ve always wondered:
What was Tank Man(tm) carrying in his hands in the iconic photo? To me it looks like a bowling bag in his left hand and groceries in his right.
Are you implying he might have just been on his way home from his bowling league and stopped for groceries on the way?
“Hey guys, what’s going on here?”
“We’re trying to stop these tanks.”
“Well, I suppose I could stand in front of one, but hopefully this won’t take too long. The wife’s not going to be happy if the ice cream is melted when I get home.”
Can we just note that his balls were so large he had to carry them in a bowling bag?
Fair enough.
Nobody fucks with the Tank Man! ?
He was thinking, “If I hit the first one 5 degrees to the left, I just might knock down all the rest of them too!”
Marvin the Paranoid Android vs A Tank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=895pIjyRUIk
Yes! At the Hitchhiker’s Guide HQ!
After hearing the first ‘say NO to recall Newsom’ ad on the radio this morning, I want Larry Elder to clean his clock so badly he’s too embarrassed to show his face again. What a dishonest garbage ad.
But the Further Adventures of Joanna Gambolputty are, as always, v well done, Derpy. Thanks for calming my rage!
Weird note, I was on tour in that square almost exactly a year before, and it was so freaky to watch when it happened. Kind of a ‘there but for the grace of god’ kind of moment. I remember telling my parents that I was afraid the CCP would find them all, because there were surveillance cameras all over the square.
https://www.oregonlive.com/weather/2021/07/fans-air-conditioners-and-air-filters-should-be-free-to-about-half-of-oregon-seniors-on-medicare-under-new-rules-senators-says.html
Fucking A.
OFFS a window unit isn’t that expensive.
Well, wasn’t.
Next will be for insurance to cover the cost of electricity to power it.
It’s a boomer’s world; we’re just living in it.
I think the Boomers fucked it all up, maybe the WW2 parents gave them too much, but come on, We are getting fucked so they can retire in style
/SILD I know it’s not all that way.
Retire in style? My monthly income would be two to three times more if the money I earned that was put into Social Security had been put instead into Index Funds. We all got screwed except for those in the “greatest generation” and their parents who got a good deal. And those who landed phony disability payments and kids whose parents never bothered to anticipate the kids’ needs if something happened to them.
Those shitty old tanks were still scary when I saw some coming at me in anger in ’91. Later on I was in a Guard tank battalion – man are those things high maintenance pigs. And when the crews get out to piss or fix the tank, they are easy to shoot.
But the government has airplanes and tanks!
Sounds like Gambolputty needs to be canceled immediately for inspiring violence against Asian-Americans.
Titania mocking the woke as only she can.
Theres no mid-week Zoom tonight? Hell, I just woke up.
SP handling her own has put a hiatus on it unless Straff comes along to gloat with a beer in the park.
Tulip posted it in the pm lynx
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82135921988?pwd=eEhjT0U0YW9taFRLenh4SGgvdUY3UT09
So word on the street will be that Biden will mandate all executive-level departments will be required to get vaccinated or test every week (or two weeks) tomorrow. This will be interesting.
Vaccine passports will start rolling out by mid-October.
I would venture over to the community site and get the blank but I will most likely have to have it verified by the flight surgeon. My guess is our union, even if they buckle, is going to put a long lede time on this, so I probably have two months or so before it is required.
I was expecting more lockdowns by then but I see “passports” is on my Bingo card, too.
Washington state has passed a Long Term Care payroll tax for some useless state insurance program. I always feel nervous when the government decides to look out for my own good.
I think they’re testing the waters for an actual state income tax.
To go along with our new capital gains tax.
Can’t wait for high sales tax and income tax.
Hey, you can’t have utopia without a little punitive tax. It is known.
That money definitely won’t get pissed away.
For some reason, the unions appear to be exempt.
California Governor Newsom pulls his kids out of summer camp violating mask requirements
The Newsoms were concerned they were spotted a la The French Laundry.
See, this is where he lacks leadership. Cuomo would just scoff at the press, leave his kid there, and have someone ghost-write a book about how masterful he was in doing so.
Eff me. Ordered something from Amazon DE on Sunday. Realized today I could have thrown in a Pica marker for half what Woodcraft charges.
Any you wokesters still awake? I just got done with a major update to one of my apps. Tired as hell, time for a beer…
Um… didn’t you say in the last GlibFit you were giving up beer because your knees ached?
Do you have to be incompetent to work at the CDC or does it just help?
https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2021/07/28/incompetence-of-the-highest-order-cdc-appears-to-have-chosen-a-dubious-source-to-help-justify-their-mask-guidance-screenshots/
I thought it was a requirement.
C’mon, man. Chinese tanks are just an idea.
/Joe Bidet
And for only 10% for the Big Guy.
Simone is a loser.
Joe is a clown.
Fauci is a murderer.
Mornin y’all.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Fnet0y9Ts
Cheesey ?
::ears perk up at the word “cheese,” clicks link::
?
https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2021/07/28/kareem-welton-hit-runs-philadelphia-montgomery-county/
Raaaaampaaaage!
https://rumble.com/vkg9mf-episode-1129-are-vaccines-causing-mutations.html
Reposting from last thread.
Dr. Malone starts @ 17m.
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/woman-arrested-in-connection-to-deadly-shooting-outside-pats-steaks/2900476/
Story continues to get weirder. Also, I think she needs a better lawyer.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/07/must-see-thousands-trump-supporters-chanting-trump-trump-trump-greet-joe-biden-pennsylvania-video/
A proper welcome.
Related music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jpSWj0qrVoE
That was not “thousands” of people, though. A few hundred disaffected racists.
Yeah, definitely not thousands. You see those kinds of exaggerations all the time now but the refutation is right there in the video that they themselves posted.
“Both sides do it!” Pace, Juris…
Yeah, not uncommon for TGP. I still go there, but it’s one of their flaws.
Completely non political:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kyNeyggEo
Otters are still cute.
***SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!***
i love otters! I want to reincarnate as an otter.
Good morning, Sean!
My favorite fishing creek had a colony of otters. I was probably the first person that ever waded past them. They do chitter so! Sliding banks and everything, totally fearless.
They are amazing. Nice way to start the morning.
Morning, Glibs.
For some reason, I hit the road at 5:30, so I’m already in the office and settled in.
I don’t understand myself sometimes.
a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Do you even like coffee in the morning? Do you get free single origin Kenyan espresso at your work?
Aside from the fact that I don’t drink coffee, what do you think I am, a political appointee? The state doesn’t give drones free anything.
see this is why you need stronger unions
Fuck that communist noise, those parasites can go fuck off and die.
Good morning, U! (And good afternoon, Pie!)
U, I can understand why you don’t understand yourself. ::hands U a 20 oz. Diet Dew::
A couple of virtual vacation days at the office while my boss is off – I may actually get through The Mountain of Returned Mail by tomorrow! ?
Tonight we’ll go eat overpriced food at the ballpark before the game gets rained out. ⚾?
You know, you never told me wheter TT finished “Beyond the Edge of the Map” or whether you got to rereard “Prince of the North Tower”.
True. Can you access your e-mail while you’re at work?
Checking…
…yes. It is currently not blocked by the proxy.
I’ll e you after I get to work. Time for me to start cleaning up now.
Emojis check out!
Good morning, Fes! Mr. Ilium, I believe, gave away the secret of how to access emojis on my laptop, and he inadvertently created a ?.
The sagging hot-dog one really sells the emotion…
“Teach me the Spell Of Making!”
Mornin’ all! I solved a work problem last night in a very Rube Goldberg-esque fashion so I am little puffed out right now. Comes with the territory of never asking for help. You should have seen the way I’d do dangerous and complicated vehicle repairs as a younger Festus.
Morning, Festus.
And a fine Good Morrow to you and the rest of the early shift!
Don’t move that broom, it’s load-bearing.
Not so much last night but it has happened. Just used an unconventional tool to get the job done. No, it was NOT a double-headed dildo!
Mornin’, Festus!
“No, it was NOT a double-headed dildo!”
Fleshlight, amirite?
Double-headed Fleshlight.
“Eiffel Tower”!
I was just about to make your joke but I needed to pee.
Have I mentioned how eye-meltingly boring it is to read RFP responses?
They’re grossly repeditive and written for non-technical managers, so technical materials get overdefined and simplified, despite this being for a major IT project.
“Overdefined and simplified”.
That does not compute. Danger! Danger! Zzzt%!#÷zz.
For example, they spend three paragraphs defining a Reverse Proxy in very ‘high level’ (ie, simple, with a detail defecit) terms.
I also love their discussion of high availabity implementation that start out with “we will deploy an HA enviroment by implementing a highly available infreastructure” or something to that effect. Very circular until you reach the next page and they actually start talking about what they are actually proposing.
“we will deploy an HA enviroment by implementing a highly available infreastructure”
Love it. “This message was brought to you by your Department of Redundancy Department”.
Well, High Availablity does involve redundancy.
Glibertarians.com deploys a very HAH environment by implementing a highly available infreakstructure. FIFY.
*headdesk*
There’s a subsection cover page here that literally reads
Come on now. I know nobody really reads these, but for a multimillion dollar contract, at least pretend to put the work in.
Oh it gets better. Apparently those variables were supposted to popualte throughout that section, but since they weren’t filled in the whole thing is riddled with “<<Client>>” or “<<Project>>” where the customer-specific information is supposed to be.
Dammit, I just spilled a perfectly good cup of coffee. Good thing I am on my phone, or I would be minus one keyboard.
C’mon, you’re making this up, right? RIGHT???
You guys are making my head hurt. Your shit’s all retarded and you’re talking like fags.
Says the dude with the double-headed flashlight 🙂
I am not making this up. I can’t share the document itself (that would cost me my job) or mention who prepared it etc. But it is a firm people have probably heard of.