Pretty sure this is a photograph of the actual event
When I was a wee undergrad, I lived through the first wave of political correctness. At the risk of dating myself (what was that word from a couple of days ago? self-sexual? compulsive masturbator?), this would have been late 80’s or early 90’s. I was in a technical field, but there were general education sort of requirements. One was a speech class. On the first day (or maybe second meeting), the teacher, some English department grad student bimbette, started with the usual go around the room, and introduce yourself, fairly innocuous. But then the actual lecture started and devolved quickly into bias and implicit bias (I’m pretty sure she did not use that term, but the idea was essentially formed) and how we needed to be very careful when giving a talk about offending people and making sure we were sensitive to our oppressive nature. So I stood up, gathered my things and walked out. On the way out the teacher stopped class and said, “Oh sorry, I didn’t realize we were boring you?” – note use of ‘we’ to isolate and cast it as the group against you. My response was something along the lines of “You’re not boring me, but I thought this was a class on formulating and presenting ideas to large groups of people, not a politically correct indoctrination session.” I never returned to the class and got an F that I had to expunge at a latter date. But why did I just walk out? Was that cowardice? Did I cede ground that I shouldn’t have? I could have stayed in the class and fought the stupidity – I mean I got an F anyway, maybe I could have convinced someone else, or at least exposed them to something different along the way, even wrong or poorly presented. Am I responsible for where we have ended up?
Pretty sure this is a picture from the actual class.
Around the same time, I was contemplating getting a teaching certificate. As mentioned, I was in a technical field, but being naïve, thought I might enjoy teaching younger kids at some point, no-pedo. There was also some idea of a tight job market and it might be a useful back up credential. We were still very early in the long march through the institutions (or maybe about half way?), but it was still bad. I looked into the requirements and what courses one would have to take in the Department of Education and well over 50% had some sort of PC subtext – or supertext! By way of illustration, a couple of years later after I had moved on (or at least given up on the credential part), one of the required courses included a requirement to go to a gay bar, spend the evening, and write up report about what a reprobate you were if that made you uncomfortable, or more likely, a steaming pile of BS about how enlightening is was and how you are now a better person for having done it, ready to indoctrinate 5 year olds into the ghey. Well, even before that was a requirement, I saw the overwhelming commie slant to the whole process and wanted nothing to do with it, so dropped the idea. Of course I had the convenient excuse I could fall back on that I was working 1.5 jobs, had close to a full school work load, at least in the semesters I’d saved enough money up to be full time, so it was easy to just walk away. But why did I just walk away? Am I responsible for where we have ended up?
These are two examples that are perhaps a bit larger than something like walking away from a discussion when you just didn’t feel like engaging. But are they all part and parcel of a bundle of missed opportunities? Now of course I’m not so narcissistic (I think…) so as to think that lil ole me staying a class and fighting or getting my permission slip to infect young minds would’ve made a difference in the course of history. But maybe 2-3 people would have some exposure to different ideas, and they would have exposed 2-3 other people to them. And if 100 other people had the courage/conviction I lacked, who is to know what would have happened 20 years down the line?
Did I cede the battle field while busy living my life and hence cede the war? I’ve worried that all the my little failures to confront this sort of thing, or pursue courses that might mitigate it has helped lead us to where we are, at least integrated over 100’s or 1000’s of others in similar situations. Did I fail to “tell the truth, or at least not lie”? I don’t have any answers to these questions. But I hope mumble-mumble-mumble years from now, I won’t have the same regrets.
Wall of text Bad!
Editors?
I see paragraph breaks.
Them some big ass paragraphs,
/I have no idea how to write,
Yeah…I’ve edited yer shite…. calm down, friend.
*Tips hat to Swissy*
*snort*
Not just that, but paragraphs bordered with colorful visuals.
You are not responsible for where we have ended up.
You are only responsible for yourself and for those people closest to you to whom you have made commitments. You have to do what’s best for you and for them. If you WANT to try to change the world, fine – but you are under no obligation to do so, as far as I’m concerned.
There are too many opinons out there to change the world, IMO, work on what you can change, locally, I did, and it’s quite cool.
He’s offering himself up as a scapegoat and you’re not going take the offer? I say we cancel him!
NAE!
Just walk away.
paging LH?
Walk Away
Just walk away
Not a remake
What an inspired combo that was. Loved them.
Walk
It’s the Walk of Life.
That song is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.
Come on, Walk Like a Man!
Just Walk Away
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34abRUUeslw
Tried to post just that but all fancy w/ html and text and stuff but it got eaten by the interwebs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_QVUfZv92U
Also walking away.
Antidote
That beat kills.
Cheeze walk away.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ho5IF2yX5l8
Nick got it right.
Nah. Coulda woulda shoulda. Perhaps your triumphant exit was inspirational to one or two of the class.
You BASTARD!!!!
Do have any Idea how many people want to go back in time and kill baby whomever started this? You were in a perfect position to sacrifice your actual freedom and put a quick stop to all of this, with just one senseless murder and you froze. Slacker.
As Gender Traitor said, you’re not responsible for where we ended up.
Where I did my undergrad (mid to late 90s), we had a diversity class requirement. I decided to fill it my first semester with something that also filled a GenEd requirement and was a topic palatable to me. I took a class on the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya. It was a good class.
One of my roommates freshman year always talked about, “I’m going to put this off until the school drops it so I won’t have to do it!” I told him, “The place is too politically correct, that won’t happen. Find something you can stomach and take it.”
At that point, there were plenty of classes that weren’t woke that filled the diversity requirement.
And I was right, my roommate was wrong. The diversity class requirement continued long after we graduated.
I took a class on the Aztecs, Incas, and Maya. It was a good class.
As soon as I hit post, I had a feeling that I should elaborate.
The instructor was a professor, I think a full professor, that had done extensive archaeological work in Central and South America.
When we started the section on the Maya, he introduced the Maya like so: “Many people think the Maya were happy hippies hanging out in the jungle living in peace. This is completely, totally wrong. The Maya killed and murdered everything.”
Heh, I remember this era. Beginnings of rot setting in (race grifting), but was also taught facts occasionally; e.g., Africans enslaving one another.
In 1997 or so, I took a class on middle eastern history. Three main lectures a week were on history, and a smaller recitation session was on current events. I learned a bunch about Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and others way before they hit the news big time. We got the straight dope, relatively undistorted by wokism. The other “diversity” humanities class was on Japanese art. These days, I’d bet those kind of classes would not meet the diversity requirement, or they would have been re-worked to be unrecognizable.
We had to sit in a circle in the black student union and kumbaya with the commies there. I forget whether there was an actual diversity class requirement, but I definitely remember sitting in the drum circle at the black student union.
We had a dorm diversity requirement.
We had to listen to several people berate us for 45 minutes about how wrong we were.
Look, I don’t care if you are a dude who wears goth makeup. I don’t care if you are a dude who likes dick up his ass. I don’t care if you are a lady who likes scissoring other ladies. Your sexuality is none of my business and shouldn’t be celebrated. Just like you are not obligated to celebrate my straight sexuality.
/I say this as a foster dad who later fostered a young lady who thought she should have been born a boy. And could pass as a boy.
It was so diverse that there was a black student union?
yup, and it was nice, too.
For equity’s sake, I’m sure they required everyone to attend a tractor pull and shoot a CMP match too, right?
I like tractor pulls. Mostly because my step-dad was a master mechanic and used his antique tractors everyday to do real farm work, and then cleaned up during the weekends at the antique tractor pulls.
I was somewhat country, somewhat townie /never big city.
I was half jock (baseball, wrestling, football) and half geek (debate, poetry recital, and mathlete (I lettered in math))
Momma never allowed guns, but I bought my first shotgun just after I was legal.
Momma didn’t like motorcycles, but I bought one as soon as I was able.
I carried a pocket knife from 6th grade on to today.
/raises skaka lata gesture
I had gen ed requirements as well but to the university’s credit there was a large list of choices. Sure there were dipshit gender studies-type classes, but I bailed on that for things like Russian History and Existential Philosophy.
Honestly, the gen ed classes were some of the ones I enjoyed the most.
I had some good GenEds.
The creative writing class was good.
The western history class was great.
My professor for Environmental Geology was an old fellow who, back in 1950s/60s was a cave-diver; part of the team mapping out the extensive cave systems of the Wakulla Aquifer. That was great class wherein we learned all about karst topography and why Florida is so sinkhole prone.
CANCELLED!
Same here. One of mine was “History of Canada”. Another was something about the effects of outer space on human physiology.
Canada has a history?
I have a copy of the last issue of the Beaver magazine.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%27s_History
The most useful non-engineering class I took was “Technical Writing”. How to succinctly say what needs to be said in the most non-ambiguous way possible.
I still use those lessons daily – especially when writing e-mails to co-workers.
Yup. I strive for that too.
I do the same, when writing in the capacity of tech support. I’ll even apologize for it when talking to the non-technical managers, while pointing out the completely different meanings a single word change can mean (no one ready/no one logged in) .
At my alma mater we had pro-Iraq War (the 1991 one) rallies. We also had a building named after Adnan Khashoggi.
Now it’s a hotbed of SJWism.
I know that I’m not personally responsible. Mostly anyway. It’s more a rumination on the idea that each one of us, when we take knee or walk away in the interest of not being bothered, or that we’d rather expend our energy on something else, contributes to the decline. I know it would be best if we could just be left alone to voluntarily interact with who we want to, but it doesn’t seem as if the world is arranged that way unfortunately.
or, even more insidiously, prefer to nice to people and non confrontational. It capitalizes on peoples best qualities to work them into a corner.
With your hands on your head or the trigger of a gun?
Fuck. Wrote something and then idiotically hit refresh instead of post.
Anywho, No. You aren’t responsible for all of human society.
But, and I know some here will disagree with me, there is a tendency among Libertarians, both big L and small, to disengage. To shy away. And this is killing us in aggregate. We need more who are willing to push back, question others, evangelize liberty. In short, to not be self-sexual.
People need to hear that there is another position, not progressive or conservative, but Liberty. And that we don’t really care about where the world goes on a left-right axis, but on a freedom totalitarian axis.
I have had the same questions and I can’t answer them either. But I am more a “live for today” type so I try not to get worked up about it.
It’s Titty Tuesday’s fault.
https://archive.is/VXccD
I tapped out at the face diapers.
I think mightseduceyourdadtype is trying to tell us something.
The surfer girl in the second picture is hot.
Am I responsible for where we have ended up?
Yes.
Why did you not just drop the class and avoid the F?
I had that question too.
“What do I look like, a guy who’s not lazy?”
Introvert with an aversion to going anywhere near bureaucracy? Last place I wanted to go was anywhere near an office or fill out paperwork. Figured it would just disappear, right? I mean they don’t keep records or anything. Do they?
Heh, wanna see my uneven transcript and perhaps unnecessarily low GPA therein?
I’m cooking sausage and peppers and it is coming out really good.
yum! We had breakfast for dinner. Blueberry pancakes, link sausage, and fried eggs.
I cracked open the second half gallon jar of kimchee I bought a few weeks ago and had some smoked salmon with it. The smoked salmon was excellent. The kimchee was more spicy but not as good as the other half gallon I just finished.
I need to learn to make my own because the ingredients are cheap and the offerings at the store are not ($7 per pint). My first attempt was an abysmal (moldy) mess.
I endeavor to persevere.
Airlock? like Beer?
Airlocks are recommended if you can, otherwise be ready to burp bottles and the like.
Was with an airlock.
I “cooked” a chicken pot pie. It was fantastic.
Yum,
I will never say no to the Mary Calender’s brand when they are on sale. The beef and the chicken/corn chowder flavors are especially toothsome.
I agree! We usually try to have one in the freezer just in case.
Not sure I’ve seen those.
The ones I like are whichever food concern purchased the right to use the “Boston Market” label.
These, are good,
Marie Callender’s?
This line is tasty: https://www.amazon.com/Boomerangs-Pies-Handheld-Southwest-Chicken/dp/B01N7IVJ3Y
YES
“Chicken pot, chicken pot, chicken pot pie!”
Ahhh, tasty, tasty Laura San Giacomo.
My only “humanities” Gen Ed class was Religions of the World that was taught by an atheist.
I guess a nonreligious person could be a good candidate to teach that class as long as they weren’t one of the dogmatic atheists who are basically just anti-Christian.
After 25 years of uneventful and hassle-free black market transactions, I’ve pulled my very first Fat Freddy and gotten burned on a deal. I’m hoppin’ ass mad, but impotently so. Ugh…
You got catnip?!
I got NOTHING!!!! I’ve been dealing with this woman for about a year and a half with absolute satisfaction and confidence. About 3 months ago, she started using some telephone based payment software called CashApp. One would place an order, get a price, pay via CashApp and one’s purchase would arrive in about an hour. After doing this to the tune of $160, I got 2 days of excuses and now 5 days of radio silence. Bloody unprofessional.
I sent my son and daughter some needed cash, I have a bit of scratch, and it’s a birthday present to myself, Wendy would approve. I snaked in 25$ to my 14 year old grandson, he has an unknown to Mom Paypal account, I taught him well,
PayPal is evil.
Hopefully he (and you) have backups.
Many, I taught him well, PP is simple and fast, for now
“Way Out” of what?
Fine, take it if you want. It might even be the smart thing to do if you’re vulnerable. But this seems to be implicitly supporting authoritarian mandates. Fuck. No.
Sigh. Another website I used to respect.
Getting torn apart in the comments, at least.
Just like that Kevin Costner movie.
That’s a good flick.
I remember when all the cool kids said they’d never get vaxxed because TrUmP made it. The flip-flopping gives me motion sickness.
See, this here is why we lose. We have important shit to do, and THEY DON’T.
/thinks about old anti-hippy and anti-mod joke
Rockers of GTFO!
OR. embrace the healing power of OR.
Hey zwak, this place? Hadn’t heard of it before but it looks like where Patsy Stone was served her boilermaker on AbFab.
https://nymag.com/listings/bar/jimmys-corner/
☹️ https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-times-square-jimmy-glenn-dead-coronavirus-20200507-gcm2h2azgfhr7h3pwh74ohpezy-story.html
That’s the one! It was a cool place, I ended up drinking with a couple of co-workers, and none of us realized bars closed at 4 am in Manhattan. Made for long-ass days of training. Sad that the guy died.
But I love a bar like that, cheap, everyone knows each other and comes in to drink and not faf around.
Yup. Dives are the best.
Of course, it has to be the right dive.
Yeah, but you usually know right away.
It’s just a feeling they give off.
Yup.
Thanks for Anemone earlier, man.
What an amazing song.
Someone once described that song as liquid smoke.
BTW, I did my speech class speech on bringing back the gold standard. No one knew what I was talking about, but I was sure as hell entertaining.
https://archive.is/spPNU/302bb4639ac735ea0fb9e4494f7f54a4454e980f.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/KrN33/1bee2e14017ac06345ca9f520623d9a609b52e4a.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/I6pY0/c7fa8e0b5b1ce4d002d675a94690d3fa053a1c19.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/tTHGA/cb8304dc37eb5c30a07b6ed90a3f442f4729077b.jpg
NSFW.
Holy shit!
Wow, and a Redhead! Yeah buddy!
And she’s a real one, too. Daddy like.
Re: Ford Maverick from the linx.
The front-wheel-drive only nature of that truck concerns me. I used to drive a Sport Trac that I loved for its size and versatility, and the Maverick seems basically the same thing. Just … front wheel drive only.
Engineering Glibs: Would a truck that was FWD via a small gas engine and shiftable to 4WD via the engine and two electric motors on the back wheels be viable? I would think you don’t have to have a transfer case, drive shaft, or rear differential so you save weight and associated power loss from the gas engine to the rear wheels. It seems to me that a major hurdle would be ensuring the front and rear wheels always rotate at the same speed.
Sensors can keep them at the same speed, I think,
A computer could probably get it close enough, assuming you just want 4×4 for offroading. AWD might be more difficult, You could run off electric on just the rear wheels up to a certain speed and then switch over to the gas engine, if saving fuel was the goal. But you get all the weight back in batteries and motors, anyway. EVs weigh a ton. Teslas weigh about the same as a 1 ton suburban.
The Tesla S Hauls ass!
/Yippee!
My boss’s boss has one. He *loooooves* to tell everyone about the $117k check he wrote for it, and especially the $7k he spent getting the acceleration mod unlocked.
I got to nail it, and it was awesome! Like a Rocket, pushed back in my seat, my passenger loved it!
With an electric motor, you get the full torque, immediately. There’s really no torque curve, it’s just all of it right now. That’s why they make a lot of trains Diesel/electric. That combo also works really good for large boats. Anything that benefits from having a massive amount of torque at low speeds.
I bet it could work. Variable speed drive(s) on the rear motor(s) matched to speed sensors on the front wheels. But the mechanical solution is going to cost a lot less. With a single elec motor you’d need a differential and drive shafts; same as with a regular transmission/transfer case thingy. Dual elec motors would eliminate some mechanical complexity but trade it for cost of the motors and drives and other doo-dads.
I’m tired, I’ll agree to disagree Brushless motors are very Capable of matching IC engines in timing and capabilities,
/RC Pilot
I had similar experiences with my creative writing class in my freshman year.
I lucked out however, My feminist hippy professor wanted an open and free environment for everyone that included being open to potentially offensive content.
We had lesbian poetry right next to some dude talking about fapping to Wonder Woman.
The diversity requiem t was new that year as well. I took anthropology focused on Native American culture of the NE US. I enjoyed it, learned a bunch, and got to learn how to use a spear thrower.
Today I don’t think there was anything wrong about requiring a class that challenges you to think outside your own experiences.
I do have issues with the crap being peddled as diversity education today. The critical part is allowing the content and assumptions to be challenged by the class as long as it is done with the proper rigor.
I had one of those for American Lit. She was awesome.
This one was a real stereotype, Hairy pits and legs and smelled of pachulii.
The was only a few years older than the class however.
She was one of the good ones.
Oh, mine wasn’t. She dressed the part, boho, Birks, loose flowy hair. But she was also a Southern Baptist who was about to get married in a kimono to a Buddhist or something in a rose garden by an Indian (feather) elder officiant.
She just had an odd assortment of things going on. She taught me a very important lesson. It’s not about what IS. It is about what people BELIEVE what is.
Perception is reality.
Welcome to advertising.
Yeah, because the definition of “diversity” has changed.
That is the truth.
That’s what I hate about it. One of my favorite kinds of history is the other side of the story; the stuff you don’t typically hear about in K-12 history classes. Pre-Columbian history of the Americas, writings of African tribes before contact, Middle Ages from the Islamic point of view, etc. It’s all very fascinating.
But 1619 bullshit is steamrolling over all of that.
My last customer of the day asked me if I was vaxxed today and not in the just trying to make conversation sense. I missed lunch because I was busy today, so she got the hangry response of “I’m not discussing that with you!” She promptly put a mask on, which I visibly snickered at. It’s days like this it’s good I’m self employed.
“I’m self employed.” Ah yes, the Fuck Off Clause, it served me well in contracting.
Clown world.
Oregon imposes an outdoor face mask mandate.
First comment
Nathan Williams
@nathanmwilliams
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7h
Replying to
@_Brad_Schmidt
So we’re doing this but still letting unvaccinated people eat mask-less indoors at restaurants,
@OregonGovBrown
?
They are losing control.
To me, it looks like they’re just grasping more and more control.
^^^ that isn’t losing control, that is exacting control
Maybe he means losing control of their faculties.
Topping on that sundae
https://www.oregonlive.com/education/2021/08/portland-public-schools-will-direct-students-to-eat-lunch-outside-for-the-first-6-weeks-of-the-year.html
I really thought nothing could top the stupidity of the Trump years, but the world keeps getting dumber.
OFFS.
Can’t wait for the fall rains to start.
It doesn’t rain in Portland.
We should be as freedom-loving as England.
https://mobile.twitter.com/ClayTravis/status/1430353106261393408
England has removed all mask requirements for children in schools.
And for staff and visitors.
I think quite a bit of Europe has no mask mandate for children albeit with the age threshold varying by country.
Civil Disobedience is Civil Defence.
I got no choice at this point.
Whelp, looks like I won’t be going to the Madras fly in/air show this weekend. That sucks, it’s one of the best ones.
Huh. I have to go there soon. Guess it might be Friday.
Business? I was planning on arriving at around noon on Friday. We’re talking about camping at an airstrip over the border in ID instead.
I don’t know if you would have changed anyone’s mind, but you may have helped keep any already on your side from falling into despair if you’d stayed. It was always nice to find those one or two guys you could snark with to help you get through the shit, like this place in meatspace.
Some things just aren’t that big a deal, time to lay low, Fuck,
You don’t owe it to anyone to wreck yourself or to become miserable over something that’s temporary or not important. Everyone has to guess what matters, and as something of a master of quality statistics, I enjoy knowing that error is the standard course of human events: don’t sweat it.
But there is this other thing that even Americans seem not to understand anymore: there are few great countries where individual and property rights endure and matter where, at some point, huge sacrifices weren’t made. The slog to Yorktown took almost a decade, and not a few of the living envied the dead on many a day during our Revolution.
So when does it matter? You be your judge and I’ll just Matthew 7:1 over here.
But do take al-Assad as an example of letting something go too long. At some point, even while his palace might have remained unassailable, all the granddads still should have taken up pitchforks and wore out his henchmen. What kind of asshole sits by while 500k of his neighbors are slaughtered and doesn’t take a swing at something? I promise you 500k granddads with pitchforks who were willing to die for their grandchildren could have moved the needle.
If your grandchildren were on the line and you took a powder, then say thirteen Hail Marys . . . . but: they weren’t this time . . . pretty sure.
“Midnight Run” is temporarily feee on Netflix.
Be advised.
I’m watching it now myself:)
Free not feeeeeee
I own several copies. One of the best movies ever made.
I’ve got to ask, why do you have several copies?
VHS. DVD. Amazon.
Not that I can play the VHS.
What sort of self-respecting human being doesn’t still own a VCR?
Me.
You have to rectify your mistake and go buy one on Ebay. Like $50.
But you are helping to pay for a penis rocket.
COCK ROCKET!!!
Aren’t you paying for Netflix?
Huh. Yeah you’re right.
I guess I’m numb to the monthly fee now.
That’s a bad sign …
So a video game I’ve been awaiting for 16 years was released today, and… my toddler computer doesn’t meet the minimum requirements LOL.
Did you try to run it on the Speak-N-Spell?
Little Professor calculator
I was reading something about how bad San Francisco has become and had a weird thought. Dirty Harry was ahead of its time. Today if you commit a crime in SF you may or may not be arrested. If you are arrested there is a good chance you won’t be prosecuted or will receive a sweet plea deal. Crime is rampant, people are fed up, and cops are unpopular. I expect what’s left of the working class would welcome a cop who went hard at violent thugs.
Shh…I’ve been writing Dirty Dunphy, a Dirty Harry sequel, for years now.
We are just reliving the 70’s, without some of the good parts. Crime going up, inflation hitting, an ignominious foreign defeat, and high energy prices. Toss in a fair bit of covid authoritarianism and serve.
Here’s hoping England manages to produce the next Sex Pistols.
hayeksplosives…
Just saw your post last thread about areas in Vegas to house hunt. Far north-west, south-west (Inspirada/Anthem) and onwards towards Boulder are the hot places. There are some nice areas I believe getting built north up by the base too and some older neighborhoods near there. Summerlin is a snooty area.
Stay away from Vegas Valley/Nellis/Boulder Hwy/Lake Mead Blvd/Charleston(in around downtown). Some people are getting priced out and moving to Parhump but that…isnt always great idea.
Thank you!
The recruiter (who also happens to be a native Oklahoman like me) is very helpful about advising on the “life” choices. He works in North Vegas but his wife works out at the desert site so they know all about the commute and such.
He recommended Providence, Skye Canyon, Centennial, and Summerlin.
We’re gonna take a house hunting trip. It’s only a 5.5 hour drive from here anyway! That might allow us some leeway in the house selling and buying department.
Those are all good
If ya got the dough…Lake Las Vegas is nice…
What a shame.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/08/23/times-up-andrew-cuomo-joe-biden-tara-reade-christine-ford-brett-kavanaugh-tara-reade/
Why bother? She’ll be replaced with a fellow traveler who would have done the same thing.
I’m sure my shocked face is around here somewhere.
-_-
There it is.
Okay, this is from Reason but interesting read and raises questions about all those reports about ‘99% hospitalized are delta unvaxx patients…”
https://reason.com/2021/08/24/federal-regulations-keep-covid-patients-in-the-dark-about-which-variant-they-have/
I refuse to click on Reason with very rare exceptions. I still like them on Facebook so I get exposure to their headlines. It’s like 50/50 whether the article would make me want to vomit or if its something that I would normally find interesting. I think I saw one a week or two ago about how Republicans refusing to believe in science is evidence of their creeping authoritarianism. They seem to produce shit like that pretty often these days.
It is benign and almost straight news. If regulations restrict details about dna sequencing, how are news agencies getting data on who has what in terms of COVID?
“Federal rules around who can be told about the variant cases are so confusing that public health officials may merely know the county where a case has emerged but can’t do the kind of investigation and deliver the notifications needed to slow the spread, according to Janet Hamilton, executive director of the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists.
“It could be associated with a person in a high-risk congregate setting or it might not be, but without patient information, we don’t know what we don’t know,” Hamilton said. The group has asked federal officials to waive the rules. “Time is ticking.””
That was pretty interesting. They are good when they stick to their knitting.
And maybe I am reading too much into it, but seems like data being communicated from labs back to hospitals/doctors is limited and not painting a complete picture. Or maybe they are discussing that when it mutates again, we will lag in reporting because of the regulations in place.
https://twitter.com/grandoldmemes/status/1428418571139485697/photo/1
Not bad…not bad at all.
That’s great.
I don’t know how it could be more obvious that he is just a puppet. Powerful people that couldn’t get elected dog catcher are behind this. I bet if it were verifiable I could guess accurately.
Sorry to be late to this discussion. Woke up, can’t sleep. I am having a lot of that lately.
“Am I responsible for where we have ended up?”
“Did I fail to “tell the truth, or at least not lie”?
You would have been wasting your time banging your head against a wall. I had this discussion today with a relative. Once again I was told “It doesnt matter what facts you have, how reasonable your arguments. are, or how good your logic is. I will never change my mind. ”
“Once someone is demoralized you cannot fix them. You are stuck with them. No matter how much authentic information you give them, they can never draw a sensible conclusion.” – our pal Yuri Bezmenov
You did the right thing Putrid Meat
Why would someone listen to you? I bet you don’t even fucking love science.
I can’t imagine saying anything like the above seriously. But I get exposed to something only slightly less delusional when I argue things with relatives who basically believe whatever their told by the media.
When and how (and perhaps why) did the US get to the point where friendships, professional relationships, blood relative ties get completely torpedoed when two people have different viewpoints??
Is it because we are too sensitive now? Too bored? Or maybe because the government is now so danged intrusive that a person can’t realistically ignore politics?
People used to be able to “agree to disagree” and still stay happily married etc. But there is no way I could stay married to a Statist.
Just fucking no.
The why is the easy part.
See the Bezmenov quote
I am wondering why my parish is not eaten up with cootie bugs. It is a small population where everyone knows everyone and socialize often with family and friends a lot and no one is paying attention to masks. I have no idea how many are vaccinated. I imagine if you came here and told people they could not go to church you would have a fair chance of getting shot.
It was supposed to read “with friends a lot yet no one is paying attention to masks.”
For some reason I could not edit it to read as I wanted. I could not get a cursor.
Morning, Suthen. What you said is why I respect any belief that puts itself above the state. The state has demonstrated, and has proven it repeatedly, that it cannot be the final arbiter in whether or not it’s behaving morally. The individual makes that choice even if he cedes that decision to the state. It’s a self delusion to believe you’ve allowed the state to make a decision for you because that it itself is a decision.
Good morning strain. “The state has demonstrated, and has proven it repeatedly, that it cannot be the final arbiter in whether or not it’s behaving morally.”
I would almost be willing to tattoo that on the inside of my left forearm as a crib note. I doubt many people would get it.
straffin, not strain. Spell check….and it didnt try to check me this time.
Oddly, understanding that eventually allows you to love humanity properly because it becomes clear that all of us are capable of being the ultimate decider. We aren’t the new soviet man they think they can create.
Mmmmm. Second cup of coffee.
Where is everyone? It is 4:30 here…sleeping in lazybutts?
?
Mornin
I just dragged myself out of bed to get ready for the office.
Morning, Glibs
*waves*
https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2021/08/murphy-wont-say-if-nj-will-extend-pandemic-unemployment-benefits-affecting-500k-residents.html
Get back to work, you fucking losers.
Before I click I am gonna guess he also wont say if he will extend house arrest orders, masks, etc
*click*
Article doesnt say. I keep waiting for a set-up for our own holodomor. I wonder how many of those people have jobs to go back to.
7.3% unemployment? What was it under Trump? Interesting…
https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/civilian-unemployment-rate.htm
May be apples and oranges but it is interesting.
Make your political predictions based on the stupidest thing the relevant politician can reasonably do and you’ll look like a prophet. He’ll extend it.
I’m sure the handouts will continue. And the local businesses will continue to have unfilled positions until they are finally forced to close their doors, at which point they too can receive handouts. It will get really interesting when there is no one left to pay for the handouts.
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2021/08/pa-woman-mid-burglary-dons-bikini-pacifier-says-god-allowed-it-report.html
She sounds fun.
Probably a redhead.
I’m not sure how to take that.
Good morning, Sean & Chippy ::glances around:: & Stinky & Suthen & U & Pie.
Present company excluded, of course!
Morning, GT
Working in-office today, I see. I wish you a meetingless day.
*gigglesnort* Too late.
I’ve got two team meetings, a project status meeting, and an RFP meeting scheduled to run past the end of my workday.
That’s not counting the meetings in direct conflict with those, or the one that’s likely not going to happen because the organizer is on vacation and it’s just the two of us.
***SIGH!!!*** I’m so sorry. ? That very last one, though, you should make a point of attending. Take minutes.
Mornin’!
Good morning. ‘patzy! How’s haunting?
Fantastic! I have a lot of company these days, what with the piles of dead bodies.
Hey, The Redenning!
Especially if I stay out in the sun for five minutes or more. Good morning, Fes!
https://www.wgal.com/article/landmark-voting-law-john-lewis-voting-rights-advancement-act/37389930
“The bill, which is part of a broader Democratic effort to enact a sweeping overhaul of elections, was approved on a 219-212 vote, with no Republican support. Its passage was praised by President Joe Biden, who said it would protect a “sacred right” and called on the Senate to “send this important bill to my desk.””
Ugh…let’s hope it dies in the Senate.
Unlikely. If the worthless R’s get the house and senate they will pass one to repeal it knowing Biden will veto. If the R’s get all three branches in 2024 they wont pass a bill to repeal it. They aint called the stupid party for nothin’.
If the Republicans have any sense at all they’ll kill it and they likely will but these are Republicans we’re talking about here. They could screw up boiling water.
How is that pile of propaganda not on the “opinion” page?
Ah.
https://nj1015.com/for-nj-low-carbers-the-best-mock-cheese-recipe-you-can-have/
Needs jalapenos.
Mock cheese? why can’t you have real cheese?
it is cruelty to cows and sheep and goats and camels
Also needs macaroni.
I’m not a fan of these recipes that try to make one thing seem like something else that you’re not supposed to eat. Like cauliflower crust pizza.
I just switched to eating pizza (or mac and cheese, etc.) once every few months rather than every week or two.
Also, FTA:
As per usual, journo confused about what a fact is.
I gotta get on the road. Check in with you lot when I’m in the office.
keep your eyes on the road and your hands on the wheel lyrics
goddamnit i googled the phrasing and it autocompletes lyrics and copy pasted that as well. Stupid google
Good morning to you too, Pie.
Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for stars.
You tell ’em, Casey!
Keep the bugs off your glass, and the bears off your…..bumper.
CONVOY!
Dave Rubin is the Mitt Romney of the IDW.
Rubin’s alright but he is milquetoast and not that smart. Not a dummy I guess but either of the Weinsteins he ain’t.
suh’ fam
whats goody
Good morning, homey! How are you this fine day?
(Oh dear. It seems he can no longer understand standard English.)
OK, That was funny, Mornin’ GT
Good morning, Yu! Here’s your birthday song.
In words words of Ollie……ITS GON BE HOT!
Not so much hot, but we got trapped out in a lightning storm yesterday, I don’t want to do that again.
…and ::checks radar:: IT’S GON’ RAIN!
Maybe later this afternoon, right now it looks like the west coast, Oh Wait! it is the west coast, just different tasting,
Lake Michigan
Unsalted
Shark free
Good day to all you fine folk! Looks as though forced vax is a foregone conclusion. We just went back to full indoor masking mandates 4 hours ago. Judi and I don’t have enough of a nest egg to ride this one out but we also have too much invested to just cut and run. We’re both late middle-aged and our house is not yet paid off. Fuck. I wanted to be a rebel but my boots were leaky and it started to rain.
It’s your Soul, do what you want,
My soul doesn’t feed my family. Like I said, we can’t up stakes. We’re too old to start over together. If I were single it would be different. I’d be a white suburban punk, just like you!
Maybe I’ll buy a fairly robust cloth mask and just keep wearing it for the duration, hopefully white.
fairly robust cloth mask
I was thinking more pillowy soft but that was a dark notion.
You were going to make a mask out of toilet paper to flaunt your access?
I like it!
Howdy Kids, another day, another year older,
Happy Fucking Birthday, Bob!
I ain’t happy aboot it, it’s lonely up here, I’ll do something different today, like stay sober or something,
Eat a giant steak with grilled onions and mushrooms! Treat Yo’ self!
I’ll have to make my own, I can’t leave town until I get my new tires, so no restaurants for me,
That was my point! Every hobbiest enjoys “alone time”. The world is too loud.
Happy birthday!
“I’ll do something different today, like stay sober or something,”
Don’t do anything rash!
Happy Birthday, Yufus.
I have one coming up soon myself.
I ‘member, Tall Cans!
Happy birthday
Happy Birthday
HA!! Yet another Perry Mason where there are grand plans and high-powered schemes going on but everything falls apart when a murder is committed because someone got jilted and jealous. Silly women, their ladybrains are, apparently, unsuited to participation in a conspiracy without getting all emotional. At least this episode featured, as an abandoned husband, a very young Leonard Nimoy.
She couldn’t abide the ears and haircut. She needed more Ringo and less Spock.
She really doesn’t like that McCoy guy. All that bickering raises red flags.
Speaking of TV murder mysteries where Nimoy guest starred, I’m pretty sure his character got away with it when he was on Colombo.
Now the episode tries to end on an “I got you” tone, but at no point did he make any incriminating remarks nor did he confess to anything. And the sole piece of physical evidence was discovered in the pocket of the heretofore frustrated lead investogator. A good lawyer would rip that case to shreds and a sensible DA would never take it to court.
Sadly, most of the people sitting on those glorified benches grew up watching those procedurals. The younger Gen grew up watching reruns of “Cops”.
I grew up watching both those procedurals and Cops.
Good Morning All!
Speculation from instapundit that Biden is in serious health problems because he was so weak at the podium and a 5 hour delay…. I bet he gets good drugs.
Going to be hot today.
Cool. All the speculation is just speculation. There’s really not much we can learn or even infer from seeing the meat puppet president on display.
The interim telecommute policy (for the time between full return to office and the end of the year when they’re supposed to issue a new telecommute policy) wants us to pick specific days of a pay period, but allows up to five (that is upto 50% remote) if your role can do so. I’ve been debating asking to be remote tuesdays and thursdays because I can see people wanting monday/wednesday/friday in various combinations. Wonder if I should go for it
This is how you develop the skills needed for a career in law enforcement and politics.
https://nypost.com/2021/08/24/eric-adams-ran-errands-for-a-prostitute-as-a-teen-report/
I can’t tell if this is supposed to be an election-eve hit job or not.
It’s weird. The Post has been an enthusiastic supporter of Adams, endorsing him in the Dem primary. I doubt this will have any effect ion the general election.
“Plucky young go-getter earns for family whilst Father is incarcerated”. NY Post headline – “Hi-Ho Hi-Ho! It’s Off to Twerk I Go!”
What do you call a hooker with a runny nose ?
Full.
Gross and awesome. My mind made a pretty picture for that one.
was she hot classy high end girl?
“Adams demanded compensation for the groceries and other work he’d done for her, but she refused to pay him, according to the article.”
How do you make a hormone ? Dont pay her.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CdVTCDdEwI
I dont know if Im late to the party, or if drugs are about to exit my colon, but RIP Charlie Watts.
Mofo’ had a face like an Easter Island statue.
We call that the “concentration face”. Like when you are trying to dream up something other than 4/4 time or the fact that opioids have stopped you up like an LA freeway.
I had to find out on the internet, RIP Charlie, he will be missed,
He was 80. Yet another life snatched from its prime, undoubtly covid-related.
The guy was in a band for longer than we have been alive, and dealt with Mick the whole time,
that’s pretty awesome,
Dude was married to his original Wife since before I was born!
I blame putrid for why the James Webb space telescope isn’t operational yet. Also NPR had Obama’s homeland security goon on this morning and she was like since you gave up all these other freedoms post 9/11 you will give up some more and take the vaccine to fly. She laughed, the host laughed. You can hear the derision when she speaks of freedom and liberty.
It’s the same up here but with more Quislings. Over half of my country are all-in. The worst part is that most of them seem to be my age or much younger.
I notice the youth much more mask friendly, they get out of their cars and mask right up! like fucking drones.
My crowd is a bunch of anti mask anti Gov. Barbarians, I’m lucky I found them
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/fully-vaccinated-woman-dies-covid-taking-carnival-cruise-belize-27-people-total-tested-positive-covid-aboard-ship-vaccinated/
I wouldn’t hold yourself responsible for the creation of a bunch of commies. They were around before you and they’ll be around long after you’re dead. Technology creates wealth. Wealth creates spoiled children. Spoiled children create commies.