Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Gold Mouth Lady edition

by | Sep 15, 2021 | Daily Links | 397 comments

Yes, yes. Peg The Patriarchy. There’s nothing more humiliating and emasculating than being the receptive partner in anal sex. You might even turn some of them gay by raping them in the ass with a dildo.

She feels so progressive right now, you guys.


Outside the Met Gala, Police Arrested Multiple Black Lives Matter Protesters

Inside the Met Gala on Monday evening, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio walked the red carpet alongside First Lady Chirlane McCray and son Dante, seemingly enjoying the highly exclusive event despite once deeming it not his “cup of tea.” Outside the gala, NYPD officers arrested multiple Black Lives Matter protesters, who were calling to defund the police department whose budget de Blasio oversees.

According to the Daily Mail, a flyer from the demonstration identified the protesters as an “autonomous group of NYC abolitionists who believe that policing does not protect and serve communities,” and hashtags on Twitter identified them as “#FireThemAll” protesters. Cell phone footage shows the crowd gathered outside the gala chanting “Black Lives Matter” and calling out “Mike Rosado,” the name of a 24-year-old man in the Bronx who was fatally shot by plainclothes police officers in August.

Additional footage and photos of the demonstration show at least two dozen police officers rushing toward the crowd, tackling people to the ground, and carrying them away in zip-tie handcuffs. Later that night, protesters reportedly moved their demonstration to outside the NYPD’s 28th precinct, where some of their fellow demonstrators were still being detained as of around 9 p.m. local time.

Did they think this was 2020 or some shit? You did your job, BLM. Get back in your box until the 2022 midterms.


Oh, look, a whole new type of guy to hate.

“Men’s Rights Asians” Think This Is Their Moment

Spend a little time on r/aznidentity, and you will quickly become immersed in the lingo of Men’s Rights Asians. The posts are dotted with contemptuous mentions of WMAF: white male–Asian female relationships. Bananarang refers derisively to an Asian woman who’s previously dated white men but is currently seeking a relationship with an Asian man. PAA, or “progressive Asian activist,” is a pejorative term similar to “social justice warrior” for Asians who ascribe to liberal, feminist values. The most common colloquialisms are Lu, referring to Asian women who “use their white/non-Asian partners to gain influence and put them in positions of power above other Asians,” and Chan, referring to Asian men who are “mentally colonized.” An anonymous r/aznidentity user whom I’ll call David, and who until recently was a moderator for the subreddit, explained the concept to me: “There are Asian Americans who can fit into white circles that other Asian Americans can’t. Because that Asian American can go into those circles, they believe they are superior.” All of these terms are defined in the subreddit’s official glossary.

Members of r/aznidentity reject the “Men’s Rights Asians” and “MRAsian” labels that are commonly associated with the group; they liken those terms to racial epithets. The members I spoke to claimed to be advocating for both Asian men and women. Granted, some of what they discuss on the forum isn’t really about gender at all, just general news about Asians in pop culture and current events. On a given day, the board might include posts dissecting Asian characters in Marvel films or praising Andrew Yang. The comments are often heterogeneous and laced with disagreement.

But the predominant preoccupation of the subreddit and its founders is with what they see as Western societies emasculating Asian men and unfairly elevating Asian women. American culture does indeed have a long track record of portraying Asian men as timid and asexual, but MRAsians see women as active accomplices in maintaining the stereotype, contending that, by dating white men, Asian women are upholding white supremacy.


 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z5WPwZofqo

[I have no clue what’s going on with the music link]

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397 Comments

  1. Scruffy Nerfherder

    “Spend a little time on r/aznidentity”

    Imma pass on this one.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Bananarang”

      Great album name.

      • Rat on a train

        I haven’t tried bananarang. I like bananacue.

      • Tres Cool

        I think “Bananarang” would be a great name for a Thai shemale club. I bet Gary Glitter would concur.

      • KSuellington

        I once got dragged up on stage and stripped down completely by a pack of shemales and females at a Bangkok strip joint. This was to the great amusement of my female friend who I had went on a strip joint crawl looking to find live sex in a tuk-tuk. It was all great fun till the manager got pissed at me and made me get off the stage. We never saw sex in a tuk-tuk, but we did get to see all sorts of vagina stunts done.

      • Spudalicious

        “too beaucoup”

      • KSuellington

        Me or the shemale?

    • Count Potato

      “All of these terms are defined in the subreddit’s official glossary.”

      Some people have way to much free time.

      • Rat on a train

        This sub is for Native-Born Asians (born in the West): Immigrants/1st-gen can join, but watch your step. Our experience is unique from yours. This sub will critique 1st gen as necessary.

        anti-immigrant xenophobes

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Oh sweet jeezus…

        So it’s a bunch of entitled twats with no appreciation of the previous generations’ sacrifices.

      • Gustave Lytton

        With a mix of incel.

      • Tonio

        Wait, I thought first generation were those born here. I are confused. Immigrants would be generation zero.

      • slumbrew

        You are correct and they are dumb.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Well, what do you expect the asian men to do when all the asian women are busy banging white guys?

      • Rat on a train

        We need emergency work on a vaccine for yellow fever. The existing one doesn’t work.

      • EvilSheldon

        Bang the white women?

        Nahhh…

      • DEG

        I know a few Asian guys that did that.

      • Spudalicious

        The women had a tiny penis fetish?

  2. Count Potato

    “Did they think this was 2020 or some shit? You did your job, BLM. Get back in your box until the 2022 midterms.”

    Probably more like 2024. If you search web patterns, it’s every four years.

    • rhywun

      Also this ain’t Portland and people are sick of their shit already.

  3. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Why is she holding her hair?

    And why does it look like she combed it with a slab of bacon?

    • SugarFree

      The answer to both is PATRIARCHY!

      You know, the thing that most affects millionaire lesbian models.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        I will be dead honest. I have zero ideas who she(?) is. But I certainly do not think she is good-looking.

        Nawt.

      • juris imprudent

        And did she have a strap-on – or was her peg the patriarchy just a virtual thing?

      • Grummun

        did she have a strap-on

        Possibly factory equipment.

    • Urthona

      hawt

  4. Tres Cool

    I just woke up and realized its Wednesday. Currently, I have an empty stomach.

    /opens beer and settles-in for some weapons-grade SugarFree

  5. Shpip

    Inside the Met Gala on Monday evening, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio walked the red carpet alongside First Lady Chirlane McCray and son Dante, seemingly enjoying the highly exclusive event despite once deeming it not his “cup of tea.”

    What’s the deal with performative lefties and this year’s Met party? And while everyone’s favorite barmaid-cum-pol stole the headlines, she wasn’t even the rep with the most cartoonish costume at the affair.

    • SugarFree

      Carolyn Maloney? I thought that was a super-busted-out Kristin Chenoweth.

      • Tres Cool

        Can’t she afford BoTox?
        Its tough for me to tell if she’s had a face-lift, or a vaginal rejuvenation. That face looks like the bottom of a Coach purse.

      • Rat on a train

        Open carry of swords is legal in NYC?

      • rhywun

        Only if you’re smashing the system with it.

      • Not Adahn

        Pretty sure double-edged blades are illegal, and swedges/false edges count as edges. So, totally a felony. Much like possessing a standard-capacity magazine in DC and waving it around on television.

      • Sensei

        Media exemption. Move along.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Melting weapons into plowshares is so passé?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Elon, ya big dummy…

      • Rebel Scum

        The sword she’s carrying is actually made from a melted down gun. It was made by the folks at http://Guns2Swords.com who offer a unique buyback program where you can send them your firearm to have it forged into one of the same.

        Why, yes. I would like an unwieldy, inferior weapon.

      • Rat on a train

        So, if I buy a inexpensive old rifle, they will turn it into a sword for free?

      • Not Adahn

        actually made from a melted down gun</blockquote

        No it wasn’t. It’s waaaay to big to have been.

        Having said that, you can get knives made out of tank barrels, battleship hulls and the like.

      • DrOtto

        I had an AccuTek .380 that would actually be better as a knife. Too small to make a sword, maybe a dagger. To bad for the boating accident that took all my guns.

      • EvilSheldon

        Made out of shitty steel. 4140 isn’t going to hold much of an edge…

      • Ghostpatzer

        That is an interesting Tarot card. If only someone here could give a reading…

      • CPRM

        Thanks for the peppers! Sent you a forum message.

      • Sean

        ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “Let them eat cake” is back in vogue.

      We know what comes next.

    • mikey

      All the pictures look like Panem scenes from the Hunger Games

    • Urthona

      Soon women will get equal rights.

    • Ed Wuncler

      I kind of felt like AOC got too much attention which was what she was going for. She went to some bullshit ass elite part, wore an expensive dress, mingled with stupid ass celebrities and made herself a martyr when people rightfully pointed out the hypocrisy.

      I waver from this day to day, but she reminds of some girl who goes to a bar with her cleavage showing and gets angry if guys don’t pay attention to her because of the male patriarchy being threatened by a “strong” woman or gets angry because guys are looking at her rack. AOC is the type that if you call her out on her bullshit, her retort is, “OMG, they are like so obsessed with me,” but if you ignore her her response is, “OMG, they are ignoring me because they don’t strong Latinx women seriously.” She’s a fucking attention succubus who provides no value to anyone outside of herself.

      • Tonio

        Yep, they love creating lose-lose scenarios where they’re always the victim no matter what.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Kafka trap.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        A couple years back I was talking to the 20-something daughter of a friend of mine. She started getting on the topic of sexual harassment. Guys shouldn’t be grabbing random girls (fair enough), heck they shouldn’t even be looking at girls funny. I called bullshit on that and said that the reason women dress like they do is so that guys will look. She paused for a second, and said, “OK, you’re right. They can look”. I hope I saved her, but she probably just meant that only the good looking guys can look.

      • Ed Wuncler

        “she probably just meant that only the good looking guys can look.”

        Reminded me of that Tom Brady skit on SNL where an less attractive man was doing and saying the same shit of Brady’s character and the women was flattered when Brady’s character said that shit but was mortified when the less attractive man said the same thing.

      • slumbrew

        – Be handsome
        – Be attractive
        – Don’t be unattractive

      • slumbrew

        fantastic comment:

        “If Christian Grey were poor, 50 shades would be a crime thriller instead of a romance.”

      • R C Dean

        Sandy is just a Basic College Bitch. That’s it. She stumbled into Congress, and now we know what a Basic College Bitch in Congress is like.

    • B.P.

      I love the “I am being brave” expression.

    • Not Adahn

      not his “cup of tea.”

      Well la-dee-frikken-da, Mr. Fancy-pants tea drinker.

      • rhywun

        Government Barbie says, “Mayoring is hard!”

        Much easier to let the schools and jails fall apart.

    • KSuellington

      I, for one, think it’s time to have the discussion about allowing women to gain the right to vote.

      • Tulip

        Not funny. Ever.

      • slumbrew

        It’s a little funny. We aren’t serious – treating people as a collective isn’t our bag.

        I’m more serious about repealing the 26th amendment.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Hilarious. Quite often. Mostly because of the stick up the ass reactions from feminists who melt when confronted by the underlying nugget of truth that makes it funny. That nugget being that women disproportionately support every stupid nanny state authoritarian bullshit idea that crops up.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I would, but it’d be half baked.

        seriously though, it’s not like there aren’t plenty of jew jokes/memes/whatever circulated here. quite often by OMWC. Clearly they’re just jokes. Clearly the “women’ s suffrage was a mistake” stuff is just a joke, too. Life’s so much better with sticks removed from asses.

      • The Hyperbole

        It’s collectivism writ large and at the risk of going all “punching up/down” your explanation of why ‘women shouldn’t vote’ jokes are funny misses the mark, It’s the difference between “Blazing Saddles” and the redneck mason telling me a nigger joke.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It’s the difference between “Blazing Saddles” and the redneck mason telling me a nigger joke.

        Lemme guess, you’re gonna slip that clown nose back on after I tell you to fuck right off for implying that I’m sexist and anti-semitic.

      • The Hyperbole

        I don’t think you are anti-Semitic, and am not implying you are sexist either. I was using anti-Semitism and racism (in the wider sense) to explain why I am explicitly calling you a sexist.

      • slumbrew

        The Venn diagram of “women” and “Jews” does overlap significantly. Not sure what you’ve heard.

      • DEG

        I like busty Jewish women.

        Is that how we’re supposed to do this?

      • Mojeaux

        Old joke is old now, hence, not funny.

  6. Gustave Lytton

    unfairly elevating Asian women

    *sets reminder to pick up 2022 Kyoko Fukada calendar*

      • Ownbestenemy

        “He opened fire on her, shooting her dead from the window of the car” and then argued he was “doing his job”

        Something there doesn’t add up.

      • R C Dean

        White cop kills a POC in a justified shooting – DAYS OF RAGE!!!

        POC kills a white woman in an unjustified shooting – conviction vacated because he only put one person in danger (not, apparently, counting his partner) and the statute says put “others” in danger.

      • EvilSheldon

        Basic white girls are the most useful idiots.

      • Plisade

        —The The Fall of Western Civilization 101

  7. Gustave Lytton

    “Bananarang, bananarang, bananariyo..” ?

  8. Tres Cool

    Oh, I spoke/typed too soon as I tried to take in the latest Joemala.

    “Look at him and say that!” Hunter shot back. He walked over to Joe and stuck his slimy finger in Joe’s mouth. He quieted and began to suck at it, pulling the entire thing into his mouth.”

    WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU ?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      When Tres gets the skeevies, you know it’s wrong….

      • Tundra

        Actually makes it even funnier.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      So wrong, yet so right.

  9. The Other Kevin

    I’m going out on a limb, and saying the vax mandate never gets instituted. I think they saw it as an easy way to punish the deplorables, show some strength, and rally their base. But the push back is bigger and from unexpected sources (police and health care workers, to name a few). If they’re getting grief in public, they’re probably getting twice as much in private. This was supposed to be a way for Biden to distract from a really shitty month, instead this is just another fuck up on what’s becoming a very long list.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If you’re correct, they’re still going to have to find a way to spin themselves out of it.

      Maybe SCOTUS will do them a solid and reject it on some very narrow grounds.

      • Sean

        LOL, with a complaint media? They could just memory hole the whole thing.

      • Sean

        compliant.

        grrrrr

      • Ted S.

        Or complaisant.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        All three work just fine.

      • Rat on a train

        Since the EO instructs agencies to make rules, they can always let it die quietly in the rule making process.

      • The Other Kevin

        That sounds very plausible to me. It might be tricky to save face, but if they drag it out, and on the way find there are “technical” reasons to make it impractical to implement, that might be their out.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Or the case count will decline and it will be no longer necessary and they can declare victory anyway.

      • Ghostpatzer

        Don’t see that happening. The drive to vaccinate everyone led to mutations and more infections. Manipulating ballots is child’s play, tough to do the same with an infectious disease.

      • Ted S.

        Only test the symptomatic and the unvaxed.

      • robc

        Cases are already dropping…well actually, it is doing that zig-zaggy thing at the peak that makes it unclear if it has started dropping or not, but give it two weeks and there will be a clear drop.

    • waffles

      It’s really difficulty to enforce. Passing ultimatums with nothing to back them up makes you look weak. Might cause a breakup.

    • Urthona

      You are correct. They thought it would be popular and are very wrong.

      They can keep pushing and get schooled in court for another loss or drop it. They would be smart to drop it.

    • Tres Cool

      “But the push back is bigger and from unexpected sources (police and health care workers, to name a few).”

      You misspelled unions.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Looking around my state, the unions aren’t against it per se but want to bargain for it, see what they can get.

    • Mojeaux

      So in MO yesterday, a sciency-medical-Medicare type person was saying that vax mandates are a bad idea because 6 nurses/healthcare workers in a nursing home (about half the medical staff) threatened to quit if vaccines were mandated, AND the reporting person said she was hearing similar stories from other nursing homes.

      If there is one institution that can’t afford to go without healthcare workers, it’s nursing homes. I didn’t even know any given nursing home HAD 12 healthcare workers.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Shifts.

    • Deplorableme

      Not to mention that it is probably unconstitutional, but I’m of the belief that they did this to move away from Afghanistan. And it worked. Afghanistan is now yesterday’s news.

  10. waffles

    You’re not going to trick me into going to reddit again. Fuck off Tulpa.

    • DEG

      There is some good porn on reddit.

      • EvilSheldon

        *citation needed*

      • slumbrew

        citation (NSFW, obvs)

      • DEG

        That’s an OK one.

      • slumbrew

        *nods*

  11. grrizzly

    Mass. reports 194 total breakthrough COVID-19 deaths, or 0.004 percent of all fully vaccinated people

    In Massachusetts, 194 people who had been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 have died from the virus, the Department of Public Health reported Tuesday. The deaths represent a tiny fraction of all vaccinated people and emphasize the protection the vaccines provide against severe illness and death.

    The deaths accounted for 0.004 percent of the 4,549,497 people in Massachusetts who were fully vaccinated, the department said in its weekly update on breakthrough COVID-19 metrics, which included data reported through Saturday.

    The number marks an increase of 32 deaths from last week, when the state reported that 162 fully vaccinated people had died as a result of the virus as of Sept. 4.

    The Mass. authorities publish a lot of Covid data but they never compare the deaths among the vaccinated to the deaths among the unvaccinated. You have to get COVID-19 Chapter 93 Data. It turns out there were 86 Covid deaths total in the last 7 days. In other words, the vaccinated accounted for 37% of Covid deaths.

    • Count Potato

      Are those death from covid or deaths with covid?

      • grrizzly

        I’m pretty sure it’s “with covid.” This is the only way covid deaths are counted in the US.

      • Count Potato

        So it’s no indication on how effective the vaccine is.

      • grrizzly

        Nope. It’s a clear indication that the vaccines are much less effective than the claimed 90-95%. You cannot have it both ways. If all covid deaths are counted as “with covid” then we shouldn’t make an exception for the vaccinated deaths.

      • Count Potato

        “It’s a clear indication that the vaccines are much less effective than the claimed 90-95%.”

        No, it isn’t. “with covid” could mean they tested positive, but had no covid symptoms.

      • grrizzly

        The same can be said about the 54 deaths among the unvaccinated. Perhaps, none of them had covid symptoms either. The pro-vaccine side never mentions it. You can only spin so much the fact that a significant share of people who tested positive for covid and then died were fully vaccinated.

      • R C Dean

        Unless you use the same metric for both the vaxxed and the Unclean, you can’t get to any evaluation at all of the effectiveness of the vax. The metric we have (“with COVID”) is crap for both the vaxxed and the Unclean, but at least its the same and gives some idea of effectiveness.

      • Count Potato

        “The same can be said about the 54 deaths among the unvaccinated. Perhaps, none of them had covid symptoms either.”

        So it’s a useless number, not clearly indicative of anything.

      • grrizzly

        Are you claiming that all covid statistics are useless? Or only the ones that go against the narrative?

      • slumbrew

        Are you claiming that all covid statistics are useless?

        At this point, this is my inclination.

        With the caveat “all published statistics”.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Lefties lie.

        Useful data about SArS-COVID is not collected or packaged to be useless.

        We know that COVID kills <1% of Americans under 65 years old. Democrats are scared shitless that a whole bunch of over 65 Democrat voters are going to die before the Communist utopia can be realized. Force must be applied to those under 65 to protect, pay for, and help those democrat voters.

    • Tres Cool

      One of the best Wang Chung songs, and highly underrated.

      • Sensei

        +1

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Great movie too.

      • Tundra

        +1

      • KSuellington

        You guys are too quick for me. And speaking of Azn identities there is a funny scene of two with Willem Dafoe and his Asian boyfriend.

    • KSuellington

      Fun movie too. I just revisited it six months or so back and enjoyed the LA scenery from the early 80’s.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Yep, great catching it at the Alamo a couple years ago. Friedkin always brings the quality.

    • ignoreLander

      Vaguely related:

      I just found out that the TOP.MEN. gentleman was also Porkins in Star Wars. And also Eckhardt in the first Batman. And also Munson in Flash Gordon. Never put all those together. Mind.Blown.

      • UnCivilServant

        How many overwieght actors do you think hollywood is willing to employ?

  12. Rebel Scum

    Hold the line.

    President Joe Biden was set to meet Wednesday with Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema as he tries to nudge the skeptical Democrats to back his sprawling $3.5 trillion economic plan.

    The president spoke with Sinema, who represents Arizona, at the White House in the morning. He was expected to meet with Manchin, a West Virginia lawmaker, later in the day.

    Both centrists have criticized the proposed $3.5 trillion price tag, and Manchin has called on party leaders to delay votes on the legislation.

    The meetings come at a pivotal point for an agenda that Democrats hope will offer a lifeline to households and stymie Republican efforts to win control of Congress next year. Party leaders gave congressional committees a Wednesday deadline to write their portions of the bill, and they hope to send it to Biden’s desk in the coming weeks.

    • Urthona

      Everything will be great when they settle on $3.25 trillion. Inflation solved.

    • The Other Kevin

      This feels a lot like a turning point. Either they galvanize their party and start passing these big wish list things, or things fall apart and they fall over each other trying to distance themselves from Biden.

    • B.P.

      Oh yeah, send in the closer. “Hey Kyshhhhtrrrn…” *sniff sniff* “Come on, man! We need to cart the toadstool down at… the thing and bashhhhcrunnnn a little bit of… money!”

      Also…

      “…and stymie Republican efforts to win control of Congress next year”

      At least they’re transparent in their attempts to bribe voters with printed money.

    • creech

      Every good negotiator has built into his proposal several things that he won’t cry over losing. Then he can show how willing he was to “give up” some controversial item in order to come to a bi-partisan agreement. Manchin and Sinema will be offered such concessions; Biden’s handlers will crow over them, as will Manchin and Sinema when they next speak to their constituencies.

  13. Count Potato

    “Babies could be given Pfizer’s Covid vaccine in the US this winter: Company plans to seek approval for jabbing six-month-olds in November”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9993523/American-BABIES-given-low-dose-Pfizers-jab-winter.html

    “US will require ALL new immigrants applying for permanent residency to be vaccinated against COVID-19 – (unless you wade across the Rio Grande illegally)

    The United States is now requiring all new immigrants applying for permanent residency to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as part of their immigration medical examination, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced on Tuesday.

    However, the new rule will not apply to migrants crossing the southern border illegally.

    Anyone crossing the border has had the option to get the Johnson & Johnson vaccine at various patrol sites since early August, but it will still be on a voluntary basis and no one will need to show proof of vaccination to enter the country.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9993529/US-mandate-COVID-19-vaccination-new-immigrants-not-illegal-border-crossers.html

    SCIENCE!!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      They’re really going for that gusto on the “vaccines.”

      • Tres Cool

        +1 Schlitz Malt Liquor

    • Deplorableme

      I could’ve sworn that this was going to be from babylonbee…We live in strange times indeed.

  14. Mustang

    *sits up between dry heaves and sobbing after reading Joemala*

    oOoOO, new links.

    *Clicks*

    “Bananarang”

    What? Bahaha!

    “BANANARANG!!!” /Hook

    Still mentally recovering from Joemala, oof.

    • Spudalicious

      You know you got a chubby when he was finger banging Peppermint Patty.

  15. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    Following up on last night’s post on charities. It seems an awful lot of you support Habitat for Humanity. As it happens, I’ve signed up for a century ride to benefit Habitat for Humanity in the Bay Area. 100 miles and about 10,000 feet of climbing. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/37417747

    If you feel like donating via my page, you can go here: https://runsignup.com/Race/109264/Donate/9lW9fgtSb5u9VFii

    If the Bay Area is too local, donate to your local Habitat for Humanity. Or not. It’s up to you.

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      Or, you could skip doing 100 miles and just do Marin in Berkeley:

      The first block is rather steep, perhaps a 14% grade. After that it eases up for 3 blocks, hanging at around 10% until the block before Spruce. That block is again above 15%, and it looks a little like it might be the road’s peak–it’s so steep you can’t see the road above it.

      Of course, it’s not the peak. Crossing Spruce gives you a little break (remember to take advantage of CVC 57492.1: “the right-of-way must be yielded to people in extreme pain”), and then the next couple blocks again aren’t quite so bad. Then the block before Euclid is pretty nasty, pushing 20% grade, but really it’s just letting you know that you’re about to begin the hard part.

      Past Euclid is where the road gets really absurd. The average grade from Euclid to Grizzly Peak is 22%, but that includes the flat intersections. Actual riding is closer to 25%, and that first block is probably near 30%. I don’t care how low your gears are, or how light your bike is; either you have the leg strength and aerobic capacity to ride up this hill, or you don’t. Good friggin’ luck.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        I don’t mind a steep climb every now and then. The hill I grew up on tops out at about 20% and I used to have to ride my bike to school. 25-30%? Forget about it.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        My mother’s aunt lived on Euclide, and my father would bomb up that hill in our Mustang, not stopping at any point, just slowing down enough to make sure he didn’t kill anyone. Driving a ’66 American car with drum brakes and a stick was not easy on that hill.

  16. Gender Traitor

    Peg the Patriarchy

    Maybe that’s her name?

    • Count Potato

      Like a mafia nickname?

    • Sensei

      Well we all do know what a Steely Dan really was, right?

      Steely Dan – Peg

      • Count Potato

        Well, that song is about a model.

      • Sensei

        Steam powered?

      • Ghostpatzer

        +1 Naked Lunch

    • Tres Cool

      Peggy Pringleton Patriarchy? You are positively, permanently, punished.

    • DrOtto

      Like, Portugal the man.

      • slumbrew

        Damn you. Now I have Feel It Still stuck in my head.

  17. Grummun

    For some reason, this gem showed up the YouTube sidebar for the music link.

    • Tres Cool

      Too waifish for my tastes. Needs more FUPA.

    • Tundra

      The Fiat is thicc.

    • The Gunslinger

      Nope. : ‘Get in loser, we’re going shopping’.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Will we see any totally-not-aircraft-carrier aircraft carriers?

    The Japan Ground Self-Defense Force on Wednesday started nationwide exercises involving all units for the first time in about 30 years in an attempt to boost deterrence and strengthen its capabilities amid China’s ramped-up regional assertiveness.

    The GDSF drills, including transporting necessary supplies and testing communication systems, will be carried out until the end of November across the country, with an aim to strengthen the ability to defend remote islands.

    The GSDF last conducted exercises on this scale in 1993 after the Cold War ended. Around 100,000 personnel, 20,000 vehicles and 120 aircraft will join the drills, which will also involve Japan’s Maritime and Air Self-Defense Forces as well as a U.S. Army landing ship.

    • LCDR_Fish

      You mean the helicopter carrier thar should be able to support Ospreys and F-35s?

  19. Tundra

    [I have no clue what’s going on with the music link]

    Formatting be damned, that’s a great tune!

  20. JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

    “But the predominant preoccupation of the subreddit and its founders is with what they see as Western societies emasculating Asian men and unfairly elevating Asian women.”

    Uh, Western culture, or at least US culture, has been doing that to all men for some time now.

    • R C Dean

      All men, and all women.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        *points up to picture of chick threatening to anally rape*

  21. Not Adahn

    I wonder how many layers of the media ouroboros we can find. A Slate article about a subreddit is easy. But could we find a twitchy “article” made up of tweets responding to a Slate article condemning a subreddit about a facebook group of tiktokers recreating classic vines?

  22. Rebel Scum

    Leave the children alone.

    “With the Delta variant on the rise, requiring masks at state-regulated child care, mental health, and substance abuse facilities is a key part of our broader strategy for slowing the spread of the virus, reopening our economy safely, and protecting vulnerable members of our population,” Governor Hochul said. “For children under 12 who are not yet eligible to be vaccinated, masks are the best line of defense against COVID-19 infection. This new mask requirement ensures that children in our child care facilities receive the same protection as children in our schools.”

    Make children wear a petri dish on their faces. What could go wrong?

    • Ghostpatzer

      Little kids have a propensity to upchuck, and I imagine the presence of a face diaper increases the chance that some kid is going to aspirate vomit. And these people think this is an acceptable risk. Glad my kids are grown, I would not let my kids near a school that required masking.

    • rhywun

      Ridiculous.

  23. Tres Cool

    Looking at that photo of Cara, it struck me that she has rug-burns on her elbows.
    She likes the D.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Wow indeed

      • Sensei

        Want more confirmation. Holy cow.

        City of Brotherly Love!

      • Sensei

        Also – if only the union paid instead of the taxpayers…

  24. The Other Kevin

    She’s right, we have way too many white men in power. Let’s get rid of them.
    * opens news, sees Biden, Milley, Newsom on front page *

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      Well, we all know that Biden is the first Black president!

  25. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Hunter Biden makes Roger Clinton look like John Quincy Adams by comparison.

  26. Ownbestenemy

    Godspeed to the all civilian crew launching. That little girl Haley is a real inspiration and quite the adrenaline junkie as I watched the Netflix special on this.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyG1p3X1l74

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      I’ll be watching!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Elon/SpaceX made it inspiring again and something we want to watch and see grow and move forward. I am sad that none of them have given tribute to Sharon Christa McAuliffe but what can I say, I know if I was there I would.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        I agree – she would have been so fun to watch in space if she had made it

    • R.J.

      Me too! Very big moment for Elon. Thanks for that link. The week was so busy I almost forgot about it. And naturally there has been little news coverage, because Elon.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The chat on that link is fucking disgusting..I know it is YouTube but damn.

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        The SpaceX stream has chat disabled

  27. Rebel Scum

    Heh.

    Joe Biden billboard for the Taliban on 1-83 in York County

  28. kinnath

    Big boss at megacorp just said we are going to comply with the vaccine mandate.

    Yippee!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Lawyers and your compliance officers found the proper language then. Even in the FedGov they are waiting for OPM guidance on what will NOT be granted exemptions (I am guessing unless you already have a reasonable accommodation, you are shit out of luck).

      Boss just reminded me to attest. Nah…I will make her work to fire me.

      • kinnath

        Well, megacorp is a fedgov contractor. So we’ll be implementing the policy as the rules come out. But we are cheerfully saying that we’re “all in” as we wait for the details.

      • Mojeaux

        Condolences.

      • kinnath

        The wife and I were vaccinated last April when it was a rational choice for old people with comorbidities.

        We are personally OK until mandatory boosters become a requirement.

        It will be hard to argue for exemptions in the future since we already took the shot in the past.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Again on the Q&A that will be required.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        I suspect the case for boosters will be far less ironclad than even the case for the original vaccines were six months ago. You may not have any worries at all.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah…on our little Q&A they mentioned that the FedGov is probably going to say even the lowly office worker that NEVER goes to a federal facility will be subjected to it.

      • Plisade

        I’m debating… resign and check out the career thing, resign and ask employer to hire me on as a consultant, or make them fire me.

      • Plisade

        *check out of

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        2 and 3 in combination sound like a good carrot and stick approach to get a favorable consulting contract.

      • Plisade

        That’s what I’m thinking. And get a raise out of it.

      • R C Dean

        What makes you think the same rules won’t apply to consultants?

      • Plisade

        My LLC is one employee, i.e. <100.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Your LLC’s contracts for consultants with other companies says you have to be vaccinated….

      • Ownbestenemy

        Opps, too soon. Especially if ANY of those companies do any business with the FedGov

      • R C Dean

        OBE gets it. A company that requires the vax for its own employees will almost certainly require it for all consultants who come on site, and could well require it for all consultants, period.

      • Plisade

        Fair point. Much to consider :/

      • Plisade

        And the mind drifts to checking out.

    • DEG

      Sorry.

      • kinnath

        Totally expected.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Seems like he’s one of those people that discovers a new lifestyle and thinks everyone should be forced to do whatever thing they’re doing.

      He openly renounced libertarianism several years ago because ultimately he’s an unprincipled control freak.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Someone mentioned in the morning links..someone who built an empire on the gullibility of human nature and duping people on stage is just as gullible in their own life.

      • Mojeaux

        Speaking of lifestyles, every time I see an RV now I think of you. When are you escaping?

      • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

        ‘Bout 8-9 months, though I may have to lease an apt while I continue looking. I have Zillow set to send me alerts for the Black Hills area.

      • Mojeaux

        XX is having a hard time figuring out how to move out on her salary. Besides looking for another job, I am going to (once again) suggest she start saving for a camper her car can haul that she can live in. That way, she can pick up and go wherever she wants to and know she has a place to live.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        Has she looked into roommates? That’s a surefire way of stretching the budget.

        I’d think a camper would be an albatross around the neck at her age. To each their own though.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        That, and living like that can make one a target.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        I’d think a camper would be an albatross around the neck at her age.

        Concurred. It’s an immediate-term solution to a medium-term problem. It backfires if she doesn’t live in in long enough to amortize the cost down to a reasonable amount before selling.

      • Winston

        Jillette is one of those “own the socon” libertarians.

      • Tres Cool

        How can you tell a vegan at a party? Dont worry- they’ll tell you.

  29. DEG

    An anonymous r/aznidentity user whom I’ll call David, and who until recently was a moderator for the subreddit, explained the concept to me: “There are Asian Americans who can fit into white circles that other Asian Americans can’t. Because that Asian American can go into those circles, they believe they are superior.”

    Oh boy.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Or….people have been mingling seamlessly for generations with different groups but my story deserves attention!

    • Plisade

      Non-white people making white people the standard by which EVERYTHING is judged while complaining that white people are the standard by which everything is judged.

    • R C Dean

      Perhaps, Asian-Americans* with the social skills (or lack of racism, who knows?) to mingle with folks from other races/cultures feel superior to those who lack such skils (or are racists)?

      *Allah, but I do hate these hyphenated “identities”.

  30. DEG

    Australia and international travel

    You can’t market holidays to people in indefinite lockdown, which is why there’s no Hamish anymore. Tourism Australia is no longer promoting holidays here, it’s promoting vaccinations. We’re all trapped. A holiday to Cairns might as well be a holiday to Cairo.

    Still, you know that once Australia does start to open up again, the push will be back on. Holiday here this year. Stay in Australia. Explore your backyard.

    And I have to say – right now, I don’t really fancy it.

    • rhywun

      Narrator: Don’t hold your breath.

    • Gustave Lytton

      The “Explore your backyard” is literal. Once they finally beat covid and it’s again safe to leave your residence.

    • creech

      Crossed Australia off my bucket list. Who wants to ever risk getting trapped there because the PM decides another lockdown is necessary? And why give my hard-earned money to spineless folks who won’t stand up for their rights?

      • Winston

        And why give my hard-earned money to spineless folks who won’t stand up for their rights?

        Free Trade will liberate Australia…

      • kinnath

        For fuck’s sake. Take a break.

        Find a new schtick for a while.

      • DEG

        I’ve been to Australia twice. I enjoyed both trips.

        I doubt I will ever go again.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I have family there. My grandmother made the trip a few times decades ago and I would have love to have gone..but yeah…seems even more Americans will fit the stereotype of never have travelled outside of their country — actually…if FedGov has their way, never outside their state.

      • grrizzly

        I think of it as a world war where most of the world is under enemy occupation. No interest in traveling anywhere outside the US. But there’s a chance that the war ends one day.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The real question is, would they have dropped that if he was recalled?

    • Drake

      Who will be enforcing it? Seems like LA cop shops already said “no” to this crap.

  31. Count Potato

    “@McKaylaMaroney: “After telling my entire story of abuse to the @FBI in the summer of 2015, not only did the FBI not report my abuse, but when they eventually documented my report, 17 months later, they made up entirely false claims about what I said.”

    https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1438162661871656968

    Big if true. No idea what the FBI’s motive would have been though.

    • Tulip

      My guess is they lied about what she said and claimed her account wasn’t plausible. Motive, they were lazy and trying to cover their own asses. These young women are brave to give public testimony like this, especially since they were already painted as 1) liars, 2)crazy, etc.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        Why are you guys assuming the FBI arent incompetent/lazy like many cops around the USA?

        Watch crime documentaries. They expose the common denominators with law enforcement.

        1. Lazy
        2. Incompetent
        3. Inexperienced
        4. Power hungry
        5. Failed to read the constitution
        6. “ Know the person is guilty”
        7. Scared to confront actual dangerous criminals
        8. Considers there to be an US vs Them scenario on almost every interaction with the public.

        Sometimes you will find law enforcement personnel that do actual police work and let the evidence lead them to conclusions even if they dont agree with their hunches.

    • R C Dean

      No idea what the FBI’s motive would have been though.

      My guess – the interview was botched in some way, or there was some internal bureaucratic fuckup, or the FBI just flat didn’t follow up on it, and to cover their tracks from any of the above they made up a bunch of shit.

      • Tulip

        Yep. And I have no doubt they spun it to make it her fault.

      • hoof_in_mouth

        I wish it was just incompetence… the FBI guy that investigated was angling for some job with the gymnastics org that retained Nasser.

      • Loveconstitution1789

        We know from the Hillary FBI interview that the FBi still doesnt video their interviews like most law enforcement agencies do.

    • Urthona

      No motive.

      They are flat out incompetent.

  32. Winston

    https://medium.com/the-radical-center/evangelicals-are-killing-america-a8fc7ae1b010

    For evangelicals death is a double win situation. They go to paradise where they sit in the clouds and literally look down on the rest of humanity suffering in eternal damnation and hell-fire. They go heaven, which makes then winners — and all the people for whom they have contempt go to hell, which makes them winners again. For them death is a promotion — not the end of life — so why worry?

    Their vision is God’s kingdom will eventually be established on earth by the wholesale slaughter of the world’s population who will then be sent to hell, while evangelicals skip along streets of gold humming Amazing Grace. If you die it proves Jesus is coming, if they die they go to be with him. In the end they look forward to death and have contempt for life and it shows. Unfortunately their contempt is helping spread a deadly disease.

    “Radical centrist” “liberaltarian”.

    • kbolino

      The best way to assess a philosophy is to create a strawman of it then set it alight.

      • Plinker762

        “This fictional movie confirms my world view”

      • Ted S.

        The projection is strong with Winston?

    • Rat on a train

      AUUKUS? Poor Canada is left out.

      • LCDR_Fish

        Their defense budget is still pretty tiny – even though their navy needs some upgrades.

        I don’t think this affects intel – ie US/CAN/UK/AUS etc.

      • UnCivilServant

        Canada couldn’t supply another letter U to keep it at 50% of the acronym.

      • Rat on a train

        Alphabetic sort AKSUUU!

      • Gender Traitor

        Gesundheit.

      • Spudalicious

        They could have made it CAAUKUS.

  33. Winston

    With Milley is the US in a no-shit military junta supported by the Democrats and most Republicans?

    • creech

      According to the hag on the View, this was an emergency because the CinC was crazy. Remember back when Gen. Haig was roundly condemned for saying “I am in charge” when there was an actual emergency (the CinC had just been shot and was in the emergency room).

    • Loveconstitution1789

      Deep state includes the pieces of shit military brass who also are violating their oaths of office.

      People in govt are being held accountable for violating their oaths of office and its endemic.

  34. DrOtto

    I have a friend who has, shall we say, a different lifestyle – anywho, said friend’s wife got him a 3 way with a dominatrix for their anniversary several years back. Part of the gig was him getting pegged by the wife. To me, that would be worse than a devil’s 3 way. And no, I am not “the friend” in this story. He really exists, I swear. *Ok, don’t go overboard, they may think you’re trying to hard*

    • Mojeaux

      Go on …

      • Tres Cool

        sick bitch….thats why I totally love you

      • Mojeaux

        ?

    • Ownbestenemy

      The minute you said ‘friends wife’ we knew you were trying too hard.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Did his testicles get swollen after getting the vaccine?

    • The Gunslinger

      Pegging… don’t knock it until you’ve tried it?

      • EvilSheldon

        Also don’t try it until you’ve knocked it?

    • DEG

      Isn’t there a Creosote Achilles article coming later tonight?

    • Lackadaisical

      Gaaaaaaaay

    • B.P.

      They storyboard their threesomes beforehand?

      • slumbrew

        They make an animatic.

    • Zwak, jack off, all trades

      Rock it and keep rolling.

  35. Winston

    You guys do know that punishing racist cops is exactly why Double Jeopardy was destroyed, right?

    • Urthona

      I thought it was to keep the game exciting as the prizes double in the second round.

      • Urthona

        Nevermind. I apparently skimmed that.

  36. Winston

    Also isn’t is interesting that the MIC has been captured by the Chicoms? Capitalists selling the rope indeed..

    • Mustang

      The hasty retreat from Afghanistan followed by rumblings of the Chinese moving into Bagram soon do have me wondering who’s pulling the strings amongst the stars up there.

    • EvilSheldon

      Keep banging that NRx drum, kiddo.

      • Winston

        How pray tell is that Neoreactionary?

      • EvilSheldon

        Own it, dude. Have the courage of your convictions.

      • Winston

        Courage of my convictions? I have been expressing my opinions. I have never read or heard a single thing of Moldbug. I spend a lot of time reading AIER and Jeff Tucker and Don Boudreaux attacking lockdowns.

      • Ted S.

        It’s N-Prescription.

      • Plisade

        Damn, ES, good call.

  37. wdalasio

    “Peg the Patriarchy”

    Here’s a bit of a rundown of Ms. Delevingne’s family biography:

    Here’s a quick rundown of some of Cara Delevingne’s relatives: Her maternal grandfather was publishing executive and English Heritage chairman Sir Jocelyn Stevens, the nephew of magazine publisher Sir Edward George Warris Hulton, and the grandson of newspaper proprietor Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet. Her paternal great-grandfather was the Canadian-born British politician Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, and her maternal grandmother Janie Sheffield was lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Through one of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Sir Lionel Lawson Faudel-Phillips, 3rd Baronet, Delevingne descends from the Anglo-Jewish Faudel-Phillips baronets—two of her ancestors on that line served as Lord Mayor of London. Her godfather is Condé Nast executive Nicholas Coleridge and her godmother is actress Dame Joan Collins.

    Honey, if it weren’t for the patriarchy, with your psychological history and mediocre performance in school, you’d be turning tricks in a Soho walkup.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      She sure didn’t get where she is because of her looks.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        This.

  38. Tundra

    I miss Norm, but I’m enjoying all the clips people are posting.

    One of the best.

  39. Michael Malaise

    Just testing this new look out.

    • Michael Malaise

      Hmm … didn’t put the (neé Agent Cooper) at the end. Oh well. I post here enough but not really enough for people to notice.

      • UnCivilServant

        Changing both avatar and name at the same time throws people off.

      • Michael Malaise

        Yes. It’s quite the flex.

      • Tres Cool

        I didnt notice.
        Once when I was in your ‘hood, they didn’t know who you are.

      • Ted S.

        Né, assuming you’re a man. Otherwise, it’s née.

      • Count Potato

        Are you taking ivermectin?

  40. UnCivilServant

    *sigh*

    I made it to Dodge City and found that I’d managed to not have a reservation whn I’d gone and rebooked everything. I did find a hotel after not too long but apparently everything here fills up commonly, and the hotel front desk person was unable to say why.

    • Drake

      Big cattle round up?

      • UnCivilServant

        *shrug*

        We saw a buch of massive feed lots on the way in, but the cattle all appaeared to have already been rounded up.

      • Zwak, jack off, all trades

        Are you trying to entice Tres?

      • slumbrew

        How big we talking?

    • UnCivilServant

      This marks the first time I’ve opened the hotel curtains and the only thing in sight was farm fields stretching to the horizon.

      normally, there’s more town there. Apparently this hotel is the last building before the farms.

    • Gender Traitor

      So you didn’t have to…::dons sunglasses::…get out of Dodge? ?

      • UnCivilServant

        It was on the table, and we will do so tomorrow.

        BTW, did you get my email from this morning?

      • Gender Traitor

        Yes! Thanks! Got a start on reading it during my lunch half-hour and getting ready to finish it momentarily.

      • slumbrew

        (•_•)

        ( •_•)>⌐■-■

        (⌐■_■)

        Yeeeeaaaaaaaaaah!

  41. Winston

    Seems the main difference between Xi and Stalin and Mao is that Xi has enough money to bribe Big Business and the MIC into supporting him unlike the latter two. Guess Lenin was right after all…

    • kbolino

      The U.S. today has more in common with pre-Xinhai China than it does with capitalism in Lenin’s day.

  42. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Two chicks fishing

    https://www.youtube.com/c/GaleForceTwins

    What I like about them is that they actually SHOW their setups, rather than the jargon diarrhea that spews from many fishing show hosts. They also seem to do mostly inshore fishing, which is my bag.

    • Sensei

      Oh, fiSHing…

      • Ownbestenemy

        At least they didn’t have one cup

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        Two girls, one cod.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      It looks fun to me, I’m building some Walleye rigs tonight for use Tomorrow, let’s see how it plays out.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Stupid Yusef, I looked in me tackle box and found three ready to go Walleye jigs, easy peasy!

  43. Tulip

    You know, if they really believed the vaccine truly was the solution to an existential crisis, they would vaccinate migrants as they processed them. But they don’t.

    • Ownbestenemy

      SHHHHHH they aren’t a vector!

    • Urthona

      Also if you looked at the CDC’s delta variant graph, you could easily see all the case explosions happened to where they were putting the immigrants. As they relocated them, so did the spikes.

      I’m sure it was inevitable, but I have no idea why you wouldn’t try testing and qt’ing them.

      • R C Dean

        Linky to that graph?

      • Urthona

        Unfortunately it’s constantly updated. But when delta was starting, it was colored darkest in all of the border counties. A fact they tried very hard not to bring up. Then as they began shuffling those immigrants around, it started to get “warm” in all those places they were putting them. Many people pointed this out.

        But regardless, there’s no way they are magically immune to COVID. If you have rules for travel, it should also apply to them.

      • Drake

        They hate Americans who have been here a while to the exclusion of everyone else in the world. Sending thousands of infected third worlders to red states is there idea of funny.

    • UnCivilServant

      *discards several ‘migants to be shot’ jokes*

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      But CDC does recommend giving them Ivermectin. Make of that what you will.

      • Urthona

        The cdc is racist and thinks immigrants are horses needing to be dewormed.

      • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

        Don’t you mean “species-ist”?

      • Tulip

        Cite?

      • Urthona

        Oh sorry that was domestic. But it’s the same.

      • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

        My tin foil hat wearing alter ego thinks that the reason they aren’t worried about Covid amongst the refugees is because they are getting Ivermectin even though it’s officially under the guise of deworming. Personally I have no idea if Ivermectin works for Covid, but when I see the lockstep BS in the media presenting it only as a horse dewormer, my BS detector goes off.

      • Urthona

        You’re applying a level of competency to them that I doubt exists. It’s probably not even the same people involved In one thing versus the other. They’re bureaucrats. Think of what just happened in Afghanistan. They’re just that stupid.

      • Sean

        Wut?

      • Urthona

        All of the refugees from Afghanistan are being given ivermectin.

      • Lackadaisical

        That’s for the worms.

      • Urthona

        Yes.

        But it’s fair to point out that the drug is in no way dangerous. They’ve been trying to tell people not to take it early for COVID but there’s no real reason not to.

    • Urthona

      I like that China’s state run media is free to post on Twitter.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Well they got the fat part right

  44. Sean

    Picked my first Scotch brain pepper tonight. No photo.

    It was damaged and not suitable to keep. The upside was there was enough good pepper to do a taste test.

    Sweet on the front, with a hint of banana. Not as sweet as the Ghengis. Definately has some heat and the sweet taste lingers after the heat like the Ghengis.

    Also tried some with some dark chocolate. ?

    • CPRM

      I’m going to cook up some chilli tonight with some of those ghost peppers. I might not actually eat it tonight though, my appetite can be fickle. But I’ll have some for sure for Monday night football since that’s my next day off.

      • Sean

        Nice.

      • B.P.

        You might want to time it so you have a day off after eating it.

    • db

      Yes, thank you, please do not show photos of your “brain.”

    • CPRM

      I got seeds once labeled as chocolate scotch bonnet, but the peppers looked like habanero, not scotch bonnet.

      • Count Potato

        They are the same cultivar.

      • CPRM

        They’re related, but different. They don’t look the same, Scotch Bonnet is supposed to have a puffed up top, hence ‘bonnet’.

      • Count Potato

        Well, technically they are a bunch of different cultivars, but even if you clone one of them (take a cutting), you can get different shaped berries based on growing conditions. So you can get a “chinese lantern” shape from “bonnet” seed.

  45. Lackadaisical

    As someone who has partaken in Asian fever, I agree with those Asian guys. Asian women are white supremacists.

    • The coolest vaccine-free BEAM in the world™

      Hawt.

      • Lackadaisical

        Definitely recommend for anyone who has the chance, go live a little, assuming it’s ethical for you to do so.

      • CPRM

        +1 I love to eat Chinese, but I’ll never touch the food?

    • rhywun

      I, too, have had a spot of the Reverse Asian Fever.

      Someone’s gotta work on that surplus.

      • Count Potato

        Reverse Asian Fever?

      • Plisade

        Levelse cowgilr?

      • Rat on a train

        I think it would be either fever asian or revef naisa.

  46. db

    Hilarious. Doing a training session with our folks in Japan showing us how to run a process model they wrote, and half of us can get it to work, the other half, not. I’m thinking software version mismatch? Or some silly configuration difference?

    Painful.

    • db

      I think I’m going to order a pizza; this is either going to go long, or be over early. Either way, I’m frickin’ hungry.

      • Spudalicious

        I just did. I decided I’m too lazy today to cook.

      • db

        Yep. Ordered a “pig out” pizza (I dig on swine based toppings). They said an hour, but this place always overestimates delivery times. Like, they’ll say an hour and a half and it’ll be 40 minutes.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Tips!

      • db

        I do tip drivers very well. Maybe that’s why my pizzas come faster? I’m not sure.

  47. Yusef drives a Kia

    Wide faced gap toothed German girls in Demin Skirts, Yowza?
    /Welcome to Manistee

  48. CPRM

    Is there going to be a Glibzoom tonight?

    • Tulip

      Yes. See below.

    • LJW

      Every election should be audited. The fact that the left keep fighting that shows they fear what they preach will be exposed.

      • db

        I can’t believe there is anyone out there who would not want a full audit of every election. The same people who imagine that the SEC is the only thing keeping massive financial fraud from destroying the fabric of this country and enriching the unworthy elite are perfectly happy to claim there is no need to ensure that corruption is monitored and quashed in our electoral processes.

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      2 out of 4 Astronauts prefer Battlestar Galactica! Yusef Adama Rules!

      • db

        I caught that, before I muted the feed. funny. I’m totally sick of Star Wars, still like Trek (everything pre-reboot, that is), but there are a lot of other space-sci-fi fictional universes out there that are better thought out that both of those–BSG probably among them.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        If you watch everything BSG has to offer, you notice a Canon, that drives the whole show. It’s a well done series,
        Yusef Adama out! time to watch ELON!

    • db

      BTW, I get a chuckle out of the shit-wader boots that SpaceX’s suits have.

    • db

      I think I saw one of the passengers shift like a fart was escaping.

    • Ownbestenemy

      T -10 min….go go go go

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        She’s going, ELON doesn’t fail,
        /always crosses fingers…

      • Ownbestenemy

        On top of that…quarter mil raised for St. Judes…awesome all around.

    • db

      I really love what SpaceX is doing, and the “all-civilian” crew is actually a real step forward.

      The only thing I don’t like, as a pilot and general type-A personality, is the essentially no control the crew have over the progress of the flight. It’s entirely dependent on automation and ground support. That’s quite similar to most of what has gone before–not really different than the government-operated flights of the past–but I really look forward to the day when it becomes “gas it up and head for orbit.” That’ll take a ton of automation and infrastructure, but divorcing the flight from any particular infrastructure is a long way off, but should be the goal, IMO.

      • Ownbestenemy

        They have a few spots where they will have to hope the automation keeps, otherwise, their training will have to take over

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Not quite that automated,

  49. westernsloper

    Who the bitch in the first picture. I saw it but never cared enough to figure out who she was.

  50. Yusef drives a Kia

    I want those Muck boots!

  51. Yusef drives a Kia

    God, this is the stuff of my childhood dreams, Let’s Go!

    • Ownbestenemy

      Hells ya! Godspeed!

  52. Rat on a train

    Is the attraction of Asian females a result of their lower rate of obesity?

  53. Yusef drives a Kia

    Pray for a good liftoff,

    • Ownbestenemy

      Fucking beautiful!!!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Haily on the end hasn’t dropped that smile…

    • db

      beauty!

  54. Yusef drives a Kia

    YES!

  55. Yusef drives a Kia

    Sticking the landing, on a ship in the ocean, Fuck yeah!

  56. Drake

    First they blocked covid treatment with hydroxicloroquine, then Ivermectin, now Health and Human Services made the announcement earlier this month that they were taking full control over Monoclonal Antibody drugs (mAb) in order to begin rationing.

    They really, really do not want any effective treatment for covid out there. And I’ve lost all respect for the 90%+ of doctors who played along. No more getting better fast like Joe Rogan.
    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/09/15/covid-politics-takes-a-dark-turn-biden-administration-takes-control-of-monoclonal-antibody-drugs-in-order-to-block-treatments-in-red-states-and-ration-equitable-treatment/