“…What happened?”
“Just this week I wrote a deal that included a Snorlax Pillow Buddy.”
“I did not donate to either of my alma maters, Harvard or Bowdoin College.”
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
I rather enjoyed Cowboy Bebop. Of course, I never watched the original, so I didn’t have anything to complain about.
I loved the original, but never saw the Netflix version.
I enjoyed it too and have never seen the original, so I wasn’t burdened with expectations.
I love the anime and when I saw what they did with the live action, I had no desire to see it.
I’m a big fan of the anime (and it’s the only anime series I’ve ever liked). I thought the Netflix show started out a little goofy, but got better as it went along. I don’t think they quite “got” what made the anime so popular. For one thing, they tried to make a show that looked something like a cartoon, but that was the wrong direction. Cowboy Bebop is different from most anime in that it was directed and animated like a real-world show or film with a talented director and cinematographer.
Me too.
Afternoon Riven.
Wait. 6 years in jail with a $2m+ fine and no release date?
Yikes.
Oh.
Still shouldn’t he be actually convicted of fraud and sentenced for that?
Seems arbitrary to keep him locked up for contempt. Especially since it seems to be some double secret contempt.
If I were in charge of things, technology problems would result in the guy walking free.
The State should either be able to arrange a video link, or even – and this is totes crazy – have an actual in person hearing.
“Thompson’s case dates to his discovery of the S.S. Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, in 1988. The gold rush-era ship sank in a hurricane off South Carolina in 1857 with thousands of pounds of gold aboard, contributing to an economic panic.
Despite an investors lawsuit and a federal court order, Thompson, 69, still won’t cooperate with authorities trying to find those coins, according to court records, federal prosecutors and the judge who found Thompson in contempt.
Thompson says he’s already said everything he knows about the coins.”
Well, maybe he doesn’t know?
+1 example set
“Other professors, such as Portland State’s Peter Boghossian, quit over their university’s policies and climate that they have found to be repressive of intellectual inquiry. “But brick by brick, the university has made this kind of intellectual exploration impossible,” wrote Boghossian in September. “It has transformed a bastion of free inquiry into a Social Justice factory whose only inputs were race, gender, and victimhood and whose only outputs were grievance and division.”
He continued: “Students at Portland State are not being taught to think. Rather, they are being trained to mimic the moral certainty of ideologues. Faculty and administrators have abdicated the university’s truth-seeking mission and instead drive intolerance of divergent beliefs and opinions. This has created a culture of offense where students are now afraid to speak openly and honestly.” ”
It’s not just colleges and universities. They’ve been pushing that shit in grammar school for a long time.
It’s not just schools.
Who opens their mouth at work any more?
*raises hand*
*half raises hand*
I have become pretty militant about Rona Panic shit, but leave most of the other stuff alone.
In my small group I do. In a company meeting, no way.
I did in one of my volunteer gigs (BM Ranger organization), where I did not wince under the hail of spittle and revisionist history, and SJW opprobrium. I was quietly thanked by more people than those condemning (loudly and vainly) my heresy.
Do I even want to know more about the Bowel Movement Rangers?
It’s a shitty job, except at Burning Man.
Or on the internet?
Ugh I wish a lot more people on the internet would shut up.
ME-OW
None of the fine chaps here, mind you.
What about us non-fine chaps?
Not an ass among us.
Well, those are the people Big Tech likes.
This year, for the
firstumpteenth time since graduationsome two decades ago, I did not donate to either of my alma maters.I went to a community college before transferring to a state school. I paid retail at both so feel no need to donate. My donations go to better causes.
Yeah, Miss Harvard and Bowdoin is probably swimming in gold coins that are looking for a home.
State school schlubs like us, not so much.
I remember getting inundated from Memphis State begging me for money after I graduated.
I sent them a reply telling them that my contribution was to have them stop spending so much money on sending me junk mail.
My alma mater asks for money.
I was explicit in my refusal. I told them that I would never send them a dime so long as they were facilitating adolescent “gender affirmation” procedures with hormones and surgery.
My wife and my woke undergraduate alma mater gets no money from us.
Our mutual graduate alma mater basically refused to do any job placement assistance for us. As a result most of our graduating class year point blank told them to expect no funds from us after graduation. We had close to 70% that signed on.
My wife and I have been continuous, significantly high dollar donors to our well-known university for 30 years uninterrupted; we both attended there, though not simultaneously, yet it did help with our bonding when we first met, and we’ve been involved together in supporting the school in various ways practically since we first met. We substantially increased our annual donations 20 years ago after our son was born; his first photo was him in a onesie with our school’s logo. Our dream was he would follow us there, and towards that end he went with us to numerous football games and alumni events through the years. And for our donations, ostensibly to get him admitted, we never asked for charity in his case, but simply a favorable look if he qualified. And did he ever, he scored 150 points above the school median freshman score on the SAT. Then he went early decision, and should have been a salm dunk, but he was completely slapped down, and put on some ridiculous “waitlist” with zero chance of admission. We later learned that they’d held it against him that his parents had been successful and remained married, so he’d had it too easy, if only we’d been failures as parents, he’d have had a better chance. They also held against him being straight, melanin-challenged, and certain of his gender, but mostly they felt he had not taken up enough social justice extracurricular activities instead of his more traditional yet impressive accomplishments. And because of the Hollywood admissions snafu a few years back, this private school was concerned that they didn’t want in any way to seem favorable to the kids of donors, even if they merited admission (what the hell did they think we were donating for?)
So he went to a different college that actually wanted him, and he’s flourishing, so we’re very thankful for that. Meanwhile, alma mater is seeing the results of deciding they didn’t want any more kids of alumni who loved the school actually attending, contrary to many decades in the past where you’d see three or four generations of alumni together at events, it was a real family-oriented place…now, recently, a mob of current students stormed the University President’s house (the same guy who pushed the new admission approach), threatening to burn the place down, and kill the Prez, who they also chanted antisemitic slogans at (he is Jewish).
So this year, we did continue to donate, to continue our 32-year streak; we gave them a whopping $5. Fuck them.
Oh, also, we just learned this is their worst year for donations in memory. Guess the social justice crowd aren’t really donors. Haha, fuck them.
People with no job and no money can’t donate.
Also, they’re a bunch of fucking ingrates.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes – even if you are the administration of a college.
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#1: I go to the wrong bars.
That’s a Vegas staple
Why would anyone donate to Harvard? It all just goes into that huge pile of money they call an “endowment”.
The interest on that pile of money is probably more dollars than all the alumni contributions combined.
I could live off the interest on $53 billion.
They probably hope that it would help their children to get into Harvard.
The hardest part of Harvard is getting into Harvard.
?
At 22, my brother was offered a full-ride scholarship for a PhD in organic chemistry. Turned them down. Went to UCLA instead.
That would be the only reason. It’s not like it’s being used to reduce tuition or pay for poor kids to go there.
Ask Dr. Chet about that one.
Someone’s getting a free penis enlargement? I can support that.
Now we just have to wait til they screw up Avatar: The Last Airbender too.
I didn’t not like Cowboy Bebop and it had promise. Felt like a noir Firefly to me
‘Now we just have to wait til they screw up Avatar: The Last Airbender too.’
I thought they released a poorly reviewed movie of that a few years ago.
They did. Netflix is taking another run at it.
Sorry, first “they” refers to M. Night who did the live action movie.
They did. My husband won a trip for us to see the NY premiere of it. I was happy to be in NY. In that movie theater, not so much.
Funny enough I didn’t hate Ghost in the Shell. Problem was the movie had little relationship with the anime.
Also the casting considerations and the controversy over them were just ridiculous.
They’re rebooting Firefly as well. Not expecting much from it.
Disney is rebooting it. I’m sure there will princesses and singing birds by time they are done with it.
The lead architect of the Nintendo Entertainment System and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Masayuki Uemura, has died. The Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies at Ritsumeikan University announced Uemura’s death on Thursday, saying he died Dec. 6 at the age of 78.
I never played games on a Nintendo that much. People I knew owned it, but I never did. I remember some of the games being fun.
RIP.
Federal law generally limits jail time for contempt of court to 18 months. But a federal appeals court in 2019 rejected Thompson’s argument that that law applies to him, saying his refusal violates conditions of a plea agreement.
A nice application of BFYTW.
With an explanation of the BFYTW even. Usually it’s just cause they say so.
I played a ton of Nintendo.
Owned every console from Super Nintendo to Wii. But I got sick of their policy of making every new box incompatible with games from the old ones and jumped off that train for good.
“New York Gov. Hochul imposes indoor mask mandate for anyone over TWO-YEARS-OLD on businesses that have not checked vaccine status of customers – with $1,000 fine for every violation”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10296813/New-York-implement-indoor-mask-mandate-public-places.html
OFFS!!
I will not comply.
It’s to reinforce that despite all the “great news” about the economy we can lock you down and the country operates better.
/tinfoil maybe
Great news like the 14% “official” unemployment rate in NYC? And certain to rise with bullshit like this?
So much to unpack there, but this…
GO
FUCK
YOURSELF
“‘We will never abandon our people’: BLM leader says Jussie Smollett has ‘our full support’ and slams ‘corrupt’ justice system”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10297097/BLM-brazenly-backs-shamed-Jussie-Smollett-guilty-verdict.html
“The liberal elites believed Jussie Smollett for the same reason they don’t want to confront America’s crime wave – because it doesn’t fit their racial world-view, says BATYA UNGAR-SARGON”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10296929/Liberal-elites-defend-Jussie-Smollett-abandoning-victims-real-crimes-BATYA-UNGAR-SARGON.html
Just like feminists, It never occurs to these people that making up shit makes it more difficult for real victims.
Don Lemon might be dumber than box of bricks but at least he was smart enough to throw Jussie under the bus, finally.
BLM would be wise to do the same.
“Black homeless man, 39, arrested for stabbing 14-year-old to death told white cops he did it because ‘of what they did to black people about giving them syphilis’: Vast criminal history for violence and robbery revealed”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10297437/Black-homeless-man-stabbed-boy-14-death-called-deputy-white-devil.html
Because this 14-year-old was behind it?
Was he released later that day?
/sarc… kind of
‘This appears to be a completely random act. We do not have a motive,’
Uhhhh…. he literally told you why he did it when you booked him.
Nope, that statement meant nothing to us at all. See no evil, hear no evil…
This wouldn’t be happening if only they were given the reparations they justly deserve.
Heh.
Well, there goes my evening…
I keep chasing you from one expiring thread to another.
I’m looking at getting a Tavor X95 in 5.56. It comes with either a 16.5″ or 18.5″ barrel. Are they any advantages to either barrel length in that caliber?
I bought mine with the 18″ barrel. I was thinking the longer barrel would be better for shooter at longer ranges, where I do most of my rifle shooting, but on further thought and research I think the difference in accuracy and muzzle velocity between the two lengths exists but is negligible.
errrr….. 18.5″
General rule of thumb – the longer the barrel, the less difference is made by incremental barrel length changes. Sticking with the 5.56mm NATO, going from 20″ to 18″ is almost unnoticeable. Going from 11.5″ to 10.3″ is a big fucking deal.
My gun buddy was talking about burn-out lengths and, as I recall, 5.56 does the full burn in a 20″ barrel. Interestingly, he mentioned that nearly all pistol ammo has a burn-out of 10″.
Some AR-15s have a secret
Besides the cute girl, the 20 barrel will penetrate steel plate where the 18 and 16 won’t.
You could look at the tables.
18.5 is more velocity, 16.5 is more short
Well, everyone likes being pursued…
The full burn length in any rifle is gonna vary wildly with ammo type. Going from 16.5 to 18.5 inches isn’t going to make any significant difference in ballistics, and I doubt it would in handling. Seriously, i’d get whichever version is less expensive.
I have it in 16.5 and it’s very accurate at 100 yds, but I also usually shoot it with a suppressor. It’s a sweet shooting rifle with nice balance due to bullpen design which my petite wife also loves about it. Easy to breakdown and clean, as well. Not cheap, but I like it more than any of my AR-15’s.
Cities are so great the government needs to force people to work in them.
We need to scatter the FedGov workers all across the country as far from lobbyists as possible.
How ’bout stopping the pointless theater first?
For some reason, all the government dipshits thought WFH wouldn’t have ripple effects.
We all know that the one thing government desires most is stasis. So now they will try to correct for the impacts with other government intrusions.
DC needs those people paying inflated prices in DC not where they live.
The asshats thought it was a fuckin’ snow day. Of course they didn’t think about consequences, those are for people who don’t take birth control.
We can abort federal employees anytime? At least until SCOTUS rules on the latest case?
Minneapolis’ Downtown is toast.
Middle class, middle management women are NOT going to go downtown and either catch the Rona, get carjacked or end up in the middle of some smash/grab mob.
Not when they can work from home.
There is nothing I can buy after driving to a store that I cannot have delivered to my door by a smiling UPS or FedEx employee.
Why is no one worried about the safety of Minnesoda’s female Congress Crxtters (or would it be Crittxrs?)?
Be nice if they had mentioned what the actual number of “threats” were. Help decide if doubled was something to really worry about or not.
Because only courageous female Congressheroines receive “bomb threats”.
We wouldn’t have to threaten them with bombs if they would ever go outside and play softball!
Because they don’t give a shit about us and actively want to destroy us.
Saying the Rep. Immigration Fraud should be deported back to her own shithole instead of remaking this country into one.
Christ what an asshole
Glibs, I bring you the opportunity of you sorry lives!!!! My local proggie “alternative” news site is hiring. For a year. But the beat you would be covering is totes cool.
Who is more underrepresented than libertarians? And Glibs are least represented of the libertarians (although we are the best looking).
Do they disclose who is finding this fellowship?
*funding
Well, I, for one, find it stupid. Pretty sure a lot of other people do too.
Oh, I think the position is stupid as well. I’m pretty sure that you could sit home most days and every so often send in a boiler plate article that boiled down to “white people bad”.
I should also point out that the headline for that article was:
“Announcing a new race and health equity reporting fellowship”
I opened the story half expecting them to actually be talking about some new woke pronouncement about a new race being discovered.
Oh, I don’t know. I tend to use grammar, and we know that don’t fly.
This thing is awesome and I want one. It goes to 60 in under 3 seconds, has an air suspension and wonderful ride.
Problem is 3rd party charging in the US is awful, it’s expensive and, BTW, you can’t actually use it as a truck.
2022 Rivian R1T: Much Anticipated, Still a Work in Progress
So it’s a pickup shaped luxury car…
That would be a the Lucid Air. Likely a better car than both the Tesla Model S and Mercedes EQS. However, both are really kneecapped by shitty 3rd party charging. Good news is the Lucid has a honking battery.
2022 Lucid Air: At Last, a Worthy Tesla Opponent
https://www.wsj.com/articles/2022-lucid-air-at-last-a-worthy-tesla-opponent-11635508800?st=f8lq83dz3xorofz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Speaking of car culture… saw a スピードハンターズ banner on the windshield of BMW in the parking lot this morning. I guess it wouldn’t look as cool in Blackletter?
I really want to rock the 初心者マーク.
Weabs
Not 高齢者マーク?
Given that I’m not 75, I hadn’t considered it. OTH, putting 初心者マーク on one end and the 高齢者マーク on the other would suggest time dilation…
Sick burn dude.
I might have to get a Kōreisha sticker for my wife’s birthday present this year.
If I live through the icy plunge caused by heavy ass truck.
Do it!
You should expect a long dry spell after that…
I think that old ladies can now buy special lubrications to help with that problem.
I was thinking he could put a 身体障害 on his new R1T.
I’ve seen one of those here! Apartment building next to my office had someone with one of those. Haven’t seen it for a while. Must have moved.
I’d consider putting this one on my car
https://cdn.mainichi.jp/vol1/2016/04/16/20160416p2a00m0na004000p/8.jpg?1
That could be fun. It appears it was nationwide. Here is one that it appropriate for all the Glibs that spent time in Okinawa.
https://trafficnews.jp/post/78423
If anybody is interested type this into your photo search engine of choice:
外国の方が運転しています
I could see my wife telling me to pocket either one before turning the rental back in. Before covid, I was *almost* to the point where I’d consider renting and driving a car. In Hokkaido or Kyushu.
I’ve never driven a RHD car before. I was all set to do at the Toyota exhibit on Odaiba in Tokyo, but the wait time was ridiculous.
You signal turns with windshield wipers, right?
Depends on the country!
UK has different controls than JP, for example.
From memory JP mirrors keeps the US layout while European made RHD cars generally don’t.
You signal turns with windshield wipers, right?
That drove me up a wall in Australia.
My first trip to Australia was when I owned a Crown Victoria. Column shift. By the time I got back from that trip into the US, I was used to the Aussie layout. The first time I tried to signal a turn I almost knocked the Crown Vic out of gear.
I was disappointed that they didn’t also reverse the pedals.
If you have to learn to shift with your left hand, why not use your right foot for the clutch?
JDM nerds.
So when my wife buys me one of these at the beginning of ice fishing, I might want to be a bit suspicious?
Relevant
An F250 is not a heavy-duty truck.
PA Supreme Court vacates mask order effective immediately
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has affirmed the Commonwealth Court’s decision and vacated the mask mandate issued by the acting state health secretary.
This means that the mask mandate has been dropped, effective immediately.
The opinion is expected to be released at a later date. Judge Saylor did not participate in the vote.
W00t!
I’m pleasantly surprised.
Wait for the screeching from the local Branch Covidians who will demand local mandates if the state won’t do it.
They will be sure to stomp out any ember of hope you might have felt.
Local school districts were handing out exemptions like jelly beans at Easter.
Local high school sports clips on the news show mostly unmasked players.
When did we get a new set of state SC justices?
No switch in the latest election.
However, three of the Democrat justices are up for re-election in 2025. I expect they see the writing on the wall.
I’m surprised they would look that far ahead. They don’t seem that smart in general.
Rather see an anime take on Firefly than a live-action Cowboy Bebop. Might even survive longer than one season.
I was thinking about GitS:SAC for the first time in ages. I really liked that series. Literally the only thing I ever heard about the live-action movie is a bunch of pissy eyedness about Scarlet Johansson.
Because u ppl would burn down the interwebs if we didn’t (j/k NSA & FBI), there will be a Glibs Zoom Happy Hour Type Thingy, with bonus writer rattling and wheedling, and obligatory “STFU, Sloper,” tonight starting at 20:00 Eastern.
Why are the zoom times always posted in Eastern time?!
Seems like blatant East Coast Privilege Shitlording.
Because Neph and I are total Alpha Shitlords and we both live in the only time zone that matters.
Well now I’m hesitant to move on to my next complaint.
What is the deal with the military time? Fucking wannabee warmonger.
Because when I looked back at last week’s comments that’s the format and zone Neph used, so I stuck with that.
Personally, I would have admitted to being a wannabee war criminal way before I admitted I was a slavish follower of all things Neph.
But you do you.
Because having two “8 o’clock”s in one day is stupid.
Wait, neither of you live in Alaska.
Zulu for all!
Fine.
2021-12-11 @ 0100 GMT
Had my annual physical today. I am exceptionally healthy. I have not had the COVID vaccination. The doctor told me I should get one. He showed me a chart that showed hospitalization rates for COVID in the north memorial health care system. Today there are about 100 people in in the hospital for COVID. A year ago, there were about 100 people in the hospital for COVID. So, about the same number of hospitalizations year over year.
He said today, 87% of the people in the hospital with COVID in the North Memorial Health system are unvaccinated. Only 13% of the people are folks who have been vaccinated and then got the disease and required hospitalization. Again, the doctor’s conclusion is that I should get the shot.
When I got home, I got to thinking that a year ago there were 100 people in the hospital with COVID in the North Memorial Health care system and not a one of them was vaccinated because at that time there was no vaccine. Today 70% of the people in the north Memorial Health care system are vaccinated.
Think about it. A year ago, there were 100 people in the hospital for Covid all of whom were unvaccinated. Today there are 100 people in the hospital 13 of whom are vaccinated. So doesn’t that mean that the vaccination only reduces hospitalizations by 13%?
It sounds to me like they’ve got 100 beds to fill.
Allow me to introduce,…
CON-Certificate of Need State Laws
Sure, the beds stay constant, just the ratio of vaccinated and unvaccinated changes.
I sure hope you were talking to Dr. Huelster! He seems so smart and dreamy.
I hate impacts from the Rona that don’t show up in the data even more than Illinois Nazis
Ask what the ratio is in the heart wing.
Seriously though, that’s more extreme of a ratio than I’ve heard other places, but 30% of the population supplying 87% of the hospitalizations makes sense. The vaccines do accomplish something, albeit fleetingly and at risk of side effects. If you compare 87 people to the total unvaccinated population covered by the hospital, I’m sure its 0.__%.
Shush….we don’t talk about that.
You should have asked how many were hospitalized for pneumonia in 2019, 2018, 2017, and 2016. Chances are it was close to 100 each year.
Of course the doctor wouldn’t have that information. Either he was too stupid to ask for the data or you would have been given some bullshit reason about it being confidential.
These sad sacks are working off a script. And most of them don’t even bother to review the patient’s data before the appointment. They all bitch and moan about how little time they get with the patients, as if they don’t have the free will to work elsewhere or start their own practice.
Doctors are like any other walk of life- a few smart ones and a whole lot of halfwits up to their necks in debt.
https://64.media.tumblr.com/ea4fdc4fbeb3e4bbe2a78a6e10fc46cf/e704056989e120ec-40/s400x600/b5c5f18f59263195c908a3cf729baac2458d02f2.png
Sounds about right
*lights Tres signal*
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/17002226/piled-on-weight-during-her-menopause/
I watched the recent Out of Frame about Cowboy Bebop. It sounds interesting but maybe not for me.
The soundtrack is cool.
I enjoy a fair amount of anime music.
Well, well well…
https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/10/22828042/moderna-mrna-flu-shot
It sounds like the mRNA tech is a good thing to keep in the back pocket just in case super Ebola or some similar comes about but for the day to day stuff the old way is better.
Meanwhile, Novavax, which has been locked out of the covid vax club, has had a promising influenza vaccine that’s been delayed due to covid.
Maybe someday they’ll successfully get a drug or vaccine through a clinical trial – but not soon.
Ugh, just found out that they’re going to allow Assange’s extradition. Why break a broken man? Oh, and fuck Trump for not pardoning the poor bastard.
He’s to serve as a warning to the rest of us.
“Smollett’s hate crime rehearsal. Outstanding.”
https://twitter.com/RitaPanahi/status/1469159441274531840
LOLOLOL
Brutal.
Nsfw language.
“Use your other accent”
That’s funny, I don’t care who you are.
Is it a documentary? Dang, that was good.
I am going to be starting FLM. Firsting Lives Matter. I am recruiting acolytes. I need people who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty.
I thought it stood for Fisting Like Mom.
272 in line at MVD. Current number is 237. FML
Dude, I ain’t putting my hands in there, no matter how much you want it pulled out.
Y’mean, like, blackened?
LACIST!!!
We’re gonna break some windows.
The Anti-Firstites have been emboldened too long. It is time we take matters into our own hands, especially with The First That Will Change Everything coming.
I’m reminded of a joke about an IBM salesman.
Still in the hospital here, these COVID restrictions are bull shit.
I haven’t seen my wife since she took me to the ER on Wednesday.
Maybe I get out on Sunday.
I’m sorry. ? Do I recall correctly that the doctors are worried about some post-surgical swelling?
Yep, ultrasound tomorrow and the Dr. is fairly optimistic he can let me go Sunday.
So I’m sitting here watching the ID channel and reading Glibs.
I’m glad you are all here, really helping when there are no visitors.
*waves*
There’s a whole channel dedicated to intellectual disabilities?
CNN
?
CNN
Winning comment, right here.
LOL!
ID = watch while cross stitching
So whatcha in for? I missed it somewhere along the way.
Had surgery Monday and woke up Wednesday with significant swelling in the last area a guy would want swelling in.
It has gotten better, but is still a long way from good.
Did you at least make use of your abnormally large penis while you had the chance?
The swelling is a little south of that.
Are you saying that you have a future in twerking?
THICC.
BALLLS! Nooooo!
Swollen hands isn’t the worst thing that could happen to a person.
I didn’t know that. Feel better.
My dad was in for three days last week and in NJ was permitted visitors.
That’s infuriating about the visitation. It’s well documented that having family around dramatically improves recovery time and minimizes mental/emotional stress.
I do hope you get released soon.
Depends on the family
This is, sadly, true. Keeping most of my family away from me would be the best bet to a speedy recovery.
For them and me.
I thought about adding “beloved” in there before family but was too lazy to backspace.
S’okay. My family’s kinda awful, but they’re not uniquely awful, IYKWIMAITTYD.
Your last name isn’t Tolstoy?
My wife is on the helpful side of the leger, though she did say she feels free without having to take care of me.
Wait a minute…maybe they do allow visitors and she’s lying to me!
Thanks, it could be worse, only hurts getting out of bed and back in.
Also I have my own room, so it is quiet.
Would be nice if they at least let my wife up, almost feels like solitary confinement at this point.
Which hospital are you at?
VA hospital in Hampton
Ah, sorry man.
I’ve witnessed people escaping that facility on motorized gurneys and still in their gowns just to get to the McDonalds in Phoebus.
It’s not that bad, got wifi, decent channel selection, nurses seem attentive, and the food is ok, just flavorless.
Hospitals all suck I’m sure, but this is my first time overnight since I was 10, so I don’t have a base comparison.
Yeah, I was in for an eleven-day stretch last year but fortunately all of my nutrition was intravenous for most of them.
Hope you are feeling better soon.
Sorry, I hope you get out and recover soon.
Reports of living through covid restrictions from across the world.
From Japan to New Zealand, commenters describe their respective prison states.
Eugyppius really is doing yeoman’s work, isn’t he?
Well, that’s depressing reading.
Interesting reading.
What the Dickens??
Hmmm…
Is the “vaccine” causing infections?
Are more infections being found because of more testing?
Tinfoil hat time: some people have made a LOT of money and/or gained a LOT of power due to the Covid response. Is it too much of a stretch to imagine that creates weighty incentives to deliberately infect people with some other pathogen in the future? Or to prolong the current pandemic?
(The block quote passages above are from about 2/3 down the page under the “United States” heading.)
The map with the strigency index is interesting. Of course the USA is all one color, which leaves out a lot of detailed info. E.g., Hawaii should be about as dark as Canada, but Florida closer to Sweden.
There’s a Venture Bros movie in the works!
How dare they cancel that brilliant show after only seven seasons.
Is that because all attendees are supposed to hold it in for the duration? Alls I know is BM has rules. I don’t recall how many or whether or not they are all written down, but there are quite specific rules.
Flippant response to silly [and deliberate] misread of BM.
Can’t find a link, but there is a song out there with the refrain:
Burning Man, Burning Man, used to be so cool
Then they went and fucked it up with all these stupid rules
Each verse is about some stupid/destructive behavior, that may or may not have been inspired by actual events.
I think I may have read a guide to being a “burner” on TOS, or maybe it was a podcast they did. It didn’t sound like something I’d enjoy.
Ps – hence my own flippant response about Vogonic poop rules for BMers.
Yeah, BM has more guidelines than rules to be honest. Rangers don’t enforce nothing, we just try to keep your stupidity from harming anyone not consensually participating in it.
It is strange that it has such a libertarian origin and has evolved to quite a bureaucracy (that is now turning woke). There’s a lesson in human behavior in that.
The lesson in human behavior is that parasites who cannot create or contribute anything of value to society can readily spot individuals/enterprises/activities that do create value, so they find ways to attach to the “host” to feed like the parasites that they are.
Well said ‘splosives.
Alleged conspirator compares life in a former commie shithole to being a political prisoner.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/california-man-charged-jan-6-us-capitol-riot-flees-belarus-2021-12-11/
Can’t say as I blame him/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10298137/SECOND-UPenn-swimmer-speaks-against-trans-Lia-Thomas-competing-womens-team-crowd-silent.html
Lia Thomas is a transwoman (MTF) who is now competing in women’s NCAA swimming races and setting new women’s records along the way. Xer teammates are speaking (anonymously) to the press. As you might have guessed, they are not thrilled with the situation.
Here’s the giveaway that Lia is not biologically female. She doesn’t know how catty women can be. This is an anonymous teammate: