Oh, wow, these latkes are GREAT!
Adventures In Small Business: My apologies for not hanging around for comments yesterday- we had a ceremonial lighting of the Hanukkah candle at work yesterday. Well, not exactly the candle, more like “the kitchen is on fire.” This is considered a problem in the café business. We were all in all lucky, though- the person who was supposed to be there was our Insane Girl whom we can’t fire because NY and ADA. She would have gone into freakout and let the building burn down. She HAD gone into a freakout because one of a perceived slight and announced she wasn’t coming in for her shift while she was busy snitting. So WebDom and one of the other grownups were covering, and they had the sang froid to do something sensible and, you know, grab a fire extinguisher and put out the fire. As you can imagine, this leaves behind a major mess, and the kitchen needed to be closed and deep-cleaned, which we all spent the day doing. As well as tracing down the cause of the fire. Which turned out to be from a remarkable stupid practice that Insane Girl had, which resulted in piles of grease ending up behind the grill, covering the gas fittings.
Very fitting. Anyway, sorry to bore, but every once in a while, the goofy shit these kids do has actual consequences, not just humor.
And a side note: Erewhon is “nowhere” backward but with two letters reversed.
Birthdays today include a guy who was OK; a guy who may have inspired Supercuts; the greatest doctoral advisor of all time; a guy for whom I have 172 reasons for admiration; a guy who provided Superman a place to live; a businessman notable for his ears; a guy who was firmly in The Matrix; a piece of shit with exactly zero redeeming features, other than he didn’t personally commit murder- that we know of; a guy who eventually became both an archetype and a parody of himself; a guy whom I wish had been OUR county agent; a guy whose claim to fame was really weak; the black Liberace who, despite his cognomen, was larger than life; the guy who likely inspired Platoon; and a pioneer of woke stand-up comedy, i.e., totally unfunny.
Now for Links.
Kings. This is exactly the kind of thing Spud and I would have done in our younger days. Shit,we still might.
Cue Nelson “HAH-hah!” If only the Kennedy’s were so easy to eliminate.
The key word in this article is “suing.” Which means, “Believe absolutely none of this.”
When it’s time to deplane, it’s time to deplane.
This is why I thought philosophy professors were a rather silly bunch.
“I have an alibi.” As long as the US stays the fuck out of this. Which, sadly, we’re unlikely to do.
Old Guy Music is just how I’m feeling today. Fats was a meteor, burned startlingly bright for oh so brief a time. And it’s still modern and wonderful.
whaddup doh’
L’chaim !
+ Old Kinderhook
our Insane Girl whom we can’t fire because NY and ADA.
Voodoo doll time.
If you still can’t fire her after this, shut the joint down, start up again in a new location under another name, and hire everyone back except her.
At least that’s how it works when you want to fire someone from a band.
I had copied that same line to comment on, my comment being:
Insane Girl isn’t the only insane part of that scenario.
“the cause of the fire… which turned out to be from a remarkable stupid practice that Insane Girl had.”
I’m glad everyone is safe and that the damage wasn’t worse. How long will you be closed. Sunday is your big money-making day, right?
Do you now, finally, have something which would allow you to fire her without running afoul of the ADA or state laws?
Deep cleaning – I’m guessing no CO2 fire extinguishers because of asphyxiation hazard. And if you don’t reply I’ll assume you have an all-hands-on-deck cleaning going on.
No. Any time ADA is invoked, one is in the situation of having a plaintiff with essentially free legal resources and being a defendant who has to foot the bill. It’s never a matter of whether you can eventually prevail, it’s the cost of defense.
Rap and Ride time…
Commercial kitchens use “Class K” fire extinguishers.
That’s not going to happen with a CO2 extinguisher. Now if the Halon system goes off, everybody needs to leave.
Motorcycle ride: Weird but kind of heartwarming in a way. It doesn’t take much effort for your grieving buddies to go to your funeral but digging you up and riding you around is another story.
It’s like they watched The Wild Angels or something.
And I’m out. A philosophy professor who begins an appeal to authority is a form of question begging that annoys me.
I like Walter Block, but he has a tendency to do this as well with his constant references to being a libertarian and how that automatically makes it impossible for him to be a racist.
Textbook strawman. What an asshole.
“A philosophy professor who begins an appeal to authority is a form of question begging…”
Pwned.
‘…As well as tracing down the cause of the fire. Which turned out to be from a remarkable stupid practice that Insane Girl had, which resulted in piles of grease ending up behind the grill, covering the gas fittings.’
And you STILL can’t fire her?
*Note to self: Never start a business in NY*
We can fire her as long as we have a spare $100k or so to spend on legal fees, which can’t be recovered.
You cannot imagine my degree of hatred for GHWB for foisting this shit on us. Burn in Hell, Poppy.
But why? Sheer spite on her behalf?
Everyone is hiring. Jobs available everywhere, and anyone with a pulse can find employment, likely with sign on bonuses.and
Most people who invoke the ADA are just itching to establish their victim cred and use it against someone.
But apparently, NY state said “wait that shit ain’t quite enough, let’s double down”. Because I sure as shit can think you could fire that one in many, many states without a legal fight.
It’s not just NY, ADA is a federal law. Including mental illness as a protected category has fucked over so many businesses. And while you can’t fake missing a body part, you can sure AF fake crazy, or not work on your crazy.
CA expanded upon the ADA, I would not be surprised at all if NY did the same thing.
Both “our county agent” and “really weak” links go to the same person.
I pose another question: What does Zemmour mean for the Jews?
Aaaaaand done.
I cannot bestir myself to give a shit.
Jewish antisemites, black white supremacists, the world’s done gone crazy.
Sins of the son
Charging the parents with manslaughter for permitting their child access to a firearm used in a shooting is not unprecedented, but it may signal a new trend. The prosecutor here is not charging the parents under specific gun-related statutes. Rather, involuntary manslaughter can be applied to any creative theory of gross negligence that results in death. Maybe heightened parental responsibility standards is a solution that both sides of the gun debate can get behind. We can provide schools with security plans and active shooter drills, but making more parents criminally responsible could be a powerful preventative fix.
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As a non-hunting, non-gun-owning former Michigander, I certainly don’t speak for that state’s hunting demographic. But I suspect that the hunters I know in the Wolverine State would fully support this prosecution of James and Jennifer Crumbley.
Midwestern juries recognize that lots of teens have access to firearms in the home. Most of my friends in high school could easily get their hands on a single-shot 20-gauge, and their parents knew it. Those parents weren’t grossly negligent, because their kids were responsible gun users — or more precisely, their kids gave the parents no reason to believe they were dangerous gun users. In contrast, Ethan Crumbley allegedly gave both his parents and teachers multiple reasons to believe he shouldn’t be let anywhere near a deadly weapon, from his internet search history to graphic drawings he made in class referencing violence and voices in his head.
Michigan prosecutor Karen McDonald alleges the gun used at Oxford High School was left in an unlocked drawer and easily accessible, a claim his parents’ attorneys dispute. But this case is ultimately less about how a firearm was or wasn’t secured, and more about what the parents knew about the child who had access to it.
You know who else believed in collective guilt?
“You know who else believed in collective guilt?”
Mike Nifong ?
Once this is applied to black parents and gang related activity it’s going to be black folks hardest hit again. At least it would be if the law was applied equally which it absolutely won’t be.
And that logic would mean Alec Baldwin would be going to jail as well not that they would apply the law in such a way to a fine upstanding citizen like Alec.
Of course, there’s no way to square this with also charging him as an adult. Not that they give a shit.
But are we always morally obligated — are women and girls obligated — to assist anything and everyone in reaching their potentials? No.
60 years of Democratic public policy, drown the drain.
*zing*
That was my first thought too. Time to end public schools, based on this logic.
Can you cut her hours and responsibilities back to nothing?
I’m with Brooksie. Just gradually cut her hours.
Maybe do it the FedGov way and promote her. Congrats, you are now manager of aesthetics… go hang these pictures and then get the tempera paint and start on a Santa Claus for the front window.
Yeah, but you still have to pay her.
Pay her in company scrip – https://youtu.be/K-6IzkDyl9Q
Was expecting this.
Mississippi Fun Bucks – https://youtu.be/Glp5539NK-4
I really miss those midcentury motels.
“You’re such a great employee. I don’t know what we’d do without you. It’s a shame a little shoestring operation like this can’t afford to pay you what you’re really worth, like Denny’s. “
*I* caught your tricksiness.
“Which turned out to be from a remarkable stupid practice that Insane Girl had, which resulted in piles of grease ending up behind the grill, covering the gas fittings.”
And now you have cause for firing her?
“Cause” just means that if you’re willing to drop $100k in legal expenses and spend a couple years in a constant barrage of depositions, declarations, expert witnesses, and the like, you’ll possibly prevail at trial. But that’s not what our legal system is about. It’s not well appreciated how contingency arrangements strongly bias things toward plaintiffs.
Get one of your competent employees to file complaints that she’s creating a hostile work environment.
That puts US on the hook for the hostile work environment.
WebDom had a convo with one of our snowflakes who’s actually quite good a month or two ago after one of the “OMWC is MEAN!” blowups from Insane Girl. Snowflake didn’t understand why I was being so critical of Insane Girl in the kitchen. WebDom asked, “Is he critical of you?” “No.” “Do you do things the way he showed you?” “Yes.” “Does Insane Girl?” “No. Ohhhh…”
If you don’t fire her.
And thus Snowflake is learning more critical thinking skills at a coffee shop* job than in college.
*Apologies if you brand your place as a full-service restaurant, but that’s less alliterative.
We don’t, it’s a coffeeshop. But most of the revenue comes from the food. I’d love to have real restaurant facilities, but we make do with essentially a food truck kitchen (in terms of both equipment and size true multum in parvo).
Sorry to hear, and sorry to get you to keep repeating yourself. But I did skim the links.
“She just needs more training.”
-Union rep
Obligatory dance mix for OMWC this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLuVVIztVXA
Remix
Best remix since Boo got shot.
As a philosophy professor who teaches logic and critical thinking — the study of good and bad arguments and forms of reasoning — I have been a keen observer of the arguments given for and against making abortion illegal or otherwise restricting abortion.
Obviously, this is of vital importance at this moment in history: the Supreme Court is expected to issue a ruling in the summer that could restrict or ban abortion across much of the United States.
Pssst- Hey, Shirley.
The criterion by which those arguments should be judged has nothing to do with your whimsical scale of “good” vs “bad”. The only meaningful test is (or ought to be) constitutionality.
How man physicists have Schmisse these days?
I can’t read any more of that. That guy must have gone through a jug of lube and a case of kleenex writing that exercise in public masturbation.
STAND BACK, I’M ABOUT TO PHILOSOPHY THE SHIT OUT OF THIS
Atlas has a book out. And if we’re to take it at face value, as Tierney mostly seems to, the goings-on behind the curtain were far more of a shitshow than any of us knew.
I never liked Geraldine Page, esp. one with little-girl vocal fry.
From the sophistry of the Salon philosophy prof:
If being conscious matters, then killing someone in their sleep isn’t murder, as they were not conscious at the time of death. You could also club someone over the head and then shoot them in the chest. But that’s not okay, because we reasonably presume that the person will regain consciousness at some point in the future, so their right to live is retained.
Philosophy prof: But that’s different.
I came here to say this. He makes this bold – or stupid…both? – statement without backing it up, and uses that to declare the pro-life argument as “demonstrably weak”. But it’s those stupid pro-lifers who aren’t thinking logically.
And for all you lazy bastards this morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enYdAxVcNZA
What would be considered a “decent” interval to wait before MSNBC snaps up a Top Shelf Journalist like Chris Cuomo?
Two weeks? A month?
That would depend on how long CNN’s severance allowance was wouldn’t it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave
Okay, I’ll do it
Me too
https://youtu.be/Z6z-nxAYhGw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4__vwHL6mAs
“but, despite those similarities to us, they are not persons with the right to life”
Literally Hitlerian.
But with more sophisticated pipe smoking and chin stroking, I’m sure.
Look, it isn’t as if he’s a biologist with any familiarity at all with ontogeny. This is thought-stuff, not ya’know, science.
Nice weasel. His logic explicitly allows abortions up to birth.
That’s a very progressive mindset this person likely can’t break out of. They can’t just understand that the anti-abortion position simply regards humans as humans, because they themselves are so obsessed with categorising people into ever more meaningless and superficial, pseudoscientific boxes.
Yeah, but worse. He claims the “I teach logic and reason” high road, and then his entire argument is to assert that fetuses (at least in the first trimester) are not persons with the right to life.
He offers no support for this at all. He just yanks it, fully formed from his rectum.
This is what passes for higher reasoning in his world. “I assert this to be true!”.
It is laugh out loud stupid in that context. He offers no criteria at all, just his says that they are different.
That anyone takes this buffoon seriously actually hurts my soul. Not because of his stance on abortion, but because he stands in academia and processes to represent logic and reason and intellect. And if you are a high school senior and you can’t pick apart the horrendous logical fallacies in this article, you should just stick to trade school.
In fact, I almost suspect that this was written as a parody, it is so over-the-top with the logical fallacies.
“This is why I thought philosophy professors were a rather silly bunch.”
Pretty sure I just read a really good argument for why abortion should be illegal pretending to be an argument for why it’s totes okay before an ill defined time period.
Pretty much how I read it. Also, I think he argued that abortion should be legal until “personhood”, which you are going to have a tough time delineating between first trimester, birth, 6 months and 18 months of age.
26 years old?
“We took a vote, and decided you are insufficiently valuable to society, Professor. Go over there by the ditch and await further instructions.”
Obsolete!
Don’t get the Fritz Lang / Superman reference. That said….Lang (like Kurosawa) is one of the directors I’m set on collecting his entire filmography in HD – just an amazing director.
Hint: where did Superman live?
What does The Fortress of Solitude have to do with Fritz Lang?
Kansas?
Oh….Metropolis….
344 Clinton Street?
“Tis the season
Nor did she or the rest of the troika show interest in the many far more rigorous studies with contrary findings.
[insert expostulation of astonishment and disbelief]
Well, whaddaya know. It snowed last night. I guess I should have loaded up and left yesterday.
Sometimes bad things happen to bad people
Since May 2021, people living in counties that voted heavily for Donald Trump during the last presidential election have been nearly three times as likely to die from COVID-19 as those who live in areas that went for now-President Biden. That’s according to a new analysis by NPR that examines how political polarization and misinformation are driving a significant share of the deaths in the pandemic.
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Recent polling data that show Republicans are now the largest group of unvaccinated individuals in the United States, more than any other single demographic group. Polling also shows that mistrust in official sources of information and exposure to misinformation, about both COVID-19 and the vaccines, run high among Republicans.
“An unvaccinated person is three times as likely to lean Republican as they are to lean Democrat,” says Liz Hamel, vice president of public opinion and survey research at the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health policy think tank that tracks attitudes toward vaccination. Political affiliation is now the strongest indicator of whether someone is vaccinated, she says: “If I wanted to guess if somebody was vaccinated or not and I could only know one thing about them, I would probably ask what their party affiliation is.”
Infidels. Heretics. Apostates. Unbelievers. All will suffer the torments of Hell.
That’s what SCIENCE! teaches us.
NPR as publically-funded propaganda wing of The Party, providing regular “Two Minutes of Hate” pieces to rile up the true believers.
Correlation and causation and etc. Now control for age differences and get back to me.
They really are trying everything they can to be Nazis. The problem is that they’re navel-gazing, soy-fucking-latte Nazis, so no one really feels the urge to fight back and end this shit quickly.
So instead we’re going to keep getting drip-drip-dripped to death with Covid fucking pansy-Nazis. Fuck me, I think I would have preferred the real Nazis so I’d feel enervated enough to start capping the fuckers.
So much of our country needs a fucking slap. And I mean a real good one, like a John-Wayne-with-the-axe-handle kinda “slap” in “The Sons of Katie Elder.”
Yes! I have been tilting against windmills with this for years now. Nobody cares enough to run them out on a rail. And before long, it will be too late.
LOL ??
Oh, they’re serious?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
Why do I think their sample size is unreasonably small or missing some significant regions?
All this says to me is that Republicans on average are more intelligent than Democrats.
Also, people in blue states were 6 times more likely to die from covid before…..
And people in red states are more likely to be living in a healthy economy and both be suffering from any overload of the healthcare system – right now. And dramatically so.
Plus, the actual Americans who have sarsCOVID kill them is probably lower than 150,000 in 18 months.
~750,000 Americans died from hear disease in those 18 months.
Also some rural people dont just go to the doctor for minor stuff. If rural voters went more for Trump, then you have another reason for more deaths. People who dont seek medical attention sometimes have higher death rates.
Lastly, NPR and the Lefty Propagandists are proven liars, so I dont believe them when they are trying to push a Narrative.
I only know about 5 people personally who got COvID and they all had medium flu symptoms or only loss of taste and smell.
Belief in multiple false statements highly correlates with vaccination status, Hamel says. “If you believe that the vaccines can damage your fertility, that they contain a microchip and that the government is inflating the number of COVID-19 deaths, you’re going to think really differently about whether to get vaccinated.”
Perhaps the most pernicious pieces of misinformation have to do with the perceived severity of COVID-19 itself. The most widely believed false statement was: “The government is exaggerating the number of COVID-19 deaths.”
Just because any death in any way adjacent to the plague is deemed and scored as a plague death, people succumb to the crazy notion the government numbers might be a trifle “suspect”? What about other patently false and logically absurd pronouncements and recommendations? Could they perhaps undermine the credibility of the “experts”?
Nice cape work, boys. That straw bull never had a chance. Ole!
What’s amazing is that at least 2 of the 3 examples he gives are known to be true about the vaxxes.
Putting the microchip thing on equal footing with the exaggerated death rate thing is blatant gutter propaganda and just isn’t cricket.
Yep. Plus they pretend that the false beliefs are all on one side, when they aren’t. I’ve seen lots of wrong or exaggerated claims of how dangerous the virus is, how effective the vaccines actually are, how much impact unvaccinated people have on the development of new variants, and so on.
Good point, the rabid provaxers tend to overestimate Covid’s risks and the vaccine’s effectiveness but there’s no mention of that of course.
As of the end of September, 41% of Jackasses thought you had a 50% chance or higher (!) of ending up in the hospital if unvaxxed and infected.
https://hotair.com/allahpundit/2021/09/27/gallup-dems-still-wildly-overestimate-the-share-of-unvaxxed-covid-patients-who-end-up-in-the-hospital-n418574
Propaganda works my friends.
Nevermind the fact how retarded it is that ~25% of Squishes and Pachyderms believed the same.
In this case, the stupid is universal just unequally distributed.
You misunderstood the difference between stupid and misinformed.
This is why I rail against the media so hard. This is why I keep posting those moments from NBC Today. Because that is where these people are getting the idea that Covid is going to kill their 8 year old kid.
The propaganda is so deep and so pervasive that escaping it is nigh impossible. Even among the fringe who scour the internet for original sources and in revealed facts, the propaganda has such reach that who knows what percentage of the background knowledge we carry is fake?
LOL those two exact strawmen feature prominently in one of the propaganda pieces that plays constantly on TV here. Maybe even the third one but by then I’ve always managed to change the channel or mute the sound in disgust.
It’s almost like all the authoritarians are coordinating their messaging or something.
Quite possibly.
Lol, gtfo.
Absolutely lying.
“The government is exaggerating the number of COVID-19 deaths.”
Well… they are.
I personally and directly know of one instance in which this was done; my coworker’s father died of a heart attack a month after recovering from COVID. He still had antibodies so they counted it as a COVID death. Out-and-out lie and that one instance proves on its own that the numbers are inflated (even if only by one).
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/12/17/in-colorado-theyre-counting-gun-shot-fatalities-as-covid-deaths-n2581730
6%
Sorry about Grace Poole. Don’t suppose you can pay her to go away, like a squatter.
Margaret Cho was funny long ago in the ass master era, esp. if you ever knew any Asian moms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRz-A5sgYyQ
Kings. I have told my two oldest friends that I want a Viking Funeral, a la S.O.B.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jIaPO0UliU
Did somebody say axe handle?
Once a marine, always a marine
Sounds cultish. Do they kill you if you try to leave?
What I’ve learned from the Brothers Cuomo debacle:
If you:
– Send thousands of old people to their deaths
– Lie blatantly in a partisan fashion as “news”
– Very likely take handouts from China and other evil regimes
– Arbitrarily create and promulgate rules for the peasants and then flout them yourself
you’ll be ok.
However, if you do a little pinch and tickle with the new intern you’ll be tossed on an ice floe before the day is over. Not that harassing interns is a good thing, but man-oh-man are “our” (whoever “we” are) priorities fucked up.
Has anyone heard what specifically Fredo did that got him also #metooed?
Some info here:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/cnn-anchor-chris-cuomo-accused-of-sexual-harassment-by-former-female-boss-at-abc-news/ar-AAOMany
Got to be related I would think.
That was months ago. Interesting how that got swept under the rug.
If by Fredo you mean lil’ Chrissy, he used his media connections to try and dig up dirt on/intimidate big bro’s accusers. Which is really, really bad and CNN really had no choice but to can his ass. HOWEVER, none of this happens if big bro wasn’t playing grab-ass with the sweet young things roaming the halls. TMITE would have been more than happy to ignore all his incredible abuses of power and terrible decisions (along with Fredo covering for him) if he had kept little Drew in his pants.
Don’t forget that they DID ignore this for years. The thing that changed was internal Democrat rivalries. It had nothing to do with principles.
This is the real story that everyone at the national level is ignoring.
Lacking a functioning 4th estate means we are wide open to corrupt state actors. We have seen this in action, but it is clearly only the tip of the iceberg.
Obama spied on Trump with the FBI, CIA and State Department, and used the IRS against enemies. But what else do we not know? He sure had a ton of power over banks and a load of friends at Goldman Sachs….
Biden is caught red-handed on the take from a Ukrainian oil company. Also from Chinese companies. But who else? If he is this casual about taking bribes, what else is happening?
Comfy and Brennan had absolutely no problem using their offices for corrupt political purposes, and I think it is a pretty easy guess that they were the source of many false leaks to the media attempting to derail Trump. But what else?
The FBI had no problem being sent to set up the incoming National Security Advisor with a fake accusation by interviewing him. They were so sanguine about it that a couple of agents actually asked “are we going there to get him fired, or to get him arrested?”. And they asked that question in front of the President, Vice President, Director of the FBI, a couple of Assistant Attorneys General…… These are all people who are duty bound to put them in jail for doing that… And everyone in the room is completely comfortable saying it out loud.
This is what the absence of a 4th estate has wrought.
But this is only what they were foolish enough to get caught doing? How deep does the real corruption go? Of those tens of trillions of dollars we have spent “on an emergency basis” since 2008, how many were just straight up stolen by grifters? 20%? 60%?
Who knows? Because nobody dares to look.
Whycome archive no worky?
https://thechive.com/2021/12/04/put-your-hand-bras-in-the-air-35-photos-4/
Slutty Sunday.
Huzzah!
https://archive.md/hQz5x
re #12: Holy Moses!
Jordan Carver.
https://static-ca-cdn.eporner.com/photos/63756.jpg
NSFW.
How does she stand upright?
With great difficulty? Hires a guy to be her hand bra?
“Hires a guy to be her hand bra?”
I guarantee I can give her a better rate than the guy she’s currently using.
Sweet memories…
Go Halos
Deplane, deplane!
Hamel says that underestimating the severity of COVID-19 appears to be a major reason why Republicans in particular have fallen behind in vaccination: “We’ve seen lower levels of personal worry among Republicans who remain unvaccinated,” she says.
WHYCOME THEM NO BLEEV SCARY CAMPFIRE STORIES? BOGEYMAN REAL!
Maybe those people, having searched in vain for the bodies stacked like cordwood awaiting pickup, have begun to question the narrative in its totality. Maybe.
Things I’m more scared of than Kung Flu:
– My cat peeing on the carpet
– Radiohead releasing a new album
– They change the Diet Pepsi formula back to no aspartame
– Rupturing my corpora cavernosa during exceptionally vigorous bedroom activity (a remote, but terrifying, possibility)
Things I’m actually a lot more scared up than Kung Flu:
– Government tyranny
– The value of my retirement being inflated away
– A DOJ/FBI that has become a de facto Stasi/NKVD
– These gain of function lunatics releasing something that actually does kill >25% of its victims
Wasn’t it Democrats who believed that the COVID hospitalization rates were over 50% when they are no more than 5%?
You really don’t get to lambast one group for not being up to date on all the facts if you come from (or sympathize with) a group that has a conception that is wildly divergent from reality.
“I’m a philosophy professor. The argument for making abortion illegal is illogical[…]As a philosophy professor who teaches logic and critical thinking”
Based on the students your institutions are ejaculating onto society’s face you’re extremely shitty at your job and we should 100% not listen to you.
I read his article.
He 100% would have failed the philosophy course I took.
His entire premise is “proven” by his unprovable and unsupportable assertion.
And his only argument against the opposition is “I don’t accept your base assertion.”
If this were a college student, he could be forgiven. If this were an activist without training in philosophy, he could be forgiven. But a professor of philosophy framing his argument as a blatant argument from authority, which is one of the first logical fallacies you learn about in freshman philosophy classes. …….. Ooff.
At least he was able to identify that the only salient question is “when does human life begin?” as something deserving moral protection.. his answer is dumb as a box of rocks, but at least he knows what the question is.
“Minnesota man who became second in U.S. to be diagnosed with Omicron variant after attending NYC anime convention says 15 of his anime friends have now also tested POSITIVE for COVID”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10276247/Friends-Minnesota-man-Omicron-variant-tested-positive-Covid.html
Twenty years ago I would have had no idea what that headline meant.
He had mild symptoms as do most (all?) who get this variant. If you want long lasting and robust protection against this thing this one might be the one to make a point to get. I guess the jury is still out but it seems less severe than the others.
Hard to say… So far over here the only people who have gotten it are young healthy and vaccinated. That is all they were ever in line for.
Yeah, I’d never heard of Minnesota either 😛
/i keed.
Thanks for the shout-out to Sheldon Glashow. (I see the link is fixed?) I am co-author on one paper with him, although my only communication with him at the time was via email.
I listened to Tom Woods’ latest episode this morning. I just got the book.
“BREAKING: Restaurant in SF refuses service to two SFPD officers yesterday 12/3, stating their presence made staff (and perhaps guests) uncomfortable. Hilda and Jesse on Union St. Here’s their response:”
https://twitter.com/richieSF2016/status/1467285176745172993
Love the pronouns in the signature.
I saw the Sillcocks at the 100 Club in ’76. Epic show.
(Srsly, Pete Shelley died three years ago tomorrow, the DJ reminds me.)
I guessing “Rachel” is a six-foot four gal with a five-o’clock shadow and killer heels.
And shitty morals.
It really makes you have an impulse to publicly announce “no members of SFPD will be stepping on this property or speaking with any of their staff from this moment forward. Use this information as you see fit.”.
A receipt from this place. Wow.
I think I found out what’s wrong with OMWC’s business model: https://twitter.com/chmpr/status/1467491700536918016
I mean, $53 for pancakes and hash browns is totes reasonable.
So very not keto.
Surcharge for unhealthy eating.
Now I’m wondering something. If someone decides to be both vegan and keto, how much is left that they can actually eat? Salt?
Peanut butter.
Yay! I love peanut butter!
But I’m not giving up meat. And you can pry my cheese from my cold dead hands.
I can handle PB in small doses, but it has to be extra crunchy.
And I’m with you on the meat and cheese. Charcuterie, please!
Cabbage!
Avocado, low glycemic-index veg, coconut oil. Tofu?
Avocado and tofu aren’t food.
Lettuce, a few berries, tempeh, Quorn, some nuts; faux dairy?
(Hey, I like firm fried tofu, and plainly I do visit the health-food store occasionally.)
Tofu, being soy, has some hormonal side effects that some lowcarbers (generic) find detrimental to their weight loss and health.
LOL holy shit
I wonder where the “SF Mandates” go.
What do you know about Union and Powell? (Hey, SF has a Wash. Sq. Park too?) Place looks newish.
Washington Square? At Columbus Ave.? It’s full of little old Chinese ladies doing tai chi.
Seems to be. Street View shows it as a gyros place. I am overthinking this…
if I had just scrolled down one more comment…
Yeah, ’tis a pain.
Your reasonable accommodation for Insane Girl should be to put her in charge of Community/Ursine relations and have her wander through the woods feeding bears and getting their opinion about your new menu offerings.
Why do you hate the bears?
I haven’t tried it, but surely their menu’s not that bad.
But you’d be inflicting Insane Girl on them.
Bears have an effective way of dealing with people they find excessively annoying.
Timothy Treadwell unavailable for comment.
+1 little bells and smells like chilis.
No joke, she often goes out wandering at night in a fugue and has been injured repeatedly.
She came with the premises, I take it.
She might not be your problem for long!
“”With her new book, the model tries to escape the oppressions of the male gaze.”
“model”
“gaze””
https://twitter.com/JerylBier/status/1467490154063536130
I AM FULLY SELF-AWARE!!!
So…. She spends a lifetime exploiting men’s innate reproductive instincts to become exceptionally wealthy….. And she claims this is her being oppressed?
Where the hell is Inigo Montoya when I need him??
Have you consitered piracy?
Still would.
Time to turn on the F1 show in Saudi Arabia. The qualifying yesterday was fantastic, even if it didn’t turn out like I wanted. It’s been a fantastic season and the last two races will be a great battle with Hamilton and Verstappen. The Jeddah circuit is super fast and fun to watch.
I haven’t been following F1, but looking at the standings, both the driver’s and constructor’s championships are really close.
It’s down to the last two races. It’s been a back and forth fight the whole year between Honda Red Bull and Mercedes. Well worth a watch today if you can watch it live or record and watch later. I thought it had already started, but lights out is 30 min from now at 930am PST. This one is a night race on a street circuit that is the second fastest race on the calendar after Monza. I really started getting into F1 about 3 years ago and with the rest of sports going ultra woke it’s become my main sports habit.
“Roe Is Extralegal Nonsense, and Nothing Else Matters
By Charles C. W. Cooke
…As for the consequences? Justice Sotomayor (D., Planned Parenthood) has it completely backwards. Sotomayor suggested more than once that if the Court were to overturn Roe, it might be seen as acting in a “political” manner. But it was Roe that was “political.” Overturning it, and returning it to the people, would be anti-politics. Unlike, say, jury trials or free speech or the right to bear arms, abortion was never a question for the courts, and for them to dispense with it for good would be a significant win for separation of powers. The idea that it could be “political” to take control of an intrinsically democratic question away from an unelected branch is worthy of Alice of Wonderland…”
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/is-extralegal-nonsense-and-nothing-else-matters/
Is “when life begins” really intrinsically political though?
I know Roe punts on this question too… But that is the only relevant question.
Abortion comes under the “we hold these truths to be self evident” area of law. You cannot vote murder into legality. Because everyone has the innate right to their life. So at least that much is closed to democracy. The question “Which human lives are worthy of protection?” is always answered with “all human lives”.
So now that this is settled, we have the question of the edge case… Where does a life become human and where does it cease to be human?? Hence abortion and persistent vegetative state arguments.
The philosophy professor makes the horrific argument that human life depends on some complex matrix of intellect and agency… fetuses are only potential humans, but we are under no obligation to help them reach their potential. The supposed professor of critical thinking just endorsed infanticide. Maybe even taking out toddlers if need be. The fact that nobody noticed, even the editors at MSNBC who published his article is even more horrific. maybe they are too dumb to get it… But then again, the governor of Virginia certainly seemed to be fine with the notion, and they all rushed to his defence….
Those people are amoral idiots. But at least they know what the argument is about. Defining the beginning of human life imbued with human rights is the only question, and any answer is fraught with difficulties.
“When in irresolvable doubt as to whether something is human, it’s probably best not to kill it.”
– David Foster Wallace
That’s what I’ve thought about abortion for years.
:. DFW was not human.
Well, of course not, Dallas-Fort Worth is a metropolitan area.
I disagree. It is possible for one’s own actions to cause them to forfeit their right to life. This could range from trying to kill someone else to unrepentant murderous recidivism. None of these apply to the unborn, however, whose actions are fully innocent.
Yeah, I skipped the whole due processs, self defence, etc. portion of the exception debate for brevity. (irony, cyto talking about keeping it brief)
It is possible for one’s own actions to cause them to forfeit their right to life
There’s an interesting path one can go down when it comes to this. Specifically the defensive lethal force discussion. When does the aggressor forfeit their life?
I agree that one can forfeit their right to life. The problem, as you point out is that I don’t know anyone that is qualified to decide when that has occurred. The least qualified of all being the state.
Ok….back to work…
“The supposed professor of critical thinking just endorsed infanticide. Maybe even taking out toddlers if need be.”
“Yeah, and…?”
/collectivist
From the French version of TDS…. Exactly when did “don’t get involved in foreign wars” become equated with being a fascist dictator?? It seems preturnaturally bizarre.
Mmm, Santa. Amirite, ladies?!
I just found out Santa is gay, NTTATWWT.
So the missus is Santa’s beard?
You’d do him too?