Hey hey there, Glibs! It’s been a while. I’ve been a little preoccupied with life, the universe, and everything these last few months. As time allows, I hope to be more present.
I have recently adopted a young kitty, and I spent last Thursday night assembling a cat tree. Kitty’s name is Merlin, and Merlin…Merlin be dumb. I’m not sure if he’s just dumb because he’s 2 months old, or if he’s a cat of little brain. But he is ultra sweet and cute, and totally in love with his new cat tree. He is not the most agile or dexterous feline I have ever known, yet he takes great joy in bouncing up to get to his food bowl.
He’s fairly hyper, mostly from being 2 months old, I think, but I have had to start drugging him to get him to sleep through the night. Otherwise he’s up every 90 minutes pouncing on my face. I tried kitty hemp for a couple weeks, which he really likes, and begs for his dropper, but I haven’t seen any noticeable effect in his behaviour. I am now trying catnip with valerian, and so far that seems to be going better.
He loves watching aquarium videos on the TV as well as Father Brown. He’s an odd kitty, but if he weren’t, he wouldn’t be mine.
Also from my browser history this week:
An appalling bill that got blocked in NY. (Full text here.)
Not even remotely vegan croissants that I want to make
How to create herbal tinctures
Winter Fire Festivals around the world
How to politely tell a coworker to fuck off
Today’s “main story” is about the joy that is the Steak-Umm Twitter account. I, a vegan, even gave them a follow after falling down the rabbit hole of their account.
This…this is the screenshot that started my deep dive.
And then I was hooked.
And last, but not least, their thread about critical thinking skills is fantastic, but too long for screenshot. I am so glad I found this Twitter account. It’s one of the few that I have notifications turned on for now.
That’s it from me today. Hope to be back soon! Ta!
I don’t care if he is the piano player, that photo screams “SHOOT Me.”
That Steak-Umm person is a god.
Can we buy steak-umms with bitcoin?
It’s rare for me to read the word “epistemology” online and actually see it used correctly. That frozen beef’s got it goin’ on.
Clearly a philosophy grad who found a job in shit posting.
Seems the liberal arts have reached their zenith.
It’s rare for me to read the word “epistemology” online and actually see it used correctly. That frozen beef’s got it goin’ on.
And here all this time I thought people were saying “he pissed on Molly G.”
I might have to steal that as a signature. And I don’t even like Steak-Umms.
I love that sign off lol
Awwww… Merlin sounds sweet.
I had a cat that I suspected of being a bit stupid, but when I observed more closely, I suspect she had poor vision. They led to her clumsiness and to her skittishness. She was a sweetie though.
It stands to reason that humans aren’t the only critters who are nearsighted or farsighted. Probably we have a higher rate of vision problems than animals since human civilization has largely staved off natural selection.
Or it could be the drugs?
I had a cat that … her skittishness.
I hope you called for her “Here Skitty Skitty Skitty!”
Ullr, Thor’s slightly dimwitted brother who liked to strap boards to his feet.
“question everything, my beeflings”
Yes, Master.
Sorry for early stray from the links. I ran out of the podcasts I want to listen to, so I went back and played Jim Gaffigan on Joe Rogan.
Gaffigan makes the claim that Biden is still an improvement over Trump, and Harris is absolutely an improvement. Joe pushes back and states how awful she was as an attorney general. You know, keeping people in prison unnecessarily and using free labor (what’s the word…) to fight wildfires.
Gaffigan’s comeback is yeah, but Pence believes in pray the gay away.
Why is Gaffigan worried about that? Afraid it might work?
I’d say Jim is subject to industry peer pressure just like the rest.
And Gaffigan has gotten steadily unfunnier over the years. He wore out his schtick pretty fast.
I thought he would keep it quiet after that twitter tantrum he threw over Trump, but no, still clinging on to Biden.
You know who got* unfunny? Seth Meyers. I used to watch Late Night with Letterman and then Conan. Those guys were funny as fuck. I stopped watching after that, but about a month ago, I watched it because I saw a commercial for the show and a guest was scheduled that interested me. Might have been Aubrey Plaza. Anyway, the show was not funny. Not at all. Where they would have a comedy segment every single night. And the guy is literally seething while he’s doing it. WTF? I gave it up in less than a week.
* Assumes he was funny at some previous point; I wouldn’t know.
‘Aubrey Plaza@
Yum.
I saw the documentary about her women’s basketball team the Pistol Shrimps. Worth watching.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.16b91d04-dccc-3ffb-ac0e-570cc22ebf40?ref=imdb_web&autoplay=1&ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_fdv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_fdv-20
Oh no! He has personal beliefs not manifested in the execution of his office!
Having said that, the football game stunt was pointless.
Ps – I don’t even know if that’s accurate or just a talking point made up by the media.
Gaffigan could have continued on with his affable midwestern guy schtick forever. But nope. Unsolicited, he decided the world needs some startling insights. As usual when it comes to the entertainment industry, the startling insight tends to be “that person is icky.”
It’s interesting given the feature on Steak-Umm in today’s post that Gaffigan did many of his best routines about silly American food habits. His “Hot Pockets” bit may be his overall best.
OK, “frozen beef brand on bird website” is a real winner.
Yeah, it’s officially “bird website” from now on.
Good to see you back, Web D. Been a while
If you’re telling some one to F off why would politeness enter into it?. Straight forward in accordance with the event/person. No misunderstandings
Harder to do when you need them to keep working for you.
Steak umms, it’s been years, but Meijer has em, must buy now, that thread is awesome!
Thxs Web Dom!
They were a treat when I was a kid but when I tried them once a few years ago… blech.
Must not have done it right. I think they’re delicious.
Maybe I’ll give it another shot.
For some reason they get looked down on for the appearance of being a highly processed food product.
But it’s just beef.
^
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Yes. Same thing with KFC
Either my taste has become more refined or the product has gotten worse.
I love this site. Where else can I learn about self-aware frozen beef from a vegan?
WebDom, do you have transportation? Heard there was a skidding incident a little while ago, hope that is sorted out.
Perfect summary!
In that screenshot there is a reply from someone named “Fluffy”. There used to be a poster at TOS with that handle. I wonder if it’s the same guy?
Congrats on being adopted by a kitteh! Two months is still VERY young, I’d say. When our cats had litters when I was a kid, we’d never give them away until they were at least six weeks old. I’d give him some more time before you pass judgment on his cognitive skills.
Oh Merlin, the complex levels of behavior you display,
Connote a fairly well-developed cognitive array
+1 Ode to Spot
“An appalling bill that got blocked in NY. (Full text here.)”
That’s some straight-up nazi shit.
Hmm.. those links include voodoo, herbal remedies, Norse mythology…
Never go full heathen.
“With freedom comes nudity.”
Making beef stock. Just done roasting the bones and some short ribs. That beef stock will be used in the brisket chili. Take that steak-ums!
The link about “haint blue” made me think of a song
Doooooom
The world needs more electricity. That will mean severe climate damage, unless something changes soon.
A report published Friday by the International Energy Agency found that global demand for electricity surged 6% in 2021, fueled by a colder winter and the dramatic economic rebound from the pandemic. That drove both prices and carbon emissions to new records.
The growth in demand was particularly intense in China, where it jumped by about 10%.
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said the report contained a stark warning for the future.
Stock up on candles?
We must destroy the economy to save it.
“Adopt way more nuclear, or learn to enjoy watching your wife die in childbirth or your kids freeze to death inside your own home.”
What? Too much?
No.
Exactly right.
Use the cleanest, safest energy available?
But what about, CHERNOBYL
Commie atom-splitting.
Need I say more?
I think you identified the issue. The people who are against nukes are commie, and they just know they will fuck it up.
Solution: private power plants!
Is “dramatic economic rebound” some sort of euphemism for sudden ’70s-style inflation?
OFFS a couple coworkers on the “weekly catch-up” meeting were just now going off on how we “need” electric cars now! We must replace all cars with public transportation now! I mean, the whole lefty schtick, hook line and sinker. I’m appalled at hearing otherwise intelligent people go off like this. Especially when politics almost never comes up at work – it’s jarring.
“We need to end our dependence on strip-mined lithium batteries”
If I were a quick thinker I could have come up with something like that. But as always I just keep my trap shut when this sort of thing happens.
Aren’t they afraid of catching the virus on the bus?
Good question. The ringleader of this conversation, quoted above, is a hard-core covidian – as is everyone else who has expressed an opinion on the matter, now that I think about it. Skeptics keep quiet.
This woman I’ve been trying to get with for over a year recently went on a rant about the unvaxed and I’m now wondering how I ever liked her. Completely ended my bones for her.
Umm, boner
I’ve been attracted to quite a few members of the opposite sex over my life who, once they opened their mouths, completely spiked any interest I had in them.
Sometimes you just can’t overlook stupid/illogical.
Stupid = ugly
Like acid wash jeans ugly.
What’s really awful is that she thinks she’s the smart one because she can vomit up the talking points. In part thanks to you all I volley these taking points back until people like her look like their heads will explode.
God help me if I ever had to date again. I’ve got no patience for any stupidity.
Meanwhile NY is replacing nuclear plants with fossil fuels.
I thought it was getting too hot.
“Cy Twombly’s “Untitled” was created in 2005, over 200 years after Panini’s masterpiece. It’s just a big red scribble on a canvas, yet it’s valued at $46 million dollars.”
Wow.
I am unable to even.
Ah, I see Canada’s “Voice of Fire” has competition.
I cannot stand that shit. Why is that valuable?
Unless the art market really is a money-laundering scheme. Like mattress stores.
I knew about art, but mattress stores are a money laundering scheme?
I get the Barnett Newman. About 40 years ago I saw a documentary profiling a female painter of some renown. At one point in her career, her abstracts focused on the edge where two colors meet. Color is energy and things happen where energies collide. While not necessarily anything Newman considered when painting Voice of Fire, it’s definitely going on.
I’ve done that in my house. I can either use a good cutting-in brush or FrogTape, but I have made many energies meet flawlessly.
These euphemisms are getting weirder and weirder.
As a person who’s created art my whole life, and wondered why such crap fetches so much money, I am both pleased and angered by this.
WebDom!
So nice to see you. And thanks for that amazing Twitter account. I honestly didn’t think I could love steak any more than I already did!
Congrats on the kitty! Here’s one for him:
https://youtu.be/CMRaSXh9-n4
Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby indicted on federal charges she lied on financial transactions to buy homes in Florida
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-md-ci-cr-mosby-indicted-20220113-ue7ca7pjujek5bf2eoinrssf54-story.html
These drugs smell like ass.
It’s Friday, and some people (‘Sloper) have things to say! So, here’s the link for the Zoom/Happy Hour/Decompression from work session that I’ll kick off at 20:00 Eastern.
That reddit link has reaffirmed my belief that reddit is a bigger disappointment than Twitter. Twitter, at least, has no redeeming value and can be written off as garbage. Reddit is structured in a way that should make for a diverse and interesting public forum. It’s the inherent horribleness of humanity that has made reddit into a wasteland.
It’s also the people who run it.
Reddit was fine before it started censoring non-proggies.
I didn’t like it even before then. It suffers from the same fatal flaw as all social media… Zero barrier to entry, zero barrier to idiots flapping their gums. The result is a low SNR and a bias towards confrontation and drama.
There were once some subreddits that I found useful, but they were few and far between.
Out of curiosity, what barrier to entrance would you like? An IQ test?
None. I don’t think there’s a preventative fix without compromising the entire draw of the site. Also, it’s not about stupid versus smart, it’s about my distaste for social media culture. Everybody has to be a self-righteous smartass first and maybe they’ll eventually get around to being useful. It’s not stupid, it’s juvenile and and annoying.
Reddit of old was like they condensed a bunch of hobbyist forums into a single site and then let a family of rats live in the cupboards. You could still consume the content, but it was somewhat unpleasant to partake because of the nibbles on the edge and the inevitable turds in the packaging.
Reddit today has done away with the rats and replaced them with a thousand howler monkeys whose sole job is to fling shit and wreck things up.
That’s the nature of fora, though. Usenet certainly wasn’t a mecca of calmly presented sage wisdom.
*shows scars sustained from the Great Usenet Flamewars*
The most beautiful Usenet word in the world: “plonk”
*shrug* de gustibus and all that
I don’t think that I wanted some academic discussion forum with formal debate rules or anything like that. I just wanted it to be somewhere that didn’t make me feel like I just wasted 30 minutes of my life reading a transcript from a middle school cafeteria.
Maybe I was peering into all the wrong subreddits.
middle school cafeteria
It seems to be that the majority of [American] humanity arrests social development right there.
“The most beautiful Usenet word in the world: “plonk””
Cheap wine?
For reference: I am against artificial barriers to entry for many things, and some barriers to entry don’t keep out those it professes to filter (see: doctors, lawyers, shit novelists). For things of interest to me, I’m willing to wade through dreck to find worthwhile stuff.
This belief comes from my experience with self-publishing. Even though all the noise makes my work impossible to find, I am thrilled that GOOD writers who only lacked odds are able to get their work out there without one “professional’s” opinion gumming up the works.
Likewise Reddit, Twitter, etc. You can either allow yourself to be dragged down by it or you can leverage its good parts to your benefit. Most of my early publishing success was because of Twitter and my most recent ebook formatting job came from somebody on Twitter who rec’d me. Reddit has given me valuable information.
Even the stupidest of the stupid occasionally say something I find thought-provoking.
Reddit is for porn.
It can be useful. I’m surprised how often my obscure technical questions have an answer on reddit and nowhere else. But yeah, I just land there from web searches, I wouldn’t like, “hang out” there or anything.
Reddit has been very useful to me professionally and philosophically. Some nice gems have come off Reddit.
Twitter has some redeeming value.
For example, funny tweets. Like this one, which has a joke tailor-made for your avatar.
“question everything, my beeflings”
Are you certain?
What you did there was seen and noted with a smirk.
Serious question. I’m not Mr Manners but…
As a kid we didn’t wear caps in the house, except for going in and out. When we came in the house my mother taught us boys that caps/hats came off if we were staying in. The same went for restaurants, thought we didn’t get too much experience along those lines.
The Fourscores were at a fairly large Chinese buffet restaurant today. I was one of the very few that didn’t eat with my cap on. Old, young, didn’t make any difference.
WebD, what is your preference at your place of business? Glibs, am I totally wrong? While it’s not a crisis I want to make sure I’m teaching my kids/grandkids the best I know how.
Judging from those vandalized railcars in a previous post, some have not been taught proper manners at home. Broken window
I’m not a hat person, but I’m inclined to agree with you 4×20.
Me, I generally leave my flatcap on when out and about. It’s off at home.
Now a cold weather hat I’ll remove inside.
Not totally wrong. Take the cap off. /has a cap on at this moment.
I don’t think many abide by that rule anymore. I’ve only seen the practice in very rural areas, and even then it’s rare.
I never wear a hat indoors. I always take it off and put it on seat or bench near me when at a restaruant.
Wow! I do that with my underwear. Cultural differences rock!
I go commando. No problems.
Same. I don’t know if I was “trained” that way; it just seems natural, though.
I’m terribly impressed with the “I always have to wear a hat/cap/whatever” look.
*not terribly impressed ugh
I have nothing but disdain for hats. All hats.
Why do you hate good cowboys?
Don’t know what that flap on the back is for…
Exactly.
A hat is just a tool for me, not a fashion statement.
I think it depends on the restaurant.
How about a cowboy hat if you’re at Golden Corral?
Another sign of the decay of All Things Good.
I’m appalled that even here, in the heart of flyoverlandia men my age (I’m half a score behind you) wear their hats indoors – even while eating. That’s just plain wrong. No, I won’t explain why – it’s just wrong.
I saw well-dressed western attire in a very upscale restaurant in Indianapolis, 2 40ish guys (and lady friends). The men kept their new looking cowboy hats on for the entire meal. I wasn’t sure if lack of manners, worries about getting the sauce on the hat or trying to make a point. It did look a little bizarre, it wasn’t a fast food place.
I take my cap off in the FF places too. My mother’s failed attempts at making me a gentleman but Mama tried.
Cowboy hats are super expensive and hence seldom leave the head. Although cheaper cowboy hats can be used as food bowls at Golden Corral. You can never have too much shrimp cocktail and a ten gallon hat holds an entire tray.
I believe Texans refer to those types as all hat, no cattle.
You just described my son. He looks like a real Texan but doesn’t know which side of a horse to get on and has hardly ever been on a horse. He has a web site called “Traces of Texas” and lives in Austin.
Honestly, why would I care if someone is wearing a hat?
I think most folks doff their hats in churches, though I been in a few in Europe where there’s been someone inside the door reminding gauche visitors of the courtesy. It’s been so long, I can’t remember what the military’s rules are. But posher country clubs usually have a “no covers” rule once you leave the golf course and head inside. But that’s just upper class white privilege!
Uncover indoors unless you are carrying a rifle.
Yep. Under arms, includes small arms
That Steak-umms twitter account is good.
The Winter Fire Festivals look neat.
One local community does a ice festival (story is from last year’s one). The girlfriend has already expressed interest in going back this year. Lots of really well done ice sculptures, and it looks like they’ll be bringing back the fire and Ice tower this year.
Nice.
I like the fire and ice tower.
The Fyre Festival looked neat too, but look how that turned out.
On my bucket list
Exploring the Sapporo Snow Festival
Sapporo Snow Festival Official Website
I would love to ski Hokkaido. They get some serious snow.
No backsies
Beginning January 19 and continuing for at least two weeks, all flights from the United States to China have either been canceled or are likely to be suspended because of Chinese aviation regulations, according to CNN Business research of government announcements and published flight schedules. As of Friday, only two flights still appeared eligible to operate for that period, one of them with United Airlines (UAL).
The Beijing Winter Games open on February 4, and participants are mostly taking special flights restricted to people with OIympics credentials as part of a strict bubble that authorities are implementing around the event.
Since June, the Civil Aviation Administration of China has applied a so-called “circuit-breaker” rule to international flights. That rule means that a flight is automatically suspended for two weeks if five or more passengers test positive upon landing in China. If 10 or more passengers test positive, the suspension period increases.
China is closing its borders to keep the plague out. Good luck with that.
Karma’s a bitch.
U.S. decided to diplomatically boycott the games – China is reciprocating.
Article speculating on NH Secession
For many years a group of Libertarians in New Hampshire have advocated for the Granite State to secede from the nation. This year the Legislature will formally debate the issue. Democrats and Republican leaders have condemned the idea of secession, but if 2020 and 2021 have taught us anything, it is to expect the unexpected. This article breaks down the mechanics and consequences of the unlikely proposal to form the nation of New Hampshire.
Texas: Gets a carrier strike group in the divorce.
NH: Gets a leaky dinghy with dodgy British Seagull engine.
🙂
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, despite being named after Portsmouth, NH, is part of Maine. Workers at the shipyard pay Maine income tax. There have been court cases between NH and Maine over it. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Maine.
Democrats and Republican leaders have condemned the idea of secession
Condemning the very idea, if that is an accurate characterization, is a red flag. Secession may be a bad idea in any particular instance, but as a concept it should be supported by anyone who is pro-freedom or anti-imperialist. It is most ironic to have the members of a government that would not exist except for secession condemning secession outright.
Obligatory.
LOL!
There used to be lots of talk about Staten Island seceeding from NYC. Even as a kid I was in favor it. Mostly suburban middle class borough had to pay more in taxes than they got back, and they were stuck with city’s garbage dump. Plus only one shitty subway line that you had to wait 20 mins if you were lucky.
Sunday we play in the Ice Bowl at the Labrynth, highs of 27, it’s not a tournament for the faint of heart. A brutal course under brutal conditions, for charity, I can’t wait!
/Brrrrrr
That sounds wonderful! Enjoy!
Only Friday Funbags can save us now!
https://archive.md/0IfYS
Morning, Glibs.
Wait, you mean I was only asleep for an hour?
*grumble*
Just as long as they report the income and pay their taxes
Instead of shoplifting from stores, some thieves are zeroing in on another target: Trains and delivery trucks full of packages on the way to customers’ doorsteps.
UPS Chief Executive Carol Tome said Friday that one of the company’s 18-wheeler trucks was robbed in Atlanta in the early hours of the morning. She said thieves hijacked the truck after the driver left one of the delivery company’s largest hubs.
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Organized theft has gained more attention from major retailers and trade groups, after brazen smash-and-grabs at stores like Nordstrom and concerns that thieves can steal and sell goods anonymously online. CEOs of companies, including Target, Neiman Marcus, Levi Strauss & Co. and Walgreens a sent a letter to Congress last month, urging legislation that makes it harder for criminals to “hide behind fake screennames and false business information” on third-party marketplaces.
It almost makes you wonder what the cops do all day.
You didn’t see the link mentioning Freddie Gray upthread?
I’ve felt this phenomena personally. I’ve had my vehicle broken into three times since moving to the NW. My initial response was to rant and rave about the rampant homeless problem. My ex-cop buddy laughed at me and said “you think it’s homeless people? There is a whole bunch of people who sell stolen shit online for a living”
Either way, fuck thieves…for my own sake I’m glad I never caught them in the act.
Also, hello Glibs! It’s been a while…
+1 dirty mike and the boys
Welcome back!
Around here, they mostly spend all day driving around aimlessly.
When there’s no parking space at Dunkin’ Donuts. DD is the dispatcher.
The thieves are not like those crossing the border. The thieves are not looking for an authority figure to turn themselves in to. What can the cops do? Catch a few, the others run away. Those caught get out of the overnight and are back on the street training more. Cops can’t shoot them.
There are serious social failures out there. Either those failures get eliminated or the society that we know and love will continue to break down.
CEOs of companies, including Target, Neiman Marcus, Levi Strauss & Co. and Walgreens a sent a letter to Congress last month, urging legislation that makes it harder for criminals to “hide behind fake screennames and false business information” on third-party marketplaces.
The worst possible response to this problem.
According to the Documentaries Goodfellas and The Sopranos, this was a big part of how the mob made a living.
“US’s fleet of more than 9,000 helicopters including air ambulances could be grounded after 5G wireless rollout on January 19 because the network interferes with choppers’ radar altimeter”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10403689/Medevac-helicopters-grounded-5G-wireless-rollout-January-19.html
That’s not good.
I am still trying to figure out this fear.
But fear!!!!!!!!!
IT’S Y2K…TIMES INFINITY!!!
It’s not like any issue we’ve ever dealt with before.
WiFi does disrupt our weather radar a bit though, the 5 GHz network induces interference. However, you still can get good products.
For instance, we had our spectrum folks out this week and they had about 10 offenders where all they had to do was switch to a new channel on their security systems that utilized 5 GHz wifi.
Overblown
5G is in the adjacent band, not overlapping so the interference would be from this e order intermodulation products. I suppose it’s possible under extreme conditions but the major concern seems to be in “remote areas” where 5G signals are not as prevalent nor are they as powerful.
I’d like to see the analysis. My guess is somebody didn’t file the necessary paperwork on established services interference.
From third order intermodulation…
This is as bad as your cell phone will cause a plane to crash if you don’t go to ‘airplane’ mode.
5G is lower transmit and receive power than 4G as well with more antenna sector differentiation. I find it to be unlikely.
The more interesting question is how easy it would be to disrupt major wireless services on a national scale. Far easier than most think. I’m sure you’re aware of the trucker who was blowing up the GPS services at a Jersey airport with a jammer because he didn’t want to be tracked by his employer.
“Could”
But won’t be.
“Column: California should abolish parenthood, in the name of equity
If California is ever going to achieve true equity, the state must require parents to give away their children.
Today’s Californians often hold up equity — the goal of a just society completely free from bias — as our greatest value. Gov. Gavin Newsom makes decisions through “an equity lens.” Institutions from dance ensembles to tech companies have publicly pledged themselves to equity.
But their promises are no match for the power of parents.
Fathers and mothers with greater wealth and education are more likely to transfer these advantages to their children, compounding privilege over generations. As a result, children of less advantaged parents face an uphill struggle, social mobility has stalled, and democracy has been corrupted. More Californians are abandoning the dream; a recent Public Policy Institute of California poll found declining belief in the notion that you can get ahead through hard work.
My solution — making raising your own children illegal — is simple, and while we wait for the legislation to pass, we can act now: the rich and poor should trade kids, and homeowners might swap children with their homeless neighbors.
Now, I recognize that some naysayers will dismiss such a policy as ghastly, even totalitarian. But my proposal is quite modest, a fusion of traditional philosophy and today’s most common political obsessions…”
https://news.yahoo.com/column-california-abolish-parenthood-name-181725030.html
A modest proposal?
That has to be a joke. Has to.
It is. It’s absolutely A Modest Proposal type satire.
When Democrats talk about inequality, what they are really complaining about is good parenting. Something conservatives have always mocked.
It’s right there in the last sentence…
It’s getting harder to tell
Yep, the brave new world reference at the end was the final clue.
Ah i just noticed there’s literally a wink and nod in there to it as well.
I mean figuratively
Yep. “But my proposal is quite modest”. LOL
But given Poe’s Law, there’s probably a non-satirical version out there somewhere.
I mean kinda they do want to take parents out of the equation, right? They’re just rarely so overt.
True. The Virginia governor’s comments on education revealed he differed with the idea only in degree, not in kind.
If you were to suggest black people raise their parenting standards to certain Asian cultures you would probably be banned from all public circles for your racism.
But bring others down is cool.
The example that drives people most nuts is Nigerians who starting from the same poverty level wind up being more successful in education and prosperity? Why? The only difference people can find is strong parenting and education values.
But given Poe’s Law
Does Poe’s Law have a corollary such that some sincere idiot would take the satire as a genuine proposal?
Somewhere out there a proggie is getting excited reading that. True equity!!!!
There you go.
This week Biden hit peak “if you’re not with me you’re racist”. It didn’t get him anywhere, and it seemed to turn off a lot of people. I noticed something. When he’s speaking off the cuff and fumbling over his words he seems like one person, and when he’s making these fiery angry speeches he seems like another. Those prepared speeches must be written by his handlers, who appear to be young, dumb socialists.
That is why at the end of his speeches, he sits quietly. Can’t have him off the cuff cause he is a very controlled president. Speak only when told, do not deviate, etc. They are treating it truly like a TV show.
Tucker Carlson did a thing once that showed him giving two conflicting answers about paying immigrants who got separated at the border. One day he was more himself saying of course we wouldn’t do that, the very next day he was Angry Joe saying OF COURSE WE’RE DOING THAT!
I like it when he dramatically whispers.
“Just get the shot, B.P.”
Yeah, with that real serious look, as though he is speaking directly to you. Joe needs his own news summary show on late TV to explain what Jen has been telling us in the day time.
This explains it perfectly:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708442/
I’ve been saying since early 2020 that Biden has a committee of young “woke” staffers who group-think what his messaging should be and that’s how his speeches are developed. That’s how they came up with the stupid idea of announcing that the US would be out of Afghanistan by September 11th.
Have these staffers ever been identified, credentials exposed, etc.? With the Trumpster in power, it seemed like everyone on his staff, right down to the gal who made the McDonald’s pickup, was mentioned in the press every time they interacted with Trump.
Surely you jest. We cannot understand the complexities of the most transparent administration ever.
That is exactly what is happening TOK. And thankfully it bombed big time. Even the Stacey Abrams crowd, that would be the most receptive to that horseshit didn’t even bother to show up.
My father started losing it over the summer and he has the same ticks and mannerisms as Biden. We don’t even let my father drive anymore and somehow Biden is our President. How anybody who actually cares about Biden still puts him out there shows how evil these people are.
“Wearing a facemask makes you more attractive to the opposite sex, study finds
Cardiff University study asked 43 women to rank men’s faces with different items covering them
The study found that men with blue medical face masks were the most attractive”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10400153/Wearing-facemask-makes-attractive-opposite-sex-study-finds.html
I guess they were ugly?
Two words: bad teeth.
They’re Welsh.
Normalization.
I guess if you prog hard enough you can have a years long relationship without ever removing your masks?
bullshit
Tex Avery called. He wants his schtick back.
I guess they were ugly?
Must be. A balanced study should find no effect, I’d think, as the face masks obscure the face and replace part of it with essentially a blank canvas, which should be neither ugly nor beautiful to observers. Therefor, a mask should theoretically make an ugly person look better and a beautiful person look worse, so in a study with an equal number of ugly and beautiful people the effect should cancel out.
Is the average person attractive or ugly in the face though? You might assume it would even out but there is no guarantee.
Also keep in mind most people have an above average iq. How is this possible? Distribution. How are ugly and attractive people distributed?
::tries to think through logic of this statement::
So…you’re from Lake Wobegon?
If you have a skew with very few really smart people, and more really, really dumb people, the top of the curve could be above the mean.
Right.
Let’s suppose there is an “Urthona Smartness” test. 100 people take it. 90 get 100%. 10 get 0%.
What percentage of people possess above average Urthona Smartness?
Zero, your mode is 100.
It’s because average says nothing about distribution. I think people assume falsely there is an even distribution of iqs.
Technically the Lake Wobegon thing is meant to be a joke but not actually false.
In fact , 90% of people could be above average at something. Completely possible.
Well, you didn’t say “most people could have an above average IQ.” You said most people have an above average IQ. So my natural reaction is to say “Citation, please” or to ask what total population you’re considering within which “most” have above average IQ.
Off topic, but the girlfriend and I are going to be down C-bus way the second weekend of February, thread over in the forum about it.
So you are saying that the mean and median IQ are not the same? Interesting. I guess the same could apply to beauty as well. In fact, anecdotally I think I tend to see more average or beautiful faces than ugly faces IRL, but I don’t know if that’s true or a bias (either biased based on my own conception of beauty, which might skew low to make myself seem better in my own eyes, or based on subconsciously ignoring ugly people more often than beautiful people). But if we rate faces on a 0-10 scale, with 5 being plain (neither ugly or beautiful), and the average person has a face that is in fact above 5 (say, 6 or 7), then the effect of the masks should be to make people look uglier, I would think. But there may be more variables involved than I am considering (after all, obscuring the face may allow the imagination to fill in the blanks with a more appealing visage).
I was kind of being funny but I think there’s possible it’s not as simple as all looks being evenly distributed. Maybe.
Perhaps there’s also some game theory involved where it depends on a scale of everyone else.
I was kind of being funny
Dammit. This will teach me not to take everything a talking pickle says seriously.
Not quite.
When the face is obscured, people often fill in the gaps with a fantasy. This is also why meeting your online dates in the days before ubiquitous digital cameras was usually disappointing.
“people often fill in the gaps with a fantasy”
^^^This.
Additionally, it highlights the eyes, a feature that is usually pretty attractive by itself on most people.
Did not expect that answer from Q.
So odd. Lately, I’ve been seeing the word “ubiquitous” everywhere.
This is why I wear a mask over my penis.
This is definitely true here. Asian eyes > Asian teeth.
“Yachts To Be Exempt From EU’s Carbon Pricing Plan
If there is anyone still confused why ESG, and the entire “green” movement is one giant, boiling cauldron of lies, hypocrisy and fraud, read on.
Last summer, we reported that the European Commission – that murder of career bureaucrats – has proposed exempting private jets, the one most polluting form of transportation, from the planned EU jet fuel tax. A draft indicated that the tax would be phased-in for passenger flights, including ones that carry cargo. Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of “business aviation” as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an “aid to the conduct of their business”, if generally considered not for public hire. It gets better: a further exemption is given for “pleasure” flights whereby an aircraft is used for “personal or recreational” purposes not associated with a business or professional use.
This is odd because a recent report found that private-jet CO2 emissions in Europe rose by 31% between 2005 and 2019, with flights to popular destinations up markedly during summer holiday seasons. So if Europe was truly concerned about curbing CO2 emissions it would ostensibly go after some of the biggest culprits… but no…”
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/yachts-be-exempt-eus-carbon-pricing-plan
Was this posted already?
European elites are even worse than American elites.
If I understand it correctly, there is an exemption for boats under a certain size, and that includes most yachts.
A draft indicated that the tax would be phased-in for passenger flights, including ones that carry cargo. Private jets will enjoy an exemption through classification of “business aviation” as the use of aircraft by firms for carriage of passengers or goods as an “aid to the conduct of their business”, if generally considered not for public hire.
The logic doesn’t even make sense. Passenger and cargo flights aid in the conduct of business as much if not more than private jets. Talk about the aristocracy pissing on the serfs.
Talk about the aristocracy pissing on the serfs.
Well they should be more attentive with the buckets if they don’t want to be pissed on! /adjusts monocle, saunters off to the bar
“during Up Helly Aa, a Viking-themed festival that takes place at the end of January at Lerwick, at the north end of Scotland.”
First, I would love to go to Shetland during Up Helly Aa but I doubt it will ever happen.
Second, “Lerwick, at the north end of Scotland.” Umm, technically correct I guess. Lerwick is on Mainland, one of the Shetland Islands, 120+ miles from the northern tip of mainland Scotland. And even then, there’s a town 65 miles further north.
Viking themed festival better not have any horned helmets, but should have flyting cause then we can claim cultural appropriating to those silly rap battles.
Hey Ron, sorry I didn’t have time to post earlier – re the stoicism on control/change. I do recall during our [cbt] sere training one of the things they emphasize for POWs is to recall the things you Do have control over – such as staying fit, adjusting bed, etc.
“BREAKING: Minnesota Bank and Trust moves to CANCEL MyPillow founder’s bank accounts
The accounts in question are Lindell Management, Lindell Outreach, Lindell Recovery Network, Lindell-TV, Lindell Foundation, Lindell Publishing, Frankspeech, Michael Lindell Personal, and MyStore.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-minnesota-bank-and-trust-moves-to-cancel-mypillow-founders-bank-accounts
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1482106370182856706
I would be happy to hold the money for wealthy conservatives who are banned from things if this is a common problem.
*indicts Urthona as a co-conspirator*
Inshurextionist!!!!!
That has to be in response to outside pressure groups because from a business standpoint that is just epic retardation. A bank kicking out an individual with a 9-figure net worth is so beyond stupid that only activist morons would be receptive to it.
And it’s not as though it’s going to affect the guy; there are plenty of other banks that will gladly accept his zillions.
Reads like they are going to get rid of his ‘foundations’ and other ventures, but not the MyPillow. So brave.
Ha! That won’t last long.
I’m not a big fan of Lindell’s but I don’t think he’s stupid enough to keep his business accounts there now.
This can only go badly for the bank. Nobody is going to flock to them and say “Oh! It’s the bank that hates conservatives!”
Instead, there will be a stark cooling of interest as many smaller accounts leave. Not a single normal person will look at that action and say “Wow! i trust them with my money now!”
Well, they may gain a 1000 accounts that have a max balance of $500 bucks from government checks now. So its a win!
Me and Mike will be dealing in cash from now on.
From the Post Millenial article:
That executive stated during the call that the bank, a subsidiary of Heartland Financial, had concerns about being connected with “someone who could be in the news.”
“Not that the FBI is even sniffing and looking, but what if somebody came and said, ‘Do you know what? We are going to subpoena all of his account records, and this and that.’ And then all of a sudden we make the news,” the executive said.
“someone who could be in the news.”
Do you remember when Saturday morning cartoons used to be interrupted by “In the News”, a minute-long video thing that started with a deep-voiced announcer and a spinning grid globe, then a few moments of film and breaking down big issues of the day to kid level, and ending with “and that’s what’s In the News!”
I’ll bet that show wouldn’t have lost any bank accounts.
That bill that failed in NY State must have been a test run for the big cities. I think that bill would pass in NYC, Philly, SF and DC.
Oh I did a reverse Brooks
Gilmore’d.
Thanks Doc, now I’m down a rabbit hole – https://youtu.be/Y2niAlg4WOc
I’m pretty sure the early 1970s was the high-water mark when it comes to opening titles and credits. https://youtu.be/zvLzVTpnb5I
Because booting him certainly won’t put them in the news… kinda like how they are right now.
Banking executives are clearly not familiar with the Streisand Effect.
Would love to see what their basis is. “We received mean tweets!!!! MEAN TWEETS!”
It had to have been done for woke points. Nobody’s that stupid.
Some exec’s wife was really embarrassed by being associated with Lindell.
Probably used one to prop up her favorite sex position
Jewface.
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/helen-mirren-jewface-golda-meir-1235148911/
This line stood out.
Why not? He already played Gandhi, winning 8 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director.
Yeah, I thought the same thing when I read that. Kingsley made Gandhi a much more sympathetic character than he actually was in real life.
“Allowed”
Sigh
Well, he is half-Indian, not that it should matter.
Nonsense. His best role was in “Species”!
Is it anti-Semitic to point out that Hollywood is run by wealthy old Jews and their children who are handed positions of power out of nepotism?
Only on Saturdays.
I see I should have read ahead and had my question answered. I am an anti-Semitic bigot.
Cassius Clay could never play a Muslim.
Does anyone truly like the band Chicago?
They’re a hard habit to break.
?
Does anybody truly care?
Only at twenty-five or -six to four.
I’ve been up that late. Or that early. Whatever.
Sounds like you are asking questions 67 and 68
First couple of albums, none of the hundreds thereafter.
Worth a read.
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/peter-daszak-well-yes-this-is-exactly
This explanation also accounts for why they had a vaccine design ready to go. They were already developing it as part of the program to try to get a spike protein with human affinity onto a bat coronavirus. It was a package deal.
It was never about protecting China from criticism. The lab leak hypothesis had to be squelched because it exposed the nasty shit govts everywhere do.
He points out that China now has leverage on most of the NIH and other US scientific agencies involved. By denying the lab leak theory, they handed the Chinese the keys.
It wasn’t a Chinese plot at all, but the idiots gave China an opening by lying. There’s no chance China wouldn’t use that to their advantage.
Makes sense. Corrupt CCP and corrupt govts around the world got each other’s backs.
I’m down in Shibuya (downtown business/fashion area) today for the first time in 2 years. WFH is finished finally. Holy shit. I see closed shops all over the place and they never had a hard lockdown. I can only imagine how hard NY’s small shop owners must’ve gotten hit. Crime of the century.
The avenue next to me (Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn) is wall-to-wall small shops for miles in both directions.
In good times there are rare vacancies. Now there are quite a few, but not as many as I might have expected – maybe 10%? Mostly restaurants, of course.
I like the small shops that deal in obscure stuff. In good times they only had a couple of customers in at a time. But, yeah, the chain stores seem to be doing fine. Ugh.
Just when I thought it was safe to go out on the InterTubes again, Dr. Oz is making me actually kinda like him:
Dr. Oz Slams “Petty Tyrant” Fauci, Challenges Him To Debate On COVID
The steak umms twitter account is way better than actual steak umms. Good read thanks webDom!
Present for any old school rock fans out there (esp. lolbot) https://youtu.be/W66td1l_ISQ Millenials can still do it and webdom, retarded cats are the best cats. That is all.