So I set up some LED lights in my son’s room. He had about 5M worth and helped me wrap it around the door frame. Then we go to turn it on.
Nothing.
I check the instructions to make sure there was nothing I missed.
Nope. Still nothing.
Made in China used to mean something. It can’t just be a sales gimmick like “go fuck yourself.”
How about a few links?
Mexico has a cultural appropriation law, complete with predictable results.
Stupid Trump, and his stupid avocado trade wars. Whoa, wait a minute…
My first job after I left the AF I came across a coworker from Venezuela. We hung out a lot in the break room , likely because he noticed I was the same shade. Incidentally, we spoke once about guns and he had the surprising opinion the AR pattern rifles were outdated and had a preference for the HK G36. Turns out he immigrated here via Canada.
Possible plot twist: Bolsonaro talks Putin into not invading [The] Ukraine.
You know how every likes to rag on the Chinese-American Olympians? Its totally normal in futból.
Why not? Have a great Tuesday!
Well, only three minutes late.
“A small blouse can take between 30 to 40 hours to make and might sell for as low as 200 pesos (less than $10 USD). For many Indigenous women, their textiles are the main source of income.”
Put them on the internet?
“The government can ban the sale of the designs, and prosecute, through the attorney general’s office, national and foreign companies that breach agreements or copy cultural heritage items. Penalties range from up to 20 years in prison and fines of up to 4 million pesos (around $200,000 USD).”
Que?
Ariadna Solis, art historian and PhD candidate at UNAM:
“Solis explains that Indigenous women, especially when wearing traditional textiles, become highly visible in cities, like Mexico City, which leads to them becoming a target of racism. It is easier, says Solís, for a white woman to wear a waisted cotton blouse “inspired” by these communities’ colorful embroidery, than a heavy, expensive huipil (a traditional loose-fitting tunic worn by Indigenous women), which does not mark the female figure and is hard to wash.
“When we use these textiles, we are marked by a whole colonial history of violence,” says Solis. “White women add this exotic, colorful part of their lives one day, and by taking off that garment, or even having it on, they never recognize all the degrees of violence that racialized women experience every day.””
OFFS!!
I’m unable to even figure out what they’re claiming.
So I figure it’s bullshit.
Thanks for the cover gif. I needed that today.
At first I was thinking again? I didn’t want it to become routine, but then the hand hits just the right spot and that thought flutters away.
Viva la ass gif!!!
It is indeed a top-notch GIF.
Your son had five million LED lights?
I think he means they’re made by 5M, the Mexican equivalent of 3M. It’s a higher number because of the exchange rate.
Five meters. Its like a yard, but for communists.
Does Mexico use metric electricity?
So 16′ in freedom measurement?
So, just a bit short of a rod.
Disclaimer: I’m in construction so I understand the enormity of what I’m about to say.
Controversial opinion:
The metric system is superior to the backwards, arbitrary and non-sensical Imperial system in everyway imaginable and at some point we need to switch over.
I’ll take your responses off-the-air as I run screaming from the torches and pitchforks.
Pint. A proper serving of beer is a pint.
Otherwise calculating between measures makes metric much more convenient.
Quick, what’s half of a quarter of a centimeter?
Ok, now, what’s half of a quarter of an inch?
If you have a hole in the wall that’s 5cm by 7cm, how much is it?
What if you have a hole that’s 1-7/8″ x 2-3/4″?
You mean 1.875″ X 2.75″?
You can use a ruler?
An eighth of a centimeter?
I can work with measurements in either system and generally can do rough calculations in my head.
One thing that I am firm on: It is ludicrous that the freezing point of water is anything other than zero.
0* is no molecular movement. Anything else is arbitrary.
Yeah, but it’s not real-world. In the real world I want to know if the moisture falling from the sky is liquid or solid. Is the road going to be icy? Is my plumbing going to be okay?
If Fahrenheit simply subtracted 32 degrees that would be fine. Water boils at 180F? Fine. But water freezes at zero.
When I was a framing carpenter in Okinawa, it was simpler to use metric, because they would just call out a number for the cut length.
The only downside was we were using 4’X8′ plywood, sso walls were 16″ centered studs.
We all marked our metric tape measures for 16″.
arbitrary
What is a meter? A kilogram? Why is a liter not a cubic meter?
Metric calculations are easier.
I don’t know all the answers, but apparently every measurement in metric has a basis in nature. For example, a gram is based on the weight for a cubic centimeter of water.
How many metric hours do you work?
By the way, nothing in metric is based on nature. It is all based on a committee. For example, a meter is based on 1/4 of the circumference of the earth. Really, why not the whole circumference? Because then it wouldn’t be close to a yard. No, the metric system is based on everything being arbitrarily assigned to a base-ten scale. But the earth, isn’t.
(and a gram is now based on Planks constant. Which is a revision centuries after the whole fucking system was created.)
Not even remotely controversial. I often used metric in woodworking – it’s easier.
I wrote a DIYing heroine who used metric measurements. /shilling
The practical problem right now is that the machine shops that we outsource fabrication to are all tooled in Imperial, and the machinists are used to dealing in fractions of inches or that charming bastardization known as the “mil” of inches.
So while all the government customers insist in the contracts that we use metric, in reality it introduces a lot of potential for computational errors when the prototypes and final deliverables are fabricated.
It’s also amusing to have the customers ask us how big something is, and when we answer in millimeters, they immediately request what it is in inches. Dude, you’re the one who insisted on metric in the first place.
This is why I put in a disclaimer acknowledging the enormity of the proposal. No individual could comprehend all the changes that would have to take place in every single industry. There would be a massive number of problems and I imagine large short term losses in efficiency and money for the calculation errors that would happen alone. All that would be temporary and in the long term, reduce the problems associated with needing to transcribe for things like trading.
The reason that most countries were able to switch to metric in the sixties or seventies is that, with a couple of exceptions, none of those countries that changed were actual manufacturing countries. Most of the countries
using the metric system were in Europe and had gone down the metric rabbit hole in the years after the French revolution. The two exceptions were England and Japan. England switched from Whitworth machine tooling (55* thread pitch) to SAE (60*) around ’60, and when they decided to switch to metric around 70, it damn near killed the manufacturing industry in England, and cause as a secondary effect an intense amount of social unrest as finances took the hit. Japan was already in the process of switching over when they started the eastern side of WWII and were halfway there when they made the final push in ’65. They were also just beginning to become the major manufacturing center they would later become, so there wasn’t nearly as much to change over.
In the US, we have used USS and then SAE as our base industrial measurements, and both are based on the inch system, usually laid out in .001’s for machining purposes. And, as the largest manufacturing system went the push came, trying to get everyone to replace trillions of dollars of machinery with newer stuff that conformed to a new system, machinery that wasn’t ever common here, especially during a recession? Well, that is a nogo.
Up above, you were stating that all of the metric system is based on nature, well, the avoirdupois system is actual nature in use. A bushel of wheat is a bushel (basket). An inch is roughly your thumb, etc. For most of time, that worked perfectly, and when it was no longer accurate enough, it was standardized.
Police contracts usually specify that everything needs to be in metric also. When delivery takes place, every time we would be required to explain in real measurements.
The practical problem right now is that the machine shops that we outsource fabrication to are all tooled in Imperial, and the machinists are used to dealing in fractions of inches or that charming bastardization known as the “mil” of inches.
So while all the government customers insist in the contracts that we use metric, in reality it introduces a lot of potential for computational errors when the prototypes and final deliverables are fabricated.
It’s also amusing to have the customers ask us how big something is, and when we answer in millimeters, they immediately request what it is in inches. Dude, you’re the one who insisted on metric in the first place.
This is what happens when you try to mix different measuring standards.
Those would be some very odd machinists. The measurement of a machinist is a “thou”. As in a thousandth of an inch: 0.001″
The mil is 1/1000 of a dollar.
For the tolerances your kind of work calls out, they may speak in occasionally in “tenths”, as in one ten-thousandth of an inch: 0.0001″
The “mil” is a thousandth of an inch, coming from the Latin “mille”. A “thou” and a “mil” are the same thing.
Mil is a very normal term in North America.
I should have said the mil is the term commonly used in defense, which is my field. Artillery bearings, mortars etc, and military handheld compasses all are marked and called out in mils.
Mil is a very normal term in North America.
I find it’s more common with older, traditional processes and suspect that established firms with such folk and processes get more defense/classified work than others….so it persists there.
In my lifetime common, affordable processes have moved from ten mils (0.010″ which I would call “ten thousandths”) to mils to tenths.
Four decades ago a lifetime of man-hours was spent measuring parts, correcting tools, arguing over tolerances. With the machining tolerances today and the less ambiguous GD&T, common, affordable components are produced basically exactly as the original CAD drew it….with I would estimate two orders of magnitude less effort or error. It is a stunning time to be alive.
Wikipedia:
Wrong. If metric was base 12 instead of base 10, I would agree. That would require changing our entire number system, but that would make it better.
Being divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6 is better than being divisible by 2 and 5.
Imperial units have problems, but division is not one of them.
How many centimeters in a 1/3rd of a meter? How many inches in a third of a yard?
Check and mate.
Also, if you switch to base 12, metric time works out.
Also, also, the base units in metric suck.
Are we using cgs metric or mks metric? And how come neither is using 3 base units? This is what happens when you let the French do these things. The Germans or Swiss would have got it right.
Or possible some 12 finger Carribeans.
See, for example, Planck units. Germans don’t screw these things up.
I am with you on this, robc.
Base 12 Money Counting
I knew it would be that video.
That’s the point I was trying to make above–the divisibility of the base is the important part. It’s so much easier to divide distances with imperial units.
It also goes for other important quantities like mass and derived units like speed.
Sorry, but I’m going to continue measuring distances in chain, and you’ll just have to live with it.
Arshins or GTFO!
(Tatami will be accepted as a substitute standard)
Bzzt! Tatami is a measure of area, not distance.
Years ago one of my favorite Kyoto hangouts was a place we called “the Six” as the Japanese name translated, more or less, into “Six Tatami Mats.” And, yes, that’s about how big it was. Total capacity, maybe five, if they were all on good terms.
Do you even Latin, bro? 5M is five thousand. Five million would be 5MM.
That took me a second to parse correctly. ‘Mericans using metric throws me for a loop sometimes.
You have my apologies.
Not at all, Señor Sharpshooter. I hope you get it figured out.
When I was living in Stockholm, I watched a lot of BBC. It amused me to see the weatherman pointing at temperature maps in Celsius and wind speeds in km/hr, while at the same time saying verbally what they were in Fahrenheit and mi/hr to the exclusion of what was displayed.
I can only assume that particular weatherman was making some sort of polite protest.
Or just translating
It was all in the Queen’s English, whether written or oral, being a BBC broadcast. The guy just apparently couldn’t bring himself to use anything metric or Celsius.
The unit of measure known as the stone is semi baffling to me. It’s not 12 pounds, it’s 14 pounds. WTF?
I forgot how many pounds are in one stone probably twenty times.
Was that before or after the EU forced the Brits to switch to metric?
I remember reading about more than a bit of pushback against government attempts to force folks to use metric. Many folks just kept on using Imperial units despite the government’s action.
Dude, she is younger than me!
As an aside, I read somewhere the British are not legally allowed to have signage in metric, but they have been abusing this since the Blair admin, at least. There is a small movement afoot to change everything back to miles.
I thought the push from the EU was in the 90s.
That’s when I remember reading these stories, and they all had the context of the EU pushing Britain to do something Britain didn’t want to do.
Does that diagram say “insert credit card to turn on lights”?
Do they give a discount if you go with an annual subscription instead of monthly.
Mexico has a cultural appropriation law
So no Cinco de Mayo this year?
Of course not, Cinco De Mayo is a US holiday, not a mexican one
PJ O’Rourke, 1947-2022
PJ died about two decades ago as far as I’m concerned.
That long ago? I would have said more like 5-10 years.
His son is about 1/3 on good takes with his Reason column. I’m pretty sure that batting average is the leader over there by far currently.
Oops, I’m thinking of JD Tuccille,
I used to like 2-Chili’s pieces. I haven’t been to TOS in such a long time. Is Robby still cranking out the occasional solid article?
To be sure.*
*I don’t’ really know, just wanted to say that.
Did he endorse Hillary in his will?
R.I.P.
He was funny, once upon a time.
Is that Beto’s dad?
O’Rourke’s problem was that he stuck around too long. The pretentions and absurdities that he used to mock became his friends and acquaintances.
Well put.
I met him right after the recording of a Wait, Wait where he was a panelist. He was friendly, engaging, and was sincerely delighted that I remembered him from his days at Harry (an obscure Baltimore underground newspaper of my early teens). Everything I could have wanted in a celebrity meeting.
I cannot count the number of real laughs I got from Reptile and Holidays. RIP, PJ.
He was hilarious when writing for National Lampoon and did some great non-political articles in Playboy. Never read his books (although I should sometime). I agree, though, that he got a lot more uninteresting when he turned a lot less libertarian.
RIP, at any rate.
My kids got those LED strip lights to line the walls and ceilings in their rooms, too. 3 of 4 strips were good to go, one was a dud.
What’s up Chipper?
Howdy. How’s tricks? Life done been busy, so I’ve been scarce.
Trying not to hate everyone too much.
Otherwise, just being middle-aged.
Maybe they’re the same thing.
A battle I usually don’t do well with. My misanthropy only grows with age.
Welcome back.
Thanks! How ya been?
Doing good, thanks.
I live in Mechanicsville now. If you or Scruffy ever find your way up around here, let me know. Would love to have lunch with you guys again sometime and there are a few surprisingly good lunch spots locally.
There is a meetup on Feb 26th in Fredericksburg at Gourmeltz.
Hmmmm…I tihnk my daughter’s pinewood derby is that day. If not, I’ll be there.
Ya’ll need to come out to the southwestern part of the state.
It was only in 1997 that the U.S. lifted a ban on Mexican avocados that had been in place since 1914 to prevent a range of weevils, scabs and pests from entering U.S. orchards.
The large avocado seed weevil (Heilipus lauri) has been largely controlled, leaving only the diminutive seed weevil as a potential threat, and a minor one at that. In this case, as in most, it was imperative to choose the lesser of two weevils.
The Royal Navy approves of this joke.
My sense of humor used to be pretty juvenile, but it’s been Maturin over time.
You shouldn’t have picked that one, it’s a bit rotten.
*narrows gaze*
Swiss is disturbed by the banality of weevils.
OT/for TPTB – looks like my next installment isn’t going to make today, apologies for creating a scheduling hole, and for disappointing my audience. I’ll make up for it.
Just the worst.
J/K hope everything is alright and thanks for doing what you do.
All is well, just had a week’s vacation and didn’t push it far enough along before leaving.
Thanks. We have something scheduled.
Another one out of the mists of time
“EXCLUSIVE – Clinton cornered: Hillary refuses to answer questions AGAIN about Durham revelation that she paid to spy on Trump campaign after arriving at daughter Chelsea’s NYC home and going to a restaurant with a film crew”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10515599/Hillary-IGNORES-question-Durham-claims-spied-Trump-arrives-daughter-Chelseas.html
Well, it’s not like she answered questions while running for President.
“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
The walls are closing in.
They got the Clintons for sure this time. And nothing else happened.
No reasonable prosecutor…
You’d think the press would know by now that she’s not going to answer any questions that aren’t slipped to her ahead of time.
The ambush interview is not about getting answers, but about getting them on tape not answering. “What are you hiding?”
So I set up some LED lights in my son’s room. He had about 5M worth and helped me wrap it around the door frame.
LED tape? Make sure you’re soldering connections with heat shrink wrap instead of using the plastic connectors. I ran ~10 meters above and below the kitchen cabinets a few months ago. Worked perfectly. If you’re using the connectors, that might be your issue instead of the tape.
The big box stores sell tape under a 3rd party name that I think Armacost makes, but the specs are much worse than than what you get buying Armacost. It’s a lot cheaper on Amazon though than direct from manufacturer.
I plan to return these to Amazon, and use the proceeds to pick up a decent lighting strip from Home Despot.
“Biden says he put a dead dog on a Republican woman’s doorstep while serving as a Delaware county official and promises to ‘work like the devil’ to bring down gas prices in National Association of Counties speech”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10516219/Biden-says-dead-dog-Republicans-doorstep-serving-county-government.html
What’s with this guy and dogs?
Work like the Devil, meaning he’ll lower gas prices to $0.10 a gallon, then BAN ALL CARS.
He’s never had a real job, has he?
Oh and as usual I’ll take “Shit That Never Happened” for a thousand, Alex.
From the book of faces: Dear Bloomers, it’s official: a Bloom County animated series is in the works.
It’s about 30 years too late. I expect it will be totally woke.
What on earth is ‘Bloom County’?
One of the best comic strips ever produced — 30+ years ago.
Think Doonesbury — only funny.
You know, I never realized there was a difference until today.
So, one of those I learned to habitually skip as a child because they made no sense?
Bill the Cat — Ack thbbft!
And Opus the Penguin.
So, yes, one of those I learned to skip because they made no sense.
Why did they insist on shoving them into the space with children’s content?
Back then, topical/political comics geared at adults appeared with all the other strips. Segregating them out to other pages was actually a bad thing. They needed to be where teens could find them as they grew up.
I read fewer comics as I became a teen, and those that I’d learned to ignore at a young age got less attention than even the Ads. I’d stopped completely be the time I started thinking about politics.
Bill the Cat was explicitly a criticism of Garfield.
It was no Calvin and Hobbes.
Done by local (to me) legendary recluse Bill Watterson. In the long ago, he used to wander through the book stores (that should give an idea of how long ago), and surreptitiously autograph random collections of Calvin and Hobbes books on the shelves. Rumor is that he stopped when several of the book stores started to recognize him, follow him, then pull the books off that were signed to mark up.
Far Side >> Calvin and Hobbes >> Dilbert >> Bloom County
Early Dilbert belongs in that list.
Dilbert has been terrible for more than a decade.
Probably been longer than that since I read it regularly.
Needs more Pogo, but essentially correct.
At one point I was stuck in a hotel with a Mary Kay convention (me and two of my coworkers were there for work). They kept trying to sell the group of us cosmetics, ignoring our slovenly IT appearance. We were finally able to get free by using the line from Attack of the Mary Kay Commandos, “Look… even their Uzis are pink!”
Ack, Pthtbbbb!
Probably right. 🙁
I tried reading the resurrected Bloom County.
I was really happy to see it come back.
And then… the neverending TDS and pro-Lil Rona Panic bullshit.
I assumed it would be like that so I’ve never looked at it. I prefer to have pleasant memories of the orginal.
I was so terribly disappointed that Breathed went in for the establishment lines after all the years he spent satirizing them.
It’s been really pathetic to watch everyone who used to be edgy just become establishment schills. Rage Against Everyone Against the Machine anyone?
It will make Doonesbury seem balanced.
Beavis and Butthead would like a word.
I didn’t watch it. Please don’t tell me Mike Judge has gone woke. I don’t think I can take it.
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/bloom-county-animated-fox-berkeley-breathed-1235182440/amp/?fbclid=IwAR1-UQ1SVnBiV2nmjqgf36EQtaLhgTOuVBbnt0EazSjgeXx_T9myFmqoDww
Just like the strip, the TV version of “Bloom County” will center “on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.”
Steve Dallas can’t exist in the modern world. I don’t see how this can work.
“At the end of ‘Alien,’ we watched cuddly Sigourney Weaver go down for a long peaceful snooze in cryogenic hyper-sleep after getting chased around by a saliva-spewing maniac, only to be wakened decades later into a world stuffed with far worse,” Breathed said in a statement. “Fox and I have done the identical thing to Opus and the rest of the Bloom County gang, may they forgive us.”
Breathed will be executive producer. Maybe he can make it worthwhile. But, I am prepared to be disappointed.
To fight back against the plagiarism and dispossession of Indigenous art, Mexico has approved a law meant to protect and safeguard the cultural heritage of Indigenous and Afro-Mexican peoples and communities. It recognizes the collective right to intellectual property of these communities, calls for the creation of a National Registry of Cultural Heritage, and allows the government to prosecute theft of a cultural work. On the surface, it’s a bold step toward dealing with cultural appropriation and remedying some of the ways these communities continue to be marginalized.
What could possibly go wrong? They had the best of intentions!
Best of intentions? Like “New grift for the lawyers”?
Does this mean I can’t paint an Aztec Broad with big tits on to the hood of a ’65 Impala?
Just don’t drive it south of the border.
Better than painting an impala on a Pontiac Aztek.
“Yummy! Justin Bieber’s limited edition line of donuts in November almost single-handedly turned around Tim Hortons sending profits soaring by $190MILLION”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10516101/Justin-Biebers-donut-line-single-handedly-saved-Tim-Hortons.html
WTF, Canada?
Maybe they deserve Turdeau
I would vote for Bieber over Trudeau, without knowing anything about what he thinks politcally.
Probably hard to be much worse?
I’d rather have a Bill Shatner donut.
How have I not seen this?
あかせあかり / 恋ノ行方 (My Dress-Up Darling / Ending Song)
My Dress Up Darling is in my Top 3 for this anime season. It’s actually got a sweet natural romantic story coupled lots of T&A that is actually relevant to the plot.
This just in — Krugman is a moron. Winston’s Mom shocked… shocked, I say!
In one sense he is correct.
Krugman, protestations aside, doesn’t give a shit about poor people. Therefore the BLM protests didn’t hurt anybody by his estimation.
The truckers however, have more of an impact on the laptop class by causing shortages of cake, therefore they are evil.
“The delivery of my Nespresso capsules is delayed! GODDAMNED TRUCKERS!”
Of course he wants cake…. they all want cake….
It is simpler and baser than that:
Friend-Enemy Distinction
Krugman is protected. Even if the BLM protests were to impact his neighborhood or his bank account, they are on the friend side. Even if the anti-mandate protests weren’t to impact him in any way (and they won’t), they are on the enemy side.
There is no further depth here to be found.
Another
Thank you! One of my favorites.
Joe’s uncle taught my Aristotle class /boring trivia
You know how every likes to rag on the Chinese-American Olympians? Its totally normal in futból.
You see this with Italy in sports like baseball and hockey frequently because Italian citizenship laws are fairly expansive if you had an Italian immigrant grandfather or great-grandfather. I could apply for Italian citizenship if I wanted to.
Mike Piazza played for Italy in the World Baseball Classic, for example.
I used to sail against a couple of guys who competed for Taiwan in the Olympics, because that’s where their dad was from. There’s no way they would have made it to the Olympics representing the US. In that situation, I don’t really have a problem with it.
Representing a different country is very common in sports. Whining about Eileen Gu is pathetic.
The US also benefits from it.
The 36-year-old Canada native who gained U.S. citizenship just two months ago captured gold in the Olympic debut of monobob after a dominating performance on the sliding track.
I do think it’s a little different when you’re choosing to represent an abhorrent government like China, but it’s nothing I get worked up over either.
These days I find the regimes in Canada and America only slightly less abhorrent.
Very true, though much as we suck, Canada going full Stasi puts them well in front of us.
While out hiking this weekend there were two young woke chicks walking behind me. They were probably from UC Berkeley. “Blah, blah, blah, problematic…It’s not Gen Z’s responsibility to educate the older generations. That’s a totally valid opinion, but blah blah blah problematic… blah blah blah queer theory…” As we passed through a fence I held the gate open for them and smacked one of them on the ass and asked “Who’s your patriarch?” OK, I didn’t, but I should have.
Didn’t hold the gate, I hope. “Oops, am I clumsy!”
Oh I did hold the gate. I wanted to get a good look at them. I also was kind of hoping to provoke a comment from them about not needing a man to hold the gate for them, but no such luck. They actually gave me a cheerful smile and a thank you.
This reminds me – someone on Twitter put up a video of himself on some kind of video chat thing (I’m guessing it was a first meeting from a dating app or something) where he’s chatting amiably with a smiling woman……until he says “Why thank you, miss” when she says something complimentary. At that point, she starts shrieking hysterically about how could he say such a thing. It was surreal.
A simple “Patriarchy at work, ma’am.” would do perfectly.
You should have put them out of our misery.
This particular attitude really ticks me off.
They are simultaneously claiming the right to apply unspoken standards to others and declaring that they are under no moral obligation to defend those standards in debate.
It’s an almost perfect expression of elitist condescension and ignorance.
The attitude bothers me too, but on the other hand, at that age I think a lot of us thought that our parents, and by extension their generation, were stoopid. It’s amazing how much smarter my parents got as I got older.
Of course, but I never claimed the moral authority to not have to explain or defend my positions. That’s arrogance beyond belief, and a recipe for totalitarianism.
“How about you children stick you ignorance right in the pucker?”
The word you’re looking for is zealotry. To believe one’s own bullshit to the point where you think it’s self apparent and any thinking to the contrary is heresy.
Hubris baby – and so utterly unearned and undeserving. You really should have some reason to have that much self regard.
It’s the culmination of self-esteem curricula and participation trophies.
In a way. They’ve been rewarded for laziness and mediocrity in every other area. There’s open hostility towards people for excelling at anything. Intellectually they get pats on the back for conformity and admonished for critical, independent thought. Welcome to a world run by reactionaries and grievance mongers.
Of course now we go back to who did that rewarding. They didn’t fuck themselves up.
^^ correct.
I’ll give you a hint. It wasn’t actually their parents that fucked them up, except in that they fed these poor kids into the meat grinder.
Absolutely.
It most certainly merits a spanking. Hopefully they were keeping those asses in shape.
It’s not Gen Z’s responsibility to educate the older generations
Sweetie, have you ever seen someone die? Someone you care about. And not, heard second hand, actually been there and seen it? Watched them slip away and know there’s not a damned thing you can do about it?
Have you ever had to support anyone else? Hell, have you ever even had to support yourself? Have you ever been in a position where if you don’t come through you won’t eat and, worse still, someone you love won’t eat?
How many books have you read that you weren’t assigned by a professor or a teacher?
How many people over thirty do you talk to on any given day? And, no, your parents and professors don’t count.
How many people who work with their hands can you count as friends?
Have you ever been the victim of a violent crime? Been arrested?
Face it. You’re a child. A child with an exceedingly high opinion of herself. I very much doubt you’ve lived enough life yet to be able to “educate” me on much of anything. It might seem like I’m treating you as an equal. I’m not. I’m indulging you because I believe that statements, opinions and arguments stand on their merits. But, don’t think for a minute that I’m doing so because I even consider you my peer.
*hits print*
Perfection.
I got a little weepy reading that. Thank you.
Nice
That’s pretty damned awesome. Needs to go viral.
I think a lot of the Glibs are really missing the point of JR’s little story and I’m a bit disappointed. Whether their silly little spoon fed boilerplate lefty sentiments had any merit is not the issue here. Did their asses have any resemblance to the Gif at the top of this page or not?
Well, they were out hiking, so that says something positive for their asses, though obviously not remarkable enough that JR saw fit to comment on them and instead was mildly surprised by their manners. I think we can very safely rule out any substantial resemblance to the Gif.
I was with my wife, so I couldn’t really stare at their asses. I guess I could have, but I have more to fear from my wife than I did from those two. That said, it was a pretty strenuous hike, so they were in pretty good shape.
Hawt
Hehheh. Right on, understandable indeed.
to prevent a range of weevils, scabs and pests from entering U.S. orchards.
That sounds racist. Somebody gotta pick dem apples.
The insect world is not sending us their best. Some, I assume are good pests.
Well, the original AR was designed in the 50’s… The G36 is probably a better military rifle – and a very nicely dressed up AR-18.
It’s German.
I’m sure it’s a pleasure to shoot, but is it needlessly complicated and difficult to service?
[Golf klatschen]
The Thompson would like a word or two with you.
You just described my ex-wife.
Meh. There are some good reasons the AR is ubiquitous. The most complicated part of the entire rifle is the bolt/barrel extension. Probably the hardest part to machine is the barrel extension–it requires a broach or a shaper. I don’t think there’s a single other part I can think of that couldn’t be machined with a lathe and a milling machine. The cam pin slot in the bolt carrier is easily milled by an experienced machinist. The heat treating is probably pretty simple. Headspacing is done by adjusting the barrel thread shoulder and threading/pinning the extension on to match a given bolt.
The lack of reciprocating mass off-bore-axis because of the direct gas impingement lends to exceptional accuracy potential and simple recoil forces.
That accuracy potential does set (well made) ARs apart. Most militaries don’t really about accuracy past 200 yards.
The G36 is a good tool for drawing out posuers. The less someone knows about shooting, the cooler they generally think the G36 is.
+1 factory optics losing zero because the frame melted.
NH judge rejects lawsuit against gun store.
Superior Court Judge David Ruoff ruled against two Manchester police officers injured in a 2016 shooting in a lawsuit the officers brought against a Derry gun store.
“This is absolutely a great day for gun rights in New Hampshire,” said Sean List, the attorney for Chester Arms in Derry.
Manchester officers Ryan Hardy and Matthew O’Connor were reportedly shot by Ian Macpherson in May 2016 when they tried to question him about a gas station armed robbery. Hardy was shot in the face and torso; O’Connor was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg, according to the Associated Press. Both officers have since returned to active duty.
The officers brought a lawsuit against Chester Arms, the store where MacPherson bought his .40 caliber Smith and Wesson. They also sued the New Hampshire Department of Safety, claiming that the mentally ill MacPherson, who has a history of domestic violence, should never have been sold the gun in the first place.
Any punitive sanctions for bringing the frivolous suit in the first place? Like disbarrment for their lawyer?
HAH!
That’s a good one.
Apocalypse porn
A new report provides an alarming forecast for the US: Sea level will rise as much in the next 30 years as it did in the past 100 — increasing the frequency of high-tide flooding, pushing storm surge to the extreme and inundating vulnerable coastal infrastructure with saltwater.
The interagency report, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows how scientists are increasingly confident that US coasts will see another 10 to 12 inches of sea level rise by 2050.
The implications of that forecast are enormous.
So terrifying.
*goes back to watching ass slap gif*
Which is why wealthy people continue to buy beachfront property.
+ 1 maskless Obama at beach home in Hawaii while surrounded by masked construction workers.
That motherfucker tore down Robin’s Nest! As if I needed more reason to hate him.
^ this ^
Hilariously bullshit predictions aside, they might consider going after China who is by far the worst polluter, I mean if you want to follow their tenuous logic to its natural conclusion. And by 2050 it might be Africa. Have at it, NOAA.
A new report provides an alarming forecast for the US: Sea level will rise as much in the next 30 years as it did in the past 100
Want me to believe you? Sell all your things, put all the money in escrow, and go continue your climate evangelism with the fervor that it deserves. On Feb 15, 2052, the money will be released from escrow. If the sea levels have risen as much as they did between Feb 15, 1922 and now, you get to keep your money. One iota less, and I get it.
If they did that they wouldn’t be able to buy the beachfront house they really want right now. They are so selfless that they don’t want some other poor unfortunate soul to buy it and have it flood within a decade or two.
“Decades ago, powerful storms were what typically caused coastal flooding,” NOAA reports. Today, due to sea level rise, “even common wind events and seasonal high tides regularly cause [high-tide flooding] within coastal communities, affecting homes and businesses, overloading stormwater and wastewater systems, infiltrating coastal groundwater aquifers with saltwater, and stressing coastal wetlands and estuarine ecosystems.”
Did those “affected coastal communities” mentioned even exist, decades ago?
“In Miami, Florida, and Charleston, South Carolina, the frequency ballooned from two days in 2000 to five to 10 days in 2020.” I’m sure those numbers aren’t cherry picked. No need to show a chart with the frequency by year. And of course, no need to clarify whether it was 5 days, 10 days, or something in between in 2020. Given that it was only 2 years ago, how could they possibly know what the actual number was? Heck, it could have been 25 days.
They can’t keep an accurate count of the days because those damn anti-vaxxers have set science back centuries. Science is like Santa Clause, it only works if everyone believes in it really really hard.
Good point. And Arabic numbers are white supremacy.
The .gif that keeps on giving!
Thanks Señor!
Made in China used to mean something. It can’t just be a sales gimmick like “go fuck yourself.”
Sure it can.
Is the G36 less tedious to clean than an AR?
I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to replace the whole rifle when it gets dirty
I don’t know. Turns out they are illegal to import thanks to the administration of that rabid left winger, George HW Bush.
Who cleans an AR?
Marines who are being punished.
I almost got in a fight with my Staff Sargent(E-6) when I was a Corporal(E-4) over that.
I was the armory ustodian and we were cleaning weapons.
He came in to inspect and was turning every weapon away, showing them dirty Q-tips.
I saw him rubbing the Q-tips on a spot of dirt or something he had placed on the wall.
CWAA
Not even – it’s a compulsion embedded deep in my tiny brain by the Corps. If I fire any gun I own, even just a few times, it’s getting cleaned as soon as I get home.
Me, quite often, in Afghanistan and Iraq…
How the fuck is the AR tedious to clean?
Field strip down to the upper/lower/BCG, punch the bore with a wet patch, scrub any big chunks of dirt or carbon off the bolt and bolt extension, spray out the lower with Gun Scrubbers, dry patch down the bore, re-lube, re-assemble. It literally takes five minutes.
Almost five times longer than it takes to clean and lube an AK!
Does not compute.
You don’t just kick the bolt open and resume firing?
It also takes longer to service and maintain an M1A2 Abrams versus a T-72, and for the same reason.
Disinfo machine
U.S. intelligence officials on Tuesday accused a conservative financial news website with a significant American readership of amplifying Kremlin propaganda and alleged five media outlets targeting Ukrainians have taken direction from Russian spies.
The officials said Zero Hedge, which has 1.2 million Twitter followers, published articles created by Moscow-controlled media that were then shared by outlets and people unaware of their nexus to Russian intelligence. The officials did not say whether they thought Zero Hedge knew of any links to spy agencies and did not allege direct links between the website and Russia.
Zero Hedge denied the claims and said it tries to “publish a wide spectrum of views that cover both sides of a given story.” In a response posted online Tuesday morning, the website said it “has never worked, collaborated or cooperated with Russia, nor are there any links to spy agencies.”
The officials briefed The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence sources. It was the latest effort by President Joe Biden’s administration to release U.S. intelligence findings about Russian activity involving Ukraine as part of a concerted push to expose and influence the moves of Russian President Vladimir Putin. U.S. officials previously accused Putin of planning a “false-flag” operation to create a pretext for a new invasion of Ukraine and detailed what they believe are final-stage Russian preparations for an assault.
Anonymous sources imply treason. We report, you decide.
They publish stories counter to the narrative. That’s all you need to know.
The officials briefed The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence sources.
There is a meme that goes to the effect:
A: [Outlandish Claim]
B: Source?
A: I made it up
This is, unironically, how the government-media complex operate nowadays.
And then a bunch of other sites write their own stories based on the Associated Press story, and this is presented as evidence it’s true because it was reported by “multiple sources”.
Manufacturing Consent the Easy Way
Hey now, Chomsky voted for Biden.
Chomsky is an object lesson that Marxists, no matter how they may occasionally be right, should never be trusted.
Zero Hedge has been sharply critical of Biden and posted stories about allegations of wrongdoing by his son Hunter. While perhaps best known for its coverage of markets and finance, the website also covers politics with a conservative bent.
In its response online, the website accused the AP of publishing a “bizarre hit piece” and said government officials were trying to distract from “our views of the current dismal US economic situation.”
Alt right extremism. Somebody should pull the plug on them.
I wonder who hosts them. It’s not like other companies that go against the narrative haven’t been unpersoned.
Another GiveSendGo hack
The new leak, which reportedly came after GiveSendGo was targeted by hackers, also includes “a full 2.5 GB MySQL database dump, source code for their Bitbucket repo, information from their customer service systems” as well as limited credit card data from donors.
A couple years from now, on a quiet page of whatever passes for a news medium by then, it will be announced in bland boilerplate that recently declassified/leaked documents indicate this individuals currently or formerly affiliated with government intelligence agencies may have participated or advised in these actions.
And nothing else will happen.
Yikes!
The left doesn’t play nice when you threaten their power.
CTH is taking a victory lap.
It’s amazing how Putin manages to find exactly the people the establishment want to crush before they even announce their intentions.
How did you the US know that the “invasion” was planned for February 16? They had some idea when the joint Russian/Belarusian military drills were supposed to end.
Intelligence work, like police work, is difficult and demands some risk-taking and self-sacrifice. It’s far easier to sit in an office and send emails all day. Since you do occasionally need to justify your paycheck, just make some shit up from time to time.
Gordy on Lions of Liberty
That was the 10th …anyone hear from him lately??!
I’m a little behind on my podcasts.
He had a Newsweek op ed piece drop yesterday.
A couple years from now, on a quiet page of whatever passes for a news medium by then, it will be announced in bland boilerplate that recently declassified/leaked documents indicate this individuals currently or formerly affiliated with government intelligence agencies may have participated or advised in these actions.
Via a government mandated back door.
Ok, confession time. I watched Look Up today.
I was not going to watch it. It looked like crap. And preachy crap at that. But somebody told me it was great and spot on. They thought since I was a science guy I would love it.
I suspected that it was a political screed, based on the trailer. I did not even know the topic, but I could see the players.
So I watched it. I expected a movie about a killer comment and a stupid story about stopping the comment and how incompetent politicians (portrayed as being only Republicans) were corrupt and unable to handle it.
And I had heard bad things elsewhere.
So I started watching it. It wasn’t great. But it wasn’t as bad as I had feared either. They were clearly setting up an attack on Trump. But they were taking pains to show that the president in the movie was a Democrat. They showed pictures of her with Bill Clinton and Hollywood notables.
It was a thin veneer, but at least they were pretending to be party neutral and simply doing a hit piece against generic political animals.
So it was all prepared to come here and report that it wasn’t good but it wasn’t nearly as bad as I figured.
Oh, how I was wrong..
About halfway in the thinly veiled allegory about global warming dropped the veil. They just started screaming “hey, this is really about global warming”.
And they completely dropped the pretext that they were being politically neutral in their lampooning of politicians. It became nakedly the worst caricature of Trump you can imagine.
She appointed her son as chief of staff… And in the cringiest of cringy moments he tells a full stadium how hot his mom is and how if she wasn’t his mom he would totally hit that. I get where the joke comes from. I was alive then. It’s only been a couple of years. But damn, this was badly done.
I spent the entire second half of the movie going “This is what they Actually Believe”!!
It was so cringe-inducing. They have absolutely no understanding of their political opposition at all. They have no idea who Republicans are, who Republican politicians are, what they believe, or why people support the politicians. These people clearly believe that everyone is actually a socialist Democrat at heart and it is only if you are lied to by evil corporations that you would ever support a Republican.
I’ve never really witnessed a movie like this. It started out as a fairly dumb disaster movie. Then it went past the Clinton era wag the dog movie and got more preteen than any movie I’ve ever seen in my entire life by the end. It just kept getting worse and worse and worse. I have never seen anything so smug in my entire life. I have never seen anything so hyperbolic either. But I don’t think they were being hyperbolic. I think they really believe that all life on earth is going to end, and end very soon, because of global warming. And that any minute now it is going to be too late to do anything about it .
They even had a storyline about technology saving the day that was an allegory to prove that technological advancement can never save us.
If you have not seen it, you made the right choice. It is one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen in my life. Although, I will say that for a movie that was written by college sophomores who were basically phoning it in on anything except for the preaching, there were some pretty good performances. In an absolutely s*** role, I thought that Jennifer Lawrence was really good at playing a reasonably bad character. And Leonardo DiCaprio also had some really strong moments in a really badly written role.
All of which kind of makes it all worse. You can tell that this was a passion project for all the people involved. There’s kind of a who’s who around it. Lots of cameos. And they completely miss the irony of everything involved. Something about being competent at your craft and making a movie that is so over the top preachy and so aggressively bad just makes everything worse. It isn’t like it was an accident, it’s bad on purpose.
So don’t go see it, I guess is my bottom line. You really don’t need that aggravation.
And that should be true even if you agree with the base premise that global warming is a serious issue that needs to be addressed by all of the nations of the world.
So in summary, it’s EXACTLY what I thought it was. Adam McKay may be the most smug, self-righteous, self congratulatory dickbag in Hollywood. That’s some stiff competition.
Sounds a lot like the lazy political “commentary” The Simpsons and Family Guy have been peddling for decades.
Political understanding of the “other side” is asymmetric because, as a general rule, the left dominates the culture. So your average righty has at least been exposed to the left’s ideas, if only because it’s nearly impossible to avoid them completely (Ted Kaczynski’s strategy notwithstanding). Whereas, your average lefty is mostly unfamiliar with anything that comes organically from the opposition, because he will never seek it out. To the extent uncontrolled exposure occurs, it will be at family dinners and the like, where the level of honesty is variable and the level of mutual understanding is modulated by alcohol and resentment.
The bit about “corporations” is pure projection, of course. What is CNN or Disney? But the left’s narrative need not match reality. Indeed, it shapes reality. Such is the power of dominating the culture. You don’t need to be realistic. “Reality has a well-known liberal bias” is an irony so rich only perhaps Orwell himself could have thought of it first.
Actually, they accidentally tiptoed up around the truth a few times. But they were so married to their ideas that the right is corporate America and the left is pure and righteous completely destroyed any chance they had of having an actual point.
Killer comet. Comet, Google. Please fix auto correct.
“”I Prefer it my way.”
/Lord of War
The empire strikes back
Adam Andrzejewski, founder of OpenTheBooks.com and a frequent guest contributor to Zero Hedge (who most certainly does not get his talking points from the KGB), and who was also – until very recently – a contributor to Forbes, told Tucker Carlson on Monday that he was terminated from the magazine over his coverage of NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Andrzejewski, who recently made headlines with his investigative reporting that Fauci was the highest paid employee in the entire US Federal government, described how he was targeted for being critical of Dr. Anthony Fauci and exposing his yearly earnings.
“The National Institutes of Health’s six top executives wrote an e-mail to myself and Randall Lane, the top content officer at Forbes. It was couched as a corrections e-mail, but there were no substantial corrections and they quibbled about small things in my column. But that was the excuse Forbes used to cancel it,” Andrzejewski said.
He explained that within 24 hours of the email, he received a call that told him he was barred from publishing any additional material regarding Fauci.
“You are mistaken, young man. Not only is the emperor fully clothed, his new suit is beautifully resplendent.”
Wow, that is an astonishing story.
Something even more astonishing?
None of these people think that it is going to happen to them next. You would think that the entire fourth estate would be up in arms over this kind of thing. But they aren’t. They quietly cheer it on. Confident in the knowledge that they are on the good side of the ledger and have nothing to worry about.
Corporate Media
Government
Non-profits
Schools
Publicly funded science
Social Media and other big tech
They’re all compromised. They’re all completely and irreparably compromised. They will lie to your face. They will self-police to make sure their lies are not contradicted. They will destroy you when you try to expose their lies. They will destroy your family if you are too hard of a target.
They have no morals. They have no shame. They have one thing. A lust for power and the ability to lord that power over the naysayers.
I marvel that Tucker is still employed. The other day he referenced Trudy’s parentage and I almost blew vodka.
Fox is Fox, but they are definitely corporate media.
When you put it like that, it sounds like the Soviets won after all.
It is more useful and more accurate to recognize that the list you made is the government. That formal entity called “the government”, while still large, lumbering, and dangerous, is only part of the system. Obviously the exact composition can change over time (our glorious “living constitution” in action), but delusions like “it’s a private company!” should be discarded whenever it becomes apparent that an organization is acting as though it were just one organ of a larger organism (if it waddles and quacks, it’s probably a duck).
Sometimes it’s sobering to be reminded just how many genuine white racists there are out there. It makes it all the more tragic when you see that just used as a slur against people who are nothing of the sort like the truckers. I’m kind of in a bubble here at glibs, and have so much to complain about and rebut from “the left” and the identarian garbage they spout that I forget that here in the UK the pushback against said identarian garbage is an ugly mirror image of it.
I guess “judge a man by the content of his character” really is a dying idea.
Yup. Go hang out in the comments of a popular Gab post for a while. Turns out the neo-Nazis never really went away.
I guess “judge a man by the content of his character” really is a dying idea.
This idea and its delinquent cousin, postmodernism, are in the hands of power, only ever merely tools used to deconstruct.
Rules for judging friends don’t really apply to enemies.
Not sure how this ended up here, was meant as a reply to limey.
pushback against said identarian garbage is an ugly mirror image of it
Not all that surprising, the same end of the IQ distribution feeds both.
I wonder if it’s not necessarily correlated with IQ so much as it is with shared pathologies.
Probably a bit of both. I think the pathologies are partly born from stupidity. Midwits tend to lack the brain power required for the kind of serious inquiry, logic and interpretation used in critical thought. Enough of them just need to get together and reassure each other they they’re really smart and there’s no need to question either their premises or conclusions and they’re satisfied. Being right isn’t about being factually correct, it’s about getting nodding approval from the tribe.
It’s true that both the woke and their mirror image are terrifying in their backwards racial ideologies and they may have similar IQ distributions, but there’s a massive difference in the number that are allowed to publicly espouse those views and still be allowed in polite society. One group gets to be treated as righteous warriors for equity (whatever the fuck that means) and the other isn’t allowed to leave their caves (I would say rightly.)
“Stormfront or Social Justice?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ZX5V4Qft4
N.B. a midwit is someone who has above-average intelligence but believes him/her-self to have superlative intelligence
The dirty secret is that it’s both ends of the IQ distribution.
For the most part, it’s only people in the middle (which is technically 90–110 but the actual “middle” is somewhat relative to class; e.g., for white collar jobs, the mean is 115 and so “the middle” is about 105–125) openly believe in nice ideas and harmonious coexistence.
I should say, it’s only people in the middle who sincerely believe those things. Highly intelligent people will say it openly but for them it’s more of a facade than sincere belief.
“? Footage has emerged of Snoop Dogg smoking a ‘joint’ before going on to perform at the Super Bowl LVI half-time show.”
https://twitter.com/ladbible/status/1493228573074853890
This changes everything.
“this changes everything”
Holy crap, that is brilliant.
My response when I first saw the headline.
Was his performance enhanced? I think it counts as performance-enhancing for gangster rap.
So it’s just another Dogg smokes joint story.
https://twitter.com/PresenceOfLed/status/1492972677061136392
WTF??
Good to know morale preening on social media is more important than their own child’s health for some people. JFTDCORFC.
Did the religious attitude toward vaccines emerge in November 2020 or was it always like this? I’m completely baffled by this. I used to be in favor of vaccines but never thought too much about them: they are mostly for kids.
There’s been a stigma to “anti-vaxxers” for quite a while. See Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy crusading against them like idiots 10-15 years ago. Or at least I assumed at the time. I hate that the people that want to hold you down and inject you with this crap try to lump you in with those people. It’s infuriating that the same people that insist on the insanely long and expensive process for pharmaceutical approvals even if they could be saving lives during the trials can turn around and hand wave that legitimately scientific process for this entirely novel vaccine type (that the inventor has publicly says has potentially major long term consequences) for a virus that kills 0.1-0.2% of the people that get it. The simple fact is that you cannot state scientifically that it’s “safe and effective”. By your own standards, that is impossible to know and believing that is religious thinking.
There’s been a stigma to “anti-vaxxers” for quite a while
Can attest. Had a discussion in 2018 or 2019 with my coworker/supervisor (contractual situation) where he very clearly believed vaccination was an unalloyed good and anyone who refused it was a mouthbreather.
For God’s sake, somebody please rid me of this earworm. I actually rather enjoy the tune but it’s been two goddamn weeks now. Give me the Spice Girls, Yanni, DJ Irene, Chicago, Poppy, Rush, anything but this song:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LVhJy-CR64Q
That’s not an earworm, which means it’s coming from inside your head.
I…Uh…Yeah…
Sing “All Good People” by YES. Line lengths are longer than brain buffer size.
You are welcome.
Try this instead.
You’re welcome
You saucey shithead…ha!
As an aside: I’m deeply sorry to hear about your mother. You’re in my thoughts.
Thanks TH. I appreciate that.
Enjoy the new earworm. 🙂
Only one funky ass bass line can take the place of another in your head. Let’s totally switch the genre up and add some hilarious lyrics. It’s Science.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7P6N8r1kUTM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWH3OWfT2Y
That would also qualify!
Indeed! Good find, Tundra!
Great stuff!
Fun Fact: I saw them at a rave in Chicago in an airplane hangar in 2001 along with Bad Boy Bill, Paul Oakenfold, AK1200, DJ Icey, Paul Van Dyke, and a slew of other popular late 90’s/early 00’s techno (painting a broad brush with that term) and hip-hop artists. A crowd of at least 7k strong, and I’m *candy-flipping* less than an hour after entrance.
*rolling on Molly while eating acid*
Around the end of DU’s set on the main stage everything crashed on my brain and body. I had a few bottles of water on me so security let me be after I showed them that I wasn’t an immediate medical concern, just really high. I recuperated my senses long enough to dance along to The Humpty Dance, make out with a cute, skinny Asian girl, then everything went black…one of the best shows I’ve ever been to.
Hahah. Awesome tale. Ah the joys of MDMA. I’ve never been brave enough to combine it with acid, it’s so good on its own.
Seems like CiNO Dougie Ford is no longer on board with Castreau’s fashy tendencies al of a sudden.
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1493694417819025408
https://twitter.com/lporiginalg/status/1493627449434775554
https://twitter.com/ActualLib/status/1493653529126395911
Sad thing this isn’t rare.
Don’t stick it in lazy
This woman is why the word “cunt” got invented.
Is college worth it? Of course!
Between sky-high costs and hefty student loan debt, more students and their families are questioning the value of a college degree.
While about 81% of college-bound juniors and seniors still see college as a worthwhile investment, only 42% of families feel confident about covering the cost, according to a report by Sallie Mae.
As a result, a growing number are opting out entirely. The number of undergraduates enrolled in college is now down 5.1% compared to two years ago, according to a separate report by the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center — a loss of nearly 1 million students.
In fact, getting a diploma is almost always worth it in the long run, according to “The College Payoff,” a report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
“Trust us.”
No shame.
I 100% support student debt cancellation if every dollar is cancelled for the borrower is taken from the university that accepted the payment.
That would be fair. But you know the unis will keep the sweet cash and the taxpayer will absorb the loan.
#metoo
Make student loan debt dischargeable in bankruptcy and a whole lot of problems with universities would go away.
Wait. It’s not? I don’t know much about bankruptcy…how many other debts are not dischargeable?
No. Too many bad actors. Borrow big, get a degree, live for a while, declare bankruptcy. The solution is actually worse though in light of schools and government pushing kids to borrow more than they can pay back in their lifetime with no recourse to wipe it out.
I can’t decide where I stand on bankruptcy. What’s the libertarian take? I know it can literally be a life changing event for some people, but boy have I seen it abused by business owners as a way to wipe the slate clean on their incompetence.
Bankruptcy isn’t a single thing. There are multiple types and they accomplish different things.
I have my Lizzie Warren authored Bankruptcy and Consumer Law textbook around here somewhere…
It is one of the few debts that are not dischargeable in bankruptcy. I’d bet universities would slightly rethink what they were offering if student debt could be wiped clean in bankruptcy.
The problem was that they guaranteed super low rates for something that would pay back over many years from someone extremely young (with nothing to lose)
So….
Accrue 200k in debt for law school or med school, declare bankruptcy… Done and done.
So…
Either rates have to go way, way up to cover it… (Which was the reason they had to subsidize the rates and provide loan guarantees in the first place), or they have to stop people from discharging the loan.
This resulted in millions of people with degrees in “studies” that are worthless in the job market and hence millions of pissed gen y and millennials with 250k in loans and a job as a Barista.
This resulted in the political power behind loan forgiveness.
Just like complaints about redlining resulted in guarantees for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Which resulted in loads of cheap mortgages that were not properly vetted (lest you be accused of racism).
This, combined with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for mark to market pricing gave you the market collapse of ’08 (which cost me more money than I shall have made in the entirety of the rest of my life… So thanks for that).
As they say… Libertarianism happens to you …
MikeS, in case you didn’t see my reply above, you are incorrect in your assumption of what a “mil” is. A mil is the same thing as a thou, 1/1000 of an inch.
The term mil comes from the Latin word for thousand, “mille”. Mil is the common term in the US military (and thus by NATO allies). Artillery bearings and military compasses are marked in mils and called out in mils. The terminology is commonly used by machinists filling defense orders.
So there is nothing “odd” about my machinists at all.
I know exactly what a mil is. And I guess I can maybe see machinists who do a lot of government work saying “mil” instead of “thou”, but the vast majority of machinists say “thou”.
And if your machinists work in fractions, they are indeed odd.
Fractions come into play when stock materials are available in fractions, so pretty often.
And then there is the joy of specifying the thickness of copper traces and planes on printed circuit boards. That thickness is called out in fractions of ounces, not incredibly intuitive.
From PCBuniverse.com:
(Note that website defines the thickness in mils, not thous.)
Copy/paste from above: Wikipedia:
And buying stock in fractions (and don’t forget gage!) does not mean they are working in fractions down on the floor. They are quickly and easily converted to decimal.
Your work involves a very specialized area of machining. I’m speaking about general machining terminology. We’re speaking two different dialects of the same language.
It sounds pretty industry-specific. Probably generational too. The retired Navy guys who became our in-house machinists were definitely fans of mil. And fractions!
Guys who are going straight to CNC as part of their machinist training probably are more amenable to using metric anyway.
Hole diameters are still most often called out in fractions of inches, because the standard mil-spec switches, bulbs, connectors are available with diameters in fractions.
Now that I’m in the wonderful world of linear accelerators, every conceivable measuring system is used.
Sure, drills, endmills, and other tooling are routinely called by their fractional size when they’re 16ths or 32nds up to 1/2. Or, in the case of drills, they could be called by their number or letter, too. But like I said, that is all converted on the floor, because the calipers and micrometers they use to measure are decimal inches.
I didn’t mean fractions don’t exist, but decimal inches is the way machinists measure the parts they are making…regardless if they speak in thous or mils. After creating and measuring a 1/2″ hole, an machinist isn’t going to say “it’s a half inch!”. He’ll say, “nutted it! 500 thou (mil) exactly!”
And you say my machinists are odd. ?
The first calipers I used (granted, it was defense) were the analog dial type where you had to count the number of spins and then add on the final partial spin. Then vernier calipers. No decimal conversion.
To this day analog vs. digital seems to be a matter of personal preference.
“Nutted” is a very technical term! ?
For my home business I have a dial caliper and a digital caliper. I gravitate to the digital, just for quickness of reading.
I also have a Vernier micrometer set. I don’t have to use them often (most of the work I do the tolerances are well within the accuracy of a caliper), so every time I do there is a quick relearning process. It’s a scale that makes total sense…once you can wrap your head around it.
Oh, yeah: the other industry that uses mils is electric power, in which large cable diameters are specified in the delightful “circular mil” which in turn gives rise to the kcmil, pronounced “Kay see mil” meaning a thousand circular mils.
Once you get past 0000 gauge gets pretty unwieldy.
Yeah, I’m not aware of “aught” being used past 4, as you mention.
I’ve never seen a metric alternative to the circular mil, but maybe it’s out there somewhere ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In Central Steel and Wire’s conversion chart they go up to 000000 gage, but I have no idea how common it is in real life. I suspect not very.
Alternatively, it’s highly unusual for people who think it’s gross, because we have lived all our lives in societies that found much better sources of sustenance, namely agriculture and animal husbandry.
I think it’s the crunchy exoskeleton that cracks and then out “pops” the squishy innards. Ick.
I imagine long ago our ancestors saw an animal get hit by lightning and figured out that the resultant smell was pretty appealing. Cooked meat smells good. Cooked bugs, eh, I’m skeptical.
That’s certainly it for me.
*shivers in disgust*
I don’t know. That sounds like eating a warm M&M.
I wonder if it was the opposite order… Using fire to sanitize spoiled meat, on purpose or by accident, making it safer, which resulted in an accomodation to find the cooked variant more appealing. Also, cuts down on parasites, which are a pretty big deal for most human populations.