407 Comments

  1. Tres Cool

    whaddup doh’

    • AlexinCT

      Sup Glibroni.

  2. waffles

    Corporate America’s sharp left turn prompts unprecedented backlash

    Initially I was a little uneasy about the nakedly political aims of targeting the mouse. Then I had another thought. The left political creatures deserve opponents who are as ruthless as they are. Whatever the National Review has to say about this I support the opposite.

    • AlexinCT

      If you refuse to play to win, ruthlessly, like they do, you will lose. Fantasyland don’t work.

      • robc

        I got stuck on the Peter Pan ride this morning, so you are correct.

    • WTF

      It would seem that they are violating their fiduciary duty by deliberately alienating half of their potential customers.

      • Rat on a train

        stakeholders > shareholders

      • AlexinCT

        I hope that eventually shareholder lawsuits fix this in court… Through hefty payouts and members of the board of directors that incentivized this shit becoming permanently unemployed and directly financially liable.

      • juris imprudent

        Funny isn’t it – how Marx said the capitalist system was incapable of anything but dog-eat-dog competition, a race to the bottom by all capitalists regardless of their morals because of the voracious appetite for profit.

        Seems that Mussolini had a much better grasp on corporate behavior.

      • Brawndo

        I like to tell people that, if you look at post war America, you’ll notice that the Italians actually won WW2

      • AlexinCT

        Fascists were all marxists that realized marxism simply was never going to work in the long run because when government ran everything, made any and all decisions, and the primary qualification for being in government was loyalty to the masters, not competency, eventually they would stack bodies like cordwood. That and the fact that they realized internationalism meant that you would have to convince people with different cultural norms, beliefs, and practices all to accept a single system that might completely undermine their own values.

        Not that that doesn’t make the fascists the good guys. They simply were opportunists that were a bit smarter than your average dumb rock. Their idea to ignore the idiotic globalist shit and buffer government from the consequences of failure in their economy by pretending to have a private sector capable of making decisions (as long as those decisions benefited and were approved by the government, of course, and or else) kept the body count lower than that of the marxists, but being socialism, it had to be totalitarian and dehumanizing in nature.

        What saddens me is that all the people running around today fighting fascism tend to be marxists serving cabals with/of fascists causes/goals and virulently attack any system where freedom – real freedom, not the “freedom is slavery” variety – is central. The masters want to keep their spoils – for their kids and grandkids, despite the fact that these kids and grandkids make inbred morons look like Mensa candidates – and really dislike any meritocratic system that puts that at risk. Hence the hard drive towards the dumbing down of the population and the devolution of any sort of sane shit.

        Where are the guillotines when you really need them?

      • AlexinCT

        Not that that doesn’t makes the fascists the good guys.

      • TARDis

        all the people running around today fighting fascism tend to be marxists serving cabals with/of fascists causes/goals

        That sums it up nicely.
        Fascist masters manipulating their willfully ignorant Marxist useful idiots.

    • Rat on a train

      It is revoking special privileges for a corporation. Shouldn’t the left be cheering?

      • Tonio

        If they were consistent, yes.

      • Nephilium

        Something something… hobgoblin… little minds…

      • UnCivilServant

        “Hobgoblins are the hobgoblins of little minds” – Charles Emerson Winchester III

    • rhywun

      Initially I was a little uneasy about the nakedly political aims of targeting the mouse.

      Nah. They got themselves a “special district” created fifty years ago because the land was unbuilt.

      They don’t need it any more. It should have been dissolved decades ago.

      • waffles

        In a purely practical terms that special district should have had a time limit. Even if it was a 99 year Hong Kong deal it would be fine. As such, it’s just play stupid games, win stupid prizes I guess.

      • The Last American Hero

        There are 1,800 special districts in Florida.

        Just sayin.

      • slumbrew

        Are they all special carve-outs for private entities?

      • robc

        And they should all expire and/or end immediately.

      • waffles

        I think it would be better if they at least took out the Villages along with Disney.

        I hate it when there are an onerous set of laws forcing all would-be developers to go in front of zoning and planning commissions hat in hand begging for an exemption. The result is that connected people get exemptions, Bad government.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      The Blackrock portion of the article exposed the other side of the plan. If they don’t have enough representatives on the board and in the c-suite, they’ll just buy up a ton of shares and force their candidates onto the board. Going public is a mistake these days for any company that wants to avoid this ESG shit.

      • waffles

        I didn’t read the article, but I will now. ESG seems like a scam. I hope to have my biases confirmed,

      • AlexinCT

        It’s one of the vilest scams you can think of. It makes those fucking commercials where they torture animals to make them look hurt & sad, so they can guilt you into sending money to entities that do nothing but torture & kill more animals for follow on commercials to get more money, look like noble things.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        ???

        Larry Fink is a major proponent of that bullshit, and the Fed is underwriting his objectives with easy money.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        And lest anyone think that the WEF doesn’t have much influence, Mein Fuhrer Schwab is the one who came up with the term “stakeholder capitalism.”

      • hayeksplosives

        Karl Schwab might be the most evil man on the planet.

        His understudy Yuval Noah Harari might be more evil and eventually eclipse his mentor, but, damn, that dude is evil, as in, Hollywood might have rejected the dialog as too heavy-handed.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        He would be rejected in a Bond film as too much of a parody to play the villain. It’s like watching a non-funny version of Dr. Evil.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Jeezus. A gay Israelí leftist who skipped out of his military service and got his impetus from Jared Diamond.

      • SDF-7

        Part of me wonders (without proof, mind you) if old Liz Warren and the Obama Admin shenanigans opened the doors to this somewhere no one has reported one. It fits right in with her “Consumer Financial Protection Board” crap that was really just a way to shoehorn an unaccountable Fed agency into every aspect of big companies… funneling Reserve unlimited credit at “Stakeholders” who could buy all the boards would seem a logical add on to the plan.

        Yet another reason to abolish the Fed.

  3. AlexinCT

    DeSantis’ Office Releases Examples Of Rejected CRT-Inspired Math Textbooks

    Watch the lefty media start a “Don’t do math!” campaign, blaming DeSantis for fighting math….

    • WTF

      I love the left’s contention that “CRT isn’t being taught in schools!” combined with “We can’t allow a ban on teaching CRT in schools!”

      • AlexinCT

        Ask the people telling this idiot lie: “If it is not being thought, why all the angst and anger about basically saying it shouldn’t be though?”…

        Then stand back and look at the bullshit you get.

    • Tonio

      It that happens, Alex, I’m blaming you.

      • Not Adahn

        Meh, an English teacher’s org already declared that kids need to stop reading so many books.

      • AlexinCT

        Especially any book that tells kids not to trust the institutions that they are are hard at work manipulating what the kids believe…

    • Pope Jimbo

      Florida just passed the “Math Bloodbath” bill. These textbooks will lead to trans kids beaten to a bloody pulp!

    • Not Adahn

      Listen, the choice is simple: are you a patriotic American or a traitorous insurrectionist trumpalo Putin’s cockholster?

      • AlexinCT

        Now hand over your money!

    • juris imprudent

      Translation: We could never do what they are doing, so what they are doing must be preserved so we can use it to spy on everyone.

      • kbolino

        100% this

        Any of these companies going under would represent a significant hit to U.S. intelligence gathering capability and could easily expose sources and methods through uncontrolled sales/losses of corporate assets and documents.

    • rhywun

      because, they argue, their centralized censorship power is crucial to advancing U.S. foreign policy

      Refreshing honesty. One wonders what, if anything, might change if the American people had a clue what we’re really doing out there.

      • kbolino

        It is rare to find a communist who realizes or is willing to admit that the U.S. has toppled at least as many right-wing regimes as left-wing ones. The collapse of the Estado Novo, Francoist Spain, Rhodesia, and Apartheid South Africa all have American and British fingerprints on them.

    • db

      Go back to the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s. See how the government resisted breaking up AT&T for decades. Then read Raven Rock.

      Then ask yourself if you think there might be any parallels as to why intelligence officials might resist breaking up other tech monopolies.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The US didn’t intend to break up the Bell System. They wanted AT&T to limit or spin off Western Electric. Divestiture was AT&T’s idea to jettison what they thought was the deadweight local operating companies and focus on the sexy computer industry and lucrative login distance business.

      • db

        That’s where the part about reading Raven Rock comes in. There were people yelling about breaking up AT&T for a long time before it happened. The government resisted taking any real action until the utility of AT&T’s ground-based communications was obsolete for the purpose of providing survivable and secret communications in the event of a nuclear war/cataclysm. The USG was paying AT&T tons of money to maintain that system that was covered up by AT&T’s normal commercial networks.

        A few years ago, an old AT&T microwave tower installation sold nearby here. Above ground it looked like a simple relay tower with a garage for maintenance trucks and tools. Below ground it was a 30,000 square foot bunker with blast doors, air purification system, emergency generators, two wells, and a redundant sewage treatment plant to support an emergency staff in the event of nuclear attack. There are likely hundreds more of these around the country, once part of the emergency comms systems that AT&T ran secretly for the USG.

      • Gustave Lytton

        That’s a very muddled interpretation of what happened and why. The Modification of Final Judgment that enacted Divestiture was a modification of the 1956 consent decree (from a lawsuit filed in 1949). Again, DOJ wasn’t interested in breaking up the Bell System. It wanted to hive off the equipment business.

      • db

        Hmm, ok. I guess I’m not so much saying that the government wanted to break up the system, but that it had reasons to avoid doing so.

  4. cavalier973

    In 1992, our family took a trip to Disney World for the first time.

    It was amazing. I was so taken in by the Disney mystique. I enjoyed every part of it.

    A small anecdote explaining why it was so fun: we were in what was then called “Disney-MGM Studios”, in the front part of the park. Like Main Street, USA in the Magic Kingdom represents a mythical small-town America, this section represented the fantasy of Golden Age Hollywood. There were Disney employees sitting at a table, playing cards. Three of the players were obviously cheating a fourth player. It was mildly amusing. At this point, a Disney employee dressed as a burglar (black clothes and a mask over his eyes) was running full tilt down the sidewalk, being chased by another employee dressed as a Keystone cop. My brother yells at the cop, who stops and turns and yells back “What??”
    “I think they’re cheating this guy,” my brother said. The “cop” wanders over to the table, saying “What’s going on here?” The players at the table mumble something. “Are you cheating this guy without giving me my cut?” He asks. The players are, like, “Oh, right!” And hand him some of the giant dollar bills; the cop wanders off.

    It was a magic moment, for me.

    Years later, I went back with my wife and child.

    The park had been turned into a Disney Store, but with rides. It was very disappointing.

    • Brawndo

      That’s pretty great improv from that employee

    • Fatty Bolger

      That was before Eisner ruined the parks. We went around 1996 and it had already turned into a dump. My wife and I decided we wouldn’t go back until they cleaned it up. Eisner started feeling the heat in the 2000s, especially when Roy Disney resigned in 2003, and by the time we went back in 2005, it was much improved. But some of the old character of the park you’re talking about was gone, and never really came back.

  5. Tonio

    I, for one, enjoyed the spectacle of Florida Dem legislators having a hissy fit over stripping Disney’s special legal status.

    • AlexinCT

      They used to be the ones that wanted to strip Disney of protection less thana decade ago before Disney went full woke.

    • juris imprudent

      Gender fluidity doesn’t stand a chance against ideologic-fluidity.

  6. AlexinCT

    Border crisis: Historically chaotic situation poised to get much worse

    Now that the lunatics are discovering Hispanics are disgusted with the crazy shit peddled by team blue (people that ran away from the evils of socialism to make a living are not gonna go woke despite all the pretend free shit you tell them you will give them for their vote, and doubly so in bad times), to the point that support for them keeps dropping and will soon be below 40%, will we soon see them decide they need to shut the southern border and open the northern one to import more woke asshatery?

    • Not Adahn

      It’s important that a line be drawn between true latinxz, and white supremacy in brownface.

    • Gustave Lytton

      I don’t think Canucks that would want to move south fit their target demographic either.

      • juris imprudent

        Bloc Quebecois has a sad.

      • Festus

        As one of only 5-6 Canadian Libertarians I can only say sorey.

      • juris imprudent

        As if you wouldn’t be happy to be rid of them.

    • Sean

      Crashing a plane to start a fire seems a bit excessive.

      • AlexinCT

        Performance art, yo…

      • Not Adahn

        Two birds, one plane stone.

      • Not Adahn

        When we were working with Samsung, I learned the Korean version is “catch two rabbits with one dog.”

      • UnCivilServant

        Both dogs and stones are reusable, so it’s not as difficult a task to achieve. In fact, a rabbit-hunting dog that didn’t catch more than two rabbits is a failed rabbit-hunting dog.

      • Not Adahn

        With a spaniel and a .22, you can get a LOT of rabbits.

      • AlexinCT

        The pimp version is “Ho-out two bitchez, after one pimp slap”…

      • Drake

        Then you make dog and rabbit stew?

      • AlexinCT

        You are doing a Korean stereotype thing there brah…

      • Drake

        I was worried people wouldn’t get the joke.

      • R.J.

        On behalf of Oklahomans, I protest you BOTH for ani- okie stereotypes!
        *shakes fist*
        *Crawls back into hole*

      • Brawndo

        I’ve always took that saying to mean killing two birds with one throw of a rock, as in achieving two goals with the effort of one goal. The reusability of the dog or stone didn’t matter.

    • Ted S.

      It’s a conspiracy, just like the church burnings.

    • MikeS

      A food processing plant had a plane crash near it yesterday.

      FIFY

      • UnCivilServant

        I knew those rooftop planefeeders were a bad idea.

      • MikeS

        “We know it’s a pleasurable pastime for many, but for the safety of the aircraft, please do not feed the airplanes”

        -FAA

    • AlexinCT

      I saw balls and chip on the same line and cringed thinking they were chipping dude’s sacks…

    • rhywun

      Yeah, that seems like a lot of chip. Maybe it’s solving complicated quantum equations at the same time.

    • UnCivilServant

      Well, where in the ball is the actual tracker located? I mean if you need material to hold it, say, in the exact middle of the shape, there’s plenty of weight right there.

  7. db

    7 9
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    I made a dumb mistake that ruined a “6 8 / 5 4”

    • Sean

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      #waffle91 2/5

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    • Rat on a train

      Daily Quordle 88
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      Another off day.

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        Daily Quordle 88
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    • SDF-7

      Daily Quordle 88
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      Not bad for me — but middle of the pack for this group of over achievers. I’ll take it.

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    • Tundra

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      Dumbass.

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  8. The Late P Brooks

    Some stakeholders are more equal than others.

    And don’t you forget it.

    • WTF

      I don’t see how non-shareholders are “stakeholders”, but that’s just me.

      • juris imprudent

        So that was introduced way back when I was in grad school (non-MBA but had some class requirements in the business school). It wasn’t what it is now, but it was part of the curriculum.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        As with everything else, they took a nugget of truth and slathered on a cubic mile of bullshit.

        Should companies have a broader view than just maximizing profit in the next 2 quarters? Of course. Should they consider the impact their practices have on the communities around them, both directly and reputationally? Of course. Do a climate activist, a gender studies major, a modern slavery activist, and a sociologist deserve a seat at the table? Hell no!

      • AlexinCT

        I am all for companies making decisions to help the stockholder and the company long term instead of in the next 2 quarters, but I want nothing to do with decisions that prop up a racket making a lot of other people than the stakeholders rich peddling bullshit that has emotional appeal to low intelligence highly education credentialed morons.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        ^^^
        I may need a career change to get away from companies that do the ESG shit. All the ones big enough to hire me are compromised. I talked with a smaller one about a job that was different from what I do now, and they’re all excited about IPOing soon. ??? Good luck competing with Google when you get overrun by the activist shareholders.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    If Roberta is a woman trapped in a man’s body, how many votes should she get?

    • AlexinCT

      Now do me! I am a lesbian trapped in a mans body….

    • Rat on a train

      Class, pull out your intersectionality matrix to find the answer.

      • AlexinCT

        Intersectionality slide rules?

      • Not Adahn

        *ponders selling these out of an etsy store*

      • AlexinCT

        Think of the money you can make for the subscription services to get the daily changing schema!

      • juris imprudent

        Too linear. You need need circular slides configured like a gyroscope.

    • R.J.

      They were almost that comical. I was hoping those would be released. When I wrote joke math problems in class to make friends giggle in class they resembled those ridiculous word problems.
      “Cracky the Bear needs to score! He has a twenty dollar bill. How many whole crack rocks can he buy if the going price is $12?”

      • UnCivilServant

        “However many the corner dealer is carrying, assuming Cracky can catch him off guard with the shiv”

      • AlexinCT

        Or the dealer doesn’t mind Cracky’s offers to “suck his dick”?

  10. Festus

    Mornin’ Banjos! Fuck you, Turtle! That is the gayest song that ever gayed a gay and I still like it after all these years! In other news, new contractor is still trying to recruit me. I told them to send me the contract, no hand-shake deals. I’ll take it to a lawyer for a look-see. *he doesn’t have a lawyer and he wasn’t going to accept the terms of the contract, anyway* I just want to see if they actually try. They are very desperate and I’ll enjoy watching them squirm on my way out the door. Cardboard box just got a little lighter.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    A separate page highlighted the concept of “social-emotional learning,” which is steeped in the tenets of critical race theory.

    I’m not sure what that has to do with math, unless you’re attempting to demonstrate the concept of bullshit as a whole number.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Your math teacher has shoveled one metric shitton of bullshit on your head. Your English teacher has shoveled two metric shittons of bullshit on your head. What is the likelihood that you will go home smelling like cow tonight?

    • WTF

      ‘because of weakened immune systems from lockdown’

      Or maybe from “vaccines”. But no one is allowed to turn over that rock.

    • AlexinCT

      They will blame it on people that refused the clot shot and and the masks…

  12. Q Continuum

    “Another question asked about a mother who worked as a “pimp, prostitute,” and “Night Club Dancer.””

    A: Who is Winston’s Mom?

    • hayeksplosives

      1) She was young and needed the money

      2) She was putting herself through college

      Ah, the classic excuses are the best.

      • AlexinCT

        Bitch liked being plowed, and found a way to make it pay..

      • Not Adahn

        True story:

        The stripper supporting her drummer boyfriend that I lived with earned a BS in Mathematics and is now living in an adorable Austin home with her marathoner husband and beautiful child.

      • Nephilium

        I actually know two ladies who put themselves through college by dancing in clubs.

      • db

        I know a woman who put herself through engineering school stripping and…probably other value-added things.

      • Swiss Servator

        …go on, I am listening.

      • db

        It’s not the greatest story. She had a really crazy breakdown a couple years ago and I lost touch. It’s a shame, she’s got issues.

      • l0b0t

        Was her name Joanna? I knew a dancer in NOLA, a single mom, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever laid eyes on, who was dancing her way to a maritime engineering post grad something or other.

      • db

        No, this lady was from up north, around these parts.

  13. Festus

    Fuck Disney! Charlie the Lonesome Cougar was an affront to humanity.

      • juris imprudent

        Haz a sad – was expecting this Charlie.

      • hayeksplosives

        Oh my. That one does seem to be based on the one I linked; exact same profile!!

        But no magical Liopleurodon.

      • juris imprudent

        Funny thing is I knew about the art car before the inspiration for it.

    • AlexinCT

      Was this one of the characters from Aladdin or Little Mermaid? What’s the movie with the little lion that doesn’t fucking eat the pig and the annoying monkey?

      • Rat on a train

        Aladdin?

      • Not Adahn

        Rattatouie?

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Lion King

      • Rat on a train

        Food Lion?

      • Not Adahn

        Lion King is the one where he doesn’t eat the annoying hornbill.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    I don’t see how non-shareholders are “stakeholders”, but that’s just me.

    Look at it this way. Your neighbors have the right to decide how long your hair should be, right? Same thing.

    • Festus

      Forget it Brooks, it’s HOA world.

  15. hayeksplosives

    Babylon Bee strikes again: list of things that lasted longer CNN+

    CNN+ will be shutting down on April 30, just a month after its rocky start. Truly, its candle burned out long before its legend ever will.
    Take a gander at these eighteen things that lasted longer than CNN+:

    1) A gallon of milk
    2) Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign
    3) Two weeks to stop the spread
    4) Firefly
    5) Housefly
    6) Brief, transitory inflation
    7) Seattle’s CHAZ
    8) The ending of Return of the King
    9) Your wife’s multi-level marketing business
    10) Colin Kaepernick’s enslavement in the NFL
    11) Your New Year’s resolution to get in shape
    12) Your New Year’s resolution to read your Bible
    13) Free AOL trial CD with 1000 hours of internet
    14) The COVID vaccine’s effectiveness
    15) Zune
    16) Google+
    17) James Cameron’s Avatar’s cultural impact
    18) The Babylon Bee’s Twitter suspension
    Wow! It seems like just yesterday CNN Plus was born, and now she’s already gone. Like a leaf on the wind.
    https://babylonbee.com/news/18-things-that-lasted-longer-than-cnn

    • Sean

      #8

      ROFL

      • hayeksplosives

        IKR?

        As much as I love LOTR, I dozed off during the ending.

      • juris imprudent

        To be fair, if “the ending” consists of everything after the ring is destroyed, the book’s ending was way long too.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        They should have done the scouring of the shire,although they would have had to make the movie as two.

      • Festus

        You didn’t like bouncy-bed Hobbits?

      • AlexinCT

        No kink shaming please, Festus…

    • Ownbestenemy

      Zune…ahahahaha

      • Not Adahn

        I made the chips for the Zune.

        There is nothing more to the story.

  16. The Late P Brooks

    Oregon’s Department of Education insisted that asking students to show their work was a form of “white supremacy.”

    Next step, have the class determine the answer by taking a vote.

    • ron73440

      I always thought showing your work was retarded.

      If I can do it in my head, and get the correct answer, why should I waste time writing it down?

      When my son had the same problem and I got into an argument with his teacher about it and her to him answer was “You will comply”, I might have been a little angry.

      After that my wife decided I didn’t need to go to parent teacher conferences.

      Shortly after that we started homeschooling.

      Have I mentioned how much I hate teachers?

      • AlexinCT

        If I can do it in my head, and get the correct answer, why should I waste time writing it down?

        Because when that calculation impacts something like a bridge or building that could come crashing down, an airplane that falls out of the sky or s a ship tat becomes a reef, and so on, letting others check how you got there is a good thing to avoid wasted time?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        ^^^

        I’ll give an anecdote. We had an automated grading system in place for our processor design course. It took the design file, ran it through a simulator, and checked whether it could input certain data and receive the correct output. At its simplest, it would input something like [sum, 4, 5] , and check that the output was 9. The final for the course was something like 40% of the grade, and the test cases were provided to us in advance. Some subset of the test cases were required to pass in order to pass the class, and I was stuck on the hardest one of those test cases. It was supposed to be passing info between two cores of the processor and determining the answer to a math problem. I spent a solid two days trying to debug the system because my output for that test case was off by 2. It would be off by a different amount if I used different inputs, but the test case was off by 2. Up against the deadline, I got scrappy. I flipped the 2s bit to get the right answer even though the bug was still present. They never checked how we did it, they only checked that we had the right answer.

        Showing work is a discipline that should be learned on the easy stuff so that it comes natural for the hard stuff. Both in engineering school and in law school, I had exams where the right answer was provided in the prompt. The value was in getting to the answer.

      • UnCivilServant

        Did you ever find the actual cause of the problem?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        IIRC, It was a timing issue caused by a poor pipeline design on my part. A value was propagating through a portion of circuitry so quickly that the relatively low clock cycle of the simulator (in the MHz range) would cause the new value to move to the next step in the pipeline rather than the old value. The “right” fix would’ve been to undo 3 weeks of work, fix the flaw in the pipeline and rebuild the rest of the technology on top. I simply didn’t have enough time to do that once I found out what the issue was.

      • SDF-7

        If he did, he deserves some accolades — you know, a 2’s compliment.

      • UnCivilServant

        I don’t know if it’s worse that I got the joke or that I laughed.

      • db

        The must be a third option

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Depends on your intended profession, engineers have to show their work.

      • Tulip

        And for teaching, it’s good to understand where the error occurs

      • SDF-7

        Because when and if you get it wrong, your teacher can 1) Give partial credit if you had the right formula / process and made a stupid mistake as kids are wont to do. and 2) Can pinpoint exactly *where* stupid mistake is or where you got the concept wrong.

        I’m pretty adamant about this because my son is trying to just do the answer. But he’s also being lazy about actually studying or doing the work to get there, so he just comes up with answers that are frequently wrong — and walking back through *why* they’re wrong is a lot easier if I know what his process was.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. Still a struggle though with my teens. But they is the same exact reasoning I have told them.

      • l0b0t

        I’m at that exact point with my 2nd grader son.

      • ron73440

        But I didn’t get it wrong, I remember being bored out of my mind having to repeat the same type of problems over and over.

        I still get pissed off talking about it.

        I think school messed up any interest I had in learning.

      • MikeS

        If I can do it in my head, and get the correct answer, why should I waste time writing it down?

        I was able to do that into highschool, and then the problems got hard enough I couldn’t do them in my head anymore -but I kept trying- and it became a problem.

      • ron73440

        I high school, I didn’t care any more and failed trig.

      • Ownbestenemy

        I slept thru trig. Woke up took a test and squeeked out the C. I wish I paid more attention of course

      • UnCivilServant

        There was something in there about circular reasoning. Or was it reasoning from circles?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        It was something about parallel construction.

      • UnCivilServant

        I thought that was just a tangent

      • ron73440

        Trig was right after lunch.

        Almost everyday at lunch, my friends and I would smoke some weed in Dave’s van.

        Trig had a circular graph on the wall, that if I stared at long enough, it would seem to move.

        I didn’t learn a thing in that class.

      • hayeksplosives

        Geometric proofs are the very definition of “show your work” because you must, line by line, cite which law or theorem justifies the changes you’re making to the equation.

        That was probably my favorite part of formal mathematics of my whole “educational career”.

        It’s my understanding that some law schools require a course in geometric proofs in order to hone logical skills through unemotional proofs.

        I guess CRT will end that practice.

      • UnCivilServant

        I only remember the geometric proofs because I put a lot of effort into trying to prove that you could use one angle, and the lengths of and adjacent and opposite side to prove two triangles equivalent, because it worked for right angles. I concluded you needed a fourth piece of information – ie, that the angle was a right angle, or that the opposite side was longer than the adjacent, etc. Which really just proved that you couldn’t use only those three data points.

      • db

        The best part about geometric proofs is that they are extremely intuitive and eventually obvious demonstrations of the concept of objective reality. Or, more succinctly, for geometric truth, you need only secant you will find.

      • UnCivilServant

        Or you can sin against maths and cosine yourself to the damnation of ignorance.

        We, however, are integral to reality.

      • juris imprudent

        You really want to wander off on an infinite set of tangents?

      • UnCivilServant

        That would be too derivative, and get exponentially more boring.

      • Not Adahn

        ASA, SAS, AAS = yes
        ASS = no

      • UnCivilServant

        You are correct. In the end I concluded that I am not an ASS man.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        I dunno about geometric proofs, but the Law School I went to (U. of Alberta Faculty of Law) looked favourably upon students who had completed at least one undergrad course in Formal/Symbolic Logic.

    • Festus

      My Algebra I class was taught by Mr. Cha who had such a heavy accent that nobody could understand him. It turned into madness and he was removed from his position after three months. Kids were literally throwing balled up papers at him. Libertarianism works, sometimes. Maybe it was anarchy? I always felt bad for the way he was treated but he shouldn’t have been at the front of of a classroom, trying to teach a bunch of squareheads. Good Lord, the way we used to act on the bus would make your toe nails curl. Stinky, pimply denim army.

      • AlexinCT

        Being an expert at something, even if you are a genius, doesn’t qualify you automatically as a good teacher… Teaching people is in and of itself a skillset that requires you to be able to figure out what the process of learning is for each individual so as to best help them absorb the material you present. Unfortunately really smart/gifted people tend to also lack the ability to understand how others might be limited and how to help them overcome those limits because they tend to lack people skills.

      • Fourscore

        It isn’t nice to make a young substitute teacher cry and leave the room and having the principal come and finish the hour.

        /Pleads innocent

    • Rat on a train

      Providing the correct answer is also white supremacy, but you are still required to give a “correct” answer.

  17. The Late P Brooks

    RJ- good movie!

    • R.J.

      Thanks!

    • Drake

      Aren’t the youngest Baby Boomers about 60?

      • juris imprudent

        Piles of horseshit.

      • WTF

        Really, how so? Because I am part of that demographic, and that article is true for me and my contemporaries.

      • juris imprudent

        9 years does not a generation make – not for the ‘front end’ (46-55) of the Boomers or the back end.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Generations and cultural cohorts are often conflated, but are very different. A millennial who grew up without cable is more like an early Gen Xer than a late Gen Xer who grew up watching MTV is like an early Gen Xer.

      • UnCivilServant

        Get off my lawn!

        /Never had cable

    • hayeksplosives

      Awww…

      Happy endings can be salvaged out of bad circumstances.

      I like the clever use of a kiddie pool as kitten corral too.

    • AlexinCT

      He needs a subscription to Viagra or Cialis… But your assertion might be correct and he should try a buttplug (for himself).

    • SDF-7

      Marry her — that should cut it down to once a month if he’s lucky.

      • AlexinCT

        Thinking outside the box like this has consequences…

      • Fourscore

        Don’t go home, hang out in a bar with your buddies, pass out in the car. It’s the only way she’ll learn

      • Compelled Speechless

        I want to laugh at this, but I’m worried that if my wife found out she’d take away my one-per-month.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      *shudder*

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        Nuthouse for her, license revocation for whoever her doctor was.

      • AlexinCT

        I can think of one heck of a carny show she can be in in about 30 years….

    • hayeksplosives

      #no_regerts

    • SDF-7

      “I’ll take Mental Illness for $200, Alex.”

  18. The Late P Brooks

    Weatherman say 100% chance of sleet this afternoon. Yay, spring!

  19. The Late P Brooks

    *ponders selling these out of an etsy store*

    Don’t forget to declare the income. El Jefe needs his cut.

  20. Not Adahn

    Malefactors gravitate towards job that enable their desires. Sadists become cops. Control freaks become politicians. Pedophiles become teachers, scoutmasters, youth ministers and UNICEF workers

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      When there is no accountability, there will be bad actors.

      If I had to pick why there seems to be an uptick in this kind of behavior, I’d say it’s because that as a society we have ceded all justice to the State and in doing so, created an opportunity for bad actors to control the system which judges them.

      • Tulip

        Is there an up tick or is it more exposed?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        The Brits at least have a long history of it in their boarding schools. I’d say it’s a combination.

  21. Pope Jimbo

    Well this isn’t good and I shall be enforcing a Big Tech Censorship ban on this story.

    Now, a new study by Isle Royale researchers from Michigan Technological University has documented that assumption as fact, and found that wolves play a key role in keeping moose populations healthy on the big Lake Superior island.

    Wolves on the island showed a strong preference for elderly moose over prime-age moose, with wolves selecting their targets based on the age of the moose and whether it suffered from osteoarthritis, a chronic disease that can be influenced by genetics and injuries.

    Why? When my wife was learning American slang, she asked why guys who chased women were called wolfs. Anyhow, as part of that discussion she said she was a cute little doe, but I countered with calling her a moose. So it has been an inside joke with us for decades that I’m the wolf and she’s the moose.

    This story would have been funny back at the start of the joke. Now it will be met with severe disapproval.

    • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

      “Wolves on the island showed a strong preference for elderly moose”

      Wait, they are cross breeding Cougars with Moose now?

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Now, a new study by Isle Royale researchers from Michigan Technological University has documented that assumption as fact, and found that wolves play a key role in keeping moose populations healthy on the big Lake Superior island.

    Now they should take a crack at verifying that rumor about the sun always coming up in the east.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      A Møøse once bit my sister… No realli!

    • R.J.

      Hard times make hard wolves, hard wolves make good times, good times make soft mice, soft mice make a squishing noise when you accidentally step on them.
      Is it mice, or meeses? I guess it depends on which Hanna-Barbera cartoon you are watching.

  23. juris imprudent

    CNN analysis:

    But DeSantis’ messaging — though infuriating to defenders of science and civil rights — has often been crisp and succinct and more palatable to suburban audiences than Trump’s polarizing rants ever were. The Florida governor has become adept at making some of his more discriminatory and anti-science policies sound innocuous, underscoring what a formidable challenger he could be to future Democratic opponents at a time when disinformation is flourishing.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Defenders of Science was a terrible cartoon

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      defenders of science and civil rights

      We are the Anointed, the Holy Crusaders for Science. and Civil Rights.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Weren’t they crushed like the Templars?

    • Dr. Fronkensteen

      The corporate media’s lack of knowledge of science and civil rights is infuriating.

    • Grumbletarian

      The meteoric rise of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the pantheon of potential GOP presidential contenders has been one of the most fascinating subplots in politics — putting him on a direct collision course with former President Donald Trump as he led the anti-mask, anti-mandate brigade through the pandemic and then muscled through a string of controversial laws to cast himself as the right’s new champion for “parental rights.”

      “Parental rights” indeed! As if such a thing actually exists!

      • kbolino

        “muscled through a string of controversial laws”

        A phrase that is curiously never uttered about Obama…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        +1 pen and phone

    • WTF

      his more discriminatory and anti-science policies

      He asserted without evidence.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ms Flournoy is reported to say ‘it was time and time is like space, space where time is time and now I have the space.’

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Madness takes its toll.

      • db

        Time is fleeting

      • WTF

        *applause*

    • Not Adahn

      What was her lament?

    • juris imprudent

      Ah the cut-throat competition amongst the three to ascend the ranks!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I would say six as one has three personalities

  24. The Late P Brooks

    You’re having a birthday party. As you are cutting the cake, your neighbor comes to the door and demands a piece. What do you do?

    a) Cut the cake into smaller pieces

    b) Cut the cake into bigger pieces

    c) Call doordash and order another cake on your credit card

    d) Slam the door in his goddam face

    • SDF-7

      D — don’t care what my relationship to said neighbor is prior to this point. Unannounced and “demands”. Screw off.

      • Nephilium

        E) Look for the camera in the room with the cake

      • AlexinCT

        ^^PRANKED^^

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      e) Release the hounds

      A neighbor was trespassing on my property when I first moved in. I was friendly, introduced myself and my Doberman who was loose with me, and asked that he not come on my property anymore without permission because my dog would attack him if I wasn’t there. He said oh that’s no problem, I keep on a gun on me in case a dog attacks.

      I smiled and said certainly, I keep a gun on me for in case someone shoots my dog. He immediately left and never trespassed again. Though it did sour neighborly relations a bit. And then I found out that half of my closest neighbors are his kin, but fortunately don’t care much for him either. Mountain folk can be strange.

      • AlexinCT

        He didn’t comment about you having a “Purdy mouth”, I hope…

      • db

        At our old place one of the neighbors used to stray onto our property. I let him know that I really enjoyed target shooting and that the spot he liked to cross onto our property was also where my bullets crossed to get to the target plates and that he should be very careful and consider it an active shooting range. I made a point of shooting frequently in the backyard for a week or so to make sure he got the point.

    • Festus

      Cut the cake with the door machete, all the while looking straight into his eyes.

    • Rat on a train

      e) eat some cake, take a shit, give to neighbor

      • Ownbestenemy

        Didn’t realize Amber Heard was invited to the party

    • juris imprudent

      Is this a new version of the trolley problem?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        E) strap his family to the train tracks and force him to decide whether to run his family or his slice of cake over with a train.

      • UnCivilServant

        “Dude, that’s an HO-scale train, it’ll bounce off the first arm it reaches.”

      • UnCivilServant

        *picks up train engine, picks up cake*

        “Come on, get up off that track. We’re going home, these people are crazy,”

      • UnCivilServant

        But now they know they can get both cake and model train parts from your house!

    • Penguin

      They all want cake. Give him a shiny choking hazard.

    • Compelled Speechless

      You don’t want to trick me into taking a Voight-Kampff test. That never turns out well for the guy instituting it.

      • UnCivilServant

        They simplified the process and renamed it a CPATCHA.

        For some reason, I keep failing to prove I am not a robot.

        It Does Not Compute.

      • slumbrew

        Let me tell you about my mother…

      • slumbrew

        Prudent choice, really.

  25. Pope Jimbo

    Uffda.

    Minnesoda liquor industry buys legislator and the results are fantastic!

    But another aspect of the proposal awaiting action on the House floor has gotten less attention: a formal system to reach similar compromises in the future. Rather than have brewers, distillers, distributors, unions and liquor store owners negotiate informally — or argue publicly — about dividing the business, the bill (House File 2767) would set up a formal council of industry players.

    Called the Liquor Industry Advisory Council, the board would listen to proposals for changing state alcohol laws. If enough of the members agree, it would be forwarded to the Legislature for consideration.

    As crafted by House Commerce Committee Chair Zack Stephenson, the board would be a confederation of sorts that would require some support from each sector: liquor retailers, producers and distributors.

    I’m sure the bill also includes a budget to let the booze industry run their council in style.

    • Nephilium

      Who doesn’t want AB-InBev and Diageo deciding your state liquor laws?

      • Rat on a train

        How much worse could they do than the VABC?

      • Nephilium

        They could be the PA alcohol control board?

        Back when the legislature here was debating about removing the 12% ABV limit for beer, AB-InBev and MillerCoors both loudly protested it “for the children”. When the bill passed, the next day both were advertising their higher ABV beers on billboards throughout the state. Fred from Hoppin’ Frog was a very loud voice in getting rid of the cap, and released the first (legal) 12%+ ABV beer in the state (named Gavel Slammer). He also has the gavel from the legislative session that removed the ABV cap mounted on the wall of the tasting room.

    • Festus

      Yep. Everyone of them will have a lazy susan of high end whisky close to hand. Fucking cuntes.

    • slumbrew

      Not mentioned in that list – consumers.

      You’ll take what you’re given, peasant.

    • slumbrew

      … run their council in style.

      Are you suggesting they’d be some sort of style council?

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The Florida governor has become adept at making some of his more discriminatory and anti-science policies sound innocuous, underscoring what a formidable challenger he could be to future Democratic opponents at a time when disinformation is flourishing.

    Their worst nightmare. Somebody who isn’t a raving lunatic.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I love the disinformation canard which is simply code for “ban him from social media.” All the criticism shows he’s the one they’re the most worried about and he’s definitely over the target. I never thought the target would be the right to groom children though. Go figure…

  27. AlexinCT

    I happened to listen to a podcast yesterday that was discussing the Johnny Depp divorce, and I heard that chick he was married to not only regularly beat his skinny ass, but she had a habit of taking a shit on his side of the bed when she was pissed with him. WTF kind of cuck do you have to be to let that happen? or is Depp a German guy and into that Sheisse porn?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The first shit on my side of the bed would be the last shit on my side of the bed. Who does that?

      • R.J.

        That, especially. What is she, 4 years old?

      • pistoffnick

        Who does that?

        Ex-wife’s cat, Oscar, used to regularly shit on my pillow. He was one of the only cats I didn’t like.

      • R C Dean

        I might let the first one go – its an animal, after all.

        After the second one, the cat would be gone.

    • Ownbestenemy

      It’s a vision through the looking glass of broken people with outsized funds to never grow up and learn how to be adults. She is a terrible person and Depp has some really deep issues.

      Best outcome is the jury says ‘you both lose’

    • Festus

      I used to think that Amber Heard was one of the most attractive actresses out there. Now I might need to adjust that. #Amberturd and #Mepoo are trending. Don’t stick it in crazy, no matter how crazy hot she seems.

      • Festus

        I’ve no love for Johnny Depp, either.

      • Nephilium

        I’ve got some respect for him. His first movie role was in Nightmare on Elm Street. When Wes Craven was doing A New Nightmare (set in the real world, with the actors playing themselves), he was afraid to ask Johnny Depp to play a role, as Craven figured Depp had gotten too big. When word of that got to Depp after the movie was released, he said he was hurt, and would have loved to have been in New Nightmare as his career was dependent on the first one.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        #Amberturd

        My inner middle schooler laughed heartily at this.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        She is physically attractive. Get her a personality transplant and I’d be game. No, and I mean no, bedshitting allowed though.

      • AlexinCT

        Party pooper…

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Save it for the hotel honey.

      • Ownbestenemy

        … that is a perfect euphemism for dookie…hotel honey.

      • juris imprudent

        Not even in Cleveland?

      • Nephilium

        Not in my house at least.

    • Drake

      I’ll bet she was incredible in the sack (when she wasn’t shitting it). A case of deciding it was all worth it to stick it in crazy regularly.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Based on some of those texts…she was a kinky gal. Loved the one about having something for her throat that won’t involve pain next time.

    • R.J.

      The case seems so extreme. I am hoping to catch up on it, just to see what has actually been put into court records. My assumption is that most of the things people say she did must be exaggerated. Otherwise I agree with you. Why would Johnny stay?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Just watch on Fox…cause for some reason they are running it gavel to gavel everyday.

      • TARDis

        I can’t wait for the movie.
        /S

      • Fourscore

        That is the movie, starring the two…Get a really big bag of popcorn and await the jury’s verdict

      • AlexinCT

        I can’t wait for the jury to ask for a real life demonstration of the bed shitting event so they can better understand what was gong on in their discussions…

  28. The Late P Brooks

    Smells like sedition

    A potentially precedent-setting disqualification hearing will kick off Friday in an Atlanta courtroom to determine if Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is constitutionally barred from running for reelection because of her role in the January 6 insurrection.

    Greene is expected to be called as a witness during the marathon hearing — making her the first lawmaker to testify under oath about their involvement in the insurrection. The outcome will reverberate beyond Georgia, because similar challenges are pending against other Republican officials and could be lodged against former President Donald Trump if he runs again in 2024.
    The case resolves around a Civil War-era provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, which says any American official who takes an oath to uphold the Constitution is disqualified from holding any future office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” But how this applies to today is a hotly debated legal question.
    Several of Greene’s constituents in her northwest Georgia district initiated the challenge last month with backing from a coalition of liberal activists and constitutional scholars. They claim Greene aided the insurrection by promoting voter fraud myths, posting videos before January 6 railing against the peaceful transfer of power, and allegedly coordinating with protest organizers.

    Everybody hates her. As awful as she is, you’d think they’d be confident of defeating her at the polls.

    But for some reason, they are desperate to get her off the ballot.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      The insurrection that didn’t happen just keeps on giving.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Greene is smarter than most think. And one of the few to call out our actions in the Ukraine as illegitimate.

      • Not Adahn

        smarter than most think

        Well, that’s damning with faint praise.

    • Ownbestenemy

      This opens up a whole can of worms. I welcome it

    • kbolino

      There’s definitely not a cold civil war going on, but also we’re going to prosecute people as though there is.

    • Grumbletarian

      The case resolves around a Civil War-era provision of the Fourteenth Amendment, which says any American official who takes an oath to uphold the Constitution is disqualified from holding any future office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”

      One would think a conviction on any of those charges would be required first.

      • Ownbestenemy

        One would have thought the judge who ok’d this to proceed would have said that too

      • db

        Nope, I’d expect that judge knows this will be taken care of at higher levels…but not until after the election and she has actually been excluded from the ballot. The process is the punishment.

      • rhywun

        Do they really want to open up this Pandora’s Box?

        Think of how much fun the GOP will have with it in the fall.

      • UnCivilServant

        Not one iota. The old worms are still in charge, with less backbone than even that appellation implies.

      • Gustave Lytton

        *wipes tears of laughter away*

    • Gustave Lytton

      The idiot Roperites will never consider how this will be used against them in the future.

      • R C Dean

        One possible future has little in the way legal niceties as lipstick on the pig of power. They should be wary of that future. Very wary.

      • juris imprudent

        Ya’ll are both thinking these people can, and will, think. No by god, they want action without thought!

  29. The Late P Brooks

    I made the chips for the Zune.

    There is nothing more to the story.

    Ten bucks is ten bucks.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Is that the same Johnny Depp who said nobody ever told him he couldn’t afford to spend $200,000 a month on booze and fancy restaurants?

    • Fourscore

      Young Johnny skipped the class on financial planning in high school ’cause he already knew the answers without showing the work

      • AlexinCT

        That’s rough Fourscore…

      • R C Dean

        From the top rope!

        If only I could think of an LED joke . . . .

  31. Sensei

    Reason 1,001 why I didn’t feel the need to pay for Tesla’s “beta” full self driving that includes summoning the car to your location without a driver.

    Vision Jet + Tesla

    TW Reddit

    • pistoffnick

      Ouch! Those jets aren’t cheap, nor cheap to repair.

    • db

      oh that’ll make you sick.

    • R C Dean

      Twitter needs to be worried about a lot more than a toothless Congressional demand. They are looking down the barrel of shareholder lawsuits, where all of that will be fair game. And they are on notice, so destroying it is “spoliation” of evidence, which pisses off judges and gives the other side the right to assume that whatever you destroyed is full of the worst they can impute to you.

  32. Brawndo

    I’m not privy to the finer details of the Disney carve out, but I think it’s pretty sweet that the government gives private entities that much freedom to run their affairs. That said, it would be nice if that same courtesy was extended to people without billions to spend on lobbying

    • AlexinCT

      You must be on drugs to think shit like that….

      • AlexinCT

        Next you are gonna tell me that you are what plants crave…

    • The Last American Hero

      It is.

      There are 1,844 such districts in the state of Florida. De Santis is stepping on his own dick here.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Yeah they are pulling out the my journalism! bit again except now going to everyone behind the scenes that they wouldn’t give two shits about if they were successful.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Won’t someone weep for the journalists?

      Nope

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Best outcome is the jury says ‘you both lose’

    And the lawyers lived happily ever after.

    • juris imprudent

      Bleakhouse Revisited.

  34. Festus

    I’ll go out on a high note. #Amberturd is a borrowed meme.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Should have went out on the brown note.

  35. The Late P Brooks

    From Alex’s link:

    It’s not the first time Twitter has caught the attention of Republican lawmakers.

    The platform has become a focal point for some conservative members who’ve charged that Twitter unfairly removes or moderates posts on ideological grounds. Twitter has denied doing so and says it enforces standards based on its community guidelines.

    Us? Censorship on political grounds?

    Perish the thought. We merely want what’s best for you.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Pepperidge Farms remembers when leftists were enraged at social media companies at their censorship decisions, or lack of thereof.

    • ron73440

      We really are in the War is Peace-Ignorance is Strength- Freedom is Slavery portion of the book aren’t we.

      • Grumbletarian

        Needs to show a picture of the White House.

      • ron73440

        That’s cool.

        I’m not much into yard signage, but could see an exception for that one.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    I was paging through movies the other night, “The Rum Diaries” popped up. Starring… dun dun DUUUUNNNNH! Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. I might have to watch it, if I can find it again.

  37. db

    I posted this last night but it really is worth seeing again, I think.

    If you’re looking for an ironic chuckle, check out this synopsis [Wikipedia] of Nine Inch Nails’ 2007 album, Year Zero:

    The story takes place in the United States in 2022, which has been termed “Year 0”, by the government, being the year America was reborn.[112] It had suffered several major terrorist attacks, apparently by Islamic fundamentalists, including attacks on Los Angeles and Seattle, and in response, the government seized absolute control of the country. The government is a Christian fundamentalist theocracy, maintaining control of the populace through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano.[113] The government corporation Cedocore distributes the drug Parepin through the water supply, making Americans who drink water apathetic and carefree.[114] There are several underground rebel groups, mainly operating online, most notably Art is Resistance and Solutions Backwards Initiative.[110] In response to the increasing oppression of the government, several corporate, government, and subversive websites were transported back in time to the present by a group of scientists working clandestinely against the authorities. The websites-from-the-future were sent to the year 2007 to warn American people of the impending dystopian future and to prevent it from ever forming in the first place.[115]

    • Nephilium

      Trent Reznor was from the Cleveland area. Several of my friends used to run into him at the clubs on a regular basis. They all said he was a short asshole.

      • db

        He went to Pitt–I have a friend who knew him there and he confirms that Trent was an asshole.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        LOL. Now I have to call my buddy from Cleveland who’s been playing in local bands for decades and find out if Trent is an asshole.

      • Not Adahn

        I dunno, being willing to play tambourine is not an asshole move.

      • Nephilium

        Why? You’ve already got a story read to go: “Multiple Sources Confirm Trent Reznor is an Asshole.”

      • Zwak,The Baddest Johnny on the Apple Cart

        Wait, is his real name John McCrea?

  38. UnCivilServant

    I’m easily amused today.

    I moved a regularly scheduled meeting to avoid a conflict, and they went and cancelled the meeting it was conflicting with mere minutes after I rescheduled mine.

    • UnCivilServant

      I somehow find this funny.

      • ron73440

        If you are amused by meeting schedules, you really are management material.

      • UnCivilServant

        Or I’ve been on a messed up sleep schedule and cognitively impaired as a result.

      • ron73440

        messed up sleep schedule and cognitively impaired

        Management material confirmed!

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Thanks to db, I just had an inspiration for a “In This House” sign:

    MIGHT MAKES RIGHT

    THE END JUSTIFIES THEM MEANS

    THE MEEK EXIST TO SERVE THE STRONG

    THE WINNERS WRITE THE HISTORY BOOKS

    • R C Dean

      Hmm. Could also do the Iron Laws:

      You get more of what you reward and less of what you punish.

      Money and power will always find each other.

      If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

      The less you know about something, the easier it looks.

      You aren’t free unless you are free to be wrong.

      Me today, you tomorrow.

      Foreseeable consequences are not unintended.

      Meaning comes from context.

  40. Sensei

    Mo Money Mo Money!

    Biden Says U.S. to Send Ukraine $800 Million in Military Aid

    The new aid follows a previous $800 million package in weapons to Kyiv that included artillery, armored personnel carriers and helicopters. That package, which was announced last week, marked the first time the U.S. sent 155-mm artillery to Ukraine. It also included equipment that required training, such as the howitzers, as well as the sophisticated air-defense surveillance systems and counter-battery radars, which would be used to pinpoint the source of enemy artillery fire.

    The two batches of aid announced over the past week will provide Ukraine with enough artillery systems to equip five battalions, the Pentagon said. The U.S. has sent roughly $3.4 billion in security assistance to Ukraine since the start of Russia’s invasion.

    • Sean

      $3.4b ?

      Chump change.

    • Ownbestenemy

      MIC ain’t even hiding it this time around

      https://hbr.org/2022/03/raytheon-ceo-gregory-hayes-how-ukraine-has-highlighted-gaps-in-us-defense-technologies

      I think again recognizing we are there to defend democracy and the fact is eventually we will see some benefit in the business over time. Everything that’s being shipped into Ukraine today, of course, is coming out of stockpiles, either at DoD or from our NATO allies, and that’s all great news. Eventually we’ll have to replenish it and we will see a benefit to the business over the next coming years.

      • db

        defend democracy

        This is just a throwaway line at this point. Does anyone believe that the endless wars have anything to do with “defending democracy?” Or that “democracy” means anything to the people who say that kind of shit?

      • Ownbestenemy

        I wonder if Z realizes, that if for some miracle he and his country get out of this that the US will turn on a dime and bend him over

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Democracy means more street putsches, this is known.

      • Drake

        We all voted to fight these wars, right?

      • Gustave Lytton

        HBR;dr

        how-ukraine-has-highlighted-gaps-in-us-defense-technologies

        Lack of privately own weapons and firearms beyond semiautomatic, training & equipping of the unorganized militia, etc, right?

    • rhywun

      Keep that meat-grinder grinding.

  41. The Late P Brooks

    M

    • Not Adahn

      Mlle?

      • pistoffnick

        Mille Borne?

        My brother brought that card game to Easter. We used to play cards and listen to the oldies on the radio as a family every Satdee night.

      • TARDis

        I’ve worn out two decks of Mille Borne.

    • hayeksplosives

      You ain’t kidding! I love the combo of military helmet with ever-so-delicate reading glasses.

      Larf.

      On the other hand, glad Japan is spending its own money on defense.

      • Sensei

        For which, naturally, Trump as castigated for saying after he was sworn in.

      • kbolino

        If they spend their own money, we don’t have as much power over them.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The factory jackets and tie combo really pull it off.

    • Gustave Lytton

      If only it was a kei tank.

    • The Last American Hero

      You won’t be laughing when the tank turns into a robot and merges with 5 other robots to form a robotic super-warrior.

  42. Gustave Lytton

    Statement from the Russian Foreign Ministry, circa 2021

    We owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between [Russia] and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonies or dependencies of any [Western] power, we have not interfered and shall not interfere. But with the Governments who have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and on just principles, acknowledged, we could not view any interposition for the purpose of oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner their destiny, by any [Western] power in any other light than as the manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward [Russia].

    • ron73440

      You need to be cancelled.

      Those are Putin talking points.

    • Drake

      The Monroe Doctrine of the east – it’s different when they do it!

    • db

      Yep, that Russia, always honoring their neighbors’ sovereignty and staying above the fray.

    • AlexinCT

      You disappoint me.. I was hoping it would be a link to the Rumanian ass slapping competition someone linked the other day…

  43. The Other Kevin

    How did our first No Twitter Thursday go? Are we all ready for FUPA Fridays?

    • l0b0t

      Tres Cool is ALWAYS ready for FUPA Friday!

    • db

      Hey Kevin, sorry to say that I don’t think I’m going to be able to make it out this evening or tomorrow morning.

      • Sean

        Record setting.

  44. Not Adahn

    TIL:

    Nicotine is hazardous waste (at least in this town) therefore employees are not allowed to throw away vaping gear.

    • rhywun

      OFFS.

    • Count Potato

      WTF?? Can they still throw away cigarette butts?

  45. l0b0t

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  46. DEG

    RJ, if you’re out there, I finish “Comrade Dracula” this morning while waiting for some stuff at work. That was a good pick, and ended in a slightly different manner than I thought it would.

    • Urthona

      Not understanding why he needed to be Scots-Irish. Offensive.

      • R C Dean

        Did you just assume xit’s gender?

  47. R C Dean

    *insert “Hello, fellow teens!” meme here*

  48. kinnath

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        mine’s the same but different words:

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    • Ted S.

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