Wednesday Afternoon SugarLinks – Chocolate Dick Veins

by | Apr 20, 2022 | Daily Links, SugarFree | 307 comments

I love how weird everything is nowadays.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/snickers-dick-vein


 

I didn’t really want to post another Twitter link, but most of the *ahem* news sites cut this part out.

Kamala brings up the big questions. To paraphrase the Problem of Evil: Is she incapable of not sounding like an idiot or just unwilling? Does she just ignore all the people around her in place to keep her from sounding like a moron? Listen to it on a loop, let it play. It is the sound of one hand clapping… and that hand is sticky with old man jizz.


 

Snickers dick veins.

 


 

Biden administration to cancel student loan debt for at least 40,000 borrowers. It could wipe out $3.9 billion

I assume the refund for my paid-back loans is going to come in the mail anytime now.


 

US professor wins $400,000 payout after refusing to call trans student a woman

A public university in Ohio has agreed to pay $400,000 to one of its professors after it rebuked him for refusing to use a student’s pronouns.

In 2018, Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor at Shawnee State University in southern Ohio, addressed a transgender student as “sir” when she raised her hand in class.

This prompted the university to launch an investigation into the incident. It found that Meriwether had created a “hostile environment” in the classroom.

The university delivered Meriwether a written warning that stated that he could be fired or suspended without pay for violating the university’s nondiscrimination policy.

Meriwether asked if referring to all students by their self-identified gender, and including a disclaimer in his syllabus that noted he was only doing so under “compulsion”, would comply with the university’s policies, which he was told would not.

He also offered to refer to the student by either first or last preferred legal name without using gendered titles, but continued to refuse to refer to the student as a woman.

Meriwether then sued the university, but had his case dismissed by a federal district court due to lack of standing.

However, in 2020, a three-judge panel from the sixth US circuit court of appeals ruled that Meriwether is allowed to sue the school, writing in a 32-page opinion: “Traditionally, American universities have been beacons of intellectual diversity and academic freedom. They have prided themselves on being forums where controversial ideas are discussed and debated. And they have tried not to stifle debate by picking sides.”

The judges, all of whom were Republican appointees, with two having been nominated by Donald Trump, added: “But Shawnee State chose a different route: It punished a professor for his speech on a hotly contested issue. And it did so despite the constitutional protections afforded by the first amendment.


 

Albino wood elf covers beautiful song written by violent drunks

 

More wood elf hijinks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1E_2fPuOec

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307 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    “I assume the refund for my paid-back loans is going to come in the mail anytime now.”

    Oh, you!

    • Fourscore

      Since my wife, son and I didn’t have any loans all we owe is the interest on the loans we didn’t have, right? I don’t want to cheat the government.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Don’t worry, you’re gonna continue to make interest payments until all loans used to pay off the forgiven loans are also paid off,

    • WTF

      These days anyone who plays by the rules is a chump.

      • Count Potato

        But if you don’t play by the rules they can throw you in prison.

  2. Count Potato

    “US professor wins $400,000 payout after refusing to call trans student a woman”

    I’ve looked at a bunch of articles, and not one picture of the student.

    • Count Potato

      “Meriwether asked if referring to all students by their self-identified gender, and including a disclaimer in his syllabus that noted he was only doing so under “compulsion”, would comply with the university’s policies, which he was told would not.

      He also offered to refer to the student by either first or last preferred legal name without using gendered titles, but continued to refuse to refer to the student as a woman.”

      And neither of those things were good enough?

      • Tonio

        That’s how this is going to end. We’re going to sound like brits, referring to everyone by last name.

      • Sean

        Nah, we’ll just refer to everyone as sport or captain. Totally non gendered that way, sport.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Sport is an Western Patriarchal construct designed to elevate men above women by assumptions that men are better than women at sport thereby reducing women to an inferior position.

      • Nephilium

        Sure thing ya wanker.

      • db

        Sounds good, Chief.

      • MikeS

        RACIST!!11!!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m already talking through my teeth, so I’m halfway there.

      • Bobarian LMD

        If you’re gonna properly talk thru your teeth, you need to have more spacing.

      • SugarFree

        What’s the point if you can’t force people to participate? (see also: face masks)

        It has never been about safety or inclusion, but rather compliance. “You will submit to my reality or be punished.”

      • rhywun

        And it must be enthusiastic compliance, with a smile.

      • Plisade

        ‘How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?’

        ‘I don’t know. I don’t know. You will kill me if you do that again. Four, five, six — in all honesty I don’t know.’

        ‘Better,’ said O’Brien.

  3. Count Potato

    *points to sidebar*

    • Tonio

      I don’t see a sidebar. Are you high?

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        He meant “salad bar”. He wants to be part of the loaded baked potato section.

      • Mojeaux

        I miss salad bars.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Tonio need help with the zoom tonight or you got the bull by its balls?

      • Tonio

        I’ll start it off, but don’t know how long I’ll be up. Holiday for me, and all.

      • Count Potato

        *points to calendar*

    • Ted S.

      *points to cat-butt*

      • Bobarian LMD

        (
        (*)

  4. Drake

    Space connects us all.

    I always thought it did the opposite.

    • Ownbestenemy

      She should have just said this

      • SugarFree

        Like falling into a swimming pool. But the pool is made of meat. But not butt meat.

      • Bobarian LMD

        There was a water slide.

      • db

        He tripped and fell and it just went in there.

    • Tonio

      Men are pigs, we’ll fuck anything when drunk enough.

      • Hank

        Porter. ‘Faith sir, we were carousing till the
        second cock: and drink, sir, is a great
        provoker of three things.

        Macduff. What three things does drink especially provoke?

        Porter. Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and
        urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
        it provokes the desire, but it takes
        away the performance: therefore, much drink
        may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
        it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
        him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
        and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
        not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
        in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

    • Fatty Bolger

      He loses his gold star. That’s it.

    • rhywun

      Some people will do anything for attention.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Even bang a woman, it’s disgusting.

        Just get an internet connection and some Kleenex like a proper man.

  5. The Other Kevin

    “Biden administration to cancel student loan debt for at least 40,000 borrowers. It could wipe out $3.9 billion”

    I bet this wouldn’t be as popular if the headline read, “Biden administration to use $3.09 billion in taxpayer money to pay off student debt for at least 40,000 borrowers with graduate degrees from ivy league schools.”

    • Count Potato

      Or “Biden administration gives $3.09 billion in taxpayer money to financial corporations”.

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s even better.

      • Mad Scientist

        How about this one? “Biden administration to borrow $3.09 billion, which taxpayers will pay back with interest, to give to financial corporations.”

    • Fourscore

      Taxpayers pick up the $3.9 billion tab for 40K college dropouts loan debt. Prez says it would only be right ’cause they are unemployable and Dad threatens to boot them out of the basement.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      That’s about $100K per person. I’m guessing these aren’t poor souls who took a few semesters at community college or went to the local state school.

    • SugarFree

      Did he wear a mask? DID HE?

      • SugarFree

        Hooking up with an academic colleague at a conference while drinking? He’s really being sued for being a moron. Career suicidal ideation.

    • The Other Kevin

      That story is a bit derivative, but I think alcohol was integral to the situation.

      • Fourscore

        What’s odds of that happening?

      • Plisade

        Go figure. She probably doesn’t even have proof.

      • juris imprudent

        Bad decision making was fermented, possibly even distilled.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh DAMMIT, the bestest pun here would’ve been they fell out over Ferment’s theorem!

      • db

        Who-a Black Betty, Ramanujan!

      • Pope Jimbo

        If she didn’t want to multiply, she shouldn’t have worn that short skirt.

      • SDF-7

        Uh-oh.. Swiss has reached his limit. If we keep at it, I’m not sure he’ll be able to differentiate us from the proper function of the site. These kinds of tangents to the links cut down on the volume of the site he’ll tolerate, after all.

        Then again — maybe all of this is orthogonal and he’ll be happy enough to cosine your loans for you….

      • Atanarjuat

        “I cannae get any narrowah, Captain!”

    • Hank

      His life just got exponentially worse.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      “Wanna see my spike protein?”

    • Shpip

      An academic whose work has helped shape South Australia’s response to Covid-19 has denied assaulting a university colleague with whom he had sex on a retreat.

      He should be horsewhipped just for that.

      Dr Nguyen, who is a senior lecturer in the same department, is also the director of gender, diversity and inclusion at the Faculty of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences.

      Never stick it in conjugate with crazy. Banging her is a no-Nguyen situation.

      • grrizzly

        South Australia was slightly less awful than the other states on the prison continent. It was in the news only once when it announced a lockdown after a single case.

  6. Tonio

    Happy 4/20!

    • Fourscore

      You betcha

  7. Hank

    I’m glad the professor was graciously permitted to acknowledge reality, but I can’t really get behind this part of the court’s opinion:

    “Traditionally, American universities have been beacons of intellectual diversity and academic freedom. They have prided themselves on being forums where controversial ideas are discussed and debated. And they have tried not to stifle debate by picking sides.”

    They’ve been beacons of a diverse group of ideas, from Marxism to social democracy, and on the far, far, right, neoconservatism.

  8. Tundra

    Biden administration to cancel student loan debt for at least 40,000 borrowers. It could wipe out $3.9 billion

    This makes me very, very angry.

    • Tonio

      Makes me feel like a chump for having paid mine back, and lived in shit housing and worked during college to keep debt low.

    • The Other Kevin

      How about this part? “PSLF is meant to forgive the student debt of public servants—such as teachers, public defenders, and government workers—after 10 years of on-time payments”.

      You know, those public servants who hardly get any compensation or benefits or special treatment.

      • R C Dean

        If it makes you feel any better, PSLF is also available to employees of non-profits.

      • The Other Kevin

        Like the Southern Poverty Law Center? That changes everything!

      • db

        PSLF?

        P-SLF?

        Pee-self?

      • Fatty Bolger

        Considering how easy non-profits are to set up, that seems ripe for abuse.

      • SDF-7

        Just the way they like it.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Foreseeable consequences etc.

      • Bobarian LMD

        “PSLF is meant to forgive the student debt of public servants—such as teachers, public defenders, and government workers people who normally vote overwhelmingly for the democratic party.

  9. The Late P Brooks

    Meriwether then sued the university, but had his case dismissed by a federal district court due to lack of standing.

    I, uh…

  10. DEG

    I assume the refund for my paid-back loans is going to come in the mail anytime now.

    The government is just trying to help you, so the check is in the mail!

  11. R C Dean

    Judge Dean’s verson:

    Traditionally, American universities have been sold themselves as beacons of intellectual diversity and academic freedom. They have prided themselves, on what basis is not entirely clear, on being forums where controversial ideas are discussed and debated. And they have tried claimed not to stifle debate by picking sides. Rather than evaluate the merit of these claims, we will simply take them at their word, and hold them to their self-proclaimed standards.

    • Grummun

      Judge Dean

      After you depart you should run for judge in whatever barren arid county you inhabit. Let’s see, which one has the most opportunity for yuks… Municipal? Traffic? Family?

      • R C Dean

        Hmmm. Two words:

        Fuck, and no.

      • Atanarjuat

        Honest question as a total layperson, why not? I mean, the family court one is obvious, who would want to hear that shit all day. But wielding power over traffic cops might be cool.

      • R C Dean

        Its still a (government) bureaucracy. I want out of bureaucracies.

        And much of what judges do is mind-numbingly tedious.

  12. Tonio

    Because OBE is getting twitchy waiting for the announcement:

    Tulip is off having a life so I’ll kick off Wednesday Night GlibZoom at 8:00 PM Eastern.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I aint getting twitchy, was just offering to help. Now you make me type shit like im really Hyperbole.

  13. The Other Kevin

    Tomorrow I’m off to Pittsburgh on an early flight for the big hockey tournament. I’ll take notes and write another article if any of you are interested.

    • Tundra

      Please.

    • Tonio

      Yes, please!

    • The Other Kevin

      I already have a document started in Notes on my phone. 🙂

      • db

        Are you going to be at the Lemieux Center or RMU Island Sports or both?

      • db

        Or Baierl or Alpha?

      • db

        Nevermind, I dug up the schedule–looks like Lemieux on Thursday and Friday, then RMU on Saturday, then depending what happens, maybe Sunday at Lemieux?

      • The Other Kevin

        I’m Blackhawks B, in Tier 5, so here is my schedule:
        Thu, 4-21-22 5:10 PM – 6:25 PM Chicago Blackhawks B vs. Colorado Avalanche 5 UPMC Rink 2

        Fri, 4-22-22 5:55 PM – 7:10 PM Knoxville Sled Bears vs. Chicago Blackhawks B RMU Clearview

        Sat, 4-23-22 8:45 AM – 10:00 AM Chicago Blackhawks B vs. Indy Steel Sled Alpha Europe

        Tier 5 Playoff
        Saturday, April 23, 2022 6:30 PM – 7:45 PM UPMC Rink 2 Tier OR
        Saturday, April 23, 2022 6:45 PM – 8:00 PM UPMC Rink 1

        Tier 5 Championship Game
        Sunday, April 24, 2022 9:55 AM – 11:20 AM RMU Clearview

        And thanks for reminding me you will be around, I had you mixed up with pistoffnick, who will see me in Minnesota in June.

      • pistoffnick

        For the record, db has much nicer (and more) hair than I do.

      • db

        I hope I can make it at least one day…if you’re interested in meeting up at all, we’ll have to figure out how to get in contact.

      • The Other Kevin

        db, you can get my email from pistoffnick, Tundra, or TPTB (I hereby give my permission).

    • Surly Knott

      Yes, please.

    • db

      Hey I might be able to see the game–I’m just getting over the ‘vid so we’ll see if the GF feels like going out this weekend, tho’.

    • Gustave Lytton

      Don’t forget to wear your mask on the flight!

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Tulip is off having a life

    How dare she?!

  15. Fatty Bolger

    Just got an email from Papa John’s titled “Care for a hot box?” On 4/20. Get it? Hotbox?

    • Nephilium

      Jimmy Johns is even getting into the discount game today based on how high you are.

    • SDF-7

      Sounds more like a porn hub entry…

  16. Hank

    Submitted for consideration – the push to legalize marijuana comes in part from people who believe in the right to make your own decisions, but also also comes from two other groups: people who think marijuana is cool, and those who think it’s a good source of revenue and graft.

    And of the three groups, I wonder which is going to be most influential?

    • db

      Probably have a look to California for a hint.

      • Tundra

        Lol. They managed to drive people back to dealers and gave the cartels a reason to grow weed again.

        Nice job, fuckos!

      • Ownbestenemy

        Sin City seems to have done it correctly, but then again, I don’t smoke nor follow the underbelly of it.

      • Name's BEAM. James BEAM.

        The Government of Canada (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Liberal Party and Trudeau Family of Canada) would like to be recognized for their efforts as well.

    • Atanarjuat

      In Florida they somehow set up a system where only people who were already millionaires could grow or distribute medical marijuana. According to a friend who works in state government, one of DeSantis’ first acts was to eliminate that carveout. I’m sure this is the exception rather than the rule.

      • Nephilium

        The first attempt at recreational legalization in Ohio was so bad, there were people urging voting against it to get a real recreational law passed. One of the most egregious parts of the bill was that the initial attempt specified the only locations where you could legally grow recreational marijuana, which all happened to be already owned by the sponsors of the bill (at least one story I remember reading from back then said that to get a plot of land, you had to commit $1 million to the group pushing the law). With no allowances for home growing or expanding the legal grow areas.

        It got voted down. It’s currently looking like a much better bill will be on the ballot this fall.

      • rhywun

        IIRC, in NY the licenses are going to convicted drug dealers. I can’t wait to see how that works out. Or maybe I will have to, given how reliable some of them aren’t.

      • l0b0t

        Well, our neighborhood bodegas have started selling vape cartridges under the table so I don’t have to schlepp to Brooklyn for those anymore.

  17. Bobarian LMD

    New ad campaign: Snickers satisfies you ribbed for your pleasure.

  18. Atanarjuat

    I love how they quote some horny young lady from 2009 as the first use of Snickers + dick veins, and note that the tweet got zero likes. 13 years later, she might not be pleased at being immortalized that way.

    • db

      “Mommy, why’s your phone ringing so much?”

  19. The Late P Brooks

    Today, in vapid posturing

    Colorado Gov. Jared Polis is openly lobbying The Walt Disney Co. to relocate its theme park from Orlando to his state over what he calls “authoritarian socialist attacks” from the Republican Party.

    “Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away,” the Democratic governor tweeted on Tuesday.

    “In CO, we don’t meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter.”

    Let’s ask Magpul for a ruling on Colorado’s business friendly vibe.

    • Gustave Lytton

      “You’ve just won the Super Bowl, what are you going to do?”

      “I sure as hell ain’t going to the new Disney World in February. Fuck that noise.”

      • TARDis

        I thought we settled this. February is a great time to go to parks in Fla. I mean, to hell with Disney and all, but Fla is fine in Feb.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Yes, but going to CO Disney World in February? I’ve had business trips then and there were nicer days but there were also freezing days. And unexpected blizzards.

      • TARDis

        There are cold snaps for sure, or as we called them, pants and jacket days. If you live there though, you can plan around them. Still better than standing the ball/taco soup line waiting for a ride June through August. Oh the stench of foreigners and poor people.

      • Atanarjuat

        I can say from personal experience that Orlando is legitimately pleasant all winter. Generally sunny ranging from tshirt to jacket weather depending on whether or not a cold front is on the way in.

    • Atanarjuat

      Probably better weather there for the summer vacation crowd, but during the cold months wouldn’t an outdoor theme park be essentially unusable? Also the cost of relocating would probably make the Global War on Terror look like a bargain.

    • Tundra

      “In CO, we don’t meddle in affairs of companies like @Disney or @Twitter.”

      Really, cunt? Because I bought some stuff from a guy who was forced to shut his gym down because of your covid-cuntiness.

      Cunt.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        To be fair, local gyms aren’t “like Disney or Twitter”. They don’t have a bevy of lobbyists to slip cash into politicians’ pockets.

      • Ownbestenemy

        No we just go after companies that want to exercise their faith and free association.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Don’t forget the bakers. They love them in Colorado.

    • R C Dean

      Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks

      Truly, these may be English words, but as he uses them, I have no idea what their meaning is supposed to be.

      • Tundra

        Feebly tacking rightward as he ponders re-election.

    • Urthona

      Isn’t that a repeal of socialist policies?

    • TARDis

      I look forward to visiting Tesla-SpaceX Parkᵀᴹ in Florida someday.

    • rhywun

      Florida’s authoritarian socialist attacks on the private sector are driving businesses away

      Did he name any examples?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Ah yes, Polis… Reason’s favorite Democrat because he plays video games.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I’m sure Disney is super excited to buy land in CO where they will be under the rule of the local, count and state inspectors. Finally they won’t have to suffer under the socialist thumb that lets them rule their own land the way they want.

  20. Gustave Lytton

    Is corporate social media being exclusively handled by people acting like 12 year olds? What happened to professionalism?

    • db

      Yeah, that’s kind of my thinking. *everything* seems so crass anymore.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      It flew out the door about the same time as casual Friday.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        A “responsible” marketing department would acknowledge the trend without stooping to talking about dick veins. Like maybe a video of the ripples being formed or something referencing the official name.

      • Bobarian LMD

        Or pictures of actual dick veins to show how they differ?

        *kicked out of the marketing meeting*

      • Ownbestenemy

        Not hotdog

      • Timeloose

        Jin Yang!!!!!

      • Ownbestenemy

        I applaud a show that not only has one, but two dick jokes seamlessly inserted into its arc.

      • R C Dean

        It does seem like quite the coincidence that professional behavior began to decline at the same time as professional dress.

        *buffs wingtips, adjusts tie*

    • one true athena

      A lot of them are handled by the same person in some marketing company, so that doesn’t help. A few years ago I knew a girl who claimed she was the person who posted for the accounts for the brands under her company’s umbrella. I think hers was Facebook, but I assume twitter, IG, etc are the same.

    • Pope Jimbo

      I remember when it was all the rage to hire a person just to handle social media. They always hired some late 20-something gal (who was always cute). They’d lecture about how the rules for social media were totes new and different and no way would they be listening to the marketing or sales department dinosaurs.

      My guess is that the social media dept is still run by youngsters who think they know it all. And that the adults in the company are too chicken to haul them out to the woodshed to explain about how the real world works.

  21. Shpip

    Thanks to you miscreants, I remembered what the date is, and told myself “Y’know, I feel like smoking something that I haven’t smoked in a long time.”

    So I picked up a rack of ribs on the way home.

    • Atanarjuat

      Yum. I’m stewing some deer hindquarter. Hopefully it comes out ok.

      • pistoffnick

        Kinky!

      • Atanarjuat

        Jane Doe’s booty is delicious, not gamey at all, but tougher than I would have liked probably due to my inadequacy as a chef.

    • Atanarjuat

      Well, the sanctions haven’t brought peace, so…

      • rhywun

        Yeah, the EU/NATO/USA don’t want peace.

  22. The Late P Brooks

    Maybe it’s just an Old Wives’ Urban Legend, but I have been told Mars candy bars (of which Snickers are one) have unique drizzle patterns so they can be identified in their native wrapperless state.

    • rhywun

      That’s what she said.

    • Hank

      Old Wives’ tales are now Chronologically Gifted Spouses’ Narratives.

  23. The Late P Brooks

    I’m stewing some deer hindquarter

    Ass Wednesday, FTW!

  24. TARDis

    I’m late.

    7️⃣3️⃣
    4️⃣5️⃣

    • TARDis

      Or as GT would say… TARDy. Wait this isn’t about my punctuality, is it GT?

      • Gender Traitor

        ::gazes innocently skyward and whistles a peppy tune::

      • TARDis

        Ok. I can do this.
        /Village Idiot

  25. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    I’m Poppy

    • Ownbestenemy

      Ah…what a more innocent time.

      • SDF-7

        Corn Poppy was a bad dudette.

    • l0b0t

      Now that’s a callback.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      If I don’t know better, I’d say they got some dirt on Rand recently.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Or….all politicians, even the ones we think are for liberty, enjoy the party a little more than they let on.

    • rhywun

      “Thanks!”

      /V. P.

  26. pistoffnick

    More wood elf hijinks:

    Peak vapidity?

    • Not Adahn

      No, peak elf vapid would be this

  27. The Late P Brooks

    Today, in leg-breaking

    The Democratic Party is considering banning its army of consultants from engaging in anti-union activity following a report that one of its pollsters had helped Amazon combat organizing efforts, according to a document obtained by POLITICO.

    A union-drafted addendum to any contract between a Democratic Party political committee and a consultant would forbid the consultant — or any of its parents, subsidiaries or affiliates — from participating in an array of activities involving unions. That includes union-busting, aiding an employer in a labor dispute or lobbying against union-backed legislation.

    A spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee said it is in the process of reviewing the proposal. But union officials indicated it was a sure thing.

    “We appreciate the Democratic Party committees’ decision to amend their contract and RFP processes in light of reporting that GSG had been working for Amazon as they sought to defeat the recent organizing drive,” AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler said in a statement.

    “By amending their contracts and RFP processes to exclude firms actively working with clients who seek to prevent or limit working people’s basic rights to act collectively or otherwise act against their interests as union members, the committees demonstrate their commitment to democracy and shared prosperity.”

    You ain’t free to speak unless we sez you is.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Gee, who’s got a bigger bank account to pay me with?

    • rhywun

      As if we didn’t already know who was running that shit-show.

  28. The Hyperbole

    Last call for Quordle scores, QDR goes live in 30 minutes. Seriously, if you chumped today you should post your score, there is no judgment here. This has nothing to do with me currently being tied for last, I simply think the more data in the system the better, so c’mon chumper’s post those scores. It’s the honorable thing to do.

    • The Hyperbole

      DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
      (the “The” should be ignored when listing tied scores in alphabetical order edition)

      #86

      Champ(s)
      Bobarian LMD 17
      Grummun 17

      Ghostpatzer 18
      l0b0t 18
      Not Adahn 18
      Plisade 18
      Rat on a train 18
      trshmnstr the terrible 18
      TARDis 19
      whiz 19
      Sean 20
      Name’s BEAM, James BEAM 21
      Ted S. 21
      grrizzly 22
      MikeS 22
      Ozymandias 22
      Raven Nation 22
      Tundra 22
      db 23
      kinnath 23
      SDF-7 23
      The Other Kevin 23
      Dr, Fronkensteen 24
      Grumbletarian 24
      Scruffy Nerfherder 25

      Chump(s)
      The Hyperbole 26
      one true athena 26

      27 players, the daily average (21.07407407) is below the Tundra line, not a failure in sight. That’s some mighty fine Quordling there Lou! Either you people are getting better or karma’s going to bite us in the ass tomorrow.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        I’m pretty amazing at picking every wrong possibility when faced with a solution that has multiple one letter solutions.

        I should get points for that.

      • MikeS

        +ZQX

  29. R C Dean

    clients who seek to prevent or limit working people’s basic rights to act collectively or otherwise act against their interests as union members

    Two thoughts:

    Due to the apparent semi-literacy of whoever wrote that, it reads as if working people act against their own interests as union members.

    Aren’t those “basic rights” to act collectively laid out in labor law, which allows companies to resist unionization? As long as the consultants stay within the lines on anti-union activity, how are they preventing or limiting those basic rights?

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Consultants would have to certify that they don’t help other clients “persuade employees or workers to not form or join a union or otherwise discourage employees or workers from unionizing, or to aid a client (other than a union or labor organization) in a labor dispute,” the draft addendum reads.

    It would also bar consultants who “assist clients to advance legislation, ballot measures or other public policies that are opposed by the labor movement or to defeat legislation, ballot measure or other public policies that are supported by the labor movement.”

    Makes you proud to be an American, don’t it?

  31. Rat on a train

    I didn’t even know the Army was considering retiring 5.56 for 6.8.

  32. Pope Jimbo

    Solar/Green energy is no longer good enough! What we need is More diversity in green energy!

    The Green Career Exploratory Program was created in 2020 as an outgrowth of the city’s Green Cost Share program, which offers various incentives to help residents and businesses pay for solar, energy efficiency, pollution cleanup, and other projects, with larger incentives in environmental justice neighborhoods.

    Patrick Hanlon, the city’s director of environmental services who oversees the Green Cost Share program, said that in many neighborhoods, “when you went up on the roofs and saw the contractors, [they] didn’t represent the communities that they were working in.”

    The workforce training program is open to all. Through partnerships with other organizations, however, it places an emphasis on recruiting people of color. The city does outreach through middle school and high school instructors, workforce agencies, the Northside training organization Summit Academy OIC and local Black solar company owners and installers.

    So the mexicans on the roof weren’t diverse enough?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The 8A programs aren’t enough?

      You can’t spit without hitting a minority requirement in government contracting.

    • rhywun

      Intersectional grifting FTW.

    • Ted S.

      When do they start forcing black people to sign up for these programs?

    • Tres Cool

      + On Golden Pond

  33. grrizzly

    80% of first class passengers are maskless. But only 50% of business class passengers are maskless. Fortunately, my neighbor is unmuzzled. All but one flight attendants are unmuzzled too.

    • grrizzly

      Most economy class passengers are masked as I can see them self loading while drinking prosecco. Yes, not champagne, that’s in first.

    • Urthona

      First class passengers get complimentary nonstop beverages. Let’s be honest. They never worse masks except right at the beginning.

      • grrizzly

        Unfortunately, they did. When I brag that I was the only person on a plane without a mask I barely exaggerate. Last month a woman sitting next to me had three glasses of wine and kept her mask on between sips.

    • Ownbestenemy

      There was not a single one I would say no to, but #31 stole the show for me.

      • Q Continuum

        Her face is similar to Scarlett Johansson.

        I like 36 because it reminds me of that Pink Floyd poster.

    • DEG

      Face diapers. Blech.

  34. Atanarjuat

    Sometimes I check twitter for a few accounts I like (Glenn Greenwald, Tom Woods, Scott Horton, etc) to find new content or see what they’re up to. I’ve noticed (@jessekellydc) Jesse Kelly’s follower numbers rise by the thousands every week. Coincidentally he hit 420k today or yesterday.

    • Atanarjuat

      Thomas Massie’s is another often-interesting one.

    • Urthona

      Greenwald is a bit much sometimes. I feel like he will whine about the same thing for 47 posts a day.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Greenwald is a case study in how the machine treats its favorite sons once they leave the plantation though.

    • Tres Cool

      Don’t worry. I saw what you did.

      • Atanarjuat

        Gracias, señor.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Twitter is 50 David Burge, 50% Iron Sheik

  35. The Late P Brooks

    All but one flight attendants are unmuzzled too.

    So they’re over it too (sampling errors aside). Good.

    • Ownbestenemy

      The fact that mid-air they were ditching them means the Unions were on board and just waiting for the Government to OKAY it. Happy and sad all in one.

      • Atanarjuat

        I saw videos of flight attendants smiling and dancing as they ripped them off their faces and threw them in the trash. I’m sure a cunty minority enjoyed being a mid-air Nurse Ratchet enforcer.

      • Ownbestenemy

        According to Strawberry those were isolated and no way represents public polling that they have commissioned to say what they want it to say.

    • Count Potato

      OFFS!!

  36. Count Potato

    Good thread here:

    “Today I voiced my opposition to CA’s #AB2098, which could lead to doctors facing disciplinary action if accused of spreading covid mis/disinformation. As I discuss here, repeatedly what was considered misinformation has turned out to be true. This bill is a threat to all of us?”

    https://twitter.com/TracyBethHoeg/status/1516579633352781824

    ““Speaking personally as a life-long Democrat and a civil rights attorney, I am dismayed that Democrats are bringing forward bills that undermine civil liberties.””

    https://twitter.com/JZachreson/status/1516469699772436482

    Well, I’m shocked.

    • Q Continuum

      “I am dismayed that Democrats are bringing forward bills that undermine civil liberties”

      Because continuing to do something they’ve done for decades is so out of character for them?

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Slow learner

  37. Count Potato

    “I don’t give a damn what some grossly unqualified Donald Trump judge said, I’m double masked and wearing goggles on this Nashville to DC flight. I had COVID in December. Y’all can KISS MY ASS about me not wanting it again. And any fool saying they don’t matter is a damn liar.”

    https://twitter.com/rolandsmartin/status/1516416241925332994

    No one said you couldn’t.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      But can we point and laugh?

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Two loose fitting cloth masks and regular safety goggles, not chemical. He’s totally protected.

    • Atanarjuat

      In the replies someone posted him posing for photos with his wife at a concert about a week ago, both totally unmasked.

    • Atanarjuat

      I think he just wanted a photo of him which “accidentally” has the logo of his show prominently displayed twice to go viral, infamously or not.

      • Ownbestenemy

        ^^^ Pretty sure it was a grift

    • Tres Cool

      Dear Roland-

      Back in December I too had CoVID. In fact my pcr test results were ‘critical high’. It was likely the sickest Ive ever been, but I recovered. And guess what? When my partner ‘Jugsy’ got the ‘vid months later I was fine. I even tested negative. Embrace your immune system. It works. Now go fuck yourself, you self-important piece of shit.

      Yours in Christ,

      Tres Cool

    • Gustave Lytton

      If he’s so fucking scared, why is he even leaving his house, let alone jetting off to DC?

  38. Sean

    Dealership put a new tire on my car. No hassle road hazard warranty from the mfg. I did have to pay for the mount and balance. $37. Could have been worse.

    Tech did a nice job and put the spare back and put the tools back in their proper spots too.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Sometimes people take pride in what they do.

      • Sean

        They send you a video walkthrough of your car too. Showing the state of brakes, etc. Their little multi point checklist stuff.

      • db

        There is so much loose ammo and empty cartridge casings rolling around in my vehicles that I hate taking them to the shop.

  39. Tres Cool

    So earlier in the mark-down section of my Kroger meat (Tres Sr. calls it the ‘Rotten Meat Dept’) they had bone-in whole ribeye roast for $3.99/lb.
    Now I have an 11 pound hunk of cow in my fridge and Im not sure what to do with it.

    Also, Im trying to decide whether or not I like this.

    • Atanarjuat

      I dig it.

    • The Hyperbole

      Sounds like it could be an unreleased song from The Black Crowes’ “The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion” sessions but they let a roadie do the singing for a laugh.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Divide it up, vacuum seal it and then decide later what to do with it. If it was in markdown, its still safe but only a couple of days or so out from not being fine.

  40. juris imprudent

    Today just became a very, very good day. My wife can really shop!

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      My best wishes for your liver.

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh my! I have turned down some Pappy twice now cause I wanted other stuff for the house that we needed; like our backyard…I am a bit disappointed in myself.

    • Pope Jimbo

      A few summers ago, the Total Wines had a coupon where if I bought six bottles of Jameson, I would get $50 back. Nice way to get an even better deal on Jame-O than the usual Total Wines price.

      My problem is that when I have bottles and bottles of hooch in the basement, I tend to drink more than I normally would. I think it is because I know I won’t have to do the walk of shame back to the liquor store. But it really makes you feel like a lush when you are out of six big bottles of Jameson.

      Hope your self-control is better than mine.

    • TARDis

      Six nice bottles.
      And on the seventh day, Juris the Imprudent found himself in the company of John Bonham, Keith Moon, and one of the many drummers from Spinal Tap.

    • juris imprudent

      She wanted the Woodford – for the bottle, I’ll settle for the booze.

      The Buffalo Trace will have 2 bottles laid up as wake stock, 1 going to Burning Man this year, 1 open that I’m sipping on, and the last to be available after I finish the open one (which will probably be months, could be many months).

      All of that and I think she didn’t spend over $300.

  41. Hank

    The author of a forthcoming article in the Yale Law Journal says:

    “I write in defense of indoctrination: anti-racist indoctrination. Accordingly, the response to ‘indoctrination’ is not to insist that CRT is not in schools. Instead, CRT is needed in schools to resist the formal colorblindness inherent in the anti-CRT movement.”

    https://twitter.com/aaronsibarium/status/1516830580830318605?cxt=HHwWmsC5rY7Y7owqAAAA

    • Ownbestenemy

      I hate the world

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      At least they’re coming right out and saying it now.

    • Count Potato

      “resist the formal colorblindness”

      Because that’s bad?

    • rhywun

      Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!

      /CRT hero

    • Ownbestenemy

      Oh how the times have changed for them. I wonder if they have any of the Blockbuster exec still working there…

    • TARDis

      Shitheels do ads, better lower the price to $5.99/month or I’ll be divorced.
      *gazes upon hill to die on*

      • Ownbestenemy

        Ha! It will be $12.99/month and you will like it. You will also be required to watch at least 5% of Netflix original content and no longer be allowed to downvote certain productions.

      • Ted S.

        I’ve never understood why Warner Home Video (or their successor) never took all the movies digitized for the Warner Archive and out them in one streaming service.

      • TARDis

        “Honey? It’s you or me. Pistols at dawn. Do you want me to grill a steak tonight? There’s a nice bottle of red in the basement.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      Lewis shares a premium plan with his three adult children and some of their friends and says they will keep it, even if they have to cut off the friends and each pay for their own accounts.

      “We would keep Netflix and pay for the four in our family, even if it was more,” he said.

      Wtf? Do his three adult children still live at home?

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yes. Yes they do.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Genius move. It will remind people like me that I am paying for an account that our family barely uses.

      If they left things alone I would have kept paying it because it is easier than having to sign up for a month or two every year and then canceling it after a few binge watching sessions.

      This is like when gyms decide they need to raise prices. Any extra money they raise must be offset by all the slugs who decide that they really aren’t going to go to the gym and they should just cancel.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. It just instantly made me think…we don’t need Netflix.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Oh sweet, ads! They got my business back, I love ads. Interrupting the flow of the movie, mismatched volume, repetition: hellz yeah!

  42. Shpip

    Surprised that no one has brought up this one yet.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      What they love is the feeling of moral superiority. It’s like the Bible thumping church ladies of old, but given a massive platform.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yep. “Where is your Sunday best?” “Girls shouldn’t wear dresses that show their knees” “Children should be seen, not heard”….it just transferred into them.

  43. Ownbestenemy

    https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1516905084248023042

    JUST IN – CDC has requested the Department of Justice to appeal and reinstate the mask mandate on trains and planes.

    Fantastic move. Now if people would stop being such cock sucking government drones and ignore it if appealed, it would make my day better. I am still leaning towards saving face with the base.

      • Gustave Lytton

        The CDC said it will continue to monitor public health conditions to determine if a mandate would remain necessary. It said it believes the mandate is “a lawful order, well within CDC’s legal authority to protect public health.”

        They’re the fucking terminators. This won’t end until CDC parasites start taking dirt naps.

      • Sean

        I’m ok with that.

  44. The Late P Brooks

    JUST IN – CDC has requested the Department of Justice to appeal and reinstate the mask mandate on trains and planes.

    For… a couple of weeks?

    Talk about a power boner.

    I would so very much like to see the appeal get whacked into outer space, and leave their “emergency decree” power nullified.

    • Ownbestenemy

      You think its just a couple of weeks? They were going to milk the extension as long as possible

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        The extension will only last until the next extension.

      • rhywun

        OFFS. Even NYC is only muzzling the pre-schoolers.

  45. The Late P Brooks

    You think its just a couple of weeks?

    The latest end date was the 3rd(?) of May. But you’re right. There is no reason to pretend they wouldn’t point to “OMG CASES!” and extend it again.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      “During the pandemic, the agency received more than 31,000 complaints about Covid violations.”

      I’d pay to get a copy of the list of snitches.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Those aren’t snitches, they’re inoffizieller Mitarbeiter.

    • Hyperion

      Nuremberg treatment, Ceaușescu moment, I’ll vote for both, not necessarily in that order.

  46. Hank

    Important if true –

    “If you are an intelligent and thoughtful young American, you cannot be a progressive public intellectual today, any more than you can be a cavalry officer or a silent movie star. That’s because, in the third decade of the 21st century, intellectual life on the American center left is dead. Debate has been replaced by compulsory assent and ideas have been replaced by slogans that can be recited but not questioned: Black Lives Matter, Green Transition, Trans Women Are Women, 1619, Defund the Police. The space to the left-of-center that was once filled with magazines and organizations devoted to what Diana Trilling called the “life of significant contention” is now filled by the ritualized gobbledygook of foundation-funded, single-issue nonprofits like a pond choked by weeds. Having crowded out dissent and debate, the nonprofit industrial complex—Progressivism Inc.—taints the Democratic Party by association with its bizarre obsessions and contributes to Democratic electoral defeats, like the one that appears to be imminent this fall.”

    https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-end-of-progressive-intellectual-life

    TRIGGER WARNING: Alleges an alliance between the progressive establishment and “crackpot free market fundamentalists.”

    • Gustave Lytton

      any more than you can be a cavalry officer

      *looks at crossed sabers insignia, spurs, Stetsons of certain officers*

      Huh.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      LOL

    • Count Potato

      “While Democratic politicians deny that they oppose enforcing immigration laws, center-left journals and journalists keep pushing the idea of open borders, in alliance with crackpot free market fundamentalists. ”

      Well, there are people who are for both free markets and open borders.

    • Hyperion

      There has never existed a progressive intellectual, all commies are dumb as fucking shit. Pseudo intellectual is the term we are looking for.

  47. Hyperion

    So, I am having this conversation and debate right now with my very intelligent SIL (son, not daughter, not sure how to write the diff) about who is more evil, Soros or Klaus. We are at an impasse because neither of us will budge from our own conclusion. So I need a vote:

    Who is more evil:

    a. George Soros

    b. Klaus Schwab

    • db

      Old and Busted: George Soros
      New Hotness: Klaus Schwab

      • Hyperion

        Part of my argument for why the correct answer is b. That’s not all of my argument, Soros is a lightweight compared to Klaus in the quest to become the new Satan.

      • Sensei

        Yeah Soros is on the decline.

      • Hyperion

        He’s 92 and has been pretty quiet for a while.

        However, looks like Klaus is experimenting with his 4th industrial revolution (4th Reich?) and has hooked himself up to something…

      • rhywun

        Well, his job of setting blue cities on the path to returning to 70s style crime and violence is done.

      • TARDis

        That sounds about right. Georgie is heading to his fiefdom in hell. Klaus has been called into the “light”.

    • MikeS

      Soros. He may be in decline, and may be dead any day (please, God!) but he has had decades to install his minions in powerful positions all around the world.

      Also; at least Klaus is open about his plans. Soros has gone about his influence building behind the scenes as much as possible.

    • db

      Hey, the buggy whip makers deserved sympathy too, but not a bailout.

      • Hyperion

        America’s buggy whip drivers? Why are they all located in China?

        *gets on Amazon*

        Hey, Chee, are all your masks made in the USA?

        Chee: Yes, all our maks, made in USA plant in China.

        Well, OK, then.

  48. Sensei

    Well who needs to follow the law? Even the libs are worried here.

    Legal experts who derided the Monday ruling as overly formalistic and divorced from the practical realities of a global pandemic say there’s good reason why the Biden administration should want to prevent a deeply flawed decision from remaining on the books.

    But the administration faces two key challenges: First, the appeals process could drag out beyond any practical time frame and, second, the administration could lose again — but in a higher stakes showdown.

    https://thehill.com/news/administration/3274441-biden-appeal-of-judges-mask-mandate-ruling-risks-backfiring/

    • Gustave Lytton

      The Democrats control both houses and the executive, yet persist in merely issuing agency orders instead of passing an actual law. Why is that? Completely stumps me.

      • Sensei

        Accountability?

      • Hyperion

        Where you been, bro? It’s obvioulsy because Joe Manchin is a Nazi.

    • Hyperion

      I advise them to go forward with it.

  49. Hyperion

    WTF is up with these cryptic Musk tweets about the Twatter deal? I ain’t got time for this shit, anyone know what that means?

    • Hyperion

      Sorry, obvious answer is ‘tonight’. What is he plannig for tonight? Or just smoking a joint because it’s 4/20?

      • MikeS

        “Tender”