Friday Morning Links of Florida Man

by | Oct 14, 2022 | Daily Links | 336 comments

Filling in for Sloopy & Banjos today, I guess I’ll first mention that the Houston Astros won again last night. The Yanks and Indians Native Americans got rained out.  Da Bears and another formerly Native American-named team also played. The Injuns eventually choked out the Bears in a sleeper.

Mrs. L went on a ladies’ weekend last night, and it was basically Mr. Mom, but without the comic relief. However, I was left with 4 boys, and there were at least 4 boys in the house when she returned, so I feel like I did okay. The hurricane missed us, we never even lost power. It’s amazing how 50 miles south or east make a huge difference.

This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.

If this was you, tell us your Glibs handle.

I may have a crush, in case you couldn’t tell.

I read this novel as a kid.

A reasonable finding that the State can’t just steal your shit for a tax debt and not pay you the remaining equity. (TW: TOS)

My second son has a different favor ex-Runaway, so I’ll throw this up for him.

About The Author

Brett L

Brett L

Brett set out to find America, the real America, the America of strip malls and serial killers, of butthole waxing and kelp smoothies, of cocaine and maggots. He sought it in the most American part of America—Florida: swamp gas and fever dreams, where love arrives on a rickety boat and leaves when it doesn't have the money for its fourth abortion. Oh, where has Brett gone? He’s drinking at the neck of America’s wang, chewing its foreskin and working its shaft. Brett is becoming legend. Brett can never die. Brett can never die. Brett is America, facedown in his own patriotic puke: the red his blood, the white his stomach lining, and the cold, cold blue his gas station slushie, spiked with coconut rum and tetracycline.

336 Comments

  1. AlexinCT

    If this was you, tell us your Glibs handle.

    Richard Hurtz…

    My friends call me Big Dick.

    Big Dick Hurtz…

    • UnCivilServant

      You realize they call you that ironically, don’t you?

      • AlexinCT

        If they do the joke is on them and I am gonna win that bet when I show it to them and they end up crying…

      • UnCivilServant

        You know, that inflammation is treatable.

      • AlexinCT

        I don’t – I admit, possibly yet – take the pills that have a warning that if it stays up for 4 hrs you have to seek aid…

        But I have seen all sorts of “documentaries” on how you can find some lady to help you with that problem…

  2. AlexinCT

    I read this novel as a kid.

    Wait until we find the statue of liberty buried in sand…

    • Grumbletarian

      I got more of a Secret of Nimh vibe.

      • ron73440

        I read that book when I was 16 or so.

        I might reread it, I remember it being depressing, but excellent.

        I’m curious if 51 year old me will like it.

  3. Count Potato

    “This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.”

    Then don’t get type-2 diabetes?

  4. AlexinCT

    A reasonable finding that the State can’t just steal your shit for a tax debt and not pay you the remaining equity. (TW: TOS)

    Shut up and know your place serf.

  5. AlexinCT

    This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.

    Woah… Give up drinking? Never… Might as well stop living.

  6. SDF-7

    Who would have thought Brett of all people, an upstanding Florida man would shut down the anarchy developing in the overnight thread as we gave up on adult supervision? 😉

    More seriously — nice to see you, sir. Less seriously — if you were charged with 4 boys (so 5 total)… and there were only 4 boys in the house when she returned, what happened to the son you lost? Poor kid learning to make gator skin clothes and become Tarzania, Lord of the Mosquito Swamp?

  7. Count Potato

    “In another liveaboard incident in October 2019, a man living on a makeshift houseboat off Key West doused himself with gasoline and held up a lighter as Florida Fish and Wildlife officers came aboard to conduct a welfare check on his vessel. An FWC officer shot him three times to prevent him from igniting the cabin, according to police. The officer was cleared in the shooting.”

    WTF?

    • SDF-7

      We had to destroy the tiny village to save it?

      I guess the moral is if you’re going to do liveaboards, make sure it is on something at least seaworthy enough to abscond to international waters when The Man comes to take you to task. Then you can free your willy in peace.

    • UnCivilServant

      “We prevented to suspect from causing property damage and physical harm to a human.”

      Quite frankly, at this point calling in a welfare check should generate a charge of attempted murder.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        Swating,/welfare check ; to-may-to to-mah-to

    • juris imprudent

      The welfare check was on the houseboat and the brave officers saved it.

    • SDF-7

      I think they just stopped pretending, but you knew that already.

  8. UnCivilServant

    This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.

    So what’s the actual drawback? Which organs fail from using it and how many awful side effects does it lead to?

    • AlexinCT

      I heard it creates this irresistible craving to wear gloves all the time…

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Some doctors don’t want to wait for the research

      Stop me if you have heard this before.

      • Lackadaisical

        The initial results look good though!

      • Lackadaisical

        See also: adult circumcision in Africa to prevent HIV

    • R C Dean

      You’re telling me that picture of Mr. Extra Chins was after he lost 80 pounds? Yikes.

  9. juris imprudent

    October surprise, Biden style.

    Saudi Arabia said Thursday that the U.S. had urged the kingdom to postpone a decision by OPEC and its allies — including Russia — to cut oil production by a month. Such a delay could have helped reduce the risk of a spike in gas prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections next month.

    • AlexinCT

      Are they talking about impeaching him yet for indisputably doing a quid pro quo thing to benefit the dnc in the coming election, and at the expense of the American voter?

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        It’s justified when they do it, otherwise those terrible MAGAts might gain control.

      • WTF

        Yes, they need to SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY!!!!11!!!

    • SDF-7

      Using foreign policy for domestic political gain… I ‘member when that upset Team Asinine.

    • Pat

      I hear they have a video of him getting peed on by Russian hookers.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        That has all the earmarks of a true story.

      • Dr. Fronkensteen

        50 professional liars say so.

      • AlexinCT

        You see the fluff interview where they let one of these intel experts that had signed the letter actually tell the blatant lie that even though this clearly now is proven to be true, this level of destructive revelation seems too perfect to be anything but some foreign entity’s work, and the intelligence experts that put their reputation on the line to rig an election with their statement it was not real, need to get a pass? They knew it was false and still lied. That’s the truth. These people are scum.

    • AlexinCT

      If they can’t prevent him from buying one of their most important propaganda platforms without killing him and setting off alarms, they will make sure they have him by the balls and he is not able to prevent them from doing what the mandarinate crime syndicate wants.

  10. cavalier973

    “I read this novel as a kid”

    I just started reading “Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Ning” to my five-year-old.

    • R.J.

      I remember that book.

  11. The Late P Brooks

    I’m back. Didja miss me?

    First time I have even turned this thing on in nearly two weeks.

    • AlexinCT

      Too busy reading up on the beautiful ladies of the View?

    • C. Anacreon

      Guess who’s back
      Back again
      Brooks is back
      Tell your friends
      Brooks is back
      Brooks is back
      Brooks is back
      Yes Brooks is back..

      I created a monster, cause…

    • Lackadaisical

      No wonder threading has been so smooth lately

  12. C. Anacreon

    I’m in Columbus Ohio on business right now, was hoping for the chance to discuss with Sloopy on the links this morning. Seems like a nice place, but way way too much about the Ohio State football Buckeyes everywhere you look. But I guess it’s good the denizens support the local pro football team.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      I had dinner in Columbus on our drive to Nashville, Hitsville USA.

      The restaurant was located next to a real, dreary, sketch motel you would see in a horror movie. The vibes were shooting our bullets and knives.

    • Nephilium

      /waves from two hours away

      I thought most of the C-Bus people referred to the Crew as their pro “football” team.

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Incidentally, it was the same trip where we met up with Nephilium and his gal on the 4th of July and had a nice time walking and chatting.

      • UnCivilServant

        Did you go watch things explode?

      • Rufus the Monocled

        Yes!

      • Gustave Lytton

        Trip? Like, not working??

      • Rufus the Monocled

        I’m always working.

        In my head.

      • Grummun

        Maybe when they remember the Crew even exists. The Crew is the red-headed stepchild of Columbus sports, a distant third (possibly fourth) behind Buckeye football and the Blue Jackets (and possibly Buckeye basketball, depending on how they are playing).

      • Fatty Bolger

        True. I assume they must have fans, but I never met any.

      • Nephilium

        But… the Modell RULE! Save the Crew!

        You mean all those people were just signalling?

        /runs to a fainting couch.

    • juris imprudent

      semi-pro football team

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Well, someone has a semi for them.

    • Fatty Bolger

      Welcome to Average, America.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      Well, it’s what happens when you have a inferiority complex about Michigan.

      • juris imprudent

        That’s what happens when you live in a state with two teams as bad as the Detroit Lions.

  13. Pope Jimbo

    Daily Ray of Sunshine*

    * Sunshine needed today because we got our first snowfall!

    • Fourscore

      Tracking snow here, Jimbo.

      Good that the guy got a job, now he needs to work thoug.

    • Tundra

      Nice!

      It looks like she is still open, too. May merit a trip down there for lunch.

  14. hayeksplosives

    I just awakened to a kitty cat kneading my right boob and firmly latched on to my nipple and making a lot of noise.

    I don’t know if I will be able to get back to sleep after that. He might come back…

    • SDF-7

      But is that dread or wistful regret? (kidding! kidding!)

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Go on…

    • AlexinCT

      Guess she thinks that because she bitch slaps that gimp ball wearing asshat she is married to regularly, she can take on all comers….

      At least she didn’t challenge em to a pushup contest…

    • Certified Public Asshat

      I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy.

      Why are we denying her happiness?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Meh, the shriveled crone would shatter her arm if she punched anyone.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      They should be beaten by an angry mob but an art gallery’s the last place you’ll find those types.

      • EvilSheldon

        That looks like a pretty good time in the making…

      • Nephilium

        That’s the hope. Tonight is a bar crawl featuring nine collaboration beers from local breweries, Sunday is a beer brunch and then attempting to watch the Browns play. Then I’ll be taking the girlfriend to go see Blue Man Group on Monday.

      • UnCivilServant

        One of that group’s protests blocked a city street near a hospital. The police did nothing so the public dragged them out of the road to reopen traffic.

        Should have also put them out of our misery.

      • SDF-7

        Nah, take away everything that contains or uses oil in the supply chain from them. See how long it takes before they miss modern comforts and maybe grow up a tad.

      • Gender Traitor

        an art gallery’s the last place you’ll find those types.

        Oh, you might be surprised by what those little ol’ docents do if you f**k with Vinnie.

    • R.J.

      The protesters are so disconnected from reality that they actually believe vandalism will bring good attention to their cause. Someone has to have written a paper on that kind of mental issue.

      • Brochettaward

        But, throwing tantrums always worked with their upper middle class progressive parents!

      • R.J.

        It probably did start there.

      • The Last American Hero

        It worked for BLM.

        They staged a mostly peaceful art viewing.

    • juris imprudent

      …these clowns belong in prisonan asylum.

    • Rat on a train

      They want a ban on oil paintings?

      • UnCivilServant

        That’s strange, because the traditional oil used in those is linseed oil.

      • Count Potato

        SEED OILS!!!!!!!!

      • UnCivilServant

        DON’T EAT THE VAN GOGH!

    • Grumbletarian

      Keep them glued to the wall and take everything else away. Then put up a sign out of reach that says ‘Moron Art.’ Allow strangers to walk by and laugh at them. In a week, toss their corpses into the nearest furnace.

      • UnCivilServant

        Glue tends to come off of skin within a few days. They’ll separate from the wall long before they die of thirst.

      • Grumbletarian

        Not if you come by and helpfully refresh the glue for them.

      • ron73440

        That’s an art exhibit I would go see.

    • Tundra

      It’s getting close to helicopter time.

      Keep pushing, commies!

  15. AlexinCT

    MISINFORMATION!

    Quick arrest people and accuse them of being terrorists and people that hate democracy (which means democrats always win, or something)!

  16. SDF-7

    Ok… since anarchy is again unleashed and the OT posts have started.

    First, ‘orning ‘ordle thread: Preliminaries went well (for me, I know Hype will laugh and laugh). Main event was… Meh again. Had to burn a couple of guesses on LL and that obviously put me behind. But didn’t chump… so I’ll take it.

    Daily Duotrigordle #226
    Guesses: 36/37
    Time: 05:29.62
    https://duotrigordle.com/

    Daily Quordle 263
    7️⃣3️⃣
    6️⃣8️⃣
    quordle.com

    • Pat

      Daily Quordle 263
      8️⃣4️⃣
      7️⃣5️⃣

    • Grumbletarian

      Daily Quordle 263
      5️⃣8️⃣
      3️⃣6️⃣

      Meh…

    • robc

      Chessle 244 (Expert) 4/6

      ⬛⬛🟨🟨🟨🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛
      🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩🟩⬛🟨🟩🟨
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩⬛
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      https://jackli.gg/chessle

      Its called the “normal variation” but I have never seen it played. It was easy to figure out though.

      • robc

        Daily Quordle 263
        7️⃣🟥
        6️⃣9️⃣
        quordle.com

        Awful. I got stuck on LL.

    • Grummun

      3 8
      4 7

    • kinnath

      Daily Quordle 263
      6️⃣9️⃣
      4️⃣8️⃣
      quordle.com
      ⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬜🟨🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      ⬜⬜🟨🟨🟩 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨
      🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜
      🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨
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      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟨🟩⬜🟩🟨
      ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

      I try to avoid cluttering things up with the full dump from quordle, but look at that top right section.

      • rhywun

        My TR was similar. My guess was a complete stab in the dark.

        Daily Quordle 263
        5️⃣6️⃣
        4️⃣3️⃣
        quordle.com
        ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟩⬜⬜
        ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
        ⬜⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
        ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
        ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

        ⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟨⬜
        ⬜⬜🟩🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟩⬜
        ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
        🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

    • Tundra

      Daily Quordle 263
      8️⃣6️⃣
      4️⃣5️⃣

      Bad guess sent me one step over the Line.

    • Sean

      Daily Quordle 263
      8️⃣7️⃣
      4️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

    • whiz

      Daily Quordle 263
      4️⃣5️⃣
      3️⃣6️⃣
      quordle.com

      Hit a 50/50 on the last one, but everything else went smoothly.

    • Grosspatzer

      Daily Quordle 263
      7️⃣8️⃣
      6️⃣4️⃣
      quordle.com

  17. Stinky Wizzleteats

    Sounds like a decent drug if you’re a boozehound and you can always shift to weed.

  18. Rufus the Monocled

    “This sounds like an absolutely horrible drug.”

    Bastiat’s ‘unseen’ at work.

  19. SDF-7

    And from the overnight thread since I meant to post them here:

    CWAA

    I understand some amount of autonomy is needed for judges — but there has to be ways to rein in petty dictator crap like this beyond “Wait for their next election” or “Hope a higher court bothers to look” (because like all things legal, the last thing judges want to do is set a precedent of limiting judicial power).

    CWABOA(That’s a bunch of, if you were wondering).

    Given the VA Legislature and Gov, I doubt any of it would pass — but that they think they can put it out there speaks volumes (and I’m sure it will be coming to CA if that moron who wants to lower consent to 2 in the Bay Area has anything to say about it). Talk about “there have been revolutions for much, much less” and “unconstitutional as hell”.

    • Brochettaward

      Losing elections is supposed to restore some level of sanity to the vanquished, particularly when you lost the election for…exactly these sorts of policies, telling parents their kids don’t really belong to them, but to the state.

      I’d imagine it’s very hard for the Dems to do that because they have so many of the right people with the right platforms cheering them on at all times. They have no sense of self-awareness or ability to admit they fucked up on anything.

      • Stinky Wizzleteats

        They do seem to be the darlings of the media who are batshit loopy for the most part but actual normals who hold those views can’t comprise more than, what, 20 to 25 percent of the population tops.

      • R.J.

        I am still shocked the percentage is that high. But it really is.

      • juris imprudent

        Lawyer, politician – same difference.

      • Drake

        Self-reflection is not one of their strengths.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Judges have always been tyrants with no real oversight.

      My dad was a probation officer for more than 30 years and he had all sorts of stories about judges. Some good, some bad. But they all needed to be treated with kid gloves because they had so much power that if you got on the wrong side of them you were fucked.

  20. Brochettaward

    I am going to take this First, and I am going to ram it into your stomach!

    • SDF-7

      Get to da choppa!

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘Still enjoying the Pear of Anguish.’

        TMI

      • R.J.

        I do suppose that “came out wrong.”

      • juris imprudent

        Just be happy it came out at all!

      • EvilSheldon

        Relax and breathe.

  21. Pat

    U.S. Sex Reassignment Surgery Market Size, Share & Trends Analysis Report By Gender Transition (Male To Female, Female To Male), And Segment Forecasts, 2022 – 2030

    The U.S. sex reassignment surgery market size was valued at USD 1.9 billion in 2021 and is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.23% from 2022 to 2030. The rising incidences of gender dysphoria and the increasing number of people opting for gender confirmation surgeries are expected to boost the growth during the forecast period. According to a study conducted by Cedars Sinai in June 2020, approximately 78% of transgender males experienced gender dysphoria by the age of 7. The mean age to experience gender dysphoria was less in transgender males, which is about 6.2 years.

    Sex reassignment surgery is gaining popularity among the young transgender population in the U.S., as it helps people with gender dysphoria transition to their self-identified gender. According to an article published in the New York Times, around 1.4% & 1.3% of young people aged 13 to 17 and 18 to 24, respectively, are transgender in the U.S., accounting for only 0.5% of total adults.

    The increasing number of sex reassignment surgeries in the U.S. is expected to propel the growth of the industry during the forecast period. According to the 2020 Plastic Surgery Statistics by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), a 15% rise in breast or chest surgical procedures was reported in transgender male patients from 2019 to 2020.

    Sex still sells, apparently.

    • juris imprudent

      Interesting the focus on male (to female) when the explosion of the last few years has been the reverse.

      • Count Potato

        Who knows how they are using “male”?

    • Certified Public Asshat

      According to a study conducted by Cedars Sinai in June 2020, approximately 78% of transgender males experienced gender dysphoria by the age of 7. The mean age to experience gender dysphoria was less in transgender males, which is about 6.2 years.

      And what is your earliest memory?

      • Lackadaisical

        I guess I don’t doubt it, the only question is how many people who experience some doubt or confusion at that age grow out of it. I would guess 95% or higher, particularly if you let them finish puberty without brainwashing, drugging or mutilation.

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Push poll is push poll. If you ask enough leading questions, you are going to find he right answers.

    • The Other Kevin

      Now we know where Blackrock and the other big dogs will put their money after they’ve stopped investing in icky fossil fuels. Add transgender surgery to weapons manufacturing and big pharma as perpetual winners for investors.

  22. Rufus the Monocled

    No mention that BoA cancelled Kanye?

    • Pat

      Day that ends in “y” in the current US political climate.

  23. Certified Public Asshat

    AOC Responds to the war criticism:

    Another interaction from last night:“AOC, How did you become worth $29 million dollars??”“Sir, I wish. My financial disclosures are public. I still owe ~$18k in student loans.”“I saw it on GOOGLE”“Not everything on the internet is true”Then he stormed out?? 🤷🏽‍♀️— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) October 14, 2022

    That clears everything up.

    • juris imprudent

      I doubt she’s competent enough to steal that much money.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        she might be saying she’ll never be rich if she doesn’t vote for war

      • Pope Jimbo

        I could see her controlling several PAC’s that have collected that much nationally.

        The trick, I’m sure, is that she isn’t personally worth much, but she controls some PAC’s and NGO’s that have a lot of unregulated money. Only n00bs deposit the money directly into their own bank account. You launder it through a 3rd party if for no other reason than to avoid paying income taxes on it.

        One of the richer people I have known told me that he is almost broke on paper. However, he controls the trust fund that has all the family money in it. The trust pays for his apartment, his car, etc.

    • Brochettaward

      I don’t think AOC has been around long enough to rack up that much graft yet. She also seems pretty slow on the uptake.

      The link is worth clicking on to see the exchange between Musk and Bernie Sanders.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Answer the stuff that has no basis, ignore the stuff that does, and discredit through the association. She’s not as shit stupid as she may seem.

    • Rufus the Monocled

      She got an earful but she doesn’t care.

      Because she’s working towards that $29 million goal.

    • Lackadaisical

      As if you can’t have debts and still be rich.

      • ron73440

        Notice, she doesn’t say how much money she actually has.

      • Lackadaisical

        ‘actually it’s only $28,982,000 one you net out my student loans’

      • Lackadaisical

        She’s still hoping to get it cancelled so she doesn’t have to pay it off.

    • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

      She is a first round draft pick who didn’t pan out. No way Nancy the P is going to let her in on the grift.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of Ohio-

    I see the Ohio Highway Patrol continues their tradition of aggressive highway safety enforcement roving tax collection.

    I almost visited the Wright Patt museum, but I evidently missed a sign, so I continued on through downtown Dayton and got back on the interstate.

    • UnCivilServant

      Yeah the roads around that museum are awful.

      • Annoyed Nomad

        I went to the Air Force Museum last weekend (first time in a long time) and the main road leading to the gate has been repaved. It’s no longer a series of patches.

      • UnCivilServant

        There was a bunch of construction when I was there early september, but the layout of the roads was awful even when I was there last year before that construction. Finding the entrance to the facility was harder than it needed to be.

    • Nephilium

      Of course, we want to get that money from out of state drivers so those of us who live here don’t have to pay for it. The same as it is in most states. I hope you also avoided Gold Star and Skyline chili as well.

      • Tres Cool

        YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH!

        Skyline is gift from G_d !

      • Gender Traitor

        ::fist bump…or whatever the kids are doing these days that isn’t stupid::

      • B.P.

        I had some Skyline in the CVG airport the other day. A wonderful indulgence.

      • UnCivilServant

        Are we talking about the same pasta sauce mislabelled as chili?

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’ve noticed that Chicago never tickets anyone speeding into town. You only see people pulled over on the lanes leaving Chicago.

        My theory is that they don’t want to hand you a ticket on the way in because you will probably cut back on your spending if you know you now have to pay a fine. But on the way out, they already have your tourist bucks.

      • Pope Jimbo

        In Minneapolis, you only get ticketed on the major freeways leading in/out of downtown on weekends.

        Our congestion is bad enough that during the weekdays the cops just let you drive as fast as you can because they don’t want to pull anyone over and slow traffic down. However in the early ’00s there was a stink because the Feds said they weren’t ticketing enough people on the interstates around the city. Obviously they were neglecting their enforcement duties. So now on weekends the cops aggressively ticket those interstates to juke the numbers.

        It is funny because the drivers in the know are studiously driving 60 down an empty 4 lanes of traffic on a Saturday.

    • Gender Traitor

      Never change lanes without signaling on I-70 between Dayton and the IN state line lest you arouse the suspicion of the Preble County DEA.

      • UnCivilServant

        Why didn’t you offer that advice when you know I was driving from Dayton to Indianapolis?

      • Gender Traitor

        I couldn’t imagine you changing lanes without signaling.

      • UnCivilServant

        I always signal, but that’s not the point 😜

      • Gender Traitor

        Brooksie, on the other hand, can’t/won’t properly thread comments. I shudder to think of what he does when he drives.

      • Sean

        Using turn signals is a sign of respect. I do not respect other drivers.

      • ron73440

        I had a new Toyota Camry rental car last week.

        Apparently I don’t use turn signals for lane changes if no one is near me.

        I hate cars with lane awareness features and I don’t think that car liked me either.

      • UnCivilServant

        So, if you don’t signal, the car fights you thinking you’re just drifting out of lane? Or just throws alarms?

      • ron73440

        So, if you don’t signal, the car fights you thinking you’re just drifting out of lane? Or just throws alarms?

        It beeps and the steering wheel fights you a little and vibrates.

        Not a fan.

      • Sean

        It beeps and the steering wheel fights you a little and vibrates.

        I turned that shit off.

      • DEG

        I turned that shit off.

        I turn as much of it off as I can in the Mustang. The only thing I can’t turn off is the collision avoidance system. I can turn off automatic braking and turn the sensitivity down all the way, but the system is always on, ready to sound an alarm.

      • R.J.

        My Jeep has that. I turned it off. the steering wheel would vibrate in panic every time I took a 180 off ramp with cement walls. It was terrified I was wrecking. Doesn’t make me feel good about future AI.

      • Gender Traitor

        My Driver’s Ed teacher, Mr. Hutson, (also the basketball coach) drilled the command “SIGNAL YOUR INTENTIONS!!!” into my impressionable adolescent mind, so I signal even when there are no other cars around.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s part of my habit for the driving operations, regardless of whether there are other vehicles. I signal because I’m too lazy to ask whether there’s anyone who can see the signal.

      • Lackadaisical

        More than that, you keep in the habit, so it’s just good practice to always signal.

      • Nephilium

        Considering there may be vehicles you don’t see or notice, it’s always a good habit. And a nice cyclist will probably wave you through to take the right turn on red (waiving their right of way), to let you go first if you signal.

      • UnCivilServant

        nice cyclist

        Does such a creature exist?

      • kinnath

        Neph perhaps?

      • Zwak. who's suit is as ragged as his nerves.

        Why would anyone pay attention to turn signals? I look at what physics can do, and go from there.

      • UnCivilServant

        It’s a statement of intent from the human whose actions will initiate those future physics circumstances.

  25. juris imprudent

    Democrats proven right – Russians were behind it!

    Durham got Helson to admit that he submitted paperwork in early 2017 on Danchenko which wrongly stated that there was no derogatory information available on the Steele dossier source. In reality, it has been revealed that Danchenko was the subject of an FBI counterintelligence investigation for being a potential national security threat from 2009 to 2011. The inquiry unearthed links between the defendant and Russian intelligence officers.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      So the Russians colluded with a sympathetic source to plant a fake story about collusion in order to politically cripple a guy who was somewhat sympathetic to the Russians. Meta and ironic…

      • Drake

        It’s 4-D chess. And you know who is good at chess?

      • Tres Cool

        Deep Th̶r̶o̶a̶t̶ Blue ?

    • Grummun

      This latest stuff is a little interesting, in that it seems to be exposing the corruption of the FBI more than I would have expected from Durham. I don’t see how you can bring up the $1M payout offer without implicating senior leadership.

      • SDF-7

        Don’t worry — I’m sure he’ll find a way, even if it seems stupid to the rest of the country. Fig leaves will be sewn!

      • juris imprudent

        If the fig leaves were actually sewn to the skin, that would be worthwhile.

  26. Pope Jimbo

    This should be a fun case to follow

    The case, known as Brackeen v. Haaland, has galvanized Indian County. Tribes are concerned the Supreme Court will nullify their right to oversee foster care placements in cases involving Native children. The tribes also fear the justices’ decision on the case could reach much further, undermining their special relationship with the federal government as well as stripping them of their sovereignty.

    The case is a priority for the nation’s tribal organizations – including all of Minnesota’s tribes and nearly 500 others across the country – who have filed amicus briefs in support of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

    It’s an emotional as well as a legal issue. Congress passed the law in response to the disproportionately high rate of forced removal of Native children from their traditional homes and essentially from Native American cultures. Testimony showed that in some cases, the per capita rate of Native children in foster care was nearly 16 times higher than the rate for non-Native children.

    Witnesses testified that in 1971 and 1972, nearly one-quarter of all Indian children in Minnesota under one year of age were adopted.

    I am looking forward to the lectures from people who have never set foot on a rez about how important it is that every Indian kid grow up on one. Perish the thought that they are placed with a stable non-Indian family.

    • UnCivilServant

      I am hoping for the abolition of the reservation system and the BIA.

      I have no idea what the case is about, but I’m always hoping for the abolition of the reservations and the BIA.

      • Pope Jimbo

        There is a law that says that any Indian kid pretty much has to be adopted by another Indian.

        Congress approved the Indian Child Welfare Act in response to those concerns. The law mandates that the tribal court first try to place an American Indian child with an immediate family member. If that’s not possible, the adoptive parents should be members of the tribe. And if those cannot be found, the child should be placed in a tribal institution.

        Better the kid grow up in an institution than be placed with white eyes. (Or even with another tribe)

      • SDF-7

        Eh — I’m probably the weird one around here. BIA? Sure — but if we’re going to call these sovereign nations, treat them as such. Figure out what their territorial boundaries are and leave them to it. They want to open trade or other diplomatic negotiations, that’s fine.

        Oh… but they’re conquered nations and can’t support themselves? Then treat them as such. They aren’t “nations” anymore, they’re loose collectives that can live together if they want and get no special status (well any more special than any of the other BIPOCLGQBBQRSTUVWXYZ+ crap these days). That’s probably where you’ve jumped ahead to, I realize.

        It is just a personal gripe I have with our government. They’re either countries of their own, or they’re not. We made treaties with them which implies condition A, so live up to that and stop screwing with their internal policies. We aren’t responsible for their destiny any more than Canada or Mexico.

      • UnCivilServant

        At this point, there is no evidence that they are sovereign. Delete the legal fiction and treat the people like any other citizen.

      • Lackadaisical

        Agreed. It would be best for them and for society generally.

    • Tres Cool

      One time in Kindergarten I got in trouble when the teacher told us all to sit “indian style”.
      I went and laid on the curb with a liquor bottle.

      /too soon ?

      • SDF-7

        Well, I laughed.

      • DEG

        #metoo

        I would have gotten in some shit had I done something like that in Ye Olde Catholic Schools.

        But I still laughed.

    • Fourscore

      As a junior high kid only wanted to get my newspaper route done quickly so I could throw the football around. I had no idea what the hell was going on but I noticed that girls were different than boys, for which I have been eternally grateful.

  27. Gustave Lytton

    Life imitates snark: I jokingly suggested a couple of days ago that the Biden admin should take a monthly inflation percentage and annualize by merely changing the denominator to 12. Yesterday President Dementia did just that, except for a quarterly basis.

    I want off.

    • Lackadaisical

      Inflation is way down, fat!

  28. The Late P Brooks

    I am looking forward to the lectures from people who have never set foot on a rez about how important it is that every Indian kid grow up on one. Perish the thought that they are placed with a stable non-Indian family.

    The same people ho have taken it upon themselves to save the Red Man from the pernicious and debilitating racism embodied in the use of Indian-based names for sports teams and native maidens being pressed into unwholesome servitude by Big Butter.

    • AlexinCT

      I once got in trouble because I referred to having second thoughts about a reservation I made for a trip to a native reservation as a “Reservation reservation reservation”….

      • SDF-7

        … and it was for a Cubist sculpture showing?

      • Lackadaisical

        Nice.

  29. The Late P Brooks

    I guess Tulsi Gabbard has officially left the reservation.

    That traitorous bitch.

    • Tres Cool

      Wrong kind of indian.

      • kinnath

        Samoan

      • pistoffnick

        The best of all Girl Scout cookies!

  30. juris imprudent

    Maybe if you get all the parents together, like in a camp, for this [re-]education.

    When asked by the local reporter whether she isn’t “criminalizing parents” as many Republicans argue, Guzman answered unequivocally.

    “No, it’s not. It’s educating parents because the law tells you the do’s and don’ts,” Guzman answered.

    • R.J.

      The law. The only crimes which should be addressed by law are ones against life, liberty or property. Everything else is busy work for grifters. Fuck off.

    • AlexinCT

      It is much easier to cancel people’s ability to make a living these days… And nobody really cares about the homeless communities. Especially if the state takes the kids and puts them in schools where they get indoctrinated to be dependent on the state…

    • SDF-7

      Sigh.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Those kids will do much better with momma and/or daddy in prison. Everybody knows foster care is the way to raise children if you can swing it.

      • juris imprudent

        The legislator who proposed this was a social worker – so merely making sure her guild is well supported.

  31. Rebel Scum

    A man who lost 80 pounds on a ‘game changer’ weight-loss drug also lost his desire to drink alcohol.

    Where’s the fun in that?

    • rhywun

      When Erin Bradley McAleer used to attend work-related sporting events and mixers, he’d throw back eight to 10 beers “almost religiously.”

      That sounds like a “problem” more than just “desire”.

      If I can take a magic pill to drop 40 or 50 pounds and still be satisfied with my usual intake of 3 or 4 drinks tops, sign me the hell up.

      • Sean

        #keto

        No pills.

      • rhywun

        I’d rather take a pill.

      • Sean

        Heh.

  32. hayeksplosives

    If any of y’all really want th understand the Ukraine/Russia/Belarus/Poland mess, I urge you to read “The Gates of Europe”

    Dives deeply into religious history, genetics, linguistics.

    If you really want to understand the current war, you can’t skip this book.

    (Also available as an audiobook)

    • SDF-7

      Thanks, I’ll keep that one in mind. Just not in the mood for anything but fluff reading wise at the moment… probably because the real news is too danged depressing.

      • hayeksplosives

        The section on the Cossack/Khazach linguistic mixing is particularly fascinating to me.

        The whole book is an underrated treasure.

        P.S.: the US needs to butt the fuck out of what’s happening there.

      • juris imprudent

        Listen missee – there ain’t no part of this here world that our Baptist-based-progressive vision doesn’t extend do. Peace be upon the ever-blessed Wilson!

      • rhywun

        How long have we been dicking around over there? Did it start in 2014 or earlier?

      • AlexinCT

        I think it was 2013 when they revised the total Lithium deposits in the Donbass to be worth trillions of dollars.

      • robc

        RE: your PS.

        The US needs to avoid anything between 15E and 75E latitude. The principle applies generally, but that stretch of the Earth absolutely.

      • kinnath

        Longitude?

      • robc

        Yes, longitude. My brain is stupid.

      • kinnath

        This is where the edit fairy fixes everything?

      • robc

        Nah, this doesnt require edit fairy. But I never mind her appearances.

      • kinnath

        Just wishful thinking.

        Then again, there are a few of those fairies that I don’t want to see.

      • Lackadaisical

        Also good: God’s playground by Davies. It focuses on Poland, but for a long time Ukraine was mostly in Poland. And it will give you a lot of good general background in the area. I haven’t read gates of Europe, so I can’t comment on that, not staying it’s not good.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I just finished that book. Definitely recommended. I thought he glossed over the more recent stuff too quickly, but overall it was very interesting. That said, I’m not sure I have a much clearer understanding of the history, but I think that’s a case of the more you know, the more you realize you know nothing.

    • Gender Traitor

      Audiobook borrowed from local library, e-book placed on hold, both via “Libby” app. Now that I’m going to water aerobics instead of to the exercise equipment room at the Y, I’ll have to figure out the best time/circumstances for listening to audiobooks. Maybe it’s time to break out a relatively simple knit or crochet project.

      • UnCivilServant

        🏊‍♀️📖📱💦?

        Pictograms are hard.

      • Gender Traitor

        Your next challenge: write a novel entirely in emojis. ✍️📖

      • UnCivilServant

        I would prefer not to.

        /Bartleby

  33. Tundra

    Morning, Brett!

    An FWC officer shot him three times to prevent him from igniting the cabin, according to police. The officer was cleared in the shooting.

    But of course. Pigs do pig things.

    Lita was my favorite Runaway, but this is a better Kiss Me Deadly.

    • Tres Cool

      Maybe there wasnt a dog available ?

  34. The Other Kevin

    Solid song. I heard it today during my workout.

  35. Brochettaward

    In a world where eve The First Of All Firsters has forgotten The First…Firstol Recall.

  36. The Late P Brooks

    Things are tough all over

    Joe Biden’s appearance this week on the campaign trail in Oregon says as much about Democrats’ struggles in the reliable blue state as it does about his own careful approach to the midterms.

    Biden advisers and close political allies are worried about a confluence of factors that threaten to flip the open contest for governor in the state. A third-party challenger is pulling more support from Democrats than the GOP; four contested congressional races, including one over the border in Washington state, have resulted in a barrage of Republican TV ad attacks; and the uneven economic recovery and spiraling quality of life concerns around homelessness and crime are weighing on voters.

    “It’s just a tough year for us,” a Biden ally conceded.

    Those dumb voters, with their quality-of-life grievances; they need to see the Big Picture.

    There are existential threats out there, like climate change, and people calling places “Squaw This” and Squaw That”.

    Prioritize, America!

    • Pope Jimbo

      “Squaw This” and Squaw That”

      I’ll say it again, simply rename them to Native American Woman This and Native American Woman That. It isn’t your fault if the deplorables start shortening it up to NAW This and NAW That.

      Having the Woke Pitchfork Brigade too busy combing over audio files with Zapruder-like obsession to make sure they didn’t say Sqaw instead of Naw will keep them from other mischief.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I hope we get some snow this year so I can go ski at Siberian American Woman Valley.

  37. UnCivilServant

    Welp, the rain is long gone. I can see the different layers of clouds moving in different directions fast enough for me to tell they’re moving (using trees as a reference point)

    I’m going to have to close the shades later as the sun comes around this side of the building.

  38. hayeksplosives

    Reminder:

    Approximately 2 million Rus persons were trafficked as slaves through Crimea by the Muslim Tatars well into the 16th century. Ukrainians facilitated the slave trade, and this is not forgotten.

    • juris imprudent

      Or more recently Ukrainians recall the tender mercies of the Bolsheviks.

      • AlexinCT

        Reality is that man is a brutal creature and it was not until recently, where some people managed to create through ingenuity & automation, lots of wealth which then changed the old dynamic/paradigm where the low resource problem was solved by using force to take from your neighbors. We are heading back to those heady days apparently at a breakneck pace, though.

      • juris imprudent

        The adherents to historicism will not learn by any other means than brutal reality.

    • Fatty Bolger

      It’s been 500 years, maybe they should get over it.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Americans’ short memories are a blessing in many ways.

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yep. Nursing past resentments is poison, as are the people who encourage it.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Isn’t it the sale of all those slavs that led to the word “slave”?

      Thought I heard that somewhere.

      • Lackadaisical

        Correct. But I think Hayek has it somewhat backwards. Vikings were raiding the slavs, and later the pagan Lithuanians.

      • Lackadaisical

        Kievan rus was found by Vikings… Not the native slavs.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Then the Slavs invented the “Goal Line” and the Vikings were never seen again.

      • R.J.

        Heyoooo!

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        I think Slavs will dispute that. I’ve heard them say it comes from slava, which is glory.

      • Lackadaisical

        Slave is from Slav. Slav is from the Slavic word meaning ‘word ‘ guessing meaning people that can speak, whereas Germans are mute. (Because they don’t speak a language that can be understood)

        Similar to barbarian- people who say ‘bar bar bar!’ according to Greeks

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That makes sense. Word = slovo –> slav. German = nemec, mute = nemmy.

      • UnCivilServant

        Nemec the Barbarian, scourge of the Hellenes and Slavs?

      • rhywun

        FWIW the German word for slave is “Sklave” so might be a different root. Or a confusion of two different roots (which does happen).

  39. The Late P Brooks

    Now, hoping to avoid a devastating loss in a Democratic enclave, and with polls showing a dead heat for the governorship, the White House approached former Oregon state House Speaker Tina Kotek to arrange the presidential visit in support of her campaign.

    “Suddenly, everyone figured out we have a real governor’s race out here,” said Jake Weigler, an Oregon Democratic strategist not involved in the contest. “People are waking up and thinking that losing could actually happen.”

    Say it ain’t so. A governor who might represent the people in the eastern part of the state? That’s just crazy.

  40. Drake

    Then they have a better education system than we do (not saying much). Do American school kids still learn that our first foreign war was against Muslim slavers? Are Irish school kids still taught about the Sack of Baltimore?

    • Drake

      Was supposed to be a reply to hayeksplosives.

    • juris imprudent

      And the lucky survivors moved to Skibbereen.

    • WTF

      Everyone knows slavery only happened to black people in the USA.

      • juris imprudent

        And white supremacy, don’t forget that all slavery everywhere is because of white supremacy.

      • Nephilium

        There was no red legged rebellion.

  41. Rebel Scum

    *cringe*

    Pelosi’s response to hearing Trump might march to the Capitol is definitely worth watching

    Also, bad look threatening violence on a former president.

    • ron73440

      *WORDS AREN’T VIOLENCE WHEN WE DO IT!!*

    • Raven Nation

      The comments are, umm, revealing. Not to mention lacking in any kind of self-awareness.

      • ron73440

        Lot of easily impressed sycophants.

  42. UnCivilServant

    Is it really so hard to include the webex information in a meeting invite? I mean the standard install includes the outlook plugin, so it’s a single button to press…

    • Drake

      Make a point of being 5-minutes late – “sorry, couldn’t find the link”.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Do you want to be known as the guy too stupid to find his knuckle-dragging way to the meeting. The Missing Link Guy?

      • Drake

        “I thought it would be in the invitation like my other meetings.”

      • robodruid

        Because the invite disappeared, I thought it was cancelled.

    • R C Dean

      My favorite is when the meeting invite has both a Zoom and a Teams link.

      If you expect me in the meeting, put the damn link in the calendar invite. I’m not rooting through my email to dig it up. And yes, I have not shown up for exactly this reason.

      • R.J.

        How about when there is a standing 30 minute meeting, then the host starts a separate 1 hour meeting on top of that and does not delete the thirty minute meeting? I had that the other day. Very classy.

      • Nephilium

        It’s gotten to the point that I just ignore the team meeting in my calendar, as the supervisor keeps cancelling it (usually 5-15 minutes before it’s scheduled).

      • Drake

        Recently had an interview invitation like that. Had to ask the recruiter to clarify.

  43. Tundra

    Daryl Cooper (MartyrMade) and Scott Horton are working on a book about the fuckery in Ukraine since the end of the cold war. From Cooper’s substack:

    Can we talk about Ukraine?

    He has become my favorite subscription. If you can’t read it, I’ll excerpt a few items, but the bottom line echoes ‘Splosives: we need to stay the fuck out of it.

  44. DEG

    McAleer said he now lacks a physical desire for alcohol — which he believes is an unintentional, though not unwelcome, side effect of the weight-loss drug semaglutide and other, similar drugs.

    Since he started taking the drugs in the fall of 2021, “I’m just not interested anymore after a couple of beers,” McAleer said. “I’ve never had that before.”

    He doesn’t look like a Reaver.

    “Back then,” Lita Ford says, “people were like, ‘Do we listen to her guitar playing? Or do we just pin her poster up on our bedroom walls?’

    Why not both?

    If I had a poster of her, I would have been doing both.

  45. PieInTheSky

    For the first time in my career i am blowing a fucking deadline and have no idea when i will be done. In my defense i did 3 weeks of pointless work this year because the manager did not know it was not necessary and that set me back.

  46. PieInTheSky

    90,000 lives could be saved, 900,000+ hospitalizations prevented, and billions of dollars in medical costs averted with robust uptake of the Omicron booster this fall, according to a new analysis.

    https://mobile.twitter.com/DrTomFrieden/status/1580627018714005504

    SCIENCE!¡!!¡!??!!?!!!

    • UnCivilServant

      Or, hear me out, we don’t inject people with useless, harmful substances for political reasons.

    • PieInTheSky

      Lola 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 🌈🌊🦹🏽‍♀️
      @lollanna
      ·
      18h
      Replying to
      @DrTomFrieden
      Can we get people to wear a mask???? This is just so freaking basic! I just don’t get what the big deal is about wearing an N95! Yes, it gets annoying but if it saves my life, my family’s life or the life of someone immunocompromised, then we have to do it!

      We have toooo

      • UnCivilServant

        I’d gladly sacrifice your life.

        If you have immune issues – you have to take care of protecting yourself, not demanding the world bend to adapt to you. Especially with something laughably useless.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Well that’s that I guess.

        No one will be allowed to drive within 3 miles of Dr. Frieden or his family. After all, the inconvenience is worth it if it saves their lives.

    • Pope Jimbo

      90K lives saved?

      Meh. That is two Minnesoda’s of deaths

      Two of the models by the state and university researchers compared the impact of this strategy vs. doing nothing at all and found that it could reduce deaths by as much as a third.

      Both estimates are stark. The do-nothing model predicted 74,000 deaths in Minnesota over the entire course of the pandemic, but the model for the current state strategy still predicted 50,000 to 55,000 deaths, Gildemeister said.

      Anytime any of these asshats try to push something using one of their models, they should have the 2020 models thrown into their faces.

    • Lackadaisical

      My model says give me money.

      • Gender Traitor

        How long have you been dating her?

  47. Count Potato

    “BREAKING: An incel admits to planning a mass shooting at Ohio State University with his AR-15 rifle and wrote about wanting to “slaughter” women and hoped he could kill 3,000 people, particularly at sororities. RT IF YOU THINK WE NEED AN INCEL TASK FORCE!”

    https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1580218384473477120

    • Count Potato

      “BREAKING: Google approves Trump’s fascist social media platform “Truth Social” for their Google Play Store — meaning its constant stream of racism and misinformation will now be easily available to Android users. RT TO DEMAND THAT GOOGLE REMOVE IT FROM THEIR STORE IMMEDIATELY!”

      https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1580617189551353856

      “BREAKING: New footage of Jan. 6th shows Speaker Pelosi saying “I hope” that Trump “comes” with the rioters because “I’m going to punch him out” for starting the insurrection, adding: “I’m going to go to jail and I’m going to be happy.” RT IF YOU THINK THAT PELOSI IS BADASS!”

      https://twitter.com/OccupyDemocrats/status/1580901391257677825

      • DEG

        “BREAKING: Google approves Trump’s fascist social media platform “Truth Social” for their Google Play Store — meaning its constant stream of racism and misinformation will now be easily available to Android users. RT TO DEMAND THAT GOOGLE REMOVE IT FROM THEIR STORE IMMEDIATELY!”

        It’ll be modified like the Telegram app. Telegram installed via the play store has modifications to not show links to things Google doesn’t like, like links to Russia Today.

      • Tundra

        I just did it. It doesn’t block RT.

      • R.J.

        I would think even if that was done, you could side-load a version of the app that does not do that. Android does not necessarily need things in their Google App Store to load an app.

      • Rebel Scum

        Trump’s fascist social media platform

        Show your work.

    • UnCivilServant

      Is this task force going to be tasked with making sure the incels get laid?

      • PieInTheSky

        Sorority girls can take on for the team once in a while. Give them extra credit or something

      • EvilSheldon

        I read that as, “Sorority girls can take on the team once in a while.”

        Get your mind out of the gutter, Sheldon…

      • Pope Jimbo

        The task force is going to get shit done. They will not be fucking around one bit!

      • The Other Kevin

        That’s the only real solution.

    • juris imprudent

      Yep – federal hate crime. No one killed, no one hurt, no real human actually even threatened in a way that self defense would apply.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Especially when the guy’s rantings/ravings are so silly. 3K KIA’s with just one AR-15? I know THE OSU students aren’t the brightest, but would they really stand around Navin Johnson-like shouting about how the guy hates cans?

        I mean the trained FBI marksman was only able to kill 60 people with 1000 rounds. What makes this Buckeye think he is that much better?

      • UnCivilServant

        Maybe he’s the reincarnation of Charles Whitman and has a new approach to avoid the counterattack?

      • EvilSheldon

        OSU has (or at least had) a really, really good collegiate rifle and pistol team. Lots of them went on to the Olympics.

    • The Other Kevin

      I wonder how easy it is to activate the bot army when they ask for retweets?

      • UnCivilServant

        If you’re on the list of users, it is a trigger code.

    • Semi-Spartan Dad

      It’s weird that the Left celebrates pedophilia but shuns incels.

      The useful thing about being a misanthrope is that I can be consistent in my position of disliking both.

      • PieInTheSky

        The correct term is MAPitude

    • UnCivilServant

      We’re entering a new age of ingorance until we send these useless people to the guillotine.

    • rhywun

      “Glibs shit-posters says fuck off.”

      Can we get the CBC to print that? It’s just as newsworthy.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Someone is angling for the casino rights to the moon and Mars.

    • R.J.

      The picture is a chubby white guy in birth control glasses. With a beard. He’s about as indigenous as a vanilla ice cream bar. Fight me.

      • PieInTheSky

        Tommorow 12 o clock behind the liquor store

      • R.J.

        Excellent choice. Let’s get some decent beverages first.

      • EvilSheldon

        Quit making fun of my glasses.

      • rhywun

        OMG LOL.

        And nobody is allowed to point that out.

    • Sean

      🙂

    • Tundra

      Perfection.

    • rhywun

      I don’t get it.

  48. UnCivilServant

    I hate these meetings where we end up making negative progress and we end up with less completed and more to redo by the time we finish talking about something unrelated to what they decide to change.

    • UnCivilServant

      And then there’s the guy who wants to create more work for everybody for reasons that escape me to solve problems that don’t exist and cause delays that are not needed.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I think that’s called job security.

  49. The Late P Brooks

    Can we get people to wear a mask???? This is just so freaking basic! I just don’t get what the big deal is about wearing an N95! Yes, it gets annoying but if it saves my life, my family’s life or the life of someone immunocompromised, then we have to do it!

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    I will not validate your cargo cult superstition.

    • PieInTheSky

      Dead Ego Society
      @DeadEgoSociety
      Replying to
      @breaking2morrow

      @eigenrobot
      and 4 others
      consent is insufficient as a basis for sexual mores

      consent and commitment required

      at least 25 and married or its rape

      • R.J.

        Well, if that is also for voting, driving, drinking and being drafted – OK.

  50. The Late P Brooks

    My tuping skils have have not improved.

    My fingers are cold. Today I will investigate the operation of the heater and get a new filter.

    • PieInTheSky

      Tuping is notoriously difficult