Thanks, I hate it.
“Justin Bieber’s ‘$1.29 Million’ NFT Is Now ‘Worth’ $69k”
“Inside is about an art thief in way over his head”
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Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Still about $69K too high.
Fool and his money?
Fool and his money
Documentary about fleeing the lockdowns?
I never paid any attention to that the first time. It seems like they are gearing up for another one. I am not going to pay attention to that either.
I expect several of us will be joining you.
Yep.
Although, TBF, Alberta’s new Premier has basically said she ain’t bringin’ back the COVID theatre, so it’ll be a lot easier for me this time around.
Huh… I took it as not paying attention to Scream or Escape From New York reboots — but yeah, it works for Return of the Lockdowns as well.
Both Scream and Escape From New York are perfectly cromulent movies.
https://twitter.com/cary_elwes/status/1174124906327330816?lang=en
“The reboot is said to be currently looking for writers.“
Paging SugarFree . . . .
“Ninja Sex Party” is a good band name.
I have no idea what this is referring to.
Bored Ape
This song plays on a loop in my mind during most meetings.
I would have guessed Julius Fucik’s “Entry of the Gladiators”.
Land of Hope and Glory.
Or perhaps Pomp and Circumstance.
Mebbe Hail to the Chief.
Too job specific probably, but JoCo’s Code Monkey.
That’s run through my head during several meetings…
I liked that show.
Not nerdy enough.
There’s a Scream reboot? Why?
Because the Sunflowers reboot just wasn’t as exciting.
Because there aren’t that many more horror franchises to reboot.
It’s an homage or something. Hyperbole assures me it’s not because Hollywood has run out of ideas.
Exactly. Just watch it, Hollywood knows what’s best for you.
*Hisses
The Locke reference is kind of funny if this is accurate — haven’t read the bill, so can’t say for sure… personally, the article reads as a bit hysterical to me. Stating your purpose is nailing down government recognition of a right called out by the Court isn’t the same (to me at least) as stating that All Rights Are Defined By The State (like Canada, EU constitutions, etc.) — though I’m sure there are plenty that want it that way.
They’re hinging it on this:
“Worse, it would create a roving license to sue anyone acting “under color of law” – a loosely defined term that would include those providing government-funded or -regulated services.”
I don’t think that is how the courts will interpret things.
“Inside is about an art thief in way over his head”
Somebody needs an editor: the URL spells Willem Dafoe’s name wrong, while the article dated today says the movie is being released in March 2022.
A linear sequence of events is how stories are told. It is just the way the human mind works.
Person – “What is the meaning of it all?”
Me – “Why do you think there has to be a meaning? Just enjoy your life and try to make other people’s lives better.”
And that’s why most of us aren’t Gallifreyan.
Sean obviously excepted.
42.
^This guy gets it^
Just because a bunch of mice programmed a planet and all….
“How many roads must a man walk down…?”
Wait….what was the question again?
It doesn’t matter, they all lead to Rome.
How… How… HOW MANY ROADS MUST A MAN WALK DOWN
Six?
Pulp Fiction?
Did you Gilmore this post?
Me? Don’t think so… Just making a joke about writing about things out of temporal sequence.
What’s missing from your life? Friday Funbags!
https://archive.ph/xYYMC
More like Friday FLBP. Chiropractors gettin’ rich of those poor girls’ husbands.
Did a Polish potato farmer just avert (delay more likely) WWIII?
Corey Feldman has never looked better.
I wish Feldman would name names.
“More than a dozen security guards and other workers reportedly abused or sold account information to outside parties.”
Never muscle in on the Boss’s market.
I’ve never seen Escape from LA. Is it worth a watch or is it massively inferior to the original (as I expect)?
I enjoyed it when I was 12.
Massively inferior. On the plus side, it has Bruce Campbell in it.
And his character’s suitably unhinged, too.
Overall, would watch again.
I think Bruce Campbell’s straightest role was on Ellen. I remember walking through the room while my parents were watching that and doing a double take at seeing Bruce Campbell on the show.
Heheh. Thanks guys. With Bruce in it, it sounds like it may be worth a watch. I can embrace my inner 12 year old.
Almost forgot — it also has a young Michelle Forbes in it. HUBBA HUBBA
“Ah like yer haiyur, ‘cuz it’s short.” Sorry, different movie.
BEAM gets it. Also, Steve Buscemi is in it I believe.
Apologies for early OT, but I’m heading out to my local soon.
The mourning lynx had a thread about a Fed judge blocking Florida’s Stop WOKE Act.
The judge who issued the injunction is a fairly bright guy (I went to undergrad with him) who was dead set on being Florida’s first SCOTUS associate justice (which obviously ain’t gonna happen). Something changed in the ten years since Obama appointed him, because his hobbies now include writing overwrought opinions with little regard to precedent and the law, and having those opinions swatted into orbit by the Eleventh Circuit.
If you’re a lefty NGO who wants to make headlines in Florida for your lawfare, Judge Walker is your man. You’ll still lose your case at the appellate level, but you at least got some publicity.
Tallahassee circuit judge John Cooper is Walker’s equivalent at the state level. Makes a splashy headline for the anti-DeSantis forces, then gets bitchslapped by the First District Court of Appeal.
So Walker’s injunction is in all the papers now, and when the 11th Circuit steps on it like a cockroach… crickets.
Is it just a coincidence that the case ended up on his desk?
“his hobbies now include writing overwrought opinions with little regard to precedent and the law, and having those opinions swatted into orbit by the Eleventh Circuit.”
I actually laughed out loud. Glad I’m not the only one who thought the reasoning in that case a little suspect… The State can’t determine what gets taught in State colleges?
Now, should we have State colleges? Probably not, but it is hard to say they’re their own branch of government or something and not subject to the control of the legislature.
If this was a bookend to his opinion enjoining Title IX “regret sex” prosecutions, I might at least respect him for intellectual honesty.
If it were only state colleges, why would they need a law?
Why would security guards even have access to account information unless they were working as a team with other employees?
They know where the regular employees put their password post-its?
Hey, when you’re doing criminal shit, you want some muscle.
It’s a Friday where I’m home, so the usual Zoom/Happy Hour/Holiday weekend planning will be kicking off at 20:00 Eastern.
NH recount updates: Some ballots might not have been counted in two recounts. In one of them, NH Dems want to stop counting.
Most recent NH recount schedule.
The whole vote thing is stinking worse than surströmming.
Eventually the ‘we have too much to lose’ is going to evaporate and the crooked idiots won’t see it coming.
Husband is going out later to get an encherito and a peppermint Frosty. I will not be eating these in time proximity of one another, in case you were 🤢
Tonight is kaldereta, pancit palabok and puto, mmm.
Ma sarap!
He was coming right at us!
What a giant pile of dumbfuckery.
I suspect the officer in question’s never going to be “20-year-veteran”.
What.
A.
Witling.
And I’m guessing the school district and police are going to be writing some fat tax-payer funded checks to the family.
Well, minus about 33% for their counsel.
Why live ammo?
There is not enough material provided to figure out why he accidentally shot the kid. Was he trying to show off the gun? Was he trying to defend himself against a banana? We may never know.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MlroOdP8p2Y
I tried to read that FEE thing. All I hear is Charlie Brown’s teacher.
I’m too tired to try to absorb any Locke right now. I need something with a lot of stupid memes instead.
“Pregnant Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to 11 years in federal prison for multimillion-dollar blood testing fraud conspiracy ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11444165/Elizabeth-Holmes-faces-sentencing-Theranos-crimes.html
poor kid
Since she’s obviously a psychopath, what are the odds that she got pregnant in order to get house arrest or some other leniency?
My first thought too.
I thought she was abused by her meanie toxic masculinity male partner? I expected she would get her own episode on Hallmark.
A Turtleneck and Wire Fraud Christmas?
“I’m dreaming… Of a light… Sentence!
Just like… the ones… connected get!”
+1
Im not known for making sound decisions.
Prolly would.
+1 Sophia Loren in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
+1 Bankman Fried
I wonder if anyone will ever even try it again? I mean even if they could come up with device that legit works, they would be crushed like bugs by LabCorp and their cronies at the FDA.
“Biden’s Covid bribe: Americans who get a booster vaccine this winter will get $20 discounts on their groceries — amid surging inflation and a sluggish rollout”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11439641/White-House-offers-grocery-discounts-boost-lackluster-covid-booster-rates.html
OFFS!!
Take that $20 and shove it up your ass, Brandon.
Flu and RSV are rampant so get your COVID shot.
SCIENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for the two dozen eggs, dipshit.
Remember when Trump was the fascist? Good times.
How the fuck does this even work? Is Joe running off checks with a printer in the Oval Office?
The holiday packaging from Amazon is the most depressing thing I’ve seen lately given how their fulfillment centers are run.
“Handle with Cheer”
🙁
I am trying to find an excuse to skip out on the stepson’s wedding tomorrow.
Does that make me a bad stepmonster?
Say you have to go to a funeral.
“I’m in mourning for the Laxalt defeat?”
Not in of itself.
If your attendance will create unwatned tensions, you might be doing better by the couple if you don’t cause the drama.
If you don’t want to go because you don’t like the couple… that’s a different story.
“Sorry kid. Alabama is playing Austin Peay in football tomorrow.”
Assuming it’s not Hindu, how long can the service last? Come up with an excuse to drive separately and you could probably get away with bugging out of the reception early. (“Got work to do” should be plausible if you ever WFH, and the nature of your job gives you an out for explaining exactly what “work.”)
So, red hair but not a trad Cath, eh?
Just fake a COVID test.
Yeah, it makes you bad, but oh well…
No advice but rather a chance to enter a comment that my uncle made one time: “Four Weddings and a Funeral? Should have just named it Five Funerals“
Garland announced a special counsel to investigate Trump. Why does it matter? The Dems will never lose another election in PA, AZ, MI, or WI again.
To rub it in. Destroying him is just icing on the cake.
Still pissed he didn’t get his seat on the Supreme Court – which he has proven himself to be completely unqualified for.
If Mitchy McC was only good for one thing…
He can commiserate with Bork.
It means that next January the GOP-controlled intelligence House committee won’t be able to get any documents related to Trump and Russiagate. Because there will be an investigation by a special counsel going on! It is a construct to deny any requests for information.
Very good point
Wisconsin just elected a Repub Senator. PA would have if it had not been frigging Dr Oz. If it wasn’t for Trump sticking his dick in and the Dobbes decision, Team Red would have a Senate majority and a larger House majority. Right now the Donks are letting their hatred of Trump get the better of them. Trump is already never going to win another election. If they were smarter they would realize this and try and help him to win the nomination.
I thought they were trying. Aren’t they trying to martyr him so his supporters – even if only a minority of Republicans – can carry him to primary victories as the anti-Trump vote gets split five different ways?
Yeah, I’m not buying the bad GOP candidate thing. It’s time for Dems, Republicans, and libertarians to put TDS to bed. On his worst day, Oz wasn’t anywhere close to as bad a candidate as Fetterman. Not remotely.
I see two possible conclusions from PA, neither of which involve Trump:
1) The majority of voters really do want Democrat policies. So much so that they would elect a literally brain-damaged Democrat over a boring Republican candidate like Oz. You think anyone who would vote for Fetterman would really vote for someone like DeSantis as an option? Trump has nothing to do with independents selecting Fetterman over Oz. The GOP is done without swinging hard to the left if that’s truly the case. This means more candidates like Romney and less like DeSantis.
2) The election was rigged. Voting doesn’t matter and getting worked up about Trump is exactly what the Dems and eGOP want you to do instead of paying attention to the fortifications taking place in key areas.
I think it’s some of both.
But WRT (1), I think it’s less they “want” Fetterman and more they ignorantly choose by Team. And it’s going to have to get considerably worse before those voters (who are probably a majority) wake up and start voting differently.
See: the late 1960’s through the 80’s. We’ve been through this before. We’re somewhere in the mid-seventies in this latest cycle.
Yup exactly. Fetterman is not at all a bad candidate for them. He’s gonna say “me vote Union” and “me vote abortion” and fall in line with whatever the Dem leadership wants. I agree that no one who votes for him is going to vote for DeSantis. And they aren’t going to vote for Mittens candidates either. Their religion is the Democratic Party. Which is why you need candidates like DeSantis that are actually going to motivate Red voters and have some appeal to independents. If the Repubs want a future they need to ditch both Trump and the wishy washy bullshit. Also stop threatening stupid shit like Graham’s national abortion ban and hardcore pro lifers like Mastriano.
Fetterman underperformed Shapiro, which means some Shapiro voters also voted for Oz.
Or they didn’t vote for Fetterman or Oz.
I know I left several races blank on my ballot.
I voted Mastriano but not for Senate.
I suppose. But in the meantime, the Dems will likely get no-questions-asked free abortions up to full-term codified nationwide. Maybe not all at once but they will push it one step at a time and nobody will notice or give a shit.
Dems were very good at get out the vote.
There is some evidence from NH that they were very good at getting non-voters out to vote for Democrats using same-day registration because “Republicans banned abortion!”
Republican in-fighting did not help.
As a PA voter who got lots of exposure to Oz, I beg to differ. I should’ve been able to vote for the Repub Senate candidate – but the primary was such a shitshow of stupidity that a TV quack won. What’s funny is that Oz’s early commercials in the primary weren’t bad, but his campaign got worse the longer it went.
Fetterman did way underperform Shapiro at the top of the ticket, so there was clearly vote splitting (Shapiro for gov, Oz for Senate).
Rigged. Oz did pretty good considering that the D’s have, as in any state with a big city, turned the machine up to 11, as Nigel would say. Were their doings illieal? Maybe, kinda. Some were, undoubtably, and some was just gaming the system on a massive scale.
But, that said, what has consistently shown up in the west is a desire for liberal financial policy and conservative social policy. People want tough on crime measures, and they want strong social security dividends. Both teams fuck up when they push too far away from that middle. Right now, D’s aren’t offering anything, but know how to work the system, and push their voting measures up too, and sometimes over, the edge.
“If it wasn’t for Trump sticking his dick in and the Dobbes decision, Team Red would have a Senate majority and a larger House majority.”
Also mail-in ballots and social media censorship. Those are both huge.
Ordered by the Biden administration.
How that guy is not rotting behind prison bars is a fucking mystery to me.
“The Dems will never lose another election in PA, AZ, MI, or WI again.”
Don’t be so sure.
There is no such thing as forever in politics, but with the current setup, this is relatively true.
At an industry conference in Chicago. I’m too tired to drink and sit through Second City tonight so it’s New York Strip and bed for me.
I must be old.
And sad.
Pretty much. Very long week and I figured meat and sleep were better for me than booze, pizza, and lefty comics.
Anything is better than lefty comics.
On the road? Take care of yourself.
(I don’t mean that, but there’s probably some lotion in the bathroom …)
I was thinking about actually leaving the house for a happy hour beer or two, but I just can’t seem to motivate myself. I wonder what youtube will “recommend” for me.
Ads for prostate health
Those are my favorites, by the way
Glibzoom
I am a zombie. If I can get peppy I will jump on. Long work week.
The Mythical Man Funeral
RIP the other Brooks
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
Well I would’ve assumed he was already dead. MMM is a really good book; we’ve never fundamentally improved on the insights from it and for the most part we still do stupid development shit, we just do it way faster.
George Gilder wrote a good book that’s almost a corollary to MMM, on the silicon side called Microcosm.
Happy B-day Straff. We are prepping to fly to Cali for our oldests 21st Bday. Damn hell, 21 years old.
Straff’s birthday?
Happy Birthday Straffinrun!
*Wakes up
it’s Straffinrun’s birthday? Happy birthday, whippersnapper! Wherever you are!
Yeah.
Mine are 22 and 20. Freaks me the hell out.
Wish the kid a HB and have a great trip!
I said this on last night’s thread, but I don’t think you saw it.
Your wife needs to vlog her grooms. I watch a lot of dog groomers on YouTube (oddly satisfying), but none of them are mobile groomers.
And in case she thinks, she won’t get followers, listen. I follow a Scottish cow hoof trimmer who has 1.74M subscribers and a hangar full of sports cars.
I’ve mentioned it and she absolutely will not.
She certainly has the personality for it!
Real dog grooming is not pretty.
THere’s editing.
Editing.
I put together my fire pit. The bowl where the wood goes is not affixed to the base. But the one I had at the previous RV park (it belonged to the park) did have attached legs.
So I life up my fire pit to move it, leaving the base & legs behind, with which my legs promptly became entangled. Went ass over teakettle and bent both the bowl and the screen cover. It’s chap metal, so I put it back into shape. Can’t say the same for my knees and ribs.
But Royal Crown Cola was three 2-liter bottles for $5 at Ingles, so I got that going for me.
I was the first one to vote on Elon’s “Reinstate President Trump?” poll tweet.
I voted yes, because I like fun.
The music and links are great. Thanks Riven.