¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Nov 29, 2022 | Daily Links | 201 comments

I’m certain you have heard enough about fútbol in the past week you don’t want to hear my take on it.  So I’ll just go ahead and post a bit of the casual racism that nearly always accompanies the World Cup:

What did think it would be?  Here, I’ll do the search for her Instagram for you.

 

For the links!

A little bit personal for me. Not only did she teach at my university (not while I was there), she got lost at sea at my favorite place to spend a long weekend.

You know what?  Not gonna lie, I kind of want to see Canelo kick his ass.

GMO corn ban sounds ridiculous given few plants had their genetics impacted by human selection over the course of millennia than corn. Of course it really means more Mexicans starve.

How dare El Presidente Dudebro influence American politics!

Um…an “informal market” is called a “black market,” AP.  They tend to flourish in communist countries.

FYI:  Al Jazeera is reporting nothing but World Cup news.

Hmmm.  That’s three volcanoes in a week. Freaky.

Do it, Bolsonaro.  DO IT.

 

Another jaunty tune.  Enjoy your Tuesday!

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201 Comments

  1. Rat on a train

    The US can take all that banned corn and make more ethanol with government subsidies. What candidate wants to woo the corn states?

  2. Rebel Scum

    I see we beat Iran.

    • EvilSheldon

      That’s what that loud cheer from the bar across the street was…

      • juris imprudent

        Wasn’t a cheer, it was a massive, collective sigh of relief.

      • rhywun

        I was stuck in a tedious meeting but it looked like we barely squeaked one out.

        This team does not look capable of beating anyone else who makes it to the knockout rounds.

      • Penguin

        The good thing about being a US soccer fan – if you’ve been around any time at all, you go in with low expectations. Ask Nephilium or Warty what it’s like to be a Browns fan.

      • Warty

        The Browns! Now with a QB who’s too stupid to just pay for whores!

      • Nephilium

        Hey! We’re not mathematically eliminated from the Playoffs yet!

        Of course, local reporters are enjoying watching the Stillers be ranked below the Browns.

      • Michael Malaise

        It’s weird, though. I can believe a lawsuit with 5-10 women involved. But 24? That makes it seem like just a payday scheme.

      • Urthona

        The US is ranked 16 and Iran is ranked 20. This was not a significantly uneven match in talent.

        Don’t see why it would be a “relief”. The US is not Brazil. Iran is about their level.

      • juris imprudent

        Relief because we didn’t blow the opportunity, like we did so many goal scoring chances. Easily should’ve been 2 or 3 goals for the U.S.

      • Urthona

        oh yeah. that makes sense.

      • Ted S.

        Don’t believe the FIFA rankings. They’re an absolute joke.

      • Urthona

        So’s your face!

        I mean yeah you’re probably right.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        They can beat the Dutch, call me crazy.

      • Urthona

        It’s possible.

      • juris imprudent

        Heck we should’ve beat Belgium in ’14 (mostly because of superhuman goal-keeping) but we couldn’t put away a sitter near the end. I definitely see the next match as 1-0, just can’t say which end of the scoreline will be ours.

      • Urthona

        I don’t know. Belgium controlled the midfield and had so many chances. Our guys are better at pacing now but they are also just kids….

      • juris imprudent

        We had no business holding Belgium scoreless through 90 minutes, but we did. That’s how a game can go.

        The one thing I’m still not getting – where’s Reyna?

    • Rat on a train

      Aye-ran or I-ran?

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I’m hopelessly in love with the Sheik

  3. EvilSheldon

    I wonder what percentage of vaccine fetishists are also anti-GMOs…

    • grrizzly

      A barely tested experimental gene therapy in a shot is a must. But eating apples grown in the same way for decades is just too unsafe.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        It’s Franken-fruit-enstien!

  4. Rat on a train

    Informal market = shirts and shoes optional?

    • UnCivilServant

      Put your pants on already.

      • Rat on a train

        you’re not my supervisor

      • Tundra

        Your

  5. Count Potato

    “Supporters of the plan say genetically modified seeds could contaminate Mexico’s age-old native varieties.”

    So don’t plant them. Just turn them into tortillas and beer

    • Tonio

      [lights the Neph signal over corn/beer suggestion]

      • Nephilium

        Corn works well in some styles of beer where you want to add some fermentable sugars without adding body. It’s common in cream ales and the like.

        It can be added either as flaked corn or malted corn.

      • robc

        Fuller’s ESB has/has had some flaked corn in the recipe.

        British aren’t opposed to using things the Germans frown upon.

        Part of the reason for heavy corn/rice use in American beers was the use of 6-row malt.

      • robc

        Also, the Peruvian spit beer is made from corn.

      • Nephilium

        Chicha.

        I also learned over the past month about other ingredients with enough diastatic power to self-convert and more. I want to say it was chestnut, but I’d need to look back through the beers I’ve tasted to confirm.

    • R C Dean

      I thought GMO seeds were sterile (intentionally so, so that farmers have to buy a new batch every year).

      • Count Potato

        Some are, some aren’t. There have been lawsuits over GMO pollen.

        (The seeds inside GMO tomatoes will germinate inside the berry. So you can cut open a tomato and find little green sprouts in it.)

      • Unreconstructed

        I don’t know about true GMO seeds (as rice isn’t allowed to be sold with any GMO bits), but hybrid rice plants are fertile – it’s just that the second generation is generally very poor seed as compared to the hybrid plants. I would suspect that GMO plants aren’t sterile, but they’re as sterile as possible. Nature has a pesky way of thwarting man’s intent.

      • Gadfly

        Life, uh, finds a way.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        I don’t believe so. The main purpose of GMO seeds is to be able to douse the plants in agent orange roundup, which isn’t something small-scale farmers are doing. I don’t think the time and energy pays off saving seeds at the industrial agricultural level.

        I recall stories of Monsanto suing farmers after some of their seeds were found growing in the farmers’ fields and the farmers hadn’t paid. The farmers didn’t even want them, they had blown in or cross pollinated or something. Monsanto and co. are pretty close to Disney in terms of ruthless copyright/license enforcement.

      • MikeS

        I don’t think the time and energy pays off saving seeds at the industrial agricultural level.

        It is, or would be, except for the fierce licensing enforcement from the seed companies that you mentioned. That’s what makes it not worth the gamble. The sugar beet co-op I live near knows how many acres each farmer plants and checks to make sure they purchased the enough seed from “official” sources. If they get caught buying not enough seed (because they held some over from the year before) they get in deep shit. And the stuff is not cheap. Thousands of dollars for a couple fields worth. I want to say my neighbor told me over $10k for his 300ish acres…don’t quote me on that.

        But I’ve known plenty of guys growing non-GMO wheat and barley that save seed from the previous year crop to plant. A friend even had a mobile grain cleaning business to clean grain for seeding.

      • Spudalicious

        Monsanto is fucking evil.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      I’m pretty sure that all apple trees, at least the ones producing apples we eat, are grafted.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Nevermind. I missed that this was about corn. Not sure why I was thinking of apples.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        They are. Apples, I mean. In fact, my father was a professor of Pomology, with a doctorate in genetics. This is, specifically, what he did.

  6. Rebel Scum

    I’ll do the search for her Instagram for you.

    Can’t click at work but I assume this in the Argentine chick.

    • Shpip

      Meh. Classic butterface.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        She didn’t wear sunscreen as a child.

      • Rebel Scum

        I wasn’t looking at her face, but her face looks fine to me.

      • DEG

        #metoo

      • Grummun

        Send your freckle faced rejects this way.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        Wipe all that SLAP off of her face, and then we can see what she looks like.

  7. Shpip

    The planned ban would halve Mexico’s imports of yellow corn from the United States, a Mexican agriculture official told Reuters in October.

    Supporters of the plan say genetically modified seeds could contaminate Mexico’s age-old native varieties.

    Couldn’t the Mexicans just declare their native varieties to be boutique, artisanal corn and upcharge for them?

    • Rat on a train

      What’s the status of white, black, and red corn?

      • Plisade

        Ask Richard.

      • Tonio

        [golf clap]

    • juris imprudent

      That’s what they ship to the gringos. Mexicans ain’t falling for that shit.

    • Aloysious

      Gentrified corn is racist and homophobic. This is well known to be ‘bad’.

  8. Count Potato

    If you consider illegal voting, Mexico has the biggest influence on U.S. elections.

  9. DEG

    Many of the protesters said their demands for intervention were supported by Article 142 of the Brazilian Constitution, which says that the military has the role of “guaranteeing constitutional powers” under the “supreme authority of the president.”

    I looked up the Brazilian Constitution. I found an English translation. The bit in Article 142 about “guaranteeing constitutional powers” looks more like an executive summary or a preamble, not anything that sets out powers. On the other hand, it’s not like that’s stopped governments before and Brazil has had coups before.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      The Brazilian military has a long and storied history of stepping in when they feel like it.

      They usually don’t step out either.

      • Zwak, who taser's the chimp with the razor.

        So, you are saying that they might step in it?

  10. Tundra

    Is that Argentinian chick supposed to be hot?

    Hmmm. That’s three volcanoes in a week. Freaky.

    It was time for another ice age, anyway.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Probably

      • R.J.

        NPR will find a way to blame volcanos on people who drive SUV’s.

      • SDF-7

        “Fracking eased pressure (or lubricated via groundwater injection) on key faults, shifting the tectonic pressures by the Ring of Fire, causing the increased volcanic activity (according to our model!)”

      • Gadianton

        Shh. Make them write their own copy.

      • R.J.

        No joke. At least get paid for that.

    • Compelled Speechless

      I’m pretty sure that Klaus Schwab told President Tim Robbins that he would blow up the earth’s core and make all the volcanos erupt if we didn’t pay him $100 billion. Say what you will about the guy, but he’s great at follow through.

    • Drake

      That’s how many years worth of CO2 from every car in the world? The climate changers will need to get us back to the Middle Ages faster now.

    • Penguin

      You’d kick her out of bed for eating crackers, T? I wouldn’t. Spank her, maybe, but that’s it.

      Well, maybe not it entirely…

  11. DEG

    A little humor for today

    Finally, the male’s hard work has paid off–the female UPS truck, choosy as she is, has accepted his courtship display.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      As sick as this shit is, I am not shocked. Government bureaucrats don’t care about the kids. They care about their sinecures.

  12. Scruffy Nerfherder

    Help us Obi-John Durham-bi, you’re our only hope.

    “Yeah, no thanks.”

  13. Rat on a train

    So I’ll just go ahead and post a bit of the casual racism that nearly always accompanies the World Cup
    The Mexican volleyball players are better.

  14. Rebel Scum

    Nothing to see here. Move along.

    Poll Worker explains how his ENTIRE polling location was inoperable when they opened on Election Day.

    This is getting very, very bad for Maricopa County. Very bad. Like, unbelievably bad.

    • R C Dean

      And nothing else will happen. The Democrat winners of the close elections will be sworn in, the MAGA losers will be sent home in shame (probably after being warned that they don’t want to be J6ed as election deniers, do they?).

      • R C Dean

        Oh, and any official who declines to certify the election will be arrested and jailed on felony charges. Yay, America.

      • Rebel Scum

        I still don’t understand what the charges would be. They are elected representatives and they get to vote on the matter. If the vote must be “aye” then there is not really a vote.

      • R C Dean

        The charge, like so many, will be “Failure to Obey”.

      • DEG

        Basically, based on my reading of the Arizona statutes.

        16-1010 provides for the penalty of a Class 6 Felony (however Arizona defines that) for the county board.

        There’s a lot of stuff in Title 16, Arizona’s elections law, and it appears at times poorly written. I’m not a lawyer and I haven’t gone through all of them, but it looks to me like the procedure for contesting an election is AFTER the canvass is done (16-673), any elector has five days to file a challenge. There are provisions for what to do if a canvass is delayed, but it looks to me like the canvass needs to be finished at some point. It doesn’t look to me like the county board has the ability to contest an election by refusing to certify/canvass county results.

      • Drake

        Eliminating every peaceful recourse is the plan. What comes next is coming.

      • R C Dean

        *checks Black Friday sales on ammo, is pleasantly surprised*

      • Rebel Scum

        Which is why they seek to eliminate the final of the four boxes of life as well.

    • SDF-7

      The comments… ugh.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Strange how these people expected to be able to vote on election day.

      • Compelled Speechless

        Everyone but the tax cattle needs to have a say in our “democracy.”

    • The Other Kevin

      The person in charge of overseeing that election just got herself promoted to Governor.

    • Tonio

      He was gonged offstage before he could finish so there may have been yet more problems he didn’t have time to ennumerate. They don’t want to know. And the possible discrepancy between “machines that don’t connect to the internet” and “machines that wouldn’t connect to the internet.” The voters of Maricopa deserve a better accounting of this.

      Looks like he was reading prepared notes. I’d love to see him publish those.

      Do not read the comments.

      • Count Potato

        People here have claimed voting machines do not connect to the internet.

      • R C Dean

        “Why is this voting machine asking me for my banking information?”

    • mexican sharpshooter

      The only thing I can see having any direct change to the outcome is if there is any validity to the claims they mixed uncounted ballots with counted ballots. Which probably would come up in the required recounts of a few statewide races.

      If this were truly the best timeline they would be forced to revote with UN observers present for maximum embarrassment.

  15. R C Dean

    The informal sale of everything from eggs to car parts – the country’s so-called black market

    Black markets sound icky. Icky things don’t happen in communist countries.

    • Jarflax

      Icky things cannot exist if you cleanse your society by purging the bad people. Purging purifies and energizes the populace.

    • R.J.

      Calling them black markets is now racist. Hence the new term.

      Continuing with the color commentary,
      I watched an awesome kung fu film yesterday that had a villain named “Black Claw.” I was terribly disappointed that there was not a good guy named “White Claw.”

      • Tonio

        Don’t you mean a good gal? Because WC is a total white girl drink. Volvo driving soccer moms.

      • R.J.

        True. I have yet to finish so hope springs eternal. Maybe White Claw comes to save the day!

      • R.J.

        Would she show up, stop the battle and demand to speak to the manager?

      • Spudalicious

        I know dudes who drink White Claw. They disgust me.

      • Michael Malaise

        I have drank a White Claw, but the only real seltzer I like is Topo Chico. Hard Mountain Dew is surprisingly good and zero sugar.

      • Pine_Tree

        What if you capitalize it (Black markets)? Does that make it OK? Or worse? I can’t tell.

      • R.J.

        Anytime you involve capitalism you make it worse, comrade. Just ask any college professor.

  16. Penguin

    Álvarez, who is widely considered one of the best pound-for-pound boxers ever after winning world championships in four weight classes

    The dude fought 3 weight classes up from his own? Wow. I wouldn’t be calling him any names anytime soon.

    Meanwhile, here’s Capricho Aribe by my latest obsession, Poala Hermison.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Yes, but boxing these days draws from a rather shallow talent pool.

  17. SDF-7

    That’s probably #5000 or so in the “Things I don’t understand about other people” category.

    It wouldn’t matter if I looked like Chris freaking Evans (and sorry for our mythical contingent… I really, really don’t and never have) — I wouldn’t be posting pictures of myself in my underwear. I wouldn’t take candid photographs (could be on holiday… know what I mean, nudge nudge say no more!) even for my wife.

    Taking shots like that and putting them up for the world to see? Utterly inconceivable.

    No real point — just always puzzles me that people (especially young women) do it.

    Ok… I get the drunk ones — but I would hope they’d rethink it when they sober up. And since I don’t drink, I still wouldn’t do it.

  18. Rebel Scum

    Tbf the average, self-described liberal is not actually liberal.

    Stephen Colbert: “The word on the street is that you guys aren’t allowed to be liberal anymore.”

    CNN’s Don Lemon: “I don’t think we ever were liberal…We are doing what we do, and that’s good journalism.”

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Those two are dumb enough to believe their own bullshit.

      • juris imprudent

        Dumb enough to eat each other’s bullshit.

    • Compelled Speechless

      If journalism means “reading copy written by the higher ups in the political party we’re in bed with verbatim” then yes, he does great journalism.

  19. Rebel Scum

    Mitch, you dishonest cunte.

    MCCONNELL: “There is no room in the Republican Party for anti-Semitism or white supremacy. And anyone meeting with people advocating that point of view — in my judgment — are highly unlikely to ever be elected President of the United States.”

    • Rat on a train

      It’s not like he held hands with his Klansman friend.

    • SDF-7

      But enough about Biden and Senator Robert Byrd back in the day and all…

    • The Other Kevin

      I think Trump’s got a few own goals lately. The first was announcing his run during the election, and the second was this Kanye thing.

      • Count Potato

        I still believe Trump didn’t know some guy he didn’t know showing up with a black guy was racist.

      • Michael Malaise

        Yeah, people forget Trump is old, and doesn’t really operate in those circles.

    • Jarflax

      I don’t really know who Nick Fuentes is, but since every google result for his name comes back “white supremacist Nick Fuentes” and all seem to reference the ADL, I am completely certain that I still have no evidence that he is a white supremacist. Is he? Or is he a white supremacist in the ADL and SPLC use of the term, meaning not a BLM supporter?

      • grrizzly

        I have no idea what white supremacy is. Even if it is something real, I honestly don’t care.

      • juris imprudent

        Well, white supremacy used to mean something, but that was a long time ago. When hispanics and eye-talians are white, and so are the Japanese to explain away their common racial beliefs – well, white just doesn’t mean much.

        As far as white nationalist, that mostly means America for Americans, and assimilation for those who immigrate here. You can see how horrifying that is.

      • Semi-Spartan Dad

        The WSJ editorial board, in their daily OMB op-ed, gleefully grouped Nick Fuentes in with the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers as white nationalists. That pretty much cleared it up for me.

      • MikeS

        Uffda. Here’s the money paragraph:

        But worse is that Mr. Trump hasn’t admitted his mistake in hosting the men or distanced himself from the odious views of Mr. Fuentes. Instead Mr. Trump portrays himself as an innocent who was taken advantage of by Mr. West. This is also all-too-typical of Mr. Trump’s behavior as President. He usually ducked responsibility and never did manage to denounce the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, or others who have resorted to divisive racial politics, or even violence as on Jan. 6, 2021.

    • Sean

      bwahahahahahaha!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      For the Italian market they’ll change the name of the VW Polo to the VW Culo.

    • SDF-7

      Where’s Doug Llewelyn when you need him for a special commercial…

      “When your old car breaks down, don’t take your spouse to just any old car lot.

      You take them to cunte — the People’s Cunte.”

    • Nephilium

      Pen Island waves from the old days of the internet.

    • The Other Kevin

      First comment: “No we don’t. The American people want everyone in DC fired.” Well said.

      Of course the narrative now is, “Let’s put aside all the political witch hunts we did. It would be divisive for you to do the same to us. Let’s work TOGETHER!”

    • SDF-7

      Yeah, I think I can definitely say (and expect a majority if not practically an entirety of their voters to say) that not only do I not want them to work with the jackasses — I explicitly want them to roll back what they can from the last two years.

      That’s also what I wanted after the Affordable Care (pass it to find out what’s in it!) Act, so yes… I’m already used to disappointment.

  20. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    How dare El Salvador try to influence our elections. We would never do such a thing to them.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    If journalism means “reading copy written by the higher ups in the political party we’re in bed with verbatim” then yes, he does great journalism.

    White House DNC steno pool.

  22. KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

    In spite of myself, I miss you all after last week’s excesses.

    • Shpip

      We’re just glad that you’re feeling better. Hopefully, your, um, issues are behind you.

      • Mojeaux

        She came out all right in the end.

      • Tundra

        Gotta go with the flow.

      • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

        I’m back on solid ground

      • DEG

        🙂

  23. The Late P Brooks

    We elected him king, goddammit

    While the leadership of the unions were unhappy with Biden, some of the rank-and-file members were far more angry.

    “Joe Biden blew it. He had the opportunity to prove his labor-friendly pedigree to millions of workers by simply asking Congress for legislation to end the threat of a national strike on terms more favorable to workers,” said Hugh Sawyer, treasurer of the Railroad Workers United, a caucus of union activists that had been campaigned against ratification of the tentative labor deals. “Sadly, he could not bring himself to advocate for a lousy handful of sick days. The Democrats and Republicans are both pawns of big business and the corporations.”

    Come on, Joe.The workers of the world need you.

    • The Other Kevin

      Biden really is deteriorating. I expected him to come up with some bullshit story about his days as a railroad worker by now.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Hunter has probably been involved with a train at some point.

  24. The Late P Brooks

    …the tentative deals that were rejected by rank-and-file members of the unions were good deals for the workers, even in the face of those concerns. They include 24% wage increases over the four-year life of the deals, the biggest pay increases won by the unions in more than 50 years. Biden pointed out that union leadership had agreed to the tentative deals in September when they were negotiated and called them good deals for the rank-and-file members.

    Joe Biden, inflation fighter.

    Whip Inflation Now!

  25. The Late P Brooks

    Assume a locker room

    The broader issue is that sexism, misogyny, discrimination, marginalization, and sexual violence within the profession do not just affect the profession. “This is inside economics,” Stevenson said. “But this is also why economists are doing a shittier job with the economy than they should.”

    Relatively few women enter economics—and in particular very, very few Black women, according to the AEA. When female students do enter, they tend to not have their contributions acknowledged. They get talked over in the classroom. They get objectified in professional fora. They have to avoid professional events to avoid getting harassed. They are subject to high rates of abuse, in many cases from men who could make or break their careers by recommending them for jobs, refereeing their papers for journals, and helping them work on papers.

    It grinds many of them down. “So many of the men in economics have a hard time seeing people as human,” Stevenson said. “They don’t really understand the cost of sexual harassment. They don’t understand the way it can sap your motivation. They don’t understand the way that can make you doubt your own abilities, question yourself. The derailment makes no sense to them. They think, Some guy put his hand up your skirt at a conference? Just get on with it. I think they really don’t understand the way that changes how women interact with lots of men in the profession after that.”

    Sexism and racism are rife in the halls of academia? Say it ain’t so.

  26. The Late P Brooks

    The new Ph.D. told me she had offers from both the government and academic institutions upon graduation. She took a government job. “I didn’t want to stay in academia. I think it’s a cesspool.”

    Huh.

    • rhywun

      LOL. Maybe she’ll try Hollywood after she learns what the government is like.

  27. Count Potato

    Today, in heavy metal

    “Toxic metal found in baby bottles: 24,000 sippy cups sold nationwide are recalled because they pose a lead-poisoning risk to toddlers”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11481507/Thousands-sippy-cups-sold-nationwide-recalled.html

    “Doctors sound alarm over toxic metals lurking in beauty creams as Minnesota mom goes partially BLIND from using skin-lightening products containing mercury”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11482251/Doctors-sound-alarm-mercury-lurking-beauty-creams-Minnesota-mom-goes-partially-BLIND.html

  28. Michael Malaise

    SPOILER ALERT:

    I do enjoy The White Lotus but not sure why Mike White keeps going back to the illicit gay sex well for plot points.

    I mean, it’s the second season — can’t there be something else to surprise/shock the audience with?

    • Urthona

      I know what would shock me a lot. Alexandria Ddario’s boobs.

      need some of that.

      • Michael Malaise

        Yeah, there’s just flat-chested broads in this show (outside of Jennifer Coolidge)

      • Urthona

        hmm not sure I’m into watch season two now

      • slumbrew

        They were an unexpected highlight of True Detective S1

  29. Penguin

    Is it just me, or is this woman slipping out of her dress? Specifically, her left (to her side) nipple. Not complaining, just wondering. She is a good guitarist.

    • Penguin

      Oops. Her right side.

    • R.J.

      It’s those tube tops. Strapless tops now, I suppose. I remember a girl popped out of a tube top in high school once. Good times.

    • Michael Malaise

      I don’t think so. I think it’s a bit of an illusion. I don’t really see much of an areola. I think it’s just the reflection of the guitar side on her skin, which might be puckering (creating the nipple effect) when it makes contact with the guitar.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        This is the kind of analysis I come here for.

    • KK the Porcine Pearl-Eater

      This is like that scene in Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

  30. Ozymandias

    A bit of a drive-by, but wanted to say thanks to Richard for a fascinating article on colors – and the Commentariat came through as well. (I knew/know nothing about that. Product of a misspent youth).

    On more apocalyptic news, I got this in my email on plummeting birth rates in Europe that just happen to match up with the jab rollouts.

    Total (once in a hundred year) Coincidence.

    • Urthona

      suck up

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Everything’s a coincidence these days.

  31. Not Adahn

    A little bit personal for me.

    That happened to me this week. I opened up the latest issue of USPSA magazine, and there was a two-page obituary of I guy I just worked nationals with. Apparently he died two days after I last saw him.

    • Urthona

      Very suspicious.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Confirmed. Not Adahn is a Russian assassin.

      • Not Adahn

        Nyet!

        More seriously though, while he was very obviously obese and older, he didn’t seem “die in the next couple of days” unhealthy.

        He and his wife were odd (but very pleasant and friendly). They’ve been involved in the sport since its founding and pretty much made working it their full-time hobby after retirement.

  32. juris imprudent

    Speaking of OathKeepers. Rhodes found guilty of seditious conspiracy. I’ll be interested to see how that goes on appeal.

    • Urthona

      So fucking dumb.

      • juris imprudent

        DC jury.

  33. The Late P Brooks

    Elon Musk, mass murderer

    Twitter will no longer stop users from spreading false information about the Covid-19 virus or vaccines, according to an update on its content moderation policies.

    It’s another major shift under new owner Elon Musk, who has pressed for “free speech” above all else on the platform. Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation page was updated with a note saying that as of Nov. 23, the platform would no longer enforce its policies against spreading misleading information on the virus and vaccines — which had led to more than 11,000 account suspensions since 2020.

    ——-

    On Capitol Hill, Democrats blasted the decision. “The misinformation is beyond dangerous, it’s potentially deadly to a lot of people who may be unable to see through a lot of the misinformation that’s out there,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) told reporters Tuesday.

    And medical professionals likewise said the move could harm people. “Nowhere near enough was being done to stamp out medical misinformation on social media previously; but this step, along with re-platforming voices who wish to sow confusion and increase mistrust in medicine, will do more harm,” said Jack Resneck Jr., the president of the American Medical Association, in a statement. He also urged patients to seek out accurate medical information, including from their own physician.

    ——-

    This could mean the 11,230 accounts suspended since Twitter’s Covid-19 misinformation policy went into effect in early 2020 may soon be or are in the process of being reinstated. One of the biggest repeat offenders was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), whose personal account was reinstated last week after being suspended for repeatedly breaking Twitter’s policy against spreading false Covid-19 information.

    Jenna Sherman, a program manager at health information research nonprofit Meedan, said she worries other social media platforms follow suit and reduce their Covid-19 misinformation enforcement as well.

    Bring out your dead!

    • R.J.

      “You keep saying misinformation. I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

    • rhywun

      she worries other social media platforms follow suit

      LOL not unless Elon is planning to purchase them, too.

      Fear not, Democrats, you still have complete control of almost every other institution and platform in existence.

      • juris imprudent

        MUST. HAVE. ABSOLUTE. CONTROL.

    • Count Potato

      “a lot of the misinformation that’s out there,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.)”

      Like you being a war hero?

      • juris imprudent

        Like him being a decent human being?

  34. The Late P Brooks


    “You keep saying misinformation. I do not think that word means what you think it means.”

    They just transcribe the press releases. No questions asked.

    • Not Adahn

      You know who else questions official FedGov press releases? Putin, that’s who.

    • juris imprudent

      “Look, over there! What on earth could that be!”

      • MikeS

        Yaaas! Nice.

      • Ted S.

        If you had good taste in music, you would have linked to this instead.

      • MikeS

        Ted’S version of Good Taste

        Skip to the end to watch a bunch of posers do a shotgun. Good grief. Fucking douchebags like that are why Busch got so damn expensive and I now I have to drink Keystone.

  35. Count Potato

    “Thai Buddhist temple emptied after all the monks test positive for meth

    It’s a bad abbot.

    Four Buddhist monks in Thailand have been shipped off to rehab after they all tested positive for meth…

    They were also immediately booted from the monkhood in the wake of their positive tests — leaving their tiny temple without any religious leaders…

    Still, the positive meth tests is just the latest instance of Thai monks behaving badly.

    A drug-addled monk named Phra Annipalo, 34, was arrested earlier this month in northern Thailand after allegedly carjacking two vehicles and leading cops on a frantic chase.”

    https://nypost.com/2022/11/29/thai-monks-in-rehab-after-testing-positive-for-meth/

    • juris imprudent

      Thai monks in rehab was an absolutely brilliant album!

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Were they actual full time monks or were they there temporarily like Mormons on a mission. I ask because I worked with a Hmong guy who said they all had to spend some time as a monk. He was a nice enough guy, but certainly no saint.

  36. Count Potato

    “Twitter policy in 2015, before media/activists lobbied for the company to become a giant online daycare center: No direct threats of violence. Beyond that, Twitter doesn’t mediate disputes between users, or remove “offensive” content. If you feel a law was broken, contact police

    It’s not like Twitter was run by a bunch of conservative Republicans in 2015. It was still generically liberal. But this was pre-2016 election, when everything really went haywire. Today these generic liberal policies would get castigated as “far right” or “extremist””

    https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1597397330051096576

    Same goes for FB and YouTube.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      I didn’t leave Twitter, Twitter left me ( is what I’d say if I was ever there which I wasn’t).

      • rhywun

        +1 Ronald Reagan

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      As John Ziegler likes to point out, media isn’t reporting, it’s therapy for cult followers.

      Say the wrong thing and your cult abandons you.