I guess it looks stylish enough?
“Jackman Really Was Done With Wolverine Until Deadpool 3”
“Americanism isn’t a matter of where you live or which government rules over you.”
“It’s time to stop using your finger on smartphones and tablets like a mere peasant.”
Something a little lighthearted and fun to help you get into the weekend.
Americanism is spending money to intervene in foreign affairs instead of domestic.
Hi Riven!
Surviving winter?
“It’s time to stop using your finger on smartphones and tablets like a mere peasant.”
God. Flashbacks to early in my career when every business douchebag had a Mont Blanc or a fountain pen. The fucking Gordon Gekko starter set.
Nope. Cheap-ass pens and styli for me, thanks.
Skilcraft government standard
We had an E-5 in the motorpool that liked to brag about all the counseling reports he’d written. The original “Ive got a phone and a pen” guy, he would pull out his skillcraft and say “workhorse of the army, homey”
Dude was philipino .
“It’s time to stop using your finger on smartphones and tablets like a mere peasant.”
I’m reminded of the greek demigod, Penisaphone?
Anthony Weiner’s brand?
Hey that and a trusty skillcraft ledger book, the sky was the limit!
*slowly closes drawer on still not empty box of Skilcraft pens*
I always carried a black pen, a pocket memoranda book, and a deck of cards.
*slides chrome rollerball pen out of Tundra’s sight*
Lol.
I’d be happy to loan you a Zebra from the 40 pack I got at Costco!
I like Zebras. Not sure I’d need 40.
I’ve got a Waterman fountain pen somewhere, no way is my handwriting good enough to use it regularly.
Forty pack is too much. I usually move on to a new one before going through a dozen box. Current favorite is a Zebra Sarasa Clip in 0.7mm
I use those utility pens with the ruler and screwdriver. Because I am a nerd.
In grade school we had holes in our desks for an ink well. My memory is a little hazy but I think we had to bring a pen of some sort to school, the teacher filled our ink wells from a gallon jug, about 4th grade, we’d learned to right cursive in 3rd grade. I got a ballpoint (with my 50 cent allowance, pen was a buck) about 6th grade. Damned thing skipped, blotched, it was really a piece of junk, circa 1948 but cutting edge. It was several more years before ballpoints were refined and reasonably reliable.
write, didn’t learn to spell for awhile, though
Did you dip the girls’ pigtails in the inkwell?
And get the dunce cap?
There was a stool in the corner, facing the wall. A couple of boys did a little time out time.
Little Doris Pearson was a cutie, wore little tailored suits. Her mother must have been a professional seamstress or she lived on the right side of the tracks. No pigtails
#metoo. Were you taught Palmer Method penmanship?
I can’t remember but being left handed I had a wonderful teacher that taught 1 in 7 kids how write without any problems. She didn’t accept being a southpaw as an excuse.
My mother, who is a little younger than you, is also a southpaw with beautiful penmanship, although she holds the paper almost at a 90& angle.
I, on the other hand, have dysgraphia, and it looks like two cats trying to lay an egg.
Pilot V5 rollerballs or GTFO.
Hear hear! Best pens I’ve ever used.
THIS.
Although I’ve had an Aen Art 0.7 black around that is definitely a winner.
My dad used to always use the Pilot V5 Precise. I love ’em, but I use a pen so infrequently that they tend to dry up.
I have a “vomit book,” which is my journal/planner/commonplace book. (Wish I could figure out how to index it.) I write every day and sometimes pages and pages. It’s wildly color-coded (base color blue, to-do orange, dun-did green, XX teal, XY red, advice and observations black, affirmations and quotes pink, randoms lime). I also write letters. You know, with envelopes and stamps.
Unless the stylus comes with my thumbprint built-in to the tip, I still need to touch my phone with a finger.
Well you don’t ‘need’ to, just you don’t want to lose that functionality and security.
I do if I want to connect to stuff at work. Hm….
*taps nose* I see a nice ADA or ULP suit in your future!
I’ve been carrying a Parker Jotter with a 0.5mm Ohto Flash Dry refill lately. I mostly enjoy it for the ability to look down on people who take notes on their iPads.
You know it! It isn’t even that cold out right now. We had a couple few days where it was super cold–very much below zero without even factoring windchill–but it’s been downright blissful ever since.
I’m particular about my pens, but it’s more about it needing to be black and ink (not gel) than about it being fAnCy.
We are all Anne in this thread
Meh. I get these. Then I don’t have to give a shit if I lose them.
Crap. Click on “these” if you want to see my cheap pens. Don’t know how that hap-pened. Hardy har har.
These days I have more pens than I know what to do with. I’ll splurge on the Pilots.
You can still get the cheap ones for $.30 a piece. You wanna pay more, enjoy. I’m not gonna bust your ass for it. You have the cash, get what you want.
One pen lasts me like two years. I can’t remember the last time I used one for anything other than filling out my rent check every month.
I write stuff down from time to time. But yeah, it’s not a common thing for me. Like I said previously, write with what you want. It’s an infinitesimal part of your wages, even if the things cost $20, you’ll get plenty of rent checks out there before they run dry. I don’t view your decision as irrational.
Alison Brie has really leaned out too much.
Got any pics?
She looks like.some kind of camp survivor.
Look, if the legislative branch can delegate power because it doesn’t want to make decisions, so can the executive.
“Grapes of Wrath” started out well and ended with the government run collective, as I remember it
One for all, all for one
H. L. Mencken’s review of “Grapes of Wrath” was titled “Disaster in Moronia”.
I recall a story years back, when touchscreens were first coming out about people in colder climates were using sausages so they could keep wearing gloves.
Wolves and bears live in cold climes. Not a good idea.
I’ve tried a bunch of the gloves that are supposed to work with touchscreens. So far I’m batting zero. Maybe sausage is the answer.
I’m assuming UCS will have sausage handling gloves.
Go on
lol
I wish I’d thought of that, drat you.
You mean…
Use your sausage on the screen?
mushroom stamp here to continue…
I’ve got one pair that will work with touchscreens, the problem is that they’re knit. So they work with the touchscreen, but don’t really do shit to keep your hands warm.
The work gloves with the neoprene palms and stretch fabric on top work with touch screens. They don’t keep your hands super warm but better than nothing or sausages.
Reading that affidavit for the Idaho murders. DNA is their only link, everything else is very circumstantial.
Anyone who’s had a genealogy test has really limited their career options. Serial killer, spree killer, and mafia contract killer are out of the question.
The perp used a ghost knife, no serial number but leaving the sheath was Amateur Hour
*slow clap*
Wasn’t even DNA database. Matched between trash recovered from the PA home and the ID scene.
And dad’s DNA, not his. At least some comfort they obtained it the old fashioned way, at least what they are saying.
Any more you have to consider it could be parallel construction.
A pile of circumstantial evidence is usually enough to remove “reasonable doubt.”
I wonder how true the reports of the FBI requesting local smokies in Indiana to pull him over are. I know they denied they did. If so, more fodder for the defense if comes to be true.
That’s just the arrest warrant affidavit. There may be more that they have not yet disclosed and they can still be discovering further evidence.
True…
DNA on the knife sheath left at the murder scene isn’t solid enough to proceed with charges? I guess he could be set up for the fall or lost/pawned his knife. The former seems unlikely though given it’s the actual murder weapon (close enough) and not some random item.
The latter is a tough one. A few months ago, a guy who does some farm work for me mentioned liking my all purpose knives and asked for a couple next time I ordered more. I almost gave him one but then figured who the hell knows where it’ll end up. And that’ll be a direct link back to me.
I believe this is open to all, not just subscribers – handy summary & glossary.
Thanks!
First Friday of the year, some things will continue. I’ll kick off the Zoom/Happy Hour/Discussion room at 20:00 Eastern tonight.
Freedom?
The Federal Trade Commission is proposing a new rule that would prevent employers from imposing noncompete clauses for workers. These types of arrangements, long criticized by progressives and some free-market proponents, typically keep a workers from joining a competitor for some period of time after they leave the company.
President Biden praised the proposed rule, calling it “a huge step forward.” The FTC’s move follows an executive order he signed in 2021 targeting anticompetitive practices in technology, health care and other parts of the economy. The order included a call for banning or limiting noncompete agreements to help boost wages.
“The freedom to change jobs is core to economic liberty and to a competitive, thriving economy,” FTC Chair Lina Khan said in a statement. “Noncompetes block workers from freely switching jobs, depriving them of higher wages and better working conditions, and depriving businesses of a talent pool that they need to build and expand.”
The proposed rule would make it illegal for an employer to enter into or attempt to enter into a noncompete with a worker, or to represent to a worker, under certain circumstances, that they are subject to a noncompete. The rule also invalidates existing noncompete agreements.,/strong>
I’m not sure how voiding existing contracts works.
Other than people with specific high value proprietary information, I don’t see the point of noncompetes, other than pure dickery.
PetCo tried to pull that with my wife when she left them as a dog groomer. They tried to claim she wasn’t allowed to work at another shop within X miles. She was all stressed cause she wanted to quit them, but was freaked out that she would have to work far away. I told her “let them try and come after you for that”.
The only non-compete I’ve ever seen that I think would hold up was one that said if I couldn’t get a job due to the non-compete, the company had the option to either continue to pay may previous salary, or void the non-compete.
I had to sign a non-compete at one point to get a promotion. A few years later as a bunch of us were getting laid-off I asked if it still applied for a year. The HR guy said “yes” while signaling that they wouldn’t really enforce it. All the other managers in the same boat had no recollection of signing the thing years earlier – but HR assured them that they had.
They’re notoriously hard to enforce – but the process is the punishment. I know one guy who got taken to court for breaching his non-compete, took years and $$$ until he “won”.
Yes. A consulting firm I worked for went after a former principal when he left to work with a competitor. One of the VPs knew the game and said “Ill spend money just to make Dave spend money. I know I have more.”
At the 2nd or so hearing, persecuted former employee smartly said “look, if you keep pursuing this Ill just file bankruptcy and you wont see a dime.”
I’m torn on this one.
In Libertopia, non-competes are fair game for any job. Don’t want the non-compete, then don’t take the job. But, in Libertopia, the former employer would have to prove actual damages sustained from former employees breaking the non-competes. And none of the bullshit of a corporate lawyer being able to punt the case out of small claims to a venue where the typical person is helpless without paying for their own expense legal help.
But we don’t live in Libertopia and companies work hand in glove with the government to prevent free-market competition. And the courts are no place for the average person without a legal team.
Having seen my wife go through a federal lawsuit in which her adversary had a really shitty lawyer, while her team was highly skilled, I will absolutely agree.
Even lawyers who’ve been around 20 years can really suck. Court is definitely not a place for the untrained.
In certain industries employees have been deliberately sent to competitors to learn all they can about, say new products or marketing plans. After a couple months, they quit or get fired and just happen to luckily get rehired by their former employer.
I signed a non compete a couple years before I retired. I had a good boss that made promises that extended into my retirement, they fulfilled every one.
Assuming you were already employed there, I hope you got some compensation when you signed. Our company lawyer said unless the new employee signed the non-compete upon hiring, any non-compete signed later would require some payment – say one time 5% of annual comp – or state law would find the non-compete was null and void. Coercion was assumed if existing employees were asked to sign (except – and there are always exceptions- if you got a substantial promotion that now justified a non-compete agreement.)
Well, fine.
noncompete link, I hope.
First one was the noncomplete link?
It was the incomplete noncompete.
The FTC estimates that the new rule could boost wages by nearly $300 billion a year and expand career opportunities for about 30 million Americans.
Good thing we passed that inflation reduction act.
3 is the magic number. Just add zeros on the end and say that it will do something apparently.
https://youtu.be/OfuMR6Z7KzA
I may love you.
Mysteries of the Trinity
Lie within the number 3
Sammy Hagar agrees.
I could use another $300 billion.
First one was the noncomplete link?
Evidently.
Holy crap…. the bee is a 10
https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1611475473825169409?t=ebWCseyx9vyYcMk6G_GR3A&s=19
“Murdered zeroes of people” LOL
Microsoft going with “unconstitutional ”
LOL
How quaint.
As if we do thar anymore…
They can probably pay off enough congresscritters that their argument would have some weight.
Some Iron Sheik to wind up your afternoon
https://mobile.twitter.com/the_ironsheik/status/1611483688705064960
+ Jabroni
Lame duck, late night sessions make the best laws … When the Illinois senate passes it and governor Flintstone signs it (they will) we get
https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/as-illinois-lawmakers-continue-to-discuss-hb5855-heres-what-the-sweeping-assault-weapons-ban-bill-says/3037392/
That page doesn’t get into the details much but included in the “assault weapon” ban is a “large capacity” magazine ban with NO grandfather clause so instant FELONY when bill is signed merely for possession. Class 2 (!) felony if 2 or more are in possession. You know, the same as kiddie porn or some kinds of murder or arson for a couple of plastic boxes with springs in them.
They’re going to let you keep your “assault” weapons if you register them with the state police so that’s nice but no normal mags. Weapons includes rifles, pistols and shotguns BTW, with equally stupid or malevolent rules for each class.
Flight home is a 30-year-old A320. Flight up was an ancient 717. I need to fly routes that have sexier aircraft.
A320 is just a french DC-8
Sick burn!
Tall Cans!🍻
Old and unique is sexy. Flying yet another 737 NG is boring vanilla.
I’m talking 757 rocket ship with first class forward, or a NEO, or a Mad Dog
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/avatar_user_578_1655468219-160×160.jpg
A10 or GTFO.
^^^ This guy gets it. ^^^
Although, as much I I dig on the A-10 (I was gonna right “dig on the ‘hog”, but “phrasing”), if I only got one military flight I’d have to go with one of the fast movers. F/A-18, mebbe.
Well I’ve successfully passed the Friday deadline. Next one isn’t for 3.5 days. Should be pretty easy but I don’t have a front page story/art yet.
About to get stoned, watch Law & Order (w/ Briscoe so it’s legit), and then…fuck if I know. Do my best to NOT work at all the rest of the day.
Time to chill.
+5,000 Shriners commercials
Do you need me to make up some stories?
Comment period for the state to impose tolling on two interstates ends today. Gave up halfway through. It’s pointless anyways. The state will do it anyways and using the comments or lack of comments as part of the justification. Any opposition comments will either be handwaved away as either why they’re wrong or they’re irrelevant.
I hope when Bob Poole gets to hell, he has to pay a user fee for his own roasting.
My experience with “public comments” goes something like this:
Government guy: “… and this concludes our presentation. Any questions? Yes, you in the back?”
You in the back: “This looks pretty expensive/unworkable/whatever. Have you considered any alternatives?”
GG: “No. Any more questions?”
All the negative comments must be from non-residents.
Is there something about user fees that you object to?
User fees on an interstate paid for with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars is like paying rent on a house after you’ve already bought it.
Suppose the fees were only for continued maintenance of said highway?
I could see a case for it, but I’d want to see the gas tax repealed as a condition.
Not even with that. Gas tax to be replaced with mileage based tax built on location monitoring. But we won’t use it (initially) for surveillance. We pinky swear.
Sounds pretty objectionable to me.
Item #1 is for public transportation and converting car lanes into bike lanes that no one will use.
Fraud, waste and abuse – all rolled up into one neat little package.
Hey, we need to increase funding for IG positions to cover it up!
The tolls won’t be flat. If you’re low income (or another designated group, the state legislature is already providing race based handouts), you’ll get reduced or free tolls.
It won’t really cut down on congestion and will push traffic onto non tolled routes that can’t handle the load.
It won’t fund infrastructure improvements for roadways because those are lowest priority. It’ll go to alternatives and outright waste and to the state bureaucracy, which is why they’re running out of money in the first place. (Actually they aren’t. They have more than ever and it will never be enough).
Basically it will do nothing as claimed and is the nose under the tent to get tolling added so it can be pushed onto more roads.
Who are you, so wise in the ways of this bullshit?
Yes it does. I’ve known Poole for 50+ years and don’t recall him arguing that was acceptable either. Like our Founding Fathers, he cannot be held responsible for the corruption of his ideas.
Well, when it comes to govt, the question that should always be asked is how can this be abused. Then you can decide if the risk of abuse is worth the potential benefit that might accrue. In an honest debate, risk is going to win more often than not.
Except that Poole was still pushing his dipshit surface transportation “innovations” long after it was clear to anyone with half a brain as to what the likely outcome would be.
Because they’re tax increases in (not very much) disguise.
The FDA’s budgetary capture by pharma is user fees in action, for another.
I’m going to bed. Some of us work all night- notify Rufus
In bed?
get paid doing what you enjoy
Love the Todd Rundgren song. YouTube served me up a Shocking Blue song as a postfacto, so I was plenty happy with that.
Rundgren is really underrated.
Also, raised Liv Tyler for ubermensch Steven Tyler.
Friday Funbags!
https://archive.ph/EUOYN
“As a young girl growing up deprived in Soviet Russia, Rand fell in love with America through its movies. America’s individualist values and heroic achievements contrasted starkly with the collectivist values that dominated Russia”
Imagine if she was still alive today and realized that we are now them!
BuT SHe uSEd MEdiCaRe!!!!
Wonder if she would be pro-Trump or anti-Trump?
Anti without a doubt. Trade, immigration, and pandering to the religious right would have been her reasons. The latter likely resulting in her most vituperative vitriol. For as much as she ostensibly hated Marxism, the woman internalized its hated of religion and non-materialist philosophy more than Marx and Engels themselves.
Well, given that Marxism is so damn quasi-religious, I think that hatred is reasonably aligned.
Plus, he tried to avoid war and Ayn is pro-forever war.
Of course a true Objectivist is probably down for some pussy grabbing as a prelude to the rough sex that true objectivists know is the only acceptable way to have sex.
What Pat said. From what I can tell Objectivism embraces materialism on the same level as Hegel or Marx, it just rejects the egalitarianism wholesale. If I had more time and was more smarter I’d love to write an article on said topic. Alas I’d need to do plenty more research than I’m equipped to do at the moment
She did support “wage and price controls” Nixon.
What’s wild is that nearly all movies still follow the libertarianesque/individualistic storylines, despite the political leanings of most of the makers.
Hmmm…..
I must challenge this soon.
Like the hero of a Stephen King novel who carries a gun to defend his family. I know his politics; I’ve noticed that trend too.
Or Ron Swanson… or Firefly… or…
Even most of the feel power shit is still the individual vs the machine.
tHaT’s DiFfErEnT
“Microsoft Called FTC Unconstitutional, Regrets The Error”
Aww, Bildo, you know you’re not like other guys, you’re nervous and your socks are too loose.
You know, Elon, if you’d like to hire me, I got more of those you can use against your nemesis, Bildo.
“The PS5 shortage is over, says PlayStation boss”
Brandon says ‘Here Sony, hold my beer’
Hey Everyone, Finished up my 3-day fast as recommended by AB Vigano for Jan 6 Detainees. 76 hrs. I haven’t fasted that long in quite some time, at times it sucked other times not too bad. Lost 6.1 pounds. Prior to breakfast, completed 5 mile hike, which turned into a delirious march complete with back spasms. Not sure if the delirium or spasms were because of your spirited Glib deep thoughts but I like to think you added to the delirium.
Get lean; stay lean.
Back in high school I did one of those 30 Hour Famine events through my church to raise money for world hunger, and that’s the last time I’ve fasted or had any desire to do so. Good on ya.
Thanks! I can appreciate that sentiment on fasting. I intermittent fast as a routine so extending a fast is not such a big deal. I find that 40hrs is ideal as a reset for myself since I tend to indulge, especially during holidays. I extended past my ideal because I wanted to fast into Jan 6 as a penitence for indulgence, bring light and remember those incarcerated for illegitimated reasons by the brag of saying I am fasting for them, if anyone cares to ask.
What is being done to those people is truly scary to me since I know what it like to be in jail when I was younger. Interesting to me is that when I discuss incarceration is the number of people that don’t appreciate “custodial power” because they never even served detention in school…
Holy Moly nice work. I made my best intermittent of the week today at 18 hrs. You are an inspiration. And ya, anyone who does not realize the USA is a third world shithole after the whole Jan 6 handling and unlawful detention of people is delusional.
A late breaking news item: Generalissimo Kevin McCarthy is still not the speaker of the house
They must be fasting too.
If they cave, he’ll betray every promise he made to get their vites, then fund primary challenges to all of them.
He’ll do that anyways. What are the feasible outcomes? No speaker for two years? It’s only a matter of time.
Correct. He is a dirty WEP shill. Ties to WEP and WEP money should be grounds for beings banned forever from government work.
WEP isn’t secure, he should really switch to WPA2.
Hahahahha
Maybe I should stop sipping bourbon and check my spelling.
Don’t talk crazy.
Bourbon is alright, but it’s a boulevardier night. And I’m all about the rye for those.
WAP2? Cardi B for Speaker?
They’ll cave eventually whether for McCarthy or Scalise or any of two hundred other Republican Congressman. People seem really confused about who is on the inside and who is on the out.
fRaGiLe DeMoCrAcY!
The initial filing contained multiple arguments claiming the FTC itself and its court system were unconstitutional. But now Microsoft has yanked that language out of the doc and claimed it was all a mistake.
Fucking A. Microsoft finally does something right and then they reverse it.
Someone saw the writing on the wall. Microsoft was about to get stamped down (again).
Apropos of nothing– Really love this song, by a bunch of Jersey boys
Good one. And in the sidebar…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsK8fHPjav0&list=RDnI_tDv5MBso&index=7
I was saying let me out of here before I was even born
It’s such a gamble when you get a face
Question: in what way does the FTC *not* violate the Constitution?
Burn it all down.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XchwE9zVdnw
In its current configuration it certainly does, although the commerce clause would theoretically allow for federal meddling in interstate trade. So a diminished FTC would probably pass muster.
“Class?”
“FYTW!!!!”
I can’t come up with a single government agency that *doesn’t* violate the Constitution.
“Jackman Really Was Done With Wolverine Until Deadpool 3”
There was a Deadpool 2? How do I not know this?
You didn’t miss much.
The X-Force bit was fantastic, but the rest was indeed a bit meh.
Spare me child actors, though.
The credits were good for some laughs.
Really? I laughed my butt off, Morena Bacarin is hot, story has heart despite goofy joke filled script… Do we just not like comic book films? Or obscene humor?
I mean,it ain’t castaway or The Maltese Falcon, but it is a lot of fun. Unless you don’t like bawdy humor or comic books. Then you are gonna hate it, because that is all there is.
This is why we tolerate you
It was a glitch! It’s rare! We do everything we can to protect personal information!
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2023/01/06/protecting-democracy-jan-6-committee-releases-social-security-numbers-of-trump-officials-n684706
I’m sure the law on PII that you and I are subject to exempts Congress, both elected and civil service.
That and selective reinforcement
They didn’t prosecute people who framed Flynn. They didn’t prosecute Biden for taking bribes. Any federal attorney could have gotten decades of prison time on just what is public.
Nobody at the top pays, as long as they do not screw with the machine.
Love the music link Riven. Thanks!