Hooray!
The Bruins are the fastest ever to 100 points. College basketball is about to enter the fun part of the season. And its a huge weekend in the EPL. Oh, and the F1 season starts this weekend. What a great time to be a sports fan.
What a sick fuck. Oh, he’s a Democrat, by the way. I guess that bit of information would have put the story over some sort of character limit and its omission is merely a coincidence.
I bet she’s just itching to get back to work. It’s a shame she couldn’t have been in DC and checked on The Lump while she was there. Independent confirmation that he’s actually alive would be pretty cool.
Hooray!
Let’s see if this group of bad people can do a good thing for a change. Just one. That’s all we ask.
I’m sure this is all just a big coincidence. And it couldn’t possibly have anything to do with political favors.
I guess the so-called stutter is back. This time it got confused for him laughing at a couple of deaths. But, and she will remind us constantly, his wife and daughter died in a car wreck (that she caused) and his son died of cancer (even though he said in Iraq before). So that makes it normal for him to laugh at the misfortune of others. Or something.
This fucker sounds crazy. Good thing he wasn’t an engineer. Also, he killed 7 people. They charged him with 21 counts of first degree murder. Can somebody explain that to me?
More entertaining than the other Burning Man. Unfortunately this one didn’t involve a bunch of celebrities.
Watch this one get done on budget and on schedule. And continue to laugh at the government one never come close to being finished.
GFY, failures.
I don’t care what it’s about, you grifter. It’s an abject failure and the state owes taxpayers better than the city has delivered. So get the fuck out of the way and take your useless union teachers and worthless admins with you.
Here’s a solid jam. That bass goes on forever, but it works. This one gets off to a faster start. And it also works. Enjoy them both.
And enjoy this lovely weekend, friends!
The clock change is conspiring with work to really hit me hard this time around. I figure I should prepare ahead of time and shift my alarm earlier so that I’ll be getting up at what will be the correct time later, but the whole workweek leading up to the change I have training that shifts my work schedule to start at 10am and run later than is sane. Maybe I can use the mornings to write so I have reason not to just sleep in…
I tried a similar approach. I wish you luck. I do hope they finally overturn the daylight savings time nonsense. My mind keeps telling me they will screw it up, like making daylight savings time go away for people whose birthdays start on 01/01/2000, or only apply it to approved minority groups, etc…
Say that again, brah…
Technically what they’re proposing is making DST permanent. I don’t give a shit either way, just do away with the changeover.
I would rather stick with the current mess.
I am with PAT here, just choose, and be done with the whole thing.
“We’re going to split the difference and move everything by 1/2 hour.”
If I can’t get my perm standard than this is the only acceptable compromise.
4 times per year.
It’s a great compromise!
We don’t change the clocks. Instead we shift schedules an hour twice a year. Compromise!
I have less of a problem with that than pols playing Canute.
Businesses here already have summer and winter hours.
I miss 24/7 establishments.
Co-sign.
Shifting the clocks is by and large automated.
Shifting schedules requires a lot more in the way of intentional actions – storefronts often have stickers with their hours for example
I tried a similar approach. I wish you luck. I do hope they finally overturn the daylight savings time nonsense. My mind keeps telling me they will screw it up, like making daylight savings time go away for people whose birthdays start on 01/01/2000, or only apply it to approved minority groups, etc…
Damn. The duplicate curse is back.
Quick! Pop off the “N” key to see if that fixes it!
Except the health benefits are for permanent standard time. Republicans always have it backwards.
As far as I can tell, the health benefits are from ending the artificial clock changes.
No.
I have a really hard time believing there are any appreciable health effects either way. The amount of sunlight is exactly the same. Is walking around your house changing clocks twice a year really all that harmful? The effect on your sleep patterns is no different than traveling to the next time zone over, which is a minor annoyance at worst.
People forget to change their clocks, rush out the door late, and cause traffic collisions and other careless accidents like that. Estimates vary on how much. Public health is a stupid reason to end or continue it anyway.
Public health is a stupid reason to end or continue it anyway.
It’s a better reason than “I like my sunlight in the hours after work” vs. “I like morning sunlight.”
What I meant was that using public health as an excuse for arbitrarily changing the clocks is stupid, because we arbitrarily decided to change them in the first place. Just admit that you’re arbitrarily changing it and be done with it.
Nyope.
“Public health” is scientism.
So what you’re saying is, if we don’t make the change, people will die!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eXWhbUUE4ko
You’ve been out of the ringer for too long with your Arizonan privilege. The clock changes can put me out of whack for two or more weeks. It is somehow far worse than changing time zones.
I don’t get jet lag, but daylight saving time does a number on me when it switches.
It’s something you notice for a day when you’re young and a week when you’re old. (no offense – I’m in the second category now too)
You’re an early riser. You want the sun in the morning to help set your sleep schedule. Don’t get mad at me, I am following SCIENCE™
Please. This is New York. We don’t get sunlight until at least noon.
You get sunlight when the governor decrees sunlight.
I have young kids. It takes them weeks to readjust. They wake up within 15 minutes of the same time almost every day. That means I’m having them get up at the ass crack of dawn for 2 weeks in the fall and having to wake them up for our morning activities for 2 weeks in the spring. That’s nearly 10% of the year spent disrupted because of a pointless practice.
I’ve never had the slightest issue adapting to the time changes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This bill would just remove that minor annoyance for me.
I remember the olden days before everything was internet-connected and synced to ntp when you had to manually change all the clocks in the house. For some reason the microwave was always the last to know.
I never set the clocks on the stove or the microwave. It’s not worth the effort.
You hooked your microwave up to the internet? Why?
So he can get an SMS when his hot pockets are at that perfect volcanic temperature
I never set the clocks on the stove or the microwave. It’s not worth the effort.
If the clocks are constantly blinking 12:00, you might be a pyscho.
No no no no. The microwave is still always the last to know. The only other stand-alone clock I have in the house is an atomic alarm clock that pulls time from RF. I have no internet connected appliances, including TVs.
Then I’m fine then, the microwave is just blank and the stove is a steady 12:00
I used to set the clock in my old truck to half way in-between the two times. Drove my wife nuts.
As someone who depends on The Outdoors(tm) for a lot of his recreation, things that close at sundown (like shooting range and dog parks) are unavailable for a few weeks a year when said sundown is at 4:00 in the afternoon.
i.e. Standard Time get my vote.
My range put in stadium lighting for nighttime trap shooting.
I still haven’t been since.
>.>
I’m so lazy.
Yep.
It’s so nice to be able to get to the range after work mid-week…
My range is open until 8 pm.
Winning!
I’m with you RC – People exaggerate the effects beyond reasonability. Its a single time-zone change, not going halfway round the world.
I suspect the reason people whine like children about it are the ‘pain’ and the ‘benefit’ are separated by a few weeks.
My sunset is going to go from 6:15PM to 7:15PM on March 12th – but its really a bit chilly still to really be doing serious outdoor activities in the evenings so I won’t really be able to enjoy it as frequently.
In Mid-April when it warms up a bit more however, sunset will be at 8PM. With a 5PM end of work day and half hour to eat, that means a good 2 hours of outdoor recreation as long as it ain’t raining.
The ‘pain’ happened a month ago and is disconnected from the ‘benefit’ you now enjoy.
Where I live because of DST we have 8PM sunsets from April 20 to Aug 24th (last 7PM or later sunset is Sept 30). That is AWESOME!!!
If they went to permanent standard time I’d be POd in Spring/Summer/Fall
If they went to permanent daylight time I’d be less annoyed, but instead of evenings it would screw with mornings in the winter.
Don’t nobody give me that crap about ‘oh its the same number of hours’
Employment dictates most people’s schedules. DST ‘takes’ an hour from the morning at 5AM where its unused by anybody except zombies and ‘moves’ it to the evening when most people are still awake and able to partake of it.
And these days practically every clock changes itself – so that’s not a really big deal.
I work 6-2:30 and am up before sunrise even in June.
I’d still prefer year-round DST.
If they were going to do anything permanent DST would be my preference because it benefits summer activities
Still, going back to standard for winter does have benefits for latitudes of 35-45 where the majority of US population lives, and where the seasonal changes in sunrise/sunset are large enough that 1hr makes a difference in daylight hours at the times people are awake
I would prefer Standard time. I’m bothered by the Sun not rising until 8.30am, and not at all bothered by the sun going down by 5.30 at midwinter.
I can’t stand getting up in the dark. So I hate the transition from standard time to daylight saving time in the spring.
Fuck permanent DST.
Same.
However, the time change is not that big a thing for me. Never was.
I think most people who are either self-employed or retired don’t really care which you settle on, but those who need to keep a schedule do.
Exaggerated or not, fuck a time change. They blow donk.
I don’t know. Should any politician be given the power to change time itself?
Only Rassilon.
I disagree.
Just because you ran for Lord President to keep Goth from killing you doesn’t make you a politician, Doctor!
Okay, Omega as well.
He’s always so negative, though. Probably why he goes for final solutions.
The constitution does give the government the power to set standard measures.
“What a sick fuck. Oh, he’s a Democrat, by the way. I guess that bit of information would have put the story over some sort of character limit and its omission is merely a coincidence.”
Wasn’t this asshat also Mayor Pete’s mentor and part of his cabal?
While I can believe dude was a pedo… I can also believe this is a message to ButtChug re his Ohio performance.
I think that is backwards. I believe Buttigieg was his mentor.
I’m not saying phenotypes are destiny or anything, I’m just saying, everybody who gets arrested for child porn looks exactly like what you’d expect somebody who gets arrested for child porn to look like.
How dare you point out that most of our stereotypes practically always come into being from actual experiences and observations?
Coincidences, even if they happen over and over, do not make something true!
Observation is NOT part of the scientific process like making sure misogyny, homophobia, racism, and anti-marxist bias is crushed, huh?
/idiots.
I’ve always said that stereotypes don’t become stereotypes for no reason.
Ehh. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of “enemies of the state” type people that happen to be arrested for CP had it planted on their devices.
But people that are legit into CP, yea they have a look. Maybe that’s evolutionary that people notice these things.
You mean wearing an orange jumpsuit?
“I bet she’s just itching to get back to work. It’s a shame she couldn’t have been in DC and checked on The Lump while she was there. Independent confirmation that he’s actually alive would be pretty cool.”
We have an absent president whom causes major problems for the propagandists any time they cart him out into the public, a senator that is in hiding, supposedly because he is depressed after winning a big race which sounds like cover for hiding the fact the guy is likely brain dead by now, sponsoring senate bills, so why can’t Feinstein also do the “Weekend at bernies” shit that seems to be SOP for team blue pols?
Because Schiff-head is itching to take her seat, I expect.
Someone should make sure he isn’t asking her to marry her so he can be the de facto stand in…
First pic in the article has Wish You Were Here album cover vibes.
“Mormon Mafia” A new Glib handle is born.
“That’s a nice house you have. It would be a shame if that tree fell over and something happened to it.” Mormon Mafia
*Homeowner starts to look nervous.*
“I was thinking I could come over tomorrow and help you take it down. I’ve got pruning shears and an electric chainsaw if you don’t.” Mormon Mafia
The Mormon Mafia was the name of Howard Hughes’s retinue during his self-imposed exile in Las Vegas. One of the first guys he hired was Mormon, who basically recruited his Mormon friends to fill the other positions. It also helped that they were very discrete.
Hospitalized with shingles? Holy crap, how bad must it be?
Or, that’s not what she’s hospitalized for.
If you’re going to go with one time year round (which I am in favor of and actually already have in AZ), why pick Daylight Savings Time rather than Standard Time?
Cause they are assholes?
^This. But a permanent time zone is better than changing shit 2x a year for no good reason.
We’re down to, what, 3 months of standard time now anyway? DST runs from March through November, I think it is.
First weekend in Nov – so that Halloween candy sales are maxed out. And of course we start in March for the benefit of convenience stores and bbq manufacturers.
Imma have to come down on the side of the BBQ and 7-11’s.
So, three months. How is that in any way the standard then?
Because they don’t know which is which.
Because being able to play golf until 9 or so is better than having to draw your curtain close at 5 am instead of 6.
Big golf is behind the perm DST push.
Shingles sucks in your 40s. I can only imagine what it’s like when you’re DiFi’s age.
You think that zombie feels anything anymore?
She must be an anti-vaxxer. Those shingles vax commercials run nonstop on TV.
They’re probably taking bets on it as we speak…
The only real bet is on the over/under.
Whatever the number, I’m taking the over.
And you know Q will check the spread.
I probably should watch the free practices before qualy to get a feel for where the teams are at this weekend. Tried to watch the pre-season testing last week and the commentators just Would. Not. Shut. The. Hell. Up. and there was so little actually on the track it was mostly “How I spent my winter vacation!” chatter. Useless.
As stated before — hope we get a good three way fight this year. I’ll happily root for Russel or LeClerc if they do well. Max just annoys the hell out of me (Hamilton does too, but less for some reason), so would be more than happy to see one of the rising talents step up. Hell, Perez is due a good year out of Max’s shadow — though honestly, I think Red Bull would sabotage him if he started taking the limelight from Verstappen. Too many seasons of seeing them favor a particular driver to believe otherwise.
And as said in the overnight thread — morning, all!
“…and the commentators just Would. Not. Shut. The. Hell. Up”
As is so often the case. LOL
But those folks are paid to comment, ie to fill “dead air” where the only event audio is the muffled sound of a ball dribbling, or crowd noise.
I’d rather hear the game/match/race than a bunch of babbling idiots. With a few exceptions, fuck sports announcers.
I donno, the Solaris Games are not the same without Duncan Fisher.
One of the networks ran an experiment back in the nineties. They broadcast an entire football game without announcers. They just ran the stadium audio out to the broadcast.
It was interesting, but not great. Good announcers are valuable. The issue is that most are crap.
When I go to watch races live I do my best to tune into the broadcast at the track
The announcers have multiple people behind the scenes looking for interesting things happening on track and giving them cues.
I lose track of what’s going on very quickly. I can usually find things to look at but its nice to hear about other things I didn’t see.
I don’t mean eliminate them. I mean have them shut the fuck up. If it doesn’t have something directly to do with the game on the field, shut the fuck up. No feel good stories. No tangents. No talking about completely unrelated shit just to fill space.
I followed preseason on the F1 App. Looks like the top 3 are unchanged. If Ferrari can get their reliability up and tire degradation down, they can fight. Mercedes looks like they will an opportunistic third team. Maclaren still underperforming, Aston Martin looking surprisingly fast – but can they do that over a whole race or was it track temp plus fuel load making them look better than they are.
I don’t care for Lewis. He hopped on the Race Train big time. Yes, the world is so racist that the most celebrated driver for 10 years has been a black guy. I’m sure at some point, somebody made some comments. I endured countless Polish jokes as a kid. We all have a cross to bear, Lewis.
The next F1 quiz should be more annoying: Hamilton the driver or Hamilton the musical?
I’m rooting (again) for LeClerc, mainly because I like hearing the word Monagasque.
So why is the machine that was obsessed with hiding their and the CCP’s role in the Kung Flu debacle suddenly reversing course? And don’t tell me that the senate suddenly has decided they need to know the truth after providing cover for the corruptocracy for years now.
Dems: “We can use this info to make Trump look bad!”
GOP: “We can use this info to make Biden look bad!”
Because the Ukraine clusterfuck is turning out to be a clusterfuck and now they need to redirect to the next boogeyman that we’re all supposed to fear.
So long as that boogeyman is not them.
That and there seems to be a split amongst the neo-cons. Some are owned by China and still do as their told, the rest are itching for a war with China. A war with no clear objectives or definition of victory – that’s how the neo-cons roll.
Clear objectives lead to an end to the war, cant have that.
Good point!
There also never seems to be any consequences to losing a war and / or reducing a country to a shithole, then leaving. Messing with Russia and China could change that.
Deficits don’t matter anymore, dude.
And America is freeing those people with drones. We even stencil Democracy right on the missile cones!
War is the health of the state – you don’t want a sickly state do you?
Only a Putin stooge would bother noticing such things!
Yevtushenkov was quite correct.
So, now we find are told that the FBI actually resisted calls to raid Mar-a-Lago, but Garland’s DOJ forced them to do it anyway. Didn’t that fucking imbecilic asshat Garland swear the DOJ and the WH were not involved in the decision, and that this shit-show was all the FBI acting independently and on its own accord, within hours of people asking WTF the DOJ was up to?
I hope a meteorite or a fucking nuke goes off in that D.C. cesspool.
That’s actually funny.
If you show me a room of government employees and ask me who’s the biggest douchebag, I’m always going to go with the federal prosecutor.
…treat Trump as it had other government employees who were not truthful about classified records…
You mean like Hillary Clinton?
Now I’m kinda wondering what other government employees who were not truthful about classified records had the FBI swarm their house.
Look for a certain letter behind their names and I would assume you’d populate your list.
“other government employees who were not truthful about classified records”
You mean, like Herself?
When did the FBI swarm her house?
Well, they did, see. But they all fell into the black hole of her cloaca.
“Men, if you hear the sound of velcro, run for your fucking lives.”
OMG.
Perhaps these stupid bastards have never heard of the security dilemma.
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/03/02/us-army-secretary-says-us-preparing-to-win-a-war-with-china-over-taiwan/
Yeah we could do it, everybody might die, but we could definitely do it.
And note the phrasing, it’s not a question of what the public wants, it’s what the public can sustain.
Oh, just give Taiwan nukes and be done with it.
^^^THIS^^^
And not just Taiwan. South Korea and Japan should take a note that the US is a fickle ally, and get their own. The only way to deter the CCP is to make sure they know that they can be wiped out (a nuke or two where ever they try to hide) if they go there.
I am pretty sure Japan has them by now.
Japan doesn’t. What they do have is a crash program to build a dozen miniaturized ones within a month and both cruise and ballistic missiles to deliver them, but I think that’s not as good of a deterrent as having an actual instant capability.
It would be a preferable solution, but it does not acknowledge that Taiwan is politically split over reunification.
DC does not want reunification, so empowering and leaving the decision to the Taiwanese is out of the question.
Nukes don’t prevent reunification per se.
Just reunification that Taiwan hasn’t agreed to.
The only acceptable outcome is the removal of the Maoist rebels from Beijing and a restoration of the Republic’s control over the remainder of the country.
That was U.S. policy from 1949-73.
Dropping it was a stupid move.
Competes with a bunch of other stupid moves for the worst thing Nixon did to us.
No the stupid move was having it in the first place. We don’t tell other countries how they will be run. Well, we do, but we have no right to do so.
I’ll be more clear. DC doesn’t care if the majority of the Taiwanese want reunification. In fact, DC’s preference is probably to get the Chinese involved in a morass of a war that will hamper their geopolitical rise and prevent them from being a peer competitor.
It’s not about the Taiwanese, just like it’s not about the Ukrainians. They’re all expendable.
Given that, I don’t see how giving them nukes would be in DC’s interests.
Are you saying that a majority of people in Taiwan want to be under the CCP?
I really would need to see a high quality cite for that. I mean, they saw what the CCP did to Hong Kong…
I am with Swiss here. Moar info is needed.
Didn’t say that. I said they were politically split on the issue. About half of them prefer the status quo, with minorities for declaring independence or seeking reunification.
But imagine the palpitations from DC if Taiwan decided it did want to reunify. We saw how they reacted when Ukraine started swinging back to Moscow back in 2013/2014.
This is not an endorsement of the CCP, it’s an observation on DC’s bullshit rhetoric around countries/people and their right to self-determination. It only goes so far as it suits their interests.
“DC doesn’t care if the majority of the Taiwanese want reunification.”
That was kind of connoting they did.
But I do believe most of Taiwan, like Puerto Rico, slightly prefer the status quo.
Poor phrasing on my part.
No worries – I think we agree most Taiwanese are just keeping their heads down and saying “aw, shit.”
I wasn’t aware that the US considers Taiwan to be American territory.
We technically still have treaty obligations there, although we’ve spent the last 50 years or so pissing all over them because Taiwan doesn’t have enough slave labor camps and child sweat shops to make it worth defending when there’s cheap imported shit to be had.
Our treaty obligations were to the government of China, in toto. We reneged on those with the Communist takeover in ’49, instead insisting (until ’73) that the legitimate government of all of China was in residence in Taipei.
We have never acknowledged Taiwanese independence. We still don’t, which is why the Taiwanese are fucked with most international institutions.
Well, and up until recently (and still officially), the Taiwanese did not acknowledge independence either.
Nor were the people running Taiwan “Taiwanese”.
All the more reason to keep our national dick out of it.
“But a bunch of my GOs and staff are!”
When you’re promotion into GO ranks demands a combat tour, you better be sure that there is a war on somewhere.
We haven’t used War Plans Green and Crimson lately.
🤦♂️ Why didn’t I think of it. We can call it Operation Red-Green.
*shiftily gazes to both sides*
…I’d come out of the Retired Reserve to be military governor of Tim Hortons and/or Smoke’s Poutine.
whaddup doh’
yo whats goody
My kid turns 28…
Fuck, that makes my siblings old douches.
Raptors Apologize for Women’s History Month Video from Deleted Tweet
Lol, what the hell were they supposed to say.
They were supposed to talk about Black Girl Magic, duh…
“‘cuz they control the pussy, and that controls everything else.”
^^^In spite of being gay, this guy gets it.
I pay close attention to what that prophet Tonio says, cause the man is wise.
It’s because his brain is not muddled by the charms of she-devils.
“the pen may be mightier than the sword, but pussy beats them both”
THIS.
‘Biden was heavily criticized after he laughed off a claim from Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene that he ‘killed’ the two sons of Rebecca Kiessling, who testified before Congress about the fentanyl crisis…
Kiessling’s sons Caleb and Kyler died in 2020 before Biden took office after taking what they thought were pain killers, but that were laced with fentanyl.’
To be honest, I would have laughed at her irrational, hyperbolic bullshit as well. Caleb and Hyler played stupid games and won stupid prizes. Nobody’s fault but their own. Fuck MJG’s collectivist, personally unaccountable claptrap.
That’s the big difference between a libertarian and a natpop.
I watched the clip and thought it was a big meh.
Agreed.
He’s just really old and cannot speak well/clearly.
You don’t score cheap political points by *not* grandstanding. The double standard is more the issue. When a Democrat decides to climb on the nearest pile of bodies to ride their political hobbyhorse you can bet your ass the nearest Republican who cracks a smirk is going to be on the front page of the NYT and leading the 10 o’clock news.
Yup, the problem is always the double standard…
So? The NYT and the 10 o’clock news will hate the Rhinos no matter what they do. They should have that figured out by now. Turn about is fair play and all but lies and hypocrisy are still lies and hypocrisy. Guess I’ll just continue to hate them all.
Guess I’ll just continue to hate them all.
Might as well, they only have contempt for you!
Best COA.
My preferred Time Zone proposal, that everyone here will hate.
First, get rid of changing clocks. Everyone can get down with that one. I would prefer each zone go as close as possible to “real time”, but whatever, define a standard, and round to the nearest hour.
Step 2: wait a few years, then using said standard, each US county goes to the nearest 15 minutes.
Step 3: Ditto, but 5 minutes
Step 4: Ditto, but 1 minute.
That is good enough, done. Every county is on their “correct” time. I have lived on the east and west extremes of time zones, it is radically different. We have devices that can adjust schedules for us.
IIRC, we only got “time zones” because of train schedules, or some shit.
But fuck that, we have computers now, we can go back to local time being correct.
Perfect local time is just not important. What you are proposing is a logistics nightmare that will screw up every goddamn thing that is not fully contained within walking distance.
Local time being correct is the most important thing with time. I prioritize it above any minor issues that might arise.
Well, you were correct. Everybody will hate your proposal.
I knew exactly what response, and from who, I would be getting.
But I stand behind me idea. If we had had computers in 18dicketyfour, we never would have gone to time zones to begin with.
Oh, just looked, it was 1883. We had 144 different local time zones before that.
I refuse to believe modern people are dumber than in the mid 19th century.
You also apparently refuse to believe that modern people routinely have to do business with people further afield than the mid 19th century average worker had to concern themselves with.
Even dealing with only four times zones we still have problems with people not understanding the concept. It was easier when the only people you needed to deal with were in walking distance and only the railroads had to wrestle with the long distance discrepancies.
We are exactly as smart, which is why we would do what they did eventually – ditch the patchwork time zones and adopt something more uniform.
I work in a different time zone than the rest of my office. I am fully aware.
And whether I was 1 hour different, or (stops and does longitude calculation)… 60 minutes different doesnt matter at all.
Okay, that worked out well/poorly. I am almost exactly 15 degrees longitude west of Memphis, so it was 60 min different.
LOL are you sure about that?
Lucky you, you got a nice round number.
Let the computer deal with the local-to-interlocal time conversion. That’s what happens now when setting up meertings.
@NA why are you scheduling a meeting for 3:27am?
“LOL are you sure about that?”
I would think we are slightly smarter, for nutrition reasons alone.
Although that has probably taken a downturn in the last 50 years.
“@NA why are you scheduling a meeting for 3:27am?”
Did you not notice my gradual approach?
I didnt suggest an immediate change from 1 hour timezones to 1 minute timezones.
The “few years” is probably a decade each, so people would get use to 15 min differences first, then a decade later, 5 min differences, then a decade later 1 minute differences.
“We are exactly as smart, which is why we would do what they did eventually – ditch the patchwork time zones and adopt something more uniform.”
Or, we are exactly as smart, which is why we would go back to what worked forever, instead of this short period of making trains happy.
And you’ve missed my point.
People like round numbers. Even scheduling for X:15 or X:45 gets odd responses. Setting things up to guarantee messy scheduling is not something people will “adjust to”.
@ “Worked forever” – becuase the scope and range of interaction has expanded from where it was forever.
What really “worked” the longest was . . . No clocks at all.
I gotta say, robc, this is one of the best Swiftian “proposals” in a very long time. Well played.
“I refuse to believe modern people are dumber than in the mid 19th century.”
*squints suspiciously*
Not sure I entirely agree.
Maybe for people whose jobs are nothing but meetings and are OCD.
But the way meetings work for me is work (or Glib while pretending to work) and 15 minutes before the meeting I get an alarm, and then a second at 5 min before. You literally could schedule them at wierd times and it would make no difference.
Plus, maybe without a default block, people might think about how long to schedule a meeting for and not waste tiHAHAHAHAHAH! I tried.
…not fully contained within walking distance.
Is that 15-minute community in multiple time zones?
But enough about electric cars, Unciv.
Yes, each town would set its own time much as you want to implement, which made doing train timetables a hot mess.
A hot mess easily resolved these days by using UTC and local adjustment.
Tell me you are an engineer, with outsaying “I am an engineer.”
From now all temperatures will be measured in Kelvin.
If you want to use any other measure or relative measure simply convert to your preference.
Once you’ve been accustomed to using a unit it is rather difficult to switch. My Irish Phd EE friend has this trouble with degrees F. He has to convert it in his head to “cold or warm”. Similarly if ain’t 20C or close to it I also have to convert in my head to figure out if I need a jacket or a T Shirt.
It’s not that either of us can’t understand the unit or do the conversion, but neither of us can intuit the temperature as it wasn’t what we grew up using.
How are we supposed to get subzero temperatures when you use such a silly scale?
Besides Kelvin degrees are too big individually.
There are some fields where 1/T is common in equations and they would suggest that the proper unit of temperature is the inverse of Kelvin.
Absolute zero would be infinity on that scale.
“College Algebra? Didnt you finish algebra in middle school?”
You finish with Alg in junior high ’cause math is BORING! Doing more of it in college is a waste of girl hunting time.
Too much posturing. Tells me you were a Mathalete and socially awkward.
When I first read your proposal I was a bit WTF on it, but then it started to not sound as impossible as it initially seems, though still a PITB.
Everybody would need to add UTC to their mindset because that is how they would interact with everyone outside their immediate area
Every computer in the world would think in terms of UTC 100% of the time. They largely do this already and convert to local times for presentation only.
Every business would schedule their activities in UTC (arrival, departure, begin/end times, etc)
Travel by car is not too greatly impacted
When driving at 40 degrees latitude, east/west travel will alter your ‘local time’ by about 80 seconds per hour of driving you do – almost imperceptible to a person really.
Even at 60 degrees latitude, east/west travel will only change your clock by about 2 minutes per hour of driving – still not that perceptible.
Everything you do ‘local’ that depends on things that are not local would have ‘odd’ start times though
Live national broadcasts, employment with large companies, things like that.
I do think the end result would be shortly thereafter people abandoning local time as a concept and adopting UTC
Once again you have managed to devise the worst possible “solution” which will only lead to more problems and confusion.
Name one problem that isn’t fixed by using UTC and local conversion.
Have you ever dealt with normal people? Scheduling anything is going to be a nightmare. “But Computers” doesn’t fix the fact that the average person is dumber than a box of rocks.
Our ticketing and change management system is UTC. So fun to get ready for work at 4am only to find it was input without an offset and now has to be recycled to another early morning wake-up.
The one problem is – local conversion. Why bother with it?
Your idea isn’t bad, but people* like the idea of noon being, you know, roughly noonish.
*robc
Look man, it’s always beer o’clock somewhere.
Saw a t-shirt once:
Screw 5 O’Clock, its 4 O’Clock somewhere.
Why not just move to UTC globally? Let people and businesses adjust their hours of operation to meet their local conditions.
Nobody’s actual hours of operation would be affected at all. Just the time shown on the clock on the wall. Just like nobody’s actual hours of operation change when we go from DST to standard time.
W0t? The absolute hours change to follow the clock. So the numbers are the same but it’s not the same asbefore the weekend.
The clock is the map, not the reality.
When its 8:00 clock time in, say, Dallas, and 9:00 clock time in, say, NY, that’s actually the same time (that is, an event happening in both locations is simultaneous) even though the clocks have different numbers on them.
So you agree that when the clock changes, the hours of operation do change then?
If China can run on one time zone, so can we.
The issue is probably more about the innumerable labor regulations tied to the time of day. But I’d be fine with getting rid of those too.
Thank you Thomas Friedman.
I didn’t include any shitty metaphors in that hot-take.
+1 conversation with a local taxi driver
Does country NEED more than one timezone? We need to stop hoarding all the timezones. There are many countries that don’t have any time zones, and it’s America’s fault.
Bernie says you don’t need 24+ time zones.
My proposal:
Do away with time zones altogether. Go to GMT (fuck that globalist UTC crap). Does it really matter what the number on the clock says when the sun comes up/is overhead/sets? No more mental math trying to figure out what time it is over there, no more wondering “what time zone are they in?”. One and done. Easy peasy.
Nix nein hell nah.
My life is my life and my experience of living is about the real world. I am not a “resource” for the efficient operation of transnational business.
^^^
no more wondering “what time zone are they in?”.
This part never goes away. It just morphs into “what are the working hours in Bangalore, again?”
China is one time zone – Beijing time. Western China daylight is weird.
And we would be DC time. Won’t that be wonderful.
Friday Funbags reminds you that tampering with, disabling or destroying lavatory smoke detectors is a violation of federal law.
https://archive.ph/Tnpv4
Of all the things to be critical about with Aaron Rodgers
Jimmy must be on the list.
I am sure he and the people that give him his talking points are on that list.
He is. So is Colbert.
https://media.gab.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=700,quality=100,fit=scale-down/system/media_attachments/files/130/180/210/original/6d56e8b702450510.jpg
Whoopi Goldberg is on the list.
*shudders
There are a lot of women on that list… Granted, quite a few lesbians.
I have a difficult time believing prime Katy Perry needed to go to Epstein Island to score some underage strange.
Just Sayin’
Or Clarleze Theron, or….hell, who knows. Maybe the illegality of it all titillates bored, rich, famous people.
Or they went when there were let’s say “more legitimate” events/parties.
Katy’s preferred party atmosphere:
https://www.reddit.com/r/WhitePeopleTwitter/comments/i4rk7n/katy_perry_likes_bbc_real_tweet/
Bwahahaha – Lady Gaga? What fucking church-lady wrote that up?
I’m not buying it. Too many actors, not enough bankers and politicians.
I just assume they were there for private concerts / comedy skits to entertain the real visitors.
Probably so.
Imagine wanting to know which aristocrats like to fuck little kids. What a nut!
Of all the hills to die on.
I’ll side with the tin-foil-hatter than was right about the clot shots.
Someone should tell Kimmel that being the same as whats-his-name-on-CBS will produce the same low ratings. But I’m sure Gutfeld tried to tell him already.
Babies should be nowhere near gyrating drag queens
Mozart for Babies is out, perverts wearing G-strings are in.
None of these are raves.
Old strippers, male strippers, and fat strippers.
You could put a stop to this in a minute flat by suggesting parents take their toddlers to a heterosexual burlesque show.
Screw that man, we’re going to start having elementary school field trips to porn film sets.
Meh. Burlesque is like… mainstream now.
Eh, it is about as mainstream as Roller Derby is. That is to say, in some groups it is totally normal, the rest haven’t heard of it.
kefir-quaffing mums
Hey, kefir is also a gym-bro drink.
That always leads to kefir-queefing mums.
Based…I think.
You know, I have to wonder – at least a little – if this isn’t taking on the characteristics of a moral panic. Sure, there are no doubt some parents so whacko that they would take their kids to it, but I have trouble really believing this is common – you know, like ritual satanic child abuse in day care centers.
The main difference is that during the Satan panic, you didn’t have the Cathedral running around telling you there’s nothing wrong with Satanism, and in fact you are a religious bigot for hating on the Satanists.
That, and hundreds of videos.
OK, but again, who’s kids are we worried about? Someone else’s, right? I mean, I know my own are safe – but all of those other poor childrens.
Kids shouldn’t be exposed to a bunch of fetishist perverts whether yours, mine, or the guy’s down the street that I’ve never met.
It takes a village – is that it?
If someone wants to take their kids to a drag show, that’s their business. I think they are wrong and stupid for doing so, but that’s on them. I have a problem when our tax dollars are used to bring it to schools and libraries. I have a problem when I’m called a bigot for thinking it’s not appropriate.
There also weren’t hundreds of videos, and other evidence.
Never cease to be amazed at the passionate opinions about DST around these parts. I must be one of the few who view at as a matter of course and feel no strong emotions about it one way or the other.
More pineapple on your pizza, sir?
As long as it’s deep-dish and covered in a tomato and molasses based bbq sauce.
Agreed. I’m also somewhat surprised at the people who apparently take months to overcome a measly one hour time change.
Working in phone systems has built up a long hatred of DST changes. It got worse when they started changing the start and end dates of DST as well.
I’m with Grumble and Trigger, big meh, especially now that almost every clock I own switches automatically.
Libertarians mad about bad government policy.
Fair enough. I can think of a hundred things off the top of my head that government does that gets my panties in far more of a twist but I get it.
It’s March. It can stop snowing now, dagnabbit.
Right? We’ve had a mild Winter here in mid-Michigan. Today we’re forecasted to get five to eight inches or more between 1pm and midnight. smdh Where’s my global warming?
I have bad news, historical temperature patterns indicate we’re due for a cooling period.
Agreed. Unfortunately we have a “major” snow storm on the way. But the last time they called for 11 inches we got 3.
That’s what SHE SAID!
Bah. The best snow storms are in March.
Never cease to be amazed at the passionate opinions about DST around these parts. I must be one of the few who view at as a matter of course and feel no strong emotions about it one way or the other.
#METOO
It’s a pain in the ass, and I would prefer DST, but in the great scheme of things, that’s not what will cause me to keel over in an apoplectic rage.
Apoplectic? Rage? No, arguing with robc over why he’s wrong on yet another issue is just an interesting diversion while I wait for people to get back to me at work.
I stand with UCS. Twice a year, the government fucks up my sleep schedule for no good reason. And the fall change is usually during deer camp which further complicates things.
If we are going to talk about government fucking us over, I would much rather April 15th and the crap related to that was canceled than this minor inconvenience about daylight savings.
Good morning, Sloop!
I’m down with never changing the clocks again, but it will likely be irrelevant when I’m forced to flee to Mexico.
Biden is a nasty piece of shit. Clips like that remind me why any sympathy I can generate regarding his condition is misplaced.
After all the corruption and insanity in the world, Chrissy brings a little sunshine. Nice song choices (as usual)!
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Someone (don’t remember who) in the last couple of days mentioned here that the media has no interest in interviewing Winsome Earle-Sears. I know the poster was referring to the mainstream media, but The Jacket has an interview with her up on TOS: https://reason.com/podcast/2023/01/25/winsome-sears-school-choice-is-new-brown-v-board-fight/
There’s also a transcript in the mag but it hasn’t been posted on the free side of the website yet: https://reason.com/magazine/
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/03/trudeaus_government_calls_for_euthanasia_program_to_treat_children_with_naysaying_parents.html
Wait, what?!?!
Sounds perfectly clear, the Canadian government wants to murder children it deems unfit whatever the parents think about it.
Assisted suicide, sex change operations, and voting are the only decisions that can be left to children under 21.
“What’s so controversial about youth in Asia?” – Me at 13 years old.
When did killing someone become a treatment, anyway?
When you are an anti-humanist member of the cult of Gaia?
“To every man upon this earth. Death cometh soon or late.”
They just don’t want to leave that up to fate.
The cognitive dissonance within people who support assisted suicide and simultaneously include suicide statistics in arguments for gun control would be comical, if not outright tragic.
It’s a question of degree
The protestations have arisen fairly suddenly around a form of entertainment that has long had a place on the mainstream American stage.
Milton Berle, “Mr. Television” himself, was appearing in drag on the public airwaves as early as the 1950s on “Texaco Star Theater.” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” is a bona fide cultural phenomenon. Highly popular drag brunches bring revenue to restaurants. That such spectacles are now being portrayed as a danger to children boggles the minds of people who study, perform and appreciate drag.
“Drag is not a threat to anyone. It makes no sense to be criminalizing or vilifying drag in 2023,” said Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, a professor of culture and gender studies at the University of Michigan and author of “Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance.”
“It is a space where people explore their identities,” said La Fountain-Stokes, who has done drag himself. “But it is also a place where people simply make a living. Drag is a job. Drag is a legitimate artistic expression that brings people together, that entertains, that allows certain individuals to explore who they are and allows all of us to have a very nice time. So it makes literally no sense for legislators, for people in government, to try to ban drag.”
Fine. I don’t care. Demystifying and decriminalizing the human body and sexuality in general is not the worst thing in the world.
Some people are utterly obsessed with and consumed by sex. Others are not.
They’re not trying to “ban drag” you fucking liar.
If it’s not mandatory for everyone, including children fresh from the womb, it’s banned.
You mean you don’t clearly remember Milton Berle gyrating lewdly around children while wearing lingerie and heels?
And letting them stroke his tuck?
There’s a hell of a long distance between Mrs. Doubtfire and 8-year-olds in tube tops giving grown men lapdances, you fucking pederast…
Aversion Therapy Is Back, And It’s Coming From The Trans Lobby
Then I guess I’m transphobic.
Fuck off. If you happen to die, I don’t particularly care anymore.
While I’m a theologically orthodox Protestant who believes in my faith’s historic teaching on marriage and sexual ethics…
Sure you do.
What’s the problem? The meal looks vegan.
My meat identifies as vegan! Shut your face, bigot.
Drag does not typically involve nudity or stripping, which are more common in the separate art of burlesque. Explicitly sexual and profane language is common in drag performances, but such content is avoided when children are the target audience. At shows meant for adults, venues or performers generally warn beforehand about age-inappropriate content.
There. See?
Catch the motte and bailey there?
No nudity or stripping = totally appropriate for toddlers and grade schoolers.
Enjoy your rolling blackouts, peasants. The Chinese have no fucks to give:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chinas-new-coal-plant-approvals-surge-2022-highest-since-2015-research-2023-02-27/
The Patrick Kane era didn’t start too well, with the Rangers collapsing in the third. I guess it will take time.
The Era without Quick for the Kings won’t be tested until we play Vegas.
Dr. Girlfriend is really pissed that the Pens traded Blueger.
This just gives people an incentive to become a gang-banger.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11814043/College-professor-claims-black-workers-paid-time-black-person-killed.html
Instead of “black bereavement leave” maybe we should call it something more catchy and modern, say, Colored People Time.
Every day, in so many ways, academics prove the wisdom of our ancestors in marginalizing and ignoring academics. We should get back to that.
Hmm, so blacks never have to work? Black people are killed every day — Chicago alone might almost account for that.
Didn’t colleges have a policy that would allow roommates to not have to face their grades if one of them got dead? I remember this led to someone throwing their roommate out of a 23rd story residential building cause they were going to end up losing their scholarship. Now we want to make the same rule for gangbangers?
Homey don’t play that!
“Rather than focus on actual policy issues facing Tennesseans, politicians would rather spend their time and effort misconstruing age-appropriate performances at a library to pass as many anti-LGBTQ+ bills as they can,” Sarah Warbelow, legal director for the Human Rights Campaign, said in a statement last week.
Rather than focus on the needs and desires of the overwhelming majority of their constituents, as one would expect in a so called democracy, we demand that the legislature cater to the whims of a vanishingly small slice of the population!
Who are we boycotting today?
Boycott Walgreens Calls Grow After Pharmacy Stops Selling Abortion Pills
Hopefully Brochetta is not around:
I might have to get some Jeremy’s.
Dunkin’ locations weren’t common when I was a kid but we had the commercials too. The last ones in the state closed about twenty years ago.
Interesting. There are a bunch down here in Texas. Also Shipley’s, which was here first.
In NYC we have a Dunkins on every other block it seems.
And a cop in every one.
But the last time they called for 11 inches we got 3.
That’s what she said.
TOK with the assist!
Brooks and his damn refusal to thread!
That’s what you get for doing online dating…
Glib pol: Saving seats on Southwest flights; cunty or fair play?
This is the second southwest flight I’ve been on where passengers around me got verbally nasty to each other because someone in boarding group A sat down and saved a seat for boarding group B or C.
The bottom line is the airlines and government have conspired to make flying a hellish experience.
I am not flying an airline where I can’t pick my seat and then get to sit in it.
I fly almost exclusively SW because I don’t have to pay a premium for a window seat (or checked bags or any of the other nickel and dime charges) . I just have to remember to check in early.
Single person to a +1 it’s a great system. More than 2 in a party that just cannot spend 1-3 hours apart it breaks down
JFC, I’m happy to move away from some parent with a kid or two in tow.
We’ve done one or two trips with 3 of us (right after kiddo #1 aged out of being a lap child), and being in the early Bs wasn’t bad. I think there was one leg where we got mid-Bs and I had to sit behind instead of next to, but no biggie. I’d hate to have done that as a late B or C.
Actually, now that I think about it, I’ve seen a flight attendant intervene when there was a mom and a small kid in C and there were no more seats together. Somebody got a handful of drink tickets to move to a middle seat.
got a handful of drink tickets
Damn, I guess I should be more of a hold-out.
On SWA, if your kid is 5 or less, you get to family board after A regardless of your group. We took advantage of that. C40…nah, I will board after A.
This. When I’m flying, I’m often flying with a bunch of guns. Those free checked bags save me a lot of money in the long run.
Plus, the service with Southwest is usually a few notches above the sullen incompetence you get with the rest of the US domestic carriers…
It’s cunty but it’s SW so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In both cases the nearby flight attendant just pretends they don’t hear the argument.
Why the fuck would you get involved in that shitshow when there is no clear policy you can enforce?
The policy is clear though, and it would seem to be part of their job.
Well then you should call them out on it and make them do the job. Especially when someone is being a dick about holding seat for people that have not yet boarded. Fuck them.
I was boarding a non-SW flight leaving Vegas back during the Obama years. The pilot came on during boarding and said Obama is coming and if we can get the plane on the runway in 30 minutes we could fly home but if not we would be waiting for at least an hour on the tarmac.
You have never seen a plane load more promptly and orderly. It was like the whole passenger roster turned into the 101st Airborne.
Incentives matter.
I’m going to assume that this airline doesn’t do assigned seating.
In that case, it’s fair game for a small number of reservations – ie you can reserve a seat for another passenger you’re flying with, but not 5.
Depends on the specifics. If you’re just grabbing the middle seat next to you for your travel partner who is 10 people behind you, it’s less bad. If you’re taking the entire emergency exit row on both sides for your backgammon team back in C45, that’s pretty bad.
Cunty, and the flight attendants should be shutting this bullshit down most rikki-tik.
Saving seats (or expecting a seat to be saved) is a behavior that you should have matured out of around 4th grade.
This is my instinct as well. I understand saving a middle seat for say, your spouse, if for some reason you were in different boarding groups but besides that is just seems rude and entitled. The guys who did it in the seat row behind me was only saving one, and it was a middle seat. That being said he was a huge bitch about someone asking to sit there.
The time before it was a woman saving an entire row for her friends. I was very annoyed that the attendant didn’t shut that down.
If I was flying by myself (no Mrs. Dean to embarrass), I would have plopped my ass right in the middle of that row and refused to move.
I was already sat in both cases and not involved directly. Just bothers me when people act like that.
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Saving for group B bo biggie but if you have a C boarding group, you have a full flight. Spend some time alone for the flight if you are in separate boarding groups or pay the 15 dollars for A1-15
That is the scheme. Have one person pay for priority boarding to reserve seats for the rest.
Ayo. I’m usually too lazy and disorganized to remember to check in early. Business Select is a godsend.
Well, on another airline you could get someone demanding you give up the reserved seat you paid.
Or worse, a flight attendant actually demanding you to move.
I like SW as well. My team doesn’t have the budget to pay extra for assigned seats, and there have been plenty of times on United or American where a bunch of us cripples were put in the very last row. On SW we get to board first, and we grab the first few rows. Mostly the abled bodied people with us just sit wherever, we don’t save seats. But I also don’t see a problem with someone saving one or two seats.
I’d say fair play, personally. First come, first serve — but if groups / families want to sit together and one gets an earlier boarding group, well enough.
But I fly rarely enough (and haven’t since the Unknown Virus of Indeterminate Origin) that I frankly can’t care enough anyway. The flight is such a relatively short part of a trip, it isn’t worth raising my blood pressure about it (as opposed to being jammed into the tiny damned seats and all).
Cunty. If you want to sit next to each other, fly with an airline that lets you pick your seats.
OK, between this and DST we are in a very trivial mood today, aren’t we?
The alternative is talking about war, recession or mutilating children.
Trivial is ok.
Fair point.
Better than ok.
I am flying back to KY tomorrow for a funeral on Tuesday. So I am fine with trivial.
Oh, in my rant below, I forgot about those two things.
Pep talk?
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will hold confidential talks on Friday in Washington with U.S. President Joe Biden about the war in Ukraine amid growing concerns that China may provide weapons to Russia as its invasion of Ukraine grinds into a second year.
Scholz set off on the one-day trip, which unusually will not include a press delegation, late on Thursday.
Biden and Scholz will meet for an hour at the White House, including a significant “one-on-one component,” a senior U.S. official said, giving the two men a chance to “exchange notes” on their respective recent meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the state of the war.
“Both of the leaders wanted this to be a working-level meeting, wanted it to be very much a get down into the weeds, focused on the issues of Ukraine,” the official said.
A major topic will be the push to deliver fresh Western support to Ukrainian forces, which are bracing for new Russian offensive in coming weeks, officials said. Washington is due to announce a new $400 million military aid package for the Kyiv government on the day of Scholz’s visit, officials said.
Hang in there. We can turn this thing into a global war if we really set our minds to it. We’ll all be famous!
Is this the same asshat that admitted Germany’s military couldn’t defend it?
The Bundeswehr hasn’t been able to do shite since the late 1990s.
Conference to discuss the progress, or lack thereof, on the eastern front? Where have I seen that before?
If nothing else, this war is going to desensitize world leaders about going to war with nuclear armed powers, and that will not end well.
“U.S. policymakers have a chronic concern that industrial European powerhouses like Germany will allow their commercial interests in China to temper their willingness to take tough positions on security and geopolitical issues,” said Daniel Russel, who served as the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia under President Barack Obama and is now with the Asia Society.
“The Biden administration will use the Scholz visit to try to shift Germany’s balance in the direction of stronger pushback.”
Damn your self-interest!
In honor of President Carter. One of the best skits ever on SNL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-68iTvhWNB0
OK, between this and DST we are in a very trivial mood today, aren’t we?
20″ wheels on a restomod ’69 Camaro convertible; ready, set, go!
40″ Mini-monster truck that baby.
No. Unless the wheel wells are enlarged.
In general, having a low profile tire with a huge wheel looks stupid on a muscle car. Try a 16-18′ wheel with a higher profile tire. No donks please.
This is what I see when one does this.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/190066046766186966/
Eeeeewwwww!
I’ve had skateboards that probably ride better than that thing.
agreed
20/21 inch wheels look good on a modern sporty car
they look like ass on a classic
Damn – couldn’t you wait until a Weds to post an abomination like that?
I like this better.
But am kind of boring.
No. Just no. And carving up classic sheet metal to enlarge the wheel wells should get you a whipping.
I love me a restomod, when the mod part is invisible from the street. I have no objection to good custom jobs, either. But don’t half-ass it with this year’s trendy wheels. It’s like getting a face tattoo to impress a girl.
Today in infectology
“EXCLUSIVE: Floridians are told not to wash their face with tap water amid brain-eating bug fears: Public health experts issue warning after man died from amoeba-infested water”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11813179/Floridians-told-not-tap-water-face-amid-brain-eating-bug-fears.html
“I’m a porn star and an ex-boyfriend made me feel like a ‘disgusting person’ and refused to kiss me after I’d been at work”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11816109/Porn-star-Riley-Reid-spoke-ex-boyfriend-feel-disgusting.html
Riley Reid? I’d rather take my chances with Florida water.
She wanted to kiss the guy after a hard core Bukkake session or some shit without showering first?
And she had a long hard day at the office, too!
Just because she had to deal with a fucking coworker or two…..
It is simple. Don’t run untreated water up your nose.
It is really, really hard to get that amoeba.You have to get contaminated water right up your nose. And those things are everywhere. Not just in Florida.
But DeSantis is killing everyone in Florida with his public health policies dude.
Won’t added saline kill the protozoa?
Not if it’s common in sea water or brackish backwaters.
I’m assuming my tap water already has chlorine in it.
If you are planning on using any pressurized water up your nose, ass, ears, anywhere, you should sterilize it by boiling thoroughly first. That amoeba is one of a thousand hazards in water.
I think you have to go with distilled to be safe. I recall warnings about hot springs even.
It is in fresh water.
Whoah, her husband looks like Dahmer.
That movie lat night was an all out assault on the senses. And not in a good way.
*Puffs out chest
My job is done here.
New toaster oven = reverse sear!!
Goodbye, crappy RV oven…it’s going to become pot & pan storage now.
I had to take the legs off of it to get it to fit in the drawer (no counter space for storage)
Uhm, air flow for heat dissipation?
It’ll sit on the stove top when i use it, so it will have air flow
👍
“A university finally stands up to woke virtue signaling
The first thing that happened was that the university’s board of governors voted to ban compelled speech.
That is, they voted against the pathetic DEI (or DIE) statements that so many institutions in this country now demand at the door.”
https://nypost.com/2023/03/02/a-university-finally-stands-up-to-woke-virtue-signaling/
“Shocking video shows black kids attack, force white kids to say ‘Black lives matter’ at Ohio school: cops”
https://nypost.com/2023/03/03/black-kids-forced-white-kids-to-say-black-lives-matter-cops/
The duality of man.
“Of course Black Lives Matter. Almost as much as white lives, in fact.”
*beatdown commences*
Permanent DST #FTW!
As for being in a trivial mood, I’m too emotionally exhausted from the non-trivial shit we are forced to put up with. I haven’t had a gas stove since I was a child, but I still want one and the gas stove going bye-bye is just another nail in the coffin of our freedom. Wind farms are stupid, ineffective, and dangerous and nobody will/can build nukes. Ford building self-repo’ing cars, which will be abused immediately out of the gate. Paypal et al wanting our SSNs, and the $600 1099 minimum that is supposed to catch the rich people. The IRS going after more lower- and middle-income people. Discover tracking people who buy guns and ammo. Printing money and sending it all to the Ukraine, which is not innocent. TPTB want us to die, and if not die, be miserable.
So yeah, I’mma be happy about maybe standard time going away. It’s a total non-issue and something almost everybody wants, and they can’t even do that for us.
^What you said. My primary dismay comes from the fact that, other than here, I can hardly find anyone who can be bothered to even care, to include some of the people closest to me. COVID taught me that valuing liberty is a nearly extinct value in our culture.
So. Many. Things.
My problem is, my people (family/friends) care, but we can’t have a civil discussion about it, and even if we could, I can’t think on my feet fast enough to be persuasive.
I mostly get blank stares followed by polite changes of conversation. It’s distasteful so it’s much easier to bury your head in the sand and trust that the expert class knows what they are doing.
I don’t debate well, because remembering the supporting information that led me to my conclusions on the fly just isn’t something that comes naturally to me.
I also overestimate the ability of data to persuade. Turns out persuasion has nothing to do with facts.
Same.
The things libertarians generally espouse are on the surface, harder and less attractive than the government/activist-proposed alternative. Dig deeper, and it’s even worse because then you have to think and put connections together that you wouldn’t normally connect, and you’re asking people to do a lot of hard work, even when you lay it out for them.
Rational actors are going to pursue the course of least resistance. That’s why I say that people on welfare are the rational actors, and not those who are not.
It has not been brought up yet, but permanent DST was tried before and it was unpopular.
Permanent standard time, embrace it.
My most persuasive argument yet: if the Sunshine Protection Act passed by unanimous consent in the Senate, then we should all be wary and oppose it.
This is the way…
De La Soul’s back catalog is finally streaming, apparently
Not too long ago they gave away all their songs for free for download. Well, you did have to give them your email address.
an email address.
This is a wild article.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2023/03/us/oklahoma-city-bombing-yeakey-death-cec-cnnphotos/
Shocking that CNN ran it, and it makes me wonder why.
If you haven’t already read:
https://www.amazon.com/Oklahoma-City-Investigation-Missed-Matters/dp/0061986453
You’ll know exactly why he’s dead. OKC was a government OP that went sideways. There was such an insane amount of ass covering and disinterest in facts outside of the “lone nut” narrative that it even shock a cynical glib like me.
Thanks. I’ll check it out.
Wow. That stinks on ice. He’s going to meet a couple of mysterious feds with what he thinks is evidence that the OK City bombing wasn’t just McVeigh, and on the way there decides to cut himself up, run into a field, and shoot himself in the head? No autopsy, no evidence released to the public to support the official finding of suicide?
In regard to what Mojeux said above; while things seem like they have never been worse, it sure seems like the 90’s was a high watermark for unforgivable government atrocities. I suspect the corruption and depravity has been a steady state of bad for much longer than any of plus supposes.
*us
I like this better.
But am kind of boring.
I like just about everything about that car, except the vinyl roof and the powerglide. Three pedals, or GTFO!
Also-
I might accept 16″ wheels on a restomod, but no bigger. Tires must have a sidewall no shorter than 60 series aspect ratio.
A tire/wheel with no compliance other than structural flex of the wheel itself requires a suspension specifically designed around it.
Today’s Idiots In Cars
1. Left lane bandit
2. Moron in a truck
trying to overtake on the inside
1 – These MF’rs…I’ve been using my horn a lot more lately.
2 – Doh!
RE: #1
It’s PA it’s what people do there.
I can’t flip people off anymore since I got my windows tinted.
😉
If the guy he hit road raged and shot him, I’d probably vote to convict of some lower level of manslaughter.
If he just beat the shit out of him, I’d vote to acquit all day long.
Also, big open wheels which showcase puny stock brakes look stupid.
I hear that DST was started at the behest of pineapple farmers. Somehow it helps them meet the demand for pineapple on pizzas. That’s what I heard anyway.
Circumcision procedures drop when parents get a good nights sleep on standard time. Kids identifying as trans spike during DST.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fakehistoryporn/comments/da1745/an_italianamerican_being_forced_to_watch/
Four years later, DST was enacted. Coincidence? I don’t believe in coincidence.
Today’s Idiots In Cars
I love people who can’t see past the end of their own hood.
Car guys: what do you know about the old Land Rovers? Say an 88 series or similar. Nightmare? There seems to be a ton of resources for parts, etc.
Leaf springs? 🤷♀️
British – so electrics.
My understanding is while the body is aluminium the frames readily rot. Not sure if it’s the steel or something galvanic with the body.
Generally people like the Buick V8.
The v8 was an aluminum unit which had multiple points of failure. A common thing is to swap it for an LT chevy for reliability or get a remanufactured unit that uses different alloys on the piston sleeves and prevents otherwise catastrophic failure. Asking if ot has a swap or a proper quality rebuilt unit is key. A cheap rebuild can fail again.
https://www.roverparts.com/rover-engines/
Oh, also the wiring harnesses made by Lucas are a point of failure to replace. See snark below, which has more than a grain of truth to it.
http://www.bctriumphregistry.com/smoke.htm
I had a Triumph. Well versed in Lucas quirks!
Other than that it is the normal quirks of an older car. “Don’t get a rust bucket” is the usual statement to say.
I rode a 1976 Triumph (motorcycle) once. The gear shift and throttle were switched. Damn near killed myself.
20/21 inch wheels look good on a modern sporty car
I can’t say I even agree with that, just from my personal aesthetic sensibilities. At least in the case of modern cars the tire/wheel/suspension/brake is a unified package.
At least in the case of modern cars the tire/wheel/suspension/brake is a unified package.
That’s what I mean – it was designed with the expectation of having such large wheels
We bought a car recently with 21 inch wheels and its by far my favorite of the 3 wheel sizes offered
Even the wife who is largely indifferent to such considerations thought the 19 inch wheel option in particular looked awful on this vehicle.
Downside is that we do need to be very wary of curbs and potholes of course.
Car guys: what do you know about the old Land Rovers? Say an 88 series or similar. Nightmare? There seems to be a ton of resources for parts, etc.
Simple to work on. Nearly indestructible. Deathly slow.
Excellent candidate for a restomod. Real engine, drive train, suspension. Upgrade the interior with good seats and sound system (but no fucking screens). You’d have a great vehicle.
For something meant to rumble over rough roads or open terrain, slow isn’t a problem.
Speaking of restomods…
Sticking a Willys Overland wagon body on something like a ’90s Ford Explorer frame would make a nice little cruiser.
I was just looking at this:
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1955-willys-wagon/
That’s pretty awesome there. Hard work has been done already too.
Nice. A good restomod, IMO. They did power steering and disc brakes, which are the other things I would want on a vehicle like that.
Cute. Two wheel drive; I wonder what ring and pinion they put in it.