¡Martes por la tarde! ¡Enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jun 20, 2023 | Daily Links | 196 comments

I need to get a jump on auditing a company that for some reason responded to my inquiries to show proof they satisfy requirements in our subcontracts doesn’t apply to them.  Some of these are they demonstrate they have a HIPAA and Privacy policy.  Idiots.  They won’t like my report.

Who are these people?  Let’s just say the company’s name rhymes with “TBS”.

 

Enlaces!

Damn.  Can you imagine some colonizer using this as a doorstop?

Somehow I missed this a couple weeks ago.  Who among us doesn’t have a duffel bag filled with random people parts?

I don’t know about you, but when someone says “Mexican spiritual leader” I always think of the Snake Man from La Bamba.

Don Brett’s wrath looms over the Caribbean.  It must be martes.

Two WEF puppets discuss trade.

What I don’t get, is if they already executed the sharks by cutting off their fins, what purpose does it serve to confiscate and probably destroy it?  This is stupider than dumping raw milk because the sharks  are already dead.

A humorous attempt to convince me El Salvador is a right wing dictatorship.

 

Holy shit, the 80’s were uniquely weird.

 

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196 Comments

  1. Brochettaward

    First with your name on it…a First with your name on it!

  2. The Late P Brooks

    what were we talking about?

  3. The Late P Brooks

    That idol would make a good hood ornament. Git out da way.

    • kinnath

      Why would you put Billy on the hood of your car?

      • SDF-7

        Gorram it… “click refresh first, dumbass”…

      • mexican sharpshooter

        Heh. I didn’t make that connection.

    • SDF-7

      I think Billy’s a little old to be sitting on your hood, Brooks… but I suppose he might be into it.

  4. Ownbestenemy

    *check time* huh…15 minutes on the homepage isn’t THAT long to linger is it?

    • SDF-7

      MS has us wrapped around his finger…

      • Ownbestenemy

        She was one of my first musical crushes

  5. Shpip

    According to the INAH, the human-like sculpture has been carved out of limestone and stands at roughly 10 inches tall. The emaciated figure is in a seated position and wears a nose ring and a mask on its skull. It also bears signs of skull elongation, a bone-shaping fashion statement sported by upper class Mayans.

    “It is a figure that, due to its stark features, appeals to mortuary motifs and would be linked to a deity of death,”

    Looks like Planned Parenthood just found their logo for their Latinx-outreach program.

  6. Tundra

    The gif that keeps on giffing. Gracias!

    Holy shit, the 80’s were uniquely weird.

    You spelled “awesome” wrong. I saw Billy live back then. Terrific showman and a really fun concert.

    Always buried in the Mexico violence stories is the fact that most of the victims were into some kind of illegal shit. Still, it would be nice to go El Salvador on the country and clean the cartels out.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      No, it was kinda weird. Women wore shoulder pads.

      • Gender Traitor

        I hated those things. Cut them out if I possibly could.

      • R C Dean

        Kinda weird, and awesome, is what I recall.

      • Count Potato

        Cocaine is a helluva drug.

  7. Brochettaward

    How do you do, fellow right wing extremists? Any insurrections I may join?

    • SDF-7

      Running with that “CIA glib account must be Bro” from earlier, I take it.

      • Brochettaward

        If people don’t take the bait, I’m going to have to start my own plot to overthrow democracy and honeypot Yusef.

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        Good luck with that

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      I knew it!

    • The Other Kevin

      I fully expect us to all meet up and discover we’re wearing the same khakis, polos, and sunglasses.

      • kinnath

        Every Saturday at the 1st Tee.

      • EvilSheldon

        The secret to Fed identification is to look for the pen pockets on the sleeve and the radio wire loop on the placket. Also, feds wear polos made out of recycled dinosaurs and cut like horse blankets. Often they wear visible t-shirts underneath to keep the body armor from chafing.

        I hope the Gliberiad has better dress sense.

      • Sean

        *looks down at cargo shorts*

      • Nephilium

        Have you seen most of us?

        /sticks to jeans, t-shirt, and work shirt

      • Don escaped Texas

        don’t forget the straw hat !

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        Huh, the only FBI agents I know of wear Hawanii Shirts over slacks. They look like aged accountants who surf on weekends.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Great. Now we are all implicated in an FBI sting called “Operation Firsting”.

      • SDF-7

        I’m sure Reddit got “Operation Fisting”, so we should be happy.

      • juris imprudent

        That was all about Canadian timber kickbacks – the great Fir Sting.

  8. The Other Kevin

    That statue is creepy as hell and I wouldn’t come within 100 feet of that thing.

    • SDF-7

      Maybe the point of it all? Ward off evil spirits by being even more badass (like gargoyles?)

      Or just cheaper than rigging up the old spike pit / rolling bolder deal to handle pesky adventurers.

  9. The Other Kevin

    Is the Biography channel still a thing? I never saw one that wasn’t interesting. In the one for Billy Idol, they told how he got his name. Once a teacher called him “idle” (lazy). When he joined Generation X he wanted a stage name like Johnny Rotten, so he chose Billy Idol as a play on “idle”.

    • Timeloose

      I saw him again in May. Billy still has the chops. He is also in relatively good shape for his age.

      • one true athena

        I saw a clip not too long ago of him getting his US citizenship. It was pretty adorable how excited and proud he was.

  10. KK, Non-Man

    My dad and I were riding around in his electric car and he was showing me how braking and coasting charge the battery.

    Dad: “I know all the slopes in this neighborhood”

    Me: “That’s racist!”

    • Shpip

      That certainly puts a unique slant on things.

      • KK, Non-Man

        * narrows gaze *

      • Ownbestenemy

        A double! *roaring applause!*

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        That will put a chink in any mans armor.

    • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

      Those batteries will just be hungry again in a few minutes.

      • SDF-7

        What — did they buy them from City Battery? You know you get City service there, right? And a City value for your money!

      • Yusef drives a Kia

        That was a city joke

    • gbob

      Zip those gooky thoughts! I have an ancient chinese secret I can share to help you clean them.

  11. R.J.

    Mexican Spiritual Leader:
    When El Popo comes to get him, will he run? Better hide that pipe and gun. That’s a felony unless you are El Biden.

    • The Other Kevin

      Dammit. And here we are stuck in America with drag story hour.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        That’s just for kids.

    • Rat on a train

      I need pants?

      • Nephilium

        Wait until they learn about no shirt, no shoes, no service.

    • Bobarian LMD

      Remember, the underwear goes on the inside of your pants.

      Are we retconning Superman, now?

    • R.J.

      No. You can’t even see out! Why do that, unless you can see it with your own eyes?

      • R.J.

        That was for Drake’s comment.

    • Ownbestenemy

      I will get 101 Teams messages rather than a concise email from younger peers of mine.

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        That would piss me off

      • Nephilium

        I hate that tendency among people. The girlfriend does it as well.

        Me: Are you going to be home for dinner?
        Her: Yes
        Leaving now
        What are we having?

        That all fits in one line, and would only be a single notification instead of three!

        /shakes fist at sky, fixes belt onion

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        It’s annoying

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        And I don’t like it

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        At all

      • R.J.

        The wife

      • R.J.

        sends one word or two

      • R.J.

        at a time

      • slumbrew

        Noooooope.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        I dill not use Teams, unless I need an answer immediately.

    • Sean

      I thought the game controller was a joke…O M G

      • Ownbestenemy

        Im not too hung up on the controller…if it had a robust backup/hardwired system etc.

      • mexican sharpshooter

        This. The reinforced beer can taking me to the bottom of the ocean is enough of a red flag.

      • Drake

        Bolted shut from outside? So even if the surface, they die without the mothership.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Yeah if this was the 1910s and we are exploring how to create a viable submersible, then sure.

      • SDF-7

        While watching the Tucker link GT provided below — I see:

        Trending in United States
        Titanic
        Tending with Logitech

        Ouch.

    • SDF-7

      God f’n dammit. Am I just going to post slow links to everyone today?

      grumble bitch moan complain…

      • SDF-7

        Well, they skipped the whole “explosive on a stick” attempt… so that’s one point in their favor.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      ‘I did three separate dives, and every time they lost communication. This is not saying it is a shoddy ship, it is just all new technology and they are learning it as they go along.’

      Yeah, fuck no.

  12. Count Potato

    “A gay bar in Minneapolis has removed Anheuser-Busch products from its beer line after criticizing the brand for how it handled backlash over its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

    The Saloon, which bills itself as the city’s longest-running gay bar, said ahead of its Pride celebrations that it will replace the products with beers from local breweries.

    Anheuser-Busch lost $27 billion in value due to a campaign with Mulvaney that upset conservatives. Then the company upset progressives too, after failing to support Mulvaney through the backlash.

    ‘Anheuser-Busch had an opportunity to support a marginalized community in a way that few other corporations have attempted, but they abandoned that direction. We view that as unacceptable,’ said the bar’s owner John Moore in a statement.”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12214855/Minneapolis-gay-bar-cans-Anheuser-Busch-products-criticizing-partnership-Dylan-Mulvaney.html

    “Non-binary ‘And Just Like That’ star Sara Ramirez is slammed as ‘heavy-handed’ social justice warrior who’s even less funny than Che Diaz in blistering New York Magazine interview by queer journalist”

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12214971/And-Just-Like-star-Sara-Ramirez-slammed-blistering-NY-magazine-interview.html

    This shit is so tiring.

    • Sensei

      Mulvaney was a dumb choice who also insulted basketball fans as part of “her” posts.

      But “she” did as asked and got tossed under the bus by Bud.

      I understand why that has angered people too.

      • R C Dean

        Eh, he did a quickie “influencer” thing for them and it cost them assloads of money. So they didn’t do anything more with him. I dunno how he got tossed under the bus by Bud – as far as I know, they haven’t said anything bad about him, just didn’t continue with him.

        The people angered by this are angered by fucking everything. Don’t care what they think, except to point and laugh at them. Except the ones going after children – they can die in a fire.

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      We’re marginalized!

      Says the people who are celebrated for a months and openly revered by governments and schools the entire year.

      Fuck off.

    • rhywun

      ‘Anheuser-Busch had an opportunity to support a marginalized community herpity derpity doo…’

      Also, they had an opportunity to not stir shit up in the first place. Bet they wish they had thought of that first.

    • Pope Jimbo

      Doh! Didn’t realize you had already reported on this anti-bush story.

    • kinnath

      Love the photos from Hunter’s laptop.

    • SDF-7

      Re: His “Total inversion of virtue” comment — yeah, there’s a political aspect to it (can’t tear down Western Civ unless you destroy the pillars and all)… but I’ll tell you what — it really does get you to start thinking about Satan and “What you call evil, I call good” master-of-lies type things. The flat out demonic attention whores shilling for the left these days don’t help keeping that out of mind, of course.

  13. SDF-7

    Speaking of the Titan sub from this morning… you would think for $250k a head it would be a little more advanced. I mean — no distress beacon, and relies on (spotty) communications with the mother ship to even be told where to go? Holy crapola, you couldn’t pay me to go down like that, much less get me to cough up a quarter mil. Yikes.

    I was assuming it was an actual (albeit short range) sub that was self piloted. This would be up there with competing with Elon using the ole “lawn chair strapped to a pile of M-80s” quality.

  14. Count Potato

    “Hunter Biden and his baby mama have privately settled their child support dispute in Arkansas, according to a source close to the first son.

    Lunden Roberts, 32, the mother of Hunter’s long-unacknowledged 4-year-old daughter, agreed to her monthly child support payments being slashed by more than 75% — from $20,000 to less than $5,000.

    She also is understood to have dropped her legal bid to change the little girl’s surname to Biden, a request rejected by Hunter’s attorneys.”

    https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/hunter-biden-baby-mama-luden-roberts-settle-child-support-dispute-with-first-sons-payments-slashed/

    Sounds like Hunter’s lucky week.

    • Drake

      Was a pallet of cash offered in lieu of laundered money?

      • SDF-7

        Sounds more like an offer she couldn’t refuse was proffered.

      • Bobarian LMD

        A Get out of Jail card, attached to a summons for federal charges.

      • Fourscore

        Needs an inflation kicker on that agreement

    • The Other Kevin

      Quite the coincidence. They stopped just before he had to disclose where all that money came from. I guess she must like being alive.

  15. R C Dean

    “What I don’t get, is if they already executed the sharks by cutting off their fins, what purpose does it serve to confiscate and probably destroy it?”

    You confiscate them because they are illegal to own and sell. It’s not like we want the state to take them and then resell them, do we?

    You destroy them, because it’s not like we want the state to take them and then resell them, do we?

    Why are they illegal to own and sell? To prevent sharks from being hunted to (near) extinction. I don’t know how serious a problem that is, but that’s the reason for prohibiting the ownership or sale of shark fins. Once you make that determination, the rest follows in a pretty straight line.

    • SDF-7

      They should just argue that they’re trying to help the underserved transdolphin shark population transition.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        I am really just a land-shark, mam.

      • rhywun

        Candygram.

  16. Count Potato

    “The Wall Street Journal has confirmed our reporting that the Wuhan Institute of Virology scientists who were sickened in November 2019 were working with SARS-like coronaviruses and being funded by the US”

    https://twitter.com/shellenberger/status/1671162870422454272

    That’s just crazy talk.

  17. juris imprudent

    Very good read.

    Conservatively-minded folk can often have a weak sense of negative structure, of how structures hold people back. Progressively-minded people often have a weak or erratic sense of human agency, of how human action creates outcomes.

    Progressives often think good things can just be allocated—such as through affirmative action—without appreciating the damage done to making things work. Affirmative action undermines signals of competence and capacity—leading people to rely more on stereotypes—because signals of competence and capacity have been occluded..

    • Yusef drives a Kia

      Thanks for that, a great read

    • one true athena

      Good essay. Though in the quoted section, I don’t think progressives have any real idea how structures hold people back. They claim they do (“systemic racism”) but in practice, their analyses never seem to show that the structure itself is doing the holding back, it’s always some excuse like the people are wrong or the funding is wrong. e.g. Few progs admit the entire structure of Homeless Activism is a failure, despite decades of doing the same thing “trying to solve it”. and sure, a lot of that is the activist capture expressed in the article, but it also doesn’t really suggest that progs have any sense of how ‘structures are holding people back’. Or government schools. or welfare. or any other ‘public good project’. It’s always just the most shallow analysis like “it’s got a nice name on the tin, so it’s good. If it’s not working it’s cuz those meanie Republicans won’t spend enough money!”

      Although thinking about it, maybe the ‘structure’ is things like ‘the family’. So they can identify structures that are in the way and want to destroy, but nothing else.

      • Don escaped Texas

        despite decades of doing the same thing “trying to solve it”

        I agree with all of this,

        but I’m also think that 20% of society is just too fucking retarded to get out of the rain, and they’re always going to be expensive to keep up. None of that means the government should do it or that anyone has a right to tax me to do it, but socially I expect some significant portion of my wealth needs to be spent propping up hopeless people. Lucky for my useless relatives I feel this way.

    • Count Potato

      WTF is a carbon capture pipeline?

      • MikeS

        The plan is to pipe CO2 captured from coal plants to the Bakken oil formation in NoDak and sequester it underground.

      • MikeS

        Or ethanol plants or any other large CO2 producing facility.

      • R.J.

        *Ahem

        STEVE SMITH HELP SEQUESTER CARBON IN CAMPERS!
        BY SEQUESTER, MEAN RAPE!

      • Count Potato

        So totally pointless climate change bullshit.

      • MikeS

        The interesting part of all of it is that it could make a coal fired electric plant “carbon neutral”. Which of course is why the greenies are wholeheartedly against it.

      • grrizzly

        That would be the first time that the greenies and I would be on the same page. How is it possible?

      • MikeS

        Because you’re making a knee-jerk reaction based on your hated of “green projects”.

        It removes the greenies argument against coal. I don’t see how that is no benefit to anyone. Is it yet another waste of “green” money? Sure. But at the pace these idiots are closing down coal plants, I’m willing to try anything to keep them open.

      • grrizzly

        My argument is based on the fact that no changes in CO2 emissions will have a meaningful effect on climate. Any attempt to reduce CO2 emissions is pointless and wasteful. There’s nothing to celebrate when emissions are reduced, even if it’s done less ineffectively.

        And if you believe that it removes the greenies argument against coal, how come the greenies didn’t get the memo?

      • MikeS

        how come the greenies didn’t get the memo?

        Because it’s beating them at their own game.

        You stick to your principles and join the greenies in opposing it. I’m pragmatically watching it to see if the tech can sway some some of the less fanatical ones to agreeing to coal-fired electric.

        The money is going to get wasted somewhere. I pick this as one of the least bad options.

      • Count Potato

        Same alsos who are also against nuclear.

      • grrizzly

        In other words, a completely useless, retarded project. Zero benefit to anyone but the grifters.

      • rhywun

        Sounds like a fancy way of saying “grift”.

    • creech

      If a good looking female politician is not a flaming progressive, some guys will find a reason to think she’s on liberty’s team.

      • Count Potato

        If I recall correctly, South Dakota was the least lockdowned state during covid.

      • Tundra

        A lot of that is due to their structure. Governor isn’t god.

  18. Count Potato

    “EU: Smartphones Must Have User-Replaceable Batteries by 2027”

    “European Parliament passed a change to a law that will force replaceable batteries on all gadgets, including smartphones.

    By law, phones in the EU by 2027 will need to have batteries you can replace with no tools, which means no adhesives.”

    “Apple has already been forced by the European Union to change from a Lightning port to a USB-C port on iPhones, with the iPhone 15 expected to be the first to make the switch. Now it seems Apple will need to figure out how to allow access to the battery inside future iPhones, as will every other smartphone manufacturer.”

    https://www.pcmag.com/news/eu-smartphones-must-have-user-replaceable-batteries-by-2027

    https://www.androidauthority.com/replaceable-batteries-eu-2023-3335711/

    • Tundra

      Not a fan of force, but watching Apple being hoisted on their own retard is strangely enjoyable.

      • Tundra

        Neat!

        I actually like my MB Air, but one of the linux ones would be fine.

      • R.J.

        GETAC S400 with Linux is the anti-Apple laptop. Weighs 8 pounds (macs are feather light), has a touchscreen (macs still don’t), lets everyone in the room know you are a wild man (a mac says you wear a man bun).

        https://www.ebay.com/itm/155362943634

      • Pope Jimbo

        I’m in love because they have a laptop keyboard. They didn’t add a 10key to the right and thus force the rest of the keys to not be centered.

        How the fuck did every laptop over 15″ end up with those horrible keyboards?

      • SDF-7

        Because they’re a lot more efficient when doing spreadsheets or just typing numbers in general, and the screen size gives enough real estate to make them practical on the bottom?

        I’m your polar opposite, I guess — I miss keypads on most laptops, and I really, really despise f’ing touchpads. Trackpoint rocked when it was more widely available outside of Lenovo — these days I just have to use a wireless mouse. How anyone functions with that bastard pain in the ass, getting in the way when you try typing piece of shit is beyond me.

        Not that I’m passionate on the subject or anything, mind you.

      • Pope Jimbo

        I always disable the touchpad too.

        The main thing I do on my laptops is type words. If I wanted a 10-key I could buy a usb version and plug it in. It is just so annoying to try typing on those laptops when they are off center. My mom was the opposite, she did taxes and like you said a lot of numerical entry so she wanted that 10-key.

        It would be nice if there were options for either type of keyboard. That way everyone could get what they wanted. But every single laptop that is bigger now has only 10key keyboards.

        Your real crime is admitting you use a wireless mouse. Everyone knows that trackballs are the only true Libertarian pointing device.

      • SDF-7

        Just because the rest of you roll your balls around in public, don’t expect me to sir!

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        I miss having a 10 key. Trying to hunt and peck out a CC number on a line is a PITA.

        On the other hand, of-centering the track pad is as dumb as dumb gets. Oh, wait, my 10 key less laptop does that anyway.

    • R.J.

      AAA Batteries of GTFO.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Hand cranks. Like the good old days.

  19. The Late P Brooks

    ‘I did three separate dives, and every time they lost communication. This is not saying it is a shoddy ship, it is just all new technology and they are learning it as they go along.’

    A bluetooth signal won’t make it through that much water? You learn something every day.

    • gbob

      “At this point, what difference does it make?”

      -The greatest description of the early 21st century one could make.

  20. The Late P Brooks

    I bet the cartels have better submarines than those Titanic guys. They should do a deal.

  21. The Late P Brooks

    Tell me again how Noem is a champion of liberty.

    Those eggs won’t break themselves.

  22. Ownbestenemy

    New guy we picked up has Step on Snek on his backpack and just brought in stoicism daily for the desk…another in the wild?

    • R.J.

      One can only hope.

    • MikeS

      He wasn’t wearing khakis, was he?

      • R.J.

        “Greetings, fellow employees!”

      • Ownbestenemy

        Wait….that isn’t our uniform? Shit wife is gonna be pissed that she has to take em all back

  23. Animal

    So, folks, in order to support my new gig, I went and reactivated (sigh) my Twitter account.

    Toss me a follow if you like. https://twitter.com/wardmclark

  24. Pope Jimbo

    Remember when the Left was boycotting Chick-Fil-A and a bunch of state AG’s got together and told them that they had their back? Me neither, but Brother Keith knows who spends a lot of money in Minnisoda and is going to be sure that they can sic the law on the deplorables.

    More than a dozen attorneys general, including Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, have reached out to the CEO of Target to offer support and assistance as the company responds to backlash around its Pride merchandise.

    In the letter to CEO Brian Cornell, which was co-led by Ellison and Massachusets Attorney General Andrea Joy Campell, the coalition commended Target for making decisions to keep workers and staff safe, but also expressed concern over the Minneapolis-based retailer removing Pride items from store shelves.

    The collation urged Cornell and Target “to be mindful of its obligations… as it makes decisions as to how to respond to backlash against its Pride merchandise,” adding, “If Target again finds itself facing anti-LGBTQIA+ harassment… We are ready, willing, and able to work with you in the spirit of progress, inclusivity, and equality.”

    • R.J.

      Pisses me off. Choosing not to shop there is not harassment. BUT, bomb threats are. And the LGBT+ community is making the threats.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        Buy the Pride gear, RJ.

  25. gbob

    Sorry for the off topic, but is any Glib into film? I sold off most of my DSLR camera equipment, but before I sold my favorite film cameras, I wanted to see if I can find a good home for my favorite camera I ever shot with. It’s a Pentax K1000 SE (Asahi branded) with a beautiful leather side. Well, actually well used leather. I’m sure there’s enough of my DNA to clone me on this baby. I’ve shot her everywhere. Light meter works great. It has a great focus meter on it. Classic 35mm camera. Anyways, just in the awkward position of wanting a great device to go to a person who will love it, and needing some of that filthy lucre, you know? Long shot, but if any nut would love this camera as much as I do, Glibs might be the right place.

    • gbob

      (*Sell, not sold. Ugh. I know how to type.)

      Also, examples of photo shot and camera itself totally available upon request!

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      When I was in the service a buddy had one of those, Asahi branded Pentax. We was getting ready to ship out to Japan and offered to sell it to me but I was too broke to buy it.

      Unless someone else has a more pressing need, I’d be happy to take it off of your hands. How much are you asking for it?

      jemezhobbit at the protonmail

      • gbob

        3 months ago, I would have told you “not a damn price”, but at this point? 250 and I’ll throw in a macro lens along with the natural 50mm 1:2 smc lens.

        You HAVE to, however, promise to love her! I bought her in 1998. Her previous owner was (allegedly) a National Geographic photographer who gave his camera to her niece who sold it to me.

      • The Bearded Hobbit

        You piqued my curiosity but I’m looking at my Canon AE-1 with dust growing on it and, I guess, my film days are over.

      • gbob

        Blow that dust off, grab some Illford black and white film and develop at home! (oh, and a new battery for that camera! Keep the lens cap off and the battery is too dead for the light meter within a year!

        As I said, a was tossing it out there.

    • Animal

      Mrs. Animal still has her Canon A-1 with a big assortment of lenses and other stuff. Flower of 1979 35mm technology! She loves it, but we have a digital SLR now which takes awesome photos and actually is a lot easier to use.

      • gbob

        What a camera! Yeah. I was thinking of my grandson. In the next year, the majority of photos will be AI generated (93% pictures today are composite images. The difference between that and Virtual Intelligence aided photos is somewhat moot in 2023). I view film as giving my grandson a precious gift. Light on chemicals will always reveal the reality of the time. Film forever!

    • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

      Ugh. My film days are behind me. Someone stole my ME Super years ago.

    • kinnath

      I might be interested in the camera

  26. Pope Jimbo

    Is it any surprise that these guys don’t want to serve Bush?

    The Saloon, a popular gay bar on the corner of Hennepin Avenue and North Ninth Street, announced Monday that it has cut ties with Anheuser-Busch.

    “Anheuser-Busch had an opportunity to support a marginalized community in a way that few other corporations have attempted, but they abandoned that direction. We view that as unacceptable,” John Moore, owner of The Saloon, said.

    “We are excited to offer Modist and Bauhaus products because they are as passionate about beer as they are about their communities,” Robby Palmer, the bar’s general manager, added. “We will continue to pursue avenues to keep our money local and community-based while we remain one of the best parties in Minneapolis and a place where our queer community can come together to celebrate our existence.”

    These guys are hypocrites if they don’t let kids who identify as transgender drink in their bar. Those kids are marginalized! They need support.

    • R.J.

      I identify at 21 years old!
      I wonder when that will be tried.

      • Pope Jimbo

        Surely if you are mature enough to sign up for gender surgery, you are mature enough to have a beer.

    • Pope Jimbo

      If Bud Light had sent Bruce Jenner a can of beer with his face on it and wearing a dress, I don’t think that many people would have cared.

      Mostly because Bruce did something to become famous before transitioning. The reason that Dylan is such a lightning rod is because he did absolutely nothing except put on a dress and act like a huge asshole.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        It didn’t help that the marketing lady expressed disdain for the customer base.

      • Count Potato

        I suspect Dylan is larping, and isn’t even trans. No signs of being on hormones, or getting facial hair removed. Yet, this person got to meet the President.

        If they had Laverne Cox or Kim Petras do an ad, no one would have cared. There was some FTM dude in a Bud Light TV commercial years ago. And nothing else happened.

      • Ownbestenemy

        And timing comes into play. It isn’t a trans thing, it’s look at this woman thing.

  27. The Late P Brooks

    These guys are hypocrites if they don’t let kids who identify as transgender drink in their bar. Those kids are marginalized! They need support.

    What about sixteen year olds who identify as twenty three year olds?

    • R.J.

      Exactly. That shit needs to start immediately. Imagine the chaos.

    • Mojeaux, XX

      16? Mastectomy? SURE! Alcohol? NO BAD STOP

  28. Pope Jimbo

    Speaking of connected sons of politicians. The real crime isn’t killing 5 people, it is releasing the video of it! How is little Thompson supposed to slip out of punishment if the unwashed masses see how fucking terrible he is?

    Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara said his department is investigating the unauthorized release of Metro Transit video showing the collision late Friday that killed five people in one of the vehicles.

    County Attorney Mary Moriarty released a statement Monday voicing disappointment that the victims’ families “were further devastated by the shock of seeing the video of the crash that took their loved ones [being] shared widely and without authorization on social media, before they had a chance to view and process it themselves.”

    I don’t know. If it was my kid killed by that asshole, I’d have no problem with the world seeing it. It wasn’t like you could see the faces of the victims.

    • Tundra

      Fuck them. Every single one of them. CrimeWatch got the video from a citizen and posted it while the fucking assholes in Minneapolis were trying to frame it as a police pursuit.

      Shoot the fucker. He’s racked up a body count of 6. That’s enough.

      • Pope Jimbo

        That video — recorded by a Metro Transit camera — was leaked to Alpha News reporter Liz Collin and posted on social media in the days following, prompting Chief O’Hara to say an investigation into that has now been opened.

        I read that and started laughing. Why? Remember when John Thompson – the asshole’s father – led a protest in the suburbs and beat an effigy of Liz Collins with a baseball bat?

        Footage of Saturday’s protest in Hugo, Minnesota captured by Alpha News shows DFL legislative candidate John Thompson beating effigies of Bob Kroll and his wife on their front driveway.

        Hundreds of Black Lives Matter protesters gathered outside Kroll’s home Saturday to protest his support for the officers involved in the death of George Floyd, whom he believes were fired without due process.

        Kroll leads the Minneapolis police union and is a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, while his wife, Liz Collin, is an anchor for WCCO. Activists have called for both Kroll and Collin to be fired from their jobs.

        Thompson was filmed beating pinatas of Kroll and Collin while standing on their driveway.

        *At the time Collins was working for WCCO and was canned. She ended up at Alpha News.

        Payback is a bitch!

      • Tundra

        Lol. That’s even better.

      • rhywun

        Ohhh, that’s the son of a pol? Yikes, not a good look, the police.

    • Ownbestenemy

      While a valid fact I suspect the writer smugly inserted this
      “The SUV weighed roughly twice as much as the vehicle it hit.”

      And fuck the police and pols

  29. grrizzly

    Development

    Washington Post has just reported there are two Billionaires on board the missing submarine visiting the Titanic.

    Don’t take a trip on a shitty submarine for no good reason even if you can afford it.

    • The Bearded Hobbit

      I was reading about all of the comm devices (15-second pinger) and fail-safes aboard (auto resurfacing equipment). Those poor dudes are fooked.

      • Sensei

        I had no idea it was partially carbon fiber construction.

        As was mentioned in other threads the most likely thing was a structural failure which hopefully was quick death for the occupants.

      • Zwak , who will swing for the crime, in double time!

        If that thing went into vacuum, they would be well and truly fuct.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    If Bud Light had sent Bruce Jenner a can of beer with his face on it and wearing a dress, I don’t think that many people would have cared.

    I think this is correct. Hell, if they could get a shot of Martina Navratilova drinking a Bud Light at the U S Open nobody would bat an eye.

    Now that I think of it, the whole “I’m an influencer” world, and all the people who are famous for being famous (despite the fact they have actually achieved nothing whatsoever in their lives might just be the real issue here. I don’t give a fuck what Dylan Mulvaney does. I do start to give a fuck when somebody tries to tell me I’m obligated to care. Okay, now I care. I despise little fucking psycho.

    Happy now?

    • Count Potato

      Being the world’s most annoying twink is an achievement.

  31. The Late P Brooks

    two Billionaires on board the missing submarine

    Soros and Gates?

      • rhywun

        LOL exactly what I was hoping for

      • Nerfherder (Non-Non-Man)

        I could achieve untold levels of erect for that.

  32. Rat on a train

    It doesn’t look like Matt will win the 27th. He’s close in Spotsy but Stafford is going heavily for Durant.

    • R C Dean

      The raven flies at midnight?