“Are those really going to be her links?”
“Apparently, the show banned tons of personal belongings, including lip balm.”
Friday Afternoon Links
About The Author
Riven
[riv-uhn]
noun
1. a gaming, lifting, shooting, intoxicated, ravenous, and happily-taken nerd.
2. often aims to misbehave.
3. and though she be but little, she is fierce.*
And rumor has it that she (and her husband) are also delightful dinner companions. You didn't hear it from me, though.
Though the team believes Tainiaro was a burial site, it is not certain. “For the time being, however, the notion that a large cemetery seems to have existed near the Arctic Circle should cause us to reconsider our impressions of the north and its peripheral place in world prehistory,” the researcher wrote.
Good thing the Finns have no “First Peoples” types who are spoiling for
a fightvictim cred, or some churches might be getting put to the torch soon.+1 Sami
That link blended well with UnCivil’s last post.
All the dogs are named after libertarians and/or economists. Most niche are his dogs Robert and Lucas named after the late economist Robert Lucas. His two other dogs are named Milton and Murrary for economists/libertarians Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard, respectively.
I too have a dog named Lucas.
The Prince of Darkness?
Sometimes it seems like it!
Does it live close to the second floor?
I’ll take statements that could get someone on a list for $200 please, Alex.
My first thought was “Oh, he uses Nutella instead of peanut butter? Gee… that’s odd.”
(C’mon, you knew somebody was going to go there)
Nah, they shouldn’t have chocolate.
So cloned dogs named after libertarian economists. A little weird I suppose but could be a lot weirder.
I would count obsessively sniffing the hair of little girls, and getting kind of handsy with them from time to time, as weirder.
It’s not really Squid Game without murder though.
A lot of ink will be spill though.
There are a lot of quirks about Milei’s dogs, including the fact that they are literal clones (yes really), but most interesting to me is their names.
All the dogs are named after libertarians and/or economists. Most niche are his dogs Robert and Lucas named after the late economist Robert Lucas. His two other dogs are named Milton and Murrary for economists/libertarians Milton Friedman and Murray Rothbard, respectively.
The two latest editions of four-leggers at Casa Shpip are Rossini and Puccini, but I suppose it could have easily been Ludwig and Fredrich (or Mises and Hayek).
Some help in losing your mind
Losing my mind!
Someone tell me if that music link is “Last Christmas”
Looks more like a cover pic from Twilight casting…
It isn’t.
Nick Cave murder ballad.
For reasons I can’t quite recall, our male is named Hud, after the Paul Newman character in the movie of the same name.
The other is named Daisy, because I’m always amused by pit bulls named after flowers.
My cats were mostly named after cartoon characters. I am not a serious person.
When we had cats, they were mostly named after food. Peaches & Cream (a brother and sister), Pumpkin, and Skittles (a calico).
My first cat was Jinx, that was from an old cartoon.
My daughter named our cats after snack food.
Kittyco*, Kelly, Pippus**, Mojo***, Raspberry, Blackberry, Chunky Monkey, and Snickerdoodle.
* She was a calico kitty.
** Belgian relatives had a kitten named Pippus (not how you actually spell it, but it’s a password so fuck you) that was a gray and white longhair. Years later, my bro found a gray and white longhair 3-day-old kitten runt in a stack of tires. We named her in honor of the Belgian cat. I hand-raised her and she, like most human hand-raised cats, turned out to be a vicious cunt. I loved that cat so much.
*** Only had her long enough to give her a name and get her put to sleep. Kitten who was run over and barely alive. I was on my way to work. I stopped to pick her up, saw she was in a bad way, rushed to the vet, asked her name, then said she was beyond saving. Fortunately, my supervisor was very understanding after I showed her the paperwork.
You’re a good bean, Moje.
Occasionally, someone will think I’m too quick to euthanize a suffering animal, but I think keeping them alive just to make its OWNER happy (or delay grief) is cruel beyond belief.
I don’t like that we can’t show most suffering humans the same mercy, but that’s a can of worms ethically and philosophically.
Little Black Cat is named Snot because of two little bare patches (now long since filled in with fur) either side of his nose when he came home from the Humane Society.
He also sneezes a lot.
Ollie and Coconut are the current cats. Wonderful animals. One traditional tabby, and a little ginger girl. I am about to go pet them now, as the work week is officially over.
We had an orange and white cat named “Booger” for the exact same reason.
Current cat is named “Chula Longkorn” after the king of Siam who introduced Siamese cats to the US. The vet knows her as “Bean”.
Other current kitten is named “Frankie” (for Frank and Beans). Frank turned out to have a vagina (hence Frankie). She also answers to “Shithead”.
“Shithead, get out of the garbage can!”
“Meow”
Me dear sainted mother named one of her cats “Tundra.” Our present dog is called “Minion.”
I like unusual names for pets.
Our dog’s name is Pepperoni.
Two cats named after literary figures, one named after his markings, and one after Bill Murry.
We had Ozzie and Harriet, followed by a couple more Harriets and a Lucy among others. Thus began my adult habit of using old lady names; my last were Maggie and Betty.
No “Winston’s Mom?”
Kat and meows… those are our felines’ names. Really ‘shadow’ and ‘cleo’ are their official names, but just too much work.
Speaking of Lucy, hijinks do indeed ensue tonight.
My dog is named after the Brit who discovered the neutron. Even though he’s a black Mexican.
chi hooa hooa
I tried giving that nickname to a partner’s private parts and they are not longer my partner. It was a feisty thing though
Chai Chai Rodrigweeze?
Another rat goes over the side
Walmart confirmed on Friday that it is not advertising on X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk and formerly known as Twitter.
“We aren’t advertising on X as we’ve found other platforms to better reach our customers,” a Walmart spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.
Reuters first reported Walmart’s move.
A number of prominent brands paused their advertising on X, last month following Musk’s public embrace of an antisemitic conspiracy theory favored by White supremacists.
Following the news, Joe Benarroch, head of Operations at X, told CNN in a statement that brands who advertise on the platform are able to get in front of massive amount of users.
“Walmart has a wonderful community on X, and with a half a billion people on X, every year the platform experiences 15 billion impressions about the holidays alone with more than 50 percent of X users doing most or all of their shopping online,” Joe Benarroch said.
Aren’t the people who shop at Walmart all lowbrow racists and bigots? It should be a perfect fit.
If they were principled they would delete their account.
Did you read the article?
They are not pulling ads based on any principle. They just didnt think they were working.
Seems reasonable.
There are articles?
*dons tin-foil cap* So they have a solid PR group who knows not to waddle through this and just decides to use the numbers for their decision; which unless they produce their click-through rates and metrics, was actually a smart choice to avoid it all only to fall to the modern age of rage politics (life) *realizes the tin-foil cap wasn’t needed*
Actually their reasoning seems just fine and not at all boycott-worthy.
I’m still laughing at the bullshit “antisemitic” nonsense all of them are hanging on him. For no other reason than to pat each other on the back at how woke they are.
After which they will join a pro-HAMAS rally and call for genociding the Jews. Oooooh. Now I understand why so many are turning against Creepy Joe. He banned gas stoves.
lol
But yeah, Joe is not anti-Jew enough for the college set. Imagine if Hamas gets Donald re-elected. What a world.
Assuming, of course, it’s true. Could just be a cover story for woking out.
Experts baffled
Throughout a period of sky-high interest rates, depleted savings and grinding inflation, Americans have spent with abandon.
On Black Friday, sales at brick-and-mortar stores were up 1.1% from last year; online alone, US shoppers spent a record $9.8bn (£7.72bn) online alone. Consumers spent another $12.4bn (£9.77bn) on Cyber Monday – an eye-popping 9.6% increase over last year. This holiday splurge follows a pattern of US consumer spending, which has buoyed the American economy in the past year, making up nearly 70% of the real GDP’s 4.9% Q3 growth.
While some of this spending reflects the rising cost of necessities, Americans are also still buying big-ticket items and laying out tons of cash for experiences. This “YOLO” attitude towards money bucks the spending trends of past economic downturns – and some economists have been left scratching their heads, especially as consumer sentiment on the economy remains overwhelmingly pessimistic.
“If 18 months ago, you’d have said the Federal Reserve Bank could raise interest rates by 500 basis points, and the consumer would chug on, relatively unfazed, I would have been extremely surprised,” says Ellie Henderson, an economist at UK-based, global bank Investec. “I’d have said, ‘that’s just not how economics works’.”
Maybe they just want to buy before the price goes up some more.
Cause there doesn’t seem to be much of a future, anyway, so YOLO.
I really REALLY need interest rates to go up again. No debt, some savings. Pleeeeeeeeeeze.
You’re welcome.
“Maybe they just want to buy before the price goes up some more.”
That’s actually the official reason for the Fed’s perma-inflation policy “targeted” at 2%/year.
U.S. Senator colludes with foreigners to stop U.S. natgas development:
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/un-delegates-circulate-petition-shut-down-us-natural-gas-production-global-climate-summit-kicks-off
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck ooooooooooooooff.
Translation: Nobody’s buying your bullshit anymore.
I keep saying I want to be a judge when the day of reckoning comes. Trials are going to be fast, punishment swift.
Judge Judy and executioner?
*Considers standing ovation or narrowed gaze; decision-making system locks up*
Well, since I stole it from Hot Fuzz: NG.
Take one barrel of tar, heat with natural gas, add feathers from Fauxcahontas’ headress, and liberally introduce mixture to Markley.
STEVE SMITH will be joining me https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87821224358?pwd=eW55MTRDbDNtQkh2aHd3M1Nmenlzdz09
Didja give him a backdoor to the meeting or something?
BY BACKDOOR, MEAN…
admin credentials?
*nerdy clap*
Ah what time ya’ll join now?
No debt, some savings. Pleeeeeeeeeeze.
You’re Bidenomicsing wrong. Where’s your patriotic spirit?
Ded.
I have no clue what squid thingy is or how it is played but it looks creepy.
Why did they have condoms?
What’s with the black pajama…I mean green jogging suits?
If your lips are chapped you aren’t drinking enough water. Drink more water.
Chapped lips were their worse complaint? The horror.
It seems large parts of our society and culture have left me behind. I have no idea what half of us are doing or why they are doing it.
It seems large parts of our society and culture have left me behind. I have no idea what half of us are doing or why they are doing it.
I feel much the same way, Suthen. I think it might be the natural order of things, as you age, more and more stuff just seems like unadulterated bullshit, so you stop paying attention. I feel that way about almost all popular culture now. Sound and fury, signifying nothing.
You nailed it.
I think all previous generations suffered the same alienation. Grandpa went from 100% age of horses to autos, jets to Europe, medical miracles, television, and man on the moon but couldn’t cope with Elvis or the Beatles.
We must be cousins. My Grandfather said the world changed completely 3x in his lifetime. He was born in ’87 and died in ’86.
I suspect for us it will be more than 3x. Things are moving so fast. Snowball effect I guess.
I purposefully purchased the newspaper in 1999 cause it was what my dad did while enjoying a cup of coffee.
“He was born in ’87 and died in ’86.”
Yeah, I would say the two World Wars each marked/caused a complete change, so that’s three at least.
Yep. Creepy ass creepy shiit. I see the creator based the game on his personal financial hardship, class disparity and capitalism. So a fantasy about a creepy commie brave new world.
This is popular? I find that very disturbing.
“I have no idea what 9/10ths of us are doing “
In case you are still hanging around.
Squid Games was a Netflix show that originated in South Korea.
Hundreds of degenerate gamblers are invited to a remote island where you play a series of traditional children’s games. The winner at the end gets a vast fortune.
After after arriving at the island and up on playing the first game, the contestants learn that losing is means dying. The winner is the last person standing after all the games.
It’s a brilliant show because it’s a fascinating exploration of group dynamics when competing with and/or cooperating with the right people at the right time means living or dying.
The shop is an utter rip off that destroys the meaning of the show.
The game show is an utter rip off that destroys the meaning of the original show.
Oh, well I would just sneak off in the middle of the night and escape. Being around that many people embroiled in their intrigues and schemes….no thanks. A’int enough money in the world.
You can tell I am a real team player.
I understand why you don’t live in District of Columbia.
Parsimonious bastards
For Charlie Munger, living in a relatively modest house wasn’t an accident — it was a conscious choice.
Munger, the billionaire investor and longtime business partner to Warren Buffett, died on Tuesday at the age of 99. He’d previously filmed a wide-ranging interview with CNBC’s Becky Quick, which aired on Thursday evening, and discussed his rationale for living in the same California home over the past 70 years.
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As Munger alluded to, Buffett lives similarly: The 93-year-old billionaire bought his house in Omaha, Nebraska, for $31,500 in 1958, and has lived there ever since. Buffett’s quality of life would “be worse if [he] had six or eight houses,” he reportedly said at Berkshire Hathaway’s 2014 shareholder meeting.
But what about all those starving contractors and tradespeople?
What a load of happy horseshit. Buffett also has a mansion in Laguna Beach along with a private jet and all the other shit billionaires have.
I block the accounts of every single ad I see on TwitterX. But not before they have to pay for the impression.
I wonder how Charles Koch lives? I met him back in 1980 or so, and was told that he bought his sports coats and suits off the rack at Penneys. David lived larger and Bill’s wine bill probably exceeded the GDP of any Central American country.
Drink more water.
Why do you want people to die of lead poisoning?
Dude, water? Fish fuck in that!
What’s wrong with Brawndo?
It’s got what plants crave.
I grew up in a time and place where there were many spring creeks with better water in them than we get from taps today. I thought nothing of scooping up water from a creek and placing my cupped hand against my chin and pouring the water in my mouth. It was just reflex. Also, back then it was considered a sin to refuse someone water. If someone came by your house or business and asked for water you gladly gave it to them.
These days I doubt many people drink anything not packaged, marketed and sold for exorbitant prices, most of it being crap.
XX asked me for punkin pies and so … I make punkin pies.
Wonderful. I love pumpkin pie.
Of course, I double the amount of spices that the recipe calls for. I like a little kick.
Forgot to add: this years experiment was to top the pie with Alton Browns caramel sauce. It was tasty.
Dude has some serious eats….recipes
Dance with the Devil…
Ross Williams has worked in the San Diego region’s residential solar industry since 2010, and he has never seen a darker business outlook for his firm, HES Solar.
That grim future is tied to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) changing the state’s solar rules a year ago, slashing the value of rooftop generated electricity.
The legislatively mandated review led to changes that cut the value of electricity generated by residential solar panels by 75% in the CPUC ruling, making it harder for residents to recover the cost of installing new systems. Solar arrays can carry price tags in the tens of thousands of dollars.
The change is pushing sales down and layoffs up as the nation’s largest solar industry shrinks in the face of a cloudy future.
Williams joined San Diego’s HES Solar as a project manager and bought the company in 2015. The residential solar market enjoyed double digit growth for the past decade with what they thought was a bright future.
But when the CPUC adopted new net energy metering (NEM) rules in April, the economics of solar changed dramatically.
So did HES Solar’s sales numbers. Sales are down 20% to 30% of sales numbers from last year
“That’s brutal,” Williams said. “I mean, no company can survive where your sales are 30% of what they were last year. Right? It’s just a recipe for disaster.”
Boo fucking hoo.
Every scam burns out sooner or later. What I cant wait for are the global warming grifters to end up giving 5 dollar blowjobs in back alleys for dope money.
This one has been going on for 50 years.
During which time food production has only increased and disaster damage has only decreased.
I worry the scam will never end.
It’ll end when people see their power bill triple or quadruple.
That’s cheaper than downtown!
Dont be fooled by the low price. What they lack in quality is made up for with free cankers.
Guy sucks at math too. Or reporter does. A decline of 20% to 30% in sales doesn’t mean your sales this year are only 30% of last year’s. I’ve had a few cold calls from residential solar panel companies. When I ask what the ROI is, they either have no idea what return on investment means, or they say three or four years. After a few numbers are given, I calculate the ROI is probably about 20 years, which ain’t too attractive these days.
I get one solar panel salesperson per week at my house.
BTW, The Fetterlump called for Menendez to be expelled from the Senate.
WTF Is happening
He has figured out how to be a senator for life is what’s happening.
Watching the Barbie film.
Fat Barbie just said “corporations don’t have freedom of speech and they are imperiling our democracy.” Eight minutes in.
WTF is the ending of this film? It’s embarrassing! Who wrote this shitshow??!!??!?
To Rothbard, it doesn’t matter that David is an anarchist and Milton is a classical liberal. He finds both of their positions unacceptable because they do not sufficiently hate the state. In Rothbard’s view this makes them insufficient allies. In contrast, someone who is not philosophically libertarian can be an ally so long as they, like Rothbard, hate the state.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?
Ian McCollum’s new book.
Before clicking I am guessing the title is ‘Herding Cats’
Woke up to a 4 AM text message from one of my underlings at work. Guy is very odd. I suspect he has some untreated bipolar disorder.
Then the “odd” dam broke and the crazy burst through.
I had fired him by 10:30 w/o him even returning to his desk.
I am sorry to hear that. Sorry you had to deal with it and sorry he has to suffer it.
Well now he has taken to Reddit for an airing of grievances.
Burning every bridge he can. Making vague threats.
Cc to HR. One thing they (usually) do well is CYAing.
Sorry. I’ve had one of those as well. This shall pass.
My curiosity is rabid rn.
We can chat in Zoom in a while or (to avoid boring others) can chat in PM.
Just gotta wait for an Uber. Home in 15!
I am the ‘dad’ at work. I don’t care if you call me that. I raised 3 boys. So to through it back and make it awkward I call them ‘son’. The new crew is really good actually. Not a lot of experience but hard workers. The dumbass who thought he was the perfect candidate for the job is not well-liked by my peers and air traffic.
It is an interesting position in the trades where people come to you looking to draw on your experience. I give it freely as I think it makes a better shop. I have worked for those who think their institutional knowledge must die with them. I really like it here and really enjoying the choice to make the move from Nevada to Kentucky.
Me too. I’ve become the “old man”. I remember starting off like it was yesterday. And I feel like I still don’t know half as much as the giants I worked with once upon a time.
I really enjoy seeing people develop and start soaring on their own. Some that may just make short flights but do their damnedest. Very satisfying to see them stretch a little bit more. Frustrating are ones who are dicks and don’t care. Better to minimize interactions.
Being on the other side of the fence now, I do sometimes not share everything. Sometimes it’s because the person is a little dangerous and doesn’t have a good sense of when to stop and ask for help. Other times it’s for confidentiality reasons and not my secret to hand out.
Made pulled pork yesterday. Damn things took way longer than I anticipated. Thank goodness for a ‘smart’ pellet grill. I had set the probes to alert and set the grill on ‘warm’ once it hit 200 degrees in the pork. I fell asleep and luckily when I awoke it was at 204 degrees on the probes. I wrapped it and set it to rest in the oven and this morning pulled the pork.
Now onto making a pineapple habenero bbq sauce.
Another insurrectionist is sentenced…
https://www.9news.com/article/news/crime/klete-keller-sentenced-capitol-riot/73-6fe85cc4-92d4-415e-b88f-06d0a945d060
“Video captured Keller leading profane chants directed at then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats. He also joined a chorus of rioters in singing the national anthem in the middle of the Capitol. He resisted efforts to remove him from the Capitol, ripping an elbow away and shaking off a police officer, prosecutors said.”
Misdomeaner for trespassing and resisting arrest; fine them and put them on probation would be the normal response. But let’s be real here…he ripped his elbow away!
He sounds like a giant pussy.
+ How is any of that a “felony”?
Wife had Hunger games movie on. Biden was bombing towns and killing thousands because they did not turn the rebels in when they sought shelter in those towns.
Throwing people in gulags for life because of speaking wrongthink. This is how it starts. When all you have is coercion doubling down is the only response to people’s complaints.
Really? Ripped an elbow clean off?
Thank goodness for lese-majesty laws that shield the dignity of Schumer and Pelosi! Imagine if such speech was protected under law. Crazy!
The cops are lucky he didn’t beat them to death with it.
Bluto and D Day strike again…
https://www.koco.com/amp/article/oklahoma-state-university-dead-longhorn-frat-house/46009410
They censored the udder???
Why do bodily functions amuse me so much?
Still LOLing
https://x.com/LibertyPositive/status/1730713980333699463?s=20
How much beer did he drink???
An astonishing amount! That’s some serious pressure pushing all that out! BOOOOOM!
Rough night before, and one of the players snuck up behind him and whispered “tequila”.
That looked like a fresh quart straight from the dugout. That wasn’t last night.
zOMG
Didn’t Linda Blair play a white girl at one time?
Hit by Nikki Haley campaign ad. I was hoping for a few months of peace.
Somehow my cell has gotten into her campaign’s marketing but with someone else’s name. Upside is it won’t last too much longer.
I made the mistake of buying a Trump coffee mug. Comedy gold I tells ya’. I had to have it.
Unfortunately Donnie Two scoops has turned into an internet stalker. Goddamned text messages a dozen time per day.
Apparently I am special and he wants to have lunch with me…or something.
I got hit by one of those too. My reply: GFYS you warmongering cunt
The Bot did it again a few days later, so my reply: STOP you war mongering cunt
I may be safe from her slimy text bots tentacles now.