Good morning, all you wonderful Glibs. If you wonder why you haven’t seen me around in a while, its because my youngest gets up at 4:30 in the morning (since the time change) and I have been a zombie for months. Just this week he’s moved to getting up at 5:15 and its like an extra two hours of sleep. I almost approach feeling human. Sloopy and Banjos are busy doing something today and tomorrow, so we’ll have special guest stars Glibs fill in.
This showed up from a wayback article — Marlon Brando, Photoshop geek and troll.
“Marlon was a closet geek. Well, not even in the closet — he was big into it,” Billups explained. “He was an ace with Photoshop. He would take people’s pictures and put them in places they never were. He’d say, ‘Remember when we were in so-and-so?’ and you’d see people trying to remember that situation.”
I hope the apology was “I’m sorry your children have such worthless parents” – Zuck Sucks Up at Pedo Hearing.
Just remember, everything in the Middle East is Trump’s fault. Pay no attention to the roles Bill and Hillary Clinton played in helping fuck up the place.
“Diplomatic Immunity” — Consul’s kid runs over motorcycle cop.
She seems nice. Not sure how she gets close enough to drug them without an air rifle, but everyone is someone’s type.
Have some 90s throwback music to get you started.
Morning, Brett — nice to see ya.
You can bet that he was doin’ it for some doll.
Worst idea in history.
Throw the ambassadors down a well.
Israel, being a decent state should withdraw the ambassador and his idiot son — then prosecute the son and send him on a Hamas cleanup mission or three. Immunity in a host country doesn’t mean the country they’re from can’t do anything after all.
The US can also revoke the diplomatic status and expel the family.
You beat me to it.
I’d boot the whole family out of the country.
OT: 🤯 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism#/media/File:Newcomer_Koreisha_Badge.svg
I did not that SLT advocates were using that emoji. There’s a joke in there somewhere about inexperience…
They are just starting their economic journey. Makes sense…
I have never seen a Georgist online.
Well of course not. They’re single lan advocates.
Um…if it was the son of the Ambassador, that would be bigger news…
FTA “Gil’s father, Eli Gil, is the consul for administration at the Israeli Consulate in Miami.”
That might feel good, but what does that have to do with the son of a consul?
My son’s at the age he wants to sign up for all kinds of online shit — and the difference between “The site TOC allows minors” (with parental permission) versus “Minors cannot enter into contracts without their parents” is something he just does not understand. He thinks “They’ll let me (because they suck on verification frankly), so it must be okay!”
And being a teenager, he’s both sneaky and I don’t want to helicopter him.
So yay. Bring back usenet, I say! Kids today…. grumble bitch moan complain…
/thinks back to the things I was downloading from local BBS’s back then
Same shit, different year.
Q had to study his PEEK and POKE instructions at least.
I was just thinking the other day about how computer gamers from the 80’s until the late 90’s actually had to understand the computers to get the games running. I remember futzing around with special boot disks, loading specific drivers into high memory and the like. I constantly need to remind myself today, that the younger computer gamers may not have any understanding of what’s going on inside their computers than the average end user.
What fun is that?
Oh the joys of going in and configuring autoexec.bat and config.sys to utilize HIMEM.sys and EMM386.sys
I was there for the early audio card days. Where not only did you have to hope the game properly coded for the audio card you got, you had to know what it was, as well set the jumpers on the card correctly, and remember what it was set to.
I remember how happy I was the first time I got an ACTUAL SoundBlaster card, which took care of ~95% of the issues with compatability.
Ah yes SoundBlaster cards! I can’t even remember back in the day where I got the knowledge to mess around with config files, jumpers…I think it was all trial and error and word of mouth until your family got a internet connection.
The clone boards were a PITA.
All the scound cards were really two sounds cards in one. A Midi chip for beeps and boops and a really primitive low resolution DAC. You could combine the two as well.
Complete list of instructions here:
https://everything2.com/title/Command+Line+Porn
Kids today – nothing some farm labor would not fix.
If it hadn’t been for WW2 we’d still have the Conservation Corps, trees everywhere, no global warming, young men learning how to dig holes, etc.War screws up everything.
I had a great uncle in the CCC. They planted redbuds all over Monroe, Ruston and Shreveport. A waste of time and money.
On the other hand, at the time Louisiana was a prairie as the timber industry had gobbled up all of the trees. The CCC replanted enough to return us to a more natural state of vast forests filled with serpents, ticks and chiggers.
Wasn’t it just last week when the left lost their mind over the kid working a cash register?
Hmm, maybe challenge him to think about it rather than just “everyone is doing it dad”? I don’t envy you.
Yeah, I am so glad my kids is, looks at calendar, 29 today!
Happy birthday to the kid! 🎂
My son is the only person I know that uses the internet for what it was intended for – deep dives into obscure topics. It’s almost surreal the stuff he finds on watchmaking, submarines, standard issue military kit over different eras, how to wire a house, etc.
I do it all the time.
However, it is becoming less easy to do so as the Internet is overwhelmed with click bait.
The degredation of search engine utility has made it more difficult.
^^^ This. It is the #1 complaint from Mrs OBE and she is thoroughly convinced that search engines only produce results for what either the people have paid for or what Google et al wants you to believe. She aint wrong.
Yeah, that whole Jerusalem thing. History’s greatest monster.
Probably the only song to start with “reluctantly”. (Saw them last year: fun show and no politics.)
Oh fuck off, MSDNC. Was it perfect? Hell no — but I think PPP and his puppet handlers reversing every Trump policy because OMB, yanking up the price of oil (helping Iran be flush with money for their minions) and giving Iran billions rather reversed some positive trends from the Accords the Trump Admin had going.
Election year fellatio of the Donkey Ass.
Spite…
https://y.yarn.co/0569b793-59f6-4e14-bf74-91409ef8ceac_text.gif
Yes, clearly Trump’s desire to have us out of Syria is to blame for why we are still in Syria (and Jordan, in order to support whatever we are doing in Syria).
There was a tweet out there from Vets for Democracy (I think) that claimed the three soldiers who needlessly died in Jordon were because of Trump’s action against Iran and specifically that killing of the Iranian general nearly 4 years ago.
the article is above average ridiculous.
I remember when Obama loved him some Iran enough to drop off some petty cash to them to fund their proxy war on us. Good times.
Dating is all a big game to that hunter. She’s darting from one beau to the next!
6th Street, where the action is.
whaddup doh
“Don’t we have anything better to do?”
Wife had the news on this morning – and Lindsay Graham was featured. I damn near puked.
Let me guess… We should be bombing or invading somewhere.
No, he was self-righteously pissing on social media execs. He’s the worst thing out of South Carolina to DC since Preston Brooks.
He wants to invade Meta, X, and whoever owns Tik Tok.
The CCP owns Tik Tok.
Lindsay Graham: [whining] Why couldn’t it be Iran?
I heard clips from the German-language news podcast {ÖRF} I listen to in order to practice my German. They had clips from him and Pornfinder General Josh Hawley.
If somebody hit one of those kids in the head with a hammer, we wouldn’t be dragooning the heads of Craftsman and Harbor Freight for a struggle session.
For all everyone bitches about bullying, the hearings showed one again hoe the state is the biggest bully of them all, and how using the state to bully people you don’t like is considered virtuous.
At least that one has some sort of status in law – unlike “‘asylum seeker’ immunity”.
Jesus. A necessary reminder that the 90s maybe weren’t as great as I remember.
🤨
While speculating on what the musical link would be, I concluded that ’90s music is a land of contrasts.
as I remember – so you did not drink enough in the 90s?
1890s?
90s music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3AfWHTdsxI
I don’t get Cake either (the band, not the dessert).
No one wants Cake? Wilford Brimley hardest hit.
They all want cake. *whirling dervish motions
rhywun’s internal monologue: I Will Survive.
I like the Helmut Newton reference herein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9rCUQjmkxU
Diplomatic immunity story and no link to Eight Wonder for the music?
https://youtu.be/EmBiSqy8ph0
I’d totally revoke 80’s Patsy Kensit’s diplomatic immunity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kplxe3scoM
Daily Ray of Sunshine
The economy is great, and we can make it better. Never change Vox, never change.
Remain calm. All is well.
But don’t forget, we haven’t meddled with it enough!!!
His ideas make perfect sense, just as long as you’re really high.
Where’s Sean?
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/food-cooking/steak-restaurants-dinner-seafood-257c2c53?st=phf9rttnbxmvwvc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
I went to a steakhouse this past weekend.
The failure of a cook turned the beef to shoe leather. I should not be thinking “I could get better results by throwing a steak in the toaster oven”.
No doubt because the restaurant owner wasn’t paying the cook a living wage.
Cook doesn’t speak American either, that’s why he/she is getting 3rd world wages
Don’t google toaster oven steak.
Why would I?
Probably depends on what you’re calling a toaster oven. I’ve got one that’s got the convection settings (“Air Roast”/”Air Fry”) and temperature probe. I do pork tenderloins in it on a regular basis and they come out awesome. I could probably get a decent steak out of it, but would prefer my cast iron.
Reverse sear.
This is how I do steaks in the middle of winter.
^^^ I do all year round…finish on the grill sometimes.
I don’t understand people’s attachment to cast iron. I’ve never gotten it to even cooperate, let alone be exceptional. That’s even following all the condescending advise snootily thrown my way.
I cannot be convinced anyone can cook eggs in cast iron without them sticking to the pan.
/raises hand
I’ve done it on a regular basis.
It can be done if you have a proper cast iron pan that hasn’t been neglected.
A bit of oil goes a long way. Skillet baked eggs with veggies/meats of your choice (I prefer onions and peppers), saute veggies in butter, break eggs, bake at 425 for ~5 minutes. Yum. Cleanup = rinsing cast iron pan with warm water.
I last tried it with hamburger to similar results.
now I want to cook hamburgers again. I had some delicious results. Gotta figure out a bun without the carbs.
I’ve done it for years.
What cast iron needs is correct maintenance. With that, it is quite cromulent for a wide variety of tasks, and is even fairly non-stick. For some people, I expect cast iron is like what sharpening knives is for me – something I just can’t get the knack of.
UnCiv – try open faced on one of those big mushroom caps.
To RC Dean: I sharpen knives with a gizmo where, before use, you run the knife half a dozen times thru a gizmo with two sharpening slivers in a V trench. Works great.
Just one of those things that people thought was a revelation, “hey, I can cook anything using a heat source!”
So yes, you can cook a decent steak in a toaster oven. Is it the best, most efficient way of doing so? Probably not.
Cutthroat Kitchen proved that true.
More for me.
I don’t really go to “proper” steakhouses that much. I get much better food grilling my own.
and you can shoot the steak to tenderize it
A properly aged steak is wonderful.
That’s something that’s difficult to do at home. It requires a means to dry age and getting big cut of meat from a butcher of which you will be cutting down and wasting during the aging.
I assume you can purchase already aged meat.
Maybe online. Not something readily available even in my affluent area.
I’ll leave that for other Glibs.
Wegmans has a whole display case of it, but of course you’ll pay extra.
The local grocery store near me in SC had a nice dry aged section.
Lowes. Not to be confused with the hardware store (although they were originally one and the same, the hardware and grocery split a long time ago, but both kept the name).
The Lowes was across the street from a Harris Teeter (read: Kroger) which had better prices in general, but the Lowes was an occassional stop off. Also, the Lowes had a bar in it and drink holders on the shopping cart, so you could have a beer or a glass of wine while you shopped.
And that reminds me, the one thing that bugs me here in Colorado is the absolute crap meat selection in the grocery stores. WTF, its not like their arent ranches all over the place. How the fuck is the meat so bad?
Lowes and Harris Teeter spoiled me, they were even better than KY, which was far superior to CO.
have a beer or a glass of wine while you shopped. – I thought you Americans drive your car when you go shopping.
I thought you Americans drive your car when you go shopping
Mostly for liquor.
The day I cant drive after one beer is the day I stop driving.
If you want dry-aged beef, my local butcher sells it aged in-store. It is more expensive due to the aforementioned wastage and effort.
Same here. I can knock out a solid steak at home really easily. The girlfriend and I will sometimes hit one up on vacation as a vacation type thing. I do lament that I never got to try the steak tasting menu at one local place that didn’t survive the lockdowns (it was three 6-8 ounce different steaks, grass fed, grain fed, wagyu).
What Is Cultural Appropriation? Why It’s Problematic and How to Avoid It
Everything you need to know about cultural appropriation, from examples of what it is, to how to be respectful of other cultures
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-cultural-appropriation
Cultural appropriation is a hot topic that has gained significant attention in recent years, though it’s been happening for much longer. But what is cultural appropriation exactly? According to researchers from the University of Huddersfield, UK, it can be described as the taking of elements of a culture in a way that ultimately distorts or misrepresents the culture.
Cultural appropriation is seen as problematic because it can perpetuate harmful stereotypes, strip cultural elements of their significance, and ignore the history and struggles of the culture from which they are taken.
In contrast, cultural appreciation (or exchange) is the understanding and respect for a culture that is different from one’s own. It can be a positive experience because it fosters mutual understanding and respect for different cultures and doesn’t rely upon an existing power imbalance between two cultures to achieve its aims.
Minorities appropriating white culture in the form of race awitching stories is totes OK, however.
Pie wins. I thought the Vox article was stupid, but he one-upped me.
Teen Vogue does not cede that prize to anyone.
When I was growing up, this was called “the melting pot” and we were taught it was an unambiguously good thing. It’s a shame that mentality has been sacrificed for the benefit of a tiny number of grifters so they can have a cudgel to undeservedly pummel anyone in their way to the top.
Yup, it’s all straight from the Marxist playbook titled “How to Wreck Society” but with class switched for race.
Should have just said: Cultural appropriation is seen as problematic because people are stupid.
That would be too ambiguous about which people are stupid. Or was that what you intended?
Didn’t think of it like that, but both ways work.
I’ll believe it when it happens.
https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/amazon-could-soon-be-on-hook-for-safety-of-third-party-products-it-sells-and-ships-be58b697?st=uaft2mer9zfnmxo&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Then Facebook marketplace, Ebay, etc would fall under that too right?
There will be an exemption carved out for newspaper want ads (if those even still exist).
You could argue that. Amazon mixes its own goods along with third party vendors.
FB, Ebay and the like are channels for third parties.
Amazon would likely get around this by having a first party and third party site that doesn’t comingle them. But this would negatively impact its business model.
a first party and third party site that doesn’t comingle them
Yes, please! Their site has really gotten bad with crap sellers and promoted non results.
The other hidden problem is they comingle inventory as long as the seller asserts it’s the same ASIN, which has led to knockoffs getting into the product stream and be sent out for other sellers’ orders.
Hey, don’t knock my SMALDVODY chainsaw! It’s just like a Stihl, except horrible!
https://frinkiac.com/caption/S07E14/117217
Heavens yes. This comingling of inventory is a real issue.
Does Amazon actually hold inventory for 3rd Party sellers?
Or do they send orders to them and they need to print the shipping label and send from their warehouse?
I have no idea. I worked decades ago for a package consolidator who was part of the Home Shopping Network vendors. The way HSN worked is that they would take an order then send info to the yahoos who were trying to sell their crap. Those guys had to print the shipping label and use HSB boxes to send the product to their buyer.
HSN didn’t have to pay anything for warehousing a product. The buyers all thought they were getting stuff from HSN because the program was really specific about how it was sent so that the 3rd party seller was hidden. No stealing customers away from HSN!
I suspect it’s a mix of both, as some “third party” products are “Fulfilled by Amazon” and show up on the usual prime schedule.
I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Amazon acts as a non-stocking distributor. This intermingling of SKUs or whatever regardless of source is something non-stocking distributors do – “Hey, tell us what SKU you want, and we’ll get it to you” is not something a conduit does, as a conduit is a straight line from a seller to a buyer.
I sell books through Amazon (in minuscule numbers). Having Amazon warehouse & ship them is an option, but it’s far from cost-effective for me. Or for people selling one or two orders of magnitude more than I do.
Does Amazon actually hold inventory for 3rd Party sellers?
Yes, this is how they get shit to you in two days.
Are they just warehousing it or acting as the distributor?
Both.
Every Amazon listing tells you this.
Ships from: Amazon.com
Sold by: ABC LOL, LLC
Speaking of diplomatic kerfuffles…
Somalia’s shadow ambassador says she was misquoted and the local paper goes to bat for her.
I’m not sure why her “more accurate” translation is much better. Still seems like a pretty outrageous foreign meddling from someone who always claims she is a US Citizen.
Still this is all she needs to survive. In fact, like Trump, this will help her in the next election.
The paper forgets to mention that she also made a call to genocide insisting that Somaliland belongs to Somalia. Anyone familiar with that conflict (obviously not an American journalist) knows that’s a provocative statement. But, I guess this is part for the course for the daughter of an illiterate warlord. God knows how much blood her family has on their hands.
The Italian Cinema Orchestra playing the soundtrack of Gladiator at the Colosseum at sunset is simply unreal.
https://twitter.com/JamesLucasIT/status/1752403151280365633
UK vs USA | Fish
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/60q58SYzgfc
this channel does foods US vs UK and he US always looses so I was right about US food, if the brits are consistently better.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tVK0bUc1gzc
No one in the US eats dishwasher salmon.
We smoke it in a green egg or on a traeger. Duh.
If it is on youtube it must be true.
I don’t cook all my food in the dishwasher. Sometimes I use the clothes washer.
If the channel always favors the UK food, it’s clearly propaganda.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1p-1gSEKO9I
I was trying to think of a joke about who looks to the UK for good food, but I got nothing.
Going by the UK food I had when I was there, there was nothing particularly notable – either good or bad. I suspect they got their reputation during rationing.
I guess the joke should be that food was the real reason behind the Empire.
the standard joke was the quality of their food and the beauty of their women made the English the best sailors.
Not the rum, sodomy and the lash?
Thats just a normal Friday night GlibZoom
Read the biography of Captain James Cook and it was amazing what the sailors would endure just for a chance to go to Tahiti and meet the local women.
breakfast
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lc8xPxd15U8
Hexagonal biscuits? Whatafah?
Actual Brits trying B&G:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ
Ugh! It IS good, and inexpensive. Very international.
Americans wouldn’t want to be judged by Boyardee and Lunchables.
Look we won a war to earn the right to make fun of their food!
Heh.
And spotted dick is perfectly cromulent.
American cuisine has a core that is descended from British cuisine.
Apple Pie is a British dish.
New England boiled dinner.
Never mind, undermining my own point.
Britpies are very different than Ameripies.
Having said that, I would eat the hell of of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma61yH_a5O0
Just because we largely abandoned savory pies in the centuries afterwards doesn’t mean the sweet pies don’t have their ancestry in the colonial dishes brought over from Britain.
It’s not just that, but the proportions, the function and construction of the crust is completely different. You might as well say that bao, ravioli, gyoza, stromboli and pierogies are all the same thing as pie.
Besides, early apple pie is a third thing altogether — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4gFHlRE3KM
So, you agree that Pizza was invented in New York.
Maybe. Roman pizza isn’t, but I’ve heard that Neapolitan pizza is.
Well OF COURSE it didn’t work! He’s using a stupid, underpowered metric UK dishwasher!
It looks like my article discussed the other day in AM links will be the midday article today.
Its a little dissappointing, I dont think it will be very rage inducing. I was hoping to piss a few people off, but the way I wrote it, it just didnt happen. I think.
We shall see.
You suck. Also I am planning a rage inducing article and you just want to still my thunder you bastard.
We need plenty, too much agreement and happiness around here.
I’ll try to work up some anger just for you.
Needs more “no one needs…”
While maybe not in those exact words, there is at least one in the article.
“No one needs to worry that I’m gonna bring up that silly SLT thing. I was just pulling y’all’s legs all along.”
How’d I do?
Not far off actually.
Local proggie is sure he’s got all the racists painted in a corner.
The guy seems confused. He seems sure that black guys open carrying getting hassled by Johnny Law is a travesty that wipippo don’t care about. I bet he’d be really embarrassed to find out that the people who are most upset about black guys with guns getting hassled by cops are the rural white jackpine savages who love their guns.
*Also, I think you could get him mad if you pointed out that if he replaced mentions of gun rights with voting rights, his argument would have worked perfectly as an Uncle Tom pre-civil war trying to tell the uppity youngsters to shut up and not stir the pot.
attire plays a role
Yes, yes it does. When you dress like you’re from a culture known for not respecting rhe lives and rights of innocents and known for lashing out violently at the drop of a hat, you’re going to be treated differently.
There is that – but even more, the “hoodie” – which term only came to prominence after its rise as a fashion statement for criminals – is a choice deliberately intended to convey “threat”.
Whole thing is tedious beyond belief.
Can confirm. Police, security, and drug testing labs treat me very differently with the shaved head than when I had long hair.
He’s mad at the urban whites – AWFLs – that are his supposed ally.
As an Open Carrier, I don’t understand what the cops were thinking.
If Walmart has a no weapons policy, violating that is not violating the law.
If once he is told to leave because of their policy, he refuses, then he can be arrested for trespasssing.
The article makes sure to include the greatest hits:
Not once has this been shown to have happened.
I’m confused by open carriers. The last one I saw was leaning on a gas station counter in such a way that I could have lifted the revolver from his holster and used it on him before he even noticed. Why let hostile actors know?
All of my holsters have a retention snap.
I also try to be aware of my surroundings, whether I am carrying or not.
Once I almost punched my wife in the face because she thought it would be funny to sneak up on me and wiggle the handle of my pistol.
Why have someone attempt to rob you thinking you’re unarmed?
Most people don’t notice or care.
Plus in Virginia, I Open Carry without a permit.
Open carry has some advantages:
(1) Full size handgun is much more of an option.
(2) Unless you train a lot on drawing from concealed, open carry is faster (and its probably faster no matter how much you train). One thing I have learned is that disentangling your heater from your clothes is a definite issue with (serious) concealed carry, especially when you are stressed or in a big hurry.
(3) Arguably at least, deterrence.
“He said, universe forbid, if a person was intent on doing harm, say a mass shooter, who do you think that person would shoot first?”
Mass shooters show a very clear and consistent pattern – they go where there are no guns. If they see you open carrying, they will go somewhere else. This “hurr durr, open carry makes you a target not a deterrent” claim is, as far as I know, completely baseless. Even someone who isn’t a mass shooter, but is just looking to knock over a convenience store, say – has there ever been a case where they walk in, see someone else with a gun, and shoot them first?
No, but there was a Waffle House in either Georgia or Alabama where cops were called on some people sitting in their van.
They said they were waiting for an open carrier to leave and then they were going to rob the place.
Remember Obama’s “The Talk” – this is the same shit.
And it’s been disproven who knows how many times.
The non-black version of The Talk
Oh yes, the “I have no fucks left to give” article. Fun times.
The conclusions in that article for the most part seem to be in direct contradiction to my personal experience. Granted, my interactions, like everyone, are not with a statistically representative subsample of the general populace.
I will, however, stipulate that I try to avoid living in places run by liberal politicians. And if politicians in a city are mostly black, it will certainly be a liberal government.
It’s like the idea that the *ping* of an ejecting clip from a Garand would let the enemy know you had to reload. If you’re close enough to hear that but NOT close enough to be deafened by being on the business end of a .30-06… maybe? In theory?
The soldiers believed it enough that some carried empty clips to toss and lure out enemy soldiers. Don’t know if it worked.
I find the lack of mention of hearing damage in WWII to be kind of interesting. I assume it was part of the “suck it up” mentality. I wonder which was worse — infantry, armor, or the naval gunners. My grandfather did mention the “knee mortar” incident, but that after that they figured out they were for palm trees.
Also, if I get selected to work Handgun Nationals, I’m going to take advantage on the onsite Garand shop this year.
The problem with that theory is that soldiers didn’t go into battle alone. Waiting for a guy’s Garand to ping, then moving in for the kill, just gets you shot by the rest of a platoon.
If Walmart has a no weapons policy, violating that is not violating the law.
Unless the state has a law criminalizing it, like TX and their 30.06 law. Even here, some gun rights advocates insist that you are violating the trespass law if you carry beyond a no carry sign rather than after being specifically asked to leave the premise.
I didn’t think about States having laws like that. I assumed if OC was allowed then they wouldn’t be that stupid.
Like most(all) gun control laws, making it a crime to not notice a weapons prohibited sign is an abomination.
I don’t know that I’d call that stupid. One of the few legitimate purposes of the state is to back me up on decisions I make on my property.
Hence the trespassing charge.
It should not be a crime to unknowingly violate a demand to make myself unarmed.
I think with 30.06 there needs to be clear signage at the entrance.
I remember seeing little stickers of a Beretta in a circle with a line through it on some store doors and thought “It’s a good thing I don’t carry a Beretta.”
KY law specifies that those gun rights advocates are wrong.
some gun rights advocates insist that you are violating the trespass law if you carry beyond a no carry sign rather than after being specifically asked to leave the premise.
I think some gun rights advocates are not on the actual gun rights side.
“the young brother”
*eyes swivel all the way around multiple times*
Catlin Hill in SLOW MOTION | Miami Art Basel 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWmqFHwR8eI
thicc?
Argentinean Model Mika La Fuente at NYFW wearing Pink Melon Swim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0jgGPL7fT0
that is a fine gluteus
https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/1afqlgm/portland_summarized_in_a_single_photo/
It’s not wrong.
the pussy is good in Portland?
Plastic bag.
Does he and and the city not care about the environment?
Christopher Nevinson painted this picture of Soho (1924) by sitting himself on a platform high above the London streets. He used a similar composition to depict Fleet Steet in ‘Amongst the Nerves of the World,’ in which the modern city is glimpsed through a gap in the buildings.
https://twitter.com/ahistoryinart/status/1752455274206507494
I could paint that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49fgdxp8j3o
Live Brussels farmer protests
Protests? I thought they had been selectively bred to be less bitter?
peasants do not have access to the fancy education required to understand you should listen to your betters without question.
I do, there are just so few of them.
It’s the middle class that believes it has the education to ignore the elite.
I am not sure I agree. The middle seem to be the most obedient.
“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles.”
That part of the middle class aspires to be elite, but are too stupid to know that they never will be.
It’s the comfort level. You get a house and food and a job. In general politics does not bother them much. Once politics becomes significantly more intrusive there would be a response. Nothing so far has been so terrible, in their view.
Neanderthals and humans lived side by side in Northern Europe 45,000 years ago
Genetic analysis of bone fragments from German archaeological site proves that modern humans reached northern Europe not long after they emerged from Africa
https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/01/31/neanderthals-and-humans-lived-side-by-side-in-northern-europe-45-000-years-ago
“This lower-density archaeological signature matches other Lincombian–Ranisian–Jerzmanowician sites and is best explained by expedient visits of short duration by small, mobile groups of pioneer H. sapiens,” according to one of the papers published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.
“This shows that even these earlier groups of Homo sapiens dispersing across Eurasia already had some capacity to adapt to such harsh climatic conditions,” said Sarah Pederzani, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of La Laguna in Spain, who led the paleoclimate study of the site. “Until recently, it was thought that resilience to cold-climate conditions did not appear until several thousand years later, so this is a fascinating and surprising result.”
adaptable little buggers, humans.
“modern humans reached northern Europe not long after they emerged from Africa”
Looks like Neanderthals had a lack of border controls too.
Seeking asylum.
https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/comments/1aflap6/a_cyclist_and_a_car_ignore_red_lights_oc/
Idaho stop FTW.
Fuck idiot cyclists and their motorized cousins for shitting all over traffic laws. Last week saw a donor cycle decide lane splitting should apply to surface street too.
Yes, with all due respect to the cyclists on this site, the fucking bicycle ninjas get what they deserve. Dress in black, get on a bike, slice and weave through rush hour traffic downtown, ignore lights and stop signs, and act all indignant when they nearly get clipped. I have enough to worry about making sure the idiot drivers around me aren’t crashing into me without dealing with cycle terrorists.
That actually applies, in small part, to my upcoming article midday, bring it back up if you get a chance. I agree with you about 99.4%.
So you are Ivory Pure sure?
Ivory Snow. +1 Marilyn Chambers.
/looks at my hi-vis cycling kit
Doesn’t apply to me, and I dislike those people more than most non-cyclists do. The only people worse are the slow roll and critical mass assholes.
There’s a bike commuter that’s properly blinky-illuminated that I pass every morning on the way to work.
As long as we agree that asshole drivers get what they deserve.
It’s also zero fun being a pedestrian.
And the “immigrants” on the electric bikes…
I love to cycle when I can and I take no offense. I think it should almost be required to run over any cyclist after dark who has no lights (no reflectors are not enough) on themselves.
My biggest problem cycling, though, is keeping OMWC from stealing my bike. That’s the bastard that should be wearing an ankle monitor, if not at least some reflective tape.
Can’t really argue with you there. If you are riding at night, wearing black is a dumb idea.
I think an Idaho stop requires the cyclist to make sure the intersection is clear. The fact that the cyclist got hit indicates the intersection was not clear.
MTA grasps at solution after ‘hack’ against heavily-mocked subway fare gates goes viral
https://nypost.com/2024/01/31/metro/mta-grasps-at-solution-after-hack-against-heavily-mocked-subway-fare-gates-goes-viral/
Welcome to a low-trust country.
That is fucking insane. I remember when criminals used to get arrested and sometimes even do time.
I remember seeing an interview with some dude that visited Brando. Brando offered him some chocolate chip cookies. He said they were very bitter. He remarked about it and Brando said “Yeah, I know. Those aren’t chocolate chips. I made them with my own shit.”
Troll indeed.
Platform for others? Publisher? Hmmmm.
Censor and get your ass chewed. Dont censor and get. your ass chewed. If you are going to get your ass chewed it is better to do it without getting in bed with the Devil.
STOP CENSORING.
Someone needs to do for that kid what his asshole daddy should have done years ago. Thus, someone needs to do it for daddy as well.
Despite incidences like this diplomatic immunity is vital. If one of these trashbags does something too egregious, ask their country to revoke the immunity so you can prosecute. If they refuse, expel their diplomats.
I have found that not stepping out on your wife helps you avoid a lot of sketchy types and situations like that.
Bill and Hillary? Yeah. How about the role Obama played? What of Biden has done? Role…as in they are 100% responsible for the shit mess in the ME? Evil fuckers.
Under Trump peace was breaking out all over the ME. Once again WaPo outdoes themselves with mendacity.
“Once again WaPo outdoes themselves with mendacity.”
Well, their motto is “Democracy dies in derpness”.
In such an incident, Brando should have been murdered, and I would have acquitted.
You do not even joke about adulterated food, let alone do it.
agree 100% UCS.
Being such a troll, who knows if he actually did it or not?
The remark alone would have made it justfied homicide – if the anecdote even happened.
Hear, hear.
Would not consider that to be murder.
Apparently some Democrats aren’t in on the fortification scheme. They’re actually still worried about Biden losing.
150 comments and it’s barely 845. I’m never going to catch up at this rate
I’m old enough to remember when TV was ruining our children, not social media. Now apparently TV is fine, even though there is more TV available than ever. Well we whipped TV, we can whip social media too!
TV and social media are not the same. Just because someone cried wolf in the past does not mean there are no wolves. People too often dismiss concerns with this was said about something completely different in the past.
The complaints about it are very much the same. It’s addicting, it’s taking their focus from more important things, it’s warping their world view, it’s affecting their mental state, it’s stopping them from going going outside and getting exercise, it’s making them buy things, it’s stunting their development, it turns them into zombies, it makes them mimic bad behaviors they see, it’s destroying their innocence, etc.
For the most part it just looks like the latest moral panic to me.
I think the only thing different is the accessibility and near constant use. TV was limited whereas schools have given up and nearly all kids in class are constantly on some sort of social media.
Well, were those complaints wrong? Especially considering the decline in fitness, social cohesion, etc. that has occurred in generations raised since TV became ubiquitous. I doubt anyone here really thinks that raising a generation with their faces glued to screens since toddlerhood is a net benefit, after all.
Yeah, they are not wrong.
“Moral panics” tend to have some – aften a lot – of truth to them.
Yes, they were wrong in thinking government legislation or interference was any kind of solution, or a good idea at all. That still holds true. Time will march on, new technologies will be developed, and the social media panic will be seen as a quaint relic from the past.
Now apparently TV is fine
It’s not. It’s just that the worst aspects of the boob tube are amplified in social media, and we no longer have any living generation that remembers what things were like pre TV.
Back in the day, parents would yell at their kids to go outside and play instead of watching TV.
Now parents are arrested for neglect if their kids are unsupervised at the local park. So, give the kids a cell phone and dark hole to hide in.
Biden’s approval rating, meanwhile, is stuck below 40 per cent….Yet the White House, pundits and progressive commentators are all trapped in the same elite bubble that keeps them from seeing what is happening to most Americans.
When Taylor Swift is shown jumping up and down in a supar bowl skybox wearing a Biden/Harris jersey, the election will be in the bag.
I’m not sure who’s the dumber for believing that.
I eagerly await all the internet commentary after the Super Bowl, with those pushing the “Taylor Swift is a PsyOp” line admitting they were completely wrong, because she did not, in fact, endorse Biden during or after the game.
I am sure it will be “We did it folks, we forced her not to…”
Proving that it isn’t just the left huffing their own farts.
True heroism
Kathaleen McCormick, the soft-spoken, even-keeled head of the Court of Chancery in Delaware — the state in which many of the nation’s biggest businesses are incorporated — struck down Musk’s 2018 Tesla pay package on Tuesday, siding with a shareholder who’d challenged it as excessive.
The ruling, which is almost certain to face an appeal, could take a serious bite out of Musk’s personal fortune, potentially wiping out more than $51 billion in assets. (Of course, even then he’d still be the third richest person on the planet, according to Bloomberg.)
The outcome of Musk’s pay package dispute is the latest instance of a towering, brash business leader getting put in his place by the one institution powerful enough to do so: US courts.
Just days before McCormick’s ruling in Delaware, a New York jury ordered former President Donald Trump to pay $86 million in damages to a woman that a prior jury established Trump sexually assaulted in the 1990s. In the same week, Vince McMahon, the longtime head of World Wrestling Entertainment who for years managed to dodge and deflect allegations of sexual misconduct, resigned as executive chairman following a lawsuit from one his former employees accusing him of sex-trafficking and abuse. McMahon has denied the allegations.
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While McCormick didn’t have to issue a final decision Twitter case, her preliminary rulings suggested she wasn’t going to be cowed by Musk’s towering profile, Talley says.
“We’ve got this Delaware judge who says, ‘You know what? The rules that apply to everyone apply to you too.’” Talley said. “I think that’s service to the profession. And it’s not one that is well compensated — Katie McCormick is not earning $55 billion for her work.”
Save us from the robber barons!
[insert cs lewis quotation here]
But also, I have no idea what the Delaware law on pay packages for executives says, so no idea if this was a good decision or not. Nothing I have seen actually discusses that issue.
As ever, much turns out consistency. How many very highly paid executives of companies losing money or at a minimum declining in profitably did the courts go back overturn their pay? What’s that you say? Nearly none of them? Well, Musk has made a lot of money for Tesla shareholders, and he gets his pay whacked. It’s difficult to see how this is a good and proper application of the rules against executives taking advantage of shareholders.
There’s a blatant lie in the article about Trump. I’m going to guess there’s nothing of value said about Musk, either.
Hocus pocus
Germany is now set to join the likes of the U.S., Britain, and Portugal in piloting a shorter workweek.
The program, which is set to start on Feb. 1, will last six months—the same as its peers’ experiments—and will include hundreds of employees across 45 participating companies, Dale Whelehan, CEO at Auckland, New Zealand–based 4 Day Week Global, the nonprofit leading the pilot, told Fortune.
The program follows a 100:80:100 principle, wherein participating companies stick to 100% of pay for 80% of the time while, in theory, achieving 100% output.
“This is essentially a human resource transformation project and it is a productivity intervention. Organizations are really struggling to grapple with improving their productivity or output of their businesses’ performance—that’s because they’re fundamentally missing the foundation of a business which is run by its people,” Whelehan said.
Why not three days’ work for six days’ pay?
When I worked for a Swiss national lab, the standard Swiss government week was 42.5 hrs.
You were expected to put in 8.5 hrs of work per weekday.
There is a reason Switzerland is richer than most of Europe.
I remember having to tell an Indian contractor who had just moved to Minnesoda from NYC that an 8 hour day here was from 8am to 5pm. Lunch was not billable.
He was outraged. He even called some of his buddies back in NYC and told them what was going on.
I’ll see that and raise you 2 days’ work for 8 days’ pay.
I’ll offer you two days pay for eight days work.
Old Soviet joke – they pretend to pay us, we pretend to work.
I can see now why the Euroweenies are so mad. Expecting them to work 80% of the time? That is unbearable!! Especially during August. Everyone knows that August is when everyone goes on vacation at the same time.
The one guy who gets stuck working during August won’t actually help. He’ll just tell you that the person who can help you is on vacation and there is nothing he can do.
The debate surrounding working hours in Germany is a contentious one—an overwhelming 73% of Germans are in favor of cutting the workweek short while receiving the same wage.
No shit, Shirley?
But also, I have no idea what the Delaware law on pay packages for executives says, so no idea if this was a good decision or not. Nothing I have seen actually discusses that issue.
As far as I can tell, there was nothing intrinsically illegal about the compensation package. The argument revolves around Musk’s capture and enslavement of the board of directors. And envy.
The argument revolves around Musk’s capture and enslavement of the board of directors.
That’s what I got from the article yesterday. Shareholders sued because they believed the board was not protecting the interest of the shareholders. Which is a legitimate reason to complain.
The article furthers states that Tesla hit all the internal growth estimates. So, it appears to me the compliant is not valid.
The judge, however, is clearly grandstanding and should be flogged in public.
Another issue, apparently, was that the internal growth goals were shared with Tesla’s bankers, but not the public. Which is a completely normal thing in publicly traded companies. The SEC rules make it a dangerous thing indeed to release “too much” info “too early” to the public, but big financial backers are going to want to see that stuff, even if it means they can’t trade on it.
I am by no means an expert on DE corporate law, but this ruling strikes me as crap. We’ll see what happens on appeal. I’ll keep an eye out on the white shoe law firm white papers and see what they say (although even if they think it’s crap, they won’t say so in so many words).
but this ruling strikes me as crap.
I see two possible options here. First, the judge knows it’s crap. But is taking an opportunity to grandstand know it will be overruled on appeal. Second, the judge is actually stupid and believes this horseshit. I am on this fence, which of these is the worst case.
Germany has seen productivity slide in recent years as a result of poor infrastructure investment—so could a shorter week help address that concern? Maybe not, Schäfer said. He thinks it can be hard to gauge productivity improvements from a short program involving voluntary participants.
There has been no shortage of misguided “investment” in energy infrastructure. That could be having an effect.
Yeah, nice dodge. Their industry is about to completely tank because of idiot pols listening to idiot “activists”.
They will get their shorter work week because they are no longer capable of producing anything of value. But it won’t be 100%.
So, this article is trivially obvious, but the date surprises me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ganHDnSz3yw
https://theconversation.com/whats-unsettling-about-catan-how-board-games-uphold-colonial-narratives-220459
They must be plagiarizing someone.
Got tired of the “wood for sheep” jokes?
They’re just prepping for the new version coming out.
Maybe. Regardless the name of the site is hilarious. “The Conversation.” It should be renamed “The Struggle.”
I just noticed that your youtube link was on making crumpets.
Don’t know how that got added — my best friend sent me that, I’ll be trying it this weekend.
Let us know how they turn out
They look good.
I rarely get real crumpets, but yeah they’re pretty amazing.
In the future, Firsters will have immunity for all acts taken against the seconders.
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Just thinkg of the economic stimulus and union jobs required for fixing the problem! A subsidy for the subsidy if you will.
Crash tests indicate nation’s guardrail system can’t handle heavy electric vehicles
https://apnews.com/article/electric-vehicles-crash-test-guardrails-nebraska-3ec299a7ad87d0f63a6dd9357f663fce
Re the three dudes in Kansas City who died locked outside some other dude’s house for 48 hours:
The dude who rented the house checked himself into rehab. The Kansas City subreddit is convinced it was fentanyl. One of the dudes who died had a pharmacy license and another had been busted for drugs once. But why was the door locked?
I’m only posting this because some of you people have been keeping an eye on the story.
They had to be baked on something. Why didn’t the renter know his pals were in his own backyard? Why didn’t his pals just leave when he locked them out? Who sleeps for what, two-three days straight through? If it was just booze, WI would be littered with frozen corpses every winter. It wasn’t just booze.
r/KC says fentanyl. Body temp goes up, you go outside, you pass out, you hit hypothermia, you never wake up in time to notice you were locked out much less get help or go home.
If the door wasn’t locked, gawkers would have come in and seen Kelce and Swift macking on the couch.
That house was their secret love nest.
Heh. More likely as his buddies got more and more whacked on drugs they got crazy and he kicked them out. Then everyone passed out. D-E-D dead.
Can soldering fumes be filtered out, or just vented?
Just vent them, you aren’t doing industrial work.
My workbench isn’t near a convenient window, and this time of year there isn’t convenient weather for venting.
They can be filtered. Exactly what you’d need to do it, I’d have to check.
I’ve filtered airborne organotin with permangante/carbon filters. No idea if those are out there on the consumer market.
I’ll take a look.
Is This anything like the filters you used?
Yes. Obviously smaller. but same concept. You’ll need an FFU though.
I was getting annoyed as even when I was holding my breath, the airflow around my workbench seemed to be “send fumes directly at face”. I did my best not to inhale that, but I doubt it was clear when the visible vapors were gone.
Yes, they make desktop fume extractors. I have a Hakko 493.
Does it work?
“I’m old enough to remember when TV was ruining our children”
Note of interest: never heard anyone talk about it but I noticed that prior to TV being common people from one area to another, either large or small distances apart, had noticeably different accents/dialects and verbal patterns.
As TV became more ubiquitous that changed quite a bit. Our language has become much more uniform. Those differences still exist but they are orders of magnitude smaller.
It’s brought up quite a bit with the internet and various subcultures. It used to be (as an example) you would have an LA punk scene, a Berkley punk scene, a NY punk scene, a DC punk scene, etc. and they would all have some different tells, signals, stylistic choices…. Now, with information being spread nearly instantly, that gets a lot more homogenized.
Nothing like homogenized non-conformity.
When I joined the Marine Corps, I still had my jean jacket with Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, and other patches on it.
I remember one guy said that I must be from the east coast with that jacket.
Europe still has a lot of dialects. My wife’s family lives only about 10 miles from the center of the capitol city, and sometimes she has to translate from their dialect to the official language so I can understand. Go to the next town, and it’s yet another dialect.
At the beginning of her keynote address, Representative Lisa McClain, a Republican from Michigan, said: “Please keep your hands above the table and I know it’s date night for some of you but no inappropriate touching. That includes you Lauren Boebert. No vaping either.”
https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-mocked-republican-congressional-dinner-lisa-mcclain-1865921
Too bad it was a Repub dinner so Swalwell wasn’t there. Because that just begs for somebody to hoist a cheek and let one rip.
Musk has made a lot of money for Tesla shareholders, and he gets his pay whacked. It’s difficult to see how this is a good and proper application of the rules against executives taking advantage of shareholders.
If this were a case of clawing back cash compensation from a chief executive who was looting the treasury as the firm went under, it would make (more) sense. If it were about “reasonable” compensation for some random caretaker puked up by an executive search committee, instead of the founder and driving force behind pretty much everything, it might make more sense.
They gots to teach that uppity African his proper place.
Can soldering fumes be filtered out, or just vented?
If you’ve got room, try putting a fan on the table to draw the fumes away. I’m thinking about giving that a try for the flux core welder; that stuff is smoky. How bad it is for you, I don’t know, but it makes it hard to see the weld.
Unless you spend a ton on a filter it will work about as well as the above stovetop fan and filter combos that blow bacon grease onto your ceiling. If you don’t have a window handy, you can always run a pipe to a fan in another room to help pull out the smoke. Are you soldering that much lately? I generally find it takes over 30 minutes of non-stop soldering to get a big smelly cloud. I worry less about 5 minutes here and there.
Here you go. A dryer vent hose is a good size. Tape a fan to the exhaust end to pull the fumes through.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-4-in-x-8-ft-Flexible-Aluminum-Dryer-Vent-Duct-BTD48HD/203626496
Here you go.
I just need to draw the smoke from the flux core welding wire away from the work, so I can see the joint. I’m not welding in the house.
That’s what orphans with newspaper fans are for. That’s even cheaper.
Ultra MAGA radicals will stop at nothing
In the lead-up to the South Carolina primary, a conservative group is eyeing the state as a valuable testing ground for messages opposing the US Food and Drug Administration’s proposed menthol cigarette ban, something they hope will chip away at President Joe Biden’s Black vote.
The Liberty Policy Foundation, a conservative advocacy group, plans on launching an aggressive ad campaign in South Carolina to see whether it can sway some public opinion against Biden and Democrats, according to a Republican strategist working with the group.
The ads rolled out on digital platforms Wednesday morning.
The ad campaign is targeting three groups, the strategist said: African Americans who disapprove of Biden and think he has been ineffective as president, small business owners and young Americans who lean independent.
They will sacrifice millions of helpless ignorant black people hooked on deadly menthol cigarettes, in pursuit of their depraved attempt to destroy democracy.
Biden has yet to decide on whether to approve the FDA’s proposed ban on menthol cigarettes, which health advocates say would save hundreds of thousands of Black lives, but which could also be unpopular with some Black voters.
Menthol cigarettes are the preferred cigarette among many Black smokers after the tobacco industry heavily marketed menthols in the Black community for decades. Menthol cigarettes continue to be widely available and priced cheaper in Black communities, according to the nonprofit advocacy group, The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Industrial murder.
lolwhat
Bullshit.
Other groups, such as the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, support the proposed menthol cigarette ban.
In a report issued on Wednesday, the American Lung Association called for the Biden administration to act “swiftly” on the proposed ban.
“Menthol cigarettes make it both easier to start and harder to quit by reducing the harshness of the smoke and cooling the throat,” notes the association’s annual State of Tobacco Control report. Researchers estimate that a regulation banning menthol cigarettes would save about 654,000 lives over the next 40 years, especially those of Black smokers, who are disproportionately more likely to smoke menthols.
They should force cigarette makers to flavor their product with rat poison. That will reduce smoking.
https://babylonbee.com/news/conservatives-uncover-democrat-plot-to-turn-taylor-swift-into-an-international-pop-star-and-the-kansas-city-chiefs-into-a-dynasty-so-swift-could-date-a-chiefs-player-and-leverage-the-collecti
For once,(((they))) weren’t alleged to be the masterminds.
C’mon BB, up your game. How is this any different than the story we read yesterday by some space cadet lefty alleging the same in earnest….well alleged as earnestly as any lie can be.
Who’s on trial here?
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has no plans to step down from the Georgia election subversion case over allegations she’s having an affair with her lead prosecutor, a decision driven in part over concern that her departure would effectively end the case against Donald Trump and his multiple defendants, sources familiar with the thinking inside the DA’s office told CNN.
The sprawling racketeering case still has no trial date, and Willis and her team are keenly aware that the window to go to trial before the 2024 election is rapidly shrinking. Any change in the team handling the prosecution would likely delay the proceedings, and it’s unclear if another prosecutor in Georgia would even be inclined to take up the case, given its political and legal challenges.
Willis has faced immense public scrutiny since allegations first surfaced that she has benefitted financially from a romantic relationship with lead prosecutor Nathan Wade. Despite calls by some legal experts to recuse herself from the case to protect its integrity, she is not expected to do so, the sources told CNN.
She’s a genuine visionary and a hero. She’s saving democracy from authoritarianism.
She’s saving democracy by disenfranchising wrong thinkers who might vote for someone who will end democracy, by getting a majority of votes from people who do not understand that democracy means voting for Democrats.