No sports today. There’s simply nothing going on besides baseball, and that’s no more exciting than it was a couple days ago. But don’t despair. College football and F1 are both coming up in a few days.
Take off your mask.
I’m not so sure I agree with this lawsuit. The exceptions are pretty clear for traffic stops as well as the subject of an interaction. I don’t think keeping people 8 feet away is such an outrageous request. That’s literally three steps. Which is about the distance someone can cover in half a second, should they have the desire to do harm. At the same time, I don’t think a wholesale restricting of recording is right in the least. So I look at this law as a pretty decent compromise and in the best interests of everyone involved. So of course the ACLU focuses its energy here rather than a million other things it could go after that are a lot more blatant infringements than this.
Nikki Fried gets burnt to a Crist in Florida governor’s primary. Now Crist will face DeSantis in one of the most widely-anticipated races in the fall.
I have some safety measures you can consider: Stay in your offices. Or resign. Problem solved.
They’re both losers
The misogynists beat the anti-semites. At least that’s what the candidates claimed voting for their opponent would have been. Well, anyway it looks like Jerry Nadler will be back in the House again next year to continue his grift, while Maloney will have to settle for continuing her grift at a think-tank or TV network. God knows she’s not qualified to do anything else after sucking at the governmental teat for so long.
This dude’s brain has turned to mush. I almost start to feel bad for him. But then I remember “Rookie Of The Year” and “Surviving The Game” and I no longer do.
I wonder if this vote-buying scheme is going to work. I no longer wonder if it’s legal, since we’re already living in a banana republic. But I am curious how they’ll sell this to non-college educated people, whose taxes will now partially pay for the useless degrees of puppeteers and women studies Phd’s.
Shit.
Sweet freaking Jesus. Why is this being done? It’s already been done twice: once incredibly well and once poorly done. There’s no “third time’s a charm” rule for remakes. They always get progressively worse, with the exception of “Dune”, I suppose. But they’ve only done that one twice and the first one was so bad it would have been improved upon by Claymation.
Holy shit, that just gave me a great idea: some Hollywood leftist ought to remake Red Dawn again. But this time they can have a gritty group of city youths defending against an invading force of stereotypical hicks from Texas and Florida who plot to take over their urban paradise. Somebody get Tom Hanks or Ron Howard on the phone! “Red(neck) Dawn” needs to be a thing.
Dammit, this is one of my greatest fears. I routinely have mild panic attacks when going over a really high bridge or one of those triple overpasses. This isn’t going to help me overcome that.
Here’s a solid rock song for you. My first date behind the wheel was with a girl obsessed with this band. And here’s another one by them. Note on the date: it went fine until I got pulled over for doing donuts in the high school parking lot. I came to a stop nose to nose with a cruiser whose lights were flashing. I didn’t get a ticket but he called my dad and I got grounded for a week. But man, did I ever lay some serious fucking smoke with those tires.
Anyway, that’s it. Go have a great day, dear friends.
“Now Crist will face DeSantis in one of the most widely-anticipated races in the fall.”
Has he come out yet?
Not yet, but he had transitioned, if you will.
As the sleaziest politician south of DC? Yes.
A lot of competition for that achievement, wide open field.
Is Sacramento south of DC?
I’m in FL and have not seen the slightest bit of advertising for Crist. I learned that he was in the primary from these morning links. I’ve seen signs for Fried, and seen her various antics online and on TV, and am glad to see her go down.
Crist might do well nationally by coming out in this woke era but I suspect that in Florida the guy who previously ran against DeSantis being a gay drug orgy aficionado might have tainted the brand.
They should have run Jesus Crist to pick up the Hispanic vote.
Crist Cristie ate him after devouring a Cristie Kreme (knock off donut shop line).
The Crist singularity is forming….
John Crist is hilarious. A Christian comedian who is deeply sarcastic.
Stand-up: https://youtu.be/VOixH_A3VOk
Just search John Crist on YouTube. Plenty to choose from!!
Charlie (my Congressman) would legally change his name today if he thought it would win him the governorship. I don’t know how the former Republican governor who became a Democrat to win a seat in Congress runs in a Red-shifting state, but other than losing the Senate race to… Rubio? He gets himself elected with startling regularity.
Yeah, that’s what worries me. I’ve not seen any actual poling for desantis, I really hope he’s miles ahead of Crist.
I dunno, people tend to forget that DeSantis won by a whisker last time, when his opponent was some unknown dude with a habit of getting caught in hotel rooms full of drugs. He may have a very tough time against a former governor. And lots of people here are tired of seeing him use the resources of the state to carry out petty vendettas, even if they aren’t saying so publicly.
That’s exactly what scares me.
A lot of his moves I agree with, some are petty and certainly appear that way to many, even if I agree with the direction, it’s not always a great look. I really need him to win though.
This is encouraging, but shows the election certainly isn’t in the bag for desantis… I’ll have to see if I can volunteer or something.
https://www.racetothewh.com/flgov22
Better to taint the brand than to brand the taint.
Crist, what an asshole.
whaddup doh’
“… But I am curious how they’ll sell this to non-college educated people, whose taxes will now partially pay for the useless degrees of puppeteers and women studies Phd’s.”
They can’t. You never heard such pissed off people. Myself included. Fuck those underwater basket weavers.
Look, they’ll explain it with really small words, and just a soupcon of condescension. Is it really their fault that you don’t make the best decisions for yourself? Just let them pick for you.
It’s really for the Greater Good.
W00t!
I hit the nail on the head. Altar Boy 2 took out a 10K loan because we were thinking that Biden was going to forgive some of these loans. Now I guess he’ll have to turn down any potential jobs paying more than $125K.
Will Big Higher Ed be accused of gouging when they all immediately raise tuition by $10K? Or are we not supposed to notice that?
What are the American people going to do, *not* send their sons and daughters to a 4 year propaganda mill/fuckfest? They’ll be lowly commoners without those diplomas.
You’ve been talking to my wife?
Not only does she believe that, but she also thinks that the prestige of the school you go to is super important to your career prospects. To be fair, she met and married me at Memphis State so obviously third rate schools lead to bad lives.
Early 2000s there was a release comparing football players SAT scores to average student body SAT scores (public schools only)
Louisville and Memphis had the lowest football player SAT scores and also the smallest gap between football and regular students.
GT had the highest football player SAT scores on the list and also the largest gap.
Baskerville Holmes was quoted as: “If it was not for basketball, I would not be playing basketball at Memphis State today”
“Don’t strive, son.”
Heckuva job on the economy, Joe.
The proverbial useless degree “underwater basket weaving” would demonstrate way more competence than most liberal arts. SCUBA diving takes discipline. Basket weaving takes manual dexterity. Understanding how water affects different basket weaving materials requires memory or intelligence. So anyone who could make a decent basket without drowning would have the aptitude to do many useful things.
The purpose of a college education is to demonstrate to future employers that you are compliant enough to park your ass in a chair for 4 years because somebody said you had to.
Almost the exact words my father said to me.
That was a recreation class at UCSD. The water keeps it pliable, and the students went in only chest deep.
Lame.
Assuming they don’t change the COD rules, this also does raises taxes on those earning under $125k.
Give a man a fish, the IRS takes half of it.
It will be interesting to see if republicans can run with it. Sure, $10k forgiveness in exchange for $2,500 tax is still a good deal, but there is no nuance in politics.
Teach a man to fish and the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Administration revokes his commercial fishing license and confiscates his boat for suspicion of drug smuggling.
Remember when the Judean Dept of Natural Resources raided Jesus’ freezer after he allegedly fed thousands on only a few fish?
I thought that was the Dept of Natural Resources of Judea?
SPLITTERS!
Doug Stanhope had some thoughts along that line.
Stanhope is a gem. No Refunds may be my favorite comedy special.
– Doug Stanhope
Are you sure there’s not a carve out for that, CPA? I’m studying for the EA exam now and I could’ve sworn that I came across a line stating student loan debt was exempted from the general CoD-as-income rules in one of the recent bills.
There are ways out if you qualify: https://www.forbes.com/sites/adamminsky/2022/02/10/is-student-loan-forgiveness-taxable-in-2022-its-complicated/?sh=ca423473de00
How about the college educated that either paid as we went (me) or were chumps and paid our loans off (the wife). Even more irritating we saved some (not all, we figured they need some skin in the game) for both our daughters. Why didn’t I buy a boat or get horses instead like some of my friends? I feel like a chump.
We have people who don’t know shit about guns, people who never learned to aim, and people who are less fit to fight than centinarians before having been starved by the loss of food supplies to the city doing… what exactly to fend off the rednecks?
It’s Hollywood. So I assume they’ll have a computer hacker genius, a few kids with an excellent knowledge of guns, who moved there from somewhere else, some eye-candy chicks who are otherwise useless at first but become snipers, and their fearless urban leader who rallies them all to the cause.
That’s just The Matrix without the brain in a box angle.
Of course it is. That’s all they know in Hollyweird.
Fuck the Hollywood rot, I can’t suspend my disbelief that much.
They also have to create a plot device where the rednecks actually want something in a big city. Not just to keep all the city folk bottled up there, where they can’t bother decent people. Otherwise, it’s “Escape from New York”.
In the hollywood version, they’d be killin cityfolk for the lulz. Since, ya know, wrongthinkers are cartoon villains.
^^this^^
So basically The Purge.
The rednecks have to raid the cities for women to breed with.
They don’t have cousins?
That’s kind of perfect. Rednecks are already the enemies of feminists so make them more rapey. The movie will also need to have some former military who is an ultimate badass to function as a paid DOD recruiting tool.
Admiral Levine?
RED DAWN, a treatment: 2025, the Progressive States of America seek to reconquer now-independent Texas. Woke USA troops pour into Texas suburbs, plucky teens head for the hills and conduct guerilla warfare against the hilariously incompetent, but still evil, they/them, purple-haired troops…
Kurt Schlichter wrote a few books like that.
Damn him!
Just sign him up to write the screenplay.
I can’t wait for the rainbow camouflage.
Sweet freaking Jesus. Why is this being done?
Well obviously because the original and first remake didnt have enough Representation. Everything must be remade until everyone finally has Representation. How else will the people know they can be strong and empowered?
This dude’s brain has turned to mush.
Does he need psychological evaluation?
I think everyone’s forgotten that he has brain damage from a car accident. He was able to monetize it for a while, so kudos to him.
Since that happened after “Little Big League”, he doesn’t get a pass as far as I’m concerned.
We’re talking about the present administration, right?
Codpiece Scenery Chewing Sting is the best Sting
I WILL kill you!
I actually liked the TCA remake. Not just for Renee Russo’s breasts, but the big Nina Simone scene was well done. Yes, casting Dennis Leary was a mistake, But whatsizirshface’s combination of smarm and charm was on pointe. .
I was just about to write something similar.
Brosnan was charming AF in that.
Back then he was still riding high from having killed the Bond franchise.
I hope you meant killed as in “he did such a great job.” I will not abide Brosnan-Bond slander
I’ll just leave this here
Goldeneye was stellar, although I may be biased by the fact that I played probably about 15,000 hours of the N64 game. Tomorrow Never Dies I’ll accept. The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day are as bad as the worst crap from the Roger Moore era.
Not some sort of Bond fanboi, so I won’t get worked-up regardless, but I thought The Drinker’s take was solid.
Brosnan’s Bond looks even better in retrospect.
His take basically gets at the fundamental difference in fans of the respective characterizations. He hates Craig and Dalton for playing it too straight, I hate Moore and Brosnan for playing it too cheeky. For me, Connery is the only actor to fuse those two components of the character in a satisfying way, and if I have to pick between overwrought Shakespearean and zany night club comic, in the context of the Bond franchise I have to go with the overwrought Shakespearean.
I never got into the old Bonds.
I saw parts of the one with the iron teeth cutting a cable and it didn’t look good at all.
I really liked the first Craig Bond, the second one was OK, I enjoyed Skyfall and was really disappointed with his finale, it should have been great, the writers made it mediocre.
You misspelled Timothy Dalton.
I’d play Maryam d’Abo’s cello.
Connery perfected Bond for his time period.
Moore perfected Bond for his time period.
Dalton was bad because he was a dork.
Brosnan was just “meh”.
Craig resurrected it but then the writers ruined it.
The next Bond will be awful regardless whom they cast.
Lazenby or GTFO.
Dalton is unironically my 2nd favorite Bond behind Connery. A hugely necessary tonic after the clown show the Moore era had turned into by the time he finally gave it up. Truer to the Fleming novels. Brosnan and the producers were essentially riffing on the Dalton characterization and harder edge of the franchise in Goldeneye, and then by the time Brosnan turns in his last performance we’re back to Moonraker.
I would like to see a claymation version of Dune done by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich.
Mua’dib… start the reactor!
I laughed
Rabban! Give those people ai-uh!
You mean like Dune Buggies! or attempting to walk without rhythm?
Dune needs more dancing and singing. Create a mash up called Brigadune.
DOON!!!!
Geet you ahss to Doon!
No sports? Are you serious? Or are you trying to ignore the fact that your cheating baseballers, crippled the Twins star outfielder Byron Buxton?
I mean he’s never been hurt before.
Obviously he was injured on Altuve’s super secret buzzer, or something.
The real story is that the Astros have beat their franchiae record at 124 games. I think I’ll try to go to the world series this time if we make it. I hit games in the playoffs in 17, but couldnt justify ws ticket prices at the time.
Byron is always hurt. He’s great but he misses like 30% of every year for one reason or another.
As i said yesterday, star fuckers dont care.
Poorly my ass. The Thomas Crown Affair remake was better than the original in every category.
I didn’t say which was good and which was bad.
True, you didn’t. But I would never classify the McQueen/Dunaway version as ‘bad’. The remake was just better.
Are you ready for the EV revolution?
That’s what we call spontaneous discharging
Odds that the smug driver didn’t even notice they were being burned alive because they were staring at their iPhone?
There was a Dune miniseries on SyFy – does that count?
That was interesting, since it got the plot of the book correct while getting the look entirely wrong. The David Lynch movie was the opposite.
The miniseries did have a good Godfather homage/ripoff/music video scene. The look of terror on Javid’s face is excellent.
I also appreciated the way R.H. Hohaim drew the 2 of Swords (vengeance/mercilessness) right before Leo II had her stabbed to death.
Actually, yeah. When they were shooting it they may not have known whether it would be released as a TV series, a multi-part movie, or a single theatrical release. “Das Boot” was apparently first released as a mini-series (TRT 4:53) before being released as a theatrical version, and finally a director’s cut. Once a distribution company buys the film, they can release it however they wish.
Mentlegen, I present to you the luckiest first guess of my life.
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Damn, I made no wrong moved but ended up with one star?
I guess I would try thinking about it more instead of speed running.
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Black Hills are alive with sound of White Supremacy.
RHINO gets torched by constituents. I can GAY-RONE-TEE that this story is going to be passed around on the coasts as an example of why they should nuke the interior.
tried to buy property around there last year. Don’t know who was buying it up, but expensive and anything marginally attractive was disappearing as soon as it hit the market. Beautiful country! But once you get too far outside the black hills proper, you might as well be in North Dakota. And who wants that really?
George Armstrong Custer?
*narrows gaze*
“I wanna know, where’s my right to be safe,” one woman demanded. “You did nothing to secure our borders; you were in Congress when Donald Trump tried to get a wall built. I don’t feel safe walking down my own streets. Where is my right to feel safe and why didn’t you do anything about it?”
The right to be safe has infected the right half of America too. We’re doomed. Also, is Black Hills SD a popular spot for illegal (Mexican) immigrants?
With the way the Biden admin has been flying / busing them around in the middle of the night? It wouldn’t at all surprise me. Though I strongly suspect they started in swing districts….
“The wealthy upstate woman accused of throwing a racist Juneteenth party attempted to defend herself at a bizarre press conference Tuesday, insisting the event was meant to mock liberals — not black people — but admitting to being racist on Twitter.
Mary Nicosia, who is white, set off a firestorm in Rochester, NY after reportedly decorating her lawn with buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken for a Juneteenth party where she served Hennessy.
A black firefighter, Jerrod Jones, filed a notice to sue the city and its fire department earlier this month because his boss, Capt. Jeffrey Krywy, took him to Nicosia’s party while he was on duty. Krywy faced termination proceedings over the incident, but retired before he could be investigated….”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/mary-nicosia-admits-blatantly-racist-tweets-while-denying-racism/
The party was lit and Jerrod Jones needs to shut up
Is there some significance to that which I’m not getting?
Black rappers stereotypically rap about “Henny” along with sports cars and hoes and bitches and money and hoes and sports cars.
https://vinepair.com/articles/hennessys-popularity-is-not-due-to-hip-hop-the-story-is-much-deeper-than-that/
That retro styled ad rules. Even though it kind of implies that most non-suit-wearing black men are uncivilized.
Ah…
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=D00M2KZH1J0
That song was a banger.
Huh. I always thought it was “Haulin’ Oats.”
Don’t forget the bitches and the hoes.
Hennessy is for low-class bitches. Remy Martin XO is where it’s at.
Rappers like Hennessy, IIRC.
Hennessey
I am a hipster when it comes to cognac, I usually avoid large brands like Hennessy, Martel, Remi Martin etc
The cognac market in the states is not awesome. We need more microdistilleries.
Never. Apologize.
Which “he” was on duty?
There is no pleasing people.
Daily Ray of Sunshine
“NYC prep school parents livid over ‘woke’ librarian suspended from Twitter for ‘hate speech’”
https://nypost.com/2022/08/23/parents-outraged-by-prep-school-librarian-suspended-by-twitter/
That headline sucks.
The outrage is understandable though, as you so rarely see that kind of ideology in NYC prep schools.
Pizza Delivery Porn: A Study of the Italian American Experience
Blacked: A Metaphor for Race Relations in Modern America
What Are You Doing Step-Bro?: A Deconstruction of Blended Families in the Post-Trump Era
Was (they?) really the only one applying for the job?
I hate linkedin, but keep a profile in case something interesting pops up. I noticed awhile back you can add pronouns to your profile. If you don’t have to deal with HR (lol), you can immediately disregard anyone putting their pronouns up.
Our HR software allows you to specify your gender identity, sexual orientation and pronoun. I assume it is the software we use. The fields are optional.
Why are the listed options “he/him” and the like. I know how to decline pronouns. Where is the genitive case? And how is “he/she/they” not “no preference”.
Danger Hair? Check.
Problem Glasses? Check.
Selfie with cat? Check.
I’m sorry ma’am, you’re a stereotype.
Maybe SF can change her.
Yeah, she looks exactly like you think she would.
Even the cat looks like it’s sick of her shit.
And the nose ring. But she likes vinyl…
There’s no “third time’s a charm” rule for remakes
Ricardo Cortez is the ultimate Sam Spade, and *Satan Met a Lady* is the second version.
The Humphrey Bogart movie is the POS third version.
“I don’t think keeping people 8 feet away is such an outrageous request.”
It’s not a request, exactly, is it?
I’m still not clear on exactly what problem this 8 foot (not 7, not 9) zone is supposed to solve. But since it can never be abused, why not?
I think it’s reasonable for cops to be able to have an 8-foot clear zone around them when dealing with a potentially volatile situation. Everything can still be seen and filmed from that distance, and it keeps people from crowding the police when trying to subdue someone resisting to make an arrest. I really don’t see the objection. Do people need to be right on top of cops and in their personal space when they’re already dealing with a difficult suspect?
I could get closer to supporting it if they had to wear a big calibrated hula-hoop-looking thing that continually delineated the 8′ space. Takes away most of the “Did not!” “Did too!” stuff.
They could repurpose the ones that the coviders were using.
Based on some of the police interactions on Youtube channels that have come up with “1st amendment auditors” (aka people who like to video the police), my first thought would be that the cops would form a 8 foot apart barrier to push back any video to beyond the range. So that could be a problem.
Personally, I don’t see the point of the law. They’re out in public, someone could stand there watching as easily as filming. If they *actually* obstruct police duties (and I think there should be very clear laws on what counts as obstruction… not “they made me feel uncomfortable” or “they didn’t step back when I said to!”), there are already laws for that. So if they aren’t obstructing, leave them alone.
Meanwhile, TEAM BLUE barely hele on to the House seat up here, which isn’t a good sign for the Stupid Party, even if this area is turning dark blue.
“Vegan protestors seal themselves in CEMENT outside Starbucks in protest against 50 cent charge for non-dairy milk that ‘discriminates against people who are concerned for cows'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11141083/Vegan-protestors-seal-CEMENT-outside-Starbucks-protest-non-diary-milk-charge.html
That they have nothing better to complain about tells you everything.
When Schwab talks about the useless eaters, I think he has probably misidentified the target population.
Leave them there. Maybe provide them with a chipping hammer if they ask for it, once they’ve undergone the mandatory safety training and operator’s instructional courses.
Do they know what happens to a cow if the farmer stops milking it? It’s concerning.
Does non-dairy milk cost more than regular milk?
If it does, why do they think that there shouldn’t be a surcharge?
In a humorous universe, Starbucks would announce that there would no longer be a surcharge for the nut milk. But all prices will now be raised by fifty cents. Feel free to thank your vegan brothers and sisters.
This might be a problem that solves itself.
The Han Solo Gambit
Same of them, at least, were just standing on cement blocks.
The rest looked like they could just step out of their shoes.
Cheap stunt is cheap.
I was wondering. You can only go a few hours without taking a piss under normal circumstances. Especially if you’re a coffee drinker. Including the time it takes for the cement to set up, you’re basically going to be a public statue of a person who peed their pants.
But if you can easily get out, it takes all of the shock value out of the stunt. And isn’t this frivolous shit the ultimate first world problem? There are literally wars going on in the world today while these spoiled kids have other people make special coffee for them.
For real. I won’t take them seriously until they start doing self-immolation.
/s. Burning to death is a horrible way to go
Sounds like the start of the woke version of the Saw franchise.
Minnesoda’s recent pot bill keeps paying dividends
The background: in a recent bill some DFLers snuck in a provision that legalized sale of edibles with small amounts of THC. To keep people from noticing, they didn’t add any taxes or enforcement provisions. Their thinking was that once the bill passed they could pass another bill with the taxes and regulations. Unfortunately there is no desire to pass this second bill so lots of pearls are being clutched.
When this comes up in local conversations, the DFLers seem far more worried about the pot that the GOPers. My response is to ask for examples of people being hurt now because of the lack of regulation. When they don’t have anything to point at, I ask them if we really do need any regulation or taxes then.
“What if someone bought gummies at a convenience store in Minnesota … and then used that container to possess gummies from another state?”
*clutches pearls, faints dead away*
You’re clutching your pearls too tight if they’re cutting off the circulation to your brain.
Aight, time to head to Marion, IN for some sort of meeting with other managing editors and our boss. Most of it will be focused on some sort of new system that we have to learn. Good, because our current ones don’t like to talk to one another. Bad, because Evan doesn’t like learning new systems. Have to fill a new box of memories and get rid of the old one. Damn boxes.
After that I gotta come back here and hopefully figure out how to conjure something out of an interview I had yesterday or make something up. Then back here and chatting with a Network person in town who knows all and tells all. Those older museum ladies love me. They think I’m cute, but they’re also helpful.
Where to sleep tonight? Uh. I don’t know. Either here and a hotel closer to work…or with family but add another two hours of commute. Hrm. My nomadic lifestyle continues.
If these junkets become routine, it may be worthwhile to invest in a van which can be parked down by the river.
I do need cheese.
I don’t care where it comes from.
Try not to both laugh as well as keep down breakfast. Pundits live in a different world.
Liz Cheney for Attorney General
https://www.wsj.com/articles/liz-cheney-for-attorney-general-justice-department-biden-fdr-knox-stimson-trump-january-6-trump-gop-republicans-election-11661284439?st=5wyoigtfxda26qi&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Now that Rep. Liz Cheney has lost her primary to a Trumpist Republican in Wyoming, it’s time for President Biden to consider appointing her to his cabinet. Political tensions have risen to new levels since the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Aug. 8 search of Mar-a-Lago. Bringing a Republican into the administration would cool partisan temperatures and unite the country in support of the rule of law.
Far from cooling things down, that would ignite a firestorm.
WSJ is off its meds.
WSJ prints opposing independent opinion pieces.
As well as the regular token liberal who took over for Al Hunt- William A. Galston. He is stuck in roughly 1990 on everything he writes. Today is true to form.
Viktor Orbán’s Illiberal Cheerleaders
For some on the right, the Hungarian populist is the leader they wanted Trump to become.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/viktor-orbans-illiberal-cheerleaders-new-right-social-conservatism-religion-gender-sex-marriage-democracy-11661268365?st=9y0k1rf3f4tehnn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
They do hate themselves some Orban.
I’m beginning to believe that Hungary will ditch the EU in the near future. That would be a hell of a blow to the system for them.
If you tried to bum rush Garland, wouldn’t he burn everything to the ground on his way out?
Release the affidavits from the Trump raid, dump all the Hunter Biden stuff?
Republicans obviously united around Liz Cheyney…in opposition.
Archer season premier tonight.
Enjoy the little things in life.
I lover Archer, but it can be quite hit or miss sometimes. I’m hoping for the best here.
Me, too. Particularly with Jessica Walter (Malory) dead. I don’t know how much they had recorded at the time of her death. But tweaking the scripts to make best use of old recordings of her would be easier for an animated series than a live-action one.
I seriously don’t know how they’re going to make it without the bulk of their voice talent…
IRS orders safety review amid increased threats
“I know what will fix those evil right-wing extremist conspiracy theorists, we’ll do exactly what they accused us of doing!”
They really are determined to just keep throwing gasoline on the fire.
Nikki Fried gets burnt to a Crist in Florida governor’s primary.
That is the type of hot take begging for menacing squint.
I read that as menacing squirt at first. Yuck
By the way, people from other states might not realize that Fried, as commissioner of whatever department, put her face on a sticker on every gas pump in the state, obviously as a more of a publicity stunt than a necessary registration decal. And still lost. *Nelson Muntz laugh*
Yup, she’s a publicity whore, getting between her and a camera might be as dangerous as coming between Chuckie Schumer and one.
Nikki is always the worst.
IRS conducting ‘comprehensive review of existing safety and security measures’ amid threats to employees
Stop being tyrannical tax cuntes.
Some of the rhetoric comes after many Republican lawmakers and media figures claimed, without evidence, that the $78 billion being sent to the IRS over 10 years as part of the Inflation Reduction Act is so more agents can be hired to audit the middle class.
That’s literally all it can be used for.
Somehow I scrolled past that in the links, so ignore the repost.
the REALITY of MODELING for BoutineLA (workouts + try-ons + Influencer events)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh0wlxK7JIU
quite the ass on the chick, seems she hits the gym. But these vlogs look so fucking fake to me as day to day experience.
“OMG I’m so late tee hee”
*proceeds to spend half an hour shilling her Tikstagrambook*
“Tikstagrambook,” for the win. You shouldn’t say things like that around writers, they’ll steal it.
I probably stole it myself either consciously or unconsciously from somewhere.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is a helluva drug.
I just focus on the ass really. Also the tits are to my taste, but Q would kick the poor thing out of bed.
One word: implants.
speaking of, you you want to see nsfw pics of before and after of the escort with the implants I mentioned before let me know 🙂 it came out pretty good all things considered
I’d love to.
PERVERT!
While Pie has terrible taste in beer and continents, his eye for the female form is impeccable.
Just as long as the dogs got home safely
A 61-year old postal carrier died after being attacked by five dogs in rural northern Florida over the weekend, sheriff’s officials said.
The postal worker, identified as Pamela Jane Rock of Melrose, was in the Interlachen Lake Estates area Sunday after her vehicle broke down, according to the Putnam County Sheriff’s Office.
Residents heard a woman scream for help and went outside to find Rock on the ground with five dogs attacking her, witnesses told the Sheriff’s Office. The dogs’ owners and several neighbors rushed to pull the dogs off Rock.
“One of the neighbors even brought his firearm along and fired several shots into the air and to the ground in an attempt to disrupt the attack,” Putnam County Sheriff Chief Deputy Colonel Joseph Wells said at a news conference Tuesday.
The attempt was unsuccessful, and the neighbors and the owners had to physically remove the dogs from Rock, according to Wells. By the time deputies arrived, the dogs were back at their owner’s property. The postal carrier was on the ground, bleeding severely, the sheriff’s office said.
First you shoot all the dogs. Then you shoot the owner.
Fucking retards.
Yeah, I love dogs, but if somebody’s life is at stake, you do what you gotta do.
A few loud noises is not going to deter five dogs acting as a pack.
And yeah, everybody needs to go in that situation.
Pet peeve: idiotic misuse of the word “rural”.
Anything with the name “Interlachen Lake Estates” is NOT rural. Even without looking it up on the map, it’s obvious that it’s a giant freakin’ subdivision/development.
It’s CNN. They have to preserve the narrative. Remember that “rural” is a codeword.
Anything less than a five-story brownstone is a farmhouse.
A dog-whistle, if you will.
I did look it up, and it’s far from hoity-toity. Most of the houses there go for around $100/sf or less, according to Zillow. It is laid out like a subdivision, but most of the lots are empty. It’s not rural like an Iowa farm, but still far from developed.
Are they a trailer park? Those prices are nice if not… Q.Q
Not in the usual sense. Some could be double wides or pre-fab, but there are also pricier ones like this one.
*check it out
Yeah, it’s currently rural-ish, but destined to become suburban.
Milky Way galaxy has four ‘malicious’ alien civilizations that could attack Earth: researcher
Holy crap! They found evidence of that!?
Oh.
Krugman gets a stiffie.
I hope they hurry.
“We would like to publish your study.”
-Scientific American
If SA declines we would be interested if you can find a medical angle.
– The Lancet
trolling can alleviate boredom sometimes
Caballero’s paper, which is titled “Estimating the Prevalence of Malicious Extraterrestrial Civilizations,” has “some limitations,” the author admitted.
That happens when you pull claims out of your ass.
He figures there must be four, because Romulans, Klingons, Borg, and Dominion.
QED!
“human conflict — which has decreased in the last half century as technology has advanced”
IANAMathematician, but I’m guessing that if the above premise is true, by the time a civilization reaches the technology needed to travel the distances needed to even think about attacking another fucking planet, their own intra-species conflict would have disappeared along with any thoughts of imperialism.
/takes off nerd glasses
As a newly addicted watcher of Resident Alien (SyFy and Amazon), I find this both relevant and amusing.
I really like that show, but the last episode was half <Resident Alien and half whiny romantic sit com.
Could have been a half hour show and it would have been better.
I’m only about halfway through the second season, so I haven’t gotten there yet.
I do notice that the episodes are directed by different people, and I reckon that makes a difference to the overall flavor of any particular 45 minute episode.
Modeling.
Ass Wednesday brining hot hindquarters and premium posteriors.
https://archive.ph/Nnix5
whose taxes will now partially pay for
Dude…print and spend.
Blue Babe is the 36,000-year-old mummy of a male steppe bison which was discovered north of Fairbanks, Alaska, in July 1979. It was so well preserved that researchers removed a portion of its neck, stewed it, and dined on it to celebrate
https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1562149762530480128
Cool looking animal.
I hope someday woolly mammoths are brought back (or roughly approximated) by inserting genes into an elephant embryo.
I bet you just want to shoot one ya bastard
Or better yet, me and 25 of my closest friend pick up hefty spears and herd them off a cliff.
The recent Reddit thread on this was entertaining.
https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/wv9i58/blue_babe_is_a_perfectly_preserved_steppe_bison/
The best TV show ever (Northern Exposure) covered this in an episode where the main character, a city slicker doctor, discovers a mammoth emerging from the freeze, only to have his ground-breaking archaeological discovery go missing. Turns out the locals have been finding mammoth parts for years and cooking them up in stews and so forth.
Using the frequency of human conflict — which has decreased in the last half century as technology has advanced — and applying the math to outer space, Caballero estimates that there could be four “malicious” alien civilizations.
According to my model, Ming the Merciless is real.
According to mine, they all went woke and socialist – therefore never made it to the stars.
GAY
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/19585361/separate-affairs-with-mate-and-wife/
sharing a beard can be effective though
I think you mean “Biiiiiiiii.”
Regarding the AZ recording law: I agree that 8 ft seems like a decent compromise, but I also think that the ACLU has a legitimate gripe over what constitutes a “law enforcement activity”.
The issue is nobody will get out a tape measure.
If you film the cop and he or she is unhappy it will guarantee that you will be within 8 feet.
And the cop, of course, will get the presumption of being correct by the state.
I was going to link the Reno 911! episode where the deputies are working full time in the strip club making sure the new 6-foot rule is properly enforced, but the Comedy Central content Nazis get anything that isn’t behind their paywall or DRM taken down within seconds.
We don’t get enough Reno 911! references around here.
*sad trombone*
If it can’t be confirmed with a body camera, they can’t arrest you for it. *laughs*
By 19? That’s pretty impressive; if she keeps that pace up she’s easily headed toward 4 figures.
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/love-sex/onlyfans-model-fires-back-after-27818687
I mean when you hit double digits you should at least have been payed for it, why be a ho for free
Until I see the results of a forensic audit, I call “attention whore”.
At one point in her list (the 30s) she gets passed around a big group of friends. I’ve knew a young lady like that. I think she slept with every single one of my coworkers. She was one of the nuttiest chicks I’ve ever met, too.
Threats of blackouts drive Japan to embrace nuclear power again
A culture that actually responds to impending doom, how novel.
A culture where whatever the government wants is going to occur. They may slow walk it for decades and hear lots of opposition, but it’s going to happen regardless of what John Q. Watanabe wants.
Exhibit A – Okinawa military bases
Still better than Germany
Damning by faint praise, I know
I am quite curious how the nuscale thing will turn out in Romania.
Me too. SNRs are a pet interest.
Wind turbine blades could be recycled into gummy bears, scientists say
Researchers design composite resin for blades that can be broken down to make new products including sweets
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/aug/23/wind-turbine-blades-could-recycled-gummy-bears-scientists
bugs and resin the food of the future
Will they have THC? And does this mean I don’t have to pay taxes on wind turbines from Minnesota?
TW: TOS
https://reason.com/video/2022/08/23/babylon-bee-wont-back-down-over-trans-joke-twitter-ban/
The Jacket chatting with our favorite potential lurker.
Everything old is new again.
I have a feeling watching that video would make it difficult to enjoy the handful of Bee memes I laugh at periodically when I stumble upon them in my web travels.
There was a clip going around of a Babylon Bee guy defending the pro life position on Rogan, IIRC. He came across as thoughtful, convincing, and likeable, although there was nothing funny about it.
I don’t know any of the people actually involved in the Bee and didn’t even know it was a religious site until probably 2 years after I first saw one of their memes. But from that blurb the guy sounds like every middle aged skinny jeans wearing tryhard douchebag youth pastor in every evangelical church in America doing the How do you do fellow kids? routine.
Also, I was going to refrain from saying it, but why not throw my hottest take out there: I do not believe it is possible to practice Christianity and libertarianism simultaneously.
How so? I would think of all political philosophies, libertarianism is the most compatible with Christianity. Christianity calls upon its followers to reject aggression and to love their fellow men (broadly speaking); libertarian political philosophies all have some form of the non-aggression principle at their heart (broadly speaking).
So what leads you to conclude that to be a Christian you cannot embrace the NAP?
The NAP is so morally minimalist as to be functionally equivalent to amorality, while Christianity is a much more robust, holistic moral system. I used to think you could reconcile the two by holding to Christian moral teaching at a personal level while relying on the NAP as a social tool, but all that actually gets you in real life is your Christian moral beliefs stuffed up your ass sideways by an amoral society that rejects them entirely. The final sentence in the quoted blurb sums it up:
Well, then you’re not practicing your faith, you’re practicing your politics. And a Christian trying to reconcile his beliefs with libertarianism can do no other.
Replying to Pat:
I wish I had time to do a real response (sorry), but I gotta say that Christianity “by the book” just about REQUIRES one to be a libertarian.
And “…in real life is your Christian moral beliefs stuffed up your ass sideways by an amoral society that rejects them entirely…” is pert-near exactly what the Bible tells us to expect.
If true Christianity includes trying to force others to be believers and to follow the faith (through laws and such), then they are not compatible. But if true Christianity just tells you how to live your own life, it absolutely is. How is Christianity defined?
True, but we’re under no religious obligation to participate in such a system, except to the extent that we must pay taxes and fealty to whatever secular authorities under which we happen to find ourselves (sidebar: St. Paul was a pathetically obsequious little urbanite worm and Peter should have slapped the shit out of him; that verse is another great example of why marrying Christianity and minarchism or libertarianism is a Sisyphean task). I think you can make a good case for Christian political neutrality/conscientious objector, but not for libertarian politics.
Well, there’s your problem. Christianity is concerned with far more than how you live your own life. To the extent that the sacrifice of one’s own life is considered the highest ideal. 11 of the 12 disciples died horrifically as martyrs. They weren’t just chilling out in the apostolic commune getting their zen on.
I know I’m deadthreading, but maybe a couple of people will swing by later.
I used to think you could reconcile the two by holding to Christian moral teaching at a personal level while relying on the NAP as a social tool, but all that actually gets you in real life is your Christian moral beliefs stuffed up your ass sideways by an amoral society that rejects them entirely.
My job is not to save others. It is to expose them to the truth. It’s in God’s hands after that. I don’t disagree with some of your points around the moral fragility of libertarianism. The NAP is nice and all, but it lacks oomph, both practically and philosophically.
Christianity is able to be practiced in a hostile culture (it was born in one much more hostile than the current pomo fruitcups could dream of), and it is able to be practiced in a friendly culture. There are challenges that come with each, but it hasn’t escaped my notice that the strongest periods of growth have occurred where the culture was most hostile.
I think the bigger conflict between Christianity and libertarianism is in the latter’s obsession with the state. The New Testament is clear that we’re not to obsess over the government and trying to overthrow/overtake it. “My kingdom is not of this world”, “submit to the ruling authorities”, and all that. The alliance between hollow libertarians (I’ve called them deferentialists in the past because they defer to the morality of others) and Christian libertarians (I’ve called them restraintists because they restrain themselves from asserting their morality on others) is skin deep. We have exceedingly different worldviews, which will be exposed as culture continues to split on worldview lines.
I still say it’s Morgan.
My recommendation: do an image search on “taint team” while at work.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-taint-team-examining-trump-mar-a-lago-documents
Drain the swamp ass…..
Florida applauds the effort.
Interesting map hanging up in the UN
https://twitter.com/sdaws5MUFC/status/1561589319701331968
Welcome to the party pal.
https://www.realclearpolicy.com/articles/2022/08/24/for_progressives_economic_pain_is_the_point_849674.html
You missed the most interesting part of the truck story:
Awesome.
That’s what happens when you think Twitter is real
What was he expecting?
https://www.samizdata.net/2022/08/what-was-he-expecting/
Last week, James Sweet, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and President of the American Historical Association, published a very few, very cautious criticisms of the 1619 project (carefully bookended by impeccably woke remarks about the supreme court and etc.). Within two days, the (same) Professor Sweet, President of the American Historical Association, abjectly, cringingly apologised for having written those sentiments. Read this for the criticisms, and scroll down for the apology. (And read this and this for why I call his criticisms very few and very cautious – why even the project’s 1619 date is ridiculous.)
After Sweet begged forgiveness, some people tried to defend his original article, or at least his right to write it – whereupon the same American Historical Association that seemed OK with the vicious online pile-on after Sweet wrote his article complained that the discussion
“has been invaded by trolls uninterested in civil discourse in the last 12 hours”
and restricted outside access to end this “appalling” state of affairs.
…
We may or may not learn more as this example of cancel culture plays out. Meanwhile this post ends as it began, with a question: what was Sweet expecting?
Often, you have to do things not to convince or change the subject, but to inspire a third party. Once his colleagues see his treatment after such a tepid criticism, many will be cowed, but I think more importantly, some will be galvanized to reject the group’s catechisms.
Just a theory.
Robert Reich
@RBReich
Just wondering if “DeSantis” is now officially a synonym for “fascist.”
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1562182821761859584
Coming from a guy named Reich…
Nothing says fascism like freedom.
Freedom is slavery, war is peace, etc.
Don’t you even Newspeak?
Labels and framing are all they have.
Unfortunately, like almost all Republicans, DeSantis is statist in his own way. I’ve been disappointed in him lately. OTOH, I would vote for him in a heartbeat versus whomever the D’s put up. But some of his policies make it hard to be vocal in my support.
I have no issue with advocating for the pragmatic vote, particularly when the other side wants you dead.
^THIS
Democrat stars are full on fascist. Yes, desantis walks a line I don’t like, but compared to being forcibly injected, masked (even toddlers!) and thrown out of your job… For God ‘s same and the children(for once, actually really for them, not sarcastically) please advocate for him and vote in November.
Let me clarify further. Desantis is one of the few governors who were actually good during the pandemic, on either side of the aisle. He is better than the average Republican on freedom that really matters, by a long shot.
It’s never to early to declare that a potential future GOP presidential nominee is Hitler.
Believe him
Hours after a federal jury convicted two men of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the judge unsealed court documents about a potential rogue juror who raised red flags for the defense.
According to the unsealed filing, the defense asked the judge in the first week of trial to dismiss the juror after learning that the person had allegedly told co-workers that if picked to be on the jury, they “would make sure that the defendants were found guilty.”
U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker, however, denied the defense’s request to dismiss the juror after interviewing the person, concluding the person was not biased, nor dishonest.
“The Court is eminently satisfied that the present record does not provide a basis for removing the subject juror for bias,” Jonker wrote.
“During the interview, the court squarely presented the report of the subject juror’s alleged statements. The Juror repeatedly and consistently denied making any such statements,” Jonker wrote. “Based on the Court’s observation of the juror’s demeanor and behavior, these responses were credible. They are also consistent with the juror’s statements during voir dire — that the juror could put aside any preconceived views and decide the case based just on the evidence and law presented — assurances the juror repeated in chambers.”
This is the judge who told the jury entrapment is not a legitimate defense.
Sounds like grounds for appeal. But that could lead to yet another trial.
And that due process means the government gets a fair trial.
There’s your grounds for appeal, at least.
I will admit I did not hate Lynch’s dune…
Me neither. Some great world-building and art direction in there.
“Mark’s toddler had a painful, swollen penis. His wife contacted their doctor, whose nurse asked Mark to send him a picture of the toddler’s penis, because the pandemic was raging and the doctor wasn’t seeing patients in person. Mark’s phone synched the photo to his Google Photos account, and Google’s scanning tools automatically detected the picture of a child’s penis and turned Mark into the SFPD, accusing him of molesting his son….
Mark received an envelope from the SFPD telling him that Google had contacted the police department, accusing him of producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), and that the company had secretly given the police full access to all of his files and data, including his location and search history, as well as all his photos and videos.
The reason the police had to mail him all this stuff? Google had shut down his phone number and so they couldn’t reach him.
To SFPD’s credit, they’d figured out what was going on and decided Mark wasn’t a child molester. To Google’s shame, they continue to hold all his data hostage – including his address book with the contact info for everyone he is personally or professionally connected to, denying him access to it….”
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1561729808517763074
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/22/allopathic-risk/#snitches-get-stitches
“Don’t be evil.”
“Despite ‘concerning’ transgender study, UW kept quiet because of positive coverage
A University of Washington study, in partnership with Seattle Children’s Hospital, claimed gender-affirming care via puberty blockers leads to positive mental health outcomes for transgender teen patients. That characterization, however, was false, forcing substantial edits to the materials used to promote the study and prompting UW to cease promoting the research.
Despite all that, the UW communications staff chose not to proactively respond to “some pretty concerning claims” about the study because it had already received glowing media coverage, according to emails exclusively obtained by the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH.
In fact, the UW Medicine communications staff never reached out to media outlets that offered incorrect coverage based on the faulty press materials.”
https://mynorthwest.com/3602854/rantz-despite-concerning-trans-study-uw-kept-quiet-because-of-positive-coverage/
SCIENCE!!!!
All within the narrative, nothing without.
“Just wondering if “DeSantis” is now officially a synonym for “fascist.””
https://twitter.com/RBReich/status/1562182821761859584
I AM FULLY SELF-AWARE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuNeHaeeNc0
Eeeeeew.
this one looks good
https://twitter.com/fuckedupfoods/status/1562073694108897280
I’m gonna pass on that one. Ick.
This birthday cake might be trashy, but the details are fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJlsG3nFaU
“There has been no information at all to suggest that the subject juror is somehow tainting the jury process,” Jonker writes. “There is nothing in the report, either as relayed by Attorney Blanchard or to the jury clerk, that addresses the issue at all.”
Jonker also explained why he denied Blanchard’s request to interview all the jurors about the issue
“Asking every juror whether a particular juror in the box was breaking the rules — in the absence of any information at all suggesting that — would needlessly plant suspicion and create the risk of dissension, potentially making it impossible to continue with the group as empaneled,” Jonker wrote in his order.
If we’re going to railroad these clowns, this train has to stay on schedule.
How are you going to get information that a juror was breaking the rules without asking the other jurors?
“We can’t investigate voter fraud because doing so might change the results.”
History In Pictures
@HistoryInPics
After being detained in Florida by undercover police, an exotic dancer demonstrates that her underwear was too big for her to have exposed herself. 1983
https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1560727195365937152
A Crowded Beach In Atlantic City, NJ, In 1908.
https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1561477072802852865
That’s been colorized. There and the surrounding towns are where my family is from. It’s filmed to make it seem as crowded as possible and that was a popular beach.
That said at its peak AC was quite crowded.
https://www.reddit.com/r/newjersey/comments/aeisen/the_jersey_shore_circa_1908_atlantic_city_bathing/
It’s filmed to make it seem as crowded as possible – just like the modern media used to do during covid
Not a bare breast in sight — even the men.
Judge Ron Swanson.
https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34451383/hall-fame-qb-len-dawson-led-kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-iv-win-dies-age-87
RIP, Lenny.
RIP to an absolute legend.
Even if he did beat the Vikings.
I picked up Staccato #2 last night, dropped in a flat trigger and serrated mag release, and mounted and boresighted a new mini red dot. Time to hit the range tonight!
*points to avatar*
Be sure to get some training.
Stop buying guns you have plenty
Communist confirmed.
“how they’ll sell this to non-college educated people, whose taxes will now partially pay for the useless degrees”
I guess they’ve already “sold” it as I was “reliably informed” by NBC News last night that polls showed 62% of voters were in favor of the student debt cancellation.
Debts aren’t “cancelled”, they are transferred. In this case they are being transferred to us in the form of inflation and future taxes.
good it will leave less money to buy icky guns and environment destroying steaks and whisky which is bad for you.
NSFW… So with the risk of cementing my reputation as the forum degen, I will post (for Q and other glibs who may have an interest in the female bosom) escort boob-job before and after pics. Before the breasts were basically as small as they get I’d say. The surgery was through a fold in the armpit and under the pectoral muscle, so the look and feel as close to real as it gets, as opposed to the ones where the implant is done in the actual breast. There is zero visible scaring. The added volume was 350 cc, you can convert that to American if you wish. I think there are also a few pounds of weight gain between the pics. So what would the local breast appreciators prefer? the before knowing they are original factory, or the after knowing they are after market?
again NSFW
Before
https://photos.app.goo.gl/aPiXKLazyyDt8Xut5
after
https://photos.app.goo.gl/4CkAVPw2KipYgQR1A
It’s a slightly unfair comparison. Photo 1 she looks like a meth head trailer denizen and photo 2 looks more wholesome.
Photo 2, her body does look more proportional and aesthetically pleasing though.
Before the implants, she did not really post pictures in which breasts were visible, for marketing reasons I assume, that is the only before pic in which the breasts are visible.
Yeah, was thinking the same thing. Looks like she also put on a little healthy weight between pictures.
I did mention that in my original comment.
Boobs under the pecs? That seems… odd. Like, can she still properly move her arms around with that kind of construction?!
yes. the full healing process was a few months longer (had to wear this sort of compression bra for like 5 months total) and more painful, but at 350 cc she did not lose any mobility and there should not be any permanent damage.
I mean the silicone pads are under the pecs, the boobs are still on top 🙂
Got it. Still creepy.
See the story above about using Google.
“The added volume was 350 cc, you can convert that to American if you wish.”
That’s how they’re measured in the U.S.
why would you use cubic centimeters in the US?
medical and scientific are generally metric.
must be awful
It’s medical stuff.
also meh… pictures of an obvious adult woman… which are publicly posted on a forum
SECKS TRAPHIKKKING!!!
Bushwick?
never saw it can’t be that good
So what would the local breast appreciators prefer? the before knowing they are original factory, or the after knowing they are after market?
There was absolutely nothing wrong with her to begin with. But I’m not obsessed with boobs.
that see the way I see it too, though the new one definitely fill the hands more.
My sister got a boob job after having two kids. She was always small, but the pregnancies did a number on what she had. The phrase “two fried eggs hanging from a nail” comes to mind.
She got a nice set of C cups that suit her very well.
pics?
The future.
So another spoiled and entitle generation.
Strongly agreed. I completely envy those kids.
Happy Serialization Day, everyone! Background checks now required for chunks of aluminum.
Huh, Noah Smith has an interesting comment.
A startup is using recycled plastic to 3D print prefab tiny homes with prices starting at $25,000
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-startup-using-recycled-plastic-3d-print-tiny-homes-2022-8
“Azure says it can build homes 70% faster and 30% cheaper than “traditional home construction methods.””
I think in most places with housing issues, it is the land cost or lack of land for development that is the problem not the building costs or time. Also I would not want to live in a plastic tiny house.
I would not want to live in a
plastictiny house.🤔
you are a hobo though. I am not
Why not? You can be buried in it and save on casket costs.
Seems like there’s a new one of these about 2 years, and they universally end up churning out tiny little 200 square foot shacks that still need 100 hours of labor put into them if you want niceties like plumbing and electricity. They’re basically building very tiny mobile homes that cost about double per square foot what an actual mobile home costs. You can pick up a 1200 square foot 3 bed 2 bath double wide for 75-80k and then plop it anywhere with a well and septic field. But hep cats would rather live in a 200 square foot blow molded plastic shack than become trailer trash.
Huh, Noah Smith has an interesting comment.
Well, you can’t be wrong all the time, either.
But you can try real hard to be, which Noah does.
I am strangely hungry though there is an hour left till dinner and I think I had a decent lunch. I really need to start losing some weight though. 92 goddamn kilograms 🙁 at 182 cm
They always get progressively worse, with the exception of “Dune”, I suppose. But they’ve only done that one twice and the first one was so bad it would have been improved upon by Claymation.
I kinda liked the David Lynch Dune movie. The recent one is really good.
In too-local news:
I saw a Tim Baxter ad on the TV at the gym this morning. He’s running for US Congress, CD-1 I think, in New Hampshire. The ad ended with “Abolish the IRS”. Baxter has previously said that he supports throwing Anthony Fauci in jail. Unfortunately, he’s polling third for the primary.
David Popovici on breaking the WR, Stoicism, 400 Free, being Knighted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm1vwAoOSu8
he was not knighted as knighthood is not and never has been a thing in Romania. he got a medal from the president.
Also I am highly annoyed by these people who achieve shit like this at age 17. Good to get the whole “realize my life’s goal” out of the way by that age, I suppose
While I think overturning Roe v Wade was the right call legally and morally, I do believe it is going to cost at the polls this year. In other words, Liberty-leaning GOP candidates are going to lose to (il)liberal candidates because women are highly irrational on average and are prone to group hysteria.
They truly believe that not getting abortion on demand at any point and through any means is equivalent to losing their freedom, even if they’ve never been pregnant or known anyone who got an abortion.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/pennsylvania-women-voter-registration-dobbs-20220822.html
New voter registrations in the swing state of Pennsylvania for example show far more new F voters than M voters, and they skew Democrat 4 to 1.l
Because they feel like states passing abortion legislation deprives them of hypothetical power or some such.
because women are highly irrational on average and are prone to group hysteria.
You have to be sure to tell them to calm down. That always works.
Never in the history of Calming Down has anyone been calmed down by being told to calm down.
Shush. Just calm down.
Calm down
*quietly slides away and lets Jamie take this hit*
Lesbians are generally very pro-abortion.
Got me thinking… There’s a girl here at work, married with stepchildren, none of her own, who claims to have and extreme fear of being pregnant and of having a fetus inside her. Just looked it up and it’s a thing, Tocophobia. New to me. My own daughter gets a look of fear in her eyes when I mention the possibility her producing grandkids.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28580568/
If it’s a legit condition, I wonder to what effect it has on the pro-abortion crowd.
Is it any wonder?
The culture is celebrating sex changes and non-reproductive sexual activities while vilifying normies who have kids. Of course women are going to start having fears when the terms used for being pregnant include “parasite.”
If nothing substantially changed it wouldn’t be much of a factor. But you have states like Indiana banning it entirely, which feeds into the worst case scenario in many peoples’ heads. I think that sort of thing is a bad move.
I think it probably only matters at the fringes, in extremely competitive districts. All, what, 10 of them throughout the country? Most of the women for whom it’s a major concern were never going to vote for a Republican anyway, at least not with old “Rubbers” Bush out of the picture.
I talked with one of the state representatives for my town. She’s running for reelection, and unlike many Republicans, is actually campaigning.
She has been canvassing the town. She’s heard from many Republicans she’s met through canvassing that they are worried about Republicans pushing abortion too far. They’re fine with how things stand in NH (legal up to 24 weeks, prohibited afterwards) and don’t want anything done at the Federal level.
Is the tide going out on the Red Wave for November? Results in that congressional special election in NY would seem to indicate so. PENNA. polls aren’t showing any shift to the GOP as their candidates for Gov. and Senate are being hammered relentlessly. Tales from the Road #5 – having lunch in a cafe on Concord, NH main street, overheard two guys at next table badgering a third guy about his prior support for Trump. Trump dude allowed as how the Mar-a-logo raid was very troubling, what with nuclear weapons secrets and all, and “maybe there is a fire with all this smoke the media keeps throwing up there about him.” The Dem game plan is plain to see: terrify the low-info voters into thinking Trumphitler and his GOP lackeys are about to destroy America.
Concord, NH is heavily Democrat. I’m surprised you found any Trump supporters there.
Republicans are largely not campaigning. “How could we possibly lose with what is going on in the country?” I’ve warned Republicans and libertarians running under the Republican banner to not be complacent. They haven’t listened. It’ll show up at the polls in November.
I do believe it is going to cost at the polls this year.
I worry about this, too. Even though a majority of people believe that abortion should be illegal after some months, any R’s that are absolutist and don’t want any abortion (except for perhaps a few special circumstances) are going to appear too extreme. And that’s despite the fact that the D’s are usually just as extreme the other way. But since most abortions tend to be earlier rather than later, effectively the extreme R position affects more people than the extreme D position.
Hat trick.
Researchers in Italy have reported the first known case of someone testing positive for monkeypox, COVID-19 and HIV at the same time. All three infections were new and followed a short trip to Spain.
The patient, a 36-year-old Italian man, developed fever, a sore throat, fatigue, headache, and an inflammation of the groin area about 9 days after returning from a 5-day trip to Spain, during which he had sex with men without a condom.
The man tested positive for coronavirus 3 days after the symptoms appeared, according to a case report published in the Journal of Infection. The man also suffered from COVID-19 in January, which came just weeks after being vaccinated.
Within hours of testing positive for coronavirus, a rash appeared on his left arm, and blisters spread across his body during the next few days, which prompted him to go to the emergency room at a hospital in Catania, a city on Sicily’s east coast.
How does your recycled plastic tiny house perform in extreme temperature conditions? Will it melt while you’re at work if you live in Yuma, Arizona?
Will it shatter when it’s forty below?
A sad Top. Man at Arst Technica realizes that government is, well, government.
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has 70 percent the lift capacity of the SLS rocket, at less than a tenth of the cost.
The SLS rocket is the worst thing to happen to NASA—but maybe also the best?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/08/the-sls-rocket-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-nasa-but-maybe-also-the-best/
Canadian climate fascism.
The Ministry of Environment & Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is building a new facility in Winnipeg that will be home to a firearms armoury, interrogation rooms, biological labs, media relations offices, “controlled quiet rooms,” and intelligence facilities.
The plans, which were drawn up by a firm in Winnipeg, open a window into Trudeau’s future plans for Climate Enforcement.
Down the hall from the proposed “Firearms Storage” rooms are several evidence rooms, interrogation suites, and adjacent recording rooms.
So 1984 was an instruction manual?
Who the hell keeps voting for this guy?
They truly believe that not getting abortion on demand at any point and through any means is equivalent to losing their freedom, even if they’ve never been pregnant or known anyone who got an abortion.
I have seen multiple stories about how women (or their mothers) are making decisions on where to attend college or go for work based on what I can only think of as utterly irrational speculative judgement about abortion availability.
Do people really think that way? “i’m going to college to whore it up; better make sure I can destroy the evidence.”
They are just hedging against being the 20% of women raped on campus.
A helluva lot of people moved to Colorado based on recreational pot being legalized. Apparently those squares couldn’t access pot in the places they came from.
I wonder how many stayed when they found out how expensive it is to live here?
Researchers in Italy have reported the first known case of someone testing positive for monkeypox, COVID-19 and HIV at the same time. All three infections were new and followed a short trip to Spain.
Rats. I had Greece, in the pool.
Florida deputy resigns after pointing gun at pregnant Black woman
This was kind of remarkable to me, because everything unfolded just as it should. The driver even takes responsibility for her speeding at the end.
I’m in shock too. Because everything in the article is so rare including all the responses.
Can we resurrect
Maggie Thatcher
Ronald Reagan
John Paul II
Just for a year or two to restore cultural confidence? I know they weren’t perfect, but look who we have now.
While I was working out this morning the song “Right Here, Right Now” came on. It reminded me I was lucky to live through those exceptional times.
Too weak, too late. Sulla, Pinochet, and Pope Urban II might be able to fix things.
Hotter take than my last one: commie pope is much closer to a 1st century Christian than JPII. Acts 2:42-47:
That sounds a lot more like:
Than:
Getting into Nietzsche territory there.
Eh, why not? He turned out to be mostly right, and he copped heavily off of Kierkegaard.
It’s not an objection, just an observation.
Meh. The first quote talks about sharing, sincerity, gladness and favor.
The second “occupied,” “expense,” “will be/will make,” “duties,” “determined” and “conformity.”
Ask Ananias and Sapphira how voluntaryist the enterprise actually was.
Yeah, yeah, I know, they were killed for “lying to the holy spirit”, not for hoarding. The practical result is the same.
If Christianity means “obeying the Pope/Patriarch’s rules,” then I see where you’re coming from. But I don’t agree that it does. You’re supposed to shake the dust off your sandals when people reject you, not shit in their well or come back later with a crew of armed “missionaries.”
You can’t exactly reject orthodoxy outright or else you don’t have a religion or moral system. For better or worse the book of Acts is canonical. If the people who still had living memories of having attended the sermon on the mount thought communism (or communalism, to be more charitable) was the best way to organize the believers, they probably did so for some logical reason.
For that matter, throw out all the patriarchs, and forget about the pope too – I’m not Roman Catholic and don’t recognize his authority anyway. You still have to grapple with the words of Christ. An itinerant preacher who owned no possessions and “had no place to lay his head”, who castigated the wealthy and the comfortable in the starkest terms imaginable. Elsewhere I have put forward the proposition that if Marx had embraced Christianity, the Western world would likely be communist. His militant atheism was the only part of his ideology inherently alienating to Christianity.
Assassination-attempt survivors, all three of them.
Huh. You’re right.
The NAP is so morally minimalist as to be functionally equivalent to amorality, while Christianity is a much more robust, holistic moral system. I used to think you could reconcile the two by holding to Christian moral teaching at a personal level while relying on the NAP as a social tool, but all that actually gets you in real life is your Christian moral beliefs stuffed up your ass sideways by an amoral society that rejects them entirely. The final sentence in the quoted blurb sums it up:
he loves “personal liberty and personal freedom” even if it creates a culture that is deeply hostile to his faith
Well, then you’re not practicing your faith, you’re practicing your politics. And a Christian trying to reconcile his beliefs with libertarianism can do no other.
To be honest, I expected something more directed at individualism vs community. Which is there, I guess.
This is not any sort of attack, merely an observation. I find my areligious “Golden Rule libertarianism” to be sufficient to my needs. But I live a sheltered life, here inside my head.
That’s an important issue as well, but there are left-libertarians and syndicalist anarchists, for example, who also reject individualism. My personal feeling is that you can’t disentangle individualism from libertarianism and those people are goofballs, but the moral differences are more important anyway, I think.
I had to go to the bank Monday. I knew it was going to be a long wait when all four people in line in front of me were wearing masks.
Apropos of nothing, I have been watching the original Battlestar Galactica, lately. It’s actually not bad.
In college, a few of my friends and I would meet up and watch it together, usually at the little on-campus 3.2 beer bar. Sundays, I think.
+1 Cassiopeia
If you want bad late 70s/early80s sci-fi try watching the Buck Rogers TV show. It’s absolute fucking garbage.
adeebadeebadeeba… what’s wrong, Stink?
o.O
Lies! Slander!
Taking the top 2 spots.
*talk about
Facts.
The South Park spoof had me in stitches. Plus it was a two parter.
Agreed.
Holy mackerel, have you been looking at my Tubi history?
I’m actually enjoying it! Probably because it has zero pretensions, like zero. I’m so tired of Starbucks grade philosophy hamfistedly being punched into my face by pseudoliterate showrunners that the comparative vacuousness of Buck Rogers is refreshing.
I knew it was going to be a long wait when all four people in line in front of me were wearing masks.
Did they have violin cases?
My personal feeling is that you can’t disentangle individualism from libertarianism
There is definitely a place in libertarianism for ad hoc voluntary co-operation and community, but I wouldn’t pretend it’s foundational.
Sound strategy.
President Volodymyr Zelensky vowed on Wednesday that Ukraine will resist the Russian invasion “until the end” without “any concession or compromise”, as the nation marks its Independence Day as well as the six-month anniversary of the start of the war.
“We don’t care what army you have, we only care about our land,” Zelensky said in a defiant morning video address. “We will fight for it until the end.”
Referring to Russia — which launched a large-scale attack in the early hours of February 24 — he vowed Ukraine “will not try to find an understanding with terrorists”.
“For us Ukraine is the whole of Ukraine,” he said. “All 25 regions, without any concession or compromise.”
I don’t think he appreciates the situation they are in.
They’re going from losing the Russian areas to completely annexed. He, and we for pushing this nonsense, are idiots.
https://www.wtrf.com/pennsylvania/pennsylvania-man-said-he-would-blow-up-places-if-he-did-not-see-dolly-partons-breast/
I feel like PA is gonna try to take FL’s title.
Dang.
South Korea Breaks Record for World’s Lowest Fertility Rate, Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/24/world/asia/south-korea-fertility-rate.html
The fertility rate — the average number of children born to a woman during her reproductive years — declined for the sixth straight year to 0.81 in 2021, according to Statistics Korea, the national statistics agency. Experts said it might drop below 0.8 this year, as rising housing prices further discourage people from having children.
By comparison, the fertility rate was 1.66 in the United States and 1.37 in Japan. A fertility rate of 2.1 is needed for a population to remain the same size without migration.
Don’t worry. Developing countries have you covered.
“We don’t care what army you have, we only care about our land,” Zelensky said in a defiant morning video address. “We will fight for it until the end.”
Whaddaya mean “we”, white man?
You will be financing it.
ACLU lawsuit music…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJZrXhMBG1E
The fertility rate — the average number of children born to a woman during her reproductive years — declined for the sixth straight year to 0.81 in 2021, according to Statistics Korea, the national statistics agency. Experts said it might drop below 0.8 this year, as rising housing prices further discourage people from having children.
Wow. And they used to talk about Japan depopulating.
Macron warns of ‘end of abundance’ as France faces difficult winter
Sombre first cabinet speech after summer break criticised as snub to poor who have already made sacrifices
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/24/macron-warns-of-end-of-abundance-as-france-faces-difficult-winter
I really dont get what is happening to the world…. more and more abundance was the goal and what we should be striving for
You’re assuming that’s the goal, I don’t think it is.
There have been actions taken by many governments that make that goal impossible.
I can’t believe they are all that stupid.
They are all neo-malthusians. To them, humans (other than themselves) are a blight on the planet.
Not sure how we got here so quickly – and I think we in the US are gonna be somewhat OK – but many parts of the world are gonna get absolutely hammered by these ridiculous policies.
+1 Madagascar
The Neo-Malthusians are in charge.
Since I’ve already shat up the thread with religious discussion, I may as well continue riffing on that theme. The thing that always puzzles me is that ordinary people eat this shit up and keep voting for it. I get that people need to plug the “god shaped hole” in a relatively newly godless world, and that’s what these mass movements do. But unlike the traditional religions we abandoned, these new ones offer no redemption arc for the faithful. You get the most fundamentalist notion of total depravity right out of Calvinism without even the possibility of an Arminian free choice unto redemption. Take it back to paganism even. At least those gods could be pacified with sacrifices. These new gods still demand the sacrifices, but give you nothing in exchange. If you’re that nihilistic, why not just fucking off yourself?
‘ If you’re that nihilistic, why not just fucking off yourself?’
That sounds difficult. Seriously, many of them are deeply depressed, the leaders are of course lists, but the true believers are usually very unhappy. Check out depression rates.