Everywhere we look, signs of impending doom cross our paths…
This is my review of Dormaal Fam Brewey Tripel:
Being born the year of The Terminator has its perks. It’s culturally relevant enough that most people are aware of when the movie was released but not necessarily the exact year. Its also a movie that features killer robots taking over the world.
Everywhere you see it. Killer robots impacting multiple sectors of the economy. Killer robots impacting culture because they can now produce long-winded narratives with a simple prompt, rendering people like me who produce written content for free—pretty much useless. This is a development with truly mixed consequences for me: On one hand, somebody like me with an advanced degree is going to have a hard time competing with a killer robot. On the other hand, at least nobody will be blaming Mexicans for taking their jobs anymore.
Nope. Your dad will lose his job to a killer robot—located in Mexico.
As bad as it may seem, I humbly submit that AI is not the worst development our culture has ever produced. No, the worst thing our culture has ever produced is SIMPING.
What is a simp? Here’s an example:
It doesn’t even have to be women. People simp for anything. Sports heroes, celebrities, their parents—Trump. This has completely taken over our culture over the course of centuries, the latest example of degeneracy being the trial balloon of lab grown meat cultured from celebrities:
A company called BiteLabs is looking to market human test-tube meat, and that’s not even the weirdest part. They’re hoping to get celebrities like James Franco, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kanye West on board to donate tissue samples that will eventually become salami.
And we complain about eating bugs? Look at these sick fucks.
Coming from a Belgian Estate dating back to the 13th century this is simply a Tripel done painstakingly well. Fragrant notes of honey, pepper, and light fruit, are backed with a subtle lemon finish. Pair it with seafood, or creamy dishes but not a lab grown chorizo cultured from cells gathered from Gwyneth Palthrow’s vagina. Dormaal Fam Brewey Tripel: 4.6/5 8%ABV
“They’re hoping to get celebrities like James Franco, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kanye West on board to donate tissue samples that will eventually become salami.”
But not Arnold?
The Terminator was covered in lab-grown meat.
That seems like a massive oversight.
Mainly Keanu.
I mean come ON… that’s the most obvious link/ref ever…
I argue that simping has increased along with the feminization of the culture.
It’s gross and pathetic, really.
Gilmore’d… oh well
Its because we are in our unnatural state of relative freedom of kings and queens and believing we do not need them
I suppose. It’s not my bag, but I guess it is for some.
Too bad Charlton Heston isn’t still with us.
SOYBOY RED IS PEOPLE!!!
We’re going to have to simp for damn dirty apes?
And I’ve always thought the GOOP candle was a fraud. No proof… just smelled fishy to me.
Don’t be such a cunte.
Ew
Scented candles give me a haddock anyway.
That whole story is a Red Herring.
I’d get one just for the halibut.
The desperate quest for external validation is a well known flaw in the human psyche.
Get the fuck over it.
I aim to disappoint others.
Paying for fake intimacy. How is this new?
I suppose $10K for a hug is a new twist.
Inflation is rampant.
Revealed preference or winner’s curse?
In the before times, at least you got more than a hug.
This is why I teach my kids to negotiate the terms before hand
Or put a ring on it with a lot bigger checks and still end up with blue balls.
Sounds like the voice of experience.
/been there done that
You think the ring is expensive? Wait until you pay for the divorce!
Sorry, been really busy all week and next two weeks are more of the same in CA.
Can anyone send an original link that prompted the discussion from last week about CA wanting to tax people moving out of state for several years after they’d left?
Thanks.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB259
Not sure exactly which link was passed around like Paltrow’s GOOP… but here’s one that looks like a reasonable summary: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/california-democrats-consider-wealth-tax-people-moved-out-state
Why not something at least a little bit sensible, like lab grown whale meat?
Fuck that, I want real whales. Lets crowdfund whale farms.
We could set it up under the Great Pacific Garbage Pile. As long as no Chinese spy balloons flew over it, nobody would ever know.
It would probably be a huge hit in Japan, now that I think about it.
https://twitter.com/dwnews/status/1621442892848893953?cxt=HHwWgsC4vYzuwoAtAAAA
Just need the right size vending machine
Nice.
You forget that Trump is already cornering that market?
Yes. Yes I did.
*hangs head in shame*
They’re piling up on east coast beaches. Come on over and grab one for yourself.
They’re hoping to get celebrities like James Franco, Ellen DeGeneres, Jennifer Lawrence, and Kanye West on board to donate tissue samples that will eventually become salami.
“Fuck you, asshole.”
Lab grown celebrity asshole meat?
/HM signal has been lit.
Fried asshole will he the new chicharróns
I was thinking calamari rings.
Real potential for a budding cottage industry it seems.
The tag line can be “Tastes so good you’ll want to nip it in the butt everyday!”
An asshole in every pot
This is what just popped into my head:
That(purportedly) Chinese balloon should have advertisements on it, Blade Runner style.
What, the like the “Happy Valentine’s Day, Eric! Love, Fang Fang!” memes?
Do you have a link? That sounds awesome.
https://mobile.twitter.com/rjb77ca/status/1621585865922445312
Thank you. That’s great.
I argue that simping has increased along with the feminization of the culture.
“One true love”
“Can’t live without you”
Heh…
From below
https://twitter.com/fleetwood_ziggy/status/1621681395063226368
Double heh
Lump Jr.
https://twitter.com/JDVance1/status/1621622465096028160
We a rules by all of the asshole kids we knew in middle school.
Are rules. Thanks, phone.
Never mind.
You were going for “be ruled”?
Roasted, or fried?
Zoo officials in New York City are trying to recover a Eurasian eagle owl that escaped its enclosure on Thursday night.
The owl, who lives in the Central Park Zoo and is named Flaco, was discovered missing around 8:30 p.m. Its exhibit “had been vandalized and the stainless steel mesh cut,” according to a statement from the zoo.
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After that, Flaco was found perched in a tree near the zoo, where staff stayed with the bird through the night, according to the zoo’s statement.
It flew into Central Park at sunrise on Friday, and zoo employees “continue to have visual contact.” A Twitter page that follows birds in New York City shared a video that appears to show him high in a tree in the park.
Sounds like the work of the Army of the Twelve Monkeys.
The eats are probably way better on the outside. They’ll find him in couple weeks too bloated to move after a steady diet of rats and pigeons.
Or the same group grabbing monkeys from the Dallas Zoo.
It was one guy and they caught him.
This is quite the stock photo to use regarding the beating on the school bus…
https://www.newsbreak.com/news/2913450029273/florida-student-arrested-after-video-shows-him-beating-up-9-year-old-girl
Surprised they didn’t find one where the white kid is about to hit a black kid.
It wouldn’t be appropriate to use a still from the video.
How about this:
The Chinese balloon is mapping their newly acquired farmland, in preparation for planting season. What will they plant?
That was my thought.
Rice?
Scented candles give me a haddock anyway.
Not a chub?
The eats are probably way better on the outside. They’ll find him in couple weeks too bloated to move after a steady diet of rats and pigeons.
Seriously. That reminds me of a clip I saw a while back of a hawk divebombing a rat in a trash can in NYC.
One of those BBC nature shows had a segment on some species of hawk that is now more numerous in NYC than anywhere else because the food is so plentiful and the tall buildings make dive-bombing easier.
Sounds like the Peregrine falcon.
My dad worked at KC City Hall. When I was a kid, he took me up to the top to see the peregrine falcon nests. I can’t remember if the city built nesting boxes for them or not (probably not), but they were highly encourated to nest there.
A lot of the parking lots on base at Dahlgren (and Little Creek) have Osprey nests at the top of the light fixtures. I think some are encouraged while others just show up. They do some monitoring overflights to count across the base once or twice a year.
Cool. Their natural habitat is the sides of bluffs and such, but they’ve adapted quite well to city life. Grand Forks, ND has had them nesting on a water tower for years. Every spring they band the chicks. Every so often there will be a story about where they’ve been found as adults. I know Winnipeg has them nesting there. I can’t recall where else they’ve found them.
Nature is far more resilient than the Church of Gaia would like to admit (and most of their useful idiots probably don’t even know). They just focus on the Delta Smelt and other species on the edge that very possibly would be extinct even without man being around.
“that very possibly would be extinct even without man being around”
My thought exactly.
Pandas.
If it can’t survive without artificial insemination, it doesn’t deserve to survive.
It’s a species whose digestive tract is tooled for digesting meats and fruits but spends its days eating low-nutrient bamboo. So they can’t afford the energy to do anything but eat all day long.
UCS – always reminds me of the lion in Futurama – that was “taught to be vegan”. Kinda similar with the koalas who spend all day eating a toxic plant (eucalyptus).
Maybe someday the city will be fit for human habitation.
Sean Dyche hire is already paying off.
Today I am studying how to code nitpicky circulatory diseases. My heart’s just not in it.
Boo!
No, no! You’re supposed to respond in a similar vein!
alright, alright, don’t have a stroke already
Raven Nation isn’t in tune to the pulse of Glibs I guess.
Needs more time circulating among us?
Just under a bit of pressure.
I aorta give ya a narrowed gaze.
So you’re saying it’s a pain in the neck?
It’s going right for the jugular.
Simping is the product of being lonely and weak.
Simping isn’t Stoic. (I read ron’s Friday post)
Yay, it’s economic census time.
Listen up, dummies
“We’re getting a lot of deflationary signals, but the Fed isn’t buying in yet,” Wood said, referring to the Federal Reserve’s continuing interest-rate increases.
“But the bond market will start to convince the Fed,” Wood said. “The bond market is telegraphing much lower-than-expected inflation and/or recession.”
That prediction seemed to be validated Feb. 1 when the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) raised interest rates by only 25 basis points. That was smaller than the 50 basis points it had raised them by in December and the 75 basis points it had increased the rates by in each of its previous four meetings.
The Fed seemed to have been recognizing the deflationary signs.
“The bond market always leads the Fed, and the bond market is speaking loudly,” Wood had said.
“We are seeing a lot of deflation in the pipeline,” she had said, referring to lower commodity prices and discounts at retailers.
The only reason I would pay attention to Cathie Wood is as a guide for what not to do.
She and Jim Cramer should start a fund. We could then short everything they buy.
The market provides. I give you, the Reverse Cramer ETF:
https://www.inversecrameretf.com/
LOL. Sure.
Won’t she be surprised when she realizes the Fed Put is dead and gone.
Why does anyone listen to her?
Yay, it’s economic census time.
*whistles “Happy Days Are Here Again!”*
Wood also said she still believes the value of a bitcoin will reach $1 million during the next ten years.
Excuse me. I have to go find something to mop the coffee up off my computer.
I want her drugs.
Well, considering the dollar will be worth .001 cent in the near future, it might equal 1 million American dollars.
The relevant question is whether the Fed will put BTC on its balance sheet.
If it does, I can see that happening. And JP Morgan didn’t put BTC on its balance sheet without taking that into consideration.
Hard to reconcile that with deflation, no?
Yeah, Bitcoin was a killer speculation in 2008 when I wanted to buy it [insert rant here] at $1,000. My husband won $100 in Bitcoin at, I think $30,000ish and I sold it at $58,000ish. I knew it had peaked (but I’m gifted like that). I’m not getting back into it.
That beer sounds like it might be the beer I would pick if I could only have one the rest of my life.
The 3D memes are 👍🏼
Hard to reconcile that with deflation, no?
Something something two completely contradictory notions simultaneously…
Now THAT is a classic choice of words.
https://twitter.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1621242894366433280
So she’s saying they are making people that aren’t suicidal kill themselves?
Those of you who have met me know that I am a rather stout person with white hair and beard.
I was walking from the hotel to get something out of the car and some urchins on bicycles caught up to me calling, “Santa, Santa!”
I turned around and said, “Yep, you got me.”
“Are you really Santa.”
“Sure am.”
The kid thought for about 3 seconds and asked, “Can I have a KTM 450 for Christmas?”
“Sure, you got it.”
His little friend asked, “And can I have a (something, probably a game console)?”
“You bet.”
First kid says, “Can I have a Honda Civic?”
“Sorry, one present to a customer.”
“What are you doing here?”
“Hanging out during the summer.”
“It’s not summer.”
“It is compared to the North Pole.”
“Good point,” he conceded.
I turned to walk away and his young friend said, “I’ll leave you some great cookies this year. What kind do you like?”
She caught me there; I’m not really a cookie person. “Chocolate chip.”
“OK”
That was fun.
You did a good deed.
Nice
The only case of mistaken identity I ever experienced was some drunk chick thought I was Shawn Cassidy back in 1986.
I was dumb and didn’t ask her if she believed in magic.
W00t 23 degrees up from 6.
Time to throw open some windows holy crap it got so dry in here.
I don’t know how you dry-climate people stand it.
https://twitter.com/HeyItsMeSalty/status/1621962314436993024?s=20&t=rFFP9pgKA-nGzsftGiBPGw
Our long nightmare, is finally over.
Please tell me we used a 3 million dollar missile to take it down.
It’s the Western way of war. Expensive is better.
Ah I was off..
$472,000 for a sidewinder. Wonder why not just strafe it. Fairly large and relatively stationary target. But would get the civilian footage of missile contrails I guess.
Seeing as how they want to retrieve the payload couldn’t they have used a helicopter and somehow harpooned/snared it, or is it to high and too big. I know absolutely nothing about spy balloons and the capabilities of helicopters. Tom Cruise could have leapt onto it, got the goods and then parachuted off.
I was hoping for a giant stick pin.
Looks like an MH-60 tops out around 35,000 feet.
Not even close.
Looking further, it’s not even that half that – officially 13,000 feet.
https://www.navair.navy.mil/product/MH-60S-Seahawk
(though all the variants gets confusing)
Heat-seeking missile on that type of target? And that is short range. And that seems expensive. I’d expect an AMRAAM.
Viewing the vid it looks like a plane was able to get level with it at close range. Interesting.
Raytheon wouldn’t have it any other way.
And yeah, MS has my thought below — nothing like waiting until it has traversed the entire continent and broadcast there, PPP.
I’m relieved
Payload was jettisoned and sank to the bottom of the ocean.
Correct, after it finished surveying the entire continental US.
How convenient.
Now it can be portrayed however each government wants to portray it.
Does this mean that some lucky pilot gets to paint a “kill” on the side of their plane?
Probably not since biden will not want to upset the CCP.
I’m willing to bet it was an O-4 or above, possibly a SQ/CC and awarded a medal. The AF loves mediocrity.
It was the F22 contingent out of Langley.
There will be 1,734 man hours of maintenance required in order get ready for the next flight.
Soooooo the most expensive fighter ever made* was used to shoot down an updated version of a 18th century flying machine.
Makes sense. The AF fighter community has been in the dumps the last couple weeks since the Navy pilot recently was presented with the Navy Cross for shooting down four USSR MIGs during the Korean War.
*The F22 is so expensive the USAF stopped purchases at roughly half of the required numbers (187 of the required 395) and depending on how you parse the expense per aircraft at $150M to $336M per copy.
As Scruffy noted…it’s the Western way.
I’m reminded of the Russians using $20k drones to take out $5M HIMARS
https://twitter.com/MarkHamill/status/1621714200132485121
I did chuckle a little.
I was expecting “Great shot kid, that’s one in a million!”
I was expecting some rant about OMB.
Heh. He does spend way too much time ranting.
99 knights of the air
Ride super high tech jet fighters
I didn’t know this existed, but it’s glorious
https://twitter.com/DougJBalloon/status/1621679122304073730
Hahaha
Simping for Brady.
This is how it’s done
Thanks to The Fifth Column, TIL that:
1) Eddie Murphy made a reggae song
2) It’s pretty good
He is really good when he wants to be.
Also…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=07P538K83iU%2F
In heavy rotation when I was a lad.
After the trannie story, that song really didn’t age well for Eddie.
Does it make you want to Party All The Time?
He made a better one in 1983
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VtuYWlh6fJ4
I have taken to creating a concoction to bring about my own Firstserkers. The recipe has been lost to time, coming from a line of Firsters with only an oral history tradition. But I think I am getting close.
I am talking about Firsters who can First with such ferocity than they can impregnate your wife just by thinking about her. Firsters who never sleep, and exist only to First.
My love for you is like a truck, Firstserkers!
BERSERKER!
Have you thought about a new schtick? You might want to…
For our many metal heads, one of our local chefs-of-note is Slayer fan
He used to have this sticker up at one of his palces.
I picked up a six pack of African Amber Ale, from Mac and Jack’s brewing Seattle). I haven’t opened one yet. I’ll report back.
I was going to have a hamburger at this place I haven’t been recently. When I got there, there were two school buses in the parking lot. I guess I’ll have a ham and cheese sammich.