For multiple dogs to play together, there needs to be a high level of trust between them.
This week is remarkably non-terrible, if a little on the unfair side. The dominant feature is carrying over from last week — the Venus – Sun – Jupiter bit of peace love and understanding. Groundhog day is a good time to stay home, visit a friend’s home, or change homes. Domestic goodness basically. And while It’s the time for Aquarius, Capricorn is holding on the other good stuff. So if you’re an Aquarius and don’t think this part of the year is going as well as it should, you can blame it on Capricorns.
Aquarius: 3 of Wands reversed – Ennui, overlooking the good things in life.
Pisces: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, crowds, the body politic.
Aries: King of Swords reversed – Authority abused.
Taurus: Ace of Cups – Bounty, literal blessedness, bonus good luck for women.
Gemini: Temperance – Doing the right thing, even if it’s boring.
Cancer: 7 of Cups – shiny distractions, chasing trends, efforts without lasting results.
Leo: Page of swords – Is it incompetence, or actual sabotage?
Virgo: 2 of Cups – Games, play, a journey more difficult than expected.
Libra: 2 of Cups – Agreements sealed, unions blessed, promises made, promises kept.
Scorpio: The Star – Waste, hope, a decision that is critical to solving a problem or making it worse.
Sagittarius: Lots of bad options, no obvious solution to current problems
Capricorn; The Lovers – Bow chicka wow wow.
Sagittarius: Lots of bad options, no obvious solution to current problems
Woohoo!
Nice dog videos.
Is it incompetence, or actual sabotage?
Tell me about it. Sufficiently shitty.
Jeez yes. I opened a storage cabinet and an avalanche started with a poorly returned tool. After it ended, an old white paint can had broken open on the floor and dumped over everything.
I called a mental break and went for a burger.
https://www.glibertarians.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/IMG_5929-scaled.jpeg
Oof.
That’ll get you talking to yourself.
Ouch. Sorry R.J.
Ouch.
Sorry.
I’d probably go with just painting the floor white.
Boys need that same kind of pushing and shoving, both for physical well being and learning to get along with one another. Girls in families with boys learn that
as well. Bonding and trusting.
“Maybe if I press THIS button…”
You’ve watched me trying to use my phone, haven’t you?
Just need a bigger hammer.
It’s cold and rainy.
Guess I’m doing steaks in the cast iron. 😒
You won’t melt – fire up the grill.
(I have a small overhang over the back door and can drag the grill over so I stay dry in these conditions. I won’t judge those of you without overhang privilege).
Already on the stove. No usable overhang.
I can’t do grilling but my new apt. has windows that flip out which is genius. I was just thinking about that during yesterday’s warm but rainy streak.
I can’t believe I tolerated no awnings or anything similar for more than a decade.
I used to use a charcoal grill but switched over to reverse sear in the oven before finishing on one of these. Works best on a gas range, but does fine on my electric.
https://madeincookware.com/products/carbon-steel-griddle/griddle-nl
It’s a bit pricey but works great. Can cook smash burgers, a bunch of chicken, or multiple steaks at once.
O/T aside to new Glib Cunctator: We’re sorry about the delay in getting your first comment approved, but now you should be able to fully participate in Glib glory! Please come back early and often!
*braces self for a 800-hundred word comment on how Henry Ford was really onto something with the Protocols*
It’s not a thought, just a sermon.
I plan to participate as often as possible. I had to leave earlier while my comment was processing, but thanks for the “Fuck you, Tulpa’s” as well as Mojeaux’s and other’s Welcome.
😁👍
The real question, Hat or Hair? Pick a side in the Sentient Accessories War!
The REAL question—-does pineapple go on pizza?
Look at the PLEB who doesn’t realize who he’s being allowed to respond to!
So just another day in the New World Order
Succinctly mysterious.
Just wait ’til SPLC and the Center for Countering Digital Hate find us. We’ll have plenty of site traffic.
Prepare the cattbutt!
^(^
(*)
w00 h00!
Does this mean and easier time getting my Pinterest pins backed up?
So I downloaded Basilisk browser and paid for a plug-in that will do this automagically. We’ll see if this works.
https://pinbackit.github.io/ is old but might still work
Yeah, if pin4ever doesn’t, I’ll try that. Still requires Basilisk.
Just need a bigger hammer.
Exactly. It’ll fit. You’re just not hitting it hard enough.
Does this mean and easier time getting my Pinterest pins backed up?
That, or you’re teed up for Immaculate Conception.
Dragged over from last thread^2: I too have noticed a reduction in the number of comments. Just the number not the content. As is obvious from this comment, I don’t read them in “real” time but usually later, hours to days. I wonder if others do that too since I don’t think the last comment in a thread will be noticed or read by many.
As far as the general tone becoming more conservative as opposed to libertarian: that’s probably true. I know I have personally. We all get older and more and more have to deal with “what is” instead of “what should be”. The outside world seems to be accelerating into a collectivist, top down, neo-feudal society and being merely libertarian doesn’t seem oppositional enough I guess. There, now I’ve managed to channel Alex and JI in a single paragraph.
My work, like a lot of you is in technology for a large multi-national corporation. I also have a very lefty spouse. So plainly speaking at home or work is fraught with danger. This place, even if I don’t comment, feels like I belong somewhere, that I’m not alone with these dangerous thoughts.
Anyway, enough said. I have to get to work on a subpanel in my shop so I can finally fire up that TIG welder I bought last year.
My work, like a lot of you is in technology for a large multi-national corporation. I also have a very lefty spouse. So plainly speaking at home or work is fraught with danger. This place, even if I don’t comment, feels like I belong somewhere, that I’m not alone with these dangerous thoughts.
My brother
Yeah, Frau ZWAK is definitely on the left side of things, and, what’s more, works in the ivory tower. There is a lot of times when she is working from home that I put on headphones so as not to go into a screaming fit.
I’ve been here for a long time and this place has always been a little more right-leaning than your typical libertarian site. But also very smart.
I think that’s accurate.
I think some of the more left leaning bailed around the time of COVIdiocy, as we here were very anti mask and such. I know Juvinal Bluster did, over that exact thing.
IIRC , JB didn’t bail over Covid/mask thing, he bailed because any criticism of Trump was met with accusations of TDS instead of actual counter argument. It was (and is) very tiresome.
From some? I suppose. There is plenty of criticism of Orange here and I don’t sense any hostility over it.
Ah, we have forgotten LC1789?
Yes.
Well, I had until you had to go and bring him up 🙁
No, I am pretty sure it was the masking, or lack thereof. But, fuck, I have been wrong before.
Juvenile bluster was leftwing?
I always see the fun morning comments that I wish I could have responded to – when I’m sitting in the office at 4 PM about to start my shift ;p
I think morning is most active, and I’m usually late for it too.
that TIG welder I bought last year
Smells like an article to me.
Today is Lily’s third birthday! If nobody shows up in the next six minutes, I’m canceling the shoot and buying birthday steaks.
Happy bday to Lily!
Woof! 🎂🎈🎉
Dog birthdays so she’s really 21? Doing life without parole?
Give her the day off and an extra helping what whatever she likes. I think it’s a rule, somewhere
🤘
So cute when she flops on her back for a paws attack.
Get her the steaks no matter what.
She ate them, then wondered where the rest of her dinner was.
I have to get to work on a subpanel in my shop so I can finally fire up that TIG welder I bought last year.
Go, team, go!
Even though I’m a hot mess, I think I should go to the grocery for some ham so I can make eggs B
Eggs B made for Mrs. Suthenboy yesterday morning. Note: bacon is a decent substitute for ham in said dish.
I sometimes use bacon, but I like Hollandaise better with ham, for sure.
But now I think I want biscuits and gravy, because I’ve been watching a bunch of British people eating B&G for the first time. But I haz no snausages.
How do y ou make your hollandaise? Toss the double boilers, thermometers and dowsing rods.
2 cup glass measuring cup. Put in one half stick of cold butter. Microwave 20 seconds. Check temp by putting palm on bottom of measure cup. Return to microwave for 5-7 second intervals checking temp each time. When temp gets one or two degrees over body temperature the butter should be all melted or nearly all. Plop in two egg yolks. Whisk vigorously. it it looks broken keep whisking. When it gets creamy put in 1tbs lemon juice..I like mine extra lemony so I put 1-1/2 tbs. A pinch of salt and your desired spice (cayenne, allspice, nutmeg, cinnamon or any aromatic). Whisk vigorously.
Perfect hollandaise in under 3 mins when you get the hang of it.
3 egg yolks
A fuckton of lemon juice
A pinch of salt
A stick of unsalted butter
Whisk over very low (direct) heat until yolks barely start to thicken. Add butter in ~5-6 pieces, one at a time, melting each piece before adding the next. Stir constantly until desired thickness. Add additional lemon and/or salt after tasting. Add a sprinkle of cayenne.
*whisk first 3 ingredients
Make sure to say a quick prayer of thanks at the end of your meal (you know, a benediction).
Make double sure to serve your breakfast on a 1960s hubcap, preferably from a Cadillac or a Ford Galaxie — polished to a high sheen. Because there’s no plate like chrome for the Hollandaise.
SWISS
OT: Bentley engine autopsy.
Capricorn; The Lovers – Bow chicka wow wow.
I have 1 word for you. Menopause.
Bow chicka wow wow is not bloody likely around these parts.
Hey! I resemble that remark!
Wow, yet another commenter speaking my language.
But, I am an Aquarius, and can only think about it pensively, while gather thoughts for the storm.
OT: Bentley engine autopsy.
I assume that’s I Do Cars. Watched it last night. I think he is grossly underestimating the interest in, and value of, that motor, even in its blowed up state.
Yep, it’s I Do Cars.
I could go either way on interest in that engine. I don’t think there are lots of folks modding Bentleys, but there are probably people out there trying to keep them on the road.
Maybe I missed it it AM links, but we’ve got dead troops in Jordan now courtesy of appeasement.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/01/28/three-us-troops-killed-25-injured-in-drone-attack-on-base-in-jordan/
No we have dead troops in Jordan because we can’t keep our dick away from any hornet’s nest.
It’s like decoying ducks. Sometimes the decoys get shot too. I don’t like what the US reaction may be. Biden, the Draft Dodger, get his big chance while Trump, the Draft Dodger, can needle him for being weak, while he, Trump, walks away.
China and Russia are watching and enjoying the show.
Why do we have troops in Jordan? Real question.
Supporting the troops in Syria no doubt.
‘one-way drone’
Is the word suicide too triggering?
How does this impact the candied almonds?
Fuck. I thought Jordan was the one place that would likely keep the peace.
Notably no one is claiming the attack originated in Jordan.
‘courtesy of appeasement’
What appeasement? Iran deal stuff?
I could see that argument, of course, maybe we could just stop having trips everywhere on earth too?
It is freaking impossible to even think the work “Aquarius” without that damn song manifesting
But I love that song man . . . . but no I won’t link it.
But I will.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb8luHdpR84
Bwa Ha Ha!
Might as well post the conclusion.
Sagittarius: Lots of bad options, no obvious solution to current problems
So today was not the best day to do drywall?
Never is.
Making a little sink accessory cubby
https://ibb.co/gr8SKYn
10-pound dumbbells are your sink accessories?
Meat tenderizer. Duh.
I will not be commenting starting Tuesday for a few days. It will not be because of any disenchantment with the site. I will be in the hospital getting my hip replaced.
Yesterday was my last boat race for probably a month. Flukey Kona winds from the south made it an interesting ride. As is common with the first race of the season, a boat blew out a sail and now the owner will have a new sail for the rest of the season.
During my bed rest period I may actually be able to contribute to the comments in something resembling a timely manner. Not morning comments since I am a 1/4 of the earth behind most of you, but the afternoon comments I may have something.
Hope it’s smooth sailing (heh!) with your hip replacement! 😁 Take care!
Good luck. They are getting very good at these. A friend of mine was playing golf again about a month after his.
Agreed. Good luck and they are indeed good at this now – a friend was back on his bike 11 days(!) after his replacement.
Good luck!!!
Wont be long and you’ll have that dip in your hip and the glide in your stride.
So, he is gonna head off in the mother sailboat to make his connection?
Best wishes for a speedy recovery!
Heal up soon!!!
Best wishes
What all the others said. Could use some of those parts too but I guess I’ll just limp along. I’ll just go fishing instead of walking.
Wow, best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Mahalo all. I had the first replaced on Halloween and now completing the collector’s set 90 days later.
Good luck!
Good luck with the surgery! Happy recovery ❤️🩹 🍀
I hope things go well.
See you back soon, everything is gonna be good.
May it go well for you. Mrs. MYB had both knees replaced and was up and walkin’ in a little over a week.
Get well soon buddy. Hip replacements are no fun.
Pisces: The Hanged Man reversed – Selfishness, crowds, the body politic.
That’s deep man, but what does that really mean . . . . .
With the GlibsCruise™ coming up, guess the statement contest! No peeking, either…..
DEAR JANE: My husband ruined our family vacation by uttering one single sentence – now my parents are refusing to speak to me
“Wannafud?”
“Your mom is pretty hot.”
👍
“I’m bringing my girlfriend along.”
This should have been the answer to the second question (from “Panicked Parent”).
Since you linked a vid I thought this would be topical.
A classic from John Candy.
That these ‘Dear X’ letter exist is another argument that the 19th amendment should be repealed. X is always a woman that idiot herd animals ask for advice on managing the very personal minute details of their lives. Of course X is touted as an expert in sticking her nose in such affairs.
*tongue in cheek (not really) and Gliberinas are exempt of course (really) , but then Gliberinas and true mythical libertarian women are anomalies.
The brits were correct in calling those scribblers “agony aunts”.
“You’re too fat to wear a bathing suit.”
“Your mom into threesomes?”
At least they won’t be breeding.
If the parents had wanted grandkids, maybe have more than one child of your own?*
*I know people can be involuntarily in that position, if so I feel sorry for them
guess the statement contest!
“Hey, baby, wanna make fourteen dollars the hard way?”
Time to go celebrate Jimmy Carter.
Pouring home brew for the populace at the local brew pub for a few hours.
Carry on without me.
He finally kicked it?
Of course not. More evidence that only the good die young.
lol That was my first thought.
I was, like, “he kicked the bucket???” I realized you were just referring to celebrating deregulating brewing (so his brother could make beer)
Thank you for explaining. I totally missed it.
Correct. Patron Saint of Home Brewers.
Regarding not commenting for awhile (not that I was very prolific compared to some of y’all): I was dead for several days, starting in the middle of last week.
Thinking it was norovirus. Our whole technical lead team had our yearly planning face-to-face, with about 18 of us together M-Th. 2 escaped. For the rest, we pretty much universally agreed that it was the sickest we’d ever felt/hurt. The norovirus thing is a guess – one of the guys made the case based on timing and symptoms and seems likely enough.
Ugh! Hope you’re all feeling much better!
Getting there. I’m just glad I was one of the ones close to home-base, instead of stuck in a hotel with a 3h flight between me and home. The guys in that situation all had to extend their stay by about 2 days (of just holing up in the hotel alone and semi-dead) instead of handling travel in the middle of major GI issues…
Well, flying is the shits these days.
I figure this thread is a good place for an astronomy link:
Nasa releases audio of what a black hole ‘sounds’ like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tXhBLg3Wng
Space, a really big, haunted house…
Another one of those things that we cannot really understand so we use an analogy to things we can understand.
The things we can understand depend very heavily on our means of gathering data (in this case ears) in an environment we evolved to understand.
The environment there is one we did not evolve to understand and has very little in common with here. Combine that with the fact that there is likely a lot of information we dont have about that environment and our understanding of the universe as a whole starts to look like a simple comic book fiction.
Guga has a new video, aging beef in a dough jacket.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPovO8n-xMc
I read that as Gaga. :/
My first thought was Gustavo Kuerten.
Thierry Neuville wins Monte Carlo Rally.
Penske Porsche win 24 hours of Daytona.
Now you know.
Hello! I’ve been a happy lurker since the TOS days, but in response to recent comments, I will stand up to be counted/officially added to another list. I don’t know how much commenting I will do, but thanks to all of you for helping keep me sane, especially over the last few years. I’ve learned a lot and been consistently entertained, and would hate to see it fade away for a lack of new voices.
Welcome, Tulpa!
Fuck off, Tulpa! 😃
Gee, it feels good to say that again! 😁
(Welcome!)
If were going to be invaded by an influx of m̴i̴g̴r̴a̴n̴t̴s̴ new users, cant we wait and get them all together to issue one blanket fuck off instead of a couple hundred/day?
Why do you hate fun?
Heavens, no. Standards must be maintained.
We want to make every* new Glib feel welcome.
*As always, as long as they play nice.
I vote for that particular “feature” to go away.
Please.
Fine, fine…
I mean, we just spent the last 24 hours anguishing over why people aren’t feeling welcome here….
I assume it’s more confusing than anything.
Well, people have their sticking points around here.
That is mine.
I agree with Rhywun, even if he is a Bills fan.
You’re just feeling agreeable because Baltimore doesn’t want to win.
That is just what a Tulpa would say.
Seriously, random stupid thought. Around here irreverence is the word of the day, every day. Smarter people understand that because they also understand their place in things. They realize that no matter how smart they are they are still just not all that.
When you get down to room temperature IQs, say 75-100, moving down the bell curve there is a sharp drop-off in sense of humor. People in that range take themselves far too seriously (I’m looking at you, progs, socialists, outright commies and other assorted herd animals). There is also a sharp increase in collectivist thinking.
End random stupid thought.
This ball was spinning when I got here and will keep spinning when I am gone. It’s not the world I would have created, but then no one asked me. I cant fix all this. All I can do while I am here is point and laugh.
but then no one asked me
And even if they did, who would want that responsibility?
I’ve been ragged on for not living up to my leadership ability/potential, and I can kinda see it. But why should I have to?
Good point JI.
Being in charge, being a leader, means everyone else’s problems become your problems. Who needs that shit?
Completely agree
Welcome and fuck off, Tulpa!
YAY! Fuck off, Tulpa!!
it’s good to see a new ‘fuck off Tulpa’. It’s been a while.
Hello, and welcome!
Welcome, and please share your opinion from time to time.
Fortunately I know the lore and am honored by all the traditional greetings! I almost asked for a “FO,T”, but didn’t want to seem desperate…
I do see the point of not wanting to scare off new folks who wouldn’t know it comes from a place of friendship, though. I plan to greet newcomers with “This is liberty hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!”
As you said you were a “long-time lurker,” I figured you would understand. I like your greeting, too. I don’t understand it, but I like it. 😄
It’s from a “Horatio Hornblower-IN SPACE!” scifi series. It’s what you say to let your crewmates know they can speak freely; I’ve understood it to mean “you don’t have to maintain decorum and you can tell it like it is”.
Honor Harrington, I assume.
I got it from the John Grimes stories by A. Bertram Chandler, and suspect it may have been in general use by merchant mariners which would also get you Heinlein!
I first encountered it in Heinlein, way back when.
Thanks for that; couldn’t remember which author wrote it. May have to dig out my old Chandler paperbacks..
Welcome!
Jackdaw is hailing what I mentioned earlier: irreverence.
Welcome!
😃
Welcome Tulpa! It was getting lonely here. Bring more!
Re “That Guy” post above. By a certain senior age it might be better to become more outspoken a libertarian supporting “what should be.”. We don’t want to give encouragement to the authoritarians that opposition has collapsed or acquiesced to the “correctness” of their ideology.
I thought bitter cynicism increased with age.
I’ve been thinking about that a bit since i said that I’m in the same boat;
that’s not really true – I’m in no “danger” at work but i wouldn’t be inclined to talk politics at work regardless of the political leanings.
Home is a bit more fraught but that’s really just me avoiding arguments based on emotion. I had a go-round back when Mass was voting to force bathroom use over declared gender.
Talking about the principle of freedom of association didn’t make much of a dent in “but that would be mean!”
We’re in an “agree to disagree” detente but I’m sure we’ll get into things again in the future. At least she grasps that people she otherwise likes can have good-faith objections to things.
The mean ones are the people who want to use the state to bully people into doing what they want.
Well, yes, but that still doesn’t overcome her emotionally-based position.
Tell her she’s got the wrong people being mean.
Granted, you’ll spend the night on the couch, which is somehow not mean.
Unless I’m truly in the wrong I’d never do this. If she’s upset, she can sleep on the couch..*shrug*
That’s the way it goes here.
“Talking about the principle of freedom of association didn’t make much of a dent in “but that would be mean!””
Yep. And this points to one of the areas that conservatives and libertarians just don’t understand about the left in general. Much of what they do isn’t about being evil, it is about feelings, and what is supposedly “right” and not “heartless”. Of course, this often leads to perverse incentives, but much of what they want started from a place of good intentions and areas that really did need change.
or acquiesced to the “correctness” of their ideology.
Oh no, never. I shall give them the last great act of defiance when it comes to that.
Dog was chewing on a massive smoked beef bone and he got up as soon as I aimed the camera, the little shit
We don’t want to give encouragement to the authoritarians that opposition has collapsed or acquiesced to the “correctness” of their ideology.
Reasoning with religious fanatics is pointless. I have better ways to waste my time.
Their mind might not be changed but I don’t want to be quiet and give them any satisfaction that “everyone agrees with me”.
And you might make the other people listening think.
You bet the longshots at the track, don’t you?
Never bet on the horse named “French Surrender Monkey.”
Looks like we’ve got another new commenter pending approval.
Thanks to whoever let him through!
Who knew that many people wanted to associate with
weyou deplorables?Everyone wants to associate with Ted S. and his impeccable taste in music.
This is true.
Sure its DailyFail, but since I left that page open anyhow its nice to see the Brits know whats important.
Top of the page:
“‘Oh my God!’ Taylor Swift is ecstatic as Travis Kelce makes stunning early touchdown for the Chiefs against the Ravens as Kansas get dream start in their battle to reach the Super Bowl”
🤮
Every time I check the NY Post I have to scroll several inches down to get past that shit. Every time.
I can’t wait to read Three Year Letterman’s Twitter if KC wins this game
https://twitter.com/3YearLetterman
“Commies,” “Nazis,” “Fascists,” “Referee Faves.”
He sounds nice.
LOL it’s a parody
So far I am not disappointed in the Tweets or replies
Could Lindsay have more of a war boner? His dick is harder than getting a midget to yo-yo.
“The Biden Administration can take out all the Iranian proxies they like, but it will not deter Iranian aggression. I am calling on the Biden Administration to strike targets of significance inside Iran, not only as reprisal for the killing of our forces, but as deterrence against…
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) January 28, 2024
“as reprisal for the killing of our forces”
Did this actually happen?
Soldiers in countries they have no business being in.
So, mission accomplished?
Got our excuse for war, let’s go baby.
How old is Taylor Swift? Is she even old enough to vote?
34.
What Spud means is she’s been 17 for 17 years.
Hey, if it earns you a billion dollars.
Oh glorious capitalism!
Free markets
/libertartian
Or libertarian
libertartian – free the tarts!!!
Ray of sunshine
A multi-pronged legal attack under way by Elon Musk, large corporations, business groups and anti-union litigators threatens to “raise havoc” with US labor law and hobble a resurgent labor movement, according to experts.
So far efforts to scale back or undermine workers’ rights through the US courts have centered on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – the US top workplace watchdog and overseer of union elections. But other laws – including trademark and property rights statutes – are also being used.
Both Musk and Starbucks are pursuing cases that would undermine the NLRB.
——-
“This is one of the most audacious and bold attempts to reverse the decisions of the 1930s and the way in which American labor law has operated for nearly 90 years,” said William Gould IV, Charles A Beardsley professor of law, emeritus, at Stanford Law School and chairman of the NLRB from 1994 to 1998. “This would raise havoc with the effective administration of labor law in our country which is designed to be for the benefit of workers and the collective bargaining process.”
Oh, horror. Taking the government’s thumb off the scale?
I remember around the time I signed up with you reprobates, Mojeaux had a list of icebreaker/get to know you questions for new tulpi.
With the flood of new commenters this weekend, it might be helpful to resurrect that list. What say you Mojeaux?
Good gravy, your remembery is better than mine. I forgot I ever did such a thing. Lemme see if I can find it. Meanwhile, the most important question:
Chiefs or Ravens?
Meteor.
Shush, you.
Yes, please.
I don’t think you want to hear my answer to that one.
Well, I am wearing a Roquan Smith jersey at the moment. It has a Bears logo on it but I guess I’m rooting for Roquan myself.
Haterz. I’mma shake it off.
I’m pretty sure I signed up prior to Trump’s election in 2016, so the list would have been around 2015 or earlier.
We’ve only been around since 2017 and I didn’t start commenting until 2018.
So much for my memory.
Now that you say that, I do recall following the comments over at TOS on election night 2016. I looked in my profile and didn’t see a sign up date, so I don’t know when it was.
I dropped in at TOS one day, wondered where all the good commenters went, scoured the comments until I found the dude who would post the walls of text (he was here for a while). He said something about the Glibbening and I followed the sparse breadcrumbs.
Anyway, I know Gilmore got a job that he said would require him to drop all political commenting anywhere, especially here, so he bid us adieu.
Just a thought, not a sermon.
No, Not him. Someone with a name-sounding moniker. Ken? Steve? Kevin? Not sure.
Ken.
It was the first couple of months in 2017. I have user number 77, out of how many, I don’t know. I also don’t know where it started counting.
…and you haven’t shut up since!
(of course Im kidding)
I’ve been here since the beginning and wouldn’t be able to answer that. I just don’t keep up with basketball.
So you dont need the Cal score after all ?
Filed my taxes today. I’m getting a $2 refund from the Feds – closest I’ve come to a break-even.
My goal is to owe them as much as possible, short of owing a penalty.
But $2 back is damn good.
That, and/or having the Feds start pestering you for quarterly payments.
::braces self for co-workers peppering me with “When are our W-2s going to be available?” because they count on their big refunds::
I’m in that bucket but still don’t.
I kick in extra each paycheck and have enough slack in the budget to crank it up for the last few paychecks if needed.
Showing off your euphemisms for the newbies?
Isnt there a penalty associated with only owing them such a small amount ?
You gotta pay 100% of last year’s tax or 90% of this year’s tax – if you’re increasing each year you can hit that 90% figure.
I’ve been closer to break even but love to owe a bit.
Apparently, solder only ever sticks to solder and a soldering iron. Two things it will never adhere to are eletrical leads and solding pads on a PCB.
So, does anyone have any suggestions for getting the solder to stick to the pad instead of trying to climb the iron?
Git gud?
Did you preheat the pad?
For how long?
Until the solder sticks when you apply it.
:p
Sorry, I don’t have any real experience in this, but good luck. You’d think they’d be some experts among the commenters here.
Flux my boy,
Heat your work before soldering,
Flux is your friend, my friend. Particularly when tinning (soldering) the ends of leads (wires).
How do you get it into the holes in the PCB?
In my experience, practice and a whole lot of “solder bridges”. Solder wick is your friend for cleaning up.
I cant stand listening to that Louis Rossman guy, but the soldering skills he shows on cam are some of the best (by hand). If you watch, go back to his older videos of board level repair. He’s not proselytizing as much.
Actually, I realized I could use a toothpick to scrape the flux onto the surface and the heat from the iron made it flow where I wanted it.
And you are absolutely right, the moment I started fluxing the leads, the solder beads formed almost automatically.
I’ve done a whole lot of soldering and screwed up a lot. Specially board-level repair. It just takes practice.
As long as we’re making suggestions, I was wondering if it would be possible and/or desirable to post Tonio’s matchless, “A Noob Guide to Glibertarians[.]com somewhere in the side bar?
https://www.glibertarians.com/2019/10/a-noob-guide-to-glibertarians-com/
You could also click on About Us at the top of the page.
Yep, that’s very helpful but it’s somewhat different info to Tonio’s piece.
Last thing anybody wants is a back-and-forth punt-off.
If you’re in the lead it’s not so bad.
I think the Chiefs are going back to the Superbowl.
I don’t know why it is but some teams (*cough*) just can’t figure out the playoffs.
That’s dinner, sorted
https://ibb.co/ZNn7n6y
🤤
Yum.
Tasty beverage to go with?
What pairs with that? (Id choose an english muffin and a Milwaukee’s Beast Diet)
Champagne.
Does Malt Duck count ?
A mimosa.
Pepsi
It’s a normal eggs B, but I also put an artichoke heart bottom on it to hold the egg. So it was, bottom to top:
English muffin
Trudeau bacon
Artichoke heart
Egg
Hollandaise
gay
Gahhhh! Artichoke!
*makes cross with fingers*
I love artichoke. Just hate all the prep and cook work.
Canned artichoke heart bottoms FTW
(Canned, not marinated/jarred. These are just in water)
I forgive you. If we ever meet I will steam you one, and serve it full of cream cheese and spinach dip with breadcrumbs. You scoop the dip on the leaves and eat it.
I’m pretty good at prepping an artichoke, but not going to do that just to use the hearts on a Benedict!
What is wrong with you people?
How long have you got?
It was rhetorical. He’s been here long enough to know exactly what’s wrong with us.
I like the way you measure lemon juice as per the recipe you posted.
🙂
‘journey more difficult than expected.’
That checks out.
Anyone have experience with the Kel-Tec RFB? I’ve got some money burning a hole in my pocket and I’m looking to buy a new pew-pew toy. Top contenders right now are the RFB or a Colt Commando SBR. I just don’t know about dealing with the SBR bullshit.
Opinions?
I like things that make a loud “bang.”
I especially like it if I can make lots of loud “bangs” in a row without reloading.
That thing can reliably make about 20 “bangs” before reloading and therefore it is somewhat pleasing.
Tavor? Couple Glibs have those.
Can recommend.
If I were to get an AR design it would be the Colt RFB.
You are likely to get suggestions in the spirit of Xmas presents bought for a spouse that are things the purchaser wants for themselves.
I want a long slide 1911 in 10mm. I want a Springfield M1A in the Scout model. I want….hell, I could go on all day.
You have to choose.
I am not sure what the SBR bullshit is.
Baltimore really did themselves in. I hope OMWC has enough wine to numb the pain.
Fuck Baltimore and Fuck Art Modell. And Fuck Edgar Allen Poe while were at it, even though I don’t’ really have anything against him, other than his shit got over played but that’s not his fault.
Oh and as always, fuck Brian Wilson.
And kill Hitler!
He has been summoned.
https://reactormag.com/wikihistory/
Heh, almost posted that.
Thanks, SilverFox316.
Yeeeaaah. Hitler? No thanks. If it wasn’t him it was going to be someone just like him.
I would subject Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to slow agonizing deaths.
Okay, so I called Ravens v Lions in the Superbowl.
Wait, why are there fireworks in my neighborhood?
For Tay-Tay ?
Oh ye of little faith. I mentioned earlier I was for Ravens so it was a good bet Swifties would win.
How many first downs did the Chiffs manage to score in the second half? Didn’t seem like very many.
Semi-interesting article about divorce later in life.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gray-divorce-rates-doubled-costly-120413186.html
At one point they mention net worth halving… I mean, I guess so, but in reality you were always sharing it, right?
Women hardest hit.
Can’t help but think of the old joke about the elderly couple who were “waiting for the children to die.”
“Welcome to the party, gal!”
KK, Plump & Unfiltered on January 28, 2024 at 1:29 pm
Guga has a new video, aging beef in a dough jacket.
Enough already about poor Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas.
Coke-addled turtle jumps on the bandwagon.
Furiously tugging at his crabbed organ, Mitch demands something.
Oh dear God….
A how to video Glibs need to watch to find out how to grow the site.
*takes notes*
Fuck Joe Barry.
eom
BITCH SET ME UP!
Wait….that was Marion. Carry on.
Nothing like beginning your week with a message that you’re going to be sued for inserting a “fiction/trademark disclaimer” into your client’s Word DOC before she uploaded it to her ebook distributor. 🙄
Oh, for pity’s sake! Your loon client again? 🤦🏼♀️
E. Jean Carroll.
Oh, no. A different loon.
I forgot to ask her if she even looked at it before she uploaded it.
Now, I could be wrong that it wasn’t fiction, but IIRC, it read that way.
Was this a standard disclaimer, or was she trying to pull some shenanigans?
No, just a standard disclaimer I put in all my and my customers’ fiction books. “All rights reserved. … work of fiction … bears no resemblance … living or dead … unintentional …” blah blah blah.
Alien abduction?
IIRC, horror. And not very good, at that.
Steve Smith smut.
Welp, that that changed quickly.
Yup. Here we go Niners.
Its not just me ?
And he would send us into that war just as quick as the other assholes. Remind me again why we have people and a “base” in Jordan?
Trump warns ‘we are on the brink of World War Three’ as he blames Biden’s ‘weakness and surrender’ – after Iran-backed militia kill THREE US soldiers and injure 34 in Jordan drone strike
“Iran-backed” inside Syria, shooting at Americans inside Jordan.
AYFKM?
Hahaha awesome. At least Detroit made it to the NFC Championship. Good job for them.
This was not on my bingo card.
Maybe they can change their name to the Brown Lions.
Time to take down Travis Swift. What a story for Brock Purdy.
That’s going to be interesting.
I want to see Travis Swift and Taylor cry salty salty tears.
Purdy is the best story of the past decade in the NFL.
Agreed.
I’m now 2-10 for the playoffs. As I’ll be rooting for the Chiefs, you may want to bet heavily on the Niners.
I have no idea who to root for. SMOD?
The XSFL?
Are they playing in actual locations this time, or all in Birmingham or wherever the hell that was last year.
Dan Gamble needs to learn when to settle for field goals.
It wasn’t a crazy decision.
Which one? There were two fourth downs where they elected to keep the offense on the field rather than kick a field goal. Is their kicker that shitty?
The first one.
4th and 2 on the opposing 27 yard line and you’re up by 17 points? No, you kick the field goal and go up by 20.
The Lions need to hire Belichick to teach Dan Gamble about situational football.
Is it just me, or in the past year have search engines gone from just bad to utterly completely fucking useless?
I finally successfully managed to pull data off of a chip in binary and hex format, and I’m trying to find a utility to help me sift out the assembly code in there to take a look at what it’s doing. I get one or two pages of “what is memory” “what is rom” “risc-v online conversion tools” (which do one command at a time) then it goes off the rails and starts serving up junk talking about celebrities or other utterly unrelated garbage.
I’d say they’ve been useless for the past five to ten years.
Here is a fun fact I learned yesterday: the results DDG provides which are sourced from elsewhere are source from… Bing.
I have a feeling everyone is sharing the same shitty algorithms.
🤡🌎:
Not just you. Pushing results so hard that it ignores what you’re actually searching for. And ignoring things like quoted words or the minus sign.
YouTube’s search is so bad it’s easier to search via Google or another engine and click to the YouTube link. Natively it just returns one or two close, lots of unreleased garbage, and then just a repetition of those scrolling down.
Slutty Sunday After Dark.
https://archive.is/pC1J2/39db615445a25f40ad8d1fae39c753a946cc2ab1.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/Vwkdy/f4adcbb62aa0c40ca049933ee96b75fe8e6022a4.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/eAXuo/8d99fc97b464440668d2992bcc9074acd6db8625.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/eiep2/216021e4b622ffe26a4107e933d6cd4ce99461de.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/mkNre/a168adc789774d9789c3f24f15f83e64456bdbf5.jpg
NSFW.
https://archive.is/zHnQq/fd91842f9049f619ede07f9f8e114f1d478e118c.webp
NSFW.
Kinda pale set of linked women, but nice breasts nonetheless.
I’ll take these 4 for the win.
Libra: 2 of Cups – Agreements sealed, unions blessed, promises made, promises kept.
Did paperwork for truck last night. What an unpleasant shitshow, so glad it’s over. Stereotypes exist for a reason.
My father was unable to watch Niners games because of the 1957 playoffs where they blew a 17 point lead to the Lions at Kezar Stadium. He’d get too nervous thinking they’d let him down no matter what kind of lead they had. Too bad he wasn’t around to see this.
The Ford family curse has been working ever since. 67 years later…
I’m watching better football than anything the NFL has today, Little Giants is free with ads on youtube.
Suggestion for welcoming new commenters:
If you feel the need to give them a FOT, perhaps like this:
“Hi Jackdaw!
Fuck off Tulpa! *
* FYI / Standard Glibertarian Disclaimer – This is a term of endearment here. In-joke.”
Also, fried chicken.
I cleaned up the solder connections that were wonkiest from before, and the project passed all the tests. But I’ve run into an odd situation where the tip of the soldering iron no longer gets hot enough to melt solder, even when just directly pushed into the end of the wire.
Any clue why? I did change tips twice, after the first tip change, I no longer had enough heat at the end of the tip to melt the solder.
Newly installed tip never worked? Does it get hot but just not hot enough? Hard to troubleshoot without knowing make and model.
Sounds similar to an old tip when a black oxide coating builds up and acts as an insulator.
After the first change, the tip got hot, but the tip of the tip did not. When I changed it the second time, I noticed that the body of the tip had gone blue, which had not happened on the one they’d had on it from the factory. After I went back to the one they’d initially had on from the factory, the tip of the tip didn’t get hot enough to melt solder (but did sizzle flux). I have used steel wool to remove a dark material from the factory installed tip, but I have not checked to see if the body there also turned blue (there’s a shroud that covers most of the piece)
I do not know the exact model, it was part of a kit from Arduino.
Wow. TOS has no balls at all – https://youtu.be/UV-h5fmg0N8
Why call themselves “libertarian” at all?
Festus LIVES! Love ya bra!
Holy fuck Milei makes me hard. Why the fuck can’t we elect someone like that?
“Whoa! Those guys are fags!”
-Jeff Spicoli
Comment above NOT meant in a malicious manner, rather 80’s grade school kid jargon.
Good morning Glibs, newly minted Glibs, and our .gov watchers!
😜☕
I’m still on an unplugged kick:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rsr8oXxzFEI
🎶🎶
Good morning, fellow bulletin board member!
Greetings, fellow music appreciationists.
Morning
Good morning, Sean, Ted’S., rhy, U, and (and welcome) Bones!
how goes?
OK. Had to take a couple of minutes just now to refill the cats’ food dispenser to forestall a full-scale revolt. How goes it with you?
So far so good.
The lavender hasn’t sprouted, but it’s got some more time before I have to give up on it (18-30 days germination). I’m most of the way through the soldering projects that came with the Arduino. I got derblinkenlights to work on it last night, and managed to dump the memory from an unexpected microprocessor that arrived while I was working on the soldering. (Unexpected in that I’d expected the socket on the board I’d ordered to be unpopulated, but it had come with a chip in it containing demo code. A chip with 4x the ram and 16x the flash storage of those I planned to use the board for)
Did you figure out what was wrong with the tip of your soldering iron and/or get it heating up sufficiently?
I have not.
I needed to get sleep so I could arrive here at my cube on time this morning.
In fact, There were other things I disliked about that iron, so I’ve been fighting the impulse to use this as an excuse to buy a different one…
Well, if it doesn’t work well… I’d think having a tip that won’t melt the solder limits your ability to do fine detail work.
How do you do, fellow radical, anti-government extremists?
Good morning, slummie! (Ixnay on the adicalray! ::knowing wink::)
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/lehighvalley/macungie-police-release-details-about-man-arrested-after-shelter-in-place/article_8325de8c-be1f-11ee-afe1-db529a8895da.html
Shelter in place is another bullshit practice that needs to go. Fuck those inept cops that created the whole situation there.
Yeah, a fugitive on the loose is no reason to make people stay locked in their houses like a bunch of scared rabbits. I wonder if these stupid orders have any statutory authority or if this nonsense is something that just hasn’t been challenged.
Mornin’ all (includes new folks that are a welcome sight)
I shelter in place most days but I leave the door unlocked in the event there are unsheltered people that need a place to shelter.
Good morning, 4(20)!
You’re a good man 4×20!
Good morning
Like all things of State power, there is a process for the government (local/state/Federal) to exercise that power and they just step around it because using it would actually be icky. Instead they rely on people to still have a general sense that police officers are good and their intentions are noble. Why you want criminals to roam freely Stinky?
Mornin’, reprobates!
Condolences to OMWC on the Foosball result.
Good morning, ‘patzie! I feel worse for the Lions fans (Gunslinger? Any others?)
I was only marginally rooting for the Lions. I grew up a Lions fan but finally figured out the pattern where they suck you in and then crush your soul so I stopped caring. I officially renounced any remaining fanhood when they gave that moron Matt Millen a contract extension. A few years ago I decided to root for the Chicago Bears. They’re actually geographically closer to me.
“Should the man who shot, killed NW Houston gas station robbery suspect face charges?”
https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/01/28/should-the-man-who-shot-killed-nw-houston-gas-station-robbery-suspect-face-charges/
Definitely not self-defense but damned if I’d vote to convict.
Perp won’t do that again. Saved tax payers a lot of money and wasted time.
Today’s lesson, Kiddos, be very careful when you decide to rob someone in Texas.
Good morning!
Too late to reply directly to KK, but Counter Cafe in Austin uses pastrami on their Eggs Benny, and it’s faboo.
Good morning, NA!
On the off chance I’m ever in Austin, might that cafe sub corned beef for the pastrami? I like the taste of pastrami, but it gives me a terrible bellyache. 😖
They are a small place. They may or may not have corned beef available. If they do, they will definitely substitute it, it’s the kind of place where they do that sort of thing. For example: was there once, and a customer asked them to drizzle blueberry pancake batter int the deep fryer to make a sort of funnel-cake thingy. And they did it.
They’ve expanded!
https://www.countercafe.com/menu
When I was there, they had one 20 seat location. Six of the seats were a picnic table outside.
Oooh, I have a brisket flat that is screaming at me to corn it! I was waiting for St. Patricks day, but now I want some corned beef.
So my “serious” gun club has managed to fill two squads at the area match in July. Which is fairly baller.
I’ll be working it, so I won’t get the chance to shoot with them. This match is being run by/at SIG, and it’s frisking amazing how smoothly a match can run when an actual 9-5 employee is given managing it as one of their responsibilities.
Oh, Since you’ve brought up the topic, recently, a lunch conversation with work friends went to the pistol permitting process (it was a tangent off of some other topic and I didn’t bring it up) where I managed to mention that I was looking for character references so I could file my paperwork, and no one had any odd reactions, so I might have one or even two there.
I am back to looking at the actual process and paperwork and getting daunted at figuring out what I’m supposed to do. You mentioned that my local PD’s web page was linking to the old form, which has me on edge where I’m not sure I won’t get stuck where the PD wants the old form, but the county wants the new, so I get rejected either way.
I’d contact the PD and see if they’re IT guy just hasn’t gotten around to updating the website. In my case, it’s the Sheriff’s department, not the PD, and they have a dedicated admin for the process who is very helpful. No idea how hostile Rensselaer is.
I have no idea how hostile Rensselaer is either. I’m on the Albany side of the Hudson, so I have to deal with Albany county 🙁 (By literally half a mile)
I might be pestering you to ask if you’d be a character reference. I haven’t gotten the rest of my ducks in a row yet.
Sure. You’ve been very canny in hiding your homicidal intentions (strangling gloves aside) so I could honestly write you one.
Thank you.
Also: The Albany DA is a complete TDS frothing-at-the-mouth political hack. Fortunately, I don’t think his office is involved in the process.
I’m pretty sure it’s just the PD/Sheriff, the State Troopers, and a Judge. (The troopers run the background checks, I know someone who works in that department, and her father is one of my potential character references)
Also, Mike has been saying this season’s Kayaderosseras shoots will be allowing PCCs.
Mornin’ all!
morning
Mornin’.
I have snow to clear.
It was less than an inch and expected to be above freezing, so I just drove over it.